On 3 July, 1997, the supreme court of Russia’s Chuvash Autonomous Republic sentenced 38-y
On 3 July, 1997, the supreme court of Russia’s Chuvash Autonomous Republic sentenced 38-year-old Vladimir Nikolayev to death for killing and cannibalising two people in the town of Novocheboksarsk, Russia. Vladimir was arrested in his apartment in the winter of 1996 when police found a pan of roasted human meat on the stove. In the snow on his balcony, Vladimir had more body parts stored to eat later. Investigators who questioned him said he had jokingly asked them to prepare him dinner using his stock of human meat. Vladimir friend and his friend’s family unknowingly ate the body as he passed it off as “kangaroo meat”. In 1999, the death penalty was suspended, being replaced by life imprisonment. In a 2006 interview, Vladimir suggested that those who are sentenced to life imprisonment should have the right to choose the death penalty if they wanted. A few years later, National Geographic aired a series entitled: Russia’s Toughest Prisons and interviewed him about his crimes. Vladimir giggled in between sentences during his interview with the popular American television network. When asked to explain how his first murder happened, he said:“I was coming home from a party a little drunk and next to the door of my building there was another guy; also drunk who asked me for a light. We started arguing and it got into a fight. He hit me and I hit him and it turned out he died. What was I to do? I dragged him to the bathroom, undressed him and started cutting him apart. I cut off his head, arms, legs and all of a sudden something kinda struck me and I thought I would try him. I cut off a piece of meat from his thigh and boiled it. I tried it, but didn’t like it so I chopped it up and fried it in a frying pan. I gave the meat to one of my friends, he took it home — gave it to his wife. She made dumplings with it, had some herself and fed it to her children. Well, I said it was kangaroo. We don’t have kangaroos around here. They didn’t know what it was.” — Vladimir during his interview with National Geographic. He is currently imprisoned at the Black Dolphin prison in Orenburg, Russia. -- source link
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