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latter was found dead. At the interrogation, Bluestein told the police about his violent drinking buddy, whom he knew only by the name 'Nicolai'. Deciding to look further into his claims, police officers dressed up as vagrants and mingled among the population to gather more information about the mysterious man. By doing this, they confirmed
Bluestein's claims, as numerous of the homeless people repeatedly claimed that a violent man named Nicolai frequently torched buildings where they often drank alcohol. Eventually, his identity was revealed after authorities checked in with local hospitals - it turned out that a day after Rita Wolman's murder, a man named Nicolai Bonner had arrived at
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Bonner whether he had ever stolen something from the marketplace. Suddenly, Bonner became enraged and started shouting that everybody hated him, stunning his friend. Before he could calm him down, Bonner severely beat
Bluestein, strangling and stomping on him repeatedly. After he finished, believing that his friend had died, Bonner left. Miraculously, Bluestein survived his injuries, and on the next morning, he managed to drag himself onto the street, where he was found by passers-by and transported to the nearest hospital.
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with Wolman offering Bonner to stay over. Taking this as an offer for intimacy, the half-drunk Bonner asked Wolman to have sex, but she refused. Enraged, he slapped her twice, before Rita retaliated and slapped him back. At that point, Bonner hit her on the head and knocked Wolman unconscious, before he proceeded to rape her. After he finished, he noticed that she had stopped breathing, and in order to dispose of the evidence, he set her bed on fire with a lighter.
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pressured him into signing them while he was drunk, and when he refused, they threatened to kill his daughter and girlfriend. This claim was supported by his attorney Ofer Cohen, who maintained that his client had been deceived into signing without being properly explained what the paper read, as he wasn't a fluent speaker of
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Bluestein spent three days in the emergency room recovering from his injuries. After he was released, he unsuccessfully tried to find Bonner, whom he wanted to take revenge on. Instead, he was arrested as a potential suspect in the murder of Valeri Soznov, as he frequented the kindergarten where the
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Twelve days later, Bonner was walking on the streets in Haifa when he came across 42-year-old Sergei
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Bonner wasn't arrested immediately, since the investigators had no evidence connecting him to any of the recent murders at the time. He was kept under surveillance until May 29th, when he was arrested at his mother-in-law's home and brought in for questioning. At the interrogation, Bonner confessed
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On May 1, Bonner was squatting in an abandoned apartment with another homeless immigrant, 39-year-old
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In late April, Bonner wandered into an abandoned kindergarten on Gush Halav Street, which was notorious for being a gathering place for alcoholics and drug addicts. There, he met with 32-year-old Valeri Soznov, a fellow alcoholic with whom he started a fire to keep themselves warm. For unclear
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Shortly after his arrest, Bonner was brought to trial for the four murders, in addition to being charged with aggravated rape, three counts of arson and three counts of obstruction of justice. A few weeks into the proceedings, he recanted his confessions, claiming that the police officers had
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to earn an income. A year into his travels, he was convicted of theft and sentenced to a yearlong incarceration. When he served it out, Bonner returned to
Moldova, where he soon met and married an 18-year-old girl. In 2000, the couple decided to immigrate to Israel; while Bonner wasn't
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by psychiatrists. This explanation was rejected by the judges, who subsequently convicted Bonner on almost all charges, only acquitting him of the aggravated rape. As a result, he was handed down four life sentences, the harshest sentence ever delivered in a Haifa court to this day.
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in 1972, the third of four children. His mother was busy working at a factory, while his father was an alcoholic who paid little attention to his children. At the age of 9, Bonner's mother passed away, and he was sent to a
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to ease his feelings of loneliness. After graduating, he returned to live in his parental home and began working as a shepherd on a local farm, but quit after some time, opting to work menial jobs in
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to all four of the murders, recalling what he was able to remember while committing them and why. When asked if he felt any remorse for the acts, he simply replied 'No.' and then burst into tears.
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Bonner grabbed it and started hitting Kars, knocking him to the ground. After incapacitating him, he strangled Kars to death with a TV cable.
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