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my sentence, I am asking you to justify me: I have never been a murderer. As a sign of proof, if yo wish, I will kill myself, but after that acquit me! Honorable court, believe in the cry of my soul and acquit me! I literally ate myself from my sins, and I repent! I regret very much that I did not turn in
Lavrushkin and Kostin at once. I would have lived and raised my son now, whom I was waiting for and loved. The last proof that I was innocent was that God kept me safe and gave me strength to go through all the torture. And what torture was like, God forbid that for anyone. I prayed to God to live until the trial and then be acquitted. Dear court, please allow me to show my tooth, which was ground with a file during torture in the militia. I will wait for your answer here on death row..." During this period, President
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who was returning home from her friend's house on
Studentskaya Street late that evening. Unlike the previous victims, Yakushnina recognized the men from the local gym and threatened to turn them over to the police. In response, Yurkin strangled her and then dragged the body to a nearby garage, where he covered it with snow, branches and garbage. After their capture, Kostin and Lavrushkin claimed that the murder was entirely Yurkin's doing, and after experiencing great pleasure from the killing, he would start carrying a
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actual killers. His version of events was not considered, and he was subsequently convicted on all counts. On July 22, 1996, the
Supreme Court of Mordovia sentenced Yurkin to death. After the announcement of the verdict, he burst into tears and rested his face on the shoulder of a guard who entered his cage. Lavrushkin and Kostin were also found guilty on all counts, but as the courts considered them as simple accomplices, they were given 10 and 6 years imprisonment, respectively.
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278:. In the statement, he insisted that he was innocent and said that he had an alibi for some of the murders, while additionally claiming that the evidence against him was circumstantial and that he had not received a fair trial, as the police and the prosecutor's office had tortured him into confessing. To further reinforce his argument that the death penalty was a cruel punishment, Yurkin cited the case of
221:, where he attained the rank of sergeant. He later married and had a son, and together with his family, Yurkin lived in a dormitory on Transportnaya Street. He would spend most of his free time at a local gym, where he would become acquainted with various criminals. At the time, Yurkin was known for his impressive muscular physique, and was described in a positive light by both friends and acquaintances.
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In April 2009, Yurkin was released and returned to Staroe
Kachaevo, where his father and sister still lived. As a felon, he was registered with the local police department's migration service, which was headed by his classmate Ivan Bochkarev. Since his release, Yurkin has led a very secluded life and
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For context, this is a fragment from Yurkin's appeal: "Dear judges, you certainly remember when absolutely innocent people were shot in the
Chikatilo case. And how many innocent people were convicted! I understand that you are looking for a criminal in every person. I am not asking you to reduce
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Yurkin, together with 34-year-old Andrei Kostin and 16-year-old Valery
Lavrushkin, started committing his first crimes in August 1994, when the trio began robbing and assaulting women. They committed their first murder on November 1 of that year, when they came across 24-year-old Natalya Yakushnina,
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While investigating the murders, authorities noticed that all of them were committed in locations frequented by Yurkin and his friends, due to which they were placed under surveillance. On March 2, Yurkin was arrested, and in the subsequent interrogations, he confessed to the murders and implicated
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February 23, the trio travelled to the village of Dobrovolny, where they kidnapped 34-year-old Natalia Radaikina while she was returning home from a store. They then drove to an abandoned building, where they collectively raped and strangled her, before rummaging through her handbag and stealing
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December 6, 1995, with the three defendants being charged with 26 crimes of varying severity involving 13 victims in total (five fatal and eight non-fatal). At trial, Yurkin pleaded not guilty and insisted that he was a simple witness, accusing Kostin and Lavrushkin of being the
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who was studying at the
Pedagogical Institute in Saransk. He invited her to take a walk with him and possibly have a drink, which Popazova accepted. Under this pretense, Yurkin lured her another building of the institute, where he raped and strangled her. After the murder, the stole her fur coat,
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imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, which led the
Supreme Court to reduce Yurkin's sentence to the maximum 15 years imprisonment on March 10, 1999. Subsequently, the press service for the Supreme Court released a statement in which they outlined their reasoning for the decision.
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Kostin and Lavrushkin as his helpers. While searching through the latter's home, police found earrings belonging to Radaikina, as well as other items later identified as having been stolen from other victims.
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all valuable items from it. Radaikina's body was found two days later. On February 25, Yurkin murdered 21-year-old Galina Budnikova, whose body was found near a dormitory on Ulyanov Street two days later.
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