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'I repent': Distinguished professor arrested after being discovered with a bag containing severed arms

By Zach Halaschak
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'I repent': Distinguished professor arrested after being discovered with a bag containing severed arms

A well-known professor was charged in Russia after police found him in a river with a bag containing his lover’s dismembered arms.

Oleg Sokolov, 63, is accused of murdering his 24-year-old former student Anastasia Yeshchenko in St. Petersburg. According to the New York Times, Sokolov told the court that he and Yeshchenko had been lovers for five years but “lost control” during an argument and shot her four times with a sawn-off rifle.

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