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| Russian Woman Posing as Chechen Sniper as “Joke” Brutally Killed |
| 2006-03-24 |
| A 37-old Russian woman was brutally killed by her friend after she lied that she had fought on the separatists’ side in Chechnya as a sniper, the Ekspress-Gazeta daily reports. The woman, Yelena Skoryatina went missing after a party with colleagues at a furniture factory where she worked. Police started investigating the incident and soon began to suspect that the woman had been murdered — they found blood spots on the floor of the room where the party took place. Investigators suspected two men who left the room last on the day when the victim was last seen. Soon, one of them, Denis Saunin, confessed to murder, but said that the victim deserved it. Investigators established that Skoryatina’s story was nothing but drunken bravado. She had been short-sighted from early childhood and had never left her native town of Ulyanovsk for more than a week. Saunin, who is a veteran of the Chechen war told investigators that on the day when the murder took place he had been telling his colleagues about the atrocities committed by Chechen terrorists. The victim started arguing with him and said that Chechens were fighting for their freedom. “She said that [Chechen warlords] Maskhadov and Basayev were good people and at the end said that she had been a sniper with Chechen troops and taken out our boys,” Saunin told the investigators. “The light dimmed in my eyes as she said this and I thought — I must avenge them. I thought ”Skoryatina is not leaving this party alive“,” he added. After everybody had left, Saunin, a guard at a factory, battered the woman and then put out her right eye, because it is used in shooting and cut off the index finger on her right hand — the finger used to pull the trigger, as well as the middle finger on her left hand as it is used in an obscene gesture after a good shot. “She cried and begged for mercy but I could not stop — the faces of our boys killed by Chechen snipers stood before my eyes,” the killer said. He did not stop at that. The veteran then stripped the woman, shoved the fingers he’d cut off into her vagina and slit the victim’s throat. Upon finishing the brutal murder, Saunin called his brother, they put the body into a bag with sawdust and buried it in the nearby garage block. Both brothers have been arrested and charged with murder. Saunin will undergo a psychiatric examination to test his sanity, investigators told the newspaper. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #16 He could have chosen to sweep, highly offended, from the room - dramatically and with a well-aimed expletive. He chose to torture and kill. Drunk women say the damnest things. Can't kill them all. god luv 'em. Responsibility for choice of reaction. Leaving is always good when offended. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-24 19:52 |
| #15 Darwin award nomination fer shurr. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-03-24 19:31 |
| #14 Damn, cookie won't catch. ^ | | |
| Posted by: 6 2006-03-24 17:04 |
| #13 Raise your hand if you know where RC's coming from. ^ | } |
| Posted by: 5 2006-03-24 17:03 |
| #12 Taking credit for anything remotely associated with Beslan should show up in the dictionary next to the first entry for "stupid." Did she die a brutal death? Yes. Should her murder be prosecuted? Yes. Was she incredibly stupid? Yes. Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-03-24 16:28 |
| #11 She was basically begging to get whacked for being a complete dumbass, true.....but no one deserves to get mutilated like that. Even my Russian sweetie agrees. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-03-24 15:40 |
| #10 But I can't bring myself to care. can't argue with that. Too many truly sad stories in this world for hers to make the list. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-03-24 15:03 |
| #9 Come on RC, that's not like you. While I agree that supporting the murderers of Beslan make her an unsympathetic victim, this is murder, plain and simple. Certainly. But I can't bring myself to care. Doesn't mean Saunin shouldn't face justice; he should. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-03-24 14:59 |
| #8 Real Russian joke: Petka wakes up in the morning all black and blue. He can't understand what has happened. He asks Vasily Ivanovich what's the matter with him. Why he is all over in shiners. Vasily Ivanovich: -You drunk yesterday? -Drunk. -I was silent when you insulted me, but then you shitted in the corner, put some matches in this heap and said: "This hedgehog will live with us!" I couldn't stand any longer!!! |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-24 13:10 |
| #7 Nasty as hell but, honestly, what was Skoryatina thinking? Talk about p!ss!ing in the wrong pot... |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2006-03-24 12:21 |
| #6 There is a low threshold for this kind of "humor" in Russia. My wife is from there, and mother-in-law lives there. You won't believe the kinds of stuff we don't hear about that goes on with the Chechen rabble. I am with RC. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2006-03-24 12:10 |
| #5 Some people just can't |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-03-24 11:49 |
| #4 The veteran then stripped the woman, shoved the fingers heÂ’d cut off into her vagina and slit the victimÂ’s throat. Come on RC, that's not like you. While I agree that supporting the murderers of Beslan make her an unsympathetic victim, this is murder, plain and simple. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-03-24 11:21 |
| #3 Maybe it would have helped if she had claimed her son was a Russian soldier who had been killed in the war, so everybody had to be sympathetic to her and listen to what she said. Like, "It's all Putin's fault!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-24 11:03 |
| #2 My sympathy meter seems to be broken.... some "jokes" just ain't funny. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2006-03-24 10:58 |
| #1 She said that [Chechen warlords] Maskhadov and Basayev were good people and at the end said that she had been a sniper with Chechen troops and taken out our boys... Call me a heartless bastard, but given that Basayev was behind the Nord-Ost and Beslan massacres, I'm not sure I can blame the guy. It's really hard to come up with a more solid case of "she was asking for it". The brutality of the torture and murder argues against that, but, damn, I'm finding it hard to feel any pity for her. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-03-24 08:37 |