UK Telegraph:

Police in the western Russian city of Yaroslavl have arrested a gang of goths accused of killing and eating four teenagers in a gory Satanic ritual.

Nikolai Ogolobyak - Satanist Cult Leader

The eight suspected Satanists, aged 17 to 19, allegedly lured the four youths to parties on the forested edge of Yaroslavl’s city limits, before inducing them to drink and then chopping up their bodies.

Police found the victims’ arms and legs in a pit dressed with Satanic symbols, and investigators say each victim was stabbed 666 times.

The four victims were lured in two separate incidents in late June, investigators believe. First the gang approached and dismembered Olga Pukhova and Anna Gorokhova on June 28, before attacking Varya Kuzmina and her boyfriend Andrei Sorokin the next day. All the victims were between the ages of 16 and 17.

The Victims

The victims – all goths themselves – had told their families they were going to a nearby music festival. Instead, police discovered they had all phoned the flat of alleged Satanist cult leader Nikolai Ogolobyak, who lives 250 meters away from the site of the deadly ritual.

Kuzmina reportedly called a friend from Ogolobyak’s apartment late the night of her murder and said: “I don’t like it here, something’s not right. I’ll tell you about it later.”

One of the eight arrested Satanists had spent time in a psychological facility, but was later released. He refused to renounce his beliefs, allegedly saying “Satan will help me avoid responsibility – I’ve brought him many victims.”

Alexander Voronovic - another Satanist kid who was arrested

Daily Mail:

The killers then allegedly lit a bonfire under a tree near their cottage in Russia’s Yaroslavl region, 300 miles north-east of Moscow, where they cooked and ate their victims’ body parts.

The body of a small rodent crucified on an upside-down cross was also found.

Upside down cross found at the scene

After arresting eight people in connection with the murders, police realized all four victims had made phone calls to the flat of alleged gang leader Nikolai Ogolobyak, a former church choir boy.
Officers discovered the victims’ body parts in a pit 250m from Ogolobyak’s apartment block.

Victim: Varya Kuzmina

Victim: Olga Pukhova

Victim: Andrei Sorokin

Victim: Anya Gorokhova

One of those arrested is alleged to have told police: ‘Satan will help me to avoid responsibility, I made lots of sacrifices to him.’ Another, Alexander Voronovic, claimed the gang had previously dug up a grave and eaten the heart of the girl buried there.

One of the gang, when asked what made him do it, is claimed to have said: ‘I tried to turn to God, but it didn’t bring me any money.

‘I prayed to Satan, and things improved.’

typical apartment blocks in Yaroslavl

Why would anybody turn to Satanism living in a paradise area like this?

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