Oleg Sokolov, a professor at St. Petersburg State University, is the suspect in the grisly murder of one of his former students
Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old professor at St. Petersburg State University, is the suspect in the death of one of his former students, Anastasia Yeshchenko.The celebrity academic was pulled out of Moika River, in the heart of the historic city, over the weekend. A backpack he was carrying contained a pair of severed arms and a nonlethal handgun. Law enforcement officials told the Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti that Yeshchenko's dismembered body was found in Sokolov's apartment.
Police said a woman's arms were found in his rucksackYeshchenko came from the southern Russian city of Krasnodar to study in St. Petersburg and had continued to work with Sokolov as a researcher, according to the state news agency TASS. It added that law enforcement officials were also looking into media reports that Sokolov beat some of his students.Sokolov is a specialist in the military history of France and a professor at St.
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