A Russian court has handed down sentences to three individuals involved in a series of gruesome murders linked to satanic rituals. The case, which shocked the nation, involved the luring of victims into remote wooded areas in northern Russia where they were brutally killed.
The main perpetrator, Andrei Tregubenko, received a life sentence for his role in three killings. Alongside Olga Bolsakova, both self-professed adherents of satanism, they led a young girl into a forest in the Karelia region in 2016 and murdered her. Subsequently, they, along with Tatiana Deryugina and Alexander Perevozchikov-Khmury, killed a man in the woods in the Leningrad region.