His name is Denis Gorin and he is a convicted serial killer in four different cases. They call him the Sakhalin cannibal. Putin just pardoned him in exchange for his participation in the war with Ukraine. It is the umpteenth case of a criminal on the street in exchange for fighting on the front. But now people are more scared than outraged.
In his hometown of Aniva, in the Russian Far East, everyone who can read understands the danger and cruelty that the subject embodies. His way of acting includes eat the flesh of their victims. He was first sentenced in 2003 for murder and desecration of the body. In 2010, he was released on parole for “impeccable behavior.” That same year he stabbed to death the brother of the man with whom he shared a cell in a pretrial detention center. After the murder, simply to “remember the past”, he decided to “cut her flesh [a la víctima]washed it, put it in the refrigerator and then ate it,” according to the prosecution’s complaint.
In 2011 and 2012, Gorin killed again. Both times he went together with his brother Evgeny: both ended the lives of two more people. One of them was a man who was stabbed 29 times outside a store. In 2018, the court sentenced him to 22 years in prison in a special regime prison: the kind of prisons from which it is almost impossible to escape.
Now, according to the publication, Gorin is being treated after being injured. He is close to home, in a hospital in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. His neighbor was the one who informed journalists about Gorin’s whereabouts. At the end of October, a former prisoner published on the social network ‘Odnoklassniki’ a photograph of himself in a camouflage uniform and the Z symbol on his sleeve, notes the publication ‘Sibir.Realii’, which is identified as a foreign agent in Russia. “I don’t think I’ll be free for long.”. All the relatives of his victims remember him,” commented the neighbor.
The activity on Gorin’s page in Odnoklassniki coincides with the dates specified in the verdict. After December 2012, no posts with photographs appeared on his page. He now poses boasting of warrior ardor. The murderer is a hero.