Satanist serial killer murdered and ate four teens after slaughtering dogs for blood
Nikolai Ogolobyak, a notorious satanist serial killer, was part of a terrifying sect that brutally murdered four teenage students.
The Russian murderer was handed a 20-year sentence in a high-security prison for his gruesome crimes, which involved him being part of a group that kidnapped, killed, dismembered and then consumed the teenagers.
Shockingly, after serving just 13 years of his sentence, Ogolobyak was among the dangerous criminals released by Russian President Vladimir Putin to be drafted into the conflict in Ukraine.
In 2010, Ogolobyak faced charges of murder, robbery, and desecration of a corpse. However, in 2023 he was pardoned as Russia's military intensified its war efforts.
Ogolobyak's cult, established in 2006 by then-15 year old Konstantin Klyk Baranov, consumed their victims' organs at Ogolobyak's flat in 2008, according to court documents cited by Russian publication 76.ru., reports the Express.
For several years, the sect conducted "bloody rituals", slaughtering dogs and cats for sacrifices and using their blood to initiate new members. By 2008, the violence had escalated and eight members killed and dismembered four Yaroslavl college students.
The culprits received sentences ranging from eight to 20 years in prison. Ogolobyak was given 20 years in a maximum security colony.
Russia has been recruiting heavily from prisons for months as the conflict against Ukraine continues to rage.
The British Ministry of Defence stated in May 2023 that Russia's military had "stepped up" its recruitment of prison inmates, though it remained unable to match the casualty rate in Ukraine.
Ogolobyak's father revealed his son had served for six months with Russia's infamous "Storm Z" unit, according to 76.ru..
Storm Z was deployed to conduct localised advances on the front lines in Ukraine.
"This is true. He served there for six months in Storm Z. After being wounded, he is disabled. He is walking, but the wound was serious," Ogolobyak's father said, adding it is unlikely that he will be sent to fight in Ukraine again due to the extent of his injuries.
Ogolobyak reportedly returned from Ukraine on November 2, 2023 and then lived with his mother.
The news comes after the Kremlin received backlash for Putin's pardoning of Vladislav Kanyus, a man convicted in the murder of his 23-year -ld ex-girlfriend.
He was sentenced last July to 17 years in a maximum-security prison over the murder of Vera Pekhteleva in Kemerovo, Siberia, in 2020.
Prisoners "atone with blood for crimes on the battlefield, in assault brigades, under bullets, under shells," Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters in 2023. The mother of the slain woman revealed in June that she discovered Kanyus had travelled to Ukraine to participate in the conflict.
On 8 November, human rights activist Alena Popova announced that Putin had granted a pardon to Kanyus.
According to Agentstvo, a Russian investigative site established in 2021, at least 17 individuals who committed high-profile murders - including Kanyus - were pardoned to fight in Ukraine in 2022 and 2023.
The publication reported that all the killers participated in the Ukrainian war, and some have reoffended upon their return to Russia.
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