True crime · 09.07.1994
Juri Sulimov, released and killing again
Juri Sulimov grew up in Kohtla-Järve. In 1983, aged 16, he was locked up for attacking an elderly man, and in custody he strangled a cellmate. In 1986 he killed another prisoner. He spent years in prisons and psychiatric hospitals until doctors in Ahtme declared him cured and released him on 14 June 1994. On 9 July 1994, at a house party in Kohtla-Järve, he smothered his drunken host with a pillow, set the body on fire and stole goods worth 410 kroons. He was arrested quickly and sentenced to death. When Estonia abolished the death penalty in 1998, his sentence became life imprisonment. The pin marks the town.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
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Juri Sulimov kasvas üles Kohtla-Järvel. 1983. aastal, 16-aastasena, võeti ta vahi alla eaka mehe ründamise eest ja vahi all kägistas ta kambrikaaslase. 1986. aastal tappis ta teise vangi. Ta veetis aastaid vanglates ja psühhiaatriahaiglates, kuni Ahtme arstid kuulutasid ta terveks ja lasid 14. juunil 1994 vabaks. 9. juulil 1994 lämmatas ta Kohtla-Järvel kodupeol purjus peremehe padjaga, süütas surnukeha ja varastas asju 410 krooni eest. Ta võeti kiiresti kinni ja mõisteti surma. Kui Eesti 1998. aastal surmanuhtluse kaotas, muudeti karistus eluaegseks. Kaart näitab linna.