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...DIED. NIKOLAY SOLTYS, 28, Ukrainian immigrant jailed for the alleged murder of his pregnant wife, son and four other family members; a suicide by hanging; in his cell in Sacramento, Calif. Soltys was caught hiding in the backyard of his mother's home after a 10-day manhunt last August...
ARRESTED. NIKOLAY SOLTYS, 27, Ukrainian immigrant who was among the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives; for the brutal murder of six of his family members; in Citrus Heights, Calif. Soltys' brother called police after spotting him in the family's backyard...
...before hell broke loose, Nikolay Soltys, 27, and his pregnant wife Lyubov, 23, entertained a pastor from the Bethany Slavic Missionary Church at their home in North Highlands, a suburb of Sacramento, Calif. Like most of the large community of Ukrainians and Russians in the greater Sacramento area, the Soltyses are thought to have immigrated to the U.S. as religious refugees--persecuted Pentecostal and Baptist minorities--and the two were looking for a church to call their own. This was the big interview to qualify for membership...
Bethany clerics remember Lyuba, as she was affectionately called, as "very sweet, very calm." But there were misgivings about her husband. The church secretary, Valentin Kalinovskiy, remembers Nikolay as very pensive and deliberate, "kind of thinking a lot and very slow in his movements." At earlier interviews, he had refused to answer questions about the circumstances surrounding his departure from his previous church in Ukraine. "He wouldn't say anything," says Kalinovskiy. "We need an answer. We cannot have a person who has not left his past church in peace." The Sunday interview concluded amicably. But the pastor would still...
...next day, Nikolay allegedly stabbed Lyubov to death, then went to the home of relatives and killed an aging uncle and an aunt, Petr and Galina Kukharskiy, and two young cousins, Tatyana, 9, and Dimitriy, 10. He apparently took money from that house. But he was not done. He drove his 1995 Nissan Altima to his mother's house to pick up his three-year-old son Sergay. Late on Tuesday, police found the toddler's body in a cardboard box. They said the boy may have been lured into the box with toys. The child's body was bruised...