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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...
The 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...
Within days, Soltys was on the FBI's list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, among the likes of Osama bin Laden and Eric Rudolph, the suspected abortion-clinic and Atlanta Olympics bomber. The suggested motives for his rampage ranged from mental instability to rage that his history of spousal abuse...