Cannibal killer who slaughtered and ate his childhood friend during a fishing trip in a frozen forest, captured after ten years on the run
A CANNIBAL killer who brutally slaughtered and ate his childhood friend has finally been captured after ten years on the run.
Alexei Gorulenko, 46, ate his friend when they were trapped in a dense, frozen forest after their car sank in a river during a fishing trip in Yakutia, Siberia, in 2012.
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Gorulenko was convicted in 2014 of causing grievous bodily harm resulting in death through negligence.
He was sentenced to 12 years with maximum security jail colony, but Gorulenko did not show up court hearing.
Instead, he fled and kept going Russia‘s most wanted list since then.
The cannibal was on the run for ten years, hiding in remote fishing camps and abandoned houses in Russia’s Far East and Siberia.
He was eventually captured while trying to visit a relative in a village near Saratov, southwestern Russia, local media reported that day.
The grim fishing visit ended like a scene out of one horror film, had heard Gorulenko’s original trial.
In the summer In 2012, Gorulenko, accompanied by three of his friends, went to a deep forest for a fishing trip.
The fishermen’s car sank in a river and they had no means of communication with them.
The rescue team would not find the group until November, with only Gorulenko and Alexander Abdullaev surviving the journey.
One member of the fishing group, Viktor Komarov, is still missing after reportedly wandering through the dense forest and getting lost.
Another fisherman, Andrei Kurochkin, was brutally beaten to death by Gorulenko.
After slaughtering his childhood friend, the cannibal chopped up the victim’s body and ate it together with Abdullaev.
The deceased’s remains were not discovered until December 2012.
According to local media, Abdullaev was the first to decide to eat Kurochkin’s body when the pair ran out of food.
He escaped punishment because Russian legislation does not contain a law against cannibalism and had appeared in court as a witness at the time.
The Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov Region said in a statement: “Employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Saratov Region detained a convict who had been on the federal wanted list for ten years.
“During this time, he frequently changed his place of residence and led a solitary lifestyle, hiding in fishing camps, abandoned houses and dachas in the Far East, Siberia and southern Russia.
“Employees of the investigative department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Saratov region, as a result of well-planned operational measures, detained the criminal who was hiding from justice in the village of Eremeevka, Gagarin district.”
Now Gorulenko is being held in prison awaiting a retrial for his escape and is expected to be ordered to serve his original sentence.
The penitentiary service explained: “After the arrest, the convict was taken into custody and placed in a pre-trial detention center for further transfer to the place where he was to serve his sentence.”
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