Overview

• The Investigative Committee said it detained the slain woman's daughter and her friend on October 4 in connection with the killings in Yakutsk.
• A court motion for pretrial restraint will be submitted shortly as investigators work to establish motives and other circumstances.
• A criminal case was opened after the bodies of a 40-year-old woman and her 11-year-old son were found in an apartment in the city.
• Authorities previously stated that a person involved had been identified, but they had not publicly detailed charges or motive.
• RIA Novosti, citing a source close to the investigation, reported the victims were the wife and son of Savva Mikhailov, a local communist and SVO participant who reportedly died in 2023.