Russian professor, found with bag of severed arms, admits he killed student
On Saturday, Oleg Sokolov was fished out of the frigid Moika River in St. Petersburg, along with a backpack containing his student's arms. A search of his apartment uncovered her decapitated corpse, and local news media said he had planned to dispose of his victim's body parts in the river and then commit suicide, dressed as Napoleon, outside a St. Petersburg fortress.
Andrew Higgins, New York Times