TALLINN — 2002 · Serial Murder
The 2002 Estonian Killing Spree
Between March and May 2002, two Russian citizens in their early twenties carried out a series of killings in Tallinn, Tartu and Sillamäe, Estonia. The victims included a taxi driver shot on Filtri Road in Tallinn and a saleswoman killed in a shop in Tartu; five people were killed in total and two survived attacks. One of the perpetrators died in a shootout with police at Valka on the Latvian border on 5 May 2002. The other was caught on 10 May while illegally crossing the border in Suwałki, Poland, and was extradited to Estonia in November 2002. An Estonian court sentenced him to life imprisonment in March 2004. It is one of the gravest serial murder cases in independent Estonia.
- Date
- 2002
- Place
- Harju, Estonia, Tallinn, EE
- Category
- Serial Murder
- Case Status
- Solved
- Coordinates
- 59.4400, 24.7500 ↗
Timeline of Events
- March 2002The series began with the killing of a taxi driver in Tallinn.
- April-May 2002Further killings took place in Tartu and Sillamäe.
- 5 May 2002One perpetrator died in a shootout with police at Valka.
- 10 May 2002The other was caught in Suwałki, Poland.
- 13 November 2002He was extradited to Estonia.
- 17 March 2004He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Sources
- ERR News — Serial killer seeking transfer to Russia news.err.ee ↗
- The Baltic Times — Court rules against complaint over being called serial killer baltictimes.com ↗
- Wikipedia — Yuri Ustimenko and Dmitry Medvedev en.wikipedia.org ↗
- ERR News
- The Baltic Times
- Wikipedia
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