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(#4) David Sartin Plotted A Bizarre, Sinister Revenge On His Mail-Order Fiancée
A Texas man named David Sartin met Kiev-native Elena Barykina on a mail-order bride matchmaking site. He visited her multiple times in her home country, wining and dining her, and spending tens of thousands of dollars on jewelry, gifts, and her singing career. They agreed to wait until marriage for sex, but when Sartin learned she was sleeping with a former boyfriend, he hatched a strange and profoundly evil plan to get back at her. He hired a group of Russian mob figures to kidnap Barykina and ship her to him in a shipping crate. Even more twisted, Sartin planned to keep Barykina trapped in his home while he slowly poisoned her to death. But those Russian mob guys? They turned out to be federal agents. Sartin received a 10-year prison sentence.
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(#5) Lester Barney Killed Alla Barney In Front Of Their Four-Year-Old
Alla Barney, a 26-year-old, Ukrainian-born engineer, was the mail-order bride of Lester Barney, a man over 30 years her senior. When the marriage went sour, Alla filed a restraining order against Lester and gained custody of their four-year-old son, Daniel. One afternoon, as she picked up him from daycare and strapping him into his car seat, Lester attacked her with a steak knife. Alla bled to death before Daniel's eyes. Lester's galling attempt to claim the murder as self-defense failed, and he is currently serving life in prison.
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(#11) Nina Sharanova Was Killed By Her Computer Whiz Husband
As part of a plea bargain, computer programmer Hans Reiser led authorities to the body of his Russian mail-order bride, which he dumped near Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, California. But Nina Sharanova Reiser was not an ordinary mail-order bride. An obstetrician and gynecologist, Nina met Hans while serving as a translator on his date with a woman he met through a Russian mail-order bride agency. Hans and Nina married in 1998 and had two children. They separated in 2004, and Nina disappeared two years later.
After both forensic and circumstantial evidence linked him to her murder, Hans stood trial and was found guilty, though Nina's body hadn't yet been found. In accepting a plea deal that reduced his prison sentence, Hans pled guilty and admitted to strangling Nina while their children played in another room of their home.
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(#2) Jerry Mentzel Lost Thousands Of Dollars To His Mail-Order Bride
69-year-old Pennsylvania man Jerry Mentzel lost his wife of 42 years, only to be swept off his feet by a woman named Valantina Vlba, a 24-year-old Moroccan citizen he met on a mail-order bride website. He brought her to the U.S. and proposed, but she only agreed to marry him if he sent her brother-in-law in London $32,000. Mentzel agreed, and he and Vlba married soon after. Less than two weeks later, the marriage ended, Vlba dipped out, and Mentzel was in the midst of a divorce. And…he had to pay her alimony. Mentzel ended up losing around $100,000, and Valantina Vlba turned out to be the alias of a con artist.
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(#9) A Mail-Order Bride Kills Her Husband And Mother-In-Law And Tries To Sell Twins
Lai Binghao, a Chinese man, married a Vietnamese mail-order bride named Ayou and brought her to his home in the Guangdong province of South China. After the coupled welcomed a pair of twin boys, Lai Binghao's mother moved in to help take care of the babies. A few months later, Ayou and three Vietnamese men bound and strangled her husband and mother-in-law to death; Ayou then fled with the babies only to be caught a short time later. At the time of her arrest, Ayou was attempting to sell the twins for more than $9,000 each.
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(#1) Anastasia King Died By Her Husband's Hand
Kyrgyzstan native Anastasia Solovieva King was just 18 when she married Indle King Jr, a 36-year-old man from Washington State she met through a mail-order bride matchmaking service. Indle King, who came off as a charming University of Chicago graduate with a taste for classical music, ended up being a textbook abuser: starting off suave (he won the approval of Anastasia's parents, too) only to morph into a monster following the wedding. He demanded to know her location at all times, put pressure on her to have kids right away, wouldn't let her get a driver's license, and said he would kill her if she left him. Indle also lied about his income, requiring Anastasia to take up work as a waitress; Indle would funnel money from her accounts into his own pocekts.
Eventually, Anastasia returned to Kyrgyzstan to spend an extended period of time with her family, but Indle followed her there. When Indle returned to his life in Washington, Anastasia was nowhere to be found. He said she left him at the Moscow airport, but in December of 2000, one of the King's own tenants led authorities to where she lay buried beneath a dirty mattress on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. The tenant admitted to strangling Anastasia while Indle held her to the floor. Indle received a 28-year prison sentence for her murder.
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The "Mail-order brides" generally refer to some website businesses that introduce foreign women to single men from developed countries such as the United States. The service staff also provide paid translation services and a series of e-books, video tutorials, etc. Not only online chat, If the customer chooses his favorite woman, he can also contact the "mail-order brides" website to book accommodation tickets and pick-up service, and wait to be arranged to meet with the woman.
The "Mail-order brides" industry in Russia has been booming since the 1990s, and many other countries are also developing this business. The random tool shares 15 horror stories of mail-order brides you should read.
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