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client’s sexual wish to strangle himself with a rope. It was the first documented case of death by sexual strangulation. Hill was eventually arrested for Kotzwara’s murder, but later acquitted when the authorities learned that she was more or less an innocent bystander. By contrast, Bobby Glass, 200 years later, faced first-degree murder charges for the sexual strangulation death of Sharon Lopatka, though the charge was eventually reduced to voluntary manslaughter.
The case against Glass included several lengthy delays and dragged on for three years. But on January 27, 2000, he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, as well as to six counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor that resulted from the discovery of other pornographic material on his computer. He was sentenced to 36 to 53 months in prison for the manslaughter of Sharon Lopatka and 21 to 26 months for the possession of child pornography.
He was sent to Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution in North Carolina. On February 20, 2002, two weeks before his
release, Bobby Glass had a heart attack. He was pronounced dead at 1:30 a.m. at Spruce Pine Community Hospital in North Carolina.
Among Sharon’s final messages posted on the internet is a note addressed to people who had sent for the videos, failed to receive them and posted their own notes, calling the advertisements a fraud. “I’m just one person trying to fill all these orders. I don’t even have time to have a life ,” she complained.
But perhaps the last, poignant word should go to Reverend Clarence Widener, who had officiated at Mr. Glass’s wedding many years earlier. He said, “He was a very nice fellow. I don’t know what could have happened to him.”
Anastasia Solovyova: In Search of a Dream
“You dragged her to the grave you dug… You stripped her corpse, mocking her. You saw the ring on her finger and you cut off her finger.”
—ANATOLY SOLOVYOV, THE VICTIM’S FATHER, TO HER KILLER
Originally, it was Anastasia Solovyova alone who dreamed of settling in America. The beautiful blonde daughter of two music instructors from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, excelled at piano and chorus but also studied English assiduously, babysat for an American diplomat in Bishkek and, when she was old enough, joined a bridal agency that would introduce her to American bachelors.
For all of her success in Kyrgyzstan, it was apparent that the 18-year-old ethnic Russian felt that she could build a better life by leaving the former Soviet republic and heading for the United States.
So, when the mail-order bride agency delivered a squat, balding man of almost 40, both she and her parents optimistically saw Gifford Indle King Jr. for his finer qualities: intelligent, attentive, well dressed, and he spoke glowingly of his upper-middle-class life and family back in America.
After a few meetings, the Solovyov family was sold.
In their small apartment in Bishkek, Anastasia’s parents had no way of knowing that their future son-in-law was actually bisexual, a financial and emotional failure, a man with a history of relying on his well-to-do parents for money and a proclivity for violent relationships. Nor could they have conceived that, just a few years earlier, he had been divorced by Yekaterina Kazakova, another mail-order bride whose court petition alleged that he had hit her in the head with his fist, thrown her against a wall and repeatedly pounded her head against it.
Unaware of King’s previous history with international marriage, Anastasia Solovyova soon left Bishkek for a comfortable townhouse just north of Seattle. “At first she seemed happy. She thought she loved him,” said Natasha Jankauskas, 22, who worked with Anastasia King at a downtown Seattle seafood restaurant soon after she arrived in America. “But they were never suited for each other… She was tall, beautiful and outgoing, and her husband was very monotone and pretty unattractive.”
After a few months, the
The case against Glass included several lengthy delays and dragged on for three years. But on January 27, 2000, he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, as well as to six counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor that resulted from the discovery of other pornographic material on his computer. He was sentenced to 36 to 53 months in prison for the manslaughter of Sharon Lopatka and 21 to 26 months for the possession of child pornography.
He was sent to Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution in North Carolina. On February 20, 2002, two weeks before his
release, Bobby Glass had a heart attack. He was pronounced dead at 1:30 a.m. at Spruce Pine Community Hospital in North Carolina.
Among Sharon’s final messages posted on the internet is a note addressed to people who had sent for the videos, failed to receive them and posted their own notes, calling the advertisements a fraud. “I’m just one person trying to fill all these orders. I don’t even have time to have a life ,” she complained.
But perhaps the last, poignant word should go to Reverend Clarence Widener, who had officiated at Mr. Glass’s wedding many years earlier. He said, “He was a very nice fellow. I don’t know what could have happened to him.”
Anastasia Solovyova: In Search of a Dream
“You dragged her to the grave you dug… You stripped her corpse, mocking her. You saw the ring on her finger and you cut off her finger.”
—ANATOLY SOLOVYOV, THE VICTIM’S FATHER, TO HER KILLER
Originally, it was Anastasia Solovyova alone who dreamed of settling in America. The beautiful blonde daughter of two music instructors from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, excelled at piano and chorus but also studied English assiduously, babysat for an American diplomat in Bishkek and, when she was old enough, joined a bridal agency that would introduce her to American bachelors.
For all of her success in Kyrgyzstan, it was apparent that the 18-year-old ethnic Russian felt that she could build a better life by leaving the former Soviet republic and heading for the United States.
So, when the mail-order bride agency delivered a squat, balding man of almost 40, both she and her parents optimistically saw Gifford Indle King Jr. for his finer qualities: intelligent, attentive, well dressed, and he spoke glowingly of his upper-middle-class life and family back in America.
After a few meetings, the Solovyov family was sold.
In their small apartment in Bishkek, Anastasia’s parents had no way of knowing that their future son-in-law was actually bisexual, a financial and emotional failure, a man with a history of relying on his well-to-do parents for money and a proclivity for violent relationships. Nor could they have conceived that, just a few years earlier, he had been divorced by Yekaterina Kazakova, another mail-order bride whose court petition alleged that he had hit her in the head with his fist, thrown her against a wall and repeatedly pounded her head against it.
Unaware of King’s previous history with international marriage, Anastasia Solovyova soon left Bishkek for a comfortable townhouse just north of Seattle. “At first she seemed happy. She thought she loved him,” said Natasha Jankauskas, 22, who worked with Anastasia King at a downtown Seattle seafood restaurant soon after she arrived in America. “But they were never suited for each other… She was tall, beautiful and outgoing, and her husband was very monotone and pretty unattractive.”
After a few months, the
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