Conner Michael Schierman
Facts of the Crime:
Schierman was convicted of four counts of aggravated first-degree murder and one count of arson in the 2006 stabbing death of Olga Milkin, 28; her five- and three-year-old sons, Justin and Andrew; and Olga's sister, Lyubov Botvina, a 24-year-old college student who lived at the house. Olga Milkin's husband and the father of the two boys is Washington National Guard Sgt. Leonid Milkin, who was serving in Iraq at the time.
Aggravated first-degree murder is punishable only by death or by life in prison without possibility of release. No clear motive ever emerged from the trial. Schierman had moved in across the street less than three weeks earlier and the attack might have been sexually driven. Olga Milkin was found naked and her sister was partially clothed, but the women's bodies showed no sign of sexual assault. Schierman claimed to have had an alcoholic blackout, only to wake up in the Milkins' home covered in blood with no idea of what happened.
Schierman was sentenced to death on May 27, 2010.
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