Cannibal killer who butchered and ate childhood pal on fishing trip in frozen forest captured after ten years on the run
A CANNIBAL killer who brutally butchered and ate his childhood friend has finally been captured after ten years on the run.
Alexei Gorulenko, 46, ate his pal when they were trapped in a dense, frozen forest after their car sank in a river during a fishing trip in Yakutia, Siberia, in 2012.
Gorulenko was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm resulting in death by negligence in 2014.
He was sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security prison colony but Gorulenko failed to appear at the court hearing.
Instead, he fled and has been on Russia's most wanted list ever since.
The cannibal was on the run for a decade, hiding in remote fishing camps and abandoned houses in Russia's Far East and Siberia.
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He was finally apprehended when he tried to visit a relative in a village near Saratov, in south-western Russia, local media reported on the day.
The grim fishing visit ended like a scene from a horror movie, Gorulenko's original trial had heard.
In the summer of 2012, Gorulenko, accompanied by three of his pals, headed to a deep woodland for a fishing trip.
The fishermen's car sank in a river, and they had no means of communications on them.
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The rescue team wouldn't find the group until November - with only Gorulenko and Alexander Abdullaev surviving the trip.
One member of the fishing party, Viktor Komarov, is still missing after reportedly going wandering through the thick forest and getting lost.
Another fisherman, Andrei Kurochkin, was brutally beaten to death by Gorulenko.
After slaughtering his childhood friend, the cannibal dismembered the body of the victim and ate it with Abdullaev.
The remains of the deceased were discovered only in December, 2012.
According to local media, Abdullaev was first to decide to eat Kurochkin's body when the pair ran out of food.
He escaped punishment as there is no law against cannibalism in Russia's legislation and had appeared in court as a witness at the time.
The Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov region said in a statement: "Employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Saratov region detained a convict who had been on the federal wanted list for 10 years.
"During this time, he regularly changed his region of residence, and led a solitary lifestyle, hiding in fishing camps, abandoned houses and dachas in the Far East, Siberia, and southern Russia.
"Employees of the search department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Saratov Region, as a result of well-planned operational measures, detained the criminal who was hiding from justice in the village of Eremeevka, Gagarin District."
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Now Gorulenko is being held in jail waiting for a new trial for his escape and is expected to be ordered to serve his original sentence.
The penitentiary service explained: "After the arrest, the convict was taken into custody and placed in a pre-trial detention centre for further transfer to the place of serving his sentence."
