Police says it's still investigating the murders of a Brooklyn mother and daughter who were founded brutally stabbed in a Brooklyn apartment last week, but many think that a likely suspect will never be brought to justice because the mother's boyfriend, an ex-Russian military man known as a "Russian Rambo," has fled to Russia. But Nikolai Rakossi's sister claims he's remorseful—and even thinks he's dead—telling the Post, "He was in tears. He told me: 'Please don't keep any offense in your heart about me. Forgive me. You will never see me again.'
Tatyana Prikhodko, 56, and her daughter Larisa Prikhodko, 28, were both stabbed repeatedly in the face and torso in Tatyana and Nikolai's Sheepshead Bay apartment. Larisa lived in another apartment three floors below and it's believed that the daughter may have walked in on her mother's murder because her body was found near the front door. Surveillance video showed Rakossi leaving the apartment building with two suitcases, and he left JFK Airport on a one-way ticket to Moscow. The NYPD, incidentally, hasn't formally named him as a suspect.
Rakossi's sister Lydia says, "I don't think he is alive now, after what he told me. Knowing him, I don't think he would be able to live with himself and carry the burden of having killed the person he loved more than himself, and her daughter. I think he would follow them to death very soon." But if he's not dead, she told the Post, "If he is still alive and I see him, I will say to him: 'What have you done? What HAVE you done?' No one can get away with this. I am going through pictures of him, looking at them, and I am crying, crying, crying."
As of last Thursday, when his mother and grandmother were buried, Larisa Prikhodko's son hadn't been told his mother is dead. His father (Larisa's former fiance who first reported her missing, leading to the cops' discovery) told the Daily News at the time, "He started asking a couple of days ago, but we're trying to avoid the subject as much as possible. I'm still in shock. It's still not real to me. My only concern is to give my son the best I can give him under the circumstances."
