'Beast who gave up being human': MMA fighter who murdered mother and daughter, then stole car, makes chilling lie: "They are sleeping"... Dies under mysterious circumstances while incarcerated

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A man in his 30s, a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, who brutally murdered a woman in her 30s and her five-year-old daughter to steal their car and money, died while serving time in prison.

The UK's "The Sun" reported on the 13th (Korean time) that Farhod Rahimzoda (33), who was serving a 23-year prison sentence for murder and robbery, recently died in prison. The specific cause and date of death have not yet been revealed.

Rahimzoda, originally from Tajikistan, was a former fighter known as "Tiger Eye" and a taxi driver. He learned that his passenger, Olga Yaroslavtseva, had inherited an estate and planned to use the money to buy a car. Rahimzoda decided to steal this money to secure a home for his family.

On January 20, 2024, Rahimzoda lured the mother and daughter to a remote location. He stabbed Olga to death with a knife in front of her young daughter. He then drove around with the body and the terrified daughter in a stolen car. Eventually, he strangled the daughter to death as well, and abandoned the two bodies separately near a highway and in a snowy field on the outskirts of Novosibirsk, Russia.

After the crime, Rahimzoda fled with cash, a passport, and a vehicle worth 5.5 million rubles (approximately 90 million won), which he later sold. He also displayed meticulousness by answering calls from friends worried about Olga's disappearance, saying, "The mother and daughter are sleeping, so I will not wake them."

As the investigation closed in, Rahimzoda attempted to flee. He lied to his mother-in-law, claiming that Olga had attacked him with a knife first and that he killed her in self-defense. He also handed over the stolen bundle of cash, telling her to use it toward a mortgage on their home. However, his mother-in-law immediately turned the money over to the police.

He was arrested by police at the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border five days after the crime, but maintained until the end that it had been an accidental incident. He was divorced from his wife. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 23 years in prison in October 2025, but he died in prison just one year into serving his sentence.

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