Life Sentence For Slain Dentist's Wife

2009_04_maxbor.jpg Before being sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her estranged husband, Dr. Mazoltuv Borukhova (pictured, near right) told a judge, "I repeat myself again and again. I had nothing to do with this murder. I didn't kill anybody." Borukhova was found guilty of killing dentist Daniel Malakov (pictured, far right) last month. A jury believed she conspired to have her cousin by marriage kill Malakov so she could regain custody of their daughter. Malakov was gunned down in a playground as he was dropping their four-year-old daughter to Borkhova; a homemade silencer found at the scene had fingerprints matching those of Borukhova's cousin, who was also convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Their daughter Michelle has been living with her father's brother and his family; Gavriel Malakov told the Daily News, "Will Michelle ever stop having these nightmares that are full of the events that took place on that sunny, crisp morning when she personally witnessed her father being gunned down? Will she ever have those sweet dreams that typical 6-year-olds have?"

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see ya later, sweetheart!

Incidents like this remind me why I haven't taken my own cousin's offer to kill anyone who gives me trouble.

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not physically killing someone doesn't exclude you from the actual killing, accessory to murder is roughly the same. She hired a hit man to do the work she couldn't. let her rot!

It never ceases to amaze me that people who are willing to stand there and deny their involvement when all the facts of the case say otherwise. Perhaps she's being literal in that she wasn't the one who pulled the trigger, and that's how she's able to live with herself.

don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
words to live by.
now she'll never be with her daughter.

Holy shnikeys, don’t mess w/Russian chicks, they’ll send their uncle fester from Minsk to blow you away in front of your kid, using a potato for a silencer. Happens everyday in the USSR, doesn’t even make the papers anymore.

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