Covid-19 while awaiting trial. Sofya Zhukova was awaiting trial after being accused of three murders, and Russian police suspected her of at least four more killings.One of the 81-year-old’s alleged victims was eight-year-old Anastasia Alexeenko, who had thrown ice cream at the OAP after being told to be quiet.The schoolgirl’s severed head was found in 2005, and around the same time stray dogs were seen gathering around Zhukova’s apartment to eat “fresh meat” she was throwing out.But it wasn’t until Zhukov’s 83-year-old lodger Nina Babenko died in 2013 that suspicions were raised that the elderly woman might be a killer.Under interrogation, she admitted to killing her lodger, and as the police probed deeper, they were shocked when she then.