Dolin committed his first severe crime at age 16, when he was convicted of killing an unidentified teenager on hooliganistic grounds.
He approached them and asked one of the girls, 13-year-old Sasha Nikolayzina, if she wanted to accompany him to a nearby convenience store to buy some alcohol and cigarettes.
[2] In his confessions, Dolin denied that he had sexually abused the girls, in spite of the fact that the known evidence contradicted his claims.
[1] After a psychiatric evaluation concluded that he was sane and did not suffer from any debilitating mental abnormalities, Dolin was charged with two counts of murder and put on trial.
[3] Due to the overwhelming amount of evidence against him, he was swiftly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in a corrective labor colony.