Posted on 01/06/2022 1:14:56 AM PST by algore
A married Idaho booking deputy has been accused of duping a former Olympic speed skater into romance and making her the beneficiary of his will, then neglecting him as he died of mad cow disease.
Marina Billings, 49, allegedly wheedled her way into Olympian Boris Leikin's life despite being married, then neglected Leikin and got him to sign over his assets to her before his death in July 2021 aged 68.
Billings and her husband Robert Billings, 70, have both been charged with financial exploitation and abuse in relation to Leiken's death.
Cops haven't accused them of murder, but say their behavior may have hastened Leiken's decline from mad cow disease, a fatal degenerative brain condition which can be caused by eating infected meat
Friends of the late athlete, who lived in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, said he took his health very seriously and was in good shape. Some of his neighbors were stunned to be summoned to his home to see the Billings get Leiken to sign an updated will giving them his assets while his hand shook, with Marina allegedly speaking to him 'like a dog.'
Friends said Leiken, who online records list as a competitor in the 1998 Winter Olympics, quickly fell ill after he started dating Idaho booking deputy Billings, who he met online on a chat forum for Russian expats.
Billings, who emigrated to the US from Siberia in 2007, moved into his Cottonwood Heights home and Leikin became sick and was hospitalized, according to court documents obtained by ABC 4.
Leiken continued to skate well into his 60s, and was listed as competing at one event just weeks before his death
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I hope a thorough autopsy is done
A story as old as time....
Made the Olympics at 45 as a speed skater?
Such obviois extortion is usually done through government.
Question:
CJD is not related to Mad Cow Disease (BSE). Although both are considered TSE’s, only people get CJD and only cattle get Mad Cow disease. What causes CJD? CJD is caused by a protein called a prion
CJD is very rare. About 500 deaths per year in the U.S.:
https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd/occurrence-transmission.html
Why did they name a disease after Nancy Pelosi?
He doesn’t have a wikipedia entry. I know wikipedia shouldn’t be the standard of truth, but it looks like he didn’t win anything, and was only in the Olympic trials, not the actual Olympics. Still an impressive guy. He did win gold and silver in the Winter World Masters Games, which I guess is the old folks Olympics.
I think it was age group olympics, similar to senior olympics, since he competed as recently as last year.
Where in the world do you buy beef contaminated with Mad Cow Disease...at the Kroger in the half-off section? If she poisoned him, what was the source of the diseased meat?
Mad cow? Are we sure they’re not referring to the goldigging girlfriend?
If he had Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy there was absolutely nothing she could have done to help him except end it sooner.
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