Reward Tripled for 'Cold-Blooded Killer'
Aug. 22 -- The reward for a 27-year-old immigrant from Ukraine who police say is a "cold-blooded, calculating killer" responsible for murdering six members of his family has more than tripled.
Sacramento police said they don't know where Nikolay Soltys is, but they believe they know the kind of vehicle he may be driving.
Soltys was last seen with his 3-year-old son, Sergey, the last victim in his alleged killing spree, in an emerald green mid-1990s Ford Explorer on Monday evening around 8 p.m., police said. The vehicle has silver on the lower parts of the side, and the hatchback door is a lighter green than the rest.
Sometime shortly after that sighting, police believe, Soltys stabbed the boy to death in a cardboard box in a rural area outside Sacramento, but they don't know whether he left the area, possibly heading towards Seattle, where he has relatives, or whether he is hiding somewhere in the city.
"We don't know where he is," Detective Ron Garverick said. "If he's in a car he could travel. I don't know if he's out of the area or not."
Police are getting a better idea of who the person is that they are looking for.
"We're finding out more and more about how much of a cold-blooded, calculating killer this man is," Sacramento County Sheriff Lou Blanas said.
Perhaps even more chilling than the alleged stabbing murders of his 23-year-old pregnant wife, his elderly aunt and uncle, his 9-year-old nephew and 10-year-old niece, was the implication that Soltys may have done more than stab his son to death.
"It appears the child may have been violated also," Garverick said, quickly adding, "I'm not going to speak about that now."
Police found the Sergey's body after they interpreted a note of directions discovered in the 1995 Nissan Altima they say Soltys used to escape after his other five relatives were slain, indicating he knew before hand that he was going to kill the boy and where he would do it.
Tracks around the boy's murder scene show that Sergey walked to the box with an adult and was killed inside the carton. There were new toys found in the box with him, indicating he was "enticed" into the box, Garverick said.
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