Daniel Yakovleff

Fire rages at site of Yakovleff murder.

Neal — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:15:23 -0500

The house where Dan Yakovleff was murdered is on fire right now. 3 Alarm Fire Rages in Savin Hill. According to The Dorchester Reporter, suspect Steven Odegard no longer lives there.

Alleged Dorchester murderer surrenders

adamg — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:44:36 -0500

Steven Odegard, wanted for the murder of Daniel Yakovleff in January, turned himself in at the District 11 police station late last night and will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court today, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

The arraignment is scheduled for 2 p.m. so that Yakovleff's family from Connecticut can attend the hearing.

Odegard, in whose bed Yakovleff's body was found, was indicted Monday on charges he repeatedly stabbed Yakovleff with a kitchen knife after meeting up at a South End club.

Innocent, etc.

Man sought for the murder of Daniel Yakovleff

adamg — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:37:57 -0500

WANTED

Authorities are now hunting for Steven Odegard, 41, for the stabbing death of Daniel Yakovleff in Dorchester on Jan. 17.

Odegard, in whose bed Yakovleff was found, was indicted by a Suffolk Superior Court grand jury yesterday, District Attorney Dan Conley and Police Commissioner Ed Davis said in a statement, adding that, based on the evidence collected over the past ten months:

Odegard retrieved a knife from his own kitchen and stabbed Yakovleff multiple times, killing him.

Police went to Odegard's current Dorchester Avenue apartment this morning, but Odegard had already fled.

The week after Yakovleff's murder, Odegard's lawyer maintained his innocence - and pointed to an unknown third man allegedly in the apartment - in a Bay Windows interview.

Yakovleff was last seen alive leaving the Eagle Bar in the South End, where Odegard had picked him up.

Anybody who knows where Odegard is can contact Boston Police homicide investigators at 617-343-4470, the anonymous CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS or, via text message, by texting TIP to 27463.

In memory of Daniel Yakovleff.

Globe finally details the case of the murdered gay man in Dorchester

adamg — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:04:28 -0500

Fatal stabbing shakes city's gays.

The article comes nine days after Daniel Yakovleff was found dead in a Savin Hill apartment and five days after the Globe got scooped on this Boston story by the Hartford Courant.

Riggs is not impressed. In fact, he rails against the article, starting with the lead paragraph, which details the "effeminate" mannerisms of a friend of Yakovleff's.

Family of Dorchester stabbing victim seeks answers

adamg — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:57:57 -0500

The Hartford Courant interviews the family of Daniel Yakovleff, 20, found murdered in a Savin Hill triple decker last week. Among their questions: Was he murdered because he was gay and will Boston Police not take his death seriously because of that?

Yakovleff moved to Boston not long after graduating high school in Ashford, Conn., two years ago. He was a cosmetologist at Liquid Hair Studios on Tremont Street in the South End.

His death notice.

Photo from Yakovleff's Facebook page.

Stabbed to death in Savin Hill

adamg — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:27:32 -0500

Man in his 30s, single stab wound, on the top floor of a Tuttle Street triple decker around 6 a.m. Daniel Yakovleff.

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Family of Dorchester stabbing victim seeks answers.