DMITRY SMIRNOV PLEADS GUILTY IN VESEL MURDER

THEY BARELY dated for a few weeks but Dmitry 'Crazy Dmitry' Smirnov was having none of it. And 2 1/2 years after the split he then stalked and murdered Jitka Vesel. On Friday, he pleaded guilty to murdering the 36-year-old beauty and now he has been sentenced to life in prison. Smirnov showed no emotion in court, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. He shot Vesel 12 times in a parking lot.
He told the court: “Because you can’t just expect to just dump someone like that and ignore them for two years and...to get away with it with no consequences and, you know, just waste someone’s life like that."
The pair met online and the Canadian man later travelled to Chicago in December 2008 to stay with her for several weeks. Smirnov returned to Canada and the relationship crashed. She cut off all contact.

The killer returned to Vancouver, then drove to Seattle, bought .40 caliber handgun and ammo and continued on to Chicago. He had previously researched where she lived--and whether or not Illinois had the death penalty. MORE IN THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES