How Russian student's brutal attack on Virginia landlady led her to discover he was son of CIA's 'most valuable' asset - after finding cryptic letters and a bank statement listing $16m in assets
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Virginia woman, who says she was brutally assaulted by her tenant in 2011, later discovered that he was the son of one of the CIA's most valuable Russian spies after she stumbled across an investment report that listed more than $16million in assets following his arrest.
Lisa Sales recalled to
Yahoo News how Dmitry Mikhaylov, a Russian immigrant attending graduate school at George Washington University School of Business, seemed to be a friendly and sociable person when she first met him nearly 10 years ago.
He had inquired about renting a space in her home and eventually the two agreed on him taking the basement for $2,000 per month.
Sales recalled how there were hints that Mikhaylov's life wasn't that of your typical graduate student.
She said he drove a flashy black Mercedes, would often buy rounds of alcohol for people when they went out and told a story about his father that made her a little suspicious.
Despite those initial hints, Sales brushed them off and their friendship continued as normal until the night of the attack on September 16, 2011.
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