Kathy
8:44 am on May 8th, 2008
No mention of the cause of death at all? That is strange.
Morbid
10:28 am on May 8th, 2008
Yeah, not much information as of yet. One of the main reasons why I posted it was because of the unanswered questions of not only why, but how.
Mandella
11:25 am on May 8th, 2008
Such a beautiful girl. What a shame.
LeeMouse
11:53 am on May 8th, 2008
http://tiny.cc/UNCC-student-s-murder-remains-a-mystery
This article refers to her death as a “murder.” Not sure if that’s based on some updated police statement, or just the newspaper’s choice of words. Of course, when a 20 year-old woman just shows up dead in mysterious circumstances, you don’t have to leap very far to get to an assumption of murder.
From the link above:
For now, this is the timeline:
9:30 a.m. Monday — Yarmolenko is spotted on the UNCC campus.
10:45 a.m. — She’s at Jackson’s Java. She worked as a barista there but wasn’t working that morning. She left in her car, which friends and police say she rarely drove.
1:15 p.m. — A jet skier finds Yarmolenko’s body next to her car along the Catawba River.
[snip]
Yet another piece of the puzzle is how Yarmolenko’s car ended up down a steep embankment with a door open.
Investigators say she did not fall out of the door, which means she either got out on her own or was pushed out.
Police aren’t saying if they found evidence of another person in the car.
http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_news/story/613461.html
According to this article:
Belk said the vehicle appeared to have gone down the dead-end YMCA Drive and continued straight through an overgrown clearing between two wooded areas. From there, it traveled several yards down a steep embankment and struck a stump at the water’s edge.
Because the car was found about a half mile from any paved road, Belk said it didn’t appear to be an accident. However, he said, nothing has been ruled out yet. Police are still investigating along with the FBI and State Bureau of Investigation.
Belk said he couldn’t comment on how Yarmolenko died. He said there was nothing in the car to indicate alcohol or drugs were a factor, but an autopsy will be performed.
Belk said he wasn’t sure if anyone else had been in the car. He said there were no signs of anything unusual or evidence of a break-in.
I wonder how fast the car was going? There wasn’t any mention of extensive damage to the car (since it didn’t “appear to be an accident”), so could it have been going fast enough for her to sustain fatal injuries if she was pushed from the car, or jumped to avoid an assault? Couldn’t have been going too fast, since if there was another person in the car, they apparently walked away.
Morbid
12:37 pm on May 8th, 2008


That’s the area. The building is the Y. The dirt at the top is probably the Water’s Edge development.
Hippiepoet
12:44 pm on May 8th, 2008
Such a beautiful, vibrant looking young woman. I hope we learn soon, what the fuck went down.
LeeMouse
2:08 pm on May 8th, 2008
Press conference scheduled for 3:30pm today:
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/conference_20307___article.html/yarmolenko_mount.html
Morbid
2:36 pm on May 8th, 2008
Added tribute video
carol13
3:02 pm on May 8th, 2008
fuck that video made me sad…I hope they find something out soon.
Not So Speechless
3:15 pm on May 8th, 2008
What a loss. She was a lovely girl.
blahblahblah
4:15 pm on May 8th, 2008
horrible…i hope they figure this out soon, for her family’s sake.
what a beautiful girl.
LeeMouse
4:24 pm on May 8th, 2008
“Officials say UNCC student was suffocated”:
http://tinyurl.com/6nfy5m
I wonder if it was a rape or attempted rape, and she was accidentally (or not) killed while trying to keep her from screaming?
One of the articles I read (can’t find the link right this second) said that, according to friends, she did know someone who lived in the town where she was found, and she would visit that person on what seemed like a regular basis. But, of course, that person is said to be, “Someone who couldn’t possibly do something like this.”
LeeMouse
4:29 pm on May 8th, 2008
Erp! Wasn’t quick enough on the edit button–
Ah…here’s the article:
http://tinyurl.com/5lx5nz
“UNC Charlotte Theater Professor Lon Bumgarner said he was told that Yarmolenko did have a friend she visited in Gaston County, but that person apparently does not seem capable of doing her harm.
“None of this makes any sense,” Bumgarner said.”
Mandella
4:39 pm on May 8th, 2008
That video totally made me cry.
Indrid Cold
5:28 pm on May 8th, 2008
What a beautiful girl. There aren’t any good words for tragedies like this.
ab
7:06 pm on May 8th, 2008
Seems to be a website of hers:
http://a-new-pen.greatestjournal.com/
Indrid Cold
7:19 pm on May 8th, 2008
Her photobucket. It’s her, all right.
s33.photobucket.com/albums/d59/ctrlcopy/
ab
7:20 pm on May 8th, 2008
And her facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Ira_Yarmolenko/36617670
So sad!
ab
7:36 pm on May 8th, 2008
And her obituary. What a tragic loss!
http://www.legacy.com/Charlotte/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=109250336
Ruby
9:19 pm on May 8th, 2008
Ok, watching that video = big mistake. I’m all teared up from watching a video of still photos of someone I don’t know. Beautiful girl. Vibrant. ALIVE. She was so full of life. Who would just rub that out?
And damn – I think there are more photos of her in that video clip than there are of me in existence, and I’ve been around way longer. Someone really liked to photograph that girl!!
Sad.
Wonder
4:08 am on May 9th, 2008
shouldnt they be showing the car, make model yr color license plate number if they want to account for those couple hours. :S
Hope the FBI gets some prints dna, empressions so they can solve this horrible crime.
I feel just horrible for the fella and the construction worker that had to report it… Kudo for them to be there when needed the most. otherwise Ira could of been left there for sometime. Who knows when someone would of reported her missing. This will help narrow the leads
**** They are coming after you – you fucking retard asshat **** Your best to turn yourself in !!! What could of made you soooooooo mad to kill ?
akika666
8:55 am on May 9th, 2008
That video totally made me cry.
I never look at tribute videos anymore. Impending menopause has made me as mushy as a Hallmark card, a trait my normally cold black heart isn’t comfortable with. Yuck, feelings… ew!
I’m worried this case is taking so long, with so little info…
Morbid
5:00 pm on May 10th, 2008
She died from asphyxiation. She was at a credit union at 10:18 and then went to the coffee shop where she left at 10:50. Some people are hinting at an abduction.
WryBread
6:29 pm on May 10th, 2008
I often w0nder if murderers involved in a story come on this site to read people’s comments.
Morbid
11:15 pm on May 14th, 2008
They just reported on my local news that she was last seen at a Goodwill by the University.
tonysventure
8:35 am on May 15th, 2008
Tragic! RIP Irina…I created the following tribute in her name. Please add any photos, videos, pics that you would like to share.
http://respectance.com/IrinaYarmolenko
yarmolenko
12:28 pm on May 31st, 2008
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Morbid
2:42 pm on December 15th, 2008
I saw video of this on the morning news. Took them long enough.
Nurse Ronda
2:55 pm on December 15th, 2008
Morbid, I saw this story and was going to post it in the forums because I searched for it there and there was no results to that search. I then came here and found that you had posted it to the front page. I am just glad that they finally caught these idiots. Their mugshots are priceless.
So Jaded
3:32 pm on December 15th, 2008
I am just glad that they finally caught these idiots. Their mugshots are priceless.
Aren’t they though? The two of them look like they have the combined IQ of 3.
Feel free to post this in the forums Nurse…it never hurts to have a story well covered.
Zibarro
4:26 pm on December 15th, 2008
Beautiful, smart, talented, friendly, driven – what a fucking waste! You asshats took so much from this world with just one murder!
I didn’t know her – but after watching the video’s and going to her journal site – I feel like I did. She was going places… till she met up with tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber.
Could this have been some road rage gone horribly south? Did they chase her down that embankment to tell her off or rough her up – only to see she was very attractive – and decided to attempt something even more sinister — but she died before they could succeed? Just guessing here. Seems she wouldn’t have driven her car “into” a tree stump on purpose – more by accident.
However or whyever this happened – it was just so wrong! RIP Ira. Hope the 2 that committed this horrible act die slowly, painfully and all alone.
PS – Where are the mugshots? Although I called them Tweedle dumb and dumber – it was only after reading So Jaded’s post on their combined IQ’s. lol. Would love to actually see the pieces of shit!
LeeMouse
5:02 pm on December 15th, 2008
Zibarro, you can see a small pic of the mugshots here:
http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9524597
Not surprisingly, in the above link someone has already weighed in with the every-popular, “Nuh-uh, he couldn’t have done it. Because I know him,” defense. That commenter also says they couldn’t have done because they are “old men.” *snerk*
Zibarro
5:35 pm on December 15th, 2008
Thank you LeeMouse! WTF is up with Cassada’s mouth? Ewww…
I love the comment by Carver – “I’ve never seen her before in my life, I don’t even know how to say her name.” (say that in your most backwoods, *dee dee dee* voice)
Bullshit on never seeing her (your DNA was in her car tard!) and you don’t need to pronounce her name correctly to kill her.
That comment on the article is priceless in its stupidity! OMG! “He’s so passive” “He’s never even been to Charlotte” and the best “Two old men”!! Ha ha ha! Older people than them have committed murder!
I’m anxiously awaiting news on what evidence they found and a possible motive.

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