Alleged Dorchester murderer surrenders

From a statement by the Suffolk County District Attorney's office (which says Odegard is scheduled for trial in December, 2009):

Assistant District Attorney Judith Lyons told the court that evidence developed in the course of an 11-month investigation by Boston Police homicide detectives and Suffolk County homicide prosecutors established that Yakovleff was out with friends on the night of Jan. 16 when he separated with those friends and met up with the defendant, who had been frequenting several bars on Tremont Street.

"The two men went to the defendant's home," Lyons said. "DNA and fingerprint evidence place the two men in the apartment and only the two men in the apartment."

Early on the morning of Jan. 17, Lyons said, Odegard made an unusual phone call.

"At approximately 2:45 a.m., the defendant phoned his employer on his employer's cell phone," she told the court. Odegard allegedly told the employer, who was expected to pick him later that morning, "Don't pick me up."

Odegard called 911 about four hours later to report finding the victim's body. When Boston Police arrived at the Tuttle Street apartment in which he lived alone, they found Yakovleff in Odegard's bed with a knife from Odegard's kitchen "protruding from his chest," Lyons said. The knife had come from Odegard's kitchen.

"The victim had been stabbed ten times," she told the court. "He was on his back in a pool of his own blood with his arms bent and clenched toward his face."