disappearance in Russia. The boy's mother, who has only been identified as Alena, 31, helped her husband fake a family picnic close to where he buried his body.
The sick pair then lied to the police and said the five-year-old vanished after running away from the picnic to follow a cat earlier this month.
Prosecutors in Krasnodar Krai in southern Russia have now charged Bugorkov with the murder of a minor after grim footage was released of him carrying the boy's body.
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