Alexander Yoichi Duberek, Interstate Domestic Violence Resulting in Death, Texas 2021

Man Pleads Guilty to Fatal Stabbing of Boyfriend in Texas

A San Diego man who stabbed his boyfriend 93 times pleaded guilty today to a federal crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.

Alexander Yoichi Duberek, 25, was indicted in September 2021. He pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of interstate domestic violence resulting in death.

According to plea papers, Mr. Duberek admitted that on Oct. 31, 2020, he traveled from his home in San Diego to his boyfriend’s home in Plainview, Texas, where he committed the fatal stabbing on the side of a rural farm road.

Mr. Duberek purchased a Toyota Camry for $3,000 cash at a Sam’s Club parking lot and then drove to a Walmart, where he purchased a knife, a hatchet, a gas can, a collapsible shovel, a head lamp, a change of clothing, boots, personal hygiene items, and a first aid kit. He then murdered his 30-year-old boyfriend and dumped his body.

Following the murder, Mr. Duberek fled to Houston, where he sold the vehicle used in the murder to an individual outside an auto auction. Investigators later searched the vehicle and found blood in the back seat that matched the victim.

Mr. Duberek remained at large for roughly five months before turning himself in to San Diego law enforcement on March 18, 2021. While being booked into jail, he was asked about a tattoo of his boyfriend’s first name on his ring finger; he answered that it was the name of the person he had killed.

Mr. Duberek now faces up to life in federal prison.

The investigation was conducted by the Hale County Sheriff’s Office, the Texas Rangers, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas and San Diego Field Offices, with the assistance of the U.S. Secret Service’s Dallas Field Office and the Texas Highway Patrol’s Houston Division. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Callie Woolam and Sean Long are prosecuting the case.

Alexander Yoichi Duberek, 25, Defendant’s Name

Interstate Domestic Violence Resulting in Death, Exact Criminal Charges

Plainview, Texas, City and State

October 31, 2020, Exact Date of Crime

Up to life in federal prison, Sentence or Outcome

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/san-diego-man-pleads-guilty-after-fatally-stabbing-boyfriend