Former Palo Alto police officers have suggested the Tetris co-founder who supposedly killed his wife and 12-year-old son before stabbing himself to death in 1998 was actually killed by the Russian mafia.

A new three-part documentary series called The Tetris Murders examines the mysterious death of Russian academic and computer scientist Vladimir Pokhilko, 44, his wife Yelena Fedotova, 38, and their son Peter, 12.

All three were found dead in their Palo Alto home on September 22, 1998. …

She added: ‘I did not think that Vladimir Pokhilko killed his family. I remember walking into that room when I slid past the sliding doors, which were already opened.

‘And I looked at Vladimir laying on the ground, and I looked at the blood splatter on the door. I looked at the knife in his hand and I said to myself, ‘There’s no way this man cut his own throat.”

[Interesting — I just watched a discussion of Tetris in the Discovery series “The Toys That Changed America.” I’ll be watching this documentary when it becomes available. — Ed]