Mikhail Popkov | The Wednesday Killer

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To celebrate ten years of The Serial Killer Podcast, we begin a special series on one of America’s most infamous killers: H.H. Holmes. Against the dazzling backdrop of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, we trace the early life of Herman Webster Mudgett and his transformation into the ...  Show more

Mikhail Popkov is Russia's most prolific serial killer. It took Russian officials 20 years to track him down, and at the time they believed that he'd killed 22 women - but he'd since admitted to killing more, with his victim count currently standing on 83. Learn more about your a ...  Show more

One of Russia's most infamous serial killers ever... 

He has killed over 53 women and children... and it all started because he couldn't get a boner. You read that right. 



His erectile dysfunction led him down a dark sinister path of murder ...

Mikhail Popkov grew to develop a strong hatred of women as an adult. When he started believing his wife was having an affair, he decided that he needed to set out to punish any woman who was going out and having fun instead of staying home with their family. For more stories of t ...  Show more

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer nicknamed The Butcher of Rostov, The Rostov Ripper, and The Red Ripper who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and th ...  Show more