“The Red Ripper of Rostov" | The Andrei Chika...

A young woman’s parents found her brutally murdered in the back seat of her own car, her face so badly mutilated they could barely recognize her. But less than 24 hours later, forensic testing revealed something impossible—the dead woman wasn’t their daughter. Their daughter was ...  Show more

Four relatives gathered for a quiet family lunch—but within days, three were dead and one was fighting for his life. At the center of it all was a homemade beef Wellington, a lethal dose of death cap mushrooms, and a host who walked away untouched. What followed was a trail of hi ...  Show more

One of the most prolific serial killers ever to live, Andrei Chikatilo murdered 53 people between 1978 and 1990. Greg and Vanessa examine how Chikatilo was molded by the horrors of World War II in Ukraine and then the Soviet Union. Driven by his impotence, he could only be satisf ...  Show more

Andrei Chikatilo killed with increasing frequency over twelve years. Greg and Vanessa explain how the Soviet system of criminal profiling allowed a monster like Chikatilo to evade the police, even as his killing became more frequent, and more gruesome. They examine how a psychiat ...  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 ...

Over the course of nearly two decades, Mikhail Popkov murdered more than 80 young woman and girls, making him one of Russia's worst serial killers. During the time Mikhail Popkov was committing his gruesome crimes in Siberia, he was dubbed "the Wednesday Murderer" by law enfor ...