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14. The Cold Geography of a Hitman: The life of Imre Arakas (Aka The Butcher)
In April 2017, armed Gardaí smashed through the door of a quiet safehouse in West Dublin. Sitting on a couch inside was an elderly, bearded man who looked like an eccentric geography teacher. In reality, he was Imre "The Butcher" Arakas—one of Europe’s most elusive and lethal contract killers, flown into Ireland by the Kinahan Cartel to execute a high-profile target with a single, silenced shot to the head.
In this episode, Tim Warburton traces the extraordinary, chilling forty-year journey of a man who began his life as an idealistic, anti-Soviet rebel leaping out of courthouse windows in…
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