The Man With the Kind Face: Alexey Falkin, the EMERCOM Maniac
By day he was a firefighter with Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations — the man who rushed into burning buildings to save lives. He had a wife, two children, and what neighbors called a kind face. By night, Alexey Sergeevich Falkin hunted women across Yekaterinburg and Verkhnyaya Pyshma.
For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, he lived a double life that ended only when a young mother named Irina Vakhrusheva never arrived at her friend’s apartment. What investigators uncovered connected him to three murders, multiple sexual assaults — including attacks on minors — and a trail of victims…
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