He Sat Down and Watched Them Burn: German Christan
In a quiet Russian village, a man set a house on fire… then sat down next to his sleeping friend and watched him die.
German Lyubomirovich Christan first killed as a teenager. After prison, he returned to the Leningrad region and began a new series of murders — stabbing, beating, and burning people alive, sometimes staying to watch the flames. Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of the so-called pyromaniac killer: the elderly woman who took him in, the neighbor who knew too much, the family killed over a few hundred rubles, and the night firefighters found him standing in a burning doorway…
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