The Necromancer Maniac: How Viktor Bolkhovsky Lured Women to Their Deaths Through Lonely Hearts Ads
In the late 1990s, Russian women answered newspaper personal ads promising romance, security, and a better life. What they found instead was Viktor Nikolayevich Bolkhovsky — a convicted killer who called himself a “professional maniac.”
From the murder of his own wife in 1980 to a calculated campaign of killings across Kemerovo and Chita, Bolkhovsky refined a chilling method: polish the perfect ad, gain entry to a private home, then strike. His final crime left a 14-year-old girl forever scarred.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the full story of the man known as the Necromancer Maniac — the ads…
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