The Academy Maniacs: When Two Teenagers Turned a Quiet Siberian Town into a Hunting Ground
In the winter of 2010–2011, two teenagers walked the same snowy paths every night in Irkutsk’s Akademgorodok, searching for people they considered weak. Armed with hammers, mallets, and knives, Artyom Alexandrovich Anoufriev and his friend Nikita Lytkin left six people dead — including a 12-year-old boy — and filmed themselves laughing over one of the bodies.
Host Alexander Lawson unravels the chilling case of the “Academy Maniacs”: how two high-school-age killers, influenced by online serial-killer lore and extremist ideology, terrorized a quiet academic district for months… until a single…
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