The Shadow of Yekaterinburg: Firuz Aituganov
In the spring of 2011, women in Yekaterinburg began vanishing after dark. Four were found murdered—raped, robbed, and left in abandoned buildings or isolated corners of the city. Two more barely escaped with their lives.
Police had almost nothing… until the survivors’ descriptions led them to a 21-year-old illegal migrant from Tajikistan who barely spoke Russian and worked nights as a parking-lot guard.
His name was Firuz Hidirovich Aituganov. In less than five months he turned ordinary streets into a hunting ground.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the full story of the crimes, the investigation…
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