The Goblin of Belgorod: How a Forest Wild Child Became a Serial Killer
In the quiet villages of Belgorod Oblast, a stranger would knock on doors asking only for a place to sleep. What the elderly residents found instead was a man raised by the woods — a killer they called Leshy, The Goblin.
Alexander Ivanovich Greba grew up more animal than human. Abandoned to the forest as a boy, he returned as a teenager and murdered an old woman because she reminded him of his mother. After nearly nine years in prison he was released… and immediately went back to the trees.
Over two terrifying weeks in the summer of 2004 he killed four more people, eating their food, taking…
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