The Ad Killer: Denis Gorbunov
In Chelyabinsk in the winter of 2004, young women placed ordinary ads — a wedding dress for sale, a job wanted. A polite man called, arranged a meeting, and walked through the door.
Over five months Denis Alekseevich Gorbunov robbed eight women and murdered five of them. One he stabbed ninety-six times. He hunted them through the classifieds.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of the man police called the Ad Killer and the Bloody Groom — how he chose his victims, how a newspaper sting finally stopped him, and what happened four days after a Russian court sentenced him to life.
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