The Policeman Ripper: Yevgeny Chuplinsky and the Novosibirsk Nightmare
In November 1998, a teenager gathering firewood on the outskirts of Novosibirsk lifted a sheet of metal and found a severed head. Nearby, a woman’s mutilated torso lay inside an abandoned refrigerator. She was never identified.
Over the next seven years, body parts kept appearing across the city—heads in hoods, limbs on dumps, pentagrams carved into skin. Nineteen women, most of them sex workers. At least twelve still unnamed.
The man responsible was a decorated police officer, a husband, and a father of two. Neighbors called him kind.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of Yevgeny…
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