The Balashikha Ripper: Sergei Ryakhovsky
Between 1988 and 1993, a giant stalked the forests and parks outside Moscow. Standing nearly 6’6” and weighing almost 300 pounds, Sergei Ryakhovsky — known as the Balashikha Ripper and the Hippopotamus — left at least 19 bodies in his wake. Elderly women walking home, men lured into the woods, teenagers who never returned. He strangled, stabbed, mutilated, and desecrated his victims.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines the five-year killing spree that terrorized the Moscow region during the collapse of the Soviet Union, the capture of one of Russia’s most…
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