The Beast of Ukraine: Anatoly Onoprienko’s 52 Murders
Christmas Eve 1995. A quiet Ukrainian village. An entire family is slaughtered and their house set ablaze. It was only the beginning.
Over the next three months, Anatoly Onoprienko — known as the Beast of Ukraine, the Terminator, and Citizen O — would kill more than forty people, wiping out whole families with a sawed-off shotgun, axes, and knives. Fifty-two victims in total. No remorse. Just cold indifference.
Host Alexander Lawson traces the rise of one of Europe’s deadliest serial killers, the massive manhunt that nearly failed, and the chilling confession that still haunts Ukraine.
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