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A True crime Podcast
The true crime podcast that uncovers the most notorious murders, heists, and mob sagas from the shadows of the past. Each episode transports you to crime scenes long forgotten, weaving gripping narratives of betrayal, bloodshed, and justice—or the lack thereof. From Prohibition-era gang wars to modern-day mysteries. we explore the dark motives, shocking twists, and enduring legacies that still haunt us today. Perfect for armchair detectives and history buffs alike—listen if you dare,
Episodes
- A True crime Podcast
Bluebeard: The Man Who Called Women His Opponents
In February 2011 a man walked out of an apartment in Oryol carrying a small child and leaving two bodies behind. Investigators would soon learn he had already…
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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…
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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…
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The Pond at Krutets: Dmitry Golubev and the Triple Murder
October 12, 2008. A quiet pond outside a Russian village. Two groups of men, vodka, and one insult that would not be forgotten. Dmitry Vladimirovich Golubev…
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The Apartment Maniac: Andrei Golovachyov
You place an ad for a room. A polite man answers, looks around, and says he’ll take it. Then he comes back with a knife. Between 1996 and 2000, Andrei…
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The God of Kazan: Ilnaz Galyaviev and Gymnasium 175
“Today I will kill a huge amount of bio-waste and shoot myself.” At 8:57 a.m. on May 11, 2021, 19-year-old Ilnaz Rinatovich Galyaviev posted those words on…
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The Taxi Driver Poisoner: Aharon Galstyan
A late-night ride in St. Petersburg. A polite driver who never haggles. One condition: stop for coffee. Minutes later, the passenger is unconscious. Seven…
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Simply Killed Russians: The Crimes of Ramses Gaichayev
In the lawless years between the Chechen wars, families in a small village vanished overnight. Homes were entered. Occupants were never seen again. The victims…
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The Gabidullin Twins: They Confessed to 173 Murders
October 2000. Chelyabinsk police arrest identical twins Farit and Timur Gabidullin for the rape and murder of a young woman on the railway tracks. Then the…
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The Man With the Kind Face: Alexey Falkin, the EMERCOM Maniac
By day he was a firefighter with Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations — the man who rushed into burning buildings to save lives. He had a wife, two…
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The Bloody Taxi Driver: Alexander Elistratov
In Moscow between 2005 and 2007, six people got into an old green Zhiguli and never got out alive. The driver looked like a family man. Neighbors said he was…
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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…
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He Sat Down and Watched Them Burn: German Christan
In a quiet Russian village, a man set a house on fire… then sat down next to his sleeping friend and watched him die. German Lyubomirovich Christan first…
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The Lone Wolf of Belinsky: Alexander Bychkov
In a quiet Russian town of just 8,000 people, men began vanishing without a trace. Alcoholics. The homeless. A pensioner collecting paperwork. One after…
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The Sevastopol Maniac: The Family Man Who Raped and Murdered Five Women
He was a soft-spoken construction worker, a husband, and a father of four. Neighbors trusted him. His family loved him. By night, Pavel Vladimirovich…
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The Necromancer Maniac: How Viktor Bolkhovsky Lured Women to Their Deaths Through Lonely Hearts Ads
In the late 1990s, Russian women answered newspaper personal ads promising romance, security, and a better life. What they found instead was Viktor…
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The Krasnokamsk Maniac: 17 Murders and a Killer Who Keeps Confessing
In a small Russian industrial town, a man bludgeoned three people to death with a dumbbell disc, stabbed them, and set the apartment on fire. That triple…
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The Campus Killer: Timur Bekmansurov and the Perm University Massacre
On the morning of September 20, 2021, 18-year-old law student Timur Bekmansurov walked onto the campus of Perm State University in Russia armed with a…
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The Shadow of Yekaterinburg: Firuz Aituganov
In the spring of 2011, women in Yekaterinburg began vanishing after dark. Four were found murdered—raped, robbed, and left in abandoned buildings or isolated…
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The Man Who Kept Killing: Nikolai Ageyev and the Failures That Set Him Free
In one of Russia’s harshest Arctic prisons, a man serving life for rape and murder picks up a chunk of cement and beats his cellmate to death. It is not his…
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The Academy Maniacs: When Two Teenagers Turned a Quiet Siberian Town into a Hunting Ground
In the winter of 2010–2011, two teenagers walked the same snowy paths every night in Irkutsk’s Akademgorodok, searching for people they considered weak. Armed…
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The Bare-Handed Killer: Mamadou Traoré
In just seven months in 1996, six women in Paris were attacked with such extreme force that police believed a baseball bat had been used. Two of them died…
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Paul Touvier: The Collaborator Who Hid for 45 Years
Dawn, June 29, 1944. Seven Jewish men are lined up against a cemetery wall in Rillieux-la-Pape and executed. The order came from Paul Claude Marie Touvier…
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The Barbarians of Montluçon: Zaki Ali Toumbou’s 10-Day Killing Spree
In March 2017, the quiet French town of Montluçon was shattered by a series of savage crimes. Over just ten days, two young men tortured and murdered three…
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The Ogre of Perpignan: Patrick Tissier and the Murder of Little Karine
In September 1993, an eight-year-old girl in Perpignan trusted the friendly man she called “Tonton Patrick.” Hours later, her body was found at the bottom of a…
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The Legionnaire: Michel Sydor and the Murder That Changed French Law
On a summer night in 1993, seven-year-old Jessica Blanc vanished from a village fair in the French Alps. Hours later her body was found in the garden of a man…
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The Classified Ads Killer: Alfredo Stranieri
He answered classified ads, offered the full asking price, and never haggled. Then his victims vanished—and he moved into their homes. In this episode of A…
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Franck Siegler: The Serial Killer Who Murdered Inside Prison
Franck Siegler was already serving life for murder when he decided to kill again — this time inside a high-security French prison, with a shoelace. From his…
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The Canal Butcher: The Crimes of Nadir Sedrati
A fisherman pulls a human foot from the Marne–Rhine Canal near Nancy. Days later, a severed head, hands, and kneecaps surface—pieces of two men, deliberately…
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The Marseille Ripper: Patrick Salameh and the Women Who Vanished
In 2008, women began disappearing from the streets of Marseille. One answered a call about babysitting. Three others met a client after dark. None were ever…
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The Minitel Killer: How Rémy Roy Lured and Murdered Gay Men in 1990s France
In 1990s France, the Minitel was the cutting-edge way to connect — including on the secretive “pink” boards where men sought anonymous encounters. One man used…
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The Perfect Lie: Jean-Claude Romand and the 18-Year Deception
For nearly two decades, Jean-Claude Romand convinced everyone he was a respected doctor at the World Health Organization. He wore the suits, carried the…
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The Butcher of Lyon: Gioanni-Luigi Richetto
January 1900. Workers digging in a muddy cistern on the outskirts of Lyon pull out packages they first mistake for veal. Then a human torso. Then two severed…
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The Perpignan Station Killer: Jacques Rançon’s Sadistic Crimes
In the shadows of a French train station, young women vanished. Their bodies were later found mutilated with almost surgical precision. For nearly two decades…
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The Financier in the Shadows: Rachid Ramda & the 1995 Paris Bombings
In the summer of 1995, a series of deadly bombs tore through the Paris metro and RER, killing eight people and injuring nearly two hundred. French authorities…
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The Stone Cutter’s Shadow: Louis Poirson – France’s Forgotten Serial Killer
In the summer of 1995, a mother and daughter visiting an animal cemetery in rural France never made it home. Their burned bodies were found days later in a…
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The Ghost of Kehl: Jacques Plumain’s Reign of Terror on the Franco-German Border
In the dead of night along the Rhine, women vanished without a trace. Throats cut. Clothing disturbed. No DNA. No fingerprints. Locals called him the Ghost of…
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From Ace to Traitor: The Fall of Armand Pinsard
He escaped a German prison by tunneling under a twelve-foot wall, shot down 27 enemy planes, and became one of France’s greatest World War I flying aces…
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Baptistine Philip: The Poisoner’s Inheritance
In 1870s Aix-en-Provence, death came quietly—served in a spoon of soup or medicine. Baptistine Philip, a domestic servant with a sharp eye for fortune, used…
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Kidnapped in Shanghai: The Empire’s Hunt for Phan Bội Châu
In June 1925, French agents snatched Vietnam’s most wanted revolutionary off a Shanghai train platform and smuggled him back to Hanoi in chains. Accused of…
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The Landru of Val-d’Oise: Bernard Pesquet’s Buried Secrets
In the quiet French suburb of Pierrelaye, a mild-mannered house painter raised peacocks and lived above the bodies of his victims. Bernard Pesquet killed at…
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The Monster of Marseille: André Eugène Pauletto
On temporary leave from prison in 1977, André Eugène Pauletto visited his 10-year-old daughter… and murdered her. He had already killed two women he claimed to…
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The King of the Bunco Men: Tom O’Brien’s Fatal Shot in Paris
Paris, 1895. Two American con men argue over the spoils of their latest swindle at a crowded railway station. One of them draws a gun. A single shot rings…
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The Paris Hit: Anis al-Naqqash and the Assassination That Failed
July 18, 1980. A quiet building in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Three men posing as journalists walk into the lobby. Minutes later, a young police officer is bleeding…
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The Boar of the Moors: Albert Millet’s Cycle of Release and Murder
In the hills above Hyères, they called him the Boar of the Moors. Albert Pierre Millet was a man who could not accept the word “no.” Between 1954 and 2007 he…
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Théodule Meunier: The Anarchist Bomber Who Never Apologized
April 1892. A bomb rips through a Paris restaurant. The owner lies dead. A customer is killed. The city is left in shock. This was no random act of terror — it…
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Nathalie Ménigon: The Bank Clerk Who Became France’s Deadliest Urban Guerrilla
On a quiet Paris street in 1986, two unmasked women gunned down the CEO of Renault in broad daylight. One of them was Nathalie Ménigon — a working-class bank…
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The Pen That Killed: Charles Maurras and the Blood on His Words
In a cold Lyon courtroom in January 1945, a nearly deaf 76-year-old man rises to face his sentence and shouts one final, venomous line: “This is the revenge of…
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The Man Behind Group 666: Joël Isidore Matencio
Summer 1976. A heatwave grips Grenoble. Two young people vanish. Then a third. Letters signed “Red Brigades – Group 666” demand a massive ransom… or the…
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The Butcher of the Yonne: Émile Louis and the Seven Disappeared
Seven young women with intellectual disabilities vanished from the French countryside between 1975 and 1979. No one searched for them. Officials called them…
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The Predator at the Wedding: The Crimes of Nordahl Lelandais
It’s just after midnight at a wedding in the French Alps. An eight-year-old girl is dancing. One moment she’s there. The next, she’s gone. The man who took her…
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The Swamp Killer: David Lefèvre and the Bodies in the Marshes
In the dark waters of the Avre marshes near Amiens, two young men were found dead months apart — one with a fractured skull, the other shot and tangled in a…
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The Killer of Old Ladies: Claude Lastennet’s Reign of Terror in the Paris Suburbs
Between August 1993 and January 1994, a 22-year-old man quietly terrorized the suburbs south of Paris. Five elderly women were strangled in their own homes…
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The Shepherd of Caussols: Michel Lambin’s Hidden Murders
High above the French Riviera, Michel Lambin lived as a quiet goat farmer and cheesemaker. Neighbors saw a polite, ordinary man. The woman who lived with him…
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The Revolutionary Who Joined the Enemy: Hubert Lagardelle’s Collaboration Crimes
In 1946, a French court sentenced a 72-year-old former revolutionary to life at hard labour. Not for murder — for helping send hundreds of thousands of his own…
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The Arsenic Cake: Marie Lafarge and the Trial That Shocked France
In 1840, a carefully baked cake arrived in Paris. One bite set off a chain of vomiting, convulsions, and death that would captivate an entire nation…
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The Commander Who Ate a Heart: Kunti Kamara’s Crimes Against Humanity
In 1993, in a Liberian village square, a man’s chest was split open with an axe. His heart was cut out, cooked, and eaten in front of the community. One of the…
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Blood and Brittany: Théophile Jeusset and the Crimes of Collaboration
Rennes, 1932. A bomb explodes under a statue. One of the young extremists rounded up afterward is twenty-two-year-old Théophile Jeusset. Investigators find he…
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The Pen That Served the Enemy: Claude Jeantet’s Crimes in Occupied France
Paris, 1946. The war is over, but a French courtroom delivers a different kind of justice. Claude Jeantet—journalist, propagandist, and high-ranking…
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The Immortal Who Fell: Abel Hermant’s Betrayal of France
In 1927 Abel Hermant became one of the forty “immortals” of the Académie française — a celebrated novelist, language purist, and Grand Officer of the Legion of…