133 - Mikhail "The Werewolf" Popkov: Russia's Most Prolific Serial Killer

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Former Russian police officer Mikhail Popkov was found guilty on December 10th, 2018 of killing fifty-six people in Siberia. All but one victim were women between the ages of seventeen to thirty-eight. He was given a second life sentence. He already had a life sentence he'd been given in 2015 when he was convicted of murdering twenty-two Russian women. He used his badge for years to lure women into his car, drive them out into the woods, and brutally rape and kill them. And the whole time he was also a devoted husband and father. His family was devastated by his arrest - refusing for years to accept that the man they thought they knew so well could commit the horrible crimes he was convicted of. We travel today to Siberia and piece together a picture of a complete and total sociopath, a man Siberian prosecutors say is “pathologically attracted to killing,” on another Russian serial killer edition of Timesuck. TEAM MONK GOFUNDME LINK: https://www.gofundme.com/f/team-monk Upcoming Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: April 4-6 Cleveland, Ohio - Hilarities CLICK HERE for tix! April 11th Des Moines, Iowa - The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! April 12-13 Kansas City, Missouri - The Improv CLICK HERE for tix! ** LIVE ANT HILL KIDS CULT TIMESUCK April 6 Cleveland - Hilarities CLICK HERE for tix! ** LIVE ANT HILL KIDS CULT TIMESUCK April 14 Nashville - Zanies CLICK HERE for tix! April 26th Dallas, Texas The Texas Theatre CLICK HERE for tix! April 27th Houston, Texas The Secret Group CLICK HERE for tix! May 1-4 San Francisco, CA Punchline Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! May 9-11 Boston, MA Laugh Boston Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Robinhood! Get a FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint when you sign up at TIMESUCK.robinhood.com. The Great Courses Plus! Get your Free Trial, plus 50% off your monthly plan now at TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/TIMESUCK Watch the Suck on Youtube (new and improved audio!): https://youtu.be/YVWanCSxfOs Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 4000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits

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0:00.0	Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov, the werewolf, the angarsk maniac. After his latest additional
0:06.5	murder convictions on December 10, 2018, Mikhail is now the most prolific serial killer in Russian
0:13.0	history. Move over Andre Chikotilo, there's a new piece of shit in town. Mikhail Popkov has been
0:18.9	found guilty of killing 78 people, 77 women, one man a fellow police officer. And yes,
0:24.1	Mikhail was a police officer, a true monster. He used his badge for years to lure women into
0:29.4	thinking he was safe and getting into his car. And then he drive them out into the woods and
0:33.4	brutally rape and kill them and do this over and over and over again. His ammo was murder with
0:39.7	whatever tool was handy. He killed women with knives, hammers, screwdrivers, bats, more. And then he'd
0:45.2	rape them while they were either unconscious or already dead. And while he was doing this,
0:50.3	do this for possibly almost 20 years. He was also raised in a daughter who after watching numerous
0:55.2	interviews seems well adjusted. All things considered seems to be doing great. Said he was always a
1:00.0	great father. She was a daddy's girl. And he's married the whole time to a woman who stood by him.
1:05.0	Said he was a great husband, stood by him even after his initial murder convictions of 22 women.
1:11.2	Said that if he was released, you'd never talk to him about it and just stand by him for the
1:15.0	for the rest of her life. We traveled aside, Biria today. A place pretty near the bottom of my
1:21.2	travel bucket list got to be honest. And I piece together all the little puzzle pieces I can find
1:26.1	on the web to build the most complete picture I can of a total sociopath. A man with the empathy
1:33.0	of a rabid badger. A man Siberian prosecutor say is pathologically attracted to killing.
1:40.6	It's another deep dive on another evil serial killing son of a bitch today on TimeSuck.
1:51.4	Happy Monday, meet Saks. Hail Nimrod. Hail Lucithina. Praise both jangles and hail you.
2:05.6	Your beautiful bastards. I'm Dan Kalman's Bojangles Chutoy, triple M's vocal coach.
2:11.0	And I like how I messed up saying vocal coach. That's how you know you're real good vocal
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