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Evidence Locker True Crime

60: The Doll Maker, Anatoly Moskvin | Russia

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Anatoly Moskvin exhumed bodies from local cemeteries and then mummified them himself. He dressed them up and painted their faces, put them on display in his home, which he shared with his parents. For years everyone thought he had made the ‘dolls’ himself and even though they looked a bit odd, no one realised what they were.
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0:00.0

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0:13.8

On sale now, all from the which cheapest supermarket of the year.

0:17.5

Aldin, share the love this Christmas.

0:27.0

You are listening to the evidence locker. Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.

0:31.0

It deals with true crimes and real people. Each episode is produced

0:35.6

with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones.

0:43.0

Warning. Today's episode deals with the tampering of corpses and may not be suitable for all audiences.

0:49.0

The Center discretion is advised. They were all dressed up and sitting quietly in the cluttered living room.

1:17.0

Books and heaps of paper and documents were stacked all around.

1:21.0

The room was decorated for the party with balloons and

1:24.8

streamers. The man was happy singing to himself as he walked around the room.

1:29.6

He prompted them all to sing with him, but each of them had a different song.

1:34.9

Some of them could not sing at all.

1:38.0

He stepped into a dance and disappeared into the kitchen.

1:41.6

Moments later he was back carrying a cake with lighted candles.

1:45.0

Like every other birthday, he sang Crocodile Gina's birthday song.

1:50.0

Everyone stared at him in silence.

1:52.0

He didn't care. This was Olga's birthday, and he wouldn't let anything spoil it.

1:58.0

After having some cake, a second slice for good luck too, he turned on a TV. This was his favorite time of the day, time to watch

2:06.7

cartoons. He loved them all, the silly sounds, the exaggerated eye pops and the bright colors.

2:19.0

He had a collection of cartoons on video and never seemed to mind watching the same ones over and over again. Anatoly Moskvin was in his element. Birthdays were always happy days. But this was no ordinary birthday party. For starters, the birthday girl was no longer alive. In fact, none of the party guests were alive either. And yet, they all celebrated

2:38.3

together. And the Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Anatole Yurovich Muskvin was born on the 1st of September 1966 to parents

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