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Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder, assault, and bodily mutilation that some

people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

Officer Dennis Adamenko could hear the sound of his own breathing, too loud in his ears,

as he made his way through the overgrown forest.

Something had caught his eye, and he needed a better look.

As he drew closer, his mind struggled to process what he was seeing.

He blinked, trying to clear his vision, trying to make sense of the shape on the ground

before him.

As a police officer in post-Soviet Moscow, Adamenko was no stranger to brutal crime.

He didn't flinch at much, but this shook him to his core.

A man's body lay face down in the undergrowth.

His skull was caved in, and there was something unnatural about the shape of it.

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