Discretion is advised.

This is 10-minute murder.

There's only one country that can rival the United States when it comes to the reported

body counts of murderers, Russia, which has the second most prolific serial killers in the

world.

The first one, of course, being the United States, and I'm not going to delve deep

into the statistics right now, maybe in a future episode, but just know that it's disturbing

for those of us that live here, because we're ahead of all other countries in terms of numbers

of serial killers, and it's not even close. It's not even close. But today, our focus is Russia.

And because I'm not Russian and can just barely pronounce some of the American names and places,

please know that I mean no disrespect by the way that I will inevitably wreck some of these

Russian names. So here we go. Sheripovitz, a city in northwest Russia, sits in the shadow of one of the

country's largest steel mills. It contains pockets of wasteland with half-demolished buildings left

abandoned because of legal issues. Throughout the day, smoke from the steel plant's chimney

covers the entire sky.

In 2004, Sheripovets became the perfect place for a serial killer to hunt undetected.

The first girl went missing in February of 2004.

Marina Ostrovskaya was 17 years old, and she had plans to meet up with her boyfriend's parents on the evening of February 4th.

During her walk to their house, Marina took a shortcut, walking through an empty lot on Danaslowski Street.

She never walked out to the other side.

When Marina failed to come home that evening, her parents called

the police who then searched the area. The initial search uncovered no sign of a missing girl.

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