<p>To understand the man behind the door, you have to start before he was a man. A boy at a kitchen table in 1982. A mother who worked among criminal case files and brought them home. The household that formed Alexander Spesivtsev - recorded, carefully, by investigators who came later. </p>

To understand the man behind the door, you have to start before he was a man. A boy at a kitchen table in 1982. A mother who worked among criminal case files and brought them home. The household that formed Alexander Spesivtsev - recorded, carefully, by investigators who came later.

<p>To understand the man behind the door, you have to start before he was a man. A boy at a kitchen table in 1982. A mother who worked among criminal case files and brought them home. The household that formed Alexander Spesivtsev - recorded, carefully, by investigators who came later.&nbsp;</p>

Episode 3: The Mother's Bed

Russia Unheard tells true crime stories from inside Russia, deeply documented cases, with court records, survivors, and decades of legal history, that almost no one outside the country has ever heard. Told with restraint, from the actual sources, by a narrator who grew up there.
Season one: Apartment 357. October 1996, the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door. By that evening, the police have broken in. Six episodes. New episodes weekly.
Contains accounts of violent crime. Listener discretion advised.

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Russia Unheard tells true crime stories from inside Russia, deeply documented cases, with court records, survivors, and decades of legal history, that almost no one outside the country has ever heard. Told with restraint, from the actual sources, by a narrator who grew up there. Season one: Apartment 357. October 1996, the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door. By that evening, the police have broken in. Six episodes. New episodes weekly. Contains accounts of violent crime. Listener discretion advised.

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