He was a police officer sworn to protect his community — yet Mikhail Popkov spent nearly two decades hunting women in the dead of night across Siberia, becoming the most prolific serial killer in Russian recorded history. This true crime podcast episode pulls back the curtain on a monster who weaponised his badge, his uniform, and the trust of his victims to commit over 80 murders across the Irkutsk region. The case is as chilling as the Siberian winters in which it unfolded.

In this episode of Dark Whispers: Serial Killers, produced by Dark Whisper Studios, we dissect the psychology of a man living a terrifying double life — devoted family man and decorated officer by day, predatory killer by night. We explore the crimes themselves, the harrowing patterns investigators identified across decades, the forensic breakthroughs that finally exposed him, and the devastating human cost borne by his victims and their families. From his 2012 arrest to his second conviction in 2018 that added a further 60 victims to his toll, we trace every dark turn of one of the most staggering criminal cases of the modern era.

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