Sergey Mikhalkin

Summer 1992, Murom, Vladimir Oblast. A young woman's mutilated body is found in the woods near the Gorky-Vyazniki highway. The killer used an axe with terrifying precision. As the investigator races to identify the victim and her murderer, more bodies surface across two regions - and a chilling pattern emerges. A shy loner with a braid, obsessed with surpassing infamous serial killers, is hunting women along the railways of provincial Russia.
Based on the real case of the "Gorky Maniac" Viktor Yershov.