The Beast in Uniform. Russian True Crime Stories, #10

Novosibirsk, November 1998. A woman's dismembered body is found in atree line on the outskirts of the city, covered in strange carvedsymbols. The investigator suspects a cult - but no one imagines thetruth is far worse. As more victims surface over the years, all women, all brutalized, the hunt leads to a terrifying discovery: the killeris a former police officer who used occult symbols as a smokescreento throw investigators off his trail.
Based on the real case ofEvgeny Chuplinsky, the "Novosibirsk Maniac, " who murdered 19 womenover nearly two decades before DNA science finally caught up with him.