Episode 656: The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs Part I - Serial Spree
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What shocking crime did the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs commit?
There's no place to escape to. This is the Lost Podcast. On the left. That's when the cannibalism started.
Who's that? All right, well, it's time for you all to... Come down with me into my world. Yeah. We've had too much nuance around here. We've had too much political awareness, too much growth.
Yeah. Yeah. Too much context.
Now it's time to take it all the way back. We're going to regress. That's right. Welcome. Welcome. It's the year 2010. No cares at all. No cares. Why a hernia?
Yes. Pretty bad breakup that year.
That was rough. But besides that, it was utterly perfect.
Ended up in an apartment with two holes in the ceiling and black mall. Didn't even have a kitchen. That was a really rough year.
But the porthole of the internet. Oh, it did look out in a darker world. Yes, indeed it did. And that's why we need to set the tone today. Rob with my true crime music.
Sometimes, boys will be boys. But some other times, boys, they be maniacs.
Hell yeah, man. Now the term maniac is thrown around pretty loosely these days. When we think of a maniac over here in the United States of America, it brings up the image of a person driving about five miles an hour faster than us on the freeway. Fucking maniacs.
How did the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs gain notoriety?
Or a loud man.
On a commercial absolutely gutting prices on mattresses so carelessly that you as a customer get worried about their bottom line. But I'm crazy! Crazy Eddie. But it seems overall yield Eastern Europe. It means something else entirely. Maniacs aren't funny in Eastern Europe. They murder children with construction tools.
No humor here. So are these the screwy screwdriver boys? Yeah, baby! Welcome to the last podcast on the left. Or were you going to take it? Welcome to the last podcast on the left. My name is Henry Zebrowski. I'm your narrator here today, and I'm sitting here with the comedic mastermind, Marcus Parks.
Yeah, that's what I'm known for, my comedy. I'm excited because I've teed up Marcus to play the characters. Sure, yes, yes. I've been working on my Russian accent or Ukrainian accent, as it were.
They're pretty much, they're very, very similar.
Very similar, cannot hear that. I mean, it's like the difference between like a Georgia accent and a North Carolina accent. We can maybe tell the difference, but...
Not over there. I would imagine a Ukrainian would not. I'm Ukrainian. I don't even know what we sound like. You sound like this. From what I can tell. I'm hungry. I'm hungry. Where's my dinner? Now, this is my attempt. I completely wrote this script. This is my attempt for Henry Zebrowski to tell the terrible tale of the Dnipropetrovsk maniacs. Very nice. I've been practicing it in the bathroom. Oh, yeah. Otherwise known as the Hammer Maniacs for our less Ukrainian incline. Hold on, these aren't the Wretched Wrenches? No, no, no, that's the softball team. The Vicious Fices? No, again, that's the ladies' soccer team. Now, named for the location of the majority of the crimes, Dnepropetrovsk is an industrial city in central Ukraine.
In 2016, it was renamed Dnipro, which is great for me. Oh, Dnipro. Yes, because it was uncommunisted. Yeah. Because it was originally named after a Russian soldier. So then they did that. They took all, I guess, all the Soviet stuff out.
Yeah. It happens a lot in this area of the world. Stalingrad, Leningrad, et cetera, et cetera. Make it short. Make it snappy.
Mm-mm. Now, 2007, two teenage bullets, sometimes with the help of a third, go on a month-long bludgeoning spree, ending in 21 victims. What brought this case to international attention was due to the boys' propensity to pictorialize their crimes on a cell phone.
What was the background of the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs?
The videos of some such crimes were shown in court and not intended for release. But one piece of evidentiary video would get leaked to the Internet. No one knows how. The uploader named it Three Guys, One Hammer. And it depicted two thick-browed Eastern European youths giggling as they beat a man to death with a hammer and pulled his eyeballs out with a screwdriver. Oh, they did use screwdrivers. Yeah, they did. No, they got one in there.
Yeah, and it's more popping them out than pulling them.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What shocking crime did the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs commit?
0:01–1:47
2
How did the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs gain notoriety?
1:47–4:21
3
What was the background of the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs?
4:21–8:44
4
What methods did the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs use during their crimes?
8:44–10:20
5
How did the local police respond to the Dnepropetrovsk murders?
10:20–14:01
6
What impact did the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs have on Ukrainian society?
14:01–17:25
7
How did the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs' actions reflect on youth culture?
17:25–22:34
8
What can we learn from the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs' case?
22:34–1:18:30