In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale delves into the terrifying true story of Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, the Soviet-era serial killer and cannibal infamously known as Metal Fang. With a mouth full of steel teeth and a mind twisted by delusions of purification, Dzhumagaliev terrorized Kazakhstan in the late 1970s — luring women to their deaths, butchering their bodies, and consuming their flesh. From his early signs of psychosis and obsession with anatomy to his gruesome dinner parties and eventual capture, this episode explores how a killer moved freely across a crumbling Soviet Union — and how his horrific crimes were nearly buried by silence and stigma. Even after escaping a psychiatric hospital, Dzhumagaliev remained a phantom across Central Asia before finally being caught again in 1991. Join Damien Vale as he uncovers the chi ...