In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unravels the terrifying crimes of Sergey Golovkin, the soft-spoken agricultural expert who became one of Russia’s most sadistic serial killers — and the last man ever executed by the Russian state. Between 1986 and 1992, Golovkin abducted, tortured, and murdered at least 11 boys in and around Moscow, luring them with cigarettes, job offers, or fatherly charm. Beneath an unremarkable garage in a quiet neighborhood, he built a private dungeon, where he inflicted unimaginable horrors. Operating in the shadows of a collapsing Soviet Union, Golovkin exploited a fractured justice system and a nation too distracted by revolution to protect its children. Through vivid storytelling and historical context, Damien Vale takes listeners inside the investigation, confession, and eventual execution of a  ...