Episode 6: Nineteen

Two courtrooms, two years apart, two different outcomes. In 1996 the count was four. It is no longer four - and for years the case was not closed. The legal history that followed Alexander and Lyudmila Spesivtsev across decades, and what the number finally became. 

What is Russia Unheard?

Russia Unheard tells true crime stories from inside Russia, deeply documented cases, with court records, survivors, and decades of legal history, that almost no one outside the country has ever heard. Told with restraint, from the actual sources, by a narrator who grew up there.
Season one: Apartment 357. October 1996, the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door. By that evening, the police have broken in. Six episodes. New episodes weekly.
Contains accounts of violent crime. Listener discretion advised.