Ep 27: The Unlocked Phone: A Road Worker Found a Mobile in the Street and Triggered One of the Most Disturbing Criminal Discoveries in Modern History | The Baksheev Cannibal Case

September 11th, 2017. Krasnodar, southern Russia.A road crew worker is clearing a stretch of street when he finds a mobile phone lying on the ground. It's charged. There's no password. No lock screen.He looks at the photos.What he sees sets off one of the most gruesome criminal discoveries in modern Russian history.What police found when they traced that phone to an apartment in Krasnodar confirmed everything the photographs suggested — and then some. Dmitry Baksheev and his wife Natalia had been operating out of that apartment for years. The investigation that followed, the military tribunal that tried them, and the full scope of what they had done was so disturbing that the Russian state moved to suppress significant portions of it.What we know is bad enough.This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the Baksheev cannibal case — the 2017 Krasnodar discovery that briefly surfaced in international headlines before disappearing, and the gap between what tabloids reported and what the actual investigation revealed.Topics: Baksheev | Dmitry Baksheev | Natalia Baksheeva | Krasnodar cannibals | Russian true crime | cannibal case | 2017 | Russian serial killers | military tribunal | YKMNew episodes every Monday. Follow so you never miss one.