Furious and humiliated after a fight, Alena Popova made a fateful choice to leave her best friend Anastasia Muzhenya alone in a tent on a desolate stretch of the Black Sea coast.

By the time Alena reached home, Anastasia was dead, and police were convinced that the girl who walked away was actually a cold-blooded killer.

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By the fall of 2019, one man had quietly left a trail of missing women across Toluca. It would take a single disappearance for authorities to realize they weren’t dealing with an isolated crime, but with something far larger and far more disturbing.

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When Éché Goukouni fled her abusive husband in Chad and escaped to France with her infant son, she thought she had finally found safety. Then her husband came looking for answers — and he brought a gun.

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