He was a successful businessman, a loving husband, and a devoted father—until one night he murdered his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and his wife with a meat cleaver. In this harrowing episode of From Russia with Crime, we tell the story of Nikolai Bulankin, a man who seemed to have it all—until he snapped. What drove him to commit such a monstrous act? Was it a hidden mental illness, a sudden breakdown, or something far more terrifying?
He was a successful businessman, a loving husband, and a devoted father—until one night he murdered his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and his wife with a meat cleaver. In this harrowing episode of From Russia with Crime, we tell the story of Nikolai Bulankin, a man who seemed to have it all—until he snapped. What drove him to commit such a monstrous act? Was it a hidden mental illness, a sudden breakdown, or something far more terrifying?