Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe

Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by etc-hosts on Monday April 29, 2024 @01:05PM (#40201073)

I loved the show, but in retrospect, the premise of 2 Soviet spies being the most prolific serial killers in the history of the DC area without being caught is a bit weak.

Masha Gessen did some work on making the spoken Russian be more authentic https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/translating-th... ( She must have given up on Keri Russell )

Peter Jacobson (FBI Agent Wolf) appears in comedy Russian TV show inspired by the Americans "Adaptation" https://www.poconorecord.com/story/entertainment/2018/05/26/... . I've seen episode 1 available on the internet, full series is hard to find.

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by jijijijij on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:34PM (#40204387)

I mean there are several stories of these deeply implanted KGB sleeper-type agents in real life. Sure, not serial killers (who knows), but everything else is quite authentic.

Here is a couple from Germany: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/15/married-pair-r...

They had an oblivious daughter and everything.

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by matwood on Monday April 29, 2024 @06:36PM (#40204945)

It's estimated there are 25-50 serial killers active in the US at any given time. There are also around 6k new unsolved murders each year. The point is that a murder done by someone with no connection to the victim is very hard to solve.

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