Folklore Forensics
The Baba Yaga Murders Reopened: Russian Folklore's Most Famous Witch
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Forty-seven pairs of children's shoes hanging from a tree led investigators into the Bryansk Forest. What they found transformed a fairy tale into a homicide investigation.
You've heard the story. Now hear the case.
For centuries, parents warned their children not to wander into the forest.
An old woman lived there. She had iron teeth. She lived in a strange hut. And if children crossed her…