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14. The Cold Geography of a Hitman: The life of Imre Arakas (Aka The Butcher)

14. The Cold Geography of a Hitman: The life of Imre Arakas (Aka The Butcher)

Shadows of Éire | An Irish True Crime Podcast vor 1 Monat

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In April 2017, armed Gardaí smashed through the door of a quiet
safehouse in West Dublin. Sitting on a couch inside was an
elderly, bearded man who looked like an eccentric geography
teacher. In reality, he was Imre "The Butcher" Arakas—one of
Europe’s most elusive and lethal contract killers, flown into
Ireland by the Kinahan Cartel to execute a high-profile target
with a single, silenced shot to the head.

In this episode, Tim Warburton traces the extraordinary, chilling
forty-year journey of a man who began his life as an idealistic,
anti-Soviet rebel leaping out of courthouse windows in 1970s
Estonia, only to be corrupted by the brutality of the gulags and
the chaos of the post-communist Baltic mafia wars. We lift the
veil on the international machine behind Dublin’s gangland feud,
exploring how a local Irish turf war became entangled with a
global mercenary network, and how a joint intelligence operation
finally brought down a ghost.