Daughter Killed Her Foster Mother with a Dumbbell

An eighteen-year-old bludgeons the woman who raised her from age three—a beloved village teacher who saved for years to send her foster daughter to medical school. What turned gratitude into greed, and love into murder? In this From Russia with Fear episode, we unpack the killing of Elena Antonova, the arrest of Ksenia Smirnova with stolen bank cards, and a verdict that echoes the fate of Ksenia’s biological mother.