Vadim Kruglov: “Burning Man Murder”丨MURDERISH Ep. 215

Every August, a city of 70,000 rises from the desolate salt desert of northwest Nevada. No money, no corporate sponsors, no permanent walls. Its citizens live by a strict code: Radical inclusion. Decommodification. Leave no trace. The Burning Man Project is built on the premise that humanity, when stripped of societal rules, will default to love and art. But that isn’t always the case. Saturday night. August 30th, 2025. Inside a red-and-white canvas tent on the festival’s fringes, 37-year-old Vadim Kruglov is trapped. A heavy kitchen knife strikes. A single, fatal jab to the throat. Vadim’s first-ever Burning Man …would be his last. At 9:15 p.m., a woman in a red dress flagged down one of the sheriff department’s roaming patrols. Panicked and out-of-breath, she managed to get out a few words: “There is a man bleeding out in my tent. He might be dead. I won’t touch him.” By morning, one of the guiding principles of Burning Man, leave no trace, proved to be investigators’ worst nightmare. The crime scene, the witnesses, and the killer didn’t just scatter in the wind, the entire city vanished from the face of the Earth. Follow Jami @JamiOnAir on Instagram and TikTok. Subscribe to Jami’s YouTube channel @JamiOnAir: https://www.youtube.com/@jamionair Sponsors Shopify: You don’t need anyone’s approval to make a living. Build your own business with a free trial at shopify.com/murderish. Anyone with information on this case is encouraged to contact the Pershing County Sheriff's Office at (775) 273-2641. Bravo’s Most Wanted - listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bravos-most-wanted-with-jami-rice-and-katie-ginella/id1896791981 Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime - Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092. Research and writing by: K. Brant.   Want to advertise on this show? We’ve partnered with Cloud10 Media to handle our advertising requests. If you’re interested in advertising on MURDERISH, please send an email to Sahiba Krieger sahiba@cloud10.fm and copy jami@murderish.com.  Visit Murderish.com to learn more about the podcast and Creator/Host, Jami, and to view a list of sources for this episode.  Listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer, it just means you’re murder..ish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices