The Shadow by Yulia Kolomiets

That evening, Elena was preparing
for bed. But suddenly she heard a shout in the street and looked out the window. In the light of a street lamp, she saw on the wall of the opposite house the male shadow. In the man's hand was a hammer. A woman's shadow was opposite him. Suddenly, a man hit her with a hammer and the woman fell. Elena was frightened. She noticed the shadow of a man dragging a heavy burden on the ground. It looks like he wanted to pull the body away from the light. Elena called the police.
Then the detectives did not even suspect what a serious investigation they would have to do. They found the corpse of a woman near the house where Elena lived. The victim was a young woman. After her at the hands of the maniac suffered many girls in the city.
The investigation lasted a very long time until the detectives find a witness of one of the crimes. The girl Maria told a story about the day before the tragedy. At that day she went with her friend Anna to a disco. After the dancing, a young and handsome guy of about twenty years old came to them. He said that he really liked Anna and offered to take her home. He said that walking alone at night is very dangerous, given that there is a maniac in the city right now. He was very beautiful and Anna really liked him, so she agreed to go with him. This was the last time she was seen alive. The next morning her mutilated body was found near her own house.
Fortunately for the detectives, Mariа said that she knows what street this guy lives on. Now they had two clues. The first is the street on which he lives and the second is the fact that one of the surviving victims told that she managed to scratch his face. After that, the detectives went to the specified street and checked all the houses until they found the killer.
A ruthless killer was a twenty-three-year-old boy named Mark. He was not like a maniac at all. He was young, handsome, he had a wife and a small child, he never violated the law and no one could say anything bad about him.
But his black soul appeared when he began to talk about his after the arrest. With obvious pleasure, he told about each of his victims. He explained his actions by the fact that he wildly hated all women. It happened to him because five years ago he had a girlfriend and loved her very much. But soon he went to the army, and when he returned, he found that she had already married another man.
The court certainly did not find this an excuse for brutal crimes and punished the beast in all the severity of the law.