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On September 13, 1984, exactly one week after his fifteenth killing of the year, Chikatilo was observed by an undercover detective attempting to lure young women away from a [[Rostov]] bus station.<ref>''The Red Ripper'', p. 1.</ref> He was arrested and held. A search of his belongings revealed a knife and rope.<ref>''The Red Ripper'', p. 8.</ref> He was also discovered to be under investigation for minor theft at one of his former employers, which gave the investigators the legal right to hold him for a prolonged period of time. Chikatilo's dubious background was uncovered and although his physical description also matched the description of the man seen with Dmitry Ptashnikov in March, these factors provided insufficient evidence to convict him of the murders. He was found guilty on other matters and sentenced to one year in prison. He was freed on December 12, 1984, after serving three months.<ref>''The Red Ripper'', p. 118.</ref>
On September 13, 1984, exactly one week after his fifteenth killing of the year, Chikatilo was observed by an undercover detective attempting to lure young women away from a [[Rostov]] bus station.<ref>''The Red Ripper'', p. 1.</ref> He was arrested and held. A search of his belongings revealed a knife and rope.<ref>''The Red Ripper'', p. 8.</ref> He was also discovered to be under investigation for minor theft at one of his former employers, which gave the investigators the legal right to hold him for a prolonged period of time. Chikatilo's dubious background was uncovered and although his physical description also matched the description of the man seen with Dmitry Ptashnikov in March, these factors provided insufficient evidence to convict him of the murders. He was found guilty on other matters and sentenced to one year in prison. He was freed on December 12, 1984, after serving three months.<ref>''The Red Ripper'', p. 118.</ref>


On October 8, 1984. The head of the Russian Public Prosecutors Office formally linked 23 of Chikatilo's murders into one case, and dropped all charges against the mentally handicapped youths who had previously confessed to the murders.<ref>''The Red Ripper'', p. 112-113</ref>
On October 8, 1984 he ate a cheeseburger. The head of the Russian Public Prosecutors Office formally linked 23 of Chikatilo's murders into one case, and dropped all charges against the mentally handicapped youths who had previously confessed to the murders.<ref>''The Red Ripper'', p. 112-113</ref>


=== Later murders and the manhunt ===
=== Later murders and the manhunt ===

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Andrei Chikatilo
Andrei Chikatilo
Born
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo
Cause of deathExecuted (Gunshot to the head)
Other namesButcher of Rostov
The Red Ripper
The Rostov Ripper
Conviction(s)Murder
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims53
Span of crimes
December 22, 1978 – November 6, 1990
CountryRussian SFSR
Ukrainian SSR
Uzbek SSR
Date apprehended
November 20, 1990

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило, Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило; October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994) was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper. He was convicted of the murders of 53 women and children, mostly in Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, between 1978 and 1990 (some victims were murdered in other regions of Russia and in Ukrainian and Uzbek SSRs).

Biography

Early life

Andrei Chikatilo was born in the village of Yablochnoye (Yabluchne) in modern Sumy Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. At the time of his birth, the Ukraine was in the midst of famine caused by Joseph Stalin's forced collectivisation of agriculture.[1] Ukrainian farmers were forced to hand in their entire crop for statewide distribution. Mass starvation ran rampant throughout Ukraine, and reports of cannibalism soared. Chikatilo's mother, Anna, told him that his older brother Stepan had been kidnapped and cannibalized by starving neighbors, although it has never been independently established whether this actually happened.[2]

Chikatilo's parents were both farm labourers who lived in a one-room hut.[3] As a child, Chikatilo slept on a single bed with his parents. He was a chronic bed wetter[4] and was berated and beaten by his mother for each offense.

When the Soviet Union entered World War II, his father, Roman, was drafted into the Red Army and subsequently taken prisoner after being wounded in combat.[5] During the war, Chikatilo witnessed some of the effects of Blitzkrieg, which both frightened and excited him. On one occasion, Chikatilo and his mother were forced to watch their hut burn to the ground.[6] In 1943, while Chikatilo's father was at the front, Chikatilo's mother gave birth to a baby girl. In 1949, Chikatilo's father, who had been liberated by the Americans, returned home. Instead of being rewarded for his war service, he was branded a traitor for surrendering to the Germans.[7]

Chikatilo was shy and studious as a child, and an avid reader of Communist literature. He was also a target for bullying by his peers.[8] During adolescence, he discovered that he suffered from chronic impotence, worsening his social awkwardness and self-hatred.[7] Chikatilo was shy in the company of females:[9] his only sexual experience in as a teenager was when he, aged 17, jumped on an 11-year-old friend of his younger sister and wrestled her to the ground, ejaculating as the girl struggled in his grasp.[10]

In 1953, Chikatilo finished school and applied for a scholarship at the Moscow State University; although he passed the entrance examination, his grades were not good enough for acceptance.[11] Between 1957 and 1960, Chikatilo performed his compulsory military service.[12]

Marriage and teaching career

In 1963, Chikatilo married a woman to whom he was introduced by his younger sister. The couple had a son and daughter. Chikatilo later claimed that his marital sex life was minimal and that he would ejaculate on his wife and push the semen inside her vagina with his fingers. In 1965, their daughter Ludmila was born, followed by son Yuri in 1969.[13] In 1971, Chikatilo completed a correspondence course in Russian literature and obtained his degree in the subject from Rostov University.[14]

Chikatilo began his career as a teacher of Russian language and literature[15] in Novoshakhtinsk. His career as a teacher ended in March 1981[16] after several complaints of child molestation against pupils of both sexes.[17] Chikatilo eventually took a job as a supply clerk for a factory.

Beginning of the murders

In September 1978, Chikatilo moved to Shakhty, a small coal mining town near Rostov-on-Don, where he committed his first documented murder. On December 22, he lured a 9-year-old girl named Yelena Zakotnova to an old house which he had secretly purchased, and attempted to rape her but failed to achieve an erection. When the girl struggled, he choked her to death and stabbed her body, ejaculating in the process of knifing the child. Chikatilo then dumped Zakotnova's body in a nearby river.[18] Despite evidence linking Chikatilo to the girl's death — spots of the girl's blood were found in the snow near Chikatilo's house[19] — a young man, Alexsandr Kravchenko, who had served a sentence for rape and murder before, was arrested, tried and confessed under torture. He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment (the maximum possible length of imprisonment at that time). Kravchenko was retried under pressure from the victim's relatives, and eventually executed for the crime.

Following Zakotnova's murder, Chikatilo was only able to achieve sexual arousal and orgasm through stabbing and slashing women and children to death, and he later stated the urge to relive the experience overwhelmed him.[20]

Chikatilo committed his next murder in September 1981, when he tried to have sex with a 17-year-old boarding school student named Larisa Tkachenko in a forest near the Don river. When Chikatilo failed to achieve an erection, he became furious and battered and strangled her to death.[21] As he had no knife, he mutilated her body with his teeth and a stick.[22]

On June 12, 1982 Chikatilo abducted and killed a 13-year-old girl named Lyubov Biryuk in the village of Donskoi.[23] By December, 1982 he had killed seven times. He established a pattern of approaching children, runaways and young vagrants at bus or railway stations, enticing them to a nearby forest or other secluded area and killing them, usually by stabbing, slashing and eviscerating the victim with a knife, although some victims, in addition to receiving a multitude of knife wounds, were also strangled or battered to death.[24] Many of the bodies found bore striations of the eye sockets. Pathologists concluded the injuries were caused by a knife, leading investigators to the conclusion the killer had gouged out the eyes of his victims.[25] Chikatilo's adult female victims were often prostitutes or homeless women who could be lured to secluded areas with promises of alcohol or money. Chikatilo would typically attempt intercourse with these victims, but he would usually be unable to get an erection, which would send him into a murderous fury, particularly if the woman mocked his impotence. He would achieve orgasm only when he stabbed the victim to death. His child victims were of both sexes; Chikatilo would lure these victims to secluded areas using a variety of ruses, usually formed in the initial conversation with the victim,[26] such as promising them assistance, company, offering a chance to look at rare stamps, films or coins, with the offer to show a shortcut [27] or with a promise of food or candy. These victims he would usually overpower once they were alone, tie their hands behind their backs with a length of rope, and then proceed to kill them.[28]

Investigation

Chikatilo did not kill again until June 1983, but he had killed five more times before September. The accumulation of bodies and the similarities between the pattern of wounds inflicted on the victims forced the Soviet authorities to acknowledge a serial killer was on the loose: on September 6, 1983, the Public Prosecutor of the USSR formally linked six of the murders thus far committed to the same killer.[29] A Moscow police team, headed by Major Mikhail Fetisov, was sent to Rostov-on-Don to direct the investigation. Fetisov centered the investigations around Shakhty and assigned a specialist forensic analyst, Victor Burakov, to head the investigation. Due to the sheer savagery of the murders, much of the police effort concentrated on mentally ill citizens, homosexuals, known paedophiles and sex offenders, slowly working through all that were known and eliminating them from the inquiry. A number of young men confessed to the murders, although they were usually mentally handicapped youths who had admitted to the crimes only under prolonged and often brutal interrogation. One under-age homosexual suspect committed suicide in his detention cell, but as police obtained confessions from suspects, bodies continued to be discovered proving the suspects who had previously confessed could not be the killer the police were seeking; in October 1983, Chikatilo killed a 19-year-old prostitute, and in December a 14-year-old schoolboy named Sergei Markov.[30]

The killings continue

In January and February 1984, Chikatilo killed two women in Rostov's Aviators' Park. On March 24, he lured a 10-year-old boy named Dmitry Ptashnikov away from a stamp kiosk in Novoshakhtinsk. While walking with the boy, Chikatilo was seen by several witnesses who were able to give investigators a detailed description of the killer; when Ptashnikov's body was found three days later, police also found a footprint of the killer and semen and saliva samples on the victim's clothing.[31]

In the summer of 1984, Chikatilo was killing at an average rate of once a week.[32] By September he had killed 15 times. Eight of his victims were killed in July and August.

Arrest and release

On September 13, 1984, exactly one week after his fifteenth killing of the year, Chikatilo was observed by an undercover detective attempting to lure young women away from a Rostov bus station.[33] He was arrested and held. A search of his belongings revealed a knife and rope.[34] He was also discovered to be under investigation for minor theft at one of his former employers, which gave the investigators the legal right to hold him for a prolonged period of time. Chikatilo's dubious background was uncovered and although his physical description also matched the description of the man seen with Dmitry Ptashnikov in March, these factors provided insufficient evidence to convict him of the murders. He was found guilty on other matters and sentenced to one year in prison. He was freed on December 12, 1984, after serving three months.[35]

On October 8, 1984 he ate a cheeseburger. The head of the Russian Public Prosecutors Office formally linked 23 of Chikatilo's murders into one case, and dropped all charges against the mentally handicapped youths who had previously confessed to the murders.[36]

Later murders and the manhunt

Upon his release from jail, Chikatilo found new work in Novocherkassk and kept a low profile. He did not kill again until July 31, 1985, when he murdered a young woman near Domodedovo Airport, outside the Soviet capital of Moscow. One month later, Chikatilo killed another woman in Shakhty. Both victims were linked to the hunt for the killer.[37]

In November, 1985, a special procurator named Issa Kostoyev was appointed to supervise the investigation.[38] The known murders around Rostov were carefully re-investigated and police began another round of questioning of known sex offenders. In December 1985, the militsiya and Voluntary People's Druzhina renewed the patrolling of railway stations around Rostov. The police also took the step of consulting a psychiatrist, Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky, the first such consultation in a serial killer investigation in the Soviet Union.[39] Bukhanovsky produced a 65-page psychological profile of the unknown killer for the investigators, describing the killer as a man aged between 45 and 50 years old who was of average intelligence, was likely to be married or had previously been married, but who was also a sadist who could only achieve sexual arousal by seeing his victims suffer.[40] Bukhanovsky also argued that because many of the killings had occurred on weekdays near mass transportation and across the entire Rostov Oblast, that the killer's work required him to travel regularly, and based upon the actual days of the week when the killings had occurred, the killer was most likely tied to a production schedule.[41]

Chikatilo followed the investigation carefully; reading newspaper reports about the manhunt for the killer[42] and for almost two years, he kept his desires under control; throughout 1986 he is not known to have committed any murders. In 1987 Chikatilo killed three times; on each occasion he killed while on a business trip far away from the Rostov Oblast and none of these murders were linked to the manhunt in Rostov.[43] Chikatilo's first murder in 1987 was committed in May, when he killed a 13-year-old boy named Oleg Makarenkov in Revda, Ukraine. In July, he killed another boy in Zaporozhye and a third in Leningrad in September.

In 1988, Chikatilo killed three times, murdering an unidentified woman in Krasny-Sulin in April and two boys in May and July. His first killing bore wounds similar to those inflicted on the victims linked to the manhunt killed between 1982 and 1985, but as the woman had been killed with a slab of concrete, investigators were unsure whether to link the murder to the investigation.[44] In May Chikatilo killed a 9-year-old boy in Ilovaisk, Ukraine. The boy's wounds left no doubt the killer had struck again, and this murder was linked to the manhunt.[45] On July 14, Chikatilo killed a 15-year-old boy named Yevgeny Muratov at Donlezhkoz station near Shakhty. Muratov's murder was also linked to the investigation, although his body was not found until April, 1989.[46]

Chikatilo did not kill again until March, 1989, when he killed a 16-year-old girl in his daughter's vacant apartment. He dismembered her body and hid the remains in a sewer. As the victim had been dismembered, police did not link her murder to the investigation. Between May and August, Chikatilo killed a further four victims, three of whom were killed in Rostov and Shakhty.[47]

On January 14, 1990, Chikatilo killed an 11-year-old boy in Shakhty. On March 7, he killed a 10-year-old boy named Yaroslav Makarov in Rostov Botanical Gardens. His eviscerated body was found the following day.[48] On March 11, the leaders of the investigation, headed by Mikhail Fetisov, held a meeting to discuss progress made in the hunt for the killer.[49] Fetisov was under intense pressure from the public, the press and the Ministry of the Interior in Moscow to solve the case: the intensity of the manhunt in the years up to 1984 had receded to a degree between 1985 and 1987, when Chikatilo had killed only two victims conclusively linked to the killer - both of them in 1985. By March, 1990, six further victims had been linked to the killer. Fetisov had noted laxity in some areas of the investigation, and warned people would be fired if the killer was not caught soon.[50]

Chikatilo had killed three further victims by August, 1990: on April 4, he killed a 31-year-old woman in woodland near Donlezhkoz station,[51] on July 28, he lured a 13-year-old boy away from a Rostov train station and killed him in Rostov Botanical Gardens[52] and on August 14, he killed an 11-year-old boy in the reeds near Novocherkassk beach.

The snare

The discovery of more victims sparked a massive operation by the police; as several victims had been found at stations on one rail route through the Rostov Oblast,[53] Viktor Burakov - who had been involved in the hunt for the killer since 1982 - suggested a plan to saturate all larger stations in the Rostov Oblast with an obvious uniformed police presence the killer could not fail to notice, with the intention to discourage the killer from attempting to strike at any of these locations, and with smaller and less busy stations patrolled by undercover agents, where his activities would be more likely to be noticed. The plan was approved, and both the uniformed and undercover officers were instructed to question any adult man in the company of a young woman or child and note their name and passport number.[54] Police deployed 360 men at all the stations in the Rostov Oblast, and only undercover officers at the three smallest stations — 'Kirpichnaya', 'Donlezhkoz' and 'Lesostep' — on the route through the oblast where the killer had struck most frequently,[55] in an effort to force the killer to strike at one of these three stations. The operation was implemented on October 27, 1990.[56]

On October 30, police found the body of a 16-year-old boy named Vadim Gromov at Donlezhkoz Station. Gromov had been killed on October 17, 10 days prior to the implementation of the intitiative. The same day Gromov's body was found, Chikatilo lured another 16-year-old boy, Viktor Tishchenko, off a train at Kirpichnaya Station, another station under surveillance from undercover police and killed him in a nearby forest.[57]

Surveillance

On November 6, 1990, Chikatilo killed and mutilated Sveta Korostik in woodland near Donlezhkoz Station.[58] While leaving the crime scene, he was seen by an undercover officer.[59] The policeman observed Chikatilo approach a well and wash his hands and face.[59] When he approached the station, the undercover officer noted his coat had grass and soil stains at the elbows. Chikatilo also had a small red smear on his cheek.[60] To the officer, he looked suspicious. The only reason people entered woodland near the station at that time of year was to gather wild mushrooms (a popular pastime in Russia). Chikatilo, however, was not dressed like a typical forest hiker: he was wearing more formal attire. Moreover, he had a nylon sports bag, which was not suitable for carrying mushrooms.

The policeman stopped Chikatilo and checked his papers. Having no formal reason for arrest, Chikatilo was not held. When the policeman came back to his office, he filed a formal routine report, indicating the name of the person he stopped at the train station.

On November 13, Korostik's body was found. Police summoned the officer in charge of surveillance at Donlezhkoz Station and examined the reports of all men stopped and questioned in the previous week.[61] Chikatilo's name was among those reports and his name was familiar with several officers involved in the case, having been questioned in 1984 and placed on the 1987 suspect list.[62][63] Upon checking with Chikatilo's present and previous employers, investigators were able to place Chikatilo in various towns and cities at times when several victims linked to the investigation had been killed.[64] Former colleagues from Chikatilo's teaching days informed investigators Chikatilo had been forced to resign from his teaching position due to complaints of sexual assault from several pupils.[65]

Police placed Chikatilo under surveillance on November 14. In several instances, particularly on trains or buses, he was observed to approach lone young women or children and engage them in conversation; if the woman or child broke off the conversation, Chikatilo would wait a few minutes then seek another conversation partner.[66] On November 20, after six days of surveillance, Chikatilo left his house with a one gallon flask for beer, then wandered around Novocherkassk, attempting to make contact with children he met on his way. Upon exiting a cafe, Chikatilo was arrested by four plainclothes police officers.[67]

Final arrest and Chikatilo's confession

Upon arrest, Chikatilo gave a statement claiming the suspicion against him was a mistake, and complained he had also been arrested in 1984 for the same series of murders.[68] A strip-search of the suspect revealed a further piece of evidence: one of Chikatilo’s fingers had a flesh wound. Medical examiners concluded the wound was, in fact, from a human bite. Chikatilo's penultimate victim was a physically strong 16-year-old youth. At the crime scene, the police had found numerous signs of a ferocious physical struggle between the victim and his murderer. Although a finger bone was later found to be broken and his fingernail had been bitten off, Chikatilo had never sought medical attention for the wound.[69]

Police knew their case against Chikatilo was largely circumstantial. The strategy chosen by the police force to make him confess included one of the chief interrogators telling Chikatilo that they all believed he was a very sick man and needed medical help. The strategy was to give Chikatilo hope that if he confessed, he would not be prosecuted by reason of insanity. Nine days went by without a true confession of his crimes, only vague hints and evasions. Finally, at the request of Burakov and Fetisov, Bukhanovsky was invited to assist in questioning Chikatilo. Bukhanovsky read from the 1984 psychological profile he had written for the investigators.[70] Within two hours, Chikatilo confessed to the 36 murders police had linked to the killer. On November 30, Chikatilo was formally charged with 36 murders.[71]

Chikatilo confessed to a further 20 killings which had not been connected to the case, either because the murders had been committed outside the Rostov Oblast,[72] or because the bodies had not been found. In December 1990, Chikatilo led police to the body of Alexey Kobotov;[73] a boy he had confessed to killing in 1989 and who he had buried in woodland near a Shakhty cemetery, proving unequivocally he was the killer.[74] He later lead investigators to the bodies of two other victims he had confessed to killing. Three of the 56 victims Chikatilo confessed to killing could not be found or identified, but Chikatilo was charged with killing 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990.

Imprisonment and psychiatric evaluation

Special precautions had to be taken while keeping Chikatilo in prison; violent and especially sexual crimes against children are taboo in the Russian underworld. Prisoners accused of raping and/or killing children in Russian prisons are usually "cast down" (опущены) to "untouchable" (опущенный) status, sexually abused, and sometimes killed by their cell mates. The problem was complicated by the fact that some of the relatives of Chikatilo's victims worked in the prison system.

While in his cell, Chikatilo was placed under round-the-clock video surveillance. While the suspect often acted bizarrely in front of his investigators, his behavior inside the cell was normal: He ate and slept well, exercised every morning, and extensively read books and newspapers. Chikatilo also spent a lot of time writing letters and complaints to his family, government officials, and the mass media.

The Soviet Union collapsed on August 18, 1991. On August 20,[75] after completing the interrogation of Chikatilo and having completed a re-enactment of all the murders at each crime scene,[76] Chikatilo was transferred to the Serbsky Institute in Moscow for a six-day psychiatric evaluation to determine whether he was mentally competent to stand trial. Chikatilo was analysed by a senior psychiatrist, Dr. Andrei Tkachenko, who declared Chikatilo legally sane on October 18.[77] In December, 1991, details of Chikatilo's arrest and a brief summary of his crimes was released to the newly-liberated media by police.[78]

Trial and execution

The trial of Andrei Chikatilo was the first major event of post-Soviet Russia. Chikatilo stood trial in Rostov on April 14, 1992.[79] During the trial, he was kept in an iron cage in a corner of the courtroom to protect him from attack by the many hysterical relatives of his victims. Chikatilo's head had been shaven - a standard prison precaution against lice - which had the effect of making him look evil.[80] Relatives of victims regularly shouted threats and insults to Chikatilo throughout the trial, demanding the authorities to release him so that they could kill him themselves. Each murder was discussed individually, and on several occasions, relatives broke down in tears when details of their relatives' murder were revealed; some even fainted.[81]

Chikatilo regularly interrupted the trial, exposing himself, singing and refusing to answer questions put to him by the judge. He was regularly removed from the courtroom for interrupting the proceedings.[82] On May 13, Chikatilo withdrew his confessions to six of the killings he had confessed to.[83]

In July, 1992, Chikatilo demanded the judge be replaced for making too many rash remarks about his guilt. His defense counsil backed Chikatilo's claim. The judge looked to the prosecutor and even the prosecutor backed the defense's judgement, stating the judge had made too many rash remarks about Chikatilo's guilt.[84] The judge ruled the prosecutor be replaced instead.

On August 9, both prosecution and defense delivered their final arguments before the judge. Chikatilo again attempted to interrupt the proceedings and had to be removed from the courtroom. Final sentence was postponed until October 14.[85] As the final deliberations began, the brother of Lyudmila Alekseyeva, a 17-year-old girl killed by Chikatilo in August 1984, threw a heavy chunk of metal at Chikatilo, hitting him in the chest.[86] When security tried to arrest the young man, other victims' relatives shielded him, preventing him from being arrested.

On October 14, the court reconvened and the judge read the list of murders again, not finishing until the following day.[87] On October 15, Chikatilo was found guilty of 52 of the 53 murders and sentenced to death for each offense. Chikatilo kicked his bench across his cage when he heard the verdict, and began shouting abuse. He was offered a final chance to make a speech in response to the verdict, but remained silent.[88] Upon passing final sentence, Judge Leonid Akhobzyanov made the following speech:

Taking into consideration the monstrous crimes he committed, this court has no alternative but to impose the only sentence that he deserves. I therefore sentence him to death.

After hearing the sentence, the audience, made up of victim's families, broke into applause. Chikatilo was seen saying something as police removed him from his iron cage and led him away. [citation needed]

On January 4, 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin refused a last ditch appeal for clemency. On February 14, Chikatilo was taken to a soundproofed room in Novocherkassk prison and executed by a single gunshot behind the right ear.[89][90]

List of victims

Number[91] Name[92] Sex Age Date of Murder Notes
1 Yelena Zakotnova F 9 December 22, 1978 Chikatilo's first victim. Accosted by Chikatilo while walking home from an ice-skating rink.
2 Larisa Tkachenko F 17 September 3, 1981 Approached by Chikatilo while waiting for a bus back to her boarding school.[21]
3 Lyubov Biryuk F 13 June 12, 1982 Biryuk was abducted while returning from a shopping trip in the village of Donskoi.[93]
4 Lyubov Volobuyeva F 14 July 25, 1982 Killed in an orchard near Krasnodar Airport.[74] Her body was found August 7.
5 Oleg Pozhidayev M 9 August 13, 1982 Chikatilo's first male victim. Pozhidayev was killed in Adygea. His body was never found.[94]
6 Olga Kuprina F 16 August 16, 1982 Killed in Kazachi Lagerya. Her body was found October 27.[95]
7 Irina Karabelnikova F 19 September 8, 1982 Lured away from Shakhty station by Chikatilo. Her body was found September 20.
8 Sergey Kuzmin M 15 September 15, 1982 A runaway from a boarding school. Kuzmin's body was found at Shakhty station in January, 1983.
9 Olga Stalmachenok F 10 December 11, 1982 Olga was lured off a bus while riding home from her piano lessons in Novoshakhtinsk.[96]
10 Laura Sarkisyan F 15 After June 18, 1983 Sarkisyan was from Armenia. Her body was never found.
11 Irina Dunenkova F 13 July 1983 Dunenkova's body was found in Aviators' Park, Rostov on August 8, 1983.[29]
12 Lyudmila Kushuba F 24 July 1983 Killed in woodland near a Shakhty bus station. Her body was found March 12, 1984.[97]
13 Igor Gudkov M 7 August 9, 1983 Gudkov - from Bataisk - was Chikatilo's youngest victim. He was the first male victim linked to the manhunt.
14 Valentina Chuchulina F 22 After September 19, 1983 Chuchulina's body was found November 27, 1983 in woodland near Kirpichnaya station.[98]
15 Unknown woman F 18–25 Summer, 1983[99] Chikatilo claimed he encountered this victim while she tried to find a "man (client) with a car."
16 Vera Shevkun F 19 October 27, 1983 Killed in a mining village near Shakhty. Her body was found October 30.[100]
17 Sergey Markov M 14 December 27, 1983 Disappeared while returning home from work experience. His body was found January 4, 1984.
18 Natalya Shalapinina F 17 January 9, 1984 Shalapinina had been a close friend of Olga Kuprina, killed by Chikatilo in 1982.
19 Marta Ryabenko F 45 February 21, 1984 Chikatilo's oldest victim. She was killed in Aviators' Park, Rostov.
20 Dmitriy Ptashnikov M 10 March 24, 1984 Lured from a stamp kiosk by Chikatilo, who pretended to be a fellow collector.[28]
21 Tatyana Petrosyan F 32 May 25, 1984 Murdered together with her daughter outside Shakhty. She had known Chikatilo since 1978.[101]
22 Svetlana Petrosyan F 11 May 25, 1984 Svetlana saw Chikatilo murder her mother before he chased her and killed her with a hammer.
23 Yelena Bakulina F 22 June 22, 1984 Bakulina's body was found August 27, in the Bagasenski region of Rostov.[102]
24 Dmitriy Illarionov M 13 July 10, 1984 Vanished in Rostov while on his way to get a health certificate for summer camp.[103]
25 Anna Lemesheva F 19 July 19, 1984 A student who disappeared on her way to visit a dentist. She was killed in Shakhty.
26 Svetlana Tsana F 20 July 1984 Originally from Riga. Her body was found September 9 in Aviators' Park, Rostov.[102]
27 Natalya Golosovskaya F 16 August 2, 1984 Vanished on a visit to Novoshakhtinsk, where she was to visit her sister.[104]
28 Lyudmila Alekseyeva F 17 August 7, 1984 A student lured from a bus stop by Chikatilo, who offered to direct her to Rostov's bus terminal.[105]
29 Unknown woman F 20–25 August 8–11, 1984 Killed in Tashkent by Chikatilo while on a business trip to the Uzbek SSR city.
30 Akmaral Seydaliyeva F 12 August 13, 1984 A runaway from Alma-Ata, Kazhakstan, also killed by Chikatilo in Tashkent.[106]
31 Alexander Chepel M 11 August 28, 1984 Chepel was killed on the banks of the Don river, near where Alekseyeva had been killed.[103]
32 Irina Luchinskaya F 24 September 6, 1984 A Rostov librarian, killed by Chikatilo in Aviator's Park, Rostov.[107]
33 Natalya Pokhlistova F 18 July 31, 1985 Lured off a train by Chikatilo near Domodedovo Airport, Moscow Oblast. Her body was found August 3.[108]
34 Irina Gulyayeva F 18 August 27, 1985 Killed in a grove of trees near Shakhty bus station. Her body was found the following day.[109]
35 Oleg Makarenkov M 13 May 16, 1987 Killed in Sverdlovsk, Ukraine, Chikatilo led police to his remains after his arrest.[110]
36 Ivan Bilovetskiy M 12 July 29, 1987 Killed by Chikatilo on a business trip to Zaporizhya, Ukrainian SSR. His body was found July 30.[111]
37 Yuri Tereshonok M 16 September 15, 1987 Lured off a train in Leningrad Oblast. Chikatilo led police to his remains after his arrest.[91]
38 Unknown woman F 18–25 April 1–4, 1988 Killed near Krasny Sulin train station. Her body was found April 6.[112]
39 Alexey Voronko M 9 May 15, 1988 Voronko was killed near a train station in Ilovaisk, Ukraine: the Rostov - Ukraine rail route.[113]
40 Yevgeniy Muratov M 15 July 14, 1988 The first victim killed near Rostov since 1985. Muratov's body was found on April 10, 1989.[114]
41 Tatyana Ryzhova F 16 March 8, 1989 A runaway from Krasny Sulin, she was killed in Chikatilo's own daughter's apartment.
42 Alexander Dyakonov M 8 May 11, 1989 Killed in Rostov city centre the day after his 8th birthday. His body was found July 14.[109]
43 Alexey Moiseyev M 10 June 20, 1989 Killed in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow. Chikatilo confessed to this murder after his arrest.[115]
44 Helena Varga F 19 August 19, 1989 A student from Hungary who had a child. She was lured off a bus and killed in a village near Rostov.[116]
45 Alexey Khobotov M 10 August 28, 1989 Vanished from outside a theater in Shakhty. Chikatilo led police to his remains after his arrest.
46 Andrei Kravchenko M 11 January 14, 1990 Lured from a cinema by Chikatilo. He was killed in Shakhty. Kravchenko's body was found February 19.[117]
47 Yaroslav Makarov M 10 March 7, 1990 Lured from a Rostov train station by Chikatilo. He was killed in Rostov botanical gardens.[118]
48 Lyubov Zuyeva F 31 April 4, 1990 Lured off a train near the Donlezhkoz station near Shakhty. Her body was found August 24.
49 Viktor Petrov M 13 July 28, 1990 Killed in Rostov botanical gardens; a few yards from where Makarov had been murdered.[119]
50 Ivan Fomin M 11 August 14, 1990 Killed at Novocherkassk municipal beach. His body was found August 17.[120]
51 Vadim Gromov M 16 October 17, 1990 A student from Shakhty. Gromov vanished while riding the train to Taganrog.[121]
52 Viktor Tishchenko M 16 October 30, 1990 Killed in Shakhty. Tishchenko fought hard for his life: he was the victim who bit Chikatilo's finger.
53 Svetlana Korostik F 22 November 6, 1990 Chikatilo's last victim. Her body was found November 13 in woodland near Donlezhkhoz station.

Chikatilo in film and books

In film

  • The film, Citizen X, based on Robert Cullen's book The Killer Department, was made in 1995 about the investigation of the "Rostov Ripper" murders. Citizen X starred Jeffrey DeMunn as Chikatilo, with Stephen Rea as Viktor Burakov and Donald Sutherland as Mikhail Fetisov.

Factual books

Four books have been written about the case of Andrei Chikatilo:

  • The Killer Department, written by Robert Cullen (ISBN 1-85797-210-4)
  • Hunting The Devil, written by Richard Lourie (ISBN 0-586-21846-7)
  • The Red Ripper, written by Peter Conradi (ISBN 0-86369-618-X)
  • Comrade Chikatilo, written by Mikhail Krivich and Olgert Olgin (ISBN 0-45001-717-6)

Fictional books

Child 44, a novel by Tom Rob Smith, draws heavily on the Chikatilo story, with the events set several decades earlier during the time of Stalin and immediately thereafter.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/andre-chikatilo-the-rostov-ripper/biography.html
  2. ^ Andrei Chikatilo
  3. ^ The Killer Department, p. 213.
  4. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 14.
  5. ^ The Killer Department, p. 263
  6. ^ The Killer Department, p. 262
  7. ^ a b Andrei Chikatilo: The Rostov Ripper - Famous Criminal - Homepage - Crime And Investigation Network
  8. ^ The Killer Department, p. 214-215
  9. ^ The Killer Department, p. 264
  10. ^ Profile of Chikatilo at True Life Crimes
  11. ^ The Killer Department, p. 217
  12. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 20
  13. ^ The Killer Department, p. 219
  14. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 29
  15. ^ The Killer Department, p. 221
  16. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 252
  17. ^ Verbal Plainfield. "Serial Killers A-Z; Andrei Chikatilo". Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 43
  19. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 44
  20. ^ The Killer Department, p. 198
  21. ^ a b The Red Ripper, p. 55.
  22. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 54-57
  23. ^ The Killer Department, p. 4.
  24. ^ Real Life Crimes, issue 7, p. 150.
  25. ^ The Killer Department p. 30
  26. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 178
  27. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 98
  28. ^ a b The Killer Department, p. 202.
  29. ^ a b The Red Ripper, p. 253.
  30. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 76.
  31. ^ http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/chikatilo/killer_6.html
  32. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 91
  33. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 1.
  34. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 8.
  35. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 118.
  36. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 112-113
  37. ^ The Killer Department p. 111
  38. ^ The Killer Department p. 118-119
  39. ^ The Killer Department.
  40. ^ The Killer Department, p. 126–129.
  41. ^ The Killer Department, p. 129.
  42. ^ The Killer Department p. 233
  43. ^ The Red Ripper p. 133
  44. ^ The Killer Department, p. 146.</here
  45. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 256-257
  46. ^ The Killer Department, p. 152
  47. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 256-257
  48. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 257
  49. ^ The Killer Department, p. 159
  50. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 158-159
  51. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 157
  52. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 167
  53. ^ The Killer Department p. 164
  54. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 187.
  55. ^ The Killer Department p. 163-165
  56. ^ The Killer Department p. 165
  57. ^ The Killer Department p. 166
  58. ^ The Killer Department p. 169
  59. ^ a b The Killer Department p. 171
  60. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 186.
  61. ^ The Killer Department p. 170
  62. ^ The Killer Department p. 170-171
  63. ^ The Killer Department p. 251
  64. ^ The Killer Department p207
  65. ^ The Killer Department p172
  66. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 192
  67. ^ The Red Ripper, p.193
  68. ^ The Killer Department, p. 181
  69. ^ The Killer Department, p. 177.
  70. ^ The Killer Department, p. 193-196
  71. ^ The Red Ripper, p.258
  72. ^ The Red Ripper, p.95
  73. ^ The Killer Department, p. 204
  74. ^ a b The Killer Department, p. 205.
  75. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 214
  76. ^ The Killer Department, p. 210
  77. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 216
  78. ^ The Killer Department, p. 235
  79. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 229
  80. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 230
  81. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 231
  82. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 234
  83. ^ The Killer Department, p. 243
  84. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 236
  85. ^ The Killer Department, p. 245-246
  86. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 241
  87. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 247-248
  88. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 249
  89. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iu8VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1xMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5278,1621788&dq
  90. ^ http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/chikatilo/epilogue_14.html
  91. ^ a b http://vitaextensa.narod.ru/chikatilo_victims.htm
  92. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 252–257.
  93. ^ The Killer Department, p. 3–5.
  94. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 60.
  95. ^ The Killer Department, p. 15
  96. ^ The Killer Department, p. 25.
  97. ^ The Killer Department, p. 65
  98. ^ The Killer Department, p. 49.
  99. ^ The Killer Department, p. 46-47
  100. ^ The Killer Department, p. 48-49
  101. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 82.
  102. ^ a b The Red Ripper, p. 254.
  103. ^ a b The Killer Department, p. 78
  104. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 93
  105. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 93-94.
  106. ^ The Killer Department, p. 205
  107. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 101.
  108. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 123-124
  109. ^ a b The Red Ripper, p. 256
  110. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 256.
  111. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 133-135
  112. ^ The Killer Department, p. 146
  113. ^ The Killer Department, p. 147
  114. ^ The Killer Department, p. 152.
  115. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 257.
  116. ^ The Killer Department, p. 156
  117. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 165
  118. ^ The Killer Department, p. 157
  119. ^ The Red Ripper, p. 166.
  120. ^ The Killer Department, p. 160-161
  121. ^ The Killer Department, p. 165.

Bibliography

  • Conradi, Peter. The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia’s Most Brutal Serial Killer. 1992. ISBN 0440216036
  • Cullen, Robert. The Killer Department: The Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer of Our Times. Orion Media, 1993. ISBN 1857972104
  • Lourie, Richard. Hunting the Devil. The Pursuit, Capture and Confession of the Most Savage Serial Killer in History. 1993. ISBN 0060177179
  • Smith, Tom Rob. Child 44. 2008. ISBN 1847371264. A crime novel loosely based on Chikatilo.
  • NTV (1997). Criminal Russia: The trail of Satan. A documentary on Chikatilo's case, produced by a Russian TV channel.

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