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[steve7968]

Andrei Chikatilo-Butcher of Rostov



Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей �_оманович Чикати́ло) (October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994) Russian serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov and 'The Red Ripper.' He was convicted of the murder of 52 women and children in the Russian Soviet Republic between 1978 and 1990.

I read in a few books might have been as many as 58
Executed, (Gunshot to the head) 1994








Andrei Chikatilo

A native of the Ukraine, born October 16, 1939, Andrei Chikatilo was a late-blooming serial killer who traced his crimes back to early childhood. His family had suffered greatly during Joseph Stalin's forced collectivization in the 1930s, Chikatilo said. Apart from knowing poverty and hunger, he had lost an older brother, allegedly murdered and cannibalized by neighbors during the famine that claimed millions of Russian lives. Whether the tale was true or not, young Andrei's mother drilled it into him with frequent repetition, and his later deeds would replicate the act.

While most serial murderers kill for the first time in their teens or early twenties, Chikatilo was a slow starter. With a university degree, a wife and two children, he presented the appearance of a meek family man, but dark urges were brewing behind that pacific façade. Employed as a school dormitory supervisor, Chikatilo was fired over allegations that he had molested male students. A new job, as a factory supply clerk in Rostov-on-Don, required frequent travel by bus or train, and Chikatilo turned the circumstance to his advantage, trolling for victims in bus depots and railway stations.

The self-described "mad beast" and "mistake of nature" committed his first murder on December 22, 1978, in the town of Shakhty. The body of his victim, a nine-year-old girl whom Chikatilo strangled, raped, and stabbed repeatedly, was pulled from the Grushevka River days later. Chikatilo was one of many suspects questioned in the case, but police soon focused on 25-year-old Alexander Kravchenko, an ex-convict who had served time for murder and rape. In custody, Kravchenko was beaten by police until he confessed, whereupon he was sentenced to death and shot by a firing squad. The "solution" looked good on paper, but it naturally failed to deter the real killer from striking again.

The terror began in earnest nearly three years later, in September 1981. Over the next nine years, dozens of corpses would be found in wooded areas adjacent to train or bus depots, grossly mutilated by a phantom who was quickly dubbed the "Rostov Ripper." The victims included young women and children of both sexes, raped and stabbed repeatedly in a pattern of grisly overkill. Some victims had their tongues bitten off; others were disemboweled, sometimes with organs missing that suggested the killer might be indulging in cannibalism. (Chikatilo later confessed to occasionally nibbling on internal organs but denied consuming human flesh.) Repeated stab wounds to the face were a specific trademark of the killer, but the mutilations he inflicted otherwise appeared to follow no set pattern.

Chikatilo may have come late to the murder game, but he was making up for lost time. At the peak of his homicidal frenzy, in 1984, eight victims were found in the month of August alone. Chikatilo was held for questioning again that year and released for lack of evidence after Communist official intervened on his behalf, lamenting the "persecution" of a loyal party member.

It would take another six years, with some 25,000 suspects interrogated, before police came back to Chikatilo a third time and finally bagged their killer. Part of the problem was communist mythology, maintaining that such "decadent Western crimes" as serial murder never occurred in a "people's republic." State censorship forbade police from broadcasting descriptions of their suspect - or even admitting his crimes had occurred - and homicide investigators were thus reduced to the same cloak-and-dagger routine that had retarded investigation or earlier, similar cases. Propaganda aside, however, there seemed to be mayhem aplenty in Rostov-on-Don: before it ended, the Ripper investigation would disclose 95 additional murders and 235 rapes committed by other human predators in the district.

Chikatilo finally ran out of luck in November 1990, when he was spotted in a Rostov railway station, sporting bloodstains on his face and hand. While he was not arrested at the time, his name was taken down, and the discovery of another victim near the depot two weeks later prompted his arrest on November 20. After eight days of interrogation, Chikatilo confessed a total of 55 murders, leading police to several corpses they had not discovered yet. His recitation of atrocities - illustrated by demonstration on mannequins - included sadistic mutilation of several victims while they were still alive.

Charged with 53 counts of murder, Chikatilo went on trial in June 1992; four months later, on October 15, he was convicted on all but one count and sentenced to death. A last-minute appeal for clemency was rejected by President Boris Yeltsin on February 15, 1994, and Chikatilo was executed that same day, with a pistol shot to the back of his head. Alexander Kravchenko, meanwhile, was posthumously pardoned for the slaying of Chikatilo's original victim.

[steve7968]

thought i'd make this a daily thing.. a new one each day thought it'd be more interesting than the "what's for lunch"

[steve7968]

i was thinking Edmund Kemper for tomw? or bianchi & buono- hillside stranglers?? green river killer gary ridgeway??

thinking a few of the less known one's before bundy, gacy, dahmer etc.....

[LonghornJ]

Originally Posted by steve7968

Charged with 53 counts of murder, Chikatilo went on trial in June 1992; four months later, on October 15, he was convicted on all but one count and sentenced to death. A last-minute appeal for clemency was rejected by President Boris Yeltsin on February 15, 1994, and Chikatilo was executed that same day, with a pistol shot to the back of his head.

Really? So the Russian tax-payer didn't have to sit around and feed and house this sick fuck for 15 years while he rode out endless appeals?

What a novel fucking concept.

[Player 1]

wasteful

[steve7968]

Originally Posted by mozman

still no posts?

shocking.

fuck

thought this would have alittle more interest

[steve7968]

Originally Posted by LonghornJ

Really? So the Russian tax-payer didn't have to sit around and feed and house this sick fuck for 15 years while he rode out endless appeals?

What a novel fucking concept.

correct.. in most other countries this is the case.. read a bunch of case from overseas.... they take care of business quick

only problem with the old russian KBG system
"Alexander Kravchenko, meanwhile, was posthumously pardoned for the slaying of Chikatilo's original victim."

same thing happened in a case in England (and they since stopped the death penalty)

[LonghornJ]

Originally Posted by steve7968

only problem with the old russian KBG system
"Alexander Kravchenko, meanwhile, was posthumously pardoned for the slaying of Chikatilo's original victim."

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

[steve7968]

Originally Posted by Player 1

wasteful

wait until i get to ted bundy "In the fall of 1974 Bundy enrolled in law school at the University of Utah and he moved to Salt Lake City"

[steve7968]

Originally Posted by LonghornJ

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

true....

[mattp818]

charles ng and leonard lake...........try them

[Johnnykstaint]

5 Star thread. Should have sticky status.

[Shean666]

Originally Posted by steve7968

i was thinking Edmund Kemper for tomw? or bianchi & buono- hillside stranglers?? green river killer gary ridgeway??

thinking a few of the less known one's before bundy, gacy, dahmer etc.....

Yeah ed was fucked up chopped off his moms head. I love reading about seiral killers.

[steve7968]

Originally Posted by Shean666

Yeah ed was fucked up chopped off his moms head. I love reading about seiral killers.

me too... just finished 2 books in the last 2 weeks.....

[steve7968]

Originally Posted by mattp818

charles ng and leonard lake...........try them

i'll put them in the rotation....i've read all about them....

Ng was caught in canada.. took awhile to get him extradited to US

[Shean666]

I was thinking about going into forensics or profileing. However as you can tell I wasted my youth.

[mattp818]

Originally Posted by steve7968

i'll put them in the rotation....i've read all about them....

Ng was caught in canada.. took awhile to get him extradited to US

this sounds like a good idea.....in....

[mattp818]

Originally Posted by Shean666

I was thinking about going into forensics or profileing. However as you can tell I wasted my youth.

i was thinking of becoming a serial killer.....

[Shean666]

Originally Posted by mattp818

i was thinking of becoming a serial killer.....

Thats still in my list of backup plans.

[steve7968]

Originally Posted by mattp818

i was thinking of becoming a serial killer.....

A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people with a 'cooling off' period between each murder and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification. One hypothesis is that all serial killers suffer from some form of Antisocial Personality Disorder. They are usually not psychotic, and thus may appear to be quite normal and often even charming, a state of adaptation which Hervey Cleckley calls the "mask of sanity." There is sometimes a sexual element to the murders. The murders may have been completed/attempted in a similar fashion and the victims may have had something in common, for example occupation, race, or sex.
The term serial killer is said to have been coined by Michigan State University alumnus and FBI agent Robert Ressler in the 1970s.Serial killer entered the popular vernacular in large part due to the widely publicized crimes of Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz in the middle years of that decade.

[rudebwoy08]

Steve, are you hiring?

[steve7968]

Originally Posted by rudebwoy08

Steve, are you hiring?

[Purity Knight]

HBO made a movie about this guy. It was pretty good.

[rudebwoy08]

You need to hire me as your sales rep in the Triad. Then we can just sit around and talk to each other all day on SFN and Stickam. I don't need much. $50k base plus commissions, company car, full benefits. You know, basic shit.