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 Andrei Chikatilo Throughout history, there have been lots of significantly gruesome and well-known serial killers all over the globe. Some may never even be found, such as the Zodiac, an unidentified nicknamed San Francisco murderer from the 1960s who wrote into newspapers about his killings. Others are very open and famous about their actions, such as Charles Manson, the leader of a cult that forced people into murderous activities. They range from all different personalities and styles and truly can happen anywhere. Andrei Chikatilo, a suspicious Soviet schoolteacher, was found responsible for the murder and sexual assault of at least 52 women and children over the course of 12 years in the Soviet Union, making him classified as that of a serial killer. Andrei Chikatilo was born on October 16, 1936, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in a one-room hut to farm laborer parents. After his father’s drafting into World War 2, he experienced many terrors as Nazis gained control of his homeland through bombings, fires, and shootings. His father’s capture as a prisoner in the war gave his family a negative reputation, causing him to have a socially attacking childhood. In the early 1960s, he married a local girl, Fayina, and had two children. He eventually gained a career of a schoolteacher, despite his constant reports of assaulting children. Chikatilo was in fact never initially caught or held accountable for his first murder of a girl named Lena Zakotnova. Instead, a suspect named Alexsandr Kravchenko falsely admitted to it due to excessive interrogation and was eventually executed in 1984 for the crime. His next victim, Larisa Tkachenko, was a 17-year old girl in which he brutally stabbed and strangled to death in 1981. He continued to go on murdering and raping women throughout the years. He eventually developed a pattern for his killings, commonly befriending them at public transportation stations and luring them into nearby forests. He often ate their sexual organs and cut off parts of their bodies. However, serial killers were assuredly not unheard of in the Soviet Union

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during this era. Despite the suppression from the government and media, serial killing and child abuse became a virtually thriving phenomenon here. In 1983, a detective of Moscow named Major Mikhail Fetisov suspected that a serial killer was on the loose and conducted an investigation centered on mentally ill sex offenders. However, strong interrogations from the police caused many local prisoners to falsely confess to the various murders out of fear, only doing nothing except stirring up the investigation. Despite the slow progress, authorities were able to catch the murderer’s blood type and a sample of grey hair. In 1984, after Chikatilo committed 15 more murders, police involvement increased drastically. Following two of his murders in August 1985, he was arrested simply for suspicious activity and numerous minor offenses. However, his blood type did not match with the actual one recorded from the murders because it is a rare type that can only be recorded from blood samples. Desperate for clues, investigators introduced a psychiatrist named Alexandr Bukhanovsk and another imprisoned serial killer named Anatoly Slivko to the case in order to help gain access to and comprehend the mind of the killer, who committed dozens more of murders over the following years. On November 6, 1990, fresh out of killing his final victim, Sveta Korostik, police noticed his suspicion in public and he was placed under surveillance. On November 20, he was arrested again due to suspicious activity but refused to confess to any of the killings. However, once Bukhanovski, the psychiatrist involved with the case, interviewed Chikatilo, he opened up completely about the killings. Declared sane enough for trial, he went to court on April 14, 1992. Authorities kept him in an iron cage during the trial to keep his distance from the grieving relatives of his victims in the room. He had maniac-like behavior in court, gaining the nickname “The Maniac” in the media. He was eventually found guilty of 52 of the reported 53 murders, and therefore sentenced to death. The appeal from his team was the claim that the psychiatric evaluation conducted was biased, but they were unsuccessful. 16 months later, on February 14, 1994, Chikatilo was executed by a shot to his head.

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In conclusion, Andrei Chikatilo’s dozens of murders from 1978 to 1990 led him to be one of the most well-known serial killers of the world, especially in the Soviet Union. Detectives, police, authorities, and psychiatrists worked extravagantly hard for years to capture him. Despite having a wife, kids, family, and a teaching career, he is still categorized in that of some of the world’s most notorious killers out there. Loved ones of his victims were glad to hear of his death sentence which finally ended not only his life but his killing spree as well.                  

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Works Cited https://www.biography.com/people/andrei-chikatilo-17169648 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrei-Romanovich-Chikatilo   ...