Andrei Chikatilo “The Butcher of Rostov” By: Sarah Shepard

Serial Killer: A serial killer is a murderer who kills multiple people typically using the same patterns or techniques in his killings. A serial killer usually has had a rough childhood. (i.e. sexually abused, an outcast by peers, physically abused, very low financial state) Occasionally have a mental illness causing them to think and feel irrationally

Background: Born October 16, 1936 in Yablachnoye, Ukraine Father was called to army during WWII During war, the government forced farmers to give all of their crops up for statewide distribution. Starvation struck many people in Ukraine and in turn Cannibalism started to become very popular. Chikatilo’s mother used to tell him that his brother had been kidnapped and cannibalized by his neighbors as a threat to keep him from going out at night, but this was never proven.

Background (cont.) Had to share a bed with his mother and was a chronic bed wetter His mother beat him and humiliated him because of it. FACT: more than 60% of serial killers wet the bed passed the age of 12. 1963 Chikatilo got married and had 2 kids, a boy and a girl Became a teacher but was fired because of several complaints of attempted molestation Never felt adequate and was constantly teased and taunted throughout his life for multiple reasons and often because he was sexually incompetent

Chikatilo: the Murderer December 22, 1978 he convinced a 9 yr old girl to come to an old house he had secretly bought by giving her bubblegum He tried to rape her but failed to get an erection He stabbed her to death while ejaculating in the process. From then on he could only be aroused by stabbing his victims to death. He then drug the 9 yr olds body into a river. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RThfObqSZF0&feature=related

His victims: Killed multiple more victims during 1982 & 83 and 15 more in 1984 Victims ages varied from 7 to 45 and were both male and female. Typically tried to have intercourse with his adult female victims but couldn’t get an erection which caused him to become very angry and murderous. Mainly attacked runaways and young vagrants by train and bus stations and take them to a nearby forest rape and kill them.

Number Name Sex Age Date of Murder Notes 1 Yelena Zakotnova F 9 December 22, 1978 2 Larisa Tkachenko F 17 September 3, 1981 3 Lyubov Biryuk F 12 June 12, 1982 4 Lyubov Volobuyeva F 14 July 25, 1982 5 Oleg Pozhidayev M 9 August 13, 1982 The body was not found 6 Olga Kuprina F 16 August 16, 1982 7 Irina Korabelnikova F 19 September 8, 1982 8 Sergey Kuzmin M 15 September 15, 1982 9 Olga Stalmachenok F 10 December 11, 1982 10 Laura Sarkisyan F 15 After June 18, 1983 11 Irina Dunenkova F 13 July 1983 12 Lyudmila Kushuba F 24 July 1983 13 Igor Gudkov M 7 August 9, 1983 The youngest victim 14 Valentina Chuchulina F 22 After September 19, 1983 15 Unknown woman F 18-25 Summer or autumn 1983 16 Vera Shevkun F 19 October 27, 1983 17 Sergey Markov M 14 December 27, 1983 18 Natalya Shalapinina F 17 January 9, 1984 19 Marta Ryabenko F 45 February 21, 1984 20 Dmitriy Ptashnikov M 10 March 24, 1984 21 Tatyana Petrosyan F 32 May 1984 Murdered together with her daughter Svetlana 22 Svetlana Petrosyan F 11 May 1984 23 Yelena Bakulina F 22 June 1984 24 Dmitriy Illarionov M 13 July 10, 1984 25 Anna Lemesheva F 19 July 19, 1984 26 Svetlana Tsana F 20 July 1984 27 Natalya Golosovskaya F 16 August 2, 1984 28 Lyudmila Alekseyeva F 17 August 7, 1984 29 Unknown woman F Unknown August 8-11, 1984 Murdered in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR

30 Akmaral Seydaliyeva F 12 August 13, 1984 Murdered in Tashkent 31 Alexander Chepel M 11 August 28, 1984 32 Irina Luchinskaya F 24 September 6, 1984 33 Natalya Pokhlistova F 18 July 31, 1985 Murdered near Domodedovo, 34 Irina (Inessa) Gulyayeva F 18 August 25, 1985 35 Oleg Makarenkov M 13 May 16, 1987 36 Ivan Bilovetskiy M 12 July 29, 1987Murdered in Zaporozhye, 37 Yuri Tereshonok M 16 September 15, 1987 Murdered in Leningrad oblast 38 Unknown woman F Unknown April 1988 39 Alexey Voronko M 9 May 15, 1988 40 Yevgeniy Muratov M 15 July 14, 1988 41 Tatyana Ryzhova F 16 March 8, 1989 42 Alexander Dyakonov M 8 May 11, 1989 43 Alexey Moiseyev M 10 June 20, 1989 44 Helena Varga F 19 August 19, 1989 student from Hungary 45 Alexey Khobotov M 10 August 28, 1989 46 Andrey Kravchenko M 11 January 14, 1990 47 Yaroslav Makarov M 10 March 7, 1990 48 Lyubov Zuyeva F 31 April 1990 49 Viktor Petrov M 13 July 28, 1990 50 Ivan Fomin M 11 August 14, 1990 51 Vadim Gromov M 16 October 16, 1990 52 Viktor Tishchenko M 16 October 30, 1990 53 Svetlana Korostik F 22 November 6, 1990

Arrested: Chikatilo was first arrested and held because of a minor theft from one of his employees. However, the police noticed him doing suspicious things at a bus stop and this theft excuse was good enough to keep him in holding for further investigation. But was later released because of lack of evidence in Dec of 1984. On nov. 6 1990 a policeman saw him walking out of the woods with blood smeared on his face. The officer got his name and later found 2 dead women in the same woods chikatilo walked out of. The police then put him on 24/7 watch and followed him around with undercover video cameras. He was taped drunk while showing suspicious behavior with children. He was then arrested and eventually confessed to his murders and rape. It took 2 days for the judge to read the list of indictments.

Caught: Chikatilo eventually confessed and described all 56 of his murders ( the police only had counted 36 from their records) Many of the victims were either murdered far away from Chikatilos home and others where buried and investigators were unable to find the bodies until Chikatilo took them to them. Went to trial on April 14,1992 Kept in an iron cage in the center of the court room to keep the families of the victims from harming him. Trial ended in July and sentencing was on October 15 Found guilty for 52 of the 53 murders and received the death sentence and was executed by a single gunshot to the back of the head on Feb. 14th.

Sources Used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo A&E Biography- Andrei Chikatilo http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/chikatilo/coat_1.html