Serial Killers - Andrei Chikatilo (the Rostov Ripper) Documentary

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило, Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, the Red Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper, who committed the sexual assault, murder and mutilation of a minimum of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Uzbek SSR. Chikatilo confessed to a total of 56 murders and was tried for 53 of these killings in April 1992. He was convicted and sentenced to death for 52 of these murders in October 1992 and subsequently executed in February 1994.

Chikatilo was known by such titles as the Rostov Ripper and the Butcher of Rostov because the majority of his murders were committed in the Rostov Oblast of the Russian SFSR.

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A.K.A.: "The Butcher of Rostov" - "The Red Ripper" - "The Rostov Ripper"

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Cannibalism - Necrophilia - Evisceration - Mutilation
Number of victims: 52 - 56
Date of murders: 1978 - 1990
Date of arrest: November 20, 1990
Date of birth: October 16, 1936
Victims profile: Lena Zakotnova (9) / Larisa Tkachenko (17) / Lyubov Biryuk (13) / Lyubov Volobuyeva (14) / Oleg Pozhidayev (9) / Olga Kuprina (16) / Irina Karabelnikova (19) / Sergey Kuzmin (15) / Olga Stalmachenok (10) / Laura Sarkisyan (15) / Irina Dunenkova (13) / Lyudmila Kushuba (24) / Igor Gudkov (7) / Valentina Chuchulina (22) / Unknown woman (18-25) / Vera Shevkun (19) / Sergey Markov (14) / Natalya Shalapinina (17) / Marta Ryabenko (45) / Dmitriy Ptashnikov (10) / Tatyana Petrosyan (32) / Svetlana Petrosyan (11) / Yelena Bakulina (22) / Dmitriy Illarionov (13) / Anna Lemesheva (19) / Svetlana Tsana (20) / Natalya Golosovskaya (16) / Lyudmila Alekseyeva (17) / Unknown woman (20-25) / Akmaral Seydaliyeva (12) / Alexander Chepel (11) / Irina Luchinskaya (24) / Natalya Pokhlistova (18) / Irina Gulyayeva (18) / Oleg Makarenkov (13) / Ivan Bilovetskiy (12) / Yuri Tereshonok (16) / Unknown woman (18-25) / Alexey Voronko (9) / Yevgeniy Muratov (15) / Tatyana Ryzhova (16) / Alexander Dyakonov (8) / Alexey Moiseyev (10) / Helena Varga (19) / Alexey Khobotov (10) / Andrei Kravchenko (11) / Yaroslav Makarov (10) / Lyubov Zuyeva (31) / Viktor Petrov (13) / Ivan Fomin (11) / Vadim Gromov (16) / Viktor Tishchenko (16) / Svetlana Korostik (22)
Method of murder: Strangulation - Stabbing with knife
Location: Rostov Oblast, Russia
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