The Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo (2004)

A&E Biography – The Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo (2004)

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed The Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper, and The Rostov Ripper, who committed the murder of at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR… Chikatilo confessed to a total of 56 murders and was tried for 53 of these killings in April 1992. He was subsequently executed in February 1994….

“Upon his arrest, Chikatilo gave a statement claiming that the police were mistaken, and complained that he had also been arrested in 1984 for the same series of murders. 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 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 treatment for the wound…..” Wikipedia