Andrei Chikatilo

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Ukrainian: Андрі́й Рома́нович Чикати́ло; 16 October 1936 – 14 Februar 1994) wis a Soviet serial killer, elk-namit The Butcher o Rostov, The Reid Ripper an The Rostov Ripper who committit the murther o a minimum o 52 weemen an childer atween 1978 an 1990 in the Roushie SFSR. Chikatilo confessed tae a tot o 56 murthers an wis treed for 53 o thir killins in Aprile, 1992. He wis convictit an sentencit tae daith for 52 o thir murthers in October 1992 an subsequently executit in Februar 1994.

Andrei Chikatilo
Born	Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo 16 October 1936(1936-10-16) Yablochnoye, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Dee'd	14 Februar 1994(1994-02-14) (aged 57) Novocherkassk, Roushie
Cause o daith	Executit bi gunshot ahint richt ear
Ither names	The Butcher o Rostov The Red Ripper The Forest Strip Killer The Rostov Ripper[1][2]
Criminal penalty	Daith
Conviction(s)	Murther Sexual assault
Killins
Victims	53 confirmit, 56+ claimit
Span o killins	22 December 1978–6 November 1990
Kintra	Soviet Union
Date apprehendit	20 November 1990

Chikatilo wis kent bi sic titles as The Rostov Ripper an The Butcher o Rostov acause the majority o his murthers wur committit in the Rostov Oblast o the Roushie SFSR.

Leet o victims

Number[3]	Name[4]	Sex	Age	Date o Murther	Notes
1	Yelena Zakotnova	F	9	22 December 1978	Chikatilo's first victim. Accostit bi Chikatilo while walkin hame frae an ice-skeitchin rink.
2	Larisa Tkachenko	F	17	3 September 1981	Approached bi Chikatilo while waitin for a bus back tae her buirding schuil.[5]
3	Lyubov Biryuk	F	13	12 Juin 1982	Biryuk wis abductit while returnin frae a shoppin trip in the veelage o Donskoi.[6]
4	Lyubov Volobuyeva	F	14	25 Julie 1982	Killed in an orchard near Krasnodar Airport.[7] Her body wis foond August 7.
5	Oleg Pozhidayev	M	9	13 August 1982	Chikatilo's first male victim. Pozhidayev wis killed in Adygea. His body wis niver foond.[8]
6	Olga Kuprina	F	16	16 August 1982	Killed in Kazachi Lagerya. Her body wis foond 27 October.[9]
7	Irina Karabelnikova	F	19	8 September 1982	Lured awa frae Shakhty station bi Chikatilo. Her body wis foond 20 September.
8	Sergey Kuzmin	M	15	15 September 1982	A runawa frae a buirdin schuil. Kuzmin's body wis foond at Shakhty station in Januar 1983.
9	Olga Stalmachenok	F	10	11 December 1982	Olga wis lured aff a bus while ridin hame frae her piano lessons in Novoshakhtinsk.[10]
10	Laura Sarkisyan	F	15	Efter 18 Juin 1983	Sarkisyan wis frae Armenie: her body wis niver foond. Chikatilo wis cleared o this murther at his trial.
11	Irina Dunenkova	F	13	Julie 1983	Dunenkova's body wis foond in Aviators' Pairk, Rostov, on 8 August 1983.[11]
12	Lyudmila Kushuba	F	24	Julie 1983	Killed in firthland near a Shakhty bus station. Her body wis foond 12 Mairch 1984.[12]
13	Igor Gudkov	M	7	9 August 1983	Chikatilo's youngest victim. He wis killed in Aviators' Pairk, Rostov. Gudkov wis the first male victim linkit tae the manhunt.
14	Valentina Chuchulina	F	22	Efter 19 September 1983	Chuchulina's body wis foond on 27 November 1983 in a firthit aurie near Kirpichnaya station.[13]
15	Unkent wumman	F	18–25	Simmer 1983[14]	Chikatilo claimit he encoontered this victim while she tree'd tae find a "man (client) wi a caur."
16	Vera Shevkun	F	19	27 October 1983	Killed in a minin veelage near Shakhty. Her body wis foond on 30 October.[15]
17	Sergey Markov	M	14	27 December 1983	Disappeared while returnin hame frae wirk experience. His body wis foond on 4 Januar 1984.
18	Natalya Shalapinina	F	17	9 Januar 1984	Killed in Aviators' Pairk, Rostov. Shalapinina haed been a close friend o Olga Kuprina, killed bi Chikatilo in 1982.
19	Marta Ryabenko	F	45	21 Februar 1984	Chikatilo's auldest victim. She wus killed in Aviators' Pairk, Rostov.
20	Dmitriy Ptashnikov	M	10	24 Mairch 1984	Lured frae a stamp kiosk in Novoshakhtinsk bu Chikatilo, who pretendit tae be a fellae collector.[16]
21	Tatyana Petrosyan	F	32	25 Mey 1984	Murthered thegither wi her dochter ootside Shakhty. She haed kent Chikatilo syne 1978.[17]
22	Svetlana Petrosyan	F	11	25 Mey 1984	Svetlana siw Chikatilo murther her mither afore he chased her an killed her wi a hammer.
23	Yelena Bakulina	F	21	22 Juin 1984	Bakulina's body wis foond on 27 August in the Bagasenski region o Rostov.[18]
24	Dmitriy Illarionov	M	13	10 Julie 1984	Vanished in Rostov while on his wey tae get a heal certificate for simmer camp.[19]
25	Anna Lemesheva	F	19	19 Julie 1984	A student who disappeared on her wey tae veesit a dentist. She wis killed in Shakhty.
26	Svetlana Tsana	F	20	Julie 1984	Oreeginally frae Riga. Her body wis foond on 9 September 1984 in Aviators' Pairk, Rostov.[18]
27	Natalya Golosovskaya	F	16	2 August 1984	Vanished on a veesit tae Novoshakhtinsk, whaur she wis tae veesit her sister. She wis killed in Aviators' Pairk, Rostov.[20]
28	Lyudmila Alekseyeva	F	17	7 August 1984	A student lured frae a bus stap bi Chikatilo, who affered tae direct her tae Rostov's bus terminal.[21]
29	Unkent wumman	F	20–25	8–11 August 1984	Killed in Tashkent bi Chikatilo while on a business trip tae the Uzbek SSR ceety.
30	Akmaral Seydaliyeva	F	10	13 August 1984	A runawa frae Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, killed bi Chikatilo in Tashkent an aw.[22]
31	Aleksandr Chepel	M	11	28 August 1984	Chepel wis killed on the banks o the Don River, near whare Alekseyeva haed been killed.[19]
32	Irina Luchinskaya	F	24	6 September 1984	A Rostov leebrarian, killed bi Chikatilo in Aviators' Pairk, Rostov.[23]
33	Natalya Pokhlistova	F	18	31 Julie 1985	Lured aff a train bi Chikatilo near Domodedovo Airport, Moscow Oblast. Her body wis foond on 3 August.[24]
34	Irina Gulyayeva	F	18	27 August 1985	Killed in a grove o trees near Shakhty bus station. Her body wis foond the follaein day.[25]
35	Oleg Makarenkov	M	13	16 Mey 1987	Killed in Revda, Sverdlovsk Oblast. Chikatilo led polis tae Makarenkov's remains efter his arrest.[26]
36	Ivan Bilovetskiy	M	12	29 Julie 1987	Killed in firthland alangside a railwey in the Ukrainian ceety o Zaporizhya. His body wis foond bi his awn faither on 30 Julie.[27]
37	Yuri Tereshonok	M	16	15 September 1987	Lured aff a train in Leningrad. Chikatilo led polis tae his remains efter his arrest.[28]
38	Unkent woman	F	18–25	1–4 Aprile 1988	Killed near Krasny Sulin train station. Her body wis foond on 6 Aprile.[29]
39	Aleksey Voronko	M	9	15 Mey 1988	Voronko wis killed near a train station in Ilovaisk, Ukraine: the Rostov–Ukraine rail route.[30]
40	Yevgeniy Muratov	M	15	14 Julie 1988	The first victim killed near Rostov syne 1985. Muratov's body wis foond on 10 Aprile 1989.[31]
41	Tatyana Ryzhova	F	16	8 Mairch 1989	A runawa frae Krasny Sulin, she wis killed in Chikatilo's awn dochter's apairtment.
42	Aleksandr Dyakonov	M	8	11 Mey 1989	Killed in Rostov ceety centre the day efter his 8t birthday. His body wis foond on 14 Julie.[25]
43	Aleksey Moiseyev	M	10	20 Juin 1989	Killed in Vladimir Oblast, east o Moscow. Chikatilo confessed tae this murther efter his arrest.[32]
44	Helena Varga	F	19	19 August 1989	A student frae Hungary who haed a bairn. She wis lured aff a bus an killed in a veelage near Rostov.[33]
45	Aleksey Khobotov	M	10	28 August 1989	Vanished frae ootside a theater in Shakhty. Chikatilo led polis tae his remains efter his arrest.
46	Andrey Kravchenko	M	11	14 Januar 1990	Lured frae a cinema bi Chikatilo. He wis killed in Shakhty. Kravchenko's body wis foond on 19 Februar.[34]
47	Yaroslav Makarov	M	10	7 Mairch 1990	Lured frae a Rostov train station bi Chikatilo. He wis killed in Rostov Botanical Gardens.[35]
48	Lyubov Zuyeva	F	31	4 Aprile 1990	Lured aff a train near the Donleskhoz station near Shakhty. Her body wis foond on 24 August.
49	Viktor Petrov	M	13	28 Julie 1990	Killed in Rostov Botanical Gardens; a few yards frae whare Makarov haed been murthert.[36]
50	Ivan Fomin	M	11	14 August 1990	Killed at Novocherkassk municipal beach. His body wis foond on 17 August.[37]
51	Vadim Gromov	M	16	17 October 1990	A mentally handicapped student frae Shakhty. Gromov vanished while ridin the train tae Taganrog.[38]
52	Viktor Tishchenko	M	16	30 October 1990	Killed in Shakhty. Tishchenko focht haurd for his life; he wis the victim who bit Chikatilo's finger.
53	Svetlana Korostik	F	22	6 November 1990	Chikatilo's last victim. Her body wis foond 13 November in firthland near Donleskhoz station.

See an aw

• Leet o serial killers bi number o victims

Footnotes

1. The Killer Depairtment
2. The Red Ripper
3. Leet an description o Chikatilo's murthers (Roushie)
4. The Red Ripper, pp. 252–57.
6. The Killer Department, p. 3–5.
9. The Killer Department, p. 15
10. The Killer Department, p. 25.
12. The Killer Department, p. 65
13. The Killer Department, p. 49.
14. The Killer Department, pp. 46–47
15. The Killer Department, pp. 48–49
17. The Red Ripper, p. 82.
18. The Red Ripper, p. 254.
19. The Killer Department, p. 78
20. The Red Ripper, p. 93
21. The Red Ripper, pp. 93–94.
22. The Killer Department, p. 205
23. The Red Ripper, p. 101.
24. The Red Ripper, pp. 123–24
25. The Red Ripper, p. 256
26. The Red Ripper, p. 256.
27. The Red Ripper, pp. 133–35
28. /vitaextensa.narod.ru.
29. The Killer Department, p. 146
30. The Killer Department, p. 147
31. The Killer Department, p. 152.
32. The Red Ripper, p. 257.
33. The Killer Department, p. 156
34. The Red Ripper, p. 165
35. The Killer Department, p. 157
36. The Red Ripper, p. 166.
37. The Killer Department, pp. 160–161
38. The Killer Department, p. 165.

Freemit airtins

• Crime Library: Andrei Chikatilo
• Twisted Minds: Andrei Chikatilo Archived 2012-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Chikatilo's sentence Archived 2010-02-28 at the Wayback Machine
• List of Chikatilo's victims with photos Archived 2013-08-20 at the Wayback Machine