Each murder was discussed individually, and on several occasions, relatives present in the courtroom broke down in tears or fainted when details of their relatives' murder were revealed. [14], In 1943 Chikatilo's mother gave birth to a baby girl, Tatyana. Chikatilo withdrew his confessions to six of the killings for which he had been charged on 13 May,[159] and also claimed he had killed four further victims who were not included upon the indictment. Khabibulin also questioned the judge's objectivity, and harked back to the decision of the court not to allow the defence to present testimony from independent psychiatrists; emphasizing that crimes of this nature could not have been committed by an individual of sane mind. Zadorozhny then recited each of the charges before formally requesting the death penalty. [203][n 11]. During His Childhood, There Was A Great Famine In The Ussr And Also A War With Germany. He is the person closest to me, even now. A homeless mother of two children killed in woodland near a Shakhty bus station. First Hints . Many of the victims' bodies bore evidence of mutilation to the eye sockets. [19] Although Chikatilo claimed learning did not come easy to him due to headaches and a poor memory, he was the only student from his collective farm to complete the final year of study, graduating with excellent grades in 1954. endobj [68] Chikatilo's adult female victims were often prostitutes or homeless women whom he would lure to secluded areas with promises of alcohol or money. While living in Nizhny Tagil, he also undertook correspondence courses in engineering with the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communication. [152][n 3], Throughout the questioning, Chikatilo repeatedly denied that he had committed the murders, although he did confess to molesting his pupils during his career as a teacher. Andrei Chikatilo was brought to trial in Rostov on 14 April 1992, charged with 53 counts of murder in addition to five charges of sexual assault against minors committed when he had been a teacher. By the autumn of 1986, investigators in Rostov theorized that the unknown killer may have moved to another part of the Soviet Union and continued killing there. Chikatilo's name was added to the card index file used by investigators, however, the results of his blood type analysis largely discounted him as being the unknown killer. This final appeal was rejected on 4 January 1994. Muratov's murder was also linked to the investigation, although his body was not found until April 1989. Kravchenko was lured from the theater on the pretext of being shown imported Western films Chikatilo claimed to have at his residence; his extensively stabbed, emasculated body was found in a secluded section of woodland the following month. She had been stabbed to death, and her body covered with leaves and branches. [135] Gromov had been killed on 17 October; 10 days before the start of the initiative.
As the murderer had made serious efforts to bury the body,[111] some investigators theorized that this explained the sudden dearth in the number of victims found.
In 1993, Chikatilo would recount his initial encounter with Dr. Bukhanovsky by stating: "He already knew me ... and when he recounted everything about my life—how people had humiliated me, shot at me and trampled on me from infancy—well, it was bitter of course. He Grew Up In A One Room Hut With His Parents And Eventually Sister.
I said 'How do you know all this?' Gromov vanished while riding the train to. <>
Killed in the grounds of a metals factory near Krasny Sulin station. Makarov was killed in Rostov's Botanical Gardens.
endobj At the same time, I was stabbing her, imitating sex. [59] Tkachenko's body was found the following day. [32], In 1963 Chikatilo married a woman named Feodosia Odnacheva, to whom he had been introduced by his younger sister. [179] He was tried in Courtroom Number 5 of the Rostov Provincial Court, before Judge Leonid Akubzhanov. [94] Within two weeks, an 11-year-old boy named Aleksandr Chepel had been found on the banks of the Don River, strangled and castrated, with his eyes gouged out, just yards from where Alexeyeva's body had earlier been found. On 7 August, he lured a 17-year-old girl, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, to the banks of the Don River on the pretense of showing her a shortcut to a bus terminal. There was no one close to me. <> Her body was not found until 24 August.
Andrei Chikatilo evaded capture narrowly, on a couple of occasions, but on November 6, 1990, fresh from killing his final victim, Sveta Korostik, his suspicious behavior was noted by patrolling policemen at the station nearby, and his details were taken. Several trains were also fitted with hidden cameras with the intention of filming or photographing a victim in the company of his or her murderer. Andrei Chikatilo . [40], In May 1973, Chikatilo committed his first known sexual assault upon one of his pupils. He was nicknamed as Butcher of Rostov, the Rostov Ripper and the Red Ripper. He was finally caught after murdering his last victim, Sveta Korostik.
[139] When he approached the station, Rybakov also noted that Chikatilo's coat had grass and soil stains on the elbows. Killed on the banks of the Don River, near where Alekseyeva had been killed. Pogoryelova's body bore precisely the same mutilations found upon victims Chikatilo killed both before and after 1986.