Andrei Chikatilo

Andrei Chikatilo
Андрей Чикатило
Mugshot of Chikatilo, taken after his arrest in November 1990.
Born(1936-10-16)16 October 1936
Died14 February 1994(1994-02-14) (aged 57)
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
Other namesThe Butcher of Rostov
The Forest Strip Killer[2]
The Red Ripper
The Rostov Ripper[3]
Criminal statusExecuted
Spouse
Feodosia Odnacheva
(m. 1963; div. 1992)
Children2
Motive[1]
Conviction(s)
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims52 convicted
53 tried
56+ claimed
Span of crimes
22 December 1978  –  6 November 1990
CountrySoviet Union
Date apprehended
20 November 1990

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило; Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило, romanizedAndrii Romanovych Chykatylo; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, the Rostov Ripper, and the Red Ripper who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR.

Chikatilo confessed to fifty-six murders; he was tried for fifty-three murders in April 1992. He was convicted and sentenced to death for fifty-two of these murders in October 1992, although the Supreme Court of Russia ruled in 1993 that insufficient evidence existed to prove his guilt in nine of those killings. Chikatilo was executed by gunshot in February 1994.

Chikatilo was known as "the Rostov Ripper" and "the Butcher of Rostov" because he committed most of his murders in the Rostov Oblast of the Russian SFSR.

  1. ^ "Russian Court Finds Ex-Teacher Guilty In the Killing of 52". The New York Times. Associated Press. 15 October 1992. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  2. ^ "53 Killed, Man on Trial". The Canberra Times. 16 April 1992. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  3. ^ Cullen, Robert (1993). The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History (1st ed.). New York City: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-42276-5.