Andrei Chikatilo Biography

As stated in an article, by Bizarrepedia, entitled, “ The Butcher of Rostov”, Andrei Chikatilo’s last words were, “Don’t blow my brains out! The Japanese want to buy them!” (“Butcher” 3). He was well known because of the crazy and unusual ways that he did his killings. He is one of the most well-known and notorious serial killer in Russia. Throughout his lifetime, he had a very awkward marriage, a short military career, a teaching career, and the rest of his life was full of crime and killings. Andrei Chikatilo was a crazy and insane serial killer. Andrei Chikatilo was born on October 16th, 1936 (“Andrei” 1). Before he was born, Andrei’s brother, Stephen, was kidnapped and eaten by their family’s neighbors (“Chikatilo” 3). Andrei grew

Andrei did not get in trouble for either of his first two offenses as a teacher (“Chikatilo” 7). But, after many complaints of him molesting both males and females, he was finally fired from his job as a teacher (“Chikatilo” 7). After his teaching career ended, he really started to turn towards a criminal career. His first killing and rape was on a nine year old girl named Yelena Zakotnova, in 1978 (“Butcher” 6). First, he would find his victims in public places. Then, he would find some way to get them into a nearby forest. Then he would kill, rape, and maybe even eat parts of them (“Slavic”1). At other times he would jump on his victims, then stab them to death (Schnemann 2). After his first killing, he had committed 31 more murders before he had been arrested for the first time in 1984 (“Ripper” 1). Andrei was released, soon after being arrested because his blood type didn’t match any of the evidence at the crime scenes (“Ripper” 1). However, this first arrest didn’t cause him to slow down or stop. It took six more years and many more killings before Andrei Chikatilo was arrested again in 1990 (“Ripper” 1). He said that killing made him feel “good”. After all of these killings that he committed, he was given the nicknames “The Rostov Ripper” and “The Butcher of Rostov”, because Rostov, Russia was where most of his murders, crimes, and rapes happened

While in custody, Andrei confessed to what he did and even showed the police where and how he killed and raped his victims (Jenkins 2). He had confessed to 56 murders, but only 53 were tried in April, 1992 due to lack of evidence of the other three (Chikatilo 2). Of the 52 cases that he was found guilty for 14 involved girls, 17 were young women or teenagers, and 21 boys, and maybe even more that were never known of (Schnemann 1). In court, Andrei had to be kept in a cage and he wouldn’t act good at all. For most of his court cases he was sent out of the room after five minutes for screaming and hitting his bench against the bars of his cage (Schnemann 1). Chikatilo was given the death penalty. He was executed on February 14th, at age 57 by gunshot (“Chikatilo” 1). Andrei’s life had ended because of all the crazy stuff that he did throughout his