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

up soon after the Great Ukrainian Famine of the 1930’s which made many people turn to become cannibals (Jenkins 1). Andrei’s parents were both farmers that lived in a small hut (“Chikatilo” 3). As a teenager, he was a good student, but also a communist (“Chikatilo” 4). Once Chikatilo was ready to get married, he was very rushed. He married a woman named Feodosia Odvacheva, that he met through his sister. He liked her, but had known her for only two weeks before they had been married (“Chikatilo” 6). Also, he served in the military in the army in Russia from 1957 to 1960 (“Chikatilo” 5). His time there was very short and didn’t involve much action. After he left the military, he decided to get his degree. He became a teacher after getting his degree in 1971 from the Rostov Liberal Arts University (Jenkins 1). After becoming a teacher, he started his first offenses and became someone that wasn’t trusted.
Andrei Chikatilo had a very large career of killing and violence and it started while he was teaching.

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

(“Chikatilo” 3).
After Andrei Chikatilo had been convicted for a second time, the police made sure that he would never get out.

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

lifetime.
Andrei Chikatilo was a crazy and insane serial killer. He had a very crazy background with things such as an abnormal marriage, a brief military career, and a teaching career. Throughout his lifetime he had committed over fifty killings of both males and females in Russia. Lastly, he had to face a lot of court cases for all of the crimes that he committed and murders that he had done. Imagine what it would be like if Andrei Chikatilo was never captured, and still committed these killings today.