By: Sarah Shepard Serial Killer: A serial killer is a murderer who kills multiple people typically using the same patterns or techniques in his killings. A serial killer usually has had a rough childhood. (i.e. sexually abused, an outcast by peers, physically abused, very low financial state) Occasionally have a mental illness causing them to think and feel irrationally Born October 16, 1936 in Yablachnoye, Ukraine Father was called to army during WWII During war, the government forced farmers to give all of their crops up for statewide distribution. Starvation struck many people in Ukraine and in turn Cannibalism started to become very popular. Chikatilo’s mother used to tell him that his brother had been kidnapped and cannibalized by his neighbors as a threat to keep him from going out at night, but this was never proven. Had to share a bed with his mother and was a chronic bed wetter His mother beat him and humiliated him because of it. FACT: more than 60% of serial killers wet the bed passed the age of 12. 1963 Chikatilo got married and had 2 kids, a boy and a girl Became a teacher but was fired because of several complaints of attempted molestation Never felt adequate and was constantly teased and taunted throughout his life for multiple reasons and often because he was sexually incompetent December 22, 1978 he convinced a 9 yr old girl to come to an old house he had secretly bought by giving her bubblegum He tried to rape her but failed to get an erection He stabbed her to death while ejaculating in the process. From then on he could only be aroused by stabbing his victims to death. He then drug the 9 yr olds body into a river. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RThfObqSZF0&fea ture=related Killed multiple more victims during 1982 & 83 and 15 more in 1984 Victims ages varied from 7 to 45 and were both male and female. Typically tried to have intercourse with his adult female victims but couldn’t get an erection which caused him to become very angry and murderous. Mainly attacked runaways and young vagrants by train and bus stations and take them to a nearby forest rape and kill them. Number Name 1 Yelena Zakotnova 2 Larisa Tkachenko 3 Lyubov Biryuk 4 Lyubov Volobuyeva 5 Oleg Pozhidayev 6 Olga Kuprina 7 Irina Korabelnikova 8 Sergey Kuzmin 9 Olga Stalmachenok 10 Laura Sarkisyan 11 Irina Dunenkova 12 Lyudmila Kushuba 13 Igor Gudkov M 14 Valentina Chuchulina 15 Unknown woman 16 Vera Shevkun 17 Sergey Markov 18 Natalya Shalapinina 19 Marta Ryabenko 20 Dmitriy Ptashnikov 21 Tatyana Petrosyan daughter Svetlana 22 Svetlana Petrosyan 23 Yelena Bakulina 24 Dmitriy Illarionov 25 Anna Lemesheva 26 Svetlana Tsana 27 Natalya Golosovskaya 28 Lyudmila Alekseyeva 29 Unknown woman SSR Sex F F F F M F F M F F F F 7 F F F M F F M F Age Date of Murder Notes 9 December 22, 1978 17 September 3, 1981 12 June 12, 1982 14 July 25, 1982 9 August 13, 1982 The body was not found 16 August 16, 1982 19 September 8, 1982 15 September 15, 1982 10 December 11, 1982 15 After June 18, 1983 13 July 1983 24 July 1983 August 9, 1983 The youngest victim 22 After September 19, 1983 18-25 Summer or autumn 1983 19 October 27, 1983 14 December 27, 1983 17 January 9, 1984 45 February 21, 1984 10 March 24, 1984 32 May 1984 Murdered together with her F F M F F F F F 11 22 13 19 20 16 17 Unknown May 1984 June 1984 July 10, 1984 July 19, 1984 July 1984 August 2, 1984 August 7, 1984 August 8-11, 1984 Murdered in Tashkent, Uzbek 30 Akmaral Seydaliyeva Tashkent 31 Alexander Chepel 32 Irina Luchinskaya 33 Natalya Pokhlistova 34 Irina (Inessa) Gulyayeva 35 Oleg Makarenkov 36 Ivan Bilovetskiy 37 Yuri Tereshonok oblast 38 Unknown woman 39 Alexey Voronko 40 Yevgeniy Muratov 41 Tatyana Ryzhova 42 Alexander Dyakonov 43 Alexey Moiseyev 44 Helena Varga 45 Alexey Khobotov 46 Andrey Kravchenko 47 Yaroslav Makarov 48 Lyubov Zuyeva 49 Viktor Petrov 50 Ivan Fomin M 51 Vadim Gromov 52 Viktor Tishchenko 53 Svetlana Korostik F 12 August 13, 1984 Murdered in M F F F M M M 11 24 18 18 13 12 16 August 28, 1984 September 6, 1984 July 31, 1985 Murdered near Domodedovo, August 25, 1985 May 16, 1987 July 29, 1987Murdered in Zaporozhye, September 15, 1987 Murdered in Leningrad F M M F M M F M M M F M 11 M M F Unknown April 1988 9 May 15, 1988 15 July 14, 1988 16 March 8, 1989 8 May 11, 1989 10 June 20, 1989 19 August 19, 1989 student from Hungary 10 August 28, 1989 11 January 14, 1990 10 March 7, 1990 31 April 1990 13 July 28, 1990 August 14, 1990 16 October 16, 1990 16 October 30, 1990 22 November 6, 1990 Chikatilo was first arrested and held because of a minor theft from one of his employees. However, the police noticed him doing suspicious things at a bus stop and this theft excuse was good enough to keep him in holding for further investigation. But was later released because of lack of evidence in Dec of 1984. On nov. 6 1990 a policeman saw him walking out of the woods with blood smeared on his face. The officer got his name and later found 2 dead women in the same woods chikatilo walked out of. The police then put him on 24/7 watch and followed him around with undercover video cameras. He was taped drunk while showing suspicious behavior with children. He was then arrested and eventually confessed to his murders and rape. It took 2 days for the judge to read the list of indictments. Chikatilo eventually confessed and described all 56 of his murders ( the police only had counted 36 from their records) Many of the victims were either murdered far away from Chikatilos home and others where buried and investigators were unable to find the bodies until Chikatilo took them to them. Went to trial on April 14,1992 Kept in an iron cage in the center of the court room to keep the families of the victims from harming him. Trial ended in July and sentencing was on October 15 Found guilty for 52 of the 53 murders and received the death sentence and was executed by a single gunshot to the back of the head on Feb. 14th. Sources Used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo A&E Biography- Andrei Chikatilo http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/not orious/chikatilo/coat_1.html