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
