Andrei Chikatilo
Film subject
1936 – 1994
Who was Andrei Chikatilo?
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, the Red Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper, who committed the sexual assault, murder and mutilation of a minimum of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Uzbek SSR. Chikatilo confessed to a total of 56 murders and was tried for 53 of these killings in April 1992. He was convicted and sentenced to death for 52 of these murders in October 1992 and subsequently executed in February 1994.
Chikatilo was known by such titles as the Rostov Ripper and the Butcher of Rostov because the majority of his murders were committed in the Rostov Oblast of the Russian SFSR.
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- Born
- Oct 16, 1936
Sumy Oblast - Also known as
- Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo
- Butcher of Rostov
- The Rostov Ripper
- The Red Ripper
- Parents
- Children
- Nationality
- Ukraine
- Died
- Feb 14, 1994
Novocherkassk
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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