Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet serial killer (born 1936)

Andrei Chikatilo

Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the…