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heinous crimes. This oversight allowed the butcher of Rostov to continue carving up the innocent with impunity.
K ILLER X
In December 1984 Chikatilo took an enforced break from murder after being found guilty of theft. Stealing some linoleum from work brought a hefty year’s prison term from the People’s Court and during this hiatus Fetisov and his team endeavoured to obtain a better understanding of the killer. The Major brought psychiatrist Aleksandr Bukhanovksy on board to develop a workable profile.
After examining the crime scene reports, he deduced the man they dubbed Killer X was between forty-five and fifty years of age and an unsociable though not psychotic personality. His necro-sadism was the reason for his relentless stabbings; they were a way to enter his victims sexually. Even possessing this unerringly accurate description it would take another six years before the authorities would get their man.
By the late eighties Chikatilo’s attacks had advanced to an even higher level of violence. On 11 January 1989, after stabbing Tatyana Ryzhova in the mouth for mocking his impotence, he cut off her head and legs and scattered them in the nearby woods. He also started to remove the tongues and genitals of those he butchered and began executing these kills in more public areas. Unsurprisingly, after more than forty murders over a ten year period he was beginning to feel unstoppable.
C AGED K ILLER
With no clear leads in the case Fetisov stepped up the investigation, seconding hundreds of undercover officers to patrol the various train stations around the Rostov area. On 6 November 1990, a detective spotted a man exiting the woods near Donleskhoz station. Sporting blood on his cheek and mud on his coat, his details were taken before being allowed to continue his journey. This was Andrei Chikatilo and he had just murdered Sveta Korostik.
When her body was discovered the next day the task force checked patrol reports from around Donleskhoz bringing up Chikatilo’s information. Following nearly two weeks of surveillance, the detectives arrested the suspect on 20 November as he attempted to lure away another potential victim. In custody Andrei refused to admit to the crimes. Yet on the penultimate day before he was due to be released, Bukhanovsky, the profiling psychiatrist, was permitted to try.
The subtler approach worked and within hours Andrei was admitting to over fifty murders. He took police on tours of his murder sites revealing seventeen more victims not previously associated with the killer. He even gave a macabre workshop, showing detectives on mannequins how he slaughtered his prey.
The trial began on 14 April 1992. Held in an iron cage for his own protection, a shaven-headed Chikatilo rolled his eyes, heckled and even exposed himself during proceedings, playing crazy in an attempt to avoid the death penalty.
It was all in vain and that autumn he was found guilty on fifty-two counts of murder. Applause followed his sentence and in February 1994 Andrei was led to a Rostov prison cell and shot in the back of the head.
Arthur Shawcross
Between 1988 and 1990 the man known to all as the Genesee River Killer targeted the streetwalkers of Monroe County, strangling them to death before dumping their mutilated corpses around the region.
M ATURING T O M URDER
Born two months premature in a US Naval Hospital in Kittery, Maine, Arthur John Shawcross spent his childhood in Watertown, New York surrounded by relatives in an area affectionately known as Shawcross Corners. Yet, according to the killer, this was a far cry from The Waltons family life it resembled. His mother Bessie became a violent matriarch, one time inserting a broom handle into the boy’s anus by way of punishment. He also claimed he was forced to perform oral sex on his aunt, leading to an early obsession with all things carnal. With such an unpleasant upbringing, young Arthur reacted, quickly displaying the tell-tale
K ILLER X
In December 1984 Chikatilo took an enforced break from murder after being found guilty of theft. Stealing some linoleum from work brought a hefty year’s prison term from the People’s Court and during this hiatus Fetisov and his team endeavoured to obtain a better understanding of the killer. The Major brought psychiatrist Aleksandr Bukhanovksy on board to develop a workable profile.
After examining the crime scene reports, he deduced the man they dubbed Killer X was between forty-five and fifty years of age and an unsociable though not psychotic personality. His necro-sadism was the reason for his relentless stabbings; they were a way to enter his victims sexually. Even possessing this unerringly accurate description it would take another six years before the authorities would get their man.
By the late eighties Chikatilo’s attacks had advanced to an even higher level of violence. On 11 January 1989, after stabbing Tatyana Ryzhova in the mouth for mocking his impotence, he cut off her head and legs and scattered them in the nearby woods. He also started to remove the tongues and genitals of those he butchered and began executing these kills in more public areas. Unsurprisingly, after more than forty murders over a ten year period he was beginning to feel unstoppable.
C AGED K ILLER
With no clear leads in the case Fetisov stepped up the investigation, seconding hundreds of undercover officers to patrol the various train stations around the Rostov area. On 6 November 1990, a detective spotted a man exiting the woods near Donleskhoz station. Sporting blood on his cheek and mud on his coat, his details were taken before being allowed to continue his journey. This was Andrei Chikatilo and he had just murdered Sveta Korostik.
When her body was discovered the next day the task force checked patrol reports from around Donleskhoz bringing up Chikatilo’s information. Following nearly two weeks of surveillance, the detectives arrested the suspect on 20 November as he attempted to lure away another potential victim. In custody Andrei refused to admit to the crimes. Yet on the penultimate day before he was due to be released, Bukhanovsky, the profiling psychiatrist, was permitted to try.
The subtler approach worked and within hours Andrei was admitting to over fifty murders. He took police on tours of his murder sites revealing seventeen more victims not previously associated with the killer. He even gave a macabre workshop, showing detectives on mannequins how he slaughtered his prey.
The trial began on 14 April 1992. Held in an iron cage for his own protection, a shaven-headed Chikatilo rolled his eyes, heckled and even exposed himself during proceedings, playing crazy in an attempt to avoid the death penalty.
It was all in vain and that autumn he was found guilty on fifty-two counts of murder. Applause followed his sentence and in February 1994 Andrei was led to a Rostov prison cell and shot in the back of the head.
Arthur Shawcross
Between 1988 and 1990 the man known to all as the Genesee River Killer targeted the streetwalkers of Monroe County, strangling them to death before dumping their mutilated corpses around the region.
M ATURING T O M URDER
Born two months premature in a US Naval Hospital in Kittery, Maine, Arthur John Shawcross spent his childhood in Watertown, New York surrounded by relatives in an area affectionately known as Shawcross Corners. Yet, according to the killer, this was a far cry from The Waltons family life it resembled. His mother Bessie became a violent matriarch, one time inserting a broom handle into the boy’s anus by way of punishment. He also claimed he was forced to perform oral sex on his aunt, leading to an early obsession with all things carnal. With such an unpleasant upbringing, young Arthur reacted, quickly displaying the tell-tale
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