Andrei Chikatilo

Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)

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Lived 1936–1994, aged 58
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  • Era
    1936–1994
    Aged 58
  • Known for
    Serial Killers: The Re…
    2001
Summary
Updated 2026-09-07

Between 1978 and 1990, Chikatilo sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children across three Soviet republics. The names "Butcher of Rostov" and "Red Ripper" still mark one of the USSR's most extensive known serial killing cases.

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Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was born in Ukraine on 16 October 1936. Over twelve years, from 1978 to 1990, he committed murders across the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Uzbek SSR, most concentrated in the Rostov Oblast. He confessed to fifty-six killings and stood trial for fifty-three in April 1992. That October, he was convicted of fifty-two murders and sentenced to death, though the Supreme Court later ruled insufficient evidence existed for nine of those cases. He was executed by gunshot on 14 February 1994.

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