Andrei Chikatilo is known as the “Butcher of Rostov” or “Russia’s Hannibal”. He was one of the worst serial killers, who murdered up to 53 young girls and boys in Russia, starting in 1982 and ending in 1990, when he was captured.

Characteristics of the Killer:
Dr. Bukhansovsky, a leading Russian Psychologist, has done a profile of Andrei before his arrest. He called the killer Citizen X and concluded that X was not a homosexual and possibly had a wife and children (Which proved true afterwards). According to him, the killer was a necrosadist and felt some form of dominance by mutilating his victims

Nature of His Crimes:
He was a serial Killer. He stalked his victims from train and bus stations 500 miles away from Moscow. Where he took them to his home and brutally killed them. He then made a concoction of various bodies, boiling nipples and genitalia together.
He mutilated the genitals of his victims. On girls he would gauge the breasts, and destroy the vagina, uterus and bladder or abdomen. On boys, he would mutilate the penis, scrotum and anus.

Nature of his Victims:
Lyubov Biryuk was his first victim. She was murdered on June 1992 on her way to the market. All of his victims are young woman and children of both sexes, raped and stabbed repeatedly in a pattern of grisly overkill. Some victims have their tongues bitten off; others were disemboweled. Repeated stab wounds to the face were a specific trademark of Andrei but the mutilations he inflicted otherwise appeared to follow no set pattern.
Andrei Chikatilo was suspected and arrested in November 20 1990. After eight days of interrogation, he confessed 53 murders. He went on trial in June 1992; four months later, on October 15 he was convicted for the murders. He was sentenced to death and was executed on 15th February 1994.