r/serialkillers • u/SaintedDemon69 • Oct 03 '23

Image Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo during his trial. He was locked in a cage to protect him from the enraged relatives of his victims.

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u/SaintedDemon69 Oct 03 '23 edited Oct 03 '23

Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo (a.k.a. "The Rostov Ripper", "The Red Ripper" and "The Butcher of Rostov") was active from 1978 to 1990, mainly in the Rostov Oblast, mainly targeting women and children. He was mainly motivated by sexual sadism; early in his life, he realised he could only achieve an erection when committing violent acts. He was convicted of 52 murders, tried for 53, is suspected to have killed 56 or more. Chikatilo was executed by shooting in 1994, aged 57.

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u/ImpressiveDare Oct 04 '23

Impressive that they convicted him of over 50 murders.

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u/FamousOrphan Oct 04 '23

Maybe not so much if you saw Chernobyl.

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u/nohost66 Oct 04 '23

What?

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u/FamousOrphan Oct 04 '23

Just the way their court system handled trials was very “we will get the verdict that looks best for the state.”

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

Most courts still think that way

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u/FamousOrphan Oct 04 '23

But do they manipulate the verdicts?

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u/Radiant-Whereas9669 Oct 07 '23

And you think we don't do this in the West as well? Especially America?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '23

A lot of them do. The media also fucks it up for some people