The Butcher of Rostov

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cries and the way she moved while I was stabbing her drove me into a state of sexual frenzy." His victims would typically suffer from 30 to 50 stab wounds and have their mouths gagged with dirt and leaves before he would proceed to use his knife and his own teeth mutilate their bodies Once dead, Andrei Chikatilo would mutilate his victims' genitals and cannibalize them while drinking their blood as well as cannibalizing other body parts such as the tips of their noses or tongues. In his earliest murders, his pattern would be to go for the eyes slashing across the eye sockets and removing the eyeballs. He did this because he believed that by doing this, his victims would keep an imprint of his face in their eyes even into the afterlife.

History

His full name was Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo. He was born on October 16, 1936 in the village of Yablochnoye in Ukraine, which was at the time a part of Soviet Russia. Growing up in Ukraine just before and during WWII wasn't ...

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took a girl by power, but ejaculated before any intercourse took place. This misfortune not only brought more ridicule from his peers towards him, but in retrospect, this significant event in his life may have also correlated a relationship between sexuality and violence for the shy and humiliated Andrei.

In 1960, after he failed to get to Moscow State University he moved to a town in Russia called Rodionovo-Nesvetayevsky which was near Rostov. His younger sister who also moved to Rodionovo-Nesvetayevsky was aware of his problems with girls and tried to help him out. Her efforts paid off as she managed to hook his brother up with a local girl Fayina. Three years later - in 1963 ...

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