Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer. He sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR. He confessed to fifty-six murders, fifty-three for which he was tried in April 1992. He was convicted and sentenced to death for 50-two murders in October 1992, although the Supreme Court of Russia ruled insufficient evidence existed to prove his guilt in nine of those killings. Chik atilo was subsequently executed in February 1994.
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Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer. He sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR. He confessed to fifty-six murders, fifty-three for which he was tried in April 1992. He was convicted and sentenced to death for 50-two murders in October 1992, although the Supreme Court of Russia ruled in 1993 that insufficient evidence existed to prove his guilt in nine of those killings. Chik atilo was subsequently executed in February 1994. His parents were collective farm labourers who lived in a one-room hut. His father Roman was conscripted into the Red Army, and would later be taken prisoner after being wounded in combat. It has never been established whether this incident actually occurred, or if a Stepan ChikAtilo even existed. He later claimed not to have eaten bread until the age of 12, adding that he and his family often had to eat grass and leaves in an effort to stave off hunger. As many Ukrainian women were raped by German soldiers during the war, it has been speculated Tatyana was conceived as a result of a rape committed by a German soldier. In September 1944, he began his schooling. Although shy and ardently studious as a child, he was physically weak and regularly attended school in homespun clothing and, by 1946, with his stomach swollen from hunger resulting from the post-war famine which plagued much of the Soviet Union.
On several occasions, this hunger caused him to faint both at home and at school, and he was consistently targeted by bullies who regularly mocked him over his physical stature and timid nature. Although he was an excellent student, he claimed learning did not come easy to him due to headaches and a poor memory. An avid reader of communist literature, he later became the chairman of the Communist Party’s Communist Party committee two years later. He also often studied reading and often studied to increase his sense of self-worth and to compensate for his blackopia which often prevented him from reading the classroom blackboard. In spite of the hardships endured by her parents, their father was a kind man, and their mother was a harsh and unforgiving toward her children. He claimed to have witnessed some of the effects of the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, which he described as \”horrors\”, adding he witnessed bombings, fires, and shootings from which he would hide in cellars and ditches. He and his mother shared a single bed. In 1943, his mother gave birth to a baby girl, but he could not have fathered this child because his father had been conscriptioned in 1941, and so he was not the father of this child. In November 1944, Chiktilo began his school career, and was appointed editor of his school’s newspaper at age 14 and later served as chairman of its Communist Party’ Communist Party Committee.
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