Andrei Chikatilo - The Butcher of Rostov
Born on; 16 October 1936 - 14 February 1994. Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo; also known as "The Red Ripper" was active between 1978 - 1990 in the Russian, Ukrainian, and Uzbek regions. He mutilated and brutally murdered 52 people, mostly children, and possibly more that were claimed, but never confirmed.
Born in the village of Yabluchne, Ukraine during a famine and growing up in the grips of forced collectivization of agriculture plagued Andrei's childhood with poverty and starvation. The family often resorted to "grass and leaves to stave off starvation.
Andrei was a model student and a hard-line communist. Despite his success as a student, he found himself the odd-man out of regular social interaction. As he developed
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