Serial Killer: Andrei Chikatilo

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ANDREI CHIKATILO Many people feel as though a person has to be completely out of their minds to take life from another human being and even crazier to have found joy in doing so. Society labels these type of people as psychopaths or sociopaths. What comes to mind when you think of the term ‘serial killer”, a person who has murdered numerous people? Normally we think of someone with some sort of mental disability, someone who has been a targeted victim of hate crimes, or sexual or physically abused as a child or as an adult. Wikipedia defines serial killers as traditionally being defined as a person who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time (a cooling off period) between the murders.…show more content…
This was a time when most of the people in the country were starving and fell victim to famines. People were forced to harvest their crops, and turn them over to the government to feed the soldiers. Life was hard. Some six million died. Children witnessed disfigured corpses in the streets and heard terrible tales of people consuming, buying, and selling human flesh on the street. He was raised by his mother, while his father served in the army during WWII. While in the army, his father was captured as a prisoner of war (POW). It was said that his dad was a coward and deliberately got caught and killed. This may have been a ploy to escape Stalin’s harsh rule or to escape the responsibilities of fatherhood. Andrei soon would have to prove he was better than the legacy his father left to…show more content…
Eventually, he was unable to teach. He had to find another career. He began searching for a job. While doing so, he left his family and moved into a small cabin. It was at this location where Andrei Chikatilo murdered his first victim, a 9 year old school girl. Police arrested and executed another guy for this murder while Andrei walked away. This was the first of 56 murders. He took a job as a clerk at a raw materials company which allowed his to travel a lot. This was helpful in finding his next victims. He found a new way to become aroused, he strangled, stabbed, mutilated bodies, and cut out the organs of random boys, girls, and women. He would cut out the victim’s eyes and bite off the tip of their noses and fingers. He would also cut out the victims’ sexual organs and eat them. He feasted on their bodies, drank their blood, and tossed the remains carelessly into the

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