Andrei Chikatilo Research Paper

Serial killers are hard to catch because many of them don a guise of sanity. Andrei Chikatilo, while having some red flags such as accusations of inappropriate behavior towards minors, necessitating several moves and career changes, also had normal facets to his life: he was married with two children. Most serial murderers also operate with repeated motions, aka modus operandi (“MO”) when they commit their crimes—Chikatilo would often eviscerate, mutilate, sexually defile, and even engaged in cannibalizing his victims.
During the 1980s to early 90s, he preyed on vulnerable women and children, vagrants and prostitutes of Rostov, about 3 hours north of Moscow. Chikatilo’s documented victim was Lena Zakotnova, a nine-year-old girl whom he lured to an abandoned shed in 1978. There he attempted to rape her, which was unsuccessful due to a traumatic adolescent experience and ongoing erectile dysfunction issues, and as Lena tried to escape Chikatilo slashed her during the ensuing struggle, causing him to ejaculate. The sexual gratification experienced would later identify him as a “necro-sadist”, someone who achieves sexual gratification from the suffering and death of others (murderpedia).
Over a span of the next 12 years, he would seek out victims at nearby train
There he was evaluated by senior psychiatrist Andrei Tkachenko and was deemed fit, mentally competent to stand trial. Unfortunately, he did not receive any type of treatment for his condition, due to his heinous crimes the Chikatilo was sentenced to death. The judge felt that due to Chikatilo’s misdeeds he had no alternative but to sentence the ex-school teacher to death, citing that is the only thing he deserved. On February 14, 1994, 16 months after filing his last appeal Chikatilo was taken from his cell room and executed with a single gunshot wound to the