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| “ | I ejaculated while stabbing them. Sometimes before they died, sometimes after. | „ |
| ~ Chikatilo admitting to committing lust murder |
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo, also known as the Butcher of Rostov, the Forest Strip Killer, the Red Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper, is the titular main antagonist of the 1993 true crime book The Killer Department and its 1995 HBO television movie adaptation Citizen X. He is based on the late real life serial killer of the same name.
He was portrayed by Jeffrey DeMunn.
Biography[]
In 1982, the body of one of Chikatilo's victims is discovered at a plantation during harvesting, a more thorough investigation is ordered, and subsequently seven more bodies are discovered, the movie Citizen X depicts the efforts of Lieutenant Viktor Burakov and Colonel Mikhail Fetisov find a serial killer who has been preying on young women and children, as well as bureaucratic obstacles they encounter and their efforts to find the killer, which includes the Soviet Union's Government denying the existence of the killer because admitting he exists would also require them to acknowledge the failures of the Soviet criminal justice system, in which serial killers are associated with the "decadent" West.
Chikatilo first comes under suspicion when he is found with a knife in his satchel bag at a train station, Chikatilo is subsequently arrested. Unfortunately however, a blood test comes up negative, and on top of that, he is a member of the Communist party, which shielded him from being prosecuted, and he is subsequently released. Chikatilo would continue his murder spree with seeming impunity for several years after this. However, in 1990 Burakov had come up with a plan to finally stop the killer. They knew that the killer had been using the railway stations to select his victims, so most train stations would be saturated with army troops who would go out of their way to make themselves visible and obtrusive. Meanwhile, two train stations would have no visible presence, but would be under surveillance by undercover officers, with the hope that the killer would use one of these two stations, thinking them to be unobserved.
The plan worked, and Chikatilo was been arrested for the second time, this time with seemingly irrefutable evidence of his guilt. Chikatilo didn't break under pressure for several days starting on 22 November 1990, however, on the 28th, the last day, a psychiatrist, Dr. Bukhanovsky, came in to talk to Chikatilo, reading him a psychological profile of the killer he dubbed "Citizen X". After hearing the profile, Chikatilo burst into tears, finally confessing to his crimes, and even describing the details of his murders, including torture and cannibalism. Chikatilo later led the authorities to three more of his victims, which amounted to 52 murders, Chikatilo was convicted and sentenced to death for all 52 murders. In the last scene, he is led by a guard into an empty room with a tiled floor and a small drain hole; Chikatilo recognizes it as an execution chamber in his final moment before he is unceremoniously shot in the back of the head.
Personality[]
Chikatilo is a textbook serial killer, a sadistic sociopath who rapes and murders his victims to achieve sexual gratification and a sense of power. While he terrorizes the USSR for years as a serial killer, he is a nonentity in every other part of his life; his wife dominates him and belittles his sexual inadequacy, and he is frequently bossed around and bullied at work by his superiors. He is also incapable of getting an erection unless he is inflicting pain, and prefers to victimize children because he finds adults too intimidating.
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Trivia[]
- Jeffrey Demunn received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Chikatilo, but lost to Donald Sutherland, who was also in the movie.
- Several details of Chikatilo's crimes were omitted from the movie, including:
- Chikatilo was tried for 53 murders, but one of the charges was dismissed due to insufficient evidence. He also claimed to have committed more than 56 murders, though these have never been proven.
- Chikatilo had been killing since December 1978. His first victim was a nine year old girl named Yelena Zakotnova, whom he murdered on 22 December 1978.
- Andrei Chikatilo was also the basis for the character Andrej Evilenko in the 2004 film Evilenko and Vladimir Malevich in Child 44.