The Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo
In the forests outside Rostov-on-Don, the bodies kept appearing—children, teenagers, and young women, mutilated beyond recognition. For more than a decade the Soviet Union insisted a monster like this could not exist in their society. They were wrong.
This episode tells the story of Andrei Chikatilo, the man who became known as the Butcher of Rostov and the Red Ripper. Between 1978 and 1990 he murdered at least fifty-two people, exploiting the silence and denial of a closed system that refused to admit a serial killer was hunting near its railway stations.
Host Alexander Lawson traces the…
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