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It wasn't until the early '80s that the police realized they had a serial killer on their hands. He most often preyed on homeless children and runaways, frequently picking them up from transit stations. Throughout the 1980s, Chikatilo increased the number of victims each year.

He was shuffled from one school to another, all the while preparing to commit his first murder, which came in 1978, when he kidnapped, tortured, and stabbed 19 year-old Yelena Zakotnova, whom he lured from a bus stop. Tortured, murdered, and cannibalized people with Ivanova Tamarin, her mother, in a village of Novaya Ladoga.Chikatilo's first assault was during his time as a teacher in the early 1970s, when he began exposing himself to students, and fondling female students before ejaculating on them, according to the Los Angeles Times. Tortured and murdered people with Olga Tamarin, her daughter, in a village of Novaya Ladoga, east of Saint Petersburg Tortured and killed serfs on her Moscow Oblast estate Petersburg because he wanted to rid the world of depraved women Known as "Vadim the Bloodsucker" killed prostitutes in St. Known as "The Kursk Saltychikha" socialite who tortured and killed serfs on her estates The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial killing as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone". ( March 2023)Ī serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items.
