Chikatilo - a sexually impotent dirty old man from hell - lived in Rostov,
500 miles from Moscow, where he preyed mostly on children. He
stalked many of his victims in train and bus stations, and had a
penchant for disembowelment and mutilation. He was also a cannibal
and a sadist. His macabre twelve-year killing spree was finally
uncovered in 1992.

While he was on trial, his gory descriptions, psychotic behavior and
litany of horrors gave the Soviet public their first taste of serial
mayhem. "I am a mistake of nature, a mad beast," he said at his 1994
trial where people fainted when they heard how he boiled and ate the
sawn-off testicles or nipples of his victims. Andrei was executed by firing
squad in prison on February 14, 1994.