8.Andrei Chikatilo
Nickname: The Butcher of Rostov; The Red Ripper; The Forest Strip Killer; The Rostov Ripper
Confirmed victims: 53
Suspected victims: 56
Country: Soviet Union
Status: Executed
Andrei Chikatilo is the most famous among Russia’s serial killers, with several movies, books, and TV shows made about him and his killing spree lasting 12 years, from 1978 to 1990. He was sentenced to death for 53 murders, with 4 more he confessed, but wasn’t charged for. The 1995 movie Citizen X is based upon his story, starring Di=Donald Sutherland and Max von Sydow. Andrei Chikatilo was executed with a single gunshot in the back of the head in 1994, after President Boris Yeltsin refused to pardon him. Aleksandr Kravchenko was wrongfully sentenced to death and executed for Chikatilo’s first murder in 1983.
