There’s a film version, Citizen X, with Donald Sutherland.
MOST PROLIFIC UNSOLVED SERIAL KILLERS SERIAL
Chikatilo’s trial in 1994, full of descriptions of how he’d boil and eat testicles and nipples, was the first celebrity serial killer trial in the former USSR. His crimes were overlooked for so long because he was a Party member and partly because the Russians weren’t keen to admitting that a child-killing sadist was stalking their utopia. Place: Rostov, Russia Date: 1980s – 1990s Victims: ChildrenĬhikatilo was a teacher and a members of the Communist Party, but as he grew older he began stalking children, disemboweling and mutilating them.
His reason? Inner voices told him to do it, apparently. During a three month rampage near the Polish border he killed over 40 people in one village, but remained at large despite the mobilisation of an army division and armoured personell carriers. His modus operandi was to find families in isolated houses and shoot them at close range, torching the houses afterward and blasting anyone who was unlucky enough to witness his violent outbursts. When he was taken into custody he had a 12-bore shotgun matching the one used in over 40 of the killings, jewelry and video players belonging to some of the victims. When the police finally arrested Anatoly Onoprienko on 16 April, 1996, the mentally disturbed former forestry student denied he was ‘The Terminator’, slayer of over 52 people and the Ukraine’s most prolific killer, although he did confess to eight murders between 19. Place: Ukraine Date: 1995 – 1996 Victims: Families in remote houses Although only 40 bodies were found, over 80 women are still missing in the area. Arrested in 1997, he told police he needed to kill 70 women to get magical powers. He’d then strangle them with cable, strip them and drink their saliva. He charged each one $200 – 400, then buried them up to the waist in a nearby sugercane plantation as part of the ritual.
He had a reputation for paranormal powers and preyed on women who secretly asked hm to cast spells on their husbands or families. Suradji was in Indonesian witch doctor who buried his victims near his house, with the help of his three wives. Place: North Sumatra Date: 1997 Victims: Women