He obtained true satisfaction only by stabbing, biting, evisceration, occasional cannibalism. He was married with two children, but, as his wife said, sexually inadequate, capable of ejaculation but not erection. In all these occupations he was inefficient, unsuccessful. Andrei Chikatilo was a colorless figure, a vulnerable backward child who had later done his time in the army, then worked in physical education, taught Russian language and literature in a vocational school and eventually became a supply clerk in a huge industrial complex. This real mass murderer was very different from the powerful monster-genius Dr. The new phrase marks a contemporary fascination with extreme physical violence, the fascination that has helped to make books and films like "The Silence of the Lambs" immensely successful. A serial sounds agreeable, something we watch on television, and killing is what we do to vermin. Now the description has been softened to serial killer. Chikatilo would have been called a mass murderer. He stabbed them, cut off or cut out their genitals, sometimes eviscerated them, and reached sexual climax in the course of these acts. ![]() THE devil being hunted in three new books is Andrei Chikatilo, who killed some 50 women, boys and girls in Russia in the 1970's and 80's. Bludeau.Edited by Sandi Gelles-Cole.Illustrated. The Psychopathology of Russia'sNotorious Serial Killer.By Mikhail Krivich and Ol'gert Ol'gin.Translated by Todd P. $22.ĭetective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History.By Robert Cullen.Illustrated.
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