Andrei Chikatilo, the Butcher of Rostov, Arrested With Rotten Human Flesh in His Digestive Tract
Aug 8, 2017
Andrei Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer known as the Butcher of Rostov or the Red Ripper. When he was finally brought into police custody, there was a foul odor coming from his pores. It was later determined that the foul odor was caused by rotten human flesh in his digestive tract. Before we go any further, let's take a look at how Andrei wound up here.Chikatilo was born in Ukraine in 1936. This period of time was called the Holodomor. There was mass starvation in the Ukraine thanks to Stalin's agricultural policies. Allegedly, Andrei's older brother was killed by starving neighbors and cannibalized. Cannibalism was widespread in Ukraine during the Holodomor because people were desperate for food. Perhaps it was his brother's death that led Andrei down a very dark path. When he was old enough, he moved to Russia, and his own reign of terror soon began.
Sexual dysfunction. Andrei was married, but unable to be sexually intimate with his wife. He could maintain an erection by himself, but not with her. She eventually wound up conceiving when he inserted his semen into her vagina with his fingers. The two wound up having a son and a daughter together.
A sick teacher. Chikatilo briefly worked as a teacher. He once sexually assaulted one of his students in a swimming pool, forcibly pinning her against the wall, groping her, and finally ejaculating onto her body. He assaulted a second student inside a locked classroom, raping her, completely against her will. He was caught spying on the girls' changing room and there were multiple complaints of molestation by both boys and girls. Eventually, he left his job as a teacher and became a clerk who would travel around Russia to negotiate construction contracts.
The murders. Andrei traveled by train constantly for his job. It was his extensive traveling that allowed him to enter a new town, snatch a victim, murder and maim them, and then hop back on the train and disappear.
