Andrei Chikatilo Case Study

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The case of serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, is one of the most bizarre and bloodthirsty cases in history. He was born on October 16, 1936 in Yablochnoye, Ukraine.

When Andrei was a little kid, his mother always told him and his siblings a story of how his older brother, Stefan, was kidnapped and cannibalized, There’s no record nor proof of his existence so it was believed that the story was told to keep them from wandering off at night and doing things they weren't supposed to. This had a really bad psychological effect on Andrei as a young boy. He was picked on at school and became very shy. He had a hard time covering up that even in his teenage years he had a bedwetting problem. When he left school he entered the University of Moscow to become a lawyer in which he later failed and just became a telephone engineer. Due to his lack of social skills, he had a hard time trying to communicate with women and once he did he would be unable to perform because he had a sexual disorder, and for that he was laughed at. At age 15 was when he had his first sexual experience but it was by wrestling with a young girl who was the sister of his friend. Even with that he was
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His first victim was a nine year old girl which he spotted at an ice skating rink while walking home. He attempted to rape her but failed to achieve an erection. When the girl started struggling he decided to choke her and stabbed her three times in the abdomen. He ejacualted while the stabbing so at that moment he realized violence was more of a pleasure than intercourse. He would befriend his victims and bus stops or train stations and lure them into nearby forests. He would rape them, well he would attempt, then he would stab them with his knife mutilate them. In some cases he would eat their sexual organs or the tips of their tongues and noses. In his first victims he would slash their eyes because he said they would keep an imprint in his eyes even after

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