Russian cannibal killed 53 from 1978 until capture in 1990

There was no Internet in Russia in 1978, no cannibal chat rooms, no place for Andrei Chikatilo to post confessions of rage and fantasy or to offer a recipe for delicacies made of human flesh. In silence, he went about satisfying his yearnings in a 12-year spree of rape, murder and cannibalism. At least 53 people, and some believe more, died directly at his hands. Another man died indirectly, wrongly convicted, and executed, for a killing later claimed by Chikatilo. Three more killed themselves. So quiet was he about his grisly pastime that even his wife did not suspect what the father of her two children had been up to. On the surface, he seemed an average Soviet man — educated, hardworking, and a life-long member of the Communist Party.

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