Serial Killers Around the World - Part Two

In part two of the Serial Killers Around The World articles, we will take a look into the lives of three notorious serial killers. Andrei Chikatilo, Albert Fish, and Richard Ramirez. All very different serial killers, yet all the same in some small form.

Andrei Chikatilo was born on October 16,1936 in the Ukraine. Poverty stricken most of his life, his older brother murdered and eaten by his neighbors during a time when Russia was in famine and over a million lives were lost. Chikatilo's life was basically almost written for him. He never really had a chance at normalcy, even with the slight chance of something normal, Chikatilo went the other way and starting taking other people's chances instead.

Andrei was not your normal serial killer who started killing people early in his life, he actually starting killing people when he became a middle aged man. His first victim being a young girl of 9 whom he raped numerous times, strangled and then stabbed her death was on December 22, 1976. Her young, battered body was found in the Grushevka River a couple of days later. Authorities however did not lean towards Chikatilo as the main suspect, instead put the blame on a 25 year old ex-convict who had been in prison prior for murder and rape. The man was beaten so badly by police that he confessed to the killing and was sentenced to death by firing squad. Andrei was still on the loose.