How These Sneaky Serial Killers Finally Got Caught

Stationed on trains and around railway stations, but Chikatilo continued killing right under their noses. He was once discovered by an undercover police officer at the Donleskhoz police station, just after he had murdered a woman. The police officer asked him what those stains on his clothes were, to which Chikatilo replied that he was a mushroom picker. Hmm, the policeman thought, a mushroom picker with a nice canvas bag. He didn't make sense. It was only by sheer luck that when another police officer was looking at the names of the men who had been questioned, he noticed the name Chikatilo.

He remembered seeing that name before, in the past, in connection with a missing person. But this time, unlike the others, this police officer went deeper. And guess what he found? He discovered that this traveling businessman had been expelled from numerous schools in the past for sexually motivated crimes. He then saw that Chikalito's name had come up again when there was a sexual and violent crime. It had been years since anyone had connected those dots and now they seemed to form the image of a violent murderous maniac. Chikatilo was

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put under serious surveillance, and although they arrested him just before he was about to commit another murder, during interrogation he never relented, and the police didn't really have much hard evidence.

It is possible that he would not have served a year in prison if something strange had not happened next. The police did something that had never happened in the Soviet Union. Instead of interrogating him again, they called a psychiatrist named Alexander Bukhanovsky. It was this guy who once rightly told them: you are looking for an educated man, a sadist, who is probably impotent and hates women. Now the police knew that he was right and that's why they gave a little more credit to the art of understanding the motivations of crazy people. Bukhanovsky sat across from Chikalito and told him what he suspected.

That he was a sad and lonely man, a man with a terrible childhood. A child who had been traumatized. Bukhanovsky did not know at the time that Chikalito's family was literally starving in a famine, and that his own brother was murdered and cannibalized by neighbors, after which the mother blamed the bed-wetting murderer-to-be. Childhood couldn't have been worse, by any human standard, and when the psychiatrist said this to Chikalito, when the doctor was done, Chikalito, now crying, said, "It was me, I did it." I killed them all.” He told the police about the murders they had been investigating, but also many other murders they didn't even know had happened.

Then, on October 15, 1992, Chikatilo was sentenced to death for 52 murders. On February 14, 1994, a bullet to the back of the head ended his life. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the prison. Now you need to watch “America's Most Evil Serial Killer: John Wayne Gacy.”