Today’s Monstrous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
According to the party line, serial killers didn’t exist in the Soviet state. There was only one problem with this assertion. Even when Communist officials were declaring that serial murder was strictly “a decadent Western phenomenon,” one of the most monstrous psychopaths in the annals of crime was at large in the Russian port-city of Rostov.
He was Andrei Chikatilo – a mousy-looking forty-two-year-old factory clerk, married, with children. Possessed by a monstrous blood lust, he targeted easy prey – boys, girls, defenseless young woman,. Usually, he would lure them away from bus stops with the promise of a ride or a meal. Leading them into a lonely stretch of woods, he would pounce like a werewolf, committing unspeakable atrocities on his victims, often while they were still alive. (Cutting out their tongues, biting off their nipples, slicing off their noses, gouging out their eyes, devouring their genitals – these were just a few of the horrors he perpetrated.) So fierce was his appetite for human blood that, during one four-week span in 1984, he butchered no less than six young victims.
One of the Mad Beast’s victims
Chikatilo’s unwitting accomplice in these hideous crimes was the Soviet totalitarian system. According to Communist dogma, crime could not exist in a classless people’s republic like the USSR. Rather than admit that they were wrong, Soviet authorities covered up Chikatilo’s monstrous spree. As a result, during the “Mad Beast’s” twelve-year reign of terror, Soviet citizens didn’t even know that a serial killer was on the loose. Instead of being on their guard, they were left vulnerable to his advances.
The police finally nabbed Chikatilo in 1990. He was charged with a staggering fifty-three murders, though the true total may have been even higher. At his trial, he was kept locked inside a steel cage to protect him from his victim’s relatives. He was executed in 1994.
“What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind.” – Andrei Chikatilo
Culled from: The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Plastination Specimens Du Jour!
Non-smoker’s lungs…
vs. Smoker’s lungs.
What do you reckon your lungs look like?
Culled from: Bodyworlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies