

When his wife, Feodosia, realized he was unable to maintain and achieve an erection, they agreed she would conceive by Chikatilo ejaculating externally and pushing his semen inside her vagina with his fingers. It occurred barely two weeks after they had met and in which the decisive roles were played by the family members. Soon after he got married to a woman named Feodosia Odnacheva, but it was an arranged type of marriage. In his 30's, Chikatilo found a job and relocated to Russia, renting a small apartment close to his workplace. When Chikatilo reached puberty, the future cannibal realized he was impotent – unable to achieve an erection or orgasm – which only added to his self-hatred and misanthropy. By his teens, he was a model student and communist. At school, he was regularly bullied by his peers over his physical stature and timid nature. He was short-sighted and had to wear thick glasses. Although it has never been established if this incident really occurred, the evidence of widespread cannibalism was well documented during and after the Holodomor. Throughout his childhood, Chikatilo was repeatedly told by his mother, that his older brother was kidnapped and cannibalized by starving neighbors. His family often had to eat grass and leaves from trees to fill their appetite. Chikatilo himself later reclaimed not to have eaten bread until the age of twelve. Just after the Holodomor – the time when millions of Ukrainian citizens died of starvation because of Stalin's forced collectivization of agriculture.

Andrei Chikatilo at court The childhood of Andrei ChikatiloĬhikatilo was born in 1936, into a small village of Yabluchne, Ukraine.

When arrested, policemen noted a disturbing odor emitting from the pores of his skin, which was caused by the rotten human flesh in his digestion. He was a child molester who enjoyed mutilating and eating his victims. The monster had an appetite for murder and human flesh. Andrei Chikatilo, also known as the Butcher of Rostov and the Rostov Ripper, was one of the most notorious serial killers in the Soviet Union, maybe even the most prolific in modern history.
