The killer department : Detective Viktor Burakov's eight-year hunt for the most savage serial killer in Russian history

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The killer department : Detective Viktor Burakov's eight-year hunt for the most savage serial killer in Russian history

Title remainder

Detective Viktor Burakov's eight-year hunt for the most savage serial killer in Russian history

Statement of responsibility

Robert Cullen

Creator

• trueCullen, Robert, 1949-
• Cullen, Robert, 1949-

Subject

• Case studies
• Chikatilo, Andrei Romanovich, 1936-
• trueChikatilo, Andrei Romanovich, 1936-1994
• Chikatilo, Andreĭ Romanovich, 1936-1994
• Chikatilo, Andreĭ Romanovich, 1936-1994
• trueCriminal psychology
• Insane, Criminal and dangerous -- Russia (Federation) | Rostovskaia oblast | Biography
• trueMen with sexual disorders
• Mentally ill offenders
• Mentally ill offenders -- Russia (Federation) | Rostovskai͡a oblastʹ -- Biography
• trueRussia
• Russia (Federation) -- Rostovskai͡a oblastʹ
• Serial Murderers -- Russia (Federation) | Rostovskaia oblast | Biography
• Biography
• trueSerial murderers -- Russia
• Serial murderers -- Russia (Federation) | Rostovskai͡a oblastʹ -- Biography
• Serial murders
• trueSerial murders -- Russia
• Serial murders -- Russia (Federation) | Rostovskaia oblast | Case studies
• Serial murders -- Russia (Federation) | Rostovskai͡a oblastʹ -- Case studies
• Sex crimes
• Sex crimes -- Russia (Federation) | Rostovskaia oblast | Case studies
• Sex crimes -- Russia (Federation) | Rostovskai͡a oblastʹ -- Case studies
• trueTrue Crime -- Murder
• Serial murderers
• trueBurakov, Viktor

Genre

• trueTrue Crime
• trueCase studies
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

This is a chilling tale of one man's savage need to kill and another's sworn determination to stop him. They found the first body in 1982, in the woods near Rostov-on-Don: a young girl, lying faceup with her skeletal hands raised near her head as if trying to fend someone off. Over the next eight years, fifty-two more bodies were found in and around Rostov, a river city 600 miles south of Moscow. The victims had been savagely slashed with a knife, with their eyes gouged out, their sexual organs excised, their bodies spattered with the killer's semen. As the body count mounted, a remarkable Rostov detective, Viktor Burakov, became obsessed with hunting down the killer. He faced formidable odds. Archaic attitudes toward sex crimes and the nightmarish maze of the Soviet system produced an extraordinary range of false leads and bizarre theories: a satanic cult had formed, the murders were the work of a gang of mentally retarded boys, the killer must be a doctor, because the sexual organs of the victims had been carved out with surgical precision. The investigations of these hypotheses disrupted the lives of Rostov's citizens - most particularly homosexuals, who came under suspicion when young boys began to number among the slaughtered. Haunted by specters of the brutally murdered victims, Burakov took a startling route for a Soviet detective. He turned secretly to a psychiatrist - an expert on transsexualism - who produced a psychological profile of the killer that proved to be eerily accurate when Andrei Chikatilo - a family man, member of the Communist Party, and former schoolteacher - was finally hunted down and captured

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

364.1/523/094777

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV6535.R942

LC item number

R673 1993

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult