10 of the world’s stomach-churning cannibal Serial Killers

Andrei Chikatilo

Andrei Chikatilo, the infamous Butcher of Rostov, was a Soviet serial killer whose brutal killing spree began with the murder of nine-year-old Lena Zakotnova in 1978 and turned into a reign of terror that would last over a decade. His story ended with the biggest spectacle in post-Soviet Russia, the capture and trial of a monster who had stalked several countries in the former USSR for decades, hunting along the train stations for fresh meat he could lure into the woods and kill.

Chikatilo was an unusual serial killer, driven by a boiling rage within him from his lifelong inability to perform sexual acts. More often than not, he couldn’t even have intercourse with his wife. It was from this that Chikatilo learned how to express his lust and sexual appetite through rape, torture, and violence. Even during his trial and confession to murdering 56 people, Chikatilo came uncannily close to admitting to have engaged in cannibalism but would ultimately back down when the time came to confess to actually eating people.