In October 16, 1936, one of the most notorious heinous serial killers was born. This killer brutally murdered over fifty-two helpless victims and ruined lives with no remorse. This horrible murderer was Andrei Chikatilo. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Chikatilo and determine, to our best knowledge, why and what pushed him to commit these acts. An examination of his early life, the history of Chikatilo himself, his murder victims, and a general theory and famous criminologist that could possibly explain this behavior will be analyzed. It will be broken apart into four different segments: History of Andrei Chikatilo, Murder Spree, The Final Discovery, The Theory of These Actions, and Concluding Evidence. Andrei Chikatilo, born on October …show more content…
While this was an honorable deed, if a soldier was captured, they became dishonored due to their coward actions. This affected Chikatilo in his school life. Because of the consequences of his father’s capture, Chikatilo was bullied throughout his schooling time due to his father being a “cowardice.” (Banco, n.d.) In addition to bullying about his father, Andrei also suffered from hydrocephalus, water on the brain, at birth. This caused genital-urinary tract problems. These caused issues such as bed-wetting in the later adolescent period of his life and also the issue of being able to ejaculate but not sustain an erection. Due to these issues, Andrei refrained from sexual interaction in fear of ridicule. His only known sexual experience during his adolescence was when he overpowered a young girl. However, during the struggle, he ejaculated immediately and was humiliated. This interaction created the stimulation between sexual interaction and …show more content…
Throughout the trial, Chikatilo was placed in an iron cage, which was kept in the corner of the courtroom, for protection from the families of the victims. Many had no idea what had happened to their relatives until it was gruesomely described. Chikatilo, throughout the entire trial, interrupted by exposing himself, refusing to answer any questions asked by the court, or singing over those talking. He had to be removed from the courtroom multiple times. On the last day of the trial, one of the victim’s brothers would not handle the pain anymore and threw a large, heavy chunk of metal at Chikatilo. After this hit him in the chest, security attempted to arrest the man but the families of the survivors blocked them so he would not be prosecuted (Robinson, 2016) On October 15, Andrei Chikatilo was finally sentenced to 52 counts of murder. This was one less than the 53 he was tried for. Each count was given the death penalty. When given the chance at a final speech before the verdict, Chikatilo refused. The judge, Leonid Akhobzyanov, once the verdict was announced stated: “Taking into consideration the monstrous crimes he committed, this court has no alternative but to impose the only sentence that he deserves. I therefore sentence him to death” (Blanco, n.d.). Three months later, Andrei Chikatilo was executed by a single gunshot to the
Serial killers are a type person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern. Most of the time something triggers them and then they go on their serial rampage. Some things that can be part of a serial killer's profile is they are normally white males, late 20’s early 30’s, kills with in own race, method of murder is hands on, and their victims are selected because they share specific characteristics. The types of serial killers are disorganized asocial and organized nonsocial. The different types of serial killers are: missionary killers, power seeking, lust killing, visionary killer, thrill killing. The profiling of a serial killer's changes upon the
Criminology is often referred as the study of crime and its offenders. yet many argued about the definition of crime itself. There are various definitions of crime available, such as the legalistic definition where crime is defined as the act of conviction of criminal law (by Paul Tappan), or the statistical definition where an action is considered a crime if the frequency of it conducted is low (by L.T. Wilkins) (Muncie J 1996), leaving the fact that crime itself is not definite. The definition of crime might changes overtime due to the alteration of culture, moral conduct, values, beliefs, etc. For instance, the act of sodomy was considered a crime once, yet today even gay marriages has been legalised. On the contrary, regardless to the changes of the definition, murder has always been considered as an delinquent behaviour and a serious crime. The punishment would usually be equally burdensome, varying in death sentence (such as hanging, beheading and lethal injection) to what is more common at this modern era, a long-time to life-time imprisonment. This essay will discuss a murder crime occurred in Adelaide and will explain the crime causation along with the relevant theory.
There are many theories that can be applied to different cases that have occurs in Americas history. The two theories that are choses for this paper are the trait theory and under the trait theory is psychological which is “abnormal personality and psychological traits are the key to determinant of anti-social behavior. There is a link between mental illness, personality disorders and crime (Siegel, 2014). The second theory is the Choice theory which “criminals weigh the cost and benefits and make a conscious, rational choice to commit crime” (Siegel, 2014). This paper will show how a theory can be applied to a person and a crime. Some of the cases that are being presented some will not agree but up us all about the person perspective.
As years go on so will the research on serial killers and hopefully we as a society will fully understand them and one day be able to cure whatever inside that makes them have the urge to kill. Works Cited The Electronic Journal of Sociology, published by the University of Guelph, Ontario. http://www.scribd.com/doc/167086215/How-Serial-Killers-Work. According to the article “10 Most Common Traits of Potential Serial Killers By Hestie Barnard Gerber. According to Comrade Chikatilo: The Psychopathology of Russia's Notorious Serial Killer.
Andrei couldn't get an erection or orgasm like a normal male. What he learned is that overpowering a person made him orgasm. The only sexual experience as an adolescent, for Andrei, was when he wrestled his younger sister’s friend to the ground and climaxed while the girl tried to escape from him. This discovery is what shaped his crimes. He enjoyed killing because every time he did, he orgasmed. This is the reason why he killed and sexually assaulted kids. It was the only way to keep an erection and
Mass Murderers and Serial Killers are nothing new to today’s society. These vicious killers are all violent, brutal monsters and have an abnormal urge to kill. What gives people these urges to kill? What motivates them to keep killing? Do these killers get satisfaction from killing? Is there a difference between mass murderers and serial killers or are they the same. How do they choose their victims and what are some of their characteristics? These questions and many more are reasons why I was eager to write my paper on mass murderers and serial killers. However, the most interesting and sought after questions are the ones that have always been controversial. One example is; what goes on inside the mind of a killer? In this paper I will try to develop a better understanding of these driven killers and their motives.
Upon execution of his criminal acts, Bundy often visited the secondary scene of crime where he performed sexual acts with the decomposing bodies of the victims until destruction by wild animals or decomposition made further interaction with the bodies impossible. In addition to these criminal acts, Bundy decapitated heads of some of his victims and kept their heads in his residence for a period of time as mementos (Rule, 2009). The cases involving Bundy and his victims include cases of murder, rape, necrophile and kidnapping. These are capital offences that were well planned and executed by the perpetrator who made subsequent follow-ups of his criminal acts by visiting the secondary scene of crime. Description of the offender’s psychological history and functioning at the time of the offence is based on a statistical approach which involves the analysis of behavioural and other relevant information found at the scene of crime in order to infer the characteristics of the offender and his psychological processes (Woodhams & Toye, 2007)....
Andrei Romanvich Chikatilo was born on October 16th, 1936, in Yablochnoye, Ukraine. He had a younger sister and supposedly an older brother that was cannibalized before he was born from what his mother always told him. At the time he was born, famine was spread throughout a vast amount of Ukraine, and his early childhood was consumed by poverty. His situation worsened when the USSR entered World War II against Germany, causing constant bombing raids on Ukraine. On top of Chikatilo starving and hiding from the German soldiers, he is believed to have suffered from a condition referred to as “water on the brain” at birth. This caused him to have genital-urinary tract problems later in life, including bed-wetting in his pre-teens and the inability to sustain an erection the older he got, although he was able to ejaculate (A+E Networks). Another possibility for his inability could be the fact that he watched his mother get raped by a German soldier during the war (Bio Movie) Chikatilo’s father only made his life worse. He was drafted into the fight against Germany, let himself get captured and held prisoner. When his father finally return...
From the very first word of this extraordinary piece of literature, the thoughts and transgressions of Raskolnikov penetrates the heart and mind of the reader with exceptional insight, skillfully constructed suspense plots and a dynamic, autonomous hero. It is true to state that 'Crime and Punishment' had a profound influence on the modern intellectual climate, sparking off a wave of existentialist writings, and it is not difficult to discover why. The intricate and enthralling exploration, carried out by Raskolnikov, of conflicting internal drives, personal motivations and philosophical justification of one's existence leads to the impulsive testing of his rights to transgress moral law.
Fascination with murder and murderers is not new, but researchers in recent years have made great strides in determining the characteristics of criminals. Looking back, we can see how naïve early experts were in their evaluations; in 1911, for example, Italian crimin...
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David Berkowitz, otherwise known as the “Son of Sam”, was notorious for his crimes committed between 1976 and 1977 that ended the lives of six innocent victims and wounded several others in New York (“David Berkowitz Biography”, n.d.). At first, police did not make a connection between the murders because there was nothing unusual about them; all the victims were shot with a 40 caliber gun, not fairly unusual during this time or place especially since the killings were over an extended period of time. Police finally made the connection when Berkowitz began to live behind notes that were meant to tantalize authorities since they had yet to catch him (“David Berkowitz| Son of Sam Killer,” 2015). Often times, the psychological structure of a human
Introduction: On the spectrum of criminal activity, serial killers are rather rare. Rarer still is a serial killer like Ted Bundy. Bundy confessed to killing 28 women in the 1970s in ghastly fashion and some believe he may have killed far more. It is hard to imagine what could cause any person to cross the mental boundary into such macabre behavior as Bundy perpetrated. Nevertheless, it is important to try to understand that behavior because only though such an understanding would society be able to identify and deter mass murderers in order to save lives.
After his name came up linked to a crime in 1984, he was placed on surveillance. On November 20th he was arrested, but refused to confess to authorities about the killings when he was caught. It wasn’t until the police decided to set him up with a psychiatrist, where he finally opened up about (and described) the 56 murders he committed. The information was used to prove where some of the bodies were located. Andrei confessed to 56 murders. Andrei Chikatilo was found guilty of 52 counts of murder, and sentenced to death for each of the murders (Blanco, Murderpedia). This is equivalent to 52 death sentences. Evidence used in the trial included a grey hair found on one of the victims, AB blood type found from a semen sample, eyewitness reports of what he looked like around train stations, and most sufficient: a bitemark on Andrei’s finger that matched a 16 year old victim. Another piece of evidence used was knives found in his briefcase when he was taken into custody. Andrei Chikatilo died on February 14th, 1994, by a gunshot to the back of his neck since he was faced with the death
In the essay titled The Execution of Tropmann by Ivan Turgenev, he offers an eye witness account of the execution of young gentlemen named Tropmann. Throughout Turgenev’s essay, his focus to his readers is to primarily deliver his perspective as an un-involved onlooker of Tropmann’s execution. As Turgenev’s speaks, he sets a tone of anxiety and anticipation surrounding this ordeal and during this publically hyped execution he turns his attention towards whether or not capital punishment is morally just.