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The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History is a non-fiction book detailing the manhunt, capture and subsequent conviction of Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило; Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило, romanized: Andrii Romanovych Chykatylo; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at ...
Child 44 has been translated into 36 languages. Additionally, it was nominated for 17 international awards and won seven. [15]In 2008, it was named on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize, nominated for the 2008 Costa First Novel Award, and received the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of the year from the Crime Writers' Association. [16]
The film is based upon the true story of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of the murder of 52 women and children committed between 1978 and 1990. It stars Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, and Max Von Sydow. The film is based on Robert Cullen's non-fiction book The Killer Department, published in 1993.
Chikatilo, Andrei: 1982–1990 52 56+ Executed 1994 Known as "The Rostov Ripper"; killed women and children throughout the Soviet Union [10] Evseev, Andrei: 1974–1977 9 9 Executed 1979 Known as "The Tagansky Maniac"; killed people in Moscow Oblast, mainly women dressed in red clothing [11] Fefilov, Nikolai: 1982–1988 7 7 Murdered by his ...
His first novel, Child 44, published in early 2008, was inspired by the true-life case of Andrei Chikatilo, who committed a series of child murders in Soviet Russia. It was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of the year by the Crime Writers' Association , named on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize , and ...
"Chikatilo" – List of Soviet and post-Soviet serial killers nicknamed after Andrei Chikatilo "Choke and Stroke Killer" – Samuel Little "Chopper" – Mark Read "Cincinnati Strangler" – Posteal Laskey "Citizen O" – Anatoly Onoprienko "Clairemont Killer" – Cleophus Prince Jr. "Classified Ad Rapist" – Bobby Joe Long
Conradi is the author of The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer (about Andrei Chikatilo); Mad Vlad: Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the New Russian Nationalism (about Vladimir Zhirinovsky) and Hitler's Piano Player (about Ernst Hanfstaengl a.k.a. Putzi).