Tag: serial killer

 Andrei Chikatilo had to lie still to preserve his own life whilst blood ran into his mouth and down his throat. After having witnessed his mother (and thousands of other Ukrainian women) raped, and experiencing the insane racialised violence of the Nazi German occupiers of the USSR, it is hardly surprising that a child of his young age could have had the inner processes of his mind ‘damaged’ in the manner they undoubtedly were.