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The world's worst serial killers
Andrei Chikatilo - 53 murders
Where: All over Russia
When: 1978 to 1990
Russia's premier serial killer of the last century was Andrei Chitatilo. Chikatilo grew up believing his older brother been kidnapped and eaten during the great Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s. Over a 12-year reign of terror the "Rostov Ripper" took the lives of 53 women and children.
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