127: The Rostov Ripper, Andrei Chikatilo | Russia (Part 1)

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the 1980s USSR’s Rostov Oblast was terrorized by a cold-blooded serial killer. Women and children disappeared from bus stops and train stations, and police were at a loss. They called the faceless killer The Rostov Ripper, The Butcher of Rostov, The Maniac… After a decade-long killing-spree, police arrested an unassuming man. Andrei Chikatilo was a former teacher and grandfather. Had he been hiding in plain sight all along?

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0:00.0	Why do we accept a history of England where women are invisible?
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0:07.0	comes a radical retelling of our nation's history,
0:10.0	normal women, 900 years of making history.
0:13.0	The normal women you will meet in these pages,
0:16.0	flu spitfires, build ships went to war campaign,
0:19.0	wrote, laughed, committed crimes,
0:21.0	invented things rioted, and made history.
0:24.0	Normal women by Philippa Gregory,
0:26.0	out now in Hardback, e-book and audiobook.
0:30.0	You are listening to The Evidence Locker.
0:41.0	Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.
0:44.0	It deals with true crimes and real people.
0:47.0	Some parts of graphic in nature and listener discretion is advised.
0:51.0	Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims,
0:54.0	their families, and loved ones.
0:58.0	Warning, this episode deals in part with the abuse and murders of children.
1:02.0	It may not be suitable for all audiences.
1:08.0	On the cold winter's day, December 24, 1978,
1:12.0	in the Russian city of Shakhti,
1:14.0	something caught the attention of a woman walking along the Misty Grushchevka River.
1:19.0	She walked closer and discovered the small,
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