Vampirism (Crime) - Elizabeth Bathory, Andrei Chikatilo, Fritz Haarmann, John Brennan Crutchley, Richard Chase, Neville Heath, Peter Kurte (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Elizabeth Bathory, Andrei Chikatilo, Fritz Haarmann, John Brennan Crutchley, Richard Chase, Neville Heath, Peter Kurten, Wayne Boden, Peter Plogojowitz, Rod Ferrell, Clinical vampirism, Joseph Vacher, Tracey Wigginton, Walpurga Hausmannin, Ludwig the Bloodsucker, Szeged witch trials, Vaughn Greenwood, Atlas Vampire. Excerpt: Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: , Ukrainian: , Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo; October 16, 1936 - February 14, 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper who committed the murders of a minimum of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990. He was convicted of 52 murders in October 1992 (although he did confess to a total of 56 murders and was tried for 53 of these killings) and was subsequently executed for the murders for which he was convicted in February, 1994. Chikatilo was known by such titles as The Rostov Ripper and the Butcher of Rostov because the majority of his murders were committed in the Rostov Oblast of the Russian SFSR. Andrei Chikatilo was born in the village of Yablochnoye (Yabluchne) in modern Sumy Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. He was born soon after the famine in Ukraine caused by Joseph Stalin's forced collectivisation of agriculture. Ukrainian farmers were forced to hand in their entire crop for statewide distribution. Mass starvation ran rampant throughout Ukraine, and reports of cannibalism soared. Chikatilo's mother, Anna, told him that his older brother Stepan had been kidnapped and cannibalized by starving neighbors, although it has never been independently established whether this actually happened. Chikatilo's parents were both farm labourers who lived in a one-room hut. As a child, Chikatilo slept on a single bed with his parents. He was a chronic bed wetter and was berated and beaten...