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- catalog abstract "This is a chilling tale of one man's savage need to kill and another's sworn determination to stop him. They found the first body in 1982, in the woods near Rostov-on-Don: a young girl, lying faceup with her skeletal hands raised near her head as if trying to fend someone off. Over the next eight years, fifty-two more bodies were found in and around Rostov, a river city 600 miles south of Moscow. The victims had been savagely slashed with a knife, with their eyes gouged. Out, their sexual organs excised, their bodies spattered with the killer's semen. As the body count mounted, a remarkable Rostov detective, Viktor Burakov, became obsessed with hunting down the killer. He faced formidable odds. Archaic attitudes toward sex crimes and the nightmarish maze of the Soviet system produced an extraordinary range of false leads and bizarre theories: a satanic cult had formed, the murders were the work of a gang of mentally retarded boys, the. Killer must be a doctor, because the sexual organs of the victims had been carved out with surgical precision. The investigations of these hypotheses disrupted the lives of Rostov's citizens - most particularly homosexuals, who came under suspicion when young boys began to number among the slaughtered. Haunted by specters of the brutally murdered victims, Burakov took a startling route for a Soviet detective. He turned secretly to a psychiatrist - an expert on. Transsexualism - who produced a psychological profile of the killer that proved to be eerily accurate when Andrei Chikatilo - a family man, member of the Communist Party, and former schoolteacher - was finally hunted down and captured.".
- catalog contributor b4182746.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Killer must be a doctor, because the sexual organs of the victims had been carved out with surgical precision. The investigations of these hypotheses disrupted the lives of Rostov's citizens - most particularly homosexuals, who came under suspicion when young boys began to number among the slaughtered. Haunted by specters of the brutally murdered victims, Burakov took a startling route for a Soviet detective. He turned secretly to a psychiatrist - an expert on.".
- catalog description "Out, their sexual organs excised, their bodies spattered with the killer's semen. As the body count mounted, a remarkable Rostov detective, Viktor Burakov, became obsessed with hunting down the killer. He faced formidable odds. Archaic attitudes toward sex crimes and the nightmarish maze of the Soviet system produced an extraordinary range of false leads and bizarre theories: a satanic cult had formed, the murders were the work of a gang of mentally retarded boys, the.".
- catalog description "This is a chilling tale of one man's savage need to kill and another's sworn determination to stop him. They found the first body in 1982, in the woods near Rostov-on-Don: a young girl, lying faceup with her skeletal hands raised near her head as if trying to fend someone off. Over the next eight years, fifty-two more bodies were found in and around Rostov, a river city 600 miles south of Moscow. The victims had been savagely slashed with a knife, with their eyes gouged.".
- catalog description "Transsexualism - who produced a psychological profile of the killer that proved to be eerily accurate when Andrei Chikatilo - a family man, member of the Communist Party, and former schoolteacher - was finally hunted down and captured.".
- catalog extent "258 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0679422765 :".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation) Rostovskai͡a oblastʹ".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation) Rostovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ".
- catalog subject "364.1/523/094777 20".
- catalog subject "Chikatilo, Andreĭ Romanovich, 1936-".
- catalog subject "Chikatilo, Andreĭ Romanovich, 1936-1994.".
- catalog subject "HV6535.R942 R673 1993".
- catalog subject "Mentally ill offenders Russia (Federation) Rostovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ Biography.".
- catalog subject "Murderers Russia (Federation) Rostovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ Biography.".
- catalog subject "Serial murderers Russia (Federation) Rostovskai͡a oblastʹ Biography.".
- catalog subject "Serial murders Russia (Federation) Rostovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Sex crimes Russia (Federation) Rostovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Violent offenders Russia (Federation) Rostovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ Biography.".
- catalog title "The killer department : Detective Viktor Burakov's eight-year hunt for the most savage serial killer in Russian history / Robert Cullen.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".