2021

S2.E1 ∙ Episode #2.1

Wed, Mar 16, 2022

November 1990 As a result of a long and painstaking investigation, it was finally possible to establish the identity of the alleged maniac. He was a completely inconspicuous man with glasses, about fifty years old. To neutralize the brutal serial killer, a huge number of law enforcement officials were involved. No one could imagine what this fanatic was capable of, so everyone was ready for the toughest scenario of detention. Two task forces blocked the first and fifth floors. Judging by the report of the police officers on duty, the suspect Andrey Romanovich Chikatilo was at that time in his apartment.

6.3 /10

S2.E2 ∙ Episode #2.2

Wed, Mar 23, 2022

So that the most dangerous criminal of the Soviet Union would not suspect anything, a police officer dressed in civilian clothes, Irina Ovsyannikova, went to the door of his apartment. She rang the bell at the entrance to the home of a possible violent killer. The door was opened to her by a short man of the age of discreet appearance. Ovsyannikova started a conversation with the maniac, distracting him from any unnecessary suspicions. For a moment, Chikatilo lost his vigilance, which made it possible to detain him without bloodshed. The suspected perpetrator, who accounted for more than fifty victims, was handcuffed. The trap closed.

5.6 /10

S2.E3 ∙ Episode #2.3

Wed, Mar 30, 2022

All the inhabitants of the city are in shock. A quiet and harmless former teacher at school, who seemed to everyone a very decent and sweet person, turned out to be one of the most brutal killers of our time. This man had a family - a wife and two children. The wife of the murderer until the last could not believe in the guilt of her husband. He committed his first murder in 1978, and it gave him great pleasure. At the first interrogations, the man behaves confidently and proves to the investigators that he is not guilty of anything. Lipyagin and Kovalev again put spokes in the wheels, preventing Kesaev from forcing Andrey Chikatilo to confess to all his crimes.

5.6 /10

S2.E4 ∙ Episode #2.4

Wed, Apr 06, 2022

There are more and more clues. During interrogation, a serial killer is presented with evidence of his guilt. Chikatilo is stubbornly silent at first, then begins to wind around, trying to confuse the investigation. He still hopes to escape punishment. Once, instead of him, a completely innocent person was already detained, who was sentenced to capital punishment and has already carried out the sentence. The maniac is trying to invent the most ridiculous versions in order to justify himself, but numerous prints and testimonies of witnesses indicate that it is he who is to blame for all these brutal murders.

6.2 /10

S2.E5 ∙ Episode #2.5

Wed, Apr 13, 2022

Dr. Evgeny Nikolaevich Nekrasov observes the behavior of Chikatilo. He understands that the criminal is very cunning. He advises investigators not to believe a single word of the killer and prepare for the fact that there may actually be many more victims. Results are being demanded from Moscow. There have never been crimes of this magnitude in the Soviet Union. Residents in the city want to commit lynching. Chikatilo is secretly taken out so that the relatives of the murdered victims cannot get to the murderer in order to avenge all the tormented children and women. Chikatilo begins to change tactics of behavior.

5.5 /10

S2.E6 ∙ Episode #2.6

Wed, Apr 20, 2022

In the course of investigative measures, it becomes known about more than fifty victims of the Rostov killer. Almost all of them were children and teenagers. It was found that among the victims were women. Chikatilo killed unfortunate children and women in especially cruel ways, while experiencing incredibly strong sexual arousal. In life, this pedophile suffered from impotence, and he learned to get sexual release with the help of torture and sophisticated methods of killing victims. For the first time, the desire to kill appeared in him when he was still working at the school. Then the sixth grader miraculously managed to stay alive.

5.6 /10

S2.E7 ∙ Episode #2.7

Wed, Apr 27, 2022

During the court hearings, Chikatilo confesses to all the episodes of his serious crimes. He answers all the prosecutor's questions. The file states that during the investigative measures, he has recently been very actively cooperating with representatives of the investigative committee. He showed where and how he killed his victims. He shared his feelings experienced at the time of the murders. Toward the middle of the court hearing, Chikatilo begins to change tactics, actively trying to portray a madman. He grimaces a lot, grimaces and even urinates in front of everyone in the courtroom. Psychiatrist Yevgeny Nekrasov insists that the defendant is feigning illness.

5.6 /10

S2.E8 ∙ Episode #2.8

Wed, May 04, 2022

Despite the fact that Chikatilo began to portray a mentally ill person, the court took into account the statement of Dr. Nekrasov, which is directly related to the calculation and detention of a particularly dangerous criminal, and recognized Andrey Romanovich Chikatilo in the murders of a huge number of people. The sentence was long, as a result, the cruel maniac was sentenced to death by firing squad. Until his death, the murderer tried to protest the verdict, but the court left it unchanged. Andrei Chikatilo died in 1994 at the age of 57. On February 14, he was executed by a shot in the back of the head. He was buried in an unmarked grave on the territory of the prison where he was until the very last day.

6.3 /10