Andrei Chikatilo
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Sep 25, 2026
Marcus ParksHOST
And that's kinda my entire point.
Ed LarsonGUEST
Andre Chikatilo.
Ed LarsonGUEST
He, he, he would go back and forth- Who was an agent of chaos ...
Ed LarsonGUEST
he would go back and forth between kids, like literally children-
speaker_1HOST
Pop culture loves to build these killers up as Moriarty-like evil geniuses, but historically their success is almost always a reflection of the state's failures.
speaker_0HOST
And nowhere is that clearer than Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet ideological blindness.
speaker_1HOST
Between 1978 and 1990, he preyed on women and minors across the USSR.
speaker_0HOST
Convicted of 52, confessed to 56, luring them to woods near railway stations.
Brian WhiteHOST
Yep.
Brian WhiteHOST
He has, however, won a Golden Globe for supporting actor in the HBO movie Citizen X about the hunt for Andre Chikatilo.
Dave WhiteHOST
Yeah.
Dave WhiteHOST
Yuck.
AliceHOST
Zodiac does not fit the profile of a sadistic psychopath.
AliceHOST
Sadistic offenders such as BTK, which is Dennis Rader, Robert Bedella, or Andre Chikatilo derive pleasure from suffering, escalate cruelty over time, and often engage in torture or degradation.
AliceHOST
Zodiac does none of this.
AliceHOST
His violence is functional, not sadistic.