October 16, 1936 - Andréi Chikatilo
Over more than a decade, Chikatilo operated across multiple Soviet republics while evading a law enforcement system poorly equipped — and at times ideologically resistant — to acknowledge that such crimes could occur within the USSR. His case became one of the most extensive serial murder investigations in Soviet history, complicated by wrongful convictions of other men in the interim. The eventual prosecution and trial brought rare public visibility to crimes that Soviet authorities had long suppressed from official acknowledgment.
From Wikipedia
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило; Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило, romanized: Andrii Romanovych Chykatylo; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR.
Chikatilo confessed to fifty-six murders; he was tried for fifty-three murders in April 1992. He was convicted and sentenced to death for fifty-two of these murders in October 1992, although the Supreme Court of Russia ruled in 1993 that insufficient evidence existed to prove his guilt in nine of those killings. Chikatilo was executed by gunshot in February 1994.
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