One of the worst serial killers of all time was arrested in Russia on November 20, 1990.

Over a 12-year span, Andrei Chikatilo murdered at least 52 women and children in the Soviet Union.

Chikatilo, a former teacher fired after facing several molestation complaints, would lure and kill his victims as he travelled across the USSR.

After four victims were linked in 1983, specialist investigators were tasked with finding the killer.

But in his role as a buying clerk, Chikatilo would travel around the country, making it difficult to pinpoint where he was.

Using heavy-handed tactics, police were able to elicit confessions from several intellectually disabled young men.

But those men would be released after the killings continued while they were in custody.

Police claimed in the hunt for

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