Andrei Chikatilo is one of the most prolific serial killers in history, but was also one of the most difficult to catch Andrei Chikatilo (Image: Daily Mirror)

A Soviet serial killer, whose reign of terror spanned over a decade, was deemed so perilous that he was transported to his trial in a steel cage.

Andrei Chikatilo, infamously known as 'the Butcher of Rostov', is remembered as one of the most lethal and prolific murderers in global history. In 1992, he was officially convicted for 52 murders committed over a 12-year period, with suspicions of several more.

Chikatilo was born to forced labourers during Stalin's USSR era amidst the 'Holodomor', a state-imposed famine in his native Ukraine that claimed the lives of over three million people in the 1930s.

He grew up hearing

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