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

Andrei Chikatilo, 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 of 52 murders 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 man-made famine in his native Ukraine that claimed the lives of over three million people in the 1930s. ‌

He grew up hearing tales of an older brother, Stepan, who had been abducted by famished neighbours and killed, cannibalised to keep them alive.

Chikatilo later became a teacher but

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