http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994) was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper. He was convicted of the murders of 53 women and children, mostly in Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, between 1978 and 1990 (some victims were murdered in other regions of Russia and in Ukrainian and Uzbek SSRs).


I first heard about him from this show-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCQmaAQu6Aw