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before
either charging or releasing him. Throughout the questioning,
Chikatilo repeatedly denied that he had committed the murders,
although he did confess to molesting his pupils during his career
as a teacher.
     
    On November 29, at the
request of Burakov and Fetisov, Dr. Aleksandr Bukhanovsky, the
psychiatrist who had written the 1985 psychological profile of the
then-unknown killer for the investigators, was invited to assist in
the questioning of the suspect. Bukhanovsky read extracts from his
65-page psychological profile to Chikatilo. Within two hours,
Chikatilo confessed to 36 murders police had linked to the killer.
On November 30, he was formally charged with each of these 36
murders, all of which had been committed between June 1982 and
November 1990.
     
    Chikatilo also confessed
to a further 20 killings which had not been connected to him
because the murders had been committed outside the Rostov Oblast,
and the bodies had not been found. Therefore, the Chikatilo led
police to the body of Aleksey Khobotov, a boy he had confessed to
killing in 1989 and who he had buried in woodland near a Shakhty
cemetery, proving unequivocally that he was the killer. He later
led investigators to the bodies of two other victims he had
confessed to killing. Three of the 56 victims Chikatilo confessed
to killing could not be found or identified, but Chikatilo was
charged with killing 53 women and children between 1978 and
1990.
     
    Chikatilo stood trial in
Rostov on April 14, 1992, and was kept in an iron cage in a corner
of the courtroom to protect him from attack by the many hysterical
and enraged relatives of his victims. Relatives of victims
regularly shouted threats and insults to Chikatilo throughout the
trial, demanding that authorities release him so that they could
kill him themselves. Each murder was discussed individually and, on
several occasions, relatives broke down in tears when details of
their relatives' murder were revealed, some even
fainted.
     
    Chikatilo regularly
interrupted the trial, exposing himself, singing, and refusing to
answer questions put to him by the judge. He was regularly removed
from the courtroom for interrupting the proceedings.
     
    In July 1992, Chikatilo
demanded that the judge be replaced for making too many rash
remarks about his guilt. His defense counsel backed the claim. The
judge looked to the prosecutor and even the prosecutor backed the
defense's judgment, stating the judge had indeed made too many such
remarks. The judge ruled the prosecutor be replaced
instead.
     
    On October 15, Chikatilo
was found guilty of 52 of the 53 murders and sentenced to death for
each offense. Chikatilo kicked his bench across his cage when he
heard the verdict, and began shouting abuse. He was offered a final
chance to make a speech in response to the verdict, but remained
silent. Upon passing final sentence, Judge Leonid Akhobzyanov made
the following speech, “Taking into
consideration the monstrous crimes he committed, this court has no
alternative but to impose the only sentence that he deserves. I
therefore sentence him to death.”
     
    On January 4, 1994,
Russian President Boris Yeltsin refused a final appeal for clemency
and ten days later, Chikatilo was taken to a soundproofed room in a
Novocherkassk prison and executed by a single gunshot behind the
right ear.

CHAPTER 5: DANIEL AND
MANUELA RUDA
     

     
    Daniel was a 26-year-old
man who worked as a car parts salesman. His wife Manuela was a
23-year-old woman who worked as a part time hotel worker and a part
time baker's assistant. Daniel and Manuela met when she responded
to his forum post "Vampire seeks princess of Darkness that hates
everyone and everything". They met sometime after Halloween in
1999, and ended up getting married eight months later on June 6th,
2000.
     
    Daniel and Manuela were
married on the sixth day of the sixth month. The final six of the
devil's number would be added a month later on July sixth. The
significance of