m incidences. His neighbors told police that he frequently took prostitutes to his secret shack. The police thought they definitely had their man. However, upon performing a blood test to determine his blood type, they found that Chikatilo had Type A blood. They had determined from semen found on the victims bodies that the killers blood type was AB. What they did not realize was that Chikatilos blood type was AB, however the B antigens are not sufficiently present in blood to appear in testing. If they had retrieved a semen or hair sample they would have seen that Chikatilo blood type was in fact AB. The only evidence they had left was the contents of Chikatilos bag the day he was arrested. Amazingly enough, that evidence was lost. Chikatilo was released for a third time.After this release, Chikatilo was back with a vengeance. He continued his murderous attacks on innocent victims racking up his total to 52 killings. He was brought into custody one final time when suspicious investigators checked his whereabouts on a day of a killing in the city of Ilovaisk. He had been there on business. The trial was slow and tedious. Chikatilo was placed in a cage, not to keep him from escaping, but to keep him safe from his victims family members. He was disruptive and maniacal for the entirety of the trial. He even had to be removed during the reading of the verdict because he continued to interrupt. He made absurd comments throughout the trial including that he was pregnant and the guards were hitting him in the stomach to make him lose the baby. On October 15, 1992, Andrei Chikatilo was found guilty of fifty-two counts of murder and was handed fifty-two separate death sentences. On February 14, 1994, he was executed by a single shot to the back of the neck....
