9.After graduating from the Liberal Arts University in Russian Literature, Engineering and Marxism-Leninism in 1971, he accepted a teaching job and Vocational school No. 32 in Novovshakhtinsk. He was very bad at his job, but stayed there because he found the company of young children arousing. He started off just peeping at the children in the restrooms but that eventually escalated to indecent assaults on both male and female students. When parents complained, he was moved to other schools. He had many such incidents at each school he taught at but was never reported to the proper authorities. Under the Soviet regime of the time, any indiscretion by a faculty member would reflect on the entire staff.In 1978, Chikatilo moved to Shakhty where he built a shack near the river. This was where he frequently took his victims. His first victim was a nine-year-old by the name of Lena Zakotnova. He lured her with promises of imported chewing gum to his shack. There he tried to rape her, but unable to achieve an erection, pressed on her throat with his forearm while repeatedly violating her with his fingers. He discovered that this made him orgasm like never before. When he noticed the girl was still alive he became afraid she would tell on him and stabbed her three times in the stomach. He then picked her and her belongings up and dragged them to the river where he through everything in. The freezing water carried everything away. The little girl was found the following day. She had frozen to death.Chikatilo was questioned about the murder but another man, Alexsandr Kravchenko was convicted and executed for the crime. In the time it took them to try, convict and execute the wrong man, the real killer, Chikatilo killed 14 more victims. His victims were young boys and girls. He had a new job that required him to travel a lot. As he traveled he picked up his victims at railway and bus stations. His victims were mostly vagrants ...