Chikatilo was afforded various names including the lesopolosa killer, the Butcher of Rostov, and the Red Ripper. This implies that he was selected as the subject of the study having met pre-determined criteria. As the subject, Chikatilo was selected using a non-probability purposive sampling procedure. Andrei Chikatilo was a serial murderer who lived in the harsh environmental conditions of the Soviet Union from his birth in 1936 until his execution in 1994. The psychological model and the inferiority complex construct were utilised in this single-case psychobiography to systematically deconstruct and reconstruct Chikatilo’s life in such a manner that a comprehensive and holistic psychological understanding emerged. The primary aim of the study was to explore, describe and reconstruct the life of Chikatilo by emphasising (a) his functioning as a serial murderer by applying the primitive psychic mechanisms proposed by Claus and Lidberg’s Schahriar’s Syndrome Model of Serial Murder (SSM), and (b) his development that led to the emergence of an inferiority complex, investigated through the presence of four sub-constructs derived from Adler’s theoretical framework of Individual Psychology. Despite the ongoing fascination with this crime typology, comprehensive understanding of the intrapsychic dynamics of the serial murderer remains an area that would benefit from enhanced investigation and conceptualisation. Serial murder has been described in forensic and psychological literature as a complex phenomenon that fascinates both scholars who work with this population group and society.
This study entails a psychobiography of the serial murderer, Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (1936-1994).
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