Viktor burakov biography

The Killer Department: Viktor Burakov's eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History

February 12, 2025
"The Killer Department" es una crónica fascinante y perturbadora de la cacería del asesino en serie Andrei Chikatilo, escrita por el periodista Robert Cullen. Publicado en 1993, el libro detalla los ocho años de investigación liderados por el detective Viktor Burakov en la región de Rostov, Rusia, en un contexto de ineficiencia burocrática y secretismo soviético. Más que una historia de crímenes, esta obra es una crítica incisiva a las fallas estructurales del sistema soviético y a los obstáculos que la policía enfrentó en la captura del asesino.

La historia se desarrolla en los años 80, en los últimos años de la Unión Soviética, cuando el crimen violento no era reconocido oficialmente como un problema sistémico. La narrativa de Cullen muestra cómo el régimen comunista insistía en proyectar la imagen de una sociedad segura y moralmente superior, lo que resultó en la ocultación de información sobre asesinatos y violaciones. La censura mediática y la f

The Killer Department

1993 non-fiction book by Robert Cullen

AuthorRobert Collen
SubjectAndrei Chikatilo
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherPantheon Books

Publication date

1993
ISBN0679422765

The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History is a non-fiction book detailing the manhunt, capture and subsequent conviction of Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. Written by Robert Cullen (at the time a foreign reporter covering issues relating to the Soviet Union and Russia for The New Yorker magazine), the book was released in 1993.[1]

The Killer Department was made into a feature film titled Citizen X in 1995.

Overview

The hardcover overview from amazon.com says: "obsessed with finding the killer, faced formidable odds-among them the maze of the Soviet system".[2]

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The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History

This is a chilling tale of one man's savage need to kill and another's sworn determination to stop him. They found the first body in 1982, in the woods near Rostov-on-Don: a young girl, lying faceup with her skeletal hands raised near her head as if trying to fend someone off. Over the next eight years, fifty-two more bodies were found in and around Rostov, a river city 600 miles south of Moscow. The victims had been savagely slashed with a knife, with their eyes gouged out, their sexual organs excised, their bodies spattered with the killer's semen. As the body count mounted, a remarkable Rostov detective, Viktor Burakov, became obsessed with hunting down the killer. He faced formidable odds. Archaic attitudes toward sex crimes and the nightmarish maze of the Soviet system produced an extraordinary range of false leads and bizarre theories: a satanic cult had formed, the murders were the work of a gang of mentally retarded boys, the killer must be a doct

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