SERIAL KILLERS: Ed Kemper & Rostov Ripper

During the week of April 14th, 1973, 24-year-old serial killer Edmund Kemper, known as the Co-Ed Killer, brutally murdered his own mother in California. By then, Ed had already killed six young women in Santa Cruz.

During the same week in 1992, Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo went on trial. But it was too little too late for his victim’s loved ones. Because by then, Chikatilo had been terrorizing the Russian city of Rostov on Don for years, killing over 50 innocent people.

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