Roman Burtsev

Roman Vladimirovich Burtsev (Рома́н Влади́мирович Бу́рцев; born April 13, 1971), known as The Kamensky Chikatilo (Каменский Чикатило), is a Russian serial killer and pedophile. Between 1993 and 1996, he raped and strangled six young children: five girls and one of the victims' brother. He committed all of the crimes in his hometown.

Modus operandi
Burtsev differed from similar murderers, in that he carefully hid the victims' bodies. All bodies, except one, were found only after his arrest. He was recognized as sane, and psychiatrist Alexander Bukhanovsky said that Burtsev was one of the most brilliant murderers he ever had to deal with.

The first murders
Roman Burtsev committed his first double murder on September 5, 1993, his victims being siblings 12-year-old Yevgeny Churilov and 7-year-old Olesya Churilova. The perpetrator met the children near a dump in the Zavodsky settlement. He wanted to rape the girl and, to get rid of the superfluous observer, killed Churilov, inflicting three blows to the boy's head with his fists and three more with a metal plate. Then he raped and strangled the girl, leaving the children's corpses in a garbage pit.

Victims

 * September 15, 1993 - Yevgeny Churilov (12) and Olesya Churilova (7).
 * July 17, 1994 - Marina Alexeyeva (12)
 * May 23, 1995 - Anya Kulinkina (9). He seized the girl by force, raping and then killing her on the bank of the Donets.
 * July 1, 1996 - Ira Ternovskaya (9)
 * July 16, 1996 - Natasha Kirbabina (12)

Personality
Burtsev was born on April 13, 1971, in a family of alcoholics. He was an introvert, and did not stand out from other children. He later explained the rape of children by the desire to "try virginity", and the murders as the unwillingness to be discovered.

Arrest, trial and sentence
It was the desire to hide his crimes that drove Burtsev. After one of the crimes, he asked an elderly woman who lived nearby for a spade, with which he buried the corpse and then threw away. Subsequently, the woman described in detail the appearance of the suspicious person. It was mentioned that a girl, whom Burtsev did not manage to drag away, helped catch the criminal.

Burtsev confessed to everything immediately after his arrest. The court sentenced him to death, which was later replaced by life imprisonment. He is serving his sentence in the White Swan prison (in Solikamsk, Perm Krai). Burtsev wrote letters to the "Russian Birch" Foundation, where he asked for help with medicines, because the local MCH didn't always have the necessary drugs, and when they did the number of them was limited. He wrote that he had a whole bunch of diseases, including hemorrhoids, prostatitis, avitaminosis, varicose veins and nail fungus.

In the media

 * The episode "Triangle of Death" from the series "Unexplained, but fact" (2005).
 * Dashing nineties "The heirs of Chikatilo" (2007).
 * "The moment of truth" (December 3, 2012)