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Since the article is already really long and detailed, I was just looking to see if there were any minor changes I could fix, or if there is any other information I could find to help the article.

Gray, Malcolm. "Russia's Ripper." EBSCOhost.com. EbscoHost, 29 June 1992. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. This article claims that he confessed to 55 murders whereas the Wiki article says he confessed to 56. This article also says his trial began May 14th as opposed to April 14th. There is a lot of little information that is inaccurate on the Wiki article compared to this one.

Gladstone, Valerie. "Chikatilo times Three." Academic Onefile. Publishers Weekly, 8 Feb. 1993. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. This article also claims that he confessed to 55 murders, not 56. This article also says "For a while, because young boys were the victims, they thought the killer might be gay and sent more than 100 gay men to jail." This could go well under investigation and how the police accused and arrested the wrong people.

On 30 October, police found the body of a 16-year-old boy named Vadim Gromov at Donleskhoz station. The wounds upon Gromov's body immediately linked his murder to the manhunt: the youth had been strangled, stabbed 27 times and castrated, with the tip of his tongue severed and his left eye stabbed.[107] Gromov had been killed on 17 October, 10 days before the start of the initiative. The same day Gromov's body was found, Chikatilo lured another 16-year-old boy, Viktor Tishchenko, off a train at Kirpichnaya station, another station under surveillance from undercover police, and killed him in a nearby forest.[108] Tishchenko's body—bearing 40 separate knife wounds—was found on 3 November. Since Chikatilo had murdered young boys, police thought the killer was a gay man, and they sent over 100 gays to jail in hopes of preventing future murderers.