''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 Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (russian: Андре́й Рома́нович Чикати́ло, translit=Andréy Románovich Chikatílo; uk, Андрій Романович Чикатило, translit=Andriy Romanovych Chykatylo; 16 October 1936 ...

. Written by Robert Cullen (at the time a foreign reporter covering issues relating to the

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and

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for ''

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'' magazine), the book was released in 1993. ''The Killer Department'' was made into a feature film titled ''

Citizen X ''Citizen X'' is a 1995 American television film which covers the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture an unknown serial killer of women and children in the 1980s, and the successive bureaucratic obstacles they consistently enco ...

'' in 1995.

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says: "obsessed with finding the killer, faced formidable odds-among them the maze of the Soviet system".

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detailing the release of ''The Killer Department''
''The Killer Department''
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