He was convicted and sentenced to death for fifty-two of these murders in October 1992, although the Supreme Court of Russia ruled in 1993 that insufficient evidence existed to prove his guilt in nine of those killings. Chikatilo confessed to fifty-six murders and was tried for fifty-three of them in April 1992. Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo ( Russian: Андре́й Рома́нович Чикати́ло, romanized: Andréy Románovich Chikatílo Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило, romanized: Andriy Romanovych Chykatylo 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Soviet serial killer nicknamed The Butcher of Rostov, The Rostov Ripper, and The Red Ripper who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 19 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR.