Promotional card with "PROTOTYPE" printed in blue across the back. Card is #179 as a promo while the actual card is #202 in the base set.
*Andrei Chikatilo was born in 1934 in the Ukraine. His older brother may have been abducted and cannabilized before his birth. As a child he was exposed to the horrors of Nazi occupation and post war famine. A Communist Party member for 25 years, he earned a master's degree in Russian literaturein 1971, married, and had two children despite impotence. In 1974, while working as a counselor, Chikatilo was discharged amid complaints of sexual misconduct. That year became a teacher in Shakti and began to murder. In 1981, he took a job as a supply officer, which allowed him to travel and kill in distant areas.
Chikatilo carried a black case in which he kept a knife and rope. He picked up youngsters of both sexes and varied ages, took them to wooded or otherwise deserted areas, raped, and killed them. Police suspected the former sex offender, but although they questioned him in 1984, sloppy labwork failed to match his blood type to semen found at crime sites. He was watched and followed, but eluded police to kill again. In 1990 he was finally arrested, and this time testing prduced a match in blood and fluid samples.
Chikatilo confessed to the 36 killings and cannabilizations of which he had been accused, as well as to an additional 17 murders. He expressed relief at being captured, saying, "I was like a crazed wolf. I wondered if these low-class elements had a right to exist" - but he showed no remorse over the murders or over the fact that an innocent man had been executed for one of his early killings. In 1992, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the dyevyat gram, execution by a single shot to the head.* Source: Card Back