Image: Shutterstock.com | Above: A stock photograph of a retro wiretapping technique, using a reel to reel tape recorder.
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Only three days before a massive 350-man Russian police blanket had failed to stop a killing.
Again, a huge police presence failed to stop the serial killer from one last murder but crucially, this time, Andrei Chikatilo was stopped by a policeman after acting suspiciously and his details were taken.
After finding he had been previously arrested in 1984, he was placed under surveillance which later led to the arrest of the impotent cannibal killer...