Editing Andrei Chikatilo (section)

===Suspected victims===
* Chikatilo confessed to three additional murders which police were unable to verify.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/30/world/the-man-in-the-iron-cage-a-russian-horror-story.html|last=Schmemann|first=George|title=The Man in the Iron Cage: A Russian Horror Story|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=30 July 1992|access-date=30 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829110611/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/30/world/the-man-in-the-iron-cage-a-russian-horror-story.html|archive-date=29 August 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> According to Chikatilo, these three murders were committed in and around the city of Shakhty between 1980 and 1982. Despite his confessions, police were unable to either match his descriptions of these victims to any [[missing person]]s reports,{{sfn|Conradi|1992|p=205}} or locate any human remains, despite thoroughly searching the locations where Chikatilo stated he had committed these murders. Therefore, he was never charged with these three further killings he claimed to have committed.
* Chikatilo is the [[prime suspect]] in the murder of 18-year-old Irina Pogoryelova, a court secretary from Bataysk who had disappeared on 11 August 1986 and whose body was found buried in the grounds of a collective farm on 18 August. Pogoryelova's body bore precisely the same mutilations found upon victims Chikatilo killed both before and after 1986. In his initial confession, Chikatilo had denied he had killed Pogoryelova, yet later insisted at his trial he had indeed killed her.
* At his trial, Chikatilo claimed he had committed four further murders in addition to the fifty-three for which he was brought to trial. Presumably, three of these victims were the three he had initially confessed to having committed in 1990 and which the police were unable to either locate or match to any missing persons records. The fourth individual he specifically named was Irina Pogoryelova. If his claims of having killed four additional victims are true, the total number of victims Chikatilo claimed is fifty-seven.