Zakotnova was Chikatilo's first victim. Other suspects for the murder were 25-year-old Alexander Kravchenko and 50-year-old Anatoly Grigoriev. On 8 January 1979 Grigoriev hanged himself. On 5 July 1983 Kravchenko was executed for the murder.
(22 December 1978)
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Wednesday 20th of September 1933 (-) — Assassin of SA-leader Horst Wessel Albrecht Höhler is abducted and shot to pieces by an SA commando. Berlin SA-Gruppenführer Karl Ernst ordered Höhler to be taken from a Gestapo prison at Alexanderplatz to Frankfurt an der Oder. In a wooded area near the highway Höhler was surrounded by armed men, riddled with bullets and buried in a shallow grave.