Story Behind Desea

It’s been quite a long time since I posted back stories about what our songs are about so it’s about time I started doing that again. I’ll start with one of our most popular songs, Desea.

Desea is based off of the murderer Andrei Chikitilo, also known as the Red Ripper, The Rostov Ripper and the Butcher of Rostov.

Chikitilo had a pretty traumatic childhood. He was often beaten for being a chronic bed wetter, his brother Steppan was kidnapped and eaten by his starving neighbors, he witness Blitzkrieg, his father was branded as a traitor after being captured by Nazis, and in his late adolescence it became evident that he had chronic impotence.

Chikitilo committed his first murder in December 1978 when he tried to rape a nine year old girl. He was unable to achieve an erection and when the girl struggled to escape he stabbed her at least 22 times, even in the eye sockets, until she died. In the process he ejaculated.

From that Chikitilo was only able to achieve sexual satisfaction from killing people. His trademarks were sexual assault, multiple stabbings with focus on the heart, sex organs and the eye sockets. His victims were women and children, both male and female. He later said he targeted runaways, vagrants, prostitutes, the homeless, and the mentally challenged and thought he was doing society a favor by ridding it of it’s problems.

Eventually Chikitilo was caught and confessed to 53 murders. He was found guilty of 52 and was sentenced to death.

You can learn more about Chikitilo at these and other sites: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/chikatilo/coat_1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo


The lyrics to Desea can be found at: www.myspace.com/OCCIDIS

If you don’t know any of our other back stories, you can check them out by clicking on the link on the right that says “Story Behind the Song” and it’ll take you to the older posts where we talked about Imber, PMS and Peel.