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Oct 24, 2007 · Fred Attewill. Wed 24 Oct 2007 05.37 EDT. Alexander Pichushkin, the so-called "chessboard killer", was well known along the leafy lanes of Moscow's Bitsevsky Park. The 33-year-old supermarket...
Jun 30, 2022 · Updated September 30, 2022. Alexander Pichushkin was found guilty of murdering at least 48 people in a Moscow park — and during his trial in 2007, he demanded that the court recognize that he had actually killed many more. When future-serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was a child, he fell backward off of a swing.
Mar 31, 2021 · But, for a period of time between 1999 and 2006, a Russian outcast named Alexander Pichushkin tied chess and homicide together, earning the nickname "the Chessboard Killer" in the process. After his seven-year killing spree, Pichushkin was convicted of murdering 48 people; some believe the he killed as many as 60, according to FocusTV (posted ...
Oct 24, 2007 · A Russian man who said he wanted to kill 64 people, one for every square on a chessboard, was found guilty Wednesday of murdering 48 people in Moscow. Alexander Pichushkin went on trial last...
Apr 30, 2009 · Russia had never seen anything quite like the prolific serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, for whom “life without killing is like life without food.” How many lives did he take? More than...
Oct 29, 2007 · Pichushkin was given his nickname by the Russian media because he told detectives in a confession that he had hoped to put a coin on every square of a 64-square chessboard for each of his...
Oct 29, 2007 · Alexander Pichushkin, who claimed to have killed 60 people, stood in a reinforced glass cage with his hands cuffed behind his back as a judge delivered the harshest possible punishment under...
