Alexander Pichushkin

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Alexander Pichushkin Biography

Russian serial killer commonly referred to as “The Chessboard Killer” who is thought to have murdered at least 49 people in Bitsa Park in Moscow. He was convicted in October 2007 and sentenced to life in prison.

He suffered a severe head injury as a child which resulted in him being sent to a school for children with learning disabilities.

He was captured after authorities discovered a metro ticket on one victim’s body, leading them to the metro system’s surveillance footage, which depicted the victim walking with Pichushkin.

He lived with his paternal grandfather, whose death sent him into a spiral of alcoholism.

His crimes are often compared to that of fellow Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.

Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Пичу́шкин , born 9 April 1974), also known as The Chessboard Killer (Russian: Убийца с шахматной доской ) and The Bitsa Park Maniac (Russian: Битцевский маньяк ), is a Russian serial killer. He is believed to have killed at least 48 people, and possibly as many as 60, between 1992 and 2006 in Southwest Moscow’s Bitsa Park, where a number of the victims’ bodies were found. In 2007 he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Pichushkin committed his first homicide on 27 July 1992 when he was 18. The victim was Mikhail Odichuk. They had been classmates, and Pichushkin had invited Odichuk on a killing expedition. Pichuskin had openly told Odichuk that he wanted to kill someone, and suggested they cooperate in the act. Odichuk had tagged along, half in jest, probably not quite sure what to expect. When Pichushkin realized that Odichuk was not serious about killing, he killed Odichuk instead.

Russian media has speculated that Pichushkin was motivated, in part, by a macabre competition with another notorious Russian serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, the ‘Rostov Ripper’, who was convicted in 1992 of killing 53 children and young women over a 12-year period. Pichushkin has said his aim was to kill 64 people, the number of squares on a chessboard. He later recanted this statement, saying that he would have continued killing indefinitely had he not been stopped.

Pichushkin’s grandfather took Pichushkin to live in his home and encouraged him to pursue intellectual pursuits outside of school. The deepest of these interests was chess. Pichushkin was taught how to play, and after demonstrating his ability, was introduced to the exhibition games against elderly men who played publicly in Bitsa Park. It turned out that Pichushkin was an outstanding chess player, and, for the first time, he found a channel for his aggression when dominating the chessboard in all of his games. Pichushkin continued to be bullied by mainstream school children throughout his adolescence, and he suffered an emotional blow when, toward the end of this period, his grandfather died. Pichushkin was left to return to his mother’s home, after which he enrolled as a student. According to reports, the death of his grandfather greatly affected Pichushkin. In an effort to both dull the pain of the loss as well as to calm his severe aggressive tendencies, he began to consume large quantities of vodka. He continued to play chess both at home and in the exhibition games in Bitsa Park, now joining the other men in drinking vodka, though unlike them he could play without being greatly affected by the alcohol. It was at this time that Pichushkin began to develop a more sinister hobby that, at the time, remained unknown to anyone: whenever he knew he was going to come into contact with children, he would take a video camera along and proceed to threaten them. On one disturbing and alarmingly prophetic occasion that has since been made public, he held a young child by one leg, upside down, and said to the camera: “You are in my power now… I am going to drop you from the window… and you will fall 15 meters to your death…” He then watched these videos repeatedly to reaffirm his power. However, by 1992 this practice had become insufficient to satisfy his urges.

Pichushkin stepped up his crimes in 2001. Pichushkin targeted primarily elderly homeless men by luring them with the offer of free vodka. After drinking with them, he would throw them down sewers in a park. The most victims were killed this way during this period.

He was arrested on 16 June 2006, and convicted on 24 October 2007 of 49 murders and 3 attempted murders. He asked a Russian court to add an additional 11 victims to his body count, bringing his claimed death toll to 60, and 3 surviving victims. During his trial, as with Andrei Chikatilo, Pichushkin was housed in a glass cage for his own protection. It took Judge Vladimir Usov an hour to read the verdict: life in prison with the first 15 years to be spent in solitary confinement. Pichushkin is spending his days in solitary confinement at the Arctic penal colony “Polar Owl”.

The murder of Marina Moskalyova, 36, in June 2006, was his last. When her body was found in Bitsa Park, complete with Pichushkin’s trademark injuries, a metro ticket found in her possession led authorities to review surveillance tape footage from the Moscow metro system, where she was filmed, just hours before her death, walking on the platform accompanied by Pichushkin. According to the documentary, “Serial Killers”, Pichushkin, once apprehended, led police officers to the scenes of many of his crimes in Bitsa Park, and demonstrated a keen recollection of how the murders were committed. He was filmed reenacting them in great detail, a process which is a regular part of Russian criminal investigation. He also revealed that some of the murders he committed were not done using his preferred method (hammer blows to the back of the head), but by throwing his victims down into the network of sewers running underneath Bitsa Park (although one of his victims did survive this ordeal). He claimed that while killing people he felt like God as he decided whether his victims should live or die. “In all cases I killed for only one reason. I killed in order to live, because when you kill, you want to live,” he once said. “For me, life without murder is like life without food for you. I felt like the father of all these people, since it was me who opened the door for them to another world.” Experts at the Serbsky Institute, Russia’s main psychiatric clinic, have found Pichushkin sane, but suffering from antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

As Pichushkin said, “the fact the victims had disappeared has no longer been able to satisfy me; I needed more emotions”. Since this moment he had killed them with repeated blows to the head with a hammer. In what became his trademark, or signature, he would then push a vodka bottle into the gaping wound in their skulls. He also targeted younger men, children and women. He would always attack from behind in order to take the victim by surprise and to avoid spilling blood on his clothes. Ten of his victims lived in the same four-building complex where he lived—four from 2 Khersonskaya; two from 4 Khersonskaya, next door; three from 6; and one from 8.

Pichushkin grew up on 2 Khersonskaya Street in Moscow. He lived there with his mother, younger half sister, her husband, and their son in a two-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor a six-minute walk from the north end of Bitsevsky Park. This house is a typical example of khrushchyovka, the Soviet Union’s first large-scale public-housing projects.

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