Alexander Pichushkin
Russian serial killer
Summary
Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin, also known as the Chessboard Killer and the Bittsa Park Maniac, is a Russian serial killer and former warehouse worker who is believed to have killed at least forty-nine people, and possibly as many as sixty, between 1992 and 2006. Pichushkin was active in Moscow's Bittsa Park, where a number of the victims' bodies were found. On 29 October 2007, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. At time of imprisonment, he was unmarried with no children.
Originally created by Mykonos Mike
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