Infamous ‘chessboard serial killer’ who brutally slaughtered 48 individuals poised to admit to 11 extra murders

THE infamous “chessboard serial killer” who heinously executed 28 individuals is posed to admit to a stunning 11 extra murders.

Evil Alexander Pichushkin, 50, focused largely the homeless, alcoholics, or the aged earlier than bludgeoning them with a hammer.

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Pichushkin “declared his readiness to admit to having dedicated 11 murders of women and men”, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service mentioned.

The murders had been dedicated round Bitsevsky Park in Moscow – like his different victims.

The monster had a killing spree that spanned from 1992 to 2006 earlier than getting tried and jailed in 2007.

He bought his title because the “chessboard killer” as he chillingly instructed detectives he had plotted to place a coin on each sq. of a 64-square chessboard, representing every of his victims.

Pichushkin is at the moment serving a number of life sentences in Russia’s bleak Polar Owl jail within the Russian Arctic, the place he’s identified to obtain love letters from Russian ladies.

At present’s announcement comes as a shock because the killer first confessed to further executions in a video recording practically 20 years in the past.

On the time, he mentioned there have been 12 further killings, however now will confess to 11 extra.

The taped confession was stored secret on the time, however emerged publicly in 2021.

In it, the maniac – handcuffed and carrying a T-shirt – mentioned: “The Bitsa Maniac, as they name me, it’s me. The truth is I dedicated 61 murders.

“Sixty of them in Bitsa Park and one within the metropolis [Moscow].

“A lot of the our bodies I drowned in sewage wells. Why did I kill?

“I don’t know. There was no sense in life for me with out this.”

His 2006 confession got here after he was tricked into pondering he was talking dwell at a press convention.

Police had arrange the session after he mentioned he would solely confess dwell on TV.

Later he admitted in an interview from his top-security jail – from which he won’t ever be freed – that every killing “introduced me colossal pleasure.

“It’s akin to an orgasm.”

It was additionally revealed in 2021 {that a} sufferer who was attacked and left for useless in a sewer by Pichushkin had given cops his title and tackle after he had killed 24 individuals.

Maria Viricheva was 18 in February 2002 when Pichushkin noticed her in tears after a row along with her boyfriend and pretended to consolation her.

Her persuaded her to go together with him into the park.

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As they walked, he instructed her his title and tackle, and he or she realised she lived near him.

However Pichushkin had just one intention, which was to brutally kill her.

She mentioned: “I noticed an open sewage properly.

“[Pichushkin] grabbed my hair and began banging my head towards the iron properly cowl.

“I knew… he would kill me.”

She then let herself fall and crash a whopping 25ft into the sewage properly.

By a miracle, many hours later she managed to elevate a manhole cowl and scream for assist.

Maria was taken to hospital the place she gave a policeman her attacker’s title and tackle.

However the lazy cop – named Kalashnikov – was not all for probing the assault on her.

He promised to inform her boyfriend she was secure, and get him to convey some garments for her, however provided that she pretended she had fallen into the properly.

The policeman was later jailed for incompetence.

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