Alexander Pichushkin
Alexander Pichushkin | |
|---|---|
| Александр Пичушкин | |
Pichushkin in 2007 | |
| Born | Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin 9 April 1974 |
| Other names | The Bitsa Park Maniac The Chessboard Killer |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
| Details | |
| Victims | 49 (convicted) 60–63 (according to himself) |
Span of crimes | 27 July 1992 – 14 June 2006 |
| Country | Russia |
Date apprehended | 16 June 2006 |
Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Пичу́шкин; born 9 April 1974), also known as the Chessboard Killer (Убийца с шахматной доской) and the Bitsa Park Maniac (Битцевский маньяк), is a Russian serial killer 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 Bitsa Park, where a number of the victims' bodies were found. In 2007 he was sentenced to life imprisonment.