Neuroscientists maintain a connection between damage to the frontal lobe of the brain and neuropsychiatric abnormalities, such as aggressive behavior and psychopathy. Then, read about Pichushkins murderous rival, Russian killer Andrei Chikatilo. [3] Pichushkin was aware of the note, but was undeterred. 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. GQ may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. With no evidence tying him to the murder, Pichushkin was released. It was only after the bodies started turning up in the forest that the Interior Ministry took over the case and that people like Andrei Suprunenkopeople who actually know how to find serial killersstarted looking for him. Pichushkin 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 sewer lines beneath Bitsa Park (although one of his victims did survive this ordeal). The hearing room is filled with television correspondents, newspaper reporters, Internet scribes. Pichushkin would approach his victim in Bitsa Park (the vast majority of them elderly homeless people),[10] offer to share a drink of vodka, and then kill themtypically by striking the back of their skull with a hammer or a bottle, although he was also alleged to have pushed his victims into the sewage canal to drown. The trees loomed over the power lines on Balaklavski Prospekt, and a red-taupe sky stretched across the forest. Initially, he admitted to "only" killing 48 . According to him, his goal was to kill 64 people the same as the number of squares on a chessboard. In November 2005, a 63-year-old ex-cop named Nikolai Zakharchenko turned up dead in the woods. He started by killing elderly and homeless men, mostly in a Moscow park, and had moved on to killing his neighbors, before getting caught in 2006. Due to the gruesomeness and number of murders, Russians considered reinstating the death penalty. Later, when Alexander Pichushkin was found guilty of killing dozens of people in the grisliest manner imaginable, experts would attribute this injury to the driving force behind his rage, and perhaps the reason he was so eager to kill. What is love? By then the count was approaching thirty. 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. Criminologists, psychologists, and serial-killer aficionados weighed in online with theories and speculation. There is a story (unverified) that in late 2001 or early 2002, Pichushkin wandered into a police station near the park and declared for all to hear that he killed peoplenot once or sometimes but regularly. Natasha Pichushkina is equally dismissive. He expects to die in his late fifties, the average life expectancy for Russian men, who are prone to all kinds of self-abuse and have, at best, spotty health care. Alexander Pichushkin, best known for being a Criminal, was born in Russia on Tuesday, April 9, 1974. Because that is what I do, Pichushkin supposedly said. His first 15 years of his imprisonment were to be served in complete and total . Until the night he was arrested, he lived most of his life at 2 Khersonskaya, where he slept on a couch in the first bedroom, which doubled as the living room. Then she tells a story about a lie he once told. Natasha is saying that SashaAlexander, the Maniacused to be close with his nephew, but Seriozha hasnt seen him in almost eighteen months, and hes beginning to forget him. In the winter, its popular with cross-country skiers. How could she have known? His final victim, a woman from the store, was suspicious enough of his request. A cold night in December 2007. Pichushkin was left to return to his mother's home, after which he enrolled as a student. Now that corpses were appearing regularly, there were policesome in uniform, some in plain clothesscouring the park twenty-four hours a day. There are bodies, cops, sketches of suspects. The cops asked for Virichevas registration papers. They talk about him on TV every night. Its worth pointing out that the Maniac, so proud of never lying, lied about killing Marina Moskalyeva. The grocery clerk. Nyet, nyet, nyetuy, he says. On the other side of a narrow doorway, her grandson is playing a video game that involves shooting barnyard animals. To conceal the bodies, he often threw his victims into a sewer pit. Little is known of Pichushkin's early years. In 2007 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. And still they did nothing. Pavel Ivannikov loosens his tie and asserts that even though his client has been convicted of some very heinous crimes, the judges should have mercy and reduce the sentence to twenty-five years. As they were about to enter the woods, the Maniac asked the man what he would wish for if he were granted one wish. Sometimes he offered to show them his dog's grave. Alexander Pichushkin, 42, aimed to murder one victim for each square on the chessboard - wedging a vodka bottle into the skulls of his victims as sick calling card. She knows, of course, about the disappearances. 9, 1974) is a Russian serial killer and sadist who was raised in a seemingly stable household lead by his stepfather, mother, and shared with two half-siblings. He always took his victims to one of two wells that connected to the citys vast sewer system. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. Finally, everyone but 32 disappeared, heading inside to their apartments or ducking into the grocery store. [17] Pichushkin appealed his sentencing, claiming it was "too harsh" and asking for a reduction to twenty-five years. Natasha Pichushkina is sitting on her sons bed in the familys apartment, and she is crying. As he was sitting up, the swing swung back and hit him in the forehead. Hes talking about intimacy, of all things. Suprunenko says he always stared straight at Pichushkin. But then Moskalyevas sonbefore calling his fatherrang Pichushkin. He was just a teenager when he pushed a boy out of a window, according to Pichushkin's televised confession. She says he had a cat named Mursik and a fish tank, and that he loved the TV adaptation of Alexandre Dumass Countess of Monsoreau. Some faux camaraderieYou respect me, and I respect you, so lets drink!and then a surprise blow to the head, followed by a shove down the well. If the victim wasnt dead before he plunged the thirty feet to the bottom, the impact would finish the job. She covers her face. His co-workers always referred to him as quiet, perhaps a little strange, but certainly not dangerous. His total gave him a higher body count than Jeffrey Dahmer, Jack the Ripper, and the Son of Sam combined. He lived there with his mother Natalia Elmouradovna, his younger half-sister, her husband, and their son in a two-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor. This was his routine. He offered her a cigarette. He would drink with them, let them imbibe as much as they wanted, then kill them, usually with blows to the head with a hammer. "In all cases I killed for only one reason. After a five-week trial, a jury found Pichushkin guilty last Wednesday on all counts. Contents 1 Background 2 Killings, Capture, and Incarceration 3 Modus Operandi This abuse served to intensify Pichushkin's anger. This was strange; usually you had to hit the buzzer to get into the building. The Maniac is a maniac, and hes evil, and no one disputes this, but he is also very much a man in the way Russians think of men. Viricheva said she didnt have any papers. The public envisioned a monster, an animal of a man, potentially more than one man, hiding around every corner, living in shadows, preying on the weak. She is trying to describe her son. The press dubbed Pichushkin the Bitsevsky Park Maniac and then the Chessboard Killer, because the police allegedly found a chessboard in his apartment on which he had recorded his murders, one per square. He says somethinglater he will try to remember exactly what it was he saidand then he smirks. He started in the early '90s and often targeted elderly or transient men, some of which he had formerly played chess with, in the nearby park. Pichushkin had transcended Pichushkin. But it was Pichushkin who delivered Pichushkin to the police. He doesnt know where he is. He is practiced. Beginning with Zakharchenko and continuing into early 2006, the people on Khersonskaya and up and down the icy boulevards began to grasp the threads connecting the people who had vanished. But now he doesnt. Russian killer Alexander Pichushkin looks on from a cell in a Moscow court room awaiting his sentence. Again they told him to leave. He endured a tough childhood and even though Pichushkin was once a sociable child, he changed after he suffered massive brain damage at an early age. The boy managed to crawl out. Number 32 was in a sour mood. [4] Following this accident, Pichushkin frequently became hostile and impulsive. My son was actually going to marry someone, she says. The khrushchovki are separated by single-lane roads and narrow strips of park. Picture: NTV One Siberian woman, who works in a children's shop, has won a special place in his heart, and she even calls herself Natalya Pichushkin, as if they are already married. While he was aware of the risks involved in killing his co-worker, he still murdered her. According to reports, the death of his grandfather greatly affected Pichushkin. While the police did question him in the case, it was later declared a suicide. Alexander Pichushkin a Russian serial killer known as the Chessboard Killer and The Bitsa Park Maniac. (Russia doesnt have the death penalty.) His brutality increased as time progressed and his confidence grew. He would always attack from behind in order to take the victim by surprise and avoid spilling blood on his clothes. The rumors metastasized. She begins talking to herself. Once Pronin was dead, Pichushkin threw his body into a nearby well. His parents divorced when he was quite young and he grew up without a father figure to guide him. Sorry, no subs, footage only. In any event, his nine-year hiatus ended May 17, 2001, when he killed Yevgeny Pronin. After the accident, Pichushkins mother sent him to a special school for the disabled, which Pichushkin reportedly found traumatic. In the master bedroom were Pichushkins younger half sister, Katya, now 27; her husband, also named Alexander; and their son, 6-year-old Sergei, or Seriozha. "For me, life without murder is like life without food for you. The five-story buildings, or khrushchovki,named after then premier Nikita Khrushchev, were the Soviet Unions first large-scale public-housing projects. I am going to drop you from the window and you will fall fifteen meters to your death" He then watched these videos repeatedly to reaffirm his power. After his arrest, he was found guilty of 49 murders and three attempted murders. What can I do with these things?. He wanted recognition and respect. There was a doctor walking his dog, she says, and he saw one of these wild dogs with a bone in his mouth. The cop told Lobov to go home. he is a sallow-faced man with a stout physique and a deep, low voice. Prosecutors said most of his victims were killed in Bittsa Park in southern Moscow from 2001 until his arrest . However, he confessed to have killed eleven more. Also Known As: Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin. There are 64 squares on a chessboard could the remaining empty squares on Pichushkin's board be an ominous warning of killings to come? Only a few recent serial killers have been as prolific, including Andrei Chikatilo, also Russian, convicted of fifty-two murders in 1994, and Yang Xinhai, who took sixty-seven lives in central China from 1999 to 2003. His targets also included younger men and women. He set a goal of killing at least 64 people, which corresponded to the squares on a chessboard, in order to eventually surpass his idol, Andrei Chikatilo. Theyd been classmates, and Pichushkin had invited Odichuk on a killing expedition. Alexander Pichushkin, an unassuming supermarket worker, would offer passersby in a southern Moscow park a shot of vodka or beer. The way the Maniac talked about killinghe would tell the court that ones first murder is like first lovemade it sound like a biological imperative. Pichushkin, filled with an enormous excitement, made his approach. Echoing her son, she says he never lies. Chessboard Killer, is led into the court room at Moscows City Court in October 2007. Pichushkin waited until his intended victim was intoxicated and then he hit him or her repeatedly with a blunt instrument a hammer or a piece of pipe. They were narrowing their search, talking to everyone, compiling sketches of suspects. Nobody knew anything; therefore, everybody did. Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin (Russian: , born 9 April 1974), also known as the Chessboard Killer (Russian: ) and the Bitsa Park Maniac (Russian: ), is a Russian serial killer who is believed to have killed at least forty-nine people, and possibly as many as . However, this changed following an incident in which Pichushkin fell backwards off a swing, which then struck him in the forehead as it swung back. All maniacs want to talk., They would sit in one of the holding cells, Suprunenko on one side, Pichushkin on the other, under fluorescent lights, smoking. We had the note, Suprunenko says, and we had video footage of Pichushkin and this woman getting on the metro at Novye Cheryomushki and getting off at Konkovo which is to the immediate west of the parkso we naturally suspected Pichushkin.. Pichushkin was convicted of murdering forty-nine victims and suspected of killing as many as sixty. Pichushkin's confession was aired on Russian television. The simple fact is that the Maniacs desire to kill vastly exceeded the systems capacity to stop him, or even recognize that he existed. He must have been enthralled by this idea. [3] Experts speculated that this event damaged the frontal cortex of Pichushkin's brain; such damage is known to produce poor impulse regulation and a tendency towards aggression. Eventually some of the bodies turned up at a wastewater-treatment center about five miles away, having floated through the network of underground tunnels. Alexander Pichushkin, the so-called "chessboard killer", was well known along the leafy lanes of Moscow's Bitsevsky Park. The Mafia? Pichushkin has never denied the charges. But nine years is a long time to wait, especially for someone who would later tell the court that for me, life without killing is like life without food for you. He must have understood that once he started killingnot dabbling or experimenting but really killing, and killing wantonlyhe wouldnt stop. Russian serial killer, Alexander Pichushkin, speaks from prison. In reality, Alexander Pichushkin was working days at a grocery store, making small talk with the hundreds of people who passed through his register every day. When it became clear that Odiychuk wasn't as committed to the act, Pichushkin killed him instead of a random victim. Ten of the Maniacs victims lived in the same four-building complex where he livedfour from 2 Khersonskaya; two from 4 Khersonskaya, next door; three from 6; and one from 8. Asked why Pichushkin preferred the woods, he says, Have you ever tried killing someone on the street in broad daylight?, Suprunenko spent months questioning the Maniac and probably knows him better than anyone else, including Pichushkins family. Their apartment building was a six-minute walk from the north end of Bitsa Park.[2]. Pichushkin also said he threw a romantic rival out of a window the same year. He was arrested on 16th June 2006, and was eventually convicted in October the following year. Upon reaching early adolescence, his maternal grandfather recognized that Pichushkin was highly intelligent and felt that his innate talents were being wasted, as he wasn't involved in any activities at home and the school he was enrolled in focused more on overcoming disability than on promoting achievement. The investigator has a protean personality that shifts quickly from irritable to angry to sarcastic. July 27, 1992. He just walked or, more likely, stumbled. The Maniac, after all, is a clerk at the grocery store where they both work. An outstanding chess player, Pichushkin found a channel for his aggression when dominating the chessboard in all of his games. All rights reserved. _Da, ladno. A Moscow jury convicted Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", after four hours of deliberation. Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin, a.k.a. No, no, theres nothing. Thats all he says during the whole proceeding. He mostly targeted homeless elderly men, luring them with offers of free vodka. MAXIM MARMUR/AFP via Getty ImagesAlexander Pichushkin, Moscows Bittsevsky Maniac a.k.a. Russian media have speculated that Pichushkin was motivated, in part, by a macabre competition with another notorious Russian serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted of killing fifty-two children and young women over a twelve-year period. [11], Upon conviction, Judge Vladimir Usov sentenced Pichushkin to life imprisonment, with the first fifteen years to be spent in solitary confinement. Everyone does. Two nights later, on July 16, 2006, close to midnight, everyone at 2 Khersonskaya was about to go to sleep when someone knocked at the door. He laughs for a momenthis laughter is brief and infrequentand then the grin morphs into a frown, which morphs into a look of incredulity, which morphs into another stare. Asked whether Pichushkin might be gay, she shakes her head firmly. He is part of the daily chatter coursing through the apartment blocks that ring the park. He says what he has to say. Psychiatrists propose Pichushkin developed a propensity toward violence after suffering a sharp personality change due to his childhood injury. [3], From October 2005 to his final murder in 2006, Pichushkin's modus operandi changed. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. This is not to say that killing was not sexual for him. He used to repeatedly hit his victims heads with a hammer. As they neared the park, Pichushkin tried to cheer him up. At least thirteen corpses (including, possibly, that of victim 32) are believed to be stuck somewhere in the sewage system. Natasha grew up on Khersonskaya Street, and so did her son. But Lobov began screaming and clawing at his hair, and he grabbed one of the officers standing outside the station and started pointing and shouting and telling the cops they had to do something. The cops had questioned him about Odichuks death, an experience that must have spooked him. All along, or at least since he began killing in earnest in 2001, Pichushkin had been torn by an irreconcilable conflict. When Pichushkin was 4 years old, he fell backwardoff of a swing. They began walking around, trying to find someone to kill. Only two, or possibly three, of his victims were women. Due to his behavior, Pichushkin's mother decided to transfer him from the mainstream school he had been attending to one for children with learning disabilities. What is erotic is killing and all its associations, the mental links and symbols of murder. 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Who Is Suspected Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira? Pichushkin, after all, was supposed to be taking a stroll with his mother. But it wasnt until much later, after those corpses had been disposed of, that the authorities connected them to the disappearances near Bitsevsky Park. [18] During his trial, Pichushkin was housed in a glass cage for his own protection. When future-serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was a child, he fell backward off of a swing. Sasha said he wasnt scared of any maniac. He started in the early 90s and often targeted elderly or transient men, some of which he had formerly played chess with, in the nearby park. You never forget it.". He doesnt have a career. He became an exceptional player and found a way to channel his aggression by dominating the chessboard. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/alexander-pichushkin-14669.php. He told Odichuk he wanted to kill someone. While he was only convicted of murdering 49 people, he claims that he achieved his goal and that he murdered so many people he lost count. He eventually left the bodies in the open to be discovered, and also left broken vodka bottles sticking out of the skulls of some of his victims. If he had killed people he didnt know, in another neighborhood, it wouldnt have been as bad, but he killed people he knew. Indeed, the Maniac befriended people so he could kill them. Natasha Pichushkina, the Maniacs mother, moved into a two-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of 2 Khersonskaya, a six-minute walk from the north end of Bitsevsky Park, when she was 11 years old. Chilling. The Maniac is in a cell on a closed-caption screen, laughing, posing unwittingly in his televised cage. According toBiography, the dates on the board corresponded to the dates on which Pichushkin had murdered his victims. He is talking to someone we cant see. Once Odtchuk was dead, Pichushkin deposited his body near a sewer entrance at Bitsa Park, then returned to his mother's apartment a short distance away. Andrei Suprunenko, a trim, balding man with a blond mustache and large eyes, is sitting behind his cluttered desk, wearing a black turtleneck and a charcoal jacket, smoking prodigiously. But once the pair entered the forest, Pichushkin did not stray from his script. Source: allthatintresting During interrogation, the number of victims Pichushkin acknowledged continued to change. The 33-year-old supermarket worker played chess under the trees and. He appeared to be in competition with one of Russia's most well-known serial killers, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted of 52 murders in 1992. That means that at least forty people vanished before the police, and then the detectives at the Interior Ministry and the prosecutor generals office, realized there was a serial killer in Moscow. It would be four more yearsand several dozen more bodiesbefore Pichushkin was finally stopped. They were kind to me, she says. With his black button-down shirt and black T-shirt, he looks almost fashionable. Unable to be sentenced to death after the suspension of the death penalty in Russia in 1996, he received a life sentence with the first 15 years to be spent in solitary confinement. Prior to this transfer, children from the mainstream school were known to have physically and verbally bullied Pichushkin, referring to him as "that retard". This spree within a spree culminated on July 21, when victim 11, Victor Volkov, disappeared. There was total shock when we heard it was Sasha Pichushkin, says Natasha Fyedosova, a pale blond woman of 27 whose father, Boris Fyedosov, was the thirty-sixth victim. .css-m6thd4{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;color:#323232;text-transform:capitalize;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-m6thd4:hover{color:link-hover;}}Pablo Escobar. But when he reached him, the Maniac said, I havent seen her in two months, which was a strange thing to say about a woman he worked with every day. Next, check out these 21 chilling serial killer quotes. [8], When Odtchuk's body was discovered the following day, Moscow police opened an investigation. The killer was caught in 2006 when he killed his coworker, a woman who had informed her son that she would be out on a walk with Pichushkin, linking him to the crime. Theyre impossible questions, but theyre the only ones that really matter now, and every time they come up, Natasha cries and shakes her head and stares through a window at the darkened courtyard below. In 2007, Moscow police found a chessboard. His childhood was a difficult and troubled one. He also later claimed that had he not been stopped, the number would have only climbed. Pichushkin will never go free. Alexander Pichushkin killed his first victim in 1992 but killed only sporadically until 2001, when he began regularly targeting victims. AFP/STRINGER/Getty ImagesAlexander PIchushkin is led into trial by a court guard. In 2006, authorities arrested Pichushkin for the murder of a female coworker. Witness testimony provided to the police stated that Odtchuk was last seen with Pichushkin, walking in the direction of the park. But theres something else: In Russia, which remains violently homophobic, it may be that people have a hard time believing a gay man is capable of the kind of power or force of will that defined the Maniac. She had left a note for her son to tell him that she was taking a walk with Pichushkin. No one made any connections. In the late 1990s, the area around Bitsevsky Park became known as the hunting ground for a man the press called the Maniac. People would disappear into the woods in the park, into the tall birch trees just far enough away from the road that hiding behind them made one nearly invisible. He would kill his victims by repeated blows to the head with a hammer, and would then push a vodka bottle into the gaping wound in their skulls. According to Pichushkin, his girlfriend Olga broke up with him and began dating his friend Sergei. Could it be the Chechens? Police searching his Moscow apartment in June 2006 found a chessboard, with numbers on 61 of the 64 squares. Outside its snowing and perfectly black. Vozmozhno on umer. Later it was found that this injury had damaged a significant part of his brain which led to tendencies of aggression. Pichushkin never completed his chessboard murders, but he did confess to killing 61 people. The hideous nature of his crimes has renewed interest in re-instituting Russia's death penalty. An odorsweat, cooking oilpervades the apartment, which is cluttered with DVDs, old furniture, and an ancient refrigerator bearing two faded photographs of her son at age 8 or 9. No one had come back. He continued to play chess both at home and in Bitsa Park, now joining the other men in drinking vodka, though unlike them he could play without being greatly affected by the alcohol. There were too many connections between the missing. 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