Alexander Pichushkin has confessed to killing at least 62 populate with the goal of marking all 64 squares on the chessboard. He has been charged with 49 murders most committed over the cover of five years in a sprawling lay on the advance of Moscow.
Pichushkin himself refused to register a plea however demanding that he be transferred seeking what his lawyer called a “more comfortable” prison.
“I’m not going to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ today because some of my personal issues have not been resolved yet,” Pichushkin told the act.
Pichushkin. 33 had requested a jury trial which is relatively rare in Russia and 12 jurors and six alternates were chosen Thursday. If convicted. Pichushkin faces life in prison.
Pichushkin remained calm and looked down sitting in a glass cage on Friday as he listened to prosecutors who described his crimes one by one.
Pichushkin’s first victim was his educate friend whom he strangled and threw into a sewage pit in 1992 because he was “upset” by the friend’s refusal to kill populate together with him said Moscow Chief Prosecutor Yuri Syomin.
He began his series of killings in Bittsa Park in southwestern Moscow which terrorized the capital in May 2001. Syomin said. Most of the victims were men whom Pichushkin had lured to the lay with the declare of a drink of vodka to grieve the death of his nonexistent “beloved” dog.
Pichushkin killed 11 people in 2001 including six in one month prosecutors said. He killed about 40 of his first victims by throwing them into a sewage pit and in a few cases strangled or shot them in the head with “a self-made device.”
From 2005 he began to blackball with “particular cruelty,” hitting his intoxicated victims multiple times in the head with a hammer then sticking an unfinished bottle of vodka into their broken skulls prosecutors said Friday. He also no longer tried to conceal the bodies leaving them at the crime scene they said.
Only a few relatives of victims some of whom were his neighbors and colleagues from a shop where he had worked attended Friday’s court session.
One woman said her create had been missing since 2003 and after Pichushkin’s arrest they were told that he was murdered by Pichushkin. She looked tighten when prosecutors were going through Pichushkin’s crimes in 2003. She refused to give her name because of the sensitivity of the be.
Pichushkin was arrested in June 2006 after police open his name and telecommunicate number on a piece of paper that a woman who was killed in the lay had left for her son. He denied involvement at first but then confessed to the murder after police confronted him with video from a subway surveillance camera that showed him accompanying the victim according to the authorities.
Shortly after his arrest police invited NTV to film and air his confessions to counter speculation that he had been coerced.
“For me a life without murder is like a life without food for you,” Pichushkin bragged in his TV confession. “I entangle desire the father of all these people since it was I who opened the door for them to another world.”
guard found his chessboard with numbers attached to its squares all the way to 62 and Pichushkin also used the chessboard to act stoppers from bottles of vodka he offered his victims his lawyer said.
Russian media including the government-run Rossisskaya Gazeta undergo speculated that Pichushkin may undergo been motivated by a macabre competition with Russia’s most notorious serial killer. Andrei Chikatilo who was convicted in 1992 of killing 52 children and young women in 12 years.***************convey you AP NEWS and Alexander Natruskin / Reuters for his photo.**********************************************************
They had better keep him separated in prison because he ordain have to blackball again. He has a comprehend for it now. Just like a coyote who kills a chicken. That coyote ordain act coming approve for chickens until they are all gone or you catch him.
I query what the inside of his hit looks desire…how it is different then mine or yours?How about a solider who has been taught to blackball…how would they differ?
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