Alexander Pichushkin

Also known as Bitsa Park maniac, Pichushkin, Chessboard Killer, The Chessboard Killer, Aleksandr Pichushkin, Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin, Aleksandr Yuryevich Pichushkin, Alexander Yurevich Pichushkin

Russian serial killer and chess player (born 1974)

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It is catalogued under topics including 1974 births, 20th-century Russian murderers and 21st-century Russian murderers.

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Key facts

Born: Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin , ( 1974-04-09 ) 9 April 1974 (age 52) , Mytishchi , Moscow Oblast , Russian SFSR , USSR
Other names: The Bittsa Park Maniac, The Chessboard Killer
Motive: To kill 64 people, the number of squares on a chessboard To surpass Andrei Chikatilo in number of victims Theorised frontal cortex damage from childhood injury
Criminal penalty: Life imprisonment with 15 years solitary confinement
Victims: 49–60 killed, 3 injured
Span of crimes: 27 July 1992; 17 May 2001 – 14 June 2006
Country: Russia
Weapons: Hammer , crowbar , picket fence , pen gun , rope , vodka bottle
Date apprehended: 16 June 2006

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Aleksandr
Gender: male
Citizenship: Soviet Union
Place of birth: Mytishchi
Occupation: joiner
Languages spoken: Russian
Sport: chess
Work location: Bitsa Park
Residence: Moscow
Convicted of: attempted murder

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date of birth: 1974-04-09
penalty: solitary confinement
name in native language: Пичушкин, Александр Юрьевич
nickname: le Maniaque de Bitsevski
has works in the collection: National Gallery of Canada
different from: Alexander Pushkin
number of victims of killer: 49
start of work period: 1992-07-27
end of work period: 2006-06-14

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Encyclopedic overview

Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Пичу́шкин; born 9 April 1974), also known as the Chessboard Killer (Убийца с шахматной доской) and the Bittsa Park Maniac (Битцевский маньяк), 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.

Early life

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