Alexander Pichushkin, a Russian serial killer sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007 for killing 48 people, said he is ready to confess 11 more murders, the Russian criminal service said on Saturday (5).
Pichushkin, now 50, usually targeted homeless people, alcoholics and the elderly, around Bitsevsky Park in southern Moscow.
The murders took place from 1992 to 2006.
He was nicknamed the “chess board killer” by the Russian media because he spoke in a confession to the detectives that he expected to put a coin on each square of a 64 -squareed chess board for each of the victims.
Pichushkin is arrested in the Polar Owl prison on the Russian North Arctic remote since he was sentenced.
In a statement published in the Telegram messaging app this Saturday (5), Russia’s criminal service said he had told investigators that he was ready to confess 11 more men and women murders.
The Russian has long been suspected of additional murders to those for which he was convicted.
He claimed during the trial killed 63 people, but the prosecutors accused him of only 48 murders and three murder attempts.
If convicted of the additional deaths, Pichushkin would become Russia’s second most prolific serial killer behind Mikhail Popkov, a former policeman convicted of 78 murders.
This content was originally published in “Chess Serial Killer” should confess 11 more murders in Russia on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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