He’s confessed to murdering 48. Now Russia’s chessboard killer will admit to 11 extra | EUROtoday

Alexander Pichushkin is likely one of the world’s most infamous serial killers.

The Russian was jailed for all times in 2007 for killing 48 individuals.

But now he has mentioned he is able to confess to 11 extra murders, Russia’s penal service mentioned on Saturday.

Pichushkin, now 50 years outdated, focused his victims, usually homeless individuals, alcoholics and the aged, round Bitsevsky Park, a big inexperienced place in southern Moscow.

His killings lasted from 1992 to 2006.

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He was nicknamed “the chessboard killer” by the Russian media.

This was as a result of he instructed detectives in a confession that he had hoped to place a coin on each sq. of a 64-square chessboard for every of his victims.

Pichushkin has been held on the Polar Owl jail, in Russia’s distant Arctic north, since being sentenced.

In an announcement revealed on the Telegram messenger app on Saturday, Russia’s penal service mentioned that Pichushkin had instructed investigators he was able to confess to 11 extra murders of women and men.

Pichushkin has lengthy been suspected of further murders to these for which he was convicted.

He claimed throughout his trial to have killed 63 individuals, however prosecutors solely charged him with 48 murders and three tried murders.

If convicted of the extra murders, it might make Pichushkin Russia’s second most prolific serial killer on file, behind Mikhail Popkov, a former policeman convicted of 78 murders.