True crime Friday: Alexander Pichushkin, The Russian Chessboard Serial Killer
Alexander Pichushkin Early Life
Alexander Pichushkin was born April l9, 1974 in Russia. 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 considered the poor part of Russia. Their apartment building was located near Bitsa Park. Most people that new Pichushkin remembered him as initially a sociable child. 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. Experts speculated that this event damaged the frontal lobe of Pichushkin's brain which is known if damaged to produce poor impulse regulation and a tendency towards aggression. Since Pichushkin was still a child, the damage would have been more severe, as a child's forehead provides only a fraction of the protection for the brain compared to an adult's. He became frequently hostile and impulsive after the accident.Because of the shape of his forehead, children from public school bullied him. This abuse contributed to his rage and anger of being a target. His maternal grandfather felt that his grandson’s intellect and talent was being wasted so he took him in and homeschooled him. He also taught him how to play chess. He became a master at Chess. Alexander began to frequent Bitsa Park and play Chess with the older men there. He also drank Vodka with them while playing the game. Even when he was drunk he still was the master of the game never losing.
His grandfather died which had a devastating effect upon Alexander. He moved back in with his mother and enrolled in public school. The bulling continued and his rage soon turned into murder. Pichushkin's 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. He would always attack from behind in order to take the victim by surprise. Ten of his victims lived in the same four-building complex where he lived. It is said the police did not investigate the murders because the people were poor. The less dead theory also played a part in the Russia investigations.
The Victims of Alexander Pichushkin
- Mikhail Odichuk
- Vyacheslav A. Pushkov
- Liang Fatkulin
- Yevgeny Pronin
- Andrew Veselovsky
- V.N. Dolmatov
- Yuri Kuznetsov
- Vyacheslav Klimov
- Yuri Chumakov
- Andrei Maslov
- Nikolai Vorobyov
- Yuri
- Maria Viricheva (survived)
- V.P. Ilyin
- Nikolai Zakharchenko
- Nicholas Tikhomirov
- Boris Nesterov
- Igor Kashtanov
- O. Lavrienko
- Nicholas Filippov
- Alexey Fedorov
- Oleg Boyarov
- V.I. Dudukin
- Oleg Lvov
- Mikhail Lobov(survived)
- V.P. Stanova
- Nikolai Koryagin
- G.D. Safonov
- G.M. Chervyakov
- S.S. Chudin
- V.N. Soloviev
- Sergei Pavlov
- Egor Kudryavtsev
- Vladimir
- B.A. Grishin
- V.P. Elistratov
- N.I. Ilyinsky
- Vladimir Fomin
- A.N. Lyovochkin
- Viktor Volkov,
- V.M. Minayev
- Vladimir Fedosov
- J.N. Romashkin
- Andrei Konovaltsev
- S.V. Fedorov
- Konstantin Polikarpov (survived)
- Stepan Vasilenko
- M.A. Joldoshev
- Larissa Kulygina
- Marina Moskalyova
Lady Justice
Alexander Pichushkin was convicted March 24, 2007 of forty-nine murders and three attempted murders. He asked the court that he be convicted of eleven more so that he could beat his rival Andrei Chikatilo who committed 52 murders. He was denied this request and is now serving life in prison. He is in an undisclosed prison and his only visitor has been his mother.Reference
Alexander Pichushkin: The Chessboard Killer - MibbaAlexander Yuryevich PICHUSHKIN - AKA The Bitsa Park Maniac, The Chessboard Killer (serialkillercalendar.com)
Alexander Pichushkin - Wikipedia
Complete list of Alexander Pichushkin’s victims. : r/serialkillers (reddit.com)