The announcement was made this weekend by the Russian prison agency, relayed by Reuters. The serial killer Alexandre Pitchchkin, today 50 years, said he was ready to recognize 11 additional homicides.
The Russian was sentenced to life prison in 2007, then found guilty of 48 murders. He has since been detained in the Federal Russian Penitentiary Colony No18, nicknamed “Polar Owl” (the polar owl), in the polar Urals.
In their communication, Russian prison services simply added that the victims of these 11 additional murders would be women as men.
Alexandre Pitchchkin was nicknamed the “chessboard killer” because he had explained to the investigators after his arrest that he wanted to kill as many people as there are huts on a chessboard. 64 boxes, 64 murders …
During his trial, Alexandre Pitchchkin had already swore that he had killed 63 people in total. Does he want to approach 64 murders today to stick to his nickname? Does he really have new revelations about his atrocities? Difficult to know more and the state.
The criminal journey of the “Échiquier killer” had started in 1992 but above all culminated in the early 2000s, with homicides committed at a terrifying pace.
The murders had mainly been perpetrated in the Bitsevsky park, a large forest not far from Moscow, notes “Le Figaro”. Above all, he attacked fragile or isolated people, homeless people, alcoholics, the elderly, but also at random passers -by. After sharing a drink with his victims, he usually murdered them with a hammer.
During his trial, Alexandre Pitchchkin had been declared fully responsible for his murders.
If these new confessions lead to confirmed murders, adds the French daily, the “Échiquier killer” would become the second worst serial killer in the history of Russia, behind the former police officer of Siberia Mikhail Popkov. Nicknamed the “werewolf” or “the madman of angarsk”, he confessed 83 murders of women and found guilty of 78.
