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According to the country’s prison service, a Russian serial killer who has been jailed for life is for killing 48 people.
Alexander Pichushkin, now 50 years old, targeted his victims – many of them homeless, alcoholics or the elderly – around Bitevsky Park in Moscow.
His murder lasted from 1992 to 2006, and he was then heard and jailed in 2007.
Russian media called him the ‘Chessboard Killer’ because he told detectives that he had planned to place a coin on each square of a 64 square chessboard for each of his victims.
The serial killer was detained in a remote prison in the Arctic Russia area, Polar Owl Prison, since he was sentenced.
Pichushkin in a Moscow court in October 2007. Pic: Reuters
He has long been suspected of killing more people than the 48 for whose murders he has already been convicted.
Now he told investigators that he was prepared to admit to 11 further murders of men and women, the Russia’s prison system said in a statement on the Telegram Messenger app on Saturday.
During his previous hearing, he claimed to have killed 63 people, but he was only charged with 48 murders and three attempted murders.
If convicted of the 11 additional murders, he would record Russia’s second most productive serial killer.
Former policeman Mikhail Popkov was found guilty of 78 murders.
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