The Chessboard Killer who Murdered for Every Square on the Board

Alexander Pichushkin, Russian’s most prolific serial killer

Sam H Arnold
CrimeBeat
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5 min readOct 15, 2021

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Prolific serial killer Alexander Pichushkin
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Alexander Pichushkin marked sixty-two squares off his chessboard throughout his spree, with the dates of the murders he had committed. This act earned him the nickname the Chessboard killer and made him the most prolific serial killer in Russian history.

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