Posted on 09/14/2007 9:58:18 AM PDT by RDTF
MOSCOW — A man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of his victims on a chessboard lured most his victims by offering them vodka to mourn the death of a nonexistent dog, prosecutors said at his murder trial Friday.
Alexander Pichushkin, 33, has confessed to killing at least 62 people, with the goal of marking all 64 squares on the chessboard. He has been charged with 49 murders, most committed over the course of five years in a sprawling park on the edge of Moscow.
Pichushkin's lawyer Pavel Ivannikov said Friday that his client admitted all the charges.
Pichushkin himself refused to enter a plea, however, demanding that he be transferred to a different detention facility.
"I'm not going to say `yes' or `no' today because some of my personal issues have not been resolved yet," he told court.
Ivannikov said that Pichushkin wanted to be transferred to another, "more comfortable" detention facility.
Pichushkin had requested a jury trial, which is relatively rare in Russia, and 12 jurors and six alternates were chosen Thursday. If convicted, Pichushkin faces life in prison.
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A chessboard? How, “Russian” of him.
Two more murders and he would have all the squares covered.
(Ok that was a stretch.)
Beware of chess-playing, vodka-drinking Russians in mourning,...wait, isn’t that most of them?
Reminds me of the Andrei Chikatilo case, "Citizen X".
checkmate...you’re dead
He definitely has "issues."
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