“All I want is to be famous.“
Alexander Jurjewitsch Pitschuschkin (*9 April 1974, Mytischtschi) had but one aim: to become more feared and more famous than Rostow’s formerly most famous beast, Andrej Romanowitsch Tschikatilo. With this, he was well on his path to becoming one of the most disgusting criminals Russia has ever seen.
Alexander committed his first murder at the tender age of 18. His victim was his classmate and friend. They had initially agreed to be murderous partners-in-crime – but when his friend backed out of the deal, Pitschuschkin decided to remove him from the picture entirely. He invited him to the Bizewski Park in Moscow for a drink, and asked him to bring a rope along. Alexander got his friend drunk, and later strangled him with the rope before disposing of his body in a drain.
Later on, he stated the following: “One’s first murder is like the first time you fall in love – unforgettable.“
Only 9 years later, he began carrying out a series of murders, capturing the attention of Moscow’s entire popular. After each murder, he would mark off a square on a chessboard with a number. He wanted to fill in all the boxes of the chessboard: 64 squares, 64 victims. When asked what he would have done if he had completed the entire thing, Alexander answered that he would have bought a new chessboard.
He was a man of brutality. He lured drunk, old or weak people into dark corners of the park, his favourite pretense being that his dog had recently died and he wanted company to have a drink with with. When his victims agreed and followed him, he would then kill them using a hammer or a rope. Later on, he also used a home-made gun.
In 2003, he somehow encountered a victim who had survived his savagery. That led to him panicking, and he ceased his murderous ways – but not for long. He soon returned to his old ways. A transvestite who carried a hammer for protection was arrested for his murders, and this led him to step up the brutishness of his crimes. He wanted to reveal himself as the true murderer. He killed five more people; four of them from his immediate circle of acquaintances. His very last victim was his colleague. Her murder ultimately led to his downfall, as she left her son a note mentioning her coming meetup with Alexander. On 9 October 2007, Alexander was arrested. He delivered an elaborate confession.
According to him, his victims numbered 61 in total – however, much to his indignation, he was proven to be responsible for only 48 of them. He found it unfair that the others had been forgotten; he was proud of his crimes. To him, not being able to murder was equivalent to not being able to eat. The act gave him power and „opened the door to another world“.
He was even dissastisfied with the prison he ended up in, because it wasn’t the prison with the most important and lethal convicts of Russia, the Matrosskaja Tischina!
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