21: The Chessboard Killer, Alexander Pichushkin | Russia

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🗓️ 4 November 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Russian serial killer, Alexander Pichushkin killed 48, but possibly as many as 60 people between 1992 and 2006. He initially said that his aim was to kill 64 people, one for every square on a chessboard. Later he recanted his statement, saying that, had he not been caught, he would have carried on killing indefinitely. Had he filled all the squares on one board with victims, he would simply have gone out and bought another board to fill.

Before he was caught, he was known as the Bitsevsky Park Maniac. After police found his marked chessboard, however, he was renamed: The Chessboard Killer.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the evidence lucker.
0:08.8	Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials. It deals with true crimes and real people.
0:15.2	Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones.
0:36.4	On the 16th of June, 2005 in Moscow, 13 year old Sergei Muscaleova came home to find his home empty. He called for his mother, but there was no answer. Their small Soviet style apartment was filled with silence.
0:40.4	It was unusual for his mother not to be at home at that time as her shift at the supermarket had finished for the day.
0:47.0	Then he noticed a note on the kitchen table which said that his mom, Marina, had gone to Bizevsky Park for a picnic with the friend from work called
0:55.2	Alexander. She wrote Alexander's phone number on the note in case Sergei needed to reach her.
1:01.4	Sergei kicked off his shoes and made himself a snack. He was excited to have the place to himself. He could watch TV all afternoon.
1:09.0	But as the afternoon turned into night?
1:12.5	Sergei wondered why his mother hadn't returned.
1:15.2	He was sure if she had planned to still be out over dinner time, she would have let him know.
1:20.0	He tried to shake the uneasy feelings surrounding him and switched channels.
1:24.3	He flipped past the news channel and quickly flipped back when he heard the report about a murdered
1:28.8	woman's body that was found in Bencevski Park. Sergei froze as he glanced at his mother's note.
1:36.0	No, surely the dead woman was not his mother.
1:40.0	He changed the channel and tried to forget about what he had just seen.
1:44.1	He tried his best to shake the thought that something had happened to his mom.
1:48.0	Then he looked at the note again.
1:50.2	Should he call this guy called Alexander? Dreading it, Sergei mustered up the courage to make the call.
1:58.0	To his surprise, the man answered.
2:01.0	When Sergei asked about his mother, the man said that he had not seen Marina in quite a while, about two months.
2:07.9	Sergei knew that the man was lying.
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