Posted on 10/09/2007 3:43:45 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Alexander Pichushkin looks on from behind the glass of a security cage during the first day of his trial in Moscow, in this Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, file photo.
MOSCOW (AP) - A man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of them on a chessboard reveled in the memory of his first murder at his trial Tuesday, saying "it's like first love - it's unforgettable," news reports said.
Alexander Pichushkin also insisted that prosecutors charge him with all the murders he has taken credit for, saying to do otherwise would be unfair, RIA-Novosti and Interfax reported.
Pichushkin, who went on trial last month in one of Russia's most gruesome serial killing sprees, has confessed to murdering 63 people, with the goal of marking all 64 squares on the chessboard. Prosecutors charged him with 49 murders, most of them committed earlier this decade over the course of five years in Bittsa Park, a sprawling wild green area on the southern edge of Moscow.
The killings terrorized the capital and Russian media dubbed him the "Bittsa Maniac."
Experts at the Russia's main psychiatric clinic have found that Pichushkin is sane.
In testimony at Moscow City Court, he recounted the details of his killings and reveled in the memory of his first killing - committed in 1992, long before the start of the murders that he is now charged with.
"This first murder, it's like first love, it's unforgettable," he was quoted by RIA-Novosti as saying.
He said in an earlier televised confession that he had killed his first victim, a classmate, in 1992 when he was 18. Police had questioned him then, but no charges were filed.
Prosecutors have focused on the series of killings in Bittsa Park in 2001, although he claims to have killed several people years earlier. Most of the victims were men, whom Pichushkin had lured to the park with the promise of a drink of vodka to mourn the death of his "beloved" dog.
Pichushkin killed 11 people in 2001, including six in one month, prosecutors said. He killed about 40 of his first victims by throwing them into a sewage pit, and in a few cases strangled or hit them in the head.
From 2005, he began to kill with "particular cruelty," hitting his intoxicated victims multiple times in the head with a hammer, then sticking an unfinished bottle of vodka into their broken skulls, prosecutors have said. He also no longer tried to conceal the bodies, leaving them at the crime scene.
Despite his claims to have killed many more, prosecutors have only charged Pichushkin with 49 murders and three kidnappings - the incidents apparently investigators have been able to definitively link him to.
He claimed that he was aware that a woman whom he intended to kill left a note at home saying she was going for a stroll with him - but killed her anyway. Police arrested him quickly afterward in June 2006.
"I burnt myself, so there's no need for the cops to take credit for catching me," he was quoted as saying. "I'm a professional."
On Tuesday, Russian news agencies reported, the court judge tried to limit Pichushkin from testifying about murders other those he was charged with.
"And the 63 doesn't interest you? Even though they found the bodies?" he was quoted as saying. "I thought it would be unfair to forget about the other 11 people."
In a confession that was televised earlier, he made similarly lurid claims about his need to commit murder saying: "For me, a life without murder is like a life without food for you."
Russian media have speculated that Pichushkin may have been motivated by a macabre competition with Russia's most notorious serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of killing 52 children and young women in 12 years.
“This first murder, it’s like first love, it’s unforgettable,”
Hillery! probably feels the same way.
None of them guys can hold a candle to Gary Ridgeway, the Green River Killer, 71 bay-BEE!!!
Lightweights, all.
There is a special place in Hell reserved for such animals. I tell you this.......it will truly suck to be them in eternity.
Probably a good thing he wasn’t into Rubic’s cube.
Shifty looking guy, looks like a Clinton donor.
Oh, my God! What a picture!!! Ewwwww! He REALLY looks satanic!
who ever occupied that carcus when it was born is long gone by now.
“Chilling.”
...Evil.
As Comrade Stalin once said... 63 murders is chilling/gruesome but millions of them are just a statistic.
Now in the afterlife...
It is obvious that Pichushkin is EVIL but why does EVIL kill the innocent if it has nothing to gain by the deaths of the innocent? Or does it? I don't know......
This is a biblical question and I don't want to be ridiculed for my ignorance...............
And brutely honest.
His face looks like he is really angry and evil.
He’s a sociopath.
Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as “their right.”
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
More here: http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~mcafee/Bin/sb.html
Well, that's a pretty s**tty way to kill somebody.
Chilling photo. He’s as creepy looking as a character in a Hitchcock movie.
ping
Because this particular person gained pleasure from seeing others suffer. What better way to make someone suffer than to kill them?
If one has reconciled with God, then there is no suffering in their death is there? Then the act of the evil one was for nothing other than self pleasure and satan gained nothing...........
I had read that the guy enjoyed killing all those people becuase he saw it as helping them all get to the next and better world.
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