The Chessboard Killer: Alexander Pichushkin’s Reign of Terror in Bitsa Park
In the quiet paths of Moscow’s Bitsa Park, people went for walks, shared vodka with strangers, and simply vanished. One man counted them like squares on a board. He wanted sixty-four. He nearly got there.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the chilling true story of Alexander Pichushkin — the Chessboard Killer — a soft-spoken supermarket worker who murdered dozens between 1992 and 2006, marking each death on a chessboard he kept in his apartment. From his first kill at age 18 to the note that finally stopped him, this is the story of a man who said killing felt like oxygen… and like first love.
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