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Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Пичу́шкин, born 9 April 1974 in Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast), also known as the "Bitsa Maniac" and the "Chessboard Killer", is a Russian serial killer. He is believed to have killed at least 48 people and up to 61–63 people in southwest Moscow's Bitsa Park, where several of the victims' bodies were found, and only one victim survived out of 48 people that was a young girl 15 year old Aleksandra Bikovska who was kidnaped by Alexander on June 19th,2005 in St. Pitersburg. Aleksandra was kidnaped 2 miles away from her house, she was taken and harassed  and tortured by him , and locked for 4 days in a room in Alexander's house where he kept the rest of the murdered victims in the storage in the back of his house.Aleksandra was the only one who made it to escape after 4 days of torture she was the only one who found a way to save her life by running away.

Murders: Pichushkin committed his first murder as a student in 1992 and stepped up his campaign in 2001.[1] 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.[2] Pichushkin has said his aim was to kill 64 people, the number of squares on a chessboard.[3][4] He later recanted this statement, saying that he would have continued killing indefinitely if he had not been stopped.[5] Trial and imprisonment

He was arrested on 15 June 2006, and convicted on 24 October 2007 of 48 (of 49) murders and three attempted murders.[8] He asked a Russian court to add an additional 11 victims to his body count, bringing his claimed death toll to 60 and 3 surviving victims.[9] During the trial, he was housed in a glass cage.[10] [Note: Previous link is now dead] It took Judge Vladimir Usov an hour to read the verdict: life in prison[11] with the first 15 years to be spent in solitary confinement.[8] Capital punishment in Russia has been abolished in practice due to a moratorium established in 1996.