Russian serial killer batters 62 to fill ‘chessboard’ Dadan UpadhyayPosted online: Saturday, August 04, 2007 at 0000 hrs Moscow, August 3: Known as the “Bitsa maniac” in the Russian capital, Alexander Pichushkin has confessed to having brutally murdered 62 people to fill squares on his “imaginary chessboard”. Investigators initially doubted many of Pichushkin’s claims of [...]