In 2007, Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was convicted of killing 48 people. Most of his

In 2007, Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was convicted of killing 48 people. Most of his murders occurred in the early 2000s. He would lure people into Moscow’s Bittsevsky Park by asking them to have a drink with him over his dog’s grave. He would then beat his victims to death with a blunt instrument and leave them in a sewer pit, sometimes while they were still alive.

He was arrested in 2006 after murdering a coworker who had told her son that she was going on a walk with Pichushkin. After his arrest, police found a chessboard with dates written on 62 of the 64 squares. Apparently, he was trying to kill as many people as there were squares on the board, which resulted in him being nicknamed “The Chessboard Killer.” In 2007, he was convicted of 48 counts of murder and 3 counts of attempted murder and sentenced to life in prison.