MADNESS & MULTIPLE MURDER IN MOSCOW!
October 15th 2007 23:25
The case details are chilling, but compelling, the kind of strange macabre truths that a fictionalised screenplay could only hope to capture. I can already imagine exploitation film producers rubbing their hands with glee and concocting business deals!
Two articles were posted online at smh.com.au which described the case and some of the trial proceedings:
Supermarket worker Alexander Pichushkin, 33, has been branded the “chessboard murderer" by Russian newspapers, because he had hoped to put a coin on every square of a 64-place chessboard for each murder.
"A first killing is like your first love. You never forget it," he said on Tuesday from a cage in the courtroom, after explaining how he began killing at age 18 with the murder of a classmate. Pichushkin said he had suggested to his classmate they kill someone, but when he refused, "I sent him to heaven." He then smirked at the jury.
"The closer a person is to you, and the better you know them, the more pleasurable it is to kill them," he said. "In all the cases, I killed for only one reason. I killed in order to live, because when you kill, you want to live."
"I tried to collect their spirits, their souls," he said. "I felt no emotion when I killed them."
Pichushkin said police interviewed him at the time of his first murder but let him go because of a lack of evidence. "You should not credit the police with catching me. I gave myself up," he told the court.
She raised her hand to ask how and why her son, Andrei, had perished in December 2001. But Pichushkin could give no clear explanation."We went for a walk, we drank vodka, we chatted. Then when he was drunk ... I threw him in the well," he said. "Your son, he felt no trauma."
Konobaltsayeva wept quietly.
Pichushkin's trial is expected to be lengthy, with testimony scheduled from at least 41 relatives of the alleged victims and another 98 witnesses. "I have lots of time to answer questions. But I'm very tired, my bed is not very comfortable," Pichushkin said.
Hmmm, a movie title? Black Russian could work well. Checkmate is another that springs to mind, or perhaps Bitsevsky Park, although that’s a little too close to Gorky Park, a great murder mystery thriller already set in Russia.
Aha! I’ve got it! … Killing To Live.
I best get to work then, there’s a brutally black comedy just dying to be written.
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Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
Actually this newspiece made me think of you.
You wrote a post about something similar (a film? a book?)
Check it out.
Mexican food
As for Pichushkin...this is what happens when you don't push 'The Good Son' off the cliff. eek.
Hope you're well.
Dusk
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
yes, I saw that about the Mexican cannibal, I didn't end up writing a post about that, as you remember, yes, I did a post on the German cannibal, of which a movie, Grimm Love, was subsequently made ...
60 victims though, that's outrageous! Mind you, experts believe Ivan Milat is responsible for a damn lot more than he was convicted for ... They believe his "killing fields" run all the way up the NSW coast, they just haven't been able to find the victims remains ...
Comment by Damo
It was a well researched book.
Another non-fiction book call 'The Russians' written prior to Gorky Park also indicates how most murders were solved at the time.
In most cases the murderer would get drunk and come to the police staion to boast about what they did. Facing the death penalty was secondary to getting credit for the crime.
It may be possible that this serial killer is following that mindset. Get his name in the history books even if he is executed for doing so.
Comment by Michaelie
Flick Wit
SCARY
Michaelie
Comment by KylieW
Celebrity Obsession
Scary stuff. Killing someone close to you is even more pleasurable than killing a stranger eh? Yep, he's definitely got a screw (or three) loose.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
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Comment by Mountain Fog
Now Bryn, it seems I am the only one here not to have thought of you when I read this article...and that is a compliment!!
It is both fascinating and terrifying, and to think that this monster's face was the last face those poor people saw!
I too can see an extremely black comedy developed from this!
As for titles for the upcoming exploitation film...you beat me to the "checkmate" idea, what about...since he did not finish his chess board, "Unfinished Business"...where he can kill off a couple in gaol, then he gets necked, completing the last place on the board...
And how dumb are our Ruskie bros? I mean have a look at this ghoul!! Would you go deep into a park with this maniac to drink vodka....ummm...ok...so these days I wouldn't do it, just remembered when I used to drink I didn't care who I was with...OH OOOHHHHH!!!
Luckily I didn't meet Ivan Milat!!! Then again I don't think he got drunk in the streets of Paddo did he?...hope not!
cheers...and a movie title and song for Ivan, "I was a Teenage Backpacker Hacker!"
fog
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Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Fog, cheers mate!
Boxing, very much so ...
Comment by Miswanderlust
Killer Beats
Ramble On
Hipnotherapy
I worked with victim's assistance at the local and county level. One of my jobs was to sit with family members while perpetrators of the crime were interviewed. Talk about creepy evil...... many more "Natural Born Killers" than "Dead Man Walking" scenarios. Seeing it on the big screen is one thing....up close and personal is another thing entirely.
Mis
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