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Chess-Playing Killer Goes on Trial in Russia

Posted Aug 14, 07 7:16 AM CDT in Crime & Courts,  World 

(Newser) – Russia is in the grip of the king of all murder trials, the Guardian reports: A chess player has been accused of luring dozens of opponents away from the board and to their brutal deaths in a Moscow park. Alexander Pichushkin has allegedly boasted of 63 murders, one shy of a chessboard, and each marked on his personal board with a cross.

Police finally arrested Pichushkin, a supermarket clerk by day, after they discovered his phone number on the body of a former colleague; they say the competitive killer wanted to break Russia's serial-murder record. And while the defendant purportedly revealed his game, police admit that the case is not exactly black and white—they've only found 14 bodies and have no forensic evidence.

Source Guardian (UK)

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