Russia's 'chessboard killer' ready to confess to 11 more murders, penal service says

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Alexander Pichushkin sits behind steel bars after he arrived for preliminary hearings at a Moscow court August 13, 2007. Investigators now believe the Bitsa maniac, who claims he killed to fill squares on an imaginary chessboard, may have murdered 62 people, 10 more than previously thought, an Int (photo credit: ALEXANDER NATRUSKIN / REUTERS)
The murderer was nicknamed "the chessboard killer" by the media because he told detectives in a confession that he had hoped to put a coin on every square of a chessboard for each of his victims.

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