Accused killer used vodka, sob story to lure 62 victims

[Sequoia]

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- A man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of them on a chessboard lured most of his victims by offering them vodka to mourn the death of a nonexistent dog, prosecutors said at his murder trial Friday.

Alexander Pichushkin has confessed to killing at least 62 people, with the goal of marking all 64 squares on the chessboard. He has been charged with 49 murders, most committed over the course of five years in a sprawling park on the edge of Moscow.

Pichushkin's lawyer, Pavel Ivannikov, said his client admitted all the charges.

Pichushkin himself refused to enter a plea, however, demanding that he be transferred, seeking what his lawyer called a "more comfortable" prison.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/14/russia.trial.ap/index.html

Good lord! what compels a person to do this sort of thing!!?? (I really don't expect an answer, but...just awful.)

[liberal renegade]

1. Bad seed!

[malaise]

2. I saw him on BBC

a raving lunatic.

[valerief]

3. Couldn't steal the presidency. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

4. People will do anything for a drink

Hope it was the good stuff at least.

[Canuckistanian]

5. So many horror stories coming out of Russia

Alcoholism, cannibalism, serial killings.

Unrestrained capitalism.

[emilyg]

8. Sounds like the good old USA.

[Wilber_Stool]

6. Andrei Chikatilo

The HBO movie,Citizen X , was the story of a guy that killed 52 people, mostly children and young girls.

[Blue_Tires]

7. ........