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...Pichuzhkin said he made his first kill when he was 18. At the time, he said he was conducting an affair with a girl named Olga, who lived next door. When she dumped him up for a mutual friend named Sergei, Pichuzkin says he killed Sergei by throwing him out a window. Though he was originally under suspicion, Pichuzkin says police finally concluded that Sergei's death was suicide. He did not kill again until five years ago, when the Bitzevsky Park murders started. Pichuzkin now claims to have killed his former girlfriend Olga as well, apparently after luring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grandmaster of Murder? | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

Might Pichuzkin have been mentally ill and thus not fully responsible for his actions? His mother says that Pichuzhkin, whom she raised alone after her husband abandoned the family, might have been affected by a blow to the head at the age of four; and also by the sudden loss of his grandfather, the only paternal figure in his life. But Russia's preeminent psychiatric institution examined him and declared him sane and fit for trial. Now a jury must decide if his boasts are true and, if so, how to punish him. They cannot sentence him to death. Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grandmaster of Murder? | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

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