In which prison does the Bitsa maniac sit? Serial killers of Russia - Alexander Pichuzhkin (Bitsevsky maniac). Alexander Pichushkin now

A series of new mysterious murders have occurred in the south of Moscow. How to understand where and when the killer will appear again? Creators of the program "Live" tried to penetrate the monster's soul. To do this, they interviewed the Angarsk maniac Mikhail Popkov, who accounted for 84 innocent victims!

10 years ago, the trial of Alexander Pichushkin, the Bitsevsky maniac, took place. And here is again disturbing news from Bitsevsky Park - more than five victims of the same killer have already been found there. On October 3, 38-year-old Galina Ivanova was killed during a walk. There are 28 stab wounds on the girl's body. Galina's friend Valentina Matveenkova came to the Live Broadcast studio to warn Muscovites how dangerous the current situation is. The woman recalls: “At first we didn’t recognize Galina - she was brutally mutilated. On her body they found a message, a letter from a maniac, which said that he would continue to kill. Moreover, the note was written in Pichushkin’s handwriting... There are already many victims, more than five, and It’s not just women – there are both men and boys among them.”

The investigation disseminated the characteristics of the suspect and made an identikit. But the fact is that these signs can suit every tenth person: “A man 35-40 years old, height 175-183, European type, average build. Dark brown hair, light eyes. He was wearing a black leather jacket.”

Now residents of the area are afraid to return home late. Elena Fedulova, investigator for particularly important cases at the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office (1994-2009), believes that in the case of the new Bitsevsky maniac there is a criminal suppression of information. “All the details should be covered in the media so that people are warned and careful. I am sure that 90% of athletes will refuse morning and night runs in the park if they understand the danger they are in!” says Elena.

To get into the psychology of the maniac, the Live Broadcast correspondent talked with one of the most brutal killers of our time, currently serving a life sentence. According to him, former junior police lieutenant Mikhail Popkov has 84 murders to his name. Of these, 22 have been proven. It is believed that the trigger for the massacres was his wife’s infidelity, which influenced Popkov. This is confirmed by his colleagues and relatives. Having learned about the betrayal of his beloved woman, Mikhail set out to “cleanse” society of vice, killing those who provoked him in some way, specifically choosing victims of a certain lifestyle, taking out his anger on them.

Snezhana Kozitsyna miraculously escaped death 20 years ago - but Popkov killed her friends in February 1998. The three girls went to visit, and two of them disappeared. A few days later their mutilated corpses were found. There are ax wounds on the head, the eyes are gouged out, and the fingers are cut off. Anna Motofonova and Marina Chetverikova were only 20 years old...

Popkov has a young daughter. What does he advise her to avoid falling into the clutches of someone like him? “If you have a normal company, they will always show you off and put you in a taxi. Ekaterina always called me when she returned late. I went and picked her and her girlfriends up.”

Popkov does not consider himself a maniac, he says that he does not have an irresistible urge to kill: “I do not agree with the diagnosis of the Serbsky clinic. I did not kill all my fellow travelers, but only those in whom there was something provoking. Cleaner? But whatever you want with me call me. I was caught in 2012, and I haven’t killed since 2010, which means I can control myself.”

The worst thing is that Popkov shows no remorse at all. His behavior aroused anger among studio guests, and there were even calls to reinstate the death penalty for people like him. But not everyone agrees with this, because execution is also murder, only legalized. And this is unacceptable.

What can you do to protect yourself from meeting a serial killer? How to spot the Bitsa maniac? Why is there so little information in the media? The answers to these and other questions are in the “Live” program.

His horrific and chilling atrocities, which resulted in the death of innocent people, caused an unprecedented resonance in society in the mid-2000s. A man who carried out murders in the southwestern part of the capital’s metropolis, namely in Bitsevsky Park, committed his monstrous fanaticism, as he later put it, because of “the love of art.” It is noteworthy that his ideological inspirer and idol was the odious serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, executed in the 90s. It was him who Alexander Pichushkin tried to imitate in everything, to whom the status of “Bitsevsky maniac” was firmly established.

How did it happen that a young guy who was involved in bodybuilding, albeit not on a professional basis, turned into a seasoned killer and murderer?

Difficult childhood

Experts who study the reasons why a seemingly normal person with signs of natural behavior in everyday life, transforming into a monster and tyrant, begins to kill, say that the root of the problem should be sought in the period of life that covers childhood. It is then that the personality psyche begins to form. And a lot depends on what factors will influence it. The Bitsevsky maniac also suffered psychological trauma in childhood. The mere fact that his father and grandfather abused alcohol speaks volumes.

Alexander Pichushkin is a native of Moscow. He was born on April 9, 1974. When he was not even a year old, his father left the family. The mother, without thinking twice, began to arrange her personal life and intended to get married a second time. Her son interfered with her implementation of this plan, and she gave him to his grandfather to raise. However, there was another hypothetical reason why Pichushkin’s mother did not want her son to stay with her.

The fact is that, at the age of four, Alexander fell from a swing and hit his head. Doctors diagnosed him with a traumatic brain injury. After that, he began to confuse the hissing sounds.

Boarding school

However, Alexander’s relative was clearly not happy with the fact that he would have to perform the duties of a nanny, so under the pretext that his grandson could not speak correctly, he sent him to a specialized boarding school where speech defects are treated for children.

But the social environment in this institution left much to be desired. Here Pichushkin had to communicate with people like him - children from disadvantaged families. The feeling of being useless to one’s relatives, contacts with peers who did not know parental affection, one way or another left their negative imprint. Yes, outwardly then the future Bitsevsky maniac did not show aggression and cruelty, but, on the contrary, demonstrated calmness and goodwill to those around him. But did he feel peace within himself? Hardly. On weekends he went to visit his mother, who already had another family. He wanted to attract her attention, but all the affection and love went to his stepsister.

Oddities in behavior

Having matured a little, Pichushkin began to change before our eyes. Increasingly, he showed rudeness and cruelty towards his peers at school. In one of the videos that investigators managed to obtain, Alexander, being in the company of teenagers, tells them how to properly kill a person. Moreover, Pichushkin’s hooligan actions do not receive the proper response from teachers, who, despite the complaints of schoolchildren, consider him a normal and obedient boy. But after some time they realized how wrong they were. Alexander often began to be overcome by insane fits of rage...

Vocational school

After boarding school, Pichushkin (the Bitsevsky maniac) decided to study as a carpenter, enrolling in a construction vocational school. In this educational institution, he tried in every possible way to attract attention to his person, and to a greater extent from the fairer sex.

To please the girls, Alexander Pichushkin (the Bitsevsky maniac) even began to write poetry, but for some reason the young ladies did not appreciate the young man’s talent. He tried to make friends with his classmates by lending them money. But behind such courtesy there was a cruel calculation. Alexander demanded that the borrower write a receipt with the following content: “If I do not repay such and such an amount on time, I undertake to voluntarily die from life, since I consider it meaningless.” And there was no doubt that if the person had not fulfilled his obligations, Pichushkin would have taken his life. His hand would not have trembled.

Failed Soldier

After some time, the young man receives a summons from the military registration and enlistment office. It is noteworthy that the future Bitsa maniac does not refuse to serve in the army. Criminal Russia, whose ideologists in the 90s were the leaders of gangster structures and the leaders of organized crime groups, could only welcome such defenders of the Motherland. But, fortunately, the conscript did not pass the medical examination. Pichushkin’s behavior seemed very strange to the psychiatrist from the military registration and enlistment office. Without hesitation, he wrote out a referral for the young man to undergo examination at the hospital named after. Kashchenko to check the mental state of his health. And the specialists there, having placed Alexander in a hospital for a while and observing him for several days, made a disappointing diagnosis: “Psychopathy.” According to doctors, the young man needed prompt treatment, otherwise the dangerous illness could begin to progress. However, Pichushkin’s mother did not attach serious importance to the psychiatrists’ words, hoping that after some time her offspring’s attacks of aggression would go away on their own.

"Good-natured loader"

After some time, Alexander unexpectedly decided to take up bodybuilding and ultimately brought his figure to an athletic level. The young man got a job in one of the stores as a loader.

He tried to be polite to his work colleagues and was friendly towards the staff. But Pichushkin’s behavior was just the front side of the coin. The downside was that the guy, while working in a store, gradually became addicted to alcohol and could drink for days on end. And in between binges, sitting in the utility room, he amused himself by cutting empty cardboard boxes with a knife with some kind of frenzy.

He also spent a lot of time playing chess and amused himself by placing small pieces of paper with numbers on the squares, thereby determining who would be among his victims. By 2006, the chessboard was 99% full.

Start of criminal activity

Alexander’s mental state deteriorated even more when he learned that his idol and ideologist Andrei Chikatilo was sentenced to death. He collected any information in the press concerning the identity of the “Rostov Ripper”. Once, while in the company of his peers, Pichushkin odiously declared that the judges’ verdict against his mastermind was a monstrous injustice. At the same time, he added that he intends to become a successor to Chikatilo’s “mission.” No one took his words seriously then. The young man invited his friend Mikhail Odiychuk to become his partner in criminal matters. He agreed, thinking that this was nothing more than a funny prank. Several times, accomplices combed Bitsevsky Park, tracking down potential victims and discussing the details of the murder. Gradually, it dawned on Mikhail that this was not a game, and his friend Alexander’s intentions were indeed the most serious. Having finally realized what was happening, Odiychuk declares that he does not want to participate in crimes. But his partner took his words as a personal insult... When the young people were once again sitting in the park, Pichushkin quietly threw a noose around his friend’s neck and strangled him.

After that, Alexander came home as if nothing had happened, took out a notebook and wrote with a pen: “No. 1.” Subsequently he will say: “The first murder is like the first love. I've never experienced anything like this. In order to feel this feeling of a superman again, I am ready to kill again and again.”

Murder pattern

However, after the first murder, they did not talk about the Bitsa maniac as apotheotically as they do today. He waited a full 9 years before committing his second crime. It was committed in the spring of 2001.

He chose a good place for the atrocities - the forest of Bitsevsky Park. Its victims in most cases were people without a fixed place of residence and subjects suffering from alcohol addiction.

The murderer could spend hours, hiding, tracking down the victim. Having found one, Alexander invited her to some deserted spot, of which there were many in the park, and offered her to drink alcohol. He had more than enough reasons for this. He told one that he wanted to remember his beloved dog, he suggested to another to celebrate the arrival of spring, and to the third he declared that he had a birthday that he had no one to celebrate with. After drinking alcohol, Alexander took out a hammer and beat the victim to death, and then dumped the body into the sewer. Sometimes he killed using only his muscular arms.

But one time Pichushkin made a mistake. Walking through the park, he suddenly saw the man whom he thought he had taken life. After this, his atrocities became more brutal: he began cutting off the heads of his victims.

For several years, Muscovites had no idea that the Bitsa maniac was operating in the southwest of the city, whose photos of victims would number in the dozens. But in 2005, Pichushkin, having changed the style of his crimes, became almost criminal No. 1 in the capital’s metropolis.

New tactics

The moment came when the authorities tightly closed the sewer hatches. Naturally, Alexander began to harbor the idea of ​​a new way of committing atrocities. And he quickly came up with a simple plan of action.

The murderer began to catch with live bait. The fact is that on the central alleys of the park there were feeders for birds and squirrels. Seeing that such a product was hanging near a busy path, Pichushkin hung it in a more deserted area of ​​the forest. And then he waited for one of the older people to come and feed the birds here. In this seemingly trivial way, the victims of the Bitsa maniac fell into the nets they had laid out.

A criminal who has become feared...

After Alexander stops hiding the corpses and the public learns that a serial killer is operating in the south-west of Moscow, almost all newspapers begin to write about him. Moreover, representatives of the yellow press, in an effort to win high ratings, introduced into the story about the maniac a lot of things that were not true. And this frightened Muscovites even more, who tried to bypass Bitsevsky Park using the tenth road. The forest area where Pichushkin allegedly worked began to be patrolled by police. But serial killers manage to increase the number of victims even in such conditions.

But why didn’t anyone look for the monster before? Why weren’t the police given the command to comb the Bitsevsky forest back in 2001? The maniac committed murder and remained unpunished for several years. Why? The fact is that no one found tortured corpses in the forest, and the disappearance of people in the area alarmed few people.

But, sooner or later, anyone, even the most experienced criminal, makes a mistake and reveals himself. Alexander Pichushkin was no exception.

The Last Crime

In the summer of 2006, a young man chose his former work colleague as a victim. She turned out to be a middle-aged woman who raised her son alone. Pichuzkin invited Marina Moskaleva to take a walk in Bitsevsky Park. The maniac decided to act according to a proven scheme: lure the lady to a secluded place in the forest, give her alcohol, and then take her life. But Alexander initially could not even imagine that before leaving on a date, the woman left a note for her son and the phone number of the person with whom she went for a walk. Unfortunately, this time the criminal managed to realize his intention, but the episode turned out to be his last. Thanks to the note and phone number, law enforcement finally managed to find the serial killer and catch him. Thus ended a series of crimes in which the Bitsa maniac took part, a photo identikit of whom the police posted in the vicinity of the area where he operated. Finally, residents of the southwest of the capital could breathe easy. After some time, detectives, conducting an investigative experiment, again descended on Bitsevsky Park. The maniac subsequently confessed to all the crimes charged against him, and to other crimes unknown to the investigation as well. It was established that he took the lives of 61 people.

Suicide attempts

Operatives arrested a serial killer after raiding his home. He was sleeping peacefully, and when his mother woke him up and said that representatives of the law had come to them, for some reason Pichushkin was not surprised. He quickly got dressed and went with the police to the station.

The confession of the Bitsevsky maniac is noteworthy: “For almost a year and a half I have been in isolation, and all this time a whole army of investigators, prosecutors, and criminologists are deciding my fate, while I alone was able to send more than 60 people to the next world. I am the only one who was both a prosecutor, a lawyer, and a judge for them. I was no different from God!”

However, while sitting in the pre-trial detention center, Alexander repeatedly attempted to commit suicide. But vigilant law enforcement officers managed to prevent them. The first time he simply banged his head against the bars, thus trying to crack his skull. The guards arrived on time, and soon the Bitsevsky maniac was transferred to a special medical facility.

A second suicide attempt occurred after Alexander was visited by his mother in the hospital. He wanted to use an elastic band from his prison underpants and hang himself, but again the vigilant guards arrived in time.

Court

In the fall of 2007, the serial killer, monster and maniac received a well-deserved punishment in the form of life imprisonment. According to representatives of Themis, he is guilty of 61 episodes. Where does the Bitsevsky maniac sit? In the special regime colony "Polar Owl" (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), where seasoned murderers are serving their sentences.

A few weeks after the verdict, Pichushkin sent a cassation appeal to a higher court, in which he asked that his sentence be changed from life imprisonment to 25 years in prison.

In the winter of 2008, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the statement of the Bitsevsky maniac and left the verdict unchanged.

Movie

The atrocities of Alexander Pichushkin caused a lot of noise. Ordinary people shuddered when they heard about the maniac. He killed for the sake of bloody mathematics. A few years ago, the NTV channel released a documentary film, “The Bitsevsky Maniac.” Its creators interview those who were personally acquainted with the maniac: his classmates at vocational school and his mother. In the film, Pichushkin demonstrates equanimity and calmness, telling journalists the details of all his atrocities. Most of the victims were his acquaintances - only one woman miraculously managed to survive. Alexander Pichuzhkin himself admitted that he is that elusive Bitsa maniac. The film turned out really well.

A simple store employee imagines himself as a superman who can decide people's destinies. The successor to Chikatilo’s case, the Bitsa maniac, whose story excited the whole country, considered himself a seasoned and eccentric murderer for a long time, but fair retribution eventually overtook him.

In 1994, Andrei Chikatilo, the most brutal maniac in the history of the Soviet Union and modern Russia, was shot in the back of the head in Novocherkassk. But in the late 90s, rumors spread around Moscow about another scumbag, and after that decent people began to take the tenth route around Bitsevsky Park. Let's talk about Alexander Pichushkin, who almost surpassed all the anti-records of the “Rostov Ripper”.

Alexander Pichushkin, better known as "Bitsevsky maniac"

Alexander Pichushkin was born in Mytishchi in 1974. The boy was raised by his mother. Little Sasha grew up modest and unsociable, did not communicate with his peers, loved to play chess (for this he would later receive the nickname “the chessboard killer”: after the murder, he stuck a mark on each cell). It is not known exactly when the parent should have sounded the alarm - when her son drew a naked Lenin, or when he fell from the swing and hit his head. After the accident, Pichushkin was waiting for a boarding school, and then a vocational school.

The cat clearly knows something

By the way, the Bitsevsky maniac adored Chikatilo. He collected all the articles about his idol, went in for sports so that the crimes would be successful, and dreamed of beating the scumbag in terms of the number of victims. Did he succeed?

Pichushkin himself asserted, not without pride: he killed exactly 63 people, no more, no less. However, the investigation confirmed only 49 victims (and three injured) from 2001 to 2006.

“Life is the most precious thing a person has. Money, Mercedes, mansions – they weren’t even close. I took what was most valuable and did not waste it on trifles.”

Pichushkin did not regret anything

It's creepy, isn't it? But in general, Pichushkin spoke about murders as something ordinary, about carpentry work, for example. But in each “deed” he found some special satisfaction. He was the first to send his classmate Mikhail Odiychuk to the next world in 1992. The body was never found. The guards of order really became concerned only in 2001, after a series of murders in Bitsevsky Park. Pichushkin started with the “dregs of society” - homeless people, drunkards... But the maniac quickly became bored with the role of “cleaner”, and before each murder he amused himself by asking the victim about interests, plans, dreams...

Folk art. Even maniacs have fans, oddly enough

“We went to the well... We talked along the way. It was interesting for me to learn their dreams, desires, plans... Because I knew that they would not come true.”

The killer dealt with most of his victims by throwing them into sewer wells. In this regard, one more detail is curious. Think about it: from 2001 to 2005, as many as 25 bodies floated to the Kuryanovsky treatment plant, but for some reason the police were in no hurry to investigate.

Pichushkin is offended and does not want to talk to the policeman

Actually, an incident helped to discover the criminal: on June 14, 2006, Pichushkin went on a date with a work colleague, and she left the maniac’s number for her son. That's how he was caught, two days after the incident. Now the maniac is serving a life sentence in the Polar Owl prison.

The police continue to investigate the case of the “Bitsa maniac.” Arrested 32-year-old Muscovite Alexander Pichushkin is suspected of serial murders. Pichushkin marked the corpses in a special way: he inserted signs with the name of the forest deity into the heads of the victims.

Last week, the Moscow prosecutor's office charged the detainee with the murders of two women - Muscovites Larisa Kulygina and Marina Moskaleva. Pichushkin worked with Kulygina in a supermarket located on Simferopol Boulevard. At first he was a loader, and then, due to a hand injury, he was transferred to an easier job: keeping order in the hall.

In this supermarket, two people died at the hands of a sadist. In winter, Pichushkin met another victim - a Tajik loader. Pichushkin finished him off in the same Bitsevsky forest, and threw his corpse into a sewer. On Friday evening, the maniac showed investigators and law enforcement officers the burial site. The victim's remains were recovered from the sewer.

Another victim of the maniac was Larisa Kulygina. On the evening of April 11, Alexander invited her to remember the deceased dog and at approximately 1:00 he brought her to the Bitsevsky forest. Along the path they passed an open sewer. Near the next sewer hatch, Pichushkin took out a hammer. He struck at least 16 times, then pulled back the lid of the sewage well and dumped the body.

The killer thought that the corpse would be carried away by the current. However, a few days later the body floated out of the pipe. For a long time, the woman was listed as unidentified, and only in early June in the forest, while combing the area, operatives found Kulygina’s torn passport.

Pichushkin no longer hid corpses in wells. “I was offended that they would never find out about my crimes. So I began to leave corpses right on the paths to become famous,” says the maniac.

Pichushkin was distinguished by a strange love for Zolotoy Veles vodka. Several victims had fragments of a bottle with this label found in their bleeding wounds. The choice of symbol is not accidental, the newspaper writes. Veles is the god of the forest, and it seems that Pichushkin himself imagines himself as his right hand. When he was caught, Alexander admitted that he knew Bitsa like the back of his hand.

It was with vodka that Pichushkin lured, for example, a resident of Zyuzin, known in the area as Kolya the homeless man. They met on October 15 last year at a grocery store on Kerchenskaya Street and went to Bitsevsky Park. Here the maniac committed another murder. Using a similar scheme, he dealt with 57-year-old Pyotr Dudukin and 63-year-old Nikolai Zakharchenko.

Investigators are struck by Pichushkin’s calmness. He often launches into discussions on philosophical topics, and talks about murders as something completely natural. “Sometimes I woke up with a desire to kill and went into the forest that same day. I liked to watch the agony of the victims,” says Pichushkin.

The “Bitsevsky maniac” previously came to the attention of the police

As it became known to the newspaper "Life", the Moscow police released the "Bitsa maniac" back in 2002. Pichushkin had previously come to the attention of law enforcement officials. Back in 2002, the environmental police were interested in him.

Pichushkin was then working in a supermarket on Kerchenskaya Street when they came to their store for an inspection. Employees of the department for combating offenses in the field of environmental protection demanded from the store management the medical records of all employees.

Alexander Pichushkin's medical record immediately aroused suspicion among the inspectors. It was too inconsistent with the appearance of its owner. Every column said “healthy,” but Alexander looked unwell. And he was so nervous that his hands were shaking.

But then the environmental police thought that Pichushkin was worried because his documents were not in order. And he doesn’t look good because of some illness.

Pichushkin’s medical book was then confiscated from the store. Environmental police officers decided to check it to see if it was a fake? If this were so, then Pichushkin could be prosecuted for forgery of documents.

An official request was sent to the clinic at the suspect’s place of residence. A few days later the answer came that Pichushkin had indeed undergone a medical examination at the clinic. The document was accompanied by actual impressions of seals and stamps, which coincided with those in the suspicious medical book.

Pichushkin tried never to conflict with the police. He was very afraid that he would be identified in the same way as his idol Chikatilo. He was shaking then at the sight of every person in uniform.

The investigation established that on the evening of April 11, Muscovite Pichushkin fraudulently, under the pretext of remembering his deceased dog and subsequent acquaintance with a realtor, brought his acquaintance Natalya Kulygina to the territory of the Bitsevsky forest park, where, having brought her to a pre-selected place, he killed her at approximately 1:00 the next day. inflicting at least 16 blows to the head with a hammer.

Then, in order to hide the murder, Pichushkin threw the victim into a nearby open manhole of a sewage well, after which he fled the crime scene.

On June 13, at approximately 21:00, at the New Cheryomushki metro station, Pichushkin met his friend Marina Moskaleva, took her, under the pretext of a walk, to the territory of the Bitsevsky forest park, where on a path about 250 meters from the gas station, opposite house 89 on Sevastopolsky Prospekt, approximately at 2:00 the next day he killed her, inflicting at least six blows to the head with a hammer, after which he fled the scene with the crime weapon.

As part of the ongoing investigation, the remains of an unknown man were also discovered on the territory of the Bitsevsky Forest Park in a specific location indicated by Pichushkin.

Now the “Bitsa maniac” remains calm in his cell and during interrogations. He willingly tells investigators about his crimes. His mother was allowed on a date with him. The woman does not believe that her son could have committed bloody murders. She believes that Alexander is incriminating himself.

Pichushkin received the first parcel - it weighed 20 kilograms. Alexander is glad that his relatives did not abandon him. In the common cell, his neighbors treat him with some caution. They are alarmed that Alexander collects all the newspaper clippings to himself, and when he reads them out loud, he laughs.

His father left the family when Alexander Pichushkin was only 9 months old. After this, the boy grew up with his mother, and his grandfather took an active part in his upbringing. In 1976, he and his mother moved to live from Mytishchi in the Moscow microdistrict Zyuzino, on Khersonskaya Street. Soon, according to Pichushkin's mother, an accident occurs to him - he falls from a swing and receives a traumatic brain injury, after which he ends up in the hospital. As a result of the injury, Pichushkin had complications with his speech - he confused “sh” and “s”, and also made mistakes in writing these letters, which is why his mother transferred him to the 138th speech therapy boarding school. After boarding school, Pichushkin goes to study at a vocational school to become a carpenter.

Bitsevsky maniac

In 2005-2006, rumors spread throughout the south-west of Moscow (with reference to police sources) that a maniac was operating in the Bitsevsky forest park, killing elderly people with particular cruelty.

From the beginning of 2006, publications began to appear in the press.

Murder Streak

He committed his first murder in 1992 at the age of 18: he strangled his classmate Mikhail Odiychuk and threw him into a well. The body was never found.

During the series of murders in 2002-2006, he lived with his mother, Natalya Elmuradovna, in Moscow on Khersonskaya Street, not far from Bitsevsky Park. Until 2006, he worked as a loader in a grocery store on Khersonskaya Street.

Consequence

2006

February 19 - A man was detained in Bitsevsky Park who tried to run away while trying to check his documents. The operatives opened fire and wounded him in the thigh. It later became clear that the detainee had nothing to do with the murders in Bitsevsky Park.

The press has two versions of the motives for his unusual behavior.

According to one version, the operatives who stopped the man were not in uniform, and the man decided that they were trying to rob him. According to the second version, the man carried a knife for self-defense (at that time there were many rumors about the Bitsa maniac in Moscow) and when operatives drew attention to him, he was afraid that he might be prosecuted for carrying a bladed weapon.

March 13 - A man disguised as a woman was detained in Bitsevsky Park; he tried to escape at the sight of police officers. A hammer was found in his bag. During the investigation, it turned out that the detainee had an alibi at the time the crimes were committed.

June 14 - The murder of Marina Moskaleva was committed, during the investigation of which the investigation came to her colleague Alexander Pichushkin. Marina, leaving on a date with Pichushkin, left her son his mobile phone number. Pichushkin himself knew about this fact, but still decided to kill.

June 16 - Alexander Pichushkin was detained in his home on suspicion of committing the murder of Marina Moskaleva. After some time, the detainee stated that he was the “Bitsa maniac,” but efforts to capture the maniac continued, as investigators did not rule out the possibility of self-incrimination.

Arrest

Detained on June 16, 2006 on suspicion of murdering a woman on June 14, 2006. He immediately began to confess. A few days later, Pichushkin testified on other crimes committed on the territory of Bitsevsky Park. A week later, Pichushkin was charged with the murder of Marina Moskaleva and another murder of a woman, committed by him on April 12, 2006.

In April 2007, Alexander Pichushkin was declared sane based on the results of an examination conducted since December 2006 at the Institute. Serbian.

In June 2007, the Moscow prosecutor's office completed the investigation into the criminal case of Alexander Pichushkin. He was charged with 52 premeditated murders, committed mainly on the territory of Bitsevsky Park. According to various sources, Pichushkin himself claimed to have killed 61, 62 or 63 people.

On August 13, 2007, preliminary hearings began in the Moscow City Court in the case of Alexander Pichushkin, accused of murdering 49 people and attempting to murder three more people.

2007

April - According to the conclusion of specialists from the Institute. Serbsky, Alexander Pichushkin was declared sane, that is, the crimes of which he is accused were committed by him consciously.

June 29 - The Moscow City Prosecutor's Office completed the investigation into the criminal case of Alexander Pichushkin. Pichushkin is accused of committing 52 premeditated murders. After the indictment was approved, the case was sent to the Moscow City Court for consideration on the merits.

August 1 - According to the acting head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Police Lieutenant General Iskandar Galimov, the investigation proved all 62 murders of the “Bitsa maniac.”

Court

August 13, 2007 - Preliminary hearings began in the Moscow City Court in the case of Alexander Pichushkin, accused of murdering 49 people and attempting to murder 3 more people.

The defendant was charged under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of Russia “murder of two or more persons in a knowingly helpless state, committed with particular cruelty.” The hearing is held behind closed doors. During this process, the form of legal proceedings will be determined and the time frame for consideration of the case on the merits will be set. Moscow Prosecutor Yuri Semin will act as the state prosecutor at the trial, prosecutor's office representative Maria Semenenko told reporters at the courthouse. According to her, there are 41 victims and 98 prosecution witnesses in the case. According to Semenenko's forecasts, the trial against Pichushkin will last at least two months.

The court granted the defendant's request to have his case examined by a jury and announced that the trial would be open. Jury selection is scheduled for September 13.

According to investigators, Pichushkin committed crimes from 1992 to 2006. The accused was most active in 2005-2006 on the territory of the Bitsevsky forest park in the south of Moscow. Most of the victims of the defendant were men; among the victims there were only four women - three were killed, one was attempted.

The defendant's appointed lawyer, Pavel Ivannikov, said that his client admits guilt in full. Earlier, in an interview with one of the TV channels, Pichushkin stated that he actually committed 61 murders. At the same time, according to him, many of his victims were his acquaintances.

According to Pichushkin, he led victims into a forest park under various pretexts, where he killed them with hammer blows to the head and hid their bodies. During the investigation, Pichushkin showed several burial places of the dead. “I even pointed out to the investigation those points that were not known to them,” Pichushkin said. Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs expressed the opinion that Pichushkin surpassed even the famous serial killer Andrei Chikatilo in cruelty, executed in 1994 for the murder of 53 people. He also stated that if he had not been detained, he would not have stopped killing: “If they had not caught him, I would never have stopped, never. They saved the lives of many by catching me.”

October 24 - the jury of the Moscow City Court unanimously returned an indictment. Pichushkin was found fully guilty of 48 murders and 3 attempted murders.

October 25 - Pichushkin made his “last word” in court, where he once again said that he does not regret his actions.

All this time I did what I wanted... I have been under arrest for 500 days now and all this time everyone has been deciding my fate - the cops, judges, prosecutors. But at one time I decided the fate of 60 people. I alone was the judge, the prosecutor, and the executioner... I alone performed all your functions

October 29, 2007 - Pichushkin was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Moscow City Court made a decision in the case of the so-called Bitsa maniac Alexander Pichushkin. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony. There he will also undergo compulsory treatment by a psychiatrist due to homicidomania discovered in him. Pichushkin was found guilty of murdering 48 people, while he himself admitted to committing 11 more serious crimes.

November 2, 2007 - Alexander Pichushkin appealed the verdict. In his cassation appeal, he asks to reduce the sentence from life imprisonment to 25 years.

February 2008 - The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation rejected the cassation appeal.

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Eugene 14.11.2010 12:38:17

For some reason he is very brave and looks, how to say, courageous in his position. In my opinion, this is just a lightning rod for public sentiment, well, for suckers and rednecks, as THEY say. Such individuals are perhaps a reliable tool to let off steam from dissatisfaction with the ruling elite

Fool.
Mitton25 14.01.2011 01:26:59

A real moral monster. Before the sentencing, he pretended to be a tough superman; he didn’t even have time to serve a year before he asked to go home. I wanted 25 years. Yes, for such a thing you should punch him in the face, tear off his genitals... The guy got drunk at home.

bastard
17.02.2012 04:44:59

he is a complete moral and physical monster and he is not anyone and his name is not what

The maniac still has accomplices.
05.09.2013 09:51:29

12. After the attack on me at night In short, the list can go on for a very long time - I have a memory - I don’t complain about significant events. Of course, I forget small events.
But anyway. At night, four people attacked me, performing a performance. If you ask, I will try to explain in order and logic. On the eve of the attack on me on November 12, 1999, Olga X’s friend, a former common roommate, came into our apartment No. It seemed like she just came in, there was nothing suspicious about it, she was waiting for me in the kitchen with X. She looked at me. I don’t remember what she asked me. I went to my place, it was already late at 1.30 am. So I was leaving the metro late at night, there was supposed to be the last trolleybus number 85. I was leaving the metro, there was a silver Mercedes. The headlights turn on, illuminating me. A young man, 25 years old, runs out and asks me for a match. It’s strange with a Mercedes in 1999 - it was a rarity, I remember this Mercedes well, it also had a number 100 or 101. But the fact is that I just had matches, I handed them with my left hand and kept the other in my pocket. The man was confused, something didn’t go according to plan. He lit a cigarette and went to the Mercedes. Two more guys were milling around the bus stop. , then they ran up to the Mercedes and began to ask them to take them home. Since they can’t even light a cigarette, then they are not cool at all, even if they drive a Mercedes. A young man hits one in the face with his fist and says, “I’m like a taxi driver in a Mercedes.” Another one got out of the Mercedes from the driver's seat, a young man 168 cm tall and began to separate them, so I then came up and began to separate them, they dispersed peacefully, the tall guy from the Mercedes said, don't be offended, everything is brotherly and backwards, breaking the rules, they left, they did not show the back number, that is, they did not have a second fake, someone else’s number. I approached the bus stop, and these two with a bottle of beer came up to me and said, who am I and how do I know them? I just gave them matches to light, one tall one sharply hits me in the face with his fist, I answer him with a fist, but the shorter one, from the side, at that time hits the temple with the edge of the bottom of the bottle, the bottle was sealed and with beer, Hunt No. 9 I felt a blow from a hard object to my temple. The blow landed a centimeter above the temple. Blood poured out, the second tall one was already moving away, and this little guy, 170 tall, picked up the fallen bottle and began aiming at me, at the head, I told him that he wouldn’t get far from here. In short, the tall one says, enough is enough for him. The tall one looked like the Bitsevsky maniac - Pichushkin. That is, if he had been caught then, there would not have been so many corpses. in Chertanovo .. And the second had a distinctive sign of one in a million, he had a very noticeable sign associated with hairdressing. And X went to apartments and cut hair at home. So I also have clairvoyance, then looking - imagining that same Mercedes, inside the salon I see the outlines of a woman with fluffy hair, who pointed at me. As it turned out later in the Moscow City Court, her last name was Olga. I looked at the traffic police database and found out that Dmitry at that time had a silver Mercedes 1987 model E270. Then I went to the police - they waved me away - they had no time - they had a corpse in the area. The duty officer generally says so Well, some people have strong heads. They hit him in the temple with a bottle, but you see he’s alive. Such a small, plump major. November 12 night, 1999. By the way, the next day I went to the 49th clinic for a bandage, I saw them getting into a private taxi from Hanoi. We only took a taxi in that direction to Chertanovo. Well, the tall attacker who attacked me is very similar to Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin.
Internet Alexander Pichushkin (aka the Bitsa Park Maniac, or The Chessboard Killer) is a simple working guy from Moscow, a kachkobog... In 1976, the Pichushkins moved to the Moscow residential area of ​​Zyuzino, not far from Bitsa Park.