‘Chessboard Killer’ gets life of labor
From Times Wire Reports
A former grocery clerk convicted of murdering 48 people during a methodical hunt to kill a person for every space on a chessboard was sentenced to life in a hard labor colony.
A Moscow court handed down Russia’s harshest possible sentence for Alexander Pichushkin, 33, who mostly preyed on residents of his poor Moscow neighborhood.
The so-called Chessboard Killer had boasted of killing 60 people.
Prosecutors could find evidence to charge him with 48.
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