Murder Monday #2 Alexander Pichuskin
Keeping on the trend of "goal setting killers," let's talk about Alexander Pichuskin, although most people know him as the Chessboard Killer. Pichuskin was on April 9, 1974, in Russia and was known as a fairly sociable child although at the age of four he fell off his swing, resulting in damage to his frontal cortex. Once he was in school, he was physically and verbally bullied, which intensified his anger, and eventually, his mother put him in a school for disabled children, I couldn't find anything about Pichuskin's father just btw. Anyways, his grandfather though, was kind of his father figure and believed that Pichuskin was much smarter and the school wasn't engaging him enough so he taught him how to play chess and for a while, this was his outlet for aggression. However, his aggression never went away and in 1992, Pichuskin committed his first murder when he pushed a boy out of a window, killing him. Pichuskin was questioned but eventually, the po...