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MOSCOW - A Russian who says he murdered at least 60 people told a court that he fell in love with killing.
Dubbed the "chessboard murderer" because he wanted to fill the 64 squares of a chessboard with a coin for each murder, Alexander Pichushkin said he preferred victims he knew. "I tried to collect their spirits, their souls."
Pichushkin, charged with 49 murders, says he killed at least 60. He said his first killing in 1992 was like first love: "You never forget it."
- Reuters
