What if a community’s love for chess, would unknowingly become a killer’s ploy for luring innocent people to their deaths? Unfortunately, for at least 48 people who frequented their local park to play chess at the public tables with their neighbours and community members, the game of chess played with a man named Alexander Pichushkin would be their last. In this episode we discuss what led to Pichushkin becoming a serial killer, his MO, and where he is now.

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