Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Cannibalism - Dismemberment
Number of victims: 9 - 11
Date of murders: September 2009 - January 2012
Date of arrest: January 2012
Date of birth: 1989
Victims profile: Homeless and street alcoholics
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife - Hitting with a hammer
Location: Belinsky, Penza region, Russia
Status: Sentenced to life in prison on March 20, 2013
Russian Serial Killer Sentenced to Life in Prison
By Nastacia Leshchinskaya - Trutv.com
March 22, 2013
A court in Russia’s Penza region has sentenced 24-year-old serial killer Alexander Bychkov to life in prison for nine murders. A year ago, Bychkov was caught shoplifting and confessed to police that there were six bodies buried in his yard. According to authorities, Bychkov said he ate the hearts and livers of two victims, but this was not proven.
Bychkov’s motivation was a desire to impress a girlfriend who dumped him. In his diary, Bychkov wrote ”she said I was a wimp, not a wolf … I will show her … Maybe she will stop complaining and understand that I am a lone wolf.” There are no police records to indicate whether the girlfriend changed her mind about Bychkov, who sometimes referred to himself as Rambo.
While trying to be more like a wolf, Bychkov went after easy prey. He mainly killed the homeless, whom he found disgusting. Murdering the homeless and street alcoholics is a common thread among Russian serial killers. Most famously, Andrei Chikatilo would lure homeless women and prostitutes to secluded areas by promising them booze or money. Alexander Spetsivtsev used his mother to invite homeless children and teenagers to their apartment for food, then kill and dismember them. Alexander Pichushkin, nicknamed the Chessboard Killer because he aimed to kill 62 people, one for every square on a chess board, offered vodka to the elderly homeless. He’d drink with them before killing them in various brutal ways.
In addition to the six bodies found in his yard, Bychkov was found guilty of three more murders and sentenced to life in prison.
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