Moscow's "Chessboard killer" was formally sentenced to life imprisonment today ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.

Russian 'chessboard' killer Alexander Pichushkin gave a chilling insight into his twisted mind today when he told a court his power of life and death made him "almost God".

A deranged mass killer who wanted to record a murder for every square on a chessboard was formally found guilty today of killing 48 people in Moscow.

A Russian who murdered dozens of people keeping his score on a chessboard’s squares boasted today of the joy his first killing gave him.

Inside a glass cage in a Moscow court room, a man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of his victims on a chessboard paced back and forth as a jury was selected today at the start of his murder trial.