Russian Is Found Guilty In String of 48 Slayings
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MOSCOW, Oct. 24 -- A Russian man known as the "Chessboard Killer" because he wanted to commit a murder for each of the 64 squares on the chessboard was convicted Wednesday of killing 48 people, most of them in a Moscow park.
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A judge on Wednesday found a bus driver guilty of eight slayings, giving prosecutors their second conviction in the decade-long series of murders of women in this border city.
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A man serving a life sentence in Colorado for murdering a teenage girl has claimed responsibility for as many as 48 slayings across the country dating back more than three decades, authorities said Thursday.
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A Moscow jury convicted a man of 48 murders that he recorded on a chessboard, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.
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A court has convicted seven men in the 2000 murder of journalist Igor Domnikov &#151; one of more than a dozen killed during President Vladimir Putin's years in power.
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A man with a history of crime and psychiatric troubles was convicted Wednesday of viciously murdering two girls and a woman and sentenced to life in prison for the series of macabre slayings that shocked France three years ago.
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The youngest Canadian to face a death sentence is acquitted 48 years after he was sentenced for rape and murder.
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Slobodan Milosevic's paramilitary commander, his secret police chief and five others were convicted Friday of killing four people in an attack against a prominent opposition leader who survived.
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Two Russian interior ministry troops are convicted of the killing of three civilians in Chechnya.
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Three men found guilty of killing a father on the outskirts of Aberdeen get a total of at least 48 years in jail.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday found the Russian authorities responsible for the killings of four members of a Chechen family in 2003 and ordered Moscow to pay a relative $114,000.
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MOSCOW (BBC News) - A court here has sentenced serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", to life imprisonment. The Russian shop assistant was found guilty of 48 murders, which he once said he recorded on a chessboard. Most of the murders were committed over five years in Bittsa Park, in Moscow's southern suburbs.  Pichushkin has never denied the charges. He was also found guilty on three counts of attempted murder. Pichushkin began his 14-year killing spree in Moscow in 1992, and was arrested in June 2006. His victims were drowned in a sewer or bludgeoned to death with a hammer, investigators say. Pichushkin originally said he planned to carry out 64 killings, one for each square on a chessboard.
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Twelve men, including former members of the secret police, are found guilty of the murder of Serbian PM Zoran Djindjic.
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A Russian court convicted a Siberian  scientist of spying at a retrial on Friday, overturning his  earlier acquittal that had sparked the anger of the FSB state  security forces.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.
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BESLAN, Russia  - A Russian court granted an amnesty to three policemen who were charged with negligence for failing to prevent the 2004 Beslan school massacre, in which 331 people died.
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KRASNOYARSK, November 24 (Itar-Tass) - The Krasnoyarsk territorial court on Wednesday found guilty in high treason physicist Valentin Danilov and sentenced him to 14 years in a tough regime colony.