I have not the slightest interest in murdering people.' She replies to this criticism: 'I'm not a maniac. She has also faced outrage from her public comments about her 'love' for the monster, stemming from her participation in a television documentary two years ago. Over time, they reconciled and accepted my choice. At first they did but not now.'ĭivorcee Natalya admitted: 'My relatives were initially shocked. Now they don't allow us to exchange letters. I have been here since 2008 and I need her. Maybe if I were free, I would not have paid any attention to her but here she is ideal for me. 'But I proposed to her, like a man should do. What does he say of her? 'I proposed to Natasha (Natalya). Natalya even tattoed the portrait of her beloved one on her arm. Employees of the institution where he is serving his sentence do not want us to communicate.' But we both know that it does not depend on us. 'I have not received Sasha's letters in recent years. It never crossed my mind to part with him. 'Nothing has changed since he proposed to me,' she said, calling him Sasha, the fond name for Alexander, whose image she has tattooed onto her arm. 'Whatever people say, I love him more than life itself. She angrily denied recently reports that she had ditched him, complaining instead that their letters between the pair have been blocked by the authorities for two years. He admitted recently in an interview with Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets that he had proposed to her - and she accepted.Īged 29, Natalya, from Nyagan, also the birthplace of banned tennis champion Maria Sharapova, has spoken properly for the first time to explain her obsession with Pichushkin, even though they have only ever communicated by letter, and never met. One Siberian woman, who works in a children's shop, has won a special place in his heart, and she even calls herself Natalya Pichushkin, as if they are already married.
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Yet the Bitsa Park Maniac - the name comes from the Moscow park where many of his victims were killed - has become a magnet for women, with around 80 writing to him.Īlexander Pichushkin, 42, is the worst serial killer to emerge in Russia since the end of Soviet times. Picture: NTV In winter it's a furnace of cold, and in the brief, bleak summer, the marshmallowy tundra offers no route out even if an inmate should penetrate the ring of ravenous German Shepherd dogs. He now languishes inside 'impossible-to-escape' Polar Owl penal colony at Kharp village in the Arctic north of Siberia serving a life sentence from which he will never be released. The mass killer was convicted of killing 49 victims, although his own claims suggest his bloody tally is nearer 60. Picture: VkontakteĪlexander Pichushkin, 42, is the worst serial killer to emerge in Russia since the end of Soviet times. He aimed to murder one victim for each square on the chessboard - and his trademark signature was to wedge a bottle into the skulls of his victims. Aged 29, Natalya, has spoken properly for the first time to explain her obsession with Pichushkin.