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Nov 2020
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#24- The Chessboard Killer (Serial Kille...

STEPHANIE SOO
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64 squares on a chessboard. And each represented a victim he viciously murdered.  His trademark? Shoving a vodka bottle into the cracks of the skull he just split. The victims were almost always still alive during this.  Obsessed with the Queen's Gamebit? Got a new fascination with chess? He was obsessed too. Meet the chessboard killer. 
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