All of the family's worries fell upon the shoulders of the mother, Lyuba Ivanovna, who worked at the Artyomovsk radio plant and did not notice how her son was straying from the right path.
Soon she married Alexander Anushin, an electric locomotive driver, but he turned out to be an alcoholic who did not even try to establish relationships with the child.
The next murder occurred on 8 November 2002, in the village of Potochino, Moscow Oblast, but this time he had a smaller bounty of 700 rubles.
On 18 March 2003, Pischikov committed two consecutive murders in the village of Gubin in the Orekhovo-Zuevsky District, stealing 950 rubles and a piece of sausage.
On 3 April 2003, Pischikov committed his last murder in the village of Voinova Gora, killing a pensioner and his 50-year-old daughter.
The Supreme Court of Russia upheld the verdict without change, after which Pischikov was sent to the White Swan prison.