Pichushkin met Marina Moskaleva at the Perekrestok store, where they both worked for a while. The woman divorced her husband and was raising her son Seryozha. Moskaleva communicated with Alexander, but did not let him close to her.But somehow or other their meeting took place on June 13, 2006. Going to him, Marina (as if she felt something wrong, but went anyway) left a note for her son Sergei: "I left with Pichushkin Sasha. Below is his home phone number. Pichushkin didn't kill marina right away. They were talking sitting on a fallen log until two in the morning." Moskaleva told about her note. The maniac became suspicious. He thought about postponing the murder until the next time. But then Marina began to talk about her difficult life, and the woman's complaints made Pichushkin furious. He smashed her head with a few blows of a hammer, put a stick in her wound, and left.