Ambrose, Lyda Catherine (born in 1891 in Missouri) used arsenic to poison five men, which were either her husbands or her boyfriends. Little is known about her early life until 1917 when she killed her first fiancee in Keytesville, Missouri. He died of stomach pains shortly after taking out a life insurance policy worth id=,500 in the name of Lyda Catherine Ambrose. Shortly afterwards the young widow turned her charms on her fiance's brother and married him. Within three months he was dead too, leaving Ambrose with another life insurance worth id=,500. She turned to Twin Falls, Idaho, where she got involved with the owner of the restaurant she worked for as a waitress. They got married and soon after their wedding on June 10 in 1919, the hapless man dropped dead from "stomach ulcers". Unfortunately for his wife he had forgotten to sign his life insurance documents and hence left her nothing to collect. The third husband was soon found and died three months after they exchanged wedding bows. This time though his insurance policy was signed and Ambrose collected approximately style="BORDER-RIGHT: 2px inset; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; BORDER-TOP: 2px inset; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: -3px; BORDER-LEFT: 2px inset; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 2px inset; POSITION: relative; HEIGHT: 100%; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"0,000 for her husbands untimely death. She married husband number four on October 16 in 1920. He passed away about a month later and left Lyda Catherine Ambrose style="BORDER-RIGHT: 2px inset; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; BORDER-TOP: 2px inset; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: -3px; BORDER-LEFT: 2px inset; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 2px inset; POSITION: relative; HEIGHT: 100%; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"2,000. The police began the investigate and once her cottage was searched, authorities found a large amount of old-fashioned arsenic-laced flypaper. Toxicology tests on her late husbands revealed heavy doses of the poison in their remains. The police arrested Ambrose in Oakland, California and returned her to Idaho where she had killed her most recent victim. By 1931, she was convicted of first degree murder and was given life. She managed to escape from the Idaho state prison, but was recaptured in Kansas City in 1932. She died in jail of old age.


Andrade, Marcelo Costa de (born in 1967) is Brazil's most famous and most notorious serial killer. The son of poor migrants from the northeast, Andrade grew up in the Rocinha Slum in Rio De Janeiro. He was regularly beaten by his stepfather. When he was 10 he was sexually abused. At 14 he began to prostitute himself for a living. He was then sent to a reform school, but escaped. Still hustling by 16, Andrade began a lasting homosexual relationship with an elder man. At 17 he tried to rape his 10-year-old brother. When he was 23 years old his relationship ended and he came back to live with his mother and his brother. He found a low-paying job and started going to church four times a week. His life seemed normal until April 1991, when he started to kill. Over a period of nine months Andrade brutally raped and strangled 14 boys aged 6 to 13. His victims of choice were poor street kids whom he attracted to deserted areas. He practiced necrophilia, decapitated one of them, crushed the head of another one, and, in two occasions, drank their blood. He later confessed that he did it to "become as beautiful as them". His mind unbalanced by the sermons of a priest from the "Universal Church of the Kingdom of God", Andrade declared that children would automatically go to heaven if they died before they're thirteen and that he had done them a favour by sending them to heaven. In December of 1991, Andrade "fell in love" with 10-year-old Altair De Abreu and spared his life. It didn't prevent him, however, from abusing and killing Altairs 6-year-old brother Ivan. Andrade then asked Altair to live with him and the boy agreed to spend the night with him in the bushes. The next day, the terrified youngster managed to escape and went to the police. Andrade confessed to 14 killings.

Andermatt, Roger (born in 1969), a Swiss nurse, confessed to killing 24 elderly patients on September 11 2001, nine in nursing homes and 18 in an invalid home in Sarnen, Switzerland. He was also charged with attempted murder of three patients, and another three counts of assisted suicide. All of his victims were suffering from Alzheimers or needed other forms of high levels of care. He murdered mostly women between 66 and 95, nine with lethal injections,eight he smothered with plastic bags, and ten were killed by a combination of both at several nursing homes where he worked between 1995 and 2001. Another nurse said he sedated them before he killed them. He said he had acted from compassion for his ailing victims, because he wanted to end their suffering, and because he and his nursing colleagues were severely overburdened. This was the largest case of euthenasia ever seen in Switzerland. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Andrews, Joshua Joshua Andrews (born in February 1982) killed several people in the area of Virginia and New York. When he was just 2 months old his father, Maurice Andrews, was accused of killing two men during the robbery of a jewelry store in Beaumont, Texas. Andrews visited his father on Texas' death row until he was fatally stabbed by a fellow inmate. At 8, Joshua received 3rd-degree burns on his face when a boy from his neighborhood threw gasoline on him and lighted a match. As a result, his vocal cords were scorched and the doctors had to make him a new ear. Eventually, his voice came back, but he was frequently teased by the other children, who called him names. For his mother, Imani Taymullah, this tragic incident was the turning point for Joshua, who was a normal boy before that tragedy. At 9 years old, Imani Taymullah nearly died under the hands of her third husband who attacked her with a butcher knife. Her son had to witness it. Andrews juvenile record begins in 1995. Aged 12, he was sentenced to two years' probation after an attempted aggravated robbery. He was consecutively involved in several burglaries and is believed to be involved in drug dealing. In April 2000, his brother Martin and his 15-year-old girlfriend Krisunda Temple were shot dead. They were both shot 8 times and Tempe was shot twice in her face. Prosecutors failed to prove the case and the trial ended with Andrews acquittal. In 2007 Andrews was arrested again. Being accused of the shooting deaths of 3 men in Virginia, a shooting and robbery in a store in Stafford and of wounding 4 people in New York, he could face the death penalty if extradited to Virginia.


Angelo, Richard was 26 years old when he went to work at Good Samaritan Hospital on Long Island in New York. He had a background of doing good things for people as a former Eagle Scout and volunteer fireman. He also had an out-of-control desire to be recognized as a hero.Angelo eventually confessed to authorities, telling them during a taped interview, "I wanted to create a situation where I would cause the patient to have some respiratory distress or some problem, and through my intervention or suggested intervention or whatever, come out looking like I knew what I was doing. I had no confidence in myself. I felt very inadequate." He was charged with multiple counts of second-degree murder.

Archer-Gilligan, Amy (born in 1873) billed herself as a nurse in 1901 and opened a nursing home for the elderly in Newington, Connecticut. Although she had no nursing qualifications, she quickly earned a reputation as genteel caretaker of New England's wealthy aged. She ran the nursing home with her first husband James and the clinic was so successful, that they relocated it from Newington to Windsor where they opened the more commodious and modern Archer Home for the Elderly and Infirm. Sister Amy persuaded some of her patients to pay an insurance premium of style="BORDER-RIGHT: 2px inset; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; BORDER-TOP: 2px inset; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: -3px; BORDER-LEFT: 2px inset; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 2px inset; POSITION: relative; HEIGHT: 100%; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"000, for which she promised them lifetime care, no matter how long they lived. It seemed too good to be true, and it was. Many of her patients turned over the money, and once she had it in her possession, she made sure they took up no more of her resources. Smothering or poisoning them, she explained their deaths to the local physician who signed the death certificates as old age. When her husband dropped dead, Amy took the money of his life insurance and remarried shortly after. Between 1911 and 1916, there were 48 deaths, including two of Amy's husbands. Authorities became suspicious and when the nursing home was raided, large quantities of arsenic were discovered. Archer-Gillian stood trial and was given a life sentence. She ended up serving it in an institution for the insane.


Arguelles, Robert confessed to killing three teenage girls from the Salt Lake City area while serving a sentence for child molestation. In March 1992 he kidnapped, raped and killed 13-year-old Stephanie Blundell. In the same month Arguelles kidnapped, raped and strangled 15-year-old Tuesday Roberts, and then stabbed her friend, 16-year-old Lisa Martinez, to death with a wood chisel. He also abducted and strangled Margo Bond, a janitor of a high school were Arguelles said he was hunting for girls. Arguelles tried to hang himself with a laundry bag in his cell at the Utah State Prison in August 1998. He has repeatedly stated that he wishes to die for his crimes. He was sentenced to death June 20, 1997, but has undergone three competency evaluations to make sure that he is fit to die.



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In September 1937 relatives reported Minnie Gotthardt missing. The 22 year old woman had worked at Ball's tavern. Ball claimed that she had left for another job. Then another waitress, Julia Turner, was reported missing. After the third disappearance the police compiled a list of Ball's former employees and concluded that more than twelve were reported missing, including two of Joe's wives. Cliff Wheeler, a handyman that conspired with Ball, admitted to helping his employer to get rid of the bodies of two women he had killed by feeding them to the alligators. Wheeler told authorities that Ball was responsible for the death of at least 20 women, but that the alligators had disposed of any evidence. On September 24 in 1938 the police went to question Ball about the missing women. Ball shot himself dead as soon as they arrived. There has never been any firm evidence that the alligators ate any of the victims.

Barfield, Velma Margie Velma Barfield was a 52-year-old grandmother and serial poisoner who used arsenic as her weapon. She was also the first woman executed after the death penalty was re-instituted in 1976 in North Carolina and the first woman to die by lethal injection.

Barron, Jack moved from being an unfortunate man to becoming a serial killer. In June 1992 his wife Irene died mysteriously in her sleep. Barron was at work when his wife's body was found by a neighbor. Eight months later, on February 7, 1993, his son Jeremy, aged 4, stopped breathing in his sleep. Barron claimed it had to be some genetic link that was killing his family. On August 7, 1994, his daughter Ashley, who was 4 years old then, died, too, in her sleep. Neither family nor friends could believe that such tragedy could strike again. Barron packed up and moved in with his mother. When his fifty-two-year-old mother died, also of asphyxiation in her sleep, authorities became suspicious. The four deaths seemed to coincidental to ignore. Barron blames the loss of his family on hereditary heart disease. It is believed that he suffers from Munchausen-by-Proxy syndrome, where a person causes illness or death to a loved one in order to attain sympathy. In April 2000, Jack Barron was sentenced to three consecutive life terms in prison without parole.


Barton, Mark (born in 1955) was a spree killer from Stockbridge, Georgia. Barton, a 44-year-old daytrader shot and killed 9 people and wounded 22 more on July 29 in 1999, after brutally murdering his family. Born to Truman and Gladys Barton, Mark Barton had a happy childhood. The family lived in Europe until they were relocated to South Carolina during Barton's early youth. Barton was an intelligent child and excelled in math and chemistry. Yet he was emotionally distant and considered unsociable by the other students. During his mid-teens he started experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs, which quickly turned into drug abuse. It landed him in the hospital several times following accidental overdoses. After suffering a mental breakdown Barton underwent drug therapy and psychiatric treatment. He graduated in 1979 from the University of South Carolina with a degree in chemistry. In Atlanta, Georgia, he worked at a series of jobs and fell in love with Debra Spivey, whom he married. The couple moved to Arkansas in the mid-1980s after Barton landed a position as president of a manufacturing company. The couple had two children. But later on Barton became increasingly paranoid and controlling, particularly of his wife. Over the years the marriage began a steady decline. In 1990 Barton was fired from his position. The family moved to Georgia where he found a job as a salesman at a chemical company. He started an affair with 22-year-old Leigh Ann Lang. In 1993, tragedy struck when Debra and her mother were hacked to death in a camping trailer with a blunt instrument during their vacation. Barton was considered a suspect, but he could provide an alibi. Leigh Ann Lang moved in with him and the children a few weeks after the murder. When 2-year-old Mychelle told a care worker that her father fondled her in a sexual manner, there was little evidence to support the claims and Barton wasn't charged. In 1995 Leigh Ann Lang married Barton. She soon feared to have made a mistake as Barton showed signs of mental deterioration, lapsing in between depressive episodes and paranoid delusions. The couple's problems worsened when Barton made some bad investments with the money from Debra's life insurance. In 1999, he lost several hundred thousand dollars while day trading at Momentum Securities and All-Tech. On July 29, 1999 Barton went to work and whipped out two guns with which he shot the people around him at close range. The same day, he committed suicide at a gas station in Acworth, Georgia. Police searched Barton's home and found that his wife Debra and the two children had been murdered by hammer blows. They were carefully laid in their bed and wrapped in blankets.


Bateson, Paul is an American serial killer who operated out of the same city at the same time as David Berkowitz (Son of Sam). During 1977 in New York city homosexuals were terrorised by a series of "bag murders", in which six male victims were mutilated and dismembered. Their remains were wrapped in black plastic bags and dumped in the Hudson River. Police traced items of recovered clothing to a shop in Greenwich Village and distinctive tattoos identified one of the victims as a known homosexual. Lacking identities and confirmed cause of death in several cases, the crimes were not officially classified as homicides. On September 14, 1977, an "unrelated" case brought about a rebound: film critic Addison Verrill was beaten and stabbed to death in his New York apartment. Charged with the slaying, Paul Bateson, a 38-year-old x-ray-technician, confessed to the killing. He met Verrill in a bar and after having sex he crushed his victim's skull with a metal skillet and stabbed him. He was convicted of homicide on March 5, 1979, and drew a term of 20 years to life in prison. While in custody, awaiting trial, Bateson bragged of killing men "for fun", dismembering their bodies, and dropping the bagged remains in the Hudson River. Detectives satisfied themselves of Bateson's guilt, but he was never charged, and the "bag murders" remain technically unsolved.

Bathory, Elizabeth was born in 1560 into one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Transylvania. She is known as the most infamous serial killer in Central European history and is remembered as the "Blood Countess". She was only 15 when she was 'married off' for political gain and position to a rough soldier of nevertheless aristocratic stock and manner. By reason of the marriage, she became the lady of the Castle of Csejthe, his home. While her husband was pursuing his passion for war, Elizabeth was often left to herself. It was also then she began to develop an interest in the occult. An old maid named Dorka Szentes instructed her in the ways of witchcraft and Black Magic. Later Dorka became Bathory's helping hand and she encouraged Elizabeth's sadistic tendencies, like the inflicting of pain upon people. Together with Dorka, Elizabeth began the task of disciplining the female servants, and torture them in an underground chamber. In 1600 her husband died in battle and thus began Elizabeth's period of atrocities. By this time it is thought that she had dabbled into some forms of sorcery, attending rituals that included the sacrificing of horses and other animals. Elizabeth, now 40 years old, grew increasingly vain and she feared the thought of aging as she may lose her beauty. One day a servant girl accidentally pulled her hair while combing it. Elizabeth slapped the girl's hand so hard she drew blood. The girls blood fell into Elizabeth's hand and she immediately thought that her skin took on the freshness of her young maid. She believed that she had found the secret of eternal youth. Elizabeth ordered her male servant and helping hand to strip the maid and then cut her and drain her blood into a huge vat. Elizabeth bathed in it to beautify her entire body. Her henchmen continued to provided Elizabeth with new girls for the blood-draining ritual and her blood baths. Elizabeth went out of her way to see to it that the dead girls were given proper Christian burials by the local Protestant pastor, at least initially. As the body count rose, the pastor refused to perform his duties in this respect, because there were too many girls coming to him from Elizabeth who had died of "unknown and mysterious causes." She then threatened him in order to keep him from spreading the news of her "hobby" and continued to have the bodies buried secretly.On December 30, 1610 authorities raided the castle and they were horrified by the terrible sights. One dead girl in the main room, drained of blood and another alive whose body had been pierced with holes. In the dungeon they discovered several living girls, some of whose bodies had been pierced several times. Below the castle, they exhumed the bodies of some 50 girls. In August 1614 she died in prison.




Beane, Sawney was the head of a forty-eight member clan in 15th century Scotland. He is considered the most notorious serial killer of his time. Beane was born into a farmer's family outside Edinburgh, near Scotland's east coast, sometime in the late 1300s. He left home as a young man, taking a young woman, Agnes Douglas, with him, and eventually settled along the southwestern coast of Galloway. Beane had little taste for honest labour and started killing hitchhikers and travelers that came along. This turned out to be a meagre existence, especially as he and his wife had in total fourteen children. Their 32 grandchildren were products of incest. Their need for food, fresh meat in particular, found a gruesome solution when the Beane's realised that their victims not only carried jewels and coins but also meat on their bones. They started to murder individuals or small groups and brought the bodies back to their cave where they were dismembered and cannibalised. Travelers disappeared for 25 years along the coast of Galloway. The only trace was an occasional body part washed ashore along the Galloway coast.
One night the Beanes ambushed a married couple when a large group of travellers came along to witness how the attackers were ripping off chunks of the woman's flesh to devour it raw. The Beanes fled, but their existence finally revealed to the world, King James VI of Scotland lead a manhunt with a team of 400 men to hunt down the murderous clan. They found them in their cavern, among piles of human arms, legs, and torsos. Dried parts of human bodies were hanging from the roof, pickled limbs in barrels, and piles of the possessions of their many victims. The Beanes were captured alive and taken to Edinburgh. On August 31, 1590, the whole clan was convicted of over a 1000 murders and sentenced to death. The men had their hands and legs severed from their bodies and their process of bleeding to death was witnessed by the Beane women, who then were burnt to death in a bonfire.

[The] Bender Family appeared quietly in southeastern Kansas in the spring of 1872. They didn’t appear to be anything special, just another immigrant family that had escaped the confines of the eastern cities to try their hand out west. Like so many others, they merely wanted to make new lives and fortunes in the untamed west. However, their methods for obtaining such fortunes differed greatly from most of the other homesteaders.If a diner, overnight guest or seance participant appeared to be wealthy, he was given a seat of honor with his back to the curtain. While Kate distracted him, Old Man Bender or his son would sneak up to the curtain with a sledgehammer. They would then strike a savage blow to the top of the man’s head, killing him instantly. The body was then dragged back beneath the canvas and stripped. A trap door that led to an earthen cellar was opened and the body was dumped below until it could be buried somewhere on the prairie. A favorite burying ground was apparently an orchard that was located on the property. This system of murder worked well for more than 18 months. Kate drew a number of victims to their door with her offers of spirit communication and her brother often accosted travelers on nearby roads. He would strike up a conversation with them and convince them that spending the night at the inn was preferable to journeying on. The men set to work searching the fields and the orchard around the house. Among the trees, they found 11 mounds of oddly shaped earth. Several of them appeared to be fresh. The posse began to dig and tragically, the body of Colonel York’s brother was found in the first grave that was opened. More graves were found by walking about the edge of the prairie and taking end gate rods from wagons and sticking them in the ground. Here and there, they would strike a soft place and in every instance, these places proved to be graves. More than two dozen bodies were allegedly found but how many went undiscovered remains unknown.
The news soon spread about the "Bloody Benders" deadly deeds and curiosity-seekers flocked to the house. Vengeful groups of riders were formed and began searching throughout Kansas for any trace of the family. They had vanished completely but authorities would go on searching for more than fifty years without success. Officially, the Bender’s were gone forever.


Berkowitz, David (born June 1, 1953) - better known as the Son of Sam, is an infamous 1970s New York City serial killer, who killed six people and wounded seven. The perpetrator was dubbed the "The .44 Caliber Killer" after his weapon of choice.On July 29, 1976, two women, Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti, were shot in their car. Valenti survived, but Lauria, who was struck in her chest, died almost instantly.
On October 23, Cal Denaro and Rosemary Keenan parked outside a bar in Flushing, Queens. Again, the gunman went unnoticed as he crouched to fire a single bullet through the car's rear window. Wounded, Carl Denaro would survive. A .44-caliber bullet was found on the floor of the car, and detectives would match it with slugs from the Lauria murder. Just over one month later, on November 26, Donna DeMasi and Joanne Lomino were sitting together on the stoop of a house in the Floral Park section of Queens. A man approached them from the sidewalk, asking for directions, but before he could complete the question he had drawn a pistol, blasting at the startled women. Both were wounded, Donna paralyzed forever with a bullet in her spine. Berkowitz shot five more people before leaving a hand-written letter near the crime scene. In the later he claims that "Sam" sends him out to kill and that he is the "Son of Sam." Berkowitz shot four more people of which one died before being caught by the police. Berkowitz quickly confessed to the shootings, and expressed an interest in pleading guilty in exchange for receiving life imprisonment rather than facing the death penalty. On June 12, 1978, Berkowitz was sentenced to six life sentences in prison for the killings, making his maximum term 365 years.



Bible John More than 35 years after his killing spree, mere mention of the name Bible John is still enough to send a shiver up the spine. In late 1960s Glasgow, when his identical image stared from every newspaper and wanted poster in the land, he provoked fear to the point of hysteria.He did call himself John, that little is known about him. Beyond that, his identity was - and remains to this day - a mystery. Police in Glasgow, faced with genuine terror among citizens, launched a massive manhunt - but after three murders the killer never re-surfaced. The truth is no-one knows what happened to him. Bible John may well be alive today, living somewhere in Scotland and likely in his 60s.

Bichel, Andreas mutilated young female victims during 1806-1809 in Bavaria, Germany. The exact number of victims is unknown. Bichel, known as the Bavarian Ripper enticed young women to his home with the promise of having their fortunes told. The killer would bring the women he had met in the Bavarian marketplaces to his home where, he promised he would tell them of their futures.The victims would be knocked unconscious and stripped. When they awoke they would be bound and gagged. The young female victims were then raped and tortured before being murdered by Bichel. Like Jack the Ripper’s victims eighty years later, the girls were cut open from their pubic bone to their sternum. However Bichel’s victims were still very much alive when the mutilations began. Bichel would spend time scooping out his victims’ internal organs as they writhed in pain. The killer was only caught after attempting to sell the clothes of his victims. He was executed in 1809 for his crimes.

Borden, Lizzie (born in 1860) is believed of allegedly killing her father Andrew J. Borden and her stepmother Abby Borden on August 4, 1892. Abby Borden had been slain by the use of a sharp instrument, inflicting upon her head eighteen blows, thirteen of them crushing through the skill. Andrew J. Borden's dead and mutilated body lay upon the sofa, with eleven strokes upon the head of which four had crushed the skull. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the crimes against her father and her stepmother. The trial began June 3. 1983. The counsel for the prosecution claimed that Lizzie Borden was the only suspect with the opportunity to commit the murders. Lizzie Borden couldn't provide a plausible alibi for the time of the murder. Furthermore it was proven that Lizzie Borden attempted to buy poison, in form or prussic acid, from several druggists prior to the killings. And it was widely known how much Lizzie Borden had loathed her stepmother. Moreover she had a reason to harbour feeling other than devotion for her father. An animal lover, Lizzie had kept some pet pigeons in the barn. Her father had them decapitated after some boys tried to steal them. There was, however, no definitive proof for Lizzie Borden's guilt and she was acquitted of any charges in 1893. Lizzie Borden died at Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1927, her legend as a murderess still strong. She was buried next to her father and stepmother. The home in which the murders took place opened as a bed-and-breakfast in 1992.
"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
and gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one."


Bundy, Ted was born Theodore Robert on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont to Louise Cowell. In the first years of his life Ted was led to believe that his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister, due to her young age. In 1951 Louise and Ted moved to Tacoma, Washington, where Louise met and married Johnnie Bundy, a military cook. Bundy grew into an well behaved and attractive teenager who was liked and who performed well at school. He entered University and started to study law after high school and he did well academically. But from a young age Bundy was terribly shy which let him appear socially awkward. He rarely dated and kept to himself. But in 1967 he fell in love with the woman of his dreams and he tried hard to impress his new girlfriend. When she ended the relationship Bundy was heartbroken and his obsession towards her haunted him for years.He then decided to visit the place of his birth. There he uncovered the truth of his parentage. The break-up and the discovery of this major lie in his life where the main causes that Bundy suffered extreme depression. At that time he was also getting a reputation for being a petty thief. In this phase of his life, Bundy replaced his shyness with false bravado. In 1972 he graduated from University. He then started working on the re-election campaign of Washington's Republican Governor Dan Evans. In 1974 young women began vanishing from college campuses around Washington and Oregon. On January 4, 1974 Bundy entered the basement bedroom of the 18-year-old Susan Clarke, who was a student at the University of Washington. He sexually assaulted her before bludgeoning her with a metal rod from her bed frame. She was transported to the hospital in a comatose state and survived. Bundy reigned terror across the United States between 1974 and 1978, where he killed an estimated 35 people. Often he would approach women in remote areas and lure them into his car, sometimes appearing helpless with a cast on his arm or crutches. His victims were white single women with long hair, who usually vanished during the evening hours. Ted Bundy was arrested in Salt Lake City for failure to stop for a police officer. Due to erratic behaviour police soon connected him to the unsolved murders. Two victims identified him as their assaulter. Ted Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989. Prior to being put to death Bundy gave the details of more than fifty women he had murdered. He also confessed to keeping the heads of some of his victims at his home plus to engaging in necrophilia with some of his victims.



Buono, Angelo Angelo Buono, Jr. was, along with his cousin Kenneth Bianchi, one of the Hillside Stranglers who went on a two month rape, torture and murder spree in 1977, in California. (for more information go to "Bianchi, Kenneth")


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Caputo, Ricardo Known to authorities as "The Lady Killer", this suave Argentinian was arrested on March 9, 1994 after a 20-year murderous rampage. His first victim was a young woman in New York who he strangled and stabbed in the early seventies. Caputo was arrested for the murder and placed in Mental Hospital from where he subsequently escaped. A smooth-talking con artist, Ricardo left a trail of blood spanning from New York to San Francisco and Mexico City. Although he's only been charged with four murders, it is believed his tally is much higher. One possible victim, Devan Green, a waitress in Los Angeles' Scandia Restaurant, was found dead in 1981. LAPD have linked Caputo to the restaurant where, at the time of the killing, he was working in the kitchen under the alias of Bob Martin.

Carignan, Harvey Harvey Carignan (The Want Ad Killer)is still in prison in Minnesota. Because he is a "snitch," (Prison slang for someone who tattles on other prisoners), he has sufficient reward money for luxuries in his cell-TV, soft sheets, special food from the prison store. But he is elderly and ill, always looking over his shoulder. Mary Miller, whose daughter Kathy was one of Carignan's victims still works for Families and Friends of Violent Crime Victims and Missing Persons in Washington State. Rather than collapsing with grief, Mary has done untold good to help other crime survivors.

Carpenter, David J. (born in 1928) committed his first crime when he brutally attacked a woman with a hammer in 1961. He got sentenced to 14 years of which he only spent 9 years in prison before getting released. In 1970, he drew another seven years on two counts of kidnapping and robbery. Carpenter escaped from prison but was recaptured by the FBI and was paroled in 1977. Carpenter then started working for a photo print shop in San Francisco. 2 years later, on August 29, 1979 Edda Kane's naked and violated body was discovered on a hiking trail in Mount Tamalpais State Park, near San Francisco. Half a year later the body of 23-year-old Barbara Swartz was discovered nearby. The killers MO was to shot and then stab his victims usually as the knelt and plead for their lives. When police investigated the whereabouts of his ninth victim, Heather Scaggs, in May 1981, they found out that she was a fellow print shop worker who disappeared after he gave her a ride. Evicence linked him to the murder weapons and Carpenter was finally arrested. On May 10, 1988, he was convicted of first degree murder in the slayings of Richard Stowers, Cynthia Moreland, Shauna May, Diana O'Connell, and Anne Alderson.


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Carson, James and Susan Between 1981 and 1983 in California and Oregon, this couple attacked those that they felt were evil. They were Missionaries: "they want to rid the world of evil." Both were high school drop outs from respectful middle class families.
Susan was driven by hallucinatory visions to change their names and declare themselves to the Muslim faith. There was no evidence of sexual motive in the killings and robbery was ruled out as a motive. They believed Allah told them to kill. They were also known as Michael and Susan Bear.

Chagas, Francisco das-A Brazilian car mechanic has confessed to killing at least 16 boys between 1991 and 2003 after two bodies were found buried beneath the floor of his home. He said he had lost track of the murders and might have killed over 30 boys.

Chase, Richard Trenton When looking into the life of Richard Chase, one can only wonder who is to blame for the six people he savagely murdered. His parents and health officials considered him sane enough to live freely. Yet, early on in his life, Chase was displaying severe abnormal and dangerous behavior.

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He became known in Dallas as "The Thrill Killer" for random attacks believed to have left at least a dozen people dead, including five on a single bloody night in the summer of 1995. Many victims over the five-month period were robbed or carjacked. Some were shot with a handgun, others with a shotgun. Some were mowed down by a stolen car or truck -- their heads deliberately run over after they already had been shot. Today, five days shy of his 35th birthday, Juan Rodriguez Chavez, labeled an "equal opportunity assassin" by authorities, is set to die for one of those slaying s -- the robbery and fatal shooting of a 39-year-old man gunned down while he was talking on a pay phone in northwest Dallas. "We called him the thrill killer," said Jason January, one of the Dallas County district attorneys who prosecuted Chavez. "It definitely fit. He was truly a living breathing killing machine, and the world's going to be safer once he's gone. He was one of the few people I dealt with in 15 years with the DA's office that clearly demonstrated he enjoyed killing."

Cooke, Eric Edgar This indiscriminate serial killer reportedly killed at least 7 people although he was only convicted of one murder, that of a John Lindsay Sturkey for which he received the death penalty. This was an unusual serial killer who's methods seem as random as his choice of victims. When captured in 1963 Cooke confessed to numerous crimes, including 22 violent crimes - 8 murders, and 14 attempted murders.
Eric Edgar Cooke was born Feb 25 1931 and on Oct 26 1964. was the last person hanged in Western Australia.

Copeland, Ray and Faye Why Ray and Faye Copeland, both in their 70s, went from being loving grandparents to serial killers who used the clothing of their victims to make a warm winter quilt to snuggle under is a story both morbid and perplexing.

Corll, Dean-Dean Corll was a 33-year-old electrician living in Houston, Texas, who, with two teen accomplices, was responsible for kidnapping, torturing, raping and murdering at least 27 young boys in Houston in the early 1970s.

Crawford, John Martin The serial killer murdered four poor aboriginal women and was suspected of killing at least three others in Saskatoon in the early '90s. But his trials and the lives of his victims have garnered little interest by the police, the press and the public.


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Dahmer, Jeffrey (born May 21, 1960) murdered at least seventeen men and boys between the years 1978 and 1991. His murders were particularly
gruesome as they involved acts of forced ******, necrophilia, dismemberment and cannibalism. In 1968, aged 8, Dahmer was sexually molested by
a neighbor boy in rural Bath Township. This unreported crime and shocking incident of his childhood is likely to have played a pivotal role in understanding his subsequent crimes. By the age of 10, Dahmer started to experiment with dead animals like bleaching chicken bones with acid, decapitating rodents, nailing a dog's carcass to a tree and mounting its head on a stake. Dahmer committed his first murder when he was 18, by killing Steven Hicks, a 19 year-old hitchhiker. Dahmer invited Hicks to his house, and killed him because he “didn’t want him to leave.” In September 1986 two boys accused Dahmer of masturbating in public. He received a one-year suspended sentence with orders for counseling. Shortly after being released, Dahmer began a string of murders that would end with his arrest in 1991. In the early morning hours of May 27 in 1991, 14-year old Milwaukee Laotian Konerak Sinthasomphone was discovered on the street, wandering nude. Dahmer told the police that he was his 19 year-old lover and had an argument while drinking. Against the teenager's protests, police turner him over to Dahmer. Later that night Dahmer killed and dismembered Sinthasomphone and kept his skull as a souvenir. Two months later, on July 22, Dahmer lured another man, Tracy Edwards, into his house. However, Edwards escaped and alerted a police car. He led the police officers back to Dahmer's apartment, were several corpses stored in acid-filled vats, a severed head in his refrigerator, and implements for the construction of an altar of candles and human skulls were found. In 1992 Dahmer was found guilty on 15 counts of murder and was sentenced to 15 life terms, equaling 957 years in prison. On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.

Debardeleben, James Mitchell-The Secret Service wanted him on charges of counterfeiting. Little did the agents assigned to him know what their investigation would ultimately uncover. The chameleonic James Mitchell (“Mike”) DeBardeleben II knew how to elude authorities, and he had more reasons to do so than anyone ever thought. Once he was caught, the investigators became aware that they’d been looking for him for many other crimes, from bank robbery to murder, and had not even realized it.
It appears to have been 18 years between the time he committed his first murder and when he was ultimately caught for another crime altogether. It turned out that he was wanted in nine states, and that was only for crimes that they managed to tie to him. Most of those involved in the investigation believe that he’s done far more than they could uncover, both in number and degree of evil. He became the primary suspect in four murders and a likely suspect in several more, as well as the principal suspect in numerous rapes.

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A.K.A The Frankston Serial Killer, currently serving life in prison for multiple murder charges. During a seven week period of 1993, Denyer stalked and murdered three women in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston. Denyer was 21 at the time of his crimes. During a police interview, Denyer's motivation for his crimes became apparent when he replied to police questions stating he hated women in general.
POLICE: Can you explain why we have women victims?
DENYER: I just hate them.
POLICE: I beg your pardon.
DENYER: I hate them.
POLICE: Those particular girls or women in general?
DENYER: General.

DeSalvo, Albert Albert Henry DeSalvo (Born September 3, 1931 in Chelsea, Massachusetts) confessed to being the Boston Strangler who killed 13 women in the Boston area between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964. However, his confession has been disputed. Though DeSalvo knew details which had not been made public there was no physical evidence to support his confession. The victims also came from different age and ethnic groups, and there were different modi operandi. DeSalvo therefore stood trial only for earlier crimes of robbery and sexual offenses. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1967. In 1973 he was found murdered in the prison infirmary. A couple of years before his murder DeSalvo wrote the following poem:

Here is the story of the Strangler, yet untold,
The man who claims he murdered thirteen women,
young and old.
The elusive Strangler, there he goes,
Where his wanderlust sends him, no one knows
He struck within the light of day,
Leaving not one clue astray.
Young and old, their lips are sealed,
Their secret of death never revealed.
Even though he is sick in mind,
He’s much too clever for the police to find.
To reveal his secret will bring him fame,
But burden his family with unwanted shame.
Today he sits in a prison cell,
Deep inside only a secret he can tell.
People everywhere are still in doubt, Is the Strangler in prison or roaming about?


Dodd, Westley Allen In the year of 1989, in two separate incidents, Westley Allen Dodd sexually assaulted and killed three boys ages 11, 10 and four. His methods were so heinous, forensic psychologists dubbed him one of the most evil killers in history.

Dutroux, Marc- a Belgian serial killer, convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 and 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein. He was arrested in 1996 and has been in prison ever since. His widely publicised trial took place in 2004. A number of shortcomings in the Dutroux investigation caused widespread discontent in Belgium with the country's criminal justice system, and the ensuing scandal was one of the reasons for the reorganisation of Belgium's law enforcement agencies.

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Evans, Donald Leroy- Arrested for the Gulfport, Mississippi, rape and murder of ten-year-old homeless girl Beatrice Routh, Donald Leroy Evans soon confessed to over sixty murders. Evans claimed that immediately after his discharge from the Marines in 1970, he began drifting and evidently killing just about everybody in his path. His claims of prolific serial killing immediately bring to mind the inflated kill totals of Henry Lee Lucas, who sent investigators spinning with his claims of killing more than 100 victims. It appears that Evans may not have been exaggerating quite as much as Lucas, though it certainly does not appear that he killed anywhere near sixty. After being tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in the Routh killing in 1993, Florida authorities in 1995 successfully prosecuted Evans for the strangulation death of Ira Jean Smith. He earned a life sentence for that killing. In both of his trials, and during his entire incarceration for that matter, Evans made a joke of the proceedings, making ridiculous appeals and requests on an almost daily basis. His least shining moment of the Florida trial was when he petitioned the court to refer to him not as Donald Leroy Evans during proceedings, but as "Hi Hitler". The not-too-bright Evans didn't realize that Hitlers followers addressed their leader with the chant of "Heil Hitler". Fellow Mississippi death row inmate Jimmy Mack stabbed Evans to death in the shower in early January, 1999. At the time of his death Evans was the prime suspect in at least twelve unsolved murders.

Eyler, Larry Born in 1952, Larry Eyler became known as the "Highway Killer" after some of his victims were found alongside highways. Eyler was a native Hoosier who favored Marine Corps caps and drove a pickup truck. In his early 30's Eyler started picking up men under the guise of consensual sex, with a bit of bondage thrown in. Once he got the victims to a secluded area and handcuffed them, Eyler would brutally beat the victim, and then kill them. Most of his victims were found with their pants pulled down and disemboweled.




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Fish, Albert is known for being one of the most infamous and vile ********** and killers of all time. He admitted to molesting over 400 children, from which he tortured and killed several. Born in 1870 in Washington D.C., he was abandoned by his parents at a young age and was being put in an orphanage. He was there exposed to regular beatings and sadistic acts of brutality.He had very little formal education and grew up learning to work more with his hands than his brains. Fish graduated from public school at the age of 15. At the age of 20 he moved to New York, by then Fish had been involved in masochistic-homosexual relationships. In New York he also began his crimes against children. Fish would lure children away from their homes, torture them in various ways including using a paddle laced with sharp nails, then rape them. As time went on, the sexual fantasies he would act out on the children grew more fiendish and bizarre, and often ended in murdering and cannibalizing his young victims. In 1898 he married and later fathered six children. Fish worked as a house painter throughout1898, and he said he continued molesting children, mostly boys under six. He later recounted an incident in which a male lover took him to a waxworks museum, where Fish was fascinated by a bisection of a penis; soon after, he developed a morbid interest in castration. In 1917 his wife ran off with another man. It was at that time the children recall Fish occasionally asking them to participate in his sado-masochistic games. One game included the nail filled paddle Fish used on his victims.Obsessed with sin, sacrifice and atonement he would ask the children to paddle him with the weapon until blood ran down his legs. He also found enjoyment from pushing needles deep into his skin. When and where Fish first became a murderer is unknown. He confessed to six killing and referred vaguely to dozens more, although the victims, dates and places were lost to his hazy memory. He did confess to murdering a man in Wilmington, Delaware; mutilating and torturing to death a mentally retarded boy in New York in 1910; killing a Negro boy in Washington also in 1919; molesting and killing four year-old William Gaffney in 1929; and strangling to death five year-old Francis McDonnell on Long Island in 1934.He said it was voices in his head telling him to kill children that made him do such horrendous crimes. Despite the numerous psychiatrists who described Fish as insane, the jury found him sane and guilty after a short trial. On March 21, 1935, he was sentenced to die by electrocution.


Fourniret, Michel (born April 4, 1942) is a French serial killer who confessed, in June and July 2004, to kidnapping, raping, and murdering nine girls in a span of 14 years during the 1980s and the 1990s. He is also suspected of 10 additional murders, nine in France and one in Belgium. He is currently detained in Belgium awaiting trial that will start March 27, 2008. He is sometimes referred to as the "Ogre of the Ardennes".


Franklin, Joseph Paul- An american killer who may have murdered as many as 20 people between 1977 and 1980, Franklin has been convicted of several murders and had confessed to the attemted murders of Larry Flint and Vernon Jordan, two public figures. Because he has since changed his story, we might never know the extent of his crimes.

Frazier, John Linley October 19, 1970, Fraizer went back to the Ohta house. Victors wife, Virginia, was the only person home. Holding a .38 revolver on the woman, he tied her wrists with a scarf, then waited for the rest of the family to come home. Soon, Dorothy Cadwallader, Victors secretary, showed up, along with one of the two Ohta boys. Then Ohta returned home with their second son. As each showed up, they were tied at gunpoint. Standing outside by the pool, Fraizer started to lecture the captives about the evils of materialistic society and the ways in which it destroyed the environment. Ohta got into an argument with Fraizer, so he shoved him into the pool. While he was trying to get out of the water, Fraizer shot him 3 times. One by one Fraizer killed the rest. Virginia, then Dorothy, then the boys, Derrick, and Taggart. Then Frazier went into the house, typed a note, and set the house a blaze. When the fire fighters showed up they found the five bodies in the pool, and the typed note under the windshield wipers of Ohta's Rolls-Royce.In the end Fraizer got a sanity ruling, and a death sentence. He regarded the gas chamber as preferable to "having any fascist pigs working on my head." Fraziers wish was denied when the California Supreme Court abolished capital punishment, and commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. He's still serving his sentence at San Quentin Prison.


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Gacy, John Wayne aka "The Killer Clown" aka "Pogo the Clown" was born on 17th of March in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. His father, John Gacy Sr., was an alcoholic and abusive tyrant who berated his son by calling him a "sissy". His homosexual drives were therefore a constant source of self-loathing. When John Wayne Gacy was 11 years old, he was hit in the head with one of the swings he was playing on. The accident caused a blood clot in his brain, but it wasn't discovered until he was 16. Between the time of the accident and the diagnosis, Gacy suffered from a lot of blackouts and dizzy spells. Although he was not a particularly popular kid in school, he was liked by his teachers and co-workers and had made friends at school and in his Boy Scout troop. He always remained active with other children and thoroughly enjoyed outdoor scouting activities.
It was only in high school when his family problems extended out into his schoolwork and during his senior year Gacy dropped out of school and left home for Las Vegas. He worked there briefly as a janitor in a funeral home and saved the money to buy a ticket back to Chicago. Back home, Gacy attended a business college and started working as a shoe salesman. He married in 1964 and allegedly had his first homosexual encounter in this year, while his wife was in labour with their son. Gacy's new father-in-law, who owned a number of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Iowa, offered him a position and so the family settled down in Waterloo, Iowa. Even then, Gacy led a secret life as child molester. In 1968 he got arrested for ****** and was sentenced to ten years. His wife divorced him on the day of the sentencing. However, Gacy was such a model prisoner that he was released after less than two years. He went back to Chicago where he married again and successfully hid his criminal record. Gacy became active in the local Democratic Party and devoted himself to charitable causes. He would often dress himself up as "Pogo the Clown" and perform for sick children at the local hospital. In January 1972 John Wayne Gacy approached an 18-year-old-boy at a bus terminal and offered him a ride. The victim remains unidentified but his death was typical for Gacy's future approach. In the search for a victim, Gacy would - sometimes posing as a police officer - snare his prey at the bus station or the local gay district and invite them home. Back at his house he would handcuff his victims, ******** them while choking and slowly strangling them. On December 22, 1978, Gacy confessed to 33 murders and led the police to the remains of 31, which were buried in his garden and below his property. His youngest identified victims were only 14 years old, the oldest only 21. Gacy tried to convince the jury that his evil alter ego "Jack" committed all these heinous crimes. The jury did not believe him and in March 1980 he was sentenced to death. On May 10, 1994, Gacy was executed by lethal injection






Gamper, Ferdinand- Ferdinand Camper aka "Monster of Merona" lived in the northern Italian town of Merona.He shot and killed all of his victims with a .22 caliber pistol. The killings began on February 8, when a German Bundesbank official, Hans Otto Detmering, and his companion, a local woman teacher, were shot dead in a central street. It was followed a week later by the murder of a 58-year-old farm laborer on the outskirts of town. On March 1, 1996, authorities identified the killer as Ferdinand Gamper, a local shepherd. After a fifth body was found in a hut near his house, police stormed his farm two miles from the town. There Ferdinand held two elderly women hostage whom he freed once the cops tear gassed the farm house. The deadly shepherd scribbled "You were too late" on a piece of paper and shot himself . During the assault one policemen died.

Garnier, Gilles-Gilles Garnier was a reclusive hermit living outside Dôle in the Franche-Comte' Province in France. He had recently been married and moved his new wife out to his isolated home. Being unaccustomed to feeding more than just himself he found it difficult to provide for his wife causing discontent between them. During this period several children went missing or were found dead and the authorities of the Franche-Comté province issued an edict encouraging and allowing the people to apprehend and kill the werewolf responsible. One evening a group of workers traveling from a neighboring town came upon what they thought in the dim light to be a wolf but what some recognized as the hermit with the body of a dead child. Soon after Gilles Garnier was arrested.
According to his testimony at trial while Garnier was in the forest hunting one night trying to find food for him and his wife, a spectre appeared to him offering to ease his troubles and gave him a magic ointment that would allow him to change into the form of a wolf making it easier to hunt. Garnier confessed to have stalked and murdered at least four children between the ages of ten and twelve-years-old. His first victim in October of 1572 was a ten-year-old girl he dragged into a vineyard outside of Dole. He strangled her, removed her clothes and ate the flesh from her thighs and arms. When he had finished he removed some flesh and took it home to his wife. Weeks later Garnier savagely attacked another girl, biting and clawing her, but was interrupted by passersby and fled. The girl succumbed to her injuries a few days later. In November Garnier killed a ten-year-old boy again cannibalizing him by eating from his thighs and belly and tearing off a leg to save for later. Finally he strangled another boy and a the second time was interrupted by a group of passersby, and again having to abandon his prey before he could eat from it. This last murder was particularly shocking at the time because of Garnier's intention of eating of the boy on a Friday in defiance of the Catholic doctrine against doing so
Garnier was found guilty of “crimes of lycanthropy and witchvraft” and burned at the stake. He died January 18, 1573.

Gary, Carlton Carlton Gary was born in Columbus, Georgia, on December 15, 1952.
The jury convicted him on all nine counts of which he was charged. The punishment for the three first-degree murders could be either life imprisonment or death. They sentenced him to death.
As is typical in death penalty cases, Carlton Gary's has been appealed many times. Execution dates have been set and stays issued. This clever, twisted, cruel man remains on Death Row as of this writing

Gaskins, Donald Henry (b. March 31, 1933) Donald Gaskins was a known ********* and is connected to over 200 deaths. He died September 6, 1991 after killing another inmate.

Gavarito, Luis Alfredo On October 30, 1999, Colombian announced that Luis Alfredo Gavarito confessed to raping, torturing and killing 140 children in a five-year killing spree. "Luis Alfredo Gavarito has admitted the murder of about 140 children of which we have so far found 114 skeleton," chief prosecutor Alfonso Gomez told a news conference.
Drawing a battered notebook from his pocket, Garavito showed the interrogating judge and psychologist his tally of the killings he claimed during a four-hour confession. Across the pages were 140 lines, each symbolizing one murdered youngster.

Gein, Ed Ed Gein was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin on August 27, 1906. His mother, A Augusta, was very repressive, convincing all of her children that sex was evil and would send them to hell. Shortly after Ed's birth, she decided to move the family to Plainfield, Wisconsin, where outsiders would have less of a chance of influencing her children.Ed never left the family farm and lived with his brother and mother until they had both died by 1945. After they died, he began digging up the graves of women who resembled his mother. In Ed Gein's house the police found body parts to at least 15 different people. He only confessed to murdering one. The story of Ed Gein became the inspiration for a number of horror movies, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, and Silence of the Lambs. There are also two movies that chronicle his life and crimes: EdGein: The Butcher of Plainfield and Deranged. He died in a mental institution in 1984.





Gillis, Sean- Sean Gillis was convicted of killing 8 women in Louisiana.

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Glatman, Harvey Murray- Harvey Glatman was another random killer who selected victims from the want-ads. As a child, obsessed with ropes and bondage, Glatman had engaged in masochistic sessions where he hanged himself from rafters in the attic, gaining sexual release when he was on the verge of blacking out. A family physician counseled Harvey's parents that he would undoubtedly "grow out of it" if they could only find a way to "keep him busy." As an adolescent, Glatman turned to snatching purses from attractive girls, laughing at the "joke" before he gave their handbags back. In 1945, he tried to make a girl disrobe by threatening her with a cap gun; he was picked up by police, but fled immediately to New York when he was freed on bail. Apparently reformed, he settled in Los Angeles and opened up a small TV repair shop, with a sideline interest in photography. The former convict led a quiet bachelor life, avoiding social contact with the opposite sex for six long years, while inwardly he seethed with morbid lust. In late July of 1957, Glatman made a fateful house call and encountered model Judy Dull, nineteen. Explaining that he did some free-lance work for pulp detective magazines -- "the typical bound and gagged stuff" -- he persuaded Judy to accept a modeling assignment, at a fee of fifty dollars. On the evening of August 1, Judy Dull arrived at Glatman's home prepared to model for the cover of a magazine, but Harvey had a rather different spread in mind. At gunpoint, Glatman raped his victim several times, then drove her to a lonely stretch of desert near the town of Indio, 125 miles east of Los Angeles. There, he photographed the sobbing woman in her underwear, strangled her with rope, and dug a shallow grave to hide her corpse. Enlisting with a "lonely hearts" club, Glatman found his second victim, Shirley Bridgeford, during March of 1958. On their first and only date, he drove her to the desert east of San Diego, all the while attempting to impress her with his fabled skills as a photographer. Although she had come dressed for dinner in a formal supper club, Shirley let herself be talked into a set of bondage photographs, presumably for a detective magazine. When she was bound and helpless to resist, Glatman dropped his act, assaulting her repeatedly and forcing her to pose for photographs before he choked her with a length of rope and left her corpse to rot behind a clump of cactus. On July 23, Glatman read an advertisement placed by Ruth Mercado, part-time stripper, who was seeking modeling assignments. Glatman summoned her to his apartment, where he met her with a pistol, raped her several times, then drove her to the desert for a photo session and the usual strangulation with his favorite rope. Convinced that he had found a steady source of victims in the classifieds, Glatman started placing advertisements on his own. A number of young women telephoned or met with Harvey, but became suspicious of his mannerisms and declined to take the jobs he offered them. A fraction less perceptive than the others, 28-year-old Loraine Vigil was in Glatman's car, desert-bound along the Santa Ana Freeway, when he pulled a pistol and demanded that she shed her clothes. When she resisted, Harvey shot her in the thigh, but then his would-be victim seized the pistol, holding Glatman and his rope at bay until a lawman on patrol drove by and noticed her predicament. In custody, the want-ad killer readily confessed his crimes, deriving pleasure from a recitation of the gruesome details. Glatman was convicted in a three-day trial, condemned to die, and he rejected every effort of his lawyers to initiate appeals. "It's better this way," he explained. "I knew this was the way it would be." In August 1959, securely bound for one last time, Glatman breathed the lethal fumes of cyanide in California's gas chamber, at San Quentin.

Graham, Harrison- Harrison Grahan was a drug addict that lived in a fetid two-room apartment in North Philadelphia that was covered with trash, dirty syringes and a sea of fleas. In the summer of 1987, after numerous complaints from his neighbors, the police pried his door open and found six female bodies in different states of decomposition. On the roof of his building they found a duffel bag full of legs. In the neighbor's basement they found a torso. All the dead women were black drug addicts like himself who he invited over for a fix and a little one-on-one.

Gunness, Belle -America's first "black widow" of the 20th century. She was born Brynhild Paulsdatter Storset, on November 11, 1859, in the fishing hamlet of Selbu, on Norway's west coast and immigrated to the US in 1881. She settled in Chicago and changed her given name to "Belle" or "Bella." In 1884, at age 25, she married a Norwegian immigrant, Mads Sorenson. The couple opened a confectioner's shop in 1896, but the business was wiped out by fire the following year. Belle told her insurance agents that a kerosene lamp had exploded, and the company paid off on her policy, although no lamp was found in the wreckage. The Sorensons used their found money to purchase a home, but fire leveled the house in 1898, bringing further insurance payments. Bad luck dogged the couple, and a second house burned down before they found a home that met their needs on Alma Street. As everything Belle touched was soon reduced to ashes, so her family began to dwindle in the latter 1890s. Daughter Caroline, her oldest child, went first, in 1896. Two years later, Axel, her first son, was laid to rest. In each case, the children were diagnosed as victims of "acute colitis," demonstrating symptoms which -- in hindsight -- may have indicated they were poisoned . On July 30, 1900, Mads Sorenson died at home, exhibiting the classic symptoms of strychnine poisoning. Belle admitted giving her husband "a powder," in an effort to "help his cold," but the family physician did not request an autopsy . With Mads under treatment for an enlarged heart, the death was automatically ascribed to natural causes. The Widow Sorenson collected her insurance money and departed from Chicago, settling outside La Porte, Indiana, with three children under her wing. Two were her natural daughters: Myrtle, born in 1897, and Lucy, in 1899. The new addition, Jennie Olsen, was a foster daughter, passed along to Belle by parents who, apparently, were tired of dealing with the child. In April 1902, Belle married a Norwegian farmer named Peter Gunness. Less durable than Sorenson before him, Gunness lasted only eight months. On December 16, 1902, he was killed when a heavy sausage grinder "fell" from its place on a shelf, fracturing his skull. A son, called Philip, was born of the brief union, in 1903, and Jennie Olsen vanished from the farm three years later. When neighbors inquired, Belle explained that her foster child had been sent "to a finishing school in California." Widowed for the second time, with only children to assist her on the farm, Belle started hiring drifters who would work a while and then, apparently, move on. She also started placing "lonely-hearts" ads in Norwegian-language newspapers throughout the Midwest, entertaining a series of prospective husbands at her farm. Somehow, none of them measured up to her standards... and none of them were ever seen again. On April 28, 1908, the Gunness homestead was leveled by fire. Searchers, digging through the rubble, found a quartet of incinerated bodies in the basement; three were clearly children, while the fourth -- a woman's headless corpse, without a skull in evidence -- was taken for the last remains of Mrs. Gunness. The local sheriff arrested handyman Ray Lamphere, employed by Belle from 1906 until his dismissal in February 1908, on charges of arson and murder. The case became more complicated on May 5, when searchers started finding other bodies on the Gunness ranch. Dismembered , wrapped in gunny sacks and doused with Iye, a few reduced to skeletons, the corpses told a graphic tale of wholesale slaughter spanning years. The final body-count has been a subject of enduring controversy. Without citing its source, the Guinness Book of World Records credited Belle with sixteen known victims and another twelve "possibles."

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Haarmann, Fritz Friedrich „Fritz“ Heinrich Karl Haarmann (Born October 25, 1879 in Hanover, Germany) also known as the vampire or the werewolf of Hannover admitted to killing 24 boys aged 13 to 20 in the years 1918 to 1924. According to Haarmann himself, he killed the boys who he referred to as dolls by biting them into the throat. Later, he would dismember the body and throw the parts into a nearby river. However, it is known that a neighbor who owned a restaurant had bought meat from him. Haarmann remained mute about any speculations that he had sold body parts as meat. He was executed on April 15, 1925. Haarmann had a homosexual relationship with a man 21 years younger than himself.

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Heidnik, Gary (born November 22, 1943) was an American criminal who kidnapped women and kept them as prisoners in the basement of his house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvenia. Although he "only" committed two murders, he is often referred to as a serial killer. Born in Eastlake, Ohio, Heidnik possessed a 130-point IQ and had some real potential. His parents got divorced when he was one year old and when Gary started school, his mother comitted suicide and he went to live with his father and stepmother. He spent much time arguing with his stepmother or being heavily disciplined by his father. The latter continually ridiculed him especially when he wet his bed, which was often. At this times his father would hang the stainded sheet out a second story window in full view of the neighbours. Young Gary Heidnik was also ridiculed at school after a fall from a tree left him with a misshapen head. His brother Terry believes the accident was the root cause of Gary's erratic behavior. A curious comment indeed considering Terry himself spent much of his life in mental institutions and made numerous suicide attempts. When he was 18, Heidnik joined the regular army. In August 1962 he started having dizzy spells and nausea and was prescribed a heavy tranquillizer normally reserved for the treatment of serious psychotics or patients that experience hallucinations. Three months later he was given an honorable discharge and released from the Army on medical grounds and given a 100% disability pension. The official diagnosis was "schizoid personality disorder." He had served only fourteen months.Heidnik then started investing the funds he had in the stock market and within ten years he had earned a million dollars. Heidnik's sexual tastes ran to mentally disabled women. In May 1978 Heidnik and his then-girlfriend got permission to take her mentally disabled sister, Alberta, for a day's outing. When they didn't retun the police was alerted who found Alberta in Heidnik's basement. She had been raped and sodomized. Heidnik was sentenced to three to seven years, of which he only served four. In 1985 Heidnik married a Filipino mail-order bride. The marriage rapidly deteriorated and she found Heidnik in bed with three other women and he forced her to have sex with them. He beat and raped her until she left him three months later. Shortly after she left, Heidnik became obsessed with the idea to create a baby factory in his basement. On November 26, 1986, he kidnapped Josefina Rivera, chained her in the cellar, nearly-choked and raped her. The next month another women joined Rivera when Heidnik ensnared Sandra Lindsay. Around the Christmas holidays two more were added, Lisa Thomas and Deborah Dudley. In the middle of January 1987, Heidnik imprisoned 18-year-old Jacqueline Askins. The five women were subjected to cruel punishment and were constatnly restrained in Heidnik's basement either by being chained to water pipes or sealed in a pit their abductor had dug out of the basement floor. The women were fed dog food and water for the most part and spent all their time with nothing but shirts on, providing Heidnik with easy access for his frequent rapes. The women were subjected to painful tortures, also, perhaps the worst being when Heidnik became paranoid that they were plotting against him and stabbed his captives in the ears with a screwdriver to deafen them. Only Rivera, by now reasonably trusted, was spared that punishment. All the other women, those who would eventually survive at least, would suffer permanent hearing damage. When Sandra Lindsay died after dangling by her wrists from a pipe for a week, Heidnik cut up her body and ground her flesh into meat that he ate. He then mixed the rest of the ground meat with dog food and forced his captives to eat it. On March 18, 1987 Dudley, who had been a constant hassle with her defiant attitude, was placed in the basement pit and after it had been filled with water she was electrocuted. With the help of Rivera, Heidnik dumped Dudley's corpse in a New Jersey park a few days later. Soon afterwards Heidnik imprisoned a replacement for Dudley, a prostitute named Agnes Adams. On March 24 Heidnik loosened the reins on Rivera a bit too much and the woman fled while on an unsupervised trip outside of the house. She notified police who apprehended Heidnik and searched the house, discovering the remaining women huddled in the dank basement. To their horror they also found parts of Lindsay scattered throughout Heidnik's freezer and refrigerator. Dudley's corpse was also soon recovered. It had been four months since Rivera's abduction. Charged with numerous crimes, including the two murders, Heidnik was tried and convicted on all counts on July 1, 1988. He was sentenced to die for his crimes. After several death row suicide attempts he was execuated by lethal injection of July 6, 1999.


Heirens, William- William Heirens aka "Lipstick Killer". As a child William Heirens thought that all sex was dirty. Later he channeled his sexual desires into dressing up like a woman and masturbating to pictures of high ranking Nazis. Not surprisingly, he later committed numerous fetish burglaries and three murders from which he claimed to have derived "immense pleasure".


Helzer, Glenn Taylor-

Holmes, H.H. Diabolical con artist, child murderer and serial killer, he built a terror mansion to lure female travelers to their death.

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Ireland, Colin-(b. March 16, 1954) is a British serial killer, known as the "Gay Slayer" because he specifically murdered gay men. It is unknown whether Ireland's murders were sexually motivated. He claimed to be a heterosexual, but faked homosexuality to lure in his victims.


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Jablonski, Phillip

Jack the Ripper murdered several prostitues in London, identity remains unknown
Jackson, Calvin-During the year 1973 Calvin Jackson began torturing and raping women, ranging in age from 39-79. He later confessed and was sentenced to eighteen consecutive life terms.

Jegado, Helene- Born in Brittany, France, in 1803, Helene once complained, "Wherever I go, people died." Sure they did. Because she enjoyed poisoning them. As a teenager, as she started her career as a domestic, she also started experimenting with poison. Eventually she wiped out the family of seven for whom she was working. In 1831, after killing one too many families and fearing arrest, she joined a nunnery and took her vows. There she was suspected of offing several sisters before renouncing God and returning to her job as a domestic. As before, people started dying in her wake. She laid off the arsenic between 1841 to 1849 but then started dipping into it again. After two deaths in the household where she was working police started suspecting her after her overtly defensive manner during a routine questioning. Furthermore, traces of arsenic were found in the bodies of the most recent victims as well as many of her former employers. However, Helene never admitted her guilt, In 1851 she was guillotined just the same for her wave of terror

Jesperson, Keith Wayne- Keith Wayne Jesperson aka"Sunny Face Killer". He was a long hual truck driver. Jesperson killed Taunja Bennett in Portland, Oregan in January of 1990. A couple was charged for the murder and Jesperson was free. The case was full of holes but the police still charged the couple. April, 1990, when a message was scrawled on a wall in Umatilla, Oregon. The message read: "Killed Tanya Bennett in Portland. Two people got the blame so I can kill again" Again in a restroom wall at the Greyhound Bus Depot in Livingston, Montana. It said: "I killed Tanya Bennett Jan. 21, 1990 in Portland, Oregon. I beat her to death, raped her and loved it. Yes, I’m sick, but I enjoy myself too. People took the blame and I’m free" Police still ignored these messsages. A letter was sent to the Washington County Courthouse saying that the couple was innocent.A little while later a six page letter was sent to The Oregonian. The letter said that the writer was responsible for Bennents death and was pesponsible for many others around the country.

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John, Jobert-

Junco, Francisco Del- Francisco, a dishwasher in Dan Marino's American Sports Bar and Grill in the tony Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, confessed to killing and setting on fire four black crack addicts. Police were led to Del Junco by a street woman who was beat on the head by him nine months before.



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Kasso, Ricky

Kearney, Patrick W.-The top ranked Californian freeway killer. A fastidiously neat and organized murderer, Pat left his dismembered victims neatly wrapped in trash bags along the Californian highways. Kearney and his live-in lover, David D. Hill, both army veterans, lived in a meticulously clean bachelor pad in Redondo Beach from where they started their homicidal escapades.The "Trash Bag Murders," as they were known, started in 1975 and ended on July 5, 1977, when the couple walked into the Sheriff's Information Center in Riverside, saw a wanted poster of themselves and surrendered. Hill was subsequently released for lack of evidence. Kearney shouldered the guilt and confessed that killing "excited him and gave him a feeling of dominance."On December 21, 1977, Kearney plead guilty to three murders and was sentenced to life imprisonment by Superior Court Judge John Hews. On February 21, 1978, Kearney plead guilty before judge Dickran Tevrizzian Jr. to eighteen slayings of men and boys in exchange for a promise from the prosecution that he would not be given the death penalty. Kearney also provided details of the related killings of another eleven gay men, bringing the total to thirty-two victims. Kearney is currently serving his sentence at Calipatria State Prison in California.


Kemper, Edmund-The Co-ed Butcher- an American serial killer who was active in the early 1970s. He started his criminal life as a teenager by shooting both his grandparents while staying on their 17-acre ranch in North Fork, California, a crime for which he was incarcerated. Kemper later killed and dismembered six female hitchhikers in the Santa Cruz, California, area. He then murdered his mother and one of her friends before turning himself in to the authorities.

Kiss, Bela

Knowles, Paul John (born April 17, 1946) spent most of his youth in prison for burglary other relatively minor crimes. After he was dumped by his fiancee, a woman he had corresponded with while in prison, Knowles was involved in a bar scuffle and was arrested. He avoided a trip back to prison by escaping and then launched a frightening killing spree. On July 26 in 1974, just hours after his escape, Knowles invaded the home of Alice Curtis and left her bound and gagged as he ran off with her jewelry. She choked to death on the gag. Knowles hung around town, using her vehicle and spied on 11-year-old Lillian Anderson and her 7-year-old sister Mylette. He kidnapped them both and dumbed their strangled bodies in a swamp outside of town. Knowles then headed with the stolen car to Atlantic Beach, Florida, where he strangled Marjorie Howe with a nylon stocking. His next victim was a teenager hitchhiker, whom he raped and strangled as he worked his way north. On August 23, he strangled Katherine Pierce with her telephone cord and a few days later he killed William bates, a businessman he had met in a bar and dumped his body in the woods. He stole his money and car and made his way to Sacramento, back through Utah, where he murdered Emmett and Lois Johnson on September 18. Three days later he spotted a stranded female motorist in Seguin, Texas. He strangled her to death after raping her. On September 23 he met beautician Ann Dawson in Birmingham and the two travelled together until Knowles killed her on September 29. Moving on to Woodford, Virginia, he shot Doris Hovey, 53, dead and was primed to dispatch of a pair of hitchhikers in Florida when he was pulled over by a patrol officer. Inexplicably, the officer allowed Knowles to drive off with the pair even though the vehicle was stolen. Sufficiently rattled, Knowles let the two go and called his lawyer and arranged a meeting during which the killer taped a confession of his crimes to date. He refused his attorney's pleas to turn himself in and soon resumed his murder spree. Knowles killed three more people before being put into custody. Immediately after being arrested he claimed to have murdered over thirty people. The next day, November 18, he was shot and killed by an FBI agent after picking his handcuffs and going for an officers gun while being transferred to a maximum security facility.



Kraft, Randy

Kroll, Joachim

Kuklinski, Richard

Kurten, Peter

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Lake, Leonard and Charles Ng

Lee, Bruce

Leonski, Edward Joseph

Long, Bobby Jo

Lopez, Pedro Alfonso Meet the deadliest serial killer of the Archives. Pedro was known as the "Monster of the Andes" after the impressive numbers of hits he tallied in his three-nation killing spree. A native of Colombia, his prostitute mother kicked him out of their home at age eight for fondling his younger sister. Adding insult to injury he was then picked up by a ********* and sodomized against his will. By the time he was eighteen he was gang banged in prison and retaliated by killing three of his assailants.
Upon his release he started killing young girls with glee and impunity. By 1978 he claimed to have bagged more than 100 girls in Peru. After a brush with an angry village mob he moved his activities to Colombia and Ecuador where his blood lust averaged about three kills a week. He found killing Ecuadorian girls quite enjoyable because they were "more gentle and trusting, more innocent." Authorities attributed the rash of disappearing girls to active slavery or prostitution rings in the area. In 1980 a flash flood uncovered the first of his victims. When he was arrested he told his interrogators the frightening tale of his reign of death. At first authorities were skeptical, but all doubts disappeared when he quickly produced more than fifty graves. It is widely believed that three hundred hits is a low estimate for this most prolific serial killer.

Lucas, Henry Lee (born August 23, 1936) and Ottis Toole (born March 5, 1947) were two American serial killers who could be either the deadliest team of killers in the world, or the greatest hoaxers in crimes history.


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MacDonald, William

Mackay, Patrick-(b. September 25, 1952) Patrick Mackay confessed to killing 11 people in England during the 1970's. In November of 1975 he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Manson, Charles Born "no name Maddox" in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 12, 1934, Manson was the illegitimate son of Kathleen Maddox, a 16-year-old prostitute. His surname was derived from one of Kathleen's many lovers, whom she briefly married, but it signified no blood connection. During 1936, Kathleen filed a paternity suit against one "Colonel Scott," of Ashland, Kentucky, winning the grand monthly sum of five dollars for the support of "Charles Miles Manson." Scott instantly defaulted on the judgment, and he died in 1954, without acknowledging his son. In 1939, Kathleen and her brother were sentenced to five years in prison for robbing a West Virginia gas station. Charles was packed off to live with a strictly religious aunt and her sadistic husband, who constantly berated the boy as a "sissy," dressing him in girl's clothing for his first day of school in an effort to help Manson "act like a man." Paroled in 1942, Maddox reclaimed her son, but she was clearly unsuited to motherhood. An alcoholic prostitute who brought home lovers of both sexes, Kathleen frequently left Charles with neighbors "for an hour," then disappeared for days or weeks on end, leaving relatives to track the boy down. On one occasion, she reportedly gave Charles to a barmaid, in payment for a pitcher of beer.In the month between July 27 and August 26, 1969, Manson's tribe slaughtered at least nine persons in Southern California.An atmosphere of general panic gripped affluent L.A., the grisly crimes demonstrating that no one was safe. On August 16, sheriff's deputies raided the Spahn ranch, arresting Manson and company on various drug related charges, but Charles was back on the street by August 26. That night, he directed the murder and dismemberment of movie stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea, a hanger-on who "knew too much" and was suspected of discussing family business with police.Ironically, Manson's downfall came about through a relatively petty crime. On the night of September 18-19, 1969, members of the family burned a piece of road grading equipment that was "obstructing" one of their desert dune buggy routes. Arson investigators traced the evidence to Manson, and he was arrested again on October 12. A day later, Susan Atkins was picked up in Ontario, California, and she soon confided details of the Tate-LaBianca murders to cell-mates in Los Angeles. Sweeping indictments followed, but even Manson's; removal from circulation could not halt the violence.

Martin, LeRoy- "the Gaffney Strangler" killed 4 women in the late 1960's in Gaffney, SC. One victim's husband was tried and convicted of her murder while Martin sat in the courtroom and watched. Months later, Martin contacted a reporter stating that he just couldn't bear the thought that a man was "serving his time", the reporter was then given 3 pages of details that led to other bodies. Martin posed these bodies and even went back several times to have sexual realations. He was aprehended, convicted and was killed while imprisoned.
Maust, David

Melker, Daisy de-(b.June1, 1886) Daisy de Melker was convicted of poisoning 2 husbands with strychnine for their Life Insurance. Then she poisoned her only son with arsenic, for reasons that are unclear.She was the second woman in South Africa to be hanged. She died in December of 1932.

Milat, Ivan

Miller, Donald

Mudgett, Herman Webster

Mullin, Herbert

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Nelson, Earle Leonard (born in Philadelphia in 1897) aka "the Gorilla Murderer" was raised by his aunt after both his parents had died of syphilis. Raised by his aunt, she thought she could impart her Christian beliefs to Earle Nelson. He absorbed those teachings but his behaviour became more and more erratic as he matured. He would often lock himself up and recite passages from the bible for hours. Nelson was expelled from grade school by the age of seven and was a habitual petty thief. By the age of ten he suffered a severe, life-threatening head injury and remained in coma for over a week. After this event he became increasingly violent towards girls. In 1911, being 14 years old, Nelson dropped out of school, took a succession of menial jobs and became a petty thief. He became obsessed with the Book of Revelation and spent two years in St. Quentin for housebreaking in 1915. In 1919 he took a job as a hospital janitor where he meet 58-year-old Mary Martin. They got married but Nelson grew increasingly violent towards his wife and after raping her in a hospital bed where she was recuperating from an illness Mary decided to leave him. Authorities tried to keep him incarcerated but he would not stay in prison for long. In November 1923 Nelson once again fled from prison but after the attack on a twelve-year-old girl he landed in a mental hospital. Discharged in June 1925, Nelson went on a killing spree that would leave ten women dead. Drifting from California, to Oregon, and several other states he was always a step ahead of the authorities who only got a vague description from witnesses who agreed on his simian appearance. The press dubbed him as "the Gorilla Murderer" and Nelson turned north into Canada, where he murdered two more women before being finally caught. He was tried and convicted in November 1927 and was hanged in January 1928 in Winnipeg.

Nesset, Arnfinn

Nilsen, Dennis

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Pandy, Agnes and Andras

Panzram, Carl

Pennell, Steven-Steven Brian Pennell, aka "The I-40 Killer," aka "The Corridor Killer," was a monster. His crimes shocked the little state of Delaware, not because it was the first and only case of serial murder in the state's history, but more so due to the twisted savagery of the crimes he committed. Most, if not all of Delaware was happy to get rid of Mr. Pennell when he executed for his crimes in 1992. Pennell was finally caught when an undercover state police officer named Renee C. Lano posing as a prostitute on route 40, was able to gather fibers from Pennell's van and submit them to the FBI laboratory for testing (blue fibers from an automobile had been found on one of the victims). The results were a perfect match and Pennell was soon arrested. Due to the police's inexperience with serial murder, the FBI had agreed to help, mostly aided by the efforts of special agents John Douglas and Steve Mardigan (Douglas testified against Pennell at his 1989 trial). On Halloween of 1991, Steven Brian Pennell was sentenced to die by lethal injection after having been convicted of two of the five murders he committed. On March 14, 1992, the sentence was carried out. Pennell was 34 years old. His execution cost the state a grand total of 7,085, a rather high figure for an execution. Pennell was the first man in more than 45 years to be executed in Delaware.

Perez, Leonora

Pette, Louise

Pickton, Robert

Pickton, William

Piper, Thomas -Thomas Piper, a young church sexton of a local Baptist church, was the scourge of the aristocratic town when he committed a series of vicious sex slayings. Sporting a long black opera cloak, his crimes actually caused high-society men all over town to cease wearing the garment during the period of the infamous rape-murders. His trial was short and he was convicted of the murder of Mabel Hood Young and sentenced to hang. Since, his conviction and sentencing, Piper retracted his confession and maintained that he was innocent. However, once the day of the hanging arrived he once again admitted his guilt, perhaps as a way of finding forgiveness for his appalling crimes.

Pleil, Rudolf (Born July 7, 1924 in Kuehberg, Germany) Pleil’s father was an alcohol addict. His brother died early and his older sister (suffering from epilepsy) had to endure forced sterilization under the Nazi regime.
The family had to move to the Czeck Republic because the father was a known communist and Pleil started to smuggle goods across the German-Czech border. After the war, Pleil helped people to illegally cross the border between East and West. Together with two accomplices he raped and killed at least twelve women within a two-year span. On April 21, 1947 Pleil was arrested for killing a merchant during an argument. Since he was drunk at the time of the murder he evaded the death penalty and was sentenced to twelve years in prison. While serving this sentence he boasted to have killed at least 25 people (one more than Fritz Haarmann, one of the worst German serial killers). In a journal, Pleil was bragging about every gruesome detail of the murders and he very much enjoyed the public attention his confessions evoked. On November 17, 1950 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. On February 16, 1958 he hanged himself in his cell.

Pomeroy, Jesse

Port, Elizabeth

Powell, Nancy

Price, Craig-Craig Price killed his first victim at 13 years old. Two years later he had added 3 more to that number. He was arrested, but he knew that he was a juvenile and would be released in 5 years. Within a month of Price's arrest, the state legislature passed a law allowing juveniles to be tried in adult court for serious crimes. The same measure had failed on two previous occasions. Jeffrey Pine was the assistant attorney general at that time but was elected attorney general in 1992. He pushed for legislation to allow judges to consider criminal records in deciding whether someone should be committed to a psychiatric hospital. Known as the Craig Price Bill, it passed in 1994.Price was sentenced to 15 years, seven to serve and eight suspended. He spent his 21st birthday in the Adult Correctional Institution.And later he was sentences to 25 years, 10 to serve and the remaining 15 years if Price got into trouble or refused treatment, for contempt. Price's current scheduled release date is December 2020. He will be 46.

Putt, George-Physically and emotionally abused as a child, this Memphis, Tennessee, predator was socially and psychologically handicapped from the get go. Psychology test revealed a "morbid preoccupation with blood and gore" as he continued with his career as a violent criminal. By 1967 he married a Mississippi woman from whom he demanded sexual gratification six to eight time a day. A charming and tactful fellow, in 1969 he tried to rape his mother-in-law in three different occasions. Shortly after the third attempted rape, authorities believed George committed his first killing. By March of 1969 George's deadly habits were in full swing. He first brutally murdered a couple. A week and a half later he clobbered to death an 80-year-old widow. Four days later third woman was bound and brutally stabbed fourteen times. He attacked his fifth victim in her home on September 11. He was found guilty of all his crimes and given the death penalty. When the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty, George was handed a 497-year sentence. Always the good sport, George chuckled when the judge read him the sentence.



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Rader, Dennis (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer responsible for 10 homicides between 1974 and 1991. He is better known as the BTK Killer, which stands for Bind, Torture, Kill and basically describes his modus operandi. As a boy Rader was active in the Lutheran church, as the rest of his family. His brother stated that Dennis never displayed traits that would indicate he had problems and that there was absolutely no abuse in the home. As a boy, Rader secretly obtained S&M magazines, stole panties, and peeped in windows. He also began strangling dogs and cats. Rader graduated from High School in 1963 and attended Kansas Wesleyan University in 1965-66 before spending four years in the U.S. Air Force. Rader married Paula Dietz in 1971 and the couple had two children. Dennis Rader worked for a camping gear company for a few years before he went to work for ADT Security Services in 1974. That same year, Rader committed his first crime. On January 15, 1974, he killed four members of the Otero family in their home. They died by strangulation, and Rader took a watch and a radio from the home. In April 1974, Rader was stalking a woman named Kathryn Bright, 21 years old. He broke into her home and waited for her to come home. When Kathryn came home with her 19-year-old brother Kevin, he forced them in a bedroom and tied them up. Kevin worked his way loose and got into a fight for his life with Rader, who grabbed the gun and got off a shot that hit Kevin in the face. When Kevin appeared to be dead Rader stabbed Kathryn several times. Meanwhile Kevin had revived and ran out of the house screaming for help. Rader, having to make a hasty exit, ran from the scene. Kathryn died in the hospital a few hours later and Kevin was left in critical conditions with severe head wounds, but survived. Rader started sending taunting letters to the police where he described in detail the killings of his victims. On March 17, 1977 Rader decided it was time for a murder one way or another. He broke into the home of Shirley Vian, 24, tied her up and strangled her. In December, 1977 Rader became fixated on Nancy Fox, 25, stalking her from her residence and workplace. He strangled her to death and left semen deposited on a nightgown found next to the body. In 1979 Dennis Rader quit communicating for years. By the mid-80's BTK was a cold case and the police unit dedicated to the case was abandoned. When Vicki Wegerle, 28, was strangled in her home in September, 1986, police suspected her husband Bill to be responsible, but couldn't prove it. In January 1991, Rader ended the life of 62-old Dolores Davis by ligature strangulation. He dumped the body at a remote spot. On January 17, 2004, the 30th anniversary of the Otero killings, The Wichita Eagle published the story that a local attorney was writing a book on the case. In March Rader started communicating with the police again. He sent the driver's licence of Vicki Wegerle as well as photocopies of three Polaroid crime scene photographs of Vicki taken by him. On February 16, 2005, Rader sent a floppy disc with instructions for further communication to the police. Examination of the disk “properties” revealed the words “Dennis” and “Christ Lutheran Church.” An Internet search for “Christ Lutheran Church” revealed that Rader was the president of their congregation.
On February 25, 2005, Dennis Rader was arrested and charged with the murders. On August 18, 2005 Dennis Rader was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms, which requires a minimum of 175 years without a chance of parole.

Ramirez, Richard aka the Night Stalker was a satanic worshipper, serial rapist and killer. Born in 1960 in El Paso, Texas, to a poor Mexiacan-descended family Richard Ramirez was the youngest child of six. Richard Ramirez was named The Night Stalker after terrorizing Los Angeles during a year long killing and rape spree that resulted in his conviction of 43 counts, including 13 murders and other charges including burglary, ******, and rape. Friends described him as a "loner" and his father said he was a "good boy" until he became involved with drugs. Richard Ramirez admired his father but at the age of 12 he found a new role model, his elder cousin Mike, a Special Forces Vietnam War veteran. Mike shared gruesome pictures of rape and human torture with young Richard, who became fascinated with the pictoral brutality. Richard spent a lot of time with his uncle and became witness when Mike killed his wife by shooting her in the face. He was then sentenced to seven years for the killing. By the age of 18, Richard was a habitual drug user and eventually became involved with satanic worshipping. He was arrested on numerous drug and theft charges and decided to move to southern California. On June 28, 1984 he broke into the home of Jennie Vincow and became angry after not finding anything of value to steal. Ramirez began stabbing the sleeping Vincow, eventually slitting her throat. The act of killing aroused him sexually, and he performed necrophilia on her body. Over the next year Ramirez killed 14 more people and wounded another 10. His MO was to break into darkened houses where sleeping couples lay , killing the husband first and then raping and savaging the woman. On one occation Ramirez carved out the eye of a female victim and took it away as a trophy. In August 1985, he attacked a couple - shooting the man in the head and raping his fiancée - and fled in their car. After recovering the stolen vehicle police were able to identify Richard Ramirez. About a week later, on August 31, Ramirez was recognised on the street and tried to flee. He ran across the street just as 28-year-old Angelina de la Torres was getting in her car. He demanded the keys and threatened to kill her when her husband cam running from the backyard, grabbing a length of metal fence post as he passed through the gate. Ramirez was nearly beaten to death and police had to save him from the enraged mob.On September 20, 1989, Ramirez was found guilty and was sentenced to death in California's gas chamber. He is still sitting on San Quentin's Death Row.

Ray, David Parker

Rees, Melvin Davis


Rendell,Martha In 1909 Martha Rendell was found guilty in the Supreme Court of Western Australia of the murder of her stepson, Arthur Morris, and in the public mind, of the murder of her two stepdaughters as well. Her de facto husband, Thomas Morris, also charged with willful murder, was found not guilty and left the court a free man. Despite the subsequent disclosure of evidence raising serious doubts concerning Rendell's guilt and some public opposition to capital punishment, in particular, the execution of women, Perth citizens remained united in demanding her execution. Heavy, middle-aged, weary-looking and protesting her innocence, Rendell was led to the gallows on 6 October 1909, the third and last woman to be hanged in Western Australia.

Ridgway, Gary Leon- AKA the green river killer. He was beleived to murder 48 or more women near the cities of Tacoma and Seattle, Washington most of his killings took place during a two and a half year period during the 1980's. the majority of his victims were either prostitutes or teenage runaways. Most of the bodies were dumped in and around the green river in Washington. Except two of the victims were found near Portland, Oregon. The bodies were often left in clusters, sometimes posed, usually nude. Often, the bodies were not found until they were skeletons, and 4 of the victims are still unidentified.He would sometimes contaminate the dump sites with gum, cigarettes, and written materials that belonged to others to confuse the police.He was arrested in 1982 and 2001 for charges related to prostitution.he was also a suspect in 1983 for the green river killings. But he passed a polygraph test, then police took saliva samples. It wasn't until nearly 20 years later that he was linked from a saliva sample in 2001. He was also suspected of 6 other disapearances, but bodies were never found. Ridgway confessed to more confirmed murders than any other american serial killer in history.

Rifkin, Joel- Joel Rifkin killed 17 women in about 4 years. He was finally brought down by the fact that his vehicle was missing a license plate. When police tried to pull him over he fled. The high speed chase came to an end when he crashed into a tree. Inside the vehicle were the remains of his last victim. He was sentenced to 203 years.

Rogers, Glenn-A charming, handsome and volatile individual, Glen was the focus of an all-points national manhunt after a cross-country rampage that left at least four women dead in four separate states. The consummate ladies man, Glen liked to pick up blond and redheaded women in bars and ask them for a ride home. Then he would try to spend the night with them. The killings came usually as a drunken afterthought. Glen is an example of a spree killer who, unlike serial killers, does not have cooling off periods between kills. His killings were the consequence of impromptu bursts of rage.


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Sagawa, Issei

Schaefer, Gerald John

Scripps, John Martin

Schmid, Charles

Searl, Ralph Ray

Searl, Tommy

Seda, Heriberto

Sells, Tommy Lynn

Sharif, Abdel Latif

Shawcross, Arthur

Sherman, Lydia

Shipman, Harold was born January 14, 1946 and was a British doctor and serial killer who killed between 215 and 270 people over a 23-year period in Hyde and Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Born into a working class family, Harold Frederick Shipman was worshipped by his mother, Vera, who singled him out as her favourite and the most promising of her three children. Harold Shipman was a bright student in his early school years, but rather mediocre when he reached upper school level. He was an accomplished athlete on the football pitch, but his belief in his superiority precluded forming meaningful friendships with his contemporaries. When his mother was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, she would find great solace in the company of her favourite child. For his part, this is likely where Shipman learned the endearing bedside manner he would adopt later in his practice as a family physician. He was fascinated by the positive effect that the administration of morphine had on her suffering, until she succumbed to the disease on June 21,1963.
In 1970, Shipman graduated from Leeds Medical School and started to work at Pontefract General Infirmary in Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire. By 1974, he was married and father of two,Shipman joined a medical practice in Todmorden, Yorkshire, where he initially thrived as a family practitioner, before allegedly becoming addicted to painkillers. He forged prescriptions for large amounts of the drug, and was forced to quit the practice when caught by his medical colleagues in 1975. Shipman entered a drug rehab and received a small fine in the subsequent inquiry. It is difficult to establish when Shipman began killing his patients, or indeed exactly how many died at his hands. His killing spree was brought to an end thanks to Angela Woodruff, the daughter of one of his victims, who refused to accept the explanations given for her mother's death. Kathleen Grundy, an active and wealthy 81-year-old widow, was found dead in her home on June 24, 1998, following an earlier visit by Harold Shipman. Angela Woodruff was advised by Shipman that an autopsy wasn't required, and Kathleen Grundy was buried. Angela Woodruff was a solicitor and had always handled her mothers affairs. When she discovered that another will existed, leaving the bulk of her mother's estate to Dr.Shipman, she was immediately convinced that the document was a forgery. Her mother's body was exhumed and it revealed that Kathleen Grundy had died of a morphine overdose, administered within three hours of her death, precisely within the time-frame of Shipman's visit to her. Police started to investigate and they found 15 similar cases. A pattern was discovered of him administering lethal overdoses of heroin, signing patients' death certificates, and then forging medical records to indicate they had been in poor health.On January 31, 2000, Shipman was convicted of killing 15 patients with lethal injections of heroin. He was sentenced to life. On January 13, 2004, Harold Shipman was found hanged in his cell at Wakefield Prison.



Shulman, Robert

Sikder, Ershad

Simons, Norman Afzal

Smith, David

Smith, George Joseph


Solomon, Morris

Speck, Richard The words "Born to Raise Hell" were tattooed on the arm of the tall pocked-faced man with a southern drawl who entered a nursing student's dormitory on a warm July night in 1966. Once inside he committed a series of crimes that shocked America and sent Chicago authorities on a massive manhunt for a madman who they soon identified as Richard Speck. This is a profile of the man, his life and his crimes, both during his life and after his death.

Staniak, Lucian

Stano, Gerald


Starkweather, Charlie-He was a spree killer who killed 11 people in the 1950's. He was aided by his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate. Many movies have been made about him including Natural Born Killers. He died June 25, 1945. His girlfriend was paroled in 1976.

Stayner, Cary

Stubbe, Peter


Suff, William Lester



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Terry, Michael

Tingler, Richard

Tinning, Marybeth- admitted to smothering 3 of her young children. She had 9 children, 1 of those adopted, all of which died while she was alone with her. She has been denied parole twice and is eligible for parole again in March of 2009.

Travis, Maury


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Unterweger, Jack

Urdiales, Andrew


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Vacher, Joseph-(b.Nov.16, 1869-d.Dec.31, 1898) He was a French killer sometimes known as the French Ripper. During a three-year period beginning in 1894, Vacher murdered and mutilated at least 11 people (one woman, five teenage girls, and five teenage boys). Vacher was sentenced to death, and was executed bu guillotine on December 31st, 1898.



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Waldon, Billy Ray The rampage began in Tulsa, close to home. Police suspect that Waldon was the gunman who wounded an elderly man outside a neighborhood grocery store on October 10, 1985. The following day, they believe, he robbed three persons at a shopping mall, rebounding for an unsuccessful robbery attempt on October 15. Witnesses were hazy on descriptions of their assailant, but the crimes fit an emerging pattern, and there would be no doubt of Waldon's involvement in the next outbreak. Laying off a month from his activities, the phantom gunman surfaced on November 15, firing a single shot that grazed 20-year-old Cynthia Bellinger's skull outside her parents' Tulsa home. Two days later, Annabelle Richmond, age 54, was cut down by four .25-caliber bullets outside her apartment. The shooting continued in Broken Arrow, on November 23, when Waldon confronted Frank Hensley and Tammie Tvedt in a parking lot, demanding cash, wounding them both when they refused to pay up. The heat was on in Tulsa, and Waldon fled west, presumably to visit his ex-wife and their two small children in Gardenia, California. Drifting into San Diego, refreshing old memories of his navy days, Billy picked up his crime spree where he had left off in Tulsa. By mid-December, he would be suspected of three rapes, five robberies, two burglaries, and one count of receiving stolen property. On December 7, a gunman invaded the home of 42-year-old Dawn Ellerman, shooting her in the neck with a .25-caliber pistol, beating her dogs and locking them inside a bathroom, then setting the house on fire before he fled with a personal computer and other valuables. Erin Ellerman, 13, came home from babysitting to find the house in flames, and she died in a futile attempt to save her mother's life. Two weeks later, on December 20, a masked man tried to rob a San Diego woman in a parking lot. Foiled in the attempt, he fled on foot, veering through a yard where two men were working on a car. Frustrated again in his attempt to steal the vehicle, the gunman killed Charles Wells, 59, and critically wounded John Copeland, 36, with a spray of .25-caliber bullets. Eluding 150 officers in a seven -hour manhunt, the killer still left traces of himself behind. Police recovered the Ellerman computer in an abandoned car registered to Billy Waldon, along with Waldon's military passport and other pieces of I.D.
Communication with police in Tulsa matched the murder slugs from San Diego with the Oklahoma shootings. On January 3, 1986, a federal warrant charged Waldon with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder, attempted murder, robbery, burglary) rape, and arson. His name was added to the FBI's "Most Wanted" list on April 23. By that time, Billy had performed an eerie disappearing act. His latest stolen car, picked off a street December 20, had been discovered outside Tijuana on January 27. There was no other trace of the fugitive before June 16, when San Diego officers routinely stopped a car with a defective brake light. They had planned to let the driver off with a warning, but his face was familiar, and Waldon's use of the alias "Steven Midas" fooled no one at police headquarters. Ordered to trial on multiple charges in San Diego, Waldon had truly run out of luck. Jailers discovered his effort to tunnel through a wall of his cell, and fellow inmates proved dangerous. On July 24, 1986, Waldon was severely beaten by cell-mates, hospitalized for two days, after he refused their orders to kill another prisoner. The motive for the bungled contract? Jailers noted that the target was unpopular with other cons because of his attitude, which was "basically antisocial."

Watts, Coral Eugene On May 23, 1982, Watts was arrested for breaking into the home of two young women in Houston, Texas and attempting to kill them. While in custody, police began to link Watts with recent murders of a number of women. Until early 1981, he had lived in Michigan, where authorities suspected him of being responsible for the murders of at least ten women and girls. Watts was previously questioned for murders in 1975 but there was not enough evidence to convict him, although he had spent a year in prison for attacking a woman, who survived.

Watts claimed he had killed forth women, and then implied it was more towards eighty. He is now suspected to have killed more than 100 women which would make him the most prolific serial killer in American history. Several of the killings were not linked to each other. Serial killers normally select victims within a certain age group and usually kill by the same method. Watts killed females aged 14-44 and they were killed in a variety of ways: stabbing, slashing, strangulation, drowning and bludgeoning. Watts used wood carving tools, knives and different implements to strangle his victims. Watts' attacks were so short in duration that no DNA evidence was ever found to compare to his DNA profile, sometimes killing a woman without even touching her while stabbing her. Also, the serial killers usually kill people of their own race; Watts, who was African American, selected mostly white victims. Watts claimed that he saw evil in the eyes of the women he killed. Watts also took strange steps to prevent the souls of his victims from coming after him like keeping some of their possessions and then burning them and drowning women in a bathtub to prevent the spirit's escape. Watts also would drive 1-2 hours away to commit his murders. He would stalk his intended victim in his car, park ahead of them and then get out and approach them. He is believed to have committed murders in Canada, Michigan, Ohio and Texas.
Watts was sentenced to the agreed 60 years, but the prosecutors did not take into account the rules for early release. Watts was a model prisoner, and under Texas law he could have up to three days deducted from his sentence for each one day served, as long as he was well behaved. This meant that Watts could have been released as early as May 9, 2006. Watts' release was predicated on a ruling that he had not been informed that the bathtub and water he attempted to drown Lori Lister in was considered a deadly weapon, which would have made him ineligible for parole. In 2004, a witness came forward from Michigan, claiming he saw a man fitting Watts' description murder Helen Dutcher, a 36 year old woman who died after being stabbed twelve times in December 1979. Watts then fled the scene. The witness identified Watts by his eyes that he described as being evil and devoid of all emotions. Watts had immunity from prosecution for the twelve killings he had admitted to in Texas but that did not apply to Michigan. Before his 2004 trial, Law Enforcement Officials asked the Trial Judge to allow the Texas confessions into evidence, which he agreed to. Watts was promptly charged with the murder of Helen Dutcher and on November 17, 2004, a Michigan jury convicted him. On December 7, 2004, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, ensuring that the 51 year old Watts would never get out of prison.
Watts was later tried for the murder of Western Michigan University student, Gloria Steel who was stabbed to death in 1974. On July 25, 2007, Watt's trial began and closing arguments concluded the following day. On July 27, 2007 a jury returned a guilty verdict and Watts was incarcerated at a maximum security prison in Ionia, Michigan. He was reportedly diagnosed with prostate cancer and died on September 21, 2007.




West, Fred and Rose, two English serial killers, shocked the world with an horrific murder spree that claimed at least 12 lives. Fred West and his wife tortured, raped and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987 in their home in Gloucester. Fred West (born in 1941) grew up in a poor family, being the eldest of seven children. His father taught him bestiality and told him he could do what he want unless he wouldn't get caught. He also accepted the incestuous relationships between Fred West and his sisters. When he was seventeen, a motorcycle accident left him comatose with serious head injuries, be he survived and had from then on a metal plate in his head. At the age of 20, Fred West was already a convicted child molester and petty thief. In November 1962 he married Rena Costello. The couple had two children. Their marriage became increasingly unstable and Rena left Fred. When she returned in July of 1966, she found that Fred was living together with Anna McFall. In early 1967, Anna McFall became pregnant with Fred's child. She wanted him to divorce Rena and marry her. Fred West responded to the stress of her demands by killing her and her unborn child. He then methodically dismembered her corpse, cut off her fingers and toes, and buried her. Fred met Rose West (born in 1953) on her 15th birthday in 1968. In 1970, 17-year-old Rose gave birth to their daughter Heather.After Heather’s birth, it appears that Rose killed Fred and Rena Costello’s daughter Charmaine, and Rena Costello was later killed by West. In January 1972, Fred and Rose got married and in June that year, Rose gave birth to their daughter Mae. Like Fred, Rose came from a family where incest was considered normal and even after the birth of her fourth child Rose's father, with Fred's approval, would often visit the Wests' for sex with his daughter. By 1973 Rose and Fred West ran a cheap rooming house and lured female hitchhikers, runaways, and students to their cellar to be tortured to death for days. The victims were dismembered and buried on the West's property. In May 1992, 51-year-old West raped his 13-year-old daughter at Cromwell Street and filmed it, and then raped her twice afterwards. In August the police decided to investigate, eventually leading to Fred West being charged with 12 counts of murder, with Rose as an accomplice. She was also charged with child cruelty, and the remaining children were placed in foster care. On January 1, 1995 Fred West committed suicide whilst on remand in his cell at Winson Green by hanging himself. During questioning, Fred West had confessed to murdering up to 30 people between 1967 and 1991. Rose West was sentenced to life imprisonment.




White, Richards Paul On Sept 10, 2003, a Denver Metro Area Swat team arrested Richard Paul White in the Jefferson County mountains near Denver Colorado. The camouflaged suspect had fled into the mountains armed with a .40 cal. Glock pistol and was wanted for the murder of Mr. Jason Reichardt in Aurora Colorado. Immediately after he was arrested R. P. (as he is known to friends and family) shocked Aurora major crimes detectives when he confessed to killing 6 other people, 5 of them Denver prostitutes who worked on “the Fax." in Denver. Although the press portrayed him as a bragging "Self-Professed Serial Killer" Richard Paul White actually said that he was unable to stop killing people and that the only way he could stop was to confess to the police so they could stop him. He knew that as a convicted serial killer he faced the death penalty. and he asked to be executed."I don't have enough lives to give to make up for what I have done" he told Aurora Detectives after he was arrested. The police knew nothing of the other 5 murders until serial killer R. P. White confessed.R.P. was turned in by his sister, along with the rest of his family, who decided that they had to do something. Richard Paul White had become a menace. He had held members of his family at gun point and threatened to kill them. He had purchased an AR15 rifle which he said voices were telling him to use to do a "Columbine style" assault on the printing company where he had worked. His family got the gun away from him.
While being questioned, White told the police he had killed five prostitutes across the state beginning in 1998, two of whom were buried in his backyard and scattered the bodies of the others in Costilla and Otero countines in southern Colorado. Police found the bodies of Victoria Lynn Haskey, 34, (no information was released on how she was killed) and Annaletia Maria Gonzales, 27 (who was strangled). No bodies have been found in Costilla or Otero county despite extensive searches. Richard White was indicted on 53-counts including first-degree felony murder, sexual assault, kidnapping and other charges. He was charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting three other women and trying to kill one of them. He was charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of Jason Reichardt, 27, of Aurora. White has said that the shooting was accidental.

Wilder, Christopher Linked with three murders, one kidnapping, and four disappearances, Wilder was described by FBI spokesmen as "a significant danger." His name was added to the Bureau's "Ten Most Wanted" list on April 3, 1984. Passing by the service station, state troopers Wayne Fortier and Leo Jellison recognized Wilder's car from FBI descriptions. Approaching the vehicle, they called out to Wilder and saw him break for the car, diving inside as he went for his pistol. Jellison leaped on the fugitive's back, struggling for the .357 magnum, and two shots rang out. The first passed through Wilder and pierced Jellison's chest, lodging in his liver; the second snuffed out Wilder's life, resulting in what a coroner termed "cardiac obliteration." Wilder's violent death, ironically, did not resolve the tangled case. Sheryl Bonaventura's body was recovered in Utah, on May 3, the victim of a point-blank gunshot wound. Michelle Korfman was found in the Angeles National Forest on May 11, but another month would pass before she was identified, her family's fears confirmed. No trace has yet been found of Wilder's early victims in Miami and environs. There was a final, ghoulish twist to Wilder's story, Following an autopsy on April 13, 1984, Dr. Robert Christie, the New Hampshire pathologist in charge of Wilder's case, received a phone call from a man claiming to represent Harvard University. Wilder's brain was wanted for study, the caller explained, in order to determine whether defect or disease had sparked his killing spree. Dr. Christie agreed to deliver the brain on receipt of a written request from Harvard. Two weeks later he was still waiting, and spokesmen for the university's medical school denied making any such request.---He killed and Tortured in both the United Stated and Australia. I couldn't find a count but it had to be at least 20 or 30 girls that he raped and most of them were killed. Some still have not been recovered

Wiley, Nicholas

Woodfield, Randall ( born December 26, 1950) "Randy" Woodfield is an American Serial killer dubbed The I-5 Killer or The I-5 Bandit for the I-5 Highway running from Washington to California, where he committed multiple sexual assaults and murders. Born at Salem, Oregon, Woodfield had a normal childhood. He got good grades in school and high school coaches recognised his natural athletic talents and made him the star of Newport's football team. When Woodfield started to expose himself in public, everybody laughed it off at first, and members of the coaching stuff suppressed his first arrest to keep him in the football squad. In August 1970, meanwhile in college, Woodfield was arrested for vandalising the apartment of his ex-girlfriend. Two years later he logged his first adult arrest on charges of indecent exposure. Shortly after, a similar arrest in Portland earned Woodfield more suspended time in June of 1973. In early 1975, several women in Portland were robbed and sexually assaulted at knife point. Woodfield was arrested and went to prison for four years. On October 9, 1980, a former classmate of Woodfield, Cherie Ayers, was raped and murdered, bludgeoned about the head and stabbed several times in the neck. About a month later, Doug Altic and Darci Fix were shot to death, execution-style. The female victim had been formerly involved with one of Woodfield's closest friends. Woodfield was questioned but little came out of it. In January was a busy month for serial killer police were already calling the "I-5 bandit" due to his apparent highway of preference. He raided the same Vancouver gas station twice and sexually assaulted the female attendant. On January 12 he wounded a female grocery clerk by shooting her. In Salem he targeted an office building where he sexually abused and killed two women. He continued his murder spree in February by killing a 37-year-old woman and her 14-year-old daughter after raping the girl. The same day, a female clerk was kidnapped, raped and sodomized after a holdup in Redding. There were more robberies in Corvallis, Vancouver, Olympia and Bellevue, Washington. His former girlfriend Julie Reitz, was shot and killed on February 15, 1981. Woodfield struck three more times before he was arrested and interrogated. Woodfield was charged with murder, attempted murder and ****** and was sentenced to a prison term of life plus 125 years. While Woodfield was already in prison, police stumbled over more victims. A 21-year-old woman had been strangled and dumped beside the highway in December 1979. Three months later to 19-year-old women had vanished along I-5, outside Spokane; their corpses had been found in May. At least four more women had died around Huntington Beach, California, while Woodfield was sunning himself in the area. Despite being linked with at least 13 homicides, Woodfield wasn't charged as he was already sentenced to life without chance of parole.

Wuornos, Aileen (born February 29, 1956) was an American serial killer. The movie "Monster" is supposed to be based on her life. Her father, Leo Arthur Pittman, was a child molester who served time in Kansas and Michigan mental hospitals. He died by hanging while in prison in 1969. Wuornos' mother abandoned Aileen and her brother in 1960 and left them in the care of their maternal grandparents. Wuornos claimed that her grandfather physically and sexually abused her as a child and that her grandmother was an alcoholic. She also said to have had sex with several partners upon the age of 12, including her brother Keith. Wuornos became pregnant at the age of 14 and delivered her son at a Detroit maternity home on March 23, 1971. The child was put up for adoption soon after. Wuornos began to work as a prostitute while still in school. She soon dropped out of school to work the streets full-time, earning her way as a teenage hooker and drifted across the country.In May 1974 Wuornos was jailed in Colorado for drunk driving and firing a gun from a moving vehicle. In 1976 she married 76-year-old yacht club president Lewis Gratz Fell. They were divorced six weeks later. From 1977 to 1989 Wuornos was arrested several times, used different names and made her way to Florida. Wuornos' first victim was store owner Richard Mallory in Palm Harbor, Florida. According to Wuornos Mallory had sexually assaulted her on November 30 in 1989 after tying her to the car. She killed six more men between June 1990 and November 1990. After being identified and put in custody she made a full confession and cited self-defense for Mallory's murder. She was convicted of his murder in January 1992. Although it was later uncovered that Mallory had served 10 years for violent rape in another state, Wuornos was never given a re-trial. Wuornos received six death sentences for the other murders. On October 9, 2002 she was executed.



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Xinhua, Yang was one of China's worst serial killers. He was responsible for the murders of 67 people in the course of a three-year rampage that began in 2001 and ended with his capture in November 2004. Yang used tools such as an iron hammer or a meat cleaver to murder entire families. He had moved around since 1999 and committed crimes in 26 cases in the rural areas of Henan, Shandong, Anhui and Hebei provinces. Little is known about his motives, but earlier reports said Yang had been dumped by his girlfriend and "desperately wanted to retaliate against society." Police have described him as mentally unbalanced. Yang had been imprisoned twice on charges of burglary and rape, and turned to murder after his release in 1999. He was captured and executed in 2004.



Xitavhudzi, Elias was a serial killer in Atteridgeville, South Africa, in the 1960s. He targeted white females and his killing spree caused a tremendous sensation locally. Prior to his capture, he was known as "Pangaman", "panga" being a local words for machete, with which he mutilated his victims. Upon his capture, he was immediately sentenced to death and executed. Xitavhudzi murdered 16 women.


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Yates Jr, Robert L. A middle-aged father of 5, Robert L. Yates Jr., a decorated military helicopter pilot, and National Guardsman was convicted of 15 murders but suspected of as many as 18. The most prolific serial killer ever sentenced in Washington state, he now sits on death row. He came from a solid, loving home with encouraging Support , a moral upbringing and Christian teaching from the time he could walk. He was an obedient child, a dedicated student, and a team player on the Oak Harbor High School football team. Yates was a car buff frequently seen washing the Corvette and his other vehicles. He liked to cruise through the red-light district in a white Corvette, where the Army veteran murdered women 8 of at least 13 of his victims.
Washington state prosecutors suspect Yates is responsible for the slaying of as many as 18 women, many with a history of drug abuse and prostitution. Victims were shot in the head. The first body was found Feb. 22, 1990, and the killings continued for a decade.

Young-Chul, Yoo (born in 1970) is a South Korean serial killer and self-confessed cannibal. He preyed on prostitutes and vulnerable old people and confessed to the murders of 26 people. Yoo lured his female victims to his room and bludgeoned them to death with a hammer after having sex with them. He then dismembered his victims in brutal fashion, using an electric saw, knives, axes, hammers and scissors. In some cases he also cannibalized them by eating their livers. Police recovered the remains of 11 women from shallow graves in the hills around Seoul, where Yoo lived. A psychologist who interviewed Yoo said, that he showed signs of anti-social disorder in which "individuals establish their own unique belief systems on distrust in social and moral norms". Police said that Yoo, who was a convicted rapist, had a history of mental problems and that after his wife divorced him in 2002 he developed a misogynist behaviour which culminated in the killings, committed between September 2003 and July 2004, when he was arrested. He was sentenced to death on June 19, 2005.





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Zodiac Killer (Identity Unknown) murdered five people and critically wounded two others in Northern California between October 1966 and October 1969. The first murder occurred on October 30, 1966, in Riverside. 18-year-old Cheri Jo Bates emerged on that evening from the campus library to find her car disabled, the distributor coil disconnected. Police theorise that the killer approached her with an offer to help and after a furious struggle stabbed her in the chest and back, her throat slashed so deeply that she was nearly decapitated. The Zodiac coined his name in a series of taunting letters he sent to the press. His letters included four cryptograms (or ciphers), three of which have yet to be solved.
The Zodiac murdered five known victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four men and three women between the ages of 16 and 29 were targeted. Others have also been suspected to be Zodiac victims, but there has been thus far no conclusive evidence to link them to the killer.
In April 2004, the San Francisco Police Department marked the case "inactive", but reopened it some time before March 2007. The case remains open in other jurisdictions as well.

Zwanziger, Anna Maria (born in 1760) was a Bavarian serial killer. She killed four people, including her employers and rivals. She used arsenic, which she referred to as "her truest friend". Zwanziger killed four people, including a baby. Four others survived. She was caught and beheaded in July 1811.