Serial Killers: From Jack the Ripper to Charles Manson
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1Jack The Ripper 1888His reign lasted 3 months, but those were the longest 3 months for the town Whitechapel at the East End of London. His victim choice were all prostitutes. There were five victims confirmed, but the count (they believe) is eleven. One report said, "The throat had been cut right across with a knife, nearly severing the head from the body. The abdomen had been partially ripped open, and both of the breasts had been cut from the body...." The list goes on. His murders will be remembered as bloody, savage and unsolved. Four out of the confirmed five were sexually mutilated.more info
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2Ed Gein 1954-1957Weird to say but this has to be the most influential serial killer ever to emerge from the underground. The inspiration of Psycho, Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs) and Leatherface. I think you've gotten the idea that this was the original skinner. When his mother died in 1945 he was left alone and began to obsess over sex and the woman anatomy. A local friend from Wisconsin named Gus told Ed about his experiments he wanted to perform an women, so together they began to grave rob. This charade went on for ten years. The experiments became more and more bizarre. One of the grave robberies were of his own mother's grave. He was obsessed with becoming a woman and would drape the skin, breast and faces on himself. He even made a full size woman jumpsuit. Technically he only killed two women, which he got caught immediately after the second one. He was recognized as criminally insane and was sentenced to life in a mental institution.more info
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3The Zodiac Killer 1968-1969He killed five people and left two wounded in Vallejo, California near San Francisco. His symbol composed of a circle with a cross in the middle. He sent letters to many San Francisco papers but he focused more on Times-Herald. His letters consisted of lined ciphers that he claimed if cracked it would reveal his identity. Of course it didn't because he has never been caught. One decoded cipher read, "I like to kill people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest, because Man is the most dangerous animal of all. To kill someone gives me the most thrilling experience. It is even better than [sex]......" Some of his ciphers remain decoded.more info
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4Charles Manson 1969He was a manipulator who used his religiousness to attract and brainwash young women with troubled past. He gained followers adopting them into the Manson family and they were called "The Family". They lived in a movie ranch owned by George Spahn. The woman began to call him 'Jesus Christ' and would do anything for him including sexual favors. He brainwashed them in believing that the blacks would gain power, kill all the white families and that the Manson Family will be the only white family left alive. All of this was revealed to him through Beatles records. He would make them kill for him and he called himself a hippie. Ironic don't you think?more info
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5Ted Bundy 1974-1978His known victims were nineteen between the ages 12-26. He was a well-educated, good looking man, his charm and wit made him an attractive person to be around, and he had no difficulty in his relationship with women-until he killed them. He finally was arrested,escaped and recaptured very quickly. Six months later he escaped again and went on a rampage of robberies, rapes and murders in Florida. By simple luck, an officer pulled him over for a minor traffic violation and he was recaptured and sentenced to death row.more info
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6David Berkowitz 'Son of Sam' 1976This was a crazy man who believed that he was haunted by demons that spoke to him through dogs. When he heard dogs barking he believed that they were telling him to kill women. Which he did, 6 to be exact and he left 7 wounded. All if this took place in Los Angeles, California. He was sentenced to 365 years in prison.more info
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7John Wayne Gacy 1972-1978He was convicted of 33 murders. Gacy lured his victims into handcuffs in the pretext of showing them a pair of trick handcuffs he used in his clown act. He’d then dare the youth to free themselves. Once the boys were handcuffed, he would use either a rope or a board across their throats to kill them while he raped them.In 1980 a jury rejected his defence plea of insanity and convicted him of murder with a recommendation for the death penalty.more info
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8Aileen Wuornos 1989-1992An American Serial Killer, she was a prostitute and was put to death by lethal injection on the 9th of October, 1992. She was charged with killing seven men, who she claimed (attempted to) rape her while she was working as a prostitute.more info
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9Gary Ridgway 1982-1998One of the deadlist and prolific serial killers in America. To think that he just confessed to 48 killings in 2003, all women. He was the suspect a lot and even passed a polygraph test in 1984 and continued his killing spree. The ages of the women ran from 15 to 38. Here's a link to all the known victims. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/greenriver/victims_new.html In court Ridgway confessed to try to get life in prison without parole instead of the death penalty by saying, "I wanted to kill as many women I thought were prostitutes as I possibly could." How does this help? It didn't.more info
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10Albert Fisher 1919-1930He had an interest in castration and visited brothels where he got himself whipped and beaten. He pushed needles into his body, including his genitalia. X-rays later revealed a total of 27 needles inside him. It was at the age of 55 that he started experiencing hallucinations. He believed God ordered him to castrate young boys. He was diagnosed with religious psychosis and that was the cause of the mutilations and murders he committed. Although he was a suspect in five killings, he stated that he “had” around 100 children in all states. Nobody knew whether he was talking about cannibalization or molestation. He was executed on an electric chair.more info
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11Jeffrey Dahmer 1978-1991His murders were gruesome and involved torture, forced sodomy, dismemberment (removing their limbs), necrophilia, and cannibalism. The Milwaukee Killer took the lives of seventeen Asian and African boys. He was arrested fondling a 13-year old and was released for good behavior and that is when all hell broke loose. His first kill was when he was 18-years old. Dahmer was caught by the police when a would-be victim escaped and alerted them. Dahmer then expressed remorse and wished death upon himself. He was beaten to death by an inmate and died of severe head trauma.more info
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12Robert Pickton 1980'sFrom Vancouver, Pickton and his brothers were known to throw crazy parties that would last for all hours of the night at their pig farm. There is where he would prey on his victims. In the 1980's around 60 women were reported missing. All of them were either prostitutes, drug addicts, poor or all of the above. As the investigation became deeper the name Pickton kept coming up so they paid him a little visit. The search for evidence was extravagant, it cost them 70 million to get the forensic evidence of only six victims that were fed to his pigs. He bragged about how he actually killed 49 and due to sloppiness he wasn't going to reach his goal of 50.more info
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13Coral Eugene Watts 1974-1982Watts simply hated women, and killed at least twelve but the number could go as high as forty. Yet, he was never prosecuted for murder. His victims were found slashed and stabbed to death. He had a very strange outcome because lack of evidence of murder, a plea bargain granted immunity from murder if he confessed to his murders and gave details. Due to this and his good behavior, Watts could have been released in 2006. However, after Watts confessed to about 80 murders, the Michigan authorities refused to go in with the deal and got witnesses to come out and speak about a couple of murders. Watts was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, he died of prostate cancer in 2007.more info
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