Serial Killers: From Jack the Ripper to Charles Manson By theothermother  [22 more lists]

His 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 bitches 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.

Weird 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.

He 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.

He 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?

His 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.