The Grisly DetailsSure, serial killers ~killed~ people, but what did they actually do? Lists about who they murdered, how they did it, and other horrifying facts that will keep you wide awake tonight, shaking your head at humanity.
The Vampire of Düsseldorf
David Parker Ray, Toy Box Killer
Robert Lee Yates
The Ken and Barbie Killers
Albert Fish
Dean Corll, AKA The Candy Man
John Crutchley, Vampire Rapist
Marc Dutroux, Belgian Pedophile
Dennis Nilsen, Necrophiliac
Todd Kohlhepp, Real Estate Agent
Robert Berdella, Record Keeper
The Ogre of the Ardennes
Belle Gunness
Alexander Pichushkin, Chessboard Killer
America's First Mass Murderer
Eli Stutzman, Former Amish
Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer
Ted Bundy
Green River Killer
The Hillside Stranglers
Wineville Chicken Coop Murderer
Robert Hansen, The Butcher Baker
Jane Toppan, The Angel of Death
Richard Ramirez, Night Stalker
Estibaliz Garranza, Ice Cream Killer
Edmund Kemper, Co-Ed Butcher
David Berkowitz, The Son of Sam
Charles Cullen, Male Nurse
Ahmad Suradji, Shaman
Jeffrey Dahmer
John Wayne Gacy
Robert Ben Rhoades, Trucker
Darren Deon Vann, Gary Strangler
The Axeman of New Orleans
Israel Keyes
Anatoly Slivko
Henry Howard Holmes, The Devil in the White City
Lam Kor-Wan, Taxi Cab Driver
San Francisco Witch Killers
The Golden State Killer
Chinese Monster Killer Yan Xinhai
Hans Schmidt
Paul John Knowles, The Casanova Killer
Gilles De Rais, Refined Frenchman
The Rest Area Killer
Cary Stayner, The Yosemite Killer
The Black Widow Murderers
Maury Travis
Metal Fang, A Soviet Serial Killer
Ivan Milat, the Wolf Creek Killer
Gary M. Heidnik, a Buffalo Bill
Javed Iqbal
John Lynch, Australian
Richard Chase, Blood Drinker
Henry Lee Lucas
Kendall Francois Is Unrepentant
The Beast of the Ukraine
John List, Family Annihilator
First Internet Serial Killer
Richard Speck, A New Kind of Mass Murderer
Bruce McArthur, Landscaper
Joji Obara
Bloody Benders of the 1870s
Harpe Brothers of the American Frontier
Charles Sobhraj, The Bikini Killer
The Happy Face Killer
Rodney Alcala, Winner of The Dating Game
Charles Ng & Leonard Lake, Family Slayers
Jack the Ripper
Timothy Jay Vafreades, The Vampire Trucker
Randy Kraft, The Scorecard Killer
Levi Bellfield, Bus Stop Killer
The Grim Sleeper
Takahiro Shiraishi, Twitter Killer
Scott William Cox, Now Out on Parole
Volker Eckert
Jack Unterweger, Austrian Journalist
John Christie, The Worst of Britain
Paul Ogorzow of Nazi Berlin
Mikhail Popkov
Juan Corona
Graveyard Shift
12 Morbidly Fascinating Details About the Lonely Hearts Killers
Raymond Martinez Fernandez and Martha Jule Beck, also known as the Lonely Hearts Killers, were prolific serial killers in the late 1940s. Like the Toy Box Killer and the Green River Killer, they preyed upon women, luring them in with "lonely hearts" ads placed in newspapers. They started their murderous spree together, making them one of the few serial killer couples in existence. Raymond Martinez Fernandez and Martha Jule Beck were convicted of their crimes and sentenced to death. Both were executed at Sing Sing Prison on March 8, 1951.
In Martha Jule Beck's final statement to the press, she maintained that she committed her crimes out of love:
What does it matter who is to blame? My story is a love story... but only those tortured with love can understand what I mean. I was pictured as a fat, unfeeling woman. I am not unfeeling, stupid, or moronic. In the history of the world, how many crimes have been attributed to love?
Prior to meeting Beck, Fernandez lured in wealthy women with "lonely hearts" ads placed in a romance magazine. He would seduce the women and then rob them. One of his victims - Jane Thompson - traveled with him to Spain. He talked her into changing her will, making him the sole beneficiary. She then died under mysterious circumstances. He told one person that she had a heart attack, then told another, Thompson's mother, that she died in a train accident. Whatever happened, Fernandez wound up with her money.
Fernandez placed ads in a romance magazine aimed at single people, called "lonely hearts," that was delivered around the country. His goal was to attract wealthy women that he could then rob. However, everything changed when Beck responded to his ad. He met her in person in Florida and they hit it off. He returned to New York while she prepared for the them to wed; however, she was fired from her job shortly after, so she took her children and followed him to New York. Fernandez enjoyed being doted on by her and quickly filled her in on his devious plans to defraud lonely women - she then decided that it was her duty to join in. She even gave her children away so she could devote herself to Fernandez full-time.
They Lured In Victims With Lonely Hearts Ads
Beck and Fernandez placed a series of ads in a romance magazine, and joined a "lonely hearts club." The club was designed for single people throughout the United States, giving them a place to connect and hopefully fall in love. The duo took advantage of this, using the ads and letters to lure in victims who they would then rob and kill.