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
Robert Lee Yates
John Wayne Gacy
Dean Corll, AKA The Candy Man
Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer
Alexander Pichushkin, Chessboard Killer
Robert Ben Rhoades, Trucker
The Ken and Barbie Killers
Marc Dutroux, Belgian Pedophile
Ted Bundy
Robert Berdella, Record Keeper
The Ogre of the Ardennes
Randy Kraft, The Scorecard Killer
Albert Fish
David Parker Ray, Toy Box Killer
Juan Corona
John Crutchley, Vampire Rapist
Todd Kohlhepp, Real Estate Agent
Richard Ramirez, Night Stalker
Robert Hansen, The Butcher Baker
Israel Keyes
Levi Bellfield, Bus Stop Killer
Ivan Milat, the Wolf Creek Killer
First Internet Serial Killer
Metal Fang, A Soviet Serial Killer
Richard Speck, A New Kind of Mass Murderer
Jeffrey Dahmer
Cary Stayner, The Yosemite Killer
The Beast of the Ukraine
Eli Stutzman, Former Amish
Henry Howard Holmes, The Devil in the White City
Paul John Knowles, The Casanova Killer
Charles Ng & Leonard Lake, Family Slayers
Lam Kor-Wan, Taxi Cab Driver
Scott William Cox, Now Out on Parole
Jack the Ripper
David Berkowitz, The Son of Sam
Takahiro Shiraishi, Twitter Killer
Edmund Kemper, Co-Ed Butcher
Estibaliz Garranza, Ice Cream Killer
The Golden State Killer
Wineville Chicken Coop Murderer
John Lynch, Australian
Gary M. Heidnik, a Buffalo Bill
John List, Family Annihilator
The Black Widow Murderers
Kendall Francois Is Unrepentant
Bruce McArthur, Landscaper
Anatoly Slivko
Belle Gunness
Darren Deon Vann, Gary Strangler
Henry Lee Lucas
Gilles De Rais, Refined Frenchman
The Hillside Stranglers
Richard Chase, Blood Drinker
The Rest Area Killer
Maury Travis
The Grim Sleeper
Volker Eckert
The Happy Face Killer
Jack Unterweger, Austrian Journalist
Javed Iqbal
Hans Schmidt
Timothy Jay Vafreades, The Vampire Trucker
Harpe Brothers of the American Frontier
Mikhail Popkov
Green River Killer
Ahmad Suradji, Shaman
Charles Cullen, Male Nurse
John Christie, The Worst of Britain
Jane Toppan, The Angel of Death
Bloody Benders of the 1870s
America's First Mass Murderer
Charles Sobhraj, The Bikini Killer
San Francisco Witch Killers
Joji Obara
Chinese Monster Killer Yan Xinhai
Dennis Nilsen, Necrophiliac
Paul Ogorzow of Nazi Berlin
The Axeman of New Orleans
Rodney Alcala, Winner of The Dating Game
Unspeakable Times
Horrific Facts About Rodney Alcala, The Dating Game Killer
Rodney Alcala, also known as "The Dating Game Killer" due to his infamous appearance on the show in 1978, was a serial killer with a victim count that may be as high as 130 people. During the late 1960s and into the 1970s, Alcala committed numerous rapes and murders in at least four states: California, New York, Wyoming, and Washington. Many of his victims were as young as 12, and his very first stint in prison was for raping and beating an 8-year-old girl.
Serial killer Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor was born in San Antonio, TX, in 1943. He spent his early years in Mexico before eventually moving to Los Angeles with his mother and siblings. After a stint in the Army, Alcala graduated from UCLA and attended NYU, leaving a trail of victims in his wake.
Alcala was convicted of committing five murders and confessed to an additional 30. However, based on the number of pictures that he took of his victims, and the many different locations that accusations poured in from, he might have actually killed closer to 130 women.
Some investigators believe that the estimate is high, but not too far off, as it's definitely in the upper double digits.
In 1972, Alcala raped and tortured 8-year-old Tali Shapiro, then beat her to within an inch of her life with a steel bar - but she survived. Her parents wouldn't let her testify against him, which might have led to a longer jail sentence.
Instead, he got away with a mere 34 months in prison for committing child molestation.
Alcala went on the popular game show The Dating Game in 1978, and even managed to be "Bachelor Number One," despite the fact that he had already killed several women by that time. The casting people and producers also somehow managed to miss his criminal record, including his disturbing 1972 child molestation conviction.
Alcala used every ounce of his charm while on the show, and actually won a date with Cheryl Bradshaw, the episode's bachelorette, whose affections he was competing for. They never did go on that date though, as Bradshaw thought he was creepy.
More often than not, Alcala's method of killing his victims involved torturing them with repeated strangulation. He would strangle them until they blacked out, and once they awakened, he would strangle them again.
He also raped his victims, and beat some of them with metal rods and other items.