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.
Albert Fish
Ted Bundy
David Parker Ray, Toy Box Killer
The Vampire of Düsseldorf
Belle Gunness
Dennis Nilsen, Necrophiliac
Marc Dutroux, Belgian Pedophile
Dean Corll, AKA The Candy Man
Estibaliz Garranza, Ice Cream Killer
Ahmad Suradji, Shaman
Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer
Richard Ramirez, Night Stalker
Gary M. Heidnik, a Buffalo Bill
Chinese Monster Killer Yan Xinhai
America's First Mass Murderer
Todd Kohlhepp, Real Estate Agent
John Crutchley, Vampire Rapist
The Ken and Barbie Killers
Alexander Pichushkin, Chessboard Killer
John Wayne Gacy
The Black Widow Murderers
Robert Lee Yates
Anatoly Slivko
Robert Hansen, The Butcher Baker
First Internet Serial Killer
Juan Corona
Bloody Benders of the 1870s
Rodney Alcala, Winner of The Dating Game
The Golden State Killer
Hans Schmidt
Henry Howard Holmes, The Devil in the White City
Lam Kor-Wan, Taxi Cab Driver
Israel Keyes
Harpe Brothers of the American Frontier
The Grim Sleeper
Robert Ben Rhoades, Trucker
Charles Ng & Leonard Lake, Family Slayers
Joji Obara
Gilles De Rais, Refined Frenchman
The Ogre of the Ardennes
Javed Iqbal
Charles Cullen, Male Nurse
Edmund Kemper, Co-Ed Butcher
Jack Unterweger, Austrian Journalist
Green River Killer
Wineville Chicken Coop Murderer
Richard Chase, Blood Drinker
Ivan Milat, the Wolf Creek Killer
Jeffrey Dahmer
David Berkowitz, The Son of Sam
The Axeman of New Orleans
Jack the Ripper
Timothy Jay Vafreades, The Vampire Trucker
John Lynch, Australian
Jane Toppan, The Angel of Death
Kendall Francois Is Unrepentant
The Beast of the Ukraine
Charles Sobhraj, The Bikini Killer
Henry Lee Lucas
Scott William Cox, Now Out on Parole
Randy Kraft, The Scorecard Killer
Mikhail Popkov
The Happy Face Killer
The Hillside Stranglers
The Rest Area Killer
Eli Stutzman, Former Amish
Cary Stayner, The Yosemite Killer
Levi Bellfield, Bus Stop Killer
Robert Berdella, Record Keeper
Maury Travis
Metal Fang, A Soviet Serial Killer
Volker Eckert
Bruce McArthur, Landscaper
Darren Deon Vann, Gary Strangler
John Christie, The Worst of Britain
Paul Ogorzow of Nazi Berlin
Takahiro Shiraishi, Twitter Killer
San Francisco Witch Killers
Richard Speck, A New Kind of Mass Murderer
John List, Family Annihilator
Paul John Knowles, The Casanova Killer
Graveyard Shift
The Most Twisted Things Jeffrey Dahmer Did to His Victims
Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't just one of the country's most notorious serial killers - he was one who used truly creative and horrifying ways to torture, kill, and dispose of his victims, from eating their body parts to trying to make them into "zombies" by injecting drugs directly into their brains. According to Dahmer, he was motivated by a desire to take total possession of men whom he found physically attractive, whether by photo-documenting their dead bodies or by storing their parts in this refrigerator.
Steven Tuomi was Dahmer’s second victim. He was killed at the Ambassador Hotel and then placed in a trunk. Before this happened, Dahmer tore into Tuomi’s chest and tried to remove his heart with his bare hands.
Dahmer took Tuomi’s body back to his grandmother’s house, where he proceeded to cut him up and throw his body parts away. Unlike Dahmer’s other victims, Tuomi’s remains were never found.
He Experimented on Konerak Sinthasomphone While He Was Still Alive
Konerak Sinthasomphone was a 14-year-old that Dahmer drugged in his apartment. However, rather than strangle the boy, as he did his other victims, Dahmer instead drilled a hole in the back of his head, injected hydrochloric acid into the front sections of his brain, and performed other horrifying experiments, all while trying to create a sex zombie who would do his bidding.
When this didn’t work, Dahmer dismembered him and stored his body parts in acid.
He Painted Raymond Smith’s Skull Gray and Then Stored It in His Refrigerator
Raymond Smith was Dahmer’s seventh victim. Smith was picked up in a bar named Club 219, when the victim accepted Dahmer’s offer of posing for a few pictures in order to make some quick cash. Instead, Dahmer drugged, strangled, and then dismembered him. After the flesh was removed from Smith’s skull, Dahmer painted it gray and then placed it on a shelf in his fridge.
According to Dahmer, “The only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them.”
He Took Pictures While He Cut Jeremiah Weinberger’s Body Into Small Pieces
Dahmer met Jeremiah Weinberger at a club on Well Street in Milwaukee. He lured Weinberger home, spent an entire day with him, and then knocked him out with a drugged drink. Then Dahmer strangled the man who became his 15th victim and photographed the process of dismembering him.
As with many other victims, Weinberger’s skull wound up in Dahmer’s freezer.
I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely, so maybe I was thinking, "Maybe another one will. Maybe this one will." And the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control, as you can see.