Note: This article on America’s famous serial killers was originally published on September 7, 2008 and has since been updated to include profiles of additional American serial killers.
In our original look at some of America’s famous serial killers, we looked at thirteen of the most notorious serial killers in American history. But those murderers are far from the only serial killers our nation has seen.
Now let’s add five more names to the list — more American serial killers you might (or might not) have heard about.
Dean Corll, also known as “The Candy Man,” didn’t act alone. He worked with two accomplices — Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks. Corll is thought to have murdered at least 28 boys in the Houston area from 1970 through 1973. The boys were beaten and raped while tied to a plywood “torture board.” Victims were killed with a gun or by strangulation.
Dean Corll wasn’t prosecuted for his crimes. He was killed by one of his accomplices (Henley). While Henley was convicted of six murders, he wasn’t charged with killing Corll. That was ruled to be self-defense.
Amy Archer-Gilligan ran a convalescent home in Connecticut. Oddly, her murders inspired the comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace.” She killed residents of her nursing home by poisoning them with arsenic and strychnine shortly after they’d paid her large sums of money. It’s also believed that she killed her wealthy second husband for the inheritance. According to the New York Daily News, “it’s estimated that at least 20 people, and some estimate as many as 100, including her husbands, died by her hand.”
She was only tried for one murder — that of Franklin R. Andrews. She was found guilty and sentenced to death in 1917 and was granted a new trial on appeal. This time she pleaded insanity. She was again found guilty and this time sentenced to life imprisonment. She was moved to a hospital for the insane in 1924. She died there in 1962.
Juan Vallejo Corona is a Mexican American serial killer who preyed upon the workers he supplied to fruit ranches in California. It is believed that Juan Vallejo Corona killed at least 25 laborers whose bodies were found buried in the orchards they worked at. No clear motive was ever given for the killings.
Corona was found guilty of the 25 murders in 1973 when he was issued 25 life sentences. His conviction was overturned in 1978 and he was tried again in 1982. He was again convicted of the crimes. He is still serving time at the Corcoran State Prison in California.
The Boston’s Strangler’s true identity still hasn’t been confirmed, although Albert DeSalvo confessed to being the notorious northeast killer. This unknown serial killer murdered at least 13 women in Boston between 1962 and 1964. Most of the women were sexually assaulted before being strangled, although one elderly victim died of a heart attack and at least two victims were stabbed. Victims’ ages ranged from 19 to 85.
Albert DeSalvo confessed to the stranglings in 1964 after being caught and charged with other sexual assaults (where the victims were not murdered). He was sentenced to life in prison, later escaped but turned himself in, and was ultimately stabbed to death while he was incarcerated.
Many people still believe DeSalvo lied about being The Boston Strangler however, due to inconsistencies and inaccuracies in his claims, DNA evidence that would seem to clear him in at least one case, and the belief that the crimes were too different to all be committed by the same person.
The Zodiac Killer, who has never been identified, attacked couples around San Francisco in the late 1960s. The Zodiac Killer claimed to have committed 37 murders in total, but only seven have been confirmed so far. They included three young couples and a young man. The known victims were either shot or stabbed.
The killer himself came up with the “Zodiac” name when he used it in letters to the press. He sent them four coded messages (cryptograms). Only one of them has been definitively solved — by a high school teacher. In that letter, the killer expressed his joy in killing, calling it “so much fun.” And he claimed that the people he murdered would become his slaves in the afterlife.
Read on for our original list of America’s famous serial killers or leave a comment to tell us about a serial killer we haven’t covered here.
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Serial killers — you’d be hard-pressed to spot them in a crowd. They look just like everyone else. In fact, most of them are soft-spoken and polite. Their monstrous nature comes through only when you delve deeper into their personalities, actions and habits.
Reading the gruesome tales of serial killers sends a chill up the spine. Most of them seem to have had a dysfunctional family setting and were abused as children — emotionally, sexually or verbally. It’s as if this activates some psychological trigger in their minds, increasing the feelings of inadequacy or worthlessness, and causing them to seek out their own heinous form of release.
There have been hundreds of serial killers in the history of America, and there are a few that tend to stay in the minds of citizens, becoming “famous.”
Here are just a few of the (in)famous serial killers that have walked the streets of our nation, in no particular order. There may be many others that are notorious or have killed more people, but we picked a few of the more famous killers that truly shocked us.
Known as history’s most inspirational killer, his character became a central element in many films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho and the character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, among others.
Gein was a serial killer who skinned his victims, exhumed corpses, and decorated his home with parts of his victims’ bodies. Human skin was used to make dust bins, furniture, and even clothes.
Gein was born in 1906 as the younger of two boys. He had a weak alcoholic father and a domineering mother who was deeply religious. He was said to be very attached to her. She taught them about immorality and the evils of women and sex and discouraged their sexual desires. He turned into an effeminate and shy boy.
His father died as a result of his alcoholism and later his brother Henry, who used to criticize his mother about Gein’s unhealthy attachment to her, died in a mysterious fire. The younger boy was later suspected.
With nobody to control him after his mother passed away, Gein became obsessed with sexual fantasies and female anatomy. Fascinated by the human experiments performed in Nazi camps, he started robbing graves to perform experiments of his own, including exhuming his own mother’s body. The experiments became gruesome and cannibalistic. He had the desire to turn himself into a woman and would create breasts out of human skin and drape them over himself. He believed that for a sex change, he would need fresh bodies and thus started his killing spree, which was said to be because of his love-hate relationship with his mother.
When police finally caught up with him, they found a variety of gruesome sights — hanging corpses with their throats and heads missing, bowls made of skulls, pieces of jewelry made of human skin, hanging lips, skin upholstery for chairs, and masks made of facial skin and vulva (including his mother’s) that were painted silver. The most shocking discovery was perhaps his mother’s heart, which was found in a pan on the stove.
Police counted 15 women as his victims. Gein told the police that he never had sex with any of the dead women as “they smelled too bad.” His fascination with women was because of the power they held over men. Gein was admitted to Waupan State Hospital and died of cancer at the age of 78.
Ted Bundy proved that even the devil can be attractive. Bundy was one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. He was handsome, charming and cultured, all traits playing a role in his ability to rape and murder numerous young women. He even engaged in necrophilia (sexual attraction or involvement with corpses).
Bundy had unique techniques of luring his victims. He would drink alcohol before approaching potential victims, even in a crowd or in broad daylight, and gain their trust by faking an injury with his arm in a fake cast or a sling. He would at times act as a policeman or fire department personnel. After luring victims to his car, he would hit them on their head with a crowbar. He then raped and assaulted them sexually before strangling and mutilating them.
This good looking maniac used to visit the corpses several times at the Taylor Mountain body dump site, apply makeup to them, and sleep with them till they putrefied.
One of the theories says that he started killing people as early as 14 years old. Many of his victims are said to have a physical resemblance to his first girlfriend.
Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell in 1946 in Burlington, Vermont to an unmarried mother of 22. He gets his name from his stepfather. He was made to believe by his grandparents that he was their son and that his mother was actually his sister.
He was a good student, and like most young people devastated when his first love left him. Bundy didn’t deal with the grief as most people do though. He spent years trying to get her back, and when he did he started killing innocent people and then dumped his girlfriend just as she dumped him.
He was executed in 1989 after confessing to 40 murders.
Before his execution, he revealed that his addiction to pornography led him to do what he did. He said that there are many people out there who were addicted and nothing is being done about them.
One of Bundy’s famous quotes – “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
Better known as the Son of Sam or the .44 killer, David Berkowitz is a New York City serial killer who killed six people and wounded many others. His crimes became famous because of his letters to the media and the police, in addition to the reason he committed these crimes.
Berkowitz gave an odd reason for killing – he claimed that to keep the demons quiet, he started doing what they wanted. When dogs howled, he started believing that these dogs were demons asking him to kill women. He was convinced that his house owners, Jack and his wife, were part of the demon conspiracy and Jack was the commander in chief of all the dogs.
Later he shifted into another apartment but was still controlled by the demons in his mind. His new neighbor, Sam Carr, had a black Labrador which Berkowitz believed was possessed. He shot the dog. That did not provide any relief as he began believing that Sam Carr was possessed by the biggest demon, and perhaps Satan himself. Each night these demons told Berkowitz to kill and quench their thirst for blood.
He also used to write letters to the police and media, essentially taunting them with details of his killings.
David Berkowitz, born 1953, was an adopted son of a middle class family in the Bronx. Although his parents loved him, Berkowitz carried a lot of anger and guilt inside him as he felt responsible for the death of his natural mother, who he was told died giving birth to him. Experts believe that could be the reason for his aggressive behavior.
He was devastated when his mother died of cancer and his father remarried and relocated to Florida, leaving him behind when he was 18.
Later he found out that his natural mother was alive and that he had a sister. There was a reunion, butit was too late for him by then as he preferred his isolation and delusions.
Berkowitz received a 365 year prison sentence and told the FBI that he invented the “Son of Sam” stories to convince the court that he was out of his mind. He then said the real reason he killed was partly because he hated his mother for leaving him and partly his failure with women. He felt sexually aroused when he killed women, and he killed six of them.
A respected member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, a precinct captain in the local Democratic party, the owner of a contracting business and a performing joker at children’s parties, John Wayne Gacy seemed as normal as they come.
He came to be known as one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history.
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.
Gacy was born into a blue-collar family in 1942 and had two sisters. His father was an abusive alcoholic who verbally and physically abused his children. Gacy deeply loved his father and strived to please him, but failed.
He had the ability to persuade an manipulate people, likely because of how normal and harmless he seemed on the outside. He later got married and had two kids of his own, but his wife left him when he was arrested for trying to coerce a fellow employee into homosexual acts.
Another thing to note is that he injured his head by falling off a swing when he was 11 years old. He suffered from blackouts until he was 16, and then was diagnosed with a blood clot and the condition was corrected.
When Gacy realized that police were about to arrest him, he surrendered himself. He told them, “There are four Johns” (similar to multiple personalities) — one was a contractor, another a clown, one a politician, and the fourth went by the name Jack Hanley, and he did evil things.
Gacy confessed to more than 24 murders and drew a map to 28 graves under his house and garage. He also said he threw five others into the Des Plaines River.
He was executed with a lethal injection on May 10, 1994. His last meal consisted of fried chicken, Coke, French fries and strawberry shortcake. His last words were, “Kiss my ass.”
This Milwaukee serial killer murdered boys of Asian and African descent. His murders were gruesome and involved torture, forced sodomy, dismemberment (removing their limbs), necrophilia, and cannibalism.
He was arrested first when caught fondling a 13-year-old boy in Milwaukee and was sentenced to one year in a work release camp. After serving ten months, he was released on probation for his good behavior. That’s when his killing spree began.
He committed his first murder at the age of 18, shortly after being released, and his first victim was a 19-year-old hitchhiker.
There was a much-talked about story about a 14-year-old boy who almost escaped Dahmer in 1991. He wandered into the streets without clothes, with Dahmer in pursuit. Police believed Dahmer’s story that the boy was 19 years old and was his partner, and took the boy to Dahmer’s house. In spite of noticing a weird smell there, they left without investigating. Soon after, the boy was killed and Dahmer kept his skull as a souvenir.
Dahmer was the son of an analytical chemist, and as a child he had a fascination with dissecting dead animals. By the time he was a teenager, he was an alcoholic and a loner. He dropped out of college and his father forced him to enlist in the Army. After just two years, he was discharged because of his heavy drinking. Since he did not want to face his father, he moved in with his grandmother and lived with her for six years. His grandmother asked him to move out when he was arrested for exposing himself in public.
Dahmer was caught by the police when a would-be victim escaped and alerted them. He was held responsible for 15 murders, sentenced to 15 life terms. Dahmer then expressed remorse and wished death upon himself. He was beaten to death by a fellow inmate and died of severe head trauma.
“I hate most prostitutes. I did not want to pay them for sex. I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away, and might never be reported missing.” These were the words of one of the worst slayers in American history, who was said to have killed more women than any other serial killer — Gary Ridgway.
The Green River Killer drama unfolds at Aurora Avenue on the banks of the Green River where hundreds of prostitutes hang around, and where on July 15, 1982 the body of a 16-year-old prostitute was found. She was the first victim of the infamous Green River Killer and was raped and strangled to death. He had the habit of finding a landmark and leaving a group of dead bodies in ‘clusters,” to remember easily. Driving by these clusters and remembering them gave him a high.
The killings continued and police couldn’t find a clue, so the “Green River Taskforce” was formed in 1984. The death toll had reached 26 by then.
Another serial killer, Ted Bundy (who was sitting on a death row), offered to assist the police and gave them several clues into the working of a serial killer’s mind until the time he was executed.
Ridgway was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and he had two brothers. He had a domineering mother who constantly yelled at their father and controlled Ted completely, and she was never pleased with what he did. Ridgway’s IQ was 80, which signified a slight mental deficiency. He had a troubled adolescence and stabbed a six-year-old kid when he was 16. He always had an obsession with prostitutes.
He was married for fourteen years and he managed two totally different identities: one the life of a wonderful husband going on romantic vacations, and the other of the infamous serial killer.
The Green River Killer caused mayhem for two and half years during the 1980s. He pleaded guilty to 48 charges in 2003, but claimed to have killed 71 women. A controversial plea bargain he entered into spared him execution in exchange for helping to locate the remains of all of those women by providing details. This created a lot of controversy as many people believed that a person who murdered so many people should not be spared the death sentence.
He was sentenced to 48 life sentences and is currently incarcerated in Washington at the Washington State Penitentiary.
Unlike many other female killers, Gunness didn’t poison her victims — she slaughtered them. She was a 42-year-old Norwegian immigrant who purchased a property in La Porte, Indiana using her first husband’s insurance after his death. Her husband and two of her children were said to have died mysteriously, although she wasn’t suspected. After moving to La Porte with the rest of her children, she married Peter Gunness who died after just nine months. She collected another insurance payment. Over the next few years, other men that came into her life vanished without trace.
She became famous for being a black widow — killing several of her husbands, ranch workers and adopted children.
She would place matrimonial ads in newspapers and promised men marital bliss and a life filled with love. Several hopefuls traveled to La Porte carrying their life savings with them. She would then drug them and cut them up as she cut her hogs. She would then wrap them up with oilskin and bury them at her farm.
A letter she wrote reads – “My heart beats in wild rapture for you, My Andrew, I love you. Come prepared to stay forever.”
There are various accounts of her background. She was said to be one of eight children and was born in Stoersetgjerdet in Norway. One story goes that she got pregnant with a man and he kicked her in her stomach in public causing her to lose her child. He disappeared soon after. According to her sister, Belle was said to be crazy for money.
In 1908, Gunness’ farmhouse caught fire and burned to the ground. When it was put out, the remains of several people were discovered — men, children, and even a woman. The children were identified as hers. The woman was assumed to be Gunness herself, although there was no head. It was thought she died in that fire.
Many butchered bodies were found around her property, carved like turkeys. The heads were cut off, arms removed, and legs sawed off at the thigh.
Despite the assumption that she died, her ranch hand and lover, Lamphere, claimed that he helped Belle fake her own death and run away when he was arrested. Officially, she was presumed dead.
She was said to have killed 49 people.
Called the “most dangerous man” and the “devil,” Charles Manson was the terror of the 60s.
He was born in 1934 to a 16-year-old mother who was a troublemaker. She left him with his aunt or grandmother most of the time. She was arrested on armed robbery charges and sent to a penitentiary, leaving Manson to live with his aunt and uncle. Even after she was released, his mother didn’t want the responsibility of looking after him. She was even willing to trade him for a drink. His father was never in the scene from his birth.
Manson turned out to be a troublemaker himself, and he was sent to a reform school at the age of nine. By the time he was 26, he was charged with rape, drug charges, stealing, pimping, and more.
He was religious and used this to manipulate people into following him. When he was 34, he formed the “Charles Manson Family” by attracting a group of followers — mostly young women with troubled pasts. He used amphetamines to alter their personalities and they started calling him “Jesus Christ” and did everything he wanted, including physical favors.
He was a music lover who believed that the “Beatles’” were prophets sent to earth to warn of an upcoming revolution. Manson focused on an Armageddon, where the blacks would rise to power and kill all whites and the Manson family would be the only white family living. He felt the blacks wouldn’t be able to stay in power because of an inferiority complex and that the Manson family would then rule the world.
When this did not happen, he started having people killed by his “family” members.
His first murder was that of Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski. The next was the LaBianca family. He was sentenced to death but later reduced to life imprisonment, when California Supreme Court eliminated death penalties temporarily. He is currently an inmate at Corcoran State Prison.
Albert Fish may have been America’s most vile pedophile, serial killer, and cannibal. He is known by many names — Gray Man, Brooklyn Vampire, The Boogeyman, and the Werewolf of Wysteria. He was a gentle-looking and benevolent grandfather, a total contrast to the monster within him. His wife considered him a wonderful husband and his children believed he was a model father. Some of his crimes seem unbelievable.
Hamy Fish (his birth name) was born in Washington D.C. as the youngest of four children. Several of his family members had mental health problems. After his father’s death, he was put in an orphanage by his mother and he was whipped at the orphanage frequently. That’s said to be when he began to realize that he enjoyed physical pain and felt aroused by it. Then he entered into homosexual relationships at the age of 12 and was introduced to other perverse practices of drinking urine and coprophagia. His weekends were spent visiting public baths to watch boys undress. This led to male prostitution, which continued even after his marriage and the births of his six children.
He also developed an unusual 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. This was diagnosed as religious psychosis and is what led to the several 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.
Mudgett’s criminal career started as a medical student who stole corpses from the University of Michigan. He used those corpses to collect insurance money on policies taken under fictitious names. He then started a drug store empire and constructed a huge hundred-room mansion with trap doors, lime pits, fake walls, acid vats, and secret entrances.
He would rent rooms to visitors and then try and collect the insurance when they were killed there. He also used to lure women to his “torture castle,” promising marriage. He would then throw them down the elevator shaft and gas them to death. But before he did that he would force them to sign all their life savings over to him.
Herman was born in New Hampshire and his father was very strict, often bullying his son. He had a well-known fear of the local doctor’s office and because of this other students in his school would often force him to touch human skeletons. What was meant to be a scare turned out to be a fascination, which led to him stealing corpses while in medical school.
He started using the name “H.H. Holmes” after moving to Chicago and got engaged in a lot of shady activities. He is also a bigamist, married a second time and a third time while still married to the first wife. He was known to be a charmer and a ladies’ man.
His huge castle with secret passages had a drugstore and other shops on the ground floor and the upper areas were used as his office. There were more than a hundred rooms without windows, and there were doorways that opened into brick walls. There were also stairways to nowhere, doors that could not be opened from the inside and several other such oddities. This was to become his killing den.
It was here that the killing spree sprouted over a period of three horrible years. Female victims were mostly his employees who were required to take a life insurance policy where Holmes would pay the premiums. Soundproof rooms with gas lines fitted in were used to kill people. These victims were asphyxiated and their screams went unnoticed as they suffocated. There was a chute that took the bodies to the basement, where some bodies were dissected, flesh removed and turned into skeletal models. He sold these skeletons and other organs to medical schools.He also performed illegal abortions in the castle and many of his patients died.
Eventually police grew suspicious about the activities in the castle and when he knew he was getting caught, he burnt the castle and vanished. Remains of more than two hundred people were found in the charred debris. He was later caught and hanged.
Watts was the first known serial killer in the nation’s history to have legally acquired immunity, and at one point it even looked as if he would be released in 2006 in spite of having committed between 80-100 murders. When a detective said that he did not have enough fingers and toes to count all the murders he committed, Watts replied that there were not enough fingers and toes in the room. (There were four men in the room.)
Usually serial killers are said to kill people of their own race. However Watts, who was an African American, killed whites mostly.
He admitted to killing females because he saw evil in their eyes. He drowned women in a bathtub in order to prevent their spirits from escaping.
He was not caught for many years because he killed in different jurisdictions and different states. DNA tests also didn’t prove anything because he did not dally with his victims, unlike other serial killers.
Watts would drive a couple of hours to commit his murders. He stalked women in his car, would park ahead of them, get out of the car, and then approach them. He killed females between the ages of 14 and 34 by strangulation, drowning, and stabbing. Occasionally he also used tools and other metal objects.
He started killing at the age of 20 but did not rape them, and some of his murders occurred without him even touching the women. For him, the thrill came from the hunt and attack.
Watts’ parents divorced when he was two and he lived with his mother and step-father. He was said to act weird when he was a kid. He was never good at academics but excelled in boxing.
He started having morbid dreams when he was 12, always revolving around killing women. In his dreams, he would punch their evil spirits and he usually fell off his bed. When asked by psychiatrists later whether these dreams disturbed him, he said, “No, I feel better after having them.”
These dreams slowly turned into reality when he started watching, stalking, and looking into the eyes of women to find evil. By the age of 15, he began hitting and choking them. Ultimately it wasn’t enough for him to hurt those women — he had to kill them.
Due to 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.
Angelo was a killer with a different mindset from all others. He made the entire nation scared of hospitals. The desire to be a hero in others’ eyes made him a monster. He was 26 when he went to work at the Good Samaritan Hospital on Long Island in New York. He was a former Eagle Scout and always tried to do good things and help others.
His inability to achieve the level of praise he always desired made him a dangerous serial killer of a totally different kind.
He took advantage of the graveyard shift at the hospital to satisfy his desires. He would inject Pavulon and Anectine into patients and bring them to a near-death states. He would tell them that he was giving them drugs that would make them feel better. After injecting these drugs, the patients begin feeling numb and their breathing became constricted. They also lost their ability to communicate with the doctors and nurses. Then he would show his heroism by helping to save his victims, impressing everyone in the hospital.
Death came upon many of these patients as he was unable to intervene and save them from his deadly injections.
Angelo was a former boy scout and always wanted to be a hero. He was said to crave for attention from his parents and everyone else around him.
He is said to have killed 25 people and was caught when one of his victims managed to use the call button for assistance after being injected. One of the nurses then took his urine sample and the test proved positive for the drugs, Anectine and Pavulon, which had not been prescribed by the doctors. All the bodies of suspected victims were tested and found positive for drugs.
Angelo confessed and said, “I had no confidence in myself. I felt very inadequate.”
He was charged for second-degree murder on multiple counts and sentenced to 61 years to life imprisonment. He is currently in the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.
Andrew Phillip Cunanan, a soft-spoken intellect who had a flair for languages and discussing world affairs, was a handsome, lavish and boastful young man who associated himself only with the social elite. He earned many dubious distinctions. One was for killing the famous fashion designer, Gianni Versace, and the other is being listed by the FBI on their Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was the first person from San Diego to get onto the “prestigious” list.
There was no modus operandi discovered for Cunanan. In the beginning he killed his former lovers who he felt were having an affair behind his back. The others that were killed may also have had connections with him, but nobody knows for sure. They were killed differently and with different weapons.
Cunanan was born in National City, California and was a homosexual since high school. He was known for his erratic ways. He graduated in 1987. He was also rumored to be a lover to older and wealthy gay men. His mother called him a “high-class homosexual prostitute.” However his father denied his homosexuality, calling him “an altar boy” who has a good Catholic upbringing.
It is said that in homosexual circles, once a person crosses mid-20s he is considered old. When Andrew turned 28, he was deserted by his wealthy lovers. He was left to pay off credit cards which exceeded limits, and this left him broke. He stopped taking care of his usually very trendy appearance and gained a lot of weight.
At this point another emotion reared its ugly head — jealousy. He spotted two of his young lovers seeing each other behind his back. Another thing that bothered him was the fact that both of them had reached great heights professionally while he remained stagnant.
The jealousy grew to such an extent that he eventually went to visit them, killing both of them just days apart from each other, beginning his life as a serial killer.
One of his victims was Gianni Versace, the Italian designer. The FBI found Andrew, as he left his name signed on the pavement in front of Gianni’s house. The FBI felt that it was his way of trying to get attention, saying “Look at me. I’m the one that did this.”
He led authorities on a massive manhunt for his killings. He killed himself eight days after killing Gianni Versace. He shot himself to avoid capture.
What you have witnessed here is just a fragment of the world of savage and sadistic minds who have transformed this act of murder from a monstrous anomaly into an everyday horror. These mythic monsters capture the attention of the entire nation and end up as terrifying household names.
Looking into the psyche of a serial killer, doctors say that every individual develops positive attitude towards life and people in their early years, and this attitude is rendered negative with abuse — physical and emotional. That abuse can also come in the form of refusal to acknowledge the boundaries of an individual through excessive expectations, possessiveness, and doting, all of which are as abusive as incest or beatings.
Researchers attempting to understand how fantasies warp the serial killer’s mind say that bizarre fantasies thrive in isolation and eventually the killers feel the need to live them out. They dwell on the murder act for days before committing it, completely caught up in their fantasy. But they find that even murder never fulfills the fantasy completely, and this leads to the serial nature of their crime — always looking for satisfaction they never actually find. Many of these serial killers also keep souvenirs of their crime which helps refuel the fantasy.
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Famous serial killers are hated but there can't be any doubts about their popularity; they often suffer from Antisocial Personality Disorder, and thus can appear very normal in their everyday lives.
People who have Antisocial Personality Disorder definitely do not appear normal. They do not get along with other people. Psychopaths appear normal.
Antisocial personality disorder and psycopathy are the same thing.
All psychopaths are antisocial but not all antisocial people are psychopaths.
Some serial killers blend in well and appear normal and some do not. Ted Bundy appeared normal but Ed Gein did not.
Also, not all serial killers are psychopaths. I believe Berkowitz was a paranoid schizophrenic.
i agrre with this statement but John wayne Gacy he always looked like a drunk mad clown and people thought he was normal
yes but you must relize most pediphiles are very talented at hiding their identity, they also are exceptional at compartmentalizing.
ALSO not all psychopaths are serial killers.
Most serial killers have a messed up backround, this ultimately affects there judgment in kills and behavior when in a tangle with cops. Most killers who have been beaten or raped typically may run away or cleverly play with the cops. Most killers who grew up around a rough environment tend to slaughter there victims and try to feed off of there victims fear.
They dont understand the difference between good and bad.
no no no they are not. haven't you ever taken a psychology class? anti social personality disorder is an obvious and very noticeable disorder those individuals usually cause problems for everyone around them, they are noticeably out spoken they lie, steal, and start fights often without motive. They are constantly getting caught by the law. Psycho paths are much more discrete about their business because they don't want to get caught. They are usually intelligent individuals who have no remorse or really even emotions for anything. They are a walking zombie. They can't feel a thing. don't get me wrong i see why you draw the correlation but they are in two different categories for a reason.
I'm not sure where you are getting your information, but on many points you are incorrect. People with ASPD (Antisocial Personality Disorder) are not obvious or noticeable by any means. Many people who have ASPD are not criminals or serial killers, however, all serial killers have ASPD. Those with this disorder must first meet the criteria of conduct disorder as a child (but this information is often not available to anyone after they turn 18). Criminals with ASPD commit a large variety of crimes from petty theft to murder. They are intelligent, smooth, cunning, and many people like them or would not suspect them (for example, Bundy). They show no remorse but are very capable of feelings, however, these feelings are only there to cater to their needs and wants. They enjoy their kills and gain great pleasure from them, they are just unable to feel anything for the pain of the victim. If you'd like further information, consult the DSM-IV.
I am taking forensic psychology, antisocial people actually try to get in good with other people to try to hide their true motives, ASOCIAL people do not like other people and try to make trouble without motive.many people do not know that there is a distinct difference between the two. Antisocial behavior is dangerous because it is so undetectable until they are caught.
i completely agree. sometimes you can get someone who is both, but they certainly aren't the same.
Don't speak on what you don't know. No one knows nearly enough about Psychopaths to make any assumption about their being. What we do know leads us to believe that they can't feel emotion, but, if you've ever taken a psychology class, you would know that we dont know enough about the mind itself to make that an actual fact. It would be far better to say that, from what we know, Psychopaths feel extremely little emotion; only certain feelings, and never for long periods of times. Personally, I find them fascinating. They feel that they are better than everyone else for sure. Who are we to say they aren't?
I belive that anyone with any kind of murdurus desire is one of the best people anyone could meet, and charals manson was the hottest smartest one ;D
Can I ask why you think they are the greatest people you could ever meet? Killing innocent children is horrific
And wrong there's nothing cool about it. I feel bad fir phycologiclly challenged people for some of them can not control themselves. I don't believe in the death penalty nither because it's death it's not a justified death in my eyes. It's not our judgement that should put someone to death no matter how horrific the crime.
I really hope you're just kidding. And even then you have to be a really sick person to say something like that. I bet you wouldn't be saying that if you were one of the victims. Charles Manson wouldn't be so hot if he was standing over you about to kill you. I'll be praying for you & I pray that you never get put in a situation like some of the victims we read about.
How old are you? When you realize the pure terror in an experience like this you would understand. I was raped in my CHURCH when I was 14 and stabbed twice in the thigh, luckily a man passing by the bathroom heard me crying and took me to the hospital. It's a struggle everyday to trust people! Just reading this was hard because I know personally how it feels. I agree some of them are interesting, but to have the audacity to say he is smart and sexy?!?? Mmmhmm I bet he was mother f***ing sexy while f***ing the dead corpses of peole he has raped! Think before you speak/type. If you wanna meet them so much then I hope you get your wish, but the consequence of meeting them is your life. I am offended that you would even think something like that.
you are sick
i agree manson was exceptionaly smart that and he looks like a total badass.
What is wrong with you ? this man killed innocent people who didn't deserve it these people was someone's daughter son brother sister father or mother ...how would you feel if he killed your family or friends..would he still be hot ?? You need to see a psychologist asap you're obviously messed up in the head .I mean it's one thing to be interested in what they did and why they did it but to embrace them and praise them for it is just sick .
I agree on meeting them. Your telling me you wouldn't have any q?'s for em? I know I would.
You seem to be a very ignorant child. Yes, indeed the psychologically challened do appear in various cases to have intelligence ranked above our own. I believe you say such things because you are, in fact, very empty. You lack this intelligence that you seek, and on a level, you place these comments in order to recieve the attention you lack. I am fourteen years old and I am, yet again, questioning the psychological abilities of today's children. You may want to invest in councelling and recieve the required attention before you attempt something only the ignorant would consider.
this people sicken me. to me people that do crimes like this should have to suffer the same feate no madder how crule the punishment. they should know how the people felt . t
I totally agree. They are some of the most intelligant people. They Hunt, Plan, and that takes skill. I would love to converse with really any of them. I agree that charals was the smartest. Buttttt..... G. Damer is deff the hottest.... He is young , sexy, and a little odd. Too bad he a gay and dead. I would write him in prison. :)
Charles Manson never murdered anyone that they can prove. Other people did it for him. That's what makes him so incredibly smart. I have to say that certain events may make it so you disagree. But Charles MAnson was amazing
WTF is wrong with u just look at manson u can tell he's freakin nuts u got serious issues
I agree he is hot, and I'd love to talk to him. I'm sure I would feel differently if he had murdered someone I loved and I feel for the family's of his victims, but you do have to admit, it would be interesting to hear his excuse. Say what you want, call me crazy but that's what I think.
Okay first off its Charles Manson, second off your a psychopath yourself if you think these people are the best people ever! They killed innocent people and it's nasty and sick to think their is people out there in this world who think they are awesome! And btw its murderous not how you spelt it by the way. These people killed innocent children and thought it was cool. Albert Fisher was a cannibal who ATE small children how is that cool??? You are a sick person!
this has to be the truest statement ive read on this page. thumbs up for you.
KASSI-SAMMA: You have rage and hate in your psyche, I wonder why. You also never told your age.You seem immature. Would you take a cobra into your home? Or maybe you just like to provoke a response for attention. Whatever your reasoning is, for having that kind of attitude towards one of the biggest dick-head murderous idiots of our time, I hope you get better soon. Maybe you should try idolizing someone great like Paul Newman, or Ghandi, or even John Douglas, former FBI profiler. Get a life,hon.
Since you are clearly incredibly stupid, I assure you that if you ever met anyone like these people, either you'd be dead in an instant, or they would be so disgusted by your utter lack of intelligence that they wouldn't even entertain the thought of bothering with it. I myself am fascinated with these people. If I met one, I would hope that it would be the situation where I am safetly behind several indestructible doors and we are speaking through phones. However, I do pressume that a conversation with one of these people would prove to be...interesting
yeah have fun meeting him and getting murdered and raped. sounds like a party..
i have to argue .. so what someone thinks he was hot. maybe he was handsome and attractive. that is an opinion and everyone is entitled to them. i do not agree that they are the best people to meet, but i agree to the point where they are fascinating. i am currently writing to a serial killer and i love it. sure they can have problems and what they did was sick, but no one knows what they were thinking, they could of seriously been screwed up in the head, which makes them fascinating. and looks cAN even bring the victims to them. there is nothing wrong with thinking one of them was attractive but calling them the *best* not so much. but they are fascinating and very intresting. and being raped doesnt really have anything to do with the point you were trying to get across.
Ya know, these people need to just calm their tits. I actually agree with you. These would be amazing people to meet. I would also like to meet Hitler. For, although I don't condone their actions, they are all fascinating individuals. Don't listen to these other a-holes, okay?
P.S. Actually I think Bundy was the best looking, but I agree Manson was the most intelligent.
trololol
do you know how dumb you sound? i mean i like to learn the history of all these serial killers and what drove them to be the way that they are but i'm not going to sit here and say they are the best people you can meet! -.-
I think it's disturbing what he did, but sure, it would be interesting to meet and talk with him. But by no means do I think he was hot. I believe he was smart, yes. Hot? Not even remotely. I'm not trying to provoke an arguement but if I were you, I'd want to be in a seperate area where he couldn't get to me while I talked with him.
No...actually antisocial personality disorder is the same thing as being a sociopath not a psychopath. Sociopaths know what they are doing is wrong...they just have no feelings about it one way or another. They are unemotional and void of feelings. Psychopaths just plain dont know the difference between right and wrong...their delusional, insane.
i do agree to that. some of these guys r just twisted n make me sick
what a load of rubbish, of course they ALL know right from wrong. why do they avoid capture why do some hide victims bodies, because they dont want to get caught and know its wrong. i despise labels, giving people like this a label is like justifying their actions. they are not smart or clever, they prey on peoples naievity and good natures same as a conman.paedophiles prey on childrens innocence. they are just low life pieces of dirt who should never have been born. as for those in this forum who would like to meet these ~wonderful smart sexy killers~ i am sure they would love to meet you to, especially in a secluded setting without restraints of bars and shackles and prison guards. im sure you would all have a ~wonderful~ time.
ALL OF THEM DO NOT KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG. some dont run or hide. some people think this is the right thing to do. henceforth why some people are oh whats the word CRIMINALLY INSANE. unless you were in their head do not say tou know the right from wrong for them. and they are smart. modt of them are geniuses. they are clever. why? because it takes thought, skill, time, and patience to plan the way the great ones did. so think before you type. you are not one big hotshot so shut it.
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that's the most rediculous statement I've ever heard. Get an education before opening your mouth.
UMAD?!?!!?
Just a few points, charlie Manson did not kill anyone. He I guess told others to. But he did not do the killing so I think he is some other kind of person different the the killer. So should he ever leave prison maybe by now he should. The serial killer that I think about is Richard Remeriz and I think about him for a pretty strange reason I feel he let his race and myself a person fond of his race down, He is Mexican American and I am really sad a Latin guy would do that, I idealize Latins as family men who have fun in life work hard and raise several kids he did not follow that lifestyle and it disappoints me. I read his history and I guess I understand what happened to him to make him the way he became
Antisocial people are incapable of feeling guilt.
Psychopaths are mentally ill or unstable.
Those are actual textbook definitions from my psycology book.
Maybe they should make better distinctions.
There are several definitions for antisocial; one of which is avoiding contact with others=unsociable.
Some serial killers were very sociable and involved in so many aspects of their community.
I think the fact serial killers actively seek out the companyof others, even if in a malevolent manner, proves this trait to be false. They have an underlying need to be a part of something or other, just cannot do it in a constructive manner. Dahmer for example didn't want anyone to leave him alone, therefore he killed so they couldn't leave his side. The description doesn't accurately describe what the term itself is relaying imo... sociopathy carries a firmer portrayal.
They need better terminology rather than what can be confused with social anxiety disorder or with those that just prefer not to be around people, for whatever reason that may be.
Ummmmmm....you definitely spelled "psychology" wrong....
That's is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. You are confusing Psychopath (lack of remose, empathy, guilt & are manipulative) with Psychosis (An altered perception of reality). They are two different things. Psychopaths, sociopaths & people with ASPD are categorized the same way, sociopaths are created by environmental factors combined with genetics. Psychopaths are completely genetic (born that way). And any idiot who still uses the term Psychopath/Sociopath obviously watches too many movies. The DSM IV R now states that the terms to be used is ASPD. Stop thinking you've all gone to medical school and learnt psychology because if your still using those terms you are all a bunch of pathetic non sensical douchebags
Says the man who spelled "learned" wrong and actually tried to make "stupidest" a word. "dumbest" is the word I believe you're looking for, but also, stop trying to pretend that YOU'VE gone to medical school because If you had, you wouldn't have spelled those words wrong and would've known that "stupidest" wasn't a word.
Not really my friend. Check the DSV-IV and you will find that there are many differences between psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder.
No there is a huge difference between the two. A psychotic and an APD suffer can both distinguish between right and wrong. An APD sufferer will break laws for any reason especially to spite those around them,but a psychopath only breaks laws or does immoral things in order to benefit themselves or their purpose. An APD sufferer can seem normal but will break "character" if provoked. A psychopath will never break "character". You will not know what they are unless they choose it. And stating that all or most serial killers have some sort of mental defect is not true. Modern psychiatry itself is still a mess and constantly changing, with the popular belief that people can't torture or kill without some sort of mental short coming. .
You are not very intellectual to think those 2 things are the same and I would suggest for you to look each of those up anywhere but the wikipedia encyclopedia!!!
well they could act like they get along in places where there is a lot of ppl and he/she aren't with somebody special
THAT'S NOT ENTIRELY TRUE AT ALL. PHYCOPATHS CAN SEEM COMPLETELY NORMAL TO PEOPLE ALL AROUND THEM. IF YOU READ ALL OF THE STORIES ABOVE YOU WILL NOTE THAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE SEEMED LIKE EVERYDAY PEOPLE. THE CLOWN, THE DOCTOR, EVERYONE UP THERE COULD HAVE BEEN ANYONE OF US. YOU CAN NEVER TELL...
HI MELISSA , CAN I TALK WITH U AWAY FROM THIS PAGE ?
ASPD replaced psychopathy in the DSM-TR IV in 1994.
You are the smartest person on this page :), someone who actually took a psychology class
Actually the first person had it right. People with anti-social disorder appear to be normal; they are charming, and people are mostly drawn to them. The reason that most serial killers kill for so long is because they are so cunning and charming, that most people skip over them as suspects.One of these killers(Jeffrey Dahmer) was stopped bythe police while he had a dead body in a garbage bag in the backseat of his car. The police questioned him about the bag, and Dahmer convinced him that it was just laundry.
#TheMoreYouKnow
Hannibal Lecter looks normal as shit.
These killers were born crazy. I feel no compassion for them, Im actually happy that some are dead,
your right but i dont hate serial killers at all of the time it wasnt even there fault as to why they got that way. grant it all of them werent like that but i admire them for there not being afaird like most people were. what they didnt didnt bother me at all it was just crazy how long it to for them to get caught
true, alot of the time it isnt their fault that they end up the way they did, but what they do is awful. its terrible and their one choice of victim can effect an entire family forever.and yes it is "crazy" how long it takes these monsters to get caught...my point is that it should bother you, and if it dosent then you need to talk to someone and think about de-desensitizing yourself to what killers do. And why would you admire someone that took a living breathing human's life? granted i hate people but the thought of killing someone....i couldnt even imagen what would go through someone like Micheal Ross's head when they deside to end someone's life...and if you think i dont know what im talking about...my aunt was murdered by Micheal Ross...
I am very sorry to hear that. my regards go out to your family.
so them killing all of these people didnt bother you? and how is it not their fault they are like this, they need to take responsibility with their own actions, noone made them this way, they chose their life and made it like this
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hey hey hey, you guys stop arguin..does it really matter? what point are you trying to prove?. the main thing is that these people have been caught, sadly, authorities couldnt of caught them sooner to avoid more deaths but hey, theyre caught.instead of arguing about these syndroms and stuff, we should be working togehter, learning the patterns of these people so that we can catch the rest of them and provide more safety.
unfortunately learning these behaviours, they will soon become public knowledge, and thus the process begins all over again. i have often thought that murderers will increase their ability to remain unknown is by removing an MO. police base their suspects largely on the MO, if there is a constant and strict regime they leave themselves open to error and tracking. if you note, one of the killers above became difficult to track due to his constant hopping of locations and methods. this leaves police investigating several murders as seperate cases and leaves them with pockets of information where they cannot figure out who it is they are after. unfortunately there is a chance this may already have occured, due to some serial killers need to kill isnt always driven by a need to murder there mothers over and over (example) or to murder people of same ethnicity or same hair colour etc. it could possibly be driven by the simple need to kill, this isnt typical i admit,at least i dont think it is, this is just theoretical. but ive sort of forgotten my point haha, i think i was saying that studying the murders of previous serial killers allowes the police to understand what killers may do, but it will eventually become unusable information as criminals are constantly addapting to remain out of jail. which seriously sucks
Very true. The F.B.I. Made a profile of a serial killer that was say a trucker who had no MO. A new city, weapon, victimology, etc. This would make said killer virtually impossible to track or even be noticed without direct linking evidence between the crimes. This is very disconcerting, especially since the U.S. Has the most serial killers and highways of any other country. The last speculation was that there are 20-50 serial killers are active at any time just in the U.S. Folks. Just remember to be careful and suspicious of all people. A little bit of paranoia is okay. Just don't go overboard.
"hey, hey, hey you people" is right on.
What ARE you trying to prove? There is nothing TO prove. There only is what there is.
We can study them and try to learn how to define them from every possible angle but, they are just themselves. Maybe a little different from one killer to another but, still, they just are what they are. They either will or will not be "caught". It's just the luck of the draw whether they will or will not be caught or when/where they'll be caught at all. Some want to be caught and some don't. They've always been there, in ANY society and they always will be... No, they shouldn't be allowed to continue killing and we should try to stop them when it's possible, but the rest is just what I've stated, above.
Dictionary needed here, folks, for me as well. :)
This list is good, but so many facts are left out and some things added that never happened(like Bundy sleeping with the rotting corpses) not good if your doing anything important with this info.
Bundy did in fact have sex with the women he killed after the fact and would even return to the location that he left them days after to again have sex with them. He admitted it to the authorities. Saw it on either the History Channel or NatGeo, can't remember which. Truly disgusting.
It is a common myth that many serial killers are anti-social. Just look at Ted bundy he is an outlier in your claim, their are also black widdows who kill for finanacial reasons
i dated and lived with a sociopath and his family who were also mostly sociopaths. They are very dangerous. And so manipulative u cant listen or talk to them its like they send a spell on you.
I would honestly love to meet and get to talk to a serial killer, that would be really cool. Of course I would want someone else with me or be behind glass, but to get to talk to someone like that, and get into their mind, find out why they did it. That would be so cool.
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Great list of American Serial Killers but aren't you missing the greatest serial killer of humanity as a whole? These guys killed 100's of people but the terrorist and serial killer I am referring to, has brutally murdered hundreds's of thousands of them. You got to add GEORGE W. BUSH to the top of the list!
you're an idiot.How can you even say something so stupid?
Although I think the comment is too much. It's the same mentality from the right that compares the current President to Hitler. As well as those on the right who rejoiced at the deaths of ted Kennedy & John Murtha.
i think hitler should be added to the list cuz look at all the people he killed he was freaking smart as hell you know if he watched his war tactics better we would he would of won. that many people didnt derserve to die but he wanted racial purity and he was so close to getting it so close
What about Joseph Stalin? He killes HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of his own people!
Hitler never killed anyone, but himself. NAZI's killed people. Hitler told them to do it, they did not have to do it. I hate it when people call hitler a killer. Yes he was radical yes he was mentally unstable and i don't condone any of his ideals of beliefs, but he never directly killed anyone.
You people are amazing: serial killers should be killed DUH !!!
by their own rules .If killing is o.k. to them it is fair for them.
As to Hitler and his racial cleansing bulls*it there is only one race of people on the earth
homo sapiens sapiens. the rest is just regional variations.
ALSO HITLER WAS NOT OF THE ETHNICITY HE PROPOUNDED AS THE IDEAL.
THE BLONDE HAIRED BLUE EYED GERMANO/NORWIEGAN TYPE.
He was a little short dark skinned brown eyed dark haired jew looking freak.
As for being smart look up his academic record mediocre is being kind to him.
Back to serial killers, if they cant help it then they are a danger to society and should be removed from it.....permanently.If it is genetic we don't need them peeing in the gene pool . II
f allowed to live it should be purely for the purpose of study to find out how to prevent
them from coming into existence FAILING that how to recognize them BEFORE they
kill.
He is not in this list because this is America's killers
Hilter could not be added to this list because he was not an AMERICAN..
They called Bush "Hitler", too, it's not just Obama. I think people think it is trendy/cute or they think it makes them sound educated? I don't get it.
Thats because extreme liberals think its shocking to compare President Bush to a heartless killer. They use extreme comparisons to somehow promote the negative thoughts of a political figure they dislike. They themselves are Idiots to the upmost definition.
leonard hall- I agree with the fact serial killers, or simply any murder should be eliminated from existence or used for studies. They are very ingenious individuals, but that does not mean that they have the right to brutally and salvagely tear the life out of an innocent person. To those who made a disturbing comment about how you seem to have admiration towards these monsters, you really should get help if your comments were true, otherwise you shouldnt be disrespecting the victims that suffered in the hands of these beasts.
Actually, you're the idiot. Great comment John.
You're just as nuts as the serial killers I just read about!
bush is not on the list because hes not a serial killer
[Editor's note: Personal insult removed. You may disagree freely here. You may not insult others on a personal level or insult races, nationalities, genders, etc. Please keep that in mind in the future.]
Thank you.
haha, very true. :)
lol funny as hell but he was high when he made his choices ask any1 he snorted coke hell Dave Chapple even says it on his comedy tour Killin them softly
wow. you're level of education is obviously low. learn how to spell correctly before you go off sayin the President snorted coke. they said it on a COMEDY tour. Bush is a hell of a lot better than Obama. He did what needed to be done. the terrorists killed thousands of our people, and we have every right to go over there to fight for our country.
ahem... you are not that educated either. You used "you're" instead of "your"...
Haha also "saying" not like the urban dictionary "sayin". I'm just sayaan brah
You know you are wrong in so many ways. Since when did Saddam Hussein kill our people? I believe he killed his own people if Im correct. We just had to stick our noses in their damn business. Why cant countries do stuff on their own. Why do we constantly have to intervene like for instance the crap going on in Libya. Oh ya I forgot its all about OIL OIL OIL...Well jesus christ they need to get their heads out of their a*ses and use the oil that we have here in our own country. Bush just wanted to finish what his little freaking daddy couldnt..Clinton was the only one to ever clean-up this countries act and got us out of recession umm lets see after BUSH did and then along comes little BUSH JR to do it all over again 8 years later. And you wonder why Obama struggles so much now its all because of them a*sholes like you that screw this country over!
yeah i agree. we try to act like the god damn world police and everyone thinks theyre so fuc*ing smart because they go to college and get a paper saying theyve got a masters or ph.d. this is why everyone in the world hate america. they wouldnt be bombing us for no reason..besides the rich "know it all" as*holes that actually think they can study killer is proposterous. no two killers are alike and all have different motives or disabilities. stop acting like a bunch of snobs, they killed people so fuc*ing what they were going to die either way. that is how this world works everything lives and something or someone ends up killing it. we kill animals and do other sh*t to the enviornment but no who gives a flying fuc* but no if its a human oh dear me we must doing everything in our power to help them or catch this bastard. well i am sick and tired of humans thinking they have the absolute power and knowledge to do whatever they feel like. and all this talk about "these people" as if the serial killers were some sort of different species from another planet,we must disect them and study them is stu*id. they are humans too not some sort of other people just because theyve killed some people. everyone seems to do their part in screwing the world over but nothing is done about it, bush wasnt the only one who fuc*ed up america. there are countless others since the 1800s-now, political leaders give you a promise and people reluctant to change put their faith into one man and one government to fix a problem that affects everyone. if we really have democracy how about we start by not voting for a damn president and the people start working together to actually resolve this before we end up in the sh*thouse.
wat a shame you u're just as sick as the devil bush
So because a comedian says a president is high makes it true? Seriously? Stop posting this crap
HAHAHAHAHA i agree. honestly people. we're on a site to learn about the dangers of serial killers and their mind ways and things like that and you are all arguing about politics..? honestly? do you people REALLY not have other things to do..? honestly it's a little pathetic. everyone here has their own point of veiw and can express it in their own ways.
that was a stupid comment that you said
How can you go and say that? How is he a terrorist? Do you even know how many peopled died in the war? Is it somehow cool to say that about a man that was chosen by the American people to make decisions like getting involved in the middle east? Did you even expect anyone to agree with you or say how funny you are? Please, I am begging you, stop saying those kind of things.
you're an imbecil... former president George W. Bush was a great president, whatever conspiracy that is going through your little liberal mind is definitely incorrect.
Are you retarded? Whether you liked him or not he wasn't a serial killer, and to suggest that he was makes you look stupid. I agree our American troops and families have been through Hell as a result of the terrorist attacks of '01, but its immature and stupid to say things like this.
dont say the word retarded
Keith's right.
There's a distinction in fact and law between a someone who is responsible for a killing through agency, and someone who is a killer. In addition, we make a legalized distinction between a legally sanctioned killing and a murder. You may disagree with those distinctions as having any moral significance, but using the term "serial killer" to describe Bush, no matter what your opinions on the Iraq war, is clearly an abuse of language.
Furthermore, considering that Bush was reelected, that his use of force was authorized by congress, and that tens of thousands of military personnel have executed his orders without question, their is plenty of culpability to go around.
None of this is in anyway meant to suggest that I condone Bush's actions, agree with his foreign policy decisions, or even disagree with the notion that he should be held criminally responsible. But those type of facially absurd comments just discredit truly thoughtful discussion about the issue.
thanks alot john.thumbs upppp:-)
Ha ha ha, John!!! Hey war is war, right?
Oh my, definatly the MOST intelligent comment on here, Well done.
I wonder how long the list would be if you included all countries. No doubt they all had some disorders, however, they all seemed to come from totally dysfunctional families as well.
These are the media promoted serial killers. These, however, are not: http://podblanc.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1263&highlight=serial+killers
Do you realize that u didn't make not one bit of sense? I mean you shouldn't put urself out there like that if ure gonna use sentences like that.
Correction: insofar as the Tate-Labianca murders are concerned Charles Manson killed no one. His charge was being a conspirator in the homicides but he was never placed at the actual scene of any of the homicides.
I rarely cite Wiki articles but this one is very well-documented and cited drawing Vincent Bugliosi's book on the topic (Mr. Bugliosi being the State's Prosecutor in the case).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson
Good article.
Small correction: Ed Gein's character was used as a base in Silence of The Lambs. Not for Hannibal Lecter but for Buffalo Bill. Hannibal Lecter was a cannibal but he did not dress up in his victims skin. That was Buffalo Bill.
also Norman Bates- Physco
Cant you read this is a direct quot from the artical you just read "his character became a central element in many films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho and the character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, among others" The artical said nothing about Hannibal lecter.
dude, the Articles says "and the character buffalo bill from Silence of the Lambs"
Hannibal Lector was cloned after a real serios killer and his "character - acting" was added to the film for more suspense and show that there real people like that in life. As for Molly above and many others - to write to a serial killer you have to be sick !!!! Sorry, but you are not a medical doctor, but a 20 something or less woman with the mind of a child. Even the weird-do singer Manson took his name from Charles Manson who he glorfies and iis himself I believe a distorted unreal person. Molly - why would you write a serial killer - are you writing a thesis for your Ph.D. ? ...NOT ! You get sexual kicks or adrenaline rushes from writing to a person who in a split second would slit your throat - rape you and choke you until you are dead if he had a change and the only thing keeping him from doing so is he is behind bars - you need lots of therapy dear girl - you have a fixation on a "Serial Killer" and you say this is okay ? you are one sick puppy as 99.999% of people do not write serial killers - me things you enjoy notarity and fame of such an individual - not all these serials killers belong to "Mensa" and are simply lucky to get caught for a long time. Bundy got caught in Florida speeding hin his Volkswagon - smart move on his part after all the people he killed and not knowing truly how many he has killed to date and to blame it all on Pornography - reading some of these posts makes me want to cringe, and wonder if you are of low mentality, morals, and never witnessed a killling or serial killer who reeks havoc on not just the victims, but the families of these victims for the rest of their lives and also on the community. i am for the death penalty as well !! ........................ditto
John - you are an id*ot. You make liberals look bad with your stupid analogies and wild, exaggerated statements.
@John - Probably because this article wasn't written by a terrorist sympathizer.
They all have dead eyes.
What about Richard Ramerez, the Night Stalker?