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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H.H. Holmes did not burn his "Castle" down and he did not vanish. The building was burned down after he was locked up by....well no one really knows who but they believe the reason was so that it couldnt be turned in to some sort of Tourist attraction and He was hung on May 7th just days before his 35th birthday.
Rick, you don't seem to understand that you ARE belittling not only me, but everyone who tries to get through to your thick skull. You're pissing me off because you're right, i can't change you. no, only you can change yourself. which, might i add, sucks for you. I'm sorry for being such a "pig" in your eyes, yet have you ever taken the time to look beyond your own "freaking" face? have you thought of what it would be like to hear someone say all the things you've said about Jewish people to you? I believe you have, why else are you so defensive? Dude, you tell me to go out and aquire "knowlege" yet you have no knowlege other than what was put in your head. you said it yourself man that you only do what was taught to you. and you wanna say that you adhere to scripture? I'm christian too! What happened to loving your enemies?
Sarah & Chivers,
I agree with your arguments one hundred percent! If a so called "Rick" chooses to behave in such a manner that presents him as a pig-headed man, then let him do so. If he is a grandfather, he has certainly reached an age where he can no longer connect with society. Therefore he lashes out at those he feels are bigger than him. If he has accomplished all of the things he says he has then good for him. I am a Catholic and although this may sound very religious, God will punish him in the end. If he chooses to belittle people, in which he has no comprehension of, then he is wrong. If he truly believes that the Bible was only intended for white people, then please, i graciously welcome references from the bible in which it clearly discludes every single race on this earth. So please, Sarah, Chivers, no matter how child-like he acts, know that, for all you know he could be locked up in some mental asylum.
Rick,
I am quite worried that you have unstable mental issues; if so please contact someone. I will not engage in your petty arguments. i will only say this, if you are a pastor shame on you! if you do have degrees in law enforcement, use them to help people, not degrade them. And if you choose to continue in these arguments then do so. But know that people who do not believe in degrading fellow human beings based on the color of their skin or their religion are not weak. we are not overwhelmed by societal pressures. We are human beings, we have hearts filled with compassion and kindness. If you choose not to act like a civil member of society then that is your business. And if you choose to be such a mean hearted man, give my apologizes to your wife, children and grandchildren.
Chivers says: " Physiotherapist? I think you mean Psychologist or Psychiatrist. Perhaps you need a trip to the shrinks ."
You are right Chivers I did mean Psychiatrist. I made a typ-o and simply used spell check and clicked on the wrong word I wanted to use. I guess this is my moment of ignorance, but I can admit when I am wrong. By the time I clicked " submit comment" it was to late to correct anything, but then again you are right.
Chivers says:" Didn’t ‘god’ say love thy neighbour? Does it even really matter to you? Do Jews affect you in some way to make you hate them?"
Wow, I always loved this comment when they throw it at me.This is one of my greatest subjects. for starters we know that words change in significance of meaning over the years or decades. Most often words change do to slang or perversion of said word. For instance "bad" . Today the word can also mean good, sometimes bad is good. Wow that car is bad!!! Today that would mean it is good, great or fantastic and so on.
Another word is "GAY". In the late fifties and before if you said someone was acting "GAY" it would mean they were carefree and happy. Today it refers to the most disgusting diabolical perversion of same sex with that of the same sex. It alone is a perversion of the word Gay and now has become part and party to a long list of words that once meant one thing but are now used for perversions sake.
Again, the true meaning of the word " neighbor" has been perverted through the age purposely for the gain of the anti-Christ and the Jews whom wish to destroy Christianity.That's just like the word "Judeo-Christian which also is a perversion. There can be no such thing because Judaism is 180% different from Christianity and the Judeo Talmud has no other purpose but the destruction of Christianity and is oposite to the word of God which is the Christian way. So Judeo Christian is a complete fabrication of the Jew to keep Christians in line to the Jewish way of thinking.The mere fact that Jews have interpreted the Holy Bible is the reason we have some perversions of Gods true word.
The word neighbor does not mean a fellow human or the person who lives next to you. In the Biblical/ Godly sense it meant "race. Mainly the white race. I prove to you a hundred times over that the Bible was written specifically for the white peoples only. This I can do with the Bibles own scripture.
"At the time this Commandment was written, anyone who was not a "neighbor" was an enemy. This was the law of tribal life. The boundaries and property of clans had to be vigilantly watched and jealously guarded. It was essential to the solidarity of the tribe that all band together for the common good.
According to Hebrew ( white Anglo Saccsons) law, only a brother Hebrew ( white ) is a neighbor. In another interpretation of this very Commandment, brother and neighbor are synonymous terms which do not apply to anyone outside the clan. [*1]
The word "neighbor," as used in this Commandment, unmistakably meant a fellow tribesman, a compatriot, and did not, nor was it ever intended to describe a fellow human being in a universal sense. This is verified not only by leading Biblical authorities, such as the Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, who says that "the Israelites did not apply this Commandment to their dealings with other people," but by the Bible itself.
When properly understood in the light of primitive culture, this Commandment is in perfect harmony as to its origin and meaning with Page 539 the other portions of the Decalogue. The authors of the Decalogue could not have formulated it differently; they were mentally incapable of embodying a Commandment with the broader principle of universal application. All the Commandments belong in the same category and were promulgated for one purpose -- to prevent injury to the clan and to promote tribal solidarity for the sake of their Deity's approval."
According to some commentators, the Hebrew word for "neighbor," rei-acha, refers only to whites Anglo Saccsons who were the original Hebrews. This view is supported by the context in which the phrase appears in the Greek Septuagint, which can be translated as follows: "You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall not take revenge or feel resentment against the children of your people, you shall love your companion (rei-acha) as yourself" (Leviticus 19:17-18). Looking at this, it seems clear that "your companion" falls into the same category as "your brother" and "the children of your people," all explicitly referring to one's fellow race.
According to this view, "Love your neighbor as yourself" does not refer to anyone outside of ones race or people. "Neighbor" is not an accurate translation for the word rei-acha. The Hebrew word for "neighbor" is shachen; the Hebrew word rei-ah means "a very close companion." Sometimes rei-yah is used to mean "spouse." Rei-acha, means "race which was inaccurately and purposely miss-translated by Jewish Rabbi's to throw the real Israelite's ( whites) off as to whom they really are. Keep in mind that the Bible says that God said " I will leave your name ISRAEL as a curse unto them and give you a new name. So, according to the Bible and Gods word , anyone who goes by the name Israel today are under the curse for stealing true Israel's identity. The new name God has given unto the chosen race is Caucasian. When the mongrel Khazar's and race mixers chased true Israel into the Caucasus Mountains they were mocked and called Caucasians .This was the new name that God had given unto true Israel whom had their heritage stolen by the Jews. This is all Bible and a matter of history both historical and Biblical.
So historically "neighbor" means race. The biblical inference means to " Love your RACE as you would love yourself. God was very race conscience and this can be proven Biblicaly time and time again. But one must remember that the Bible was written for none other than the white , Anglo Saccson , Celtic, Germanic and Kindred peoples. The Bible clearly state that Jesus stated " I have come for NONE OTHER than the lost tribe ( those who's name was changed) of Israel. so Jesus is not coming back for everyone , regardless of what they do. No race mixers according to the Bible will ever get to heaven. I know you find that racist but that is because of the propagandized way in which you were trained. It is not the way of God or the Bible.It is the plan of the anti-Christ ( plural -meaning a race of demonic people on the earth) to send as many whites to hell as he can. When god created Adam and Eve he called them " MAN" whom the Bible clearly shows were white. So when the Bible talks of " Man-Kind it is only talking about the white race and none other/ The Bible refers to any others outside of the Garden as the "others". Therefore , no other race can fall into this "man Scheme of God but the white race. Its all in your bible but many were trained to over-look it and fall into the judeo-Christian way of thinking which is a perversion of Gods word and truth.
So neighbor means "Race" Love your Race as you love yourself. Works for me very well!!!
# adam Says:"any one who has the time to write more than a few lines is a loser, bottem line, much less pages lol
Adam, anyone who can't type more than one line is a loser. Is tis your way to cover up for your inept ability to write? Are you one of Sarah's chums that you have to parrot her? And what is your fixation with Rader? Anyone who has such a fixation is really a sick ticket.And BTW it's bottom not bottem. Anyone who can't use spell check is a loser!
yes i agre
Now, time to get back to the subject which is serial killers. I just simply pointed out how it was verboten to prove that any one other than whites were serial killers and a few jumped up and tried to stick with the propagandized manner which you were taught to believe , which is not always the truth. Fact is there are less white serial killers than one can imagine. Fact is many Jews go under English names , but today they use the Jewish name more openly.
For instance , Joron Van der Sloot is a serial killer and authorities now believe he may be responsible for up to 6 murders. Van der Sloot is a Dutch Jew which is sure to be covered up at some time by the Jewish controlled media. Just as Gacy, Berkowitz, Mudgett, Cunanan, Richard Angelo, Albert Fish, Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer were all Jews. Dahmer was a great cover up of a Jew who converted to Christianity while in prison. But he was too loud an boisterous and some believed he was ordered murdered to cover up his Jewishness for he had no fear of letting people know about his right to the master race the Jews.
Simple searches will reveal this as fact. Just as 98% of all Hollywood actors are Jews so is the same for serial killings. The movie industry is the largest racist organization in America which is totally Jewish and a few token blacks to make people believe they are not racist . But fact is they do not allow whites into their special club. There is more propagandized racism toward whites than any other race upon the earth and it is controlled to keep whites in line. The myth that whites are serial killers above all is simply that. When you have a media controlled by one race then that race can feed the public any thing they want until it is believed as truth. They also can hide facts such as the many black serial killers which the Zionist refuse to report upon less it destroy the myth that whites make up the majority of serial killings. They also can trumpet day in and day out that the Jewish serial killer is white, using the Jews appearance of being a white Anglo Saccson when it suits them to shift blame thusly preserving the appearance that Jews are righteous when in fact they make up the majority of the worlds worst crimes as a race.
We hear so much about Hitler but we also must keep in mind that Hitler was a Jew.
There is no harm in pointing this out with the exception it points out the myths perpetrated by a media controlled by the very people who as a race make up the majority of serial killings and wars throughout the world.
IF Hitler was a serial killer then the beast Airel Sharron of Israel was also a serial killer who ordered his fellow Jews to murder hundreds of thousands of unarmed Palestinians simply because they are GOY ( Jew slang for a non Jew). Yet Israel is still being run by another Jew murderer who has no problem murdering anyone not Jew. They murder who societies to steal their land , yet no one mentions this. We are told by the Jewish controlled media how to discern whom is a serial killer and whom is not.But a person intent on finding truth would not parrot the official version but will search for truth and discover the cover up before our very eyes. It is repeated in the Jewish community that GOY ( non Jews) are stupid. This is proven true time and again by those who parrot the controlled media and now the controlled government time and again without seeing through the official story. Yes Jews control congress and the president! And they are careful not to let anyone who is not Jew obtain the office less they loose control .
I was going to stay out of this because it is just so stupid. But, for "Rick", Im going to make an exception. First of all, the following are a few quotes from Rick's babbling B.S. essays: "Their not Jew haters, They are simply..."(Correction-They're not Jew haters. They...), "That is what it means , doesn't it?" (correction-That is what it means, isn't it?), "Every one that I have know has..." (correction-...known...), "you will grow wiser, er for some that is." (correction- Who knows, maybe you meant "or"?). Anyway, there were a lot more typos, misspelled words, and other incorrect words and sentences that I saw while reading this crap the first time, but unlike Rick I actually have a life and do not feel like reading through it again thoroughly to find them. I just noticed how much you point out other people's "ignorance" as you call it, and thought that I would point out a few of yours. Because, "you will thank me one day" for informing you. And btw, Im sure I have plenty of typos in this message as well, but dont waste your energy letting me know because I guess Im just ungrateful. I could care less, because this message to you is a very small part of my day. I wont even think about this again because I will be enjoying my family and my life. Something I doubt you have. If you have this much time on your hands to spend on a serial killer website trashing everyone and distorting God's word, you're probly suicidal already. I know I would be. Im going to pray for you right now, as hard as it is, that you will find something else to do with your time, and that maybe if you did that, God will lead you to someone or some reading material that will show you the truth. I think you will be much happier then. God does not want for us to be miserable and I have a feeling that you are. God has answered my prayers many times and he has given me a great life. God is the one who gives me the strength to not be offended by your crap but to have pity on such a miserble little person as yourself.
Sarah say: " have you ever taken the time to look beyond your own “freaking” face? have you thought of what it would be like to hear someone say all the things you’ve said about Jewish people to you? "
Hi Sarah! Yes I look beyond my own face , that is how wisdom is gained. And yes I have heard others say things about Jews and it does not bother me unless the person is being untruthful. Then and only then would I intervene and correct them or rebuke them.
Sarah says: " Rick, you don’t seem to understand that you ARE belittling not only me, but everyone who tries to get through to your thick skull."
How do I belittle people who try to persuade me from the truth? so you are saying that just because I don't agree with everyone then I am belittling them....right? I belittled you ( if that's what you call it) because you first attacked me in a belittling manner. If you can not see that then you are dumb as a box of rocks. Secondly , you give this so-called wisdom of how I should give in for the betterment of the whole but you do not practice what you preach which makes you a hypocrite! When you used your language (foul) against me you became a disgusting foul mouthed pig and I stand by it. That is not belittling you but pointing out that which you are . Now you attempt to belittle me because I refuse to think like you or believe the propaganda you believe.
And Sarah, I don't care if I am "pissing you off". Its no skin off my back , don't know you and don't care how pissed you get. don't even care if you wish to remain ignorant.
SARAH SAYS: " Dude, you tell me to go out and aquire “knowlege” yet you have no knowlege other than what was put in your head.
Sarah, do you know how stupid that sentence sounds? Read it and see how you have formed this sentence which is actually a rebuke to yourself. If you can't see it then I feel real bad for you. I take it you are a teen , why else would you react and write the way you do. If so then i can overlook what you have written. Again Sarah it's "knowledge" not " knowlege." And it is " acquire" not " aquire."
SARAH SAYS: "and you wanna say that you adhere to scripture? I’m christian too! What happened to loving your enemies?
Well , I would say you are not a christian by your belief, but I would say you are a Judeo-Christian which is a Christian under Judeo ( Jewish ) control. There is a difference between being a Christian and a Judeo-Christian.
Ahhhh, " love thy Enemies"! I Love this scripture also.
For starters, some passages were added by Jewish translators which is not the word of God. You can find this evidence by following Gods commandment which says to " Study to show thyself Approved." Now, this sentence does not appear in the Bible's before the KJV of 1611, the Septuagint or any Bible before 1600.Again, Jewish interpretations have perverted Gods word to mean what they mean and not what God means. In the bibles of old we see the scripture read "Study to show thyself the approved word of GOD." This lintels that God new that some would change His word and we are commanded to study the books of old with history to find true facts int the Bible.
For instance from the 1611 authorized King James version on back to the birth of Christ you can not find the passage " Forgive them Father for they know not what they Do." God never forgave then and this passage was added by the Jews to make you believe they murdered one of their own and not one of the white Anglo Saccsons form the tribe of Issac. The word Saccson was the only word for the white man until the Jews changed it to "Saxon" in the late 1700's in order to throw the true Israelite's off as to whom they are concerning God. The Saccson's come from the tribe of Issac whom God have given the promise to. Again, the Bible does not say " Thou shall not kill." Killing is biblically aloud because it infers defense. Again the word was changed by Jewish translators from "murder" to "Kill." "Thou shall not murder" is the true biblical definition which means by calculation and design to kill someone in order to gain something, such as money, ones wife or anything which you would desire and can gain by murder. So anyone who kills in self defense , even if the state executes him , and if he/she is a christian , they will go to heaven.
Again is the Jewish addition of Love thy Enemies.The key word here is "LOVE". Unfortunately, the word ‘love’ has many meaning in the English language that makes it hard to get the real significance of what kind of love it is intended. For example, in the Western languages the word Love does not clearly distinguish the various meaning of what is intended, "I Love God", "I Love my wife", "I Love a pizza". Has the word "Love" the same meaning in these 3 examples? Certainly not! [article]
The word ‘love’ here in the Greek is "AGAPAO" with root in "Agape". This kind of love is defined as: "the Love of intelligence, of reason and comprehension" coupled with the corresponding purpose. Its concept is vastly superior to any other form of Love. In essence "Agape" is a permanent benevolent attitude toward God and human beings, without any condition, that freely springs out of the Agape God has place in the heart of His own. It is disinterested love that does not need anything in return. We can Agape others only if God has firstly filled us up with His Agape. All the other form of love need a reaction, a return to maintain themselves, whilst Agape comes from God and the beneficiaries that are full of it do not need a confirmation from others, being fully satisfied in the Agape of the Lord.
The Greek there are 5 different meanings for the word "Love". Only 3 of these appear in the New Testament: Agape 258 times (90%), Phileo (affection) 31 times (10%) and Thelo once. This means that the love of the Bible is AGAPE, the love of intelligence, of reason and of comprehension, which is benevolent love. Romantic love is not present in the NT.
So when Jesus says, "Love thy enemy" he means to have an attitude of benevolence toward him, not of wanting to harm him, and to help him in case of need.
He certainly did not mean an attitude of kiss and embrace, how could any one do that if your enemy has just raped your wife and daughter. Nor is it hatred to ones enemy when you point out their lies, their hatred, or their hatred for God. Just like the Bible does not say "Turn the other cheek" but instead says " Turn not the other cheek." shows the hatred Jews have for Christians when they misinterpret the Bible for their own gain and to hurt Christianity . The bible's of old do not have these scriptures. I am setting here with a 1700 bible and can not find the passages as they are written in the modern day Bibles.
Do you realize how many times God has commanded his people to take up arms and destroy the enemy, even whole towns of people? So don't twist scripture as the Jews do. And don't make god out to be a big wimp.
The Koran which is closer to Biblical beliefs and that of the Jews states" God(ALLAH) says not only to tolerate your enemy but to escort them to a secure place if he seeks your help. ALLAH has given us the sense to choose what is right for us. "
What this means is that an enemy is always an enemy unless he seeks your help and does no harm to you. That is the real biblical sense also. The Koran ,like the Bible says that God has given us a sense to choose what is right for us. That means that if it does not feel right to us then it is okay to still hate your enemy and protect yourself from him. Many Jews have taken the Bible out of context and will pay dearly in the end .
We should also not that many Bible scholars note that" Love thy neighbor" means tribal love and it is noted also that the Jews added the later "Love they enemy" to protect their own hides from Gods real chosen people.
See link : http://bible.cc/matthew/5-43.htm
Nicole says: "But know that people who do not believe in degrading fellow human beings based on the color of their skin or their religion are not weak. we are not overwhelmed by societal pressures."
First of all I am a grandfather but still very young. I fear no one so your attempt to asses me is futile and very commonly a Zionistic rebuttal.I am very active and meet hundreds of people a day in my line of work . so your old man attempt is as feeble as you mind. Are you one of Sarah's class mates? did she attempt to call out the juvenile brigade?
Okay Nicole, I am going to lay it all on the line since you and others think I am hateful. God has instructed me that you would be able to discern if the writings I show below are evil and hateful. It is up to you to tell me if these beliefs are hateful in order that I may react upon your spiritual decision if they are evil, hateful or not.
There is a Penalty for Disobeying CHRISTIANS
Whosoever disobeys a CHRISTIAN deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.
Hitting a white CHRISTIAN is the same as hitting God
If a heathen (jew) hits a white CHRISTIAN, the Jew must be killed.
It is O.K. to Cheat Non-CHRISTIANS
A CHRISTIAN need not pay a Jew ("Cuthean") the wages owed him for work.
CHRISTIANS Have Superior Legal Status over Jews
CHRISTIANS May Steal from Jews
If a CHRISTIAN finds an object lost by a JEW ("heathen") it does not have to be returned. God will not spare a CHRISTIAN who "marries his daughter to an old man or takes a wife for his infant son or returns a lost article to a Jew..."
CHRISTIANS May Rob and Kill Jews . This is okay with God!
When a CHRISTIAN murders a Jew ("Cuthean"), there will be no death penalty. What a CHRISTIAN steals from a JEW he may keep.
The Jews are outside the protection of the law and God has "exposed their money to to the CHRISTIAN."
CHRISTIANS may use lies ("subterfuges") to circumvent a Jew.
Non-CHRISTIAN Children are Sub-Human, especially the JEW!
All Jewish children are animals.
Jewish girls are in a state of (filth) from birth.
Jews prefer sex with cows.
The Jewish Mesia is in hell, being boiled in "hot excrement."
Christians must destroy the books of the Jews
All Christians are obligated to say the following prayer every day: Thank you God for not making me a Jew , a woman or a slave.
Now I could go on and on for pages but this should suffice in order for you to make a pure judgment. Seriously Nicole, does this line of thought make me full of hatred, mentally deranged, sick. Does it mean I am not fit to live in society. Does this line of thinking make one dangerous? Possibly as dangerous as anyone of the serial killers listed here? I have been told that this kind of religious thought should be banned and anyone who thinks like this should be locked in a mental institute. But this is real religion! Are not all religions protected under the law? What about equality? Does this make anyone who thinks like this sick!!!!!!!