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53 Shocking Facts About Serial Killers You Probably Never Heard Before
The definition of serial m****r varies across law enforcement and academia, but generally, it refers to three separate killings with a “cooling-off” period between them. For someone to be considered a serial k****r, the m*****s must be distinct events, most often driven by psychological thrill or gratification.
Serial killers also tend to lack empathy and guilt, and many display highly egocentric behavior. Some even fit the clinical traits associated with psychopathy. What makes many of these cases especially disturbing is that serial killers often appear completely ordinary — sometimes even charming — while hiding violent tendencies behind what experts call a “mask of sanity.”
Pop culture has long been fascinated by serial killers. Films like Zodiac and The Silence of the Lambs, along with TV shows such as Mindhunter and Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, occasionally turn real-life cases into some of the most widely discussed stories in entertainment.
And while the obsession can sometimes go too far, the interest itself is understandable: we feel that learning how these people operate may help us understand criminal behavior and recognize its warning signs.
So here’s an online thread people started to share the most unsettling serial-k****r facts they know.
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#1
The fact that Ted Bundy worked at a s*****e hotline and was apparently really good at talking people out of k*****g themselves sounds completely made up.
The human brain really doesn’t like the idea that someone can be both deeply helpful and deeply monstrous at the same time.
Stephanie Did It 8 hours ago
His coworker at the s*****e hotline was Ann Rule, former police officer and writer of true crime accounts. Her best known work, The Stranger Beside Me (1980) was about her acquaintance with Ted Bundy during that time.
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#2
A congressman in Texas proposed a bill to make David Berkowitz day in Texas for his contribution towards population control.
It was a joke to prove no one read the bills they were asked to vote on?
And it passed.
It was an April fools Day joke And it was for Albert DiSalvo the Boston Strangler. It still passed
Wiki:
In 1971, the Texas legislature unanimously passed a resolution honoring DeSalvo for his work in "population control". After the vote, Waco Representative Tom Moore Jr. admitted that he had submitted the legislation as an April Fool's Day joke against his colleagues—his declared intent was to prove that they pass legislation with no due diligence given to researching the issues beforehand. Having made his point, Moore withdrew the resolution.
After the arrest of a serial k****r, one question almost always comes up: how does someone become capable of this in the first place? According to researchers and law enforcement experts, there’s no single answer.
Human behavior is shaped by a mix of biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors, along with personal choices made over time. Childhood neglect or abuse, substance abuse, head injuries, and difficulty developing healthy coping mechanisms have all been linked to a higher risk of violent behavior, though none of them alone “create” a serial k****r.
Experts also stress that there’s no universal serial k****r profile. They can come from different backgrounds, age groups, religions, and social classes, and there’s no single trait that separates them from other violent offenders. Most researchers agree that serial killers develop through a rare combination of factors — and, ultimately, their own decisions.
#3
When a female employee at a trucking company expressed her fear of becoming a victim of the infamous *Yorkshire Ripper* if she walked home alone, her male colleague offered to give her a lift, and she arrived home safe and sound.
The colleague... was Peter Sutcliffe.
That’s all I yam 9 hours ago (edited)
"Peter William Sutcliffe … was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to m u r d e r seven others between 1975 and 1980. Press reports dubbed him the Yorkshire Ripper, an allusion to the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper." (Peter Sutcliffe, Wikipedia)
#4
The Night Stalker (Richard Ramirez) went to the dentist because he had an impacted tooth. The police tracked his profile to this dentist, but didn’t know who it was. The cops installed an emergency button for the dentist so that when the k*ller returned for his final dental work, the dentist could hit the silent alarm and the police could arrest him.
They observed the dental practice for a week, left the dentist to push the button himself, and never came back. The VERY next day, Richard Ramirez came back. However, the button was never even tested. It didn’t work. The cops never came. He left the dentist and went on to m****r dozens more.
#5
Robert Durst, a real estate heir worth hundreds of millions, agreed to be interviewed for an HBO docuseries called The Jinx while being linked to multiple m*rders. In the final episode, he forgot his mic was still on, went to the bathroom, and muttered to himself "What the h**l did I do? K****d them all, of course." He was arrested the morning the episode aired.
Forensic science has become one of the most important tools in serial m****r investigations. Over the past decades, advances in DNA testing, fingerprint databases, ballistic analysis, and trace evidence collection have made it much easier to connect cases that once seemed unrelated.
Even tiny pieces of trace evidence — such as hair, fibers, carpet material, or tire residue — can sometimes tie multiple victims to the same environment or to the same suspect.
What keeps serial m****r cases especially complicated is that when multiple jurisdictions are involved, different agencies may use different labs, procedures, or evidence collection methods. That’s why investigators increasingly rely on standardized documentation, close communication between forensic teams, and advanced databases to avoid missing connections between crimes, both domestically and on an international level.
#6
Basically everything about the Marc Dutroux case.
Like how his own mother wrote to authorities that he was kidnapping girls and holding them prisoner and they didn't do anything about it.
How police when they were finally forced to search his house, they actually heard cries for help from the victims but didn't try to find them.
How two of his victims died while he was in jail for unrelated crimes and nobody fed the girls he had imprisoned.
How some video tapes found in his possession that supposedly held snuff videos, were never looked at by police.
How police again and again failed to bring him to justice.
How when he was finally caught, the people lost confidence in the willingness and ability of the state to do their job and authorities reacted by firing the only person involved who actually had the trust of the public.
How Dutroux managed to escape from custody for seversl hours despite being the most infamous prisoner in the country.
How investigators lied about having evidence DNA tested.
The list goes on and on.
Man in the mirror 3 hours ago (edited)
The "nobody" who didn't feed the girls and let them d*e of starvation was his wife and co-author, Michèle Martin, who had a much reduced sentence after arguing she was under the "influence" of her husband. She did less than ten years in jail and has been out and about for over a decade. She even got a law degree. She's a serial killer in her own right yet has somehow avoided the label because of her gender.
#7
The fact that one of Dahmer's victims escaped, made it to the police and then was returned to Dahmer because he told them the 14 year old was his lover and drunk.
Kika Gonzalez 11 hours ago (edited)
That is despicable police. I hope the ones involved have to live with that the rest of their lives
#8
26… twenty six…. More than the amount of players on a football field for both teams were found underneath John Wayne Gacy’s house.
That fact has always blown my mind. The fact that skulls are not easily demolished means at one time there were 26 skulls in this dudes house. That’s a lot of skulls.
#9
Albert Fish sent a letter to the mother of his victim Grace Budd, describing what he did to her daughter. The letter is what got him caught because the envelope had a distinctive hexagonal logo from a private chauffeur's association, which police traced to a specific flophouse where a former member had left some stationery behind. Fish was 65 years old and looked like somebody's harmless grandfather. The detectives who read his full confession said it was the worst thing they'd ever encountered in their careers.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 hours ago
I've read some of what he did to his victims and it's horrendous!!
#10
Edmund Kemper is a f*****g fascinating man.
He was only caught because he realized what he was doing was wrong, didn't want to continue, so he turned himself in. Problem is, he was friends with several cops specifically to keep tabs on what they knew about the m*rders, so they did not believe him.
He was (and presumably still is) a model prisoner, largely considered to be a really nice and likeable guy, and I don't believe he still does this but he spent thousands of hours recording audio books for the blind.
... He just also happens to be a brick sh*thouse of a man that m******d women, decapitated them, defiled their corpses, and tried to shred his grandma's vocal cords in the garbage disposal.
#11
In 1990 I tried to report a guy I met who scared the —- out of me to 3 different police stations in Pinellas County, FL. No one would even take the report- they all blew me off.
I was working- servicing a vending machine on the bar at a waterfront restaurant and this BIG guy kept asking me to go out in his boat (For reference sake, I was a 5’11” 19 yo gym girl and cyclist- my nickname was Xena lol. He wasn’t a lot taller but he was a massive, muscular from construction or farmer work type of guy with huge arms and hands. I felt like a little kid beside him).
Each time he’d ask me to go with him he kept getting more aggressive and more physically imposing, stepping closer to me. I could feel his anger and see it- his jaw and neck muscles clenched and he made fists each time I would turn down his invitation to go with him.
I finally had enough when he got so close he was almost touching me (after 4 or 5 somewhat polite yet definite refusals), and made it crystal clear (in a loud enough tone that others noticed) that I didn’t know him and wouldn’t be going anywhere with him as I was finishing servicing the vending machine.
I have never been easily intimidated, but I was terrified of him from the start and had a sickening {visceral} feeling the entire time he was near me…it was like I was in a room with a hungry male lion who got bigger and more imposing with each breath.
THEN he said I looked “just like one of the b*****s I tied cinder blocks to”.
I was so thankful my car was only a few feet away and that it was daylight! I remember driving around paranoid- terrified he was following me.
This was around 2pm- That night on the 6pm news they reported finding another woman with cinder blocks tied around her in Tampa Bay…which made 3.
Edited to add- When they finally identified the 3 women, the older daughter definitely resembled me, I was only a couple of years older.
I called the 1st police station (Gulfport) around 3pm and was shocked that they blew me off. When I saw the 6pm report I called another station (St Petersburg) and then the Pinellas County Sheriff- neither felt it was worth their time- “probably just a drunk”. A friend knew a Hillsborough County detective- that guy took me deadly serious and interviewed me early the next
morning.
Years later they caught that man- his name was Oba Chandler. He ran an AC company and is suspected of k*****g multiple women, including 3 he tied cinder blocks around and threw into the waters around the Tampa Bay Area.
I saw a news report after he was executed and the female police detective who interrogated him expressed the same thing I did- it’s like you were in the room with dangerous predator who would k**l you in a heartbeat- pure evil vibes.
I always wonder if he k****d again after that and whether it would have made a difference if the local police had bothered to go out as soon as I reported it. They probably could have gotten there before he was gone or at least talked to someone else who saw or talked to him.
#13
Paul Bateson... Mid-70s serial k*ller who worked as a medical technician.
When William Friedkin made the film version of The Exorcist, he wanted to use real medical technicians, not actors, in the hospital scenes where Regan is undergoing an angiography. Bateson is one of the techs who appeared in that movie. That's his voice telling Regan "You're going to feel some pressure. DON'T. MOVE."
Making it even stranger, Bateson's serial k*****g spree (targeting gay men during the mid 1970s) was partial inspiration for the controversial 1980 film "Cruising", which was directed by... William Friedkin.
#14
The fact that after k*****g and r*ping 100+ children, a South American prison just let Pedro Lopez out in 98 after he was declared "sane" and released on $70 bail and no one has seen him since.
That’s all I yam 8 hours ago (edited)
Pedro López … known as the Monster of the Andes, is a Colombian serial k i l l e r, child r a p i s t, and fugitive who m u r d e r e d a minimum of 110 people, mostly pre-teen girls, from 1978 to 1980. López claimed to have m u r d e r e d over 300 people in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. He is considered by many as one of the most prolific serial k i l l e r s and r a p i s t s in history". "He was released from prison [in Ecuador] two years early, on 31 August 1994". He was deported to Columbia where he was convicted of the previous m u r d e r of an 11-12 yo girl. He was sent to the psychiatric ward of La Modelo [Columbia] prison. "In February 1998, López was declared sane and released on bail equivalent to US$70, on the condition that he would periodically report to his authorities and attend appointments with his therapist; he almost immediately absconded." He was last seen in 1999. (Pedro López (serial killer), Wikipedia)
#15
There was a serial k****r known as "The Phantomn of Heilbron" this serial k****r operated for over 26 years and was linked to 40 cases. They spent so much time, energy,and money trying to catch her. Some of thr crimes were horrific abd very brutal. Come to find out "The Phantomn" didn't exist The Phantomn was trace DNA shed by an innocent female factory worker in Austria who packaged cotton swabs used by investigators.
Besides this making them look like "Keystone Cops" all the money and resources wasted, so many evil people were not charged and many families had to wait for justice and im sure many committed more crimes, because they were cleared or where never suspects because the DNA didn't match. To me that's crazy.
Chich the witch 7 hours ago
I read an article on ths. The swabs were not certified for DNA collection and the packages marked as such.
#16
Russian serial k*ller Andre Chikatilo was under suspicion of a number of k*llings, but his blood type was type A (tested by blood draw) and the blood type found with the victims (from s*men) was type AB, so authorities discarded him as the perpetrator. Chikatilo had a rare (at the time unknown) genetic condition that caused this difference. By the time he was brought to trial, he had k****d over 50 women and children.
That’s all I yam 9 hours ago
"... it was discovered that Chikatilo was a “non-secretor,” meaning his blood type can be determined only through blood samples, not semen." (Andrei Chikatilo, EBSCO)
#17
Robert Pickton was found with handcuff keys in his pocket that were used to uncuff his victim. Both were in hospital and his charges were stayed because the woman was deemed too unreliable, he proceeded to m****r more women after he was released.
During that violent struggle in March 1997, the woman said she slashed Pickton’s jugular vein and was able to escape, flagging down a passing car for help.
She had lost three litres of blood and had no pulse when she arrived at Royal Columbian Hospital with st*b wounds to the upper chest, the abdomen, hands and arms. The woman, who was then 30, remained unconscious in hospital for four days.
Pickton, who also lost three litres of blood that evening, drove himself to Eagle Ridge Hospital, and was then transferred to Royal Columbian. The two st*bbing victims were in separate operating rooms when a handcuff key was found in the pocket of Pickton’s pants. It was taken to the woman’s room and used to unlock the cuffs dangling from her wrist.
Pickton was charged with attempted m****r, a*****t with a weapon and forcible confinement following the incident, but the charges were eventually stayed because the Crown considered the woman too unstable to testify in court at the time.
The st*bbing that occurred 13 years ago predates the disappearance of all six women Pickton was convicted of m*rdering at his 2007 trial – and also predates the disappearance of 15 of the other 20 women he was accused of m*rdering.
FranSinclair 9 hours ago
I hadn't heard of this until this article and looked the monster up and aside from many awful things, I learned that if I decide to go full Dexter id probably head to Canada where apparently if you finally do get caught you get like 1/3 the jail time! Definitely dont worry about an " eye for an eye " situation teaching you a hard lesson.
#18
Richard Chase thought he was a vampire so if he came to your house and the door was locked, he took that as a sign that he wasn't invited in. However, if your door was unlocked, he took that as an invitation.
Remi (He/Him) 2 hours ago
Not sure he should have even been tried as sane to be honest. He seems more psych ward sort from what I've read
#19
A lot of John Wayne Gacy's victims were never claimed by anyone, which caused a lot of problems trying to identify them.
Back then, a lot of kids got kicked out of the house if the parents thought they were gay. When the police were sent by the schools to check why the kid wasn't attending school, the parents claimed the kid ran away. But cops knew "runaways" meant gay kids so they never bothered to search for them. Those same kids wandered the streets and were eventually picked up by Gacy.
When the cops talked to the parents again, a lot of them refused to help identify the bodies because they didn't want anything to do with their gay kid.
So pretty much every level that was supposed to protect them refused to help them at all because they were gay. And Gacy's version of events is now the only version anyone really knows about the victims. Gacy blamed the victims constantly and claimed he k****d them after they cheated him, robbed him, or tried to blackmail him. From the very few that survived, we know he would offer jobs or a place to stay to get them to go with him and then tried to r**e and k**l them. So his version is most likely b******t.
#20
Dennis Rader aka 'BTK k****r' was caught thanks to Microsoft word. They recovered a Microsoft word file off the disc that had his work credentials in its Metadata.
#21
Israel Keyes... he drew 'scorecards' of his victims using his own blood, hidden under his bed. Police found 11 skulls drawn in blood.
#22
Edward Edwards was released from prison for a string of robberies for which he was on the fbis 10 most wanted, went on to write an autobiography about being a reformed criminal- REALLY leaned into it, and then went on to be a serial k****r.
#23
The pit that Catherine Martin was imprisoned in in *The Silence of the Lambs* was inspired by a similar setup that serial r*pist and m******r Gary Heidnik had in his own basement. He kidnapped, tortured, r***d, and k****d women in his self-dug basement pit in the late 1980's.
#24
A juror in the Richard Ramirez case was so smitten with him that she literally married him.
#25
Ted Bundy escaped jail…twice.
That’s all I yam 9 hours ago
M u r d e r s after escape: Ted Bundy escaped from the jail in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on Dec 30, 1977. (How Ted Bundy’s Crimes Impacted Law Enforcement, Florida Sheriffs Association). On Jan 15, 1978, Bundy entered Florida State University's Chi Omega sorority house and a s s a u l t e d 4 women, k i l l i n g 2 of them. On Feb 9, he drove to Lake City, Florida and k i l l e d a 12-year-old girl. (Ted Bundy, Wikipedia)
#26
Richard Ramirez's entire life.
His mother worked a dangerous job in an industrial plant. She lost several pregnancies and at least one of her children was born profoundly disabled.
His father was an a*****e POS. His whole family was beaten and a****d by this man. RR witnessed his father violently r*ping his mother more times than he could recall in interviews.
His uncle was a sadist and Vietnam war vet. He showed RR multiple explicit pictures of him r*ping and/or k*****g Vietnamese women and children. He would also wax poetic about his k*****g process and the thrill he felt at other's terror.
And as the cherry on top, he was concussed more times than he could recall in interviews. Not always by his father, but most of the time.
Oskar vanZandt 5 hours ago
Definitely NOT the best start in life... Horrific, really. I can't imagine growing up in that kind of @busive reality and not being severely mentally disturbed.
#27
I don't remember all the details, but there was a little Italian mother (I think she was Italian, and really really little) that had I think like 9 miscarriages in as many years before having a child.
During the draft for WWI (I believe it was I), her son was about to be drafted and she had a 'vision From God ' that if she k****d that her son would not be drafted - so, yea, she slayed several women. The last victim was seen at her shop, and the police thought it was her son. They detained him, questioned him, leading to him not being drafted. The mother confessed, the police didn't believe because she was SO tiny - until she showed them how she would hoist them on hooks like meat to move them.
So, she was arrested and her son was never drafted for the war. I can't remember EVERYTHING exactly, but that's close enough.
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#28
Karla Homolka helping Paul Bernardo r**e and k**l her 15 year old sister. Karla is walking free now by the way.
Randomosity 3 hours ago
She was convicted of manslaughter and only served 12 years despite being an active participant in the t*****e, rapes, and murders of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy. She made a plea bargain after convincing police that she was being a****d by her husband. After her trial it was revealed that the prosecution withheld a tape that showed her assaulting several victims.
#29
Albert Fish - his final victim, Grace Budd, he found at her home after advertising for young strong men to work on his non-existent farm. Pot cheese was involved. He intended to m****r one of said young men, but decided to abdubt Grace (who was in her Sunday best) to a "birthday party" for his niece who didn't exist...then horribly m******d her. He then wrote to the cops that her buttocks were delicious cooked with onions and garlic. For extra insane points, he was also a weird masochist who had his *own children* beat his behind with a paddle full of spikes, set his pubic hair on fire and inserted needles into his peritoneum. If you want to hurt your eyeballs today you can see the XR. His executors were unsure if the electric chair would work because of his needle taint. (Spoilers - he fried).
#30
The "Butcher Baker" dude from Alaska... Robert Hansen I believe is his actual name. He kidnapped s*x workers and flew them out to the middle of nowhere, then released and hunted them. Really spooky story.
#31
There’s actually been an increasing decline in serial k**lers since the 1990s due to better forensic technology (eg. getting caught before they commit another m****r) and changing social behaviours (eg. people less likely to hitch hike). Not saying there are no serial k**lers, just less.
Mavis 6 hours ago (edited)
Today there's cameras everywhere, and tracking movements via phone, which provide physical records of incriminating behaviour. Also there's more sharing information between police in different jurisdictions. Also, and this is just speculation by me, maybe some sick bastards now get their homicidal thrills on line without having to actually go out and do it for real.
#32
ISRAEL KEYES. Dude buried "k**l kits" in remote areas all over the US so he wouldn't get caught taking weapons between states. When he decided to go to a new area to hunt, he could just go dig up his cache. The amount of forethought and planning is diabolical.
#33
Dutroux, not only did he escape twice, after he was released early for kidnapping and r*ping 5 young girls the police before knowing everything he did searched his house in a missing kids case and actually heard two missing girls yell and scream, but they could not find them and it went silent again and they just left so Dutroux could continue the a***e and m****r. Also they found videocassettes at the house that were stuffed with s****l a***e of minors but did not care because they did not see a video player standing.
#34
A lot of Albert Fish facts already but to add:
- he liked to paint his a*s different colors (especially gold and red)
- He would put roses up his urethra
- according to his son he craves raw meat during the full moon
- the tools he used to k**l Grace Bud were called his “Implements of Hell”
- All of his food in prison had to be deboned because he’d use the bones to cut himself.
#35
The Ingalls Family of the *Little House on the Prairies* lived in Independence, KS, in the late 1860s-early 1870s, so were contemporaries and were acquainted with the Bloody Benders when they had their m****r inn on the Osage trail. They knew George Newton Longcor and his daughter, their last known victims, very well - they were their neighbors.
Laura Ingalls Wilder later recalled stopping at the Benders' Inn, although she would have been 4 yo when their crimes were exposed. By then, the Ingalls had left Independence two years before.
#36
Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys knew Charles Manson and let the Manson Family stay at his mansion and had recording sessions for him at his brother Brian Wilson's home studio.
Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭 1 hour ago
As far as i know manson never actually k****d anyone, not sure if he belongs on this list
#37
The arm chair made from human body parts in the Texas Chainsaw M******e was taken from real life serial k****r Ed Gein.
#38
While he is not technically a serial killer, many people are surprised to discover Charles Manson did not participate in any of the m*rders which landed him in prison for life.
#39
John Wayne Gacy’s father in law bought 3 KFC restaurants. Gacy managed these 3 restaurants. For his last meal on d***h row, Gacy ordered a KFC bucket.
#40
Sheila Labarre was spotted wheeling one of her victims - burnt, beaten, d*****d, and in a wheelchair, around the Walmart, putting the things that would be used to k**l him in his lap, shortly before she k****d him. Police chatted with her for a couple minutes and shrugged it off because they had no probable cause, even though everyone knew what was probably happening.
In the end, she was only convicted of two known m*rders. They spent several weeks searching her farm and found numerous burn pits and unidentified human remains, and knew that there were more, but they couldn't identify any of the others or prove a case about them.
#41
I actually met a serial killer once, Robert Hansen of Anchorage, AK. He k****d street h**kers and st**ppers, it was turned into a movie called "On Frozen Ground". I somewhat knew one of his victims, a s******r whose name I didn't recognize at first. I was a cab driver and I knew st**ppers by their stage names; I recognized her picture though. Anyway, Hansen had a bakery in my neighborhood and I bought in his store a few times. He came off as a genuine guy, he actually remembered me from when I bought donuts a few months before.
He'd kidnap women, fly them to his remote cabin and hunt them. One escaped as he was putting her into his small plane while handcuffed; she ran into the street where two APD officers ran into her. Hansen convinced the cops that it was a trick that got out of hand; the cops let him go.
#42
The Golden State K**ler Joseph James DeAngelo who was active from 1974 to 1986 was caught in 2018 because investigators uploaded DNA from a decades old crime scene to a public genealogy website GEDmatch. That ultimately led to the identity of the k**ler.
#43
Harold Shipman k****d an estimated 250 people before it was noticed the m*rders were taking place.
Loosey Goosey 3 hours ago (edited)
He was a doctor and used his position of trust to hide in plain sight. He ran a practice where he was the only GP, so he had no partners to question him and was free to do as he liked, including writing d***h certificates, falsifying patient records to make up a history of declining health and stockpiling large amounts of diamorphine. He deliberately targeted elderly women who lived alone, so no one would ask too many questions when they suddenly died. The way d***h certificates are registered and how doctors are monitored was given an overhaul after his crimes were discovered. He may not have been caught at all if he hadn't got greedy and forged a patient's will leaving him her house.
#45
Ted Bundy told a story where he was almost caught red-handed trying to dispose of a body in the woods at night. A couple came walking by and he hid in the bushes. The woman actually stepped on the body, but never looked down and the couple just hasted away. The couple later watched Ted Bundy tell this story in an interview and recognised that they had been there. They said they felt a sudden immense sense of dread and that's why they turned around without checking what the woman had stepped on.
#46
Richard Chase genuinely believed his blood was turning to powder and that he had to drink blood to survive 😵.
#47
Zodiac killer could probably have been caught had the wrong identity not been broadcast to SFPD officers in the area.
Laserleader 10 hours ago
I'm still convinced it was a group of at least 3 people. Because of the differences in the murders and the spacing between them, it makes more sense than an individual.
#48
HH Holmes’ whole m****r hotel sounds bonkers.
Stephanie Did It 8 hours ago
The book Devil in the White City by Eric Larson tells the the complete (true) horror story.
#49
Mick Taylor from Wolf Creek may seem disturbing, but he’s based on Ivan Milat, who (probably along with at least one of his many brothers), did outrageous things to hitchhikers in Australia, including tying them to trees and treating them like sh**ting targets. The “Belanglo Serial K**ler” was apparently what the press was calling him, since his victims were generally t*rtured, k****d, and dumped in Belanglo Park.
#50
The reason why Richard Chase wasn't found insane at trial was because he had the foresight to ware latex gloves while he drank his victim's blood out of a yogurt cup.
#51
When John Wayne Gacy was digging out the concrete in his garage so he had a place to hide bodies, a neighbor stopped by and jokingly asked him if he was going to hide bodies in there.
#52
There is a serial k**ler currently in Houston with dozens of victims pulled from the city’s bayou system the last few years.
Local officials refuse to acknowledge this fact.
Panda McPandaface 3 hours ago
The bodies are fact - that they are victims of a serial killer is not fact. You are just telling us it is.
#53
Bundy pretending to be disabled in order to seize goodhearted women to be his t*****e victims.
What do you think ?
Deta Rossiter 4 hours ago
in South Africa we always mention Daisy De Melker. Offed, 2 husband for their insurance and just offed her son, for who knows why. And the rest of the list includes|:Moses Sithole ("The ABC Killer"): One of the country’s most notorious serial killers, Sithole terrorized the East Rand in the mid-1990s, murdering and raping at least 38 women.Sipho Thwala ("The Phoenix Strangler"): Convicted in 1999 for the rapes and murders of 16 women in KwaZulu-Natal, he was handed a 506-year prison sentence.Thozamile Taki ("The Sugarcane Killer"): Active in 2007, he targeted and m******d 13 women, luring them into sugarcane plantations around KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.Gert van Rooyen and Joey Haarhoff: A pair of notorious pedophiles who abducted and k****d at least six young girls in the late 1980s.Stewart Wilken ("The Boetie Boer"): Active in the Eastern Cape, he m******d at least 7 people (primarily street children and women) in the 1990s.Louis van Schoor: A former security guard convicted
BrunoVI 21 minutes ago
One thing that has always struck me: Despite the media preoccupation with making serial killers seem cool, exciting and brilliant (to some), from Seven to Silence of the Lambs to Dexter, the number of serial killers is down about 80% since the 70s. Many were quite mundane; the same few serial killers' behaviors often get several fictional characters based on them.
Deta Rossiter 4 hours ago
in South Africa we always mention Daisy De Melker. Offed, 2 husband for their insurance and just offed her son, for who knows why. And the rest of the list includes|:Moses Sithole ("The ABC Killer"): One of the country’s most notorious serial killers, Sithole terrorized the East Rand in the mid-1990s, murdering and raping at least 38 women.Sipho Thwala ("The Phoenix Strangler"): Convicted in 1999 for the rapes and murders of 16 women in KwaZulu-Natal, he was handed a 506-year prison sentence.Thozamile Taki ("The Sugarcane Killer"): Active in 2007, he targeted and m******d 13 women, luring them into sugarcane plantations around KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.Gert van Rooyen and Joey Haarhoff: A pair of notorious pedophiles who abducted and k****d at least six young girls in the late 1980s.Stewart Wilken ("The Boetie Boer"): Active in the Eastern Cape, he m******d at least 7 people (primarily street children and women) in the 1990s.Louis van Schoor: A former security guard convicted
BrunoVI 21 minutes ago
One thing that has always struck me: Despite the media preoccupation with making serial killers seem cool, exciting and brilliant (to some), from Seven to Silence of the Lambs to Dexter, the number of serial killers is down about 80% since the 70s. Many were quite mundane; the same few serial killers' behaviors often get several fictional characters based on them.
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