Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory is thought to have murdered hundreds of young women in the early 17th century. American serial killer Israel Keyes is thought to have murdered at least 11 people before his arrest.
Charles Manson was an American cult leader whose followers carried out several notorious murders in the late s, resulting in his life imprisonment. He died in after spending more than four decades in prison. American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century, known to have killed at least 20 women in the s.
He was executed in the electric chair in David Berkowitz, known as Son of Sam, murdered six people in New York City from to , claiming he received orders from a demon-possessed dog. Holmes was the alias of one of America's first serial killers. During the Columbian Exposition, he lured victims into his elaborate 'Murder Castle. He was never caught. Dubbed the "Night Stalker," Richard Ramirez was an American serial killer who broke into California homes, raping and torturing more than 25 victims and killing at least 13 over a two-year rampage.
In , Richard Speck committed one of the most horrifying mass murders in American history when he brutalized and killed eight student nurses living on Chicago's South Side. Serial killer Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, murdered at least 49 women in Washington state before he was caught in Infamous murderer Jack the Ripper killed at least five London female prostitutes in Never captured, his identity is one of English's most famous unsolved mysteries.
He claimed that he was using the body parts to assemble a new version of his beloved mother. Gein was diagnosed with schizophrenia and declared unfit for trial. A decade later, he was convicted of one of the murders, but was declared insane at the time of the crime. He spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. John Wayne Gacy was charged with committing 33 murders. Gacy was later executed by lethal injection. There they found a class ring and clothing belonging to several young men previously reported missing.
In a 4-foot crawl space beneath the house, where a penetrating odor was present, they were shocked to find the decomposing bodies of 29 boys and teenagers that Gacy had raped and murdered. Law enforcement also came under criticism, as the family members of several of the victims had previously pointed to Gacy as a possible suspect.
In addition to the bodies found at his house, Gacy admitted to killing several additional men, disposing of their bodies in a nearby lake. His attempts at presenting an insanity defense failed, and he was convicted on 33 counts of murder and executed by lethal injection in Jeffrey Dahmer at his initial appearance at the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, where he was charged with four counts of first-degree intentional homicide, July 26, Dahmer was arrested after police found the body parts of 11 men in his Milwaukee apartment.
Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in , when he was just He would go on killing until his arrest in , after an African American man escaped his clutches and hailed down police near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dahmer had lived a shiftless life, dropping out of college and the Army and living with various family members before being kicked out by his grandmother and settling in the Milwaukee apartment.
Three years before his arrest—and with several murders already under his belt—Dahmer was convicted of drugging and sexually molesting a young teenager. After serving only a year, he was released and continuing his killing binge, which focused almost entirely on young men of color. In , Dahmer was sentenced to years in jail, but was killed by a fellow inmate just two years later. Handsome, well-educated and brimming with charm, Ted Bundy seemed the unlikeliest of serial killers.
Which made his decade-long, multi-state killing spree all the more surprising—and to some, appealing. Following a difficult adolescence, Bundy graduated from the University of Washington—and soon embarked on his murderous spree, killing his first victim in Seattle in Focusing primarily on attractive college co-eds, Bundy committed a series of murders across the Pacific Northwest.
He continued on to Utah and Colorado, killing several more women before being arrested. Despite being convicted of kidnapping, he managed to escape police custody not once, but twice, while awaiting trial in Colorado. He moved to Florida, where he killed several members of a sorority and his final victim, a year-old girl who he raped and murdered. When Bundy was finally apprehended while driving a stolen car a week after his last murder, his trial quickly became a media sensation.
It was the first murder trial to be fully televised, and featured Bundy front-and-center acting as one of his own defense attorneys. He became a media star, welcoming journalists to his cell, receiving letters of admiration from lovelorn fans and even marrying one of them and providing an endless list of clues about additional murders he may have committed, in the hopes of delaying his execution.
The unidentified madman lured prostitutes into darkened squares and side streets before slitting their throats and sadistically mutilating their bodies with a carving knife. That summer and fall, five victims were found butchered in the downtrodden East End district, sparking a media frenzy and citywide manhunt. A number of letters were allegedly sent by the killer to the London Metropolitan Police Service also known as Scotland Yard , taunting officers about his gruesome activities and speculating on murders to come.
After taking his final victim in November, the killer seemed to disappear like a ghost. The case was finally closed in , but Jack the Ripper has remained an enduring source of fascination. Over possible suspects have been proposed.
American pharmacist and convicted serial killer Herman Webster Mudgett, better known by his alias H.
Some rooms were equipped with hidden peepholes, gas lines, trap doors and soundproofed padding, while others featured secret passages, ladders and hallways that led to dead ends. There was also a greased chute that led to the basement, where Holmes had installed a surgical table, a furnace and even a medieval rack.
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