serial killer

A serial killer , also known as a serial killer , is a person who murders three or more people in a
period of more than thirty days, leaving a "cooling off" period between each murder, and
whose motivation is based on psychological gratification. that this act provides. Serial killers
are specifically motivated by a multiplicity of psychological drives, most notably lust for power
and sexual compulsion. The crimes are usually carried out in a similar way and the victims
often share some characteristic (e.g. e.g. occupation, race, appearance, sex or age).

Serial killers should not be confused with mass murderers , who murder a large number of
victims simultaneously in a short period of time; nor with lightning killers , who commit
multiple murders in a short period and in different places. The term serial killer was coined by
FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler in the 1970s. [] although it had been described many years
before. It is known that the German police inspector Ernst Gennat already used this concept in
1930.

Defining multiple murder

The term serial killer was presumably coined by agent Robert Ressler in the 1970s. The
expression serial killer entered popular language largely due to the publicity given to the
crimes of Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz (" Son of Sam "), in the middle of that decade.

The term allows criminologists to distinguish those criminals, who kill several people over a
long period, from those who murder many people in a single event ( mass murderers ). A third
type of multiple killer is the lightning killer .

Below are brief definitions of these three types:

 A serial killer is someone who commits three or more murders over an extended
period with a cooling-off period between each crime. In the midst of their crimes, they
appear quite normal, a condition that Hervey Cleckley and Robert Hare call a "mask of
sanity." There is often—but not always—a sexual element to these types of killers (
Fred West , Zodiac Killer ).
 A mass murderer , on the other hand, is an individual who commits multiple murders
on a single occasion and in a single location. Perpetrators sometimes commit suicide ,
therefore knowledge of their mental state and what motivates them to act that way is
often left to speculation. The few mass murderers who have been caught claim that
they do not clearly remember the event.
 A spree killer commits multiple murders in different locations, within a period that can
vary from a few hours to several days. Unlike serial killers, they do not revert to their
normal behavior between murders.

All of these types of crimes mentioned are usually committed by a single person. But there
have been examples in all three categories where two or more perpetrators have acted
together. The writer Michael Newton states that this happens in about a third of cases.

There are other types of multiple murders as well, although they are often related to large
organizations and not two or three murderers: genocide and terrorist attacks .
Multiple murderers have generally been white men and it is true that they are clearly the
majority in the numbers of known serial killers. Women represent the minority in serial killer
statistics.

Serial killers are specifically motivated by a multiplicity of psychological drives, most notably
lust for power and sexual compulsion . They frequently have feelings of inadaptability and
worthlessness, sometimes due to humiliation and abuse in childhood and/or the pressure of
poverty , also low socioeconomic status in adulthood, compensating for their crimes and giving
them a sense of power and often revenge. during and after committing the crimes. Knowledge
of their actions terrifies entire communities and often confuses the police, consequences that
fuel their sense of power. This motivational aspect separates them from contract killers and
other multiple murderers, who are motivated by profit. For example, in Scotland during the
1820s , William Burke and William Hare murdered people in what became known as the " Body
Snatcher Case ." They are not listed as serial killers in most criminologists' definitions, because
their motives were primarily economic.

Serial killers often have extremely sadistic impulses. These nullify the ability to feel empathy
for the suffering of others, in this way, they are frequently called psychopaths or sociopaths ,
terms that have been renamed by psychologists as antisocial personality disorder . Some serial
killers use lust and torture to obtain sexual pleasure by mutilating the victim and also killing
them slowly over a long period of time.

Psychology and development

Most serial killers have a sick history. It is known that they were frequently victims of abuse
during their childhood, whether physically, sexually or psychologically, since there is a
correlation between the abuse of their childhood and the crimes they commit.

The fantasy element in the development of serial killers is extremely important. They often
fantasize about murder during and even after adolescence. They compulsively daydream about
domination, submission, and murder, usually with very specific elements of their fantasies that
later appear in their real crimes. Others enjoy reading stories of sadism, full of rape , torture
and murder. In some cases, these traits are not present.

Some serial killers present one or more warning signs in their childhood of what is known as
the " MacDonald Set ." These are:

 Pyromania , invariably starting fires just for the thrill of destroying things.
 Cruelty towards animals (related to " zoosadism "). Many children can be cruel to
animals, such as cutting off the legs of spiders , but future serial killers often kill larger
animals, such as dogs and cats , and commonly for their own enjoyment, more so just
to impress their loved ones. friends.
 Enuresis beyond the age at which children normally outgrow such behavior.

A clarification should be made: this triad, developed in 1963, has recently been questioned by
other researchers.

Many experts have stated that once a serial killer begins his criminal acts, he cannot stop (or
only rarely). Some hold the opinion that those who are unable to control their homicidal
impulses are easier to catch.
Boom

There have been conflicting reports to some extent about the multiple murder. The FBI
claimed in the 1980s that at any particular time, there were only 35 serial killers active in the
United States , implying that the multiple murderers in question had committed their first
crimes but had not yet been apprehended. or detained for other causes (for example, suicide,
paralysis or natural death).

This figure has frequently been exaggerated. In his book Serial Killers: The Growing Menace ,
Joel Norris states that there were five hundred serial killers active at one time in the United
States, responsible for five thousand victims a year, which would be approximately a quarter of
all known homicides in the world. country.

Multiple murder before 1900

Portrait in painting of Elizabeth Báthory

Although the phenomenon of multiple murderers is generally considered a contemporary

event, it can be detected in history, albeit with a certain limit of precision.

In the 15th century , one of the richest men in France , Gilles de Rais , kidnapped, raped and
murdered at least a hundred boys. The Hungarian aristocrat , Elizabeth Báthory , was arrested
in 1610 and subsequently accused of torturing and killing up to 600 young girls. She recorded
all her murders in her diary. Although both De Rais and Báthory were supposedly sadists and
addicted to killing, they differ from today's serial killers in that this pair were rich and powerful.
Based on the lack of an established police force and active media during those centuries, it
may very well be that there were many other multiple murderers at that time, who were not
identified or their existence was not well publicized.

Thug Behram , leader of an Indian Thuggee gang, has frequently been named the world's most
prolific serial killer. According to numerous sources, it is estimated that he murdered 931
people by strangulation using a ceremonial cloth (or rumal , which in Hindi means
handkerchief), used by his cult between 1790 and 1830, in this way, he has the record of the
most murders committed by only one person in history.
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing with his wife Marie Luise

In total, henchmen overall were responsible for approximately 2 million deaths, according to
the Guinness Book of Records .

In his famous book Psychopathica Sexualis , Richard von Krafft-Ebing records the case of a
serial killer that occurred around 1870 , an Italian named Eusebius Pieydagnelle who had a
sexual obsession with blood and confessed to having killed six people.

In Mexico there was a serial killer of women in 1880 called Francisco Guerrero "El Chalequero".
He killed 20 women after raping them and then decapitating them, throwing their remains
around the Río Consulado in Mexico City. He was arrested in 1888, released in 1904, where he
again killed an old woman. He was sentenced to death although he died in 1910 of
tuberculosis.

Popular anonymous murderer Jack the Ripper ripped up several prostitutes in London in 1888
(the exact number of victims is unknown - at least four, probably six). These crimes managed
to gain enormous press attention because London, at the time, was the center of the world's
most important economic superpower. Joseph Vacher was executed in France in 1898 after
confessing to the murder and mutilation of 11 women and children, while serial killer H. H.
Holmes was hanged in Philadelphia in 1896 after confessing to 27 murders.

Types of serial killers

Organized and disorganized

The FBI , loosely, has categorized serial killers into two different types: organized and
disorganized.

 Organized murderers : They usually have an IQ above average (105 and above), they
plan their crimes very methodically, which is why it can take years to carry out a
murder, sometimes they are led to carry out their murders out of spite or disorder and
involve others in their cover-up planning, they typically kidnap victims, after gaining
their trust by killing them in one location and disposing of them in another.
(Sometimes this type of person searches in their past for people who were part of
their life, and who marked it in some way, they act deceiving in many ways and if there
are strange people in the middle of their objective, they study them and come to
create a whole number of circumstances that confuse them against their objective to
free their way to their objective, it can sometimes take years to separate their
 objective from their obstacle, once this purpose is achieved they approach passively
and with many lies and deceives the person from his past, so very carefully he commits
his objective, which is to harm him in ways that may be, killing his direct target or
seeking to give him more suffering, such as harming a loved one, his environment, be it
the target's immediate family or current loved one, and then as the last one, he attacks
his initial target). For example, Bundy would put a fake plaster cast on his arm, asking
women to help him carry some books to his vehicle, where he would beat them
severely until they were unconscious. Others specifically target prostitutes, who may
voluntarily go with the serial killer, believing him to be just another client. These types
of murderers have a high degree of control over the crime scene, and are generally
well versed in the forensic science that enables them to cover their tracks, such as
burying the body or carrying it to a river to sink it. They scrupulously follow their
crimes in the media, and often take pride in their actions, as if they were grandiose
projects. The organized murderer is usually very sociable and has friends and lovers,
very often even a wife and children. They are the type of person who, when captured,
are described by acquaintances as "a nice guy" who "couldn't hurt a fly." Some serial
killers go to great lengths to make their crimes difficult to discover, such as by forging
suicide notes. The case of Harold Shipman , a British GP, is slightly unusual, in that his
social position and occupation were such that it allowed him to simulate the deaths of
his victims, considering that they died of natural causes; between 1971 and 1998 he
killed at least 250 of his oldest patients; and until very shortly before he was
discovered, it was not yet suspected that any of his crimes had been premeditated.
 Disorganized murderers : Lacking a high IQ (between 80 and 95), they commit their
crimes impulsively. While the organized killer will go out specifically to hunt down the
victim, the unorganized killer will kill someone whenever the opportunity arises, rarely
bothering to dispose of the body, leaving it in the same place where he found the
victim. They usually carry out "surprise" attacks, assaulting their victims without
warning, and will typically perform rituals that they believe necessary to do, once the
victim is dead (e.g., necrophilia , mutilation , cannibalism , etc.). They are often
unsociable people, having few friends, and may have a history of mental problems and
be referred to by acquaintances as eccentric or even "a bit strange." They have little
awareness of their crimes and may block out memories of their murders. One of the
best-known recent cases that fit this profile is that of Francisco García Escalero , the
"Beggar Killer."

A significant number of serial killers display certain aspects of both types, although the
characteristics of one type dominate. The behavior of some killers declines from organized to
disorganized as their homicides continue. They carefully and methodically carry out the
murders at first, but as their compulsion grows out of control, they lose control of themselves
and become careless and impulsive.

Some murderers suffer from multiple personality ( Dissociative Identity Disorder ) which leads
them to commit both organized and disorganized murders. Although several psychologists
have cited multiple personality as one of the major causes of murders, it is proven that only
the minority of serial killers suffer from this trauma.

Types of reasons

The organized and disorganized patterns are related to the methods of the murderers.
Considering the reasons, they can be placed within five different categories:
insane

Contrary to popular opinion, serial killers are rarely insane or motivated by hallucinations
and/or voices in their heads. Many claim to be exonerated by reason of insanity. However,
there are a few genuine cases of serial killers who were treated according to this conception.

Herbert Mullin massacred 13 people after hearing voices telling him that the murders were
necessary to prevent an earthquake in California .

Ed Gein claimed that by eating the corpses of women who resembled his deceased mother, he
was able to preserve his mother's soul in his own body. He killed two women who reminded
him of his mother, eating one and being arrested while he was in the process of preparing the
second body for consumption. He also used the flesh of exhumed corpses to shape a "woman's
suit" for himself and in this way he could "become" his mother, while at the same time he did
not stop having conversations with himself in a falsetto voice. After his arrest he was
committed to a mental institution for the rest of his life.

Missionaries

The so-called apostolic murderers believe that their actions are justified every time they get rid
of certain types of undesirable people, (prostitutes or members of a certain ethnic group ),
doing society a favor. Robert Pickton , Gary Ridgway , Mark David Chapman , John Bodkin
Adams and Aileen Wuornos are often described as apostolic murderers. Curiously, in the case
of Wuornos, the victims were not prostitutes, but their clients. Apostolic killers differ from
other types of serial killers in that their motivations are not sexual.

Hedonists

This type murders for the simple pleasure of doing so, although the characteristics they enjoy
may differ. Some may delight in the "quest" of pursuing and finding a victim more than
anything else, while others may be primarily motivated by the victim's acts of torture and
abuse while they are alive. There is usually a strong sexual element to the crimes, even though
it may not be immediately obvious, but some murderers get a rush of excitement that is not
necessarily sexual, such as Berkowitz , who got a certain thrill from shooting young couples
when they were together. found in his car, he did it at random and then escaped without even
physically touching the victims. Among the category of Hedonist there are three types of
murderer. The first is the emotionally motivated killer. This murderer kills because of the
emotion he feels while his victim dies. The victim has to be conscious during the attack so that
the killer can receive the maximum possible pleasure. Sexual acts do not occur after the victim
dies. The goal of the emotionally motivated killer is to feel the terror of his victims before they
die. The second type is the lust -motivated killer. This murderer is the one who tortures and
mutilates his victims. They are motivated by lust and sexual pleasure. Victims of this type of
killer are found with evidence of torture and sometimes missing body parts. Rape of victims of
lust-motivated killers is common. Despite this, others can kill the victim quickly, almost as a
routine, and then indulge in acts of necrophilia or cannibalism . The third type of hedonistic
killer is the profit-motivated killer.

Motivated by profit

Most criminals who commit multiple murders for material purposes (such as hitmen) are not
classified as serial killers, because they are motivated by the desire for profit or some type of
financial gain, rather than by compulsion. psychopathological. Still, there is a fine line that
separates both types of murderers. For example, Marcel Petiot , who operated in Nazi-
occupied France , could be classified as a serial killer. He posed as a member of the French
resistance and lured wealthy Jews to his home, making them believe that he could make them
clandestinely leave the country. Instead, he murdered them and stole their belongings, killing
63 people before he was finally caught. Although Petiot's main motivation was material, few
can deny that a man willing to kill so many people, simply to acquire a few dozen suitcases of
clothes and jewelry, was a compulsive murderer and a psychopath.

Power/control

This is the most common serial killer. Their main objective for killing is to obtain and exert
power over their victim. Such killers were sometimes abused as children, feel incredibly
helpless, and often take satisfaction in practices that are linked to the forms of abuse they
themselves suffered. Many murderers of this type sexually abuse their victims, but they differ
from hedonistic murderers in that the rape is not motivated by lust, but by another form of
domination over the martyred.

Some serial killers may have characteristics of more than one of the types mentioned. For
example, the British murderer Peter Sutcliffe appears to be a demented murderer and at the
same time a missionary, since he claimed that he heard voices ordering him to clean the
streets of prostitutes.

Alternatively, another school of thinkers classifies motives by: necessity, profit motive, or
power.

Why aren't serial killers caught faster?

It is possible that many serial killers are apprehended before they kill the three or more victims
required to qualify them as such. Similarly, there are some who are detained by mental
institutions and are not directly held accountable for their crimes. Others continue to kill many
more people over the years without being arrested, this fact is due to the intelligence of said
individual in question. Furthermore, many serial killers have such a twisted mentality that they
can in one way or another foresee the movements made by the police force.

A barrier to early capture of a serial killer is his or her diverse background, selection of victims,
and methods of killing them. They hardly have any connection with their victims; They choose
them on a whim or impulse, searching for types of people or opportunities beyond any easily
detectable connection. As mentioned above, organized criminals can take measures to
minimize the evidence they leave behind, and commit crimes far from their locations. Several
homicides can occur before it is suspected to be the work of a serial killer.

In addition, police are often reluctant to admit that they have identified a killer, due to the
immediate pressure on them to capture him or her as quickly as possible.

Some serial killers are experts at hiding their true personalities behind a captivating facade.
Unfortunately, the profiles are developed on the historical precedents of other known
murderers, which sometimes do not fit the actual model of the culprits. Such problems
plagued the search for John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo , whose profile indicated that he
was a white man. A similar problem arose in the search for Aileen Wuornos in Florida : police
initially believed the killer was male.
Investigations into serial killers sometimes expose a dark side of law enforcement ; inactivity,
incompetence, bureaucracy , poor administration, failed opportunities, racial or gender biases
and other anomalies that can delay the investigation and indirectly allow more homicides.

There is a common misconception that multiple murderers generally wish to be discovered, in

most cases this does not add up, as murderers often move great distances to avoid capture or
confuse police and investigators, so that investigate erroneous clues.

Serial killers in popular culture

Because of the gruesome nature of their crimes, their diverse personalities and profiles, and
their ability to evade detection and kill many victims before being captured and imprisoned,
serial killers have quickly become cult figures, and have been represented in many novels ,
films , songs , comics , video games , etc.

The public fascination with serial killers leads to the success of many crime novels and films
about fictional serial killers, including Bret Easton Ellis 's American Psycho ; and especially
Thomas Harris 's The Silence of the Lambs and its award-winning film adaptation, whose main
antagonist , the cannibal serial killer Hannibal Lecter , has become a cultural icon. The
character John Doe, from the movie Se7en , is another notorious fictional serial killer, even the
movie Scream is based on real cases of serial murders that occurred in Florida. The Family
Bones comic series tells the story of the Copeland murders in Missouri.

At the end of 2006, the American channel Showtime began broadcasting a series about a serial
killer who worked as a forensic analyst for the police: Dexter . The series is based on the novel
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay .

The anime Death Note describes an intense battle of wits between an "organized" serial killer
boy Light Yagami and the police, who despite having suspicions about him, take years to indict
him.

In the series Heroes , the character Sylar (Gabriel Gray) discovers his ability of intuitive
aptitude, and is able to know how things and mechanisms work, whether mechanical or
biological such as the brain. But with his ability comes a hunger to have more abilities, more
powers and to obtain them he becomes a serial killer in search of powers to be special, the
way he commits his murders is by using his first acquired ability, telekinesis to hold the person
against a wall and proceeds to open his head as if it were a can opener, making an incision in
the forehead and pointing his index finger towards the victim's head, after that he dedicates
himself to observing the person's exposed brain and Learn to use your new skill. In the series
the FBI is looking for him for more than 10 murders against special people, what makes him
most controversial among the police is that, by using telekinesis in his murders, he does not
leave fingerprints or marks of physical contact, and they find corpses without the top of the
head, without brains, bodies in pools of blood and cruelly leaving the severed part of the head
lying around, frozen or impaled in situations impossible for a normal person to carry out,
turning him into an unstoppable serial killer.

Serial killer memorabilia and scholarship is a subculture that revolves around the legacy of
several infamous and celebrated serial killers. While memorabilia is generally limited to the
paintings, writings and poems of these characters, a market has grown in recent years with
encyclopedias, cards and even action figurines.
Serial Killers and Criminal Personalities

“His blood runs slowly, leaving a small vermilion trickle that leads to a large scarlet circle. She is
young and beautiful, she died with honor and without suffering, aware of what her end was
going to be, her face has not been disturbed by tears or fear, in a certain way I feel proud of
that young woman who prostrated herself to my feet, naked and sober, she walks with
irrevocable steps never to return. A precise cut made by my hand has skewed his life. The
green eyes like the water of a deep sea are still open looking at me and perhaps cursing that
people like me inhabited the earth. I feel deep joy seeing that silhouette silhouetted on the
ground and I enjoy even more knowing that my work has been a perfect work. Now that
accumulation of sensations reaches me that makes me forget any remorse, ecstasy arrives,
comparable to what those feel when the dust sweeps through their brain, penetrating little by
little but with force. I feel like I am going to die before such joy, I feel my whole body tremble, I
feel like God, the whole world is at my feet, the light is projected and reflected, the darkness
dissipates, heaven and hell come together. In one, God shakes hands with the Beast and he
laughs before God. These are the moments that make my life bearable, ephemeral moments
that deserve to be immortalized as works of art. Neither the most expensive of paintings, nor
the best of books, nor the most sublime chord can compare to the beauty of murder.
Treachery is the best of all drugs and painting death the best of all rewards.-”

(“THE MURDERER’S BRUSH.” Saint Hack.)

PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION

In the past, the behaviors carried out by individuals with psychopathic personalities were
generally attributed to witchcraft influences. This is how the Church began the “house of
witches” or “sorcerers” in the Middle Ages.

Rationalist thought was entering the area of psychiatry, thus Pinel began to rationally analyze
psychiatric symptoms and nosologically ordered them, structuring himself on the conceptual
basis of hereditary degeneration.

Under this entire conception, Pritcchard postulates moral insanity as a non-psychotic disorder
that is manifested by the lack of ethical feelings.

Morel (1857) states his theory of hereditary degeneration that progresses from generation to
generation, namely: at first the nervous temperament arises; in the second generation the
characterological disorder; in the third madness; and in the fourth, the oligophrenic (there
would not be a fifth generation because oligophrenics are sterile.

For his part, Lombroso tried to explain the link between the physical anomalies and the moral
deficiencies of man, considering the criminal as an “anthropological type.”

In the 19th century, German medicine imposed the concept that the disease is based on
anatomical lesion, which was called morbid alteration.

Kraepelin and Freud represent two different aspects of psychiatry. The first is the great master
of psychosis and Freud the great master of Neurosis.
Freud tries to explain personality conflicts through personal biography and the environment,
the most important factor being the one that occurs in the family complex in the first years of
life.

Currently, the concept of a person as a unit that represents itself, as an individual different
from all individuals of the same species, means that antisocial behaviors cannot be analyzed
methodologically for psychogenic or psychopathic causes, but rather for the understanding
light of a broad motivational spectrum.-

PSYCHOTIC PROCESSES

“…psychotic disorders are characterized by a variable degree of personality disorganization…”

The analysis of the psychosis syndrome is extremely important for understanding

criminological dynamics, due to the close relationship between criminal behavior, mainly
homicide, and psychotic processes.

In homicidal behavior we can highlight the aspects of: lack of control, marked insensitivity and
sadism, discharge of primitive and destructive impulses where confusional and psychotic
psychopathological elements predominate.

We could say that the behavior of homicide is an authentic consequence of a psychotic

process, its period extends before the crime, it explodes in it and some confusing behaviors are
observed during the first months in the penitentiary institution.

In general, psychotic disorders are characterized by a variable degree of personality

disorganization.-

Among serial killers two types can be distinguished, psychotic paranoids (schizophrenics) and
psychopaths.-

SCHIZOPHRENIA

a) Characters:

It is one of the most serious personality disorders, it involves a disorganization in the

intrapsychic aspects of such depth that it modifies your relationship with the environment. It is
characterized by a process of mental disintegration. Behavior can be withdrawn, regressive,
and extravagant.

In schizophrenia, psychopathological disorders invade all areas of the personality, thus we

observe alterations in thinking characterized by dissociation and incoherence, representing
delusional ideas, a projection of mental conflict. These translate into delusions of grandeur,
the invention of jealousy, mystics, and persecution, without a doubt the most dangerous since
the individual feels that he “must” defend himself from those who spy on him or control him.-

He has serious memory problems, amnesia or marked hypoamnesia also as a consequence of

the crime, he does not remember, he does not recognize. This memory loss is also linked to
spatio-temporal disorientation.-
In schizophrenics, there are generally hallucinations, which can be visual, auditory, or
olfactory, but visual ones generally predominate.

The affectivity in the psychotic is altered, there are new strange feelings and a marked
(apparent) indifference, instability, everything is translated by affective symbols. The
emotional aspects that it projects have a symbolic meaning, which in many cases helps us
understand criminal behavior. This is understood in homicides in which the perpetrator
maintains an intimate emotional relationship with the victim and where the aggressive
behavior appears suddenly, impulsively and unexpectedly.

Extravagant behaviors are observed, they carry out their acts repeatedly, within the same
criminal conduct, they carry out repeated acts without having a coherent purpose. The
language acquires childish, incoherent, sometimes ceremonial and formal characteristics, with
repetition of words and a vocabulary that includes new words.

In the association of ideas there is no logic, that is, there is a total disorganization of the
personality. The sequence of thought is not concrete, it cannot carry out a stable activity, there
are mannerisms, stereotypes, postures.

b) Types:

• Simple: The individual slowly withdraws from his activities and contact with other people, his
performance begins to decrease, his affective resonance effectively decreases, he loses
interest in things, activity tends to be scarce. Crime, especially in adolescents, signals the
unleashing of a deeper and more serious mental process.-

• Hebephrenic: In these cases the onset is abrupt, acute in its reactions and the personality
disorganization and deterioration is more rapid. Extreme impulsivity, childish behavior,
hallucinations, delusional ideas, incoherent thoughts and marked regressive traits.

• Catatonic: It is characterized by disturbances in the control of movement and by the passage

from a depressive stage to stupor and excitement. In the first stage, the individual remains still,
there is a marked negativity, indifference to stimuli, lack of interest, and he loses all control. In
the second, there is total isolation and a regressive process with loss of the sense of reality.

• Paranoid: The main symptomatology of this syndrome are persecutory ideas and delusions
that are structured and transformed into systematized delusions. There are hallucinations and
affective disorders as a consequence of interpersonal conflict. It is a cold, withdrawn
personality that reacts to minimal stimuli.

PSYCHOSIS:

a) General features:

We can divide psychopathic traits into three groups: a) those derived from satisfying needs
other than the common ones

b) those derived from the reification of people,

 c) serious psychopathic acts.

A- SATISFACTION OF DIFFERENT NEEDS

1-Particular
use of a) Intolerance to impediments
freedom
a)Raffle of the rules

b)Lack of remorse and guilt

2- Creation of
own codes
c) Intolerance to frustrations – decompensation reactions

d) Alloplastic defense.-
a) Rites

3- Repetition b)Automations
of behavioral
patterns c) Impulses

d)Psychopathic seal
a) Assumption of risky behaviors

b) Tendency to boredom

4- Need for c) Few long-term projects

intense
stimuli d) Drug use

e)Search for intense emotions

f) Perverse sexual satisfaction

B- OBJECTION OF OTHER PEOPLE
1)Egocentrism Overvaluation
2)Lack of empathy
a)Seduction
(capturing the
needs of the
other)
3)Manipulation
b)Lies

c)Performance
4)Coercion
5)Parasitism
6)Utilitarian relationships
7) Insensitivity a)Cruelty

b) Tolerance to
 situations
C) SERIOUS PSYCHOPATHIC ACT
a) Brutal
homicide
1)Psychopathic storm
b)Massacre
2)Sexual perversions
c)Serial rapes

A psychopath is not aware of his actions, he does not distinguish good from bad and,
consequently, he is not responsible for his actions. Perceive people as objects that can
facilitate as well as hinder the achievement of the desired goal. Some psychopathic behavior
may seem illogical (from the outside), but it is perfectly logical to him. They are different logics,
they are different reasoning systems.-

b) Diagnosis:

The psychopath is diagnosed by his irrational and purposeless behavior, lack of conscience and
emotional emptiness. They are people in search of strong emotions, who do not experience
fear. Punishment almost never works, because their impulsiveness has no limit, they do not
fear the consequences of their actions. For a psychopath, a human relationship has no
meaning, therefore they are skillful manipulators and exploiters. According to studies carried
out with the psychological analysis technique (DSM III R) between 3-5% of men are sociopaths
(they have a disorder in their social personality), while less than 1% of the population of
women are sociopathic. are.

c) Genetics:

The evidence indicates that the psychopath's nervous system is different. You experience less
fear and anxiety than the average person. With two groups of people, some normal and others
psychopaths, a study was carried out which consisted of learning which of four levers turned
on a certain green light. However, pulling the wrong lever resulted in a penalty (electric shock).
Both groups made the same number of errors, but the healthy group learned quickly by
avoiding collisions while the others took longer to do so. It is precisely this need for strong
emotions that causes the psychopath to seek out dangerous situations.

Genetics and physiology are decisive factors in the development of a psychopath. Through EEG
study, it has been discovered that 30-38% of psychopaths have an abnormal brain wave
pattern. Infants and children have low activity in their brain waves but this increases with age,
not so with serial killers, for whom maturation takes a long period of time.

The abnormal waves come from the brain's temporal lobes and limbic system, areas that
control memory and emotions. When the development of these parts of the brain is slowed
down by genetic causes and the infant's parents are abusive, irresponsible or manipulative, the
stage is set for disaster.

d) Types of behavior:
1- Act normally: it is the part adapted to the normal behavior pattern. You don't "notice" his
psychopathy.-

2- Psychopathic actions: it is the manifestation of their psychopathic behaviors. It is exercised

on certain people or victims.-

3- Psychopathic storm: it is destabilized psychopathic behavior. Of great emotional instability

and internal tension, which the psychopath tries to balance through the psychopathic ritual, a
group of repetitive behaviors (the psychopathic behavioral pattern). There are impulses and
automatisms. Intense discharge of internal tension on the external. He cannot stop his actions
until he stabilizes. The form that destabilization takes will depend on the type and degree of
psychopathy. This is where serial or extremely cruel homicides, rapes, destructions and also
suicides occur. It is where the asocial type psychopath leaves his stamp, his personal mark.-

III- SERIAL KILLERS

"...the serial murderer is the prototype of the pure criminal who kills only for the pleasure that
the suffering of others produces..."

a) Profile:

From a criminological point of view, when a murderer repeats his crimes at least three times
and with a certain time interval between each one, he is known as a serial killer.

Unlike the mass murderer, who kills several people at once and without worrying about their
identity, the serial killer carefully chooses his victims, most of the time selecting people of the
same type and characteristics.

The serial killer that is generally observed is a male, who generally attacks women,
introspective, reserved, distant, well-mannered, pleasant, friendless, solitary in his decisions,
hypobulic, shy, studious. He is usually easily dismissed as a suspect due to his history of being a
passive person who does not react to violence. Orderly, meticulous, neat.

He is particularly prone to offending when he has suffered a loss in self-esteem, been made fun
of, been sexually rejected, or had his masculinity questioned.

He compensates with the criminal act, this situation of disability, recovering his narcissism, his
egocentrism and his vanity until he is convinced of his power by carrying out his crimes and
escaping police investigations by being more intelligent.

Behind a distant façade there is a deep aggressiveness that he cannot express. He imagines
scenes that he later interprets in his attacks.

At the moment of the crime, he becomes very excited, he transforms, he acquires the security
that he lacks and the sexual impulse takes control of his actions. Generally, after the fact, he
has no remorse, no pity for his victims, nor is he concerned about the moral connotations of
his actions, which he alludes to without much emotional resonance.

For some authors, they have been obsessed with sexual fantasies for a long time before the
murders were carried out.-
Once captured, they usually confess to more crimes than they have actually committed, due to
their desire for prominence and celebrity.

• Women: they represent only 11% of serial killers. They are generally much less violent and
rarely commit sexual homicide. They are methodical, and very careful. They plan the crime
meticulously.

b) Childhood:

Many of the cases of serial killers have suffered a traumatic childhood due to physical or
psychological abuse, which is why they always tend to isolate themselves from society, which
they consider guilty and try to take revenge on it by externalizing so much hate and violence.

In 50% of cases, the biological father leaves before the child turns 12, in the cases of the
father's non-absence, he was authoritarian and abusive.

According to Dr. J. Reid Meloy, author of the book "The Psychopathic Mind Origins, Dynamics
and Treatment", the childhood of the psychopath, a separation of personality occurs: one is
the Self (vulnerable inside) and the Other (who is intrusive and aggressive) this due to any
unpleasant experience. The infant then expects every "external" experience to be painful, so it
withdraws into itself. This self-protection mechanism builds an "armor of character" that
distrusts everything and does not allow passage inward.

In normal development, the boy creates loving bonds with his mother. But for the psychopath,
the mother is taken as an aggressive "predator", or a "stranger".

c) Categories:

• Organized or systematic murderer: is a methodical person who carefully plans his crimes,
stalks his prey, brings with him his favorite weapon, and only then, when the victim is in his
power, does he slowly commit the murder.

Crime scene: the murderer shows planning, premeditation and his desire to avoid any type of
arrest, he is aware of what he is doing and cares about not leaving any type of trace or
evidence that could be used against him. Characteristics: planned crime, transport of the body,
hidden body, controlled conversation with the victim, demands victim's submission, no murder
weapon or evidence found, controls the environment of the murder scene, the body shows
evidence of assault before death.

• Disorganized or occasional murderer: dominated by sudden impulses, he chooses his victims

spontaneously, dominates them and kills them with any weapon within his reach.-

Crime scene: They are spontaneous assaults where the victim is selected at random and the
crime scene is usually the place of the encounter, the murderer uses the materials he has on
hand. Characteristics: body left at scene, spontaneous offense, homicide evidence or weapon
present at scene, victim unknown to offender, body left visible, sexual acts after death,
minimal conversation with victim, neglected crime scene , rapid attack on the victim.-

d) Development model:
Dr. JOEL NORRIS has described a gradual model of development of the typical serial in seven
phases.-

• The golden phase: The process begins when the individual begins to retreat and lock himself
in his fantasy world. Externally it may seem normal, but inside, there is a dark area where the
idea of crime is brewing. There is a weakness with reality and his mind begins to be dominated
by dreams of death and destruction. Gradually the need to act on your fantasies increases,
until it becomes a compulsion.

• The “fishing” phase: The search for the victim begins in those places where he believes he
can find the precise type of person. It is likely that he will end up marking his target there.

• The seduction phase: In some cases, the murderer attacks without warning, however,
frequently, the murderer feels special pleasure in luring his victims into his clutches,
generating a false feeling of security, circumventing their defenses.

• The capture phase: In this phase he closes the trap set for his victims. Seeing their terrified
reactions is a part of their sadistic game.

• The murder phase: If the crime is a substitute for sex, as in most of these cases, the moment
of death is the climax, the sum of the pleasure he sought since he began to fantasize the idea
of the crime.

• The fetish phase: Murder offers intense but transitory pleasure. To prolong the experience,
keep a memento or fetish, an object associated with the victim.

• The depressive phase: As a consequence of the crime, you generally experience a stage of
depression which is the equivalent of “post-coital blues.” It can be so deep that it leads the
murderer to attempt suicide. However, the most common response is a renewed desire to
commit a new murder.

IV- SEXUAL SERIAL KILLERS

“The serial killer executes a refined mental operation, an artistic performance that terrifies and
seduces those who contemplate it. “Without apparent reasons, and with great care and
perfection”

Crimes characterized by an aggressive and violent sexual problem are carried out by
individuals who present a conflictive personality wave. In almost all cases it is noted how
sexual conflict existed in the subject's history, long before it was triggered.

Aggressive sexual behavior is characterized by being extremely sudden, impulsive,

uncontrolled and often with marked sadism.

The belief that serial offenders always act driven by strong sexual desires has now been
discredited, at least as a generic explanation.

The same goes for the assertion that serial sexual offenders are classified as alienated mentally
ill.
The general psychiatric examination of serial sexual offenders showed that the majority group
(80 to 90%) does not present signs of frank mental alignment, that is, they are legally
imputable.

The absence of alienating mental illness, especially in rapists, is common, and in general, what
is observed are individuals with behaviors

Learned within the framework of deficient socialization

Semiology of criminal behavior.

To carry out a correct sexological medical examination on a serial sexual offender, an

examination must be carried out on the victim and the perpetrator, especially the latter in
relation to their individual biopsychogenesis and their sociogenesis or environmental factor, to
configure their personality. It is based more on environmental influences, the life history that
allows interpreting criminogenesis or the causes for committing a crime.

The criminal act must be investigated, in order to observe the criminodynamics of the crime
through the mechanisms used. The criminal act must be studied before, during and after the
fact.

Criminal behavior arises from the interaction between an offender and a criminal act.

Analysis of the victim and the perpetrator

When examining the victim, the following must be taken into account:

a) The victim is young women, not necessarily beautiful, with certain particularities that fit
within the ritual of the perpetrator, also girls or boys, pregnant teenagers, prostitutes, etc.

b) Age: It is not usually a determining factor in being a victim of a serial offender as long as it
meets the expectations and motivations required by the perpetrator.

c) Numbers of attacks. The serial aggressor does not usually have a limit number of attacks,
generally the limit is determined by his detention or arrest.

When the attacks comply with a homicidal ritual, the victim's body is the witness of the event
and what allows the psychodynamic interpretation of the attack to be made.

d) Physical conditions. No generic physical conditions have been detected in the victims of
serial offenders. The physical characteristics of the victims depend on the criminal
psychodynamics of each actor.

Circumstances of place and time.

The time of day or hour has to do with the fulfillment of a ritual that satisfies the needs of the
actor, as they are usually reminders of some event of personal significance, the anniversary of
something that must be vindicated or avenged.

The scenarios of criminal events can be varied and consistent with the criminal
psychodynamics of the offender.
Crimes can occur in places: occasional or predetermined

a) Occasional

They are those places in which the victim appears at an unsought moment but given the
circumstances and the fact of meeting the needs of the perpetrator, he attacks her in the place
that he finds most appropriate for his purposes.

b) Defaults

They are those that are part of the “program” that the actor develops to satisfy his aggressive
needs.

These places can be the victim's residence, outdoor places such as vacant lots, construction
sites or other more sophisticated ones such as convents, elevators, schools.

The injuries produced.

a) Intimidatory, intended to silence the victim or subdue him.

b) Motivations of the violent act to satisfy aggressive needs (beating, rape, even homicide,
etc.) through wounds, trauma, bites, confusion, strangulation, etc.

C) Violence such as multiple stab wounds, blows to the skull, dismemberment, also legends
that are like the identifying signature of the author, or as an omnipotent form of vanity crime.

Usual characteristics.

a) Clothing.

The clothing worn by the offender is usually always the same when he carries out the
aggressive act. The clothing is part of the ritual that has a particular symbolism for the
aggressor, which is why, as if it were a “combat uniform,” he always uses the same outfit.

b) Marital status

Singles predominate, with immature and unstable personalities, 30 to 40 years old,

emotionally dependent and usually only children who live symbiotically with their mother,
usually widowed and dominant.

c) Psychophysical aspect.

It is difficult for the serial criminal to capture the image of the pervert; on the contrary, he is an
individual who in the social sphere behaves in a cordial manner, appears healthy, seductive
and polite.
d) Occupation

In most cases, serial criminals have effective jobs and behave responsibly in them. They tend to
be punctilious and compliant, obtaining recognition and good references from owners, bosses
or authorities.

Mode of sexual activity

The type of sexual activity you engage in has to do with how you compensate for the sexual
difficulties you know you present when attempting a conventional relationship. In such a way
that sexual aggression, whether violent or intimidating, is usually an erotic stimulus that
compensates for the hyposexuality that it usually presents in a conventional relationship.

Sociogenesis

The environmental factors that have influenced the development of the actor's basic
personality must be investigated. Should consider.

• The personality.

• Social context.

Personality is the unit to which all the manifestations of its actions are referred, so the study of
behavior must be done based on the total individual personality and its environmental
context.

The criminal's difficulty in accepting the law implies difficulties in the development of his
personality. From the social point of view, it means violation or transgression of the
established norm.

In the case of serial sexual offenders, unfavorable socio-environmental circumstances are not
always found that have decisively influenced their criminal behavior.

In most cases, psychogenesis (personal psychic traumas) has greater predominance than
sociogenesis. However, the social framework where the offender grew up, his level of
education and schooling, his parental relationship, the degree of social marginality, work
experiences, family abandonment, must be investigated.

It is evident that the offender has a personal history with certain characteristics that would
explain the behavior in general and the sexual behavior in particular.

Criminogenesis.

Criminogenesis, or the explanation of the causes that the serial sexual offender had to commit
a crime, is the result of the study of his life history, the basic personality profile of the actor,
individual factor or biopsychogenesis and environmental influences are of capital importance.

In the particular case of the typical serial rapist, an aggressive personality with a strong sadistic
component and with great conscious or unconscious hostility towards the woman (feeling of
insecurity) and fear about his masculinity is usually observed. It differs from the genuine sadist
in that the former exercises violence to subdue the victim possessively (penile penetration)
unlike the latter who can obtain pleasure from the violence exerted on the victim even if
penetration is not involved, the objective is violence.

The violent sexual act generally responds to the need of the serial sexual offender to:

• Reaffirm their power in the submission of the victim who feels that they have been betrayed.
The violent act comes to compensate or reaffirm his dominance (sexual superiority) in the face
of the insecurity about his capacity that tortures him.

b) Achieving libidinal orgasmic gratification in submission is like the rapist's ultimate solution to
his conflict to obtain orgasmic pleasure.

c) Sexist sociocultural affirmation in an exceptional way since this need is usually expressed
through sheaf rapes as a group form of male arrogance to reaffirm sexual identity hiding within
a protection group.

In the case of serial offenders, this expression is rare since they almost always act alone.

The most common motivations observed in serial offenders for carrying out the aggressive act
according to the personality of the aggressor are:

The hostility.

The hostile aggressor generally uses more violence than is necessary to consummate the act,
in such a way that the sexual arousal is consecutive to the display of force itself and at the
same time is an expression of rage towards the attacked, he must inflict physical harm on the
victim. his victim to achieve sexual arousal.

These individuals carry out aggressive sexual acts, these are usually preceded by some
previous recurring conflict that triggers the aggression. Then they will attack the victim using
any weapon at their disposal and will carry out any humiliation and humiliation on her (whom
they intend to frighten) and, out of planned revenge, they can go as far as murder if she puts
up a lot of resistance. The assaults can have a rhythmicity of weeks to months.

The affirmation.

The dependent abuser uses violence to assert his power in an attempt to raise his self-esteem.
When it comes to a sexually disabled person we see that the violent sexual possession of their
victim is imposed as a goal as a way to compensate for the frustration they feel and
experience.

Due to the poor choice he makes of his love object, he usually suffers repeated rebuffs in the
form of rejection or contempt. This fact undermines his adaptive capacity, faced with the
inability to obtain the desired object through seduction, he acts using violence to achieve his
objective and thus reaffirm his power by subduing the victim.

Due to personality characteristics, he is usually the least violent of the sexual aggressors (he
premeditates and ruminates at length about the decision to commit an aggressive act). He is
also the least socially competent.
This type of aggressor usually appears as an individual of low cultural level, tends to remain
single and live with his parents. He has few friends, does not have a stable sexual partner and
is usually a passive person.

The criminal act.

1) Criminodynamics.

In the study of criminodynamics, the following must be taken into account:

• The characterization of the criminal: Seeling calls them “criminals due to lack of sexual
control” and groups rapists, incestuous people, pedophiles, exhibitionists, sadists, masochists,
homosexuals, zoophiles, voyeurs, transvestites,

Alignment patterns among these criminals are not common, nor are drug addicts or alcoholics
usually found.

The serial sexual offender is dangerous because of his way of being, his criminal behavior is
ego-syntonic with his anomalous personality (not necessarily sick), and proclivity for sexual
aggression, with temporal sequences of the attack without an accomplice.

Aggressive behaviors are voluntary and without compulsions, with a motive of personal and
non-economic gratification.

They are prone to repeating similar crimes (pattern of conduct). They do not commit other
crimes.

Among the mechanisms most frequently used by serial sexual offenders are:

b) Weapons used

The serial criminal usually acts in silence, hence the infrequent use of firearms. The usual thing
is the use of a knife, either to threaten, intimidate, or eventually kill the victim. In the latter
case, mechanical asphyxiation or blows to the skull are frequently used.

c) Location of attack selection.

The serial killer almost always acts following a ritual, within the same area that he meticulously
studies and that has a special significance within the entire criminal context.

d) Planning and stalking place.

It is not common to find that the repetition of criminal acts is the product of uncontrollable or
compulsive behavior in these criminals. They carefully premeditate the facts and take as much
time as necessary to carry out the ritual that satisfies needs.

Only if they fail in their plan due to some imponderable reason do they become frustrated and
may even lose control, but it is common for them to control their impulses to achieve their
objectives and do not unnecessarily expose themselves to being caught (as happens with
impulsive people) unless in the fight or obstinacy to comply with the ritual of the egocentrically
prepared plan or to present an open challenge to authority, expose themselves to being
trapped in a dangerous game of vanity and omnipotence.

Stalking places are usually public vehicles, the street, the circumstances of occasional
encounters with the future victim, places of recreation such as dances, candy stores, etc.

e) Means of mobilization.

They use the means of mobility that best suits their criminal needs. They can go on foot, by
bicycle, motorcycle, public vehicles (especially if the victim travels there and descends with
her), and much more sophisticatedly in their car, where they gather and have prepared the
elements that their plan requires.

f) Modus operandi.

In general, it is carried out through a surprise attack or the transfer of the victim under threat
of a weapon to the place established to carry out the act.

However, more subtle forms have also been observed, such as seduction, deception, coercion,
etc., being premeditated conduct, prior to the execution of the criminal act itself.

Criminal conduct.

The serial killer that is usually observed is generally an introspective, quiet, reserved, distant,
well-mannered, pleasant, friendless, lonely man. He is usually easily discarded as a suspect due
to his history of being a passive person who does not react to people. the violence. Behind a
distant façade there is a deep aggressiveness that he cannot express; he imagines a scene that
he then interprets in his attacks.

His intelligence allows him to plan the crime in detail well in advance and then be able to
successfully avoid police investigations.

At the moment of the crime he becomes very excited, he transforms, he acquires the security
that he lacks and the sexual impulse takes control of his actions.

Generally, after the fact he has no remorse, he has no pity for his victims, nor is he concerned
about the moral connotations of his actions, which he alludes to without much emotional
resonance.

(.) Possibility of behaviors motivated by brain pathologies.

In the analysis of the serial sexual offender, all factors must be taken into account and a
complete study of his personality must not be ruled out, and a neurological examination of his
brain must be included since there may be the possibility that he presents an instinctive
disinhibition resulting from a serious brain pathology. When the event has an initial emotional
component that catapults violent action, the mediatization would be more limbic than frontal.
The inability to inhibit the action would tend to the perseverance of their action, relapsing into
them very easily and being resistant to all socialization. In 1972, Goldar and Outes expressed
that impulses born in the posterior external brain not only go to the anterior external brain to
initiate voluntary psychomotor or reactive motor responses, but also reach the
basolateropolar temporal cortex to continue towards the internal brain and, in this way,
originate instinctive vital responses. In turn, the impulses born in the anterior external brain
are directed, from the anterior orbital cortex and through the uncinate fasciculus, to the
basolateropolar temporal cortex, in the latter they interact with the impulses of posterior
cerebral origin. When the anterior orbital cortex is destroyed for some reason, the inner brain
responds exclusively to impulses arriving from the posterior brain, therefore the vital
mechanisms of the limbic system remain uninhibited; The volitional psychomotor processes of
the frontal lobe cannot influence limbic excitability and all sensory experiences can
immediately generate instinctive reactions, configuring a clear organic brain pathology. As a
summary, we graph the characteristics that can be detected according to the psychiatric
pathology and their implications before, during and after the act *-

SEXUAL DEVIATION.

A) Sexual crime or not.

Within this analysis of sexual murder, it is worth asking whether the crime is the result of a
search by the murderer for power and domination or a purely sexual issue. According to
Sreven Egger, sexual assault is the instrument by which power and final domination of the
victim is achieved.

Others, on the contrary, believe that the root cause is sexual deviation and power/domination
is the tool to achieve satisfaction. Others, on the contrary, believe that sexual deviation is the
root cause and power domination is the tool to achieve satisfaction.

The most likely thing is that both positions are correct and each case can be explained by one
or the other. What is not in dispute is that most serial criminals have a deep fixation on
authority figures, whom they try to emulate, as if by doing so they also enjoy the power and
authority to kill and punish.

B) Eliminating the woman within

Some serial killers have a clear bias against women whom they try to eliminate as soon as
possible.

The current debate consists of determining whether serial killers have insecurity due to their
masculinity, to see if the most sadistic and cruel ones require destroying the feminine side that
lurks within their personalities. JOEI Norris says that if a murderer is especially rough in his
treatment of the corpse (of a woman), the police should look for fine or effeminate features in
his appearance such as a beautiful complexion, upturned nose, silky hair, etc.

Specialist Richard Tithecoott the killer's psychopathic mind battles furiously with his own
feminine side

SEXUAL HOMICIDE.

To ordinary people this may seem incomprehensible. The murderer does not conceive of sex
as a matter of a couple, something of mutual consent. In him, his sexual fantasies are a mixture
of power, domination and other abstract forces confusing one with another, resulting in
something completely disordered.

The number of murders committed without apparent motive has grown enormously.
A) Classification:

• Rapists who kill their victim to avoid being betrayed and later captured

• Murderers driven by their deepest sadism, murder the victim without further consideration.

The former do not find sexual satisfaction by murdering their victims, the latter are precisely
what they seek to find an emotion strong enough to excite and provide them with the greatest
possible satisfaction.

EXHIBIT

The ten worst serial killers in the world

KILLER COUNTRY N* OF VICTIMS

Pedro Lopez Colombia 300
Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole USA 7-200
Bruno Ludke Germany 85
Andrei Chikatilo Russia 52
Gerald Stano USA 41
Moses Sithole South Africa 38
Green River Killer USA 37
John Wayne Gacy USA 23
Ian Cor USA 27
Wayne Williams USA 27

As if it were not enough to have been born in a small Ukrainian village in times of famine,
when millions of people were dying, their corpses piling up in the streets and fields, the most
cruel thing for little Andrei was listening in his mother's lap like his older brother had been
kidnapped and devoured. Although it was not an isolated case in those hard thirties, the event
would have a notable impact on the boy, who felt more alone than ever at that time.

ANDREI CHIKATILO

At school he was very introverted, unable to accept his myopia (he got his first glasses when he
was thirty, and until he was twelve he wet the bed). He was always humiliated by his other
classmates, anyone could tell him anything, he just listened and endured... it is not surprising
that over time, his spirit was filled with unshed tears and all those insults.

As he grew older, he became more shy around women, to the point of making his first sexual
attempt fail by ejaculating in a few seconds while hugging a girl... hence the first rumors of his
impotence arose.

Like all Soviet citizens, he served in the army and then dedicated himself to studies, obtaining
three degrees: in Russian language and literature, in engineering, and in Marxism-Leninism.
In 1971, a university diploma gave him the degree of teacher. He felt a growing attraction to
girls under twelve years old, and he would sneak into the bedrooms to see them in their
underwear while he masturbated with his hand in his pocket.

Later Chikatilo took refuge in Communism, but his fixation with political dogma bordered on
madness.

Despite his problem, he was able to find a wife, and although he was unable to maintain an
erection, he could ejaculate. On very rare occasions he managed to achieve enough erection to
get his wife pregnant, but he kept thinking that nature had punished him by castrating him at
birth.

He was a stable and hard-working husband, a father who never raised his voice in front of his
children, a respected member of the communist party who read the newspapers and kept up
to date with current events. Discreet, he lived with the rigorous austerity that corresponds to a
true Soviet.

At the school where he worked, his students laughed at him, nicknamed him "the goose"
because his long hunched shoulders made his neck look elongated, and because they
considered him stupid. He did nothing to remedy it, not even when they started calling him
"faggot", nor when they hit him by throwing a blanket over him or when they kicked him out
of the classrooms.

On December 22, 1978, he approached a nine-year-old girl on the street and convinced her to
go with him to a cabin he owned on the outskirts of the city. He knew how to talk to children,
he had been a teacher himself and had two children. Once there he violently undressed her.
Accidentally, he made a scratch from which blood flowed, causing him to have an immediate
erection, establishing the fatal link between blood and sex. Then he pulled out a knife and
stabbed the girl in the stomach. With each stab he noticed that he was getting closer to
orgasm, so he didn't stop doing it until he ejaculated...

Chikatilo had tried to satisfy his sexual need in the hope of becoming like the others, but he
was not. His flaccidity and the mockery of the women who reminded him of it at every
moment, was more than he could expect. He also realized that his pleasure was not in
caressing other people's genitals, but in mistreating them.

Two days after this crime, the police found the girl's remains in a nearby river, and a large
blood stain near Chikatilo's cabin. The police questioned the man, but ended up indicting
another sex offender, Alexander Kravchenko.

Chikatilo was, due to the paradoxes that marked his actions, more dual than ever. He was the
typical submissive and asexual husband. He did everything his wife told him to do... or almost
everything. She tended to desire the pleasures of bed more often than he did, and that led to
frequent arguments, to her reminding him at all times how taciturn and inert he was.

Chikatilo's first two murders had a certain fortuitous nature. It is possible that, in both cases,
their intentions were only sexual in nature. The screams of terror excited him, but it was the
murder itself that presented to him the ultimate sexual act. His victims were boys, girls and
young girls. Among them were many runaways and mentally retarded, as they were more
easily convinced and appreciated their help in the labyrinth of the local transportation system,
with which they were not familiar.
Chikatilo would choose them from the crowd at train stations and bus stops, and with some
pretext, he would convince them to follow him to some wooded area. Once there, he inflicted
numerous stab wounds on them (between thirty and fifty).

Almost all victims suffered mutilation of their eyes. He cut off the breasts or nipples of
adolescents or young girls, either with his sharp knives or with his teeth. The uterus was
removed with such precision that all surgeons in the Rosstov province became potential
suspects. While raping them, he became so angry at reaching orgasm so quickly that he beat
their faces in. To hide his impotence, he sometimes, with the help of a twig, placed the semen
in the victim's vagina.

In the case of children, he attacked them as soon as he was alone with them in the forest: a
blow to stun them with their hands tied and a few shallow knife blows to establish his
dominance over them. Later he mutilated them with bites, cut off their genitals or only
removed the testicles, which he kept as a trophy.

He also gouged out the eyes of all his victims, perhaps to avoid meeting their gazes.

On some occasions he performed these amputations when the victim was still alive, although
not conscious. In none of the cases were the severed body parts found near the crime scene.

He also practiced acts of cannibalism, in his statements he would confess that he liked to
swallow the softest parts of the body...

In 1981, he became a factory supply official, and the job, which required him to travel a good
part of the region, provided him with the perfect cover.

On September 3, 1981, he murdered his second victim. Once in the forest, he lost control,
strangled the woman and ejaculated on her body. Then, it began to howl while dancing a war
dance around the body. In those moments he knew he would kill again. And boy did he kill:
Over the next twelve years, Chikatilo would murder 53 people.

The worst of all is that Chikatilo looked very harmless, and the children saw in him a kind and
defenseless man.

The Serbsky Institute in Moscow designed the profile of an ostensibly normal man, probably
married, with a regular job, and from sperm found on the bodies of his victims, it was known
that his blood was group AB. On September 14, 1984, they arrested Chikatilo in the Rosstov
market, because he generally fit the description of the murderer, but they could not prove
anything else. Chikatilo seemed like a respectable man, and after taking a blood test, it turned
out to be group A. He was immediately released without charge. At this point, police files
contained data on some 26,500 suspects.

When body number thirty appeared, the newspapers began to report on the possible serial
killer, whom everyone believed to be mentally retarded, although the police did not agree,
since the wide dispersion of the murderer indicated that he had a vehicle, factor that in Russia
was eliminative.

On October 17, 1990, he killed again in a forest near the Donlesjoz station. This crime absorbed
the entire local police and a 100-man riot force. But two weeks later, Chikatilo acted again, and
this time there were about 600 detectives in charge of investigating along the line of the
forests, where three or four officers stood guard in the most isolated stops.

On November 6, 1990, one of these detectives, Sergeant Igor Rybakov, saw a man in a suit and
tie emerge from the woods. As he watched him wash his hands in the fountain, he noticed that
he had a bandaged finger and blood on his cheek. He asked for the documents and submitted
a routine report. Five days later they found a new body in that same place which they
estimated had been dead for about a week. The murderer had to have passed through the
station, and the culprit could not be other than the suspect in Rybakov's report.

He was arrested on November 20, suspected of having murdered 36 victims, all of them
women and children. His sperm, although not his blood, was AB.

The prosecutor general of Rosstov province would issue an arrest warrant for Chikatilo,
effective November 20, 1990. And that same day, in fact, he was detained by the KGB, while he
with a slow and senile step said "How can they do this to a person my age?"

In the interrogations, he stated that he was simply a normal citizen, that he had not committed
any type of crime, and that he was the object of absurd persecution by the police...

On November 27, he promised that he was willing to provide evidence of his crimes if they did
not continue harassing him with interrogations that reminded him of the details, and two days
later he collapsed in front of a psychologist to whom he ended up confessing 53 murders. He
later guided investigators to the various locations in the hope that the number of deaths would
make him a "specimen for scientific study."

He wrote a signed statement for the Attorney General, which said:

"I was arrested on November 20, 1990 and have remained in custody since then. I want to
express my feelings honestly.

I am in a state of deep depression, and I recognize that I have disturbed sexual impulses, which
is why I have committed certain acts. I previously sought psychiatric help for my headaches,
memory loss, insomnia, and sexual disorders. But the treatments that they applied to me or
that I put into practice did not give results.

I have a wife and two children and I suffer from sexual weakness, impotence. People laughed
at me because I couldn't remember anything. I didn't realize that he touched my genitals
often, and I was only told about it later. I feel humiliated. People make fun of me at work and
in other situations. I have felt degraded since childhood, and I have always suffered.

In my school days I was bloated from hunger and was dressed in rags. Everybody messed with
me. At school I studied so intensely that sometimes I lost consciousness and fainted. I am a
university graduate. I wanted to prove myself at work and I gave myself completely to it.
People valued me but took advantage of my weak character.
Now that I'm older, the sexual aspect is not so important to me, my problems are all mental
(...)

(...) In perverse sexual acts I experienced a kind of fury, a feeling of having no restraint. I
couldn't control my actions. Since childhood I have felt insufficient as a man and as a person.
What I did was not for sexual pleasure, but because it gave me a certain peace of mind and
soul for long periods. Especially after watching all kinds of sexual movies. "What I did, I did
after watching videos of perverse sexual acts, cruelties and horrors."

What the police deduced from this statement is that the murderer was trying to find a possible
way out by alleging mental illness, an obsession with psychiatric treatment.

The psychiatrists at the Serbsky Institute, however, saw him as a prudent sadist who did not
suffer from any disorder that could prevent his actions from being wrong, which were
premeditated acts. For this reason, in October 1991, they announced their conclusions,
diagnosing that the murderer was "legally sane."

The trial of Andrei Chikatilo began in April 1992, and would last until October of that same
year. This one, with his head shaved, witnessed his trial from a metal cubicle. The first day he
delighted the photographers by brandishing a porn magazine, but later, dejected, he took off
his clothes and shook his penis, shouting: "Look how useless, what do you think I was going to
do with this?"

The judges did not hesitate to announce the verdict they had nominated: on October 15, 1992,
he was sentenced to capital punishment.

HENRY LEE LUCAS

On Friday, June 26, 1998, the governor of Texas at the time, George Bush (son of the former
president of the United States), sentenced Henry Lee Lucas to death, one of the most sadistic
psychopaths among serial killers. . The governor, who on very few occasions has shown this
type of clemency, accepted the recommendation of the Texas Review and Pardon Board,
which advised against executing the murderer because it had found loopholes regarding his
complete guilt. (The press, local Texas police, and some politicians had accused them of having
charged Henry's account for many unsolved crimes.)

Despite this pardon, Henry will have to serve the two hundred and ten years in prison that he
has pending, as well as six life sentences for the nine crimes that have been recognized against
him. Bush himself declared to the press: "While Lee Lucas is guilty of committing a long list of
horrible crimes, there are serious doubts, however, about his guilt in any of the cases."

Henry was born in Virginia on August 23, 1936, and like the vast majority of serial killers, he
suffered a tormented childhood due to the abuse of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic
father.

He suffers total abandonment, no attention, malnutrition, as well as psychological abuse.

Sometimes he is forced to witness his mother's sexual activities with different men, and she
usually dresses him like a girl. From a very young age he has to learn to fend for himself. The
humiliations to which he is subjected at such a young age end up transforming him into a cold
and visceral teenager... at that time he will begin to mistreat animals and experience zoophilic
relationships, in addition to sexually harassing his teenage stepbrother.

Very soon he enters the world of crime, kidnapping and killing a girl when she was only 15
years old.

They put him in several juvenile correctional facilities, but always leaving shortly after.

Finally in 1960, during a violent dispute with his mother, Henry accidentally lost an eye, and in
a fit of rage he stabbed her several times, ending his life. He is sentenced to prison and later
transferred to a psychiatric hospital, where he is diagnosed with psychopathy with sexual
deviations and sadism.

Ten years later he is arrested again for the attempted kidnapping of two teenagers, but his
true stage as a dangerous criminal begins when, once on the street, he meets another famous
serial killer, Ottis Toole.

In 1979, Toole takes him home and makes him her lover. Realizing his financial problems, he
proposes that she stay and live with him, and they both discover their common inclination:
murder.

With a few dollars earned in small jobs, they buy a second-hand car, and without preparing
their crimes in the slightest, they dedicate themselves to traveling the I-35 highway in search
of hitchhikers or motorists with a broken down car. They take the victims (whether men,
women or children, it doesn't matter to them) to a secluded path, kill them, rape them and
later mutilate and dismember them.

Toole has an inclination for cannibalism, and collects some parts of the dismembered bodies,
such as arms or legs, to roast on his barbecue.

The serial killer considers his crime as a kind of ritual.

Henry's case is very typical of this type of character, he is terrified of sex and can only make
love to passed out or dead victims. He executed them to enjoy different parts of the bodies he
had dismembered. He considered the victims as objects destined to awaken his desire...

In the accounts of their crimes, if the statements of both are true, it is noted that Henry almost
always kills women, strangling or stabbing them, and Toole is in charge of killing the men,
generally with a firearm, especially those of caliber 22. The two almost always mutilate the
corpses, Lucas bites them or tears them apart with a knife, cuts off their genital parts and tries
to decapitate them... sometimes even driving with a bloody head in the back seat of the car.

Toole prefers to cut up male corpses, especially the ribs, arms, buttocks and legs, to cook the
pieces and eat them. Henry does not eat the human meat that his partner cooks, because
according to him: "I didn't like the taste of the spicy sauce with which he prepared the meat..."

They both rape their victims, Henry the women and Ottis the men.

On November 1, 1979, the lifeless body of a young woman was discovered (still unidentified
today), whose only distinctive feature was orange socks. The body was found under a bridge
on I-35.

A Texas sheriff in charge of investigating "the crime of the orange socks" discovers in the
regional press several other very similar crimes whose victims, of different ages and sex, were
raped, strangled, stabbed or had their skulls shattered by beatings... and also found near the
same highway. Alarmed, he called a conference on October 28, 1980, attended by several
police officers from various jurisdictions, and they exchanged reports and all the accumulated
data to stay informed and collaborate in the cases, which they suspect are related.

On June 11, 1983, Henry is arrested for illegal possession of weapons, and confesses to being
the author of the crimes. He is subjected to a lie detector test, and the results confirm the
statements, however the police still have no evidence to accuse him. After confessing to
several hundred crimes to the police, he changes his strategy by recanting and claims that his
confessions are a lie, that he only murdered his mother. He is a great manipulator, because he
knows that in this way the unsolved crimes will be closed. After numerous interrogations, he
recants and accuses himself on successive occasions, blatantly lying, and since the polygraph is
not considered evidence before the judge, the police are forced to release him due to lack of
material evidence. In any case, they believe that he is responsible for one hundred and fifty-
seven murders, of which he committed one hundred and eight in the company of Ottis.

In addition to the cruelty of their crimes, the two characters confess another very disturbing
fact: Ottis claims to have a relationship with a satanic sect, for which the two murderers would
kidnap children, with whom ritual sacrifices, hardcore pornography and even movies would be
carried out. snuff, in which the victim is tortured and slowly killed while a camera records the
scenes in a fixed shot. According to Toole's statements: "There was a time when we made
money selling children to Mexico, who were used for porn films... others sold them directly to
rich people... we had a kind of altar and we slit their throats, we drank the blood and
sometimes we cooked the corpses... sometimes the new members cut up the bodies before
fucking them... and then they fucked the animals and killed them... and then there was a big
party during which we ate someone and the animals ..."

This issue presents a great deal of doubt, since the police were never able to prove the
existence of this group of Satanists as an organized structure.
In December 1990, Henry was sentenced to death for four murders in Florida and another
twenty in neighboring jurisdictions. For the first time, an execution date was set for December
3, 1990, but the Court of Criminal Appeals chose to postpone the order five days earlier.

Currently, although he has been saved from the electric chair, he is officially accused of nine
crimes, which will cost him about two hundred and ten years in prison and six life sentences...

JHON WAYNE GACY

"If I hadn't been a manipulator I wouldn't have been successful. You can't be a character who
leads a successful secret life if you don't manipulate yourself sometimes..."

J.W.G.

At the time of his arrest, John Wayne Gacy was thirty-six years old. His outward appearance
was most pleasant: short, chubby with a funny black mustache. More than a dangerous
multiple murderer, he seemed like an honest businessman concerned about the well-being of
the community... the disturbing thing about the story is that this nice little man is the
confessed murderer of thirty-three young people, whom he later buried in his garden...

Gacy was born in Chicago in 1942. He was a restaurant manager in Iowa, until 1968 when he
was arrested for having sodomized a young employee and having paid him not to testify.
However, the boy ends up denouncing the aggressor, which would later incite Gacy to sink into
a murderous madness, and he hires another boy whom he murders to take revenge on the
previous one.

When his first crime is discovered shortly after, Gacy is sentenced to 10 years in prison, but he
is only held for three. When he is released in 1971, he finds that his wife has filed for divorce
and Gacy moves to Illinois.

Not long afterward he marries again. He tries to gain popularity among neighbors by getting
involved in politics and charitable work for his community, such as organizing neighborhood
parties or dressing up as a clown to visit children at hospitals and parties.

As he commits crime after crime, his success and popularity grows more and more in business
and among his neighbors. A close friend of the mayor, he becomes a dynamic community
activist, successful independent contractor and leader in the Minor Chamber of Commerce,
becoming a magazine's "Man of the Year."
He was a man with an almost obsessive need to control and dominate. Very intelligent, he had
a high IQ and great manipulation skills thanks to his verbal ability. The expert on "serial killers",
Robert Ressler, compares it to a spider that weaves the web without the victims realizing it,
until too late they find themselves trapped and unable to escape.

He prowled around homosexual meeting areas looking for victims. Sometimes he would lure
them to his house and once there he would offer them alcohol and drugs, then he would show
them porn movies. When the victim was unconscious, he tied her up with handcuffs and ropes
and sexually assaulted her.

When his second wife leaves him, the man begins a series of murders at a rate of
approximately one victim a month. His victims were all men between the ages of 9 and 27.
Many were lured by promises of construction jobs, then offered liquor and when they were
drunk he tied them to a chair. After raping them, he killed them and buried them under his
house.

He showed an advanced degree of sadism, frequently putting tied young people in the bathtub
with a plastic bag over their heads. Once the young man was almost drowned, he revived him
to inflict various tortures on him.

Like many serial killers, Gacy believed he was invincible because he would never be suspected.
He became more bold and arrogant. Not only did he pick up young people from gay areas, but
sometimes he even picked them up off the street and took them straight home without
worrying about what the neighbors might think or say.

In 1977, a victim who survived the attacks informed the police about Gacy, saying that he had
tried to kill him, but they did not pay much attention to him. At the end of 1978, the mother of
one of the missing boys told police that a few hours before his disappearance, the boy had
telephoned her to tell her that a certain John Gacy had offered him a job; Then, more alarmed,
the police began an investigation.

The first thing was a search of the house. As soon as they entered it, the agents felt an
unbearable stench that invaded all the rooms. Investigators followed the smell to a type of
basement under the house where they found 3 decomposed bodies. Immediately, Gacy was
arrested.

Gacy's surviving victims approached the prison and identified the attacker, who then confessed
to having sexually tortured and murdered more than 30 young people.

In the days after the arrest, searching for other victims, investigators even proceeded to lift
and dig the soils, finding more bodies buried in shallow gravel and covered with quicklime to
accelerate decomposition.

In total, another 25 bodies were found buried in the basement of the house and five more in a
nearby river.

When asked why he demeaned his victims like this, he responded that they were nothing more
than "despicable sissies", useless vagabonds while he was a prosperous businessman who did
not have many free hours. He declared that a sporadic sexual relationship with these young
men took up less of his time than maintaining a serious relationship with a woman.
At the trial that took place in 1988, his lawyers claimed innocence by reason of insanity, and
that their client was unimpeachable because he suffered from a serious personality disorder,
like Jekill and Hide.

The prosecution then said that in his crimes there was monitoring of the victim and
premeditation, in addition that the accused was aware of differentiating good from evil,
therefore he was accountable for being responsible for his actions. Gacy retained his
murderous side at all times, even when he acted as Pogo to the children, he simply hid that
part of his life from the outside.

After six weeks of trial, the jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to 21 life
imprisonments and 12 death sentences.

Gacy alternately denied his guilt while serving his long sentence. In prison he gained
recognition as a naïve painter. His circus-themed paintings reached very high prices in the
market (from $300,000). He was finally executed.

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JACK THE RIPPER

Jack the Ripper

 "With the Vigilance Committee in the East End: a suspicious character."
Illustrated London News . October 13, 1888.

Birth His identity is unknown.

Probably born in England

Sentence He was never caught; He killed five women but more victims
are attributed to him. Despite this, Whitechapel police
believe that it was not just one person who committed the
atrocious murders.

Current Unknown
situation

Jack the Ripper is the best-known of the pseudonyms given to an unidentified serial killer who
committed several crimes in 1888 , primarily in the Whitechapel district of London — as well as
in the areas impoverished people from the surrounding area. The nickname originated from a
letter written by someone who claimed responsibility for the murders under this pseudonym,
and as a result of its dissemination through the media, that name became known to society in
general. Despite this, several sources consider that the document is really a joke created by
some journalist, in an attempt to increase interest in the story and, at the same time, create a
scandal. Other pseudonyms by which the murderer is also known are "The Whitechapel
Murderer", "Leather Apron", as well as "Independent Genius", the latter coined in a letter
written by George Bernard Shaw .

Jack the Ripper is often described as an intelligent, efficient, sneering, cunning, cold, and
murder-obsessed killer. The attacks attributed to him involved female prostitutes from poor
neighborhoods and had a distinctive modus operandi , consisting of throat-cutting ,
strangulation and abdominal mutilation. [7] [8] The removal of the internal organs of at least
three of the victims led to the belief that the murderer had anatomical or surgical knowledge.
On the other hand, rumors that the murders were related to each other intensified between
September and October 1888, a period in which a large number of letters appeared written by
one or more anonymous subjects, sent to Scotland Yard and the media. One of the texts ,
received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee , included half a preserved
human kidney , supposedly from one of the victims. Due to the extraordinarily brutal nature of
the murders and the media's focus on them, the public believed that it was truly a single
murderer: Jack the Ripper. The extensive coverage that the press gave to these events caused
them to achieve international notoriety. An investigation into the Whitechapel murders
committed up to 1891 could not resolve with certainty whether all the crimes were connected
to the murders in 1888; By then, the legend of Jack the Ripper was beginning to solidify.

Because the murders were never solved, the legends surrounding them became a combination
of genuine historical, folkloric , and pseudohistorical research. Since then, there are more than
a hundred theories about the identity of the Ripper, while the events have influenced multiple
literary, cinematographic and artistic works of fiction.

Historic context

In the mid- 19th century , England experienced a large influx of Irish immigrants, which
overcrowded major English cities, including London 's East End . Starting in 1882 , some Jewish
refugees from Eastern Europe and Imperial Russia also settled in this area. In the parish of
Whitechapel , in the East End, the ravages of excess population began to be felt, which caused
a decline in working and housing conditions, as well as the significant development of an
economic underclass, "languid and lazy, without work, without job training and without a
future."Similarly, theft, violence and alcohol dependence became issues of a habitual nature
for its inhabitants, while endemic poverty led many women to resort to prostitution. as a last
resort to survive. In October 1888 , London's Metropolitan Police estimated that there were a
total of 1,200 prostitutes and 62 brothels in Whitechapel. The economic problems were
accompanied by a constant increase in social tensions. Between 1886 and 1889 , frequent
demonstrations, such as that of November 13, 1887 (a date historically known as Bloody
Sunday ), incited police intervention and a climate of urban discontent. Racism , crime , riots
and genuine poverty fueled the public perception that Whitechapel was a "den" of immorality.
In 1888 , such ideas were strengthened when a series of grotesque and depraved murders,
attributed to one "Jack the Ripper", received unprecedented coverage in the media.

Murders

Victorian map of London marked with seven red dots, located a few blocks from each other,
representing the scenes of the first seven Whitechapel murders: Osborn Street (centre right),
George Yard (centre left), St. Hanbury (top), Buck's Row (top right), Berner Street (bottom
right), Miter Square (bottom left) and Dorset Street (centre left).

The large number of assaults against women in the East End during this era adds uncertainty to
the number of victims murdered by the same individual. Eleven isolated homicides, which
occurred between April 3, 1888 and February 13, 1891, were included in an investigation
carried out by the London Metropolitan Police, grouped under the name "Whitechapel
murders." Opinions vary as to whether these homicides should be attributed to the same
person or not, however five of the eleven crimes (known as "the canonical five") are directly
associated with the Ripper. Most experts point to throat slitting, abdominal and genital
mutilation, removal of internal organs, and progressive facial injuries as distinctive features of
Jack the Ripper's modus operandi . Because the first two cases on record (whose victims were
Emma Elizabeth Smith and Martha Tabram ) do not match this pattern, they are not
considered canonical.

Smith was sexually assaulted in Osborn Street, Whitechapel, on 3 April 1888; An obtuse object
was found inserted into her vagina and pierced her peritoneum . As a result, she developed
peritonitis and died the next day at the London Hospital. Before her death, she revealed that
she had been attacked by two or three men, one of whom was a teenager. The event was
linked to the following murders by the press, [27] [29] but most experts conclude that it is
possible that this was gang violence, unrelated to the Ripper.

On the other hand, Tabram was murdered on August 7 of that same year, her body had
suffered 39 stab wounds. The cruelty of the murderer, the lack of a logical motive, the
proximity of the locations (George Yard, Whitechapel) and the date of the murders later
attributed to the Ripper, led police forces to establish a connection between these events.
However, the attack differs from the canonical ones in that Tabram was stabbed in the throat
and abdomen, without involving cuts of any kind. Many contemporary experts agree that this
case is not related to the crimes committed later, mainly due to the difference in the
characteristics of the wounds. One of the first rumors that arose was that the murders were
committed by the acclaimed American actor Richard Mansfield , who at that time was starring
as Doctor Jekyll in the play The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . Further speculation
led to the arrest of shoeshine boy Juan Pizer, a Polish Jew who had a criminal record that did
not favor him until then (shortly before the first murder, he was accused of indecently
attacking a prostitute), but who ultimately escaped with grace. of his accusations. Similarly,
other suspects were released after being proven innocent in the case, which ultimately led the
police force to be ridiculed for its inability to find the true culprit of the deaths.

The five canonical victims

The five canonical victims of the Ripper are Mary Ann Nichols , Annie Chapman , Elizabeth
Stride , Catherine Eddowes , and Mary Jane Kelly . The body of the first was discovered around
3:40 a.m. on Friday , August 31, 1888 at Buck's Row (Durward Street in 2010), Whitechapel. His
throat had been deeply severed by two cuts, while his lower abdomen was partially torn by a
deep, jagged wound. Many of the other incisions in the abdominal region were made with the
same knife.

The body of Champman, the second canonical victim, was located at approximately 6 a.m. on
Saturday, September 8 of the same year, near a door in the backyard at 29 Hanbury Street,
Spitalfields . As in Nichols' case, the throat had two cuts, while the cuts to the abdomen had
left it completely open. Shortly afterward, it was discovered that the uterus had been removed
from the body. In the judicial investigation process, one of the witnesses described seeing
Chapman next to a dark-haired man with a distinguished but shabby appearance, around 5:30
a.m. Following Champman's murder, the New York Times published:
The heartless man from Whitechapel murdered his fourth victim this morning and remains
undetected, seen or known. There is panic in Whitechapel. The London police detective force
is probably the stupidest in the world.

Stride and Eddowes were murdered in the early hours of Sunday, September 30 ; The body of
the first was found at approximately 1 a.m. in Dutfield's Yard, near Berner Street (now
Henriques Avenue) in Whitechapel. The cause of death was a clear incision that cut the main
artery on the left side of the neck. There are doubts as to whether it is appropriate to attribute
Stride's murder to the Ripper or whether it could have been interrupted during the attack,
since no mutilations were found in the abdomen. The witnesses, who believed they had seen
the victim with a man that night, offered different descriptions: some agreed that her
companion was white, while others stated that he was dark-skinned; Likewise, some versions
confirmed that he was wearing ragged clothing, and others indicated that, on the contrary, he
was well dressed. Furthermore, Eddowes's remains were located in Miter Square, on the
Square Mile , only 45 minutes after Stride's body was found. In this case, the throat had been
cut and the abdomen was completely torn by a long, deep and irregular wound; In addition,
the left kidney and most of the uterus were removed. A local, Joseph Lawende , had passed by
that same street, in the company of a couple of friends, shortly before the murder, at the time
he described to the police having seen a blond man with a shabby appearance with a woman,
who could have been Eddowes. However, his friends were unable to confirm this description.
The murders of Eddowes and Stride later became known as the "double event." Part of
Eddowes's bloody apron was found in the doorway of a house in Goulston Street,
Whitechapel. Graffiti on the wall, just above where the apron was found (which would later be
known as the "Goulston Street graffiti"), seemed to implicate one or more Jews - since at that
time, the streets of Whitechapel and especially where the advertisement was found, they were
inhabited by Jewish people—however it was not clear if the marks were made by the murderer
at the same time he abandoned the apron or if it was simply an incidental coincidence. Then-
Police Commissioner Charles Warren , fearing that the writing would spark a series of anti-
Semitic riots, ordered it erased before dawn.

Kelly's horribly mutilated body was found on the bed in the room where she lived, at 13
Miller's Court, near Dorset Street in Spitalfields, at 10.45am. on Friday , November 9 of that
year. The body showed a cut that went from the throat to the spine and the organs had been
completely removed from the abdomen. The victim's heart was not found.

The five canonical murders were carried out on the night of a weekend and towards the end of
one month or the first week of the next. The mutilations became increasingly severe as the
series of murders occurred, except for the murder of Stride, whose attacker may have been
interrupted. Nichols had all her organs, Chapman's uterus had been removed, Eddowes' kidney
and uterus were never found (besides her face was mutilated) and finally Kelly's body had
been dismembered and her face completely disfigured, although only her heart had been
removed from the crime scene.

Historically, the belief that these five crimes were committed by the same person is derived
from contemporary documents that link them together while excluding others. In 1894 , Sir
Melville Macnaghten , assistant chief of the Metropolitan Police and director of the Criminal
Investigation Department (CID), wrote a report that said: "the Whitechapel murderer had five
victims and nothing more." Similarly, the five canonical victims were linked through a letter
written by police doctor Thomas Bond to Robert Anderson , head of London CID, on 10
November 1888. Some researchers have postulated that while some of the murders were
undoubtedly the work of a single murderer, a considerable and unknown number of
murderers acting independently were responsible for the others. Although the police evidently
treated the five homicides under a single file, writers Stewart P. Evans and Donald Rumbelow
concluded that the case of the canonical five is a "myth" and that although three of the
murders (those of Nichols, Champan and Eddowes) can be obviously connected, there is not
much certainty in the Stride cases. and Kelly, and less so in Tabram's. On the contrary, others
claimed that the six murders (taking into account that of Tabram) were committed by a single
subject. Dr. Percy Clark, assistant to coroner George Bagster Phillips , linked only three of the
homicides, considering that the others were carried out by "one or more weak-minded
individuals... induced to emulate [the original murderer's] crime." Macnaghten joined the
police force a year after the events and his memo contains serious factual errors regarding
possible suspects.

The five canonical homicides in Whitechapel

Mary Ann Nichols , first canonical victim of Jack the Ripper.

Annie Chapman , second canonical victim.

Elizabeth Stride , canonical third victim of the Ripper.

Corpse of Catherine Eddowes , the fourth canonical victim.

Dismembered body of Mary Jane Kelly , the fifth and final canonical victim attributed to Jack
the Ripper.

Subsequent murders in Whitechapel

It is generally considered that Kelly was the last victim of the Ripper, it is assumed that the
crimes ended due to the possible death of the culprit, his imprisonment, his institutionalization
or his emigration. [30] The Whitechapel murders file, however, details four other murders that
occurred after the canonical five: these are those of Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, the Pinchin
Street torso and Frances Coles.

Mylett was found with signs of strangulation in Clarke's Yard, High Street, Poplar , on
December 20 , 1888. Because there were no signs of a struggle, the police believed that she
had either accidentally suffocated herself during a drunken binge or had simply committed
suicide. [61] In the end, the grand jury returned a verdict of manslaughter.

On the other hand, McKenzie died on July 17, 1889 from a ruptured left carotid artery ; His
body was found in Castle Alley, Whitechapel, and had multiple minor bruises and cuts. One of
the pathologists who examined the body, Thomas Bond, considered it to be another Ripper
homicide, although another expert, George Bagster Phillips (who had examined the bodies of
three previous victims), disagreed with this statement. Subsequent opinions have been equally
divided as to whether McKenzie's killer imitated the modus operandi to mislead the
authorities, or whether he was in fact the Ripper.

The Pinchin Street Torso, as its name suggests, was a headless and legless torso of an
unidentified woman, found under a railway arch on Pinchin Street, located in Whitechapel, on
September 10, 1889 . It is likely that the homicide could have been perpetrated anywhere,
while the remains of the dismembered body would have been dispersed to be disposed of.

Coles was murdered on 13 February 1891 under a railway arch in Swallow Gardens,
Whitechapel; his throat had been severed, but his body had not been mutilated. A man called
James Thomas Sadler, who had been seen with her shortly before her murder, was arrested by
police, charged with Coles' murder and even linked to the Ripper. However, he was acquitted
by the court on March 3 of that year, because there was no evidence to corroborate the
accusation.

Other alleged victims

In addition to the eleven Whitechapel cases, some people have linked other attacks to the
Ripper. In one of them, that of "Fairy Fay", it is not entirely clear whether the attack was real or
it was a fabricated affair taking advantage of the popularity of the murderer. An alleged victim
who was allegedly found on December 26, 1887 , "after a stake had been buried in her
abdomen," was designated as "Fairy Fay", however there is no evidence of a homicide
committed in Whitechapel around the time. Christmas season of 1887. In fact, it was believed
that "Fairy Fay" may have been created by the press through the confusion of details
surrounding the murder of Emma Elizabeth Smith and another non-fatal attack that occurred
on Christmas 1886. Therefore, most authors consider that "Fairy Fay" never existed.

Annie Millwood was admitted to the Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary with stab wounds to
her legs and lower abdomen on 25 February 1888 . Although she was discharged, she died
shortly after, on March 31, at the age of 38, apparently of natural causes. As time went by, he
was considered the first victim of the Ripper, however, this attack could not be connected with
the others. Another alleged victim was Ada Wilson, who according to medical reports survived
after being stabbed twice in the neck on March 28, 1888. Annie Farmer, who lived in the same
inn where Martha Tabram resided, reported an attack on November 21, 1888; When
examined, she had a superficial cut on her throat, which was possibly a self-inflicted wound.

Illustration of three men uncovering a woman's torso; "The Whitehall Mystery" of October
1888.

"The Whitehall Mystery" was a term used to refer to the discovery of a woman's decapitated
torso on 2 October 1888, in the basement of the new Metropolitan Police headquarters, built
on Whitehall Street. An arm belonging to the body had previously been found floating in the
River Thames near Pimlico , while one of the legs was found buried near where the torso was
found. The other limbs and the head never appeared, so the body could never be identified.
The mutilations were similar to those in the Pinchin Street case, where the legs and head were
cut off, but not the arms. The Whitehall mystery, along with the Pinchin Street case, could be
part of a series of murders called "The Thames Mysteries", both carried out by a single serial
killer, nicknamed "Torso Killer". It is debatable, even today, the question of whether Jack the
Ripper was the same person or if they were different serial killers active in the same region.
Since the modus operandi of the latter partly differed from that of the Ripper, the police ruled
out relating these latter cases to the canonical ones. Elizabeth Jackson, a prostitute whose
limbs were collected from the River Thames between June 2 and 25, 1889, could be another
victim of the Torso Killer. John Gill, a seven-year-old boy, was found dead at Manningham,
Bradford , on 29 December 1888; His legs had wounds, while his abdomen had been severed
and his intestines removed from the body. Neither his heart nor one of his ears was found. The
similarities with the Mary Kelly case led the press to speculate that the Ripper had murdered
the boy. The victim's employer, milkman William Barrett, was arrested on two occasions
accused of the murder based on circumstantial evidence, however he was ultimately charged
on freedom. Apart from him, no one else was prosecuted in the case.

Carrie Brown (nicknamed "Shakespeare" because she constantly quoted Shakespeare

sonnets ), was strangled with articles of clothing and mutilated with a knife on April 24, 1891 in
Manhattan . At the time of finding the body, a long fork embedded in the groin area was found
at the crime scene, as well as superficial wounds on the legs and back. Although no organs
were removed from the body, an ovary was found on the bed; it is unknown if it was left there
on purpose or accidentally. At the time the murder was compared to those in Whitechapel,
although London's Metropolitan Police ruled out any connection between them.

Investigation

Inspector Frederick Abberline , 1888.

The surviving criminal records of the Whitechapel murders provide a detailed insight into the
investigative procedures that existed in Victorian times . One of the steps in the investigation
consisted of a large group of police officers carrying out a house-to-house investigation
program throughout Whitechapel, collecting forensic material for later examination. Once this
was done, we began to identify and draw conjectures, examining some more thoroughly, while
others were simply discarded as they were not useful for the investigation. Today, the police
often work according to this same pattern. Approximately 2,000 people were then
interviewed, "more than 300 were investigated" and 80 were arrested.

Initially, the investigation was carried out by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of
Whitechapel Metropolitan Police (H), headed by Detective Inspector Edmund Reid . Following
Nichols' death, Constables Frederick Abberline , Henry Moore and Walter Andrews were sent
from Scotland Yard Headquarters to provide assistance. It was not until the Eddowes homicide,
which occurred in Square Mile , that the municipal police, led by James McWilliam , became
involved in the case. However, the general direction of the investigations into the Ripper file
was somewhat hampered because the newly appointed head of the CID, Robert Anderson ,
was on leave in Switzerland between September 7 and September 6. October, the period in
which Chapman, Stride and Eddowes were murdered. This led the Metropolitan Police
Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren , to appoint Inspector Donald Swanson as Scotland Yard's
coordinator of the investigation.

Edmund Reid commented on the police's frustration and the killer's modus operandi :

The position of the blood and the body showed that he had cut her throat with his right hand;
from right to left, causing the blood to fly in the opposite direction from where he was, which
would probably prevent his clothes from getting stained with blood. One of the main
difficulties of the case was that ingenuity surpassed reason.

Because of the social dissatisfaction caused by the work of the police forces, a group of
volunteer citizens from the East End, known as the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, chose to
patrol the streets in search of suspicious people; In fact, the Committee asked the British
Home Office police department, on September 30, 1888, to definitively and officially establish
a reward for anyone who provided useful information about the murderer. However, the
request was rejected that same day. Previously, a month before, on August 31, L. Q. Walter
had sent a letter to the British Home Office police department to offer some kind of financial
bonus to whoever managed to capture Leather Apron, this option also being instantly rejected.
Similarly, on 10 September, Samuel Montagu , 1st Baron Swaythling, offered a sum of £100 to
whoever captured the Ripper. Thus, the day after the Committee sent its request, on October
1, The Financial News newspaper offered a financial incentive of GBP 300 to anyone who
managed to capture the murderer. That same day, the Lord Mayor of London proposed even a
higher bonus by offering up to GBP 500 for the capture of the Ripper and although Sir Alfred
Kirby also announced a reward of GBP 100, in addition to including a group of 10 militia men,
the latter was reduced at the end. A day later, on October 2, George Lusk (leader of the
Whitechapel Vigilance Committee) again insisted the Home Office reconsider the reward
option. This same concept of financial bonuses would later be taken up by ADIP Walter and
Sunders Peterfields , a textile industry , in a letter sent to the Home Office in London. Another
of the Committee's most prominent actions was to hire private detectives to independently
question witnesses. However, the government rejected any such gratification; In the opinion of
Paul Begg : "the Metropolitan Police and other institutions had offered rewards in the past and
this policy had fallen into disuse because it was believed that offering a reward encouraged
people to provide false information in the hope of obtaining it." Because of this, criticism was
immediate; The police were "accused of not putting much effort into finding out who the
Ripper was and that the effort would have been much greater if the crimes had taken place in
the richer areas of London." Subsequently, an offer of £500 was offered to anyone who gave
information about Eddowes' killer.

Butchers , surgeons and doctors became suspicious due to the nature of the mutilations. A
note from Henry Smith , Acting Commissioner of the municipal police, indicates that the alibis
of the local butchers and slaughterers were investigated, however they were eliminated from
the investigation process. A report by Inspector Donald Swanson to the Home Office confirms
that a total of 76 butcher shops and slaughterhouses were visited and examined, and that the
investigation had covered all their employees over the previous six months. Some
contemporary figures, including Queen Victoria , thought that the pattern of the murders
indicated that the culprit was a butcher or rancher who boarded one of the cattle ships that
plied the waters between London and Continental Europe (it was even thought that the culprit
was not an Englishman but a Jew). Whitechapel was close to the London docks, and generally
these ships docked every Thursday or Friday and left on Saturday or Sunday. Even when this
type of boat was examined, the dates of the murders did not coincide with the movement of a
single ship, and the transfer of a crew member between two or more ships was also ruled out.

Criminal profile

In late October, Robert Anderson asked the police doctor, Thomas Bond , for his opinion on
the killer's surgical skills and knowledge. The opinion offered by Bond about the character
known as the "Whitechapel Killer" is considered the first surviving criminal profile in history.
The doctor's assessment was based on his own examination of the most mutilated victim and
postmortem notes from the four previous canonical murders, in which he stated the following:

I do not doubt that all five murders were committed by the same hand. In the first four the
throats appear to have been cut from left to right, while in the last case, due to the
considerable mutilation, it is impossible to indicate in which direction the cut was made,
although traces of arterial blood were found on the wall. in the form of splashes, very close to
where the woman's head must have been.
All the circumstances surrounding the murders lead me to deduce that the women were
murdered while they were lying down and, in all cases, the throat was slit first.

The murderer, in his outward appearance, is most likely harmless looking. A middle-aged man,
well-groomed and respectable. He may have the habit of wearing a cape or coat because
otherwise the blood on his hands and clothes would have attracted the attention of passers-
by.

Bond was totally opposed to the idea that the killer possessed any kind of scientific or
anatomical knowledge, or even "the technical knowledge of a butcher or slaughterer." In his
opinion, the murderer must have had the habits of a solitary man, subject to "periodic attacks
of homicidal or erotic mania " and the nature of the mutilations was a probable indicator of "
hypersexuality ." Furthermore, he considered: "the homicidal impulse could have developed
from a feeling of revenge or a melancholic mental condition, or religious mania could have
been the original illness, but I do not believe that any of these [hypotheses] are correct." .
While there is no evidence of any sexual activity with any of the victims, some psychologists
hypothesize that the penetration of the victims with a knife and "the display of the corpses in
sexually degrading positions with the wounds exposed" indicate that the perpetrator derived
sexual pleasure. with the attacks. However, this opinion is questioned by others, who dismiss
these hypotheses stating that they are actually a series of unverifiable assumptions.
Comparisons of the Ripper with the motivation and actions of contemporary serial killers have
led to suggestions that the first may have been a schizophrenic madman, like Peter Sutcliffe
the "Yorkshire Ripper", who claimed to hear voices, instructing him to attack. to prostitutes.
Suspicions

Cover of Puck magazine from September 21, 1889 , about the Jack the Ripper speculation.
Made by cartoonist Tom Merry .

The concentration of the murders on weekends and the location just a few streets apart has
led many to conclude that the Ripper was an employee who worked during the week and lived
in the same town. Others think he was an educated upper-class man, possibly a doctor or
butcher (as the killer was thought to have surgical and anatomical experience, based on the
extent of the mutilations and the fact that Champman's uterus would have been extracted),
who settled in the Whitechapel area looking for a more suitable area to carry out his crimes;
These notions are based on cultural perceptions, such as fear of the medical profession,
distrust of modern science, or exploitation of the poor by the rich. Some even described him as
“skilled” and others simply thought the opposite. The writer Stephen Knight proposed an
elaborate Masonic conspiracy theory involving the upper class and a doctor in his 1976 book
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution , however many authors call this theory "a fantasy."
Suspects proposed years after the murders include virtually anyone remotely connected to the
case in contemporary documents, as well as many famous names who were never considered
in the original police investigation. Because everyone from that time is now dead, modern
authors have been free to accuse anyone, without "requiring any historical evidence." In 1894,
Sir Meville Macnaghten drafted a memorandum in which he named three people who seemed
suspicious to him (today, these accusations are classified as circumstantial evidence):
Montague John Druitt , Michael Ostrog and Aaron Kosminski . In Begg's opinion:

I think Ostrog can be crossed out without problems. He was a much older man. He was a
swindler and a petty thief and it is very possible that he was in France at the time of the
murders.

Despite the many and varied theories about the identity and profession of Jack the Ripper, the
authorities do not agree on a single solution and the number of identified suspects reaches
more than one hundred.
According to a study carried out for the documentary "Jack the Ripper in America", broadcast
by Discovery Channel , the murderer traveled to the United States and would have committed
several murders in the country. The result of the investigation concludes that Jack the Ripper
was called James Kelly , a psychotic murderer who escaped from the Broadmoor psychiatric
asylum in England and who had traveled, after the cessation of murders in that country, to the
United States. He points out in support of his version that some time before the murder of a
prostitute in that country, which would have had the same characteristics as those of the
homicides that occurred in London, a letter sent to the New York police and signed by who he
claimed to be Jack the Ripper warned that there would be more murders. James Kelly later
returned to the psychiatric hospital as an old man and said he had fought "against evil" all his
life and admitted to having traveled to the United States.

Cards

The letter « From hell ».

The " Dear Boss " letter.

The « Saucy Jacky » postcard.

Over the course of the Ripper crimes, police, newspapers and others received hundreds of
letters about the case. Some well-intentioned people offered advice on how to capture the
killer, but the vast majority were useless. Hundreds of letters claimed to be written by the
murderer himself, and three of these stand out: the "Dear Boss" letter , the "Saucy Jacky"
postcard , and the "From Hell" letter .

The "Dear Boss" letter, dated 25 September 1888 (postmarked on 27 September), was
received by the Central News Agency and sent to Scotland Yard on 29 September. It was
initially considered a joke, but when Eddowes was found dead three days after the letters were
sealed with a partially severed ear, the letter's promise "I will cut off the young ladies' ears"
attracted attention. However, Eddowes's ear appeared to have been nicked by the killer
incidentally during his attack, while the letter writer's threat to send the ears to the police was
never carried out. The name "Jack the Ripper" was first used in this letter by the signer and
gained worldwide notoriety after its publication. Most of the later letters imitate the narrative
tone of this one. Many sources list another letter, dated September 17, 1888, as the one that
first used Jack the Ripper's name, but most experts believe it was a modern forgery inserted
into police records. in the 20th century , long after the murders. The letter contains the
following text:

Dear Boss, for days I keep hearing that the police have caught me, but in reality they haven't
caught me yet. On my next job I'll cut off the lady's ear and send it to the police for fun. I can't
stand certain types of women and I won't stop gutting them until I'm done with them. The last
one is a magnificent job, the lady in question didn't have time to scream. My knife is so sharp
that I want to get to work right now. I like my job and I am eager to start again, soon you will
hear from me and my funny little game [...]

Sincerely, Jack the Ripper.

The "Saucy Jacky" postcard was stamped on October 1, 1888 and received the same day by the
Central News Agency. The calligraphy is similar to that of "Dear Boss." It mentions that two
victims were murdered very close to each other; The phrase "a double event this time" could
refer specifically to the murders of Stride and Eddowes. The letter was mailed before the
murders became known, so it is unlikely that anyone had knowledge of the crimes, but it was
sealed 24 hours after the murders took place, so it was not until much later. after the details
were known to journalists and residents of the area.

I wasn't kidding, dear boss, when I tipped you off. Tomorrow you will have news of "Good
Jack." This time, the thing is twofold; The first one screamed a little and I couldn't finish it, I
didn't have time to remove her ear for the police, thank you for holding my last letter until I
returned to work.

Jack the Ripper.

The letter "From Hell" was received by George Lusk , leader of the Whitechapel Vigilance
Committee, on 16 October 1888; The handwriting and style of this differ from those of the
"Dear Boss" letter. The letter came in a small box in which Lusk discovered half a kidney,
preserved in "spirits of wine" ( ethanol ). Eddowes' left kidney is believed to have been
removed by the killer. In a gloomy tone, the writer states that he "fried and ate" half of the
kidney that was needed. However, there is disagreement about the organ found: some
maintain that it belonged to Eddowes, while others argue that it was actually a macabre joke.
The kidney was examined by Dr. Thomas Openshaw of the London Hospital , who determined
that it was human and that it corresponded to the left side of the body, but (contrary to false
newspaper reports) he could not determine either the age or gender of the kidney. owner.
Openshaw later received a letter signed by "Jack the Ripper" . "From Hell" contains the
following text:

From hell. Mr. Lusk. Sir, I enclose half of a kidney that I took from a woman and that I have
kept for you, the other part I fried and ate, it was very delicious. I can send you the bloody
knife with which it was extracted, if you wait a little. Signed, Catch me if you can Mr. Lusk.

Jack the Ripper.

Scotland Yard published facsimiles of the "Dear Boss" letter and postcard on October 3, in the
hope that someone would recognize the handwriting. In a letter to Godfrey Lushington, Chief
Secretary of State at the Home Office , Charles Warren explained: "I believe this is all a hoax
but of course we are obliged to test it and find whoever is responsible in any case." On
October 7 , 1888, George R. Sims , writing in the Sunday newspaper Referee , scathingly
explained that the letter had been written "in order to maximize the popularity of a low-
circulation newspaper." Later, police forces claimed to have identified a journalist as the
author of "Dear Boss" and the corresponding postcard. The journalist was identified as Tom
Bullen in a letter from Chief Inspector John George Littlechild to George R. Sims, which is dated
September 23, 1913 . A journalist named Fred Best confessed in 1931 that he had written the
letters to "keep the business alive." In 2009, Kelvin McKenzie , a retired newspaper editor,
subjected the "Dear Boss" letter to a handwriting analysis carried out by graphologist Elaine
Quigley; This demonstrated, after placing a transparent copy of a known sample of Best's
handwriting above the original letter, that Best was, almost undoubtedly, the author of it.
From the deliberate way in which the letter was written, Quigley deduced that the author
wrote it under the instructions of a third party: according to this theory, McKenzie was then
able to speculate that T. Q. O'Connor , Best's editor, was his accomplice and his goal was to
increase the circulation of his newspaper The Star .
Media

«Horrible murder in the East End . A woman has been mutilated. Captured: "Leather apron."
Large-format newspaper referring to the murderer as "Leather Apron."

The Ripper murders marked an important dividing line regarding the treatment of crimes by
journalists. Although not the first case of a serial killer, Jack the Ripper was the first to create a
global media frenzy. Tax reforms in the 1850s had allowed cheap newspapers to be published
with greater circulation. These multiplied after the Victorian era to include mass-circulation
newspapers at a very low price (one penny), along with popular magazines, such as Illustrated
Police News , which made the Ripper the beneficiary of unprecedented publicity.

Following Nichols' murder in early September, the Manchester Guardian reported that: "Any
information in the hands of the police must be kept secret [...] It is believed that their attention
is particularly directed at... one character known as 'Leather Apron'. Journalists were
frustrated by the judicial police's reluctance to reveal details of their investigation to the
public, so they resorted to writing reports of dubious veracity. As a result of the above,
fictitious descriptions of "Leather Apron" began to proliferate in the press, although they were
at the same time dismissed by rival reporters, as "a consequence of the mythical fantasy of
journalists." Thus, John Pizer , a local shoeshine boy, was recognized as "Leather Apron" and
arrested, "despite the fact that the investigating inspector reported that "there was nothing to
prove it." He would finally be released after confirming his alibi.

After the publication of the "Dear Boss" letter, "Jack the Ripper" came to replace "Leather
Apron" as the name adopted by the press and the public to describe the murderer. The killer
later became known also as "Red Jack." The name "Jack" was used to describe another
legendary London killer: " Spring-Heeled Jack ", who supposedly attacked his victims by
jumping over walls and fleeing as quickly as they came. The invention and adoption of a
pseudonym for a particular killer became a very common practice among the media with
notable examples such as the New Orleans Axeman , the Boston Strangler , and the Beltway
Sniper . Example derivatives of Jack the Ripper include the French Ripper , the Düsseldorf
Ripper , the Camden Ripper , Jack the Stripper , the Yorkshire Ripper , and the Rostov Ripper .
Sensational press reports, combined with the fact that no one was found guilty, have
confounded academic analysis and created a legend that casts doubt on subsequent serial
killers.

Legacy

"A ghost carrying a knife and floating on a neighborhood street." The "Nemesis of Negligence":
Jack the Ripper depicted as a Whitechapel ghost lurking and embodying social abandonment,
in a cartoon in 'Punch' magazine in 1888

The nature of the murders and the victims drew attention to the poor living conditions in the
East End, at the same time causing public opinion to rally against overcrowding and unsanitary
conditions in the slums. In the two decades after the murders, the worst aspects of those
neighborhoods were eliminated or, where appropriate, demolished, although streets and
some buildings survived and the legend of the Ripper is promoted through a tour of the sites
of the murders. . The Ten Bells pub on Commercial Street was frequented by at least one of
the victims (Mary Kelly) and was the center of such tours for many years.

In addition to the contradictions and unreliability of contemporary testimony, attempts to

identify the real killer are hampered by a lack of forensic evidence. DNA analyzes on the letters
are inconclusive; The available material has been handled too many times and is too
contaminated to offer meaningful results. To date more than 100 non-fiction works exclusively
address the Jack the Ripper murders, making it one of the most explored criminal themes in
literature. The term "ripperology" was even coined by Colin Wilson in the 1970s to describe
case study. After a series of analyzes of the files, the newspapers Ripperana , Ripperologist and
Ripper Notes published their investigations. The English painter Walter Sickert , inspired by the
unwillingness to assume order in the East End region, made some paintings, including the work
Jack the Ripper's Bedroom .

Immediately after the murders "Jack the Ripper became the children's bogeyman." The
representations made of him were often fantastic or monstrous. Between 1920 and 1930 , he
was depicted in films wearing typical clothing as a man hiding a secret by hunting his
unsuspecting victims; the atmosphere and evil were shown through lighting and shadow play.
In 1960 , he became "the symbol of predatory aristocracy", being portrayed with a top hat and
dressed as a gentleman. The ruling class then became the villain, while Jack represented the
overexploitation of the upper social class. Furthermore, the image of the murderer was fused
with stories and symbols of the horror genre, such as Dracula 's cloak or Victor Frankenstein 's
organ harvest. In fact, the fictional world of the Ripper managed to align itself with multiple
genres, ranging from Sherlock Holmes to Japanese erotic horror .

Unlike other less popular murderers, there is no wax figure of Leather Apron in Madame
Tussauds ' Chamber of Horrors, as there they are governed by a policy of not exhibiting
characters whose description is not completely known. Because of this, Jack is represented as
a shadow. In 2006 , he was chosen by BBC History magazine and its community of readers as
the "most hateful Briton of all time."

Literature

Jack the Ripper stands out in hundreds of works of fiction, which together surpass the
boundaries between reality and fiction, including the letters and the Ripper's Diary . Likewise,
it has been taken up in novels, short stories, poems, cartoons, games, songs, plays, films, and
in the 1930 opera Lulu , by Alban Berg . Shortly after the first murders occurred, in October
1888, the gothic novel The Curse Upon Miter Square was published, written by John Francis
Brewer, whose plot primarily addresses the murder of Catherine Eddowes in Miter Square.
Likewise, the work In Darkest London by Margaret Harkness, published the following year
under the byline "John Law", describes Jack as a non-Jewish butcher who hid among the
Jewish community of the East End region. Generally speaking, the Ripper stories managed to
attract international attention; In 1892 , an anthology of short stories in the Swedish language ,
Uppskäraren (" The Ripper ") compiled by Adolf Paul , was released, however this was
ultimately suppressed by the Russian authorities. On the other hand, the Spanish-language
work Jack The Ripper came to be considered a "fun Sherlock Holmes -style pastiche" after its
commercial release, shortly after the series of homicides.

The first influential story, "The Lodger", was written by Marie Belloc Lowndes , published in
McClure's Magazine in 1911 and novelized a couple of years later, in 1913 . In this one, a
London couple, the Buntings, suspect that their tenant, Mr. Sleuth, is a mysterious murderer
known as "The Avenger," who is clearly based on the image of the Ripper. Although it is not
revealed at the end whether Sleuth is really The Avenger, the focus of the short story lies on
the Buntings' psychological terror , which could be entirely unfounded, regardless of the truth
about Sleuth's true identity. . In 1927 , "The Lodger" inspired filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock 's
feature film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ; In contemporary times, a total of four
additional adaptations have been recorded, all taking Lowndes' original story as a reference.

In 1926 , Leonard Matters proposed, in a magazine article, that Jack had once been an eminent
doctor whose son died of syphilis because of his relationship with a prostitute. According to his
theory, the doctor, under the pseudonym "Dr. "Stanley" committed the murders as revenge
and fled to Argentina afterward. Later, in 1929 , Matters expanded his ideas in the form of a
book titled The Mystery of Jack the Ripper ; After its publication, it was pointed out as an
object of study by academics, although it was later evident that it contained errors of
objectivity, in addition to the fact that the bibliography that supposedly supports its content
was never located. The aforementioned material inspired other works such as the theatrical
production Murder Most Foul , as well as the film Jack the Ripper . Jonathan Goodman 's book
Who He? (1984) is also written in the style of an objective study, however the suspect
mentioned in the text, a certain "Peter J Harpick", is actually a term used as an anagram of
"Jack the Ripper" ( in Spanish, "Jack the Ripper").
The short story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper", by Robert Bloch (published in the collection
Weird Tales , in 1943 ), describes the Ripper as an immortal entity who must perform human
sacrifices to guarantee eternal life . Decades later, in the 1960s , a double adaptation was
made (one for radio, in the radio program Stay Tuned for Terror , and the other for television,
in the format of an episode of the Thriller series). Likewise, the science-fiction anthology
Dangerous Visions (1967) incorporated an unpublished story about the murderer, authored by
Bloch, titled " A Toy for Juliette ", as well as an official continuation of it by Harlan Ellison , the
which was renamed " The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World ." Bloch's other works
include The Will to Kill (1954) and Night of the Ripper (1984).

In addition to the above, the following stories were based on Jack's mythology: A Case to
Answer (1947) by Edgar Lustgarten , The Screaming Mimi (1949) by Fredric Brown , Terror Over
London (1957) by Gardner Fox , Ritual in the Dark (1960) and The Killer (1970) by Colin Wilson ,
Sagittarius (1962) by Ray Russell , A Feast Unknown (1969) by Philip José Farmer , A Kind of
Madness (1972) by Anthony Boucher , Nine Bucks Row (1973) by T. AND. Huff, The Michaelmas
Girls (1975) by John Brooks Barry, Jack's Little Friend (1975) by Ramsey Campbell , By Flower
and Dean Street (1976) by Patrice Chaplin, The Private Life of Jack the Ripper (1980) by Richard
Gordon , White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (1987) by Iain Sinclair , Anno Dracula (1992) by Kim
Newman , A Night in the Lonesome October (1993) by Roger Zelazny , Ladykiller (1993) by
Martina Cole , Savage (1993) by Richard Laymon , The Pit (1993) by Neil Penswick, Dan Leno
and the Limehouse Golem (1994) by Peter Ackroyd , Pentecost Alley (1996) by Anne Perry and
The Matrix (1998) by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry . More recently, Giles Richard Ekins has
made use of the Ripper murders in his novel Sinistrari ; in which he includes detailed texts
about his victims and the main suspects.

Cinema

The book "The Lodger" has been adapted into five films: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
, by Alfred Hitchcock (1927), The Lodger (1932), The Lodger (1944), Man in the Attic (1953) and
The Lodger (2009). In his version, Hitchcock decided to hire Ivor Novello in the starring role,
which caused the production company Gainsborough Pictures to insist in return on rewriting
the script in such a way that Novello's character was more likeable. In 1932 , Novello made a
new version of the film, this time with a more dramatic ending in which he strangles the
murderer, who is actually his crazed brother, the "Bosnian murderer." On the other hand, the
1944 adaptation dispensed with the novel's ambivalence and described the tenant, played by
Laird Cregar , as Jack the Ripper. Unlike its predecessors, this new version is set in 1888, the
year in which the events occurred. The 1953 Man in the Attic version, starring Jack Palance ,
turned out to be very similar to the previous adaptation, while the 2009 film stars Simon Baker
.

Another film based on Jack is Room to Let (1949), which was based on Margery Allingham 's
radio show broadcast in 1948 and was one of the first horror films produced by Hammer
Productions . In the plot, Valentine Dyall plays the tenant, Dr. Fell, who escapes from an
asylum where he had been held captive for 16 years after committing the canonical
Whitechapel murders. Later, the same production company released three new films in the
early 1970s: in Hands of the Ripper (1971), the Ripper's daughter, played by Angharad Rees ,
becomes a murderer after watching her father kill her own mother; On the other hand, in Dr.
Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), Dr. Jekyll transforms into the evil Sister Hyde and is responsible
for Jack's murders; Finally, in his production Terror in the Wax Museum (1973), a murderer
poses as a wax figure of Apron de Cuero.
  Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (1924; Waxworks in English), directed by Paul Leni ,
recounts one of the murders perpetrated by Mandil de Cuero, who is played by
Werner Krauss (previously, the same actor starred in the film The Cabinet of Doctor
Caligari ).
 Die Büchse der Pandora (1929; trans. literal: Pandora's Box ), is a German film directed
by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and based on a play created by Frank Wedekind about a
woman, Lulu (played by actress Louise Brooks ), whose uninhibited style leads her to
meet with the Ripper, played by Gustav Diessl .
 Drôle de Drame (1937) is a parody of Jack directed by Marcel Carné , starring Jean-
Louis Barrault as an East End vegetarian who murders butchers in revenge for the
animals they have killed.
 The television film Jack the Ripper (1958), based on an episode of The Veil , features
Boris Karloff in its opening scenes and is about a clairvoyant who identifies the Ripper
as a notable surgeon who decides to pretend to be dead to avoid being imprisoned. in
a lunatic asylum. The story is based on a newspaper report in 1895, which states that
Robert James Lees had used psychic powers to lure the murderer to the home of a
London physicist.
 Jack the Ripper (1959), produced by Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker , relied in part
on the theory formulated by Leonard Matters , where he also concluded that the
Whitechapel killer was actually a vengeful doctor.
 On the other hand, the German film Das Ungeheuer von London City (1964), (trans.
literal: The Monster of London ), presents Jack the Ripper's son as the antagonist of the
story; Likewise, it mentions that Jack had been a victim of syphilis.
 Dr. Strangelove (1964) is a black comedy in which the antagonist is called General Jack
D. Ripper, although the similarities between him and the real Jack are never delved
into in the plot.
 Both A Study in Terror (1965) and Murder by Decree (1979) show Sherlock Holmes
fighting the Whitechapel murderer. The first is accompanied by a novel of the same
name written by Ellery Queen , while the second stars Christopher Plummer as
Sherlock and James Mason as Watson. Coincidentally, in both films, Frank Finlay plays
Inspector Lestrade . Part of the same plot was followed in the television series Jack the
Ripper , in 1988, starring Michael Caine as Inspector Frederick George Abberline .
 On the other hand, the low-budget production Night After Night After Night (1969)
addressed the plot of a judge whose secret identity is that of a Ripper-like murderer
who attacks prostitutes in the London area known as Soho .

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, films began to be released whose connection to the myth of
Leather Mandil was solely for commercial purposes. An example of this are the softcore porn
horror films Blade of the Ripper (1970), The Ripper of Notre Dame (1981) and The New York
Ripper (1982), which have little or no relationship with the Whitechapel homicides beyond. to
use the term "Ripper" in their titles. Another notable example is The Ripper of Notre Dame ,
which was directed and co-written by Jesús Franco , whose other film titled Jack the Ripper
(1976) features Klaus Kinski as a homicidal doctor whose mother was a prostitute. Similarly,
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975) addresses a story in which the Ripper hides in a
photography studio; The film is considered a little more pornographic than the previous ones.
Meanwhile, the thrillers Jack the Mangler of London (1973), Fear City (1984), Night Ripper
(1986) and Jack's Back (1988) received poor reviews upon release, as did the Japanese film
Assault! Jack the Ripper . Edge of Sanity (1989) is another similar film that, despite starring
Anthony Perkins as Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Jack Hyde, was classified by critics as "a
production in bad taste."
  The Ruling Class (1972) is a satire of the British aristocracy, where the murderer is
linked to the upper class of Great Britain. [236] In this film, Jack Gurney (played by actor
Peter O'Toole ) spends much of the plot believing that he is Jack the Ripper, which is
why he perpetrates a couple of the murders attributed to Leather Apron.
 In Time After Time (1979), based on the novel of the same name, Jack escapes in a
time machine to a contemporary San Francisco, where he is pursued by H. g. Wells .
 The production Terror at London Bridge (1985), starring David Hasselhoff , tells how
Jack's spirit is transported to Arizona by means of a cursed stone from the London
Bridge, located in Lake Havasu City. That same year, The Ripper was released, where
the same spirit of the murderer is hidden in a cursed ring.
 Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) is a comedy film that parodies theories
surrounding the identity of the Ripper, speculating that Jack was the Loch Ness
Monster , but in disguise.
 The black comedy Deadly Advice (1994) stars Jane Horrocks as a serial killer who
imagines she is being advised by the incarnations of famous historical murderers. In
this film, John Mills appears as Jack.
 Ripper Man (1994) shows a murderer who believes himself to be the reincarnation of
the murderer George Chapman, who was one of the suspects of being the Ripper, after
his arrest in 1903.
 In The Ripper (1997), Samuel West plays Prince Eddy , who is accused of being the
Ripper.
 Years later, the film Jill the Ripper (2000) was released, directed by Dolph Lundgren ,
which stars a female version of the Ripper, who murders only men.
 The film From Hell (2001), based on the comic strip of the same name , was directed by
the Hughes brothers and starred Johnny Depp as Inspector Abberline.
 Released the same year as From Hell (and consequently overshadowed by it), the
productions Ripper and Bad Karma (renamed Hell's Gate ) also addressed the theme of
Jack the Ripper.

Comic books

From Hell is a graphic novel created by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell about the Ripper,
whose name is taken from the homonymous letter supposedly written by the murderer. It is
based on Stephen Knight 's conspiracy theory, in which he accused royalty and Freemasonry of
having perpetrated the crimes attributed to Jack, a theory popularized by his book Jack the
Ripper: The Final Solution . In the appendix to the graphic novel, Moore clearly mentions that
he does not give credence to Knight's theory and explains that he only used the name for
dramatic purposes. The royals and the assassin were also incorporated in Blood of the Innocent
, made by Rickey Shanklin, Marc Hempel and Mark Wheatley in 1986, as well as a story ("Royal
Blood") in the DC Comics series Hellblazer .

The 100th issue of Master of Kung Fu , published by Marvel Comics in 1981, contains a story
titled "Red of Fang and Claw, All Love Lost", in which the Ripper was an experiment of Fu
Manchu , who escaped and was killed. hid in London. At the end of the story, the hero of the
publication confronts the murderer. Likewise, in Gotham by Gaslight (1989), from the DC
Comics publisher, shows a Victorian era version of the superhero Batman , who is chasing Jack
in New York . Additionally, Leather Apron appeared in Grant Morrison 's Doom Patrol (1989),
Wonder Woman: Amazonia , and Predator: Nemesis in 1997, as well as a Judge Dredd comic
book story titled "Night of the Ripper!". A story in the Justice League series merged with The
Island of Dr. Moreau by H. g. Wells , resulting in a story in which Jack appears as an orangutan ,
while David Hitchcock 's Whitechapel Freak (2001) incorporates the murderer as a secondary
figure in a story centered on a traveling freak show. In it, the Ripper is a legless man "tied to
the shoulders of a dwarf." There is another story, additionally, created by Rick Geary and
published in his 1995 volume A Treasury of Victorian Murder .

Theater and opera

The Ripper appears at the end of Frank Wedekind 's morality play Die Büchse der Pandora
(1904), in which he murders Lulu, the main character. Lulú is the sinful personification of lust
who unwittingly receives what she deserves when she flirts with the murderer. In the original
production stage, Wedekind portrayed the Ripper. [198] The work was adapted into a film Die
Büchse der Pandora (in 1929, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst ), as well as the opera Lulu (by
Alban Berg ); Both performances also end with the Ripper's murder of Lulu. Three films were
also made in 1923, 1962 and 1980 respectively, [249] and a play directed by Peter Barnes in
1970.

André de Lorde 's Jack l'Eventreur was part of the Grand Guignol production in Paris . Marie
Belloc Lowndes ' novel and short story The Lodger was adapted for the stage as The Lodger:
Who Is He? by Horace Annesley Vachell . In 1917 , Lionel Atwill 's first role on Broadway was as
the lead character. Phyllis Tate also based her opera The Lodger , first staged in 1960, on
Lowndes' story. [253] Meanwhile, Claude Pirkis 's Murder Most Foul debuted in 1948. Here, the
character of the murderer, Dr. Stanley, was taken from The Mystery of Jack the Ripper by
Leonard Matters , first published in 1929. Finally, Force and Hypocrisy by Doug Lucie is based
on the royal conspiracy theory written by Stephen Knight .

Rock and pop music

Link Wray 's 1959 instrumental version, "Jack the Ripper," begins with an evil laugh and a
woman's scream. This was used in " Jack the Ripper " (1963), originally recorded by Screaming
Lord Sutch and performed as a cover by The White Stripes , The Horrors , Black Lips , The
Sharks and Jack & The Rippers . Jack the Ripper: The Musical (1974), with lyrics by Ron Pember
and music by Dennis DeMarne , also influenced the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim . The mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984) features a
vignette in which a music band discusses the possibility of composing an opera about the life
of Jack the Ripper, called Saucy Jack . In 1996, a rock opera titled Yours Truly: Jack the Ripper
with lyrics by Frogg Moody and Dave Taylor was improved and the Ripper came to be
described as an ordinary man. Metal bands are particularly associated with the image of
"bloodshed and sleaze" coming from the Ripper. Some songs titled "Ripper" were recorded at
the time by Judas Priest in 1976 and Praying Mantis in 1979. The American deathcore band
Whitechapel , derives its name from the homonymous city located in London, site of the Jack
the Ripper murders. Accordingly, the band's debut album The Somatic Defilement is a first-
person concept album about Jack the Ripper. Texan metal group Ripper is another example of
a band that decides to draw inspiration from the mythology of the Whitechapel Killer.
Likewise, the vocalists of the groups Meridian and Sodomizer adopted the names Jack D.
Ripper and Ripper, respectively.

Other songs inspired by the Ripper were written by artists such as Morrissey , Nick Cave and
the Bad Seeds , The Legendary Pink Dots , Thee Headcoats , The Buff Medways and Bob Dylan .
The Radio Werewolf group's album The Fiery Summons contains in its songs words used in the
letter From Hell , [260] attributed to Jack the Ripper.
Television

In the episode "Wolf in the Fold" of the television series Star Trek (1967), screenwriter Robert
Bloch reused parts of his short story titled "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper", which had already
appeared in an episode of the series. American television show Thriller , in 1961. In it, an
immortal entity, referred to as "Redjac", feeds on fear, and has committed some murders,
including those attributed to Jack the Ripper, in order to survive. By the end of the 1960s,
Leather Apron was established on American television as a "universal evil force," a concept
that could give rise to any type of villain.

Likewise, in the episode "The New Exhibit" of The Twilight Zone (1963), Martin Balsam plays
the curator of a wax museum who begins to become obsessed with five wax figures of
murderers, including the Ripper. The above leads him to kill others in order to "protect the wax
figures." On the other hand, in the chapter "Knife in the Wilderness" of Cimarron Strip (1968),
written by Harlan Ellison , Jack continues his series of atrocities on the American continent,
ending in Cimarron City, where he meets his end at the hands of native Indians. . Meanwhile,
in the series Super Agent 86 , specifically in the episode "House of Max" (1970), the murderer
is an animated wax mannequin.

In the television series The Sixth Sense , in the episode "With Affection, Jack the Ripper" (1972),
a man goes crazy during a paranormal experiment in which he assumes control of the
murderer's body. Furthermore, in the episode also titled "With Affection, Jack the Ripper" of
the series Fantasy Island (1980) - the reason for having the same name as the episode of The
Sixth Sense is because the writer was the same in both programs: Don Ingalls— Lynda Day
George plays criminologist Lorraine Peters, who uses a time portal to confirm her suspicions
that Jack the Ripper was a doctor, Albert Fell, played by Victor Buono . However, Fell follows
her once she returns through the portal and takes her back to 1888, the enigmatic Mr. Roarke
fortuitously intervenes and the doctor later dies while trying to flee. The name Fell is clearly
taken from Margery Allingham's radio show, Room to Let (1948). The same concept of the time
portal was incorporated in "A Rip in Time" (1997), the first episode of the miniseries Timecop ,
in which a time-traveling police officer returns to 1888 to catch a criminal he has murdered
and displaced to Jack the Ripper. Meanwhile, the episode "Comes the Inquisitor" of the
Babylon 5 series shows a character named Sebastian, who is actually the Ripper, abducted by
the Vorlon alien race in 1888, to become their inquisitor, so a way that can test (through
torture) beings who are called to lead an important cause.

In turn, the series Jack the Ripper (1973), written by Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd , had a
connection at some point with the police drama Z Cars . The special featured Z Cars detectives
Barlow and Watt (played by Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor , respectively) investigating the
murders from a historical perspective. In the first episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker , titled
"The Ripper" (1974), reporter Carl Kolchak pursues a supernatural killer whose victims have
the same patterns as the murders attributed to the Ripper. The murderer has superhuman
strength and is invulnerable to any type of weapon, however Kolchak manages to
"dematerialize" him by electrocuting him. Similarly, the episode "Ripper" of The Outer Limits
(1997), is set in a fictional 1888, where actor Cary Elwes (in his role as Dr. Jack York), murders
women who he believes are possessed by some kind of alien entity. In another chapter of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World series, "The Knife" (2001), the explorers encounter the
two men blamed for the murders in the real conspiracy theory described by Stephen Knight:
William Gull and Robert Anderson . Spike Milligan later parodied the genre in the "sublimely
silly" The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town . On the other hand, the science
fiction series Sanctuary (2007) details the possession of John Druitt (historically implicated as
one of the suspects of being the Ripper) by a demonic creature that turns him into a Leather
Apron. Likewise, in the seventh season of Smallville , a doctor named Curtis Knox says that he
can cure phenomena that come from meteorites, however he is lying because his purpose is to
kill them. It is then discovered that Knox is immortal and claims to be the real Jack the Ripper.
Finally, in the 2009 miniseries Whitechapel , a Ripper-like murderer commits a series of
murders on the same date, time, and style as Jack's murders. In the Canadian cartoon Total
Drama World Tour , in episode 13, the challenge is to avoid being caught by Jack the Ripper
(Who is later revealed to be Ezekiel) throughout London.

Video game

Jack the Ripper first appeared in the video game industry in a conversational adventure game
called Jack the Ripper in 1987. The character was then incorporated into Sega's platform video
game Master of Darkness (1992), in which it is revealed at the end that the villain is actually an
animated wax doll. That same year, the RPG- rated dungeon crawler- type title Waxworks was
released. Furthermore, the assassin is one of the historical characters that appear in the World
Heroes fighting game series, debuting in World Heroes 2: Jet , in 1994. Ripper (1996) is also
about a serial killer similar to Jack, which is set in a futuristic New York, specifically the year
2040; while in Jack the Ripper (2003) the player assumes the role of a reporter sent to cover an
outstanding news story regarding a series of attacks similar to those of the Ripper, in New York
during the year 1901, exactly thirteen years after the canonical homicides. Duke Nukem: Zero
Hour (1999) is, in turn, "a nice shooting game set in Victorian London" that incorporates Jack
the Ripper. Additionally, Jack is one of the main villains in the horror game Shadow Man (1999)
and also appears in the gothic platform game MediEvil 2 (2000), although in the latter he is
described as a tall, green monster with large claws, long sharp teeth and a top hat, instead of a
human being. There is a character called Jack the Ripper in the Virtual Boy game Jack Bros.

Mystery in London: On the Trail of Jack the Ripper (2007) also fuses the story of the murderer
with the story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , while Sherlock Holmes versus Jack
the Ripper (2009) incorporates elements of the universe corresponding to Sherlock Holmes .

KILLERS BY NUMBER OF VICTIMS

Possible
Proven
Name Country victims Other data
victims *

( 1946 - 2004 ) He chose his patients,

Dr Harold United most of whom were elderly women.
218 250
Shipman Kingdom He killed them with a lethal injection
of diamorphine .

( 1404 - 1440 ) His confession was

Gilles de Rais France 200 600 obtained under torture, according to
the custom of the time.

Luis Garavito Colomb 172 300 ( 1957 -) He chose children between

 8 and 16 years old, raped and
ia tortured before killing. He was
arrested in 1999 .

( 1765 - 1840 ) Leader of the Thuggee

Thug Behram India 125 931
cult.

( 1956 ? -2001 ) Murdered poor

young children across Pakistan along
with three teenage accomplices. He
Pakista
Javed Iqbal 100 100+ turned himself in to the police after
n
his hundredth murder and
committed suicide before his
execution.

( 1560 - 1614 ) She was accused of

approximately 600 murders, but
Erzsébet Hungar
80 650 there is no record of any trial. She
Báthory y
was imprisoned in a room in her
castle until her death.

He was sentenced to 128 years,

Pedro
although in Brazil the maximum
Rodrigues
sentence is 30. He claimed to have
Filho " Brazil 70 100+
killed 100 victims, 40 of them
Pedrinho
inmates. His father was also among
Matador "
his victims.

Imprisoned on 15 counts of murder,

Randy Steven he left behind a cryptic list of 65
USA 67 67-100
Kraft murders. He could have had an
accomplice.

He entered the houses of his victims

at night and killed all their occupants
Yang Xinhai China 65 65
with axes, butcher's machetes,
hammers and shovels.

Pedro Alonso Colomb 57 300 He chose young girls. He was

Lopez ia arrested in 1980 and since 1998 his
current whereabouts have not been
 known.

Convicted of the murder of 52

Soviet women and children between 1978
Andrei
Union / 53 56 and 1990 . Three people were
Chikatilo
Russia previously convicted and executed
for their crimes.

Convicted of the deaths of 9 people

in 1989 , and 43 more between 1995
Anatoly Ukrain and 1996 . He traveled illegally
52 52+
Onoprienko e through Europe from 1990 to 1995 ,
the murders he may have committed
on these dates are unknown.

Truck painter who confessed to 71

murders although he was only
convicted of 48. Most of the women
Gary Ridgway USA 48 71
he killed were prostitutes; their
bodies were thrown into the Green
River in Seattle , Washington .

Known as the " Chessboard Killer "

because he wanted to kill 64 people,
Alexander
Russia 48 63 the number of squares on a board.
Pichushkin
He was found guilty of 48 deaths but
confessed to 63.

Convicted of killing 42 women and

girls through rituals from which he
Ahmad Indone
42 42 believed he obtained magical
Suradji sia
powers. Executed by firing squad on
July 11, 2008 .

Active from 1900 to 1908 and

Belle Gunness USA 40? 6?
possibly in 1931 .

Moses Sithole South 38 38 He attacked unemployed women by

Africa posing as a businessman. He lured
them with job prospects and took
them to an isolated place where he
 raped, tortured and killed them.

He called himself "angel of death" (

Angel of Death ). He worked as an
orderly in Cincinnati -area hospitals
Donald and attacked his patients. He claims
USA 37 87
Harvey to have killed 87 of them, the first
when he was 18 years old. It was
active from 1970 to 1987 . He is
serving 28 life sentences in Ohio .

It is estimated that he could have

Ted Bundy USA 35 100+
committed more than 100 murders.

The "killer clown" ( Killer Clown )

John Wayne buried the bodies of the young
USA 33 33
Gacy people and children he murdered
under his house in Chicago .

One of the three responsible for

what are known as the "Houston
Mass Murders" ( Houston Mass
Murders ) of the early 1970s. He was
Dean Corll USA 27 30
known as "the candy man" (
Candyman ) for luring his young
victims with the offer of free candy
from the store where he worked.

He confessed to 27 murders although

only 9 have been confirmed. The
H. H. Holmes USA 27 20-200
number of estimated cases fluctuates
greatly.

Dr. Marcel Active in 1926 and from 1942 to 1944

France 26 63
Petiot . He was executed in 1946 .

He was convicted of murdering ranch

workers and burying them in
Juan Corona USA 25 ¿?
orchards. He was sentenced to 25 life
sentences.
 He killed 21 women between 1964
and 1970 in Upper Silesia , Poland .
Zdzisław Marchwicki , executed in
The Silesian
Poland 21 ? 1977 , is believed to have been
Vampire
responsible for the crimes. But his
guilt remains debatable for the
moment.

Nurse in New Jersey and

Charles Cullen USA 18 40 Pennsylvania who murdered 40
patients between 1988 and 2003 .

He tricked and murdered 17 teenage

Huang Yong China 17 25 boys, but is suspected of 25 deaths
between 2001 and 2003 .

He devoured some of his victims and

kept parts of their bodies in the
Jeffrey
USA 17 17 freezer. He was sentenced to life in
Dahmer
prison and murdered in prison in
1994 .

He raped and killed at least 16

children and adolescents. Nicknamed
Mohammed
Iran 16 16 "the Tehran Desert Vampire ," he
Bijeh
was convicted and executed after
being publicly flogged in 2005 .

He killed at least 13 prostitutes in the

Robert Lee
USA 16 16 red light district of E. Sprague Avenue
Yates
in Spokane , Washington .

He would kidnap prostitutes, take

them to his remote cabin in Alaska
and release them to hunt them like
Robert
USA 15 21 animals. Although he was only
Hansen
convicted of 15 murders, police
suspect the existence of 21 victims
based on the human remains found.

Angel USA 15 18 Known as the " Railroad Killer "

 because his crimes were committed
near the railroad tracks he used to
travel across the country. He
confessed and was charged with 15
deaths that occurred between 1986
Maturino
and 1999 in Texas , Florida , Illinois ,
Resendiz
Georgia and Kentucky . He was also
suspected of a crime in California in
1997 and claimed responsibility for
two more deaths of which he refused
to give details. [4]

She flirted with young men in London

United between 1978 and 1982 , whom she
Dennis Nilsen 15 15
Kingdom later dismembered, keeping parts of
their bodies in her house.

He was granted immunity for a dozen

crimes in 1982 thanks to an
agreement between the prosecutor
and his defense attorney . Still, he
was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Coral Eugene In 2007 he was found guilty of the
USA 14 80-100
Watts death of Helen Dutcher , for which he
received a life sentence ; and later
that same year, he was convicted of
the murder of Gloria Steele . He died
of prostate cancer on September 21,
2007 .

Richard He killed 14 people in Los Angeles

USA 14 14
Ramirez between 1984 and 1985 .

He killed 13 people mainly in

United Yorkshire between 1975 and 1980 ,
Peter Sutcliffe 13 13
Kingdom for which he became known as "the
Yorkshire Ripper ".

Kaspars Latvia 13 38+ He confessed to strangling 38 elderly

Petrovs people in Riga , Latvia , in 2003 . He
was convicted and sentenced to life
in prison for the robbery and murder
 of 13 of them.

Despite his detailed confession, the

prosecutor did not want to prosecute
Herbert him for the first three crimes, instead
USA 13 13
Mullin focusing on those for which the
defense attorney could not plead
insanity as a defense.

He killed his patients in Saint

Dr Maxim Petersburg . He was suspected of 19
Russia 12 17
Petrov murders, prosecuted for 17 and
convicted of 12 of them.

He killed prostitutes in the San Luis

area between 2000 and 2002 . He
was caught while sending a
Maury Travis USA 12 17
newspaper an Expedia.com map
indicating how to find a body. He
committed suicide in prison.

They mainly chose young girls but

were also found guilty of the murder
of their own daughter, and the rape
and murder of another of their
Fred West
United daughters. They buried their victims
and Rosemary 12 12+
Kingdom in their garden and surrounding
West
areas. Fred West stated that there
were more victims shortly before he
committed suicide on New Year's Day
1995 . [7]

Henry Lee 2-200; ( 1936 - 2001 ) He confessed to 3,000

USA 11
Lucas 3,000 murders and was convicted of 11.

Leonard Lake USA 11 25 They kidnapped women, used them

and Charles as sex slaves, and murdered them
Ng along with anyone who interfered.
Lake committed suicide after arrest,
but Ng was convicted of 11 murders.
They are believed to have kidnapped
 and killed 25 people between 1982
and 1985 , according to remains
found at Lake's ranch in California .

Bloody Active between 1872 and 1873 . With

USA 11 ¿?
Benders unknown destination.

Henri Désiré Active between 1914 and 1918 . He

France 11 ¿?
Landru was beheaded.

Considered a dangerous criminal, he

Clifford Olsen Canada 11 11
can never be released.

( 1950 - 1994 ) He served 14 years in

an Austrian prison for a crime
committed in 1974 . He killed at least
9 prostitutes after his release. He was
a small star of the Austrian media in
Jack Austria
10 15 the early 90s and was arrested in the
Unterweger / USA
United States (where he had killed 3
prostitutes) at the request of the
Austrian police. He hanged himself in
1994 after being sentenced to life in
prison .

Edmund A victim of Herbert Mullin was

USA 10 10
Kemper previously attributed to him.

Known as the "BTK Killer" ( BTK Killer-

Bind, Torture and Kill ), he killed at
Dennis Rader USA 10 10 least 10 people in Sedgwick County
(in and around Wichita , Kansas )
between 1974 and 1991 .

Carlos
Argenti He is the person with the most
Eduardo 10 10
na serious crimes charged in his country.
Robledo Puch

Julio Pérez Chili 9 14 He kidnapped, raped and killed his

Silva victims. He confessed to being the
murderer of 9 young women
 between the ages of 13 and 23, one
of them was a surprise to the police ,
since she was not even on the list of
missing people. In total, according to
his statement, he attacked 11 girls, 2
of whom survived. In 2002, five other
women who disappeared between
April 1999 and August 2001 , her
time of activity, joined her. He is
currently serving a life sentence. He
attempted suicide in 2004 . [8]

He confessed to killing 9 women, 5 in

Timothy
USA 9 9 Missouri and another 4 in Illinois and
Krajcir
Pennsylvania .

He raped and killed up to 30 men.

Swede
Thomas Quick 8 30 However, renowned scholars of the
n
case consider him innocent.

He confessed to up to 20 murders
Joseph Paul
USA 8 20 and several more attempts. He still
Franklin
awaits trial for most of these crimes.

He slaughtered 8 women in a cross-

country blood spree in April 1984 ,
Christopher before accidentally killing himself. He
USA 8 10+
Wilder is also suspected of the
disappearance and murder of 5
others.

He admitted to killing eight

prostitutes in Poughkeepsie , New
Kendall
USA 8 9 York , from 1996 to 1998 , but denied
Francois
having anything to do with the
disappearance of a ninth.

Michael Bruce USA 8 8 Ross confessed to all the crimes but

Ross was only convicted of 4 of them. He
was executed by lethal injection in
the state of Connecticut on May 13,
 2005 , becoming the first sentenced
to death in New England since 1960 .

He murdered backpacker hitchhikers,

Australi
Ivan Milat 7 24 the case became known as "the
a
Backpacker Murders."

Christopher Australi
7 7 He died before his capture.
Worrell a

Known as "the Baton Rouge Serial

Killer" (capital of Louisiana ) or "the
South Louisiana Serial Killer" ( Baton
Rouge Serial Killer or South Louisiana
Derrick Todd Serial Killer ) he was convicted of 3
USA 7 7+
Lee murders and sentenced to death by
lethal injection. . He is believed to
have murdered several other women
in Louisiana , Mississippi , and
Alabama .

United The actual number of murders is

Peter Manuel 7 15
Kingdom unknown.

Known as "the Vampire of

Sacramento ", he was convicted of 6
murders in California . Apart from
killing his victims, he raped the
Richard Chase USA 6 6
women's corpses and drank their
blood; or he would extract their
organs and take them home to eat
them.

Jose Chili 6 6 ( 1922 - 1963 ) Known as "the jackal

Valenzuela of Nahueltoro ", he was convicted of
Torres 6 murders. The victims were his
partner, and her five children (15, 12,
9, 4 years and 5 months old). He was
murdered under Capital Punishment
on April 30, 1963 , which caused
controversy, since, according to
 some people, he had been
rehabilitated.

The "Son of Sam " shot at couples in

David
USA 6 6 their cars, killing 6 people and
Berkowitz
wounding 7 more.

Nurse in Vermillion County, Indiana .

He attacked his elderly patients, it is
thought that he killed many of them
Orville Lynn up to
USA 6 with potassium chloride injections.
Majors 130
Convicted of 6 deaths, but suspected
of many more. He is serving 360
years of his sentence in Indiana.

A murderous drifter active

throughout the United States
between 1980 and 1999 . Specialized
in killing children and more victims
Tommy Lynn
USA 6 70? after breaking into their homes.
Sells
Caught when a 10-year-old survivor
of one of his attacks provided her
description. He is on death row in
Texas .

He was found guilty of 6 cases of

Robert second degree murder. Accused of
Canada 6 20-49(?)
Pickton killing 20 other women, most of
them prostitutes and dealers.

Pedophile and cannibal. Related to 3

deaths. He declared himself
Albert Fish USA 6 6
responsible for 2 others. He was
electrocuted on January 16, 1936 .

She killed strangers, all men, along

Aileen Florida highways while working as a
USA 6 8+
Wuornos prostitute. Active for 13 months in
1989 and 1990 . [1]

James Miller Australi 6 7 Sentenced to life in prison for 6

 a murders.

A British emigrant living in Australia,

John Wayne Australi
6 11 he was known as " The Granny Killer "
Glover a
for killing elderly women.

Amy Archer- Active from 1910 to 1917 , he died in

USA 5 48?
Gilligan a mental institution in 1928 .

"The Zodiac He chose young couples. He was

USA 5 37
Killer" never captured.

No one was ever caught for these

crimes, and the identity of the killer
Jack the United remains unknown. He attacked
5 4-16
Ripper" Kingdom prostitutes in Whitechapel ( London )
in 1888 . He is arguably the most
infamous murderer in history.

Their crimes were known as "the

Suffolk murders" or "the Ipswich
murders" ( Suffolk murders or Ipswich
murders ); and him as "the Ipswich
Ripper", "the Suffolk Ripper", "the
Suffolk Strangler", "the East Anglia
Ripper", "the red light district ripper"
United
Steve Wright 5 5-22 and "the Suffolkador" ( Ipswich
Kingdom
Ripper , Suffolk Ripper , Suffolk
Strangler , East Anglia Ripper , Red
Light Ripper and the Suffolkator ). He
murdered 5 Ipswich prostitutes and
could be linked to previous cases of
prostitutes being murdered in
Suffolk.

He murdered teenage boys. He was

arrested when 3 bodies were found
in his basement in Hammond ,
David Maust USA 5 9
Indiana . As a child he was admitted
to a mental institution. He committed
suicide in prison in 2006 .
 Known as "the Gainesville Ripper ".
He killed 5 students in August 1990 .
Danny Rolling USA 5 8
He was executed on October 6,
2006 .

He chose his patients. She was

Kristen
USA 5 5+ sentenced to life in prison without
Gilbert
permits.

Thomas Dillon USA 5 5 The " Ohio Sniper "

They were known as "the Moors

murderers ", Moors was the place
where they buried some of their
Ian Brady and United
5 5 victims. Children were kidnapped in
Myra Hindley Kingdom
the north of England . They were
found guilty of 2 and 3 murders
respectively.

Active between 1910 and 1911 , and

Queho USA 5 1? in 1919 . He was found dead in a cave
in 1940 .

Alfred Packer USA 5 0 Murderer and cannibal.

Active from 1920 to 1928 . In a

posthumous autobiography he
Carl Panzram USA 5 22
blamed himself for 22 murders. He
was hanged on September 5, 1930 .

Cayetano
Argenti
Santos 4 4 Argentina 's first serial killer.
na
Godino

Schizophrenic serial killer who heard

voices that induced him to kill after
Marc
USA 4 4 daily and abusive consumption of
Sappington
PCP ( phencyclidine ). He ate part of
his last victim.
 Sexual sadist and child rapist. He
killed 3 small children in Toronto in
Peter
Canada 4 4 the 1950s. He was locked up in a
Woodcock
mental institution and murdered by
another inmate in 1991 .

Taxi driver, one of the two best-

known Hong Kong serial murder
Hong
Lam Kor-wan 4 4 cases. Famous for keeping parts of
Kong
his victims' bodies in his parents'
house.

Convicted of the murder of 3 patients

Dr. Michael
USA 3 30-60 although he may have killed more
Swango
than 30.

Sexual sadist from Melbourne , killed

3 women and is suspected of 3 other
Australi murders. He was convicted of 16
Peter Dupas 3 6
a counts of rape before his first murder
conviction. He is serving 3
consecutive life sentences .

He confessed to 3 crimes after being

recognized by witnesses among
Australi
Eddie Leonski 3 3 several soldiers in a lineup . He was
a
sentenced to death, and hanged in
1942 .

Famous for his necrophilic behavior

and for using the skin of his victims to
make furniture and clothing. He
inspired fictional killers like Buffalo
Ed Gein USA 3 8
Bill ( The Silence of the Lambs ),
Norman Bates ( Psycho ) [9] and
Leatherface ( The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre ).

Shirley USA 2 7 He confessed in 2008 to having killed

Winters 2 children, one of them his 5-month-
old son, who died in 1980 . With the
 agreement he reached, he obtained
immunity for his involvement in a fire
that caused the death of 2 children in
1979 . She is also suspected of setting
another fire that killed a friend's
three children in 1979 .

He claimed to have killed 40 to 140

Billy Gohl USA 2 ¿? sailors in Aberdeen , Washington
between 1901 and 1913 .

He claimed to have been active from

Johann Otto
USA 1 14? 1888/1891 to 1905 before being
Hoch
hanged on February 23 , 1906 .

The investigation is currently ongoing

Moninder after partial remains of 15 skeletons
Singh were found on December 29, 2006 .
India 0 30+
Pandher and They are believed to have kidnapped
Surender Koli and killed 30 people, most of them
children.

He was acquitted of murder in a

highly unusual trial in 1957 , but was
Dr John United later found guilty of fraud. The
0 163
Bodkin Adams Kingdom evidence points to how guilty he was,
how botched his trial was for political
reasons.

He was accused of 86 crimes

between 1928 and 1943 , but no case
has been confirmed since his
Germa
Bruno Ludke 0 86 mentally ill condition meant that he
ny
was used to take credit for crimes he
had not committed only for the
police to solve them.

* Proven victims refers to those for which they were convicted, those confessed, or those who
were determined by agreement of several students of the cases.
JOHN BODKIN ADAMS

John Bodkin Adams House.

John Bodkin Adams (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983 ) was a British doctor and serial killer. He is
known to be one of the worst serial killers in modern history.

Adolescence and Youth

Adams was born in Randalstown , Northern Ireland to a religious Plymouth Brethren family.
Adams' father, Samuel, died in 1914 , when Adams was 15 years old. Adams would later study
at the University of Belfast from 1916 . Adams' brother William died in 1918 .

In 1922 , Adams would begin working in Eastbourne , England .

Arrest and trial

In 1956 Adams was arrested for the alleged murder of a patient. When the case was tried in
1957, there was not enough evidence and he was released. However, the investigations ended
with a possible death toll of 163 victims of Dr. Adams. Adams killed his victims with drug
overdoses after they changed their wills in his favor. This bloodless method allowed Adams to
go unnoticed for a long time, since his victims were mostly elderly and their deaths were
considered a consequence of their advanced ages.

AILEEN WUORNOS

Aileen Carol Wuornos (born February 29, 1956 – dies October 9 , 2002 ) was a serial killer
sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992. Wuornos admitted to killing seven men in
separate incidents; All of them, she claimed, raped her (or attempted to do so) while she was
working as a prostitute . He died under the effects of lethal injection on October 9 , 2002 .

The firsts years

Aileen Carol Wuornos was born in Rochester , Michigan . Daughter of Diane Wuornos and Leo
Dale Pittman. His father, whom he never met, was a pedophile who spent time in psychiatric
hospitals in Kansas and Michigan . He committed suicide by hanging in 1969, while in prison.
Wuornos' mother married Pittman when she was 15 and had two children. Aileen Wuornos'
older brother, Keith, was born in 1955. Diane divorced Pittman less than two years after they
married, just months before their daughter was born. She abandoned her two children in
1960, in the care of her Finnish grandparents - Lauri and Britta Wuornos, Diane's parents. Lauri
and Britta legally adopted the two children and raised them in Troy, Michigan .

Wuornos claimed that her grandfather physically and sexually abused her in her childhood,
and that her grandmother was an alcohol addict. In Lethal Intent (a book written by Sue Russell
) it is said that Wuornos was whipped with a belt by her grandfather. At the age of twelve,
Wuornos and his brother Keith discovered that Lauri and Britta were not their biological
parents. Wuornos claimed to have had sexual relationships with multiple partners at a young
age, including his brother. She became pregnant at the age of fourteen. After giving birth to
her son in a maternity home in Detroit ( March 23, 1971 ), she was banished from her home
and disowned by her community. The child was put up for adoption shortly after. Wuornos
was forced to take refuge in an abandoned car in a forest. She was soon sent to a home for
single mothers.

Britta Wuornos died in July 1971 (officially of liver failure although Aileen's mother, Diane,
later accused Lauri of killing her). After the death of his grandmother, Wuornos and his brother
became wards of the Court. She began working as a prostitute although she was still in school.
She began using the alias Sandra Kretsch in May 1974. She was jailed in Jefferson County ,
Colorado , for driving while intoxicated, disorderly conduct, and firing a .22-caliber handgun
from a moving vehicle. An additional charge was filed of failing to appear in court when he left
town before his trial.

Wuornos returned to Michigan. She was arrested in County Antrim and charged with assault
and disturbing the peace on 13 July 1976 , following an incident in which she threw a pool ball
at a waiter's head. He also had outstanding warrants for driving without a license and drinking
in a vehicle. She was fined $105. On July 17, 1976 , his brother Keith died of esophageal cancer
and Wuornos obtained $10,000 from his life insurance . Wuornos paid the $105 fine after
collecting the insurance on August 4, 1976 , and within the remaining two months squandered
the money on luxuries, including a new car that he later destroyed.

In late September 1976, Wuornos hitchhiked to Florida, where he met 76-year-old Yacht Club
president Lewis Fell. They married in 1976 and news of their wedding was printed in the
society section of the local newspaper. However, Wuornos continually found herself involved
in fighting at a local bar and was sent to jail for assault. He also hit Fell with his own cane,
causing him to obtain a restraining order against him and an annulment of the marriage. They
had been married 6 weeks ago.
Middle years

On May 20 , 1981, Wuornos was arrested in Edgewater, Florida for armed robbery. She was
consequently sentenced to prison on May 4 , 1982 and released on June 30, 1983 . On May 1,
1984 , she was convicted of attempting to pass forged checks at a bank in Key West . On
November 30, 1985 , she was mentioned as a suspect in the theft of a gun and ammunition in
Pasco County . By this time Wuornos had begun borrowing the alias of 'Lori Christine Grody' ,
her half-sister (grandparents' daughter) in Michigan. Eleven days later, in December 1985,
traffic police reported Lori Grody (Wuornos) for driving without a valid license.

On January 4, 1986 , Wuornos was arrested in Miami under her own name and charged with
auto theft , resisting arrest, and obstruction by false information. Miami police found a .38
caliber revolver and a box of ammunition in the stolen car. On June 2, 1986 , in Volusia County,
sheriff's deputies arrested Lori Grody (Wuornos) after a colleague accused her of having fired a
gun in his car and demanded $200. Wuornos was found to be carrying spare ammunition and a
.22 pistol, found under the seat he occupied.

Wuornos, now using the alias Susan Blahovec was ticketed for speeding in Jefferson County,
Florida just a week later. A few days after the incident in Jefferson County, Wuornos met
twenty-four-year-old Tyria Moore at a gay bar in Daytona. They soon became lovers. Moore
left her job as a motel maid and allowed Wuornos to support her with her earnings from
prostitution. They went from motel to motel and sometimes slept in old barns. In July 1987 ,
Daytona Beach police detained Moore and Susan Blahovec (Wuornos) for questioning on
suspicion of hitting a man with a beer bottle. On December 18 of that same year, traffic police
reported Wuornos for driving on the interstate highway with an expired license.

On March 12, 1988, under a new alias, Cammie Marsh Green Wuornos accused a Daytona
Beach bus driver of assault. She claimed he had kicked her off the bus with excuses. Moore
was identified as a witness to this incident. On July 23, 1988, Moore and Wuornos (using the
alias Susan Blahovec) were accused by the owner of the Daytona Beach apartment where they
were staying, for acts of vandalism against the home. He testified that the apartment's carpets
had been ripped out and the walls painted dark brown without his permission. In November
1988, Susan Blahovec (Wuornos) began a six-day campaign of threatening calls against a
Zephyrhills supermarket following an altercation over lottery tickets. In 1989 Wuornos rarely
traveled without a loaded pistol. She worked in bars and truck stops to supplement her income
through prostitution. She allegedly began talking to Moore about the numerous problems in
her life. By then Moore and Wuornos were beginning to have more financial problems.

Last years

The victims

Wuornos' first victim was Richard Mallory in Palm Harbor, Florida , which occurred on
November 30 , 1989 . His other victims were:

 David Spears, June 1 , 1990

 Charles Carskaddon, June 6 , 1990
 Peter Siems, July 4 , 1990 (vehicle found, body never found)
 Troy Burress, August 4, 1990
 Dick Humphreys, September 12, 1990
 Walter Jeno (Gino) Antonio, November 19 , 1990
Arrest and conviction

Wuornos was finally identified when she and Moore were involved in an accident while driving
a victim's car. They refused help from bystanders, although Wuornos was bleeding and fled the
scene. His robot portrait was broadcast on television. Police tracked Moore down to
Pennsylvania, where she retired to live with her sister, and a deal was made that if she testified
against Wuornos, Moore would be granted immunity. Moore agreed. Police provided him with
a motel room in Florida. From there, he wrote a letter to Wuornos, who was in custody for a
parole violation. After numerous calls and Moore attempting to commit suicide, Wuornos
relented and said, "You do what you have to do. I won't let you go to jail. If I have to confess, I
will." He made a full confession on January 16 of that same year. Wuornos declared that
Mallory's murder was in self-defense, maintaining that he had raped her. She was convicted of
their murders in January 1992 with the help of Moore's testimony. When she was convicted of
Mallory's murder, Wuornos exclaimed to the media: "I was raped, I was tortured. They had the
steering wheel, they had the image of the steering wheel with the scratches, it was broken.
That's proof that I was tied to the wheel. "I can't believe this happened." Meanwhile, Moore
has signed several book and film deals selling her story.

In November 1992, Dateline NBC reporter Michele Gillen discovered that Mallory had served
10 years for rape in another state. The judge refused to allow this to be admitted as evidence
in court, and Wuornos was never given a new trial.

On March 31, 1992, Wuornos pleaded nolo contendere for the murders of Dick Humphreys,
Troy Burress and David Spears, saying he wanted to "get right with God." During the trial she
was adopted by Arlene Pralle after having a dream in which she was told to "take care" of
Wuornos. According to Pralle, Jesus told him to write to Wuornos, and he did so. What
Wuornos didn't know was that Pralle was asking for money for interviews, including one with
Nick Broomfield, who paid him $10,000. Some of the money went to Wuornos' attorney,
Steven Glazer, hired by Pralle. Wuornos' appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected in 1996.
The relationship between Wuornos and Pralle did not last; Wuornos began to suspect that
Pralle was only in it for the publicity and the money. Wuornos told Broomfield in an interview
that Pralle and Glazer even showed him ways to commit suicide in jail. He was also advised
"nolo contendere" because Glazer, known before the Wuornos trial as "Dr. Legal," was too
inexperienced to handle a multiple murder trial. In her statement to the court, she said "I
wanted to confess to you that Richard Mallory violently raped me as I have told him. But not
these others. [They] just started."

In June 1992 he pleaded guilty to the death of Charles Carskaddon and received his fifth death
sentence. In February 1993 she pleaded guilty to the death of Walter Gino Antonio and was
again sentenced to death. No charges were brought against him for the murder of Peter Siems,
as his body was never found. In total, he received six death sentences.

Wuornos told several inconsistent stories about these murders. He admitted to killing seven
men, in separate incidents. She initially alleged that the seven had raped her while she was
working as a prostitute. He later recanted, claiming self-defense. During an interview with
Broomfield in which he thought the cameras were off, he said that it was definitely self-
defense in Mallory's case, but he had no choice but to go for the death penalty. She claimed
that she could never bear to be in prison for the rest of her life. When Broomfield asked, "Was
it self-defense?" She replied: "Yes, and so were some of the others but I can't say anything to
anyone so I have to go for the death penalty."
Execution

After his first death sentence Wuornos often said he wanted "it all to be over." In 2001 he
announced that he would not seek any further appeal against his death sentence. He
petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for the right to fire his attorney and stop all appeals,
saying "I killed those men, I robbed them as cold as ice. And I would do it again too. There's no
chance in keeping me alive or something, because I'd kill again. I have hate crawling through
my system... I'm so sick of hearing that "she's crazy" thing. I have been evaluated so many
times. I am competent, sane, and I am trying to tell the truth. "I am someone who seriously
hates human life and would kill again."

Florida Governor Jeb Bush commissioned three psychiatrists to interview Wuornos for 15
minutes. The three judged her mentally fit to be executed. Testing for competency requires
that the psychiatrist be convinced that the convicted person understands both that he or she is
going to die, as well as the crimes for which he or she will be executed.

Wuornos later accused the jail supervisor of abusing her. He accused her of staining his food,
spitting on it, serving him dirty cooked potatoes, and bringing him food with urine on it. He
also alleged overhearing conversations about "trying to pressure me so much that I would end
up committing suicide before the execution" and "wanting to rape me before the execution."
She also complained about strip searches , being handcuffed so tightly that her wrist was
bruised every time she left her cell, door kicking, frequent checks by midwives, low water
pressure, mold on her mattress. . Wuornos threatened to boycott showers and food trays
when certain officers were on duty. "Meanwhile, my stomach is growling and I'm taking
showers through the sink in my cell."

Her lawyer stated that "Ms. Wuornos really just wants to have proper treatment, humane
treatment until the day she is executed," and "If the accusations have no truth to them, she
will clearly be disappointed. "She believes what is written."

During the final stages of the appeal process he gave a series of interviews to Broomfield. In
her last interview, shortly before her execution, the interviewee stated that her mind was
being controlled by "sonic pressure" to make her appear crazy and that she would be taken
away by angels in a spaceship. When Broomfield tried to get him to talk about his previous
claim of killing his victims in self-defense, Wuornos became enraged, cursed at Broomfield, and
ended the interview. Broomfield later met with Dawn Botkins, a childhood friend of Wuornos,
who told him, "She's sorry, Nick. He didn't show you the finger. He did it to the media, and
then to the lawyers. And she knew that if she said too much more, it could make a difference
in her execution tomorrow, so she decided not to do it."

The content of Wuornos's last meal is uncertain. Some sources claim that he refused the
traditional last meal, which could have been anything he ordered under $20, and was given a
cup of coffee instead. However, Broomfield's documentary said he received one last meal of
KFC fried chicken and French fries.

His last words were "I just want to say that I am sailing with the Rock and I will return like on
Independence Day with Jesus on June 6, just like in the movie, big motherships and all. I'll be
back."
Profile

Wuornos' psychological profile is similar to that of other schizophrenic and psychotic

murderers, within which the first criminal symptomatology is not finding real limits between
good and bad, which denotes clear psychopathic behavior, however, By uniting them with
schizophrenia and psychotic limits, these result in ways of life that for these patients are
acceptable, regardless of what society says about them. In fact, these types of patients are
completely sure that acting is completely coherent. and full of a false morality constituted by
themselves.

ZODIAC KILLER

Portrait of the Zodiac killer according to the testimony of a witness.

The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California for 10 months
beginning in the late 1960s . He himself chose his name in a series of threatening letters that
he sent to the press until 1974 . In his letters he included four cryptograms , three of which
have not yet been deciphered.

The Zodiac, as he called himself, murdered five known victims in Benicia , Vallejo , Lake
Berryessa and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969 . The victims chosen
to attack were four men and three women between the ages of 16 and 29.

The murderer's identity remains a mystery. The San Francisco Police Department declared the
investigation "inactive" in April 2004 and reopened the case in March 2007 .
Victims

Proven

Although Zodiac claimed in his letters to newspapers that he had murdered 37 people,
investigators credited him with only 7 canonical victims, two of whom survived. Are:

 David Arthur Faraday († 17 years) and Betty Lou Jensen († 16 years) were shot to
death on December 20, 1968 on Lake Herman Road, near the Benicia city limits.

 Michael Renault Mageau (19 years old) and Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin († 22 years old),
shot to death on July 4, 1969 in Blue Rocks Springs on a golf course outside Vallejo.
Darlene died receiving first aid at Kaiser Foundation Hospital, while Michael survived.

 Bryan Calvin Hartnell (20 years old) and Cecilia Ann Shepard († 22 years old), stabbed
on September 27, 1969 on what is now called Zodiac Island, in Lake Berryessa, located
in Napa County. He survived six stab wounds in the back, but she did not suffer the
same fate and died from her injuries two days later at Queen of Valley Hospital in
Napa.

 Paul Lee Stine († 29 years old), killed by gunshot on October 11, 1969 in Presidio
Heights ( San Francisco ).

Possible victims

Other people have been identified as potential victims of the Zodiac, although the evidence is
not conclusive and not all are accepted as victims of this killer. The best known are:

 Robert Domingos († 18 years old) and Linda Evans († 17 years old) were murdered by
gunfire on June 4, 1963 on a beach near Lompoc, California. Evans and Domingos were
considered possible victims due to the similarities of their attack to the one at Lake
Berryesa.

 Cheri Jo Bates († 18 years old), killed by a knife - almost decapitated - on October 30,
1966 at Riverside Community College in Riverside ( California ). The possible
connection of Bates' death with the Zodiac occurred 4 years later, from a tip received
by reporter Paul Avery of the San Francisco Chronicle , suggesting certain similarities
between the murders committed by the Zodiac and the circumstances surrounding the
death of Bates.

 Kathleen Johns (22 years old) said she was kidnapped, along with her baby, on March
22, 1970 on Highway 132, west of Modesto, California. In his statement he
commented that the driver of a car signaled him with the lights to stop and he did so.
Once out of the car, he explained to her that he had seen that the tire on Johns' car
was loose and, after fixing it, he got into his car to continue on his way and she did the
same. Later, the tire comes loose and a man supposedly offers to take him to the
nearest gas station. She accepts and returns to her car to pick up her baby, to which
the man is surprised that she has a daughter. "Do you have a problem with that?" she
said. "No. In fact, the more the better," he replied. The car starts and passes in front of
the first gas station, but does not brake. Keep going. He even asks her to throw her
daughter out the window. She manages to escape and goes to the Police Station
 located in Patterson, where she coincidentally sees the robot portrait of the Zodiac
and says that it was that man who held her for about three hours.

 Donna Lass (†? 25 years old) was last seen on September 26, 1970 in South Lake Tahoe
( California ). A postcard with the address Forrest Pines Condominiums noted on the
back was received by the Chronicle on March 22, 1971 . It was interpreted by some as
a statement by the Zodiac to have 13 victims: Lass should have been the fourteenth
and not the one indicated on the postcard. Therefore, she was not conclusively linked
to the murderer, the woman's body was not found and an official investigation was not
carried out, due to jurisdictional disagreements between the South Lake police and the
Sheriff's Office. To this day, it is not yet known if the crime was committed or where
Donna Lass is.

Chronology

Lake Herman Road

The Zodiac Killer attracted the attention of police for the "apparent" random murder of Betty
Lou Jensen and David Faraday on December 20, 1968 on the outskirts of Benicia , California .

The couple was celebrating their first date and, among their plans, they planned to attend a
Christmas concert at Hogan High, a few blocks from her house. Instead of going directly, they
decided to visit a friend and stop at a restaurant. Around 10 p.m., the couple parked at an
intersection in Lake Herman and, a few meters away, was the Zodiac. He stopped the car next
to him and...

An eyewitness passed by there some time later and saw two cars - one of them the couple's -
empty. Moments later he heard what he thought was a gunshot, but he couldn't be sure since
he had the radio on.

The Zodiac shot Faraday only once in the head and 5 times in the back of Jensen who tried to
flee. Their bodies were found minutes later by Stella Borges, who lived nearby. He notified
Captain Daniel Pitta and Officer William T. Warner. Detective Sergeant Les Lundblad of the
Solano County Sheriff's Office investigated the crime, but no solid leads were found.

Blue Rock Springs

Darlene Ferrin and Michael Mageau were attacked by a firearm in the early hours of July 5,
1969 , in the parking lot of a golf course in Blue Rock Srings ( Vallejo ). They were only a little
more than 6 km away from the previous murder.

The couple was in her car when another car parked next to it, whose driver left to return 10
minutes later. Once parked behind them, to prevent them from escaping, the Zodiac
approached the car and shined its light directly into their faces to blind them. Then he shot it
with a 9mm Luger .

At 12:40 a.m. on July 5, 1969, an anonymous call - made by a man - informed the Vallejo Police
Department of what had happened. And not only that: he confessed that he had done it and
that he was the murderer of Jensen and Faraday, murdered 6 months ago. Police traced the
call, coming from a pay phone at a gas station between Springs and Toulomne streets. Zodiaco
was less than a mile from Ferrin's house and a few blocks from the sheriff's office.
She was pronounced dead at the hospital. He survived the attack, despite being shot in the
face, neck and chest. Detectives John Lynch and Ed Rust of the Vallejo Police Department
investigated the crime. It was Detective Jack Mulanax who took up the case in the 70s .

In the book Zodiac - written by Robert Graysmith and published 17 years after the crime - it is
said that the murderer was a regular customer at Terry's Waffle House, where Ferrin was a
waitress. Zodiaco, an admirer of the young woman, could have confessed to her the first two
murders and, repentant for fear of being denounced, he killed her. Or maybe he did it because
she was blackmailing him. The arguments are baseless, despite being the plot of The Zodiac
Killer ( 1971 ), the book of the same name ( 1979 , Jerry Weissman) and a comic strip published
in the Chronicle by Bill Wallace.

Zodiac cards begin

The reticular symbol used by the Zodiac to sign their cards.

On August 1, 1969, three letters written by Zodiaco arrived at the offices of the Vallejo Times
Herald, San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner. In them, almost identical to each
other, he acknowledged the three crimes and included a 360-character cryptogram that
revealed his identity. Zodiaco was very clear: either the letters were published on the front
page or that same weekend he would kill 12 people. The murders, fortunately, did not take
place, but the letters could be read on the front page of the newspapers.

Three days later, another letter arrived at the San Francisco Examiner newsroom. "Dear editor,
the Zodiac speaks" was the beginning of a letter written in response to Vallejo's boss Stiltz,
who asked for more details to prove that he was the murderer of Faraday, Jensen and Ferrin.

On August 8, 1969 , one week after the cryptogram was received, Donald and Bettye Harden,
of Salinas , deciphered the cryptogram. In it, the identity of the murderer was not included (it
includes spelling mistakes in English):

I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME
IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL OF ALL TO KILL
SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE IT IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING
YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAT WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN
PARADICE AND ALL THE I HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY
NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR STOP MY COLLECTING OF SLAVES FOR MY
AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI
Translation:

"I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS MUCH MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD ANIMALS IN THE
FOREST, BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL OF ALL. KILLING SOMETHING IS
THE MOST EXCITING EXPERIENCE. IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN SLEEPING WITH A GIRL. AND THE
BEST PART IS THAT WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADISE AND EVERYONE I HAVE KILLED
WILL BE MY SLAVES. I WILL NOT GIVE MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO DELAY OR STOP
MY COLLECTION OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI."

The last eighteen characters have not yet been resolved. The show Unsolved Mysteries ,
hosted by Robert Stack , suggested that they were referencing one person: Theodore Kaczynski
.

Lake Berryesa

On September 27, 1969 , Bryan Hartnell and Cecilia Shepard were having a picnic on the shores
of Lake Berryessa, on a small island connected by a sandy path to Twin Oak Ridge. A man
approached them wearing a black executioner's hood with sunglasses over the eye holes and a
kind of bib placed on his chest with a reticular-looking symbol about 7.5cm X 7.5cm in area. He
approached them with a gun in his hand, Hartnell believes it was a .45 . The hooded man
claimed to be an escaped convict from Deer Lodge, Montana, where he had killed a guard and
also stolen a car, and he told them. She explained that she needed her vehicle to go to
Mexico . She brought with her some plastic clotheslines, previously cut, and asked Shepard to
tie Hartnell before being tied up herself. The robber checked Hartnell's knots and tightened
them after discovering that she had left them loose. Hartnell thought it was a strange robbery,
but the man pulled out a knife and stabbed them both. Then he walked the 500 meters to
Knoxville Road and drew the reticular symbol on the door of Hartnell's car and next to it he
wrote: Vallejo 12-20-68,7-4-69, Sept27-69-6:30 by knife .

At 7:40pm, the man called the Napa County Sheriff's Office from a pay phone to report his
crime. The phone was found still off the hook minutes later at the Napa Car Wash on Main
Street by KVON Radio reporter Pat Stanley, just a few blocks from the Sheriff's Office and 25
miles from the crime scene. Detectives were able to take fresh fingerprints from the phone but
were unable to match them to any suspect.

A man and his son who were fishing in a nearby cove discovered the victims when they heard
their screams for help, which was provided by Napa County rangers. Dave Collins and Ray Land
were the first lawmen to arrive at the crime scene. Both officers were a short distance from
the site. Collins was in his patrol car in the Vichy Springs area almost thirty kilometers away,
while Land was in St. Helena. Cecilia Shepard was still conscious when Collins arrived, so she
provided him with a description of the attacker. Hartnell and Shepard were taken by
ambulance to Queen Valley Hospital located in Napa. Shepard fell into a coma during the trip
to the hospital and never regained consciousness. He died two days later, but Hartnell survived
to tell his story to the press. County Detective and Sheriff Ken Narlow, who was assigned to the
case from the beginning, worked to solve the crime until his retirement from the police
department in 1987 .
Presidio Heights

On October 11, 1969, a man boarded Paul Stine's taxi at the intersection of Mason and Geary
streets in San Francisco and asked him to take him to Maple and Presidio Highs streets. For
unknown reasons, Stine went to a street ahead, Cherry Street, the man shot him in the head
with a 9mm caliber gun, then grabbed his car keys and his wallet, and took off his shirt. He was
seen by three teenagers who were on the other side of the street at 9:55 pm, who called the
police while the crime was unfolding. The young people observed the man cleaning the taxi
and then walking one block north. The police arrived minutes later, and the young people
testified explaining that the murderer was still nearby.

Two blocks ahead of the crime scene, Officer Don Fouke, who had also responded to the call
for help, observed a white man walking along the sidewalk and then climbing a staircase that
led to a house located on the north side of the street; The encounter lasted only five or
perhaps ten seconds. His partner, Eric Zelms, did not see the man. The radio alerted them to
look for a black-skinned suspect and not a Caucasian individual, so they had no reason to stop
the man and passed him without stopping; The confusion in the descriptions has remained
unexplained to this day. When they arrived at Cherry Street, Fouke was informed that they
were indeed searching for a white suspect; Fouke realized that they had passed the murderer;
Fouke concluded that the Zodiac had resumed its original route and had escaped to where Fort
Presidio is located. They took on the task of searching for him but the murderer disappeared.
The search continued, nothing was found. The three teenage witnesses worked with a
criminalist to create a sketch of Stine's killer, and a few days later they returned to create a
second sketch. The age of the Zodiac was estimated between 35 or 45 years of age. Detectives
Bill Armstrong and Dave Toschi were assigned to the case. The San Francisco Police
Department ultimately investigated and identified at least 2,500 suspects over a period of
years.

On October 14, 1969 , the Chronicle received one more letter from Zodiac, this time containing
a sample of Paul Stine's shirt, as proof that he was the killer, it also contained a threat that he
would shoot up a boys' school. That's when police learned he was the one they had been
looking for a few nights earlier in Presidio Heights.

At 2:00 a.m. on October 20, 1969, someone claimed that the Zodiac had called the Oakland
Police Department demanding that one of two prominent attorneys, F. Lee Bailey or Melvin
Belli, appeared on Jim Dunbar's Morning Table Show. Bailey couldn't attend, but Belli
performed on the show. Dunbar asked viewers to keep the phone lines open, and then
someone claiming to be the Zodiac called several times and said his name was Sam. Belli
agreed to meet him in Daly City, but the suspect never showed up. Police Officers who had
previously heard the Zodiac heard "Sam's" voice and concluded that he was not the Zodiac.
Subsequent calls the suspect made to Belli were traced to Napa State Hospital, where it was
learned that "Sam" was mentally ill.

On November 8, 1969, the Zodiac sent another letter with a cryptogram consisting of 340
characters. On November 9 of the same year, he sent another seven-page letter in which he
claimed that two police officers stopped him and spoke with him for three minutes after he
had shot Stine. Excerpts from the letter were published in the Chronicle on November 12,
including the Zodiac statement; That same day, Don Fouke wrote a memorandum explaining
what had happened that night. The 340 characters were never deciphered. Many possible
solutions were suggested, but were not accepted as they deviated from coding conventions.
On December 20, 1969 , the Zodiac sent a letter to Belli including another sample of Stine's
shirt, the Zodiac stating that he wanted Belli to help him.

Modest

During the night of March 22, 1970 , Katheleen Johns was driving from San Bernardino to
Petaluma to visit her mother. She was seven months pregnant and had her 10-month-old
daughter at her side. As she headed toward Highway 132 near Modesto, a car behind her
began honking and flashing its lights; She left the road and stopped. The man in the car also
stopped behind her, telling her that her right rear tire was wobbly, and offered to tighten the
lug nuts. After completing the maneuver, the man drove away and when Johns started driving,
the tire fell off the car. The man stopped, backed up and offered to drive them to the next gas
station for help. She and her daughter got into the car. They passed by several gas stations but
the man did not stop. For approximately three hours he took them to different places through
the streets of Tracy, and when she asked him why he didn't stop, he evaded the answer.

When the man stopped at an intersection, Johns jumped out of the car along with his daughter
and they hid in a field. The individual got out of the car to look for them, but when a truck
driver arrived at the scene, Johns' kidnapper escaped. Johns asked for help traveling to the
police station located in Patterson. While presenting her complaint to the duty sergeant, she
noticed the presence of the robot portrait of Paul Stine's murderer and recognized him as the
kidnapper of her and her daughter. The officer took Johns into custody at Mil's Restaurant in
the dark. His car was found burned and destroyed.

There are many inconsistencies in Johns' kidnapping; Claims that the individual had threatened
to kill them while driving are disputed by at least one police report. Johns told her story to the
Chronicle 's Paul Avery, stating that her kidnapper abandoned the car and searched for them in
the dark with a flashlight; However, in the two testimonies he gave to the police, he assured
that the guy did not get out of the vehicle. Some testimonies mention that Johns' vehicle was
later moved and set on fire, while other witnesses claim that the car remained where Johns
had left it.

The various discrepancies between Johns' accounts have led researchers to question whether
she was indeed a victim of the Zodiac.

Additional releases

The Zodiac continued to communicate with the authorities for the rest of 1970 through letters
and postcards addressed to the press. In a letter dated April 20, 1970, the Zodiac wrote, "My
name is [____]" followed by 13 coded characters. The Zodiac indicated that he was not
responsible for the recent bomb attack on the police station in San Francisco (referring to the
death of Sergeant Brian McDonnell at Park Station in Golden Gate Park, which occurred on
February 18, 1970) but added: "There is more glory in killing a policeman than a cid [sic]
because a policeman can shoot back." The letter included a diagram of a bomb that the Zodiac

claimed he would use to blow up a school bus. On the back of the diagram, he wrote."
= 10, SFPD (San Francisco Police Department) = 0"

Zodiac sent a stamped greeting card on April 28, 1970 addressed to the Chronicle . The text
written on the letter read: "I hope you enjoy when I have my EXPLOSION" followed by the sign
of the crossed circle of the Zodiac. On the back of the letter, he threatened to use his bomb on
a bus very soon unless the newspaper published his writings in detail. He also wanted to see
people start using "some nice Zodiac button" auto parked with a 38mm. It has been proposed
that Zodiac was referring to the murder of Sergeant Richard Radetich that occurred a week
earlier on June 19 at 5:25 AM, Radetich found the letter was a map of San Francisco Bay
distributed by the Phillip 66 company. In the image of Mount Diablo, the Zodiac drew a crossed
circle similar to the one he included in his previous cards. At the top of the reticular symbol, he
placed the number zero, then a three, a six and a nine so the notation looked more like the
face of a clock. The attached instructions stated that the zero "is to fix the North Magnitude."
The letter also included 32 coded letters that the killer claimed should be in conjunction with
the code, which would lead to the location of a bomb he had buried and which would explode

in the fall. (The bomb was never found. The murderer signed the note with " = 12, SFPD
= 0".

In a letter sent to the Chronicle sealed on July 24, 1970, the Zodiac claimed responsibility for
the kidnapping of Katheleen Johns, four months after the incident.

In his letter of July 26, 1970, Zodiac paraphrased a song by The Mikado , adding his own lyrics
about making a "little list" of the ways he planned to torture his "slaves" in "paradise." The
letter was signed with an exaggeratedly huge crossed circle symbol and new punctuation: "

= 13, SFPD = 0".http://www.zodiackiller.com/Mikado1.html A final note on the back of

the card stated "P.S. Diablo's code refers to Radians +# inches per radians." In a detailed
examination of the "radian clue" researcher Gareth Penn led to the discovery of a radian angle
that, following the instructions of the Zodiac when placed on the map, pointed to two sites
where the Zodiac had attacked.

riverside

On October 27, 1970 , Chronicle reporter Paul Avery (who had been covering the Zodiac case)
received a Halloween card signed with a letter 'Z' and the crosshairs. Handwritten on the back
of the card was the notation: "Peek-a-boo, he is doomed." The threat was taken seriously and
the story received a front page in the Chronicle . Shortly after, Avery received an anonymous
letter alerting him to the similarities between the activities of the Zodiac and the unsolved
crimes of Cheri Jo Bates , which had occurred four years earlier at the Riverside California high
school in the Los Angeles area, more than 400 miles south of San Francisco. Paul reported his
findings in the Chronicle on November 16, 1970.

On October 30, 1966, Bates spent the afternoon in the campus library annex until it closed at 9
p.m. Neighbors reported hearing a scream around 10:30 p.m. Bates was found dead the next
day a short distance from the library between two abandoned houses being demolished due to
renovation of campus facilities. The distributor wires on his Volkswagen had been
disconnected. She was brutally beaten and stabbed to death. A Timex brand men's wristwatch
with a broken strap was found nearby. The clock had stopped at 12:24, but the attack is
believed to have occurred much earlier. Prints of military-type footwear were also discovered.

A month later on November 29, 1966, almost identical typewritten letters were sent to the
Riverside Police and the Riverside Press Enterprise titled "The Confession", the author claimed
to be responsible for Bates' murder, providing details of the crime not revealed to the public,
and warned that Bates "is not the first and will not be the last."
In December 1966, a poem was discovered carved into the underside of a Riverside College
library desk titled: "Sick to Live/Unwell to Die", the language of the poem and the writing
resembled that of letters. of the Zodiac. It was signed with what would be the initials "rh."
Sherwood Morril, an analyst of the questioned documents, expressed his opinion that the
poem was written by the Zodiac.

On April 30, 1967, six months after Bates' murder, Joseph, Cheri's father, the Press-Enterprise ,
and the Riverside police received almost identical letters. Scrawled by hand, the text on the
copies sent to the Press Enterprise and the Police read: "Bates had to die, there will be more,"
with a small scrawl that looked like the letter 'Z'. The copy sent to Joseph Bates read: "She had
to die, there will be more" without the 'Z' "signature".

On March 13, 1971, almost four months after Paul Avery had published the first Bates article,
the Zodiac sent a letter to the Los Angeles Times , in which he gave credit to the police instead
of Avery for the discovery of their "activity in Riverside, but they're only finding the easy ones,
there's a horribly larger amount back."

The connection between Riverside's Cheri Jo Bates and the Zodiac is uncertain. The Riverside
Police Department maintains that the Bates homicide was not committed by the Zodiac, but
they grant authenticity to some letters that are possibly his work claiming falsely claimed
credit.

Lake Tahoe

On March 22, 1971, a postcard was sent to the chronicle addressed to "Paul Averly" (rather,
Paul Avery), presumably from the Zodiac, apparently taking responsibility for the
disappearance of Donna Lass that occurred in South Lake Tahoe, California on September 26,
1970. . Made from a collage of advertisements and magazine letters, it depicted a scene of a
pine forest and the text "Sierra Club" "looking for victim 12" "Looking through the pines"
"passing areas of Lake Tahoe" "around in the snow ". The zodiac symbol the crossed circle was
in the space for the return address. Lass was a nurse at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel and Casino, she
worked until 2:00 a.m. on September 26, having treated her last patient at 1:40 a.m. and was
not seen leaving her office. The next morning, his work uniform and shoes were found in a
paper bag in his office, inexplicably soiled with dirt. His car was found in the apartment
complex and the apartment where he lived was clean. Later that day, both his boss and his
landlord received phone calls from a stranger who falsely claimed that Lass had had to leave
town due to a family emergency. Local police and sheriffs initially treated Lass's disappearance
as a simple missing person investigation case, suspecting that he had simply walked away. Lass
was never found. What looked like a grave was discovered near the Claire Tappan Lodge in
Northern California on Sierra Club land, but when excavated only a pair of sunglasses was
found.

Saint Barbara

In a story that appeared in the Vallejo Times Herald on November 13, 1972, Sheriff and
Detective Bill Barker theorized that the murder of a young couple in Santa Barbara County was
the work of the Zodiac.

On June 4, 1963 (five and a half years before the first known murder, carried out by the Zodiac
on Lake Herman Roads), high school student Robert Domingos and his girlfriend Linda Edwards
were shot on a beach near Lompoc California, having absent from school that day due to a
tradition among American students called "Senior Ditch Day." The Police believed that the
aggressor tried to tie up the victims, but when they managed to free themselves to flee, the
individual shot them several times in the back and chest with a 22-caliber weapon. He then
placed the bodies in a small cabin and tried unsuccessfully to set it on fire.

Some believe that the murders of Domingos and Edwards are the work of the Zodiac based on
the similarities between this case and the murderer's attack in Lake Berryessa.

The final letters

After the "Pines" postcard, the Zodiac remained silent for approximately three years, after
which the Chronicle received a letter from the Zodiac, postmarked on January 29, 1974,
praising the film The Exorcist as "the best satirical comedy he had ever seen." ". The letter
included a verse from The Mikado , and a symbol in the background that has not yet been
explained by researchers. The Zodiac concludes the chart with a new "marker," Me = 37, SFPD
= 0."

The Chronicle received another sealed letter on February 14, 1974, informing the editor that
the initials for the Symbiotic Liberation Army spelled in Old Norse meant "kill." However, the
manuscript was not authenticated as being from the Zodiac.

Another letter received by the Chronicle, postmarked May 8, 1974, complained that the film
Badlands was a "glorification of murder" and asked the newspaper to withdraw advertising
from the film, signing only "A Citizen." The lyrics, tone, and surface irony are similar to
Zodiaco's previous communications.

The Chronicle received an anonymous letter sealed on July 8, 1974 , complaining about one of
its columnists, Marco Spinelli. The letter was signed by "the red ghost (red, with rage)." The
authorship of Zodiac is still debated. Another four years passed without communication -
supposed or verified - from the Zodiac. A letter dated April 24, 1978 , was initially considered
authentic, but declared a farce by three other experts three months later. However in recent
years, the letter has been considered by some departments to be authentic. Toschi, the San
Francisco Police Department homicide detective who has been on the case since Stine's death,
was believed to be the author of the letter. Author Armistead Maupin believes it to be a "fan"
letter he received in 1976 and believes it to be from Toschi. While he admitted to writing the
fan correspondence, Toschi denied the Zodiac letter and was cleared of charges. The
authenticity of the letter remains in question.

On March 3, 2003 , it was reported that a Christmas postcard sent to the Chronicle ,
postmarked in 1990 in Eureka, California, was discovered in its photo archives by editorial
assistant David King. Inside the envelope next to the postcard was the photostatic copy of 2
United States Postal Service keys on a magnetic keychain. The manuscript on the envelope
looks like the Zodiac's imprint, but was declared inauthentic by forensic analyst Lloyd
Cunningham. However, not all experts on the subject agree with the analysis. There is no
sender's address or his signature" (the crossed circle) is missing. The postcard itself has no
further markings. The Chronicle sent all material to the Vallejo Police Department for further
analysis.
Current course

The final investigators of the San Francisco Police Department were homicide inspectors
Michael N. Maloney and Kelly Carroll were the first to submit evidence of Zodiac DNA obtained
from the cards for analysis, which yielded a partial genetic profile. DNA testing appears to have
excluded their main suspect, Arthur Leigh Allen, and then Mike Rodelli, a prominent
businessman who lived near the Paul Stine crime scene.

San Francisco police marked the case as "inactive" in April 2004, but due to pressure it was
reopened for a time before March 2007 and sent evidence of genetic information to be used
as evidence. To which also, the case remains open in other jurisdictions.

Arthur Leigh Allen

Although many people have been indicated as possible Zodiac suspects over many years, only
one, Arthur Leigh Allen (December 18, 1933 – August 26, 1992) was seriously investigated. In
July 1971, a friend of Allen's reported suspicions about him to the Manhattan Beach Police
Department, and the report was directed to the San Francisco police. When questioned later,
Allen claimed - without being asked - that he had used the bloody knives he had in his car on
the day of the double attack in Lake Berryesa to kill chickens; and when asked if he had read
the book "The Most Dangerous Game", he responded affirmatively and said that it had
impressed him (this interested the police as did the figure of 408 characters that appear in the
book).

Allen was the only suspect in the case whom the police had any evidence against, to execute
not only one but three guarantees or authorizations to continue with the investigations; on
September 14, 1972; February 14, 1991 and August 28, 1992, two days after his death. Allen
denied the charges against him, but there was a lot of circumstantial evidence against him.

Police found no physical evidence to prove that Allen was the Zodiac Killer, and the Vallejo
Police Department chose not to press charges against him, despite him being a sex offender,
and the weapons and explosive components found. in his home following the investigation in
1991. Finally, Allen's handwriting did not correspond to that of the Zodiac, his fingerprints did
not bear any resemblance, no concrete evidence linking him to the massacres carried out by
the Zodiac was ever found, and the recent DNA testing obtained from the letters did not
provide any information. However, neither Vallejo nor the San Francisco police found any signs
of Allen after the tests.

Impact on culture

 Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood , was filmed in San Francisco and is loosely based
on the case.
 The "Gemini Killer" in the movie "The Exorcist III" is also loosely based on the Zodiac.
 Edward James Olmos starred in "The Limbic Region", a film based on the book by
Robert Graysmith called "Zodiaco"
 In 2007, the film Zodiac directed by David Fincher was released, based on the story of
this murderer.
 In the TV series Millennium by Chris Carter it is completely based on the Story of the
Zodiac since it takes place in San Francisco, he is a former murderer who sent letters to
the newspapers and even has the same favorite opera "The Mikado" hence the name
of the chapter in which Frank Black has to confront a murderer who wears an
 executioner's hood, kills with a Revolver and a Knife and likes to use Cryptography
tricks.

JOE BALL

Joseph D. (Joe) Ball ( January 7, 1896 – September 23, 1938 ) was an American serial killer,
known by the nicknames The Alligator Man , The Butcher of Elmendorf , and the Texas
Bluebeard . He confessed to killing at least 20 women in the 1930s. His existence has always
been considered a mere legend, although he is a common figure in Texas folklore.

Biography

After serving in Europe during World War I , Ball began his career as a moonshiner during
Prohibition . After the end of prohibition, he opened a saloon called Sociable Inn in Elmendorf ,
Texas. He built a lake containing five alligators and invited people to see them at meal time, a
delicacy that consisted mostly of live dogs and cats.

Shortly after, a young woman from the area was reported missing. Later, bar employees and
two of their wives arrived. In September 1937 , relatives of Minnie Gotthardt warned the
Elmendorf police authorities. The missing 22-year-old girl had worked for Ball, but the killer
stated that the girl had left to work elsewhere.

An explanation satisfied the authorities, although the disappearance of another waitress (Julia
Turner) once again put the county sheriffs on alert. Ball's response was the same, although this
time he did not count on the police finding the missing woman's clothes. Even so, Joe still
prevailed by arguing that Julia's departure was so hasty that she couldn't even pick up her
luggage.

The crimes continued and, two months later, two new girls disappeared. One of them, Hazel
Brown, had opened an account before she disappeared. That's when the Texas Rangers got on
the case, searching for Ball's "missing" employees. Some were found safe and sound, but a
dozen of them were still missing, including the bar owner's second and third wives. Added to
this was the statement from Ball's neighbor who declared that he had seen Ball dismember the
body of a woman, throwing fragments to her hungry pets.

This was enough to indict Ball. On September 24, 1938 , the Rangers entered the Sociable Inn
to examine Joe's Lake. While they were searching, Ball grabbed a gun and shot himself in the
head. The alligators were donated to the San Antonio Zoo .

There are many writings regarding Ball's crimes. Thus, it would be the journalist Michael Hall
who would thoroughly investigate the story in 2002 , and wrote about the events in the
newspaper Texas Monthly .

Tobe Hooper 's Eaten Alive is inspired by the crimes of Joe Ball.

JUANA BARRAZA SAMPERIO

Juana Dayanara Barraza Samperio is popularly known as La Mataviejitas and the only serial
killer to break the qualities that a murderer of the same gender can have.
Biography

She was born in the city of Puebla in 1954, has knowledge of nursing and also dedicated
herself on some occasions to wrestling (under the pseudonym "La Dama del Silencio") or
selling popcorn outside the wrestling arena, and supposed worshiper of Santa Muerte ;
committed several homicides in the metropolitan area of Mexico City from the 90s of the 20th
century until the beginning of 2006

Barraza has become one of the most interesting cases in criminal history in Mexico , since for
many years the commission of her crimes remained uncaptured, and due to the similarity of
her modus operandi with that of famous serial killers from other countries, such as The
Monster of Montmartre .

The first murder attributed to the mataviejitas was committed in the late 90s even though the
series of murders allegedly began on November 17, 2003 . It has been estimated that the total
number of his victims is between 42 and 48.

On March 31, 2008, the 67th criminal judge, based in Santa Martha Acatiltla, sentenced him to
759 years and 17 days in prison for 17 homicides and 12 robberies committed to the detriment
of elderly people.

Modus operandi

All of the murderer's victims were elderly women, most of whom lived alone. The deaths were
caused by blows, wounds from sharp weapons or strangulation, with material theft from the
victims immediately after being murdered. In isolated cases, evidence of sexual abuse was
found in the victims.

In the course of the criminal activities of the mataviejitas , the police authorities were harshly
criticized by the media since, still at the end of 2005 , they assumed "media sensationalism"
regarding a serial killer. Likewise, the fact that the murderer was searched, perhaps in vain,
among the prostitutes and/or transvestites of Mexico City was criticized. In fact, during the
hunt for the murderer, Bernardo Bátiz , then Attorney General of Mexico City, had indicated
that 'El Mataviejitas' was 'brilliantly clever' (it was believed until then that he was a man and
not a woman) who committed his crimes after a short period during which he gained the trust
of his victims. The officers investigating the murderer's modus operandi suspected that the 'old
lady killer' presented himself to his victims as a government social worker ( nurse ), offering
charity programs for the elderly .

The search for the murderer was complicated due to the accumulation of contradictory
evidence. At one point in the investigation, police surmised that two murderers might be
involved. Particular attention was also paid to the strange coincidence that at least three of the
murderer's victims owned a copy of an 18th-century painting, Boy in a Red Vest , by the French
artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze . Interestingly, before the capture of the alleged murderer, Mexican
authorities released witness statements indicating that the murderer used women's clothing
to access the victims' apartments. In one case, one of the witnesses observed a “large woman
in a red blouse” leaving the home of one of the murdered women. This was interesting for
criminologists, forensics and detectives since there were great parallels between the old lady
killer and the Montmartre monster . Under this context, the possibility of a split personality
was attributed to the murderer (presumably male). Another interesting observation made by
the researchers was the strange coincidence that some of the serial killer's victims were of
Spanish origin.

The biggest breakthrough in the case occurred on January 25, 2006 when a suspicious person
was arrested fleeing the home of the last of the victims attributed to the murderer. The victim,
Ana María de los Reyes Alfaro, 82 years old, resident of the Moctezuma 1a section in Mexico
City , had been strangled with a stethoscope and stabbed several times with a military ranger
knife.

To the surprise of many, who claimed that the murderer was a man, the person detained was
Juana Barraza Samperio, then 48 years old. In preliminary tests, Barraza closely resembled a
clay model that described the facial characteristics of the murderer: A person with thick, dyed
blonde hair and a face with hard features. When she was detained, she was carrying a
stethoscope, senior pension application forms, and a card that identified her as a social
worker. Preliminarily, Mexico City police claimed that Barraza's fingerprints had been found at
the scene of at least ten homicides.

It is said that, at the time of her capture, the alleged murderer confessed to having murdered
the elderly woman, Ana María de los Reyes Alfaro, and three other women, but denied being
involved in the rest of the murders. She told reporters that she had visited Ana María de los
Reyes Alfaro's house in search of work as a laundress. - "You will know why I did it when you
read my ministerial statement," Barraza concluded.

ISABEL BATHORY

Isabel Bathory

Countess of Bathory

Countess Báthory.
 Real name Batory Erzsébet

Birth August 7 , 1560

Nyírbátor , Kingdom of Hungary

Death August 21, 1614

Čachtice , present-day Trenčín , Slovakia

Spouse/s Ferenc Nádasdy of Nádasd

 Anna Nádasdy from Nádasd

Offspring
 Orsolya Nádasdy by Nádasd
 Katalin Nádasdy from Nádasd
 Pál Nádasdy by Nádasd Báthory

Dynasty Bathory

Father Jorge Báthory from Ecsed

Mother Anna Báthory from Somlyó

Countess Elizabeth (Elísabeth or Elizabeth) Báthory of Ecsed ( Hungarian : Batory Erzsébet ) (

Nyírbátor , Hungary ; 7 August 1560 – Čachtice Castle, present-day Trenčín , Slovakia , 21
August 1614 ), Hungarian aristocrat , belonging to a of the most powerful families in their
country.

Biography

She has gone down in history for having been accused and convicted of being responsible for a
series of crimes linked to the obsession with beauty that have earned her the nickname "The
Bloody Countess ." However, some contemporary historians consider that these crimes could
have been inventions by his enemies in a very complex political context to seek his downfall
and death, as it happened, but the other story is more widely believed.

Erzsébet holds the Guinness Record for the woman who has murdered the most in the history
of humanity; but in his case it was because of his own pride and vanity.
Elizabeth Báthory, the story

Isabel (Elizabeth) Báthory of Ecsed is born into one of the oldest and wealthiest families in
Transylvania ( Erdély in Hungarian). His name has also been translated by Elízabeth. He was
born from a consanguineous marriage: his mother Anna Báthory of Somlyó, daughter of
Stephen Báthory of Somlya ( 1477 - 1534 ), voivode of Transylvania , who married her third
cousin Jorge Báthory of Ecsed. Isabel Báthory was the maternal niece of Stephen Báthory (
1533 - 1586 ), Grand Prince of Transylvania and king of Poland between 1575 and 1586
(brother of Anne Báthory, son of the Transylvanian voivode Stephen Báthory). Among his
relatives are powerful characters (a cardinal, several Princes and his cousin Sigismund Báthory
who was Grand Prince of Transylvania , through his marriage to Princess María Cristina of
Habsburg ). He spent his childhood in the Ecsed castle (now known as Čachtice castle or Csejte,
its Hungarian name). It is said that at 4 or 5 years of age, little Isabel suffered from violent
seizures: she may have suffered from epilepsy or some other neurological disease; In any case,
they remitted when she was still little.

As was common at the time, at the age of eleven she was betrothed to Count Ferenc Nádasdy
of Nádasd and Fogarasföld, who was twice her age. A year later, she was sent to live in the
Nádasdy castle, so that she could get to know her new family. He never made good friends
with his mother-in-law, Úrsula, matriarch of the clan; Young Báthory apparently asserted the
superior rank of her surname with a frequency that angered her.

Unlike most women (and men) of her time, Isabel had received a good education and her
culture surpassed that of most men at that time. He was exceptional, "he spoke Hungarian ,
Latin and German perfectly, while the majority of Hungarian nobles could neither spell nor
write [...] until the Prince of Transylvania was practically illiterate ."

At the age of fifteen, in 1575 , she married Ferenc, who was then 26 years old. The ceremony
took place in great luxury at Varannó Castle (its Slovak name is Vranov nad Toplou); Emperor
Maximilian II was even invited, but he could not attend. It was Ferenc who adopted his wife's
maiden name, much more illustrious than his own. They went to live in Čachtice Castle, in the
company of their mother-in-law Ursula and other members of the house. The young count did
not spend much time there: most of the time he was fighting in one of the many wars in the
area (impaling his enemies), which earned him the nickname "Black Knight of Hungary." There
is an epistolary record of how Ferenc and Isabel exchanged information about the most
appropriate ways to punish their servants, this was normal among the nobles of the time. The
possessions of this couple of Hungarian nobles were enormous, and tight control over the local
population, of Hungarian , Romanian and Slovak origin, was also required.

Ferenc and Isabel hardly saw each other due to the former's warrior activities, so it was not
until 1585 , ten years after their marriage, that the countess had her first daughter, Ana, and in
the following nine years she also gave birth to a son. Ursula and Katrynna. Finally, in 1598 , she
gave birth to her only son, Pablo.

On the icy morning of January 4, 1604 , the Black Knight of Hungary died of a sudden illness
during one of his battles and left Elizabeth, who was 44 years old, a widow. This is when his
alleged crimes begin. To begin with, she dismissed her much-hated mother-in-law from the
castle, along with the rest of the Nádasdy family; The girls whom she was protecting at that
time were taken to the basements and there they finally received the punishments that, in
Isabel's opinion, they deserved.
This left Erzsébet in a peculiar situation. Feudal lady of an important county in Transylvania,
involved in all the political intrigues of those turbulent times, but without an army to protect
her power. Around the same time, his brother Gabriel Báthory became Prince of Transylvania,
with the financial support of the wealthy Erzsébet. Gábor soon got into a war with the
Germans ; For complex political reasons, this put her in danger of being accused of treason by
King Matthias II of Hungary - who probably coveted her extensive domains. Widowed as she
was, she found herself more vulnerable and isolated than ever.

It is around this time that rumors begin to be heard that something very sinister is happening
in Čachtice Castle. Through a local Protestant pastor , stories arrive that the countess practices
witchcraft (explicitly, red magic ) and to do so uses the blood of young girls - a typical
accusation very popular at the time, similar to those made against Jews and dissidents. It is
curious to note the parallel with Joan of Arc , also accused of witchcraft when her political
power was considered dangerous to the established system. Matías orders Isabel's cousin who
is at odds with her, Count Jorge Thurzó, to take the place with his soldiers and carry out an
investigation. Since Madame de Báthory lacked military force of her own, there was no
resistance.

According to Count Thurzó's investigation, they found numerous tortured girls in various states
of bleeding in the castle, and a lot of corpses in the surroundings. In 1612 a trial began in
Bitcse ( Bytča in Slovak). Erzsébet refused to plead innocent or guilty, and did not appear,
taking advantage of her noble rights. Those who did do it, by force, were his collaborators.
Juan Ujváry, the butler , testified that at least 37 "single women" between eleven and twenty-
six years old had been murdered in his presence; He had personally recruited six of them to
work in the castle. The accusation focused on the murders of young nobles, since those of the
serfs were unimportant. At the sentencing all were found guilty, some of witchcraft, others of
murder and the rest of cooperation.

All of Elizabeth's followers, except the witches, were beheaded and their corpses burned; This
was the fate of his collaborator Ficzkó. They ripped off the witches Dorotea, Helena and
Piroska's fingers with red-hot tongs "for having soaked them in Christian blood" and burned
them alive. Erzsi Majorova, a local burgher accused of cooperation, was also executed.
Katryna, who at fourteen years old was the youngest of Erzsébet's assistants, saved her life at
the express request of a survivor, although she received a hundred lashes on her body.

But the law prevented Isabel, a noblewoman, from being prosecuted. She was locked in her
castle. After placing it in their dungeon, the masons sealed the doors and windows, leaving
only a small hole to pass the food through. Finally, King Matthias II asked for his head for the
young aristocrats who had supposedly died at his hands, but his cousin the Grand Prince of
Transylvania convinced him to delay carrying out the life sentence. So they sentenced her to
life in solitary confinement. This penalty also implied the confiscation of all his properties,
which Matías had been ambitioning for some time.

On July 31, 1614, Erzsébet, aged 54, dictated her last will and testament to two priests of the
cathedral of the archbishopric of Esztergom. He ordered that what remained of the family
possessions be divided among his children.

On August 21, 1614 , one of the jailers saw her fallen on the ground, face down. Countess
Isabel Báthory was dead after having spent four long years walled up, without even seeing the
light of the sun. They intended to bury her in the church of Čachtice, but the local inhabitants
decided that it was an aberration that the "Infamous Lady" was buried in the town, and on
sacred ground at that. Finally, and as she was "one of the last descendants of the Ecsed line of
the Báthory family" she was taken to be buried in the town of Ecsed , in northeastern Hungary,
the place of origin of the powerful family. All her documents were sealed for more than a
century, and speaking of her was prohibited throughout the country.

Two years later, Elizabeth's daughters and son were finally accused of treason for their
mother's support of the war against the Germans; Anna Báthory, a cousin of the countess, was
tortured for this reason in 1618 , when she was 24 years old, but survived. Eventually most of
the Báthory-Nádasdy family fled to Poland; some returned after 1640 . A grandson would be
executed in 1671 for opposing the German Emperor.

The Hungarian National Archives preserve extensive documentation about her, particularly
personal letters and trial records. However, his legendary diaries, like his original portrait, are
missing.

Elizabeth Báthory, the legend

Image of the ruins of Čachtice Castle at dusk, where Erzsébet Báthory supposedly committed
her crimes, remained imprisoned and died.

According to legend, Erzsébet Báthory was a cruel serial killer obsessed with beauty , who used
the blood of her young maids and pupils to stay young at a time when a 44-year-old woman
was dangerously close to old age. Legend has it that Erzsébet saw a decrepit old woman while
passing through a town and mocked her. The old woman, at her mockery, cursed her, telling
her that she too would be like an old woman in a short time.

According to the testimony of Count Jorge Thurzó (Erzsébet's cousin and enemy, appointed
general investigator by the King) when his host arrived at the castle on December 30, 1610,
they found no opposition, nor anyone to receive them. The first thing they saw was a servant
in the stocks in the courtyard, in an agonizing state due to a beating that had fractured all the
bones in his hip. This was common practice and did not attract their attention, but upon
entering the interior they found a girl bleeding to death in the living room, and another who
was still alive although they had pierced her body. In the dungeon they found a dozen still
breathing, some of whom had been pierced and cut repeatedly over the past few weeks. From
beneath the castle they exhumed the bodies of 50 more girls. And Erzsébet's diary counted her
victims day by day, in great detail, until a total of 612 young women were tortured and
murdered. Everywhere there were barrels of ash and sawdust, used to collect the blood that
was poured so prodigally in that place. Because of this, the entire castle was covered in dark
stains and gave off a faint smell of rot. It was said that while her husband was away, she had
sexual relations with servants of both sexes, and it was rumored that when he had sex with
girls it was not unusual for him to bite them savagely.

It all started in 1604, shortly after the death of her husband. One of her teenage maids
involuntarily pulled her hair while she was combing her hair. At first she was very lucky: the
countess reacted by bursting her nose with a strong slap (when the normal thing among the
nobility of the time would have been to take her out to the patio to receive a hundred strokes
of the cane). But when the blood splashed on Erzsébet's skin, it seemed to her that where she
had fallen the wrinkles disappeared and her skin regained its youthful youthfulness. The
countess, fascinated, thought that she had found the solution to old age, and could always
remain beautiful and young. All legends about cannibalism also claim that human blood
prolongs youth. After consulting their witches and alchemists , and with the help of the butler
Thorko and the corpulent Dorottya , they stripped the girl, made a deep cut on her neck and
filled a basin with her blood. Erzsébet bathed in the blood, or at least smeared it all over her
body, and probably drank it, to regain her youth.

Between 1604 and 1610 , Erzsébet's agents dedicated themselves to providing her with young
people between 9 and 26 years old for her bloody rituals. In an attempt to keep up
appearances, he reportedly convinced the local Protestant pastor to give his victims
respectable Christian burials. When the number began to rise, he began to express his doubts:
too many girls were dying for "mysterious and unknown causes." So she threatened him to
keep quiet and began to secretly bury the bleeding bodies. This is, at least, the version of this
pastor, who was the one who "officially" reported her to King Mátyás through the clerical curia
.

Later, at a time when Gábor's mistakes put her in a very delicate political situation, she took up
the habit of burning the genitals of some maids with candles, coals and irons for pure fun. He
also generalized his practice of drinking blood directly by biting the cheeks, shoulders or
breasts. For these private matters he relied on the physical strength of Dorottya Szentes , who,
although older, was still very capable of immobilizing any young man in the required position.
This occurred while he was in Vienna .

In 1609 Erzsébet, due to the lack of servants in the area as a result of so many crimes, made
the mistake that would end her: using her contacts, she began to take girls and adolescents
from good families to educate them. Some of them soon began to die from the same
"mysterious and unknown causes." This was not unusual at that time, with its very high infant
and youth mortality rates, but in the Čachtice "boarding school" the number of deaths was too
high. Now the victims were daughters of the minor aristocracy , so their deaths were
considered important. The witch Darvulia would have warned him never to take nobles, but
this old woman had died some time ago. It was her friend Erszi Majorova , widow of a rich
farmer who lived in the nearby town of Milova , who convinced the countess that nothing
would happen.

Towards the end, many bodies were hidden in dangerously foolish places, such as nearby
fields, grain silos, the river that ran under the castle , the kitchen vegetable garden... Finally,
one of the victims managed to escape before being killed and informed the religious
authorities. This was something that had happened several times in the past, with maids; for
example, in the autumn of 1609...

"...a twelve-year-old girl named Pola somehow managed to escape from the castle and sought
help in a nearby village. But Dorka and Helena Jo found out where she was from the bailiffs,
and taking her by surprise at the town hall, they took her back to Cachtice Castle by force,
hidden in a flour cart. Dressed only in a long white robe, Countess Erzsébet welcomed him back
home with kindness, but flames of fury were coming from her eyes; The poor thing didn't even
imagine what awaited her. With the help of Piroska, Ficzko and Helena Jo, they tore off the
twelve-year-old's clothes and put her in a kind of cage. This particular cage was built like a
sphere, too narrow to sit in and too low to stand. On its interior, it was lined with blades the
size of a thumb. Once the girl was inside, they abruptly lifted the cage with the help of a pulley.
Pola tried to avoid cutting herself with the blades, but Ficzko manipulated the ropes so that the
cage swayed from side to side, while from below Piroska pricked her with a long spike so that
she writhed in pain. A witness stated that Piroska and Ficzko indulged in carnal knowledge
during the night, lying on the ropes, to obtain an unhealthy pleasure from the torment that the
unfortunate woman suffered with every movement. "The torment ended the next day, when
Pola's flesh was torn to pieces on the floor."

This description has its resemblance to another torture device used by Báthory, called the Iron
Maiden , which was a kind of sarcophagus that reflected the silhouette of a woman and had
sharp spikes inside. This device opened to introduce the victim and then enclose him so that
the spikes were embedded in his body.

It is impossible to know, today, what really happened. From a psychiatric point of view,
Erzsébet Báthory would be an anomaly that falls outside the pattern common to all known
serial killers. At the time it was common to cruelly punish servants and pupils, and to execute
even petty criminals in the most gruesome ways. Perhaps Erzsébet was innocent, and just
behaved like another noblewoman of her time. Perhaps she was sadistic , and consequently
applied herself especially when it came to imposing discipline, or even forced her servants to
take part in more or less extreme sadomasochistic practices; again, nothing new for the
nobility of their time, whose impunity and legal power allowed them to treat the servants as
they wanted. Or perhaps she was really a torturer and serial killer protected by her status,
which was only lost when, due to lack of new victims among the plebs, she turned to the
daughters of the minor nobility that she formed.

References

Literature

 Many of the first vampires in romantic literature were seductive aristocrats with
homoerotic tendencies such as Christabel , and most especially Sheridan Le Fanu 's
Carmilla . Without a doubt, the authors of these stories had in mind the myth of "The
Bloody Countess", which began to spread internationally, especially from the time of
the French Revolution. Countess Báthory appears as a vampire in Dracula, the Undead
(2009), the official sequel to Dracula , adopting the sadistic and lesbian behavior of her
legend.
 The writer Valentine Penrose wrote a book titled The Bloody Countess , dedicated
entirely to the character.
  The writer Lázaro Covadlo in his surreal novel Creatures of the Night dedicates almost
an entire chapter to The Bloody Countess, supposedly parasitized by a highly
intelligent flea.
 The Argentine writer Alejandra Pizarnik wrote an essay based on this character, also
titled La Condesa Sangrienta , published for the first time in the magazine "Testigo",
Buenos Aires in January-March 1966 , and then in book form by Editorial Aquarius. , in
Buenos Aires in 1971 .
 In the trilogy The War of the Witches Erzsébet Báthory appears as one of the main
antagonists under the name of The Countess and her entire bloody story is told.
 The Colombian writer Susana Castellanos de Zubiría dedicates a chapter of her book
"Perverse Women of History" (2008) to Erzsébet Báthory.
 One of the stories by Colombian Ricardo Abdahllah is titled "The Story of Elizabeth
Bathory" , and tells the story of the countess, intertwined with a contemporary urban
story.
 Carolina Andújar tells the story of Martina Székely where her greatest enemy is the
Countess Erzsébet Báthory, a Vampyr. (Vampyr) http://vampyrlibro.blogspot.com
 The novel Ella, Dracula by Javier García Sánchez .
 Ray Russell 's Sanguinarius story (in the book Sanguinarius , ed. Valdemar).
 In the novel 62/model to assemble (1968), by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, the
presence of the bloody countess remains the leitmotif of the story. An enigmatic
woman called Frau Marta is in charge of getting young girls to lead them to the
countess. The image of Frau Marta and the countess mix with the nights of Paris, with
the dreams of the characters and recreate a surreal atmosphere filled with the
fantastic, chance and a search that ends in death.
 In the novel Lovers of Blood: The Cursed Prince, by Mexican Ramon Obon, she is
named as an ally in the past of the vampire Sofia Ferenc, attributing to her her taste
for blood...in addition to participating in her murders.

Cinema

 The Vampires (I Vampiri) , directed by Ricardo Freda ( France / Italy , 1956 )

 Necropolis , directed by Franco Brocani ( Germany /France/ UK /Italy, 1970 )
 Countess Dracula , directed by Peter Sasdy (UK, 1971 )
 The vampires (Vampires Lesbos) directed by Jesús Franco (Germany/ Spain , 1971)
 Walpurgis Night , directed by León Klimowsky (Spain/Germany, 1971)
 The red on the lips ( Le lèvres rouges ), directed by Harry Kümel ( Belgium
/France/Germany, 1971)
 The Bloody Bride directed by Vicente Aranda (Spain, 1972 )
 The Return of Walpurgis , directed by Carlos Aured (Spain/ Mexico , 1973 )
 Il plenilunio delle vergini , directed by Luigi Batzella (Italy, 1973)
 Bloody Ceremony , directed by Jorge Grau (Spain/Italy, 1973)
 Immoral tales ( Contes immoraux ), directed by Walerian Borowczyk (France, 1974 )
 The Return of the Werewolf , directed by Paul Naschi (Spain, 1981 )
 La mort mystérieuse by Nina Chéreau (TV), directed by Dennis Berry (France/ USA ,
1988 )
 Jungfrau am Abgrund , directed by Carl Andersen ( Austria /Germany, 1990 )
 Someone killed something , directed by Jorge Navas (Colombia, 1999)
 Bloodbath , directed by Dan Speaker and Kim Turney (USA, 1999)
 Bathory , directed by Brian Topping (2000)
 VAMPIRE HUNTER D: Bloodlust (ANIME) , produced by Urban Vision Entertainment
(2000)
  The Breed , directed by Michael Oblowitz (USA/Hungary, 2001)
 In Vein , directed by Tarik Polansky (USA, 2001)
 Tomb of the Werewolf (V), directed by Fred Olen Ray (USA, 2004)
 Eternidad ( Eternal ), directed by Wilhelm Liebenberg and Federico Sánchez (Canada,
2004)
 The Secret of the Brothers Grimm ( The Brothers Grimm ), directed by Terry William
(USA and Czech Republic, 2005)
 Apocalypse and the Beauty Queen , directed by Thomas Smugala (USA, 2005)
 Urban Cumbia , directed by Augusto Niño Villamizar (Colombia, 2005)
 Night Fangs , directed by Ricardo Islas (USA, 2005)
 Vampire Secrets (TV), directed by Diana Zaslaw (2006
 Stay Alive , directed by William Brent Bell (USA, 2006)
 Dracula's Curse , directed by Leigh Scott (USA, 2006)
 Demon's Claw (V), directed by Lloyd A. Simandl (Czech Republic, 2006)
 Girls' Game , directed by Sharon Toribio ( Mexico , 2007 )
 Metamorphosis , directed by Jenö Hodi (Germany/Hungary/UK/Austria/Canada, 2007)
 Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (TV), directed by Victor Cook and Tad Stones (USA,
2007)
 Hostel: Part II , directed by Eli Roth (USA, 2007)
 Blood Scarab (V), directed by Donald F. Glut (USA, 2008)
 Blood Countess (V), directed by Lloyd A. Simandl (Czech Republic/Canada, 2008)
 Bathory , directed by Juraj Jakubisko (Slovakia/Czech Republic/UK/Hungary/USA, 2008)
 The Countess , directed by Julie Delpy (France/Germany, 2009)

Music

A Swedish black metal group took Erzsébet's surname, " Bathory ", as its name. Additionally,
several metal groups, including Cradle of Filth , Venom , Kamelot , X Japan , and Sunn O))) have
composed songs or even entire albums based on the Countess' story. The group X Japan
dedicated a song to Erzsébet Báthory called Rose of Pain on the album Blue Blood which
mentions phrases like "She will kill to make herself more beautiful." The group Venom has a
song Countess Bathory on their Black Metal album. The group Aiden on their album Knives has
a song called Elizabeth, with phrases like " she bathed in blood ." The group Kamelot in their
album Karma includes a song called Elizabeth, which is divided into 3 parts.

The German Gothic music duo "Untoten" created a double album dedicated to this woman,
Die Blutgräfin .

The Mexican gothic metal group took the name "Erszebeth" and their first album is called "The
Immortal Countess."

Theater

 Dracula, the musical is one of the most important Argentine musicals. It was written
and directed by Pepe Cibrián, with music by Ángel Mahler, in the third scene Jonathan
Harker arrives at the cemetery and meets the vampire Countess Dolingen de Gratz and
her lovers, this countess is inspired by Elizabeth.
 Érszebet, the bather in the purple tub is a play written by the Mexican playwright
Silvia Peláez , which premiered at the Teatro La Capilla. 2007.
 Báthory against 613, this work recounts an entire night in which Countess Erzsébet
Báthory comes back to life, thanks to the strange ritual celebrated by her maid number
 613 (the only one who managed to escape her clutches) in a modern wax museum.
Mistress and servant recreate the events that occurred in the 16th century under the
protection of a new trial dictated by the laws and morals of our time: from the day
they met until the moment Erzsébet Báthory was convicted.
 The Countess Báthory by Alberto Antón. This work tells the life of Erzsébet Báthory
who, desperate in the face of her husband's continuous contempt, devises a plan that
allows her to achieve a long-awaited happiness. An eternal and unblemished beauty,
soaked in death. But the Countess must tread carefully, if she wants to avoid becoming
a pawn in the conspiracies of the Holy Empire.

Games

 In the online PC game, Ragnarok Online , there is an enemy called Bathory which is
represented by a malicious and aggressive Witch Link .
 In Blizzard's Diablo II game there is a small reference to this countess in Act I, mission "
The Forgotten Tower "
 Countess Elizabeth Bartley for the USA or Countess Elizabeth Bathory for Japan, she is
the main antagonist in the game " Castlevania Bloodlines ", she was created and
inspired by this historical character, in other installments of the game such as "
Castlevania Circle of the moon " or " Castlevania Judgment " comes out under her
literary equivalent name, Lady Carmilla.
 In the game saga "Bloody Roar", the character Jenny (bat zooanthrope) has the last
name "Burtory", making a reference to the countess.
 He appears in the board game Atmosfear , and in the PC video game version of the
same name as a character to choose from.
 The Play Station game titled "Vampire Hunter D" has the powerful vampire as its final
enemy. In the game she is known as Countess Elizabeth Bathory or Lady Carmilla.
 The IV installment of the Atmosfear board game stars Countess Elizabeth Bathor, and
one of the best games in this series.
 In the game Bloodrayne 1 (2002), a female Nazi officer is referred to as Doc. Bathory
Menguele (also called the butcher or the buthcheres in English). Their surnames refer
to the Countess and the German scientist Josef Mengele , who was in charge of horrific
experiments in the Nazi concentration camps, in fact the character is a descendant of
the Countess herself.
 In the game DarkEden Revolution, an online RPG game, one of the most powerful
monsters is Elisabeth Bathory herself. In this, his rooms are recreated with the bathtub
of history full of blood.
 In the game Ninja Gaiden 2, Xbox 360 game, one of the demons, Elizabeth, is the blood
demon and appears in a scene bathing in a river of blood.
 In the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban PC game there is a trading card (from a
collection of 80) of the vampire section called "Lady Carmilla Sanguina (1561-1757)".
On the card the description is "He bathed in the blood of his victims to preserve his
youthful beauty." It is a direct reference to the countess. Lady Carmilla, also appears in
the game Vampire Hunter D

Books

 "Seven Moons of Blood": Countess Erzsèbet Bàthory ((Carlos D. Pérez)) Topia Editorial
1999.
 "She, Dracula: Life and Crimes of the Bloody Countess, the Greatest Serial Killer in
History". Javier García Sánchez . Planeta Editorial. 2005.
 "She, Dracula" . Javier García Sánchez . Planeta Editorial. 2002.
 "The Bloody Countess" . Alejandra Pizarnik . Crespo Editions. 1971. (Narrative)
 La comtesse sanglante , Valentine Penrose, 1962. Published in Spanish by Siruela
(republished in 2001). In the introduction, Penrose gives a detailed list of the books
that had previously dealt with the subject of Erzsébet Báthory; most of them
unfindable.
 Just as Vlad Tepes (The Impaler) has his book Dracula , Countess Elizabeth Bathory
(The Bloody Countess) has her book titled Carmilla , written by Sheridan Le Fanu , in
fact Stoker was inspired by this book to write Dracula , and created his vampire based
on a real-life Eastern European nobleman, just as Le Fanú had done to create his
female vampire a few decades earlier.
 Vallejo-Nágera, Alejandra (2006). Crazy people from history: Rasputin, Luisa Isabel of
Orleans, Messalina and other egregious characters . The Sphere of Books. ISBN 978-84-
9734-477-7 .
 "62/Model to assemble" . Julio Cortázar 1968. The legend of the countess is repeatedly
cited and revived by a couple of its characters.
 Vampyr, Carolina Andujar. Norma Editorial Group 2009. Colombia. "Never say I will not
drink this blood"
 The Curse of Odi (The War of the Witches trilogy) by Maite Carranza
 Vampyr by Carolina Andujar
ROBERT BERDELLA

Robert Berdella ( January 31, 1949 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio – October 8, 1992 in Missouri State
Penitentiary) was an American serial killer convicted of raping , torturing , and murdering six
men in Kansas City , Missouri between 1984 and 1987.

Crimes and death

Berdella was arrested in the spring of 1988 after one of his victims escaped from a second-
story window, wearing only a dog collar that Berdella had placed on him for sexual delight.
When this young man escaped, Berdella was at work. The young man was helped by a
neighbor who called the police. When the police arrived, the young man told what had
happened to the officers who first thought that it was a love quarrel between homosexuals.
However, due to the type of accusation (rape, torture and kidnapping), they decided to
investigate. When Berdella arrived from work, he was immediately approached by officers who
arrested him on rape charges. When they tried to enter the house, Berdella denied them
entry, so they needed judicial permission.

Dozens of Polaroid photos of his victims were found in his second-floor room. In addition,
torture elements were found in one of the rooms, also on the second floor, such as chains,
gags, handcuffs, electric batteries, etc. Upon further investigation, human remains and blood
stains were found throughout the house. Also, a human skull buried in his garden.

According to his own statements, he tied up young people after drugging them so he could
sexually subdue and torture them. In one specific case, he tore out the young man's eye to see
what would happen. He disposed of the bodies by dismembering them in his bathtub and
throwing them in the trash in plastic bags.

His neighbors couldn't believe it, he was an exemplary man. He received the maximum
sentence of life in prison and died in prison in 1992 from a heart attack. One of his last
complaints was that police personnel did not give him medicine for his heart problems. His
death was never investigated.
PAUL BERNARDO
Paul Bernardo

Nationality: Canadian

Place of birth: Scarborough, Ontario

Birthdate: August 27, 1964 (44 years old)

Arrested for: Murder

Paul Kenneth Bernardo (also known as Paul Teale ) (b. Born August 27, 1964 in Scarborough,
Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian serial killer , known for the crimes he committed together with
his wife Karla Homolka .

Paul Bernardo

Paul Kenneth Bernardo was born on August 27, 1964 in Scarborough, Ontario , Canada , the
son of Marilyn, a woman who had been adopted by a Toronto city attorney , Gerald Eastman,
and his wife Elizabeth. Marilyn lived a happy childhood in a healthy family. For his part, Paul's
father, Kenneth, was the son of an English woman and an Italian immigrant ; His life was not as
happy as that of his wife. Since he was a teenager, Paul was always a handsome and handsome
young man, blond, tall and well-cared, he was the man who "melted" women. Absolutely
nothing could make young Paul seem like a twisted sick man who enjoyed the pleasure and
pain of others. Thus, Paul would continue his studies and by 1987 he was already an
accountant .

Paul meets Karla Homolka

In October 1987 , when Paul was 23 years old, he met a young Canadian woman, but unlike
him, she was of Czechoslovak refugee parents. This young woman was called Karla Homolka ,
and she was 17 years old. The girl had been a role model at Sir Winston Churchill School where
she even joined a secret women's society "The Diamond Club", which prepared women to get
rich husbands.

After meeting her, Paul, very astute and with his handsome and seductive charms, managed to
make the teenager Karla fall at his feet, after gifts, dinners with candles and charms of
different kinds. Paul had also given Karla a ring , which she wore with great pride and could not
stop showing it to anyone. Finally, they got married in a ceremony full of the best, champagne
and the best foods were served at the wedding, in addition, they arrived at the ceremony
location in a beautiful carriage and spent their honeymoon in Hawaii . Nothing seemed out of
place; As several would later comment, it was the "perfect couple."

But like any couple, Paul and Karla 'Teale', would begin to have their problems, such as Paul's
very strong temperament and the physical attacks that Paul was carrying out lately against
Karla. That's how one day in January 1993 , Karla called the police , reporting that Paul had
attacked her. Once the police got there, they found (according to the detectives' statements),
Karla very scared and in a terrible panic towards Paul, to whom she was totally submissive and
whom she feared incredibly. Then, it was when Karla, to the terrible police surprise, confessed
absolutely everything and all the crimes that she had committed with her husband since 1991
and rapes that her husband had been committing for many years. That was the beginning of
the end of Paul Bernardo's criminal career, since the police, with this confession, already had
permission to conduct a confrontation and examine the house, where they began to find truly
horrible things exclusive to very perverted people.

'Teale' crimes

The Scarborough Rapist

Bernardo committed multiple sexual assaults, escalating into violence, in and around
Scarborough, Ontario. Most of the assaults were carried out on young women whom he had
stalked after they had gotten off their respective buses late at night.

 May 4 , 1987 , Bernardo committed his first rape in Scarborough against a 21-year-old
woman, in front of her parents' house, after following her home. The attack lasted
more than half an hour.
 May 14, 1987, Bernardo committed his second rape. He attacked a 19-year-old woman
in the backyard of her parents' house. This violation lasted more than an hour.
 July 27, 1987, Bernardo attempted to commit his third rape. Although he hit the young
woman, he abandoned the attack after she fought back as well.
 December 16 , 1987, Bernardo committed his third rape, against a 15-year-old girl. This
violation lasted about an hour. The next day, the Toronto Police Service issued a
warning to women in Scarborough traveling alone at night, especially those taking the
bus.
 December 23, 1987, Bernardo committed his fourth rape. During this attack, Bernardo
raped the 17-year-old girl with the knife he used to threaten his victims. It was this
rape that spawned the term 'Scarborough Rapist'.
 April 18 , 1988 , Bernardo attacked a 17-year-old girl. This fifth violation lasted 45
minutes.
 May 25, 1988, Bernardo was nearly caught by a uniformed Metro Toronto investigator
while stalking a bus stop. The investigator noticed him hiding under a tree and chased
him on foot, but Bernardo escaped.
 On May 30, 1988, Bernardo committed his sixth rape, this time in Clarkson, about 25
miles southwest of Scarborough. This attack, against an 18-year-old girl, lasted 30
minutes.

Murders

The day Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were arrested, the police found six videos in the
house of the 'Teale', also known as ' Barbie and Ken ', in which it was seen how two young
women had been brutally tortured and raped by Paul and Karla.

On Christmas 1990 , Paul, with the help of his wife Karla, drugged and raped Tammy Homolka
(Karla's sister), with her consent, in her own home. After raping her, Paul would suffocate
Tammy with a pillow who would in turn choke on her drug vomit.
On June 15, 1991 , Paul would kill again, this time 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy , whom he
kidnapped and raped that same day. He would then murder her and dismember her body,
dumping the remains in Gibson Lake near St. Catharines , Ontario .

On April 16, 1992 , with the help of his wife Karla, Paul kidnapped 15-year-old Kristen French .
Then, he would expose her to 13 days of ordeal in which she was raped and tortured, until she
died from so much mistreatment. His body was found on a country road, two weeks after he
disappeared on the way to school.

In addition to the murder charges, Paul was accused of more than 40 sexual assaults.

Trial and conviction of the 'Teale'

Paul Bernardo was tried for the deaths of Mahaffy and French in 1995 and the trial included
statements by Karla herself against him and samples of the videos in which Paul raped the
victims. The trial was completely private, due to fear of the publication of the videos by the
press, and was moved from Toronto to St. Catharines, where the crimes occurred. Bernardo's
statements were different at all times: he said that the deaths had been 'accidental' to that
Karla was the murderer herself. On September 1, 1995 , Canada would close a dark page in its
history, sentencing Paul Kenneth Bernardo to life imprisonment . Later, Bernardo would be
declared a 'Dangerous Rapist', something that in Canadian law is equivalent to the convicted
person never being released due to that danger.

Since his conviction, Paul Bernardo has been behind bars at the Kingston Penitentiary in
Kingston, Ontario , under solitary confinement, to protect him from other convicts, since
according to prison codes, a criminal like Bernardo would never be welcome in the community
cells. .

For her part, Karla Homolka received a reduced sentence in exchange for her full statement
against her ex-husband. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison, a measure that was highly
criticized by Canadians .

Suspected of more deaths

The Bain case

Bernardo is suspected of one more death, which occurred in June 1990 , the victim of which
was Elizabeth Bain. Robert Baltovich [1] He was convicted of Bain's death but was acquitted in
2000 . In 2004 , an investigation showed Bernardo as a possible murderer of Elizabeth Bain,
since he was seen with her on the same day of her disappearance. Obviously, Paul Bernardo
denies having met her.

Karla Homolka released from prison

On July 4, 2005, Karla Homolka was released from prison. Several days earlier Bernardo was
interviewed by the police and by his lawyer , Tony Bryant. Agreeing with Bryant, Bernardo
stated that he had always been willing to release the girls and that Karla had refused.
However, Mahaffy was killed upon seeing Bernardo's face after the bandage covering his eyes
came off. Homolka made reference to Paul killing her since Mahaffy, upon recognizing Paul,
would rat them out to the police . Bernardo also stated that Karla murdered Mahaffy, injecting
an air bubble with a syringe into her bloodstream, causing an embolism .
Books and movies

Many books have been written based on the Teale crimes, and in October 2005 , a film about
the case was released. With Misha Collins as Bernardo and Laura Prepon as Homolka.

Personality
Bernardo's personality is surprising, a great example of the double human face in which on the
one hand he is shown as a handsome young Canadian with a promising future and on the
other hand he is nothing more than a sexual sadist and murderer.

DONATO BILANCIA

Donato Bilancia ( Potenza , Italy , July 10 , 1951 ) is an Italian serial killer , known as "The
Ligurian Monster." It killed at least 17 people in the Liguria area from October 1997 to May
1998 . On April 12, 2000 , he was sentenced to 14 life sentences and an additional 14 years for
another attempted murder.
Biography

Bilancia was born in Potenza on July 10, 1951 . In 1956 his family moved to Genoa . He grew up
with difficult relationships with his family and dedicated himself to theft. In 1975 , he was
arrested for theft and, in 1976 , he entered prison, from which he escaped months later.

In 1982 his brother committed suicide, along with his son, by jumping onto the train tracks at
Genoa station. This episode marked Donato, causing his mental disorders to never return to
their place. Added to this was a car accident in 1990 , which left him in a deep coma for several
days. Once he recovered from his coma, he began to take up gambling, winning large sums of
money, although when he lost he kept his word to pay everything he owed. In clandestine
gambling venues he was known as Walter.

First murders

It can be dated that Bilancia's first murder was on October 16, 1997 when he ended the life of
Giorgio Centanaro in his house, suffocating him with adhesive tape. Despite the strangeness of
the death, the Carabinnieri closed the case concluding that he had committed suicide, since
they found no evidence of murder. It would not be until Bilancia's arrest that he would confess
to the crime, arguing that Centanaro mocked him at a gaming table.

It would only be a week before he killed again. Specifically, on October 24, 1997, he killed
Maurizio Parenti and his wife Carla Scotto in their home for the same reasons that had moved
him to kill Centerano, since Bilancia believed that both were partners. In addition, Bilancia
stole 13 million lire (about 6,500 euros) and other valuables from the house. From that
moment on, Bilancia began to thirst for blood. Three days later, the killer entered Bruno
Solari's house, murdering him and his wife Maria Luigia Pitto (after robbing their apartment).

The criminal's misdeeds would continue during those months. On November 13, 1997 he killed
Luciano Marro, a money changer living in Ventimiglia , stealing 45 million lire (22,500 euros),
and on January 25 , 1998 he did the same with Giangiorgio Canu, a night security guard, in
Genoa . His only motive was to take revenge on the security forces, who had put him in prison.

Prostitute killer

After ending the lives of people without a specific profile, Bilancia began to gravitate towards
prostitutes. His first victim of these characteristics occurred on March 9, 1998, shooting Stela
Truya, an Albanian prostitute in Varazze , followed by the Ukrainian Ljudmyla Zubskova (
March 18, 1998 in Pietra Ligure ), and the Nigerian Tessy Adobo ( 29 March in Cogoleto ). Apart
from these victims there is also the death of a money changer Enzo Gorni on March 20 near
Ventimiglia .

The only prostitute who was able to escape Bilancia's hands was a transsexual named "Lorena"
Castro on ( March 24 in Novi Ligure ). Castro escaped death and went to notify two security
guards (Massimiliano Garillo and Candido Randò), who were killed by Bilancia's bullets.

The death of the Nigerian Tessy Adobo alerted the police forces, who began to find evidence
and connections between the murder of Stela Truya and the following women, thanks to the
ballistics studies of the RIS of Parma , which showed that all The bullets corresponded to a
single weapon.
The myth of the "Ligurian Monster" is created

Little by little, more details of the criminal began to be known, thanks mainly to the testimony
of Lorena, who was able to give details about the black Mercedes driven by the murderer and
create a robotic portrait of the "Monster." The impact in the media made Bilancia suddenly
change his criminal habits. On April 12, 1998 , on the InterCity between La Spezia and Venezia ,
Bilancia murdered Elisabetta Zoppetti in the train's bathroom. Two days later, he would end
the life of another prostitute, Kristina Valla, and on April 18 he killed Maria Angela Rubino on
the train between Genoa and Ventimiglia .

The Ligurian Monster became the main topic of television programs and newspapers, so
surveillance in the suburbs and on trains was redoubled. Some suspects were detained and
two cars that matched the description given by Lorena were kept under surveillance. Anyway,
on April 12 in Arma di Taggia , Bilancia robs and kills his latest victim, a gas station worker
named Giuseppe Mileto.

Bilancia arrest

The turning point of the investigations came when the Carabinieri obtained information about
a black Mercedes that perfectly matched the data provided by Lorena. This is how information
was obtained from Bilancia. The feared murderer was arrested on May 6, 1998 in his
apartment in Genoa where the 38 caliber Smith & Wesson with which he murdered with 50
bullets was found.

Bilancia, with complete coldness, recounted in detail how he had killed each and every one of
his victims. On April 12, 2000, the Supreme Court of Genoa sentenced Bilancia to 14 life
sentences for the deaths and 14 more years for the attempted murder of Lorena Castro.

IAN BRADY

Ian Duncan Stewart (b. January 2 , 1938 in Gorbals , Glasgow , Scotland ) is a famous British
serial killer .

He became known in the United Kingdom for his involvement in a series of murders that
occurred in Greater Manchester between 1963 and 1965 . They are known in England as the
"Moors Murderers" or the " Moor Murders", because many of their victims were buried on
Saddleworth Meadow , near Oldham in the county of Lancashire .

Biography

Ian Stewart was born at Rottenrow Maternity Hospital ( Glasgow ). He grew up, along with his
biological mother Margaret Stewart (better known as Peggy), in Gorbals ( Scotland ), while his
biological father is said to have been a journalist who died shortly before his birth. Peggy
found it very difficult to care for her son and decided to give him up for adoption. This is how,
from a very young age, Ian Stewart became Ian Sloane.

Since he was little, Ian behaved strangely: he had uncontrollable attacks of anger that could
even end with him banging his head against the wall. Peggy visited him whenever she could
and brought a gift for her son, even though he did not know the woman's true identity. Shortly
after, he discovered that his biological mother was Margaret.

The Sloane's neighbors did not accept the boy because of his social status, in addition to being
famous in the neighborhood for not playing soccer well. This fact made him, even more, a
'social misfit'.

At school they remember him, among other things, as a handsome boy and a brilliant student
(he even passed an exam at Shawlands Academy), but at that time he began to decline in his
studies and began to smoke, a symbol of a rebellious boy.

Ian developed a fascination with Nazi ideology and its symbols. An example that is
remembered is that they called him "the German" when they played to imitate war with their
companions. Already at that time he showed his sadistic tendencies by torturing girls younger
than him and brutally torturing animals.

As a teenager he was arrested twice for robbery, and was released. The third of his arrests
resulted in him moving to live with his mother outside Glasgow . Peggy lived in Manchester
with her partner, Irishman Patrick Brady . This happened in 1954 , when Ian was 17 years old
and accepted Brady as his new surname.

Taking refuge in reading and music, Ian read the Marquis de Sade and Friedrich Nietzsche ; as
well as works that defended the interference of the strong against the weak, defending the
attack on them. He was also interested in books about sadomasochism , domination ,
servitude and other paraphilias .

Ian Brady began working in a butcher shop at that time and some say that, as he cut meat and
animal bones, he became more interested in mutilation .

He was an alcoholic and a gambler . Ian was re-arrested several more times, being sentenced
to two years in Strangeways Prison.

Myra Hindley, his partner

In prison, Ian studied accounting , with the intention of becoming a great criminal and thus
learned illegal ways to get money.

Between April and October 1958 he worked in a brewery called Boddingtons . At the age of 21
he started working at Millward's . Two years later he met Myra Hindley , for whom he did not
feel any attraction until the Christmas party a year later, when they began a romantic
relationship.

It is said that their sexual relations were very daring, including sadomasochistic practices . Ian
influenced Myra's personality in many ways. For example, while they were together, the young
woman began to hate children.
Some time later, Ian began planning bank robberies that were never carried out. Unlike the
rapes and murders for sexual satisfaction that ended the lives of a series of young people.

Crimes

 Pauline Reade , 16 years old: On July 12, 1963 , Myra tempts this young woman to go
to Saddleworth meadow to help her look for a glove. Ian followed them on his
motorcycle and it was there where he raped and killed her. She was simply his
accomplice.

 John Kilbride , 12 years old: On November 23, 1963 , Myra tricks this boy again by
taking him to the same meadow. Myra told him that she was waiting for him in a
nearby village. There, on Saddleworth meadow, Ian was waiting, who raped him. Later,
enraged because the gun he wanted to use to kill the boy didn't work, he strangled
him and buried him. Myra was once again an accomplice, but she did not kill.

 Keith Bennet , age 12: June 16 , 1964 . This time he is deceived by both, who take him
back to the now famous meadow. There, while she was waiting for everything to be
over, Ian rapes and strangles him. I buried him right there.

 Lesley Ann Downey , 10 years old: Ian and Myra kidnap this girl from an amusement
park . He photographed her naked 9 times and Myra recorded the girl's screams for
her life. After carrying out their ritual, they buried her the next morning at
Saddleworth. The 9 photos and the recording were kept in a suitcase.

 Edward Evans , 17 years old: On October 6, 1965 , in the presence of Myra's brother-
in-law, David Smith, Ian ends this young man's life by hitting him in the head with an
axe.

David Smith was the one who, after helping Ian carry Edward Evans' body, made a good excuse
and left the place, promising to return. But what Ian and Myra didn't know was that Smith
contacted the police and turned them in, making them one of the most hated characters in the
entire United Kingdom .

Although only five victims are known, it is presumed that there were several dozen children
who disappeared in the swamps.

Arrest and conviction

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were arrested and charged with murder following David Smith's
statement. Two months before this event, the death penalty was abolished in the United
Kingdom and life imprisonment became the maximum punishment. On May 6 , 1966 , both
were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The evidence of his crimes were those 9 photographs of the naked Lesley Ann Downey and
the recording. John Kilbride 's name written in a notebook and a photo of Myra at his grave
were also decisive evidence.

Ian admitted to being the cause of Edward Evans ' ax attack, but that Myra had nothing to do
with it. It was not until November 1986 , 20 years later, that Ian admitted to being guilty of the
deaths of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennet .
Ann West , the mother of the deceased Lesley Ann Downey , was one of the people who
suffered the most from the evil of these two murderers. Ann had to see the 9 photographs of
her daughter naked, tied and raped, as well as hear her voice in the famous recording in order
to frame Ian and Myra. Her pain increased when Ian declared that he did not regret anything
he had done. The singer Morrisey , like many people, expressed solidarity with the family of
the deceased and, of course, against Ian and Myra.

Died in 1999 , Ann died peacefully knowing that the two murderers would never be released
from prison. Two years earlier, in 1997 , the Secretary General of Justice at the time ruled that
this pair of murderers would never be released from prison. Ann West is said to have died
from the depression she fell into after her 10-year-old daughter died.

Although Myra Hidley died in 2002, Ian Brady remains in a mental institution at the age of 70.

Ian Brady today

In 1985 , after 19 years in prison, Ian was declared mentally insane and therefore sent to the
Broadmoor psychiatric hospital . He is currently admitted to the Ashworth hospital ( Liverpool ,
Merseyside , England ).

Ian has tried to commit suicide on several occasions, but has always been prevented. Just like
when he went on a hunger strike, a judge ordered him to be kept alive with a gastric tube.

Today, at 72 years old, he who was one of the greatest murderers in the United Kingdom , is
torn between life and death due to his health problems and progressively loses his mental
sanity.

TED BUNDY

Theodore Robert Cowell Bundy

 Birth November 24, 1946
Burlington , Vermont

Death January 24 , 1989 (42 years old)

Position(s) Multiple homicides , kidnapping , rape .

Sentence Execution in the electric chair .

Parents Louise Cowell and Lloyd Marshall

Theodore Robert Cowell Bundy ( November 24, 1946 ; Burlington , Vermont – January 24, 1989
; Florida ), better known as Ted Bundy , was an American serial killer who killed about 100
people, for which he was sentenced to die. in the electric chair .

Childhood

Son of an air force veteran named Lloyd Marshall (a man he never met) and Louise Cowell, he
lived his early years ( 1946 - 1960 ) at his maternal grandparents' house. The family decided to
make little Ted believe that his grandparents were, in fact, his parents and that his mother
was, therefore, his older sister. The reason was to protect Louise from criticism from a society
that frowned upon single mothers.

At fourteen years old ( 1960 ), Ted and his mother moved to Tacoma ( Washington ) with other
relatives and Louise fell in love with Johnnie Culpepper Bundy, an army cook whom she
married in May 1951 and from whom Ted adopted the last name. . The marriage had four
children and Ted, despite Johnnie's failed attempts to treat him as another member of the
family, never created an emotional bond with his mother's husband.
University and first crimes

Ted was a diligent student with good grades at the University of Washington and the
University of Puget Sound ( Tacoma ). He worked in several places - never lasting long - and his
bosses remember him as someone untrustworthy, a characteristic of serial killers .

In his twentieth spring ( 1967 ) he fell in love with the San Franciscan Leslie, a beautiful and
intelligent young woman from a well-off family. It was Bundy's dream come true, but two
years later, when she graduated in Psychology , she put an end to the relationship since Leslie
did not like that her partner did not have clear goals in his life and lacked discretion. Ted, who
never got over that breakup, became obsessed with Leslie and tried to win her back and
maintain contact with her, but at that time he did not achieve his goal.

So, Bundy left school for a while and then returned to the University of Washington and
enrolled in law . Here he was considered a bright boy and loved by his teachers and, in
addition, he began a relationship with Meg Andrews - divorced and with a young daughter - for
5 years. He never loved her as much as he loved Leslie, and even though he didn't want to get
married and was unfaithful, Meg hoped that one day he would change. Furthermore, Meg was
unaware that her boyfriend had been dating a San Franciscan woman and that he still wrote
letters to her. Between the ages of 23 and 26 ( 1969 - 1972 ) everything went smoothly: he
submitted applications for admission to law schools and was involved in community activities.
He even earned a decoration from the Seattle police for saving a 3-year-old boy from drowning
and was involved with important figures in the United States Republican Party . But everything
changed in 1973 , when Ted reunited with his past: Leslie. She was surprised at how her ex-
partner had changed and they began an affair that lasted between the summer and winter of
that year. She fell in love with this new man, but at that moment he was the one who
abandoned her and never responded to her calls again as revenge and she never heard from
him again.

Before the murders that he would soon begin to commit, Bundy carried out a series of
robberies in other people's homes and businesses while he was drunk .

Bundy, who as a young man spied on girls while they changed clothes and became interested
in pornography and violent texts, entered the room of 18-year-old college student Joni Lenz on
January 4, 1974 , and hit her with a metal crowbar. and raped her with a piece of the bed. The
next day, the girl's body was found in a pool of her own blood and she survived with
permanent brain damage . Bundy was 27 years old.

His next victim was 21-year-old University of Washington Psychology student Lynda Ann Healy.
Just 27 days after the first crime, Bundy entered her bedroom, knocked her unconscious,
dressed her again, and put her in a sheet. That night no one noticed Lynda Ann's absence until
the alarm rang the next day. The police could not establish any connection with another crime
and no further evidence was taken - there was a pillowcase, a pair of sheets and a bloody
nightgown - nor crime scene studies. His decapitated remains were found a year later on a
nearby mountain.

The murders continue

During the spring and summer of 1974 , attractive college women with long, straight, dark hair
disappeared. The disappearance was always discovered the next morning, when the girls were
nowhere to be found. It is estimated that there were 8 victims that he attacked at night, until
one day he decided to do it during the day. The police, who had launched an investigation, had
testimonies about a man identified as Ted, who requested help from the girls - who later
disappeared - when he saw them passing by. He was always loaded with books and one arm in
a cast or a sling. He also had "trouble" starting his Volkswagen and was seen hanging around
the site where two girls disappeared. In other words, the police had several leads on him.

On February 9, 1974 , twenty-year-old Carol Valenzuela disappeared from Vancouver (

Canada ) and her body was not discovered until October along with another unidentified body.
On February 11 , 1974 , two days after Carol's disappearance, 16-year-old Nancy Wilcox
disappeared and her body has never been found.

On March 12 , 1974 , it was 19-year-old Donna Mason who disappeared. She was last seen
around 7 p.m., while going to a jazz concert on campus. A month later, on April 17 , 18-year-
old Susan Rancourt was walking on the grounds of Central Washington State College when she
disappeared. I had met a friend to see a German film and he never arrived. The last time she
was seen was at 9 p.m., when she was leaving a meeting with one of her school advisors.

When Roberta Parks, 20, met with some friends in their room to have coffee, they never
imagined that they would never see her alive again. Parks encountered an apparently injured
man asking for help loading things into his car. The naive girl helped him.

On June 1, 1974 , Brenda Ball, 22, left the Flame Tavern in Burien, Washington after telling her
friends that she was going to find someone to take her to Sun City, California . The last time
she was seen she was talking to a man with his arm in a sling. It took his friends 19 days to
realize that he had never reached his destination.

On June 11, 1974, the victim was Georgann Hawkins, 18 years old and a member of the Kappa
Alpha Theta fraternity in Seattle . After saying goodbye to her boyfriend and going to look for
some books for a Spanish exam, her roommate was surprised that it took so long to arrive and
called Georgann's boyfriend, who told her that they had said goodbye at 1 in the morning .
Worried, she woke up the dorm manager and together they waited for Georgann until the next
morning. So they called the police and investigated immediately.

On July 14 , college student Janice Ott left a note for her roommate explaining that she was
riding her bike to Lake Sammamish Park. There they saw her talking to a man with his arm in a
cast, who asked her to help him load his boat into the car. She accepted and he kidnapped her
there, in front of everyone, without raising any suspicion. It was so easy for him that he
decided to go back for another girl. The one who helped him this time, after two girls refused
to help him, was Denise Naslund, who was spending the day with her boyfriend and friends.
Janice and Denise's remains were found in August 1974 there, in Lake Sammamish .
Remarkable is the fact that, despite the scarcity of clues found in the park (locks of hair of
various colors, a jawbone , two skulls and five leg bones ), the victims were identified.

Bundy had an advantage over the police who were on his tail: he could change his appearance
by changing his hairstyle and growing or shaving his beard. Thus he changed residence and
moved to Midvale ( Utah ), where on August 30, 1974 he enrolled as a student at the
University of Utah College of Law.

There he murdered Melissa Smith, the daughter of the local sheriff , on October 18, 1974 . He
kidnapped her when she was going to spend the night at a friend's house, raped her,
sodomized her and broke her skull with something like a bar. His body was found 9 days later
in Summit Park.

On October 30, he chose his next victim: Laura Aimee, 17, who was returning from a
Halloween party. Her naked body was found in the Wasatch Mountains and showed signs of
having been hit on the head with a metal wedge, raped and sodomized before being
murdered, according to police, in another location, since there was no blood there.

The police quickly launched an investigation and found a similarity in the modus operandi .
They contacted the Washington police and made a sketch of the probable appearance of the
cruel murderer.

The crimes that led to his identification and first capture

On November 8, 1974 , the police finally obtained a witness capable of putting them on the
trail of the murderer. It was Carol DaRonch, 18, who stated that, that same afternoon, an
attractive man had approached her at the Waldens Books ( Utah ) bookstore. The stranger,
who identified himself as Officer Roseland, told him that he had seen someone trying to steal
his car and asked him to go with him to the parking lot to see if anything had been stolen.
Carol, who thought the man was the parking security guard, accompanied him and they
confirmed that nothing had happened. Then, the stranger insisted on accompanying her to the
police station to file a complaint against the alleged criminal. And so it was, but as they walked
toward the pale blue Volkswagen , Carol began to smell alcohol on the stranger's breath and
realized something was wrong. She asked him for his identification and he, laughing, showed
her something similar to a credential that convinced her and she went upstairs.

Going at high speed, the supposed officer Roseland asked Carol to put on her seat belt, but she
was not very sure and decided to ignore him so she could jump out of the vehicle when there
was trouble. And the moment arrived: Carol realized that they were not going to the police
station. The driver tried to handcuff her, but what he managed to do was that the handcuffs
ended up on the same wrist. Carol screamed and he pulled out a gun, threatening her that if
she didn't keep quiet, he would kill her. She then punched him in the face and ran away, but
he followed her with a metal bar in his hand. Carol kicked him in the genitals and he managed
to run away screaming. An elderly couple found her and accompanied her to the police station.

At the police station Carol told what an officer had tried to do to her, but it turned out that
there was no officer named Roseland, so they immediately sent a patrol car to the scene. This
is how the description of the man, the vehicle and the attacker's blood type were obtained: O
positive, Bundy's type.

But he needed to make up for his frustration over the failed assassination. That same night of
[November 8], Debby Kent, 17, disappeared from the parking lot of Viewmont High School,
where she had gone with her parents to see a play. Debby had offered to pick up her brother
from a nearby bowling alley, after which she had to return to pick up her parents. They,
concerned about Debby's tardiness, called the police who, after a quick search of the parking
lot, found no clues other than the key to a pair of handcuffs. That key turned out to belong to
the handcuffs with which, hours before, Carol DaRonch had shown up at the police station.

The director of the performance, Jean Graham, stated that during the play a man who looked
similar to the suspect had asked her several times to accompany her to the parking lot,
supposedly to identify a vehicle, but she had refused since she was too busy with the work.
Almost a month after the events, a man called the police to report that on the night of Debby's
disappearance he had seen a light-colored Volkswagen rush out of the school parking lot.

On January 12, 1975 , 23-year-old Caryn Campbell accompanied her fiancé, Dr. Raymond
Gadowski, to a seminar in Aspen, Colorado . While they were resting in a hotel room, she
realized that she had forgotten a magazine and returned to her room to look for it. Dr.
Gadowski and his children waited for a while and finally decided to go look for her, but he did
not find her. He hadn't even made it to the room. At mid-morning, the worried Gadowski
decided to notify the police, who immediately came and inspected each room of the hotel
without being able to find her.

Almost a month later a worker found Caryn's naked body in a snowbank several miles from the
hotel. She had been raped and brutally beaten. No evidence of his attacker was found.

On March 1, 1975 , a skull was found in a wooded area of the Taylor Mountains: it belonged to
Brenda Ball. Police carried out an extensive search of the surrounding area and just three days
later body parts of Lynda Healy, Susan Rancourt and Roberta Parks were discovered. Some
more remains were later found and identified as belonging to Donna Mason.

The discovery of the remains of some of his victims did not deter Bundy. On March 15 of that
same year, he kidnapped 26-year-old Julie Cunningham when she was on her way to a tavern
in Vail, Colorado . His body has not yet been found.

On April 6, 1975 , after arguing with her husband, 25-year-old Denise Oliverson decided to visit
her parents in Grand Junction, Colorado . Denise didn't return that afternoon, so her husband
thought she had stayed the night while things calmed down. But the truth is that she didn't
even make it to her parents' house. Along the way he had the bad luck to cross paths with Ted
Bundy. His body has not yet been found.

Nine days later, 18-year-old Melanie Cooley disappeared on her way home from school. A road
worker would discover her body on the following April 23 : she had been savagely beaten with
a bar. His hands were tied behind his back and a pillowcase was tied tightly around his neck.

On July 1, 1975 , Shelley Robertson, 24, decided to start one of her usual trips around the
country hitchhiking. Her friends didn't worry too much when they didn't see her for several
days. Witnesses claimed to have seen her at a gas station talking to a man driving an old truck.
She was next heard from on the following August 21 , when her body was discovered by two
mining students in a mine shaft near Georgetown .

Thanks to the description of the murderer , a close friend of Meg Anders identified him as Ted
Bundy, of whom she had a very bad impression. Since the resemblance was undeniable, she let
her friend know, who ironically was aware of the crimes and regularly wrote reports about the
matter. In fact, Anders became convinced that her boyfriend could be the murderer, since
many clues pointed directly to him. Ted's resemblance to the police sketch and the fact that he
drove a Volkswagen sedan like the killer was undeniable. He also saw crutches in his house,
even though he had not been injured. Given the situation, she anonymously called the police
suggesting that her current boyfriend could have something to do with the deaths. Although
he provided recent photos of Bundy to police, witnesses failed to make proper identification.
Police dismissed that lead to focus on other reports. Attention to Ted Bundy dissipated until a
few years later. Meanwhile, the killer relied on the strategy of moving from one state to
another, to prevent the police from discovering any of his patterns. Thus, their attempts and
advances became increasingly crude and risky, so much so that the victims no longer fell so
easily, some becoming useful witnesses, who later made Bundy's capture possible.

But there came a time when the evidence against Bundy was unobjectionable. On August 16,
1975, a patrolman on duty saw a Volkswagen that seemed suspicious and turned on his
headlights to check its license plate. Ted, nervous, fled. Sergeant Bob Hayward requested help
from other units and Bundy was arrested shortly after. During the first inspections, the metal
crowbar - Bundy's favorite weapon - handcuffs, tape and other objects were found that raised
suspicions about the detainee. Thanks to the disappearance of Melissa Smith, Laura Aime and
Debby Kent, in addition to the collaboration of the theater director whom he asked for help
but who never offered and, above all, that of Carol DaRonch, the girl he tried to kill but
managed to escape, Bundy was declared the murderer. The large-scale investigation began
around one man: Theodore Robert Bundy.

First trial

On February 23, 1976 , Ted Bundy's trial for aggravated kidnapping began. He was 29 years old
and entered the room very confident in himself, believing that there was not enough evidence
against him. But he was wrong: Carol DaRonch pointed him out as the man who tried to kill
her. Bundy, in defense, denied knowing her, but he had no alibi for the day the events took
place. The judge reviewed the case throughout the following weekend and Bundy was finally
sentenced to 15 years in prison with the possibility of parole. It was June 30, 1976 .

Once in prison, doctors performed psychological tests on Bundy, from which it was concluded
that he was not psychotic , sexually deviant, drug addict, alcoholic or suffering from any type of
brain damage. Despite this, more proceedings continued to be prepared against this Utah
prisoner.

Although it took a while to arrive, forensic tests from the Volkswagen determined that the hair
samples found were from Melissa Smith and Caryn Campbell. Furthermore, subsequent
examinations revealed that the brain damage suffered by the bodies could have been caused
by the crowbar found in Bundy's car some time ago. Colorado police lifted the murder charge
on October 22, 1976 . In April '77 , Bundy was transferred to Garfield County Prison.

Leaks

During trial preparations, Bundy fired his attorneys and decided to defend himself. For this
reason he was allowed to visit the Aspen Court Library ( Colorado ), without knowing that his
only intention was to escape. On June 7, 1976, he jumped from a library window, injured his
ankle and could not go far. Still, he eluded the police for 6 days. While his search was
underway, the killer survived by stealing and sleeping in an abandoned motorhome.

The police found him trying to steal another Volkswagen vehicle with the keys in the ignition.
He tried to escape again in January 1977 by climbing to the roof of one of the prison stations,
and from there access another part of the roof that led to the closet of an empty apartment in
the prison. This cold-minded man waited until no one was around and walked out the front
door of one of the prison officers' apartments. Until the next morning, 15 hours later, no one
noticed his disappearance. This time he fled to Chicago and Florida under the pseudonym Chris
Hagen.
Latest crimes

On January 14, 1977, the Chi Omega fraternity building was half empty because, since there
was no curfew that night, most of the students decided to go out and party. When Nita Neary
returned, around 3:00 a.m., she was surprised that the door was open. Inside she heard
footsteps getting closer and, scared, decided to hide. He saw a man with a blue cap and a
folder wrapped in a rag leave the building. Believing that the fraternity had been attacked, she
went in search of her roommate and together they searched for the person in charge of the
building. To his surprise, he found his partner Karen in the hallways, seriously injured and with
her head covered in blood, as she staggered through the hallways.

Police found the body of Lisa Levy, who had been hit on the head, raped, with her nipple
almost removed due to a bite, and with a can of hair spray inserted into her vagina. He was not
the only victim they found. Among others, there was the corpse of Margaret Bowman,
strangled while she slept and with such a blow to the head that she was found with her brain
mass hanging. The rest of the corpses could not provide any more clues. The only one they had
was the testimony of Nita Neary.

Not far from there, Bundy attacked another girl, but survived thanks to the actions of
neighbors, who called the police. He was semi-conscious in bed - due to the beating he
suffered - and hair, semen and blood samples from the author were found. Curious is that Ted
Bundy was unknown to the State of Florida .

A 14-year-old girl, daughter of James Parmenter, a detective officer with the Jacksonville Police
Department, crossed Bundy's path. As her father had already explained to her, she should not
talk to strangers and the young woman felt uncomfortable with his presence. Luckily, her older
brother arrived and took her home, but not before taking down the license plate of the truck
Ted was driving. He gave the paper to his father and he began to investigate: the license plate
belonged to a certain Randall Ragen, who claimed that his white truck had been stolen days
before and that he had already bought a new one. Parmenter showed photos of suspects to
his children and, to their surprise, the man they both pointed out was Ted Bundy.

And meanwhile, Bundy decided to kill again. This time his victim was 12-year-old Kimberly
Leach. It was February 9, 1978 when he kidnapped her in Lake City. Her friend Priscila later told
the police that she had seen her get into an unknown truck about which she could not provide
much information. Eight weeks later, Kimberly's decomposing body was found in Florida , and
due to the state it was in, many clues to the killer could not be extracted. Likewise, thanks to
Detective Parmenter's investigations, Bundy once again had someone on his tail.

Trial for the crimes of the fraternity

The trial, this time, took place on June 25, 1979 in Miami ( Florida ) and the crimes of the Chi
Omega fraternity were judged. The crimes of the decade that made a large part of Americans
consider Bundy the incarnation of Evil.

Bundy, with everyone against him, acted as his own lawyer, but it didn't matter: the evidence
against him was such that he couldn't do anything to save himself. First was the testimony of
Nita Neary, who pointed out Bundy as the man she saw leaving the fraternity wearing a cap.
Then dentist Souviron took the stand, who determined that the marks found on Levy's
buttocks matched Bundy's teeth.
On July 23, 1977 , after seven hours of deliberation, the jury decided that Ted Bundy was
guilty. When he heard the verdict he showed no emotion, unlike his mother, who asked for
mercy for him. Ted said that he had been the victim of a farce, of an unfair and abusive trial
and that he did not have to ask for mercy for something he had not committed. Despite this,
Judge Cowart sentenced him to death by electric chair for the murders of Lisa Levy and
Margaret Bowman.

Trial by Kimberly Leach

On January 7, 1980 , the trial for the murder of Kimberly Leach began in Orlando , Florida .
Bundy, after failing to practice as his own lawyer, decided to hire Julius Africano and Lynn
Thompson. With them he outlined the idea of appealing for mental incapacity, that is,
insanity . It was almost the only option he had to save himself. But it didn't help him and
during the trial, the jury turned that strategy around. Having lost control, and knowing his fate
in advance, Bundy once again surprised everyone with news: the proposal for the hand of
Carole Ann Boone, a former co-worker. Thanks to a legal trick of the State of Florida, the
marriage was possible and it was.

Bundy changed plans. He confessed to Dr. Bob Keppel, head of investigators at the Washington
Department of Justice and with whom he collaborated some time ago in the search for a
murderer known as The Green River Killer , everything they needed to know to judge him.
Thus, the entire world discovered that he kept, in some cases, the heads of his victims as
trophies in his home and that he practiced necrophilia . Bundy's behavior was classified as
extreme perversion and necrophilic compulsion. Analysts estimate the number of victims could
easily be around 100 women, a far cry from the official numbers of around 36.

Execution

Bundy had to be forcibly removed from his cell. He didn't want to die, but it didn't matter: on
January 24 , 1989 at 7:04 a.m. he died in the electric chair . He was 42 years old. Outside, many
people were waiting for the news of his death and, when they found out, there was applause,
cheering and even fireworks. Moments later a funeral carriage left on its way to the
crematorium . As he passed, the crowd applauded.

But the thing didn't end there. Another murder was still attributed to him: that of Katherine
Devine, last seen on November 25 , 1973 and whose body was found on December 6 of that
same year in McKenny Park ( Washington ). Forensics said she died strangled, sodomized and
with her throat slit. Many pointed to Bundy as the author of said crime, but authorities blamed
Willian E. Consden Jr. of the murder, who is serving a 48-year sentence for rape. The case was
not closed until 2001 , thanks to exhaustive DNA testing.

Cinema

The life and actions of Ted Bundy have been brought to the big screen several times:

- Ted Bundy (2002), directed by Matthew Bright .

- A Stranger Next to Me (2003), directed by Paul Shapiro .

JOSÉ LUIS CALVA ZEPEDA

José Luis Calva Zepeda ( June 20 , 1969 – December 11 , 2007 ) later known as El Poeta Canibal
or El caníbal de la Guerrero , Mexican whose name gained international prominence after his
arrest on October 8, 2007 by the Mexican authorities, accusing him of cannibalism and triple
homicide.

The Mexican was surprised by the authorities at his home after a complaint filed by the
relatives of his romantic partner: Alejandra Galeana Garabito, a 32-year-old woman and
mother of two children, whom he had previously dismembered at his home, however, on the
16th of October, he denied before the Federal District Prosecutor's Office that he had
practiced cannibalism, but he did plead guilty to the murder, statements that did not change
the position of prosecutor Gustavo Salas, who maintains the line of premeditation and the
consummation of the cannibal act, since according to It says: "in the frying pan, remains of this
meat and a plate with cutlery and even a lemon were found, which makes us presume that it
was consumed . " The police found the trunk of Alejandra, who was reported missing on
October 5, 2007 by her relatives, inside a closet, the other parts cut into pieces were found in
the refrigerator, while the forearm was freshly fried in the pan

José Luis Calva Zepeda had to give a statement at the Xoco Hospital , since when he was
surprised by the authorities' agents he jumped out of the window, suffering a mild concussion.
He was also linked to the murder of another of his ex-girlfriends, whom he locked in a car
naked so that she could not escape. Arriving at a garbage dump, he dismembered her. Also
related to this case was the death of a sex worker, who had similar dismemberment
characteristics to the other 2 women murdered by him. This was declared by a man who said
he had had a homosexual relationship with "The Cannibal", and who confessed to having
helped him dismember one of his girlfriends. The man was also sentenced to prison. On
December 11, 2007, he committed suicide in his cell at the North Prison.
On October 18, 2007, a file from the Prosecutor's Office came to light, detailing the connection
with another ex-girlfriend allegedly abused by José Luis Calva Zepeda. This is Olga Livia, a 23-
year-old English teacher who was forced to watch pornographic bestiality films and have
sadomasochistic sexual relations.

Calva Zepeda died on December 11, 2007 after allegedly committing suicide in a jail cell using a
belt, however there are doubts about whether José Luis Calva Zepeda committed suicide, since
according to statements by his sister, upon recognizing the body of "El Caníval" in the
SEMEFO , Calva Zepeda showed marks of torture and an alleged rape by the inmates, who
supposedly stuck a stick up her anus and destroyed her genitals. He also confessed that the
belt with which his brother had been found hanged did not correspond to his. She also said
that José Luis Calva before dying went "crazy" and looking at her said: "I am the cannibal."
Before dying, José Luis Calva Zepeda wrote his story titled: "Cannibal Instincts", where he
added his suicide as the "end". At Calva Zepeda's wake, the brother of one of the women he
murdered tried to enter to open the coffin and check that José Luis Calva was inside it, but the
authorities prevented him.

Curiosities

A song by the Grunge band Sudcaliforniana Utero is inspired by him.

DANIEL CAMARGO

Daniel Camargo (Colombian Andes, January 22 , 1931 ). Colombian serial killer popularly
known as "The Beast of the Andes" .

Biography

Early years

Daniel Camargo was born somewhere in the Colombian Andes . When he was not even a year
old, his mother died. His father married another woman, who had infertility problems. That
caused mental problems in the woman that affected little Daniel. In fact, he dressed the young
man as a girl and forced him to go to school dressed this way. Despite this humiliation, Daniel
stood out for being a great student at the León XIII school in Bogotá . However, his desire to
continue studying was cut short when he was forced to leave school to help his family
financially.

Entry into the world of crime

In 1960 , Camargo would marry Alcira Castillo. He had left behind the problems he experienced
in his natal family. However, his happy marriage ended up falling apart when, in 1967 , he
surprised his wife with another man. At that time, hatred for women was Camargo's vital
driving force. As he would confess years later, he considered the female sex to be responsible
for all the evils that had happened to him in his life.

That caused that from then on, Camargo, along with his new partner, began to rape young
virgins by first drugging them. But the police managed to arrest him in 1968 and impose a five-
year sentence on him. Upon his release, Camargo returned to his old ways and returned to
prison, this time with a 25-year sentence on the prison island of Gorgona .
"The Beast of the Andes" appears

Of the initial 25 years, Camargo only served ten since he managed to escape in 1984 and enter
Ecuador . In a new country and where he had no criminal record, Camargo began to commit
his crimes with total impunity. His victims were mainly young and virgin girls. For fifteen
months, the Ecuadorian population lived terrified by the presence of a murderer, who cut his
victims to pieces. The police could not find clues since the murderer was extremely careful in
his crimes. People began to talk about "The Beast of the Andes." It is estimated that between
71 and 150 young people were murdered by their hands.

The end of Camargo's misdeeds would come in 1986 . A routine inspection by the Ecuadorian
police detained a ragged-looking man. To the surprise of the members of the security force,
they discovered that, in the suitcase he was carrying, there were numerous items of clothing
stained with blood. In the subsequent interrogation, Camargo confessed to 71 victims. After a
summary trial, Camargo was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Camargo served part of this sentence but was murdered by another inmate in 1992, who
turned out to be the nephew of one of his victims.

CARL PANZRAM

Carl Panzram

June 28 , 1891
Birth
Polk County , Minnesota , USA

September 5 , 1930
Death
Leavenworth

Occupation Killer

Carl Panzram ( June 28, 1891 – September 5 , 1930 ) was an American serial killer . He often
used pseudonyms such as "Carl Baldwin" {#7390} in Oregon; "Jeff Davis" {#3194} in Idaho and
Montana ; "Jefferson Davis" in California and Montana ; "Jeff Rhodes" in Montana ; "Jack
Allen" and "Jefferson Baldwin" in Oregon ; "John King"; and "John O'Leary of Nevada" in New
York .

The firsts years

Charles Panzram was born in Polk County, Minnesota , the son of immigrants from Prussia
named John and Matilda Panzram. He grew up on his family's farm. People who knew him
spoke of him as an alcoholic and he frequently had problems with the authorities, usually for
robberies and robberies. She left home at the age of 14 saying that she had been the victim of
a gang rape by homeless people.
Conduct

Panzram was especially known for his ruthless crimes and, above all, for his habit of raping his
victims, both men and women. This is not understood as homosexual behavior, but as a way to
humiliate and subjugate their victims.

His life taken to the cinema

Thomas E. Gaddis wrote a book about Panzram in 1970 called "Panzram: a journal of murder",
a book that was adapted to film in 1996 under the title "Killer: A journal of murder". His
character was played by actor James Woods and Robert Sean Leonard played Lesser.

CARYL CHESSMAN

Caryl Chessman ( May 27, 1921 – May 2, 1960 ) was an American thief and rapist who became
famous as a death row inmate in California .

Caryl Chessman knew about crime from a young age. When he was 15, his father tried to
commit suicide and he began stealing food for the house. Known as the "red light bandit"
because he carried a police siren on the roof of his car to confuse his future victims on
California roads, Caryl Chessman rose to fame after managing to avoid being executed and
dying on camera. of gas (he had been sentenced to death in 1948 ) for twelve long years.

At the age of 27, a US court sentenced him to death, after being accused of kidnapping,
robbery and sexual perversion; Chessman studied Law and Latin in San Quentin prison , where
he was detained, and became his own lawyer ; It was the emblem of the fight against the
death penalty; He wrote four books and dedicated more than ten thousand hours to studying
his case. This allowed him to postpone eight appointments set for him to be executed, through
judicial resources and protections. Caryl Chessman always declared his innocence and claimed
that "the red light bandit was a bungling amateur with a twisted sexual mentality, and not a
coldly calculating professional criminal," as he considered himself.

However, no one was able to extend the last appointment: on May 2, 1960, Caryl Chessman
died in the gas chamber of San Quentin prison, United States.

CHARLES STARKWEATHER

Charles Starkweather , American serial killer who in 1958 left a string of eleven dead on the
way between Nebraska and Wyoming , along with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate
(three of those dead were her mother, sister and stepfather). ). He died in the electric chair the
following year, at the age of twenty-two. Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino were inspired by
the couple for the script of Natural Born Killers .
ANDREI CHIKATILO

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo Possibly the Soviet Union 's worst serial killer . His criminal
activity led him to carry out at least 53 murders. He was known as the "Butcher of Rostov ". He
lived a double life, on the one hand a married working man and member of the communist
society of the time, and on the other his dark side endowed with great ability to gain the trust
of children and enjoy his horrendous crimes with impunity.

A sexually troubled, impotent man, he lived in Rostov-on-Don , a city about 800 km from
Moscow , where he mainly attracted his victims. Mostly acts in train and bus stations. He had a
propensity for disembowelment, mutilation, cannibalism and sadism. After twelve years of
acting with impunity, he was finally discovered in 1990 .

The investigators assumed that Chikatilo was a member of the party , and as anecdotal
information it should be noted that the investigation carried out served to purge known
homosexuals from society, as a way to cleanse Soviet morality.

Many blame the incompetence of the Soviet authorities for refusing to admit the existence of
a serial killer in the socialist community, which fueled his reign of terror for more than 10
years. On one occasion he was detained and when his blood was compared with the semen
found in a victim, since it did not match, he was released (that possibility may arise). Free again
he continued with his crimes.

However, the investigators were certain that he was the person they were looking for, and
upon detecting him on another occasion when leaving a forest near a station, they confirmed
their suspicions. He would later comment:

"I am a mistake of nature, an angry beast."

The best-selling "The 44th Kid," written by Tom Rob Smith and whose film rights have been
acquired by Ridley Scott, is based in part on his case, although the story takes place decades
earlier.
Life

He was born in Yablochnoye, Ukraine , on October 16, 1936 , a small village in times of famine,
when millions of people were dying, their corpses piling up in the streets and fields. The
cruelest thing for little Andrei and his sister was hearing in their mother's lap how their older
brother, Stepan, had been kidnapped and devoured, although it was not an isolated case in
those hard thirties. This fact would noticeably mark the boy, who at that time felt more alone
than ever. In fact, there is no document that reports on Stepan's birth or death, but the way
his mother told it to him made the story seem true.

At school he was very introverted, unable to accept his myopia (he got his first glasses when he
was thirty), and until he was twelve he wet the bed. He was always humiliated by his other
classmates, anyone could tell him anything, he just listened and endured. It was not surprising
that over time, her spirit was filled with unshed tears and all those insults. As he grew older, he
became more shy around women, to the point of making his first sexual attempt fail by
ejaculating in a few seconds while hugging a girl, hence the first rumors of his impotence
arose.

Like all Soviet citizens, he served in the army and then dedicated himself to studies, obtaining
three degrees: in Russian language and literature , in engineering, and in Marxism-Leninism .

In 1971 he graduated as a teacher. He felt a growing attraction to girls under twelve years old,
and he would sneak into the bedrooms to see them in their underwear while he masturbated
with his hand in his pocket. Chikatilo later took refuge in the study of communism , but his
fixation with political dogma bordered on insanity.

Despite his problem, he was able to find a wife, and although he was unable to maintain an
erection, he could ejaculate. On very rare occasions he managed to achieve enough erection to
get his wife pregnant, but he kept thinking that nature had punished him by castrating him at
birth. He was a stable and hard-working husband, a father who never raised his voice in front
of his children, a respected member of the communist party who read the newspapers and
kept up to date with current events.

At the school where he worked, his students laughed at him, nicknamed him "the goose"
because his long hunched shoulders made his neck look elongated, and because they
considered him stupid. He did nothing to remedy it, not even when they started calling him
"effeminate", nor when they hit him by throwing a blanket over him or when they kicked him
out of the classrooms. After a while he became so afraid of boys that he began to carry a knife
to work.

Criminal activity

On December 22, 1978 , Chikatilo killed for the first time when he was 42 years old. He
approached a nine-year-old girl on the street and convinced her to go with him to a cabin he
owned on the outskirts of the city. He knew how to talk to children, he had been a teacher
himself and had two children. Once there he violently undressed her. Accidentally, he made a
scratch from which blood flowed, causing him to have an immediate erection, establishing the
fatal link between blood and sex. Then he took out a knife and stabbed the girl in the stomach.
With each stab he noticed that he was getting closer to orgasm, so he didn't stop doing it until
he ejaculated. Chikatilo had tried to satisfy his sexual need in the hope of becoming just like
the others, but he was not.
His flaccidity and the mockery of the women who reminded him of it at every moment, was
more than he could bear. He also realized that his pleasure was not in caressing other people's
genitals, but in mistreating them.

Two days after this crime the police found the girl's remains in the Grushovka River, and near
Chikatilo's hut a large blood stain. The police questioned the man, but ended up blaming
another sex offender, Alexander Kravchenko. Chikatilo was, due to the paradoxes that marked
his actions, more dual than ever.

He was the typical submissive and asexual husband. He did everything his wife told him to do,
or almost everything. She tended to desire the pleasures of bed more often than he did, and
that led to frequent arguments, to her reminding him at all times how taciturn and inert he
was. The accusation of having sexually molested his students cost him his job, but he got a new
one in a factory where he had to travel constantly. This constant movement helped him
choose his new victims.

Three years would pass before Chikatilo murdered a second time. On September 3 , 1981, he
assaulted his second victim, Larisa Tkachenko, a 17-year-old prostitute . He convinced her to
go with him to the forest to have sexual relations, but he failed in the attempt so she laughed
at him, this made him angry, he lost control, he strangled the woman and ejaculated on the
corpse, he bit her throat, He cut off the breasts and in his frenzy ate the nipples. Then, he
began to howl while dancing a war dance around the body, leaving the lifeless body with a
buried stick. In those moments he knew he would kill again. Chikatilo's first two murders had a
certain fortuitous nature. It is possible that, in both cases, their intentions were only sexual in
nature. The screams of terror excited him, but it was the murder itself that presented to him
the ultimate sexual act.

His third victim was Lyuba Biryuk, she was kidnapped from a village and stabbed 40 times in
the forest. He mutilated her eyes , and this would become commonplace in his murders,
Chikatilo's deadly signature.

Chikatilo murdered three other people that year, and among them was his first male victim, 9-
year-old Oleg Podzhivaev. The body was not found but Chikatilo claimed to be responsible and
that he had torn off her genitals. The press was crazy about the serial killer, the modus
operandi was always the same, his victims were always found in the woods, with signs of
violence and sadomasochism, and sometimes the victims were missing limbs. These were
boys, girls and young girls. Among them were many runaways and mentally retarded, as they
were more easily convinced and appreciated their help in the labyrinth of the local
transportation system, with which they were not familiar.

In 1984 he murdered 15 people, while the time between his murders was decreasing the
number of victims was increasing. Chikatilo would choose them from the crowd at train
stations and bus stops, and with some pretext, he would convince them to follow him to some
wooded area. Once there, he inflicted numerous stab wounds on them (between thirty and
fifty). Almost all victims suffered mutilation of their eyes. He cut off the breasts or nipples of
adolescents or young girls, either with his sharp knives or with his teeth. The uterus was
removed with such precision that all surgeons in the Rosstov province became potential
suspects.

While raping them, he became so angry at reaching orgasm so quickly that he beat their faces
in. To hide his impotence, he sometimes, with the help of a twig, placed the semen in the
victim's vagina . In the case of children, he attacked them as soon as he was alone with them in
the forest: a blow to stun them with their hands tied and a few shallow knife blows to establish
his dominance over them. Later he mutilated them with bites, cut off their genitals or only
removed the testicles , which he kept as a trophy. On some occasions he performed these
amputations when the victim was still alive, although not conscious. In none of the cases were
the severed body parts found near the crime scene.

He also practiced acts of cannibalism , in his statements he would confess that he liked to
swallow the softest parts of the body. In 1981 , he became a factory supply official, and the
job, which required him to travel a good part of the region, provided the perfect cover.

First arrest

The Serbsky Institute in Moscow designed the profile of an ostensibly normal man, probably
married, with a regular job. From the semen found on the bodies of his victims, it was known
that their blood was group AB. On September 14, 1984 , they arrested Chikatilo in the Rostov
market, because he generally fit the description of the murderer, but they could not prove
anything else.

Chikatilo seemed like a respectable man, and after taking a blood test, it turned out to be
group A. He was immediately released without charge. At that point, police files contained
data on some 26,500 suspects. When body number thirty appeared, the newspapers began to
report on the possible serial killer, whom everyone believed to be mentally retarded, although
the police did not agree. This since the wide territorial dispersion of the murderer indicated
that he had a vehicle, a factor that was scarce in Russia .

Chikatilo was later accused of stealing a roll of linoleum from his office. Seven months later,
with that case still pending, he was arrested for improper behavior at the Rostov bus station
and sentenced to 15 days in prison. The police believed he was the killer, so they compared
Chikatilo's blood to the semen found on the victims' bodies and inexplicably it was not the
same blood type. He was sentenced to a year in jail for the linoleum theft, but the judge
sympathized with him and released him early.

On October 17, 1990 , he killed again in a forest near the Donlesjoz station.

Capture and confession

This crime absorbed the entire local police and a 100-man riot force. But two weeks later,
Chikatilo acted again, and this time there were about 600 detectives in charge of investigating
along the line of the forests, where three or four officers stood guard in the most isolated
stops.

On November 6, 1990 , one of these detectives, a sergeant named Igor Rybakov, saw a man
wearing a suit and tie emerge from the woods. As he watched him wash his hands in the
fountain, he noticed that he had a bandaged finger and blood on his cheek. He asked for the
documents and submitted a routine report. Five days later they found a new body in that same
place which they estimated had been dead for about a week.

The murderer had to have passed through the station, and the culprit could not be other than
the suspect in Rybakov's report. He was arrested on November 20 , suspected of having
murdered 36 victims, all of them women and children. His sperm, although not his blood, was
AB.

The prosecutor general of Rostov province would issue an arrest warrant against Chikatilo,
effective November 20, 1990 . That same day he was detained by the KGB , while he with a
slow and senile step said "How can they do this to a person my age?" . During interrogations,
he stated that he was simply a normal citizen , that he had not committed any type of crime ,
and that he was the object of absurd persecution by the police.

On November 27, he promised that he was willing to provide evidence of his crimes if they did
not continue harassing him with interrogations that reminded him of the details, and two days
later he collapsed in front of a psychologist to whom he ended up confessing 53 murders . He
later guided investigators to the various locations in the hope that the number of deaths would
make him a "specimen for scientific study."

He wrote a signed statement for the Attorney General, which said:

I was arrested on November 20, 1990 and have remained in custody since then. I want to
express my feelings honestly. I am in a state of deep depression, and I recognize that I have
disturbed sexual impulses, which is why I have committed certain acts. I previously sought
psychiatric help for my headaches, memory loss, insomnia, and sexual disorders. But the
treatments that they applied to me or that I put into practice did not give results.

I have a wife and two children and I suffer from sexual weakness, impotence. People laughed
at me because I couldn't remember anything. I didn't realize that he touched my genitals
often, and I was only told about it later. I feel humiliated. People make fun of me at work and
in other situations. I have felt degraded since childhood, and I have always suffered. In my
school days I was bloated from hunger and was dressed in rags. Everybody messed with me. At
school I studied so intensely that sometimes I lost consciousness and fainted. I am a university
graduate. I wanted to prove myself at work and I gave myself completely to it. People valued
me but took advantage of my weak character. Now that I'm older, the sexual aspect is not as
important to me, my problems are all mental.

In perverse sexual acts he experienced a kind of fury, a sensation of debauchery. I couldn't

control my actions. Since childhood I have felt insufficient as a man and as a person. What I did
was not for sexual pleasure, but because it gave me a certain peace of mind and soul for long
periods. Especially after watching all kinds of sexual movies. What I did, I did after watching the
videos of perverse sexual acts, cruelties and horrors.

What the police deduced from this statement is that the murderer was trying to find a possible
way out, alleging mental illness , an obsession with psychiatric treatment.

Trial and execution

The psychiatrists at the Serbsky Institute , however, saw him as a prudent sadist who did not
suffer from any disorder that could prevent him from seeing that his actions were wrong, that
they were premeditated acts. For this reason, in October 1991 their conclusions were
announced, diagnosing that the murderer was "legally sane." Andrei Chikatilo's trial began in
April 1992 and would last until October of that same year. This one, with his head shaved,
witnessed his trial from a metal cubicle. The first day he delighted the photographers by
brandishing a porn magazine, but later, despondent, he took off his clothes and shook his
penis, shouting:

Look how useless, what do you think I was going to do with this?

The judges did not hesitate to announce the verdict they had nominated: on October 15, 1992
he was sentenced to capital punishment, and executed with a shot to the back of the head in
Moscow prison on February 14, 1994 .

In Popular Culture

 Citizen
 Evilenko ( Evilenko ) ( 2004 ).
 Psychopathy Red Single by thrash metal band Slayer , inspired by Andrei Chikatilo.
ADOLFO DE JESUS CONSTANZO

Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo ( November 1 , 1962 – May 6 , 1989 ). He was a serial killer , his
nickname was "The Godfather of Matamoros "

Early life

Constanzo was born in Miami , Florida , United States . His mother, Delia Aurora Gonzales del
Valle was a widowed Cuban immigrant. She had Adolfo at the age of 15 and would eventually
have three children from different fathers. She emigrated to San Juan , Puerto Rico , after her
first husband died, and remarried there. Constanzo was baptized as a Catholic and served as an
altar boy , but was also influenced by his mother into the cult called Palo Mayombe . The
family returned to Miami in 1972, and his stepfather died shortly thereafter, leaving the family
with some money. His mother soon remarried, and his new stepfather became involved in the
occult and drug dealing .

Both Constanzo and his mother were arrested numerous times for minor crimes such as
robbery , vandalism , and "farderismo" (shoplifting, hiding merchandise in their clothing). He
graduated from high school, but was expelled from high school. His mother believed he had
psychic abilities for allegedly predicting the attempted assassination of former US President
Ronald Reagan in 1981 .

As a teenager, he befriended a priest of the Palo Mayombe rite, who taught him the skills
necessary to be a drug dealer and conman for a career "directed toward evil ."

Maturity

Constanzo visited Mexico City , subsisting as a tarot card reader. There he recruited two young
men: Martín Quintana Ramírez and Omar Orea Ochoa, to serve as his servants, lovers and
disciples. Constanzo returned to Miami for a short time, but returned to Mexico again in mid-
1984. Over the next few years he would become the leader of a powerful cult that had drug
lords, famous musicians and even police officers under its command. The cult established in
Matamoros , in the border region of Mexico, sold drugs, performed occult ceremonies and, by
late 1987, kidnapped and murdered people to use in human sacrifices. These victims fell
alongside cult and drug rivals.

When a 21-year-old American tourist named Mark Kilroy disappeared in Matamoros during
spring break in 1989, local police faced pressure from Texas authorities and took on the task of
investigating his disappearance. whereabouts. They soon discovered Constanzo's cult by
accident (under unspeakable circumstances in a drug trafficking investigation) and, after
arresting members of his cult, quickly discovered that they were responsible for Kilroy's
murder. More and more members of Constanzo's cult were arrested until, on May 6 of the
same year, they cornered him and four of his followers (two of them were Martín and Omar) in
an expensive apartment in Mexico City. Determined not to go to prison, Constanzo ordered his
followers to throw handfuls of dollars to distract the police. After a couple of hours of
confrontation, Contanzo, determined not to go to prison, ordered one of the disciples to shoot
him and Quintana. When the police finally broke in, Constanzo and Quintana were already
dead. Sarah Aldrete declared herself innocent and a victim of the situation, the police proved
her complicity with Constanzo, since he was her lover and criminal accomplice. She was
sentenced to serve more than 600 years in prison for her participation in the cult, kidnappings
and murders.
Possible accomplices

 Abel Lima "The Sodomite of Iztapalapa"

 Rubén Estrada "Short legs"
 Christian Campos "El Panzas"
 Emmanuel Romero "El trompas"
 Saúl Sánchez "El Macaco"
 Ricardo Peña "El cepillín"

Artists involved in the cult

 Yuri
 Luis Miguel
 Lucia Mendez
 Sara García "The Grandmother of Mexico"

ANDREW CUNANAN

Andrew Phillip Cunanan ( August 31 , 1969 in National City, California – July 23 , 1997 in
Miami) was a serial killer who killed five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace . He
committed suicide at the age of 27 while the police were searching for him.
On June 12, 1997, Cunanan had become the 449th fugitive on the FBI's list, entered the top ten
most wanted fugitives, and became the first person from San Diego included on the list.
Several sources agree that he was a homosexual hustler and that all his victims were his clients
or lovers.

Early stages of life

Cunanan was born in National City, California, the youngest of four children to Modesto
Cunanan and Maryanne Shilacci. Modesto Cunanan did not attend the birth of his son Andrew,
as he was fighting with the Marines in the Vietnam War .

Murders

The first to be murdered is his friend Jeffrey Trail, a former US naval officer and propane gas
salesman on April 27, 1997, in Minneapolis . The next victim was architect David Madson,
found on the east shore of the lake near Rush City in Rush, Minnesota on April 29, 1997, with
gunshot wounds to the head. Police recognize the connection when Trail's body is found in the
attic of Madson's Minneapolis apartment.

Cunanan arrived in Chicago and killed prominent real estate developer Lee Miglin, 72, on May
4, 1997. Five days later Cunanan, who escaped in Miglin's car, finds his fourth victim in
Pennsville, New Jersey, at Finn's Point National Cemetery, causing the death of 45-year-old
caretaker William Reese on May 9, 1997. Cunanan apparently murdered him over his truck,
leaving Miglin's car behind. Following this murder, the FBI added him to its ten most wanted
list. While the hunt focused on Reese's truck, Cunanan hid it in plain sight in Miami Beach,
Florida, for two months between the fourth and fifth murders. He mostly went out to gay
clubs, and soon after tried to disguise his appearance. He even used his own name to pawn a
stolen item, knowing that police routinely check records of stolen merchandise at pawn shops.
Finally, Cunanan murders fashion designer Gianni Versace on July 15, 1997.

The weapon used by Cunanan for some of the murders was a Taurus .40 caliber S&W semi-
automatic pistol, which had been left behind by his first victim Jeff Trail in California when he
moved to the Midwest.

Suicide

Eight days after Versace's murder, on July 23, 1997, Cunanan committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head in the bedroom of a Miami home, apparently to avoid capture by police
who eventually discovered Reese's stolen truck. and thanks to information obtained by
neighbors that someone who met Cunanan's descriptions lived in the house.

JEFFREY DAHMER

Jeffrey Dahmer

Birth May 21 , 1960

West Allis , Wisconsin
USA
 Death November 28 , 1994
(34 years)
Portage , Wisconsin

Position(s) Murder and conspiracy

Occupation Factory employee

Parents Lionel Dahmer and Joyce Flint

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer ( West Allis , May 21 , 1960 – Portage , November 28 , 1994 ),
nicknamed " The Butcher of Milwaukee ", was a serial killer responsible for the deaths of 17
men between 1978 and 1991 .

He is known not only for the number of people he murdered, but also for practicing
necrophilia and cannibalism . In 2002, a film called "Dahmer" was released based on his true
story, with Jeremy Renner in the role of Jeffrey Dahmer.

Biography

Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee , in the US state of Wisconsin . In his
childhood he suffered the constant fights of his parents, Lionel Dahmer and Joyce Flint,
something that marked him for life.

After repeated moves, in 1967 the family bought a house in Bath , Ohio , where Jeffrey spent
the rest of his childhood and adolescence. When he went fishing with his father he liked to cut
the fish open and watch them die. At the age of 10, he began torturing all types of animals that
he hunted in the forest near his house. Once they died, he collected their bones. I had several
types of insects in formalin.

Dahmer began to become more and more introverted, although he did some activities in high
school, such as working at the newspaper and playing tennis. He was considered by his peers
as someone "strange", extravagant and who had problems with alcohol and marijuana . Before
he turned 18, his parents divorced, and his father remarried months later. His father and his
new wife convince him to go to college, and in the fall of 1978 he enters Ohio State University ,
but due to his alcohol problems he drops out the following semester. In 1979 his father
convinced him to join the army and he was sent to Germany , where he remained for a few
years until he was discharged due to his alcoholism . After living in Florida for a time, he
returned home to Ohio.

On September 25, 1988 , he moved to an apartment in Milwaukee. The next day he offered a
13-year-old Laotian boy $ 50 to pose for photographs, but he drugged and abused him. The
parents filed a complaint and on January 30, 1989 he was found guilty, but he only remained in
prison for 10 months before being released.
On July 22, 1991 , he was arrested at his home by two police officers. He was tried on February
22, 1992 , the jury did not accept Dahmer's alleged insanity and sentenced him to 937 years in
prison.

The psychiatrists who treated him told him that he was sick, so he pleaded guilty with a
mitigating circumstance of mental insanity , to be sentenced to a special prison for the
mentally ill, but the mitigating circumstance was finally rejected. He had initially pleaded not
guilty, but changed his statement due to the large amount of evidence found against him.

He was sent to the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, where for his safety he had no
contact with regular prisoners. But he asked the authorities to have more contact with the
other prisoners, so he began to eat with them and perform some cleaning tasks. On November
28, 1994, he performs cleanup duties with Christopher Scarver, a black schizophrenic , and
Jesse Anderson, who had murdered his wife and blamed a black man. Dahmer was accused of
having racial motives in his homicides, something he denied. The combination of prisoners was
very dangerous, the guards found Dahmer dead and Anderson mortally wounded.

Crimes

In June 1978 , when he was 18, he found Steven Hicks hitchhiking , and took him home.
Dahmer was homosexual and had a fantasy of picking up a hitchhiker and sleeping with him.
Once at his house, he realized that Hicks was not homosexual, and when he wanted to leave,
Dahmer couldn't stand it and hit him on the head and then strangled him with a weight. Then
he dismembered it and put it in plastic bags, and put them in his car with the intention of
throwing them down a ravine. Halfway there the police stopped him for driving too far to the
left. They asked him about the bags he had in the back seat and Dahmer replied that they were
garbage. They believed him, and when he passed the breathalyzer test, they gave him a ticket
for driving out of his lane and let him go. He returned to his house with the remains of the
body and took them to the basement except for the head, with which he went up to the
bathroom on the second floor where he washed it and placed it on the floor to masturbate.
Later he took her back with the rest of the body and kept the body parts in a pipe in the house.
After dropping out of college and returning from the army he dug up the remains, destroyed
the bones and scattered them in the bush.

After his first murder he felt guilty and scared, he tried to repress his sexual-homicidal desires
by going to church, giving up alcohol and remaining celibate . He lived like this for a while,
which explains why almost ten years passed before his next crime. But over time he thought
he could try to satisfy some of his desires without hurting anyone, he started drinking again
and began to frequent gay places. In 1986 he was arrested for public exhibitionism, shortly
before he had wanted to dig up a young man who had died a few days ago, to enjoy his body.

In September 1987 , he met Steven Toumi at a gay bar. There they drank a lot and went to
their hotel room. Dahmer does not remember how he murdered him, only that when he woke
up in the morning he discovered that he was dead. To dispose of the body, he bought a
suitcase, in which he put it, and took it to the basement of his grandmother's house. There he
had sex with the corpse, dismembered it and threw it in the trash. He kept the head, which he
boiled and bleached, and then displayed it as a trophy in his room. A few months later he met
his next victim, Jamie Doxtator. Doxtaror was a fourteen-year-old boy who hung around the
doors of gay bars looking for someone to have sex with. In this way he also met Richard
Guerrero in March 1988 .
While being prosecuted for child abuse in 1989 , Dahmer met Anthony Sears at a bar. He
offered him money to take some photographs and took him to his grandmother's house where
he strangled him, had sex with his corpse and dismembered him. He wanted his lovers to stay
in the house and when they refused, he killed them.

After serving his sentence for abuse and moving into his Milwaukee apartment, Dahmer
murdered twelve more people through July 1991 . His tactics were always similar, he invited
them to watch pornography or take photos, he put a drug in their drink, he strangled them and
had sex and masturbated on top of their bodies. He then took photographs of the body and
each stage of dismemberment. He used acids to break down the flesh and bones, but he
usually kept the head and genitals as a trophy. Another of his characteristics was eating part of
his victims, it gave him the feeling that they were beginning to become part of him.

In May 1991 , he brought Konerak Sinthasomphone, brother of the young man he was
prosecuted for abuse, to his apartment. There he drugged him and performed trepanations on
his skull to inject acid into his brain. Dahmer wanted to have control over his victims, and his
intention in performing the trepanations was to turn them into a kind of "zombies." The young
man managed to escape when Dahmer went out to have a beer at a bar, and when he ran
naked through the streets, the neighbors alerted the police. When he realized that he had
escaped, he chased him, and had to face the police and a crowd of curious onlookers. The boy
could not speak because he was dazed by the acid Dahmer had injected him. Dahmer argued
that the young man was his 19-year-old lover who was drunk. The police accompanied them to
the apartment and believed their story. If they had searched the apartment they would have
found a body in one of the rooms, in addition to thousands of pieces of evidence of other
murders. Sinthasomphone was strangled that day. The police believed Jeffrey and placed the
dying young man in a chair. They did not even search or see the macabre shrine that was in the
house and ran away due to the stench that the interior gave off. Later he said that he became
interested in creating a zombie because he wanted a silent lover, who would do everything he
asked of him and who would stay with him company.

On July 22, 1991 , Tracy Edwards, his last victim, managed to escape in handcuffs. The police
saw him and this time they decided to investigate. They went to the apartment of the man
who had handcuffed him and upon searching the room they discovered several photographs of
corpses, human remains and a head in the freezer. Dahmer tried to flee, but was detained.
Edwards was also identified when he went out to explain his case on television as accused of
raping a girl shortly before.

In his house, the walls were found full of blood, mutilated bodies, seven skulls and other
bones. Days later, Dahmer's neighbors shot at the doors of his house due to the horror caused
by his crimes.
Victims
1978

Steven Hicks, 19 years old

1987

Steven Toumi
25 years

1988

James "Jamie" Doxtator 14 years

old
Richard Guerrero 22 years old
Ezequiel Gilabert

1989

Anthony Sears

1990

Raymond Smith
Eddie Smith
Ernest Miller
David Thomas
Richard Barrow

1991

Curtis Straughter
Errol Lindsey
Tony Hughes
Konerak Sinthasomphone
Matt Turner
Jeremiah Weinberger
Oliver Lacy
Joseph Bradeholt
José "The Dog" González
Manuel Blanco Guerrero
DAMASO RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍN

Dámaso Rodríguez Martín , better known as El Brujo , was a Canarian murderer and rapist
who spread terror in the Moquinal area ( Anaga , Tenerife , Spain ) in 1991 , where he sought
refuge after his escape from the Tenerife II prison where he was serving a sentence for a rape
and a murder. He murdered a couple of German hikers and another couple. A month after his
escape he was shot dead by the Civil Guard . "El Brujo" became the most wanted criminal by
the State Security Forces .

Escape and arrest

Dámaso began his bizarre escape on January 24, 1991 until a month later when he was killed
by Civil Guard forces, after being chased by different units of the armed institute, who
surrounded him in a tool room where he sought refuge for the exhaustion, cold and famine
that happened.

On the same day the 24th at around 3:15 p.m., in a rugged area of Roque El Moquinal, the Civil
Guard recovered the body of the German citizen Marta Küpper , murdered by Dámaso
Rodríguez Martín and who showed obvious signs of strangulation.

Finally, a couple from the Civil Guard from the Tacoronte post, in front of which was the
sergeant commander of the post. He detected the presence of Dámaso Rodríguez in a house.

When the non-commissioned officer tried to access the house he was met with shotgun fire.
The agent responded to the attack by firing several shots. But The Witcher was not going to
give himself up. So he tried to end his life, to do so he placed the hunting shotgun under his
chin and with the toes of one of his feet he fired a shot that, due to the length of the weapon,
did not burst his face as he would have wanted. Subsequently, there was another exchange of
shots between Benemérita and Dámaso Rodríguez, which hit him and led to his death.

After assaulting a couple who were inside a car in the El Moquinal mountain, he killed the
boyfriend and raped the girl with the body inside the vehicle. But this would not be the only
death behind him, since he later ended the life of a German couple. Everything seems to
indicate that they begged him for their lives because of how the husband's body was found,
but he had no compassion. He sexually assaulted the woman and then strangled her with the
victim's stockings .
DAVID BERKOWITZ

David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Malco ; June 1, 1953), also called Son of Sam
and .44 Caliber Killer , is an American serial killer and arsonist whose crimes terrorized New
York City from July 1976 until his death. arrest in August 1977.

Shortly after his arrest in August 1977, Berkowits confessed to killing six people and wounding
seven others over the course of 8 shootings in New York between 1976 and 1977; being
imprisoned for these crimes in 1977. Berkowitz subsequently claimed that he was commanded
to commit the murders by a demon that possessed his neighbor's dog.

Berkowitz later changed his statement and claimed that he was only the shooter in two
incidents, personally killing three people and wounding a fourth. The other victims were
murdered, according to Berkowitz, by members of a violent satanic cult of which he was a
member. Even though he remains the only person blamed or prosecuted for the shootings,
some authorities dispute that Berkowitz's statement is credible: according to John
Hockenberry formerly of MSNBC and NPR , many officers involved in the original "Son of Sam"
case They suspected that more than one person committed the homicides. Hockenberry also
reported that the case was reopened in 1996 and is still considered open.

CAMPO ELÍAS DELGADO

Campo Elías Delgado ( June 24 , 1934 – December 4 , 1986 ) was born in Colombia and was a
Vietnam War veteran assigned to the United States Army. On December 4, 1986, he became a
spree killer when he murdered 30 people and injured 15 more in the building where he lived
and in a restaurant in Bogotá. These crimes, after which he took his own life, are known as the
" Pozzeto Massacre ". The Colombian author Mario Mendoza wrote a testimonial novel in
which he represented these events, which he called "Satanás" and which received the
Biblioteca Breve award in 2002 . It was later made into a film by director Andrés Baiz . [1]

His life

He was born on (June 24) May 14, 1934 in Chinácota , Colombia . At the age of 6 he
experienced his father's suicide. He studied medicine and then enlisted for the Vietnam War
where he was present twice, the second time as a volunteer. He was a Green Beret and part of
the US ARMY Special Forces.

Some of his acquaintances reported that after his war experience he became antisocial and
bitter. He was unable to develop relationships or friendships with other people and blamed his
mother for this. His dream was to be recognized as a great writer.

Over the years his resentment against his mother grew. The climax of this picture of social
loneliness culminated with the massacre of December 4, 1986 and the murder of his own
mother hours before. Delgado survived by giving private English classes and was pursuing
higher education at the Javeriana University of Bogotá .
The murderer's journey

The massacre occurred at dusk on December 4, 1986 . The murders began hours before in the
apartment of one of his English students where he killed his student and her mother. Delgado
returned to the apartment building where he lived with his mother, whom he killed to
continue with several of his neighbors, and then went to a luxurious Italian restaurant called
"Pozzetto", in the Bogotá sector of Chapinero . Delgado was armed with a .22 caliber
Magnum , carried five boxes of ammunition in a briefcase, and a hunting knife that he
discarded during his deadly walk through the restaurant facilities.

The building where he lived

In his apartment he filled a briefcase with ammunition and loaded his gun. He walked around
his mother and killed her with a single shot to the back of the head after an argument. He then
wrapped the body in newspapers and set it on fire. He left the apartment and ran through the
building shouting “Fire! Fire!”, calling to the other residents to open the door and let him call
the firefighters. Thus he murdered six more people (one of them with the knife he carried in
his briefcase).

The restaurant

Delgado arrived at the restaurant around 7:30 p.m. (Bogotá time), ordered an expensive
dinner, wine, and a vodka with orange. An hour later he began shooting at the other diners. A
woman managed to call the police , who arrived ten minutes later, when Delgado had already
murdered twenty-three people, most of them women. Their method was to corner victims,
shoot them in the head at point-blank range, and move on to the next person. Fifteen more
people were injured. A six-year-old girl died in the middle of the shooting. When the police
arrived, Delgado was able to attack them for a minute until he was killed in the confrontation.
The confusion of the massacre generates conflicting versions about the death of Campo Elías
Delgado and it is not definitive if he committed suicide before being captured or if the police
killed him in the shooting.

The novel

In 2002 , the Colombian writer Mario Mendoza published “ Satan ”, a novel that analyzes
Delgado's case, and which achieved great sales success and several international literature
awards. Mendoza met Delgado at the Javeriana University of Bogotá, when he was a literature
student, and they maintained a friendship based on literature, which they shared. He spoke
with him just hours before the massacre.

The movie

In 2006, Colombian film producer Rodrigo Guerrero and director Andi Baiz made the film
adaptation of Mario Mendoza 's novel, framing the case in a context of urban loneliness in the
modern world to shed light on Campo's motivations and anxieties. Elías Delgado (Eliseo in the
film) but avoiding explicit or Manichean conclusions.
MANUEL DELGADO VILLEGAS

Manuel Delgado Villegas ( Seville , January 25 , 1943 – February 2 , 1998 ), known as

Arropiero , was a Spanish serial killer . He is considered the worst murderer in Spanish criminal
history.

His father was dedicated to selling arrope and he helped him, hence he received his alias:
Arropiero . His mother dies giving birth to him, so he and his sister are raised by their
grandmother. He attends school, but does not know how to read or write.

In 1961 he joined the Spanish Legion , where he learned a deadly blow that helped him in his
criminal career. Shortly afterward he deserted the army and traveled through Spain, Italy and
France , leaving behind a trail of corpses. He was arrested on January 18, 1971 in Puerto de
Santa María .

Murders

After his arrest he confessed to so many crimes that the police did not take him seriously at
first: forty-eight murders. Eight were proven, although the police considered it plausible that
he was the author of twenty-two murders, which in some cases included necrophilia .

 January 21 , 1964 : death of Adolfo Folch Muntaner on Llorach beach.

 June 20 , 1967 : death of Margaret Helene Boudrie in a farmhouse in Ibiza .
 July 20, 1968 : death of Venancio Hernández Carrasco in the Tajuña River .
 April 5 , 1969 : death of Ramón Estrada Saldrich in Barcelona .
 November 23, 1969 : death of Anastasia Borrella Moreno in Mataró .
 December 3 , 1970 : death of Francisco Marín Ramírez in Puerto de Santa María .
 January 18 , 1971 : death of Antonia Rodríguez Relinque in Puerto de Santa María .
 September 23 , 1972 : death of Almudena Sánchez Rus in Puerto de Santa María .

The disappearance of Almudena Sánchez, mentally handicapped, who had been seen several
times in the company of Manuel Delgado Villegas, with whom she established a romantic
relationship, put the police on the trail of the greatest murderer in the history of Spain.

Without suspecting anything, the police accompanied him to the police station where he was
questioned about the disappearance of the person he considered his partner.

With the calm and coldness of a madman he declared that he had strangled her with her own
tights while they were having sex, and that he had killed 47 more people.

The arrest of Arropiero made it possible to clarify some crimes that had remained unsolved to
date, including another (Hernández Carrasco) that had happened due to accidents. Manuel
Delgado Villegas did not have a defense lawyer until six and a half years after his arrest, having
the record of preventive arrest without legal protection. He was never tried, since he was
diagnosed with a mental illness and the National Court ordered his confinement in a
specialized center in 1978 .

During one of the interrogations, one of the agents sarcastically commented to him that a
Mexican had killed more people than him. "El Arropiero" answered verbatim: "Give me 24
hours and I assure you that a miserable Mexican is not going to be a better murderer than a
Spaniard."

The medical tests carried out on him revealed that he had sexual trisomy XYY (instead of the
common male condition, . El Arropiero was released in 1998 , dying shortly after due to a lung
disease caused by excessive tobacco consumption.

El Arropiero in the cinema

In early 2009 , the Catalan director Carles Balagué premiered the documentary Arropiero, el
vagabond de la muerte , about the life and murders of Manuel Delgado.

MARTIN DUMOLLARD

Martin Dumollard , called "L'assassin des bonnes", is the first serial killer whose case is
documented in French history. His trial is recorded in the National Police Gazette published in
1862 and his case is described in a compilation of famous criminal events entitled "Causes
célèbres de tous les peuples ", written by Armand Fouquier. [1] [2]

No indication or evidence and no witness statements collected during the process of his case
before justice suggest or mention that Dumollard, in addition to raping and strangling his
victims, drank their blood; but he is part of the legends related to vampirism and so some
mention him as " the vampire of Lyon" .

Biography

Born in Tramoyes, district of Trévoux, around the year 1810, son of Jean-Pierre Dumollard,
Hungarian, and Josèphe Rey, French, Martin Dumorlland was orphaned by his father at the age
of four when he was executed by Austrian justice in Padua, for a crime committed in Austria
and from which he had tried to escape for several years, taking refuge with his family in France
and Italy. The widow of the executed man returned with her son back to France and
Dumollard's childhood was miserable, growing up in crime and begging.

The Durmollard spouses 1861.

As an adult, he married Marianne Martinet and settled in Dagneux in the Lyon region, where
he committed his crimes with the active complicity of his wife for almost ten years, until April
1860, when one of his victims, Marie Pichon, He managed to escape and reported everything
that happened to the Montluel gendarmerie. Thanks to Marie's description, Dumollard was
arrested on June 3, and a trial was held in January 1862, which Dumollard faced with great
coldness and calm, denying everything until the end and trying to frame two alleged
accomplices for the murders. , recognizing only its responsibility in recruiting the victims.

During the investigation, thanks to the statements of witnesses and the partial confession of
his wife who accused him of threatening her with a knife to get her to participate, it was
revealed how he trapped his victims, young women from the countryside, luring them with a
promise of work, capturing them. at fairs and markets. Once they managed to gain the trust of
their victims, they strangled them with a rope and then sold the clothes in the market. Thanks
to the set of statements, the bodies of some of his victims were found in Lyon and north of
Dagneux .
After finding him guilty of murdering at least six young peasant women and unsuccessfully
attempting the same crime with nine other women, he was sentenced to death and executed
in public in Montluel on March 8, 1862.

His wife, Marianne Dumollard, was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in the galleys for
complicity.

MARC DUTROUX
Marc Dutroux House

Marc Dutroux (born November 6, 1956 in Brussels ) is a Belgian serial killer convicted of having
kidnapped , tortured and sexually abused six girls and adolescents between the ages of 8 and
19, of whom four were murdered , between 1995 and 1996. He was also convicted of
murdering a possible accomplice, Bernard Weinstein. He had already been in prison before
when he was arrested in 1996. His widely publicized trial took place in 2004. A series of flaws
in Dutroux's investigation caused widespread discontent in society against the criminal justice
system, so the subsequent scandal generated a reorganization in the Belgian security services.

His life before the kidnappings

Dutroux is the oldest of five brothers; His parents, both teachers, emigrated to the Belgian
Congo and then returned to Belgium in 1960. They separated in 1971 and Dutroux stayed with
his mother. He left home at age 16 and worked for a short period as a gigolo . He married his
first wife when he was 19; With her he had two children. He divorced her in 1983. By then,
Dutroux had already had an affair with Michelle Martin. Together, Dutroux and Martin would
have three children; They married in 1989 while in prison. They divorced in 2003, again, while
in prison.

Dutroux, an unemployed electrician , had a long criminal past, which included car theft ,
assaults and drug trafficking .

In February 1986, Dutroux and Martin had been arrested for raping five girls. In April 1989
Dutroux was sentenced to thirteen and a half years in prison ; Martin received a five-year
sentence. Showing good behavior in prison, Dutroux was released on parole in April 1992 after
serving just over three years in prison. After being released, the prison director received a
warning letter from Dutroux's own mother.

Following his release, Dutroux managed to convince a psychiatrist that he was disabled , thus
obtaining a government pension . He also received sleeping pills and sedatives, which he
would later use to drug the girls.

His criminal career involved trading stolen cars to Czechoslovakia and Hungary ; drug
trafficking in addition to other violent crimes such as robberies that allowed him to live
luxuriously in a city that had high unemployment at the time, Charleroi . He bought seven
houses, most of them empty, and used three of those houses to torture the girls he kidnapped.
In his house in Marcinelle near Charleroi ( Hainault ) where he lived most of his life, he began
to build a dungeon , which was assimilated to a cell, where he would lock up the youngest
girls.

Kidnappings and arrest

Some of what is described below was provided by the prosecution.

Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russ (both eight years old) were kidnapped together on June 24,
1995 , probably by Dutroux and then locked in the cell he built. Dutroux repeatedly abused the
girls and filmed pornographic videos with them.

An Marchal, 17, and Eefje Lambrecks, 19, were kidnapped on August 22, 1995 while on an
excursion in Ostend , probably by Dutroux and his accomplice Michel Lelièvre, whom Dutroux
paid with drugs. Since the constructed dungeon was in use, Dutroux chained the girls to a bed
in a room in his house. His wife was aware of all these criminal activities. Prosecutors believe
Dutroux killed An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks several weeks later although the exact
circumstances of the deaths are unknown.

Late in 1995, Dutroux was placed under investigation for the theft of luxury automobiles. He
was in custody from December 6, 1995 to March 20, 1996 . It is likely that Julie Lejeune and
Mélissa Russo died of starvation during this time.

Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped and imprisoned in the dungeon on May 28, 1996 on her way
to school, by Dutroux and Lelièvre. She was 12 years old then. On August 9, 1996, these two
men kidnapped again, this time 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez while she was walking home from a
public pool at night. A police investigation found a visual witness to what happened who was
able to remember part of a license plate that matched Dutroux's. Dutroux, his wife Martin and
Lelièvre were arrested on August 13, 1996 . A search of their homes turned up no evidence of
anything. Two days later Dutroux and Lelièvre confessed everything. Later, Dutroux himself
told investigators about the dungeon that was built in the house. Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia
Delhez were found alive there on August 15.

In an interview carried out several years later, Dardenne would say that Dutroux had told her
that she had been kidnapped by a gangster who wanted a payment from her family, who did
not want to pay it and that after that, the gangster planned to kill her. He told her that she was
lucky to be able to be with him, that he would not kill her, in exchange for "favors." Dutroux let
the poor girl write several letters to her family, which Dutroux read but never sent. Dardenne
kept a diary in which she marked the days in which Dutroux abused her.

On August 17, Dutroux continued with his confessions and told the police about a house he
had in Sars-la-Buissière (Hainaut). The bodies of Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo, as well as
that of their possible accomplice Bernard Weinstein, were found in the garden. An autopsy
reported that the girls had died of starvation. For Weinstein's part, Dutroux had squeezed his
testicles until this man revealed where some of their money was hidden, and then drugged
him and buried him alive. According to Dutroux, he had killed Weinstein because he had not
fed the girls while he was in custody. Finally, Dutroux also told the place where the bodies of
An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks could be found. They were found on September 3, 1996 in
Jumet (Hainaut), buried under a hut next to a house owned by Dutroux where Weinstein had
lived for three years.

Hundreds of pornographic videos were found in Dutroux's homes along with a considerable
amount of pornographic videos that Dutroux had made of his wife Michelle Martin.

Research errors and social protests

The authorities were criticized in several aspects of the investigation. Perhaps most notable
was that police had searched Dutroux's home on December 13, 1995 , and did so again six days
later in connection with the car theft. During these same days, Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo
were alive, still locked in the dungeon of the house. However, they were not found by the
police. Furthermore, the police, not suspecting that Dutroux was a kidnapper, torturer, rapist
and murderer, never searched his house with dogs or specialized equipment that could have
helped detect the presence of the girls.
Many of Dutroux's malicious intentions were not followed responsibly by the police, who
regarded Dutroux as a poor man. Something that also unleashed social fury is that Dutroux had
offered money to a police informant to 'inform' him about some girls, in addition to telling him
about the dungeon-prison that he had built in the house. Additionally, Dutroux's mother had
written a second warning letter to police informing them that her son was luring several girls
to his home. Frustration and anger were widespread in Belgian society against the police who
carried out a slow investigation which allowed Dutroux and henchmen to continue attacking
innocent girls. This anger boiled over when the judge in charge of the case was dismissed after
having participated in a fundraising evening held by the girls' families. His dismissal culminated
in a march involving 300,000 people called the "White March" in the country's capital, Brussels
, in October 1996, two months after Dutroux's arrest, where the crowd protested for urgent
changes to police services. and justice of the country.

On the other hand, Jean-Marc Connerotte, the original judge in the case, burst into tears in
front of the media when describing the armored cars and armed guards that protected him
from dark and very powerful personalities who wanted to stop the truth from coming to light. ,
adding that never before in Belgium had a magistrate been put under so much pressure. Also
crying, he described how the police had warned him and other judges linked to the case that
several contracts had been made to hitmen to assassinate them. Connerotte also confessed
that the investigation was seriously hampered by the government's protection of several
suspects. "Rarely has so much energy been put against an investigation," the judge added.
Connerotte believed that the Mafia had taken control of the case so it was believed that
Dutroux and henchmen belonged to an organization.

Other investigations linked Dutroux with European sadistic-pedophile organizations, very

powerful mafias, which made this man and his henchmen the most feared people in Belgium,
being treated like monsters who had to be locked in a very distant castle and thrown the key
into the sea as the Belgians themselves described. Public outrage re-flowered in April 1998 .
While being transported to a court without handcuffs, Dutroux attacked one of his guards and
stole his gun, then escaped. He was captured a few hours later. Justice Minister Stefaan De
Clerck, Interior Minister Johan Vande Lanotte, and the police chief resigned as a result of the
leak. In 2000 Dutroux was sentenced to 5 years for threatening a police officer during his
escape. In 2002, he received another 5 years sentence for unrelated crimes.

The Judgment

Dutroux's trial began on March 1, 2004 , seven and a half years after his initial arrest. It was a
jury trial and something like 450 people were called to testify. The trial took place in Arlon,
capital of the Belgian province of Luxembourg , where investigations had begun. Dutroux was
tried for the deaths of An Marchal, Eefje Lambrecks and Bernard Weinstein, a possible
accomplice. Dutroux initially confessed to having kidnapped the three of them, denying the
murders even though he had previously confessed to having killed Weinstein. In addition,
Dutroux was tried for other crimes such as car theft, kidnapping , attempted murder and
attempted kidnapping, child sexual abuse and three rapes not related to the murders, of
women from Slovakia .

Martin was tried as an accomplice, like the other two defendants, Lelièvre and Nihoul. To
protect them, the four defendants were placed behind armored glass in the room. During the
first week of the trial, photographs of Dutroux's face were not allowed to be published in any
Belgian newspaper or media outlet, for privacy reasons. During the trial, Dutroux continued to
insist that he and his accomplices were part of a pedophile organization in Europe that also
included police officers, businessmen, doctors and even some high-ranking Belgian political
officials.

On June 14, 2004 , after three months of trial, the jury concluded that they must return a
verdict on Dutroux and the other three defendants. The verdicts were announced on June 17
when the jury found Dutroux, Martin and Lelièvre guilty of all charges and refrained from
rendering a verdict on Nihoul. Later, Nihoul, an elderly man was acquitted of the girls'
kidnappings and deaths by the court. The jury was summoned again to give an answer as to
whether or not Nihoul had been an accomplice of the three convicted.

Judgment

On June 22, 2004, Dutroux received the maximum sentence of life imprisonment , while
Martin received 30 years in prison and Lelièvre 25. Although Nihoul was acquitted of
kidnapping and conspiracy charges, he was convicted of drug trafficking and received a 5-year
prison sentence. The Dutroux case was so well known that more than a third of Belgians with
the surname Dutroux requested that their surname be changed between 1996 and the trial.

Today, Dutroux is imprisoned in solitary confinement in a maximum security cell where a light
turns on every 7 minutes to see if he is there and in good condition, without strange behavior.

VOLKER ECKERT

Volker Eckert : ( July 1, 1959 - July 2 , 2007 ) He was a German serial killer who confessed to
the murder of 6 women, 5 of them prostitutes, although he is accused of 19 deaths from 1974
to 2006 . Eckert, 48, was a truck driver and was accused of murdering women on his trips
through Europe , in countries such as France , Spain and his own country, Germany .

Eckert confessed to having strangled 3 prostitutes in Spain and two in France , in addition to
murdering a classmate in Germany , in 1974 , when he was 15 years old and his classmate was
14.

In 1988 , Volker Eckert was sentenced to 12 years in prison for rape , mistreatment and several
attempted murders , but in 1994 he was already free.

Eckert was arrested at his home in Cologne , Germany , on November 17, 2006 , where locks of
hair and pieces of clothing from the women he murdered were found; Furthermore, in the
cabin of his truck, he kept photos of the women, gagged, raped and murdered, for his own
delight.

After being arrested, he confessed: "I am so deranged that I feel relieved by the arrest."

On July 2 , 2007 , he was found dead in his cell, one day after his 48th birthday.
ALBERT FISH

Albert Fish in 1903.

Albert Hamilton Fish ( May 19 , 1870 – January 16 , 1936 ). He was an American serial killer
and cannibal . He is also known as the "Gray Man", "The Werewolf of Wysteria" and possibly
"The Brooklyn Vampire". He claimed to have sexually abused over 100 children, and was
suspected of at least 5 murders. Fish confessed to 3 homicides that the police were able to
investigate to find the killer and confessed to stabbing at least 2 more people. He was put on
trial for the murder of Grace Budd, convicted and executed.

Biography

Early life

He was born Hamilton Fish in Washington, D.C. , son of Randall Fish (1795-1875). According to
him, he was named so because of Hamilton Fish , a distant relative. His father was 43 years
older than his mother. Fish was the youngest child and had three living siblings: Walter, Annie
and Edward Fish. He wanted to be called "Albert" after the death of a brother, and escape the
nickname 'Ham and Eggs' that was applied to him in an orphanage where he spent a good part
of his childhood.

Many members of his family suffered from mental illness, and some suffered from religious
mania. His father was a riverboat captain, but by 1870 he was working as a fertilizer
manufacturer. Old Fish died of a heart attack at the Six Street Station of the Pennsylvania
Railroad in 1875 in Washington, D.C. Fish's mother sent him to an orphanage. There he was
frequently whipped and beaten and, after a time, discovered that he enjoyed physical pain.
The beatings would cause him to have frequent erections , which is why the other orphans
teased him. By 1879, his mother obtained a government job and was able to care for him.
However, his previous experiences affected him. He began to have homosexual relations in
1882, at the age of 12 with the son of a telegrapher. Youth also led Fish to practices such as
urophagy and coprophagy . Fish began visiting public baths where he could see naked boys,
and spending a good part of the weekend on those visits.

Around 1890, Fish arrived in New York City. He said she had become a male prostitute . He also
claimed that he began raping young boys, a crime he continued to commit even after his
mother arranged a marriage for him. In 1898, he married a woman nine years his junior. They
had six children: Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John and Henry Fish. He was arrested for
embezzlement and sentenced to prison, serving his crime in the Sing Sing state prison in 1903,
where he had sexual relations with different men.

During 1898 he worked as a house painter, and claimed that he committed sexual abuse with
at least 100 children, usually under 6 years of age. He recalled an incident in which a male
lover took him to the wax museum where Fish would become fascinated with the dissection of
a penis ; Shortly afterward he would develop a morbid interest in castration. During a
relationship with a mentally retarded man, Fish attempted to castrate him after tying him up.
The man got scared and ran away. Fish began to intensify his visits to brothels where he could
be whipped and beaten more frequently.

In January 1917, his wife left him for John Straube, a skilled man who approached the Fish
family. Following this rejection, Fish began hearing voices; For example, on one occasion he
wrapped himself in a rug, claiming that he was following the instructions of John the Apostle .

First attacks and abduction attempts

Fish committed what may have been his first attack on a boy named Thomas Bedden in
Wilmington, Delaware, in 1910. Some time later he stabbed a mentally disabled boy around
1919 in Georgetown, Washington DC

On July 11, 1924, Fish found Beatrice Kiell, an 8-year-old girl, playing alone on her parents'
farm on Staten Island . He offered him money to accompany him and help him look for
rhubarb in the neighboring fields. The girl was about to leave the farm when her mother
chased Fish away. Fish walked away, but later returned to the Kiell family barn where he tried
to sleep at night before being discovered by Hans Kiell who told him to leave.

Grace Budd

On May 25, 1928, Edward Budd placed a classified ad in the Sunday edition of the New York
World newspaper that read: "Young man, 18 years old, wishes to position himself in the
country. "Edward Budd, 406 West 15th Street." On May 28, 1928 Fish, then 58 years old,
visited the Budd family in Manhattan , New York , under the pretense of hiring Edward. He
introduced himself as Frank Howard, a farmer from Farmingdale, New York. Upon arriving, Fish
met Budd's young sister: Grace, who was 10 years old. Fish promised to hire Budd and told him
he would send for him in a few days. On her second visit she agreed to hire Budd, then
convinced her parents, Delia Flanagan and Albert Budd, to let Grace accompany her to a
birthday party that afternoon at her sister's house. Albert Budd was a groom for the Equitable
Life Assurance Society . Grace had a prostitute sister named Beatrice and two brothers: Albert
Budd II and George Budd. Fish left there that day, with Grace, but never returned.

Police arrested Charles Edward Pope on September 5, 1930 on suspicion of the kidnapping.
Pope was 66 years old and was the superintendent of some apartments and was accused by
his alienated wife. Charles spent 108 days in prison between his arrest and trial on December
22, 1930.

The letter

Seven years later, in November 1934, an anonymous letter was sent to the girl's parents which
led the police to Albert Fish. The letter is quoted below, with grammatical errors and
misspellings by Fish (in English).

Dear Mrs. Budd. In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the Steamer Tacoma,
Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong, China. On arriving there he and
two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned the boat was gone. At that time
there was famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1-3 per pound. So great was the
suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold for food in order to keep
others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe on the street. You could go in any
shop and ask for steak—chops—or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be
brought out and just what you wanted cut from it. A boy or girl's behind which is the sweetest
part of the body and sold as veal cutlet brought the highest price. John staid [sic] there so long
he acquired a taste for human flesh. On his return to NY he stole two boys, one 7 and one 11.
He took them to his home stripped them naked tied them in a closet. Then everything they
had burned on. Several times every day and night he spanked them — tortured them — to
make their meat good and tender. First I killed the 11 year old boy, because he had the fattest
ass and of course the most meat on it. Every part of his body was cooked and eaten except the
head—bones and guts. He was roasted in the oven (all of his ass), boiled, broiled, fried and
stewed. The little boy was next, he went the same way. At that time, I was living at 409 E 100
St. near—right side. He told me so often how good human flesh was I made up my mind to
taste it.On Sunday June the 3, 1928 I called on you at 406 W 15 St. Brought you pot cheese—
strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her.
On the intention of taking her to a party. You said yes she could go. I took her to an empty
house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got there, I told her to remain
outside. She picked wildflowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did
not I would get her blood on them. When everything was ready I went to the window and
called her. Then I hid in a closet until she was in the room. When she saw me all naked she
began to cry and tried to run down the stairs. I grabbed her and she said she would tell her
mamma. First I stripped her naked. How she did kick—bite and scratch. I choked her to death,
then cut her into small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms. Cook and eat it. How
sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire
body. I didn't fuck her tho I could of had I wished. She died a virgin.

Translation:

Dear Mrs. Budd. In 1894 a friend of mine was sent as a platform attendant on the steamship
Tacoma, Captain John Davis. They traveled from San Francisco to Hong Kong China . When they
got there, he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned the ship had left.
At that time there was famine in China. Meat of any kind was $1-3 per pound. So great was the
suffering among the poorest that all children under the age of 12 were sold as food in order to
keep others free from starvation. A boy or girl under the age of fourteen was not safe on the
streets. You could walk into any store and order steak or stew meat. The naked body part of a
boy or girl would be taken out and whatever you wanted would be cut from it. The butt of a
boy or girl which is the sweetest part of the body was sold as a veal chop at a very high price.
John stayed there for a long time acquiring a taste for human flesh. Upon his return to NY He
robbed two boys, one 7 and one 11 years old. He took them to his house, stripped them naked
and tied them to a closet. Then burned evertything they carried. Several times each day and
night he whipped them - tortured them - to make their meat good and tender. He first killed the
11 year old boy because he had a fatter butt and of course a greater amount of meat on it.
Every part of his body was cooked and eaten except the head, bones and intestines. He was
roasted in the oven (his entire butt), boiled, roasted, fried and stewed. The little boy was next, it
was the same way. At that time, I lived at 409 E 100th Street nearby on the right. He often told
me how good human flesh was, so I decided to try it.

On Sunday, June 3, 1928, I visited him at 406 W 15 St. Brought you put cheese -strawberries.
We had lunch, Grace sat on my lap and kissed me. I decided to eat it. With the excuse of taking
her to a party. You said yes, she could go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester that I
had already picked out. When we arrived I told him to stay outside. She picked flowers, I went
upstairs and remove my clothes. I knew there shouldn't be blood on them. When everything
was ready, I looked out the window and called her. Then I hid in a closet until she was in the
room. When she saw me completely naked she started crying and trying to run down the stairs.
I caught her and she told me she would tell her mom. I undressed her. He kicked and scratched
me. I strangled it and then cut it into small pieces so I could take the meat back to my rooms. I
cooked it and ate it. How sweet and tender his oven-roasted butt was. It took me nine days to
eat his entire body. I didn't rape her as I would have liked. She died a virgin.

Mrs. Budd was illiterate and could not read the letter herself, so she gave it to her son to read.
Fish later confessed to his lawyer that he had actually raped Grace. Fish was a compulsive liar,
however this may have been false. He told police, when questioned, that it "never crossed his
mind" to rape the girl.

Capture

The letter was delivered in an envelope that had a small hexagonal symbol with the initials
"NYPCBA" which stands for "New York Private Benevolent Association." A company janitor told
police he had taken some from a desk but left them in his rented room at 200 East 52nd Street
when he moved out. The owner of the rented apartments said Fish had stayed a few days
earlier. He said Fish's son was sending him money and had asked him to hold his next check for
him. William King, the research director, waited outside the room until Fish returned. He
agreed to go to the police station to be questioned, but at the front door he threatened King
with a knife in each hand. King disarmed Fish and took him to the police station. Fish made no
attempt to deny the murder of Grace Budd, saying that he intended to go to the house to
murder Edward Budd, Grace's brother.
Discoveries after his capture

Billy Gaffney

A boy named Bill Gaffney was playing in the hallway outside his family's Brooklyn apartment
with his friend, Billy Beaton, on February 11, 1927. Both boys disappeared, but the friend was
found on the roof of the apartment building. When asked what happened to Gaffney, Beaton
said, "the bogeyman took him." Peter Kudzinowsky was initially a suspect in Gaffney's murder.
Then Joseph Meehan, a Brooklyn streetcar conductor, saw a photo of Fish in the newspapers
and identified him as the old man he saw on February 11, 1927, trying to calm a child sitting
next to him on the streetcar. The boy was not wearing a jacket and was crying for his mother
and was dragged by the man out of the vehicle, the police compared and matched the
description of the boy with Billy's parentage. Gaffney's body was never recovered. Billy's
mother visited Fish at Sing Sing Correctional Facility to try to get more details about her son's
death. Fish confessed the following: (in English)

I brought him to the Riker Avenue dumps. There is a house that stands alone, not far from
where I took him. I took the boy there. Stripped him naked and tied his hands and feet and
gagged him with a piece of dirty rag I picked out of the dump. Then I burned his clothes. Threw
his shoes in the dump. Then I walked back and took the trolley to 59 Street at 2 am and walked
from there home. Next day about 2 pm, I took tools, a good heavy cat-o-nine tails. Home
made. Short handle. Cut one of my belts in half, slit these halves into six strips about 8 inches
long. I whipped his bare behind until the blood ran from his legs. I cut off his ears, nose, slit his
mouth from ear to ear. Gouged out his eyes. He was dead then. I stuck the knife in his belly
and held my mouth to his body and drank his blood. I picked up four old potato sacks and
gathered a pile of stones. Then I cut him up. I had a grip with me. I put his nose, ears and a few
slices of his belly in the grip. Then I cut him through the middle of his body. Just below the
belly button. Then through his legs about 2 inches below his behind. I put this in my grip with a
lot of paper. I cut off the head, feet, arms, hands and the legs below the knee. This I put in
sacks weighed with stones, tied the ends and threw them into the pools of slimy water you will
see all along the road going to North Beach. I came home with my meat. I had the front of his
body I liked best. His monkey and pee wees and a nice little fat behind to roast in the oven and
eat. I made a stew out of his ears, nose, pieces of his face and belly. I put onions, carrots,
turnips, celery, salt and pepper. It was good. Then I split the cheeks of his behind open, cut off
his monkey and pee wees and washed them first. I put strips of bacon on each cheek of his
behind and put them in the oven. Then I picked 4 onions and when the meat had roasted
about 1/4 hour, I poured about a pint of water over it for gravy and put in the onions. At
frequent intervals I basted his behind with a wooden spoon. So the meat would be nice and
juicy. In about 2 hours, it was nice and brown, cooked through. I never ate any roast turkey
that tasted half as good as his sweet fat little behind did. I ate every bit of the meat in about
four days. His little monkey was as sweet as a nut, but his pee-wees I couldn't chew. Threw
them in the toilet.

translation:

I took it to the Riker Avenue dump. There is a house that stands alone, not far from where I
took him, I took the boy there. I stripped him, undressed and tied his hands and feet, gagged
him with a dirty rag that I picked up at the dump. Then I burned his clothes. I threw his shoes in
the dump. I came back and took the 59 Street trolley at 2 am and I walked from there to home.
The next day around 2 pm, I took tools, a very good spanking. Home. With short handle. I cut
one of my belts in half, cut those halves into six strips about 8 inches long. I spanked her bare
bottom until the blood ran down her legs. I cut off the ears, the nose, cut the mouth from ear to
ear. I put out his eyes. He was dead then. I buried the knife in his belly and put my mouth close
to his body and drank his blood. I collected four old sacks of potatoes and gathered a pile of
stones. Then I cut it into pieces. I had a fist with me. I put his nose and ear and a few belly slits
in my fist. Then I cut it down the center of the body. Just below the navel. Then across your legs
about 2 inches below your butt. I put this in my fist with a lot of paper, I cut off the head, feet,
arms, hands and the legs below the knee. I placed all of this into bags heavy with rocks, tied
them up, and dumped them into the pits of muddy water you'll see along the road to North
Beach. I returned home with my meat. I had the front of his body that I liked. His "monkey"
(penis) and "pee wees" (testicles) and a nice fat butt, to roast in the oven and eat. I made a
stew with his ears and nose, pieces of his face and belly. I put onions, carrots, turnips, celery,
salt and pepper. They were good. Then I split his butt, cut off his penis and testicles and washed
them first. I put strips of bacon on each butt and put them in the oven. So I chose 4 onions and
when the meat had roasted for about 1/4 of an hour, I poured in some water for the meat
sauce and added the onions. At frequent intervals I sprayed his bottom with a wooden spoon.
This way the meat would be nice and juicy. In about 2 hours, it was nice and brown, cooked.
I've never had any roast turkey that had half the flavor of this sweet fat little butt. I ate every
bite of meat in about 4 days. His little "monkey" was sweet as a nut, but his "pee wees" I
couldn't chew. I threw them into the toilet.

Previous arrests

Fish married Estella Wilcox on February 6, 1930 in Waterloo, New York , and divorced a week
later. Fish had been arrested in May 1930 for having "sent an obscene letter to an African-
American woman who was answering an advertisement for a maid." He was sent to Bellevue
Psychiatric Hospital in 1930 and 1931 for observation, after his arrest.

Trial and execution

Electric chair in Sing Sing - "Old Sparky".

The trial of Albert Fish for the premeditated murder of Grace Budd began on Monday, March
11, 1935, in White Plains, New York, with Frederick P. Close as a judge and as attorney district
attorney Ellbert F. Gallagher. James Dempsey was Fish's defense attorney. The trial lasted ten
days. Fish pleaded insanity and claimed to have heard voices from God ordering him to kill the
children. Numerous psychiatrists testified about Fish's sexual fetishes, including coprophagy,
urophilia, pedophilia, and masochism, but there was disagreement over which of them
signaled Fish's insanity. Chief defense expert Fredric Wertham, a psychiatrist who specialized
in child development and performed examinations in New York criminal courts, claimed that
Fish was insane. Another defense witness was Mary Nicholas, Fish's 17-year-old stepdaughter.
She described how Fish urged her and her siblings into games that involved masochism and
child sexual abuse.

The jury found him sane and guilty, and the judge ordered his execution.

After being sentenced, Fish confessed to the murder of Francis McDonnell, 8, dead on Staten
Island. Francis played on the front porch of his home near Port Richmond, Staten Island, on
July 15, 1924. Francis' mother saw an "old man" clenching and unclenching his fists. He walked
without saying anything. Later, during the day, the old man was seen again, but this time he
was watching Francis and his friends play. Francis' body was found in nearby woods where a
neighbor saw Francis and the "old man" heading that afternoon. He had been strangled with
his underwear. Fish arrived in March 1935 and was executed on January 16, 1936 by electric
chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. He entered the execution chamber at 11:06 p.m. and
was pronounced dead three minutes later. He was buried in the Sing Sing cemetery. He is
reported to have said that electrocution would be "the supreme experience of my life." Just
before the switch was flipped he stated, "I still don't know why I'm here," but even so the
nightmare is over forever.

Other possible victims

Fish denied involvement with any other murders. However, he was suspected of three others.
Detective William King believed that Fish may have been "the Brooklyn Vampire", a rapist and
murderer who primarily murdered children. They were:

 1927- Yetta Abramowitz, 12 years old, in the Bronx. She was strangled and beaten on
the roof of a 5-story apartment building located at 1013 Simpson Street, she died in
the hospital minutes after being found. The killer escaped, but 20 detectives and many
uniformed police officers were searching for a "tall young man" who was said to have
tried to lure several young girls from the neighborhood into dark alleys and hallways
on May 14, 1927.
 1932-Mary Ellen O'Connor, age 16, in Far Rockaway, Queens. On February 15, 1932,
his mutilated body was found in the woods near a house Fish had been painting.
 1932-Benjamin Collings, age 17.
MICHEL FOURNIRET

Michel Fourniret (born in Sedan, France on April 4, 1942 ) is a French serial killer who
confessed in June and July 2004 to having kidnapped , raped and murdered nine girls and
adolescents in a period of 14 years in the decades of the '80s and '90s. He is also a suspect in
10 more deaths, nine in France and one in Belgium . He is currently detained in Belgium
awaiting trial. He is known as the 'Ogre of the Ardennes'.

His wife, Monique Olivier, denounced him after Michelle Martin, wife of Belgian serial killer
Marc Dutroux, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for complicity in her husband's crimes.
Fourniret had been charged with child abduction and inappropriate sexual behavior, and has
been in prison since June 2003 for attempting to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in 2000.

Fourniret buried at least two of his victims in his elegant castle in Sautou in the late 1980s. On
July 3, 2004 , a team of French and Belgian police recovered the bodies of these two victims
from Fourniret near the castle.

He was sentenced to life in prison on May 28, 2008 .

Confessed murders

 Isabelle Laville - 17 year old French teenager. He disappeared in Auxerre on December

11, 1987 on his way home from school. His remains were found at the bottom of a well
north of Auxerre in July 2006. [1]
 Fabienne Leroy - a young woman of 20 years. He disappeared in 1988 in Mourmelon,
and his body was later found in nearby woods.
 Jeanne-Marie Desramault - 22-year-old French student. He disappeared in 1989 from
the Charleville-Méziere train station and his body was recovered from the Fourniret
estate, with his assistance.
 Elisabeth Brichet - 12 year old Belgian girl. She disappeared from Namur in 1989 after
playing with a friend. Her disappearance was long associated with the Belgian serial
killer Marc Dutroux, until Fourniret confessed the location where the girl's body was;
on his estate in France.
 Natacha Danais - 13-year-old French girl, disappeared in 1990.
 Farida Hellegouarch - girlfriend of one of the members of the Gang des postiches
(organization dedicated to robbing banks). Fourniret killed her in 1990 to join the
criminal group. He bought a castle in France with that organization's money.
 Céline Saison - 18-year-old girl who disappeared in Sedan in 2000, her body was found
in Belgium.
 Manyana Thumpong - 18-year-old girl who disappeared in 2001 from Charleville-
Mézières . His body was also later found in Belgium.
 Unidentified man - Fourniret killed him in a bank robbery for cash.

Fourniret's wife also said that her husband had killed a 16-year-old girl who had worked as an
au pair in their home. Fourniret apparently killed her in 1993, but this has not been confirmed.
The identity of this alleged victim is unknown.

Other crimes?

Fourniret himself has said that he did not commit any crimes between 1990 and 2000.
However, police in five countries ( France , Belgium , the Netherlands , Germany and
Denmark ) have reopened old cases of rape, disappearances and murders. In Denmark, police
reported that they believed Fourniret was probably responsible for some rapes, although DNA
testing did not confirm this. In the Netherlands , Fourniret has been investigated by
investigators into the disappearances of Tanja Groen and Nicky Verstappen.

In 2006, some people said that Fourniret was probably responsible for the murder of 8-year-
old girl Marie-Dolores Rambla. Christian Ranucci, a French citizen, had been convicted of this
crime and beheaded on July 28, 1976 . The case has always been controversial.

New evidence showed that Fourniret was taking vacation in Marseille at the same place and
time that Rambla was murdered. On June 3, 1974 , Rambla and her brother, Jean, met a man
in a car who told them he was looking for his dog. Marie-Dolores got into this man's car and
was kidnapped. About an hour after the kidnapping, the kidnapper's car was involved in a
traffic accident with a person named Martínez, but the kidnapper managed to escape.
Followed by an elderly couple, the kidnapper was seen carrying a large bag. The police believe
that this is the connection between the kidnapping and the criminal's escape. After an
extensive search, the body of Marie-Dolores Rambla, stabbed to death, was found in some
bushes. Ranucci was arrested because that day he had been involved in a traffic accident, and
he was also carrying a large bag. In Ranucci's car the police found some pants with dried blood
that matched Rambla's blood type.

Ranucci confessed to killing the girl and told the police where the knife was hidden (in the
bushes). But Ranucci only confessed what the police found in the first 48 hours. A day later,
Ranucci denied being the murderer. It has been suggested that Ranucci's case has been altered
and that certain pieces of evidence have been hidden to fit some evidence with his
'confession'. For example, the blood stains on Ranucci's pants were much older than the day of
the murder and can be explained by an accident he had on his motorcycle . Ranucci had the
same blood type as Rambla. The elderly couple who followed the car confessed that they saw
the girl in the back of Ranucci's car and that she was screaming. But the elderly couple did not
leave the car and according to them they saw Ranucci throw the girl out of the car through a
car door, which in Ranucci's car was broken. Further investigation revealed that a red sweater
found at the crime scene did not belong to Ranucci as had previously been believed.

Later, five people told the police that they saw the kidnapping, but no one could identify
Ranucci as the kidnapper.

The great scandal that the press generated around the case made Ranucci guilty before he
came to trial. He received the death penalty. Other facts also locate Fourniret as the possible
culprit of the girl's death. He was on vacation in Marseille in June 1974, he was driving a car of
the same color (gray), he was 32 years old and had, unlike Ranucci, a past of sexual attacks.
Fourniret used many tricks, similar to the dog search lie. Furthermore, Rambla showed no
signs of having been sexually abused . Fourniret, from time to time, ejaculated in front of his
victims instead of attacking them sexually.

FRANCISCO GUERRERO (MURDERER)

Francisco Guerrero ("El chalequero") (?- †1910), was the first serial killer recorded in Mexico ,
he killed in Mexico City. from Mexico around 20 women dedicated to prostitution during 1880
and 1888, and one last (an elderly non-prostitute) in 1908. She has become an icon of the
discrimination and segregation of women during Porfirio Mexico and of the culture of Mexican
machismo , in general, which sadly still persists.

Psychiatric profile

Guerrero was a shoemaker who never had any qualms about trying to hide his misogyny or
even his murders, for which reason he never married (as far as is known). In fact, on several
occasions it is said that he could be seen boasting about his crimes. He dressed outlandishly,
always wearing fitted pants, multi-colored sashes and charro vests (hence his nickname).

He had a very marked narcissistic personality ( narcissistic personality disorder ) and saw the
female sex as a simple disposable sexual satisfier. His crimes were marked by disproportionate
cruelty, but they did not have a sexual motive (he did not present sadism as a paraphilia ): his
crimes were merely hate crimes. He raped his victims in order to demonstrate the supposed
"superiority and power" he believed he had over women.

All his victims (except the last one) were prostitutes but, unlike what was believed, he did not
kill them because they were prostitutes, but because they were more vulnerable (proof of this
was that his last victim was not dedicated to prostitution). This practice, however, also
belonged to a vulnerable population sector: the elderly ).

Very little is known about the life of this dark character, but it is easy to intuit that his
personality disorder and his misogyny were the product of maternal rejection during
childhood, which degenerated into an unresolved Oedipus complex . Most likely he did not
know a father image or this represented the pattern of violence against women (a battering
father).

Modus operandi

He approached his victims under the pretext of using their services, and in fact he did use
them. Subsequently, he threatened and insulted them, murdered them by strangulation and,
finally, for reasons that are not very clear, he decapitated them. He threw the bodies into the
Consulado River .

First arrest, during the misogyny of Porfirio Mexico

Mexico at the end of the 20th century. XIX and early s. XX, lived a period of military
dictatorship: the Porfiriato . The society of that time was marked by conservatism and a
terrible double standard , social inequality and segregation, very typical of a society in the
process of industrialization , which made the poor classes vulnerable (which represented more
than 90%, at that time). epoch); A person could easily disappear without anyone noticing, in
fact it was very common.

From 1808 to 1888, corpses of decapitated and brutally beaten and cut women began to
appear on the banks of the Consulado River , but the "conservative and moral" authorities
were more concerned with persecuting political opponents and, in fact, considered something
beneficial to society that this type of people (sex workers) did not exist. The press, heavily
censored by the regime, paid no attention to the facts.

Despite the little interest and apathy shown by the authorities, on February 13, 1888, Francisco
Guerrero was arrested; By then Guerrero was openly boasting about his crimes within the
underworld of the suburb. Initially, as the laws dictated, he was sentenced to the death
penalty, but Porfirio Díaz himself revoked the sentence and sentenced him to 20 years of
confinement in the San Juan de Uluá prison ; under the mitigating circumstance that the
victims were, literally: "simply, whores..."

Thus, after fully serving his sentence, he was released at the beginning of 1908.

Second arrest

A few months after being released, precisely on June 13, 1908 (20 years, exactly, from the first
arrest), Francisco Guerrero was arrested for the second time, for the murder of an elderly
woman whom he executed exactly the same as his others. victims.

At that time the socio-political situation in Mexico was very different, the Porfirista regime was
in decline and the Revolution could already be seen coming. Guerrero's arrest occurred
without much fanfare, he was sentenced to death again this time without any authority
intervening, but he died of natural causes before the sentence could be carried out, in 1910,
precisely the year the Revolution broke out. Mexican .

Cultural influence

Francisco Guerrero "the chalequero" is remembered to this day, sadly, as the face of Mexican
machismo , a machismo that is present throughout the world but especially in Latin America
(where societies, despite the important progress in equality of gender they have had, are still
markedly sexist).

Along with the Mexican Revolution, and the human rights for which it fought, came women's
rights (a relatively new concept that had been born in developed countries and that barely
reached Mexico).

Despite this, the dowry of citizenship for Mexican women still took a long time to arrive, this if
we take into account that it was not until the 1950s that they were allowed to vote. And sadly,
violence against women continues to be a serious social problem in Mexico, including
femicides in Ciudad Juárez .

A curious fact was that Francisco Guerrero's criminal life coincided with that of the famous
Jack the Ripper , just as his crimes had several elements in common.

LEONARD FRASER

Leonard John Fraser ( 27 June 1951 – 1 January 2007 ) was an Australian serial killer .

Crimes

He was sent to prison for the kidnapping and murder of nine-year-old Keyra Steinhardt in
1999. He had already visited prison for kidnapping a few years before. There he was accused of
the crimes of four more girls and the police found "trophies" of his crimes in his apartment of
three of them. One of the survivors of his murders, Natasha Ryan, was found alive living
anonymously with her boyfriend after being missing for five years and testified against him. In
2003, he was sentenced to three life sentences for the murders of Beverley Leggo and Sylvia
Benedetti, as well as the rape of Julie Turner in the Rockhampton area in 1998 and 1999. At his
trial, the judge defined him as a sexual predator who put the peace of the community in which
he lived at risk.

Death

Fraser would be transferred to Wolston Correctional Center and after suffering horrible pain,
he would be taken to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Woolloongabba , on December 26,
2006 , where he would die of a myocardial infarction on January 1, 2007 .

JOHN WAYNE GACY

John Wayne Gacy Jr.

John Wayne Gacy with First Lady Rosalynn Carter

March 17, 1942

Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA

May 10, 1994 (52 years old)

Death
Crest Hill, Illinois USA

Nationality United States

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. ( March 17 , 1942 – May 10, 1994 ), also known as "Pogo" or "The Killer
Clown" , was an American serial killer .

Biography

From an early age he had a difficult relationship with his father, as he mistreated him, beat
him, and even doubted his sexuality. His father was an alcoholic who physically abused his
mother. This caused John a serious problem since after a while when he entered adolescence
he had sexual problems.

He worked for a short period in Las Vegas. Returning to Illinois, Gacy attended business school
and began a moderately successful career as a shoe salesman in Springfield , Illinois, where he
became a member of the Jaycees organization.

According to a study by University of Alabama sociology professor Dennis L. Peck, "John Wayne
married in 1964, and because of his sexual problems he very rarely got an erection, and on one
occasion when he did, he fathered her daughter. That year he also had his first homosexual
experience . " He moved to Waterloo, Iowa, where he was a restaurant manager for the
Kentucky Fried Chicken chain , belonging to his wife's family.

Gacy's first marriage ended after he was convicted of child sexual abuse in 1968. He was
sentenced to 10 years in prison for this crime, but after 18 months and due to his good
behavior, he was released on parole on June 18, 1970. After leaving prison, he moved back to
Illinois, where he successfully hid his criminal record until police began investigating him for
the subsequent murders.

In 1971, he bought a house in an unnamed section of Norwood Park Township. There he

established his own construction business, PDM Contracting.

Gacy married a second time to a woman he met in high school and she, along with their two
daughters, moved in with him. He became an important and respected member of the
community. In addition to his show as a clown, he became an active participant in the
Democratic Party, volunteering to clean the party offices. He eventually became a table
member. In this position he was able to meet, and even be photographed with, the then-
future First Lady, Rosalynn Carter . In fact, Carter autographed the photograph: "To John Gacy.
Best wishes." During the search of Gacy's house after being arrested, this photo caused further
embarrassment to the United States Secret Service , as it showed John with a badge on his
lapel that showed a letter "S", which means that the Secret Service had given him
authorization to access classified information.

The murderers

Gacy's second marriage ended and his wife divorced him in mid-1976. In 1977, David Daniel,
who was 28 at the time, testified that John offered him a ride to the bus station, but Daniel
refused. He also said that Gacy was very insistent, asking him seven times, even offering him
marijuana. Of two victims who were reported as "survivors", Daniel is the only one alive to
recount the John Wayne Gacy procedure.

No suspicion fell on Gacy until December 12, 1978, when he was investigated after the
disappearance of 15-year-old teenager Robert Piest, who was last seen with him. A search of
John's home revealed various items related to other disappearances.

On December 22, 1978, Gacy went to his lawyers and confessed to his crimes. He declared that
he had murdered for the first time in January 1972, when when he plunged the knife into the
body of a young man and saw how blood flowed from the body, he felt a sensation of
excitement, and he began to like this. He also confessed to having killed 33 individuals and
indicated the location of 28 of the bodies to the police. They were buried on his property. The
other five victims, he said, he had thrown into the nearby Des Plaines River. At least one of the
victims was picked up at the bus station. The youngest individual was only 9 years old and the
oldest was about 20. Eight of the victims were so decomposed that they were never identified.
The bodies were discovered from December 1978 to April 1979, when the last known victim
was found in the Illinois River.

Judgment

On February 6, 1980, Gacy's trial began in Chicago. During the trial, he pleaded not guilty,
alleging mental problems. However, his testimony was flatly rejected, since mental studies
were carried out on him, giving negative results, that is, he did not have or suffer from mental
problems. His lawyer argued that John had lapses of temporary insanity at the time of each
murder, but before and after, he regained normalcy to attract and dispose of the victims.

At one point in the trial, Gacy's defense attempted to claim that all 33 murders were accidental
deaths as part of erotic asphyxiation , but the Cook County coroner demonstrated with
evidence that these claims were impossible. Furthermore, Gacy had already confessed to the
police and was unable to suppress such evidence.

John Wayne Gacy was found guilty on March 13 and sentenced to the death penalty .

Execution

John Gacy was executed on May 10, 1994 at the Stateville Penitentiary in Crest Hill , Illinois, by
lethal injection . This happened after his last meal: shrimp, fried chicken, strawberries, and
French fries.

His death did not cause much of a media stir, but large crowds gathered outside the
penitentiary to celebrate "execution parties," with several people arrested for public
intoxication and disorderly conduct. In an unusual display of dark humor, the self-proclaimed
Gacy's Day Parade (a parody of the Macy's Day Parade ) began. There were people selling T-
shirts and Gacy-related items and people screamed when John was pronounced dead.

According to reports, Gacy expressed no remorse. In one of his last talks with his lawyer, he
told him that his death would not bring any of the victims back. His last words before dying
were: "Kiss my ass. They will never find the others," which he said to a guard as he was being
sent to the execution chamber.

After the execution began, the lethal chemicals unexpectedly solidified, jamming the fourth
tube Gacy had connected to his arm. The execution team replaced the catheter and 10
minutes later, the execution resumed under the watchful eye of witnesses, who watched from
behind a window covered by a blind. The process took 18 minutes to complete. The
anesthetists argued that the mishap that occurred with the solidified chemicals was due to the
inexperience of the prison officers, who carried out the execution.

Possible explanations

Some point to his poor relationship with his alcoholic father, a head trauma, and subsequent
fainting in his adolescence as the basis for his actions. It is also speculated that the killing of
men and boys was the subconscious expression of self-hatred for his own homosexuality. He
often stated that he became uninhibited at the time of sex. In any case, his victims were
mostly heterosexual men and the common attribute among them was youth and beauty.
After his execution, Gacy's brain was removed. It is currently owned by Dr. Helen Morrison,
who interviewed John and other serial killers in an attempt to isolate common personality
traits.

Gacy's attorneys hired a forensic psychiatrist to examine Gacy's brain after he died. The results
revealed that there were no abnormalities. The specialist stated that John did not fit any
psychological profile typical of serial killers and that the reason for his actions will probably
never be known. During the trial, Dr. Morrison appeared as a psychiatric witness and testified
that Gacy had "the emotional makeup of an infant."

Gacy as an artist

During the 14 years he spent in prison, Gacy often painted with oils . His favorite subject was
clowns. He said he used his clown act as an alter ego . His paintings include images of Snow
White and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer .

Many of Gacy's paintings were sold at auction after his death. One of his most famous works is
that featuring punk singer GG Allin , who used to visit Gacy in prison and with whom he
corresponded until he died on June 28, 1993. The painting is now by Allin's brother and bassist,
Merle Allin. A black and white reproduction of the image can be seen on the cover of the
soundtrack of the GG Allin documentary, Hated: GG Allin and the murder junkies .

His paintings have also been used as decoration for the Acid Bath album, When the kite string
pops . Gacy made paintings for the artist, musician and actor Glen Meadmore, with whom he
also corresponded for a time. A portrait of Meadmore, painted by Gacy, appears on the cover
of his album Hot, horny and born again .

Another John Gacy painting belongs to Dani Filth, of the metal band Cradle of Filth. Filmmaker
John Waters also owns a painting of Gacy, which he says hangs in the guest room of his house,
"so visitors don't stay too long."

LUIS ALFREDO GARAVITO

Luis Alfredo Garavito

 Birth January 25 , 1957
53 years
Genoa , Quindío , Colombia

Position(s) Kidnapping , Homicide , Rape , Sexual

abuse

Sentence 40 years in prison

Current In prison
situation

Occupation Prisoner

Spouse Unknown

Parents Unknown

Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos Génova , Quindío , Colombia , January 25 , 1957 ) is one of the
most prolific serial killers in Colombia and the world. He is the oldest of seven siblings and
during his childhood he experienced a lack of affection and physical abuse from his father.
According to her testimony, she was a victim of sexual abuse .

According to the Attorney General's Office and several international judicial organizations, it
was determined that Luis Alfredo Garavito is the second serial murderer in the world.

Likewise, the Attorney General's Office ruled that all of Garavito's sentences total 1,853 years
and 9 days.
Criminal history

At 42 years old, he was declared by investigators and judges to be a serial killer . When he was
captured, he confessed to being the author of the death of 147 children in different regions of
Colombia, but to date the Attorney General's Office is investigating him for the murder of 176
children while passing through 59 municipalities in the country.

On repeated occasions, Garavito Cubillos posed as a street vendor, monk, homeless person,
disabled person, and representative of fictitious foundations in favor of children and the
elderly. He is also known as The Beast , The Monk, The Beggar, Alfredo Salazar , The Fool ,
Tribilín , Conflicto, The Priest or Bonifacio Morera Lizcano . Garavito's victims were children
between 6 and 16 years old, of low economic status. He approached them in playgrounds,
sports facilities, bus terminals, market squares and suburban neighborhoods. As established,
he generally offered them money and invited them to walk until the minors got tired and were
attacked in unpopulated places.

According to the investigation, in those places the lifeless bodies of the minors were found
with their throats cut, mutilated and with signs of having been tied. They also found signs of
violent carnal access and torture; with stabs in the heart, in the buttocks, with the genitals
mutilated and placed in the mouth or even decapitated. At the residence of a friend of hers in
Pereira, objects similar to those found at the crime sites and journalistic publications were
found in which the status of investigations into disappearances and homicides of children in
the country were reviewed.

Disorders

According to a report from the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Garavito was diagnosed with
Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASD). It also presents other types of mental and sexual
disorders such as:

 Absence of empathy in interpersonal relationships .

 Absence of fear
 Absence of remorse
 Distorted self-esteem
 Search for sensations
 Victim Dehumanization Cognition
 Disregard or distortion of consequences
 Egocentrism
 Impulsiveness
 External locus of control
 Foreign manipulation
 Self-justification motivation
 pedophilia
 Sadism

Capture of Garavito

On April 22, 1999 , members of the National Police captured Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos in
Villavicencio , while he was trying to sexually assault a minor. His full identification was
achieved through fingerprint comparison. (He was captured by a police officer with the last
name Babativa)
Thanks to the evidence collected by the Prosecutor's Office and his subsequent confession, it
was established that Garavito Cubillos is responsible not only for the death of a minor from
Tunja but also for the homicide of three children from Génova and 172 other crimes
committed against minors in 11 departments. of the country, between 1992 and 1998 .

In an interview given to Guillermo Prieto La Rotta "Pirry", host of the program El Mundo
According to Pirry , and broadcast on the Colombian channel RCN on June 11, 2006 ; Luis
Alfredo Garavito denied having "raped" his victims; In this same journalistic work, said
murderer claimed that he had committed the crimes by supposed orders of the devil, and
assured his "rehabilitation" after becoming a member of a Pentecostal Church , also showing
the efforts he has made to get free as soon as possible and even aspire one day to have a seat
in the national Congress.

According to the RCN news, there is another trial against Garavito for another murder in Valle
del Cauca, for which he would have to respond judicially independently to his previous crimes.

The sum of all the crimes amounts to more than 1,000 years in prison, but the maximum
sentence in Colombia is 60 years, and for collaborating in the recovery of the bodies and for
good behavior the sentence would be reduced to 12-16 years. [ citation needed ]

FRANCISCO GARCÍA ESCALERO

Francisco Garcia Escalero : ( Madrid May 24, 1954 ) known as "the mendicant killer" or the
"beggar killer" is a serial killer , who practiced necrophilia and cannibalism . In 1996, the
Provincial Court of Madrid declared the murders of 11 people proven, although the defense of
criminal responsibility for mental insanity was applied, since, according to forensic
psychiatrists, there was schizophrenia, alcoholism, necrophilia, etc. For this reason he was
acquitted of his crimes but was admitted to the Alicante prison psychiatric hospital.
Biography

He was born in Madrid on May 24, 1954 . He grew up in a shanty area 200 meters from the
Almudena Cemetery and proved to be a reserved and solitary child, who liked to walk through
the niches at night. Also characteristic of his personality is his little training (he barely went to
school) and poor health. In fact, his suicidal impulses were immediately noticeable, throwing
himself into cars. This behavior irritated his father, who often reciprocated with brutal
beatings.

His first crimes and imprisonment

In 1970, García Escalero entered the psychiatric hospital. In that environment he began to
commit his first crimes (petty thefts) while exploring abandoned houses and spying on women
and couples through the window while masturbating. Three years later, he would be admitted
to a reform school for stealing a motorcycle and, upon leaving there, he committed his first
major crime: together with some friends he robbed a couple near the Almudena cemetery.
They raped the young woman in the presence of her boyfriend, for which he was sentenced to
12 years in prison. During that time in prison he covered his body with tattoos, some with
phrases as significant as: "You were born to suffer."

The release from prison and its atrocious crimes

When he was released from confinement, he became addicted to drinking and taking pills,
which is why he sometimes showed aggressive and very violent behavior. On the psychiatric
side, he begins to suffer auditory hallucinations, a series of voices that ask him to commit new
crimes and desecrate cemeteries. These hallucinations provoked García Escalero's murderous
personality. His first victim is Paula Martínez, a drug-addicted prostitute whom he contacts on
Capitán Haya Street in Madrid. In August 1987 , Paula appears on the outskirts of Madrid
decapitated and burned.

From here on, the brutality of the crimes would increase and their murderous attitudes would
become more and more atrocious. García sews the bodies with knives in the back, crushes
their skulls with stones or simply decapitates them, some even removes their viscera or hearts
with a knife (sometimes even tasting a bite of these mutilated parts). Later, to cover the trail,
he burned what was left of the corpses and cut off their fingertips.

At the same time as he murdered, he combined it with acts of necrophilia, desecrating the
tombs in cemeteries. From time to time he would jump over the walls of the Almudena
cemetery and break a niche, take the bodies out of the grave and sexually abuse them.

García's murders would continue to happen. In March 1989 , a beggar named Ángel appears
semi-capitated and with his fingertips amputated. Two months later, in May, a 65-year-old
homeless man named Julio appears with his body stitched up with stab wounds, his penis
amputated, and his body charred. His next five victims also appear mutilated, burned and
decapitated.

The criminal investigation does not find a solution to this macabre puzzle until seven years
after the first crime, the police get on the trail when Francisco and his friend and running
partner Víctor Luis Criado escape together from the Alonso Vega psychiatric hospital in
Madrid. Together they drink. Forty-eight hours later, Víctor appears dead with his skull sunken
and burned among papers and blankets on the wall of the Church of the Sacred Hearts. After
five years committing murders, one day those voices prompt him to commit suicide, and
Escalero throws himself in front of a car, but only breaks one leg. Once at the hospital, he
confesses his crimes to the nurses and begs them to stop him because he did not want to
continue killing.

Arrest and confession

Escalero is detained by the police, and confesses: "I bought a lot of wine, and he drank too. I
remember I hit him in the head with a rock and... then I burned him..." In April 1994 , in
Madrid, news broke to the media that a 39-year-old beggar, Francisco García Escaleno, killed
11 people in cold blood. It was the first confession, from which Francisco García Escalero told
the police, one by one, fourteen murders. He spared no details, including the satisfaction he
experienced when he had sexual relations with the victims' lifeless bodies, or what it cost them
to kill them. "I killed him. We were drinking in the park next to the cemetery and taking pills.

My body asked for them so I could speak better. Then I told him where we were going to sleep
and in the cemetery I felt the strength, I got impulses, I picked up a rock and hit him on the
head, I burned him with newspapers and then I went to sleep in the car and the next day to
the hospital. "Now I feel blank, like I'm dead."

He was tried in February 1995 . The report of all the forensic experts agreed that his
dangerousness continued, but he was not responsible for his actions, the beggar murderer was
acquitted for mental insanity, a product of his chronic alcoholism and schizophrenia. Currently,
he is still held in the Fonnivel prison psychiatric hospital in Alicante, and according to the
center's staff, he has not shown any aggressive behavior again.

GARY RIDGWAY

Gary Leon Ridgway (b. February 18, 1949 in Salt Lake City , Utah ) is an American serial killer
known as the Green River Killer or in Spanish as the Green River Killer . On November 30,
2001 , as he was preparing to leave the city of Renton, Washington , he was arrested by police
and charged with the murder of four women whose murders were attributed to the Green
River Killer. Four murders were confirmed against him thanks to DNA samples and other
deaths thanks to the paint he used in his work. Two years later he was found guilty of 48
murders although he confessed to having killed 71. Ridgway has been married three times and
has one son. He used his son's photograph to attract victims whom he had in his Pickup . He is
considered one of the most prolific serial killers in United States criminal history.
Biography

Early life

Ridgway was born in Salt Lake City , capital of the US state of Utah on February 18, 1949, son
of Mary Rita Steinman and Thomas Newton; He was the second child, of a total of three. He
was raised in McMicken Height, Washington . It is known that his mother was absolutely strict
and that she dominated the members of the family with an iron fist, especially Ridgway.
Relatives remember that his mother never loved him and that she constantly yelled at her
husband. After Ridgway was arrested, several of Ridgway's relatives and friends were
questioned to find out how they described him. They described him as a friendly but strange
person. As he walked house to house talking about the Pentecostal Church he attended, this
man developed an obsession with prostitutes every day in addition to suffering from an
anomaly in his sexual behavior. His first two marriages were plagued by infidelity on both
sides.

Attitude
Ridgway is a man who appears to be humble but keeps a horrible secret, a person whose
sexual behavior is abnormal due to his hatred of women. This hatred is influenced by his
mother, who mistreated the members of his family, especially him and his father after being
arrested on murder charges. The policemen admired Ridgway's simplicity in telling all the
women he had murdered. He spoke seriously until they asked him why he did it? He couldn't
answer and stuttered a lot.

ED GEIN

Edward Theodore Gein ( August 27 , 1906 – July 26, 1984 ) was one of the United States ' most
brutal serial killers . Only two murders committed by him were proven (those of Mary Hogan
and Bernice Worden), but due to his hobby of preserving corpses (both those of his victims and
those he dug up) and making furniture and clothing with them, a great impact was generated.
around the discovery of his crimes. At that time, for example, couples could not be shown on
television sleeping in the same bed, but that next to Ed Gein's crimes no longer seemed to
have any importance.

Police officers investigating the November 16, 1957 , disappearance of Plainfield, Wisconsin ,
hardware store clerk Bernice Worden suspected that Ed Gein was involved in the case. When
they entered his house, they found Worden's body hanging by his ankles, decapitated and cut
open at the torso. They also found human heads in the bedroom, skin used to make
lampshades and seats, skulls turned into soup plates, a human heart in a frying pan, a necklace
of human lips, a vest made of vagina and breasts, and many more objects. made from parts of
human bodies including a skull that served as an ashtray and a belt made from nipples.

His most striking creation was the complete costume made of human skin as well as a leather
face, including pants, a torso with breasts, and several masks.

When questioned, Ed Gein admitted that he opened the graves of recently deceased women
and stole the bodies, taking them with his van to his house where he tanned the skins to make
his macabre possessions. He also admitted to murdering Mary Hogan, a waitress who had
been missing since 1954. It was never proven or admitted by him that he committed
cannibalism , and he also denied having had sex with the corpses, claiming that "They smelled
very bad."

He was declared mentally ill and spent the rest of his days in a psychiatric institution where he
stood out for his good behavior and died in the summer of 1984 at the age of 77 from
respiratory failure.

It is believed that his possessive mother Augusta, a religious fanatic who strove to prevent any
influence other than her own on her two sons, was in part what caused his mental disorder.
Augusta was the last member of Ed's close family to die in 1945 , and he boarded up her room
for some reason.

While Ed Gein was detained, his house burned to the ground, probably due to arson. His van
was auctioned and whoever bought it did good business with it in several cities, charging to
see its interior full of blood and human remains.

Ed Gein in popular culture

 The former bassist of the rock band Marilyn Manson uses the nickname 'Gidget Gein'
 Ed Gein's crimes and especially his relationship with his mother directly inspired the
novel Psycho by Robert Bloch , which would later be adapted to film by Alfred
Hitchcock .
 The decoration of the house from the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , as well as
the murderer Leatherface and his human skin mask are clearly inspired by Gein.
 The character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs is probably also based on Ed
Gein.
 In the video game Resident evil 4 there is an enemy called Dr. Salvador, who is inspired
by him, like his daughters, the beautiful sisters.
 The 1974 film Deranged starring Roberts Blossom is based on the character and story
of Ed Gein, although altering names and places, as well as some facts.
 Two films have also been made about Gein: In the Light of the Moon or Ed Gein ,
directed by Chuck Parello and starring Steve Railsback ; and Ed Gein: The Butcher Of
Plainfield , directed by Michael Feifer and starring stuntman Kane Hodder , famous for
hiding behind the mask of Jason Voorhees , from the Friday the 13th saga.
 In the Fullmetal Alchemist anime, he is referred to with the character of Barry the
Chopper , a dangerous Central assassin, who, disguising himself as a woman, murders
for the simple pleasure of killing.
 There is a musical group called Ed Gein.
 Slayer is one of the musical groups that have played a song based on Ed Gein, with the
song Dead Skin Mask . Lordi with Deadache . And From First to Last with Ride The
Wings Of Pestilence on lines like "I'll wear your skin as a suit."
  Mudvayne was based on Ed Gein, in the song "Nothing to Gein".
 The Thrash Metal and Grindcore Group Macabre composed a song called Ed Gien
 The character Patrick Bateman , from American Psycho , mistakenly attributes to Ed
Gein a quote that is actually from another serial killer, Edmund Kemper .
 In the game Baldur's Gate there is an optional mission to catch an assassin who has
made a suit out of human skin.
 In the manga Rurouni Kenshin there is a character called Gein, a puppeteer who makes
copies of humans.
 The band Blind Melon has a song called "Skinned" based on the schizophrenic maniac
type.
 He uses Industrial Jack Gein as his last name for his band.
 Rapper Brotha Lynch Hung on some of his covers has a human leather mask similar to
the one Ed Gein used.

In an episode of The Simpsons, Clancy Wiggum says to his assistant Lou, "Where's that crazy
guy who's giving you shit?"

GILBERTO CHAMBA

Gilberto Antonio Chamba , born in Machala , El Oro province, Ecuador in 1993, at age 30,
Gilberto was nicknamed "The Monster of Machala" for the brutality with which he murdered
his victims.

I raped them after they were dead, that was my personal satisfaction. I am guilty and in this I
have walked alone.

Those were the only words Chamba spoke after being arrested in 1993, accused of the murder
and rape of eight women and the rape of two others.

According to various printed media, at that time, Chamba told the police each of the steps he
followed before, during and after the crimes.

He owned a taxi in which from 1988 to 1993 he traveled the streets of Machala in search of
clients. They all had to comply with a certain pattern: be young, students and walk alone.
The agents who managed to capture him reported that, doubtful that Chamba was the real
murderer, they tried to confuse him by taking him to places far from the place of the murders;
However, with surprising coldness, Chamba corrected them and took them to where he raped
and killed.

A report from the Spanish newspaper El País rescues the testimony of Fausto Terán, a retired
police officer who participated in the capture of "El Monstruo de Machala." "According to what
Chamba confessed to me, he did not practice vaginal penetration on his victims. He practically
strung them an instrument similar to a cane, which had been specifically ordered to be made.
He skewered many of them with such violence that the instrument came out of their mouths ,"
he noted.

Of his ten victims in Ecuador, two were minors. And the testimony of a sex worker, one of the
two women who survived his attacks, served to initiate the criminal process against her, which
ended with a 16-year prison sentence.

A sentence of which he barely served seven years, since he took advantage of the benefit of
2x1, which reduced the sentences of prisoners with good behavior by half and received one
more year of pardon due to the 2000 jubilee , which granted that time of grace or sorry.

Migration to Spain

On November 9, 2000, after serving his sentence and after clearing his police record - a benefit
that is only possible in Ecuador - Gilberto, who until then was married and had daughters with
his wife Mariela, decided to move to Spain. . A flight took him to Amsterdam and from there
he went to the Barajas airport in Madrid , where two of his sisters were waiting for him.

Since then, Chamba did various jobs that varied between bricklaying and carrying bags for the
neighbors of the building where he lived with his relatives and casual girlfriends.

By September 2004, Chamba finally managed to position himself as a caretaker of the parking
lots at the Illa de l'Oci entertainment complex, located near the Faculty of Law, in the town of
Lérida .

There he not only fulfilled the duties of caretaker, but also collaborated with the clerks who
cleaned the movie theaters.

The new murder

The six years of apparent tranquility for Chamba's family, who suffered closely from his
confinement in Ecuador, ended when Gilberto was arrested on the 1st. ° From December
2004, accused of having raped and murdered María Isabel Bascuñana , a student at the Faculty
of Law of the local University.

Bascuñana generally left his car parked in the cinema parking lot, because he feared the dark.

The last time she was seen alive was the night of November 23. Her parents spoke to her at
approximately 10:00 p.m., when she told them that she was not going to have dinner at home.

His body was found two days later a few blocks from the cinema. She had a scarf tied around
her neck, some trash covers were trying to hide her body and she had been brutally raped.
Several hypotheses about his death then emerged. Some spoke of a crime of passion, others of
revenge, but her friends gave the key to catching the alleged murderer.

The clues that give it away

Within the investigations carried out by the Spanish police, it was possible to collect
testimonies from María Bascuñana's friends who provided sufficient data so that they could
arrest Chamba.

According to what they told the agents, María had told them that Chamba sexually harassed
her when she was going to leave or pick up her vehicle from the cinema parking lot. This
version was complemented by those of other girls who indicated that Chamba regularly asked
for their cell phone numbers with the excuse that if something bad happened to their cars he
would call them immediately.

However, many of them received sexual harassment calls and the only explanation they found
was that the car attendant made the calls. This hypothesis was confirmed when the agents
found María's cell phone. After recording the incoming and outgoing calls hours before and
after her rape and murder, they were able to verify that her perpetrator made two calls to
lines where telephone sex was offered. The calls lasted between five and six minutes.

That was one of the clues that led the agents to see Chamba as the main suspect in the death.
In addition to this information, the agents alleged in court that they found garbage covers
inside the trunk of María's vehicle that were trying to cover her body. These bags were very
similar to those used by movie theater cleaners to carry waste. They immediately linked the
incident to Chamba, since he was one of the cleaning assistants.

At first, Chamba was detained solely for investigations because his co-workers, who were
called to testify in the process, said that they did not notice anything strange on the night of
the crime and that the Ecuadorian was not absent from his workplace. Furthermore, the
versions of Chamba's neighbors and acquaintances, all in favor of the serial killer and who
reported good behavior and kindness, disproved him as the alleged perpetrator of the events.

However, the DNA examination carried out on the sperm residue found on the victim's body
directly incriminated Chamba, who alleged that the police created a plot to accuse him.
According to him, the agents took a sperm sample from a condom that he had used and then
inserted it into María's vagina to indicate that he was the culprit.

Once the corresponding analyzes and tests were carried out, the Prosecutor's Office rejected
that argument, which was the main incriminating element of the Ecuadorian who received a
sentence of 45 years divided into 20 years for the crime of the young Spanish student María
Isabel Bascuñana, another 12 for her rape, at the same time who imposed another 13 years on
him for the attempted rape and murder of a Romanian prostitute who testified against him
after seeing her images and photographs in local media, after his arrest.

But in addition to this evidence, the accusing party alleged the attempt to conceal information
by Chamba, who initially said that when approached by the police he revealed his criminal
record in Ecuador and an incident in Spain in which which was related to weapons possession.
However, throughout the process it was proven that the "monster of Machala" hid his judicial
past until comparisons between the police of Spain and Ecuador confirmed that he was the
same person sentenced in Machala for serial murders.
The prosecutor who accused Chamba requested a sentence of 52 years, which was reduced to
45, a historic sentence because it was the first time that this sanction was imposed on a
criminal for an act like that.

KARL GROSSMAN

Karl Grossman , ( December 13 , 1863 – July 5 , 1922 ) was a German serial killer .

Biography

Georg Karl Grossman was born in Neuruppin near Berlin in 1863. Not much is known about his
early years, except that he had sexual encounters of a sadistic nature. Twenty-five arrests
throughout his criminal career included three convictions for molesting children. Although he
worked as a butcher, Grossmann preferred to live by begging on the streets, and he spent his
money on prostitutes.

Protected by his World War I veteran's blade, Grossman killed his victims and sold the meat on
the black market near the Silesian Railway terminal, while throwing their bones into the river.
The war and the subsequent depression of the Weimar Republic made hunger a common
element on the streets of Germany, so Grossmann's past butcher made it easier for him to sell
his pieces of meat.

In August 1921, Grossman was arrested in his Berlin apartment after neighbors heard
screaming and violent fighting before absolute silence fell. Police searched his apartment and
found a recently murdered woman in bed. Grossman was arrested and charged with murder.
The neighbors explained that she usually went up accompanied by women, mostly young
people in recent years. Nobody saw any of them leave.

How many victims fell into Grossman's hands is not known with certainty. Only the body of his
last victim was found. According to his own statements once arrested, the murderer confessed
that he had murdered at least fifty women, having sexually abused them before killing them.

Grossman hanged himself in his jail cell while awaiting the execution of his death sentence.
EDSON ISIDORO GUIMARAES

Edson Isidoro Guimarães ( Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , 1957) is a Brazilian nurse and serial killer .
He confessed to five deaths of which he was convicted of four, although it is suspected that he
may have killed 131 people. Guimarães defended himself by arguing that he chose terminal
patients to relieve them of pain.

Crimes

Guimarães worked as a nurse at the Salgado Filho Hospital in Rio de Janeiro . He was arrested
in 1999 when the doorman of the clinical institution saw Guimarães filling a syringe with
potassium chloride and injecting it into a patient, who died instantly. The police were informed
and it was found that the death rate during their shift was much higher than normal. Upon
being arrested, he confessed to the deaths of five patients. Before the trial, he told a television
reporter: "I don't regret what I did," adding: "I did it to patients who were in irreversible comas
and whose families were suffering."

He was convicted on February 21, 2000 for the deaths of four patients and sentenced to 76
years in prison. He is believed to have killed around 131 patients between January 1 and May
4, 1999. He commented that "I took off the oxygen mask. I did it to five patients. He chose the
patients who were suffering the most, generally those who had AIDS and were almost terminal.
"I am clear of my conscience because the patients were in a coma and there was no way to
recover them."

One of the possible motives for Guimarães to commit the murders was the $60 commission he
collected from a local funeral home for each notification of a patient's death so that they could
contact the deceased's relatives. According to Josias Quintal, Rio's public security secretary,
"He could have started doing it for money and then he lost control."
FRITZ HAARMANN

Friedrich "Fritz" Heindrich Karl Haarmann ( Hanover , October 25, 1879 - id. April 15 , 1925 ).
Famous German psychopath , executed for the proven murder of 27 German teenagers,
although more than 100 victims are attributed to him.

Fritz Haarman, known as The Butcher or the Vampire of Hannover , was born in that German
city. He came from a broken family: his parents were alcoholics and engaged in scandalous
confrontations that led to physical aggression. Haarmann's mother treated her son as if he
were a girl and even dressed him in feminine clothing. This angered his father, who beat him
viciously when he saw him like this. This environment caused his sisters to soon leave the
family home. It has been noted on some occasions that they ended up being prostitutes . His
victims were always male adolescents because of their homosexual tendencies.

Criminal history

At 17 years old, Haarmann was booked by the Police for harassing teenagers. However, it was
not until 1919 , when he was 40 years old, that he committed his first crime. His victim was
Friedel Rothe.

The modus operandi of this psychopath, considered during his lifetime as one of the greatest
serial killers in history, was always the same. He went to the Hannover bus station, where
there were dozens of kids waiting for work. There he deceived them by promising them work
and food.

He took them, one by one, to an attic he had in the Neustrasse neighborhood, behind the
Leine River. There, according to his own confession, he raped them and, with one bite, severed
their carotid and trachea . She carried out this entire macabre ritual with her lover, Hans
Grans.

The most gruesome part of the story is that, once dead, he boned his victims and sold their
pieces of meat, claiming that they were pork or horse (hence the name butcher). He gave away
the bones of his victims, claiming that they were from horses, although their size and
whiteness aroused the suspicions of the residents of Hanover. It was for this reason that he
ended up throwing the bones into the Leine River.

Justice action

On May 17, 1924, some children located a skull in the river. The authorities ordered it to be
dredged and found numerous skeletal remains.

The siege tightened around the murderer and on June 22, 1924, he was arrested. Haarmann
confessed to his crimes. He admitted to having killed and cannibalized about forty children.
On April 15, 1925 he was beheaded by order of the judge. The butcher of Hannover did not ask
for mercy although he insisted that an unknown being took possession of his body and incited
him to kill, his last wish was to have it written on his tombstone: "here lies the exterminator."
His partner in crimes, Hans Grans, was sentenced to life imprisonment , but it was commuted
to 12 years in prison.

LINDA HAZZARD

Linda Burfield Hazzard was an American osteopathic physician (1867, Carver County,
Minnesota-1938)

In 1908 he published a book, Fasting For The Cure Of Disease , in which he proposed fasting as
a cure for almost any ailment.

He established a clinic in Olalla, Washington, under the name Wilderness Heights , although
local residents called it Starvation Heights . Patients were admitted to undergo fasting for days,
weeks or months, with an exclusive diet of tomato soup and asparagus (in small quantities).
More than 40 patients died of starvation.

In 1913 she was convicted of murder for the death of Claire Williamson, a rich 33-year-old
British heiress, who died of starvation after three months of treatment , weighing less than 23
kilos. Williamson's sister, Dorothea, was also admitted to the clinic, and was only saved
because a relative took her from there. He was too weak to do it on his own, as he also
weighed less than 35 kilos. During the trial it was shown that Hazzard had manipulated his
victim's will to keep her money, and Dorothea testified against Hazzard.

After only two years in prison, he reopened his clinic in 1920 , and published his book in 1927 .

There are still people who recommend his methods and his book.

HERBERT MULLIN

Herbert Williams Mullin (b. April 18, 1947) is a serial killer who committed 13 murders in
California in the early 1970s.

Childhood and youth

Born in Salinas, California but raised in Santa Cruz. His father, a World War II veteran, was strict
but not abusive. He often recounted his battles in the war, and taught his son how to use a gun
at a young age. Mullin had many friends at school and was voted "most likely to succeed" by
his classmates. However, shortly after graduating high school, one of his best friends died in a
car accident, and Mullin was devastated. He built a shrine dedicated to his deceased friend in
his bedroom. He later expressed his fear of being gay, even though he had a long-term
girlfriend.

During the 1970s there were problems in Santa Cruz, California. The closure of psychiatric
hospitals, decreed by then-governor Ronald Reagan, threw patients into a world that did not
admit them. Without a doubt, the most famous case of this epidemic of murderers was that of
Ed Kemper , “The Head Hunter”, who claimed the greatest number of victims, including his
mother. But also in 1970, John Linley Frazier, a schizophrenic and religious fanatic, murdered
five people in a fit of madness. His wish was to protect the ecology. Santa Cruz District
Attorney Peter Chang referred to his jurisdiction as “the crime capital of the world.”
Simultaneously with Kemper and Frazier, another serial killer acted in the same area, although
independently, and committed several murders in the belief that he would avoid an
earthquake. It was Herbert Mullin, who declared that he killed to save lives, since he was
convinced that by sacrificing strangers he would prevent the destruction of California due to a
catastrophe. Mullin was born on July 18, 1947, on the anniversary of the devastating San
Francisco earthquake, and nothing in his childhood foresaw his later behavior. His parents,
Martin Mullin (war hero and later furniture salesman) and Jean, lived near the city of San
Francisco, where Herbert spent his childhood, a normal child by all appearances. He later
stated that his parents, especially his father, were abusive to him. He was convinced that they
were sending telepathic threats to the other children so that they would not play with him. In
1963, the Mullins moved to Santa Cruz, where the young man found work at the Post Office.
He stood out in school as a student and as an athlete, and was chosen as “The Called to
Succeed” at his class graduation.

But his happiness was clouded when his best friend died in a motorcycle accident and, shortly
after, another friend, Jim Gianera, introduced him to the world of drugs. Mullin studied a two-
year course in civil engineering at Cabrillo College and in 1967 attended another on Eastern
Religions in San José, where he spent three months, during which he regularly took LSD. He
began to act strangely and became disturbed. In 1969 he suffered his first psychotic episode
and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where he was diagnosed with paranoid
schizophrenic. He left after six weeks, refusing to take preventative medication, and drifted
from job to job ever since.

Mullin spoke of certain voices telling him what to do and sending him to another hospital. Over
the next two years, he entered and left various institutions without his conditions improving;
In fact, they were getting worse. In 1972 he returned to live with his parents in Santa Cruz.
They tried to find him a hospital, but the state administration was busily trying to close them
all due to lack of means. At that time, Mullin became obsessed with the hypothesis of
preventing earthquakes with human sacrifice. He heard voices ordering him to go out and kill
someone. He thought he recognized his father's voice. On October 13, while driving through
the Santa Cruz Mountains, he saw an old man on the side of the road and beat him to death
with a baseball bat. It was his first murder. Mullin's next victim was a hitchhiking student, Mary
Guilfoyle, whom he stabbed. Then, on November 2, he stabbed Catholic priest Henri Tomei to
death in the confessional of a church. At that time Mullin was convinced that those people
were offering themselves to him as victims telepathically. On December 16, he bought a gun
by lying when filling out the information on the form.

On January 25, 1973, he went to find Jim Gianera. He had moved house, but the new tenant
gave him her address. He immediately went to his friend's house and shot him dead, as well as
his wife. He then returned to the old address and murdered the young woman who had
provided him with Gianera's information and her two young children. He assured that that
woman had offered herself as a victim, just like her children. In early February, Herbert Mullin
was hiking in Santa Cruz State Park and encountered four teenagers, whom he killed without
giving them time to react. He was an expert marksman who, as a boy, had won several awards
from the National Shooting Association. Less than a week later he murdered his last victim, a
seventy-two-year-old man who was working in his garden when Mullin passed by, but this
time he was seen and immediately arrested. Herbert Mullin tried to hold his father responsible
for all the crimes; it was considered exclusively an instrument directed by destiny: “A rock does
not make a decision while it is falling, it falls and that's it.”

HIGINIO SOBERA

Higinio Sobera de la Flor (born, lived and died in Cd. from Mexico , 1928-† 1985), popularly
known as the bald Sobera due to his habit of shaving his head; He was a serial killer from
Mexico who in 1952 scandalized the conservative Mexican society of the time. Although only
two victims were known, it is popularly believed that there must have been more, based on
not so far-fetched reasons.

His crimes were marked by impulsiveness, and the necrophilia present in his second known
homicide was the main factor of scandal in society. His case was dealt with by Alfonso Quiróz
Cuarón himself and raised a controversy about imputability in the Mexican penal code .

Background

Higinio Sobera de la Flor was the son of a wealthy family; His father was a successful Spanish
businessman who had a great love for women (a love that "the bald Sobera" would also have)
and his mother was a devoted, over-protective and, why not say it, pimp, housewife.

Within the Sobera de la Flor family there was already a history of mental imbalance; Indeed,
one of Higinio's brothers was admitted to a mental hospital in Spain. Higinio's childhood and
youth were marked by excessive over-protection that was contrasted with a total lack of limits
and extreme pandering towards all his actions, attitudes and behaviors (no matter how
psychotic they might become). Because, in the same way, he was never given any kind of
treatment or attention for his very notorious mental disorder .

Since he was a child, he already showed very disturbing attitudes and behaviors: it is said that
he fantasized about killing a person, frequently made strange gestures with his face and hands,
and that he liked to start small fires. As he grew older, his mental instability also worsened: at
first glance, people described him as a serious and introverted young man with a love for cars
and cats, but people who were lucky enough to know him more closely could see a man with
an infinite number of nervous tics , with erratic, impulsive and destructive behavior.

Higinio Sobera studied accounting , but did not practice (he received everything he needed,
and even more, from his family). He had the habit of shaving his head because he said that
"growing his hair gave him a headache" ; He always carried a 32' caliber revolver ; and on
numerous occasions he threatened store and hotel employees with them, solely because he
did not like the way they treated him. He liked to drive luxurious cars and frequented the most
exclusive and expensive places in the city. He always wore a tie, suspenders and jacket, and
always wore a checkered beret. In addition, he was a frequent consumer of brothels, alcohol
and marijuana .

All the excesses and abuses of the "pelón Sobera" were always covered up by his family, who
excused them as simple eccentricity , very common in any young man from high society. Due
to this constant cover-up by his family, it is believed that his number of victims was much
higher than what has been confirmed; Added to this is the testimony of alleged domestic
employees who worked for the Sobera de la Flor family, who said they had witnessed events
that could lead them to suspect the existence of more murders, such as that on many
occasions Higinio Sobera's dirty clothes (which they themselves "washed or discarded") was
found stained with blood. (Although these "testimonies" could never be certified and became
part of the urban legends that surround this character).

First known homicide

March 11, 1952, was the day that "the bald Sobera" acquired his sad fame. In the middle of the
afternoon, with all the light of day, Higinio Sobera commits his first confirmed crime, marked
by a disturbing coldness and impulsiveness.

That afternoon, Higinio was driving through the streets of Cd. from Mexico , showing off his
luxurious latest model car, as usual. It was a small road incident that triggered a psychotic
outbreak , an unfortunate driver had the misfortune to find himself in his path: the
aforementioned driver, who turned out to be Armando Lepe, army captain and uncle of the
actress Ana Bertha Lepe and brother of the General. Lepe (father of the actress) crossed into
Sobera's vehicle.

The enraged Sobera followed him until he blocked his way at the intersection of Insurgentes
Avenue and Yucatán Street. He got out of his car and without saying a word he shot him.
Sobera fled, arrived home where he confessed everything to his mother who quickly devised a
plan so that her son could escape the country. Meanwhile, the news of the crime and the
police intervention did not wait long, due to the factual circumstances, as well as the
importance of those involved.

The escape plan was for Sobera to move to a hotel (he stayed at the Hotel del Prado under a
false name), meanwhile the family would move their influence to hinder the investigations as
much as possible; Sobera would move as soon as possible to Spain where he would be
admitted to a psychiatric institution (this last step should have been carried out by the family a
long time before). And in an act that is difficult to understand, his mother exchanges his gun
for another.

Second and last confirmed crime

Already installed in the Prado hotel, blinded by the effects of his illness (which was later
diagnosed as schizophrenia ) and by his sexual appetite, he went out in search of sex. It was 8
pm. From March 12, 1952, when Sobera found his second known victim: Hortensia López, who
was waiting for the bus on a corner of Av. Reform.

Higinio approached to harass the woman, who rejected him and asked for a taxi, which made
Sobera angry. He entered the site with her and shot her three times, causing her death. He
ordered the driver to drive towards the Old Highway to Toluca .

On the way they were intercepted by a traffic police officer (and in a display of total police
incompetence), the problem was easily solved with the action of Sobera and a 5 peso bribe.
After the incident, Sobera ordered the taxi driver to get out of the vehicle and he drove to a
motel that was on the highway outside the city. Where he had sexual relations with the corpse
( necrophilia ). After that, he abandoned the taxi and the body in an agricultural field near the
road, and returned to the Hotel del Prado.

And in a second example of police incompetence, the police ignore the taxi driver's complaint.
It is not until 2 days after what happened that some farmers find the taxi and the body, report
it to the police and they finally take action. Sobera was arrested that day (March 14) in his
room at the Hotel del Prado. At the time of the arrest, Sobera was immersed in a state of
catatonia .

Seclusion and controversy unleashed

Higinio Sobera was diagnosed with an acute form of schizophrenia and a serious series of
forms of cluster B personality disorder (he had marked antisocial, borderline and narcissistic
traits). Apparently, he had no control over his actions at the time of the homicides, but it was
also true that these events did not represent any remorse and he always seemed cold and
cynical about it; After his arrest, while at the Public Ministry giving his statement, Sobera
mentioned: "I'm hungry... Why don't you take the money from those I killed and go buy some
cakes?...

Despite his mental state, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison (due to the legal vacuum that
existed at that time regarding imputability ), he was sent to the highest prison in the country at
that time, the Lecumberri Palace ; where he remained until its closure in 1976 (25 years), he
was transferred to the Reclusorio Sur de la Cd. from Mexico where he spent the last 5 years of
confinement.

In 1954, the famous criminalist Alfonso Quiróz Cuarón published his work "Criminalia, 20th
century" based on the Sobera case. Although Sobera's family provided him with all the
comforts in prison that money could buy (such as an individual cell), the state in which he lived
was deplorable because he did not receive treatment for his illness; "He was living on his own
feces, he remained on them for a long time in a state of catatonia and on certain occasions he
had episodes of coprophagy (he ate his feces)."

It was thanks to Quiróz that Sobera was temporarily transferred to an asylum until his
condition improved. In article 5 of chapter VII of the Mexican penal code on imputability of the
1949 draft (regent at that time) it was mentioned that offenders with a "permanent mental
disorder" should receive ordinary confinement and would only be allowed to leave it to be
treated during psychotic episodes after coming out of them had to return to prison .

The case of the bald Sobera, beyond the media scandal caused by his crimes fueled by the
tabloid red note , sparked a controversy over how the issue of imputability was addressed in
Mexico. In the words of Quiróz himself: "Criminal policy is not yet mature enough, at least not
in Mexico, to be able to reason against this type of behavior, so the only alternative it has is to
confine the disordered person and be monitored to prevent exercise control over their
behavior..."

His life after prison

In 1982, after 30 years of imprisonment, the bald Sobera was released; nothing remained of
the arrogant and arrogant young man, much less of the dangerous criminal; All that remained
was a senile, slow and harmless 54-year-old old man. He spent the last years of his life in total
self-absorption; he was often seen feeding the ducks in Xochimilco . He died of natural causes
in 1985.
MYRA HINDLEY

Myra Hindley : ( 23 July 1942 – 15 November 2002 ) was a British serial killer, an accomplice in
the murders carried out by her boyfriend Ian Brady . She was sentenced to life imprisonment
along with her boyfriend on May 6, 1966 . On November 15, 2002 , he died in prison from a
lung infection.

Biography

Myra Hindley was born in the borough of Crumpsall ( Manchester , England ) and was raised by
her grandmother Ellen Maybury. His little sister, Maureen, was born in August 1946 . It is also
believed that Bob Hindley, her father, beat her when she was a child, in addition to mistreating
his wife, and Myra's mother, Nellie. Bob and Nellie divorced in 1965 , shortly after their
daughter Myra's arrest. Nellie, now divorced, married Bill Moulton.

Myra had an IQ of 107. She studied at Ryder Brow Secondary Modern School where she was
considered a good student, athlete, writer and responsible.

At the age of 15, Myra suffered a tragedy that would mark her life forever: her great friend
Michael Higgins, 13, drowned while going swimming one afternoon. Apparently, Michael had
asked Myra (a good swimmer) to go with him, but she decided not to go. Myra believed that if
she had gone with Michael she could have saved him. After this, the young woman converted
to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her friend Higgins, and stopped caring about her studies,
significantly lowering her performance and level. For months, Myra cried constantly and lit
candles in her friend's name all over Manchester .

Finally, Myra left school in 1957 , at age 15. Her first job was as a clerk at Lawrence Scott and
Electrometers, an electrical engineering agency. In 1959 , Myra began a relationship with
Ronnie Sinclair, but they eventually broke up shortly after. On January 16, 1961 , Myra began
working at the chemical company Millward's .

It was there that Myra met Ian Brady , a young man four years older than her, from Glasgow
who had a long history of animal cruelty, violence and some arrests for sexual reasons. Brady
had worked there as secretary since February 1959 . Myra was attracted to him immediately,
but Brady ignored her for a year. During 1961 , Myra wrote an intimate diary in which she
recounted throughout that year the fascination and admiration she felt for Brady. This same
diary was discovered in 1965 , after his arrest.

On December 22, 1961 , after drinking alcohol, Brady and Myra began a relationship. During
one of the first dates, Brady forced Myra to watch Judgment at Nuremberg . The following
weeks, Myra had to read everything related to National Socialism , something that fascinated
Brady. He read Mein Kampf ( My Struggle ), the book written by Adolf Hitler , Crime and
Punishment , plus everything about the Marquis de Sade . After these "classes" of ideologies,
Brady and Myra robbed several banks, in addition to forcing Myra to get a weapons license to
buy them; since Brady couldn't buy them due to his previous arrests. Myra also got her driver's
license. Myra, who was very religious after her friend's death, stopped believing in God ,
convinced by Brady's words. Myra adopts all of Brady's philosophies, ideologies, way of life,
interests and even changed her hair color all for him, in addition to wearing German clothes,
Brady's favorite. During their sexual relations they liked to photograph themselves; They even
started a pornographic career, although they quickly gave up. Brady called his girlfriend "Myra
Hess" in bed, after the surname of Nazi officer Rudolf Hess .
Murders

In mid- 1963 , Brady loses interest in bank robberies and begins a career as a rapist and
murderer to satisfy his sexual urges. Thus, with the help of Hindley, Brady kidnaps, rapes,
tortures and murders 3 children and 2 teenagers:

 Pauline Reade , 16 years old: On July 12, 1963, Myra convinces this young woman to
go to Saddleworth meadow to help her look for a glove. Ian followed them on his
motorcycle and it was there where he raped and killed her. She was simply his
accomplice.

 John Kilbride , 12 years old: On November 23, 1963, Myra also tricks this boy by taking
him to the same meadow. Myra told him that she was waiting for him in a nearby
village. There, on Saddleworth meadow, Ian was waiting, who raped him. Later,
enraged because the gun he wanted to use to kill the boy didn't work, he strangled
him and buried him. Myra was once again an accomplice, but she did not kill.

 Keith Bennet , age 12: June 16, 1964. This time he is deceived by both, who take him
back to the now famous meadow. There, while she was waiting for everything to be
over, Ian rapes and strangles him. He buried him right there.

 Lesley Ann Downey , age 10: Ian and Myra kidnap this girl from an amusement park.
He photographed her naked 9 times and Myra recorded the girl's screams for her life.
After carrying out their ritual, they buried her the next morning at Saddleworth. The 9
photos and the recording were kept in a suitcase.

 Edward Evans , 17 years old: On October 6, 1965, in the presence of Myra's brother-in-
law, David Smith, Ian ends this young man's life by hitting him in the head with an axe.

David Smith was the one who, after helping Ian carry Edward Evans' body, made a good excuse
and left the place, promising to return. But what Ian and Myra didn't know was that Smith
contacted the police and turned them in, making them one of the most hated characters in the
entire United Kingdom .

Arrest, Trial and Sentence

After the murder of 17-year-old Edward Evans, the police arrive at Brady and Hindley's house,
where Evans' bloody body is discovered covered with a sheet in a room on the second floor of
the house. Police had arrived after David Smith, Myra's 18-year-old brother-in-law, witnessed
the murder. Smith, 18, had gone to Hindley's house that day for tea. At one point he sees a
young man (Edward Evans) stagger down the stairs. When he asked Brady who he was, he
responded that he was the weakest and hit him with an axe. With the excuse of helping them
bury the body again, the young David Smith escapes and breaking the pact, but following his
values, denounces Brady and Hindley at the Manchester Police Station.

After Evans' body is found, both are arrested. Brady would later confess to the murder at the
Police Station, in addition to four more murders.

The investigation centered on Saddleworth meadow on the outskirts of the town, where Brady
and Hindley had buried the victims; Several bodies are recovered and much evidence such as
naked photographs of Lesley Ann, and audio recordings of the girl's screams are presented at
that time against the accused, the most hated people in Britain . [1]

The trial began on April 21, 1966 . Prosecutor Sir Elwyn Jones accuses Brady and Hindley of
being evil people of flesh and soul, in addition to accusing them of boasting about their
murders and enjoying the pain of families since Lesley Ann Downey's mother, Ann West, had
to listen the recording of the last moments of his daughter's life in order to recognize her
voice. This created a gigantic hatred in the British , who still greatly hate the well-known
"Moors Murderers" [2]

On May 6, 1966, the trial ended, with the sentence of life imprisonment for both. After being
convicted, Myra Hindley requested parole several times but was never granted. [3]

In prison, Myra shared a cell with the also famous British serial killer Rosemary West .

Death

On November 15, 2002 , after a lung illness, Myra suffered a heart attack and was admitted to
the hospital where she died a few hours later. [4]

Her accomplice and boyfriend Ian Brady is still confined in a psychiatric hospital, struggling day
by day between life and death due to several suicide attempts and hunger strikes that have
deteriorated his health. Despite this, Brady does not regret his crimes and has written a book
"congratulating his fellow murderers." In addition to continuing to boast about his murders
and playing with the pain of his victims' relatives, with special viciousness in the case from the
family of 10-year-old girl Lesley Ann Downey.

H. H. HOLMES
Herman Webster Mudgett ( May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896 ), also known as "Dr. Holmes", was
an American serial killer who confessed to up to 27 murders and six attempted murders.

He was born in Gilmanton ( United States ) into an honest and very puritan family from New
Hampshire . Very soon he showed an unusual interest in women, especially wealthy women,
that would frame him as a Don Juan of crime. At the age of eighteen he married a rich young
woman named Clara Louering, to pay for his medical studies, he ruined her and then, once he
had brilliantly obtained his diplomas at the University of Michigan , he abandoned her to go
live with a beautiful widow, who was pleased to provide for their needs thanks to the income
from his respectable boarding house. Already a doctor, he left that second conquest without
regret, practiced for a year in the state of New York and then went to settle in Chicago .

Tall, handsome, with a distinguished air, always elegantly dressed, Mudgett had countless
romantic successes. Upon arriving in his new city, he soon seduced a charming young woman
(and coincidentally a millionaire) named Myrta Belknap. To overcome the reluctance that the
virtuous young lady had against him, he took the name Holmes, married her and, thanks to
some forged deeds, hurriedly swindled $5,000 from his in-laws to have a sumptuous house
built in Wilmette . .

He then managed, on the outskirts of Englewood , the management of a pharmacy owned by

an excessively naive widow, who became both her lover and confidant. Based on falsifications
of accounting and embezzlement of funds, he managed to become owner of all of the
unfortunate woman's assets, then he made her disappear and put his great project into work.

Holmes Castle

To build his castle, Dr. Holmes used several companies. These were never paid and their works
were soon interrupted. In this way, the owner was the only one to know in detail a building
whose strange arrangement could have aroused curiosity.

The exhibition of 1893 was being prepared and was due to attract a considerable crowd to
Chicago, among whom there would, of course, be a multitude of beautiful, rich, and lonely
women. Ingeniously, Holmes therefore decided to take advantage of that situation. Thanks to
a series of clever scams, he acquired land and undertook the construction of a huge hotel that
looked like a medieval fortress, the interior layout of which he conceived himself. Each of the
rooms in that strange building was equipped with traps and sliding doors that led to an
inextricable labyrinth of secret corridors from which, through visual windows hidden in the
walls, the doctor could secretly observe the coming and going of his clients. and especially
their clients.

Hidden under the floorboards, a perfected electrical installation also allowed him to follow the
slightest movement of his future victims on an indicator panel installed in his office. By simply
turning on a few gas taps, he could finally, without moving, suffocate the occupants of a few
rooms.

A forklift and two "slides" were used to lower the corpses into an ingeniously installed
warehouse, where they were, depending on the case, dissolved in a bucket of sulfuric acid,
reduced to powder in an incinerator or simply sunk in a vat full of quicklime. . In a room,
baptized "the dungeon", an impressive arsenal of torture instruments was installed. Among
the sadistic machines installed by the ingenious doctor, one of them particularly caught the
attention of journalists. It was an automaton that allowed the soles of the victims' feet to be
tickled until they literally died of laughter.

Holmes Castle was completed in 1892 and the Chicago Exposition opened on May 1, 1893.
During the six months it lasted, Dr. Holmes's killing factory was not vacated. The executioner
chose his "clients" with great caution. They had to be rich, young, beautiful, be alone and, to
avoid inopportune visits from friends or family, their home had to be located in a state as far
away from Chicago as possible.

The latest crimes

With the end of the Exposition, the hotel's rents suffered a brutal drop, and Holmes soon
found himself short of money. The simplest way he imagined to obtain income was to burn
down the top floor of his building and demand a premium of $60,000 from his insurer, without
thinking for a moment that the company could very well do an investigation before paying
him. Discovered, our doctor had to take refuge in Texas, where he rushed to carry out various
scams that landed him in jail for the first time. Released on bail, he comes out again a few
months later, but not without having launched a new criminal operation.

The idea was simple and ingenious. An accomplice, named Pitizel, had to get life insurance
from a company in Philadelphia. An anonymous corpse disfigured by an accident would later
be presented as his. There would be nothing more to do than distribute the bonus that Mrs.
Pitizel would receive, while the "dead" man would go for some time to make himself forgotten
in South America. Unfortunately for him, Holmes had the bad idea to change his plan and
actually kill Pitizel. In his opinion, that solution had the advantage of saving him the dangerous
search for a corpse and, above all, allowing him to keep the entire premium on his own,
subsequently getting rid of Mrs. Pitizel and her children - which, for him, only It was just a
routine job.

Very cooperative, he went to the morgue to identify his friend's body, went to Boston to look
for the unfortunate widow and brought her to Philadelphia to collect his money. The
complaint from a former cellmate, Marion Hedgepeth, cast doubt on the minds of the insurers.

The police carried out an investigation. He patiently traced all the links of the chain. Holmes
first confessed to the insurance company scam and, in the face of overwhelming evidence
gathered against him, to the murders of Pitizel and his children.
Holmes was sentenced to death by the Philadelphia Court and hanged on May 7, 1896. He was
only thirty-five years old.

Two hundred victims?

In court, Holmes claimed to have murdered twenty-seven people throughout his life. That's
hardly credible. The accused enjoyed mocking justice; He confessed, for example, to having
murdered people who were still alive at the time. Therefore we will never know with certainty
the number of his victims. Judging by the discoveries made in his castle, it is considerable. The
figure of two hundred is proposed by criminologists as the most plausible.

KARLA HOMOLKA

Karla Leanne Homolka

Birth May 4 , 1970

Port Credit, Ontario , Canada

Position(s) manslaughter
 Sentence 12 years

Current Free
situation

Spouse Paul Bernardo (1991-1993), Thierry

Bordelais

Parents Karel and Dorothy Homolka

Karla Leanne Homolka also known as Karla Leanne Teale (born May 4, 1970 in Port Credit,
Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian serial killer who attracted international attention when she
was imprisoned for murder in the rape and murder case of two girls. teenagers. Her husband,
Paul Bernardo, was sentenced to the maximum sentence of life imprisonment for being
responsible for the rape and murder of three teenage girls, in addition to dozens of rapes and
sexual abuses against women. Among the victims was Tammy Homolka (Karla's sister), raped
and murdered by Bernardo on Christmas 1990 . In compensation for her complete testimony
against her husband, she was given a reduced sentence, thus escaping the punishment her
husband received. She was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
She currently lives in the Antilles , in an unknown city with her son and her current husband,
Thierry Bordelais.

Early years

Homolka is the eldest of three sisters, (the others: Lori n. in 1971 and Tammy no. in 1975 , who
was murdered). The three daughters of the couple Karel and Dorothy Homolka. The Homolka
family, who are of Czech descent on their father's side, settled in St. Catharines, Ontario . After
an uneventful childhood, Homolka attended Sir Winston Churchill High School and began
working in a pet shop in a nearby business. His work allowed him to participate in a convention
in Toronto where he met Paul Bernardo . After completing her studies in 1989 , Homolka was
hired as a veterinary assistant at a Veterinary Clinic in the city of Thorold, Ontario, where she
was forced to resign after suspicions pointed her out as being responsible for drug theft. She
later found a similar job at the Martindale Animal Clinic, so she did not enter university despite
having been accepted by York University and the University of Toronto .

Homolka meets Bernardo

On October 17, 1987 , Homolka, who was then 17 years old, met 23-year-old Paul Bernardo at
a restaurant in Scarborough. An hour later, they were in bed together. On December 24, 1989 ,
Bernardo proposed to her, for which Homolka called this moment "the most romantic of her
life." The relationship broke down in 1993 when Homolka divorced Bernardo and began
testifying against him.
Rape and murder victims

Tammy Homolka

During the summer of 1990 , Bernardo became obsessed with Tammy Homolka, spying on her
through her bedroom window or entering her room to masturbate while she slept. In July of
that year, Bernardo offers Tammy beers and gets her drunk until the teenager falls asleep and
later tries to sexually abuse her, without achieving his goal because the young woman began
to wake up when Bernardo was groping her. Karla had conflicting feelings regarding her
boyfriend, knowing that he dated other women and raped them; She felt "humiliated and
outraged." Despite this, Bernardo had no intention of changing his life but rather that of his
girlfriend, telling her that if she really loved him, she should let him deflower her sister Tammy.
Homolka consented to the horrible act, seeing "an opportunity to take control and keep
everything calm within the family." He also promised to break the locks on Tammy's bedroom
window, as well as supply Diazepam to his sister and his sister's friends, so that Paul would
fulfill his fantasy. That's how while they were planning the wedding, they were planning to
rape Tammy.

Six months before their wedding, scheduled for 1991 , Homolka stole the anesthetic Halothane
from the Martindale Pet Clinic. On December 23, 1990 , Homolka and Bernardo administered
sleeping pills to 15-year-old Tammy in a rum and egg drink. Tammy lost consciousness,
allowing Homolka and Bernardo to undress her. Consequently, Homolka applied a cloth soaked
in Halothane to Tammy's nose and mouth.

Homolka wanted to "give Tammy's virginity to Bernardo as a Christmas gift" because,

according to Homolka, Bernardo had always reproached her for not being a virgin when they
met. With the teen's parents sleeping upstairs, the two filmed themselves raping Tammy in the
basement. Shortly after, the teenager began to vomit, while still unconscious. Both criminals
tried to revive it, but it was not enough. Before calling 911, they hid the evidence, redressed
Tammy, who had a chemical burn on her face, and took her to her basement room. A few
hours later, Tammy was pronounced dead at St. Catharines without having regained
consciousness. Despite the couple's behavior - vacuuming and doing laundry in the middle of
the night, [6] In addition to the enormous, bright raspberry-colored burn that had consumed
much of Tammy's left cheek, the Niagara Regional Police believed the couple's version of what
happened and it was officially determined that Tammy's death had been caused by a car
accident. drowning in one's own vomit due to alcohol consumption. After this, the couple had
not yet satisfied their sexual desires so they had sexual relations, with Karla dressed as if she
were Tammy whose virginity Paul had to take; This whole relationship was filmed. Days later,
they moved out of Homolka's parents' house to let them deal with their psychological grief .

"Jane Doe"

On June 7, 1991 , Homolka invited 15-year-old "Jane Doe" to a "girls' party" at the house they
were renting in Port Dalhousie. Homolka had befriended "Jane Doe" two years earlier, when
Homolka was still working at the pet store. The teenager idolized her and considered her as
her older sister. After an afternoon of shopping and restaurants, Homolka took her to his
Bayview Avenue home and began offering her alcohol.

After "Jane Doe" lost consciousness, Homolka called Bernardo to tell him the wedding gift was
ready. Together, they undressed "Jane Doe," who was a virgin. Moments later, Bernardo
filmed Homolka who raped the young woman; and then he raped and sodomized her. The next
morning, "Jane Doe" was sick and vomiting, but she thought it was because it was the first
time she had drunk alcohol. She didn't realize she had been raped. She was invited back to the
Port Dalhousie home in August, this time, to "spend the night." The young woman was
drugged and had difficulty breathing while Bernardo raped her. Homolka called 911 for help
but minutes later he called again to say that "everything was fine" so the emergency services
immediately left the house without doing any type of investigation or follow-up. "Jane Doe"
visited the couple once again on December 22, 1992 . Homolka and Bernardo asked her to
have sex with him, so she got upset and scared, and then ran away.

Leslie Mahaffi

On June 15, 1991 , two weeks before his wedding, Bernardo - while stealing car license plates
to help in a cigarette smuggling business - met Leslie Mahaffi, who was at the door of his
Burlington home. He had not been able to enter his house because his parents were not there
and he had not found another place to be. The two started chatting for a while and then went
together to Bernardo's car with the excuse of looking for a cigarette; At that moment,
Bernardo forced her into his car and drove her to his house 53 kilometers away. There,
Homolka and Bernardo kept her kidnapped for 24 hours, where she was subjected to constant
sexual assaults. The couple filmed the abuse on videotape, including a scene in which Homolka
looks at the camera moments before raping the girl. Hours later, they murdered her.

Later, Homolka declared that Bernardo had strangled the teenager with an electricity cable.
For his part, Bernardo said that the young woman had died while he was outside the room and
that Homolka had murdered her with an overdose of Halcion. Homolka, according to
Bernardo, said that the girl's blindfold had fallen from her eyes so she could identify them.
They took the body to the basement until they decided what they should do to get rid of it.

The next day, couple Homolka and Lori visited them for Father's Day dinner. After they left, the
couple dismembered Leslie Mahaffi's body and placed it in cinder blocks. Bernardo
dismembered the body in a makeshift plastic tent in the basement. After placing the body in
cement, they threw the blocks into Lake Gibson.

On June 29 , a couple canoeing on the lake off the shores of St. Catharines discovered the
cement blocks, opening one of them to find out what they contained. At the same time,
Homolka and Bernardo were getting married in a lavish ceremony. After that, they toured the
town of Niagara-on-the-Lake together in a horse-drawn carriage.

Kristen French

On Good Friday, April 16, 1992 , Homolka and Bernardo were driving in their car through the
streets of St. Catharines when they saw Kristen French in a Church parking lot. Homolka
stopped the car near where the young woman was, and got out of it with a map, appearing to
be lost and looking for help from French. When the young woman approaches to help her,
Bernardo surprises her with a kitchen knife and forces her into the car. The place was full of
people who didn't realize what was happening. A piece of the map, one of French's shoes and
some of her hair were later found at the scene of the assault.

Homolka and Bernardo took French to their Port Dalhousie home, where they sexually
assaulted, abused and tortured her for three days. Because they both had to spend Easter
dinner with Homolka's parents, French's murder became inevitable. After their arrests, both
accused each other of this crime. Homolka said Bernardo strangled her for exactly seven
minutes while she watched. Bernardo said Homolka had beaten her relentlessly with a
sledgehammer as the teenager tried to flee and then strangled her with a rope tied around her
neck while squeezing her neck. Subsequently, he left the young woman's body aside to go dry
her hair. After returning from Easter dinner, Bernardo and Homolka cut the teen's hair and
bathed the body before dumping it in a ditch in Burlington less than a mile from where Leslie
Mahaffi was buried. Kristen French's body was found on April 30, 1992 .

From the beginning, Kristen French's disappearance was treated as a criminal matter. Unlike
Leslie Mahaffi, she had no problems at home and had a dog with whom she had walks
prepared and whom she had to feed. Upon realizing that their daughter was not coming home
on time, her parents contacted the police. Witnesses contributed relatively little to the
disappearance, saying that the kidnapper's car was a Chevrolet Camaro when in reality
Bernardo's car was a gold Nissan . The police immediately began tracking all the Camaro cars
until they could figure out which car it really was.

Other possible victims

In addition to the confirmed murders of Tammy Lyn Homolka, Leslie Erin Mahaffy and Kristen
Dawn French, suspicions remain about other possible victims either on the side of Bernardo
alone, Homolka alone or both. These suspicions include the deaths of Terri Anderson, Elizabeth
Bain and many more women, detailed in Paul Bernardo's article.

The after

Homolka and Bernardo had been questioned many times, in relation to the Scarborough
rapes , in relation to the death of Tammy Homolka, in relation to the stalking of Sydney
Kershen and a legal problem with the Patrich sisters who accused Bernardo of having stalked
and filmed them. shortly before Kristen French's death. Shortly after the discovery of this
young woman's body, one of Bernardo's best friends, Van Smirnis, speaking with a known
family (of which one of its members was an officer of the Ontario Provincial Police) said that
Bernardo could be a " "good suspect for the murder of Kristen French" and told the family that
it was based on suspicions that his friend, Bernardo, had raped a girl in the basement of his
house while Homolka was upstairs. The police officer, a member of that family, issued a report
reporting Bernardo and on May 12, 1992, a police sergeant briefly questioned Bernardo. Police
concluded that Bernardo was a very unlikely suspect even though he had already been
questioned in relation to the Scarborough rapes.

Three days later, the Green Ribbon Task Force was created, specially formed to investigate the
deaths of Leslie Mahaffi and Kristen French. Meanwhile, Bernardo and Homolka were moving
forward with their plans to change their surnames from Bernardo and Homolka to calling
themselves the 'Teale', the surname of a villain (serial killer) that Bernardo had taken from a
1988 film called Criminal Law . As the month of May of that year was ending, another
acquaintance of Smirnis and Bernardo, named John Motile, also pointed him out as the
possible murderer.

In December 1992 , the Center for Forensic Sciences finally began analyzing DNA samples that
Bernardo had given to police in relation to the Scarborough rape investigations three years
earlier. In Port Dalhousie, "Jane Doe" refused to have sexual relations with Bernardo and fled
the house never to return due to fear.
On December 27, 1992 , Bernardo brutally attacked Homolka and hit her in the extremities,
head and face with a flashlight. [4] With the excuse of having suffered a car accident, Homolka
returned to work on January 4, 1993 . Her skeptical co-workers called Homolka's parents who
the next day "rescued" her from Bernardo, taking her out of the house; Despite this, Homolka
returned to the house frantically before Bernardo returned, to look for something. Her parents
took her to St. General Hospital. Catharines where the police issued a report of her injuries,
which Homolka justified by saying that her husband had brutally beaten her; Consequently, he
filed charges against Bernardo. Bernardo was immediately arrested but a few hours later
released after he admitted everything and showed great willingness to help the police. [4] A
friend of Bernardo found a suicide note that he had written so he immediately intervened to
help his friend. Meanwhile, Homolka moved to live with relatives in Brampton .

The End of the 'Teale'

Twenty-six months after Bernardo's DNA samples were taken, Toronto police were informed
that Bernardo's DNA matched the possible Scarborough rapist. Immediately, Bernardo was put
under the microscope with 24-hour surveillance.

Toronto Sexual Assault Detectives interviewed Homolka on February 9, 1993 . Not caring that
she had been informed that Bernardo was under suspicion for those abominable crimes, she
was focused on the beating he had inflicted on her. Later that night, Homolka told an uncle
and aunt that her husband was the notorious Scarborough Rapist and that they had both been
involved in the murders of Leslie Mahaffi and Kristen French; in addition to telling them that
the rapes and torture were recorded on video tapes. Meanwhile, police had re-opened
investigations into the death of Tammy Lyn Homolka.

On February 11, 1993 , Homolka contacted Niagara Falls attorney George Walker who sought
maximum immunity for his client through the St. Catharines, Ray Houlahan, in exchange for
her full cooperation in the investigations against her husband. Like Bernardo, Homolka was
placed under 24-hour surveillance.

On February 13, 1993, the couple's name change was approved. The next day, George Walker
met with Murray Segal, Director of the Criminal Bureau. Walker told Segal about the rape
videos, so Segal informed Walker that because of Homolka's involvement in the crimes,
complete immunity was virtually impossible.

Detectives from across the Task Force investigating the Scarborough Rapes arrested Bernardo
on numerous charges on February 17, 1993 , and obtained search warrants . At the time,
evidence linking Bernardo to the murders was poor, so search warrants had their limitations.
Not all evidence taken from the records was allowed to be presented as evidence. All the video
tapes that the police found in the house had to be viewed in that same place for them to have
legal value. Damage to the house had to be kept to a minimum and the police were not
allowed to tear down walls or walls of the house in search of video tapes. The search in
Bernardo's double-story, basement and attic house lasted 71 days. Police were only able to
find a videotape showing Homolka performing oral sex on "Jane Doe."

On May 5, 1993 , Walker was informed that the Government was offering a reduced sentence
of 12 years in prison, which Homolka had one week to accept or not. If she did not accept, she
would be charged with two first-degree murders, one in the second degree, and many other
crimes. Walker accepted the proposal and later Homolka too. On May 14, 1993, the sentencing
negotiation between Homolka and the Prosecutor's Office ended, so Homolka began to give
information to the police through communications.

On June 27, 1993 , Homolka held a party at her parents' house.

Censorship in the Trial

Citing the need for a fair trial for Bernardo, the press was prohibited from reporting on the
preliminary investigations regarding Homolka. The court only allowed information about a
conviction but did not allow information about the reasons for the sentence. Censorship was
always connected to Bernardo's right to a fair trial. One last note from the Ontario Ministry of
Lawyers that the censorship was actually imposed to "protect families."

The Court imposed censure on July 5, 1993 , and it was decreed by Mr. Justice Francis Kovacs
of the Court of Ontario. Through her lawyers, Homolka supported the censorship while
Bernardo's lawyers saw it as something detrimental to their client since Homolka had been
presented to the people as his victim. Four media outlets and also one author opposed the
censorship. Some attorneys said the rumors would hurt the trial process much more than the
real evidence being presented.

However, the Internet evaded censorship. American journalists relied on the First Amendment
and published details of Homolka's statements, which were then widely distributed by
"censorship breakers" mainly by some news groups. Information and rumors about the case
were spreading and were available to anyone with a computer and a modem in Canada.
Furthermore, many of the details that circulated on the Internet go far beyond the known
details of the case. The December 6, 1993 edition of Newsweek reported without permission
that according to correspondents, the kidnappers surgically cut the tendons in the girls' legs so
that they could not escape. Other rumors were details of other serial killers attributed to
Bernardo and Homolka.

Newspapers in Buffalo , Detroit , Washington , New York , and also in Great Britain , reported
details gathered by people present at Homolka's trial. Fox aired two programs about the
crimes. Many Canadians pirated copies of The Buffalo Evening News across the border, without
obeying orders from police who had threatened to arrest anyone found to have more than one
copy at the border. Copies found were confiscated by Canadian police. Copies of newspapers
such as The New York Times were returned to the border or not accepted by distributors in
Ontario. [9] Gordon Domm, a retired police officer who defied a ban on publishing details to
foreign media, was charged and sentenced for failing to obey orders.

Homolka's trial lasted just a few minutes.

Controversy over negotiation and video tapes

Law Professor Jamie Cameron stated that "at the time of the Homolka trial three icons of the
case shocked and worried the public. First, little was known about the sexual offenses and
assaults that the victims had had to suffer in captivity before being murdered, although one
rumor said that the treatment was sadistic , horrendous and unimaginable. "In addition, little
was known about what role each one (Homolka and Bernardo) had played in the sexual
assaults and subsequent murders of the victims. By the spring of 1993, the Ontario Attorney
General's Office knew that the trial against Bernardo was impossible to carry out without the
evidence provided by Homolka." "Synthetically, I wanted to say that if you really wanted to
imprison Bernardo for life, you had to believe Homolka's testimony." "Even given that she
could tell the story in a way that favored her and thus she would be exonerated of all charges;
presenting herself as a victim and not as the predator that she was; her responsibility for the
crimes committed could be diminished and would remain the inevitable credibility in her as a
witness.

On February 19, 1993 , the forces investigating the Scarborough Rapes and the deaths of the
teenage girls received a serious blow when Justice limited investigators' possibilities of doing
things to find evidence; They could not damage the structure of the house in search of
evidence and if a video tape was found, it had to be seen inside the house to have legal value.
On February 21, 1993, the police found a very short video tape in which Bernardo and
Homolka were seen together with an American prostitute, performing oral sex on a young
woman who was unconscious. At first it was believed that this young woman was Kristen
French. Shortly after, the identity of the young woman they called "Jane Doe" was discovered;
all this after discovering the complete recording. At the time of the events he was a minor so
his identity remained secret due to the censorship imposed in the investigations.

Soon, authorities concluded that they did not have enough evidence to charge the couple, so
conversations continued with Homolka's lawyer, George Walker, who said his client could
provide the information that was needed; but at a price. Furthermore, Walker pushed for
Homolka to be considered a victim of Bernardo's constant abuse while Segal said that no type
of abuse she could have suffered justified her participation in each murder. The province was
being governed by the New Democratic Party , which also took action on the matter. Attorney
General Marion Boyd ( see here ), who was not a lawyer, had been given responsibility for
Women's Issues on September 11, 1991 . That same year, she rose in fame to have a high
profile for carrying out intense campaigns against domestic violence . Before the negotiation
ended; Walker had his client evaluated by two psychiatrists and a clinical psychologist who
concluded that Homolka's mental state was comparable to the mental state of a " Nazi
concentration camp survivor." This led the Prosecutor's Office to believe that Homolka was an
"obedient victim", a justification of ancient origin that was addressed by the FBI document
titled "Obedient Victims of the Sexual Sadist" written by criminal profiling scholar Roy
Hazelwood.

On April 30, 1993 , the searches at Bernardo's house ended. On May 6, 1993 , Bernardo
ordered his lawyers Ken Murray and Carolyn MacDonald in writing to enter the house to
remove (without looking at them) several video tapes hidden behind a light pot in the
bathroom. These video tapes created a firestorm when their existence became known, since
they were recorded with the images of rape and torture suffered by Tammy Homolka, "Jane
Doe", Leslie Mahaffi and Kristen French and which also proved without a doubt Homolka's guilt
as a sadistic and active participant in all those crimes.

On May 17, 1993 , Homolka entered the house with the police so that investigators could take
DNA samples as well as cement samples from the blocks where Bernardo had hidden Leslie
Mahaffi's remains.

On June 28, 1993 , the trial against Homolka began. With or without precedent, the orders the
judge issued at the first hearing were extraordinary. The only details that could be published
about his trial and hearing were those reported by the prosecution. Furthermore, the Court
ordered that at the time of sentencing, only the prison sentence be issued but not the reasons.
The order not to publish information had to do with the trial proceedings and not because it
was that particular case. Regarding access to the courtroom, excluding permission to the
relatives of the victims, the accused and the Court personnel; Only the Canadian press was
allowed to enter the courtroom. The general public and the foreign press were prohibited
from access under article 486 of the Penal Code. Additionally, those who were allowed into the
courtroom were expressly prohibited from reporting the details of any of the victims' deaths.
Based on a previous trial, the judge imposed a censure order to protect Bernardo's rights to a
fair trial, even though Bernardo himself had said he was willing to waive his rights. The order
was "perhaps, from the point of view of public knowledge, the most regrettable time in the
history of Ontario in which such a restriction was imposed", according to Frank Davey. This
reinforced the public's beliefs that Homolka had not received a fair punishment for his crimes.

On May 18, 1993 , Homolka was charged with two counts of murder. Bernardo, for his part,
was accused of two counts of kidnapping , two of illegal confinement, sexual abuse and
assault, and two counts of first-degree murder, one of them aggravated by dismemberment.
Coincidentally, that day Bernardo's lawyer had seen the video tapes for the first time. Murray
decided to use those tapes to frame Homolka during Bernardo's trial. Neither Murray nor
MacDonald were experienced lawyers nor did they have the slightest criminal experience;
Over time they showed their lack of ethics and came to be considered potential criminals when
it was discovered that they were hiding evidence. By October 1993 , Bernardo and his lawyers
had examined more than 4,000 documents from the Prosecutor's Office. Murray had said they
were willing to turn over the video tapes to prosecutors if they were allowed to question
Homolka before she arrived at the preliminary hearing. The hearing never took place.

Murray said the tapes showed Homolka sexually assaulting four young women, having sex with
a prostitute in Atlantic City and, at another time, drugging an unconscious young woman.

During the summer of 1994 , Murray had become a serious problem due to his serious ethics
problems handling the sensitive issue of videotapes and his representation of Bernardo.
Murray himself consulted his lawyer, Austin Cooper, who asked the Upper Canada Law
Society's professional committee for advice.

"The law society directly asks Mr. Murray to package the video tapes and deliver them directly
to the judge in the case. Furthermore, the company asks Mr. Murray to resign as Mr.
Bernardo's defender and to inform him of what he has been ordered to do," Murray said in a
statement he issued with the intervention of his lawyer Cooper in September 1995 .

On September 12, 1994 , Cooper attended Bernardo's trial and informed Mr. Justice Patrick
LeSage, of the Ontario General Court Division, told John Rosen (who replaced Murray as
Bernardo's lawyer) and prosecutors about what the law society had asked Murray to do. Rosen
maintained that the video tapes should have first been turned over to the defense. Murray
turned over the tapes along with a detailed summary to Rosen, who kept the video tapes for
approximately two weeks before turning them over to prosecutors.

The revelation that a key piece in the case had been kept by the police for so long created a
furor in society, even more so when it was learned that Homolka had been a sadistic
accomplice of Bernardo. The tapes were not allowed to be shown to the public; only part of
the audio was allowed to be heard. Meanwhile, Bernardo continued to insist that although he
raped and tortured Leslie Mahaffi and Kristen French, it was Homolka who killed them.

After the tapes were discovered, a strong rumor indicated that Homolka had been a sadistic
participant in the crimes. Now, the public knew of the role Homolka had played and the tapes
showed enough to send both of them to prison for the rest of the ages. For this reason, many
believed that the agreement with Homolka was no longer necessary. However, as was
mentioned in the agreement, Homolka had provided a lot of information about the case, so
the Prosecutor's Office found no possibility of breaking the agreement and reopening the case.

It was late when the judges who tried Bernardo, Michael Moldaver and Mr. Justice Archie
Campbell said she could have been charged with two counts of first-degree murder like
Bernardo. The agreement with Homolka had surprised.

JOSÉ MARÍA JARABO

José María Manuel Pablo de la Cruz Jarabo Pérez Morris , ( Madrid April 28 , 1928 -† Madrid ,
July 4 , 1959 ), better known as José María Jarabo or simply as Jarabo , was a Spanish criminal,
very famous in the social chronicle of his time. He murdered two men and two women, one of
them pregnant.

Born in Madrid , into a good family, educated in good schools in the United States . He
returned to Spain in 1950 , while his family remained in Puerto Rico , and in one year he spent
his fortune, about 15 million pesetas . Short of money, with the family threat of returning to
Spain , which would have ended his lifestyle, and with the family chalet on Arturo Soria street
mortgaged.

Murder of the Fernández family

At that time, one of his lovers, an Englishwoman, Beryl Martin Jones, began to urge him to
return a brilliant jewel gift from her husband that he had given her so that Jarabo could pawn
it at the Jusfer house, on Alcalde Sáinz Street. of Railing. From the pledge of the jewel he
obtained 4,000 pesetas, an amount infinitely less than the real value of the jewel, as well as a
letter from the owner authorizing the performance, in addition to personal details. The lenders
took the letter as a pledge. Without money to recover what was pledged, on July 19, 1958 ,
after nine at night, he went not to the store, as had been arranged, but to Emilio's home, at 57
Lope de Rueda Street, 4º Exterior Izquierda. . When he arrives, he opens the elevator doors
using his elbows and presses the button for the floor he is going to with the nail of his right
thumb, so as not to leave fingerprints. Press the doorbell of the house with the second and
third phalanges of the index finger. The maid Paulina Ramos Serrano, 26, opens the door, who
according to the prosecutor's account accompanies him to where the owner of the house is.

It is more likely that things happened differently: when Jarabo arrives at the apartment the
maid is alone. He asks about Emilio and Paulina takes him to the living room, where he waits.
After a while José María, who has everything decided, heads to the kitchen, where Paulina is
peeling beans. Convinced that he must eliminate annoying witnesses, he hits her with a heavy
iron on the head, and when, stunned by the blow, the girl tries to scream and defend herself,
he holds her from behind, squeezing her nose and mouth tightly with his left hand, while that
with his right hand breaks his heart, plunging the bean-peeling knife into his chest, up to the
cross. He carries the body of the unfortunate young woman to her room, where she throws
her, limp, onto the bed.

Later, Emilio Fernández arrived at the house, hugged him, posing as his wife, and shot him in
the back of the head in the bathroom, which caused his death instantly.
The wife, Amparo Alonso, arrives home and meets Jarabo, who explains to her that he is a
Treasury inspector, and that Emilio and Paulina have gone out with some of their colleagues,
also inspectors, to clarify a matter of currency trafficking. Amparo is very surprised, but the
man engages her in a chatter that has a certain coherence, until he suddenly realizes that her
appearance does not correspond to what he was talking about, he fled through the house,
trapped her in her bedroom, and told her. shot in the back of the head. This death was double
as Amparo was pregnant.

Neither the letter nor the jewel he was trying to recover are in the house. Even so, he changed
his shirt, and arranged the house and the bodies in such a way that they gave the impression
of a sexual crime, and he spent the night sleeping there when the door of the building was
closed. The next day, in the morning he heads to the Carretas cinema, a continuous session
cinema, and then spends the afternoon resting in the pension where he resides, waiting for
Monday to try his last move with Emilio Fernández's partner, Felix López Robledo.

On Monday, July 21, 1958 , Jarabo waited for Felix López Robledo at the entrance of the
business. Without giving him time to do anything, he shot him twice in the back of the head,
killing him instantly. He entered the store and did a complete search without finding the jewel
or the letter.

Later that day, he took the bloody suit to a dry cleaner at number 49 Orense Street and spent
the night with two women riding in a taxi, and on the morning of Tuesday , July 22, the police
arrested him at the door of the dry cleaner. The bodies of those murdered had been
discovered and the owner of the dry cleaners had informed the police of the order that Jarabo
had given him. Without resisting, he asked for food to be brought up from Lhardy for
everyone, a bottle of French cognac, and he got an injection of morphine. And he was telling
the story of the golden solitaire. He stated that he was deeply sorry for the death of the two
women, but not for those who had blackmailed him.

Judgment

On January 29, 1959 , the trial began in the Palace of Justice in Madrid . The room was filled
with famous and well-known artists (such as Zori or Sara Montiel ), some bullfighters and wives
of high officials.

During the five days that the trial lasted, he wore a new suit every day. He received four death
sentences. He tried to use his influences, especially that of his uncle, Chief Justice. General
Franco gave approval for the execution, scheduled for July 4, 1959 . He spent the night before
the execution smoking and drinking whiskey and appeared before the executioner dressed in
finery, although he collapsed at the sight of the garrote . Given his physical strength and the
weakness of the executioner, Antonio López Sierra , it took him a long time to die. He was the
last executed in compliance with sentences issued by the ordinary jurisdiction.

Several incidents occurred in the cemetery when a rumor spread that he had not been
executed thanks to his influences. The commissioner, upon hearing that the person in the
coffin was a gypsy who was also sentenced to death, put the gun to the driver's temple and
forced him to open the coffin to deny the rumors.

Jarabo's story was brought to the small screen by Juan Antonio Bardem in the series " The
Trace of Crime " and starring Sancho Gracia , in 1984 .
JUAN DIAZ DE GARAYO

Butter remover.

Juan Díaz de Garayo Ruiz de Argandoña, better known as El Sacamantecas , ( San Millán ,
Álava , 1821 - Vitoria , May 11 , 1881 ), was a serial killer who was born and lived in Álava ,
Spain in the 19th century.

Between the years 1870 and 1879 he murdered and raped six women, four of them
prostitutes, aged between 13 and 55, and even severely mutilated some of them. He was also
accused of several more attempts that he could not complete.

He was married four times and widowed three times, although he apparently did not kill any of
his wives.

He was arrested in 1880 and sentenced to death; he died by garrote the following year in the
Polvorín Viejo prison in Vitoria .

He became famous for his crimes throughout Spain and his name was used to scare children.

In the Middle Ages and well into the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the
nickname " sackmantecas" became tremendously popular for anyone related to the so-called
bogeyman . This was an adjective used to scare children and prevent them from doing their
misdeeds. It was said that children's sebum (body fat) was removed to make a kind of
ointment that would ultimately be used to heal and/or cure tuberculosis. One of the most
famous Samantecas, although he was one himself, was Manuel Blanco Romasanta , to whom
several murders of children and adults in Galicia were attributed.

The butterscotch in literature

In the novel The Family of Errotabo , Pío Baroja [1] erroneously states that Gregorio Mayoral
Sendino began his career as an executioner with the execution of Díaz de Garayo, although the
real executioner did not begin to act until more than a decade later.
EDMUND KEMPER

Edmund Emil Kemper III ( December 18, 1948 ; Burbank , California ), better known as Edmund
Kemper , is a serial killer who is also known as The Co-ed Killer , in English. He was active in the
70s .

Early years

The son of Edmund Emil Kemper Jr. [3] and Clarnell Stage had an IQ of 136 and developed
sociopathological behavior from a very young age: he tortured and murdered animals ,
performed bizarre sexual rituals with his sisters' dolls, and even said that, in order to kiss a
teacher for whom he felt previously attracted would have to kill her.

If Kemper was already strange, his mother - who is suspected of being borderline - forced him
to sleep in the basement for fear that her son would abuse his sisters, something that
bothered Edmund.

On August 27, 1964 , at the age of 15, Edmund shot his grandmother - with whom he lived on a
ranch of about 7 hectares - while she was finishing her latest children's book. But it didn't end
there, since when his grandfather arrived he also killed him. He then called his mother and
urged her to notify the police, since he had killed his grandparents. The statements he gave to
the agents were the following: he "just wanted to see what it felt like to kill his grandmother"
and he killed his grandfather because he knew he would be angry for having previously killed
the grandmother.

The fifteen-year-old was admitted to the Atascadero State Hospital and, in addition to
becoming friends with his psychologist, he became his assistant. Thanks to his intelligence, he
gained such trust from the doctor that he was allowed access to the tests administered to
other inmates. Thanks to the learning he gained from these tests, he impressed his doctor and
was discharged - something much discussed by other doctors - later demonstrating that he had
sealed his youthful record forever. Once free, he went to live with his mother in Santa Cruz (
California ).

Killer campaign

Kemper - 2.05 m and more than 136 kg - worked in various places until arriving at the
California Department of Transportation , at that time known as the Department of Public
Works in the Highway Division in District 4.

Between May 1972 and February 1973 , Kemper killed several female students he met on the
highway, whom he took to isolated rural areas to kill them - by stabbing them, with a firearm
or suffocation - and then take them to his apartment where he practiced necrophilia with
subsequent dissection. Normally, he threw the bodies into ravines or buried them in fields, but
on one occasion he buried the head of a victim - aged 15 - in his mother's garden in a kind of
sick joke: he " always wanted people to admire her." ". He murdered 6 schoolgirls, including
two students at the University of California - where his mother worked - and one at Cabrillo
College. Curiously, after arguing with his mother is when he committed the murders.

In April 1973 , Kemper repeatedly and violently beat his mother to death with a cobbler's
hammer while she was sleeping. He decapitated her, raped her without her head - which he
used as a target - and threw her vocal cords into the kitchen disposal. In his statement, Kemper
said that "that seemed appropriate, as much as she cursed, screamed and screamed at me for
many years ." But it didn't stop there: he invited one of his mother's best friends home -
oblivious to what had happened - and strangled her.

He drove the car towards the east, without hearing any news on the radio about their
murders. Disillusioned, he stopped and called the police to confess that he was The Schoolgirl
Killer . He confessed to them what he had done and where he could find him, in addition to
recognizing his necrophilia and cannibalism .

During his trial he pleaded insanity, although he was found guilty of 8 counts of murder. She
requested the death penalty , but, being suspended in the United States at the time, received a
life sentence . He is currently one of the inmates at Vacaville State Prison.

Edmund Kemper, Herbert Mullin , and John Linley Frazier

A contemporary of Kemper, Mullin also murdered various people, for which the city was
baptized as the Murder Capital of the World . Both murderers were locked in adjacent cells and
Kemper was angry with Mullin because he said that he " robbed the places where he unloaded
his corpses ."

Furthermore, three years after this wave of murders, John Linley Frazier continued with them.
In a manner similar to notorious murderer Charles Manson , Frazier killed all five members of
eye surgeon Victor Otha's family.

A reference to the Murder Capital appears in the film Hidden Youth ( 1987 ), filmed in Santa
Cruz ( California ).

Victims of Ed Kemper

 Maude Kemper August 27, 1964

 Ed Emil Kemper August 27, 1964
 Mary Anne Pisce May 5, 1972
 Anita Luchese May 5, 1972
 Aiko Koo September 14, 1972
 Cindy Schall January 8, 1973
 Rosalind Thorpe February 5, 1973
 Alice Lui February 5, 1973
 Clarnell Strandberg April 21, 1973
 Sally Hallett April 21, 1973

Richard Kuklinski

Richard Leonard Kuklinski ( New Jersey , April 11 , 1935 – Trenton , March 5 , 2006 ) also
known as " The Iceman " was an American hitman .

Criminal Career

He carried out a good part of his murders on behalf of the Italian mafia in New York , more
precisely the Gambino crime family for whom he worked for a couple of decades. His victims
ranged from simple gambling debtors to notorious mafia bosses, such as Paul Castellano ,
Carmine Galante and his own direct boss, Roy DeMeo. It is also known that John Gotti hired
him to kill a neighbor who had accidentally run over his son and that he played an active role in
the death of Jimmy Hoffa .

Their varied methods of murder included everything from an ice pick to a sledgehammer, to
guns, crossbows, cyanide, and even the use of rodents.

His arrest and confession in 1986 surprised his family and friends who considered him a
correct man, as well as an exemplary family father. In later interviews, he admitted having
killed around 200 people throughout his criminal career between 1948 and 1986.

In a documentary that he allowed the HBO television network to make about his life while in
prison, he declared that, in his case, "murder was vocational," since taking the lives of his
victims gave him pleasure.

In 1988 he was sentenced to two life sentences. He died of unknown causes in Trenton prison
on March 5, 2006.

GENZŌ KURITA

Genzo Kurita (栗田源蔵Kurita Genzo ? , November 3 , 1926 – October 14, 1959 ) born in Akita
Prefecture , was a Japanese serial killer , responsible for the murder of eight people.

Murders

Kurita murdered two of his girlfriends in February 1948 . On August 8, 1951, he raped and
killed a 24-year-old woman along with her baby. Then, he practiced necrophilia on the
woman's corpse. On October 11, 1951 , Kurita raped and killed a 29-year-old woman. After
committing the murder, Kurita threw the woman, her five-year-old son, and her seven- and
two-year-old daughters off the cliff known as Osen Korogashi . The seven-year-old girl was able
to survive but her other two siblings died. On January 13, 1952 , he continued his murderous
career, killing a 63-year-old woman and her 24-year-old niece. After the crimes, Kurita had sex
with the corpse of the woman's niece. These two murders marked the end of his murder
career; The police found his fingerprint at the scene of the crimes.

Arrest, trial and execution

Genzo Kurita was finally arrested on January 16, 1952 . On August 12, 1952, the district court
in Chiba sentenced him to death for the last two deaths. The Utsunomiya District Court also
sentenced him to death for six other crimes on December 21, 1953 . He appealed the
sentences, but due to mental instability, he withdrew his appeals on October 21, 1954 .
Considered neurotic and a danger to his own life, he was executed on October 14, 1959 by
hanging .

PETER KÜRTEN

Peter Kürten ( May 26 , 1883 – July 2, 1931 [age 48]) was one of Germany 's best-known serial
killers . Known as "The Vampire of Düsseldorf", he committed at least 9 murders of adults and
children and 7 frustrated attempts.
Early years

Kürten was born in the town of Mülheim (now a district of the German city of Cologne ) and
was the third of thirteen children in an extremely poor family. Peter witnessed how his father,
an alcoholic and violent unemployed worker, mistreated his mother and even raped some of
his younger sisters with complete impunity. Thus, at the age of eight, Kürten ran away from his
family home and headed into the world of crime in the city of Düsseldorf . At the age of 9, he
carried out his first murders when he drowned two friends while they were bathing in the
Rhine . With the exception of these two isolated cases, Kürten interspersed his small acts of
crime with brief stints in prison to pay for his misdeeds. He was also hired as a dog catcher
where he experienced the "pleasure" of torturing, raping and killing abandoned dogs. It was
not the only case in Kürten's life where he would experience sexual experiences and torture
animals.

His violent tendencies increased as he grew older. At the same time, Kürten needed to transfer
these bloodthirsty experiences from animals to humans. On May 13, 1913 , Kürten prowled
around a supposedly empty house to rob. But there was Khristine Klein, a thirteen-year-old girl
who was sleeping in her room. Peter, after checking that no one was in the house, strangled
the young woman and ended up cutting her throat.

During World War I , Kürten was convicted of his usual crimes of theft and occasional sexual
assault . But in 1921 , Kürten moved to Altenburg where he married a woman of good
reputation while getting a job as a truck driver.

The "Vampire of Düsseldorf" is born

In 1925 , Kürten returned to Düsseldorf to begin his series of crimes. One of his victims (Rosa
Ohlijer, eight years old) was stabbed thirteen times with scissors and after drinking her blood,
he burned her body with gasoline.

In 1929 , Kürten's bloodiest year came. On February 8 , he murdered an eight-year-old girl. On

August 23 , he killed two sisters, ages five and fourteen. In September, he killed a woman with
a hammer. And on November 7 , he reached the height of his madness by killing a five-year-old
girl and sending a map of the murdered woman's grave to a local newspaper.

These murders caused the city of Dusseldorf to live in a continuous state of hysteria. No one
dared to walk alone through the streets of the city. The authorities offered a handsome reward
for anyone who gave clues to the identity of the murderer and the police received up to
900,000 names of possible murderers.
The Vampire is hunted

Arrest photo of Peter Kürten taken in 1930

However, in May 1930 , Kürten made the blunder that would ultimately condemn him. Kürten
tricked Maria Budlick, a maid, into taking her to Grafenberger Woods, a nearby forest. The
criminal strangled his victim to sexually assault her but left her alive after experiencing orgasm.
After the murderer left, Budlick went to the police where he was able to give precise
information about Kürten. Shortly after, the robotic portrait of the most wanted man in
Germany appeared.

Victim of great fear, Kürten offered his wife the chance to betray him in exchange for a
succulent sum of money. Thus, on May 24 , the vampire of Dusseldorf surrendered without
opposition. Kürten confessed to his crimes. At the subsequent trial (April 1931 ), he initially
pleaded not guilty. But as the lawsuit went on, he changed his mind. In fact, psychoanalysts
worked hard to undo any type of alienation that could save him from the death penalty. The
sentence was to die by guillotine for nine murders, seven frustrated attempts and no less than
80 sexual assaults. A sentence that was carried out in Cologne on July 2, 1931 .

Kürten's last sentence, almost coinciding with the premiere of Fritz Lang's film in 1931,
demonstrated the extent of his obsession with blood and his attraction to death: "Tell me,
when they have decapitated me, will I be able to hear even for a moment the sound of my
own blood coming out of my neck?"
Criminological importance of Kürten

The Kürten case is important in the world of criminology by giving police around the world
elements that are key in the evolution of any serial killer. It was the first time that a national
security body was able to determine criminal activity in thousands of suspects. In fact, many
murderers after Kürten imitated his behavior and many other alleged criminals were acquitted
by the police as they did not fit the modus operandi of the Düsseldorf vampire.

The reasons for Kürten's attitude are still being studied. He argued as the main reason for
committing the murders his unbridled passion for drinking the blood of his victims (hence his
nickname of the Vampire of Düsseldorf) and his sexual pleasure at the time of execution.
Although during the trial, the murderer also acknowledged that his main motivation was to
"instruct an oppressive society."

In 1931 , Fritz Lang directed M, the Vampire of Düsseldorf (" M ") based on the tragic events
carried out by Peter Kürten.
HENRI DÉSIRÉ LANDRU

Henri Désiré Landru ( Paris , April 12 , 1869 – Versailles , February 25, 1922 ) was a famous
French serial killer , also known as the " Bluebeard of Gambais ."

Biography

His early years

Landru was born into a modest Parisian working-class family. His father, an upright and
religious man, worked as a stoker in an industrial foundry while his mother was a seamstress.
Little Henri proved to be a great student although with an excessive penchant for aspiring to a
good future life.

In 1889 , he was forced to marry his first cousin Marie Reny due to an unwanted pregnancy.
With her, he would have three more children. During that time, Landru began to earn an
honest living as a garage attendant and clerk. But the need to reach a higher standard of living
led him towards crime. Between 1902 and 1914 , some minor crimes of fraud earned him
three successive prison sentences, which caused his father, embarrassed by his son's behavior,
to take his own life by hanging himself from a tree in the Bois de Boulogne .

He served one of those sentences in one of the facets with which he would develop his future
plans. One afternoon in 1909 , Landru went to meet a disconsolate widow named Madame
Izoret, who in a press advertisement offered her assets in exchange for a man who could keep
her company. The swindler showed up at her house and offered her company based on empty
promises and then took 20,000 francs. Over time, Madame Izoret became suspicious until she
reported the scammer, who was arrested. During his time in prison, Landru considered the
possibility of continuing to be the perfect companion to lonely widows but murdering them so
that they could no longer accuse him.

In 1914 , Landru escaped a several-year sentence for the last of his frauds. The lack of
evidence, their different personalities and the outbreak of the Great War favored their escape.
The murderer is born

World War I provided Landru with the opportunity to hone his talent as a comforter of young
widows. And the casualties that occurred daily on the battle front constantly increased the
number of widows, who placed marriage advertisements in the newspapers. Landru
understood that a man like him, still attractive and young, could take advantage of this
situation.

And that's how the future murderer once again published advertisements in the press. The one
with the greatest impact was one that appeared in Le Journal in which it said: "Widower, two
children, forty-three years old, solvent, affectionate, serious and on the rise in society wishes to
meet a widow with marriage desires." Immediately hundreds of women responded to his
proposal. Landru was discarding all those with little chance. To the others, he sent a response
to gather more information and ensure the profitability of the affair.

The first selected was Jeanne Cuchet, a beautiful 39-year-old woman, with a seventeen-year-
old son (André) and about 5,000 francs saved. Landru rented an apartment in the Vernouillet
neighborhood and adopted the identity of Raymond Diard, postal inspector, coming from Lille
due to the German occupation. Bluebeard was an excellent and polite suitor who evidently
promised marriage to Madame Cuchet. But, in January 1915 , when their suspicions began,
mother and son disappeared forever. Landru dismembered them in the small apartment and
then burned them in the fireplace.

Landru subsequently continued his criminal method. He rented a house on the outskirts of
Paris. There he was inviting successive conquests, under the promise of marriage. He got his
second victim. Again a widow with more money than the previous one, Madame Laborde-Line.
With her he followed the same technique as with Madame Cuchet, he introduced himself as
Dupont, an employee of the secret service, and at the same time he proposed that she go live
outside of Paris, keeping her savings to invest in that disastrous time of war. Shortly after,
Madame Laborde-Line would be murdered and cremated in the living room of the Parisian
house.

Transfer to Gambais

Landru lived happily with his new riches while not arousing suspicion for his crimes. But the
fact of constantly changing houses was a nuisance due to the fact that he had to give constant
explanations both to the landlord and the neighbors for his departure and to his own wife for
his constant comings and goings. So he rented a house in the town of Gambais , which he
called "Ermitage".

From 1914 to 1918 , Landru continued his misdeeds. He invited widows to promise marriage
and, when he was sure that he had their money for "future investments", he murdered them
and burned them in the house's oven.

While all this was happening, I led an almost normal life. He visited his children frequently,
showing himself to be an attentive father to them, and he gave his wife very expensive gifts.

Bluebeard is discovered

But, once the war was over, relatives began to search for their missing people. That was the
case of Madame Collomb's relatives, who sent a letter to the mayor of Gambais, requesting
any type of information about their relative, who had been seen in that town in the company
of a certain Dupont.

But it was not until Inspector Belin's intervention that Landru's siege began to tighten. The key
was given by Madame Buisson's sister who went to the police when she came across the
"suitor" of her missing sister buying works of art in a store on Rue Rivoli. The police questioned
the merchant and found that Désiré had left his card "Lucien Guillet, 76, Rue Rochechouart."
The police went there to arrest the murderer on April 11, 1919 in the company of his new
"lover", the actress Fernande Segret .

Once in the prefecture, the true identity of the murderer was known thanks to an agenda. In it,
eleven names could also be found, four of them coincided with disappearances already
confirmed and also, with the astonishing meticulousness of a compulsive saver, the prices of
train tickets from Paris to Gambais.

On April 29, Landru, accompanied by the gendarmes, traveled to Gambais. There they could
find 295 semi-charred human bones, one and a half kilos of ashes and 47 gold dental pieces
that Landru kept in a drawer. Shortly after, it was confirmed that the psychopath had sold his
victims' clothes, furniture and belongings.

Landru's trial lasted about two years and was one of the most notorious in interwar Paris.
Although Landru admitted having deceived them, he never confessed to being responsible for
the murders. In the end, on November 30, 1921, he was only convicted of eleven proven
murders, although the police estimated that between 117 and 300 women were killed by
Bluebeard. On February 25, 1922 , Landru was guillotined in Versailles prison. In 1963, a letter
from Landru was discovered by chance in which he acknowledged being the author of the
crimes. The life of this psychopath was brought to the cinema in a famous film called " Landrú
", directed by Claude Chabrol that same year. In 1947, Charles Chaplin made a film also
inspired by his life, called Monsieur Verdoux .

STEPHAN LETTER

Stephan Letter: (n. 1978 in Herdecke , Germany ) is a German serial killer sentenced in
December 2006 to life imprisonment for the murder of 29 patients at the hospital where he
worked as a nurse between February 2003 and July 2004 . In July 2004 , Letter was arrested
after hospital staff noticed drugs were missing from the hospital's medicine box. After an
intense and rapid investigation by the Kempten police, Stephan Letter was arrested when he
was 26 years old, as they found vials of these drugs in his home. He was accused of 29 deaths.
Letter would acknowledge the crimes and claim that he had done so out of compassion for the
victims, who were in extremely serious condition, so he had decided to alleviate their
suffering. But this was ruled out since many of the patients that Letter killed were not even
delicate, as evidence testified by a German army soldier , who had gone to the hospital after
breaking her leg, who declared that Letter tried to inject her with a medicine that the doctor
did not. had prescribed him and that thanks to another nurse entering the room, Letter was
not able to inject him with the drug.
HENRY LEE LUCAS

Henry Lee Lucas ( August 23 , 1936 , Virginia – March 13, 2001 , Texas ) was an American serial
killer . Born into a broken family, Henry was the eldest of seven children. Her mother, Viola
Lucas, was a prostitute, and her father, Anderson Lucas, was an alcoholic and disabled.

Childhood and matricide

Henry Lee Lucas was the prototype of a sadistic psychopath with a truly bloody history, since
from childhood he grew up in a totally unstructured family environment, full of abuse, cruelty
and humiliation.

As an unwanted child, he was frequently beaten by his mother and subjected to psychological
abuse: he was continually dressed as a girl, forcing him to watch her work as a prostitute. The
mother also beat the father, an alcoholic, who was missing his legs, using a cart to get around.
Malnourished, and uneducated, he never developed a skill that could give any meaning or
value to his life. His first sexual experiences, at approximately 13 years old, were with animals:
he raped sheep and dogs, and from the first moment he related sex with death (when he
ejaculated he slit the animal's neck).

In 1950 his father died under strange circumstances. After an argument with Viola he left the
house, and the next day he was found frozen in the forest. After her death, Henry permanently
left home and began a prolific criminal career with petty thefts, soon entering reform schools
and finally prison , where he tried sex with humans for the first time. He was released briefly in
1959 and returned home where, after a heated argument with his mother, he ended up
cutting her throat with a razor and then had sex with her corpse for several weeks until the
body decomposed.

Criminal activity

He was sentenced to go to prison, and later to 5 years in a psychiatric hospital , where he was
described as a suicidal, sadistic, and sexually deviant psychopath. Without being rehabilitated,
he was released in 1970 and went to live with his sister Opal and her husband, who already
believed he was rehabilitated, until a short time later he killed his dog. The next re-entry into
the real world was different. Henry wanted to start a family, a wife who would take care of him
and beautiful daughters who would show him their affection, if possible in the most explicit
way. Since he couldn't wait to create her and father daughters, he went directly through an
already formed family and in 1977 he married a sister's friend and mother of two daughters
(Cindy, 8 years old, and Kathy, 9). The panorama was perfect; While his wife went out to work,
Henry stayed home all day "taking care" of the girls. His idea was to fornicate with them all
day, but the youngest had a bad temper and he had to settle for abusing only the eldest,
although he forced Cindy to watch every time he abused her sister. He made the most of this
situation, but ended up getting bored with the sexual routine, so he finally left without giving
any explanation. He began to wander around America with his car and in Miami he found what
was to become his inseparable friend and lover, Ottis , who had nothing to envy of Henry. He
was a homosexual , aspiring transsexual, arsonist , cannibal , murderer and slightly retarded.

The Henry-Ottis Toole Partnership

Ottis had quite a complex past. He began dressing as a girl at age 7, and at age 11 he had a long
sexual relationship with his sister Drusilla, which lasted until she entered a reform school.
Later, he had relations with a homosexual neighbor, combining his sexual hobbies with those
of being an arsonist. He set a house on fire and when it burned, Ottis masturbated watching
the spectacle. At 13 he offered fellatio to the drunks in his neighborhood. He committed
several robberies and ended up in reform school. He entered and left prison several more
times for various reasons. Despite this, Ottis had responsibilities, during the day he rigorously
fulfilled his work day, while at night he dedicated himself to his pyromaniac hobbies or his
sexual desires.

Henry and Ottis made a perfect couple. Henry was not too strong, but he was intelligent, and
Ottis was capable of knocking anyone down with one punch, and not being too intelligent he
saw in Henry a kind of enlightened one.

The I-35 highway , which crossed the entire country, became his private hunting ground. They
traveled in dilapidated cars, and to save costs they used to live and sleep in them. Since they
never washed or changed their clothes, the car was good for them to get around. Despite their
bad appearance and bad smell, they were friendly and knew how to get along with people, and
when they gained someone's trust, they showed them the other side of their dark personality
by killing them, sexually abusing them and dismembering them. They never killed two people
in the same place, and after their killings they used to dismember the bodies and distribute the
limbs throughout the country, which made it very difficult for the police to reconstruct the
cases. Henry's special ability to kill and not be discovered allowed them to commit their
atrocities throughout the United States for several years.

Henry liked to murder women with big eyes and nice breasts. First he fornicated with them,
remained dissatisfied, stabbed them or twisted their necks and then penetrated them again,
because he enjoyed fornicating with a corpse much more than with a living being. Ottis, for his
part, preferred to rape men, obtain sexual pleasure and then shoot them dead. He didn't like
knives, and he enjoyed the "cowboy" feeling that ran through his body after killing someone at
point-blank range.

Other times, as a sign of friendship, Henry helped Ottis in his arson activities. The occasion they
enjoyed the most was when they burned down a house with an old man inside. They watched
from the street as the old man asked for help through the window and was burned to death,
and Ottis ended the experience by masturbating right there.

The weeks when Ottis returned home to work, Henry remained alone, dedicating himself
exclusively to women. On one occasion, in 1978, he met a girl in the parking lot of a building,
and he invited her to come up to his house. With the sole help of his personal "charm" Henry
convinced her to have sexual relations, and she accepted, thinking that Henry was a normal
guy, but when Henry found, as usual, that he could not achieve ejaculation, he stabbed her,
returned to penetrate her and after the climax he stuck a knife in her anus.

In the early 1980s, Ottis' niece, Becky Powell, entered the scene. He was 15 years old, but he
acted like he was 10. Ottis invited her to accompany them on their trips and Becky happily
accepted. With her they innovated in their techniques, the new procedure consisted of
sending Becky to knock on the doors of the houses, wait for them to open and then all enter in
a pack. Becky took it as a game and soon became very fond of them, especially Henry, who
made her his official girlfriend. That relationship brought problems to the friendship between
Henry and Ottis, as Henry decided to take his new relationship seriously. Shortly after, the
couple began to work caring for an elderly woman, Kate Rich, with whom they stayed for
several months until Henry decided to set off again, ending up at a preachers' farm called the
House of Prayer. They lived there until Becky became homesick, and asked Henry to let her go
to Florida to see her family. Henry didn't like the idea, as he knew that if Becky went with her
family she would take him away from him, but he finally gave in. They began the trip
hitchhiking until they had an argument in the middle of the highway. Henry settled the matter
by stabbing him in the heart with a knife, and then fornicated with the corpse in what, as he
would later comment, was the best sex with Becky . He had just made the biggest mistake of
his life. Not content with this, he went to see Kate Rich, telling her that Becky wanted to see
her, and on the way to the farm Henry stabbed the old woman for no reason.

Arrest and confessions

The arrest was only a matter of time, since it was not difficult to relate what happened. The
police soon found him, and after a couple of interrogations they discovered that they had
before them probably the most bloodthirsty serial killer in the history of the United States .
Henry was tired, he no longer had the desire to continue killing. The time had come to relax
and remember the good times. He confessed to the murders of Becky and Kate Rich, and
dozens of other murders that he wasn't even a suspect in. Ottis was also arrested as an
arsonist, and confessed to having accompanied Henry on many of his killings. Ottis was
sentenced to life in prison and Henry awaits his turn to be executed. The sentence was
scheduled for 1988, but was postponed at the last minute.

Satanic sect?

In addition to the cruelty of their crimes, the two characters confessed a very disturbing fact:
Ottis claims to have a relationship with a satanic sect, for which the two murderers would
kidnap children, with whom ritual sacrifices, hardcore pornography and even movies would be
carried out. snuff , in which the victim is tortured and slowly killed while a camera records the
scenes in a fixed shot. According to Toole's statements:

There was a time when we made money by selling children to Mexico, who were used for porn
films... others sold them directly to rich people... we had a kind of altar and we slit their
throats, drank the blood and sometimes cooked the corpses. ..sometimes the new members
would cut up the bodies before fucking them... and then they would fuck the animals and kill
them... and then there would be a big party during which we would eat someone and the
animals...

This matter presents a great deal of doubt, since the police were never able to prove the
existence of this group of Satanists as an organized structure.

Final

On March 13 , 2001 , Henry died in his cell after cardiac arrest. It is believed that he committed
360 murders although in some interrogations he confessed to having killed around 902 people.

BRUNO LUDKE

Bruno Ludke
 April 3 , 1908
Birth
Köpenick , Berlin , German Empire

April 8 , 1944 (36 years old)

Death Vienna , Ostmark , Nazi Germany
(now Austria )

Cause of death Lethal injection

Nationality German

Other names "The Kopenick Killer"

Known for serial killer

Otto Luedke
Parents
Emma Ludke

Bruno Lüdke ( Köpenick , Berlin , German Empire ; April 3 , 1908 – Vienna , Ostmark , Nazi
Germany ; April 8, 1944 ) was a German serial killer who is believed to have murdered more
than 80 people. Although he is commonly considered continental Europe 's deadliest serial
killer, some criminologists have questioned the extent of his activity, claiming that many of his
confessions were coerced by police to solve cases.

Biography

Childhood and pre-murders

Bruno was born on April 3, 1908 in Köpenick , a town near Berlin , the fourth child of Otto and
Emma Lüdke. As a child he received a head injury that limited his mental faculties. He entered
the Köpenick public school in 1914 , but by 1919 Lüdke's teachers realized Lüdke's learning
difficulties, which is why he was sent to a school for young people with learning problems.
However, in 1922 the teenager withdrew from classes to work in his family's laundry .

After the death of his father due to laryngeal cancer in 1937 , Bruno was forced to take on the
heavy lifting of the family business. It is from 1938 that the young Lüdke begins to have
problems with the local police, several people complained about his mistreatment of the horse
that pulled the laundry cart. Apparently Lüdke was whipping the animal very hard. Finally,
after several medical studies carried out by the police, it was shown that he could drive his cart
without problems despite not knowing how to locate himself in space and time.
First accusations and subsequent investigations

On January 29, 1943 , some children found the body of Frieda Rössener, a 59-year-old widow
who had been strangled, raped and later robbed. Soon the local Köpenick police sent a report
to Berlin and a group of three detectives was formed to deal with the homicide. The trio was
comprised of criminologist Heinz Franz and investigators Jachode and Mahnke who arrived at
the crime scene the same day and after asking questions to the locals discovered that a
mentally retarded man wearing workman's clothes was frequently hanging around the place.
The Berlin officials soon realized that it was Bruno Lüdke, the giant of the people whom the
people nicknamed a fool or a brute . Detective Franz arrested Bruno when he noticed that he
had blood stains on his clothes. When asked about this, the giant said it was from a chicken .
The investigator remembered that there were feathers from said animal at the crime scene
and soon arrested Bruno on March 18, 1943 .

After being arrested, Franz alone questioned Lüdke, soon realizing that Lüdke's answers would
help the criminologist to continue the investigation in his own way. During interrogation he
stated:

Ludke: «I had grabbed the chicken, I admit it. The old woman was sitting on the trunk of a tree
and I approached her.

Franz: "And what did you say to him?"

Ludke: "Well, yes, I wanted to... but she said no."
Franz: "And what did you do?"

Ludke: "I grabbed her by the neck."

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As the investigation progressed, Franz discovered that if he approached Lüdke in a friendly

manner, the giant would give him whatever information his questions revealed. Franz's
investigations soon discovered that Lüdke was responsible for strangling and raping 51 women
in a period between 1928 and 1943 . During the long period during which he was interrogated,
the names of some victims appeared, such as Käthe Mundt, Bertha Schulz and the Umann
family. This new information surprised Franz because none of the locals pointed out Bruno as
the murderer and there were no reports of some of the deaths. The criminologist immediately
investigated the cases of these victims.

The truth of these crimes changed when Berlin police records were read, revealing that Heinz
Franz already knew about the murders of Mundt, Schulz, and the Umanns. The accused
possibly only "confessed" what the detective wanted to hear and when another victim was
mentioned Lüdke "remembered" having murdered her as well, as happened during the
interrogation of the Umann family, where Bruno did not say anything about Mrs. Gutermann
who had been murdered. two days before Lüdke killed all the Umanns. Months later when
Franz asked the murderer about Mrs. Gutermann, the giant "remembered" having killed her,
however he could not give correct information about where he had done it. At times Lüdke
claimed to have killed in Munich , Hamburg and even Berlin , but when he was taken to the
states where he had killed, it was obvious that the man did not know where he was.
Sentence

When the report of the murders committed by Lüdke reached the desk of Heinrich Himmler ,
Commander-in-Chief of the SS , he ordered a thorough investigation into the case because it
was impossible for a person to commit such atrocities during the rule of the Third Reich . In
addition to this, the German population would wake up to a regime that was prepared for war
and not to govern.

It did not take Himmler long to realize that Lüdke was answering for crimes he may not have
committed. Finally, to appease the press and other police agencies, they took Bruno to the
crime scenes.

In one of the reconstructions of the events and, while he was being transported by car for the
crime he had committed, they entered the Köpenich forest when, suddenly, the accused said:
"the gentlemen have gone too far." The driver reversed, the officers removed Bruno's
handcuffs and asked him to indicate the place where the events had occurred. Without a
moment's hesitation, he walked through the trees and pointed to a place. Afterwards, he said:
"I found her here, I hit her here, I strangled her here, I raped her here."

Bruno could not be prosecuted for strangling and raping his victims, because of clause 51
which said that a mentally deficient person was not responsible for his actions. However, he
was used as a guinea pig in several mental institutions and hospitals. As punishment, he was
castrated and executed by lethal injection in a Vienna police prison on April 8, 1944 . On April
26, 1944 , at the Civil Registry Office in Vienna , a death certificate was issued for Lüdke, the
cause of death being as follows: "degeneration of the heart muscle, enlargement of the right
ventricle, paralysis of the heart."

Post - death

In 1957 , the film Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam ( The Devil Came at Night ) was released. The
story sustains Lüdke's image as one of Germany 's worst serial killers. Attempts to reopen the
case by members of the Kriminalrat ( Germany's Internal Affairs Division ) produced no results.
The true nature of the 51 murders remains unsolved to this day. However, in 1995 the Dutch
commissioner, Jan Blaauw, became interested in the case and investigated the original police
reports. He found them incoherent and unclear. He also expressed disbelief that a nearly
illiterate man , once caught for stealing a chicken, could evade authorities for almost 20 years.
Even more so if you take the historical context of Germany at that time, where the Third Reich
ruled and it was impossible for anyone to commit such crimes and even more so if you take
into account the distance between the cities of the crimes.

PEDRO ALONSO LOPEZ

Pedro Alonso López , known as The Monster of the Andes , was a Colombian serial killer who,
after his capture in 1980, confessed to the murder of more than 300 girls and young people in
Ecuador , Peru and Colombia . Although the number of homicides could not be established
with certainty since many of their bodies did not appear and the violent acts took place in
isolated regions, therefore reliable figures are lacking. In his confession he acknowledged to
investigators that he had murdered at least 110 girls in Ecuador, 100 in Colombia, and "many
more than 100" in Peru. And he managed to locate a field in Ambato Ecuador where 53 bodies
were found, plus 4 more in other places. Although at other points indicated by him no bodies
were found. If his version is to be believed, Pedro Alonso López is the serial killer who has
committed the most murders.

Childhood

Pedro Alonso López was born in the department of Tolima in 1948 during the time known as “
La Violencia ,” a period of undeclared civil war that caused nearly 200,000 deaths. He was the
seventh child of a total of thirteen siblings, children of a small prostitute, and had an unhappy
childhood due to violence, the excessive control of his mother and the absence of a father
figure. In 1957, at the age of 8, he was caught by his mother having sexual relations with his
younger sister and was banished from the house. He lived in a state of destitution as a gamin
in Bogotá and was sexually abused. At the age of 12 he was adopted by an American family.
But a new sexual assault by a teacher made him flee again and return to the streets. In 1969,
at the age of 18, he was imprisoned for theft and in prison he was abused by three prisoners;
He decided not to be a victim again and murdered them days later. Since it was declared self-
defense, no years were added to the sentence.

Criminal Activity

In 1978 he was released from prison and immediately emigrated to Peru where he began to
continually attack young indigenous people from remote provinces. According to his
confession, he killed at least 100, a figure that is difficult to verify due to the remoteness of the
communities, although it is known that the Ayacucho indigenous people captured him when
he was trying to kidnap a 9-year-old girl and tried to lynch him but a priest and the police
prevented him. the act. Deported to Ecuador, he would have continued his activity, killing up
to 4 people per week. In April 1980, 4 bodies of girls were found, which began a formal
investigation process. But a few days later he was captured by the community in the city of
Ambato Ecuador when he tried to kidnap a 12-year-old girl.

Capture and Confession

He was immediately arrested and taken to the police station where he refused to speak for
several days. Finally, the priest Córdoba Gudino was entrusted to establish a friendship with
Pedro Alonso López, who after a series of interrogations confessed to his crimes and
acknowledged more than 300 murders in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. López explained that
first he raped his victims, and then he strangled them while staring into their eyes. I wanted to
touch the pleasure of the deepest sexual excitement. He took investigators to a pasture near
Ambato, where 53 bodies of girls between 8 and 12 years old were found, making a total of 57
verified deaths. He also pointed out other places, where no bodies were found. He was
imprisoned in Ecuador until 1998 and was handed over to Colombian authorities for an
extradition request. He escaped from his guards, and at the moment his current whereabouts
are unknown.

CHARLES MANSON
 Charles Manson

Birth November 12 , 1934

75 years
Cincinnati , Ohio , United States

Position(s) Conspiracy.

Sentence Death penalty, reduced to life

imprisonment due to the abolition of the
death penalty

Current No right to parole until 2012

situation

Occupation Prisoner

Spouse Rosalie Jean Willis, Candy Stevens, Mary

Brunner

Parents Kathleen Maddox (mother), Colonel Scott

(father), William Manson (stepfather)

Charles Milles Manson ( Cincinnati , November 12 , 1934 ) is a well-known American criminal,

founder and leader of "The Family", a group that perpetrated several murders, including the
macabre murder of Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski ) and his guests in 1969 . He has been
serving a sentence since 1971 , after being convicted as an instigator of these crimes.
Early years

Childhood

Charles Milles Manson was born on November 12, 1934 in Cincinati, Ohio, the illegitimate son
of a 16-year-old prostitute named Katheleen Maddox . His first childhood story is quite typical:
"They say that mom was in a cafe one afternoon. I was on his lap. The waitress jokingly said
she would buy me. 'A mug of beer and it's yours,' said Mom. The waitress brought the beer
and mom left the place without me. Days later, my aunt had to look for the waitress all over
town to bring me back."

First crimes

It is known that his first armed robbery was in 1947 at the age of thirteen at a food store. After
this incident, Manson was locked up in an institute from which he escaped four days later with
another boy. Along the way Manson and his friend committed two other armed crimes.

First arrest

In 1951 , after a series of arrests and escapes, Charles Manson was sent to prison for driving a
stolen vehicle. At the end of 1952 there were eight charges against him. He was transferred to
another prison and released in 1954 for good behavior. In 1954, at nineteen years of age,
Manson married Jean Willis , a seventeen-year-old nurse. He would have his first child with
her.

Second arrest

He was later arrested again for vehicle theft. In 1958 he was provisionally released, but was
arrested again in 1959 for check forgery . Shortly afterwards, already divorced from his first
wife, he married the prostitute Candy "Leona" Stevens , to prevent her from testifying against
him in a trial. From that marriage, Charles Luther Manson , their second known child, was
born. At that time, and again in prison, his esoteric training began. Read about Buddhism and
Orientalism. Manson began experimenting with hallucinogenic and rather strong drugs
designed to cause psychotic shock, such as LSD and other derivatives. He begins to use
concepts that would be fundamental when presenting his particular Apocalypse.

Manson had spent most of his adult life in prison, primarily for vehicle theft and fraud,
although he was also charged with pimping .

Birth of "The Family"

He was released in March 1967 and moved to San Francisco , where he gathered a group of
followers he would refer to as "The Family." Shortly afterward he moved again, this time to Los
Angeles with "La Familia."

Relationship with Dennis Wilson and Terry Melcher

Manson released the album Lie on March 6, 1970 (recorded between September '67 and
August '68) to finance his defense. One of the songs on the album had previously been
recorded by the Beach Boys , one of whose members, Dennis Wilson , had been a close
collaborator with "La Familia". The work is a mix between folk and country. This album
contained the single "Look at your game girl", a song where Manson sounds very inspired
singing only with his not-so-tuned guitar. This song, years later, was covered by Guns N' Roses
on their album The Spaghetti Incident?

Helter Skelter

Manson reinterpreted the meaning of The Beatles ' White Album, published in 1968 , as a kind
of announcement of the apocalypse : that African Americans would start a civil war against
whites, from which they would emerge victorious. Later, unable to manage their victory, they
would seek advice from "The Manson Family."

Crimes of "The Family"

Murders at Cielo Drive 10050

On the night of August 8, 1969 , Charles Watson (Tex), Patricia Krenwinkel , Susan Atkins and
Linda Kasabian entered the residence 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills , California , and
Manson's acolytes savagely killed Sharon Tate , the woman of Roman Polanski , who was eight
months pregnant, cutting off her breasts and receiving sixteen stab wounds, of which eleven
were like torture and five of them, according to the coroner, were fatal due to necessity.
Leaving her to bleed to death, they hung her from the ceiling alongside Jay Sebring. Their other
guests, Abigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski , were stabbed in the mansion's exterior gardens.

Before entering, they had shot dead young Steven Parent , who was leaving the house at that
time. Linda Kasabian , a fan of "La Familia", later received immunity for giving information
against the group.

There has been much speculation about the motive for this crime, which even today is not very
clear. At first it was said that the choice of the house had been coincidental. It is known that
Manson had already been to that mansion on at least two occasions.

It is said that the possible motive was the filming of the Roman Polanski film Rosemary's Baby .
The director had suffered threats due to the filming by esoteric groups of the time, since it
dealt with a controversial topic such as the practice of Satanism among the people of the
American elite and the advent of a son of the devil just like God sent Jesus. to the earth.

On the walls of the room the murderers wrote in their victims' blood such as "Pig" and "Helter
Skelter."

It was currently discovered that the motive for the murders had to do with a personal vendetta
against Sharon Tate's hairdresser, Jay Sebring, who had paid a couple of women (supposed
followers of Manson) to allow themselves to be "sexually humiliated" by Sebring. In revenge,
the members of The Family went to the place where the hairdresser was and, mistaking Tate
for a lover, decided to kill him in front of him.

Murder of the LaBiancas

The next night, Manson entered the home of businessman Leno LaBianca and his wife
Rosemary on the outskirts of Los Angeles . After assuring them that he would not harm them,
he tied them up and let in Tex, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, who killed the
couple, stabbing them to death.

Judicial process

Investigation

Members of "The Family" had already been responsible for the murder of Gary Hinman, a
music teacher, and were believed to be responsible for many other murders.

Arrest

Manson had not been present at the murders, but was sentenced for conspiracy on January
25, 1971 , and, on March 29 of the same year, to the death penalty . This sentence was later
commuted to life imprisonment after the California Supreme Court abolished the death
penalty in that state.

Manson is serving time at Corcoran State Prison in Kings County , California.

Post-trial period

Attack on President Ford

On September 5, 1976 , another member of "The Family", Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme ,

unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford .

Recent years

In the late 1980s, Jan Holmstron, a 36-year-old Hare Krishna convicted in the same prison as
Manson, tried to burn him alive by pouring a can of paint on him and setting him on fire,
causing minor injuries.

Even after being locked up for life, Charles Manson's name periodically makes it into
newspapers around the world. From time to time he allows a journalist or even a television
station to visit him in his "involuntary withdrawal from the world", as happened in February
1987 with a large American television network where he declared that he had nothing to
regret.

Manson in popular culture

Manson as a musician

Manson's relationship with music goes from personal to the influences and interpretations
that the murderer collected. Dennis Wilson , a member of the Beach Boys , was a member of
the group close to Manson. Wilson collaborated with him musically when he recorded his first
album, Lie (1970), seeking to raise funds for his judicial defense. They shared eternal parties
adorned with lots of drugs and many women. This relationship ended amicably when
Manson's involvement in several crimes, including the murder of Sharon Tate, was confirmed.

With The Beatles the crossover is rather symbolic: Manson interpreted the song Helter Skelter
(name of a typically British colored slide) as a warning of the coming of the Apocalypse , which
supposedly also indicated how to proceed in his crimes. In fact, the name of this song was
written in blood on one of the walls of the crime scene where Polanski's wife was murdered.
Furthermore, within the same White Album , there is the song Piggies , which was interpreted
as a mockery of the ruling class. The four Beatles were for Manson “The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse,” a group of which he always longed to be the fifth member.

Manson has inspired other musicians, including Marilyn Manson . Among the musicians who
have declared themselves admirers of Manson's ideas are Johnny Ramone , of The Ramones ,
Daron Malakian (guitarist of System of a Down and Scars on Broadway ) and Chris Holmes
(who was guitarist of WASP

Leonard Cohen references Manson in his song titled "The Future", which is part of the
soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers . The group Paradise Lost dedicated the
song "Forever Failure" to him, including Draconian Times . The group Suicidal Tendencies
names him in the song "You can't bring me down" from the album
Lights...Camera...Revolution!

Documentaries

Helter Skelter (1976)

Also know as:

 Latin America: "The crimes of the Manson clan"

 West Germany: "Helter Skelter - Die Nacht der langen Messer"
 Denmark: "Manson kulten"
 United States (USA): "Massacre in Hollywood"
 Finland:"Verinen veljeskunta"

Helter Skelter (2004)

(A new take on the "Manson Family" murders based on the experience of Charles Manson) [1]

ENRIQUETA MARTI

Enriqueta Martí Ripollés ( San Felíu de Llobregat , 1868 – Barcelona , May 12 , 1913 ) was a
serial killer , kidnapper and pimp of children. Popularly known as the vampire of Carrer de
Ponent or the vampire of Barcelona .
Biography

At a very young age, Enriqueta moved from her hometown ( Sant Feliu de Llobregat ) to
Barcelona where she worked as a babysitter but soon began to practice prostitution , both in
brothels and in places dedicated to this activity, such as the Port of Barcelona or the Portal of
Santa Madrona . In 1895 she married an artist, a painter named Joan Pujaló , but the marriage
failed due, according to Pujaló, to Enriqueta's fondness for men, her strange, false,
unpredictable character, and her continuous visits to low-life houses. Despite being married,
she did not stop frequenting prostitution environments or the world of low-living people. The
couple reconciled and separated about six times. At the time of Enriqueta's arrest in 1912, the
couple had been living apart for more than five years and had no children.

Enriqueta led a double life. During the day he begged and begged in almshouses, convents and
parishes, wearing rags and sometimes carrying children by the hand that he passed them off as
his children. Later, he prostituted them or murdered them. She had no need to beg since her
double job as a pimp and prostitute gave her enough money to live without problems. At night
he dressed in luxurious clothes, hats and wigs, and was seen at the Teatre del Liceu , the
Casino de la Arrabassada and other places where the wealthy class of Barcelona went. It is
likely that in these places she offered her services as a pimp specializing in children. In 1909
she was arrested in her apartment on Minerva Street in Barcelona accused of running a
brothel where sexual services were offered to children between 3 and 14 years old. Along with
her, a young man from a family of high social position was arrested. Thanks to her contacts
with high-ranking figures in Barcelona who hired her services as a child pimp, Enriqueta never
had a trial for the brothel affair and the process was lost in judicial and bureaucratic oblivion.

At the same time as pimping children, she also practiced the profession of healer. The products
he used to make his remedies were composed of human remains of the creatures he killed,
which ranged from infants to 9-year-olds. He used almost everything from those children, the
fat, the blood, the hair, the bones (which he normally transformed into powder); For this
reason he had no problem disposing of the bodies of his victims. Enriqueta offered her
ointments, ointments, filters, poultices and potions, especially to cure tuberculosis , so feared
at that time, and all types of diseases that had no cure in traditional medicine. Upper class
people paid large sums of money for these remedies.

He is suspected of kidnapping an unknown number of creatures. At the time of his last arrest ,
the bones of a total of twelve children. The forensic experts had a lot of work since there were
few remains and they managed to differentiate a total of twelve children. Enriqueta is possibly
the deadliest serial killer in Spain. If it becomes known how many creatures he kidnapped and
killed, the number would probably skyrocket. What is clear is that he had been performing in
Barcelona for many years because in popular culture it is suspected that someone was taking
babies. There were many children who disappeared without a trace and there was well-
founded fear among the population.

The first mezzanine of 29 Calle de Ponent

On February 10, 1912, he kidnapped his last victim: Teresita Guitart Congost . For two weeks
everyone looked for her and, on this occasion, there was great popular indignation as it was
shown that the population's fear was true and that the authorities had been extremely passive
on this issue. It would be a gossipy neighbor, Claudia Elías, who would find Teresita's clue. On
February 17, he saw a girl with shaved hair looking from a window in the inner courtyard of his
staircase. The apartment was the mezzanine of number 29 Calle de Ponent. Mrs. Elías had
never seen that girl. The little girl was playing with another creature and Claudia asked her
neighbor when she saw her appear through the window if that girl was hers. The neighbor in
question was Enriqueta Martí, who closed the window without saying a word. Claudia Elías,
surprised, told the fact to the colchonero on the same street with whom she was friends and
let him know that she suspected that the little girl was Teresita Guitart Congost. It had also
made him suspicious of the strange life his mezzanine neighbor was leading. The mattress
owner informed a municipal agent, José Asens, of his suspicions about what was happening in
Enriqueta's apartment and he, in turn, communicated it to his boss, Brigadier Ribot . On
February 27, with the excuse of a complaint for having chickens in the apartment, Brigadier
Ribot and two other agents went to look for Enriqueta who was in the patio on Ferlandina
Street. Letting her know the complaint, they took the murderer to her apartment. She looked
surprised but did not resist, probably to avoid arousing suspicion. When the police entered,
they found two girls on the floor. One of them was Teresita Guitard Congost and the other
was a girl named Angelita . Teresita was returned to her parents, after having testified. She
explained how at one point when she left her mother, Enriqueta took her by the hand,
promising her candy, but when Teresita realized that she was taking her too far from her
house, she wanted to return and Enriqueta covered her with a black cloth, holding her by the
hand. strength and taking her to her apartment. As soon as she got home, Enriqueta cut her
hair and changed her name to Felicidad, telling her that she had no parents, that she was her
stepmother and that that was what she should call her when they went out. He fed her poorly,
with potatoes and stale bread , he did not hit her but he did pinch her, and he had forbidden
her from going out to the windows and balconies. He also declared that he used to leave them
alone and that one day they ventured to look in the rooms that Enriqueta had forbidden them
to enter. In this adventure they found a bag with girl's clothes full of blood and a boning knife
also full of blood. Teresita never left the apartment during the time she was kidnapped.
Angelita's statement was more terrifying. Before Teresita arrived home there was another
child, five years old named Pepito . Angelita declared that she saw how the one she called
mom had killed him at the kitchen table. Enriqueta did not realize that the girl had seen her
and Angelita ran to hide in bed and pretend to be asleep. Angelita's identity was more difficult
to determine due to the vagueness of Enriqueta's first statements. The little girl did not know
what surname she had and Enriqueta stated that they had explained to her that her father's
name was Joan. The kidnapper maintained that she was her and Joan Pujaló's daughter.
Enriqueta's husband appeared before the judge of his own free will just to find out about his
wife's arrest and declared that he had not lived with her for years, that he had not had
children and that he did not know where little Angelita had come from. In the end, Enriqueta
declared that she had taken her when she was a newborn from her sister-in-law, whom she
made believe that the girl had died at birth. Enriqueta Martí Ripollés was arrested and
admitted to the "Reina Amalia" prison, an institution demolished in 1936 .

In a second inspection of the apartment, the bag the girls were talking about was found, with
children's clothing full of blood and the knife. They also found another bag with dirty clothes
but at the bottom it had small human bones, at least thirty. The bones had marks from having
been exposed to fire. They also found a sumptuously decorated living room with a closet with
pretty boys' and girls' dresses. This room contrasted with the rest of the apartment, which was
very austere and poor and where it smelled bad. In another locked room they found the horror
that Enriqueta Martí was hiding. In it, there were about fifty jugs, pots and basins with
preserved human remains: fat made into butter, clotted blood, creature hair, skeletons of
hands, bone powder... Also pots with potions, ointments and ointments already prepared for
sale. Following the inspection, two more apartments were searched where Enriqueta had
lived: an apartment on Tallers Street, a third on Picalqués Street, and a small house on Jocs
Florals Street, in Sants . In all of them false walls and human remains were found on the
ceilings. In the garden of the house on Calle dels Jocs Florals they found a skull of a three-year-
old child and a series of bones that corresponded to children of 3, 6 and 8 years old. Some
remains still had pieces of clothing, such as a darned sock, which suggested that Enriqueta had
a habit of kidnapping children from very poor families with limited means to search for her
missing son. Another home was found in Sant Feliu de Llobregat , property of Enriqueta's
family, where remains of creatures in vases and pots, and books of remedies were also found.
The house belonged to the Martí family and was known in the town by the nickname "Lindo",
but it was locked up due to the poor management of Enriqueta's father, according to the
testimony of her husband, Joan Pujaló.

Curious things were also found in Ponent's apartment: a very old book with parchment covers,
a notebook where recipes and potions were written in very elegant calligraphy, a packet of
letters and notes written in coded language, and a list with names of families and very
important personalities from Barcelona . This list was very controversial since among the
population it was believed that it was the list of Enriqueta's rich clients. People believed that
they would not pay for their crimes of pedophilia or purchasing human remains to cure their
health because they were rich people. The police tried to keep the list secret. But rumor
spread that there were doctors, politicians, businessmen or bankers. The authorities, who had
the Tragic Week very much in mind and fearing that there would be a popular riot, calmed the
people's spirits, causing the ABC to publish an article explaining that on the famous list there
were only names of people whom Enriqueta was begging and that these families and
personalities had been defrauded by the lies and pleas of the murderer.

Enriqueta was imprisoned in the "Reina Amàlia" prison awaiting trial. She tried to commit
suicide by cutting her wrists with a wooden knife, which sparked popular indignation because
people wanted Enriqueta to go to trial and be executed with the vile garrote . The prison
authorities made it known through the press that measures had been taken so that Enriqueta
would never be left alone, making three of the most charismatic inmates in the prison share a
cell with her. They had instructions to uncover the sheets if they became covered to prevent
them from opening their veins with their teeth.

But Enriqueta never came to trial for her crimes. One year and three months after his arrest
and the popular indignation had passed, his death came. Her fellow prisoners killed her by
lynching her in one of the prison courtyards. Enriqueta's trial was in the investigation phase at
that time. The murder of the woman did not give the opportunity for the whole truth and all
the secrets she was hiding to be known in a trial. The kidnapper and murderer died in the early
morning of May 12, 1913 , officially from a long illness, but in reality as a result of a brutal
beating. She was buried with complete discretion in the common grave of the Southwest
Cemetery, located on the Montjuïc mountain in Barcelona .

Enriqueta's statements. Testimonials

She was questioned about the presence of Teresita Guitard in her house and she gave the
explanation that she had found her lost and starving the day before in the Ronda de Sant Pau.
Claudia Elías denied this because she had seen her at home many days before the arrest.

Enriqueta changed her first surname, Martí, to Marina. With this last name she made herself
known and rented the apartments from which she was almost always kicked out for not paying
the rent. During her statements to the police, she confessed her real surname, a fact that was
corroborated by the testimony of her husband Joan Pujaló.
She was also interrogated about the presence of bones and other human remains as well as
the creams, potions, poultices, ointments and bottles of blood prepared to sell that she had in
the apartment, as well as the scrapping knife. They let him know that the bones, according to
the forensic experts, had been subjected to high temperatures, that is, they had been burned
or cooked. Enriqueta first argued that she was studying human anatomy. Under pressure from
interrogations, she ended up confessing that she was a healer and used children as raw
material to make her remedies. She was an expert and knew how to make the best remedies
and that her preparations were very well paid by wealthy people and people of good social
standing. In a moment of weakness was when he suggested that they investigate the homes
on Tallers, Picalqués, Jocs Florals streets and his house in Sant Feliu de Llobregat . At that time,
she already knew she was convicted and wanted to benefit from her services as a pimp for
pedophiles. Despite this moment of weakness and anger at the fate that awaited her,
Enriqueta did not say a single name of her clients.

Regarding Pepito , she was asked about his whereabouts and she said that he was no longer
with her, that she had taken him to the countryside because he had gotten sick. He repeated
the excuse he had given to the neighbor, Mrs. Claudia Elías, when she asked him about the
child, surprised at not seeing or hearing him. According to her, Pepito had come into her hands
because a family had entrusted the child to her so that she could take care of it. They knew of
the little one's existence both from the testimony of Angelina and that of the neighbor Claudia
Elías, who had seen her on occasion. The testimony of her murder explained by Angelita plus
the evidence of the robbery found in a sack, the knife and some remains of fresh fat, blood and
bones shattered the murderer's excuse. These remains were Pepito's . Nor could he justify
which family had entrusted him with the child, making it clear that the little girl was another
kidnapped child.

An Aragonese immigrant from Alcañiz recognized her as the kidnapper of her months-old son,
about six years earlier, in 1906 . Enriqueta, with extraordinary kindness to the exhausted and
starving woman from a very long trip from her homeland, managed to get her to leave the
baby to her. With an ingenious excuse he walked away from his mother and then disappeared.
The mother never recovered her son nor did she ever know what she did with him. It is likely
that he used it to make his remedies. He tried to pass Angelita off as his and Joan Pujaló's
daughter. He even taught the girl to say that her father's name was Joan, but the girl was
completely unaware of his last name and had never seen her supposed father. Pujaló denied
that the girl was his, that he had never seen her and that Enriqueta had already lied to him in
the past with a false pregnancy and a false birth. A medical examination confirmed that
Enriqueta had never given birth. Enriqueta's final testimony was that Angelina was really the
daughter who had stolen her sister-in-law Maria Pujaló , whom she had assisted in childbirth,
making her believe that the child had died at birth so that she could stay with her.

FLORENCE MONSTER

Monster of Florence is the name used by the Italian media to refer to the author or authors of
a series of eight double murders that occurred between 1968 and 1985 in the province of
Florence ( Tuscany , Italy ).

The " modus operandi " was always the same, he shot young couples in normally isolated
places and then stabbed them. Later, he mutilated with precision (as a trophy), the sexual
organs of his female victims. After years without answers, several theories suggested that the
possible culprits could be related to a satanic sect .
Over several years, investigations led to the interrogation of more than one hundred thousand
suspects. However, the only person accused was a 68-year-old farmer named Pietro Pacciani
who served his sentence until February 13, 1996 . Date on which he was acquitted due to lack
of evidence. Pacciani's strange death in 1998 gave a radical turn to the investigation and the
case was closed, despite the numerous unknowns still to be resolved.

Victims

 Antonio Lo Bianco and Bárbara Locci, August 21, 1968.

 Pasquale Gentilcore and Stefania Pettini, September 14, 1974.

 Giovanni Foggi and Carmela Di Nuccio, June 6, 1981.

 Stefano Baldi and Susanna Cambi, November 22, 1981.

 Paolo Mainardi and Antonella Migliorini, June 19, 1982.

 Horst Meyer and Uwe Rush, September 9, 1983.

 Claudio Stefanacci and Pia Rontini, July 29, 1984.

Nadine Mauriot and Jean Michel Kravechvilj, September 8, 1985.

SEISAKU NAKAMURA

Seisaku Nakamura ( 中 村 誠 策 Nakamura Seisaku ? , ca. 1924 - ca. 1943 ) was a Japanese
teenager and serial killer . [1] Also known as the Hamamatsu Deaf Killer [2] He stabbed to death
at least nine people, including several teenagers, in Shizuoka Prefecture .

Early years

Seisaku Nakamura was born in Shizuoka , Japan . Despite being deaf, he was very intelligent
and achieved very high levels in school. He was never treated well by his family, which led to
aggressive social behaviors flourishing in him.

He enjoyed watching movies where men used the katana to kill people. His wish was to stab
(fatally) several people.
Murders

According to his own testimony, he tried to rape two women, but as they resisted, he ended
up murdering them on August 22, 1938 . [1] I was 14 years old when this happened. However,
despite his testimony, these two crimes are occasionally excluded from his murder list.

On August 18, 1941 , at the age of 17, Seisaku Nakamura ended another life, that of a woman,
in addition to injuring another. On August 20, three other people were found dead, murdered
by Nakamura. On September 27 , he murders his brother, in addition to wounding his father,
sister, his brother's wife and son. On August 30, 1942 , he murdered a couple, his daughter and
son. In addition, he tries to rape the couple's other daughter, but quickly gives up. [1]

Arrest, trial and execution

He was arrested on October 12, 1942 and charged with nine murders. Despite this, he
admitted to two more murders. [1] On November 11, his father, Fumisada Nakamura (中村文貞
' Nakamura Fumisada' ? ) committed suicide. [3]

He was tried as an adult under the Military Law that applied at the time; Senji Keiji Tokubetsu
Hou (戦時刑事特別法 ? ). The doctors who examined him said that he was not responsible
because he was insane. However, the trial ended quickly, in which he was sentenced to death .
He was executed shortly afterwards.

DENNIS NILSEN

Dennis Andrew Nilsen ( 23 November 1945 in Fraserburgh , Aberdeenshire , Scotland ) is a

British serial killer .

Nationality Date of birth place of birth

Fraserburgh , Aberdeenshire ,
British November 23 , 1945
Early Scotland life

Son of
Olav Nilsen ( Norwegian ) and Betty Whyte ( British ), Dennis had a very difficult childhood due
to his parents' disastrous marriage, and his father's alcoholism . The marriage only lasted 7
years and after the divorce everything remained as before, nothing had improved the life of
little Nilsen, who had two more sisters who lived with their grandparents, like him. After this,
when Nilsen was 6 years old, his grandfather, Andrew Whyte, died. Due to his age he is not
informed of the events, but his mother, a religious fanatic, takes little Nilsen to see his
grandfather's corpse , something that created a great emotional void in him and that would
mark him for life. We must also highlight the anecdote of the age of 8, when Nilsen went
swimming at the beach , and about to drown, he was rescued by a boy who supposedly
became sexually excited with him and masturbated on Nilsen, finding a white substance in his
stomach upon waking up from his faint. Although most serial killers had a childhood plagued
by problems such as cruelty to animals or pyromania , it should be noted that Nilsen had a
fairly peaceful childhood . Nilsen's biggest problems derived from the experiences he had to go
through and the deaths he survived, such as that of his grandfather or that of a man who had
drowned in a river . Seeing the corpses would mark Nilsen for life. From his youth , Nilsen had
a clear homosexual orientation, and, in fact, he was once impressed with his brother's naked
torso; fantasizing, he tries to explore it, but immediately dismisses the idea. In 1961 he
enlisted in the British Army , where he took advantage of the solitude of his room to place a
mirror in front of his bed and fantasize that he was a corpse , for whom he felt adoration. In
1972 he left the army to work as a surveillance officer , but it did not last long and he went to
work in an employment agency, where he would work until his arrest.

First crimes

In 1978, Nilsen meets a young man in a bar; She then invites him to her apartment, where they
have sex. The next morning, Nilsen wakes up and seeing his bedmate sleeping, he realizes that
it won't be long before his partner gets dressed and leaves. At that moment, Nilsen takes a tie
and strangles him, then drowns him in water and observes his corpse . The next morning,
Nilsen would bathe the corpse and take it to his bed, where he had sexual relations with it (
necrophilia ). He would then store the corpse on the boards in his room. Seven months later,
he would gather the remains and burn them in a bonfire. Thus, Nilsen would murder 14 men,
students, homeless people or his partners, whom he would strangle , drown , dismember and
throw their remains down his pipes.

Arrest, trial and sentence

By mid-1983, Nilsen's neighbors can't stand the smell coming out of their pipes, and when they
are clogged, they call a plumber, who finds rotting human flesh floating in the toilets, so he
calls the police . After a long investigation, the police arrive at the house of Nilsen, a 37-year-
old employee. One day when Nilsen was returning from work, he sees three men at his door.
The astute police officer, Peter Jay, answers Nilsen's question about why the police were
interested in him by telling him bluntly: "Show us the other bodies, Nilsen" , to which Nilsen
surprisingly replied "yes, come in; they're in the closet and in the bathroom." When asked how
many he had killed, Nilsen replied "15 or 16, I don't remember." He was immediately arrested.

Finally, on November 4, 1983, Nilsen was found guilty of 6 murders and two attempted
murders, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 25 years in prison.

Shortly after, the death of Dennis Nilsen's first victim, a boy of only 14 years old, was
confirmed. After this, Nielsen was sentenced again, without being eligible for parole.

Victims

 Victim 1 : Stephen Dean Holmes : He was 14 years old when Nilsen murdered him on
December 30 , 1978 . I had met him at a gay bar.
 Victim 2 : The second victim was murdered on December 3, 1979 , a 23-year-old
Canadian student named Kenneth Ockendon , whom Nilsen strangled .
  Victim 3 : Martyn Duffey , 16, from Birkenhead , Merseyside , England . He was
assassinated in May 1980 .
 Victim 4 : Billy Sutherland , 26, from Scotland , United Kingdom .
 Victim 5 : It was a man who provided sexual services who was never identified; It is
estimated that it came from Thailand or the Philippines .
 Victim 6 : Nilsen remembered little about this one, as he said; I remembered that it
was an Irish man.
 Victim 7 : Nilsen defined him as a "hippie" he found in Charing Cross , London ,
England .
 Victim 8 : Nilsen remembered little about this victim; only that he recovered 3 pieces a
year after murdering him. Then he buried it.
 Victim 9 and 10 : They were two young Scots he found in Soho , London .
 Victim 11 : Was a skinhead that Nilsen found in Piccadilly Circus .
 Victim 12 : It occurred on September 18 , 1980 ; It was a young man named Malcolm
Barlow .
 Victim 13 : In December 1981 , Nilsen also murders John Howlett .
 Victim 14 – Was a man called Graham Allen who met Nilsen on Shaftesbury Avenue .
 Victim 15 : On February 1, 1983, Stephen Sinclair was murdered, and was Dennis
Nilsen's last victim.


COLIN NORRIS

Colin Norris Photo

Birth 1976
Glasgow , Scotland , United Kingdom

Position(s) Murder (4 counts)

Sentence Life imprisonment

Current situation In prison

Spouse Marc Wildes (separated)

Colin Campbell Norris (b. 1976 in Glasgow ) is a British nurse and serial killer convicted of the
murders of four elderly women, committed in a hospital in the city of Leeds in 2002. In 2008,
he was sentenced to life in prison with at least 30 years of mandatory confinement.

Crimes

Suspicions about Norris began when he predicted the death of one of the women.
Furthermore, his ironic statements towards his colleagues only accentuated those doubts that
fell on him. Among other things, he used to say that there was always someone who didn't
spend their shifts. [1] All the victims were elderly, for whom Norris confessed to feeling "little
patience and affection."

He injected high levels of insulin into the victims and although they were all women, Norris is
homosexual .

Trial and conviction

On March 3, 2008, the jury returned after deliberations to find Norris guilty of four counts of
murder and one count of attempted murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with a
minimum of 30 years in prison. Judge Mr Justice Griffith ruled out the possibility of euthanasia
considering that none of the victims were at risk. When reading the ruling, he addressed him.

"I have absolutely no doubt that you are an evil and dangerous man. You are an arrogant and
manipulative person with a great rejection of older people. You are essentially lazy."

ANATOLY ONOPRIENKO

Anatoly Onoprienko

Birth July 25 , 1959 (51 years old)

Ukraine

Position(s) Murder

Sentence Death sentence commuted to life

imprisonment

Current No right to freedom

situation

Occupation Prisoner

Anatoly Onoprienko ( Ukrainian : Анатолій Онопрієнко, ( Zhytomyr , Ukraine , 25 July 1959 )

is a Ukrainian serial killer. Known by the nicknames "The Beast of Ukraine", "The Exterminator"
and "Citizen O". After police arrested the 37-year-old student forest ranger on April 16, 1996,
Onoprienko confessed to killing 52 people.

Crimes

Onoprienko, 39 years old, medium height, sportsman-like, rational, educated, eloquent, gifted
with an excellent memory and devoid of pity. Single, the father of a child, he acknowledged
having had a very difficult childhood: his mother had died when he was 4 years old, and his
father and older brother had abandoned him in an orphanage. As an adult, to earn a living, he
had gone to sea as a sailor and had been a firefighter in the town of Dneprorudnoye . He had
then emigrated abroad to work as a laborer during that time, but he confessed that his
primary source of income was criminal: robberies and assaults. Onoprienko's criminal acts
began in the late 1980s. In 1989, he and his partner Serhiy Rogozin robbed and killed nine
people. With the police searching for him, Onoprienko chose to leave the country illegally to
tour Austria, France, Greece and Germany, where he would be arrested for six months for
theft and then be expelled. In 1995, he would return to Ukraine where he would kill again and
establish a wave of crimes and terror in the Zhitomir region. Between October 1995 and March
1996, he killed 43 more people. On Christmas Eve 1995, the attack on the Zaichenko family's
isolated home occurred. The father, mother and two children dead and the house burned to
leave no traces. Six days later, the scene was repeated with another family of four. Up to eight
families were attacked and murdered by Onoprienko during those six months in the Odessa ,
Lvov and Dniepropetrovsk regions.

And this used to be the killer's modus operandi. He would enter a house shortly before dawn,
gather the inhabitants and kill the men with a firearm and the women and children with a
knife, an ax or a hammer. Afterwards, he would set fire to the house and if anyone was
unlucky enough to cross his path, they would also end up dead. He even killed a three-month-
old baby in his crib, suffocating him with a pillow. Anatoli Onoprienko followed in the footsteps
of the legendary Andrei Chikatilo . They both killed the same number of victims, but they are
very different. Chikatilo, executed in 1994, was a sex maniac. He only killed women and
children, whose bodies he raped and mutilated. Sometimes he ate the entrails. None of this
appears in the file of Onoprienko, a thief who killed to steal, with unusual brutality and
lightness, but without the scenes of the sexual maniac. Onoprienko surpasses Chikatilo for the
short period in which he carried out his killing: six months compared to twelve years. These
massacres prompted the second largest and most complicated criminal investigation in
Ukrainian history after that launched for the arrest of Andrei Chikatilo . The Ukrainian
government sent a large part of the National Guard with the mission of ensuring the safety of
citizens and mobilized more than 2,000 investigators from the federal and local police. The
police began searching for a traveling figure and compiled a list that included a man who
frequently traveled through southwestern Ukraine to visit his girlfriend. The profile of the
murderer corresponded to a traveling character in the southern part of the country. In March
1996, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) arrested 26-year-old Yury Mozola as a suspect in
the murders. For six days, security members tortured the detainee using fire and electric
charges. Mozola refused to confess the facts and died under torture. Seven people responsible
for the death were imprisoned for it.

Apprehension of the murderer

Finally, all suspicions fell towards Onoprienko. The definitive evidence was found in the
apartment of his girlfriend and her brother, they found a stolen gun and 122 objects belonging
to the victims. When the police asked him for his documents at the door of his house,
Onoprienko did not want to make their task easier, and made a vain effort to obtain a weapon
and defend himself. When he was arrested, he immediately confessed to eight crimes
committed between 1989 and 1995. Although he denied the rest of the murders, he soon
admitted that his list amounted to 52 in six years of hunting. But he did not regret any of his
actions. At a certain point in the investigation, the accused stated that he heard a series of
voices in his head from some "extraterrestrial gods" who had chosen him because they
considered him "of a higher level" and had ordered him to carry out the crimes. He also
claimed that he had hypnotic powers and that he could communicate with animals through
telepathy, in addition to being able to stop the heart with his mind through yoga exercises.
Onoprienko trial

On November 23, 1998 , the trial began in Zhitomir . In the room the screams of a crazed
public demanding the head of the accused were contrasted with the calm of Onoprienko. The
murderer still did not repent of any of his crimes. The trial was one of the most complex and
expensive in the history of Ukrainian justice. More than 400 witnesses and hundreds of
specialists took the stand. The medical expert opinion has described him as perfectly sane who
can and must assume the consequences of his actions. He defined himself as a "thief" who
killed to steal. The prosecution requested the death penalty for Onoprienko. Even the
Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, gave explanations to the Council of Europe for violating
in this case the moratorium on the execution of the death penalty that his country has
maintained since March 1997. In the end he was found guilty but his death sentence was
commuted to life imprisonment.

OTTIS TOOLE

Ottis Elwood Toole ( March 5 , 1947 – September 15 , 1996 ), sometimes misspelled as “Otis,”
was an American serial killer . Although he admitted to charges of murder , rape , and
cannibalism , and was the prime suspect in several unsolved murders, he recanted and
reiterated several confessions.

Toole was convicted of murder twice, and confessed four more while in prison.

Youth

Toole was a native of Jacksonville , Florida . His father abandoned his family when Toole was
young, and he would claim years later that his mother was a religious fanatic, and that his
sister dressed him in feminine clothes. Toole also claimed that his grandmother practiced
Satanism , and that she exposed him to various practices and rituals in his youth. He
repeatedly ran away from home, and is also accused of starting fires in abandoned houses
from an early age.
Toole confessed to having committed his first murder at the age of 14, when after receiving a
sexual proposal from a traveling salesman, he ran him over with his own car. Toole was first
arrested as an adult in 1964, on a charge of vagrancy on suspicion.

Reputed murders

In about 1978, Toole met Henry Lee Lucas in Florida . Later, both would claim to have
committed hundreds of murders, sometimes under the orders of a secret cult called “The Hand
of Death.” Lucas would retract his confessions, stating that he only made them in order to
improve his conditions in prison. Although some authorities have stated that there are
significant doubts about Lucas' guilt, Toole is still generally viewed as a serial killer.

On October 21, 1983 , Toole confessed to the murder of Adam Walsh . He claimed to have
kidnapped, raped, and killed him, and then destroyed his body and threw it to the alligators in
a nearby swamp. However, weeks after Toole made the confession, police investigating the
case announced that they were no longer considering him a suspect. John Walsh , Adam's
father, has repeatedly stated that he believes Toole is the culprit.

Imprisonment and death

In April 1984 , Toole was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 arson attack that
killed 64-year-old George Sonnenberg in Jacksonville, Florida. Toole was later found guilty of
the 1983 murder of 19-year-old Tallahassee , Florida resident Ada Johnson, for which she
received a second death sentence; On appeal, however, both sentences were commuted to
life imprisonment. While serving his sentence, Toole was briefly housed next to Ted Bundy at
Florida 's Raiford Prison .

Toole was convicted of four more murders in 1991 and received four life sentences.

Toole died in September 1996 in prison from cirrhosis of the liver. At the time of his death, he
was writing a television script for a children's special that he hoped to sell to a television
network. It was called “Christmas with Ottis Toole.”

Park Journee Estep

In 1974, Park Journee Estep pleaded guilty to the murder of a massage parlor attendant in
Colorado Springs , Colorado . The woman, Sun Ok Cousin, was attacked along with a co-worker,
Yon Lee. The latter survived being stabbed and slashed in the throat, although both women
were set on fire. In his testimony, Lee described his attacker as clean-shaven, 6' 2", 195
pounds, and driving a white pickup truck.

Estep affirmed his innocence and was provisionally released. At the time of the murder, he
wore a mustache, was 5' 10", weighed 150 pounds, and was driving a red pickup truck. In
1984, defense investigators relied on Toole's confession to the murder in order to defend
Estep. However, Toole's mother testified that the van's tires had been slashed by vandals the
day of Cousin's murder, and that her son was there as a witness when police answered the
call. Confronted with the report, Toole retracted his confession.

Toole's description of the circumstances surrounding the crime supported his story. The
confession sparked a flurry of activity on the part of the defense and prosecuting prosecutors,
both of whom were involved in the original trial, including interviews with Toole and Lucas. On
January 23, 1985 , a documentary titled “Park Estep: A Reasonable Doubt” aired on KKTV in
Colorado Springs , discussing the recent changes in evidence.

In popular culture

A character based on Toole was used by Tom Towles in “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.”

DAGMAR OVERBYE

Dagmar Johanne Amalie Overbye ( 23 April 1883 – 6 May 1929 ) was a Danish serial killer,
guilty of killing between 9 and 25 children (including her own son) between 1913 and 1920 .
On March 3, 1921 , she was sentenced to the death penalty in one of the most important trials
in the history of Denmark , which marked a change in the legislation on child care workers. [1]
The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment .

Biography

Overbye was working as a professional nanny, taking care of children of single mothers or
extramarital relationships. Dagmar strangled them or burned them. The bodies were cremated
or hidden in the attic. Oberbye was convicted of nine murders because there was no evidence
of others. Her lawyer based her defense on the fact that Oberbye had suffered abuse when
she was little, but that did not impress the judge. After the death sentence was lifted, he died
in prison on May 6, 1949 at the age of 46. Overbye was one of three women sentenced to
death in Denmark in the 20th century, all of whom were saved. Reports of his case can be
found in the Politihistorisk Museum (Museum of Police History) in Nørrebro , Copenhagen and
is even part of Danish folklore. Thus, the writer Karen Søndergaard Jensen wrote a novel called
"Englemagersken" , based on the Oberbye murders, and the company Teatret ved Sorte Hest
in Copenhagen made a work called "Historien om en Mo(r)der" .
ALFERD PACKER

Alferd Packer.

Alferd Packer ( Allegheny , United States , January 21 , 1842 - April 23, 1907 ) is popularly
known as one of only two Americans imprisoned for cannibalism , along with Albert Fish .

Life

Alferd Packer was born (as Alfred G. Packer) in Allegheny County , Pennsylvania , in the United
States , on January 21, 1842 . He served in the American Civil War on the Union side,
presumably in an Iowa regiment , but was discharged because he suffered from epilepsy .

While he lived in Colorado he was an explorer and mountaineering guide.

In 1874 he carried out an expedition with a group of 5 explorers. But during the walk there was
a blizzard and the temperatures dropped a lot. Days later he appeared at the base village and
when asked about his traveling companions he responded that they had frozen to death. On
one occasion Packer confessed that he had eaten his traveling companions.

An explorer found the remains of the five men on the mountain without skin on their bodies.
He photographed the bodies and presented the images to the police. The law enforcement
officers, upon finding the remains of the explorers, ordered the capture of Packer, who,
although he tried to escape, was imprisoned.

At the trial he confessed to having eaten human flesh and killed one of them in self-defense.
The judge did not believe him and he was sentenced to death. But before his execution, which
would be carried out by hanging, he made an appeal, which ended up canceling his execution.

He had to be tried again. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, but after fifteen years in
prison he was free. Six years later he died.
MARCEL PETIOT

Marcel Petiot, Dr. Death . The psychiatrists who examined him before the trial declared that he
was a man of sound mind.

Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot , alias Docteur Petiot ( Doctor Petiot ), alias capitaine Valéry (
Captain Valéry ), born January 17 , 1897 in Auxerre ( Yonne ) and guillotined on May 25, 1946
in Paris , was a French doctor , who became a serial killer operating in France occupied by Nazi
Germany during World War II , whose murders in Paris were discovered very soon after the
Liberation of Paris .

He can be considered a serial killer . He posed as a member of the French Resistance and lured
wealthy Jews to his home, making them believe that he could make them clandestinely leave
the country. Instead, he murdered them and stole their belongings, killing 63 people before he
was finally caught.

Childhood

He was born on January 17, 1897 in the town of Auxerre ( Yonne department ). His father died
when he was only five years old and his mother died three years later, so the boy was
entrusted to the care of several uncles and aunts. Perhaps because of this difficult situation,
his education was not like that of a normal child, much less did he have the affection that
children need in those crucial years of life.

As a child he showed considerable intelligence, but at the same time he revealed certain
sadistic tendencies that worried those around him: from submerging his cat 's paws in a pot of
boiling water to suffocating this same animal with his own hands, or torturing others. animals
gouging out their eyes to have fun watching them hit the walls once they were blind.

He also had a habit of stealing everything he could get his hands on. To his classmates,
medicines in the army when he was a soldier (to later sell on the black market ) and even the
municipal funds of the mayor of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne when he ran for municipal elections.

It is enough to observe his serious penchant for pyromania , his cruelty to animals, his chronic
gambling , in addition to serious and continuous depressive attacks, an advanced paranoia and
a chronic state of melancholy , added to his compulsive lies and his attitude of contempt
towards everything. society or its cold blood almost devoid of feelings. Without a doubt, this
character sounds quite unbalanced to us and reflects a personality well known to all of us: a
sociopathic personality.
Youth

During the First World War , enlisted in the French Army , he was injured in the foot by a
grenade explosion, and was discharged from the Army at the beginning of 1918 due to mental
disorders and neurasthenia .

Curiously, and as is usually the case in these cases, all these dangerous facets of his life did not
prevent him from getting ahead in social life. His personal charm helped him gain prestige in
the professional field as a doctor and in a political career that he began as a councilor,
although that charm hid an unscrupulous character.

In 1921 he completed his medical studies, helped by scholarships for former war combatants.
He opened a professional practice in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne in 1922 , quickly making a name for
himself for his distribution of free vaccines but also for his kleptomania .

In 1927 he managed to be elected mayor of his town of residence, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, at

the same time as he married Georgette Lablais, daughter of a well-known local merchant. In
1935 , accused of embezzlement and appropriation of public funds, he had to leave the
mayor's office and the town itself, settling in Paris , where he opened a consultation.

In 1936 he was arrested for robbery, escaping jail time as he was considered mentally ill, and
was admitted to a psychiatric clinic for a time.

In 1941 , already under the German occupation of France, he bought a residence at number 21
Le Sueur Street, where he ordered important work, with the aim of raising the walls of the
house, preventing the view from the outside, to at the same time he adapted it as a medical
office. Later, during the police investigations, it would be discovered that he had equipped it in
the basement with a gas chamber with a peephole to spy on the death of his victims and with
a pit full of quicklime .

Crimes

Starting in 1943 , he began to suggest to people fleeing from the Gestapo that he would send
them clandestinely to Argentina , for which he made them come to his residence at night.
Under the name of Doctor Eugenio ( docteur Eugène ), he thus organized an alleged network of
the French Resistance , although his alleged escapees never reached safety in Argentina. His
network was discovered by the German secret services, with which Marcel Petiot was arrested
and tortured; After being freed, he took refuge in Yonne.

Discovery of his crimes

On March 11, 1944, the Police went to Dr. Petiot's house, alerted by the frightened neighbors
who observed a greasy black smoke and an unbearable stench emerging from the chimney .
The chimney was at risk of catching fire, since the flames could already be seen protruding
threateningly and it did not take long for the firefighters to arrive, who managed to enter the
house through the basement. There they discovered, without believing what they saw, the
horrible fuel that fed the flames: a pile of dismembered bodies. 24 deaths were demonstrated
but there could have been many more in reality.

Moments later the police arrived, and Dr. Marcel Petiot proudly explained to them that these
were "their" corpses, the remains of Germans and pro-Nazi collaborators who had been
murdered by the French Resistance and entrusted to their custody to be disposed of. from
them. The agents accepted the explanation and let him go, but not before congratulating him
for having such qualities of patriotism. Petiot assured that he was a member of the Resistance
and that his victims had been 63. Like the 27 bodies found in the basement, agents assumed
they were more German soldiers. But when it was found that those deaths had nothing to do
with the execution of Nazi collaborators, Petiot had already fled on his bicycle. From there, a
thorough search of the house was carried out, finding, in addition to the dismembered
corpses, almost 150 kilos of charred body tissue and many other bodies decomposing in a pit
in the garage that contained quicklime .

Detention

After a period of anonymity, Petiot began a series of correspondence with the newspaper
Resistance , under another name, but without changing his handwriting (which would help his
identification), saying that the Gestapo had put the bodies in his house. Thanks to that, he was
arrested again on November 2, 1944 .

Judgment

His trial began at the Seine Court on March 15, 1945 , where the doctor's true face was
discovered. He was not an underground freedom fighter, but a totally degenerate criminal. He
was accused of 27 murders based on evidence in his basement. His brother Maurice, who
supplied him with the lime, alleged that Petiot used it against cockroaches , but the enormous
volume of 400 kg supplied served to accuse him of criminal complicity. While he was detained
awaiting trial , Petiot jokingly commented at all times to the guards of his prison that Don't
stop coming to my trial, it will be wonderful and everyone will laugh , and nothing could be
further from the truth. reality: that trial was one of the most surreal and confusing in the
history of France.

At times, both the accused and the lawyer dozed peacefully in their seats, and there were even
insults between the defense and the accused when the accused stated that he was a defender
of traitors and Jews, to which the latter, furious, threatened him with break his mouth in the
same room. The prosecution claimed that Petiot lured wealthy Jews to Rue Le Sueur on the
pretext that it would help them escape harassment by German forces to other countries. Then,
he took their lives through lethal injections that he administered under the pretext of
complying with foreign health formalities, then stripped them of all the money and valuables
they owned.

At the end of three weeks of trial, the jury found him guilty of 24 of the 27 accusations and as
soon as the guilty verdict was handed down, a series of compensations were established in
favor of the victims' families. On April 4, 1946, Dr. Death was sentenced to the guillotine, but
the murderer, far from appearing scared at the moment of his death, said with more irony
than ever to the witnesses of the execution: "Gentlemen, I beg you not to look. "It's not going
to be pretty."

Execution

Marcel Petiot, thus found guilty of the crimes of which he was accused, was guillotined on May
25, 1946 in Paris , in the La Santé prison.
LONG-EARED PETISO

Cayetano Santos Godino

Name Cayetano Santos Godino

October 31 , 1896
Birth
Buenos Aires , Argentina

November 15 , 1944 (48 years old)

Death Argentina Ushuaia , Tierra del
Fuego , Argentina

Cause of death Killed in prison

Nationality Argentina

Other names The Long-Eared Petiso

Known for serial killer

Cayetano Santos Godino , better known by his nickname Petiso orejudo (b. Buenos Aires ,
Argentina , October 31 , 1896 - † Ushuaia , Argentina , November 15, 1944 ), was a serial killer
who devastated his country when he was only 16 years old, being one of the greatest
sociopaths in the history of Argentina. At the beginning of the 20th century it was responsible
for the deaths of four children, seven attempted murders and the burning of seven buildings.
Biography

His childhood

The Buenos Aires city of Buenos Aires saw the birth, on October 31, 1896 , of the son of
Calabrian immigrants Fiore Godino and Lucía Ruffo. This child who would bear the name of
Cayetano Santos would horrify Argentina some years later under the nickname of El Petiso
Orejudo .

Fiore was perhaps responsible in part for having fathered who would become the first serial
criminal in Argentine police history. An alcoholic and a batterer, he had contracted syphilis
some time before Cayetano's birth. The boy came into the world with serious health problems,
in fact, during his first years of life he was on the brink of death several times due to enteritis .
Throughout his childhood, Cayetano was a victim of severe beatings and mistreatment by his
father.

Cayetano's childhood was spent on the street, wandering. From the age of five he attends
several schools from which he is always expelled due to his lack of interest in studies and his
rebellious behavior. The scene of his raids and criminal career would be the wastelands and
tenements of the neighborhoods of Almagro and Parque Patricios , at that time still on the
edge of the pampas. It is an area of villas , of retirement, of rest. But it is also a suburb full of
countrymen and foreigners.

First Cases

 Miguel Depaoli : On September 28, 1904 , at just 7 years old, Cayetano formally began
his criminal career. By dint of deception, he takes Miguel Depaoli, almost two years
old, to a vacant lot and there he beats him and then throws him onto a pile of thorns.
A passing police officer notices what happened and takes both children to the police
station from where they would later be picked up by their respective mothers.

 Ana Nera : The following year, Cayetano attacks his neighbor Ana Nera, who was
barely 18 months old. He takes her to a vacant lot where he repeatedly hits her head
with a stone. Once again he is discovered by a police officer who puts an end to the
attack and arrests him, but given his young age, he is released that same night.

 NN : Strangely, what would be Cayetano's first murder went unnoticed and would only
be discovered years later when he recounted it, in his confession to the police.
According to him, in 1906 he took a girl of approximately 2 years old and took her to a
vacant lot on Rio de Janeiro Street where he tried to strangle her. Later, he decided to
bury her alive in a ditch that he covered with cans. The authorities, upon learning of
this crime, went to the place but found that a two-story house had been built. The
story could not be corroborated despite the fact that police files record a
disappearance report dated March 29, 1906 , of a three-year-old girl named María
Roca Face, taken at the 10th police station. The missing girl was never found.

That same year, apparently just a few days after committing his first murder, Cayetano would
be reported to the police by his father when he discovered that he had martyred some
domestic birds. Fiore finds a dead bird inside her son's shoe and, under her bed, a box where
she keeps the corpses of other birds. The minutes that were drawn up on that occasion are
reproduced below.
In the City of Buenos Aires, on the 5th day of April of the year 1906, a person appeared before
the undersigned Commissioner of Investigations, who, after taking an oath that he legally took,
for the sole purpose of justifying his personal identity, said his name was Fiore Godino, being
Italian, 42 years old, with 18 years of residence in the country, married, lamplighter and
domiciled at 623 24 de Noviembre Street. He immediately expressed: that he had a son named
Cayetano, Argentine, 9 years and 5 months old, who is absolutely rebellious against paternal
repression, resulting in him bothering all the neighbors, throwing rubble at them or insulting
them; who, wishing to correct him in some way, turns to this Police to detain him where he
deems appropriate and for as long as he wants. With which the act ended and after full
reading, it was ratified and signed. Signed: FRANCISCO LAGUARDA, Commissioner. Fiore
Godino. It was decided to arrest the minor Cayetano Godino and a statement was sent to the
Second Division Alcaidía, at the disposal of the Chief of Police.

Cayetano was detained for a little over two months and then returned to the streets. Since he
was no longer attending school, he once again dedicated himself to laziness, immersed in his
morbid fantasies, masturbating continuously.

 Severino Gozález Caló : On September 9, 1908 he returned to his old ways. He leads
Severino González Caló, 2 years old, to a warehouse located in front of the Colegio del
Sagrado Corazón. There he immerses him in a horse pool, later covering it with a board
to drown the little one. The owner of the place, Zacarías Caviglia, discovers the
attempt but Godino defends himself by saying that the child had been taken there by a
woman dressed in black of whom he provides specific details. He is taken to the police
station where he is picked up the next day.

 Julio Botte : Six days later, on September 15 , at Colombres 632, he burns the eyelids of
Julio Botte, 22 months old, with a cigarette. He is discovered by the victim's mother,
but manages to flee.

On December 6, Fiore and Lucía Godino, tired of the continuous problems caused by Cayetano,
who was then 12 years old, turned him over to the police again. This time he was sent to the
Marcos Paz Minor Colony where he remained for three years. During his confinement he
attends classes where he learns to read and write a little. Cayetano's stay in Marcos Paz, far
from regenerating him, hardens him. On December 23 , 1911 he returned to the streets; Now
he is a cold and terribly empowered criminal. His release is apparently at the request of his
parents with whom he returns to live. In a futile attempt to redeem him from his criminal
consequences, they had tried to find him a job in a factory, but unfortunately he is only able to
keep the job for three months.

Once again he begins to wander the streets, but this time he is not limited to the well-known
neighborhoods; his wanderings lead him to frequent places and people of the lowest moral
level in the thriving city of Buenos Aires. Likewise, he began to suffer severe headaches that
translated into a desire to kill, especially after drinking alcohol.
1912

The "Petiso Orejudo" with the murder weapon, December 1912.

On January 17, 1912 Cayetano, who was already known on the streets with the nickname
Petiso Orejudo , entered a winery on Corrientes Street and gave rein to another of his great
passions; the fire. The fire it caused took four hours to be extinguished by firefighters. After his
arrest he would declare:

"I like to watch firefighters work... it's nice to see how they fall into the fire."

Next Cases

 Arturo Laurara : On January 26, 1912, a terrifying crime moved Buenos Aires society.
The body of minor Arturo Laurara, 13 years old, is found in a house for rent on Pavón
Street. The body is discovered beaten and half-naked, with a piece of string tied
around the neck. His disappearance had been reported just the day before. The
investigations are leading to nowhere. Cayetano would later confess the authorship of
this crime.

 Reyna Bonita Vainoff : On the following March 7, Cayetano sets fire to the clothes of a
five-year-old girl. The little girl died at 16 days old, after struggling between life and
death at the Children's Hospital .

In the following months, Petiso caused two more fires that were easily controlled by
firefighters without causing any casualties. On September 24 , while working in a winery
owned by Paulino Gómez, Cayetano stabbed a mare to death three times. He was not arrested
for lack of evidence. Just a few days after the Vail Station of the Anglo-Argentina tram
company caught fire, the fire was controlled by firefighters.

 Roberto Russo : On November 8, Short-Eared, with deception as always, convinces 2-

year-old Roberto Russo to accompany him to a store where he would supposedly buy
some candy. He takes him to an alfalfa field a few blocks away where he ties his feet
and proceeds to choke him with a piece of the rope he uses to tie his pants. They are
discovered by an alfalfa laborer who turns them over to the authorities. Cayetano
declares that he found the child tied up and was rescuing him when they were
discovered. He is released due to lack of merit.
 Carmen Ghittone : On the 16th of the same month , in a vacant lot located on Deán
Funes and Chiclana streets, he tried to hit 3-year-old Carmen Ghittone. A guard
appears and the aggressor manages to escape.

 Catalina Naulener : Days later, on November 20 , the 5-year-old girl Catalina Naulener
was taken from the corner of Muñiz and San Juan . She looks for a vacant lot on
Directorio Street, but before finding it the minor refuses to continue. Godino loses
control and hit her. The owner of the house located at number 78 of the
aforementioned street intervenes and Cayetano manages to flee again.

 Gesualdo Giordano : El Orejudo's last crime is probably the best documented of his
spectacular career. His barely three-year-old victim leaves, like every morning after
having breakfast with his parents, from his house located at 2185 Progreso Street to
meet his little friends to play. That same morning of December 3 , despite his father's
usual screams, Cayetano leaves his house located in General Urquiza 1970 with the
terrible determination to kill stuck between his eyes. After wandering the streets for a
while, Santos Godino finds a group of boys playing on Progreso Street. He joins them
without arousing any suspicion because, after all, his idiotic appearance has always
allowed him to gain the trust of his victims. Shortly after, he manages to convince
Gerardo to accompany him to buy some candy. A while before and without success, he
invited Marta Pelosi, 2 years old; but the minor, scared, took refuge in her home. Thus,
victim and murderer head without haste to the store located at Progreso 2599 where
they buy two cents worth of chocolate candies. Immediately the youngest demands
them, but Godino, imperturbable, decides to dose them: he allows him some, and
promises him the rest if he agrees to accompany him to a certain remote place, the
Quinta Moreno. Once at the entrance, the boy cries and resists entering. But the
murderer has done too much, he doesn't even hesitate: he grabs him violently by the
arms, takes him into the country house and corners him near a brick oven. He knocks
him down hard and calms him by placing his right knee on his chest. Godino knows the
mechanism: with haste, but calmness, he takes off the stringer that he wears as a belt
(these are those cotton loops that are used in masonry to hold plumb bobs ), and
begins to wind it around Gerardo's neck, gives him 13 turns and proceeds to strangle
him. But Gerardo tries to get up, so Cayetano proceeds to tie his hands and feet by
cutting the rope with a lit match. Again he proceeds to suffocate him with the rope but
the boy refuses to die. An idea crosses Cayetano's mind: Why not put a nail through his
head? Combining the action with the idea, Petiso sets himself the task of finding the
desired tool. His search takes him outside the premises where he runs into Gerardo's
father who asks him about the child's whereabouts. Imperturbable, Cayetano tells him
that he had not seen him and suggests that he go to the nearest police station to file a
report. Meanwhile, the Big Ear finds an old 4- inch nail, returns with it to his victim,
and using a stone as a hammer he drives it into the dying boy's temple. After covering
it with an old zinc sheet, he flees the crime scene. That night, during his victim's wake,
Cayetano makes an appearance. After observing Gerardo's corpse for some time, he
flees the scene crying. As he later stated, he wanted to see if the corpse still had the
nail in its head. Unfortunately for him, two police officers, Deputy Commissioner Peire
and Chief Ricardo Bassetti, had already connected the dots with previous cases and
that same morning the Godino home was raided, arresting Cayetano, finding in his
pockets a still fresh newspaper article that recounted the details. of the murder and in
his pants remains of the string with which he had tried to hang Gerardo.
Sentence

After being arrested, he confessed to four homicides and numerous attempted murders. In the
first instance, Santos Godino was declared irresponsible and was confined in the Hospicio de
las Mercedes , in the ward for insane criminals, where he attacked two patients. One was an
invalid in a bed. Another was moving in a wheelchair. Then he tried to flee. They then
transferred him to the National Penitentiary on Las Heras Street.

Ushuaia Prison

Mural with the portrait of Cayetano Santos Godino in Ushuaia ( Argentina ).

Finally, in 1923 he was transferred to the Ushuaia Prison , Tierra del Fuego , known as the
Prison at the End of the World . In 1927, the prison doctors performed cosmetic surgery on his
ears, because they believed that was where his evil lay. Obviously this radical treatment was of
no use.

In 1936 he asked for freedom and was denied: from the medical opinions prepared by doctors
Negri and Lucero and doctors Esteves and Cabred it is concluded that "He is an imbecile or a
hereditary degenerate, instinctively perverse, extremely dangerous to those around him."
Little is known about his life as a prisoner. Hardly any anecdote like the following: in 1933 , he
managed to detonate the fury of the prisoners because he killed the prison's pet cat by
throwing it along with the logs into the fire; They beat him so much that it took him more than
twenty days to leave the hospital.

Death

The circumstances of his death, which occurred in Ushuaia on November 15, 1944 , remain
nebulous. He supposedly died from internal bleeding caused by a gastroduodenal ulcer , but it
is known that he had been mistreated and frequently sexually assaulted . He endured the long
days in prison, without friends, without visitors and without letters. He died without confessing
remorse.

The Ushuaia prison was finally closed in 1947 . When the cemetery was removed his bones
were no longer there.

Medical reports

These are summaries of the medical reports, which appear in the General Archive of the
Courts. Buenos Aires , Argentine Republic , Criminal Section, File No. 2255 - Criminal, 2nd Body,
pages 213-260.
Negri - Lucero Report (January 31, 1913)

 The defendant Godino is mentally alienated or insane or insane, in the legal meanings.
 He is a hereditary degenerate, an imbecile who suffers from moral madness, by
definition, very dangerous.
 Is irresponsible.

El Petiso Orejudo, in the Ushuaia prison.

Victor Mercante Report (February 24, 1913)

 Cayetano Santos Godino does not know how to read, he only writes his signature and
knows numbers up to 100. He has a very poor sum of general knowledge, obtained
through reflexive education.
 He is a type absolutely unadaptable to the common school; only individual education
could have achieved any success.
 It has developed in an environment unfavorable to the formation of correct behavior.
 The primary instincts of animal life prevail in him with unusual activity, while the social
ones are almost atrophied. He is an aggressive type, without feelings and inhibition,
which explains his inadaptability to the didactic discipline.
 From a physical point of view, it offers numerous degenerative stigmata, the most
characteristic of the criminal type.
 Their senses and ability to know do not present any anomalies, they appear normal;
Their psychic abilities are also normal, although their attention is unstable due to lack
of emotional direction.
 Instead, he offers emotional idiocy as a fundamental stigma of his moral life; social
feelings, guidelines for action, are little less than null.
 So that their states of consciousness normally contain all the elements except one,
fundamental one that unbalances them, the affective one, which is something like the
rudder of behavior.

Ernesto Nelson Report (April 1, 1913)

Godino is a case of degeneration aggravated by the social abandonment of which he has been
a victim, and therefore he cannot be held responsible for his crimes, even though his freedom
would be dangerous.
Esteves - Cabred Report (May 29, 1913)

 That Cayetano Santos Godino is suffering from mental alienation.

 That his mental alienation takes the form of imbecility.
 That this imbecility is incurable.
 That Godino is totally irresponsible for his actions.
 Who presents numerous physical and psychological anomalies.
 That lacks conditions for disciplined work.
 That he has a notion of responsibility for his actions, which is observed in many
alienated people.
 That he is consciously impulsive and extremely dangerous to those around him.
 That he must remain, indefinitely, isolated in the asylum where he is located.

Victims

Severino González Caló, whom he tried to murder.

 Miguel Paoli: Attempted murder. He was beaten and thrown on thorns.

 Ana Neri: Attempted murder. Hit on the head with a stone.
 NN: Murdered. Buried alive after an attempted strangulation.
 Severino González Caló: Attempted murder. He tried to drown him.
 Julio Botte: Injuries. He was burned on the eyelid with a cigarette.
 Arturo Laurara: Murdered. He was beaten and then strangled.
 Reyna Vainicoff: Murdered. Her dress was set on fire and she died days later.
 Roberto Russo: Attempted murder. He suffered an attempted strangulation.
 Carmen Ghittoni: Attempted murder. She was slightly hit.
 Catalina Neulener: Injuries. He only received blows since his screams alerted a
neighbor.
 Jesualdo Giordano: Murdered. He was beaten, strangled and had his head pierced by a
nail.

Filmography
Year Movie Director Character

2007 The mud child Jorge Algora Abel Ayala

ALEXANDER PICHUSHKIN

Alexander Pichushkin ( Russian : Александр Пичушкин), (b. April 9 , 1974 in Mytishchi ,

Moscow Oblast , Russia ) is a Russian serial killer , known as the " hammer " or " chess " killer,
he wanted his murders to equal the number of squares on a chess board, that is 64.

Accused of murdering 49 people, despite the fact that he declared having murdered 61 people
from 1992 to June 2006 , when he was arrested. The " chess killer " stated that he wanted to
beat the record of Russia 's most famous serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo , sentenced to death and
executed in 1994 for the murder of 53 teenagers and children in the south of the country.
Pichushkin began killing in 1992 , at the age of 18 when he murdered a fellow student, whom
he pushed out of a window of a building, fighting for the love of a girl. From then on,
Pichushkin would begin to perpetrate a series of murders that would terrify all Muscovites for
years, despite the fact that there was talk of a serial killer on the loose only in 2001 .

Pichushkin's modus operandi was simple, such as inviting homeless people to have a beer or
vodka to get them drunk and then murdering them with a hammer . He also deceived women
with a date and murdered them or deceived his own coworkers whom he He would invite
them for a drink and then kill them. Pichushkin was arrested on June 16, 2006 at his home in
Moscow , after the police found on the answering machine in the home of one of his victims, a
paper with information that the woman left for her son so that he would know where to go.
had gone (Pichushkin's full name with his telephone number), the police attacked Pichushkin's
house, who offered no resistance and confessed everything from the first moment.

In his house, the police found something that would earn him the nickname the " Chess Killer ";
In it, Pichushkin had a chess board in which he covered each square with coins according to the
victims he killed. Thus, the board had 61 occupied squares, but the prosecution only found
evidence of 49 murders.

On September 10, 2007 , the trial began against Pichushkin, who is isolated from the public in
an armored cube, to protect his physical integrity, since several relatives of the victims swore
revenge. Also, his neighbors have yelled at him that they will tear off his legs one by one,
expressing their indignation at having had a neighbor of this type. Pichushkin, a 33-year-old
employee of a Moscow grocery store, has said little so far and has only said these three
sentences:

- I didn't kill 49, I killed 61

- A life without homicides for me is like a life without food for you

- They saved many people's lives by catching me, I would never have stopped me

Nicknamed for a time as the " Bitsevsky maniac " after the name of the Moscow park where he
operated, Pichushkin could be sentenced to life in prison. On October 24, 2007 , he was found
guilty of 48 murders and three attempted murders by a Russian court. The maximum penalty
in Russia is life imprisonment, after which the death penalty, which has not been abolished, is
suspended until 2010 . On October 29, 2007 , Pichushkin's conviction was confirmed and he
was sentenced to life imprisonment .
NORBERT POEHLKE

Norbert Poehlke , 'The Hammer Killer', ( September 15, 1951 – October 22, 1985 ) was a
German serial killer and police officer, who was the protagonist of different robberies and
murders.

The crimes

The first evidence we have of the Poehlke murders was found on May 3, 1984 , when the
police found Siegfried Pfitzer, 47, dead from a gunshot to the head in a rest area on the
highway near Marbach. His car was found half a kilometer ahead of where the body had been
found. Police linked the vehicle to a bank robbery in Erbstetten that same day. The killer had
used a hammer to break the driver's window.

The next victim of the hammer killer was found on December 21 , when 37-year-old Eugene
Wethey was shot dead in a rest area near Grossbottwar . A week later, Wethey's car was used
to commit a bank robbery in Cleebronn by a man who was carrying a hammer at the time of
the crime.

ON July 22, 1985 , a third case very similar to the previous two would be found. Wilfried
Scheider, 26, was murdered in a parking lot in Beilstein - Schmidhausen . He was shot with a
Walther P5 , a pistol widely used by the police force. The police forces were not surprised
when a bank in Spiegelberg was robbed that same day.

Following the trail

The lead they followed to Poehlke as the main suspect came almost by chance. On September
29, 1985 , while a routine action was being carried out for a warning about a possible explosive
device at the Ludwigsburg train station, the anti-terrorist body of the German police found an
agent's uniform in one of the lockers. The suit belonged to Chief Inspector Norbert Poehlke, a
veteran officer with 14 years of service in Stuttgart . When questioned, Poehlke explained that
he had left it there because he needed to change quickly to go to a relative's funeral. Although
they discovered the death of one of his daughters from cancer in 1984 , police were unable to
find any more recent deaths of Poehlke's relatives. Furthermore, his daughter's treatment left
Poelhke with a debt that amounted to 30,000 Euros. The authorities had certain reasons to
closely monitor Poelhke: a financial debt (which would justify the bank robbery), an
unpredictable violent attitude explained by his colleagues and, to round it all off, Poehlke
requested sick leave on October 14, 1985 .

But the investigation went further. Police asked permission to question Poehlke about his
whereabouts at the time of the murders and robberies. When they did not obtain satisfactory
answers, the forces of justice obtained a search warrant to enter his house. There they found
his wife and son Adrian, dead from gunshot wounds.

Three days later, on October 23, Poehlke and her third son, Gabriel, were found dead in a car
near Brindisi , Italy . The police officer allegedly killed his son before committing suicide.
Poehlke's gun was identified as the cause of all the murders, so the case was closed.
The psycho

El Psicópata was the first documented and studied case of a serial killer in the history of Costa
Rica . His modus operandi is associated with various murders that occurred over a decade,
between 1986 and 1996.

Clarification

The author (or authors) of the crimes attributed to The Psychopath were never caught. This
article is based on information revealed by the authorities and on documents published by the
press.

It should be noted that even, unofficially, other crimes have been attributed to him, such as
those of El Descuartizador , who was never captured either ( see note ).

The criminal: victims and profile

His victims were single women or heterosexual couples (whom he usually attacked in low-
traffic places during hours of the night), especially in the area located between Cartago ,
Curridabat and Desamparados , which at that time was called the " triangle of death ."

A profile of the murderer was created, although no one related to the various crimes was
arrested. The analysis of the profile indicated that the subject in question was a Nicaraguan
man (although this never went beyond being one more possibility, among many others), a
veteran of the armed conflict in his country of origin, since in the crimes it was evident that he
had extensive mastery of assault techniques and handling of high-caliber weapons , with which
the Costa Rican police were little familiar in the late 80s.

It was suggested that the murderer could be a Costa Rican who in 1996 was 43 years old, and
who was enrolled in the Nicaraguan guerrilla (the Costa Rican authorities assumed he was
dead as a result of this conflict until the individual presented himself to the Civil Registry
requesting an ID. of identity ). This was not confirmed either, and even this last suspect (a
person close to Ligia Camacho's family, whose name was not revealed) appeared before the
authorities along with his lawyer, with the purpose of proving his innocence.

A popular rumor, never confirmed, said that the murderer could belong to one of the most
powerful families in the country and for that reason he was never discovered.

Police personnel stated that the Psychopath had probably suffered some trauma in his youth,
related to his mother or perhaps a romantic partner, due to the cruelty he showed against
women.

The then director of the OIJ stated in 1996 that there was not the slightest evidence, except for
the modus operandi and the caliber of the weapon, and that this was circumstantial evidence,
and never binding on a specific person.

The police managed up to 6 different suspects.

Version of the authorities and confusion

On November 26, 1996, the OIJ issued a press release (the first since the beginning of the
murders), in which it tried to outline who The Psychopath was.

In said statement, a telephone line and a postal address were offered to give confidential
reports, although this did not have any major results. An attempt was also made to change the
direction of the investigation, since before that date, it was thought that the Psychopath was a
moralistic murderer, but later an attempt was made to orient his profile towards that of a
lustful murderer who killed to fulfill his sexual fantasies, although The reason for this turn in
the investigations was never clarified.

This redirection in the investigations was refuted even by professionals who had been involved
in the investigation, such as the doctor Fernando Garzona Meseguer, who maintained that El
Psicópata did not have sexual objectives in his crimes, and that if there was sexual contact with
his victims, this was not the motivation for their murders.

Criminal career

The murder of Ligia Camacho Bermúdez

It happened on June 14, 1987, in the victim's own home. Ligia was reading a book sitting on
her bed when she was shot from outside her house, which ended her life. This event
contradicts the modus operandi of The Psychopath, since he used to attack in lonely places,
and not in houses or neighborhoods. The only proof that it could be the same criminal was a
ballistic test.

Fingerprints were also found, but with no suspects arrested, a positive comparison could not
be made.

last crime

The last incident that is attributed to El Psicópata occurred on October 26, 1996, in the Patarrá
de Desamparados area, south of San José . Mauricio Cordero and Ileana Álvarez were parked
in the Nissan Sentra vehicle, owned by the man. Suddenly, they were surprised by a stranger
who forced them to abandon the car and walk 500 m. He then proceeded to murder them
both, shooting each of them, which took their lives. Although no one was ever caught for this
or other crimes attributed to El Psicópata, the Costa Rican Judicial Police identified an identical
modus operandi in the murder of these and 19 other people, between 1986 and 1996.

Popular culture

The novels "Cruz de Olvido" by Carlos Cortés and "En Clave Luna" by Oscar Nuñez, attempt to
reconstruct the crimes with other approaches and theories.

Other curiosities

 According to Costa Rican legislation, the 19 crimes attributed to El Psicópata have

already expired. This means that even if the suspect (or suspects) were found, they
could no longer be tried for any of the murders.
  The crimes attributed to El Psicópata were carried out with a Guide M3 submachine
gun. This uses 45 caliber ammunition. In July 2005, a very similar weapon appeared
buried in the patio of a house located in the triangle of death , but ballistic analyzes
determined that the weapon found did not match the Guide M3. Note on the subject,
Periódico Al Día .

The Psychopath only attacked south of the Florencio del Castillo Highway (which connects San
José with Cartago).

DENNIS RADER

Dennis Lynn Rader

Birth March 9 , 1945 (65 years old)

Pittsburg, Kansas , United States
 Position(s) Murder (10 counts)

Sentence Life imprisonment

Current In prison
situation

Spouse Paula Dietz (1971-2005)

Parents William Elvin Rader and Dorothy Mae

Cook

Children -Brian Howard Rader (July 27, 1975)

-Kerri Lynn Rader (June 13, 1978)

Dennis Lynn Rader (March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer , convicted of the murders of
ten people in Sedgwick County (in Wichita , Kansas ) between 1974 and 1991.

His best-known aliases were Asesino BTK or Estrangulador BTK , letters corresponding to Bind
, Torture and Kill ('Bind, torture and kill ' in Spanish), thus describing his modus operandi .

Shortly after the murders, the BTK Killer wrote some letters to the police and local news
agencies, where he mocked the crimes and gave precise details of each murder.

In 2004, after many years of fruitless searching, those letters once again fueled the
investigation, leading to his arrest in 2005 and subsequent conviction.

Early life

Rader is the oldest of four brothers. [1] , son of William Elvin Rader and Dorothea Mae Cook. He
grew up in Wichita and attended Riverview School, later graduating from Wichita Heights High
School. According to several reports and his own confessions, as a child he used to be cruel to
animals , a classic symptom that many psychopaths show in their childhood. From 1965 to
1966 he attended Wichita Wesleyan University. Consequently, he spent four years (1966-1970)
in the United States Air Force , living in Texas , Alabama , Okinawa , South Korea , Greece and
Turkey .

Once back in the United States , Rader lived in Park City, a suburb located seven miles north of
Wichita. There he worked in the meat section of the Leekers IGA supermarket, alongside his
mother, who worked as an accountant.

Personal life

Rader attended Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kansas, earning an associate's
degree in Electronics in 1973. He enrolled at Wichita State University that same fall. He
graduated from there in 1979 with a Bachelor's degree as a Justice Officer. He married Paula
Dietz, a German-American, on May 22, 1971, and they had a son and a daughter.

From 1972 to 1973, Rader worked as an assembler for the Coleman Company and then worked
briefly in 1973 at Cessna . From November 1974 until being fired in July 1988, Rader worked as
a private security agent for the ADT company, in charge of placing alarms in premises and
businesses.

In 1989, prior to the 1990 Federal Census, Rader worked as a supervisor in the census
conducted in the Wichita area.

In 1991, Rader worked for another company dealing with animal control, zoning , housing
issues, among other tasks. Working there, the neighbors classified him as someone who was
excessively enthusiastic and strict; In addition, he was the target of complaints, especially from
a neighbor who complained that Rader had euthanized her dog for no reason. On March 2,
2005, the Park City City Council fired Rader for being absent from work and failing to report his
absence; The problem was that he had been arrested seven days earlier for the murders.

In Sedgwick County, Rader worked in both the Zoning Department and the Animal Control
Advisory, where he was appointed as a member in 1996 until his resignation in 1998. He was a
member of a Lutheran Church , close to his old high school where about 200 people attended.
He had attended there for approximately 30 years and had been elected President of the
Congregation. [5] I also work as a leader in a Scout Organization. On July 27, 2005, after Rader's
arrest, Sedgwick County District Judge Eric Yost did not wait the 60 days required by law in
these cases and offered Rader's wife an immediate divorce due to because his mental health
was at risk. Rader did not protest the divorce and the 33-year marriage was broken up. Paula
Rader said in her divorce petition that her physical and mental condition had been adversely
affected by the marriage.

Murders and arrest

In 2004, the case of the BTK Killer was cold, there was almost no hope of catching this criminal
so a 'last and desperate attempt' was made to catch him, carrying out tests with the DNA
extracted from the fingernails of some victims. In this attempt, the police took DNA samples
from thousands of men who offered themselves, feeling stigmatized even by their families who
sometimes believed that they were the BTK Killer, in this attempt to prove not to be a Killer,
these men offered their samples to clear their names.

Dennis Rader was one of those suspects, so the police tried to gain his trust. In those
conversations, Rader naively asked if information could be obtained from a computer floppy
disk. The police astutely told him that it was not possible to know which computer the floppy
drive had been used on. Finally, Rader fell while sending a message to the police through his
computer. Thus the police quickly checked the metadata of the Microsoft Word document. In
the metadata, police found that the letter writer called himself 'Dennis'. They also found a
connection to a Lutheran Church . Thus, the police searched the Internet for "Lutheran Church
Wichita Dennis" (verbatim) "Iglesia Lutherana Wichita Dennis." In this way, investigators found
their best-known suspect, Dennis Rader, a Lutheran deacon .

However, they had to get more evidence. Investigators knew that the BTK Killer had a Jeep
Cherokee. When they went to Rader's house, a Jeep Cherokee was in his garage, however,
there was no strong evidence to arrest him so his daughter was asked to provide a DNA
sample; The girl agreed and it was determined that the sample was very familiar with the one
found at the scene of the crimes.

On February 25, 2005, Dennis Rader was arrested. On June 27 of that year he pleaded guilty to
the "BTK Murders" and on August 18, 2005 he was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences
(one for each death).

Dennis Rader will be eligible for parole after serving 175 years in prison, that is, in the year
2180, so it is guaranteed that Rader will die in prison.

Rader was spared the death penalty because the state of Kansas reinstated the death penalty
in 1994, three years after BTK's last murder.

Victims and modus operandi

In 1974, Rader murders the Otero family.

 Joseph Otero, 38 years old.

 Julie Otero, wife of Joseph. 34 years.
 Joseph Otero II, Jr. 9 years.
 Josephine Otero, daughter. 11 years.

The Otero family was having breakfast when Rader knocked on the door, once they opened,
the BTK Killer pointed a revolver at them. The father of the family, Joseph Otero, believed it
was a simple robbery although it was not. Rader tied one by one to the chairs, from the
strongest (the father) to the weakest (the little daughter). After tying them up, Rader
psychologically tortured the Otero parents by simulating raping the couple's daughter and son.
After that, Rader placed a plastic bag on Mr. Otero's head and tied it to his neck with a rope to
protect him. that he would suffocate. The second victim was the mother with whom he
masturbated while the children watched and then strangled her while the children watched. In
the third turn was the girl whom he strangled with a rope. When it was the son's turn, Rader
noticed that the couple was still alive, so he strangled the woman again to death and put
plastic bags over the heads of the father and son, who died of asphyxiation. When he tried to
escape, he noticed that the girl was still alive, so he took her up to the second floor where he
ended up killing her, strangling her. After that, he masturbated, so semen was found on the
little girl's inner thigh.

In that same 1974, Rader attacked again.

 Kathryn Bright, 20 or 21 at the time. (His brother was wounded by a gunshot but
survived).

That April 4, 1974, around 1 in the afternoon, Kathryn and her brother Kevin entered Kathryn's
apartment when they were surprised by an armed man who forced Kevin to tie up his sister
and then take him to another room. When Rader tried to put a rope around Kevin's neck, the
young man tried to defend his sister and his own life by attacking Rader. In a terrible fight,
young Kevin managed to deliver strong blows to the BTK Killer and managed to reach the
murderer's revolver, but when he tried to shoot him in the stomach the weapon misfired. In
this way, Rader hit him and took the gun from him to shoot him twice in the face, after
removing the safety (for this reason, Kevin could not shoot). Thinking that young Kevin was
dead, Rader returned to the room where young Kathryn was and stabbed her three times in
the abdomen and then escaped. Meanwhile, Kevin was (incredibly) still alive and managed to
crawl to the street where a driver took him to the hospital. When the police attended the
apartment, Kathryn was alive so they also took her to the hospital although at 7 pm she was
pronounced dead.

It would be 3 years until a new murder. In March 1977.

 Shirley Vian, 26 years old.

This young mother of two small boys and a girl was murdered in her home after one of her
sons opened the door following a call to her for an armed man to enter. After entering, Rader
locked the three little ones in the bathroom, and minutes later tied up and murdered the
young mother, strangling her with a rope. After that, he placed a bag on her head and
masturbated. The children fortunately survived because (according to Rader himself) the
phone rang, something that scared him and caused him to escape.

On December 8, 1977, Rader killed again.

 Nancy Fox, 25 years old.

Shortly after 9 pm that night, Rader entered the apartment of the young woman who did not
realize that someone had entered. After that, he took her to the bed where he tied her up and
strangled her with her own pantyhose. Her body was found face down in bed after a call was
received at police headquarters at 8:20 am the next day alerting of the young woman's
murder. Apparently, the murderer himself would have been the one who made the call.
Semen was found at the crime scene.

After that murder, Rader would not kill again until April 27, 1985.

 Marine Hedge, 53 years old.

Between 1am and 7am that day, the BTK Killer attacked the woman in her home and took her
away. Then he strangled her with his bare hands and abandoned her completely naked in a
remote place. Her body was unrestrained but a pair of pantyhose was found nearby.

On September 16, 1986, another victim.

 Vicki Wegerle, 28 years old.

This young mother of a 2-year-old child was strangled and her body left on the floor of her
room. Her husband, devastated by his wife's death, hired a private detective.

The last murder, January 1991.

 Dolores Davis, 62 years old.

She was kidnapped from her home and strangled. His body was found under a bridge.
GILLES DE RAIS

Imaginary portrait of Gilles de Rais.

Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, Baron de Rais , called Gilles de Rais (or Gilles de Retz) ( 10
September 1404 – 26 October 1440 ), was a 15th-century French nobleman and serial killer
who fought in the years end of the Hundred Years' War with Joan of Arc , whom he followed
and always believed in.

Biography

He managed to become a marshal after his participation in the 100 Years War and amassed a
great fortune. But his good reputation in French towns was cut short when the atrocities he
had committed with hundreds of boys and girls in a court made up of witches, alchemists,
seers and Devil worshipers were discovered. It is said that he could have had a psychopathic
mentality - originating in his childhood - and that he could have suffered from very serious
schizophrenia .

Along with Erzsébet Báthory - the Hungarian aristocrat known as the Bloody Countess - he is
considered one of those aristocrats who used his great fortune to give free rein to his
misdeeds. This impulsive man, whose crimes contradicted his heightened Christian faith and
belief, who followed that phrase from Saint Augustine : Felix culpa! - translated as Blissful
fault! - and who had a long-awaited desire for God 's forgiveness inspired Charles Perrault
when explaining the story of Bluebeard .

Georges Bataille described him as a child with power , possessing an essentially childish
monstrosity and having an archaic character . In his trials, de Rais said that he acted according
to the nature imposed by the stars and that he could not control it.
Childhood and youth

The first son of one of the great lineages of France , Guy II of Laval and Marie de Craon, was
born in the black tower of the castle of Champtocé, washed by the Loire River in the Brittany
region. During his childhood he was very close to his little brother, René de Susset ( 1407 - †...),
with whom he was entrusted to several ecclesiastical tutors and wet nurses, who abandoned
their position due to Gilles' sadistic and cruel mind.

An event that marked Gilles was the death of his father during a hunting session. Guy II of
Laval, after wounding a boar, was attacked by it in a last attempt at revenge and embedded its
horns in its stomach. Gilles, who was 9 years old, watched the scene and saw his father dying
and how his viscera were spread across his bed. Later, Gilles reconstructed this scene with his
victims and was engrossed in the spectacle of blood and guts before him.

The widow Marie de Craon died shortly after and Gilles and his brother remained under the
guardianship of their maternal grandfather: Jean de Craon, a man who taught his
grandchildren the narcissism, arrogance, power, and pride with which Gilles developed. your
personality. De Rais, who saw how his grandfather was paying more attention to his little
grandson, took refuge in the library. There he found a very special book for him: The Lives of
the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius . Its pages showed him how the Caesars, powerful men if they
ever existed, did what they wanted without giving further explanations to anyone - his favorite
emperors were the unbalanced Nero , Tiberius and Caligula , whose lives influenced his adult
life - and according to He said in his trials, De Rais did not have any government from his
grandfather and always did what he wanted, moving by violent impulses most of the time.

At the age of 14, his grandfather gave him Milanese armor and he was proclaimed a knight. He
handled the sword, soon became bored of practicing only with puppets - dolls built for practice
- and his aggressiveness began to show towards every living being that was close to him. First
they were animals, but then they were people. One case was that of his childhood friend and
companion Antoin: after proposing a duel with machetes, Gilles got out of hand and stabbed
him in the neck. Instead of helping him save his life, Gilles watched his friend bleed to death
and enjoyed the scene. He was 15 years old and it was his first murder. Due to his status as a
nobleman and the intermediation of his grandfather, De Rais was not convicted and Antoin's
family - of humble origins - accepted the compensation offered to them. Other known crimes
are the occasional sexual perversion that, of course, went unpunished.

His grandfather De Craon - an unscrupulous man - only wanted to increase his fortune and
power in a calculating way, unlike Gilles - also an unscrupulous man - who allowed himself to
be carried away by his violent impulses, but who was useless in politics. An event describes the
personality of grandfather and grandson: when they tried to extort a family by kidnapping a
great lady; Her three brothers wanted to rescue her and were also imprisoned by Craon, so
that one of them died of hunger.
military actions

Coat of arms of Gilles de Rais.

His enormous aggressiveness and psychopathy led him to enlist in the army to vent his
frustrations with the enemies he faced. His grandfather De Craon wanted him to reach the
summit of French power and to do so he recommended Guillaime La Jumelliers as an advisor
on politics, military strategies and finances. He placed himself under the orders of John V, Duke
of Brittany in the residual disputes of the War of the Breton Succession , between the
Montforts and the Penthièvres. He always fought in the vanguard with his soldiers - troops
paid by him - and his comrades-in-arms admired him because he seemed possessed when he
fought with his swords, with incredible speed and strength, seeming as if demons were
controlling his movements.

At the age of 17, returning home after this campaign, Gilles kidnapped his 15-year-old cousin
Catherine de Thouarscon and married her that same day, April 24, 1422 . The Thouarson family
owned several castles that, together with their own, would make the union the richest and
most powerful family in France . But Gilles was wrong and his wife's family did not accept the
marriage union, so in revenge Gilles kidnapped his mother-in-law and locked her up with bread
and water until she gave up the castles that he asked for. Meanwhile, Gilles and his first wife
took seven years to have children - Marie, born in 1429 - due to homosexual tendencies that
made him disinterested in his wife. Catherine, with her daughter in her arms, fled and took
refuge in one of her father's castles and Gilles never showed any interest in either of them.

After the campaigns of John V, Gilles paid tribute to Charles VII - Dauphin of France at the time
- to fight against the English and their Burgundian allies. He was recruited by Georges La
Tremoille - the king's great chamberlain - an astute and skillful man who saw Gilles' combative
and warlike ability, which dragged the soldiers into battles. Then, La Tremoille could take
advantage of it to stay in power through military successes. In this era - in which war was a
game for the nobles - Gilles met Joan of Arc in 1429 , with whom he was fascinated and
amazed by her history and physical beauty.

The Dauphin Charles gave a small army to Gilles and Juana to liberate Orleans from the English
siege. Along with them were other generals such as the Bastard of Orleans - Count of Dunois -
the Duke of Alençon and La Hire. In just 8 days the French forces managed to lift a siege that
had lasted for several months. They entered the city in triumph and everyone saw them as the
saviors of France. Shortly afterward he contributed to the French victory at the Battle of
Jargeau and the Battle of Patay . Their audacity and violence in combat was comparable to that
of the Viking berserkers . Gilles even said during the campaigns with Juana that she was God
and that if she had to kill Englishmen by God's command, she would do so. He became her
escort and protector, saving her on several occasions in the heat of battle, such as in the attack
on Paris at the end of 1429 . Despite the killings and cruelties of the war, Gilles felt spiritually
fulfilled, since Juana inspired him and had rendered a great service to his country.
Furthermore, in this same year he was proclaimed Marshal of France at only 25 years old - a
unique case in French history -, amassing an immense fortune and adopting the fleur-de-lis in
his coat of arms, while Charles VII was proclaimed king on the 17th. July at Reims Cathedral.

While he was enjoying his command as Marshal of France , another event occurred that
marked him: the capture and sentence to death at the stake of his friend Joan of Arc on May
31, 1431 . Although he tried to help her by hiring a small army of mercenaries , it is still not
known what happened to prevent him from arriving in time, since he was only 25 kilometers
from Rouen , the town where the trial took place. His last action in the Hundred Years' War
was at the Battle of Lagny in August 1432 , from which he emerged victorious.

In addition to the death of Joan of Arc , the chamberlain La Tremoille - her protector - fell into
disgrace in 1434 after the Duke of Bourbon's campaign to protect the Duke of Burgundy , who
was besieging the city of Grancey . Having lost his status as marshal , Gilles took refuge in the
castle of Tiffauges - located in the Vendée - and became a demon that brought out his most
perverse instincts. His mind became more unhealthy because he did not participate in wars to
calm himself and, after the death of his grandfather in 1432 , Gilles had complete freedom to
do what he wanted, like the Roman emperors whose lives he read long ago.

Decline and crimes

His black beard with blue highlights led him to be called Blue Beard. He was cultured, although
not reflective, eager for wealth but more spendthrift. From this moment on he indulges in the
craziest spending to satisfy his most expensive whims. There is no prince or king remembered
who would have worn such luxury. This man had a passion for all arts, especially music. It was
exacerbated by Gregorian chants, reaching ecstasy . If he heard that a beautiful voice had been
heard, he would not rest until he managed to bring the person who owned it into his service,
no matter how far away he was, like the singers hired in Poitiers , André Buchet , from Vannes
and Jean de Rossingol , from La Rochelle. , whom he perverted by making them participate in
his orgies and crimes. It had many organs of all kinds. The sound of this instrument produced
such alienation in him that he had them built portable ones to accompany him on his minor
trips. In his religious exaltation he managed to be named canon of Saint-Hilaire-de-Poitiers and
surrounded himself with a retinue of 50 ecclesiastics along with 200 cavalry soldiers whose
headquarters were in the chapel of the Saints-Innocents, in Machecoul .

On the other hand, everyone who came to him participated in his generosity; The foreigner
was welcome, whatever his condition, at any time of the day or night; He had a hospitable
table, and it was rare that he left that mansion without leaving filled with gifts in kind or in
cash. He spent money on ostentation to regain lost prestige. He held great banquets. He spent
most of his fortune on plays reminiscent of his campaigns with Juana and on parties for his
strange friends and advisors. Especially significant was the representation of the Battle of
Orleans in May 1435 . This theatrical performance had more than 150 actors, lavishly detailed
costumes, infantry arrayed in authentic armor, and tableaus that simulated crowds. Admission
to this show was free and attendees were even entertained with food and wine. The
performance cost about 80,000 crowns at the time. Thanks to the representation of the Battle
of Orleans Gilles remembered his days of glory. He also had automatons built on different
types of birds, something that reduced his fortune but raised great expectations among the
people who frequented him.

Tiffauges Castle today.

To obtain the money, which had become increasingly necessary, he had to resort to numerous
resources and ruinous contracts. Landlords, bourgeois and merchants are made to contribute,
and they advance at a usurious interest the sums that, due to an imperious generosity, melt
between the fingers and sink into a bottomless abyss. In 1437 he sold Ingrandes and
Champtocé to John V of Brittany for just 100,000 scudi. Gilles approaches the moment when
the inevitable ruin is announced, menacingly. Their chests are empty; his credit, exhausted;
Those around him in happy hours, sensing disaster, distance themselves from him. Faced with
this situation, he turned to esotericism , searching in alchemy for a way to make the gold he
was missing (he became interested in the secret of the Philosopher's Stone ). He surrounded
himself with a grotesque court of witches, necromancers, alchemists, among whom were
Guillaume de Sillé , Roger de Brinqueville , Antonio de Palerno , Heriet, Poitou, Corrillaut,...
Finally, he falls into the hands of a Florentine trickster named Prelati who assures him that he
will fill his coffers thanks to black magic .

The marshal frequently visits his accomplice and anxiously informs himself of the results of the
investigations. Prelati assures her lord that, in one of her invocations, she has seen the demon
near him, but that this fantastic apparition vanished without her being able to utter a word.
The gullible marshal had an atrocious fear of the devil although he never saw him, he listened
to Prelatti, with whom he had a homosexual relationship, and ordered that the incantations
and incantations be redoubled. On other occasions Prelatti was injured after one of his
invocations, which were always performed in a hidden room, causing Gilles more panic. Sillé
was the supplier of all the elements for the invocations in Tiffauges and Father Eustache
Blanchet was the one to hire the summoners such as Prelatti or La Riviére (who saw the demon
in an invocation in a forest in the shape of a leopard, to the credulity of Gilles) or alchemists
like Jean Petit , who made several furnaces to work with mercury . However, the furnaces
created must be destroyed since the future Louis XI , the dauphin, visits Gilles due to an order
from King Charles V that condemned alchemy as heresy . It is impossible for the marshal to
succeed in his undertakings - said one of Gilles de Rais's relatives - if he does not offer the devil
the blood and limbs of children taken to death. Because his usual reading is the most ardent
poems of Ovid and Suetonius ' account of the criminal sacrifices demanded by the king of Hell.
What does he care about the sacrifice of human lives if he acquires at that price the power he
covets? Added to this was his willingness to kill children for his personal enjoyment and
pleasure.
In their eagerness to procure victims for their sacrifices, servants of Gilles de Rais like Henriet
and Poitou toured the towns and villages looking for children and adolescents, promising them
that they would make them pages in the castles of the lord of Rais. Always in far away places;
Even in some, Gilles himself kindly went to the homes of commoners to assure the children's
relatives of a promising future. The parents had no further news about the victims and if they
asked they were told that they were fine. Soon the people became alarmed, and de Rais
resorted to kidnappings. Between 1432 and 1440 , up to 1,000 disappearances of children
between 8 and 10 years old were recorded in Brittany. But the great madness came at night
when he and his henchmen dedicated themselves to torturing, harassing, humiliating and
murdering previously kidnapped children. After each bloody night Gilles went out at dawn and
walked the streets alone, as if regretting what he had done, while his henchmen burned the
inert bodies of the victims. Fear took hold of the villagers. The servants had to expand their
field of action, so the fear spread more and more. Until the murmurings turned into screams
that reached the highest authorities.

He used several of his possessions (not just the castle of Tiffauges) to commit his misdeeds,
such as the castle of Machecoul , Champtocé and the house of Suze.

Once he took advantage of some children who were beggars and who innocently went to his
castle to beg for alms. Gilles raped and dismembered them. He raped some of them already
dead and with their entrails exposed. Once they were dead, he hugged them tightly and was
delirious; On other occasions he laughed at the child's last death rattles and many times he cut
the jugular vein, causing blood to flow, causing him great pleasure.

On some occasions when he murdered one of his victims he repented and swore to leave for
the Holy Land to redeem his sins, but soon he would commit the same atrocities again.

During the eight years of terror, Gilles seemed not to live in a real world, surrounded by great
pomp and as if he did not realize the brutal actions he was carrying out. According to what he
said at his trial, together with his grotesque court, they cut off the heads of several recently
dead children and held competitions to choose the most beautiful faces. The heads were
skewered on pikes and they were graded. It was said that these qualifications were signed by
the devil himself, that a sorcerer named Rivière could invoke the devil, or one called Barrón, to
whom they offered sacrifices such as the organs, eyes, hearts, etc., of the victims; all this under
sexual and alcoholic orgies.

On continuous occasions, Gilles's brother, René, tried to save the family assets that Gilles was
selling, even with the help of the king they created a law by which they could not sell any more
possessions. René managed to buy the castle of Machecoul, and saw that the skeletons of
more than 50 children were found in this place. He wanted to silence what he saw to avoid
possible misunderstandings against him.

Investigation, capture and execution

But the time came for all this to end, and that moment was when the bishop of Nantes , Jean
de Malestroit , investigated the disappearances in Brittany and saw that they were not
coincidental. Malestroit discovered the crimes thanks to the fact that in the midst of the
depression Gilles sold one of his last castles, Saint-Etienne-de-Memorte to John V's treasurer,
Geoffroy de Farron ; Gilles learned that a cousin of his, Lord de Villecigne, wanted to buy the
castle and believed that Le Farron did not accept the annulment. He left his brother Jean, an
ecclesiastical man, in charge of the castle; Gilles, in another of his impulses, attacked the
church where Jean was celebrating mass and kidnapped him, locking him up in Tiffauges. The
attack was known to the Duke of Brittany and to Malestroit himself. John V sent his brother,
the king's constable, to rescue Jean Le Farron while he attempted peace with Gilles. In the end
Gilles de Rais was captured on September 15, 1440 when an armed group under the command
of Captain Jean Labbé, who was accompanied by the notary Robin Guillaumet, appeared at the
gates of the castle of Machecoul, where Gilles de Rais was then. in the name of the bishop of
Nantes. They carried orders from the duke. It was the end. Gilles de Rais surrendered, along
with Prelatti, Blanche, Henriet and Poitou, and was brought to trial, and on the 19th of the
same month, that is, four days after his arrest, the interrogation began, which continued on
the 28th, and the October 8, 11, 13, 15 and 22.

In the trial (highly detailed and of which the writings of the 15th century still exist), he went
from insulting the judges to the most absolute collapse and was locked up in a wealthy prison
due to his status as a nobleman. He declared himself innocent at first, but in one of the
personality disorders that he had already suffered for years, he rectified and pleaded guilty,
remaining very sorry for what he had done on October 15 and finally on the 22nd before the
ecclesiastical judges, commanded by the bishop of Saint-Brieuc , he documented all the
murders and humiliations that he practiced on children (between 7 and 20 years old),
pedophile actions, tears, hanging from the ceiling by hooks, beheadings, etc. He said that he
had even drunk the blood of children, even when they were still alive, that he "needed that
sexual enjoyment" and that he wrote a book of spells with the supposed blood of those
murdered. They were tremendous confessions, all of France was convulsed because people did
not believe that one of their heroes was such a vile man. There were 200 victims, although
there were probably many more. He was convicted of murder, sodomy and heresy .

The horror that his confession caused was so great that during the trial, one of those present
covered the crucifix that presided over the room due to the shame that his words generated.
According to chronicles of the time, the walls emanated blood that slowly slid to the floor as if
seeking redemption.

Given his excessive repentance, he was even the object of compassion from clerics and
commoners and the request for a procession to follow him to his place of execution was
granted. Finally, on October 26, 1440, Gilles de Rais, together with two of his most perverse
collaborators, having rejected royal grace (forgiveness of the penalty that was extended to him
for being a Peer of France) was taken to the Madeleine meadow in Nantes. to be beheaded.
His remains were solemnly buried in the Carmelite church of Nantes, at the request of the
marshal.

Fragments of Gilles de Rais's statement at the trial

“I, Gilles de Rais, confess that everything of which I am accused is true. It is true that I have
committed the most repugnant offenses against many innocent beings - boys and girls - and
that in the course of many years I have kidnapped or had a large number of them kidnapped -
even more shamefully I must confess that I do not remember the exact number. - and that I
have killed them with my own hand or caused others to kill, and that I have committed many
crimes and sins with them."

"I confess that I killed those boys and girls in different ways and using different methods of
torture: for some I separated their heads from their bodies, using daggers and knives; with
others I used sticks and other whipping instruments, hitting them on the head. violent; others I
tied with ropes and ropes and hung them from doors and beams until they drowned. I confess
that I experienced pleasure in hurting them and killing them like that. He enjoyed destroying
innocence and desecrating virginity. "He took great delight in strangling young children even as
those children discovered the first pleasures and pains of his innocent flesh."

"I contemplated those who had beautiful heads and proportioned limbs and then opened their
bodies and delighted in the sight of their internal organs and very often, when the boys were
already dying, I sat on their stomachs, and I was pleased to see their agony. ...".

"I liked to see the blood flow, it gave me great pleasure. I remember that from my childhood
the greatest pleasures seemed terrible to me. I mean, the Apocalypse was the only thing that
interested me. I believed in Hell before I could believe in Heaven . One gets tired and bored of
the ordinary. I started killing because I was bored and I continued doing it because I liked to
release my energy. On the battlefield, man never disobeys and the earth, soaked in blood, is
like an immense altar in which everything that has life is immolated endlessly, until the very
death of death itself. Death became my divinity, my sacred and absolute beauty. I've been
living with death since I realized I could breathe. My game par excellence is to imagine myself
dead and gnawed by worms.”

“I am one of those people for whom everything related to death and suffering has a sweet and
mysterious attraction, a terrible force that pushes downward… If I could describe or express it,
I probably would never have sinned. I did what other men dream. “I am your nightmare.”

In culture (Cinema)

In Luc Besson's film Joan of Arc , the character of Gilles de Rais is played by Vincent Cassel .

Paul Naschy was inspired by his figure for the character Alaric de Marnac , whom he created
and brought to life in the films El espanto Rises de la Grave by Carlos Aured and Latidos de
Panic by Jacinto Molina .

The Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini wanted to make a film about Gilles de Rais that he could
not make due to his murder in 1975 . The script would be based on the works about Gilles by
Georges Bataille .

It appears as a play on words in the film Hanibbal: The Origin of Evil (2006) by Peter Webber
when the name of the hospital where Lecter begins to work at night (Saint Gilles) and the city
where one of Lecter's murderers is said to have been locked up is combined. his sister (Rais).

 1950 - "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" (TV series) (1 episode)

 1975 - Images à propos de: Enluminures author des minutes du procès de Gilles de Rais
(documentary), directed by Martine Lancelot
 1999 – Joan of Arc , directed by Luc Besson

Music

Between 1911 and 1912, the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók composed his only opera,
Bluebeard's Castle , inspired by Perrault 's story and with a libretto by the poet Béla Balázs. It
was released in Hungary on May 24, 1918.

The Mexican Black Metal group Nox Ater titled one of their songs "Gilles de Rais" on their
album "Land of Terror", recorded in 2008, as a tribute to this character.
Currently there is a group from Castellón called Guilles de Rais who gave their name to a pub
also in Castellón. Although that pub disappeared, in the summer of 2006 it was reopened in
Seville. Today it is a renowned Extreme Metal pub.

The Belgian Black Metal group Ancient Rites performed a song titled Morbid Glory (Gilles De
Rais 1404-1440) inspired by Gilles de Rais and found on their 1994 album called The Diabolic
Serenades .

Another group from the 90s, Japanese in this case, used the name Gilles de Rais to name their
group.

The song Into the Crypts of Rays by Thrash/Death/Black metal group Celtic Frost is about Gilles
de Rais.

In 2006 the Black Metal band Archgoat dedicated a song titled "Grand Marshall of the Black
Tower" to him on their album "Whore of Bethlehem".

The Argentine rock group Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota titles one of their songs
Barba Azul versus Amor Letal

The English group Cradle Of Filth released an album dedicated to this character in 2008,
Godspeed on the Devil's thunder (Life and crimes of Gilles De Rais), also celebrating the fact
that in 1998 they released an album inspired by Elizabeth Bathory ( Cruelty and the beast ).

The Spanish group Sheratán released the album called "La Maldición" in 2008, in which the
song of the same name is inspired by the story of Gilles de Rais.

in video games

 The name Gilles de Rais appears to designate a vampire in the video game saga called
Castlevania . This character specifically appears in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness.

 It also appears in Joan of Arc's Campaign, in the famous game Age of Empires II by
Microsoft Games and it is possible to play with it.

 Another appearance he had was in the game Bladestorm for PlayStation 3.

 Likewise within the Fate-Zero saga of Type-Moon, as a heroic spirit of the Caster class.

 2006 – Jeanne d'Arc

in anime

The name of Gilles de Rais appears, as a character in the popular series Kamikaze Kaitou
Jeanne (Arina Tanemura), which tells the story of Jean de Arc, and the supposed romance with
Guilles de Rais, who ended up cursing God and selling his soul to the devil. He also appears in
his time as a marshal, with Joan of Arc already dead, in El Mundo De S&M, (Chiho Saito and Be
Papas) committing atrocious crimes and using the souls of his soldiers to "purify life."
Bibliographic references

 Treatise on Violence. Wolfgang Sofsky Abada Publishing House. 2006

 The True Bluebeard (The Tragedy of Gilles de Rais) . Georges Bataille . Tusquets. 1972.
 Gilles de Rais. The forbidden reading . Aleister Crowley .
 The Marshal of darkness. The true story of Bluebeard . Juan Antonio Cebrián . Editorial
TODAY'S TOPICS, SA 2005. ISBN 84-8460-497-7
 Vampires, myth and reality of the undead . Miguel G. Aracil. EDAF Publishing. 2002.
 Le procès de Gilles de Rais, Georges Bataille , Pauvert, 1979 (in French).
 Souls thief . Ann Benson. 2002
 "The cruelty of the beast" . Shaun Hutson. 1990
 Le Diable et la Pucelle , Hubert Lampo , 163 p., Presses universitaires du Septentrion,
2002, ISBN 2-85939-765-5 (in French).
 Gilles de Rais , Vicente Huidobro, Play, Paris, Totem, 1932

The entire story (including the trial) of Gilles de Rais is widely collected and commented on in
"Far There" by Joris-Karl Huysmans.

 The Burnished Sword. Lawrence Schoonover. 1950. In this novel, reference is made to
Gilles de Rais before and after his arrest.

RAÚL OSIEL MARROQUÍN

Raúl Osiel Marroquín Reyes (born 1981, in Tampico , Tamaulipas ) was a Mexican serial killer
responsible for 6 kidnappings, 4 of them ending in the death of his victims. All of his victims
were gay men.

His life before the crimes

Marroquín Reyes studied for a year as a military doctor and was a member of the Mexican
army for four years, with the rank of First Sergeant, but he was discharged. He was imprisoned
in Tampico for 14 months on charges of violent robbery.
Psychiatric profile

Marroquín was one of the many people in Mexico who saw kidnapping as a very lucrative
activity (because in many cases he had already collected the ransom money before murdering
his victim). He saw himself as a benefactor of society to exterminate gay people, he went so far
as to declare: "I did good to society, because those people ruin childhood. I got rid of the
homosexual who, in some way, affects society. I mean, I walk down the street and they talk to
me, they talk to me..." His crimes had many similarities to those of the American serial killer
John Wayne Gacy , the motive being a little different: Gacy murdered his victims due to a
repression of his own homosexuality that he projected onto others (he felt attracted to them,
which is why which blamed them for their homosexuality ). On the other hand, Moroccan,
although his crimes also had marked homoerotic features, can be seen as a sociopath (
Antisocial Personality Disorder ) within a socio-cultural framework that, in one way or another,
gave him a showcase for its contained violence, directing it towards a minority, (Mexican
society, as well as all Latin American societies, is markedly homophobic).

Modus operandis

It operated in the bars and cafes in the Zona Rosa of the City. from Mexico, he attracted his
victims with erotic proposals; He invited them to hotels, where depending on whether they
had the financial resources, they would be kidnapped. He had the help of an accomplice: Juan
Enrique Madrid .

He subjected the men he kidnapped to torture (hence his nickname), he asked those close to
him for ransom and, regardless of whether they paid or not, he murdered his hostage by
asphyxiation or strangulation . Subsequently, he dismembered the body and abandoned the
parts inside suitcases in different places in the city.

Apprehension and conviction

He was arrested by the PGR , on January 23, 2006, in Cd. from Mexico , along with his
accomplice. He was sentenced to 200 years in prison on September 4, 2008.

After his arrest he declared: "I didn't regret what I did... If I had the opportunity I would do it
again, only I would be more careful not to get caught and I would not make the same mistakes
that led to my capture... The only thing I regret is what my family is going through..." When the
press asked him if he was homophobic, he said no.

RICHARD RAMIREZ

Ricardo Leyva Ramírez ( February 29, 1960 , El Paso , Texas ) is an American serial killer , also
known as Richard Ramirez or by the nickname Night Stalker . Ramirez killed 14 people in the
city of Los Angeles between 1984 and 1985. He is currently being held in the San Quentin
prison awaiting the execution of his death sentence.

Crimes

Like most serial killers, Ramirez was a problematic boy in his adolescence: at the age of 9 he
began stealing and later using drugs in Texas, his home state. Once in Los Angeles, he began
his career as a murderer, without specific guidelines which made his arrest more difficult: he
killed people regardless of their sex, race, age or condition. The weapons used ranged from a
baseball bat to a dagger, including various types of guns.

His modus operandi also varied, since he could murder in an organized manner without leaving
a clue or kill without any care believing himself to be protected by Satan , drawing satanic signs
on the walls, eating at his victims' homes, stealing the money they had on them or leaving the
murder weapons at the crime scene.

His favorite game was to go hunting, accompanied by a walkman on which he listened to

AC/DC , his favorite group. At first, he only beat and raped, even leaving most of his victims
alive, but later he became more sadistic, for example, he killed the husbands and raped the
women, then killed them (with the exception of two cases) ( According to a Discovery Channel
documentary, the weapon used was a kitchen knife)

Richard Ramírez was captured thanks to his last victim, who survived the attack and who had
the nerve to look out the window after being raped. He saw Ramírez escape in an orange
Toyota van, and reported it to the police. Coincidentally, a child, a neighbor of the victim, had
written down the license plate of the van since it had seemed suspicious to him. The police
located the van and took fingerprints, finding Ramírez's mugshot. The city of Los Angeles was
filled with posters with the face of the night prowler, who in those days was outside the city,
oblivious to the hunt and capture order. Upon his return, some Hispanics recognized him on
the street and he was about to be lynched to death by them; It had to be the police
themselves who saved him from the lynching.

He was accused of 14 murders, 5 attempted murders, 9 rapes (among which 3 were of minors),
2 kidnappings (he used to kidnap children and abandon them hundreds of kilometers from his
home just for the pleasure of making them suffer), 4 acts of sodomy , 2 forced fellatios , 5
robberies and 14 home invasions. Despite this data, it is estimated that he acted on many
more occasions since his modus operandi was not easily identifiable and he never collaborated
with the police by providing information about his crimes.

Finally, on October 3, 1989, after four days of deliberations, the jury voted for the death
penalty for Richard Ramirez and on November 4, the sentence of 19 death sentences was
ratified, a sentence that has not yet been carried out.

ROBERT PICKTON

Robert William "Willie" Pickton (b. October 24, 1949 in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia ,
Canada ) is a Canadian serial killer found guilty on December 9, 2007 of six second-degree
murders and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years on
December 11. December 2007 . Robert Pickton worked as a pig farmer.

Biography

On October 24, 1949 , Robert William Pickton is born in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia ,
Canada . He is not an only child since he also has the company of his brother David Francis
Pickton.

On February 5, 2002 , the police enter Farmer Pickton's house to conduct a firearms
inspection. Pickton's brother's house is also searched. The raid is carried out by a specialized
police force that was investigating cases of missing women in the area and of which Pickton
was the main suspect according to this force. After the raid, the British Columbia Police Force
closes Pickton's farm for irregularities in firearm possession. After this, charges are brought
against him for these crimes and he is acquitted although he remains under police supervision.

Several days later, on Friday , February 22, 2002 , police arrest Robert William Pickton and
charge him with the first-degree murder of two women: Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson.
On April 2 , 2002 , the police accused him of three more murders ; that of Jacqueline McDonell,
Diane Rock and Heather Bottomley. A sixth charge of murder is charged on April 9, 2002 for
the crime of Andrea Joesbury followed by the seventh charge for the crime of Brenda Wolfe.
On September 20, 2002, police continue to file murder charges against Pickton, in this case
four more, for the murders of Georgina Papin, Patricia Johnson, Helen Hallmark and Jennifer
Furminger. Four more, for the murders of Heather Chinnock, Tanya Holyk, Sherry Irving and
Inga Hall, were added to him on October 3, 2002 , reaching a total of fifteen murder crimes.
Furthermore, on May 26, 2005, the police accused him of the murder of twelve more women:
Cara Ellis, Andrea Borhaven, Debra Lynne Jones, Marnie Frey, Tiffany Drew, Kerry Koski, Sarah
Devries, Cynthia Feliks, Angela Jardine , Wendy Crawford, Diana Melnick and Jane Doe,
reaching a total of 27 murder crimes allegedly committed by farmer Robert William Pickton
who was already emerging as the worst serial killer in Canadian history.

The excavations at the Pickton farm continued in November 2003 when the cost of the
investigation already amounted to 70 million dollars according to the government of British
Columbia . After this, the farm was seized and all the buildings on it were demolished. The
forensic investigations were very difficult as it was very difficult for the forensic experts to
determine what the victims found on the Pickton farm had died of due to the putrefactive
state of the human flesh which, in turn, was decomposed by insects or in other cases, were
eaten by the same pigs on the farm . This gave rise to another controversy since it is believed
that many pigs that Pickton raised grew up eating human flesh, since it is also believed that
Pickton in some cases fed them the flesh of his victims. This worried the British Columbia
government who asked to know who those pigs were sold to. It was later learned that these
pigs were never sold to the market by Pickton, but that many of Pickton's friends or visitors to
the farm had taken one.

Judgment

The trial against farmer Robert William "Willie" Pickton began on January 30, 2006. The trial
was located in the city of New Westminster, British Columbia . As the trial began, the voir dire
phase took up most of 2006 determining what evidence the jury should accept. After this, it
was learned that reporters could not reveal any type of evidence that would be shown at the
trial.

On March 2, 2006 , one of the 27 murder accusations against Pickton was rejected by Judge
James Williams due to lack of evidence.

On August 9, 2006 , Justice Williams reduced the accusation from 26 murders to only six
considering that investigating death by death would take a long time, perhaps two years, and
that there might not be enough evidence to convict Pickton of those deaths. For this reason,
Judge Justice James Williams considered that six of these accusations had "different material"
as evidence and that this was "enough" to carry out the trial in a shorter period of time.
On December 12, 2006 , selection of the jury was completed, electing twelve permanent
members and two alternating members.

The trial for the six deaths was scheduled to begin on January 8, 2007 but was finally
postponed to begin on January 22, 2007 .

Finally, that January 22 , 2007 was the first day of trial against pig farmer Robert William
Pickton accused of the first-degree deaths of Marnie Frey, Sereena Abotsway, Georgina Papin,
Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe and Mona Wilson. Furthermore, that day the blockade against
the press was finally lifted and Canadians were finally able to find out what the farmer was
being accused of. On the first day, Derrill Prevett accused Pickton of the crimes and presented
evidence such as a skull split in half, hands and feet found on Pickton's property. The remains
of another victim were found in a bag in the trailer where Pickton lived. In addition, evidence
was presented such as a 22 caliber revolver and a dildo , both with the DNA of Pickton and one
of his victims. These objects were found in a laundry room on the farm . On February 20, 2007,
more charges and evidence were filed against Pickton. The police presented the 22 caliber
revolver they had found in addition to ammunition, photos of human remains, a Magnum
pistol, more ammunition, night vision glasses and many other strange things.

On December 9, 2007, the jury acquitted Robert William Pickton of six first-degree murder
charges but found him guilty of six second-degree murders. These crimes have a penalty of life
imprisonment with possible parole between 10 and 25 years of sentence; but all depending on
what the judge in the case decides. Finally on December 11, 2007 , Robert William Pickton was
sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole until he serves 25 years of his
sentence. The maximum penalty provided for the crimes of which he was accused. While
reading the sentence, the judge in the case, Justice James Williams, said "The conduct of Mr.
Pickton was murderous and repeated. "I can't know the details but I know this: What
happened to those women was absurd and despicable."

Still today, Pickton faces charges for 20 more murders.

CARLOS EDUARDO ROBLEDO PUCH

Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch in 1972 . He had not reached the age of majority when he was
already the biggest multiple criminal in Argentina .

Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch ( Buenos Aires , January 22 , 1952 ) is, along with Cayetano
Santos Godino , one of the most famous sociopaths in the criminal history of the Argentine
Republic . Nicknamed The Black Angel or The Angel of Death by the national newspapers , he
has been convicted of ten aggravated homicides , one simple homicide , one attempted
homicide, seventeen robberies , one rape , one attempted rape, one indecent assault, two
kidnappings. and two thefts . He is the person with the most serious crimes charged in the
country. He has been detained since 1972 .

Criminal career

.32 caliber Ruby pistol

On March 15, 1971 , Puch and his accomplice Jorge Ibáñez entered the Enamor bowling alley
(Espora 3285, Olivos ), taking 350,000 pesos at the time. Before fleeing, Robledo Puch
murdered the owner and the establishment's night watchman with a 32-caliber Ruby pistol
while they slept.

On May 9, 1971 , at four in the morning, Robledo Puch and Ibáñez entered a Mercedes-Benz
automobile spare parts business in Vicente López . Upon entering one of the rooms, they
found a couple and their newborn son. Robledo Puch shot the man to death and wounded the
woman in the same way. Ibáñez attempted to rape the injured woman - who survived and
later testified at trial. Before fleeing with 400,000 pesos, Robledo Puch shot the crib where a
few-month-old baby was crying, who miraculously saved his life.

The following May 24, the night watchman of a supermarket in Olivos was murdered.

On at least two occasions, in mid- June of that same year, Robledo Puch executed two young
women on the road who had been sexually abused (one of them was able to avoid being
raped) by Ibáñez in the back seat of the car on duty. .

On August 5 , under very dubious circumstances, Ibáñez died after a car accident. Robledo
Puch, who was driving the vehicle, fled the scene unharmed after the accident. There are those
who suspect that it was actually a settling of scores.

With the death of Ibáñez there was a break in Robledo Puch's criminal activity, which he
resumed in November 1971 together with his new accomplice, Héctor Somoza . On the 15th of
that same month they robbed a supermarket in Boulogne , shooting the night watchman with
a 32-caliber Astra Cádiz pistol that they obtained a few days before in the robbery of a gun
store. Two days after this incident, on November 17, they broke into a car dealership and
murdered the caretaker. After a week, it was the turn of another dealership in Martínez , they
overpowered the night watchman, took his keys and stole a million pesos. Robledo Puch
finished him off with a shot in the occipital area of the skull .

Detention

On February 1 , Robledo Puch and Somoza entered a hardware store in Carupá. They
murdered the guard and tried to open the safe with the keys. In a confusing situation where
Robledo Puch was apparently startled, he shot Somoza dead. Trying to make the task of
recognition difficult for police investigators, he took a blowtorch and burned the face of
Somoza's corpse . After opening the chest of funds with the same blowtorch, he collected the
loot and fled the scene. After an impressive crime wave, he was arrested on February 3, 1972
when he found Robledo Puch's identity card in Somoza's pants pocket. He had just turned 20
years old.

Trial, confinement and news

He was tried and convicted in 1980 . His last words before the court of the 1st Chamber of the
San Isidro Court of Appeals were " This was a Roman circus . " Someday I'm going to go out
and kill them all ."

What is striking is what is stated in the psychiatric expert report attached to the Robledo Puch
trial file.

 " He comes from a legitimate and complete home, absent of unfavorable hygienic and
moral circumstances ."
 " There were also no significant economic constraints, reversals of fortune,
abandonment of home, lack of work, personal misfortunes, illnesses, emotional
conflicts, overcrowding or promiscuity ."

Currently, Robledo Puch continues to be deprived of his liberty in a homosexual pavilion at the
Sierra Chica prison. Since July 2000, he has been able to request parole, but he has not done
so. On May 27, 2008, after the dentist Ricardo Barreda was granted house arrest, Robledo
Puch requested his conditional release. The judge who hears his request denies it because he
considers that he has not reformed positively in any of the sociological aspects necessary to
live in freedom, in addition to not having direct family members who can support him.

JOSÉ ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ VEGA

José Antonio Rodríguez Vega , nicknamed El Mataviejas ( Santander , Cantabria , December

3 , 1957 - October 24, 2002 , Topas , Salamanca ), was a Spanish serial killer who killed at least
16 elderly women of between ages between 60 and 93 years old, in Santander , between
August 1987 and April 1988 .

Biography

Rodríguez Vega was born in Santander ( Cantabria , Spain ). He hated his mother, whom he
feared on the one hand and was sexually attracted to on the other. This feeling of hatred
began when she kicked him out of the house for attacking her seriously ill father. Vega began
his criminal career by sexually assaulting women until October 17, 1978 , when he was
arrested and sentenced to 27 years in prison. However, thanks to his charm, he managed to
get all but one of his victims to forgive him, which in the Spanish Penal Code prior to 1995
exempted him from criminal liability in certain crimes; This, together with his good behavior in
prison, meant that he only spent 8 years in prison. Released in 1986 , he was abandoned by his
wife. Vega married again, this time to an epileptic woman. He was considered a very educated,
hard-working person and a good husband by all his acquaintances and neighbors.

On May 19, 1988 , he was arrested while walking along Cobo de la Torre Street. After his arrest
he confessed to his crimes.
Crimes

On August 6, 1987 , Vega entered the house of Margarita González (82 years old), whom he
asphyxiated , even making the woman swallow her false teeth . A few weeks later, on
September 30, 1987 , Carmen González Fernández (80 years old) was found dead in her home.
Vega was charged with her murder. In October of that same year, Vega murdered Natividad
Robledo Espinosa (66 years old).

Vega did not kill again until January 1988 , when Carmen Martínez González was found dead in
her home. In April 1988 , he murdered Julia Paz Fernández (66 years old). She was found
naked.

The identity of the rest of the victims was not revealed.

Trial and sentence

His trial began in 1991 in Santander . At the time of his arrest he confessed to the crimes, but
when testifying before the judge he stated that the women had died of natural causes , that he
simply left them unconscious.

Rodríguez Vega was diagnosed as a psychopath . His murders were premeditated and well
organized, as he identified his victim, and observed him until he became familiar with every
aspect of his routine. When he knew what their needs were, he posed as a television
repairman or bricklayer, and offered to accompany them, visit them, fix any damage, all in
order to gain their trust and be able to freely enter their homes. He has been described as a
serial killer who took trophies for each of his crimes. When he was arrested, the police found a
red room in his house where he kept the trophies he took from his victims, which ranged from
small televisions to rosaries or plastic flowers. The extent of his crimes did not become clear
until police showed a recording of this room to relatives of elderly women who died from
asphyxiation. The families of the victims identified objects that linked Vega to their relatives.

José Antonio Rodríguez Vega was sentenced to 432 years in prison (a commutative sentence in
America of 1,672 years in prison).

His death

Vega was serving a sentence in the Topas prison, in Salamanca . On October 24, 2002 , he was
stabbed by two inmates at the facility, apparently for breaking two prisoner "laws," being a
rapist and working as a snitch for prison officials. He was buried in a common grave the next
day, only the two gravediggers attended the funeral.
ROLAND SEGSBEES

Roland Segsbees (October 15, 1943 – March 24, 1988) was a French serial killer (born in
Oregon who moved to France six months later with his family) who killed 13 people. He
murdered 7 of his victims in their home, and the other 6 in different localities and regions.

Biography

Roland Derek Segsbees was the second of three brothers. His mother, Leonor Devaste
Segsbees, and his father, Byron Jers Segsbees were "wealthy," so to speak. Roland had a good
childhood and a good education.

On September 17, 1954, when accompanying his older brother, Frederick Segsbees, he had
witnessed his "first trauma", as Roland himself had alleged. The two were at night near the
train tracks, where two armed men assaulted Frederick, who was 21 years old. Frederick,
according to Roland, gave him the money he would use to buy his mother a gift, one thief ran
away, but the other, for no reason, shot Frederick in front of Roland. Frederick died instantly
and the robber-shooter left the scene. Roland was taken to the psychologist.

The "second trauma" that Roland had had was that, when he was 13 years old, he received a
call when he was alone in his house where a man with a "creepy" voice (as Roland also said)
threatened to come to his house in a few minutes. minutes and go stab him and crush him in a
turbine. The terror that Roland felt in that moment was so great that he remembers every
word of what the voice said to him:

I'll go find you, kid. I will kill you, I will go to the door of your home in a few minutes and stab
you, but you will continue to live so that you can see the turbine where I will throw you...
The man on the call never showed up, it was just a call from some crazy person, Leonor and
Byron had explained to their son.

Roland grew up with both of his traumas. In 1958 he was taken, for the second time, to a
psychologist. But apparently it didn't turn out very well, Roland grew up with his two traumas
that, according to the doctors, led him to the axis of evil.

When he was 21 years old he started working as a cashier in a grocery supermarket.

Criminal life

His first murder was committed when he was 32 years old (in 1975), by then he was working in
the bank. His neighbor, Laura Clek, went to visit Roland, who lived three doors away, and
never returned. Roland specifies that he had an affair with her, but as Laura was leaving the
country, Roland fell into a state of panic and murdered her with a hammer from behind,
without saying a word, killing Laura instantly. When he recognized what he had done, he took
Laura's body to a forest. The floor of Roland's house was made of tiles, when they were
splattered with blood, he changed them, and those that were stained he destroyed. They
never suspected Roland.

He felt great excitement when killing, but after a few minutes he recognized that he did wrong,
but he liked those minutes of excitement so much that he did not hesitate to kill again.

He bought a Smith & Wesson (S&W) pistol with which he killed 6 people outside his home. He
never gave their names or where he went, but there are suspicions about who the victims
could be.

Snuff Movies

Another 6 of his murders were committed in the living room and he filmed them.

The first of his videos saw Roland torturing, insulting and murdering Lion Dexius. In the video
you can see that Roland breaks his arm and pelvis with the butt of his revolver. Lion is seen
gagged to a chair as he moans in pain.

The second of his videos was the same as the first, the victim was Greg Lereau.

The third video has a woman whom Roland calls, in the video, Cristine. According to the video,
she was a friend of Roland's, but he kills her by shooting her in the chest and head as if she
were an enemy. In the video you can see Chistine sitting at a table in the living room reading a
magazine, Roland arrives (with the hidden camera) and offers her a drink. Cristine accepts and
they chat. Two minutes later, Roland pulls out his revolver and laughs, then fires twice, killing
Cristine.

The fourth video shows Roland sexually raping a woman who he claimed was his cousin (but
she wasn't). When he finishes raping her, he turns to the woman's face and forces her to say
her name, it was Jessica Longdu. Roland throws her to the ground and Jessica is seen crying.
Roland approaches her but moves the camera, it does not show how he kills her, but Jessica's
screams of pain and Roland's laughter can be heard.
The fifth of his videos was the same as the first and the second, the victim was George Benôit.
In the video it is seen that Roland infinitely enjoys killing people, because of how he reacted to
torturing his victim. The sixth of his videos also featured him raping a woman, as he rapes her,
stabs her back and insults her.

Roland set his camera to a video timer, the video would last 9 minutes and cut itself. Roland
films himself in the living room, where he murdered 6 people, recounting his murders, some of
his words were:

If you are watching this video, it is because they have already found my body on the ground.
(laughs for a few seconds) Life has made me what I am. A few minutes after murdering Laura, I
felt like a monster, but I refused to be sent to prison. I'm a monster, I know it. And by making
this video I know that I will be famous, very famous. (Makes an angry face) They will never
have me behind bars! Never! (Makes a sad face) I know I won't run from the police forever,
that's why I'll do what I'll do. (He exposes his revolver and puts the barrel to his temple) I'm
sorry... (He begins to give many names, in some of those names he says "dad and mom." At the
end he remained silent for a few seconds, and shot himself in the head)

This video made the news, but they cut the part where Roland commits suicide on March 24,
1988. The rest of the videos were reported in court, since they totally denied that they were
seen. They recounted the videos and then said they destroyed them. The video of Roland's
suicide was seen only once for the country. The police keep it in the darkest depths of their
drawer.

GUSTAVO ROMERO THIRD

Gustavo Romero Third

Birth 1970
Vadepeñas

Position(s) 3 Murders, 2 sexual assaults and 1 robbery

with intimidation

Sentence 103 years

Current in prison (2 years served)

situation

Spouse divorced

Children 2 (a son and a daughter)

Gustavo Romero Tercero , known as “The Valdepeñas Killer,” is a Spanish serial murderer and
sexual offender .
Biography

He was born in 1970 in Valdepeñas , he is divorced and has two daughters from that
relationship. He is currently imprisoned serving a 103-year sentence for the crimes of which he
was found guilty.

The crime of the boyfriends

The events described below belong to Gustavo Romero Tercero's own account during his trial:

On the night of June 18, 1993 , Gustavo Romero Tercero approached Ángel Ibáñez and Sara
Dotor, when they were preparing to leave Valdepeñas Park, where he had previously been
hanging around them and brandishing a knife with the express intention of robbing them. ,
forced them to go to an area close to the Madrid - Cádiz railway , which borders the Park. Once
in the area, lonely and poorly lit, he demanded that Ángel and Sara give him whatever money
they had, while he placed the knife on Ángel's neck, who gave him his wallet, trusting that this
would end the incident.

Gustavo Romero Tercero felt his identity revealed when Sara told him that she knew him,
because he was the nephew of her brother's boss, either because he did not want to leave
witnesses to the abduction, or because he had already planned the sexual assault before.
suddenly stabbed Ángel with great violence in the chest and left arm, while he tried to defend
himself. After the first stab wounds, Ángel tried to flee while the defendant continued stabbing
him with knives, even when he was already helpless on the ground.

Meanwhile, Sara, who could not do anything to prevent the attack on her boyfriend, tried to
flee along the fence that delimits the railway line, running in the direction of the station. The
defendant ran after her, catching up with her when she had traveled about 87 meters and
stabbed her in the back of the neck, causing her to immediately fall on her face. The defendant
turned Sara over, placing her face up, on the slight slope that forms the platform of the road
with its outer edge and after stripping her of her clothes, he carried out various touches and
abuses that caused various wounds and bruises on the woman's body. young woman, who was
immobilized and terrified on the ground. After the abuse, he unleashed a rapid succession of
stab wounds on the young woman's chest that caused her death.

Subsequently, Gustavo Romero Tercero took part of Sara's clothes, which he threw into the
Jabalón River , without being able to be recovered. On the way to his home, he got rid of the
knife by throwing it into a water wheel in an orchard located about a hundred meters from
what was then his home.

Once at home, he told his wife what he had done and informed her of his intention to leave
Valdepeñas, where he left on June 23, 1993 , bound for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria . The
summary was reopened on August 8, 2003 based on the statements given by the then wife of
the defendant, who was arrested on October 9, 2003.

The hearing sentenced Romero Tercero to 30 years of major prison for each of the crimes of
murder , as well as 12 more for sexual assault and another four years, two months and one day
of minor prison for robbery .

The Court acquitted the accused of the crime of rape , which the private accusations accused
him of, and imposed a 10-year ban on residing or returning to the town of Valdepeñas, in
addition to condemning him to compensate the victims' relatives with 900,000 euros . The
crime of robbery had prescribed.

Rosana Maroto Quintana

After being arrested for “the crime of the boyfriends”, Gustavo Romero Tercero declares
himself the author of the crime perpetrated against Rosana Maroto Quintana . [1] Romero
stated that after completing the first part of his work day as a cook for the staff of a hostess
club located on the N-IV, after 4:30 p.m. on June 25, 1998 , as he did on many occasions, he
went out to drive the nearby roads, since he avoided doing it on roads since he did not have
the license.

According to what he stated, when he was going at a very high speed he overtook the young
woman, who was heading to the El Peral area, in Valdepeñas , on a bicycle, and she fell to the
ground. He stopped to check what had happened, thinking that the girl was dead, since she did
not respond to his actions to revive her. He explained that given the fear he had that, based on
what had happened, if he said what had happened, the bride and groom's crimes would be
discovered, he decided to throw the body into a nearby well.

At first, he went to a well located on the "Casa Rabadán" farm, but when he saw that there
were vehicles and animals, he only threw Rosana's bicycle away. Next, he headed to the "Casa
Torres" property, opening the trunk, where he had deposited the body, taking off one of her
sneakers and trying to take off the shorts she was wearing, checking that the girl reacted and
asked what was happening and what was happening. it had ocurred. He then took her to the
house, where, he added, an argument broke out between them, since the young woman
wanted her bicycle back, while Romero offered to take her to Valdepeñas in his car and give
her her own bicycle, which Rosana did not. accepted in no way.

According to Gustavo Romero's version, to relieve the tension, he "suggested" that she
perform fellatio , which the young woman would have accepted without exerting any physical
violence on her, acknowledging that he proceeded to touch her.

Romero added that after a few minutes, the discussions resumed over the topic of returning to
Valdepeñas and at that moment, with the memory of the deaths of the two boyfriends in his
head, he decided to kill her, so he grabbed her first with his left hand. of the neck and then
with his right, until he strangled her.

The murderer acknowledged that Rosana defended herself for a few moments and that when
he saw that she was no longer hitting him with her hands and feet, he let her fall. Then he
returned to the car, took the shoelace and tied it around the woman's neck, to make sure she
was dead before abandoning the body in the well.

The Court sentenced him to 25 years in prison for murder with the aggravating circumstances
of treachery and cruelty and 12 years in prison for sexual assault . The sentence prohibits
Romero from returning to Valdepeñas and communicating with the victim's relatives for five
years, a measure whose fulfillment begins when the convicted person obtains his first prison
permit, conditional release or definitive release. He was also sentenced to compensate the
family with more than 360,000 euros , while the Court acquitted him of the crime of illegal
detention as charged by the private prosecution. When asked by the private prosecution,
Romero said that killing Rosana "was not easy, especially because of the moral difficulties."
MICHAEL BRUCE ROSS

Michael Bruce Ross ( July 26 , 1959 – May 13 , 2005 ) was an American serial killer . He was
executed by lethal injection in the state of Connecticut , which marked the first execution in all
of New England since 1960.

Early years

Ross was born in Putnam , Connecticut , the son of Patricia Hilda Laine and Dan Graeme Ross.
He grew up on a farm in Brooklyn, Connecticut . His family was broken as his mother had left
the family to be admitted to a mental institution. Some family members as well as friends had
suspected that little Michael had suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his uncle, who
committed suicide when Ross was only six years old.

He always showed himself to be a brilliant guy with an IQ of 122, and he did perfectly in
school. He would later go to Cornell University studying agricultural economics. But, parallel to
this, he would begin with his mental imbalances, committing his first rape and shortly after his
first murder.

chain of murders

Between 1981 and 1984, he raped and killed eight women between the ages of 14 and 25 in
New York and Connecticut.

Their list of victims is as follows (seven of the eight women had been previously raped):

 Dzung Ngoc Tu, 25, a Cornell University student, murdered on May 12, 1981 .
 Tammy Williams, 17, of Brooklyn, Connecticut, murdered January 5 , 1982
 Paula Perrera, 16, of Wallkill, New York , murdered in March 1982
 Debra Smith Taylor, 23, of Griswold , murdered June 15, 1982
 Robin Stavinsky, 19, from Norwich , murdered November 1983
 April Brunias, 14, of Griswold, murdered April 22 , 1984
 Leslie Shelley, 14, of Griswold, murdered April 22 , 1984
 Wendy Baribeault, 17, of Griswold, murdered June 13, 1984
In 1983, he had also raped Vivian Dobson (21 years old), although she managed to escape.
Initially, after Vivian's complaint, the possibility that Ross was the girl's rapist was rejected
since there were no charges or confession from the detainee. But when he was caught again,
Ross confessed to all the crimes and was tried and sentenced for four of them. He would be
sentenced to the death penalty on July 6, 1987 , and was on death row for 18 years.

DARYA SALTYKOVA

Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova (commonly known as Saltychikha in Russian Дарья Николаевна

Салтыкова) (1730 – 1801) was a Russian aristocrat and assassin .

Saltykova was a young Moscow aristocrat who became famous for torturing and killing more
than 100 of her servants, mostly young women. She was a sadist who had fun abusing her
servants. We find a very similar case in the 18th century with the Chilean noblewoman La
Quintrala .

Biography

Saltykova married very young and was widowed at the age of 26. With the death of her
husband, she received a considerable fortune and lived with her children and a notable
number of servants. As lady of the castle she was able to torture and kill many of her servants
without any witnesses. The powers that be's knowledge of Saltykova's deaths remains
unknown, although the aristocrat's good relationship with the tsar's court was well known. In
any case, the relatives of the dead women made a petition to Tsarina Catherine II of Russia . In
1762 , the queen decided to arrest and publicly try Saltykova due to a legal loophole. .

The trial dragged on for six years (until 1768), despite the fact that the authorities made
progress in the investigation. But the College of Justice questioned some witnesses and
checked the state of the house. In total, the investigation accumulated about 138 probable
deaths, most of which were attributed to Saltykova. Finally, he was found guilty of torturing to
death. But, as the death penalty was abolished in 1754, Saltykova was chained on a Moscow
bridge for an hour, with a note hanging around her neck that read: "This woman has tortured
and killed." After that, she was imprisoned for life in a convent .

MARGARITA SÁNCHEZ GUTIERREZ

Margarita Sánchez Gutierrez ( Málaga , 1953), alias "The Black Widow of Barcelona", and "The
Black Widow of l'Hospitalet", was a serial killer who received this name because of the method
she used to murder, in the same way that the famous spider killed its victims with poison,
although with the difference that she put it in food and drinks that she offered to her victims.
He managed to kill four people and three others were poisoned but managed to survive. All of
them were people close to her, including family and neighbors.
Biography

When she moved to Catalonia she first lived in L'hospitalet, on Riera Blanca street, where she
was known as "the one-eyed one." This was a modest, working-class neighborhood, where she
was considered a troubled woman, although she had no criminal record. According to
neighbors, she was prone to insults and street fights, and had debts in some businesses in the
area; She was miserly and it seems that she was not illiterate, according to what she herself
declared to the Police. In 1991, Margarita moved with her husband, Luis Navarro, and her
children Sonia and Javi to her in-laws' apartment, partly because they had been evicted but
also to take care of her husband's father. Margarita and Doña Carmen Nuez, her mother-in-
law, did not get along well because apparently the latter was a woman of authority and great
character. In 1992, her father-in-law died and Carmen Nuez was admitted five times to the
Clinical Hospital where she proclaimed that her mother-in-law was poisoning her. However,
the tests performed give a negative result.

Killer women

For Marisa Grinstein 's book trilogy, the story of Margarita Sanchez Gutierrez was added under
the name "Margarita Herlein, Tester of Men" in volume one and it was story number 13. Also,
in Mujeres assassinas (Argentina) this case was carried out, it was titled in the same way as in
the book, and the one who starred as Margarita was Araceli Gonzalez in this version Margarita
was looking for the ideal man but when she got tired of someone she poisoned him with
empanadas that They contained pharmaceuticals and he abused them. For Mujeres assassinas
(Mexico), an adaptation was made called "Sandra, Trepadora" performed by Itati Cantoral , as
part of the first season, it was the ninth episode to be broadcast, and in this she was not only
looking for the partner of her dreams; She liked to climb the economic ladder by giving her
husbands heart medication and then they would have sexual relations and the attempt would
cause them to go into cardiac arrest . In Murderous Women (Ecuador) Anghela Roncancio was
Margarita in this chapter and the plot was like the Argentine one. Margherita was the title of
the episode in Murderous Women (Italy) . For the third season of Mujeres assassinas
(Colombia), the episode was recorded and renamed "Margarita, Seductora" with Kathy Sáenz .
[1]
SAWNEY BEANE

Sawney Beane at the entrance to the cave that served as a lair.

Alexander Sawney Beane was the legendary chief of a clan of 48 people, in Scotland, who
sometime in the 16th century were allegedly tried and executed for the mass murder and
cannibalism of more than 1,000 people. Although the story is part of the "Newgate Calendar,"
a collection and account of criminal events published by Newgate Prison in London, historians
tend to believe that Sawney Beane never existed. In any case, its history is part of the legends
and tourist references of Edinburgh .

Legend

The events occur during the reign of King James VI of Scotland : Sawney Beane, a native of the
county of East Lothian, about thirteen kilometers east of the city of Edinburgh, gives up
earning an honest living like his father and after marrying he settles with his wife in a deep
cave located on the coast of Galloway County, which he turned into his home and lair for 25
years, during which he formed a clan as a result of incest that at the time of being discovered
by the authorities was made up of 48 people of which 21 were female. This Beane clan
attacked travelers to rob them, murder them and commit acts of cannibalism and vampirism
with their bodies. When a traveling couple is assaulted, the husband manages to escape after
being a horrified witness of the savage acts committed with his wife, and manages to report
the facts to the authorities. The king himself, with 400 men, goes to capture the Beanes,
managing to discover the entrance to the cave that during high tide was hidden from any view
and thus they realize the magnitude of the Beanes' crimes by finding remains of numerous
corpses. inside the cave. The clan was taken to Edinburgh, where all its members were quickly
tried and executed without showing signs of repentance in the process, or during the
execution.
Historical controversy

Some historians question the veracity of all the facts about Sawney Beane and his family and
their actual existence. Some opinion even suggests that the origin of the legend, recounted in
the popular and sensational British publications of the time, is the intention of the English to
discredit Scotland for the Jacobite Rising .
HAROLD SHIPMAN
Harold Shipman

Birthdate: January 14, 1946 Nottingham , England ,

United Kingdom .

Date of death: January 13 , 2004 ( Aged 57) West

Yorkshire , England , United Kingdom .

Died by: Suicide

Nationality:

Convicted for: Murder

Sentenced to: Life imprisonment

Harold Frederick "Fred" Shipman ( 14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004 ) was a British doctor ,
accused of killing 218 of his patients, corroborated in only 15 of them. He is known to be one
of the worst serial killers in modern history.

In 2000 , Shipman was sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences for the murders of 15 of his
patients .

After the trial, the police continued to investigate the files of Dr. Shipman or as he was later
nicknamed, Dr. "Death", since it was estimated that Shipman had murdered many more times
and that he could have killed 215 patients, of which 80% of them were women. The ages of the
victims were also a question for the police, since the youngest person Shipman had killed
among those 15 corroborated people was 41-year-old Peter Lewis. Finally, the investigations
ended with a possible toll of 250 victims, but the investigation was closed with the official
number of 218 highly probable murders.

Many of the British legislations on health care and medicine were reviewed and notably
modified as a direct and indirect result of the Shipman crimes, especially after the results of
the Shipman investigations (beginning on September 1, 2000 ).

Adolescence and Youth

Shipman's mother, Vera, died in 1963 from cancer, when Shipman was 17 years old. Shipman
would later study at High Pavement Grammar School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England,
United Kingdom, the University of Leeds from 1964, where he would later meet his future
wife, Primrose.

They married on November 5, 1966, when Shipman was 20 years old, and she would conceive
the couple's first child, Sarah, on Valentine's Day 1967, when the young Shipman was 21 years
old. She would be the first daughter of a total of 4 children. In 1970, Shipman would graduate
from Leeds and begin working at Pontefract General Infirmary, in Pontefract , West Riding of
Yorkshire .
After his death, investigators would come to the conclusion that Shipman began killing patients
in police custody in 1970 during his work for the prison service.

In 1974 , Shipman would get his first stable job, 12 miles west of Halifax , West Yorkshire .

In 1975 Shipman would be arrested for the first time for forging documents to obtain
meperidine for his own use. For this fact, Shipman was sent to a drug rehabilitation hospital in
North Yorkshire , and after treatment he was declared rehabilitated. After a brief stint in
Durham , County Durham he joined the Hyde Medical Centre, Greater Manchester , in 1977 .

Shipman continued working as a doctor in Hyde throughout the 1980s, until 1993 when he
founded his own clinic on Market Street, becoming a respected member of the community.

Detection

In March 1998 , Dr Linda Reynolds of Brooke Surgery in Hyde, an opponent of Shipman's clinic,
went to visit John Pollard, the district colonel of South Manchester, concerned about the high
mortality rates among Shipman's patients. . He also spoke of the cremations carried out, of
deceased former Shipman patients, mostly older women. Then, at the end, the doctor would
say that Shipman was killing her patients, but she didn't know if it was negligent or intentional.

The case immediately attracted the attention of the police, who did not have enough evidence
to arrest Shipman and bring charges against him (in the subsequent investigation into
Shipman's crimes, they would blame the police for assigning inexperienced officers to the
case). During the time of investigation, the case was dropped on April 17 , with Shipman's
eventual arrest as the cover. During that period, Shipman murdered three more people.

The last of these three was Kathleen Grundy, an older woman from Hyde. On June 24, 1998 ,
she died at home. The last person to see her alive had been Dr. Shipman, who would later sign
her death certificate.

Grundy's daughter, solicitor Angela Woodruff, was shocked when her mother's solicitor Brian
Burguess informed her that her mother's dying wish had been to disinherit her of the £
386,000 he had to give her, to give to her doctor, Harold. Shipman. Woodruff went to the
police and reported what was happening, the police began an investigation. Grundy's body
was exhumed and examined, and traces of morphine were found on it. With this evidence,
Shipman was finally arrested on September 7, 1998 and found with a typewriter, the type used
to forge the inheritance document.

After this, police began examining other deaths signed by Shipman and came up with a list of
15 deaths to investigate. A similar pattern was discovered in all 15 cases, morphine overdose.
The certificates for these 15 patients had been signed by Shipman and explained that the
patients were in "poor health."

Trial and imprisonment

The Shipman trial, presided over by Judge Mr. Forbes, started October 5, 1999 . Shipman was
prosecuted for the deaths of Marie West, Irene Turner, Lizzie Adams, Jean Lilley, Ivy Lomas,
Jermaine Ankrah, Muriel Grimshaw, Marie Quinn, Kathleen Wagstaff, Bianka Pomfret, Naomi
Nuttall, Pamela Hillier, Maureen Ward, Winifred Mellor, Joan Melia and Kathleen Grundy,
which occurred between 1995 and 1998 .
After the jury deliberated for 6 days, Shipman was convicted on January 31, 2000 , of the
murder of 15 of his patients, whom he killed with lethal injections of morphine . The Judge
sentenced him to 15 consecutive life sentences and recommended that he never be released.
Two years later, the then Secretary of Government, David Blunkett, accepted this
recommendation from the judge , just months before the British government lost the power to
set minimum sentences for murderers.

In February 2002 , Harold Shipman was removed from the British National Register of Doctors.

Shipman insistently denied his guilt (his defense disputed the forensic evidence against him),
he never made any statements about his actions. His defense attempted (and failed) to
disregard Mrs. Grundy's murder, arguing that there were insufficient grounds to charge
Shipman.

Although many other cases could have been brought to trial, it was concluded that it would be
difficult to have a fair trial, given the enormous publicity surrounding the original trial. In any
other case, it would be unnecessary to take it to trial, given the existing sentences. The
investigation against Shipman concluded that the doctor had killed around 250 people.

Some people say that the murders targeting older women were because Shipman had suffered
greatly from the painful death of his mother who died when he was young while others said it
was an arrogant desire to be able to control who lived and who died. that is, to control life and
death.

Suicide

Shipman was found hanging in his Wakefield prison cell at 6:20 AM on January 13, 2004 , one
day before his 58th birthday, and was pronounced dead at 8:10 AM. The prison service
reported that Shipman had hanged himself on the bars of his cell, with the sheets of his bed.
Some British journalists expressed joy at Shipman's suicide and encouraged other serial killers
to follow his example. The Sun newspaper was criticized for its festive front page announcing
Shipman's death that read Ship Ship yay! .

However, the victims' families expressed uncertainty, since with Shipman's death they would
never have the satisfaction of Shipman explaining why he had murdered the patients. David
Blunkett would express such joy: "If you wake up and get a call telling you that Shipman has
committed suicide, do you think, is it too early to open a bottle? and then you discover that
many are sorry for this fact", referring to the uncertainty of the victims' families.

The reason for Shipman's suicide was never clarified, although according to his probation
officer, Shipman considered suicide as a way for his wife to receive a National Medical Service
pension and a lump sum even though he had been deprived of his pension. His wife received a
pension from the national medical service. If Shipman had been 60 or older, his wife would
never have received anything. FBI profiler John Douglas has stated that serial killers are
obsessed with manipulation and control and that committing suicide in prison while under
police custody is their final gesture of being able to control their life.

One of the questions that came later was why Shipman was not in Wakefield prison, under
close custody, to prevent his suicide , and had been in Manchester and Frankland prisons, after
having threatened to kill him. commit suicide.
Shortly after Shipman's death, Sir David Ramsbotham wrote an article for The Guardian
newspaper that condemned life sentences, arguing that if convicts were given parole
sentences, rather than indefinite sentences, The inmates would at least have the hope of
getting out of prison and avoiding suicides like the one Shipman committed in prison .

after suicide

It is unclear even when Shipman began murdering patients and also how many he killed. A
report made in July 2002 into Shipman's activities concluded that he had killed at least 215
patients between 1975 and 1998 , during his stays in Todmorden , West Riding Yorkshire (
1974 - 1975 ) and Hyde, Cheshire ( 1977 - 1998 ). . Judge Janet Smith said many other
suspicious deaths could not be directly attributed to him. Most of the victims were older
women who were in good health, according to reports filed after their suicide.

In the sixth and final report, released on January 27, 2005 , Smith disclosed that she believed
Shipman had killed three patients, and that she had serious suspicions about four more
deaths, including that of a four-year-old girl. during the early part of his medical career at
Pontefract General Hospital, West Riding Yorkshire . Smith concluded that the probable
number of Shipman's victims between 1971 and 1998 was 250. In total, 459 people died while
under Shipman's care. It is uncertain how many of these were Shipman's victims, as he was
often the only person to certify the deaths.

The inquiry into Shipman also resulted in recommendations for changes to the structure of the
general medical council.

Six doctors who had signed cremations for Shipman's victims were accused of misconduct by
the General Medical Council, which claimed that they should have noticed the pattern of visits
Shipman made with his patients before they died. Finally the doctors were acquitted of guilt
and charge. Shipman's widow, Primrose Shipman, was called to give evidence about two of the
deaths during the inquest. She maintained her innocence and also the innocence of her
husband.

In October 2005 , a similar hearing was held against two doctors who worked at Tameside
General Hospital in 1994 , and who had failed to detect Shipman administering brutal doses of
morphine to his patients.

Another investigation was carried out in 2005 into Shipman's suicide. It was found that the
suicide could not have been predicted or prevented, but that the procedures should
nevertheless be reexamined.

In 2005 , it was revealed that Shipman may have stolen his victims' jewelry. About £10,000
worth of jewelery having been found in his garage in 1998 , and in March 2005 , with Primrose
Shipman pressing for its return, police wrote to the families of Shipman's victims asking them
to identify the jewelery. .

The unidentified items were handed over in May . In August the investigation ended with 66
pieces returned to Primrose Shipman and 33 pieces that she confirmed were not hers, and
were therefore auctioned. The proceeds from the auction went to a foundation. The only piece
that actually returned to a family was a platinum-diamond ring, which the family identified
with a photograph as proof of ownership.
A memorial garden to Shipman's victims, called the Garden of Tranquility, was opened in Hyde
Park on July 30, 2005 .

In popular culture

Harold and Fred (They Make Ladies Dead) were comic strips published by Viz in 2001 , which
also featured the English murderer Fred West .

Shipman a television dramatization of the case was made in 2002 with James Bolam as Harold
Shipman.

In an episode of the television series Law and Order , called "DAW," detectives Robert Goren
and Alexandra Eames investigate a doctor suspected of being a serial killer . Many aspects of
the episode reference Shipman, such as the character's youth drug addiction and the number
of deaths he was accused of. In the final part of the episode, when the suspect is confronted
with the evidence, a man with a gray beard and glasses appears, very similar to Shipman. The
episode also ironically includes a character named "Hal Shipman."

The Fall and Jonathan King have made songs referring to Shipman. King's song has been very
controversial, since 6 months later the media would take it as a means of defense against
Shipman, urging listeners not to fall for a media demon.

As a child he supported Notts County FC

GERONIMO DE SOLANE

Tata Dios and his minions.

Gerónimo de Solane, better known as Tata Dios, was an Argentine healer and serial killer. The
exact place and date of his birth are unknown; He was killed in Tandil , Argentina on January 6,
1872 .

Tata Dios Profile

The rancher Ramón Gómez brought him to the region to cure his wife's headaches by giving
him accommodation in his ranch .
Described as gray-haired and with a long white beard, he was between 45 and 50 years old. He
had recently been arrested in the city of Azul for illegal practice of medicine. It is believed that
he was a native of the province of Entre Ríos .

He gained the trust of the boss and installed a "medical office" in an area of the ranch to care
for sick people. It was in this place where he recruited the group of countrymen who became
his accomplices. His messianic and anti-foreigner speeches instigated the people to follow him.

Account of his crimes

He recruited a group of Creoles and shouting "long live religion, die the gringos and masons"
they went out to kill 30 people in cold blood in Tandil, a case that made headlines throughout
the country at the time.

It is suspected that the instigators of such a savage act were wealthy people from the area,
founded on the murder of Tata Dios himself in his cell while he was imprisoned.

The event occurred on January 1, 1872 , Tandil at that time was a town with just over 5,000
inhabitants. The gang stormed the local Peace Court building and stole the weapons stored
there. They wore a punjo bracelet on their arms, identifying the followers of Rosas .

In a few blocks they executed Santiago Imberti (an Italian who played the organ) and nine
Basques who were traveling by cart.

The series culminates in De la Canal , a nearby town where 17 people are executed in the
Chapar family's warehouse and the warehouse's accounting book is strangely stolen, which
leads to suspicion of their debtors as instigators of the crime.

Capture of criminals

A police team supported by neighbors arrested the group and began an attempt at "justice by
their own hands." Several criminals died, Jacinto Pérez among them, others managed to
escape, only twenty were arrested, strangely, the majority did not know each other. They
claimed that they were acting under the orders of the "doctor God."

They were all imprisoned in the local police station, where Tata Dios was already imprisoned
and was not responsible for the events since they found him in the "La Argentina" ranch where
he was performing the duties of a healer.

Unfortunately, they could not bring Tata Dios to trial. During the early hours of January 6, he
was murdered by gunshots fired from a small window of the cell where he was housed.

In the Historical Museum of the Fort in the city of Tandil, the blanket with nine holes in it and
the trial file are still preserved.

The trial corresponding to the rest of the group was held and the highest sentence fell on Cruz
Gutiérrez, Juan Villalba and Esteban Lazarte who were sentenced to death and executed on
September 13 , Villalba died earlier in prison.
GERALD STANO

Gerald Stano

Gerald Eugene Stano ( Daytona Beach , Florida , 1951 – June 2 , 1986 ) was an American serial
killer who was charged with more than 40 victims.

Biography

Stano was born in Florida in 1951 but was an adopted child. Since his childhood, he suffered
persistent problems at school, which caused his academic failure. After a few years at the
Virginia Military Academy, he finally graduated from the University of Daytona Beach and,
later, would go to work with his adoptive father at a gas station, although he also worked as a
cook and waiter. Although he became interested in women, they all rejected him, so Stano
increased his resentment towards them. According to Stano himself, some "laughed in each
other's faces."

Thus, the killer's first victims were in New Jersey in 1969 . Later, he headed to Pennsylvania
where he ended the lives of a dozen girls and, finally, he would return to his native Florida,
where he created a wave of panic in the state by ending 33 other lives between 1973 and 1980
. Absolutely devoted to his perverse obsession, Stano preferred prostitutes and hitchhikers,
although one of his victims would be a cheerleader . Their ages ranged from 13 to 30 and their
weapons varied, including shooting, stabbing, and even strangulation. In any case, none of
them suffered sexual abuse since Stano had enough with the simple act of murder.

Stano's misdeeds would end in 1980, when he was arrested when a victim miraculously
escaped the killer's hands in Daytona Beach. Already arrested, Stano confessed in marathon
statements. The police were able to attribute 24 victims to them in Florida alone. In December
1983 , Stano gave exhaustive details of 41 murders. His ninth conviction, for the murder of the
17-year-old girl in Port Orange , earned him the death penalty by electric chair, a sentence that
was carried out on June 2, 1986 .

AHMAD SURADJI

Ahmad Suradji ( 1951 – July 10, 2008 ) was an Indonesian serial killer , known as Nasib
Kelewang or by his alias Datuk .

Suradji admitted to murdering 42 women over a period of 11 years. Their victims were
between 11 and 30 years old and were strangled to be part of a ritual. Suradji was arrested on
May 2, 1997 , after the remains of his victims were found near his home outside Medan , the
capital of North Sumatra . He amassed his victims in a sugar plantation near his home,
although their heads were still in his apartment, as Suradji held a belief that granted him
power.

In his confessions, he explained to police that he had a dream in 1988 in which his father's
ghost ordered him to murder 70 women and swallow their saliva, in order to become a
"dukan," or mystical healer. The witch was revered by local residents, who believed he had
paranormal powers and frequently sought him out for medical and spiritual advice. Many
women hired him to cast spells to ensure the fidelity of their husbands and boyfriends.
Neighbors said many women sought the witch's help believing it would make them richer,
healthier and more sexually attractive to men.

His three wives (who were also the murderer's sisters) were also arrested as accomplices to
the murders in which they helped hide the bodies. The eldest of the three wives, Tumini, was
prosecuted as an accessory to said crimes while the other two were released. The trial began
on December 11, 1997 , with a 363-page summary and, although Suradji maintained his
innocence until the end, he was found guilty on April 27, 1998 and he and his wife were
sentenced to be shot, a penalty that It was applied on July 10, 2008 .
MARIA SWANENBURG

Maria Swanenburg.

Maria Catherina Swanenburg ( Leiden ( Netherlands ), September 9 , 1839 – Gorinchem, April

11 , 1915 ) was a Dutch serial killer . Known by the nickname Goeie Mie, she poisoned 27 sick
children in her native town.

Biography

Swanenburg was born in Leiden, the daughter of Clemens Swanenburg and Johanna Dingjan.
They would be the murderer's first victims, dying of poisoning in 1880. After her first two
sisters died at a very young age, she married Johannes van der Linden on May 13, 1868 . As a
result of this marriage, he had five sons and two daughters. This union lasted until January 29,
1886 .

Between 1880 and 1883, Maria poisoned 27 children with arsenic , but attempted to kill about
fifty more. Some of the survivors had chronic problems after ingesting poison. The main reason
for the murders was economic since she received health insurance while caring for sick
children. She was arrested while attempting to poison the Groothuizen family in December
1883 . The trial began on April 23, 1885 , and Maria Swanenburg was found guilty and
sentenced to life imprisonment in a house of correction. He would die there in 1915 .

THUG BEHRAM

Thug Behram (or Buhram ), (1765 – 1840) of the Thuggee cult in India, was one of the most
prolific serial killers . He may have killed up to 931 victims between 1790 and 1840 with the
ceremonial clothes (or rumal, which in Hindi means handkerchief ) used for his worship.
Behram was executed in 1840 by hanging .

While Behram is sometimes credited with 931 murders; James Paton, an officer of the British
East India Company , who worked for the Thuggee and the Dacoity Office in the 1830s wrote a
manuscript about the Thuggee where he quotes Behram as saying that he had been present at
931 murders, and that he had strangled about 125 men with his bare hands, and that he had
seen 150 more being strangled.
SIPHO THWALA

Sipho Mandla Agmatir Thwala ( KwaMashu , 1968 ) is a South African kidnapper and serial
killer, who was sentenced in 1999 to 506 years in prison for the deaths of 16 women and the
abduction of 10 others. [1] Thwala was known by the nickname "The Phoenix Strangler".

Thwala, born and raised in KwaMashu , began his long life of kidnappings and murder spiral in
1996. [2] His modus operandi was to take the woman to the sugar fields of Mount Edgecombe
near the city of Phoenix , with the promise of a job as cleaning staff in a hotel. [1] Once the
couple was deep in the plantation, Thwala strangled him with his own underwear. He then set
fire to the cane field in the hope of destroying evidence of his misdeeds.

Sipho Thwala was arrested in 1997 after police found traces of DNA. [1] On 31 March 1999 , the
Durban High Court found Sipho Thwala guilty of 16 murders and ten kidnappings and
sentenced to 506 years in prison.

JEAN-BAPTISTE TROPPMANN

Jean-Baptiste Troppmann ( Brunstatt , October 5 , 1848 – Paris , January 19 , 1870 ) was a well-
known French serial killer . He planned to counterfeit money with Jean Kinck but murdered his
accomplice with hydrocyanic acid and dismembered Gustave, a son of Kinck. He met Kinck's
wife Hortense in Paris and tricked her into getting 55,000 francs in her husband's name. He
then dismembered the woman and the couple's other five children in the Pantin
neighborhood.

The next day, a worker found the mutilated remains of Hortense and her children. The bodies
of Jean and Gustave Kinck were later found. Troppmann was sentenced to death for eight
murders and executed by guillotine on January 19, 1870.

JACK UNTERWEGER

Johann "Jack" Unterweger ( August 16, 1951 – June 29 , 1994 ) was an Austrian writer and
serial killer who killed 12 prostitutes from different countries. His first conviction for murder
would come in 1974, although he would be released in 1990 thanks to a campaign by
intellectuals and politicians, thus exposing Unterwerger as an example of rehabilitation . Later
he became a writer and journalist, although nine months after his introduction to society, he
would commit murders again. Unterweger would commit suicide in prison after being
sentenced to life in prison. [1]

Biography

Early years

The son of a single mother from Vienna and an American soldier, Unterweger grew up in
extreme poverty with his grandfather, who describes him as a compulsive alcoholic.
Unterwerger's uncle, however, denied this information.

In his early years of youth, he visited prison a few times for small crimes, especially for
assaulting a prostitute's shop. In 1974, Unterwerger would commit his first murder, ending the
life of 18-year-old German Margaret Schäfer by strangulation with her own bra. For this
reason, he would be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Prison and first release permit

In prison, Unterweger wrote short stories, poems, plays and his autobiography , Fegefeuer –
eine Reise ins Zuchthaus , which would be made into a film. [2] Because of the popularity of his
stories, Austrian intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, petitioned
Unterweger for forgiveness. This is how on May 23, 1990 , after 15 years in prison, he would
finally be released. From here, Unterweger would appear on many television programs as a
symbol of the rehabilitation of prisoners.

More murders

But the misdeeds would continue once the murderer is free. In fact, police would find evidence
of six Unterweger murders a year after his release.

On the professional side, in 1991, Unterweger was hired by an Austrian magazine to write
about a crime that occurred in Los Angeles , and describe the differences between prostitution
in the United States and Europe. Unterweger met a local police officer from the North
American city and accompanied him during patrols through the red light district . During that
stay in Los Angeles, Unterweger killed three prostitutes (Shannon Exley, Irene Rodríguez and
Sherri Ann Long), savagely raped and strangled with their own bras.

In Austria, Unterweger was named as a possible suspect in the crimes. With no other possible
culprits, the police put it under surveillance. After following him through Europe and Canada ,
he was finally arrested by the FBI in Miami on February 27 , 1992. Still a fugitive, he called an
Austrian television station to convince them of his innocence.

Judgment and death

Once in Austria, Unterweger was charged with 11 homicides , one of them occurring in
Prague . The jury convicted him of all nine deaths. On June 29, 1994, Unterweger would be
sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of redemption .

That same night, he would commit suicide by hanging himself in his cell with a rope made from
his shoelaces and belt. A way very similar to the one he used to kill his victims.
JOSEPH VACHER

Joseph Vacher (b. Beaufort , Isère , France , 16 November 1869 - † Bourg-en-Bresse , Ain , 31
December 1898 ) was a French serial killer who was accused of murdering at least 11 people.

He has sometimes been called "the French Ripper" or "the Southeast Ripper", due to his
comparison to, most famously, London 's 1888 Jack the Ripper . His hallmarks were his scarred
face , an accordion and a simple white handmade rabbit fur hat .

DORANGEL VARGAS

Dorángel Vargas Gómez or Dorancel Vargas Gómez ( Caño Zancudo , Mérida state, May 14 ,
1957 )", also called " Comegente " and the "Hannibal Lecter of the Andes", is a Venezuelan
serial killer and cannibal . Vargas was a vagabond who used to hunt his victims in the 12 de
Febrero park, on the banks of the Torbes River in the city of San Cristóbal , in the state of
Táchira , 750 kilometers from Caracas. Vargas has officially become the first serial killer in
Venezuelan history, murdering at least ten people (although it is suspected that the number
could have been as high as 40).

Biography

Dorancel Vargas Gómez was born in 1957 into a family dedicated to agriculture and with few
resources, so he only reached the third grade of primary school. His record includes three
arrests, before the last one, two of them for minor crimes: theft of chickens and livestock and
the third, in 1995, when he was admitted to the Peribeca Psychiatric Rehabilitation Institute
for the death and subsequent ingestion of the body. by Cruz Baltazar Moreno. The murderer
managed to escape from that center and lead an apparently normal life in destitution without
anyone bothering to follow his trail again. It is believed that he committed the crimes between
November 1998 and January 1999, at which time the families notified the police of the
disappearance of the deceased. Dorangel hunted his victims with a spear-shaped tube,
dismembered them, saved the parts he ate to cook them, and buried the feet, hands, and
heads. Their primary targets were unsuspecting athletes, workers working on the riverbank,
and children. Since he had no refrigerator to store meat, he killed an average of two people a
week. On February 12, 1999, members of the Civil Defense found the remains of two young
people and alerted the security forces about their discovery. Delving into the area, they found
the remains of six more bodies. Once the hypothesis that it could be an area for releasing
bodies from a drug trafficking gang or a satanic sect had been ruled out, reports of missing
persons were resorted to. Vargas, who lived in a kind of ranch in the nearby area, was
immediately suspected and, during police inspections, several containers containing human
flesh and viscera prepared for consumption, as well as three human heads, were found in his
house. and several feet and hands. Once captured, he confessed to killing and eating at least
10 men over a two-year period since his arrest in 1999. In the police reports, Vargas confessed
that thin men tasted better than women and that the most pleasant flavors were obtained in
the belly area.

Murders in Whitechapel

The Whitechapel Murders were a series of eleven brutal murders of women committed in
Whitechapel , in the East End of London between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891 . At
various points all or some of them have been assigned to the alleged, but difficult to identify,
one known as Jack the Ripper . [1] Most, if not all, of the victims were prostitutes. Their names
were Emma Elizabeth Smith , Martha Tabram , Mary Ann Nichols , Annie Chapman , Elizabeth
Stride , Catherine Eddows , Mary Jane Kelly , Rosa Mylett, Alice McKenzie, and Frances Coles.
There was also an unidentified woman. The investigations were carried out by the
Metropolitan Police, joined after September 30 by the City Police. Private organisations, such
as the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, were also involved in the search for the killer.

Victims

1. Emma Elizabeth Smith (c. 1843 – April 4, 1888) was an East End prostitute of mysterious
origin approximately forty-five years old. At the time of his death he was living in a common
lodging house at 18 George Street , Spitalfields .

2. Martha Tabram (sometimes Tabran; used alias Emma Turner; maiden name Martha Blanco;
separated), (May 10, 1849 – August 7, 1888). Born in Southwark, she was a prostitute who, at
the time of her death, was thirty-nine years old, residing in a common lodging house at 19
George Street, Spitalfields.

3. Mary Ann Nichols , (maiden name Mary Ann Walker, nicknamed "Polly"; estranged), (August
26, 1845 – August 31, 1888), an occasional prostitute. Born in London , at the time of her death
she was living in a common lodging house at 18 Thrawl Street, in Spitalfields. She was forty-
three years old, but she reportedly looked about ten years younger.

4. Annie Chapman (née Eliza Ann Smith, nicknamed "Dark Annie"), (September 1841 –
September 8, 1888), a casual prostitute. Londoner, at the time of her death, was residing in a
lodging house common at 35 Dorset Street. She was a widow and 47 years old.

5. Elizabeth Stride (née Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, nicknamed "Long Liz"), (November 27, 1843 –
September 30, 1888), an occasional prostitute. Of Swedish origin, but had moved to London in
1866 at the age of twenty-two. At the time of his death, he was living in the common lodging
house at 32 Flower and Dean Street, Spitalfields. He was 44 years old at the time of his death.
6. Catherine Eddows (also known as "Kate or Catherine Conway" and "Mary Ann Kelly," from
the surnames of her two common law husbands Thomas Conway and John Kelly) (April 14,
1842 – September 30, 1888). Born in Wolverhampton , at the time of his death, he was living
with his partner John Kelly in Cooney at 55 Flower and Dean Street, Spitalfields. He was forty-
six years old. Stride and Eddowes were eliminated the same night, just a few minutes and less
than a mile apart, the two murders being given the nickname "The Double Event."

7. Mary Jane Kelly (called herself "Marie Jeanette Kelly" after a trip to Paris, nicknamed
"ginger"), (c. 1863 - 9 November 1888), an attractive red-haired Irish prostitute. At the time of
his death he was living in a single room at 13 Miller's Court, to the rear of 26 Dorset Street,
Spitalfields. She was approximately 25 years old when she was murdered.

JEANNE WEBER

Cover of Le Petite Journal from May 24, 1908 , showing the murder of a child.

Jeanne Weber ( Keritry , October 7 , 1874 – Mareville , 1910 ) was a well-known French serial
killer also known as "the ogre of the Goutte d'Or ."
Biography

Jeanne Weber was born in the northern French town of Keritry into a humble fishing family.
When he was 24 years old, he moved to Paris (living at Passage de la Goutte d'Or nº8). In the
city of Light she met the man who would become her husband Marcel Weber and from whom
she would take her name. While Jeanne earned a few francs as a caregiver for the
neighborhood girls, her husband spent them drinking and gambling. In addition, she had three
healthy-looking children.

In 1905 , misfortune enters Jeanne's life when she strangles two of her children. The police did
not suspect anything strange about these deaths. On March 2 , the children of his brother-in-
law, Pierre Weber (18-month-old Georgette and 3-year-old Suzanne) also died under "strange"
circumstances. Nobody suspected Jeanne's possible intervention and she continued working as
a nanny in the Montparnase neighborhood.

Despite this, the black legend began to haunt the neighborhood. It was very strange that the
children suffered from strange illnesses when they were with Jeanne. That fear increased
when on March 25, Germaine Lèon, just 7 months old, died with strange marks on her neck
(like all the previous ones). To the greater misfortune of the Leon family, Germaine's brother
(Marcel) appears dead shortly after.

But on April 5 things become clearer thanks to a stroke of fate. Her sister-in-law entrusts her
with the custody of her little son Maurice, only ten months old, while she has to go shopping.
When he returns, he watches as his son struggles between life and death in Jeanne's hands.
Thanks to the doctors' intervention, the baby is saved and Jeanne is denounced. The event
spread like wildfire and only police intervention prevented her from being lynched due to the
tumult.

Weber was taken to Inspector Coiret, who little by little was connecting the dots of the
previous "mysterious" deaths. Formally accused of murder, she waited in jail for a few months
for the trial that would have to condemn her.

But a series of events radically changed the almost certain guilty verdict. The death of her last
child, Weber's intervention as a disconsolate mother and the magnificent verbigracy of Dr.
León Thoinot, who attributed the children's deaths to a strange bronchitis, acquitted the
accused.

Alone, abandoned by her husband and with a trail of death and calamity wherever she passed,
Weber leaves Paris and moves to Villedieu , in the Indre region, among the Bavouzet family.
But on April 16, 1907 , the family's son, Auguste Bavouzet, aged nine, was found dead. The
doctor in the neighboring town of Châteauroux concluded that it had been strangulation. This
unleashed anger among the population, who began to learn about Jeanne Weber's past. But
the Parisian authorities requested a second autopsy, concluding that the child's death was due
to strange fevers. This ruling frees Jeanne from prison and the death penalty for the second
time.

However, different experts believed that Webber suffered from psychotic breaks. Doctor
Georges Bonjeau, president of the Society for the Protection of Children, gave the nanny one
last chance and offered her a position as a nurse at the Orgeville orphanage. But soon after,
she was caught strangling a child. The doctor, embarrassed by the event, decides to fire her
without reporting the incident.
Weber moves to Paris to work as a prostitute. Living in a seedy boarding house, he strangles
the landlady's son, twelve-year-old Marcel Poirot. This time, Dr. Thoinot had to admit that it
had been a murder. Weber was convicted and transferred to a sanatorium in Mareville , New
Caledonia . Weber died in that same institution in 1909 by strangling herself.

FRED WEST

Frederick Walter Stephen West ( 29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995 ) was a British serial
killer . Between 1967 and 1987, he and his wife, Rosemary , raped, tortured and murdered at
least 12 young women, almost all of them in their home in Gloucester , England . Almost all of
these women were girls asking for lodging or simply nannies who offered to take care of their
daughters. Additionally, the couple kidnapped women at bus stops. The Wests' victims were
almost never reported missing because they had no family to care for them. The Wests' reign
of terror came to an end after they murdered their own daughter, Heather.

Fred West hanged himself in his Winson Green prison cell while awaiting trial for several
murders.

Biography

Early years

Fred West was born in Much Marcle , ( Herefordshire , England ), son of Walter West and Daisy
Hannah Hill, a poor family of agricultural workers. Fred left school at the age of 15 and began
working as a laborer . As a teenager, he severely injured his head in a motorcycle accident and
in a fall while escaping a burning construction site.

As a teenager, Fred was a simple thief, committing petty crimes. In those years, he left his
parents' house and went to live with an aunt a few miles away, in Gloucester (
Gloucestershire ). In April 1961 , he was fined for theft in Hereford and again in October of that
year, in Newent , a town near Gloucester .
During this period, Fred West worked as a van driver selling ice cream. On November 4 , 1965 ,
Fred accidentally kills a 4-year-old boy with that same van.

Marriage to Rosemary Letts

At the age of 20, Fred West was imprisoned for abusing a child and robbery. In November 1962
, Fred married his girlfriend, Rena Costello , who was pregnant by an Asian bus driver. That girl,
Charmaine, was born in 1963 and a year later, Rena had another daughter named Anne-Marie.
While still with Rena Costello, Fred met his second wife, Rosemary "Rose" Letts on November
29, 1968 when she turned 15. In 1970 , Rose, 17, and Fred, 29, had a daughter, Heather. Fred
West was imprisoned around this time and spent Christmas 1970 behind bars. After Heather's
birth, Rose murdered Rena Costello's daughter, Charmaine, and Fred murdered Rena herself.
In January 1972 , Fred and Rose married and in June of that year, Mae was born.

During the years that Fred and Rose were together, several young women were murdered,
dismembered, and buried on the West property. The only known victim of the Wests after
1979 was Heather West herself, the couple's first daughter, who was murdered in June 1987
when she was 16 years old.

Investigation, arrest and death

In May 1992 , Fred West raped one of his daughters, who was 13 at the time, in his Cromwell
Street home and recorded the scene and then repeated the act two more times. The young
woman told this to her brothers and sisters, as well as her high school classmates. Finally, on
August 6, 1992, the police decided to investigate the lives of the Wests. Upon investigating
their home, the Wests were arrested and charges of 12 murders and rapes were brought
against Fred. Rosemary was accused of being an accomplice to her husband, as well as cruelty
to her daughters and sons. From then on, the (minor) children of the marriage are sent to
foster homes.

His own daughter's rape case collapsed when the prosecution's two main witnesses, including
the Wests' own daughter, decided not to testify in court on June 7, 1993 . In February 1994 the
police obtained a warrant to excavate the garden of the West home in search of the body of
Heather, who had been reported missing by the Wests themselves. Finally, on February 25,
1994, the police began to excavate the garden.

After Fred's arrest, police found human bones in the house. Later, Fred would confess to the
murder of his daughter and then recant and then confess it again without accusing his wife
Rose. Rosemary was not arrested until April 1994 . Initially she was accused of sexual abuse ,
but later she was also accused of murder. More bodies were discovered and on March 4,
1994 , Fred West confessed to nine more murders. One of them was the murder of his first
wife, Ann McFall.

Fred and Rose were brought to trial at a magistrate 's court in Gloucester on June 30, 1994 .
Fred was charged with 11 deaths and Rosemary with 10. Immediately afterwards, Fred was re-
arrested on suspicion of another murder when the body of his first wife, Ann McFall, was
discovered on June 7, 1994 . On the evening of July 3, 1994 , Fred was officially charged with
this woman's death. The following morning, Fred was taken back to Winson Green Prison in
Birmingham where he had been confined for several weeks prior to the hearing.
On January 1, 1995 , Fred West hanged himself in his Winson Green prison cell. At his funeral,
held on March 29, 1995 in the city of Coventry , only three of his children attended. Fred West
was cremated .

The evidence against Rose was circumstantial because she, unlike Fred, did not confess to any
crime. She was tried in October 1995 and sentenced to life in prison in the city of Winchester
for 10 murders. The sentencing judge recommended that Rose never be released, and 18
months later, Home Secretary Jack Straw agreed with this recommendation and sentenced
Rosemary West to die in prison.

In October 1996 the West houses, at 25 Cromwell Street along with house 23 Cromwell Street,
were demolished and the site was converted into a road. Furthermore, every brick in the
houses was crushed and every wood in the houses was burned so that no souvenir hunter
would get a 'souvenir'.

ROSEMARY WEST

Rosemary Pauline West (b. Born 29 November 1953 as Rosemary Letts ) is a British serial killer
convicted at HMP Bronzefield prison in Ashford, Middlesex , England . She was convicted along
with her husband and accomplice Fred West of the murder of 12 young women (including
girls), many of them occurring at the couple's home in Gloucester , England .

Rose Mary and Fred West

Fred and Rosemary raped Caroline Raine , who later reported them to the local police. This
took place in January 1973 .

Rosemary and Fred kidnapped young people from bus stops outside Gloucester . They locked
them in the house and, after sodomizing, torturing and raping them, they murdered them.

Rosemary had a voracious and unhealthy sexual appetite, enjoying so-called " bondage sex"
and sadomasochism . She was bisexual and many of the women who were kidnapped were to
satisfy the sexual appetite of her and Fred, another sexual sadist. Also, Rosemary worked as a
prostitute and two of her clients had sexual relations with Rosemary's little daughters, under
the full consent of Rosemary, who enjoyed how her daughters suffered in relationships due to
their young ages. This occurred in April 1982 and July 1983 .

More victims

The crimes for which Rosemary West was sentenced took place between April 1973 and
August 1978 . Charmaine (daughter of Fred's previous partner Rena) was 8 years old when she
was murdered in June 1971 and buried in the Wests' first home, 25 Midland Road in
Gloucester . Another body was found in their second home, on Cromwell Street: the body of
Heather (daughter of the Rose-Fred couple), murdered in June 1987 at the age of 16.

In August 1992 , Fred West was arrested after being accused of raping his 13-year-old daughter
three times. Rosemary was then arrested for cruelty to her daughters. This case fell when the
couple's daughter refused to testify in court in June 1993 .
Eventually, all of the West children were separated from their insane parents and sent to
foster care. This case raised suspicions about the responsibility of the West couple in the
disappearance of their daughter Heather West, who disappeared in 1987. The police now did
not believe the version of the Wests who said that their daughter had disappeared and
therefore launched a huge investigation to find the truth.

Following years and sentence

Although Rosemary never confessed to the murders, the evidence against her was
overwhelming. She was tried in October 1995 after the prison suicide of her husband, Fred
West . The jury was unanimous: Rosemary was found guilty of ten murders on November 22,
1995 and the judge, Justice Mantell , sentenced her to life imprisonment saying: "If attention is
placed where I intend, you will never be freed."

Later, a supreme judge decided that Rosemary should spend 25 years in prison before being
released, but some time later, in July 1997 , the British Home Secretary at the time, Jack
Straw , sentenced Rosemary West to die in prison. That is, it will never be released. She was
the second woman to be sentenced to die in prison in the United Kingdom : the other was the
serial killer Myra Hindley , who died in 2002 and with whom Rosemary shared a cell during her
first two years.

In November 2002 , a supreme judge said Rosemary could be freed in 2019 , when she will be
66 years old.

ELIAS XITAVHUDZI

Elias Xitavhudzi was a serial killer who killed 16 women in Atteridgeville , South Africa in the
mid-1960s. Their targets were only white women in the middle of a community marked by
segregation and that caused terror in the country.

Before his capture, he was given the name "Pangaman" ( panga is the local word for machete ,
the utensil with which he slit the throats of his victims). Once arrested, he was sentenced to
the death penalty.

Xitavhudzi was the second in a series of half a dozen serial killers who have plagued the town
of Atteridgeville .

YANG XINHAI

Yang and was sentenced to death and executed for 67. In the media he was often known as
"Monster Killer."

Biography

Yang was born in 1968 in Zhumadian , Henan , China . His family was one of the poorest in
town. Yang was the youngest of four siblings, and was smart but introverted. He left school in
1985, aged 17, and refused to return home, dedicating himself to traveling around China and
working as a hired worker.
Crimes

In 1988 and 1991, Yang was sentenced to community service for the crime of theft in Xi'an ,
Shaanxi and Shijiazhuang , Hebei .

In 1996, he was sentenced to five years in prison for attempted rape in Zhumadian , Henan and
released in 1999. The Yang murders took place between 1999 and 2003 in Anhui , Hebei,
Henan and Shandong provinces. When night came he entered his victim's house, and killed
everyone who occupied it - mainly farmers - with axes , hammers and shovels , sometimes he
killed entire families.

In October 2002, Yang killed a father and a six-year-old girl with a shovel and raped a pregnant
woman who survived with serious head injuries.

Arrest, trial and execution

Yang was arrested on November 3, 2003. Shortly after being arrested, he confessed to the
murder of 65 people, 23 rapes and five attacks causing serious injuries. He carried out forty-
nine murders, seventeen rapes, and five attacks in Henan ; eight murders and three rapes in
Hebei ; six murders and two rapes in Anhui , and two murders and one rape in Shandong .
Police also found his DNA at several crime scenes.

On February 1, 2004, Yang was convicted of 67 murders and 23 rapes and sentenced to death.
He was executed on February 14, 2004 by a shot to the back of the head.

GRAHAM YOUNG

Graham Frederick Young : (b. 7 September 1947 – 1 August 1990 ) was a British serial killer
who poisoned a total of three people to death (his stepmother, and several years later two
work colleagues, Bob Egle and Fred Biggs) in addition to poisoning several other colleagues
who only caused other health problems.

Early years and first crime

Born in Neasden, a district of the City of London , Graham was fascinated with chemistry and
poisons , becoming interested in the effects of these elements on the human body from an
early age. In 1961 (when he was 14 years old), Graham began poisoning his family with
different types of elements, causing serious health problems in those affected. In addition, the
adolescent Graham bought many of these elements, among which he frequented antimony
and digitalis ; lying about his age or simply claiming to sellers that he needed them for school
experiments.

In 1962 his stepmother died of poisoning. Also, Graham had systematically poisoned his father,
sister, and his best friend from school. Young's aunt Winnie, who knew of her nephew's
fascination with chemistry and poisons, became suspicious. Also, it should be noted that
Graham Young could have gone unnoticed if no one knew about his fascination with chemistry
because he sometimes suffered from the same nausea and symptoms that his relatives
suffered, since he sometimes forgot to remember what food he had poisoned, for example.
which from time to time, he ate it himself. After this, Graham was sent to be analyzed by a
psychiatrist , who was surprised by Graham's personality and recommended contacting the
police. Thus, on May 23, 1962 , Graham Young was arrested, when he was 15 years old. Once
arrested, Graham confessed to trying to murder his father, sister and his friend. His
stepmother's remains could not be analyzed since she had been cremated]].

Young was ultimately sentenced to 15 years of confinement in Broadmoor Hospital, an

institution for mentally unstable criminals. Nine years later, hospital authorities released
Young on the grounds that he was "completely recovered." However, during his years in
prison, Young had studied a lot about medicine and took several tests, increasing his
knowledge about the effects of poisons on the human body, taking several hospital inmates as
guinea pigs, as well as many members of the hospital staff who were left with some health
problems.

Young kills again

After being released in 1971 , when he was 24, Graham worked in a photographic shop in the
town of Bovingdon, Hertfordshire , not far from the home of his sister (whom he had poisoned
when he was 14), as she He lived in Hemel Hempstead , not far from there. His new employers
were informed that Young had been committed to Broadmoor, but inexplicably were never
informed about Graham's past as a poisoner. Shortly after he began work again, Young's
foreman, Bob Egle, became suddenly ill and died. Young had made tea for his colleagues,
poisoning them with elements such as antimony and thallium . Due to the poisoning caused by
Young, many colleagues fall ill and there is talk of the possibility of a strange virus , which is
why he is nicknamed the "Bovingdon Bug." After a while, all those illnesses and in some cases
requiring hospitalization were attributed to Young and his tea.

Over the next few months, Graham Young poisoned around 70 people, although none of them
died. Egle's successor, who had died at the hands of Young's poison, begins to work there but
shortly after decides to leave. That decision probably saved his life. A few months after Egle's
death, another of Young's co-workers, Fred Biggs, falls ill and is admitted to London's National
Hospital for Nervous Diseases. It was too late to save his life, Biggs resisted for several weeks
but eventually died, becoming Graham Frederick Young's third and final victim.

After Biggs' death, it was obvious that so many illnesses and two deaths required a workplace
medical and police investigation. Inexplicably, Young talks to the company doctor and hints if
he didn't believe it was thallium poisoning, due to the symptoms. Additionally, Young had told
a co-worker that his "hobby" was studying chemicals. This man went to the police who
immediately reviewed Graham Young's record, uncovering his extensive criminal past, until
now, covered up.

Thus, on 21 November 1971 Young was arrested in Sheerness, Kent . Police found thallium in
his pocket and antimony , thallium and aconitine in his apartment. In addition, a meticulous
intimate diary of Young was found, in which he kept meticulous details of all the doses of
poison he administered, its effects and which people he was determined to kill and who he
was determined to leave alive.

The trial against him began on June 19, 1972 in St. Albans and lasted 10 days, Young pleaded
innocent and explained that his intimate diary was a total fantasy that he had created thinking
about creating a novel in the future. However, faced with so much evidence against him,
Young was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison . Some time later, he was given the
nickname The Teacup Poisoner , although he wanted to be remembered as The World
Poisoner .
While in prison, Young struck up a friendship with other famous serial killer Ian Brady where
they shared a fascination with Nazi Germany . In the book published by Brady in 2001 The
Gates of Janus Brady would write "It is difficult not to have empathy for Graham Young." Also,
Graham is mentioned in another book, in the autobiography Pretty Boy by Roy Shaw (another
murderer), who would talk about the friendship he established with Young.

In 1990, Young died in his Parkhurst prison cell aged 42. Officially, it was determined that
Young had died of an acute myocardial infarction although some speculate that other inmates
were responsible for his death.

Young in popular culture

In 1995 a film called The Young Poisoner's Handbook was released which is based on Young's
life. Additionally, the musical band Macabre wrote a song called "Poison" that talks about
Young and his crimes, this song appears on the album Murder Metal.

ANNA MARIA ZWANZIGER

Anna Maria Zwanziger ( Nuremberg , 1760 – July 1811 ) was a German serial killer and one of
the first criminals to use poison as her main weapon of liquidation.

Biography

Anna Schönleben was born in Nuremberg in 1760. Described by chroniclers of the time as a
"coarse, unattractive, lacking femininity and oratory" woman, she would be dragged into crime
by her unfortunate wedding to her husband. Her husband turned out to be a thuggish drunk
who squandered Anna's inheritance before dying of alcoholism . When this happened, Anna
was 40 years old. After trying to work in a toy factory, she began housekeeping in hopes of
finding a more understanding husband.

Her first suitor was a judge named Glaser. Unfortunately for the man, he was only separated
from his first wife. Although Anna would try to prevent a reconciliation between Glaser and his
wife. Once the lady returned home, Anna began feeding her arsenic in her tea until she died.
Despite this, the judge did not want to accept her in marriage, so Anna poisoned different
people, guests at a dinner organized by the judge, out of spite. Fortunately, all of them
survived.

After being fired by Judge Glaser, Zwanziger found work in the home of another lawman.
Judge Grohmann would once again be Anna's marriage target. But fortune played another trick
on him as Grohmann would announce shortly after his wedding plans with another woman.
But the housekeeper would not accept such a decision and administered poison in a bowl of
soup to the gentleman, who would die an agonizing death. That same night, Anna frustratedly
tried to poison two servants, with whom she did not have a good relationship.

His next house would be that of another judge. Judge Gebhard was married to a woman. But
the servant would soon give doses of poison in the usual way. The health of the owner of the
house would not take long to worsen, and she died the following week amidst tremendous
stomach pains. Absolutely maddened by the power of the poison and her theoretical
immunity, Anna poisoned two more servants and the judge's son, who administered a cookie
laced with arsenic. The companions survived but the child did not. Observing the suspicious
illness of almost all the inhabitants of the house, the judge analyzed the remains of food and
was able to observe traces of arsenic. But, by the time she managed to discover what it was,
Anna had already escaped, but not before leaving generous doses of the poison in the
containers of sugar and salt.

In October 1809, Anna would be arrested after having sent different letters to the Grohmann
family expressing her love for the deceased child and that she was willing to forget the wrongs
she had suffered and resume her duties.

After six months of interrogations, Anna finally confessed. He said, "Yes, I killed them and I
would do it again if I had the chance." He also referred to arsenic as "his faithful friend." Before
being beheaded in July 1811, she told her executioners: "Perhaps it would be better for the
community if I died, since it would be impossible for me to give up the practice of poisoning
people."
 MEXICO

 Soledad Cristina Hernandez (" La Matataxistas ") - Born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, this
woman murdered more than 20 taxi drivers, since it was believed that her husband
cheated on her and the man was a taxi driver, he killed her husband and put him in a
ditch in García, Nuevo Leon, the police were very confused about who the person was
who killed them until they made a report seeing a woman carrying a garbage bag.
Soledad Cristina was found on February 18, 2010 and was sentenced to 50 years in
prison.
 Juana Barraza Samperio (" Mataviejitas " and "la Dama del Silencio" ) – operated in the
Mexico City metropolitan area until January 25, 2006. It is estimated that he killed
around 50 people, although he was only convicted for 17 cases.
 Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández – known as "Goyo" and the "Strangler of Tacuba" ;
raped and killed four women in 1942; It was a satisfactory rehabilitation case and he
was acquitted in 1976
 Delfina, Eva and María De Jesús González – known as "Las Poquianchis" ; They killed a
total of 91 people; arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964
 Raúl Osiel Marroquín – known as "El Sádico" or "El Matagays" ; killed four gay men in
Mexico City
 Abdul Latif Sharif – Egyptian responsible for dozens of murders in Ciudad Juárez
 José Luis Calva Zepeda ( "Poeta Canibal" or "El caníbal de la Guerrero" ) – cannibal;
police found the remains of multiple female victims in his home; he committed suicide
on December 11, 2007
 Emma Arguello Jurado, Roxanna Lizbeth Arredón Arguello and Leslie Madelin Arellanes
Arredón ( "The Black Widows" ) - grandmother, mother and daughter, dedicated to
murdering men to collect insurance.
 Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo and Sarah Aldrete - known as "the godfather and
godmother of Matamoros" , were the leaders of a group of drug traffickers and
sectarians called "the Narcosatanicos". There are 34 confirmed victims, but the real
number is unknown to date. Sarah Aldrete has always maintained her innocence and
has said that she was just another of Adolfo's kidnapping victims.
 Higinio Sobera ( "El pelón Sobera" ) - murdered 2 people for no apparent reason during
the 1950s, although it is believed that his number of victims was higher.
 Francisco Guerrero (murderer) ( "El chalequero" ) - strangled around 20 prostitutes at
the end of the 19th century. XIX. He is the first serial killer in Mexico on record.
 Magdalena Solís ( "The Priestess of Blood" or "the vampire of Cd. of Mexico " ) - leader
of a sect that in the 60's killed around 8 people (although he was only convicted for 2
of them).
 Daniel Arizmendi ( "El Mochaorejas" ) - kidnapper and murderer. He is known for at
least three homicides.
 David Avendaño Ballina ( "El Hamburguesa" ) – pimp who poisoned his clients to rob
them. He is linked to 70 murders.
 Miriam Gaona ( "La Matabellas" ) - pseudo surgeon who injured and disfigured
hundreds of people, many of them died but she could not be charged with these
crimes.
 Rodolfo Fierro ( "The Butcher of Villa" or "The Butcher of the Revolution" ) – Villista
revolutionary famous for his extreme cruelty towards prisoners of war. It is said that
he enjoyed releasing them in open spaces so he could hunt them like animals.
 María de Los Ángeles Sánchez Rueda and Estela González Calva ( Copycats de las
Goteras ) - murdered 2 people imitating the modus operandi of the Goteras, they are
suspected in a third homicide.