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Bloody Benders:
family who killed guests at their inn in Labette County, Kansas in 1872
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David Berkowitz: also
known as "Son of Sam"; convicted of killing 6 people in New York City
in 1976-1977
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Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr.: also
known as "The Hillside
Strangler"; killers of 12 women and possibly involved in
three other killings
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William Bonin: also
known as "The Freeway Killer"; with several accomplices, claimed the
lives of 20 boys in California
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Richard Angelo: Also
known as "The Angel of Death". New York nurse convicted of 4 murders,
linked to 6 other deaths. Suspected of killing up to 25 people.
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Ted Bundy: law
student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six states; escaped from
prison twice before being executed in 1989
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Ricardo Caputo: also
known as "The Lady Killer"; strangled 4 women across North America in
the 1970s becoming one of the FBI 10 Most Wanted
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David Carpenter: also
known as "The Trailside Killer"; murdered 5 women on San
Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981
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Richard Chase: also
known as "The Vampire of Sacramento"; murdered 6 people in California
in the 1970s
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Joseph
Christopher: Also known as "The Midtown Slasher"; racist
who killed 12 people, all but one of them African Americans, in 1980 and 1981,
between upstate New York and Georgia, mutilating 2 of them.
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John Norman Collins: also
known as "The Co-Ed Killer"; Murdered 3 women and 3 young girls, beat
his own sister very badly, had an obsession with mutilation and excessive gore.
Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley: Along with David Owen Brooks, committed the Houston
Mass Murders in the 1970s; abducted, raped, tortured and murdered 5 men and 25
young boys
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Juan Corona:
California killer convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971
Wisconsin cannibal who
kept heads, skulls and body parts in his apartment for sexual gratification;
murdered 4 men and 13 young boys. Dahmer was a known sex offender, he sexually
abused and violated a young boy.
Thomas Dillon: Serial sniper who killed 5 men in southeastern Ohio
between 1989 and
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Walter E. Ellis: also
known as "The Milwaukee North Side Strangler"; convicted of killing 7
prostitutes in Wisconsin between 1986 and 2007.
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Albert Fish: also
known as "The Werewolf of Wisteria"; sadist and pedophile who
cannibalized several children; convicted of one murder, confessed to 2 others,
claimed to have molested 100 children
Joseph Paul Franklin: racist serial killer who targeted interracial
couples and attempted to assassinate Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan; convicted of 11 murders and confessed to nine
others; executed in 2013
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John Wayne Gacy: also
known as "The Killer Clown"; killer of at least 33 men and boys; kept
bodies buried under his Chicago home;
executed in 1994.
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Ed Gein: From
La Crosse, Wisconsin; Ed Gein committed
his crimes in Plainfield, Wisconsin ;
two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing persons; elements of
Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the films Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and
the novel/movie The Silence of the Lambs
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Harpe Brothers: also
known as "Bloody Harpes"; Micajah "Big" Harpe (1768? –
August 1799) and Wiley "Little" Harpe (1770? – January 1804),
America's first known serial killers were credited with the murders of 40 men,
women, and children.
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Keith Hunter
Jesperson: also known as "The Happy Face Killer"; killed
8 women between 1990 and 1995
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Patrick Kearney: necrophiliac convicted
of 21 murders in California and admitted to seven other murders
Delphine
LaLaurie: Tortured and maimed her
slaves
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Bobbie Joe Long: also
known as "The Classified Ad Rapist"; killed 10 women in Tampa Bay,
Florida in 1984
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Dennis Rader: also
known as "The BTK Killer"; killed ten people between 1974 and 1991
in Sedgwick County,
Kansas
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Richard Ramirez: also
known as "The Night Stalker"; terrorized Los Angeles in 1984 and
1985; convicted of 14 murders; died in prison 7 June 2013
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Gary Ridgway: also
known as "The Green River Killer"; convicted of murdering 49 women in
Washington state
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Heriberto Seda: New York City copycat
killer of the "Zodiac Killer"
active from 1990 to 1993; convicted of shooting eight individuals, killing
three; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998
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Edward Spreitzer: also
known as "The Chicago Rippers"; as part of a satanic cult, raped and
mutilated at least four women and also killed a man in Chicago
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Axeman of New
Orleans: killer of at least eight people in the New Orleans area
from May 1918 to October 1919
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Boston Strangler: 1960s
deaths of 13 women (five young, eight older), mostly with their own stockings
as ligature. Albert DeSalvo confessed
to the murders, but was never indicted; DNA evidence has recently suggested his
guilt in one of the cases
Charles Manson- Cult leader who influenced his followers "The Family" to carry out murders of Hollywood's elite. Spawned the book and song Helter Skelter.
Gary Gilmore- Shot two men in cold blood during robberies. Executed by a firing squad in Utah.
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