Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Masterpiece 1

The Psychology of American Serial Killers:

·         Bloody Benders: family who killed guests at their inn in Labette CountyKansas in 1872
·         David Berkowitz: also known as "Son of Sam"; convicted of killing 6 people in New York City in 1976-1977
·         Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr.: also known as "The Hillside Strangler"; killers of 12 women and possibly involved in three other killings
·         William Bonin: also known as "The Freeway Killer"; with several accomplices, claimed the lives of 20 boys in California
·         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.
·         Ted Bundy: law student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six states; escaped from prison twice before being executed in 1989
·         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
·         David Carpenter: also known as "The Trailside Killer"; murdered 5 women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981
·         Richard Chase: also known as "The Vampire of Sacramento"; murdered 6 people in California in the 1970s
·         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.
·         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
·         Juan Corona: California killer convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971
·         Jeffrey DahmerMilwaukee,
 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
 ·         Walter E. Ellis: also known as "The Milwaukee North Side Strangler"; convicted of killing 7 prostitutes in Wisconsin between 1986 and 2007.
·         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
·         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.
·         Ed Gein: From La Crosse, WisconsinEd 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
·         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.
·         Keith Hunter Jesperson: also known as "The Happy Face Killer"; killed 8 women between 1990 and 1995
·         Patrick Kearneynecrophiliac convicted of 21 murders in California and admitted to seven other murders
Delphine LaLaurie: Tortured and maimed her slaves
·         Bobbie Joe Long: also known as "The Classified Ad Rapist"; killed 10 women in Tampa Bay, Florida in 1984
·         Dennis Rader: also known as "The BTK Killer"; killed ten people between 1974 and 1991 in Sedgwick County, Kansas
·         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
·         Gary Ridgway: also known as "The Green River Killer"; convicted of murdering 49 women in Washington state
·         Heriberto SedaNew 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
·         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
·         Axeman of New Orleans: killer of at least eight people in the New Orleans area from May 1918 to October 1919
·         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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