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He was an intelligent, handsome man.
He later went to college at the University of Washington while working for a suicide hotline.
The majority of his victims were young women with blond or light brown hair parted in the middle.
His last victim was a 12-year-old child.
The smooth talking person used several different methods to ensnare his victims, including faking
injuries (arm in a sling or leg in a cast), and impersonating a policeman.
He desecrated their bodies and often dismembered them, throwing their remains to wild animals.
He confessed to killing twenty-three women between 1974 & 1978, but the official toll may be closer
to 100.
He was put to death in Florida's electric chair in 1989.
Dental forensic evidence of his bite marks on his victims from Florida State University sealed his fate.
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He was an avowed devil worshipper, randomly raped and murdered his victims in their homes.
He was captured shortly after a fingerprint lifted from a stolen car was linked to other crimes.
California's state-of-the-art fingerprint database had been up and running for only three minutes
when the match was discovered.
His picture was run in newspapers nationwide.
When spotted by citizens in a rough neighborhood in Los Angeles, he bolted from a liquor store
running nearly two miles. Shortly thereafter a group of people began beating him, until stopped by
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He was a successful contractor and pillar of his community.
He was arrested for the murder of more than thirty young boys.
These boys had been sodomized and strangled.
They often were tricked into being handcuffed.
He buried 28 of his victims in the crawl space under his home.
He was put to death by lethal injection.
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He was calm, cool, and collected.
He invited young boys to his apartment to drink and take pictures.
He killed at least 17 people, by inviting them to his apartment, and then drugging, strangling, and
dismembering them.
He cannibalized some of his victims as well.
A prison inmate killed him.
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Most of his killings took place in the San Francisco Bay Area during a five-year period from 1969 1974.
He has been positively linked to seven of those deaths. In his letters written to San Francisco
newspapers, he claimed to have killed nearly forty people.
A woman, who was briefly abducted by someone thought to be this killer’s work, later identified this
person as her abductor.
The sister of one victim identified him as a man who followed her sister in the months before her
murder
In the summer of 1970, He moved to Lake Tahoe.
He and a victim who had also recently moved to Tahoe worked in the same building.
His name can be clearly discerned in a cipher from April 20, 1970.
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He often victimized young prostitutes and runaways.
He was possibly responsible for the deaths of well over 70 women.
He dumped his victims in the river or next to a highway.
He avoided the death penalty by taking police to the sites of several body dumps.
His span of violence lasted almost 20 years.
He is still alive, and serving several life sentences.
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Lived in Kansas, was married with two children.
Liked to write letters to the police and media describing his crimes, signing them “BTK”
Was a Boy Scout leader and animal control compliance officer.
He was respected in his community.
He is currently serving 10 life sentences.
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She killed several men, mostly truck drivers, while working as a prostitute.
She claimed self-defense, saying that she was raped.
She was molested by her grandfather’s friend, and possibly by her father.
She died by lethal injection in a Florida prison.
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She killed several of her children, over a period of 14 years.
Her husband did not show any real concern, he had trouble even remembering the children’s names.
In all, she and her husband had nine children that died, but she claimed she only killed 3.
The death of her adopted son caused doctors to reject theory that her family may have something
known as a “death gene”.
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He claimed he was commanded to kill by his neighbor’s dog.
Was involved in a satanic cult.
Lived in New York, where he spent approximately one year randomly shooting people.
He received intense media attention, which caused New York to institute laws making it illegal for
criminals to profit financially from publicity surrounding their crimes.
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He was from a very wealthy family.
He worked in a pharmacy, but often pretended to be a doctor.
He built a special “hotel” designed for him to be able to kill occupants.
He preyed on visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair.
He confessed to 27 murders, but his actual body count may have been over 200.
He was likely the first serial killer in the United States.
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1. He had a violent mother who often beat him. She was his first victim.
2. He traveled all over the South, working at odd jobs.
3. He was arrested by the Texas Rangers, and spent many years confessing to crimes he may or may not
have committed. This bought him time away from prison and privileges he might not have had
otherwise.
4. He had a partner who traveled and killed with him.
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When he was young, his mother would dress him as a girl and call him Susan.
He killed a traveling salesman who had picked him up and forced him to have sex.
He had a partner that he traveled and killed with who was also occasionally his lover.
He is believed to have killed Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh who hosts “America’s Most Wanted”.
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1. He committed five murders of prostitutes in one month, in 1888.
2. He reportedly dissected (or mutilated) his victims in a manner that suggests a working knowledge of
human anatomy.
3. He taunted police by sending letters describing his crimes and those he had planned.
4. Disappeared suddenly, was never caught or arrested.
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1. He was obsessively devoted to his mother.
2. After her death he started digging up women’s corpses and taking trophies.
3. He was the inspiration for Leatherface, in the movie “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, and for the character
of Norman Bates in “Psycho”.
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1. She was a boarding house owner who killed residents and kept their monthly checks.
2. Neighbors complained about the smell, but she blamed it on rats or sewage.
3. She was caught when a social worker became concerned over several elderly people who were
missing.
4. Bodies were found buried in her backyard.
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He started his criminal career by killing his grandparents.
He claimed his older sister tried to drown him, and once pushed him in front of a train.
He then started picking up pretty young women hitchhikers and killing them.
He murdered his mother and her friend before turning himself in to the police.
He was very intelligent, and may have a near genius IQ.
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1. He was diagnosed with a personality disorder consisting of antisocial, borderline, and schizoid features,
substance use disorder bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and psychosis.
2. He was believed to have murdered at least 22 people.
3. He murdered an entire family, including a 4 year old child.
4. He tried to stay his execution by arguing that drugs used for lethal injection had not been properly
tested.
5. He was put to death by lethal injection in April 2014.
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He brought poisoned donuts to his coworkers when he was working as a paramedic.
He later worked as a doctor at several different hospitals.
He went to Africa to work, even in the remote village hospital, far too many patients were dying.
He enjoyed using drugs available in the hospital to paralyze patients, and let them die slowly of
asphyxiation.
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