LEO
ECHEGARAY
Leo Pilo Echegaray (11 July 1960 – 5 February 1999) was
the first Filipino to be executed by lethal injection after the
reinstatement of the death penalty in the Philippines in 1993,
some 23 years after the last judicial execution was carried out.
Echegaray, who had been found guilty of repeatedly raping
his own daughter, was put to death on February 5th, 1999.
Baby Ama
Marcial Ama Y “Baby” Perez
He was raised in poverty on the streets of Tondo, Manila, and
quickly found himself behind bars for theft. He was regularly
sodomised in prison, but his good looks won out in the end. The
accusation that his pregnant wife had been raped by a jail officer, which
led to her killing herself, was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
With all the hatred he had inside of him, Baby Ama worked his
way up to become the boss of the “Sige sige” gang, which under his
direction participated in the largest jail riot against the “Oxo oxo” rival
gang in Muntinlupa, which resulted in 9 prisoners being killed and 1
being beheaded. Baby Ama was electrocuted in 1961 despite being
granted a pardon and having his sentence changed to life in prison.
Elizabeth Báthory
 Victims: 600 (?)
 Crime: Torture and murder by Various
methods
 Location: Central Europe
 Time frame: 1600s
Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Báthory, also known as the
“Blood Countess,” may have killed as many as 600 people, making her
the most prolific female murderer ever, according to Guinness World
Records. She was accused, along with several of her servants, of
torturing and murdering other servants and noblewomen of lesser
stature who came to her for education.
Báthory was apprehended but because of her aristocratic station,
did not face the death penalty. Instead, she was forced to live out the
rest of her life in her castle and died there in 1614.
Josef Mengele
 Victims: 400,000 (?)
 Crime: Inhumane, and often deadly, medical
experiments
 Location: Milwaukee
 Time frame: 1978-1991
Josef Mengele, the German SS officer and physician, was known
as the Angel of Death during World War II. At the Auschwitz and
Birkenau concentration camps, Mengele performed horrific gas
chamber experiments on Jewish prisoners. He was one of a team of
Nazi doctors who selected victims and killed them with gas and nerve
agents, and he seemed particularly ruthless about his work. During his
horrific career, the physician also performed awful experiments on
unwilling subjects, including many sets of twins.
Ted Bundy
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Victims: 28 or more
Crime: Murder by strangulation or stabbing
Location: Across United States
Time frame: 1966-1978
Ted Bundy, the subject of documentaries and movies, was a
charismatic and intelligent man who preyed on college-age women
during his 12-year killing spree. He killed victims in Washington, Utah,
and Colorado before he was arrested. Bundy escaped custody twice
while awaiting trial in Colorado and went to Florida.
While in Florida, he killed several young women at a college
sorority before he was captured. He eventually confessed to 28 murders,
though some estimated that he was responsible for hundreds of deaths.
Bundy’s trial was televised and he acted as his own attorney. He was
found guilty and was electrocuted in 1989.
Jeffrey Dahmer
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Victims: 17
Crime: Murder by stabbing
Location: Milwaukee
Time frame: 1978-1991
Jeffrey Dahmer, a college dropout and drifter, seduced young men
and boys – mostly African-Americans – drugged them, and killed 17 of
them. He performed necrophiliac acts on their bodies, dismembered
them, and cooked body parts and ate them. Dahmer was caught when
one of his intended victims escaped and led police to Dahmer’s
apartment. There they found photos of Dahmer’s victims and seven
skulls in his apartment and a heart in his freezer. He was sentenced to
957 years in jail in 1992 and was killed in prison two years later.
Pablo Escobar
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Victims: Hundreds
Crime: Murder, drug dealing
Location: Colombia, US, Europe
Time frame: 1980-early 1990s
Pablo Escobar was the leader of the Colombian drug cartel that dominated
the cocaine drug trade with the U.S. The Netflix series “Narcos” detailed his
influence and the unlimited cash that corrupted society’s institutions, as well as
the lack of will of law enforcement to stop him. Complicating attempts to
apprehend him were his efforts at funding facilities and donating food to the poor
in the Colombian city of Medellín, which made him popular with the
downtrodden.
Escobar’s reign as the world’s leading drug tsar was brutal: He killed
hundreds of rivals, law-enforcement officers, and politicians who opposed him,
as well as innocent bystanders. He also has blood on his hands for the number of
people who overdosed on the narcotics he trafficked. Escobar died in a shootout
with Colombian police in 1993.
Belle Gunness
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Victims: 40(?)
Crime: Murder by poisoning
Location: Indiana
Time frame: 1884-1908
Norwegian immigrant Belle Gunness came to the U.S.
looking to strike it rich in her adopted country. Her scheme for
acquiring wealth was to post public lovelorn messages to lure
men to her farm, marry or romance them, and kill them for their
insurance money. At least 14 men died by her hand. Some of
their children from previous marriages were also killed. Gunness
may have been involved with as many as 40 murders in all.
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