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SERIAL KILLERS |
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CASE STUDY COMING SOON |
Coming for April 2004
Henry Lee Lucas
Brutalised as a child, Henry Lee
Lucas became a killer without a conscience, seeking revenge on
society. Henry Lee Lucas was an unquestionably evil killer who
was convicted of 11 murders. What remains uncertain is whether
he committed all, some or none of the numerous other homicides he
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MAR 2004 |
Richard Ramirez
THE NIGHT STALKER
Whether he was a genuine Satanist or simply a crazed psychopath,
Richard Ramirez was undoubtedly an evil murderer who killed at least
13 people and attempted to murder at least 30 more.
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FEB 2004 |
Fred & Rosemary
West
In 1994, the arrest of a seemingly ordinary Gloucester couple living
in a seemly ordinary Gloucester terraced house sparked off a series of
extraordinary - and horrifying - revelations. A couple whose
quest for sexual excitement drove them to multiple murder.
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JAN 2004 |
John
Christie
In 1950, two years after a debate on the abolition of capital
punishment in the House of Commons, Timothy Evans was hanged for
killing his wife and daughter the previous year. But then, three
years later, six more bodies were found in the same house. Had
fellow tenant John Christie committed all eight murders and had
Timothy Evans' execution been a serious miscarriage of justice?
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DEC 2003 |
Ted Bundy
THE CAMPUS KILLER
He was an ambitious law student.
Handsome and charming, this all-American boy had an endless supply of
young college girls, who were easily charmed by his wit and good
looks. He murdered them and moved on, and each time he moved he
left more bodies behind him. The true death toll will never be
known - Bundy took that to the grave when he was executed.
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NOV 2003 |
Charlene Williams &
Gerald Gallego
When Gallego was thirteen he was arrested for raping a six-year-old
girl. Years later he was arrested for having sex with his teenage
daughter. After four or five marriages he settled down with Charlene
Williams who he told her he was impotent. The only cure for it, he
said, was frequent sex with virgins.
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OCT 2003 |
Peter Kürten
THE MONSTER OF
DÜSSELDORF
In 1929, 47-year-old Peter Kürten
killed 9 people in Düsseldorf, Germany. The killings dubbed Kurten
the nickname 'the Monster of Düsseldorf' because of his sadistic
crimes.Peter Kürten worked in a factory and
was a trade unionist. He was married and often attended church. Like
many serial killers he indulged in arson before his murdering career
began.
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SEP 2003 |
Dennis Nilsen
When a plumber became suspicious of something unusual blocking
the drains of a North-London house, the police quickly established that it was
human flesh. But even they were shocked to realise that they were looking
at not one murder, but fifteen or sixteen in the past five years, perpetuated by
an apparently shy and solitary civil servant.
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AUG 2003 |
Herb Baumeister
Herb Baumeister was the embodiment of the American dream. He built from scratch
a chain of successful local thrift stores in Indianapolis and led a seemingly
normal life as a husband and a devoted father of three. However, when police
uncovered the remains of seven young gay men in the woods of Fox Hollow Farm --
the family's $1 million estate in the exclusive Indianapolis suburb of Westfield
-- Baumeister's American dream was more like a murderous nightmare.
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JUL 2003 |
John Wayne Gacy
Despite a record of sexual offences, Gacy
was a seemingly respectable American citizen - a businessman and
enthusiastic political fund-raiser who had even been photographed
greeting the President's wife. But under his seemingly ordinary
suburban bungalow were the remains of 33 young men who had disappeared
in mysterious circumstances.
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JUN 2003 |
Peter Sutcliffe
THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER
He claimed that he was guided by the voice of God to
clear the streets of prostitutes. But, in a five year reign of
terror, he indiscriminately assaulted and killed women from all walks
of life. Was the Yorkshire Ripper truly insane or was he aware
of what he was doing?
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MAY 2003 |
Ivan Milat
THE BACKPACKER KILLER
A road-worker and trucker, living in suburban Sydney, fond of cowboy
outfits and guns, appeared, like many others, to be a man keen on the
outdoors. But then a number of young backpackers disappeared in
the early 1990's, their fate unknown until some bodies were found in a
forest. A murder hunt led to Ivan Milat.
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APR 2003 |
Jeffrey
Dahmer
MONSTER OF MILWAUKEE
Withdrawn and friendless, the teenage Jeffrey Dahmer
sought solace in drink, before discovering a new release for his
fantasies. As if lacking any human feeling whatever, he turned
to murder and mutilation of his victims, as well as trying to create
'human zombies'. By the time he was discovered the death toll
had reached 17.
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MAR 2003 |
George Smith
THE BRIDES IN THE BATH
MURDERER
One of the most infamous English criminals of the
twentieth century, George Joseph Smith was known as The Brides in the Bath
Murderer. Greedy, self-obsessed and totally unscrupulous, he cast a
mesmeric spell over gullible women. Though many did his bidding, he never
the less left them heart-broken, penniless and in three specific cases dead.
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FEB 2003 |
David Berkowitz
THE SON OF SAM
On 29th July 1976, a crazed gunman shot at two young women in a middle-class
district of New York City, maiming one and killing the other. It was the
start of a 13 month rampage that left New Yorkers terror-struck, and the police
baffled. Just who was the elusive figure who called himself 'Son of Sam'?
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JAN 2003 |
Edmund Kemper
CO-ED KILLER
Edmund Kemper's mother thought her son was "a real weirdo." He had a near-genius
I.Q. hidden within his lanky body and twisted mind. As a child he liked playing
execution and once told his sister that if he were to love someone they would
first have to be dead. As a teenager mom forced Kemper to live in the basement
so he wouldn't scare his sisters. Consequently he was sent to Atascadero
State Hospital for the criminally insane. There Kemper grew into a
strapping six-foot-nine-inch hate machine.
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DEC 2002 |
Catherine & David Birnie
Who would have suspected the couple as multiple murderers? Catherine
and David Birnie, an average looking couple were responsible for the
murders of four women. The victims, most hitch-hikers were women
between the age of fifteen to thirty-one. Most were abducted by the
couple as they hiked along Perth's highways.
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NOV 2002 |
Kenneth Bianchi &
Angelo Buono
THE HILLSIDE STRANGLERS
In 1977, a series of young women were found murdered on the hills of Los
Angeles, in Southern California. Then the killing stopped. Suddenly,
in 1979, police picked up the scent again. It led them to two cousins -
Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono - one of whom claimed to be not one person but
many. Split personality or not, theirs was a lethal partnership.
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OCT 2002 |
John Haigh
THE ACID BATH MURDERER
The notorious 'Acid-Bath Murderer'
dreamed up a scheme to overcome the austerity of post-war Britain, killing five
victims for their money and disposing of their bodies in acid. When he was
caught, in spite of his elaborate precautions, Haigh claimed to be a vampire and
pleaded insanity at his trial.
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SEP 2002 |
Martha Beck & Ray Fernandez
THE LONELY HEARTS KILLERS
Known in the late 40s as the "Lonely-Hearts Killers" for their lethal
swindling of lovelorn widows answering personal adds. Fernandez,
although Hawaiian, billed himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Beck, tipping
the scale at a whooping 280 pounds, was no buttercup of love.
Strangely, when they met, it was love at first sight. Maybe it was
because their mutual love for swindling and kinky sex. Together, with
Beck posing as Fernandez's sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and
widows of their savings before murdering them if they offered
resistance.
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AUG 2002 |
Ed Gein
THE PLAINFIELD GHOUL
In 1958, Edward Gein (pronounced 'Geen')
was committed to Wisconsin Insane Asylum. A harmless-looking odd-job man
from the small town of Plainfield, he not only murdered two women but had turned
his lonely farmhouse into a grisly human abattoir come horror show. His
deeds served to inspire the classic spine-chilling novel and film, Psycho.
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JUL 2002 |
Myra Hindley & Ian
Brady
THE MOORS MURDERERS
Brady was a loner with a history of petty crime, but he overawed and
fascinated the 18 year old Myra Hindley. She quickly fell under his spell
and was devoured by his psychotic personality. Sex led on to plans of a
life of crime but then the lovers found a new thrill...
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JUN 2002 |
Aileen Wuornos
THE DAMSEL OF DEATH
Female serial killers are rare, but the American Aileen Wuornos became notorious
as a 'Damsel of Death'. A prostitute and lesbian, Wuornos nurtured a
hatred of men, and in the late 1980's she began a series of murders of the
clients she picked up along the Florida highways. When finally caught, she
was charged with seven admitted murders.
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MAY 2002 |
Albert DeSalvo
THE BOSTON
STRANGLER
The Boston Strangler stalked the streets
of an American city for three years, leaving a trail of terror. Thirteen
women died to satisfy a compulsion to kill that he himself claimed not to
understand. But he had long displayed symptoms of sexual disorder, and
claimed to have assaulted some 2000 women.
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APR 2002 |
Erszbet Bathory
THE BLOODY COUNTESS
A Sixteenth Century Hungarian Countess,
Erszebet enjoyed bathing in blood. This deviant fawn of royalty believed that
regular blood baths would halt the aging process. Estimates of the number of
girls that were slaughtered for her 10 years of beauty treatments vary from 40
to as much as 600. The bloody
Countess, the widow of a celebrated Hungarian war hero and descendent of the
legendary despot Vlad the Impaler.
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