Ten Serial Killers with the highest I.Q's



1.Ted Kaczynski (A.K.A. The Unabomber) - Ted Kaczynski is hard to top. Labeled not merely a serial killer, but a 'domestic terrorist' by the FBI, Kaczynski skipped the 5th grade after testing 167 on an IQ test. He entered Harvard at the age of 16 where he earned his undergraduate degree by age 20. He earned his PhD in mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he focused on geometric function theory. After this, he was hired by the University of Berkeley, becoming their youngest professor . He won the University of Michigan's Sumner B. Myers prize, thanks to a PhD thesis on boundary functions, recognized as that year's best mathematics dissertation.
Ted Kaczynski resigned not long after being hired. He saved up money by working odd jobs until he could afford to purchase a small piece of land, during which time he taught himself various survival skills in order to become self-sufficient. Unfortunately, the land around him was being continually destroyed by industrial development. Ted Kaczynski's beliefs became progressively radicalized through the study of political philosophy, and he eventually decided that the only way to stop the progressive destruction of the environment was through violence.

He eluded capture for decades, killing 3 people and injuring 23. He wrote a "Manifesto" for his ideologies, which would eventually be published in The Washington Post and The New York Times. This would be his undoing. His brother David recognized Ted's writing style and contacted the authorities. Linguistic analysis of Ted's previous papers confirmed with overwhelming probability that both essays had been written by the same person, and authorities were given a search warrant to investigate Ted's living quarters.

Kaczynski was arrested in 1996 at his cabin in Montana. A wealth of bomb-making materials were found, as well as writings that spoke of experiments in bomb construction, and even an actual live bomb, which he appeared to be preparing to mail. Numerous charges were brought against him, including murder, and the transportation of bombs. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.



2.Edmund Kemper - Born in 1948, Edmund Kemper began his career in murder quite early. He exhibited early signs of sociopathy, stabbing his cat to death by the age of 13. At the tender of age 15, he killed both of his grandparents. Uncertain of what to do, he called his mother, who advised him to call the police. Kemper contacted the authorities and he was sent to Atascadero State Hospital, where psychological tests recorded an IQ score of 136. In a later IQ test, he tested at 145(Russell, 2002).

Edmund Kemper was released from the mental hospital at age 21, in 1969. While at community college, Kemper began to pick up female hitchikers. It is at this point that he began his serial killing. He picked up two hitchhikers, one of whose heads was eventually found in the woods. Kemper said that he had killed both of them, dismembered them, and engaged in necrophilic activity. Edmund Kemper disposed of the remains of one of his victims by throwing her dismembered body parts into the ocean, which eventually washed ashore.

Kemper continued killing female hitchhikers and only ceased his murder spree after killing his mother. He bludgeoned her to death with a hammer and then cut her throat. He then removed her larynx, put it in the garbage disposal, and used her decapitated head as a dartboard. He then killed his mother's friend as well, shortly before turning himself in. He asked for the death penalty but was instead given 8 consecutive life sentences. He currently resides at California Medical Facility.


3.Ted Bundy - Born in 1946, Ted Bundy was a serial killer who confessed to over 30 murders, and may have been guilty of many more. Experts estimate that the number of his victims may be over 100. He became a media sensation not simply for his prolific murder career, but for his deadly combination of physical attractiveness, intelligence and charm, possessing a reported IQ score of 136. This is no genius score, but it is quite a bit above average, and not normally the degree of intelligence one might associate with a serial killer. He was also a necrophiliac, oftentimes returning the bodies of the women he had killed days after having done so.

Ted Bundy exhibited signs of sociopathy early on. By his teenage years, he was a compulsive thief and peeping tom. Bundy graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in psychology, and was accepted to law school with the help of the governor of Washington, with whom he had become familiar from involvement in political matters.

In 1974, after Ted moved to Utah, women started disappearing. Rumors began about the victims having been last seen with a man named "Ted." After being pulled over by the police, he was arrested when police discovered burglary tools in the trunk of his car. His criminality was first confirmed in 1975, when Carol DaRonch, a woman he had kidnapped, escaped. He was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. A few years later, he was charged with murder for the death of another woman.

Ted Bundy made his first of two prison escapes when he jumped out of the window of the courthouse library. Though recaptured about a week later, he escaped from prison again in 1977 through a hole he had made in the ceiling of his cell. During his escape, Bundy broke into the Chi Omega sorority house at FSU (Florida State University) and killed two of its residents. Before his capture, he would also murder a 12 year old girl. This was his last murder. He was finally captured and sentenced to death, eventually being executed in 1989 at Florida State Prison.


4.Andrew Cunanan - born in 1969, Cunanan engaged in a killing spree resulting in 5 victims. He is perhaps most well-known for having killed Gianna Versace, the famous fashion designer. Andrew Cunanan's murder spree came to a violent end in Miami, where he committed suicide by gunshot.

Cunanan was charming, attractive, and intelligent, revealed to have had an IQ of 147. He socialized with older, wealthy gay men in the "Castro" distinct of San Francisco. He worked as a prostitute in his teen years, and soon began to star in pornography films. Cunanan killed his former lover and fled across the country to Miami, Florida, where he killed 3 more men. Finally, he killed Gianni Versace before committing suicide in a houseboat as police closed in on him.


5. Jeffrey Dahmer - One of the most infamous serial killers in history, Jeffrey Dahmer was born in 1960. He killed a total of 17 men, claiming that he could trace his sociopathic and necrophilic tendencies to as early as age 14. He was also known to cannibalize some of his victims. He claimed his first victim in 1978, after having sex with a hitchhiker, before beating him to death with a barbell and dismembering his corpse. He began a term at Ohio State University. Though tested with an IQ of 145, he quickly dropped out, possibly because of his alcoholism, which at this point was becoming severe.

Dahmer joined the Army, which discharged him because of his drinking. He ran into problems with the law, getting arrested in 1981 for disorderly conduct, and then again in 1986 for performing lewd acts in front of two young boys. He claimed another victim a year later, whom he killed in his hotel after they had gotten drunk together. He dismembered the man's corpse and simply through the remains in the garbage.

Over a period of 13 years, he would murder primarily gay, black men, luring them home with promises of sex, before drugging and killing them. He would then sexually molest the dead bodies of his victims, before dismembering them. Jeffrey Dahmer was also known to keep the skulls of his victims as trophies.

Jeffrey Dahmer was kicked out of his grandmother's house because of his continual drunkenness. He would kill two more people around the same time in 1988. In one particularly infamous episode, he molested a 13-year-old boy. He pleaded guilty to the charges and asked for leniency, which was granted. He could work a day job, provided he returned to prison at night. Dahmer then molested the 14 year old younger brother of the boy he had previously molested, though he was able to convince police that his drugged victim was a drunk 19-year-old lover of his. In an astonishing miscarriage of justice, officers escorted Jeffrey Bahmer and the boy back to Dahmer's home, where he killed him.

In 1991, officers found a man wandering around the street with a pair of handcuffs on one of his wrists. They investigated the situation and were told that he had been drugged, handcuffed and restrained. They were led to Dahmer's apartment, where they found pictures of dismembered bodies, and a refrigerator full of various body parts.

Jeffrey Dahmer confessed to all the murders and pleaded guilty on all counts. Serving 15 consecutive life sentences as of 1992, he was murdered only two years into his sentence by another prisoner.

6.Charlene Williams - Charlene Williams is well-known for having been involved in the famous "sex-slave murders" of 1978-1980. Williams would lure women into her husband's car so he could rape and murder them, claiming 10 victims before their arrest in 1980. Charlene Williams spent around 17 years in prison, but has since been released.

Strictly speaking, it was her husband who committed the murders, though Charlene aided in the acquisition of the his victims. She pleaded guilty to counts of first and second degree murder, though was able to receive the minimum sentence of 16 years and 18 months for her crimes by testifying against her husband. A smart woman all other things considered, she is reported to have an IQ of 160.

7. John Wayne Gacy - John Wayne Gacy was convicted of having killed 33 people. He is one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. He experienced a tragically abusive childhood at the hands of his father, who would beat his children witih a razor strap. Culturally, he became a cultural icon and gave rise to the image of the "killer clown", due to the fact that he would perform as a clown around the same kinds of people he would kill: young males. He would sometimes even dress as a clown during his murders.

John Wayne Gacy had been accused of sexual assault by numerous males prior to the discovery of his career as a serial killer. While he had initially been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting two teenager males, he was released for parole before two years had even transpired. John Wayne Gacy confessed to the crimes but claimed thtat an alter ego had committed the crime and that he was not responsible. Questions about whether or not Gacy should have been found not guilty by reason of insanity raged.

He was convicted in 1980 and executed around 14 years later in 1994, having been given 21 life sentences and 12 death sentences. While he was no genius, he had a recorded IQ of 118, quite a bit above average.

8.Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold - Nathan Leopold was born in 1904, and Richard Loeb, a year later in 1905. He and Richard Loeb committed a famous murder of a 14-year-old male in 1924. Leopold was a child prodigy who reportedly spoke his first words at 4 months, and possessed a recorded IQ of 210. Leopold graduated college with honors from Harvard in 1923. Richard Loeb had an IQ estimated at between 160 and 168.

Leopold and Loeb became fast friends and probably developed a sexual relationship. They were preoccupied with attempting to get away with committing the perfect crime. The two lured their victim into their car before beating him to death with a chisel. They then disposed of his body in a lake. The father of the boy had contacted police before delivering the ransom the two had demanded. Both were arrested and confessed to the murder and both received a life sentence. Leopold was granted parole in 1958, at which point he fled to Puerto Rico, where he spent the rest of his days teaching mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico. He eventually died of a heart attack. Richard Loeb, on the other hand, was murdered by his cellmate in prison.


9.Rodney Alcala - Alcala was a graduate of UCLA. He was arrested when the seriously injured body of an 8-year-old girl was found in his home. He fled to New York, where he became a student of NYU film school. Alcala pled guilty to child molestation for this crime, and was given an indeterminate sentence. He was released after 34 months.

None of Alcala's friends would have suspected him of these killings. He was charming, attractive, academically successful and intelligent, with a recorded IQ of 160.

This was only the beginning of Alcala's criminal career. It was not long after his release that he kidnapped and murdered a 12-year-old girl. Her remains were found around 40 miles from where she had last been seen, at which point only her bones were left.

Alcala had previously asked the girl and her friend if he could take a picture of them for a photography contest. His parole officer contacted authoritites and advised them to investigate Rodney Alcala after seeing his sketch on the news

He is perhaps most well-known for having been a contestant on "The Dating Game" in 1978. He was arrested a year later for the murder at 1979. The authorities eventually found a locker he owned, full of questionable photos of women. They also found photos of a woman at Huntington Beach, a place he had denied ever visiting, which threw his defense seriously into doubt.

He had told the women whom he had photographed that he was in a contest for a magazine he had worked for. This was 2 miles away from where one of his other victims had been kidnapped, and a couple of other teenage girls said that they had been approached by Alcala in the same area.

They also found a bag full of earrings. The mother of one of the victims recognized one of the pairs of earrings as having been often borrowed by her daughter. Alcala was convicted and given a death sentence, but his conviction was overturned. Nevertheless, he was tried and convicted again, and once again found guilty of murder. But this too was overturned. Fortunately, DNA technology quickly improved and he was found guilty of having murdered 3 other women thanks to DNA evidence, which proved that the earrings did indeed belong to his victim.


10.Caroll Edward Cole - A notorious American serial killer. Born in 1938, he quickly began his career as a criminal as a thief in his teen years. It was not long, howiever, that his impulses would become more violent. He would oftentimes fantasize about strangling women. After marrying, he became suspicious that his wife had been cheating on him, so he burned down the building in which he believed the infidelity had taken place. After spending time in prison for arson, he attempted to strangle an 11-year-old child and spent 5 years in prison. Following his release, he checked himself into a mental hospital after attempting to kill 2 more women. Doctors took note of his violent fantasies, but did not seem to do anything about it.

He began his murder career in 1971, strangling a woman to death. He remarried, but strangled his new wife to death in 1979. He killed a few more women before being arrested. He confessed to the murders, claiming around 14 women as his victims. He was executed in 1985. Although he was a nasty fellow, he was exceedingly intelligent, with a reported IQ of 152.

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I love this op. Nice one.... Nice one

Charlene Williams(1)
Andrew Cunanan(2)
Ted Kaczynski (3)

Ted Bundy

Richard Loeb(1)
Jeffery Dahmer(2)

Rodney Alcala

Caroll Edward Cole

fatdon2:
That list is incomplete without Abubakar Shekau Leader Boko Haram

Shekau is a terrorist not a serial killer, besides his I.Q can't be more than 80 or 90.

INTROVERT:
I love this op. Nice one.... Nice one

I love you too. thanks

Nathan Leopold

Edward Kemper

Nice one

Hmmm

I can smell fp

Hmm ...
Bad n*ggas...

sometimes those americans are sick

Serial killer dey this our naija at all?

fathomberry:
Serial killer dey this our naija at all?

Yes oo na ritualist we dey call dem for here

stepo707:
sometimes those americans are sick

not only in America.

blake777:

Yes oo na ritualist we dey call dem for here

no, serial killing is different from that.

fathomberry:
Serial killer dey this our naija at all?

of course.

blake777:

Yes oo na ritualist we dey call dem for here

Ritualist na just for the money or power na, these Yankee serial killers do theirs to scratch one itch like that! Not the same thing tho!

Creepy!!

Na wa o, see their ugly faces.

Awesome! ....not inna good way because they are all killers and all....but check out their IQs!

Nice one Dark!

*....thinking of turning to a Seriel Killer*

Clearly high Intelligience Quotent is not everything.

"Sociopaths" & "psycopaths" are demented geniuses.
Serial killing happen mostly abroad. This kind of list make one wonder about some people's mental condition. Very horrific act!


Nice one OP.

BTK.

I know them like mad, sometimes I get scared for my brain and hope I won't turnout to be one.

Bundy defended himself while on trial and was freaking confident about it.

scary!

D killer of funsho williams, Bola Ige, etc is he not handsome sorry intelligent enough to be on d list?

I don't understand the logic in ma dreams bur i understand i like tha sounds of sirens...was expecting names like jack the ripper and other famous killers. The only name that rings a bell to me is TED MUNDY.t