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SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Maglorix(m): 10:25am On Apr 13, 2017 |
The world has known many serial killers. The list of such people who have committed inhumane crimes is endless. But then there are some who have actually stolen the spotlight for the hideous crimes committed against humanity. Here are 20 most evil and notorious serial killers the world has ever seen: ADVERTISEMENT 1. The Zodiac Killer The killer fashioned this name for himself in taunting letters he sent to the Bay Area Press. He left ciphers to be decoded and out of the four he sent, only one was definitely solved. The killer operated in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His last letter said: Me- 37 and SFPD (San Francisco Police Dept.)- 0. He claimed to have killed 37 victims but the newspapers confirmed only 7. The case file is still open.
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2. Donald Henry Gaskins: The Hitchhikers' Killer
Gaskins has claimed to have killed between 80 to 90
people by torturing and mutilating them. He started
killing in 1969, picking up hitchhikers on the coastal
highways of the American South. A criminal
associate witnessed him killing two young men and
confessed to the police. He was sentenced to death
which was later turned to life imprisonment without
any parole. Gaskins added another murder to his
name and became the only man to have ever killed
an inmate on death row.
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3. Tsutomu Miyazaki: The Human Dracula
He got more names due to his hideous acts. Some
of them were The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl
Murderer or Dracula Miyazaki. The reason for this
being that he abducted little girls, killed them and
indulged in sexual activities with their corpses. On
one occasion, he not only drank the victim's blood
but ate her hand as well. He also preserved body
parts as trophies and sent postcards to the families
describing the murder. His father committed suicide
and Miyazaki was hanged in 2008, aged 45.
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Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by YeebosAreFools(m): 10:28am On Apr 13, 2017 |
No Igbos on the list? |
Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Maglorix(m): 10:28am On Apr 13, 2017 |
4. Ted Bundy: The Crazy Necrophile
Ted Bundy was an American serial killer, kidnapper,
rapist, and necrophile. He operated in various
states in the USA and confessed to killing 30
women. He revisited crime scenes and indulged in
sexual acts with the corpses. Bundy decapitated at
least 12 victims and kept their heads as trophies in
his apartment. Aged 42, Bundy died on the electric
chair in 1989. His own defence attorney said,
"Ted, was the very definition of heartless evil."
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5. Jack the Ripper aka Whitechapel Murder
The real killers or killer were never identified. The
name came into being because the victims had
organs missing and judging by procedure the killer
seemed to have surgical experience. Jack the
Ripper who was later believed to be a single person
killed female prostitutes in the slums of London
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5. Jack the Ripper aka Whitechapel Murder
The real killers or killer were never identified. The
name came into being because the victims had
organs missing and judging by procedure the killer
seemed to have surgical experience. Jack the
Ripper who was later believed to be a single person
killed female prostitutes in the slums of London
between 1888-91.
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6. Luis Garavito: The Beast
Also dubbed by the media as the Le Bestia (The
Beast), the Colombian is probably one of the world's
worst serial killers. He confessed to the torture,
rape and murder of 147 young boys. But the number
is believed to be over 300. He was found guilty on
139 counts, which should amount to 1,853 years in
prison. But Columbian law limits it to 30, which is
what he was sentenced to in 1999. He may be
released earlier for cooperation and good
behaviour.
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7. Ahmad Suradji: The Sorcerer
The cattle-breeder from Indonesia admitted to killing
42 girls and women between 1986 to 1997. As a
part of his ritual, he used to bury them waist deep.
Bodies were found in a sugarcane field with their
heads facing his house, which he believed would
give him more power. Suradji was sentenced to
death by a firing squad in 2008.
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Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by CaroLyner(f): 10:31am On Apr 13, 2017 |
Following. |
Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Maglorix(m): 10:32am On Apr 13, 2017 |
8. Alexander Pichushkin: The Chessboard Killer
He was also known as the 'Chessboard Killer' and
the 'Bitsa Park Maniac'. His targets were homeless
men whom he lured to his house with vodka. He is
believed to have killed 49 people, most of them with
repeated hammer blows to their heads and inserted
a vodka bottle into the gaping skull wound. He
initially said he wanted to complete the number of
squares on a chessboard and kill 64 people. Also, it
is believed that he was in competition with another
Russian serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, who was
convicted in 1992 for 53 killings. It was the very
same year Alexander started killing.
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9. Andrei Chikatilo: The Butcher
Andrei, the Butcher of Rostov, said, "When I used my
knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have
to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature." He was
responsible for sexually assaulting, killing and
mutilating 53 women and children between 1978 and
1990 in Russia. After being captured in 1992, he
was ordered to be killed by a firing squad in 1994. |
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9. Andrei Chikatilo: The Butcher
Andrei, the Butcher of Rostov, said, "When I used my
knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have
to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature." He was
responsible for sexually assaulting, killing and
mutilating 53 women and children between 1978 and
1990 in Russia. After being captured in 1992, he
was ordered to be killed by a firing squad in 1994.
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10. Charles Edmund Cullen: The Angel Of Death
Cullen worked as a nurse in many hospitals but kept
switching jobs as he was fired for suspicious
behaviour from many of them. He confessed to
murdering 40 elderly patients in New Jersey from
1984 to 2003. He did this by poisoning his patients
to death with unprescribed medication. He stated
that he wanted to relieve the patients from their
suffering much like an angel would. Experts say he
had more than 300 victims. Cullen has been
imprisoned for life.
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11. Patrick Wayne Kearney: The Trash Bag Killer
Also called the Trash Bag Killer, he operated
between 1975 -1977. Kearney had a high IQ but
once captured, he confessed to 32 murders of
homosexual men. Kearney would dump their bodies
along California highways and wrapped them in
trash bags thus earning the name. He was
convicted of 21 murders, but was sentenced to life
because of his confession.
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12. Dennis Raider: BTK Murderer
Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Raider murdered
10 people in Wichita, Kansas. He even sent letters
to police taunting them under his alias name BTK
which stood for ‘Bind, Torture, Kill’. His technique
was to stalk his victims before breaking into their
homes, binding their limbs and finally strangling
them. He disappeared in 1988, but remerged in
around 2005 when he sent a floppy disc to the
press which helped in tracing him. Rader confessed
to his crimes and is serving 10 consecutive life
sentences with the earliest release date possible
on February 26, 2180.
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13. John George Haigh: Acid Bath Murderer John George Haigh was also known as the 'Acid Bath Murderer' and operated during the 1940s. He was convicted for the murders of 6 people, although he claimed to have killed 9. He was a professional conman, who lured wealthy people by charm and deceit, into to a warehouse where he shot them. Later he would dissolve their bodies in sulphuric acid then forge papers to sell their possessions and collect their life savings. He was sentenced to death and hanged in 1949.
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14. Paul Knowles: The Casanova Killer
Also known as the Casanova Killer, Knowles used
his charm into making victims believe him and later
killed them. He killed a total of 18 people, although
the count might be more. His victims included men,
women and children. The man from Florida was
eventually killed by an FBI agent in 1974 when he
was trying to escape.
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15. William Bonin: The Freeway Killer
Bonin was also known as the 'Freeway Killer'.
Between 1979 and 1980, he raped, tortured and
murdered at least 21 young men. Bonin would dump
their bodies along freeways in South California.
After being convicted for 14 of his killings, he was
executed by lethal injection in 1996. His sadistic
side was still seen during his prison sentence
where he corresponded with many of his victims'
families about how their children reacted to his
torture.
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16. Aileen Wuornos: The Monster
Her story allowed Charlize Theron to win an
Academy Award. She played Aileen in the 2003
movie, 'Monster'. While working as a prostitute,
Aileen killed seven men in Florida for their money
and confessed to shooting them, claiming all of them
had either raped or attempted to rape her. She died
in 1992 by lethal injection.
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17. Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal
Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for dismembering
17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer
also indulged in necrophilia and cooking body parts
of his victim, then eating them. He was eventually
caught after a prospective victim managed to
overpower him. Dahmer was sentenced to 15 terms
of life imprisonment in 1992. But he was beaten to
death by a fellow prisoner at the Columbia
Correctional Institution two years later.
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18. John Wayne Gacy: The Burial King
Gacy operated between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago,
Illinois. He sexually assaulted and murdered 33
teenage boys and young men. Gacy would lure his
victims to his home with the promise of work or
money before murdering them by strangulation using
a tourniquet. He buried 26 of his victims in the
crawl space under his house and later disposed the
bodies off in the Des Plaines River. Convicted of 33
murders, Gacy was sentenced to death and spent 14
years on death row before he was executed by
lethal injection on May 10, 1994.
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19. Tommy Lynn Sells: The Brutal Texan
Tommy Lynn Sells is perhaps the most dangerous
Texan in history. He claimed to have killed at least
70 people. He brutally murdered people between
1985 and 1999 including stabbing a 13-year-old girl
16 times. Sells broke into the bedroom of a 10-
year-old girl, stabbing her and left her to die. But
despite her injures, she managed to survive and
gave a detailed description of Sells to the police. He
was sentenced to death & remains on death row in
a high security prison in Texas.
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20. Pedro Rodriguez Filho: The Brazilian Maniac
Arrested in 1973, Pedro was later convicted in
2003 for the murder of at least 71 people and was
then sentenced to 128 years imprisonment. He was
only 14 when he committed his first killing. He
wreaked havoc on local drug dealers, in revenge for
his girlfriend's killing while he was imprisoned. In
prison, he even executed his own father, who was
also serving time for murder. Filho went onto kill at
least 47 inmates while imprisoned. His continued
killings have led to his sentence to be increased to
400 years imprisonme
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Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Maglorix(m): 10:49am On Apr 13, 2017 |
CaroLyner: |
Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Maglorix(m): 10:50am On Apr 13, 2017 |
DONE.!! |
Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Maglorix(m): 10:51am On Apr 13, 2017 |
YeebosAreFools: |
Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Maglorix(m): 10:51am On Apr 13, 2017 |
Lol... Add the ones u know |
Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Kobicove(m): 10:58am On Apr 13, 2017 |
Sick minds |
Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Maglorix(m): 11:01am On Apr 13, 2017 |
Kobicove: |
Re: SHOCKING!! Top 20 Greatest Serial Killers Of All Time!! .... Stories /pictures by Maglorix(m): 11:01am On Apr 13, 2017 |
Trust me we still Ave some like that here in naija |
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