I rememberwatching a documentry on the belgium one - made me cry & I mean literally cry it was so horrificQuote:
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I rememberwatching a documentry on the belgium one - made me cry & I mean literally cry it was so horrificQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre
read a book on Richard Leonard "The Iceman" Kuklinski wow he was a mean bstard!
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there was a movie made abt him recently which was crap and made him out to be a good family man which he wasnt! he was a contract killer from new jersey who beat hois wife & his kids were scared to death of him. one guy he tied up & let rats eat him alive all of it was filmed for the mafia bosses as well.
Yeah the 'Iceman'....booo BOOOOOOO that movie. Now "Confessions of a Hitman" the documentary was greatQuote:
Originally Posted by Drago
Cold bastard Richard he even eventually killed innocent men in practice for the real thing trying out new methods. Thats first kill he ever made though on that bloke who made him look stupid in a bar in front of some woman, so he waited by his car and molatofed him through his window and emptied the container on him as he burned , you could tell from that point he had found his calling. One good thing he claims he did was kill that ice cream vendor who used to poison people for kicks.
I guess Jim Jones of Jonestown fame could be considered in this group but he didn't personally murder anyone he just got other people to do that for him. It's crazy to think he mindfucked all those people that followed him....also may I add Jim Jones was a communist!
Jim jones is a wanker.Quote:
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Both of them.
Are there any right wing serial killers that we could mention to balance the topic here?
Well commies/socialists are better at murder, just the way it is man...look at Chairman Mao and Stalin and HitlerQuote:
Originally Posted by Master
Look up the British doctor who murdered loads of his patients with lethal injection. His name was Harold Shipman.
Not many people know that he was a highly regarded amateur boxer in his youth.
He had a lethal jab.
Well one of the most notorious serial killers of all time, may have just been identified....
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So Jack The Ripper...was he England's famous poet Francis Thompson? You be the judge
We get dumb theories every 10 years from royalty to mad doctors. The only thing we can be certain is that they are dead.
Yes, but it's interesting IMO...other than Jack The Ripper maybe The Zodiac Killer has drawn so much interest and yet nothing is known about the actual perpetratorQuote:
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If there is one thing we know about Jack the Ripper it is that he must have been a Tory. It's the only possible explanation. He only ever went after the poor and vulnerable.
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Originally Posted by El Kabong
From the poem? Of him being hunted and pursued?
Well there's that and there's the whole he trained to be a surgeon at one point in his life and some other anecdotal evidence that kind of ties him to what Jack The Ripper did to his victims and what not....I figured you'd know about this Andre, you're an Aussie, the guy who came up with this theory is an Aussie.Quote:
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From the poem? Of him being hunted and pursued?
Proof that a diary long believed to be written by Jack the Ripper is genuine has emerged exciting enthusiasts that it really was written by the killer.
It means that experts could be close for the first time to identifying the brutal slayer who terrorised East London more than 200 years ago.
The killer has never been caught and his identity and dozens of theories have been put forward about his, or her, identity.
Excitement among Ripper hunters was fired in 1993 when a diary was said to have been discovered under floorboards of a house in Liverpool, "proving" that wealthy cotton broker James Maybrick was the killer.
Maybrick's wife Florence was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court of murdering her husband by poisoning in 1889 but released in 1904 when the trial was called into question.
In the 9,000 word volume, Maybrick confessed to the brutal murders of five women in the East End as well as one prostitute in Manchester.
He signed off the diary: "I give my name that all know of me, so history do tell, what love can do to a gentleman born. Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper."
The authenticity of the document, which points the finger of blame for the grisly murders in London at Liverpool cotton trader Maybrick, has never been proved or disproved despite exhaustive debate since it was published in the 1990s.
But now new research has linked the diary to the author more conclusively than ever before.
The diary was said to have been originally found by a scrap metal dealer who said he had got it from a family friend, who had passed away.
It was impossible to link directly to Maybrick but work by researchers has discovered links to the original finder and a firm of builders who worked on the suspects house.
It puts the the diary in the house and makes it much more likely to be genuine.
The diary was published by Robert Smith, and he believes the links to the building firm were kept secret because the men who found it were frightened of being prosecuted.
Mr Smith told the Daily Telegraph: "I have never been in any doubt that the diary is a genuine document written in 1888 and 1889.
"The new and indisputable evidence, that on March 9 1992, the diary was removed from under the floorboards of the room that had been James Maybrick’s bedroom in 1889, and offered later on the very same day to a London literary agent, overrides any other considerations regarding its authenticity.
"It follows that James Maybrick is its most likely author. Was he Jack the Ripper? He now has to be a prime suspect, but the disputes over the Ripper’s identity may well rage for another century at least.”
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Check out this guy's life ....... no wonder he turned out like he did. The scary thing is that he is now free.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_López_(serial_killer)
You also would not wish to get on the wrong side of this guy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Rodrigues_Filho
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Maybe it is me but he does not seem that bad. He was a product of violence from his father, killed people who deserved it and was quite honourable.Quote:
Originally Posted by El KabongYeah he seems like he was a bit of a bad appleQuote:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_PanzramQuote:
Originally Posted by MasterMaybe it is me but he does not seem that bad. He was a product of violence from his father, killed people who deserved it and was quite honourable.Quote:
Originally Posted by El KabongYeah he seems like he was a bit of a bad appleQuote:
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Panzram had it tought in his life too....do you think he's ok?
No one can deny he had a very sick up bringing but the murders and criminal acts do not justify what he did.
Sick. X. Very sick.
‘Golden State Killer’ suspect, a former police officer, arrested after DNA match, officials say
Ex-cop arrested as 'Golden State Killer
More than 40 years after the so-called “Golden State Killer” began terrorizing California, raping dozens of women and killing at least 12, authorities announced Wednesday that they had arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo, charging him with capital murder.
DeAngelo’s arrest offered a shocking, abrupt development in what had long been one of the most notorious unsolved string of crimes in U.S. history.*The gruesome attacks unfolded across California for more than a decade during the 1970s and 1980s, shattering families and frightening communities. Then the crimes stopped, remaining a mystery for a generation, with little sign the case would ever be solved.
The trail ultimately led authorities to DeAngelo, a former police officer living in Citrus Heights, Calif., a city outside Sacramento. Authorities said DeAngelo — who was an officer during the years when police believe the attacks began — was found through DNA evidence obtained in recent days. Though investigators declined to elaborate on what the DNA evidence was or how it was obtained, they said it clearly linked him to the crimes that had transfixed them for so long.
Authorities said DeAngelo’s name had not been on their radar at any point until last week, but that they were able to link him to homicides and rapes from decades ago.
“The magnitude of*this case demanded that it be solved,” Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said at a news conference in the California capital Wednesday afternoon.*“We found the needle in the haystack, and it was right here in Sacramento.”
Sacramento County court records showed that DeAngelo was booked into jail early Wednesday morning on two counts of murder. No bail was set, and it was not known if he had an attorney.
The string of attacks for decades were actually considered three separate sprees, beginning in the mid-1970s in Visalia, Calif., authorities said, when dozens of home invasions and burglaries led people to call the then-unknown assailant the “Visalia Ransacker.” A later series of horrifying home-invasions and rapes beginning in 1976 in Northern California — attributed to the “East Area Rapist” or the “Original Night Stalker” — included lengthy attacks, sometimes involving sexual assaults on women in front of their bound loved ones. Then a series of slayings involving couples in their homes in Southern California by the “Golden State Killer”*lasted up into the mid-1980s.
It wasn’t until 2001 that authorities connected the crimes via DNA evidence.
Through 1986, the FBI said, the attacker killed a dozen people and raped 45. The victims were as young as 13 and as old as 41, they said.
Investigators had said they*thought the Golden State Killer may have had a law enforcement background, and DeAngelo fit that bill. Between 1973 and 1979,*DeAngelo served as a police officer in two different California police departments, said Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones.
The timeline meant that DeAngelo was a law enforcement official when the attacks began, learning how to be a police officer at the same time authorities now believe he was beginning an escalating reign of terror. It remains unclear whether this training and knowledge of law enforcement tactics played a role in how the case stayed unsolved for so long.
“Very possibly he was committing the crimes during the time he was employed as a peace officer,” Jones said Wednesday.
Jones said DeAngelo had worked for the Exeter, Calif., police department between 1973 and 1976, a department located about 10 miles east of Visalia. John Hall, the city’s police chief, said in an interview Wednesday that no one currently with the department was there*at the time. Still, he said, the idea that*DeAngelo might have worked for the department was a blow.
“It’s absolutely shocking as well as disheartening and disappointing,” Hall said. “Not only did he commit these horrific crimes, but he did it while wearing the uniform and enjoying the public’s trust.”
The case remained an object of intense focus for many in law enforcement and the public over the years. In 2016, the FBI made a renewed plea — and offered a $50,000 reward — for help in finding what they called “the violent and elusive individual.”
Beginning in 1976, the Golden State Killer is believed to have*raped dozens of*women in their homes — meticulously planning intrusions, sometimes ambushing entire families, and killing several victims toward the end of*the bloodshed, all before vanishing in*1986. The attacker also was behind numerous residential burglaries in the state, the FBI said.
For relatives of the victims, the shock of DeAngelo’s arrest and the charges against him left some feeling a sense of closure. Others were overwhelmed by the sudden news.*Jennifer Carole was sleeping in her Santa Cruz home when the text came in at 7:11 a.m. on Wednesday. When she awoke, she could hardly believe it.
“Could this really be him?” a friend had typed out and sent a link to a news article.
Almost four decades after*Carole’s father, Lyman Smith, and stepmother, Charlene Smith, were found murdered in their Ventura, Calif., home, police said they had found a suspect. She was torn by conflicting emotions.
“This is a hard one,” said Carole, 56. “There aren’t really words for this. I have feelings all over the place … In my mind, I had him dead as a way to cope, so his capture is stirring up all kinds of emotions.”
Carole said it was a chilling feeling to know the alleged killer had been in the Sacramento area the whole time, the same area her mother and father had lived.
In March 1980, her*brother had gone to their father’s home to mow the lawn, but he*grew*suspicious when the home’s alarm didn’t go off when he entered. He went upstairs to check on his father and stepmother, Carole said, and called 911 after he found*sheets*pulled up over their bodies.
“I hope to*God he confesses,” said Carole, who was 18 at the time, of the man now in police custody.
Deangelo, who was arrested for the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker/Golden State Killer case in Citrus Heights, California, U.S.
In Citrus Heights, residents recalled strange encounters with DeAngelo, who neighbors said lived in a home with his daughter and granddaughter.*Attempts to reach DeAngelo’s relatives were unsuccessful.
Eddy Verdon recalled meeting DeAngelo after moving to the area and*found him to be*nosy, eventually discovering DeAngelo on his property three years ago. When he heard someone around the property and looked in the garage, he found DeAngelo ready to flee on his bicycle.
“I stared him down, and he looked at me nervously,” he said. “I never really interacted with him again. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea.”
Since the attacker seemingly disappeared,*investigators and amateur detectives have searched for*him across the United States and inquired as far away as Australia.
“He was young — anywhere from 18 to 30 — Caucasian, and athletic, capable of eluding capture by jumping roofs and vaulting tall fences,” the crime writer Michelle McNamara wrote in a Los Angeles Magazine profile of the old cases.
McNamara, who wrote a best-selling book about the crimes, wrote that the attacker had entered homes beforehand, “learning the layout, studying family pictures, and memorizing names” in preparation. As a result, she wrote, when someone “woke from a deep sleep to the blinding flashlight and ski-masked presence, he was always a stranger to you, but you were not to him.”
When a woman managed to escape a 1979 attack, McNamara wrote, she said she saw a man pedaling away on a bicycle. The*attacker was particularly cruel, McNamara wrote, placing*dishes on the male victims he had tied up*and “telling him that if he heard the dishes fall, he’d kill the female, whom he would then lead into another room to rape.”
Police first dubbed the man the East Area Rapist, since they do not believe he began to kill people until later. The first known attack*took place in the middle of the night in the summer of 1976, when*a man slipped into a home in east Sacramento County, raped a young woman and left.
Authorities said the same man raped someone again a few weeks later, then raped people again and again. After a year, two dozen women had been attacked in the Sacramento area. One victim was said to be a 13-year-old girl*whose family was home at the time.
Two people were beaten to death with a fireplace log. Brian and Katie Maggiore were gunned down while walking their dog in*Rancho Cordova. A man and his girlfriend were fatally shot in his condo, with a cellophane-wrapped turkey carcass found on the patio. The killer, McNamara later wrote, had eaten some of their leftover Christmas dinner before departing.
The last known victim was 18-year-old Janelle Cruz, who was raped and bludgeoned to death in Irvine in 1986.
Decades would pass*before DNA tests linked all of these crimes, and investigators realized that the East Area Rapist of Sacramento was the same man called “Original Night Stalker” near L.A. DNA evidence has proven crucial in other cases, such as the East Coast Rapist, who was arrested in 2011 when one of his discarded cigarettes proved to be a match for genetic*material in that case.
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How can that guy be a serial killer? The police went into his safety deposit box last night at Wells Fargo and found three cases of corn flakes
That's a big catch. Similar to to when BTK was caught. Very sad that he killed all those people, and to think he was a cop all along, horrible.
Very ruthless and evil man hope he does admit it.Quote:
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A police officer, doctor or soldier would be difficult serial killers to catch.
Perhaps. I mean Dennis Rader 'BTK' worked for Coleman which makes outdoor stuff like gas grills, lanterns, tents, etc and he was hard to catch.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterVery ruthless and evil man hope he does admit it.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Kabong
A police officer, doctor or soldier would be difficult serial killers to catch.
Panzeram was a hobo and he was hard to catch
Nobody knows who the fuck Jack The Ripper was or what he did, never caught. Zodiac Killer was never caught. Unabomber was hard to catch, Eric Robert Rudolph was difficult to catch.
they found him DEAD under the bridge with a box of corn flakes, get it, CEREAL KILLER
Unthinkable to be on the force while killing and even raping kids. Hope he rots. Have to think his entire arrest record, prosecutions and even convictions have to be called in for review? Not sure if statute of limitations figures into it.
Husband-wife serial killers may be link between two 40-year-old mysteries, police say
two seemingly unrelated cases stumped detectives in two states. Now they may have found the link, thanks in part to a chance encounter.
Authorities in Alabama were stumped by skeletal remains they could not identify.
In New Orleans, two hours west down Interstate 10, law enforcement had an unsolved missing person’s case.
Although only 120 or so miles separated*the two investigations, it would take more than 40 years for the right links to fall into place, likely looping together*the bones in Alabama and the vanished New Orleans housewife Mary Ann Perez.
As a result of*persistence and a few lucky breaks, investigators now believe they can tie the March 1976 disappearance of Perez to a husband-and-wife serial killing couple who stalked women across the South in the 1970s, News 5 reported.
“It was actually a miracle,”*Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Detective J.T. Thornton recently told the station.
On March 26, 1976, Perez went out with friends to a local bar outside of New Orleans. According to an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries,” the housewife left her teenage daughter Donna at home to watch her younger children.
“She told Donna that she would be calling to check on us,”*Shannon Miller, Perez’s youngest child, told the program. “And Donna said she got a phone call from momma first, stating that she was okay and that she would be home shortly. And then Donna said she got a phone call from a woman by the name of Dorothy.”
The mystery woman on the other end of the line told Perez’s daughter her mother was having car trouble. The call immediately raised suspicion among the family*— the vehicle was new, so it was not likely to break down. When Perez failed to come home the next morning, her car was found in the parking lot of the country-and-western bar. Three days later, Perez’s purse*— weighed down with a brick*— was found in Lake Pontchartrain, according to “Unsolved Mysteries.”
Perez was not found. She remained a missing person.
Eight months later, hunters were strolling through a cornfield near Grand Bay, Ala., just over the*Mississippi state line, when they discovered human bones. Clothes still wrapped the remains. The bones belonged to a woman and distinguishing features stood out. “[I]t was mostly intact and there was also a partial dental plate the skull of the female indicated preexisting injuries from traffic collisions,” Thornton recently told News 5.
Investigators eventually shipped the remains to Oklahoma where the skull was used to reconstruct an image of the victim. But after the picture was released to the public, no one came forward to claim the bones or offer an explanation.
In the 1970s, information did not flow freely*among law enforcement agencies*— this was before Internet databases or email alerts could quickly update departments in different states or regions*about their caseloads. In 1976, no one linked the remains in Alabama with Perez’s disappearance.
But in 1980, investigators did begin to get a picture of her death.
David and Donna Courtney were a married pair of drifters who both pleaded guilty to murder in 1980 in Wichita. The couple’s confession was chilling. They told investigators they had killed two others in Houston, and a woman in New Orleans, the Advocate reported. The Courtneys’ account of the New Orleans murder echoed the facts surrounding Perez’s disappearance.
“When I went up to Kansas to interview David Courtney, he told me about the female he abducted in New Orleans,” New Orleans Police Detective Bob Lambert told “Unsolved Mysteries.” “He stated that he was driving down the highway and pulled in the parking lot of a country-western bar.”
The woman was too drunk to drive home, Courtney claimed, so he persuaded her to come back to the trailer he shared with his wife.
“He stated that this female fell asleep on a chair in the trailer and there was some sexual advancements by his wife, which woke this female up and she became disturbed and irate and upset about what was going on and then they agreed to give her a ride home at that time,” Lambert recalled.
While his wife drove the car, Courtney said he strangled the woman with a coat hanger in the back seat.
Despite the confession, law enforcement had a problem. The Courtneys pointed investigators to the final resting places of all their victims*— all except the woman from New Orleans. According to the Advocate, the alleged killers said only that they dumped the body either at the Louisiana-Mississippi border or the Mississippi-Alabama border.
Authorities were left with a plausible theory for Perez’s disappearance but no body*— and therefore no criminal case. The Courtneys were never charged with Perez’s death. David Courtney is still serving a life sentence in Kansas. His wife died two decades ago.
In Alabama, investigators had the opposite problem: They had a body but no plausible theory. According to News 5, it would take another 35 years for authorities in Alabama to uncover the connection.
Recently, Thornton, the detective, began digging into local cold cases, including the 1976 remains. A detective in Mississippi told Thornton about the Perez disappearance, and the Alabama investigator went to interview the missing woman’s family.
“They advised me that she had been in a traffic accident, Mary Ann Perez had, that she had a partial dental plate, and they presented me with the demographics of her and I thought that’s almost a perfect match,” Thornton told News 5.
But there was a new problem: The body had vanished again — no one knew where the remains were currently being kept. Only after a random encounter with another cold case investigator did Thornton finally catch his last needed break.
“The state attorney general’s office sent an investigator down here, who also works cold cases,” Thornton said. “So when he comes in he’s like, ‘do you know anything about this case?’ And I said I do and I’ve been hunting for the remains. And he’s like ‘we’ve been looking for the case that goes with the remains.’ ”
The bones were still in Oklahoma, where they had been shipped for the facial reconstruction.
They have since been transferred to Texas for DNA testing. Investigators say they believe the results will conclusively match the body to Perez.
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Crimes of the century: 65 years ago John Christie, one of Britain's most notoriously evil serial killers, was hanged
John Christie is one of Britain's most notorious serial killers
The name John Christie is enough to send a chill down the spine of anyone who remembers his shocking case. The serial killer was hanged 65 years ago next month. But who was he? How many people did he kill, and where exactly is Rillington Place?
Christie murdered at least eight people by strangling them at this flat in 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. He also stored the bodies there. The infamous address no longer exists, having been demolished in the 1970s to make room for council housing.
Born in West Riding, Yorkshire, in 1899, Christie was the sixth in a family of seven children, including five girls. Serving in World War I, a mustard gas attack left him with a speech impediment and is believed to have caused neurological damage that contributed to his subsequent violent sexual urges.
After the war, Christie turned to crime, serving several prison sentences for assault, theft, and battering a prostitute with a cricket bat. He had a tempestuous marriage to Ethel Simpson, and in 1938 the couple moved into the fateful downstairs flat of 10 Rillington Place where his campaign of terror began.
Christie's first victim was Austrian munitions worker and part-time prostitute Ruth Fuerst, in 1943. Christie met the 21-year-old at a local cafe and strangling her during sex. He hid her body under the living room floorboards, later burying her in the garden. Soon after killing her, incredibly, he signed up as a volunteer policeman.
Christie's next victim was Muriel Eady, 32, a colleague at the factory he worked at. He carefully planned the murder by tricking Muriel into inhaling poisonous carbon monoxide. He lured her to Rillington Place promising a special inhaler to treat her bronchitis. After she passed out, he raped and strangled her, then buried her in the garden.
The Evans family moved into the upstairs flat at 10 Rillington Place in 1948, where baby Geraldine was born to Timothy and Beryl. The following year Timothy reported his wife and child dead -with a post-mortem revealing they had been strangled. Evans told the police Christie admitted to killing Beryl in a botched abortion.
The police extracted a false confession from Evans and cleared Christie of involvement, with the prosecution even using lying Christie as a witness! Evans was hanged in March 1950. (He received a posthumous pardon, and it was this case that played a major part in the UK's eventual abolition of capital punishment in 1965.)
Christie strangled his wife Ethel in bed in December 1952 and for weeks lied to worried relatives, saying she had travelled to her native Sheffield. He pawned her wedding ring days later and forged her signature to empty her bank account.
In the space of the following three months in 1953, Christie murdered three more women. Kathleen Maloney was a prostitute who worked in nearby Ladbroke Grove. She was poisoned by carbon monoxide, raped and then strangled.
Rita Nelson was a visitor from Belfast who was in London seeing her sister when she met Christie and he charmed her into coming home with him. Once she was in Rillington Place, Rita met the exactly the same fate the Kathleen Maloney had.
Hectorina McLennan was a woman who Christie let stay at Rillington place, she too ended up poisoned, raped, and strangled in 1953.
All of Christie's victims were found at Rillington Place, some of the bodies were buried in the garden, while bodies were also hidden inside a gap in the kitchen that Christie papered over.
Christie moved out of the flat just after his final murder. His landlord allowed the resident of the top floor, Beresford Brown, to use what was Christie's kitchen. Brown made the shocking discovery of some of Christie's victims when he started some DIY.
A city-wide hunt for Christie was launched, and he was caught at a cafe near Putney Bridge a week later. In his pocket was a newspaper clipping about Timothy Evans, the innocent man hanged three years earlier.
While in custody, Christie confessed to seven murders: the three women found in the kitchen alcove, his wife, and the two women buried in the back garden. He also admitted being responsible for the murder of Beryl Evans - which Timothy Evans hanged for in 1950. Although Christie denied killing the baby, he was widely seen as guilty.
Crowds gathered around the flat where Christie committed his evil acts as the police searched for forensic evidence. Back then, Notting Hill was an incredibly run-down part of the capital, a world away from the upmarket area made famous in the Hugh Grant movie.
Ultimately, Christie was tried only for the murder of his wife Ethel. His June 1953 trial took place in the same court where Timothy Evans had been tried in 1950. Christie pleaded insanity, but doctor evaluating Christie testified in court that Christie had a hysterical personality - but was not insane.
Christie was charged with murder in June 1953. The jury rejected Christie's plea, and after deliberating for 85 minutes found him guilty. Christie did not appeal against his conviction. The verdict made front page news.
John Christie travels to meet his executioner. On 15 July 1953 Christie was hanged at Pentonville Prison by the same executioner, Albert Pierrepoint, who had previously hanged Evans. For many years John Christie's waxwork in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's was a popular tourist attraction.
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Poor Brock has made the same lame joke twice and nobody has even acknowledged it. :(
Well doggone it....... I'm about to fix that.
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David Berkowitz
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David Berkowitz, known as Son of Sam, murdered six people in New York City from 1976 to 1977, claiming he received orders from a demon-possessed dog. He is one of the most notorious serial killers in America.
David Berkowitz is an American serial killer who murdered six people in New York City in 1976–77, plunging the city into a panic and unleashing one of the largest manhunts in New York history. Known as Son of Sam, Berkowitz was arrested on August 10, 1977, 11 days after his last murder, and was sentenced to six consecutive 25-years-to-life terms.
Born Richard David Falco to an impoverished Jewish mother, he was adopted by Jewish-American hardware store retailers Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz when he was only a few days old. According to some reports, David Berkowitz was an intelligent but troubled child growing up. A loner with a mean streak, he often bullied other children. Because he was close to his adoptive mother, he was deeply affected by her death when he was a teenager. At the age of 18, Berkowitz joined the U.S. Army and served in South Korea where he excelled as a proficient marksman.
After leaving the service in 1974, Berkowitz returned to New York City. He got a job working as a letter sorter for the U.S. Postal Service and settled into an apartment in Yonkers. Neighbors and co-workers thought of him as a quiet loner, but they had no idea how lethal he was.
Berkowitz's killing spree began on July 29, 1976, with the shooting of two teenage women outside a Bronx apartment building. At the time of the attack, Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti were sitting in Valenti's car in front of Lauria's home. Berkowitz shot the two women, killing Lauria and injuring Valenti.
Three months later, Berkowitz struck again. He shot at a couple sitting in a parked car, severely damaging the man's skull. That November, Berkowitz attacked two teenage girls walking home. He shot both of the girls, leaving one of them a paraplegic. At the time, the police did not think these shootings were related.
In January 1977, Berkowitz again targeted a couple sitting together in a car at night. He walked up to Christine Freund and her fiancé and fired twice, striking Freund in the head. She later died of her injuries. For all of his shootings, Berkowitz used a .44 caliber gun. As a result, the police created a special task force to hunt down the “.44-caliber killer” as he became known before adopting the “Son of Sam” moniker.
That March, Berkowitz claimed another victim, Virginia Voskerichian, a college student. He killed her as she returned home from classes. The next month Berkowitz killed a couple, Valentina Suriani and Alexander Esau, in their parked car. At the crime scene, he left a letter addressed to NYPD Captain Joseph Borrelli and called himself “Son of Sam” for the first time. Throughout his murderous streak, Berkowitz left numerous letters near his victims’ bodies, taunting the police and eluding their capture. As a result, the media coverage of his crimes was widespread and Berkowitz relished the spotlight. All the while, New Yorkers lived in fear of being his next victim.
Berkowitz's final attack occurred in the early hours of July 31, 1977. He shot another couple, Stacy Moskowitz and Bobby Violante, in Brooklyn. Moskowitz later died, and Violante was blinded in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other from his injuries. Fortunately for the police, a witness noticed something at the scene that helped in cracking the case.
Arrest and Imprisonment
At the scene of the Moskowitz-Violante shootings, a witness saw a man getting away in a car that had a parking ticket on it. Only a handful of tickets were given out that day, and one of them was for Berkowitz. The police arrested him on August 10, 1977. According to The New York Times, Berkowitz said, "Well, you've got me" when they took him into custody.
During questioning, Berkowitz explained that he had been commanded to kill by his neighbor Sam Carr, who sent messages to Berkowitz through his dog, a demon-possessed Labrador retriever named “Harvey.” Due to his outrageous claims, Berkowitz underwent numerous psychological evaluations, but was declared “competent” to stand trial. In 1978, Berkowitz pled guilty to the six killings, as well as nearly 1,500 fires he had set in and around New York City. He received 25-years-to-life for each murder. Berkowitz’s sentencing hearing was dramatic—he tried to jump out of a window of the seventh-floor courtroom upon hearing the judge’s decision.
Since his arrest, Berkowitz has retracted his possessed dog “Son of Sam” story—claiming “It was all a hoax, a silly hoax” as seen in his March 20, 1979 letter to his psychiatrist, Dr. David Abrahamsen. He has also made statements that he was a member of a violent satanic cult that orchestrated the murders along with fellow cult members John and Michael Carr (Sam Carr's sons). Berkowitz has been offered large sums of money for his story. However, nearly all states—including New York—have since passed laws, sometimes known as “Son of Sam laws,” that prevent convicted criminals from financially profiting from books, movies, or other enterprises related to their crimes. Although there are numerous media renditions of the Son of Sam case, Berkowitz does not receive any royalties or profit from any sales of his works or the works of others.
In 1996, Yonkers police reopened Berkowitz’s case but due to a lack of significant findings, the investigation has been suspended, but remains unclosed. Although he has been put up for parole on numerous occasions (most recently in 2016 and he will be eligible for parole for the 16th time in 2018), he has been consistently denied release. Berkowitz is currently serving his time in Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York.
Harvey Murray Glatman (December 10, 1927 – September 18, 1959) was an American serial killer active during the late 1950s. He was known in the media as "The Lonely Hearts Killer" and "The Glamour Girl Slayer". He would use several pseudonyms, posing as a professional photographer to lure his victims with the promise of a modelling career.
Born in the Bronx to a Jewish family and raised in Colorado, Glatman exhibited antisocial behavior and sadomasochistic sexual tendencies from an early age. When he was twelve years old, his parents noticed that he had a red, swollen neck. He described having been in the bathtub, placing a rope around his neck, running it through the tub drain, and pulling it tight against his neck, "achieving some kind of sexual pleasure from this act." His mother took him to the family physician and was told he "would grow out of it."
Glatman: "The reason I killed those girls was 'cause they asked me to. (pause) They did; all of them."
Sgt. Friday: "They asked you to."
Glatman: "Sure. They said they'd rather be dead than be with me."
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Watched a documnetary about 'The Cleveland Strangler': The Story of a Brutal Serial Killer and His Forgotten Victims. At least 11 black women were raped and killed on Cleveland's East side between 2007 and 2009 by a man named Anthony Sowell. It's one of the worst cases of serial murder in recent history. Sowell was able to get away with these heinous acts for two years.* These crimes say as much about the depraved killer as they do about race, class, and law enforcement in the City of Cleveland.
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