Serial Killers

[El Kabong]

Also apparently they've found who Jack The Ripper was. One Aaron Kosminski who died in 1919 at the age of 53 after spending years in various asylums.

[Master]

Also apparently they've found who Jack The Ripper was. One Aaron Kosminski who died in 1919 at the age of 53 after spending years in various asylums.

This guy says no it was not.

Is Jack The Ripper Aaron Kosminski? Er, no, says expert Mike Covell | Hull Daily Mail

[El Kabong]

Also apparently they've found who Jack The Ripper was. One Aaron Kosminski who died in 1919 at the age of 53 after spending years in various asylums.

This guy says no it was not.

Is Jack The Ripper Aaron Kosminski? Er, no, says expert Mike Covell | Hull Daily Mail

Interesting indeed. I guess the mystery still surrounding the cases brings all the more fame to this "being" Jack The Ripper...kind of the same goes for the Zodiac Killer, The Atlanta Ripper, Stoneman, etc. Was it Kosminski? Was it Druitt? Was it Chapman? We're no closer today than the detectives were in the 19th century.



On another note, the first ever serial killer in recorded history is an interesting topic as well....some say H.H. Holmes was, others say Elizabeth Bathory or Gille de Rais and others say Jack The Ripper. I guess in order to be a true serial killer you'd have to be in a society at peace, where it was a high crime to murder someone and not just a trifle. Genghis Khan no doubt murdered millions, but you can't very well call him a serial killer because that's just how the Mongols rolled, it wasn't against the laws of the day to ride into a town, ransack it and murder everyone....besides that he didn't operate on his own.


Sorry, I've started reading some Sherlock Holmes and I have a newfound fascination with these people. Also that Dahmer movie 'The Dahmer Files' got to me as well. Some people are capable of great evil and that is scary.

[El Kabong]

Also when you get into numbers it's just astounding what some of these people did.

Gary Ridgeway 'The Green River Killer' - admitted to 71 murders, found responsible for 49, and the actual number could be more like 90.

Donald Harvey "The Angel of Death" - said he murdered 87 people, but the police only connected him to 37-57 people.

John Wayne Gacy 'The Killer Clown' - at LEAST 33 young boys murdered

Jane Toppan - 31 victims including her own foster Sister

Ted Bundy - 30 women

Dean Corll 'The Candy Man' - 28 boys

Ed Gein (Norman Bates from 'Psycho' and Buffalo Bill in 'Silence of the Lambs' are a few characters based on him) - only had 2 murders that we know of BUT the list of what authorities found when searching his house is shocking to say the least....

Whole human bones and fragments
wastebasket made of human skin
Human skin covering several chair seats
Skulls on his bedposts
Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off
Bowls made from human skulls
A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist
Leggings made from human leg skin
Masks made from the skin from female heads
Mary Hogan's face mask in a paper bag
Mary Hogan's skull in a box
Bernice Worden's entire head in a burlap sack
Bernice Worden's heart in a saucepan on the stove
Nine vulvae in a shoe box
A young girl's dress and "the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old"
A belt made from female human nipples
Four noses
A pair of lips on a window shade drawstring
A lampshade made from the skin of a human face
Fingernails from female fingers

[Master]

Harold Shipman: also known as "Dr.Death"; doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25-year period.

Fred West and Rosemary West: also known as "House of Horrors" murderers; she was convicted of 10 murders; both are believed to have tortured and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, many at the couple's home in Gloucester; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial.

List of serial killers by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[El Kabong]

Rodney Alcala....serial killer on the fucking DATING GAME!

[El Kabong]

Extremely surprised @Gandalf and @brocktonblockbust have not added to this thread