Serial Killers

[walrus]

Ed Gein

This man's life is like a horror story. He exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was inspired by Gein, but he was actually even more deranged than the character in that movie.

There is a movie made about Gein himself as well. Can’t remember the name of it. It was a decent film. We do have, or a lot of people have, a fascination of serial killers. I used to read those true crime novels but I decided it was to morbid. Some of those guys said it was like an addiction. Others said it was god like having control over life and death. I do it simply out of boredom.

[walrus]

They just caught another one who lived in my state

[Master]

They just caught another one who lived in my state

Details please?

[X]

[Freedom]

Peter Bryan: he ate his friend.



A lesser-known cannibal murderer who killed just two people, Peter Bryan’s crimes nevertheless terrify even the strongest among us. In 1993, Bryan killed a young shopkeeper, Nisha Sheth, by beating her to death with a hammer. After confessing to this, Bryan would be admitted to Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital.

After several years in psychiatric care, doctors decided that Bryan was capable of returning to the community under terms of extended supervision. It was during this period of release that Peter Bryan would kill, cook, and eat his friend Brian Cherry. The police were called during an altercation the two had gotten into, in which Bryan killed Cherry with a hammer. When officers caught Bryan, he was frying Cherry’s brain in a pan, allegedly with butter, and eating it, later telling police, “I ate his brain with butter. It was really nice.”

[Master]

Niels Högel: German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients

An ex-nurse in Germany has admitted at the start of his trial that he murdered 100 patients, making him one of the world's most prolific serial killers.

Detectives say Niels Högel administered fatal doses of medication to the people in his care - causing cardiac arrest - at two hospitals in northern Germany.

His motive, prosecutors say, was to impress colleagues by trying to revive the very patients he had attacked.

Högel, 41, is already serving a life term for six deaths while in his care.

He is now said to have killed 36 patients in Oldenburg and 64 in nearby Delmenhorst between 1999 and 2005.

When asked by the judge in the Oldenburg court if the charges against him were true, the 41-year-old confessed to "more or less" all of them.

The current trial, which started with a minute's silence for the victims, is expected to last until May. It follows years of toxicology tests on 130 sets of exhumed remains.

Dozens of relatives of those who died at the hands of Niels Högel were in court to hear his confession.

Many of them are demanding to know how he was able to kill - with apparent impunity - so many people in the confines of two hospitals.

Death rates rose significantly during Högel's time.

Disturbing details have emerged: it's been widely reported that Högel was allowed to continue working for two days after he was caught "red handed" having administered drugs to a patient, during which time he killed another patient.

Many relatives believe health authorities chose to turn a blind eye.

An investigation is under way to determine whether their actions facilitated the murderous ambitions of post-war Germany's most prolific serial killer.

Investigators say he may have killed even more but potential victims have been cremated.

Christian Marbach, a spokesperson for relatives, said it was a scandal the ex-nurse had been allowed to kill with impunity for years without officials intervening.

"We fought for four years for this trial and expect Högel is sentenced for another 100 murders," said Mr Marbach, whose grandfather was killed by Högel.

"I hope he will be found guilty on each count so that the loved ones can finally find some closure," said Petra Klein, who runs a victims' support group.

Relatives of his alleged victims were expected to pack the court but journalists in the room noted many empty seats in reserved rows.

Högel was first caught in 2005 injecting unprescribed medication into a patient in Delmenhorst. In 2008 he was jailed for seven years for attempted murder.

In 2014-15, a second trial found him guilty of two murders and two attempted murders and he was given the maximum sentence.

He said he was "honestly sorry" and hoped families would find peace. He said the decisions to carry out his crimes had been "relatively spontaneous".

However, during the trial he confessed to a psychiatrist that he had killed up to 30 people.

Investigators then widened the investigation, exhuming 130 former patients and looking for evidence of medication that could have triggered cardiac arrest. They also pored over records in the hospitals he worked at.

Records at the Oldenburg hospital showed rates of deaths and resuscitations had more than doubled when Högel was on shift, German media reported.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46027355

[El Kabong]

James 'Whitey' Bulger was just murdered in prison....he was more of a gangster than a serial killer, but I'm not one to make needless excess threads when this will do.

[Master]

James 'Whitey' Bulger was just murdered in prison....he was more of a gangster than a serial killer, but I'm not one to make needless excess threads when this will do.

Yes was reading about him says The former leader of South Boston's Winter Hill gang inspired the film Black Mass featuring Johnny Depp, and The Departed which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2006.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46036058

[Freedom]

Man Who Confessed To 90 Murders May Be Most Prolific Killer In US History

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/samu...istory-1954982

[Master]

Mikhail Popkov: Russian ex-cop jailed for 56 more murders

A Siberian policeman described as Russia's most prolific mass murderer in modern times has been given a second life sentence.

Mikhail Popkov, 53, murdered 55 women and a policeman near Irkutsk between 1992 and 2007. He was already in jail for 22 other murders.
He killed the victims after offering them late-night rides in his car. At least 10 were also raped.

Popkov was caught in 2012 after a DNA match identified his car.
The victims were all women between the ages of 16 and 40 apart from one male, a policeman. In three cases he was on duty in his police car.

Popkov killed them around the city of Angarsk, near Irkutsk, with an axe and hammer. He dumped their mutilated bodies in forests, by the roadside and in a local cemetery.

He claimed to be "purging" Angarsk of what he saw as immoral women.
The death toll exceeds the 48 murdered by "chessboard killer"

Alexander Pichushkin, and the 52 murdered by Andrei Chikatilo during the Soviet era.

Tyre marks from Popkov's Niva car were found next to some of the bodies, which led police to check all owners of that Niva type in Angarsk.

The owners' DNA was checked against DNA found on the victims, and that enabled police to identify Popkov.

He was arrested en route to Vladivostok, in the far east, where he had gone to buy a new car. He later confessed to 20 murders. His youngest victim was a 15-year-old girl.

An Irkutsk court found him guilty of 22 murders in 2015 and sentenced him to life, but he was kept on remand as the investigation had already started into the other murders.

Interfax news agency says he told a cellmate that he had killed more people than Chikatilo.

Popkov was found to be sane but with a "pathological attraction to killing people", according to prosecutors.

Some of his victims were found alive but died later in hospital.
State Prosecutor Alexander Shkinev said Popkov would now appeal in the hope of retaining his police pension, worth 24,000 roubles a month (£284; $361), on the grounds that he had co-operated with the investigators.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46505746

[Freedom]

The Wineville Chicken Coop Killer was one of the most despicable, he preyed on little boys. The movie Changeling is partly about him.

[El Kabong]

The Wineville Chicken Coop Killer was one of the most despicable, he preyed on little boys. The movie Changeling is partly about him.

Yeah Northcott was a bad one, it is absolutely astounding that Sanford Clark his nephew and victim of his depraved sexual assaults ended up serving in WW2 and having a GREAT life raising a wonderful family showing that even out of the horrors life can find a way and that humans are resilient and can be kind despite their upbringing.



The murders and what surrounded the murders was SO bad, so horrifying, SO vile they changed the name of the town in order to try and distance it from that shit.....Wineville is now Mira Loma.

[greynotsoold]

The Wineville Chicken Coop Killer was one of the most despicable, he preyed on little boys. The movie Changeling is partly about him.

Yeah Northcott was a bad one, it is absolutely astounding that Sanford Clark his nephew and victim of his depraved sexual assaults ended up serving in WW2 and having a GREAT life raising a wonderful family showing that even out of the horrors life can find a way and that humans are resilient and can be kind despite their upbringing.



The murders and what surrounded the murders was SO bad, so horrifying, SO vile they changed the name of the town in order to try and distance it from that shit.....Wineville is now Mira Loma.

Well into the 90s Mira Loma was still a rural community. The bar in town was probably the last place in Southern California where you would find zero cars in the lot but 20 saddled horses at the hitching post.

[Alpha]

Anyone here follow Manson closely?

I haven't really done enough research, but anyone else notice anything strange about the cross on his forehead? To me it seems more middle forehead in younger images, than the middle of the brow swastika in later images. Will have to do some research on it when I get some time.

[Freedom]

There is a movie made about Gein himself as well. Can’t remember the name of it. It was a decent film. We do have, or a lot of people have, a fascination of serial killers. I used to read those true crime novels but I decided it was to morbid. Some of those guys said it was like an addiction. Others said it was god like having control over life and death. I do it simply out of boredom.

One of the characters in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on Gein.