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Serial Killers: Issues Explored Through the Green River Murders by Tomas Guillen Serial Killers is intended to fill a void in the serial killer literature. This book provides a collection of essays that focus on those issues.  The essays take the perspective of the Green River Murders and the turbulent relationship of the people it touched.  Although the essays revolve around the Green River Murders, the issues are relevant to controversial topics as murder investigations, justice, victimology, interrogation techniques, media coverage of crime, and grief.   CD-ROM includes video coverage of the confession.

Serial Killers

Through extensive research and interviews with five notorious serial killers, author Joel Norris demonstrates that serial killers have specific biological and genetic makeups that can be identified as early as five years of age. A compelling read for both the curious layman and the concerned professional.

The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien -- Fall 1977, the body count of brutally murdered women escalated from the Los Angeles Hillside Strangler. After the disappearances of 2 women in Washington police arrested Kenny Bianchi and discovered his cousin Angelo Buono.

cover The Charles Manson Murder Trial: A Headline Court Case (Headline Court Cases) Michael J. Pellowski September 1, 2004

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Monster / Aileen - Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Aileen Wuornos - The Selling of a Serial Killer

A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler
Mary Sullivan, 19, was the last, and youngest, victim in the Boston Strangler case that riveted the nation in the early 1960s. 14 months after Mary's brutal killing on January 4, 1964, handyman Albert DeSalvo, in jail on an unrelated sexual assault charge, told authorities he was the Boston Strangler and confessed to the gruesome murders of 14 women. DeSalvo, was stabbed to death in prison while serving time for a different crime. He was never charged with any the killings because no physical evidence linked him to the slayings. Many investigators and psychiatrists discounted his implausible and coached confession. The Sullivan family never believed he murdered Mary. Mary's nephew, Casey Sherman, exposes the truth behind her death and unravels the mysteries surrounding the Boston Strangler. Drawing on interviews with major figures in the case and exhaustive research, Sherman reexamines the crime scenes, initial police investigations, prime suspects, and DeSalvo's confession tapes, which have never been made public. He reveals the political motivations of the Boston Strangler Task Force and uncovers the role of flamboyant defense attorney F. Lee Bailey in manipulating DeSalvo's confession. Sherman also presents new DNA evidence, and discloses how his reinvestigation led to an alliance with the DeSalvo family, battling law enforcement officials in Massachusetts to exonerate DeSalvo and reopen Mary Sullivan's unsolved murder. Sherman's his decade-long search for justice unmasks his aunt's real murderer and provides new revelations about notorious Boston Strangler serial killings.

Lethal Intent by Sue Russell - Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos' double abandonment by her mother before she was 2, and the crimes of her father helped set her path of destruction. It contests the judgment of Wuornos as a "man-hating lesbian" via insights from men with whom she shared sexual and romantic relationships. The dynamics of her relationship with Tyria Moore, the lover who knew Aileen was killing yet stayed by her side. Exclusive material contains new insights and intimate memories from her family, friends and childhood peers.

Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells by Diane Fanning Ten-year-old Krystal Surles watched in horror as her best friend was murdered at the hands of an intruder. Then with cold-blooded precision, he brought a twelve-inch boning knife to Krystal's throat. With a single, violent slash, he severed her windpipe and left her for dead. Miraculously, she survived and would lead authorities to the arrest of 35-year-old Tommy Lynn Sells.

Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet by John Douglas -- Olathe, Kansas, a balding, pudgy father of 4 sits in prison convicted on 3 counts of homicide -- 2 capital murder -- and suspected in at least 5 other disappearances. During the late 1990s, Robinson exploited the Internet's world of sadomasochism. By haunting chat rooms, he pinpointed vulnerable women looking for romance and stalked them on-line, convincing them of his maturity, sensitivity, and financial stability.

 

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Charles Albright (b. August 10, 1933) from Dallas, Texas, was convicted of killing Shirley Williams, in 1991. It is suspected that Albright killed two other women, Mary Pratt in 1990 and Susan Peterson in 1991. Charges were never filed in these two murders, but they were used as evidence in Albright’s trial. All three of the the victim's eyes were surgically removed. Albright obsessively removed eyes from dolls and photographs. He was sentenced to five years to life. Albright was adopted from an orphanage. His strict and overprotective mother, a schoolteacher, pushed him academically and he excelled. He began getting in trouble at an early age. Wiki

Joshua Andrews Rage in his heart? Wanting to be noticed? Imani Taymullah wonders why her son, Joshua Andrews would do something like this.

Richard Angelo was a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital on Long Island where he killed 25 patients through poisoning by injection or IV. Psychologists testified he had dissasociative identity disorder. After he' injected patients,a separate personality took over that was unaware of what he had done. Angelo passed a polygraph test when asked about the murders. Mental health experts for the prosecution agreed that Angelo had a personality disorder but could still appreciate right from wrong. He was sentenced to 61 years to life. "I wanted to create a situation where I would cause the patient to have some respiratory distress or some problem, and through my intervention or suggested intervention or whatever, come out looking like I knew what I was doing,.I had no confidence in myself. I felt very inadequate." Wiki

Joseph D. (Joe) Ball (b. January 7, 1896 - d. September 23, 1938) also referred to as The Alligator Man, the Butcher of Elmendorf and the Bluebeard of South Texas. He killed approximately twenty women in the 1930s. A World War I veteran, Ball was a bootlegger. When Prohibition ended he opened a saloon called the Sociable Inn in Elmendorf, Texas. He built a pond with five alligators that he charged people to see . Feeding time was the most popular viewing time--because they were fed live cats or dogs. Women started missing, including his barmaids, former girlfriends and wife. Clifford Wheeler, a handyman admitted helping Ball get rid of the bodies of two women. He led the authorities to the remains of Hazel Brown and Minnie Gotthard. Wheeler said Ball murdered twenty other women, but the alligators consumed the evidence. When two Texas Rangers questioned Ball he pulled a handgun from his cash register and killed himself.

Baton Rouge Serial Murders by Criminal Profiler John Philpin

Mark Barton -- Atlanta's burning -- 44-year-old day trader slaughtered 9 people in Atlanta's business district, after murdering his wife and 2 children. Notes left by Mark Barton. Barton appears to fit the profile described as "sadistic borderline" personalities, a pattern Theodore Millon calls "explosive psychopathy" (Millon & Davis, 1998) or "explosive sadism" (Millon, 1996) Helen Morrison, forensic psychiatrist noted in 1993 Barton was predisposed to violence.

Elizabeth Bathory -- "The Blood Countess of Transylvania" 1560: Elizabeth was born into one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Transylvania. She had powerful relatives including Istvan Bathory (1533-86) prince of Transylvania and king of Poland from 1575-86. At 4 or 5, Elizabeth had seizures that may have caused "psychotic" behavior. The most notorious vampiress in history, perpetrated cruelties on servant and peasant girls. Csejthe Castle, a mountain top fortress, was the site of blood orgies, and became known as the castle of vampires and the 'Blood Countess.' 

Raymond Martinez Fernandez and Martha Jule Beck aka "Honeymoon Killers," "Lonely Hearts Slayers," and-- The Lonely Hearts Killers -- Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck. Their union was distinguished by their viciousness towards others including the elderly and young children.They killed at least 3 women and one child in the 1940s.

The Bender family, John, his wife, son, and daughter Kate owned a general store and inn in Labette County, Kansas from 1872 to 1873. Kate was an attractive, personable self-proclaimed psychic in contact with the dead and had a gift for luring guests to their death. As affluent guests relaxed in a chair, Bender or his son hid behind a curtain with a hammer poised to bludgeon them, slashing their throat and throwing them down a trap door to the cellar where they undressed body before burial. Dr. William York was returning home to Missouri when he arrived at the Inn, where he stayed before. York told his brother, Colonel Ed York, about the inn. When Dr. York never made it home, his brother arrived at the inn searching for him. They claimed they hadn't seen him and claimed it was probably the Indians. Allegedly, after dinner he found evidence that his brother was there. He left quietly in the night and returned with the sheriff early the next morning but the Benders were gone. A property search turned up over 20 bodies including Dr. York. Three hammers (murder weapons) were found in the home. Vigilantes searched for the Benders and Colonel York used his military power to organize investigations and searches but nobody was ever tried for these murders.

Bible John Scotland's mysterious serial killer.

William Burke and William Hare hard-working Catholics who came to Scotland for work murdered 16 victims in 1829.

Cayetano Santos Godino, alias "petiso orejudo" (meaning "big ear pest") was born in Buenos Aires, October 31, 1896. He terrified Argentina when he was sixteen. He murdered 4 children, attempted to murder another 7 children, and set arson to 7 buildings. He died in Ushuaia, November 15, 1944. Wiki

Eric Edgar Cooke (25 February 1931–26 October 1964) was the last person hung in Western Australia. Cooke had a cleft lip and was bullied as a child. As an adult, he married and had seven children.In 1963 he attacked 20 people and killed eight. He killed at random, running people over in the street or knocking on doors and shooting strangers.He was convicted of murder and was executed at Fremantle Prison on 26 October 1964. Wiki

Serial killer John Martin Crawford's attacks Native women in Western Canada. His habit was to cruise for prostitutes. He was frequently with drinking a former fellow inmate Bill Corrigan who was involved in some of Crawford's crimes.

David Berkowitz -- For 13 months, July, 1976 - August, 1977, NYC was terrorized by a "Son of Sam." He shot to death 6 people and he wounded 7. He shot young couples in lovers' lanes with a .44-cal. revolver, which earned him the title "44-caliber killer."

Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka -- A pair of killers accused of 43 sex attacks and a string of killings, including Karla's own sister.

Ian Brady -- Myra Hindley -- The 1960s "Moors Murderer" Brady, 27, and Hindley, 23, seemed like any other couple. Hindley was jailed for in 1966 for murdering Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17, and an accessory to the murder of John Kilbride, 12. In 1987 she confessed her role in the killings of Keith Bennett, 12, and Pauline Reade, 16. Brady claimed that they tortured and killed children as an "existential exercise" but they had decided to stop and planned to turn to armed robbery.

Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono- The Hillside Stranglers strangled 12 women in LA, CA between October 1977 and February 1978.

Theodore Robert or Ted Bundy -- Understand the mind of a man obsessed with destroying dozens of women.

Richard Trenton Chase -- In 1978, Richard Chase killed 6 people. His victims included a pregnant woman and young child. He confessed to drinking the blood of his victims.

Andrei Chikatilo --Forest Strip Killer murdered over 50 girls and boys in Russian 1978 - 1990.

Cleveland Torso Killer killed at least 16 people in the 1930s, but was never caught, despite the efforts of federal agent Elliot Ness.

In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders by James Jessen Badal -- During the Depression, Cleveland's East Side was filled with the homeless in shantytowns. This was where the remains of the Torso Killer's victims were found. Illustrated with maps, rare crime scene and morgue photographs, and newspaper photos.

Eric Edgar Cooke "Cookie" was a violent man who murdered at least 7 people. He was the last man to be hanged in Western Australia. Daryl Raymond Beamish, a deaf mute convicted of the 1959 murder of Jillian Brewer, Melbourne heiress, served 15 years of a life sentence in prison despite Cooke's detailed confession to the killing, was granted an appeal. John Button's manslaughter conviction of 4th May 1963 was quashed by the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal on 25th February 2002.Cooke was the basis for Thomas Harris' serial killer Francis Dolarhyde.

Andrew Cunaan-- On July 23, 1997, it Cunanan went on an alleged killing spree of 5 men, including Gianni Versace, then took his own life.

Jeffrey Dahmer-- Had an obsession with death and cannibalism that started in childhood.

James Mitchell Debardeleben -- A serial sex offender killer videotaped himself torturing women was involved in forgery and counterfeiting leading to his capture by the Secret Service in 1983. It was one of the most baffling manhunts in the history of US Secret Service. Debardeleben is an "Anger-Excitation Rapist," the most dangerous type of serial sex offender.

Lethal Shadow: The Chilling True-Crime Story of a Sadistic Sex Slayer by Stephen G. Michaud Profiles James Mitchell De Bardeleban, from his initial arrest as a counterfeiter to the discovery that he was also a sadistic kidnapper, torturer, and sex murderer responsible for a 20 year reign of terror.

Paul Charles Denyer (b. 1972) an Australian serial killer known as the Frankston Serial Killer due to his crimes occurring within the Frankston Victoria area. He is serving life in HM Prison Barwon for the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17 in Frankston, Victoria in 1993. The Frankston Serial Killer was featured in the pilot episode of the Seven Network show Forensic Investigators. Wiki

Albert DeSalvo -- The Boston Strangler - Between 1962 & 1964, in Boston, DeSalvo killed 12 women. All were sexually assaulted and strangled.

Peter Norris Dupas born 6 July 1953 is an Australian serial killer, is serving two life sentences for murder. His violent history spanned more than 30 years. With every release from prison he committed crimes against women with increasing violence. His signature is to remove the breasts of his female victims. In 2006, Dupas was convicted of two murders and a prime suspect in three or more murders in the Melbourne area.

Marc Dutroux kidnapped six girls between 1995 and 1996.Only two were found alive.

Every Move You Make by M. William Phelps -- Gary C. Evans, 35, a master of disguise and career criminal who once befriended David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz, is suspected of five killings over a period of 13 years when he led a loose group of jewelry and antiques thieves. A career criminal since at least the mid-1970s, Evans served time in maximum security at Dannemora, the Clinton Correctional Facility where he took a course in art appreciation. He later studied how alarm systems worked and took pride in his ability to purposely leave clues intended to confuse investigators. He. first met James Horton, New York State Police Senior Investigator, in 1985, when he fingered Michael Falco as the brains behind their theft team. He didn't mention he’d shot and buried him. Douglas J. Berry, 63, the owner of a secondhand shop was shot to death as he slept in his store on Sept. 8, 1989. when Evans and Damien Cuomo entered the store to burglarize it. December 1989, in upstate New York. Gary killed and buried Cuomo in December 1989 and then had a ten-year romance with the mother of Cuomo's child, while conning her into believing he was still alive. In 1997, Timothy Rysedorph, 39, was dismembered and buried. Rysedorph, Cuomo and Falco grew up together in South Troy, NY,as childhood acquaintances, though not friends. They were thieves that got together over the years. On Oct. 17, 1991, Gregory Jouben, 36, the owner of a shop was killed in his store as he studied a piece of jewelry Evans wanted to sell. Evans who doesn't eat meat, poultry or fish is opposed to the killing of animals and is proud of the fact that he has never smoked, drunk alcohol or taken drugs (The Albany Times Union). Evans who confessed to his involvement in Jouben's and Berry's death,. led police to the shallow graves of Rysedorph, Cuomo and Falco (MSNBC News).

Albert Fish -- Sadist, masochist, flagellant, castrator, exhibitionist, voyeur, vampire, pedophile, serial killer and cannibal.

Michel Fourniret, the "Ogre of the Ardennes" between France and Belgium where he has killed nine people, mostly young women and girls.

Caril Fugate & Charlie Starkweather -- Her folks disapproved of him, so he shot them, and choked Caril's baby sister to death. Then he and Caril cuddled up in the same house for 2 days, before going on the lam. Starkweather: Inside the Mind of a Teenage Killer by William Allen

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. -- A politically active businessman, he was once photographed with Rosalyn Carter.and was involved making his community a better place. He was generous, friendly, hardworking, and devoted to community.

John Wayne Gacy - Buried Secrets -- Gacy seemed a model citizen. But he had the remains of 33 youths buried beneath his home. Learn how Gacy escaped detection, and manipulated the legal system for 14 years. In never-before-seen footage, Gacy himself recalls the grisly murders.

Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders
by Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken Sullivan does an outstanding job of researching the case that led police to the discovery of 28 young men that Gacy had molested and ultimately murdered, then buried in the crawlspace of his suburban Chicago home, as well as the discovery of 5 more bodies Gacy was responsible for.

Donald "Pee Wee" Henry Gaskins ``I felt safer doing my killing and burying in my home state. I guess I'm just a Carolina Southern boy at heart." -- Gaskins is believed to have tortured and killed more than 100 victims, mostly hitchhikers. He was executed in the electric chair September 19, 1991.

Luis A. Garavito, 42, the worst serial killer in Colombian history lured children to their deaths by offering them food and drink. The victims were found mutilated. Similarities to slayings in Ecuador examined.

Eddie Gein -- Born at the turn of the century in a small farming community, Gein's domineering mother taught him sex was sinful.

Green River Killer case In Seattle the nations most prolific serial killer, the Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway, plea bargained his way out of the death penalty in exchange for information.

Guy Georges, 38, a self-confessed serial killer described by public prosecutor as "the incarnation of evil" and psychiatrists warned that he could not be cured of his desire to kill. He is sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of seven young women in Paris between 1991 and 1997.

John Wayne Glover (b.1932 d. September 9, 2005) was a convicted Australian serial killer. Originally from England, Glover emigrated to Australia in 1956. He was sexually obsessed with elderly women since his mother's death. He began by molesting and robbing them. He kept his violent impulses under control until 1989, when he was 57, he became a murderer. He'd been married for 20 years and had children. Responsible for the North Shore Granny Murders in Sydney, Australia, he was the "The Granny Killer" for his murders of older woman. He beat them with a hammer on the head until near death, then strangled them with their underwear. Glover began his North Shore Australia killing spree on March 1989, lasting until March 1990. His final victim, Joan Violet Sinclair, was a woman he was having an affair with. Afterward he attempted suicide but was found by police officers near death, lying near the body of his victim. He was convicted of six murders and was a prime suspect in many other's which he denied responsibility for. He received a life sentence in prison where he hung himself on September 9, 2005. Wiki

Archibald Hall aka Roy Fontaine "the killer butler"

Myra Hindley -- Ian Brady -- The 1960s "Moors Murderer" Brady, 27, and Hindley, 23, seemed like any other couple. Myra Hindley was jailed for in 1966 for murdering Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17, and an accessory to the murder of John Kilbride, 12. In 1987 she confessed her role in the killings of Keith Bennett, 12, and Pauline Reade, 16. Brady claimed that he and Hindley tortured and killed children as an "existential exercise" but they had decided to stop and planned to turn to armed robbery.

Thomas D. Huskey, 38, Accused killer of 4 women in Tennessee. Huskey the "Zoo Man" worked at the Knoxville Zoo. Huskey was sentenced to 66 years in prison for raping 4 women in 1991 and 1992, at the zoo and in the woods. February 15, 1999, a mistrial was declared in the quadruple murder trial because the jury couldn't agree if he was insane.

Jack the Ripper -- Jack the Ripper killed five women between 31st August 1888 and 9th November 1888.

Theodore Kaczynski  - Unabomber -- A highly intelligent socially withdrawn man due to paranoid schizophrenia.

Edmund Kemper III-- Picked up young female hitchhikers. After he'd killed them, he took care to conceal their identities and eliminate evidence.

David and Michelle Knotek -- Pacific NW alleged Serial Killers under arrest -- A husband and wife team in a small SW Washington State small coastal community.

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng Leonard Lake was arrested near San Francisco, ending one of the cases of 2 serial killers working together. Lake and Charles Ng were responsible for a series of brutal crimes against women in California and the Pacific Northwest during the mid-1980s. Ng and Lake kidnapped young women to take to a bunker in a secluded area to brainwash them into becoming sex slaves. They killed a couple and their infant during a burglary. Die for Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng & Leonard Lake Torture Muders by Don Lasseter

Edward (Eddie) Joseph Leonski was .born December 12, 1917 in New York. He went into the US Army and arrived in Melbourne in February 1942 when he was 24. He was considered pleasant and laid-back but a heavy drinker. Three months later Ivy Violet McLeod, 40, was found beaten, and strangled to death in Albert Park, Melbourne. Robbery was not the motive. Six days later, Pauline Thompson 31, was strangled after a night out where she was seen with a man who had an American accent. Gladys Hosking, 40, was murdered on May 18 walking home from work. A witness saw an American, who matched the individual Pauline was seen with covered in mud, asking directions He also matched descriptions from women who survived recent attacks. Out of a line-up of American World War 2 soldiers, Private Leonski of the 52nd Signal Battalion was recognized, arrested and charged with three murders. He confessed and was sentenced to death in an American military court on November 4, 1942. He was hanged at Pentridge Prison five days later. The 1986 film Death of a Soldier (1986) is based on Leonski.

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William MacDonald From June 1961 to April 1963 Sydney, Australia was terrorized by the gruesome "Sydney Mutilator." June 1961, in a public Sydney Bath, Alfred Greenfield's nude body was found with his genitalia severed and over 30 stab wounds covering his body. William Cobbin, was stabbed repeatedly, mutilated and left in a public toilet at Moore Park. Frank McLean was discovered alive in March 1962 after being assaulted and mutilated in suburban Darlinghurst. He died before he was able to share information on the perpetrator. The fourth victim, Irishman Patrick Hackett was discovered November 1962 in suburban Concord after complaints were made regarding foul odors coming from a shop. Mr. Hackett's nude body was gouged 41 times, and his genitals were mutilated. William MacDonald had purchased the shop where this body was found was purchased a week earlier. In May 1963 MacDonald was traced to Melbourne, Australia working under the alias "David Allen." He immediately took full responsibility for the crimes and then openly discussed his irresistible urge to mutilate randomly chosen males to death. He shared with the police that he was once a victim of teenage homosexual rape. Sentenced to life he is at the Cessnock Correctional Centre in New South Wales. (MacDonald was born in Liverpool, England, in 1924.)

John Allen Muhammad and juvenile accomplice John Lee Malvo. DC Sniper: Addicted: Obsessed With Killing?

Charles Manson --He never physically murdered victims, he had power over his followers, who did his bidding.

Kenneth Allen Mc Duff, 52, blamed for 14 murders was executed in Texas November 17, 1998. Mc duff was the only condemned inmate in the nation paroled and then returned to death row for another murder.

Ivan Milat "Backpacker Murders" was born December 27, 1944 in Guildford Australia in a a close family with 14 children. They kept to themselves and enjoyed firearms. It’s not clear when his life of crime began. In 1971, he was acquitted of a rape charges. His older brother claims, "Wherever Ivan has worked, people have disappeared.” He thinks Ivan killed, "about 20 or so...” During the 1990s, Milat was responsible for the murders of hikers and tourists. In 1992 two British tourists Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke, were found murdered. In 1993, the bodies of James Gibson and Deborah Everist, both 19, missing since 1989, were discovered in the remote Belanglo State Forest. Simone Schmidl, a 20-year-old German national missing since 1991 was found and identified in 1993. Shortly after this a large organized search of the area located the remains of a couple, Gabor Kurt Neugebauer, 21, and Anja Susanne Habschied, 20 -- missing for two years. All victims’ cause of death was likely due to multiple stab wounds. Habschied was decapitated. An eighth possible victim, Diane Pennacchio, 29, was stabbed to death in 199. Her body was posed similarly to Milat's victims. A young woman reported she accepted a lift, in 1990 while backpacking. She was so frightened she got away and ran into the forest as he fired shots at her. Paul Onions, a British tourist told police that during this time-period he accepted a ride from a driver who revealed a gun. As he ran away, the driver shot at him. Onions identified the driver and vehicle through police photos. In May 1994, police raids lead to Ivan Milat, 49, his brother Walter and another man were taken into police custody. Milat was charged with armed robbery and discharging a firearm. Police found a .22 caliber rifle, the type used in the murders and souvenirs he took from the victims. He appeared for the robbery and weapon charges but did not enter a plea. The following week on May 30, 1994, he was charged with the murders of seven people. The trial lasted from March 1996 to July 1996. He received one life sentence for each of the seven victims. He is a suspect in up to 10 unsolved murder cases. In July 2005 his lawyer John Marsden, claimed Milat had had an accomplice.Mark Whittaker and Les Kennedy (1998) Sins Of The Brother: Australian Story: Into the Forest Part 1 | Part 2 Wiki

Dennis Rader -- BTK Serial Killer

Larry Ralston the "Angel of Death." stopped killing for 6 years while he worked in a morgue because he had enough involvement with death, he was satisfied.

Night Stalker -- For a year, he held Los Angeles captive to fear. Dubbed the Night Stalker, he surprised his victims in their home in the dark, and as the bodies mounted, the public cried out for the police to stop this horrifying killer. But the Stalker was careful. Hear from the officers who investigated the crimes, and look at crime scenes in police documents and photos. See how Richard Ramirez was identified and captured, and meet friends of Ramirez with their own spin on the grisly acts. Finally, the trial that saw the Night Stalker put behind bars for life.

Gary Ridgway otherwise known as The Green River Killer, spares his life by confessing to 48 murders, making him the United States most prolific serial killer. The search for victims continues. He claims the last date he murdered was in 1998.

Joel Rifkin, aka the "New York Ripper,'' murdered seventeen women from the streets of the New York-Long Island area. Joel Rifkin confessed to killing a woman and tossing her head in Hopewell, NJ but was never prosecuted for it. Jonathan Pincus, M.D., Washington VA Hospital, evaluated Rifkin, and showed he had normal cognitive functions and a superior IQ, but was impaired and had frontal abnormalities.

John E. Robinson Sr. 58, "Slavemaster" the Internet serial killer pleaded guilty of capital murder for the deaths of Suzette Trouten, 27, and Izabela Lewicka, 21, whose bodies were found on his rural Kansas property. He was convicted of 1st-degree murder of Lisa Stasi, 19, whose body was never found, and arranging the fraudulent adoption of her baby.

 

Daniel Harold Rolling -- Those close to the 5 murdered students curse Rolling for robbing them of so much and 10 years later he is still alive. Victims' families struggle with the murders. Crime profiler John Philpin, who co-authored a book about the 1990 murders, said when he talked with Rolling on the phone, Rolling attempted to reveal compassion. "He made an effort to be very charming," Philpin said. "I very quickly realized everything with this man was a manipulation." The persona Rolling has created out of his insinuation of multiple personalities is not consistent with his premeditated crimes he committed.

Tommy Lynn Sells -- On Dec. 30, 1999, a drifter, Sells broke into a home in Del Rio, Texas, and killed Kaylene Harris, 13. Krystal Surles, 10, had her throat slit but managed to escape. Sells confessed to 12 murders in 7 states, using guns, knives, bat, shovel, ice pick and his bare hands.

 

Wesley Shermantine Jr -- Guilty of 4 counts of murder, but is he a serial killer?

Harold Shipman -- Physician, Britain's worst serial killer, murdered 215 patients. A judge, added there was "real suspicion" of another 45 victims. Shipman began murdering patients in 1975. He was arrested in 1998 and was jailed for life. The 57-year-old, hanged himself in Wakefield prison in January 2004. He was cremated at a service attended by his wife Primrose, 54, who was advised not to bury her husband in case the grave was attacked. In addition to his wife, he is survived by four children Sarah, 36, Christopher, 32, David, 24, and Sam, 21

 

The South side Slayer killed up to 20 prostitutes in the Los Angeles-area in the mid-1980s. No one was charged. The crimes stopped in 1987.

Richard Speck "Super male" -- In 1966, a twenty-four-year-old sailor named Richard Speck committed one of the most shocking crimes in American history. Intruding into a dormitory of female student nurses, he tied up nine women, and then systematically murdered eight of them. The one survivor hid under a bed, and Speck missed her during his homicidal rampage. By Denise Noe

Cary Stayner -- 37 year old brother of child kidnap victim, Steve Stayner, admits to murdering 4 women in Yosemite while working as a handyman.

Michael Swango --"If Swango (is) legally connected to all the suspicious deaths of patients under his care since he began his residency with Ohio State University's medical program in 1983, it would make him the most prolific serial killer in history." - A press release issued by Swango's alma mater.

Police believe Maury Travis killed at least 12 prostitutes in the St. Louis area. Travis killed himself in jail after his arrest.

Coral Eugene Watts confessed in 1982 to stabbing, strangling, hanging and drowning 12 women in Texas, and one in Michigan. He is suspected in 26 other slayings. Watts was to be released from a Texas prison April 2006 as part of a 1982 deal that led to a 60-year sentence for burglary with intent to murder. He has immunity for 12 killings in Texas and Michigan. Mandatory release laws and the appeals court reduced his sentence by 35 years. November 2004, Watts , 51, was found guilty of stabbing Helen Dutcher, 36, to death in a Detroit suburb in 1979, and faces a sentence of life in prison without parole. Authorities in Kalamazoo, Michigan, had also charged Watts with murder in the 1974 stabbing death of Gloria Steele, 19, a Western Michigan University student.

Faryion Waydrip stopped killing for 2 years (until he was arrested for crimes occurring many years prior).

The Truro murders was the name given to the findings of the remains of seven young women near the town of Truro, South Australia in 1976 - 1977. Christopher Worrell was a young, good-looking, charismatic sociopath. James Miller, a 40 year old laborer, was a drifter dependent on Worrell for support. Miller and Worrell cruised for local females to engage in sex with Worrell. Miller chauffeured Worrell and his "date" to a private area to have sex. Miller waited outside the car. Then drove them back. The "pick-ups" became increasingly violent. Worrell occasionally raped the women, then moved up to occasional murders. Miller claims he had no knowledge ahead of time that a murder would take place. As the violence increased so did Miller's fear of Worrell. Miller never directly engaged in murder. Worrell was killed in a car accident on February 19, 1977. Miller survived the car accident but after Worrell's death, he became depressed and homeless. In April 1978, the remains of Veronica Knight, 18, and Sylvia Pittman, 16, were found near each other. Clothes, blood, and bones were found nearby. It was believed that there was a link between the two women and other missing young women. Miller told a woman about Worrell's thrill killings, she collected a AUD$40,000 reward for the tip that lead to Miller's arrest. Miller who never touched a victim was found guilty of six murders because he was part of a joint criminal enterprise.

Fred & Rose West -- Rose West, housewife, mother, serial killer responsible for the murder of her daughter and 9 other young women. Fred, husband, father, serial killer, was her partner. He hung himself in prison in 1995.

Aileen Wuornos -- Suspected of at least 7 murders, and sentenced to die, she maintains her killings were performed in self-defense, while working as a prostitute.

Robert L. Yates Jr. -- Murder In Spokane -- Over a 2 year period, more than a dozen women were killed in Spokane. Robert Yates Jr. was finally arrested for the killings.

The Zodiac Killer -- It has been over 18 years since the Zodiac penned a letter to the press. It has been in excess of 15 years since the last suspected Zodiac killing, though some think that there may have been a Unabomber connection.

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Serial Killers: Real Life Hannibal Lecters (2001) Jeffrey Dahmer and Albert Fish cases and other "well-known".The serial killer mentality, why some cannibalize. Dahmer ate victims so he could feel closer to them. Other cannibals engage in anthropophagi (humans consuming humans) to completely conquer the victims as Russian cannibal killer Andrei Chikatilo.

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Books

The Vampire Killers by Clifford L. Linedecker

Just Another Indian: A Serial Killer and Canada's Indifference by Warren Goulding

Slayer of Innocence
by Jim Conover
A predator pedophile serial killer on the loose for years. More than 16 boys throughout the Midwest, California, Oklahoma and Arizona disappeared and 14 had been murdered. This pedophile predator made the Midwest his killing field from 1972 until 1979 when lawmen caught his track.

Court TV Crime Stories:Vol 1: Serial -- Richard Ramirez

Starkweather: Inside the Mind of a Teenage Killer by William Allen

Serial Killers -- Through extensive research and interviews with 5 notorious serial killers, Joel Norris demonstrates serial killers have biological and genetic makeups that can be identified as early as five years of age. A compelling read for both the curious layman and the concerned professional.

Torso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer by Steven Nickel

Crimes of New York: Stories of Crooks, Killers, and Corruption from the World's Toughest City (Adrenaline Classics Series)
by Client Willis -- New York is a world capital of finance, fashion, media, and criminal activity. Draft rioters, prohibition beer barons, art thieves, Wall Street insiders, Boss Tweed, Dapper Don, personify the dark side of the most diverse city on earth. The life of David Berkowitz, aka Son of Sam, killing 6 women, the Manhattan millionaire whose marriage dissolved in drug abuse and ended in murder; teen killer Cape Man Salvatore Agron.

Blind-Sided: Homicide Where It Is Least Expected
by Gregory K. Moffatt (Author)
Citing cases of workplace, school, and domestic homicides, Moffatt debunks the myth that murders happen "out of the blue." He includes information on predicting and preventing tragedies.

Signature Killers by Robert D. Keppel, William J. Birnes (Contributor)
Insights into the psychological needs, and evolution of a murderer whose key characteristic is he leaves a signature behind.

cover Natural Born Killer: In Love and on the Road With a Serial Killer -- Sandy Fawkes met Paul John Knowles in an Atlanta hotel bar and they became lovers unbeknownst to Sandy, she almost became his 19th murder victim. Knowles raped many of his male and female victims. He killed the day he met Sandy and killed after she left.

Kristen Gilbert -- Perfect Poison by M. William Phelps -- In Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen colleagues called her the "Angel of Death." Gilbert's a manipulative liar and narcissistic sociopath who sabotaged patients to strike back at staffers. She engaged in an affair with a hospital security guard, and when her husband objected, she tried to kill him by lethal injection. August 1995 - February 1996, Kristen Gilbert may have been responsible for as many as 40 deaths. As the law closed in, she struck back, faking suicide attempts, harassing witnesses, stalking her ex-boyfriend, and terrorizing the hospital with bomb threats.

City Confidential - Sunny Days, Deadly Nights On Mercer Island -- Mercer Island is home to Boeing executives and millionaire Microsoft programmers. The exclusive Seattle bedroom community is one of the nation's richest. Where violence is something read about in the paper. But the community was rocked when three women were found murdered and laid out with their hands crossed, as if lying in a coffin. Police investigations led them to suspect George Russell, a fixture on the local bar scene and regular visitor to the police station all his life. As a kid, he helped out by cleaning blackboards and doing odd-jobs. As an adult, he was brought in for mischief and petty crime. But the murders were something that no one who knew him thought him capable of. tells the complete story of the crimes, investigation and trial through extensive photos, footage and interviews with key players.

Where Shadows Linger: The Untold Story of the Olson Murder Investigation by W. Leslie Holmes, Bruce Northorp RCMP Superintendent Bruce Northorp was in charge of the Olson hunt in 1981. His full review of the case shows the RCMP investigation was plagued by internal problems and personalities. Olson was the most hated man in Canada when he confessed his crimes. The agreement to pay $100,000 for him to reveal the locations of his victims led to tension and mistrust within the RCMP. Now, Les Holmes' uncovers one of the RCMP's most respected officers.

Scream at the Sky: Five Texas Murders and One Man's Crusade for Justice by Carlton Stowers -- Rural Texas long-unsolved serial killing spree begins in late 1984, when a Wichita Falls nurse is raped and murdered. Eventually, there are 5 victims. Faryion Waydrip an acquaintance of the 3rd victim confesses. Paroled after 11 years a changed man, is active in church and remarries. John Little begins working the long-unsolved murders in December 1999. 8 pages of b&w photos

The Good Doctor -- Clarkson Wensley Fifty-five-year-old Dr. Harold "Fred" Shipman had a noble dedication to his profession, winning the trust of his patients with ingratiating charm and an old-school bedside manner. In fact, he even made house calls-but his unsuspecting patients had no idea of the evil that lurked behind the friendly facade of the kindly doctor.. After thirty years of practice, Dr. Shipman's true nature was finally exposed-that of a calculating killer who delivered his own prescription for death. Authorities eventually unearthed the shocking possibility that the fatherly physician had killed as many as 297 people. As body after body was exhumed from the local graveyard, the questions grew more disturbing. How could such a prolific killer remain undetected for so long?