LIST OF SERIAL KILLERS AND NUMBER OF VICTIMS
  Serial killers tend to be white, heterosexual, males in their twenties and thirties. Their methodical rampages are almost always sexually motivated. Their killings tend to be part of an elaborate sexual fantasy that builds up to climax at the moment of their murderous outburst. They usually kill strangers with cooling off periods between each crime. Many of them enjoy cannibalism, necrophilia and keep trophy-like body parts as reminders of their work. Their violent behaviour is mostly directed towards women and children. However some homosexual killers like to hunt down young, gay men. Prostitutes, drifters, male huslers and hitchhikers seem to be the choice victims for the typical psychopath on the make. The Archives catalogues killers by their number of proven hits. Some killers are suspected of much higher body counts. Others bragged about things they never did. SERIAL KILLER HIT LIST ------------------------ Pedro Alonso Lopez (300+) ------------------------- Meet the deadliest man of the Archives. Pedro was known as the Monster of the Andes after the impressive numbers of hits he tallied in his three-nation killing spree. A native of Colombia, his prostitute mother kicked him out of their home at age eight for fondling his younger sister. Adding insult to injury he was then picked up by a pedophile and sodomized against his will. When he was eighteen he was gang banged in prison and retaliated by killing three of his assailants. Upon his release he started killing young girls with glee and impunity. By 1978 he bagged more than 100 girls in Peru. After a brush with an angry village mob he moved his activities to Colombia and Ecuador where his bloodlust averaged about three kills a week. He found killing Ecuadorian girls quite enjoyable because they were "more gentle and trusting, more innocent." Authorities attributed the rash of disappearing girls to active slavery or prostitution rings in the area. In 1980 a flash flood uncovered the first of his victims. After he was arrested he told his interrogators the frightening tale of his reign of death. At first authorities were skeptical but all doubts disappeared when he quickly produced more than fifty graves. It is widely believed that three hundred hits is a low estimate for this most prolific serial killer. Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole (200+) ------------------------------------ The Tag Team from Hell: the Sadist King and the Generalisimo of Pain. The numbers speak for themselves. Henry Lee Lucas was a one-eyed drifter from Texas who traveled from coast to coast killing whoever crossed his path. He joined up with a part time transvestite and deeply psychotic retard, Ottis Toole, to carry out numerous homicidal escapades. Ottis had a taste for human flesh and had many of his victims for dinner. Henry, however, was not a cannibal. He was more of a sadist and a necrophile, preferring sex with mutilated bodies and live or dead animals. The consumate killer couple, they enjoyed picking up hitchhikers to satisfy their lust for blood. Sometimes, when they didn't want to go through the hassle of killing and disposing of their prey, they would just run over the occasional hitchhikers and continue on their merry way. These lethal lovebirds parted ways after Ottis' teen niece, Becky Powell, shacked up with Henry. The unfortunate lassie was later found dismembered and stuffed in pillowcases. After his arrest, Lucas toured the country as a star killer uncovering evidence of his handiwork for local police departments. He now awaits execution in Texas. H.H. Holmes (200+) ------------------ Born Herman Webster Mudgett, Dr. Holmes started his criminal career as a medical student by stealing corpses from the University of Michigan and using them to collect insurance money from policies taken out under ficticious names. When he moved to Chicago he started a drugstore empire and built a hundred-room mansion complete with gas chambers, trap doors, acid vats, lime pits, fake walls and secret entrances. During the 1893 World's Fair he rented rooms to visitors and, after killing them, would try to collect insurance. He also lured women to his "torture castle" with the promise of marriage and then would throw them down an elevator shaft and gas them to death after they signed their life savings over to him. In the basement of the castle he dismembered and skinned his prey and experimented with their corpses. When police grew suspicious about H.H's activities, he torched the castle and fled. In the burnt hulk of the castle, authorities found the remains of over two hundred people. He was caught and hanged on May 7th, 1896 leaving behind an impressive trail of blood unequaled for almost eighty years. Delfina & Maria de Jesus Gonzales (91+) --------------------------------------- These two deadly sisters ran the bordello from hell in Guanajuato, Mexico. They recruited their prostitutes through help wanted adds and killed them when they stopped pleasing the clientele. Sometimes they even killed their johns who showed up to the brothel with big wads of cash. After too many unexplained disappearances the cops raided the premises and found the bodies of eleven males, eighty females, and several fetuses. Donald Harvey (87) ------------------ The most prolific nurse killer of the trade. When he was not offing his patients, he would hang out in the morgue and study tissue samples for fun. Donny, an amateur Satanist, would joke with the hospital staff about "getting rid of patients." Little did they know that he wasn't kidding. He murdered with abandon from the early seventies to 1987 when he was finally caught. He claimed that his killings were "mercy" killings even though he sometimes chose horrible subst ances to poison his victims. He also did not limit his work to those hospitalized. He killed a neighbor out of spite lacing her drink with hepatitis. He once poisoned his male lover and then nursed him back to health. He also poisoned his lover's family, killing his mother. Donny was convicted of thirty-four deaths but he is believed to have killed eighty-seven people. Donald Leroy Evans (60) ----------------------- Another Texan drifter with a taste for blood. Evans, a convicted rapist, was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1991. There he confessed to the kidnapping and murder of a ten-year-old girl from Gulfport, Mississippi. But that wasn't all he wanted to confess. Don kept on confessing and confessing to the tune of sixty kills. What he revealed to authorities was a ten-year killing rampage spanning ten states. Now there is a nationwide probe to determine the validity o f Donny's claims. Andrei Chikatilo (52+) ---------------------- The Soviet Hannibal Lecter. He was executed in 1994. Chikatilo lived 500 miles from Moscow and prayed mostly on children. He stalked many of his victims in train stations and had a penchant for disembowelment and mutilation. His macabre twelve-year killing spree was first uncovered in 1982. His gory descriptions and litany of horrors gave the Soviet public their first taste of serial mayhem. The Green River Killer (48+) ---------------------------- The most prolific unidentified killer of the Archives. The Green River Killer tallied forty-eight kills between 1982 and 1984 in the Seattle-Tacoma area. It's believed that the killer is a white, middle-aged male. During his two year rampage he tended to leave his victims near the banks of the Green River outside Seattle, thus explaining his nickname. All his victims were women. He showed a preference for prostitutes, but had a knack for runaways and hitchhi kers. Some believe that the killer might have died, or was incarcerated, institutionalized, or perhaps just retired. As of August 1988 authorities think that he might have resurfaced in San Diego where he has already bagged ten more women. Gerald Stano (41) ----------------- Born in Daytona Beach in 1951, Gerald tallied a body count of 41 as a result of his deep resentment towards the world of "bitches". He truly enjoyed the act of killing. Unlike most others, he never raped his victims. As one of the investigating officers pointed out, "He thinks about three things: stereo systems, cars, and killing women." Zodiac Killer (37+) ------------------- The elusive Zodiac is the most prolific killer in California. There are numerous theories surrounding the identity, methods, and reasoning behind Zodiac's killing spree. His numbers vary according to the sources. Some attribute only six kills to this faceless maniac. Others believe the Zodiac has tallied up to forty-nine hits. Here at the Archives we've settled on thirty-seven after a note he sent to a San Francisco paper on January 30, 1974 in which he wrote "Me-37; SFPD-0." The Zodiac, a killer obsessed with publicity, sent twenty-one letters to various newspapers boasting of his crimes. He obtained his astral moniker after he scribbled zodiac signs around several of his crime scenes. He started his killing spree in 1966 and faded around 1974. The survivors from his attacks have described his as a heavy set man with glasses and red hair. In one of his letters he explained that he killed "because it is so much fun." His master plan was to colle ct "slaves for the after life." He also threatened to "wipe out a school bus some morning." Now some believe that Zodiac moved to New York where he continues with his deadly forays. John Wayne Gacy (33) -------------------- Straight out of the he's-such-a-nice-guy file, Johnny liked to dress in a homemade Pogo the Clown outfit to entertain kids. This lonely and sadistic child molester also liked to entertain boys privately in a very different fashion. A typical organized killer, he had all aspects of the murder worked out before each kill. Once he entered his murderous fantasy, he would let loose. He enjoyed handcuffing his victims, anally raping them, beating them to a pulp, offering to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, reciting verses from the bible and strangling them to death. In 1978 he was tracked down by the police in Chicago. Thirty bodies were found buried in the crawl space underneath his house. As a prisoner, Johnny Boy started a new career as an artist, painting mostly colorful clown pictures, which have been shown in galleries nationwide. He was executed by lethal injection in 1994. Eight Street Killer (31) ------------------------ It took fifteen deaths for Dade County authorities to acknowledge the existence of an unidentified killer operating in the streets of Miami. He preys after black prostitutes that he picks up and dumps in Miami's famous Eight Street. As of June, 1995, he is up to thirty-one hits and counting. Patrick W. Kearney (28+) ------------------------ The top ranked Californian freeway killer. This fastidiously neat, organized murderer left his dismembered victims wrapped in trash bags along the Californian highways. Kearney and his live-in lover, David D. Hill, both army veterans, lived in a meticulous bachelor pad in Redondo Beach from where they started their homicidal forays. The "Trash Bag Murders," as they were known, started in 1975 and ended on July 5, 1977 when the couple walked into the Sheriff's In formation Center in Riverside, saw a wanted poster of themselves and surrendered. Hill was subsequently released for lack of evidence. Kearney shouldered the guilt and confessed that killing "excited him and gave him a feeling of dominance." Wayne Williams (28) ------------------- Suspected of being the Atlanta Child Murderer, Wayne killed mostly young, black boys and dumped their bodies in the Chattahoochee River. He was caught when he departed from his modus operandi and smoked a couple of adults. After his arrest the killings ceased. Police say the evidence against him was flawed and believe the case should be reopened. Wiliams' lawyer claimed a Klansman named Charles Sanders confessed to helping the KKK kidnap and murder twenty-one black youths. Allegedly, this evidence was suppressed to avoid a race riot. Fritz Haarmann (27+) -------------------- Born in 1879, this perverted German pederast and his lover, Hans Grans, stalked the train stations of post-WWI Hannover searching for young boys. Always the enterprising killers, they would sell the flesh and clothing of their victims for fun and profit. Their deadly trade was first discovered in 1924 when bones from twenty-seven bodies were dredged out of the Leine River. A coat from one of the missing boys was traced to the murderous couple. Once in custody, Frit z started confessing. Haarmann enjoyed the attention he received during the trial and boasted of having killed up to forty people. He was decapitated on April 15, 1925. His lover Grans received a twelve year sentence. Dean Corll (27) --------------- Born on Christmas Eve, 1939, this Texan maniac enjoyed killing young boys in the comfort of his own home. He would invite them in to sniff glue, then slip on the handcuffs when they passed out and partied in their butt before snapping their life away. Sometimes he enjoyed biting their dicks off. In August 1973, one of his teenage helpers, Elmer Wayne Hemley, shot and killed the portly psychopath after saying he would help him snatch more youngsters. Police found seventeen bodies under the floor of a boat house Dean rented as well as a bag of severed genitalia. Bruce Lee (26) -------------- Not to be confused with the martial arts legend, but instead a deformed epileptic pyromaniac who legally changed his name in honor of his Kung-Fu-kicking hero. This British arsonist once set an old man aflame after arguing with him over what to feed some pigeons. He killed eleven more people when he set an old age home ablaze. In 1980 British police arrested him in a public bathroom as he was trying to get someone to give him a blow job. He confessed to all his crimes an d was thrown in an insane asylum. Juan Corona (25) ---------------- Corona, a Mexican labor contractor in Northern California, was charged with hacking twenty-five men to death. His handiwork was uncovered in 1971 in a peach orchard near his home. Most of the victims were drunken transients and migrant workers who no one missed. The killings bore signs of homosexual assaults which lead people to believe that the killer could be Juan's openly gay brother. Corona, a burly father of four, was linked to the murders through a couple of rece ipts found in the clothing of two of the dead. While in prison, Juan lost an eye during a stabbing attack by four inmates. Ted Bundy (22+) --------------- The poster boy of the serial killing community. He was handsome, charming, and deadlier than a rattlesnake. This law student and Young Republican liked to wear an arm sling to appear vulnerable and to get women to help him with his groceries. He favored killing pretty, dark-haired cheerleader types. He would rape and bludgeon them to death. He was also fond of biting them. The bite marks on one of his victims was used as evidence against him at his tr ial. Bundy was fried by the state of Florida in 1989. Earl Nelson (22+) ----------------- This Bible quoting drifter killed mostly landladies in boarding houses. He liked to stuff their bodies under his bed before going to sleep. He is known to have committed twenty-two murders and was suspected of at least three more. He was captured and hanged in Canada in 1928. Coral Eugene Watts (22) ----------------------- Coral Eugene might have had an IQ of seventy-five, but he sure knew how to use a knife. Another one from the I-hate-vaginas-school-of-thinking. He enjoyed killing women on Sunday morning before going to church. Once he told a psychiatrist that women were evil and should be exterminated. It seems he practiced what he preached. Carl Panzram (21) ----------------- Not from the Mr. Nice Guy file. The most unrepentant killer of them all. He started his criminal career by getting arrested at age eight for drunk and disorderly behavior. It was downhill ever since. His killing spree spanned two continents. While in Africa he hired eight blacks to help him hunt crocodiles. Instead, he killed his hired hands, sodomized their corpses and fed them to the hungry reptiles. He boasted of committing thousands of robberies, larcenies, arsons and having sodomized a thousand men. He was hanged in 1930 for killing the laundry foreman in prison. Even when he was at the scaffold he meanly snapped at the executioner, "Hurry it up, you bastard. I could hang a dozen men while you're fooling around." William Lester Suff (20) ------------------------ William Suff is California's latest serial killer. In 1974 Will and his then wife were convicted of beating their two-month-old daughter to death. Although he was sentenced to seventy years in the Big House he was out on parole by 1984. Too bad for the nineteen prostitutes he subsequently stabbed or strangled to death in Riverside County. His alleged killing spree started in 1986. On January 9, 1993, he was arreste d after a routine traffic stop. A Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde type, he liked to impersonate a police officer and was writing a book about dogs that went berserk and started killing people. He also liked chili, vanity plates and was an avid volunteer in the county's car-pooling program. All of this perhaps explaining his psychotic killing spree. As of April, 1995, Will is on trial for his reign of terror. John Gerard Schaefer (20+) -------------------------- This homicidal ex-policeman and sex beast was linked to at least twenty murders in Oakland Park, Florida. Teeth, jewelry and clothing from several victims were found in a trunk in his mother's attic. Strangely as he was convicted for first degree murder his wife divorced him and became engaged to his defense attorney who continued handling his appeals. Lucian Staniak (20) ------------------- The most prolific serial killer of Poland, Lucian started his reign of terror in 1964. A colorful killer, he left poetic notes commenting on his behavior. After killing his first known victim during a national holiday, he left a note declaring: "I picked a juicy flower in Olsztyn and I shall do it again somewhere else, for there is no holiday without a funeral." Over the next three years, this sexual deviant killed and mutilated twenty women. His was finally discover ed when he slaughtered a fellow member of his Art Lovers Club. His paintings, done mainly in crimson and focusing on scenes of mutilation, made the police a tad suspicious. After tracing his itinerary for the past two years they noticed that it matched perfectly with the string of slayings. After confessing Lucian was sent to an insane asylum in Katowice where he continued painting. Antone Costa (20) ----------------- This modern day Marquis de Sade and wannabe flower child left a trail of blood spanning from Provincetown, Massachusetts, to California. All his victims were women who he befriended and with whom he shared drugs. He then killed them and enjoyed having sex with their mutilated corpses. The police psychiatrist diagnosed him as being schizophrenic. He was found hanged in his prison cell on May 12, 1974. Larry Eyler (19) ---------------- A homosexual killer struggling with life in the closet. Larry took satisfaction wherever he could and then disposed of the evidence. At one point, as the police investigated him, he sued them for half a million dollars for "psychological warfare". The evidence against him was found inadmissible in court and Eyler walked out on bail to carry on with his deadly hobby. Eventually, his arrogance led to his undoing when he dumped the dismembered body of a male hustler in hi s garbage. His handiwork got him the death penalty. Paul John Knowles (18+) ----------------------- In 1974, after being released from jail, Knowles was rejected by a woman he met through an astrology magazine and went on a one-night, three-body killing spree. Then he hit the road, leaving a trail of corpses wherever he stopped. He would choose his victims randomly, entering their homes at gun point. He strangled his prey and stole their credit cards and other items. Sometimes he would rape his victims, but usually his sword would go blunt before completing the deed. Using a stolen cassette recorder, he left a taped confession of fourteen murders with his lawyer and disappeared. He continued on with his killing spree and eventually was hunted down by an FBI agent who shot him dead in Georgia. Robert Hansen (17) ------------------ >From 1973 to 1983, this deadly Anchorage baker arranged for hookers and topless dancers to come to his mountain cabin for fun and games. After sexually abusing them for a couple of days he would strip them, set them free in the freezing woods and hunt them down with his high-powered rifle. Jeffrey Dahmer (17) ------------------- The founding father of Cannibals Anonymous. As a kid, Jeff liked to torture and kill little animals. As an adult he did the same to humans. This Milwaukee chocolate factory worker lured gay, black men to his apartment, killed them and had them for dinner. Once his victims were dead, Jeff came to life. He enjoyed sex with corpses and was conscientious enough to always wear a condom. Sex with live beings was not as good, he said, because they could get up and leave at any minute. He also enjoyed mutilation and experimented with different ways of disposing of his victims' remains. When captured, police found three dissolving bodies in fifty-five gallon acid vats in his bedroom. They also found four severed heads, seven skulls, skeletons in his closet and a penis in a lobster pot. He had no food in the fridge, only condiments. In the freezer he ha d a heart stashed "to eat later." Although he enjoyed munching his loved ones, at the time of his arrest he was rail thin. In jail authorities managed to fatten the boy up. Jeff met his end when he was viciously attacked by another inmate while mopping the bathroom in maximum security. The lethargic cannibal died with a mop handle sticking out of his eye socket. At his mother's request, his brain was preserved in formaldehyde for future study. Richard Ramirez (16+) --------------------- A Los Angeles transient known as the Night Stalker, Rich was captured in Boyle Heights, a Latino neighborhood, by an angry mob after he attempted a carjacking. His good looks made him a crowd favorite. His Metalhead gone Satanist image made him a cult figure. Like he is an unrepentant photo-opportunity-type killer. He enjoyed breaking into houses and calmly killing, raping and party ing all night long. He would smoke big, fat joints of sinsemilla as he strolled around his victim's homes playing his AC/DC tapes, spraying satanic slogans on the wall and raiding the fridge. Once he took out the eyes of a woman with a spoon and mailed them back to the crime scene the next day. While in jail he fixed his teeth and tattooed a pentagram on the palm of his hand. After getting the death penalty, as he was lead out of court, he shouted "See you in Disneyland!" Randy Kraft (16+) ----------------- Another Californian freeway killer. Randy liked to pick up young men, especially marines, drug them and strangle them to death. On May 14, 1983, a highway patrolman stopped Kraft for suspected drunk driving and noticed the dead marine sitting next to him. Randy was a "score-card killer," that is, he kept a coded notebook with a tally of all his kills. Police have linked him to sixty-two deaths spanning three states, but only sixteen have been proven conclusively. Dennis Nilsen (16) ------------------ The British Jeffrey Dahmer. This alcoholic homosexual could not come to grips with his sexuality and resorted to murder and necrophilia. He would lure young men to his apartment, render them unconscious with liquor and strangle them to death. He liked to stash their bodies under the floor boards. Occasionally he would take one out, bathe and dress it. He would then lay the corpse next to him in bed and masturbate. Like Dahmer, he killed out of lo neliness. He enjoyed small talk with his friends the cadavers. He kept an assortment of body parts around the house as company. In 1983 he was discovered when he tried to flush human remains down the toilet and clogged the plumbing. Albert Fish (15) ---------------- The patron saint of sadomasochism. Albert Fish, the granddaddy of the deranged, enjoyed implanting needles in his genitalia, stuffing his asshole with flaming alcohol balls, eating shit, killing children and making stews with their remains. The father of six, Al lost it after his wife left him for another man. He would ask his kids to beat him with a nail-studded paddle until he bled. He thought that he was Christ and that God had ordered him to castrate boys. However, this dirty old man from hell enjoyed molesting children of both sexes. In 1936 he was sentenced to die in Sing Sing. He said, "What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill, the only one I haven't tried." He happily helped his executioners with the electrodes and at first short-circuited the chair because of the twenty needles implanted inside him. After surgically removing the needles they finally gave him the much desired "supreme thrill." Joseph P. Franklin (15) ----------------------- A former Klansman and neo-Nazi, Franklin was the embodiment of absolute bigotry. He believed that interracial marriages where a sin against God and took it into his own hands to punish the guilty. Joseph hated all minorities equally and once bombed a synagogue in Chattanooga. He enjoyed sniper attacks and killed for sport. Once he killed two black men and a white woman for jogging together. He is also suspected of having shot and crippled Larry Flynt, the publish er of Husler, because he regularly featured interracial couples getting it on in his mag. William Bonin (14+) ------------------- This sadistic Vietnam vet liked to pick up male, teenage hitchhikers, strangle them to death and then go to the movies with his girlfriend. He once jammed an ice pick into a boy's ear. Vernon Butts, an accomplice in at least five of the killings, rammed a coat hanger up another kid's ass. William, not being particularly bright, boasted of his killings and kept newspaper clippings about them in his glove compartment. Vernon chose to hang himself when in jail. Billy was sentenced to the gas chamber. He now awaits his future on Death Row and probably still enjoys rereading his clippings. Arthur Shawcross (13) --------------------- This unrepentant cannibal, munched on two Vietnamese girls during his tour of duty with the army in South East Asia. Art believed that the spirit of one thirteenth-century cannibal, "Ariemes," possessed his body and taught him the finer points of eating human flesh. In 1988 he was released from prison after serving fifteen years for strangulating two children. Right about then Ariemes came back and helped Art with a twenty-month murder spree in which he bagged and chewed on eleven women. Once in custody Art detailed his cannibalistic deeds explaining that he was possessed by his shrewdish mother's spirit (as well as Ariemes). Mom, it seems, enjoyed ramming broomsticks up his ass when he was young. Curiously, in 1990, Art recieved ten write-in votes during New York's gubernatorial election. Belle Gunness (14+) ------------------- A deadly gold digger, Belle lured wealthy Chicagoans to her house with classified adds to rob and kill them. The original Lady Bluebeard, Belle's criminal career started with the accidental deaths of her first two husbands and two of her children. Coincidentally, with each death she collected insurance money which kept her afloat until her next lethal escapade. Once she settled in La Porte, Indiana, she started with her deadly "lonely-hearts" venture. On April 28, 190 8, the La Porte homestead was levelled by fire. Ray Lamphere, her farm hand and presumed lover was arrested and accused of arson and the murder of Belle and her children. Ray said that the female body found in the embers was not Belle. The body was missing a skull but next to it they found Belle's dentures. Apparently she had faked her own death and escaped with a bag full of money. As investigators started digging up the ranch they found plenty of human bones and dismembered bodie s wrapped in gunny sacks a nd doused with lye. Many of Belle's suitors had been fed to the pigs accounting for the numerous bone fragments found in and around the pig pen. Estimates of her murderous habits put her at fifty to a hundred hits. We've chosen to count only her proven kills. After disappearance, Belle was spotted many times throughtout the country. Authorities believe that she was last seen in a bordello in Ohio in 1935. Randall Woodfield (13+) ----------------------- Randy was a typical all-American boy who enjoyed exposing himself. At first everyone ignored it because he was the star of his high school football team. In 1973 he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers but after a few more "incidents" he was sent back to Oregon. By the late seventies Randy became known as the "I-5 bandit" for blazing down his favorite highway hell-bent on crime. During the holdups, he would force cashiers to expose their breasts or perform fellat io on him. Randy was questioned by the police after his first kill was discovered. He was released because his semen did not match the type discovered in the corpse. Upon release he continued killing in his truly disorganized fashion. On March 1981 the police took him in again and unraveled his trail of blood. Herbert Mullin (13) ------------------- This acid dropping, pot smoking flower child was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" by his high school class. After a stint in a mental institution he started hearing voices that told him to do strange things, like burn his dick with a cigarette. Then the voices started coming from strangers asking him to put them out of their misery. Good Herb was happy to comply. After thirteen acts of mercy the police arrested him. Herb believed that the deaths during the Vietnam war worked as sacrifices that kept California from sliding into the ocean during a cataclysmic earthquake. With the end of the war, Herb was told by his father telepathically to continue with the human sacrifice so to save California from the big one. And, of course, he did as he was told. Albert DeSalvo (13) ------------------- In the mid sixties Al was known as the Boston Strangler. His great hands, voracious sex drive and violent nature led him to talk his way into women's houses where he raped and strangled them. As a child he boasted of being able to cum five or six times a day. As an adult his frigid wife was no match for his eternal horniness. What characterized his killing style was that he left naked corpses carefully and provocatively posed with the strangulating chords in exaggera ted and ornamental bows around their necks. Some believe that DeSalvo was not responsible for the killings and that in fact George Nassar, his cellmate at Bridgewater, had struck a deal with him so he would take the blame as DeSalvo was already facing a life sentence for his rape convictions. Joseph Christopher (13) ----------------------- Another racist rampager. Christopher, a mentally disturbed GI started randomly killing black men in upstate New York in September 22, 1980. By the time he left Buffalo the city was about to erupt into an all-out race war with black leaders claiming no police protection and talking about a deadly paramilitary racist force. Christopher went to Manhattan on December 22 and was able bag four victims and maim a fifth in less than thirteen hours. He was arrested in For t Benning on January 6 after he tried to stab a black GI. Peter Sutcliffe (13+) --------------------- Between 1975 and 1984 Petie was known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" as he terrorized hookers around Northern England with his hammer and other instruments of death. A former mortuary worker, Pete was married to a schizophrenic woman who kept going in and out of institutions. Apparently God spoke to Pete and ordered him to go out and hunt prostitutes. A true Christian, he did as the Lord said. Luckily, he also enjoyed the job and would cum as he hammered and stabbed hi s victims to death. Police were frustrated with numerous false confessions they recieved during their search for him. On January 2, 1981, he was finally caught sitting in a car with a prostitute. While in custody he confessed everything and seemed to be relieved that he was caught. Pete is suspected of having killed and maimed several other women in France and Sweden during his travels abroad. Southside Slayer (12+) ---------------------- The Southside Slayer has tallied at least twelve black women (mostly crack-addicted prostitutes) in Los Angeles since 1984. After of denying the existence of a serial killer wiping out "strawberries" in South Central LA, authorities arrested a black policemen in 1993 in connection to the killings. The man proved to be innocent but the whole incident ruined his career in the police department. The real killer is still at large and at work in the streets of Los Ange les. Charlie Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate (11) -------------------------------------------- Standing at five feet two inches, Charles Starkweather hated everyone he saw. Everyone except his fourteen year old girlfriend Caril Ann. On January 21, 1958, Charlie got into an argument with Caril's parents and settled it the only way he knew -- shooting her mother and stepfather. Then he rammed his gun barrel down Caril's two-year-old sister's throat and choked her to death while Caril watched the tube. A few days later, after the loca l authorities became suspicious, the two went on the run killing with reckless abandon. After eluding a two-hundred member posse chasing them through Nebraska, they were captured in Wyoming where they turned on each other. The movie Badlands with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek was based on their exploits. Charlie was fried June 1959 and Caril got life. She was paroled in 1976. Robert Clifford Olson (11) -------------------------- A Vancouver, British Columbia, native, this police informer spent most of his life in trouble with the law logging ninety-four arrests between 1957 and 1981. His murderous reign of terror around Vancouver started in November of 1980 with the abduction and slaughter of a twelve-year-old girl. His specialty was killing young boys and girls and enjoyed offing the occasional hitchhiker whenever the chance arose. In August 1981 Olson was arrested after picking up t wo female hitchhikers and, after striking a deal with the prosecution, confessed to a string of killings. Somehow Olson was able to convince authorities to pay his wife and child $10,000 per victim. After confessing to eleven kills, his family walked away with a nice chunk of change. On January 11, 1982, Bobby was sentenced to eleven concurrent life terms. Vaughn Greenwood (11) --------------------- In 1974-75 the LAPD found six downtown derelicts with their throats slashed and their bodies bearing signs of ritualistic abuse. They had cups of blood next to them, salt sprinkled around the outlines of their heads and cryptic marks around the slash wounds. When the cops announced that the killer was probably "a blond, sexually impotent and cowardly homosexual," Greenwood, a black man, was obviously not in their suspect list. Eventually he was arrested after he ax ed someone next to Burt Reynold's house. The police linked him to the skid row murders and four others. Surely he must have been wearing a wig or something when he committed his crimes. Richard Angelo (10+) -------------------- A former Boy Scout, Rich always wanted to be the hero. That's why this portly nurse pumped muscle paralyzer and other dangerous drugs into the intravenous bottles of his patients in the emergency room of the Good Samaritan Hospital in Long Island, NY. On October 11, 1987 his gig ran afoul when he told a patient, "I'm going to make you feel better," and injected Pavulon in his intravenous tube. Immediately the man felt numbness and had difficulty breathing. However, he was able to buzz another nurse and his life was spared. The next day Richard's locker and home were searched and his killing utensils were found. Ever since Angelo started working the graveyard shift in the Good Samaritan there had been thirty-seven "Code Blue" emergencies leaving twenty-five patients dead. Prosecutors have only charged Angelo with ten of the deaths. Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono (10+) ------------------------------------ These killer cousins started their reign of terror in LA in 1977. They liked to impersonate cops, pick up hookers, rape and kill them. They enjoyed leaving their corpses in provocative positions in hillsides east of Hollywood. When Kenny moved to Bellingham, Washington, the killings stopped. Bored with the small town life, Ken decided to get back to his old habits. He then proceeded to kill two more women. When he was arrested he feigned being po ssessed by a violent alter ego named "Steve Walker". While in prison he was contacted by a strange twenty-three year old woman named Veronica Lynn Comton who was seeking information for a book about a female serial killer. Together they hatched a plan to free him in which Veronica would take a sample of his sperm, kill a woman and deposit the sperm in her. Good idea but it never worked. Instead it landed Veronica in jail. Edmund Kemper III (10) ---------------------- Ed Kemper's mom thought her son was "a real weirdo". He had a near-genius IQ hidden within his twisted mind. When he was fourteen he killed his grandparents to get back at his mother for remarrying. After five years in the Atascadero State Hospital, Ed was released and went to live with mom in Santa Cruz. Ed grew in the hospital and came out a strapping six-foot-nine-inch hate machine. In 1972, after a vicious argument with mom, Ed started killing female hitchhike rs, decapitating them and having sex with their headless corpses. He enjoyed taking Polaroids of his accomplishments and occasionally had his victims for lunch. Once he visited his court-appointed shrink with a head in the trunk of his car. A psychiatrist suggested that Kemper killed women who reminded him of his mother. On Easter Sunday 1973 he went after the root of his problem and killed his shrewish mom and chopped her head off. He threw her vocal chords down the garbage disposal and u sed her head as a dart board. He then called mom's best friend, invited her over and killed her too. After he drove to Colorado, called the cops and confessed his killings. He now resides in the Vacaville Prison. Gerald Gallego (10) ------------------- In 1955 Gerald's father was executed in Mississippi's gas chamber for killing two cops. As luck would have it, Gerald turned out meaner that his pop. When he was thirteen he was arrested for raping a six-year-old girl. Later in life he was arrested for having sex with his teenage daughter. After four or five marriages he settled down with Charlene Williams who he told about his impotence. The only cure for it, he said, was frequent sex with virgins. All in the name of love, Charlene helped him out with his misfortune by rounding up "sex-slaves" who he raped and murdered. Bobby Joe Long (10) ------------------- A distant cousin of Henry Lee Lucas, Bobby suffered from a hereditary disorder in which he had an extra "X" chromosome which made his glands produce abnormal amounts of estrogen. In other words, Bobby had tits. To add to his confusion his mother slept with him until he was thirteen. After suffering from brain damage in a motorcycle accident, Bobby Joe turned into a lust machine. He masturbated five times a day in addition to the two daily sessio ns he enjoyed with his wife. Not satisfied he began stalking for new mates. From 1980 to 1983 Bobby was busy raping fifty women in the Miami Fort Lauderdale area. In 1984 he graduated to murdering prostitutes who he considered scum. He also kept a detailed file with all the clippings of his crime spree. In November 17, 1984, he was arrested and in early 1985 he received the death penalty. Ian Brady & Myra Hindley (9) ---------------------------- Ian and Myra met while working for a chemical company in Glasgow, England. She thought he was quite an intellectual as he sat in the lunch room reading Mein Kampf in German. As their love blossomed they became more obsessed with Nazi paraphernalia, pornography and sadism. At first they enjoyed shooting pictures of themselves in the buff and in S & M drag. but it wasn't enough. Soon they moved into child abduction and murder. Most of their victims wer e children whom they sexually molested before killing. These sadist lovebirds from hell liked to document their murderous deeds. They kept an extensive collection of photographs of their victims as well as a recording of the screams of one girl's torturous end. They were arrested after Ian bragged about his killings to Myra's brother-in-law. When the brother-in-law doubted his ability to kill, Ian smoked a young man right in front of him. The brother-in-law did not react appropriately. Instead o f showing ad miration, he went to the cops. Twenty years after their arrest, Ian confessed to four new murders the police had never linked to them. Melvin David Rees (9) --------------------- Rees was a Benzedrine-popping, jazz saxophonist with a voracious appetite for sex and death. In the late fifties he terrorized the roads between Maryland and Virginia. A vicious sex-slayer, he also had a taste for necrophilia. He kept several cabins where he collected pornography and autopsy photos. He also wrote journals detailing his acts of murder and other tales of real and imaginary sadism. In 1961 the state of Virginia executed him. Calvin Jackson (9+) ------------------- Calvin did not like to stray away from home. That's why he did most of his killings in the Park Plaza Hotel in Manhattan where he lived. He heard voices telling him to kill old people and he did as he was told. He enjoyed raping his victims before and after death. He was arrested while he was carrying a stolen TV down a fire escape. He was also suspected, although never convicted, of five additional killings in Buffalo. The Gainsville Slayer (8+) -------------------------- This monster terrorized the Gainsville, Florida, community for a short period of time in September, 1990, with the mutilation-slayings of five female college students. All victims were brutally decapitated and otherwise dismemberered. Evidence links the unidentified maniac to a similar triple murder in Sheveport, Lousiana, committed in November, 1989. Christopher Wilder (8+) ----------------------- Australian born Chris Wilder was a big-spending, jet-setting, race-car driving, bon vivant who was always searching for beautiful women to rape and kill. Using the old I'm-a-photographer-in-search-of-models trick he bagged at least eight victims in a bi-continental rape and murder spree. He sometimes enjoyed practicing a type of homemade electro-shock therapy on his victims. Once he glued one of his victims eyes shut. In the spring of 1984 he kidnapped Tina Marie Risico from a Torrance, California, mall and after raping her repeatedly, he forced her to assist him with his killings. As they drove eastward Wilder enjoyed watching the news reports about his crime spree. When they reached Boston he dropped Tina Marie in the airport and sent her back home to California. On April 13 he was spotted by a passing state trooper and accidentally shot himself dead while struggling for his gun. Dorothea Puente (8+) -------------------- Dorothea operated a boarding house in Sacramento, California where she offered quality lodgings for elderly people on fixed incomes. She also offered poison and a bed of flowers to bury their corpses in. As she offed her boarders she kept cashing their social security checks. In 1988, after too many of her boarders disappeared, cops showed up with shovels and unearthed seven corpses from her garden. Another body discovered in the Sacramento River in 1986 was added t o her hit list. It's believed that she might have killed up to twenty-five others. She was arrested in Los Angeles on November 17, 1988 after she inquired about an acquaintance's disability check and offered to fix him a nice Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. Reginald Christie (8) --------------------- Reggie's sexual inadequacies made him a very angry man. In the 1940s and 1950s this British maniac killed at least five prostitutes, his wife, another woman and her baby daughter. He kept a collection of clipped pubic hairs, some of which did not match any of his known victims. He liked to render his victims unconscious and then strangle and fuck them simultaneously. He enjoyed "a quiet, peaceful thrill" when he was killing. Strangely the husband of one of the wom en he killed confessed to the murder but then recanted and accused Christie. Not knowing who to believe, the police hanged the confessor. When Christie moved out of his flat, the new tenant found three corpses hidden in the cupboard, Christie's dead wife under the floorboards and two more bodies buried in the garden. He was hanged in 1953. Alton Coleman & Debra Brown(8) ------------------------------ Alton Coleman, a black man, thought other blacks were forcing him to kill members of his race. He was diagnosed by a prison psychiatrist as having pansexual propensities, that is, willingness "to have intercourse with any object, women, men, children, whatever." In the summer of 1984, he teamed up with twenty-one year old Debra Brown for a brutal rampage across the midwest. They were arrested in Evanston, Illinois after a crime spree in which they comm itted a new act of violence each day. Alton was sentenced to death. Robert Berdella (7+) -------------------- Another from the maniac-with-a-heart-of-gold file. Bobby was a strange but harmless fellow, or so his Kansas City neighbors thought. That is, until April 2, 1988, when a man ran out of his house wearing nothing but a dog collar and babbling a frightening tale of sadism and sexual cruelty. It seems that Rob liked to pick up drifters and male prostitutes, take them home and strap them into his custom-made torture bed. There he would experiment with electroshock and i njecting all kinds of household cleaners into them. He kept a detailed log of how his victims responded and had a collection of two hundred pictures of naked men in different stages of suffering. Bob liked to extend the life of his victims for a few days before tying a plastic bag over their heads. On December 19, 1988, Berdella pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life. A few years later he died in prison of poisoning or a possible heart attack. Harrison Graham (7+) -------------------- This lethal junkie from hell lived in a fetid two-room apartment in North Philadelphia that was covered with trash, dirty syringes and a sea of fleas. In the summer of 1987, after numerous complaints from his neighbors, the police pried his door open and found six female bodies in different states of decomposition. On the roof they found a duffel bag full of legs and a torso in the neighbor's basement. All the dead women were black junkies like himself who he invite d over for a fix and a little one-on-one. Aileen Wuornos (7) ------------------ The patron saint of dead prostitutes, Lee Wuornos is the first hooker to turn the tables on the serial killing scene. Finally, a hooker who started offing her johns. The daughter of a child molester who hanged himself in jail, Aileen's hatred for men went beyond the feelings of any penis-loathing lesbian. In 1990 she tallied seven dead clients whom she left naked next to their sperm-filled condoms. The wily prostitute still claims to be innocent. Her killings, she say s, were "just self-defense". She was sentenced to the electric chair and now, as she patiently awaits her fate, has conveniently found Christ. David Berkowitz (6) ------------------- The Son of Sam. One of the few Jewish murderers of the Archives. Between 1976 and 1977 he terrified lovers on the streets of New York. This former postal worker killed six and wounded seven after a 6,000-year-old spirit invaded his neighbor's Labrador and commanded him to do the evil deeds. He sent numerous letters to Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News and the NYPD exulting his exploits. While in prison Dave was assaulted and had his throat slit. He survived, but now has a fifty-six stitch necklace permanently decorating his throat. Some believe that Dave was actually the fall guy and that his crimes were committed by a Satanic Sect that included his neighbor Sam and his two sons. Richard Trenton Chase (6) ------------------------- This maniac became known as the Vampire Killer of Sacramento after a four day blood binge in January, 1978, in which he claimed six lives. Previously he had tried to inject rabbit's blood into his veins and had been institutionalized for exhibiting such strange behavior that merited the nickname "Dracula" within the hospital staff. In the hospital he complained that someone had stolen his pulmonary artery and that his head kept changing shape. Rich thought tha t his blood was turning into powder and that a Nazi crime syndicate that was haunting him from high school was paying his mother money to poison him. So he did what any other red-blooded American would do under such duress. He became a vampire. A typically "disorganized" killer, Chase picked his victims randomly and left as much evidence as he could around his home and the crime scene. He drained his victim's blood, blended it with body organs and drank it to stop his own blood from turning into powder. He also took some body parts of his victims home to munch on later. It's seems that Ritchie should have never been taken off medication. Douglas Clark & Carol Bundy (6) ------------------------------- Doug considered himself the "king of the one-nights stands". He loved sex with prostitutes, especially real young ones from LA's notorious Sunset Strip. Carol, his girlfriend, was no Mother Teresa. She thought that murder was fun and liked photographing hookers sucking Doug's dick. He enjoyed shooting his victims as he came in their mouths. He also liked chopping their heads off. Once, for kicks, Carol applied make-up to a severed head and Doug took it to the shower for a little necrophilic fellatio. Carol told an old boyfriend about Doug's strange habits. When the old boyfriend threatened to tell police, Carol stabbed him to death and chopped off his head. She then confessed and blamed Doug for everything. Doug denied it and claimed that Carol and her former lover were the killers. Strangely he also begged for the death penalty and taunted the judge whenever he could. He was sentenced to death on February 15, 1983. Carol w as convicted of two killings. Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris (5+) ----------------------------------- While in prison Lawrence and Roy decided that when they got out it would be cool to kill a bunch of teen-age girls for kicks and record it on tape and film. By 1978 they started implementing the plan. They lured young girls inside their van dubbed the "Murder Mack" and brutally raped and killed them. On November 20, 1979 they were arrested for an assault in Hermosa Beach. While in custody Norris cracked and started babbling insanely about murder. In the Murder Mack the police found a tape recording of the final moments of one of their victims, Jaqueline Lamp, as well as pictures of five hundred smiling girls. Police identified nineteen missing girls in their stack of photos and believe that the two ex cons could be responsible for the murder of thirty or forty women. However, they were only convicted of five killings. Jerome Brudos (5) ----------------- Jerome Brudos started his career by preying on women and stealing their shoes. This foot fetishist from hell liked to dress in drag while he stalked his victims. In the late sixties he turned his innocent escapades into murder. He once removed a breast from one of his kills, hardened it with preservatives and kept it as a paper weight. He was also in the habit of removing their shoes, sometimes even with severed feet inside. He enjoyed taking pictures of himself and hi s dead friends dressed up in frilly underwear. And, of course, he kept a collection of stolen shoes that would have made Imelda Marcos jealous. Arthur Bishop (5) ----------------- A devout Mormon, Arthur Bishop liked to spend an unnatural amount of time with children. After being charged for embezzlement in Utah, the former Eagle Scout changed his name and disappeared. As "Roger Downs" he joined the Big Brother program and was fond of going on camping trips with the kids. He was also fond of molesting and sometimes murdering them. When the police took him in for routine questioning, he confessed to his crimes and admitted to molesting scores of children and fondling his victims after death. In true Mormon fashion he stated: "I'm glad you caught me, because I'd do it again." Bishop died by lethal injection on June 9, 1988. Georg Karl Grossman (4+) ------------------------ Another post-WWI-German degenerate that made a living selling his victim's flesh. Georg, a horrifying individual, was acquainted with every kind of perversion, even bestiality. This former butcher, after nights of heavy drinking, would bring prostitutes home, have sex with them, and chop them up and peddle them as beef or pork. He was arrested in August, 1921, when his landlord summoned the police to his door following a loud altercation. Inside his pad they found a freshly butchered lass ready to be chopped up. They also found evidence of at least three other divied up girls. The mad butcher laughed when he was given the death sentence and proceeded to hang himself in jail. Some believe that one of Georg's victims was Anastasia, the Russian grand duchess who escaped the Bolshevik firing squad and assumed the identity of the Polish peasant girl, Franziska Schamzkovski. Robert Rozier (4+) ------------------ As a football player, Rozier was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and later did time with the Oakland Raiders. In 1981, he lost his will to play the game, and after drifting around the country, he joined a radical black-supremacist Hebrew Israelite sect called the Temple of Love. The cult, led by Yahweh ben Yahweh is believed to be responsible for fourteen deaths and a series of firebombings. Rozier, perhaps due to his football background, was the muscle of the cult. In 1986 he was arrested for the murders of two ex members. Evidence also linked him to at least two other random killings unrelated to the sect. Michael Lupo (4+) ----------------- This former choir boy served in an Italian elite army commando unit before dedicating his life to sadomasochism and hairdressing. In 1975 Michael moved to London where he started as a hairdresser and worked his way up to owning a styling boutique. He also racked up about 4,000 gay lovers and developed a taste for the whip and built a modern torture chamber in his house. It all turned ugly in March of 1986 when Lupo was diagnosed with having AIDS. He then started his bl oody rampage against the gay night life scene. Over a period of two months he slaughtered four men who he picked up in gay bars and left their bodies slashed and smeared with excrement. After two potential victims escaped, police arrested Mike on May 15. He received four life sentences and presently police in Berlin, Hamburg, Los Angeles and NYC are investigating mutilation deaths that might be linked to Lupo's travels. Charles Meach (3) ----------------- On November 11, 1957, the day his parents took him out of reform school, Charlie went out and beat to death a 22-month-old girl. He later told the police he "wanted to know how it would feel." After serving 17 years in prison he got out on parole and, two months later, smoked his parents. Now he is serving a life sentence and hopefully they won't let him out again. Harvey Murray Glatman (3) ------------------------- As a child, Harvey enjoyed hanging himself while jerking off. The family physician told his parents that he would soon get over it and in the mean time they should "try to keep him busy." As an adult, Harvey never lost his fondness for ropes. Through classifieds adds he started meeting women using the old photographer-looking-for-models-trick. When the hopeful models arrived, he told them that he was shooting a bound and gagged picture for a pulp detective maga zine. Once tied Harvey raped the "models" repeatedly and drove them to the desert where he would choke them to death. In 1958 he was arrested when his next would-be victim seized his pistol after he shot her and waited for the police to arrive. In 1959 Glatman was gassed to death in San Quentin. William Heirens (3) ------------------- As a child William Heirens thought that all sex was dirty. Later he channeled his sexual desires into dressing up like a woman and masturbating to pictures of high ranking Nazis. He then proceeded to commit numerous fetish burglaries and three murders from which he claimed to have derived immense pleasure. He killed two women who caught him ransacking their homes and dismembered an eleven year old girl. In one of the crime scenes he wrote on the wall with lipstick: " For Heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself." He was caught on June 26, 1946. In his trial he said the crimes were perpetrated by his alter ego "George Murman". To this day, he thinks Murman still exists and writes notes for him . Ed Gein (2+) ------------ Meet America's Psychopath King, Ed Gein. Two movies, precursors to two genres, were made based on his exploits: 'Psycho' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. Ed once joked that he had a "collection of shrunken heads" at home but no one thought he was dead serious. As a child he grew up under the watch of his dominating mom. Once she died, he masturbated over her cadaver and got busy working on what would turn him into the Van Gogh of Crime. Ed wasn't too sure about his sexuality. He considered cutting off his dick, then thought about a sex change operation. Finally he settled on grave robbing and a strange type of transvestite necrophilia. To become a woman he would carve out the genitalia of female cadavers and wear them over his own. Ed had a knack for fashion and home decorating. In his farm he built The Sistine Chapel from Hell. A devout recycler, he found uses for all parts of the anatomy. He had a belt made out of nipples, a skin vest that he wore on special occ asions, mobiles made out of noses, skulls on his bedposts, cranial bowls for soup, drums made out of skin, and the beat goes on. His strangeness was uncovered when police came knocking on his door investigating two disappearances. Although he was only officially linked to two murders, a couple of "fresh" vaginas were found in his house that could not be matched to his known victims or any cemetery records. He was also suspected of killing his brother and two other men w ho disappeared near his farm. Many hav e tallied greater numbers than Ed, but few achieved his degree of weirdness. Unabom (2) ---------- The only serial bomber of the Archives. Unabom has been at it since 1978 mailing letter bombs to scientist, computer industry people and politicians. Although Unabom has only killed two, many have been severely injured by his lethal postal work. Still at large Unabom's latest strike was in Sacramento two days after the Oklahoma bombing. They tried it, they liked it, they did it again!

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