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• ✔ Albert Fish
  • Popularly known as ‘The Boogey Man’, etc
  • A child molester, rapist, and cannibal who once claimed that he “had a child in every state”, and that his victim count is over a hundred
  • Came from a family with history of various mental illnesses
  • When his father died, his mother put him in an orphanage where he was constantly abused physically... he later began to enjoy the pain inflicted upon him
  • When his mother was able to remove him from the orphanage, he started a relationship with a young boy who introduced him to the practice of consuming urine and feces and he began frequenting public baths in order to watch younger boys undress
  • He developed an obsession with castration after having a male lover take him to a wasworks museum, where he was fascinated by a bisection of a penis
  • He once attempted to castrate a 19-year-old with a pair of scissors, but fled the place after being frightened by the look of agony on the young boy's face
  • He also indulged in self-harm and would lodged needles in his pelvic region. He also once inserted a wool doused with lighter fluid up his anus and set himself on fire
  • His targeted victims are usually mentally-challenged or African-American on the basis of his assumption that these are people who would not be missed once gone
  • Sent a letter to the family of his victim in which he narrated how he murdered and consumed the little girl... It said (complete with Fish's misspellings and grammatical errors): “It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did not fuck her tho I could of had I wished. She died a virgin.” ...this letter later led to his arrest
• Anatoly Onoprienko
• Angel Resendez
• Armin Meiwes
• Boston Strangler
• BTK — Dennis Rader
• Celluloid Serial Killers
• Charles Cullen
• Charles Manson
• Charles Sobraj
• David Berkowitz
• Dennis Nilsen
• Dorothea Puente
• Dr. Harold Shipman
• ✔ Eddie Gein
  • The inspiration behind the character Buffalo Bill from the movie 'The Silence of the Lambs'
  • Snatched bodies and kept mutilated parts at home from bowls made out of human skulls, vulvae kept in a shoe box, noses, to masks made out of human skin
  • Crime scene photos: 1, 2, 3 - bowl made out of human skull
• Edmund Kemper
• Fred & Rose West
• Gary Leon Ridgway
• Graham Young
• Green River Murders
• H.H. Holmes
• Henry Lee Lucas
• ✔ Jack the Ripper
  • One of the most popular serial killers from the 1800s; was never identified
  • Targeted prostitutes; mutilated their bodies, often left them with missing organs: heart, uterus, and/or kidney
  • Sent at least four letters to the press and police, some of which experts doubt were from the same person
  • Crime scene photos: 1, 2, 3
• Jack the Stripper
• ✔ Jeffrey Dahmer
  • My personal favorite!
  • Showed interests in dead creatures as early as the age of 6; as a kid, he roamed around the neighborhood collected road kills or other dead animals and dissected them in their basement
  • At age 18, he killed his first victim, a hitchhiker he invited to his place for a drink and bludgeoned to death when he refused to stay
  • Targeted male victims of no particular age and race; engaged in cannibalism; kept genitals of his victims at home; and even injected his victims' brains with boiling water or hydrochloric acid whilst still alive
  • Crime scene photos: 1, 2
• Jerry Brudos
• John Norman Collins
• ✔ John Wayne Gacy
  • Known as the "Killer Clown"
  • Sexually assaulted and murdered boys and young men and kept them under the crawl space of his house
  • Crime scene photo: 1
• Joseph Edward Duncan III
• Juan Corona
• Kitty Genovese
• London Hammer Murders
• Michael Mullen
• Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka
• Pedro Lopez
• Robert Pickton
• ✔ Ted Bundy
  • One of the most prolific serial killers in America
  • Targeted college women, often posing as a disabled man in need of help to lure his victims into his car
  • Claimed to be "one of the most cold-hearted bastard you will ever meet". He tried to woo an ex-girlfriend back who initially broke up with him because she thought he didn't have anything in the future for him. When he managed to win her heart back as a better, more dedicated professional Bundy. They were engaged and all of a sudden, Bundy stopped returning her calls and when she asked her what happened, he replied with a "I don't know what you're talking about." and cut all kinds of communication with her. When asked why he did that, he explained that he "just wanted to prove to himself that he could have married her"
  • He took his victims' bodies to a secondary crime scene where he would come back to perform sexual acts on the bodies until the decomposition process makes intercourse impossible
  • On some occasions, he would simply break into homes and bludgeon the people to death in their sleep
  • Crime scene photos: 1, 2, 3
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• The 'Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run'
• The Night Stalker: Richard Ramirez
• The Rostov Ripper
• The Zodiac Killer