This has always been a topic of fascination for me. It takes a special kind of coldbloodedness to do what some of these people have done.

Richard Kuklinski
Ted Bundy
Gary Ridgway

These are just 3 of the most notorious I have researched. Bundy I find especially fascinating because he was essentially a normal guy. People liked him, he looked and appeared normal. He was involved in politics. He even worked at a suicide hotline center saving lives.

Yet he would stalk women, bludgeon, rape, dismember them, then have sex with their corpses and bury them. Then he took their skulls home as a trophy. Its difficult to fathom that someone who appeared and behaved normal 98% of the time could commit these acts.

In this thread we discuss the most notorious serial killers in human history and speculate on what caused them to do the things that they did.

Albert Fish. Heard Norm Macdonald talking about him in maybe the funniest bit of all time

I watched a documentary on Fish. Sick ****er.


I wonder if there are any active Bundys, Geins, Dahmers, etc.


When they were active, was the average member of the populace aware that a single person had been responsible for all that they did?

The most interesting ones are probably the ones that never get caught. Most likely some really smart and sick mofos out there.

Like Jack The Ripper for example

Ted Bundy for sure!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy

Read that whole thing. It's crazy that a guy can be reported for sexually assaulting underage males several times, and still be free to begin killing 33 people afterwards.

This is a must watch. Highly entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjTYwZKuyBs

Carl Panzram


I actually know a guy irl that is damaged like this guy was from reform school. He's mentioned numerous times at the poker table how he was abused in reform school, and then has made numerous comments to other people he is talking with about how he will take down their pants and rape them right here on the spot. Just a very scary guy with some definite mental illness that I always try to keep on the good side of, while also keeping my distance.

I dont understand some of these stories. "Carl Panzram raped and sodomized over 1000 men and boys".

OK so it like this then apparently. He rapes a grown man, and then its just on to the next! No getting caught, nothing. Just endless raping of people while nobody does anything,

It just doesnt make any sense.

The 20's and 30's were a different time, beast.

We still had law enforcement. And also less ways to get away from crime scenes.

can't believe no one's mentioned the sugar industry

Not cereal killers.

I've read a ton of books about serial killers.

Killer Clown (Gacy) was the one that got me hooked. Two other excellent ones are Helter Skelter (Manson family) and The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.

Male rape is still under reported, I think it's something like 1 in 10, so I can imagine it would have been even worse back then.

In Gacys case, it apparently didn't matter if it was reported. Just unreal.

Vlad the impaler?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4181948.html

Yeah, you pretty much just pull up your pants and strap on your belt a little tighter.


Previous thread on serial killers

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...llers-1432774/

What about "The Lopper?"

Genghis Khan

..oh, wait

The Iceman interviews are great. Must watch.

What is interesting is that he got away with his crimes. The case was completely cold for 13 years. He opened up his own case not by killing people, but by starting to send letters to the media. He probably wanted to get caught, either for relief or perhaps wanted to claim the notoriety.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader

Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County, Kansas between 1974 and 1991.

He is also known as the BTK Killer or the BTK Strangler. "BTK" stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill", which was his infamous signature. He sent letters describing the details of the murders to police and local news outlets before his arrest. After a decade-long hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea. He is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas.

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