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KILLER FACTS


Robert Ressler

It was FBI agent Robert K. Ressler, who first coined the term "Serial Killer".

Terrible Triad
There are three common characteristics found present in most serial killers during there childhood. These are known as the terrible triad. There is no guarantee that if all three conditions are present, the child will for-certain, grow up to become a serial killer. But they are early warning signs to be aware of. The conditions are Bed-wetting, Fire-starting and Animal torture.

Bed-wetting-at least 60% of serial killers were wetting the bed past the age of 12.

Fire-starting-a large amount of serial killers have a fascination with arson, or started fires as children.

Animal torture-many serial killers, before moving to human victims, start with small, or dead animals.

The Early Years
Most studies show that potential killers became solidified in their loneliness first during the age of 8 to 12; such isolation is considered the single most important aspect of their psychological makeup.

loneliness and isolation do not always mean that the potential killers are introverted and shy; some are, but others are gregarious with other men, and are good talkers. The outward orientation of the latter masks there inner isolation.

Studies also show every-single-murderer were subjected to serious emotional or physical abuse during their childhoods.

For more infomation on serial killers check out these books

* The Serial Killers-writen by Colin Wilson & Donald Seaman
* Cannibalism-writen by Brian Marriner
* Whoever Fights Monsters-writen by Robert K. Ressler & Tom Shachtman
* Killing For Company-writen by Brian Masters
* Encyclopaedia Of Murder-writen by Colin Wilson & Patricia Pitman
* the Last Victim-writen by Jason Moss
* The Murder Almanac-writen by Richard & Molly Whittington-Egdan


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John Reginald Christie

10 Rillington Place

John Christie's murder method was to lure women to his house, get them drunk, and then gas them. Once they were unconscious, he stranged them and finished off by raping their corpses.

Rillington Place was a sleazy deadend road in Notting Hill, London. The three-story terraced houses had once been the homes of the well-to-do Victorian families. By the early 1950s they were divided into flats. Number 10 was at the far end. And from the street it appeared no different from the others, but what was found inside one March morning in 1953 made it one of the most infamous addresses in England.

On November 30, 1949, a man named Timothy Evans returned home to find his wife and 14-month-old daughter had been strangled to death. With Shock and Panic, he fled London. A few days later, he walked into a police station in Wales and told the authorities about his wife and child. He was then charged and tried for both murders. Evans confessed to the murders, but he also blamed his neighbor, John Christie, for the deaths. Evans was found guilty, and he was hanged in 1950.

John Reginald Halliday Christie, was said to be a shy man. Some thought him affable, while others-mainly women-found him repulsive. He had a strange whispering voice and liked to creep around the house wearing primsolls. It was later proven that he was a compulsive masturbator; all his close were covered with seaman stains including his primsols. In december 1952, his wife disappears, and about this time he starts to bring prostitutes back to his flat. Then Christie disappears and is not seen for several months.

On March 24, 1953, another tenant, Beresford Brown, was examining the walls of the gloomy kitchen at the back of the house. He lived upstairs, but the landlord said he could use the kitchen of the ground floor flat, because the tenant had skipped, owing several months rent. While inspecting the kitchen he tapped on a section of the wall. It sounded hollow, and turned out to be a door, papered over. When he forced the door open, the cupboard contained three dead bodys, all of which were prostitutes. The authorities soon arrived, when they dug-up Christie's garden, more buried body parts and bones were uncovered. Some bones were even used to prop-up the fence. They found Mrs Christie under the floorboards of the front bedroom. The grisley dicovery at 10 Rillington Place triggered a nationwide hunt for John Reginald Christie.

Christie had not gone far. He had simply booked into a local dosshouse. He was gazing into a nearby river at Putney Bridge when recognized by PC Thomas Ledger, and when asked by Ledger "are you John Christie", Christie replied "you are quite right, officer; I am Christie." PC Thomas Ledger escorted Christie to Putney police station. Where he confessed to the murder of his wife, and later several others. He was eventually charged with 9 murders, and was hanged at Pentonville, on July 15, 1953.

10 Rillington Place became the title of a book and later a film, but you will not find it on any map of London; it no longer exists. The name of the street was changed, and number 10 was pulled down.

John "Reg" Christie

Mrs Christie's body, removed from it's secret grave


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Henry Lee Lucas

Blood, Sex and Death

Lucas might be the most evil killer ever. But it is equally possible that most of his victims were products of his highly active imagination

Henry Lee Lucas, was born on 23 August, 1936, in the backwoods of Montgomery County, Virginia. His mother, born Nellie Viola Dixon, was a snuff-chewing moonshiner and prostitute with legendery BO and an indiscriminate and infanit talent for violence-emotional and physical. Viola took care to destroy any chance of normal human affection young Henry Lee may have had. As he said "she wouldn't allow me to love nothin'". Not content with telling him constantly that he was "born evil", she beat him mercilessly with a stick at any and every opportunity. His mother even forced him to stay and watch as she had sex with her clients, beating him if he looked away.

When Lucas was about ten-years-old, either a relative or one of Viola's boyfriends showed Henry a new pleasure. One of them took him of into the hills one day, slit a calf's throat, then had sex with the dying creatures carcass. Then he invited Henry to take his turn. He did. Blood, suffering, death and sexual gratification were early burned into Henry Lucas's damaged mind as being one and the same thing.

Lucas, by his own acount, killed his first woman when he was 14 or 15 years old. The victim was 17, waiting at a bus stop when Lucas cornered her. He beat her senseless, tried to rape her and, when she came round and began to struggle, he throttled her to death.

It was in March, 1960 that Lucas was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison for murdering his mother. Just over a year and several suicide attempts later, he was admitted to the Ionia State Mental Hospital, where he was subjected to massive treatments with electric shocks, brutal behaviour therapy, and heavy doses of tranquillisers and anti-depressants. He spent four years in the mental hospital before returning to prison. Then in June, 1970 he was released.

How far he got at this stage is open to question. He claimed to have killed two women immediatly on his release, "almost within sight of the prison walls", although state authorities cannot confirm the deaths. He was sentenced in December 1971, to a four-to five-year term for attempting to abduct a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint. He went back to Jackson, and stayed there until 29 August 1975, six days after his 39th birthday. Precisely when Lucas began killing after his release from Jackson in 75 is not clear. He first went to Perryville, Maryland, then to Chatham, Pennsylvania, staying briefly with relatives. In November, he was in Port Deposit, Michigan, and was thought to have already teamed-up with a petty theif named Ottis Toole. They had a few things in common, one being an unhealthy interest in rape and death.

Henry left Port Deposit in Febuary 1979 and headed for Florida, because his half-sister had threatened to report him for sexually abusing her grand-daughter. In early October 1979, accompanied by Ottis Toole's young niece Frieda Lorraine, known as Becky Powell, ten-year-old nephew Frank and Ottis himself, Henry saw a woman by the roadside, bent over the engine of her black Dodge Diplomat sedan. Her naked body was later found on 8 October, she had been stabbed 37 times. In May 1980, the two men and two children headed west, reaching Tucson, Arizona, before the car broke down, and they began their way back to Jacksonville.

For food, they would go to missions and soup kitchens; for cash they sold their blood. For drink, they'd rob and kill. They would rape and kill anyway, for fun or out of a profound hatred for humanity or just because Lucas, at least, prefferred his women dead before he had sex with them.

Just how many people Henry Lee Lucas killed, with or without the willing assistance of Ottis Toole, will probably never be known. While Lucas has confessed to over 600 murders, he has been linked with reasonable certainty to considerably fewer.

Henry Lee Lucas would eventually kill fifteen-year-old Becky Powell, who, by this time was said to be his common law wife. And Kathrine Rich, an elderly woman with whom they had earlier been staying with. Brought in for questioning over the disappearance of Mrs Rich, Lucas stuck to his story and was released.

In June 1983, two Texas officers discovered Lucas had been in illegal possession of a deadly weapon. Four to five days later, in his cell, he began the long chronicle of his astounding and appalling confessions. In the months and years that followed, Lucas claimed to have committed over a 1,000 murders. Law officers from Canada and 40 other states stood in line to question him on over 3,000 unsolved killings on their books. As a result, police forces from more than 20 states are satisfied that they have confirmed his involvement in 157 homicides and have closed the files on them.

To many peoples surprise, one of Henry's alleged victims, a Virginia school teacher, was found to be alive and well as Lucas was charged with her murder.

Henry Lee Lucas, was convicted of 11 murders out of the 600 or more he first claimed. On June 27, 1998, Lucas had his sentence changed from death, to life imprisonment. There was overwhelming evidence to prove that Henry Lucas couldn't have committed some of the murders he had earlier confessed to.

Lucas takes officers to where he dumped an unidentified victim

Officer stands with lucas and his parnter in crime Ottis Toole




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Common Characteristics of Serial Killers

Besides the obvious ones - sick minds, sociopathic personalities, unspeakable desires, etc. - serial killers tend to share a number of characteristics. In a paper presented to the International Association of Forensic Sciences in 1984, FBI Special Agent Robert K. Ressler and several of his colleagues listed the following "general characteristics" of serial sex-murderers:

1. Over 90 percent of them are white males
2. They tend to be intelligent, with IQs in the "bright normal" range.
3. In spite of their high IQs, they do poorly in school, have a hard time holding down jobs, and often work as unskilled laborers.
4. They tend to come from markedly unstable families. Typically, they are abandoned as children by their fathers and raised by domineering mothers.
5. Their families often have criminal psychiatric, and alcoholic histories.
6. They hate their fathers. They hate their mothers.
7. They are commonly abused as children - psychologically, physically, and sexually. Sometimes, the abuser is a stranger. Sometimes, it is a friend. Often, it is a family member.
8. Many of them end up spending time in institutions as children and have records of early psychiatric problems.
9. They have a high rate of suicide attempts.
10. They are intensely interested from an early age in voyeurism, fetishism, and sadomasochistic pornography.


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History Of Serial Killers

Reviewing the history of serial murder is a tricky proposition, since it's hard to know exactly where to begin. On the one hand, serial killing seems like a uniquely modern phenomenon, a symptom of the various ills afflicting late-twentieth-century America - alienation, social decay, sexual violence, rampant crime, etc. On the other hand, the savage, sadistic impulses that underlie serial murder are undoubtedly as old as human kind.

Any historical survey of serial murder would have to begin at least as far back as ancient Rome, when the Emperor Caligula was busily indulging his taste for torture and perversion. During the Middle Ages, depraved Aristocrats like Gilles de Rais (the original Bluebeard) and Elizabeth Bathory (the Blood Countess) fed their unholy lusts on the blood of hundreds of victims, while psychopathic peasants like Gilles Ganier and Peter Stubbe butchered their victims with such bestial ferocity that they were believed to be literal werewolves. Other homicidal monsters of the premodern era include the Scottish cannibal Sawney Beane and Vlad the Impaler, the real-life Dracula.

Most crime buffs agree that the first serial sex-killer of the modern era was Jack The Ripper, whose crime - the ghastly slaughter of five London streetwalkers - sent shock waves throughout Victorian England. One hundred years later, the serial slaying of prostitutes has become such a commonplace activity that (to cite just one of many examples) when, in July 1995, a former warehouse clerk named William Lester Suff was convicted of killing thirteen hookers in Southern California, the media barely noted the event. That shift sums up the history of serial murder in the twentieth century: its appalling transformation from a monstrous anomaly into an everyday horror.

Jack the Ripper's American contemporary, H. H. Holmes, who confessed to twenty-seven murders in the late 1890s, is regarded as America's first documented serial killer. Two full decades would pass before another one appeared on the scene: the unknown maniac dubbed the "Axeman of New Orleans," who terrorized that city between 1918 and 1919.

Though it was a violent and lawless decade, the Roaring Twenties produced only two authentic serial killers: Earle Leonard Nelson - the serial strangler nicknamed the Gorilla Murderer - and the viciously depraved Carl Panzram. Serial killers were equally few and far between in the 1930s and 1940s. The cannibalistic pedophile Albert Fish, and the anonymous psycho known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run (aka the Cleveland Torso Killer) are the only known serial killers of Depression-era America. The roster of 1940s serial killers is also limited to a pair of names: Jake Bird, a homicidal burglar who confessed to a dozen axe murders, and William Heirens, famous for his desperate, lipstick-scrawled plea: "For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself."

It wasn't until the post-Work War II period that serial murder became rampant in this country. Its shadow was already beginning to spread during the sunny days of the Eisenhower era. The 1950s witnessed the depredations of Wisconsin ghoul Ed Gein; the voyeuristic horrors of Californian Harvey Murray Glatman (who photographed his bound, terrorized victims before murdering them); the crimes of homicidal scam artists Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez (the Lonely Hearts Killers); and the bloody rampage of Charles Starkweather, who slaughtered a string of victims as he hot-rodded across the Nebraska badlands.

The situation became even grimmer during the 1960s, a period that produced such infamous figures as Melvin "Sex Beast" Rees, Albert "Boston Strangler" DeSalvo, Richard Speck, Charles Manson, and the still-unknown Zodiac. By the time the 1970s rolled around, the problem had become so dire that, for the first time, law enforcement officials felt the need to define this burgeoning phenomenon as a major category of crime. The 1970s was the decade of Berkowitz and Bundy, Kemper and Gacy, Bianchi and Buono (the Hillside Stranglers), and more.

By the 1980s some criminologists were bandying words like plague and epidemic to characterize the problem. Though these terms smack of hysteria, it is nevertheless true that serial homicide has become so common in our country that most of its perpetrators stir up only local interest. Only the most ghastly of these killers, the ones who seem more like mythic monsters than criminals - Jeffrey Dahmer, for example - capture the attention of the entire nation and end up as creepy household names.

In view of the grim chronicle, it's hard not to agree with Voltaire's famous definition. "History," he wrote, "is little else than a picture of human crime and misfortune."

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Aileen Wournos

She has been heralded in tabloid headlines and on television talk shows as America's "first female serial killer." In fact, Aileen Wournos was neither the first nor the worst, although she did display a curiously "masculine" approach to homicide. Suspected of at least seven murders, sentenced to die in four of the six cases she confessed to police, Wournos still maintains that some or all of her admitted killings were performed in self-defense, resisting violent assaults by men whom she solicited while working as a prostitute. Ironically, information uncovered by journalists in November 1992 suggests that in one case, at least, her story may well be true.

America's future media monster was born Aileen Pittman in Rochester, Michigan, on February 29, 1956. Her teenage parents separated months before she was born, father Leo Pittman moving on to serve time in Kansas and Michigan mental hospitals as a deranged child molester. Mother Diane Pratt recalls Aileen and her older brother Keith as "crying, unhappy babies," and their racket prompted her to leave them with her parents in early 1960. On March 18 of that year, maternal grandparents Lauri and Britta Wournos legally adopted the children as their own.

Aileen's childhood showed little improvement from there. At age six she suffered scarring facial burns while she and Keith were setting fires with lighter fluid. Aileen later told police that she had sex with Keith at an early age, but acquaintance doubt the story and Keith is unable to speak for himself, having died of throat cancer in 1976. At any rate, Aileen was clearly having sex with someone, for she turned up pregnant in her 14th year, delivering her son at a Detroit maternity hospital on March 23, 1971. Grandmother Britta died on July 7, and although her death was blamed on liver failure, Diane Pratt suspected her father of murder, claiming he threatened to kill Aileen and Keith if they were not removed from his home.

In fact, they became wards of the court, Aileen soon dropping out of school to work the streets full-time, earning her way as a teenage hooker, drifting across the country as the spirit moved her. In May 1974, using the alias "Sandra Kretsch," she was jailed in Jefferson County, Colorado, for disorderly conduct, drunk driving, and firing a .22-caliber pistol from a moving vehicle. Additional charges of failure to appear were filed when she skipped town ahead of her trial. Back in Michigan on July 13, 1976, Aileen was arrested in Antrim Country for simple assault and disturbing the peace after she lobbed a cue ball at a bartender's head. Outstanding warrants from Troy, Michigan, were also served on charges of driving without a license and consuming alcohol in a motor vehicle. On August 4, Aileen settled her debt to society with a $105 fine.

The money came, at least indirectly, from her brother. Keith's death on July 17 surprised her with a life insurance payment of $10,000, squandered within two months on luxuries including a new car, which Aileen promptly wrecked. In late September, broke again, she thumbed a ride to Florida, anxious to sample a warmer climate, hoping to practice her trade in the sun. It was a change of scene, but Aileen's attitude was still the same, and she inevitably faced more trouble with the law.

On May 20, 1981, Wournos was arrested in Edgewater, Florida, for armed robbery of a convenience store. Sentenced to prison on May 4, 1982, she was released 13 months later, on June 30, 1983. Her next arrest, on May 1, 1984, was for trying to pass forged checks at a bank in Key West. On November 30, 1985, named as a suspect in the theft of a pistol and ammunition in Pasco County, Aileen borrowed the alias "Lori Grody" from an aunt in Michigan. Eleven days later, the Florida Highway Patrol cited "Grody" for driving without a valid license. On January 4, 1986, Aileen was arrested in Miami under her own name, charged with auto theft, resisting arrest, and obstruction by false information; police found a .38-caliber revolver and a box of ammunition in the stolen car. On June 2, 1986, Volusia Country deputies detained "Lori Grody" for questioning after a male companion accused her of pulling a fun in his car and demanding $200. In spite of her denials, Aileen was carrying spare ammunition on her person, and a .22 pistol was found beneath her passenger seat she occupied. A week later, using the new alias "Susan Blahovec," she was ticketed for speeding in Jefferson County, Florida. The citation includes a telling observation: "Attitude poor. Thinks she's above the law."

A few days after that incident, Aileen met lesbian Tyria Moore in a Daytona gay bar. They soon became lover, and while the passion faded after a year or so, they remained close friends and traveling companions, more or less inseparable for the next four years. On July 4, 1987, police in Daytona Beach detained "Tina Moore" and "Susan Blahovec" for questions, on suspicion of slugging a man with a beer bottle. "Blahovec" was alone on December 18 when highway patrolmen cited her for walking on the interstate and possessing a suspended driver's license. Once again, the citation noted "Attitude poor," and "Susan" proved it over the next two months with threatening letters mailed to the circuit court clerk on January 11 and February 9, 1988.

A month later, Wournos was trying a new approach and a new alias. On March 12, 1988, "Cammie Marsh Greene" accused a Daytona Beach bus driver of assault, claimed he pushed her off his bus following an argument; Tyria Moore was listed as a witness to the incident. On July 23, a Daytona Beach landlord accused Moore and "Susan Blahovec" of vandalizing their apartment, ripping out carpets, and painting the walls dark brown without his approval. In November 1988, "Susan Blahovec" launched a six day campaign of threatening calls against a Zephyrhills supermarket, following an altercation over lottery tickets.

By 1989, Aileen's demeanor was increasingly erratic and belligerent. Never one to take an insult lightly, she now went out of her way to provoke confrontations, seldom traveling without a loaded pistol in her purse. She worked the bars and truck stops, thumbing rides to snag a trick when all else failed, supplementing her prostitute's income with theft when she could. Increasingly, with Moore, she talked about the many troubles in her life and a yearning for revenge.

Richard Mallory, a 51-year-old electrician from Palm Harbor, was last seen alive by coworkers on November 30, 1989. His car was found abandoned at Ormond Beach the next day, his wallet and personal papers scattered nearby, along with several condoms and a half-empty bottle of vodka. On December 13, his fully dressed corpse was found in the woods northwest of Daytona Beach, shot three times in the chest with a .22 pistol. Police searching for a motive in the murder learned that Mallory had been divorced five times, earning a reputation as a "heavy drinker" who was "very paranoid" and "very much into porno and the topless bar scene." A former employee described him as "mental," but police came up empty in their search for a criminal record. They could find "nothing dirty" on the victim, finally concluding that he was just a paranoid womanizer.

The investigation was stalled at that point on June 1, 1990, when a nude "John Doe" victim was found, shot six times with a .22 and dumped in the woods 40 miles north of Tampa. By June 7, the corpse had been identified from dental records as 43-year-old David Spears, last seen leaving his Sarasota workplace on May 19. Spears had planned to visit his ex-wife in Orlando that afternoon, but he never made it. Ironically, his boss had spotted the dead man's missing pickup truck on May 25, parked along I-75 south of Gainesville, but there the trail went cold.

By the time Spears was identified, a third victim had already been found. Charles Carskaddon, age 40, was a part-time rodeo worker from Booneville, Missouri, missing since May 31. He had vanished somewhere along I-75, en route to meet his fianc閑 in Tampa, his naked corpse found 30 miles south of the Spears murder site on June 6. Carskaddon had been shot nine times with a .22-caliber weapon, suggesting a pattern to officers who still resisted the notion of a serial killer at large. On June 7, Carskaddon's car was found in Marion County, a .45 automatic and various personal items listed as stolen from the vehicle.

Peter Siems, a 65-year-old merchant seaman turned missionary, was last seen on June 7, 1990, when he left his Jupiter, Florida, home to visit relatives in Arkansas. Siems never arrived, and a missing-person report was filed with police on June 22. No trace of the man had been found by July 4 when his car was wrecked and abandoned in Orange Springs, Florida. Witnesses described the vehicle's occupants as two women, one blond and one brunette, providing police sketch artists with a likeness of each. The blond was injured and bleeding. Police lifted a bloody palm print from the vehicle's trunk.

Eugene Burress, age 50, left the Ocala sausage factory where he worked to make his normal delivery rounds on July 30, 1990. A missing-person report was filed when he had not returned by 2:00 A.M. the next day, and his delivery van was found two hours later. On August 4, his fully dressed body was found by a family picnicking in the Ocala National Forest. Burress had been shot twice with a .22-caliber pistol in the back and chest. Nearby, police found his credit cards, business receipts, and an empty cash bag from a local bank.

Fifty-six-year-old Dick Humphreys was a retired Alabama police chief, lately employed by the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services to investigate child abuse claims in Ocala. His wife reported him missing when he failed to return home from work on the night of September 11, 1990, and Humphreys was found the next day in an undeveloped subdivision, shot seven times with a .22 pistol, his pants pockets turned inside out. On September 19, his car was found abandoned and stripped of license plates behind a defunct service station in Live Oak. Impounded on September 25, the car was not traced to Humphreyes until October 13, the same day his discarded badge and other personal belongings were found in Lake County, 70 miles southeast of the murder scene.

Victim number seven was 60-year-old Walter Antonio, a trucker from Merritt Island who doubled as a reserve police office for Brevard Country. Found in the woods northwest of Cross City on November 19, 1990, he had been shot three times in the back and once in the head. Antonio was nude but for socks, his clothes later found in a remote area of neighboring Taylor County. His car, meanwhile, was found back in Brevard County on November 24. Police determined that Antonio's killer had stolen a distinctive gold ring along with his badge, nightstick, handcuffs, and flashlight.

By that time, journalists had noted the obvious pattern detectives were reluctant to accept, and media exposure forced authorities to go public with their suspect sketches on November 30, 1990. Over the next three weeks, police received four calls identifying the suspects as Tyria Moore and "Lee Blahovec." Their movements were traced through motel receipts, detectives learning that "Blahovec" also liked to call herself "Lori Grody" and "Cammie Marsh Greene." Fingerprint comparisons did the rest, naming "Blahovec/Grody/Greene" as Aileen Wournos, placing her at the scene where Peter Siems's car was wrecked in July, but it still remained for officers to track the women down.

Meanwhile, "Cammie Greene" was busy pawning items stolen from her victims and pocketing some extra cash. On December 6, she pawned Richard Mallory's camera and radar detector in Daytona, moving on to Ormond Beach with a box of tools stolen from David Spears. (She also left a thumbprint behind in Ormond Beach, identical to that of Lori Grody) The next day, in Volusia County, "Greene" pawned Walter Antonio's ring, later identified by his fianc閑 and the jeweler who sized it.

With mug shots and a list of names in hand, it was a relatively simple matter to trace Aileen Wournos, though her rootless lifestyle delayed the arrest for another month. On January 9, 1991, she was seized at the Last Resort, a biker bar in Harbor Oaks, detained on outstanding warrants for "Lori Grody" while police finished building their murder case.  A day later, Tyria Moore was traced to her sister's home in Pennsylvania, where she agreed to help police. Back in Florida, detectives arranged a series of telephone conversations between Moore and Wournos. Tyria begged Aileen to confess for Moore's sake and spare her from prosecution as an accomplice. One conversation led police to a storage warehouse Aileen had rented, a search revealing tools stolen from David Spears, the nightstick taken from Walter Antonio, another camera, and an electric razor belonging to Richard Mallory.

On January 16, 1991, Wournos summoned detectives and confessed to six killings, all allegedly performed in self-defense. She denied killing Peter Siems, whose body was still missing, and likewise disclaimed any link to the murder of a "John Doe" victim shot to death with a .22-caliber weapon in Brooks County, Georgia, and found in an advanced state of decay on May 5, 1990. (No charges were filed in that case.) "I shot 'em 'cause to me it was like a self-defending thing," she told police, "because I felt if I didn't shoot 'em and I didn't kill 'em, first of all卛f they survived, my ass would be getting' in trouble for attempted murder, so I'm up shit's creek on that one anyway, and if I didn't kill 'em, you know, of course, I mean I had to kill 'em卭r, it's like retaliation, too. It's like, 'You *****s, you were going to hurt me.'"

Within two weeks of her arrest, Aileen and her attorney had sold movie rights to her story. At the same time, three top investigators on her case retained their own lawyer to field offers from Hollywood, cringing with embarrassment when their unseemly haste was publicly revealed. In self-defense, the officers maintained that they were moved to sell their version of the case by "pure intentions," planning to put the money in "a victim's fund." To a man, they denounced exposure of their scheme as the malicious work of brother officers, driven by their jealousy at being cut out of the deal.

A bizarre sideshow to the pending murder trial began in late January 1991 with the appearance of Arlene Pralle as Aileen's chief advocate. A 44-year-old rancher's wife and "born-again" Christian, Pralle advised Wournos in her first letter to prison that "Jesus told me to write you." Soon, they were having daily telephone conversations at Pralle's expense, Arlene arranging interviews for Wournos and herself and becoming a fixture on tabloid talk shows from coast to coast. In Pralle's words, their relationship was "soul binding. We're like Jonathan and David in the Bible. It's as though part of me is trapped in jail with her. We always know what the other is feeling and thinking. I just wish I was Houdini. I would get her out of there. If there was a way, I would do it, and we could go and be vagabonds forever." Instead, Pralle did the next best thing, legally adopting Wournos as her "daughter."

Aileen's trial for the murder of Richard Mallory opened on January 13, 1992. Eleven days later, Wournos took the stand as the only defense witness, repeating her tale of a violent rape and beating at Mallory's hands, insisting that she shot him dead in self-defense, using her pistol only after he threatened her life. With no hard evidence to support her claim, jurors rejected the story, deliberating a mere 90 minutes before they convicted Aileen of first-degree murder on January 27. "I'm innocent!" she shouted when the verdict was announced. "I was raped! I hope you get raped! Scumbags of America!" The jury recommended death on January 29, and the following day Aileen was formally sentenced to die. In April, she pled guilty to the murders of victims Burress, Humphreys, and Spears, with a second death sentence imposed on May 7, 1992.

Around the same time, Aileen offered to show police where the corpse of Peter Siems was hidden near Beaufort, South Carolina. Authorities flew her to the Piedmont State, but nothing was found at the designated site, Daytona police insisting that Wournos created the ruse to get a free vacation from jail. They speculate that Siems was dumped in a swamp near I-95 north of Jacksonville, but his body has never been found.

The Wournos case took an ironic twist on November 10, 1992, with reporter Michele Gillen's revelations on Dateline NBC. Thus far, Aileen's defenders and Florida prosecutors alike had failed to unearth any criminal record for Richard Mallory that would substantiate Aileen's claim of rape and assault. In the official view, Mallory was "clean," if somewhat paranoid and over-sexed. Gillen, though, had no apparent difficulty finding out that Mallory had served 10 years for violent rape in another state, facts easily obtained by running his name through the FBI's computer network.

"The fascinating part about this," Gillen said, "is here is a woman who for the past year has been screaming that she didn't get a fair trial and that everyone was rushing to make a TV movie about here - and in reality that comes true." (The first TV movie depicting Aileen aired on a rival network one week to the day after Gillen's report.) Even so, Gillen stopped short of calling for Aileen's release. "She's a sick woman who blew those men away," Gillen said, "But that's no reason for the state to say 'She's confessed to killing men; we don't have to do our homework."

In early October of 2002 her execution was stayed by Jeb Bush in order to perform psychiatric exams.  The stay was lifted when it was determined that she knew what she had done and that she was being executed.  Aileen Wournos was executed on October 9, 2002 by lethal injection.


- kisah aileen wournos ni dah difilemkan dan pun kuar .. pelakon yang pegang watak aileen wournous ni ialah charlize theron dan dibantu oleh christina ricci


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Wayne Williams

The curious and controversial string of deaths that sparked a two-year reign of terror in Atlanta, Georgia, has been labeled "child murders," even though a suspect - ultimately blamed for the 23 of 30 "official" homicides - was finally convicted only in the deaths of two adult ex-convicts. Today, about two decades after that suspect's arrest, the case remains, in many minds, an unsolved mystery.

Investigation of the case began, officially, on July 28, 1979. That afternoon, a woman hunting empty cans and bottles in Atlanta stumbled on a pair of corpses, carelessly concealed in roadside undergrowth. One victim, shot with a .22-caliber weapon, was identified as 14-year-old Edward Smith, reported missing on July 21. The other was 13-year-old Alfred Evans, last seen alive on July 25; the coroner ascribed his death to "probable" asphyxiation. Both dead boys, like all of those to come, were African-American.

On September 4, Milton Harvey, age 14, vanished during a neighborhood bike ride. His body was recovered three weeks later, but the cause of death remains officially "unknown." Yusef Bell, a nine-year-old, was last seen alive when his mother sent him to the store on October 21. Found dead in an abandoned school November 8, he had been manually strangled by a powerful assailant.

Angel Lenair, age 12, was the first recognized victim of 1980. Reported missing on March 4, she was found six days later, tied to a tree with her hands bound behind her. The first female victim, she had been sexually abused and strangled; someone else's panties were extracted from her throat.

On March 11, Jeffrey Mathis vanished on an errand to the store. Eleven months would pass before recovery of his skeletal remains, advanced decomposition ruling out a declaration on the cause of death. On May 18, 14-year-old Eric Middlebrooks left home after receiving a telephone call from persons unknown. Found the next day, his death was blamed on head injuries, inflicted with a blunt instrument.

The terror escalated that summer. On June 9, Christopher Richardson, 12, vanished en route to a neighborhood swimming pool. Latonya Wilson was abducted from her home on June 22, the night before her seventh birthday, bringing Federal agents into the case. The following day, 10-year-old Aaron Wyche was reported missing by his family. Searchers found his body on June 24, lying beneath a railroad trestle, his neck broken. Originally dubbed an accident, Aaron's death was subsequently added to the growing list of dead and missing blacks.

Anthony Carter, age nine, disappeared while playing near his home on July 6, 1980; recovered the following day, he was dead from multiple stab wounds. Earl Terrell joined the list on July 30, when he vanished from a public swimming pool. Skeletal remains discovered on January 9, 1981, would yield no clues about the cause of death.

Next up on the list was 12-year-old Clifford Jones, snatched off the street and strangled on August 20. With the recovery of his body in October, homicide detectives interviewed five witnesses who named his killer as a white man, later jailed in 1981 on charges of attempted rape and sodomy. Those witnesses provided details of the crime consistent with the placement and condition of the victim's body, but detectives chose to ignore their sworn statements, listing Jones with other victims of the "unknown" murderer.

Darren Glass, an 11-year-old, vanished near his home on September 14, 1980. Never found, he joins the list primarily because authorities don't know what else to do with his case. October's victim was Charles Stephens, reported missing on the 9th and recovered the next day, his life extinguished by asphyxiation. Capping off the month, authorities discovered skeletal remains of Latonya Wilson on October 18, but they could not determine how she died.

On November 1, nine-year-old Aaron Jackson's disappearance was reported to police by frantic parents. The boy was found on November 2, another victim of asphyxiation. Patrick Rogers, 15, followed on November 10. His pitiful remains, skull crushed by heavy blows, were not unearthed until February 1981.

Two days after New Year's, the elusive slayer picked off Lubie Geter, strangling the 14-year-old and dumping his body where it would not be found until February 5. Terry Pue, 15, went missing on January 22 and was found the next day, strangled with a cord or piece of rope. This time, detectives said that special chemicals enabled them to lift a suspect's fingerprints from Terry's corpse. Unfortunately, they were not on file with any law enforcement agency in the United States.

Patrck Baltazar, age 12, disappeared on February 6. His body was found a week later, marked by ligature strangulation, and the skeletal remains of Jeffrey Mathis were discovered nearby. A 13-year-old, Curtis Walker, was strangled on February 19 and found the same day. Joseph Bell, 16, was asphyxiated on March 2. Timothy Hill, on March 11, was recorded as a drowning victim.

On March 30, Atlanta police added their first adult victim to the list of murdered children. He was Larry Rogers, 20, linked with younger victims by the fact that he had been asphyxiated. No cause of death was determined for a second adult victim, 21-year-old Eddie Duncan, but he made the list anyway, when his body was found on March 31.  On April 1, ex-convict Michael McIntosh, age 23, was added to the roster on grounds that he, too, had been asphyxiated.

By April 1981, it seemed apparent that the "child murders" case was getting out of hand. Community critics denounced the official victims list as incomplete and arbitrary, citing cases like the January 1981 murder of Faye Yearby to prove their point. Like "official" victim Angel Lenair, Yearby was bound to a tree by her killer, hands behind her back; she had been stabbed to death, like four acknowledged victims on the list. Despite those similarities, police rejected Yearby's case on grounds that (a) she was a female - as were Wilson and Lenair - and (b) that she was "too old" at age 22, although the last acknowledged victim had been 23. Author Dave Dettlinger, examining police malfeasance in the case, suggests that 63 potential "pattern" victims were capriciously omitted from the "official" roster, 25 of them after a suspect's arrest supposedly ended the killing.

In April 1981, FBI spokesmen declared that several of the crimes were "substantially solved," outraging blacks with suggestions that some of the dead had been slain by their own parents. While that storm was raging, Roy Innis, leader of the Congress of Racial Equality, went public with the story of a female witness who described the murders as the actions of a cult involved with drugs, pornography, and Satanism. Innis led searchers to an apparent ritual site, complete with large inverted crosses, and his witness passed two polygraph examinations, but by that time police had focused their attention on another suspect, narrowing their scrutiny to the exclusion of all other possibilities.

On April 21, Jimmy Payne, a 21-year-old ex-convict, was reported missing in Atlanta. Six days later, when his body was recovered, death was publicly attributed to suffocation, and his name was added to the list of murdered "children." William Barrett, 17, went missing May 11; he was found the next day, another victim of asphyxiation.

Several bodies had, by now, been pulled from local rivers, and police were staking out the waterways by night. In the predawn hours of May 22, a rookie officer stationed under a bridge on the Chattahoochee River reported hearing "a splash" in the water nearby. Above him, a car rumbled past, and officers manning the bridge were alerted. Police and FBI agents halted a vehicle driven by Wayne Bertam Williams, a black man, and spent two hours grilling him and searching his car, before they let him go. On May 24, the corpse of Nathaniel Cater, a 27-year-old convicted felon, was fished out of the river downstream. Authorities put two and two together and focused their probe on Wayne Williams.

From the start, he made a most unlikely suspect. The only child of two Atlanta schoolteachers, Williams still lived with his parents at age 23. A college dropout, he cherished ambitions of earning fame and fortune as a music promoter. In younger days, he had constructed a working radio station in the basement of the family home.

On June 21, Williams was arrested and charged with the murder of Nathaniel Cater, despite testimony from four witnesses who reported seeing Cater alive on May 22 and 23, after the infamous "splash." On July 17, Williams was indicted for killing two adults - Cater and Payne - while newspapers trumpeted the capture of Atlanta's "child killer."

At his trial, beginning in December 1981, the prosecution painted Williams as a violent homosexual and bigot, so disgusted with his own race that he hoped to wipe out future generations by killing black children before they could breed. One witness testified that he saw Williams holding hands with Nathaniel Cater on May 21, a few hours before "the splash." Another, 15 years old, told the courts that Williams had paid him two dollars for the privilege of fondling his genitals. Along the way, authorities announced the addition of a final victim, 28-year-old John Porter, to the list of victims.

Defense attorney tried to balance the scales with testimony from a woman who admitted having "normal sex" with Williams, but the prosecution won a crucial point when the presiding judge admitted testimony on 10 other deaths from the "child murders" list, designed to prove a pattern in the slayings. One of those admitted was the case of Terry Pue, but neither side had anything to say about the fingerprints allegedly recovered from his corpse in January 1981.

The most impressive evidence of guilt was offered by a team of scientific experts, dealing with assorted hairs and fibers found on certain victims. Testimony indicated that some fibers from a brand of carpet found inside the Williams home (and many other homes, as well) had been identified on several bodies. Further, victims Middlebrooks, Wyche, Cater, Terrell, Jones, and Stephens all supposedly bore fibers from the trunk liner of 1979 Ford automobile owned by the Williams family. The clothes of victim Stephens also allegedly yielded fibers from a second car - a 1970 Chevrolet - owned by Wayne's parents. Curiously, jurors were not informed of multiple eyewitness testimony naming a different suspect in the Jones case, nor were they advised of a critical gap in the prosecution's fiber evidence.

Specifically, Wayne Williams had no access to the vehicles in question at the times when three of the six "fiber" victims were killed. Wayne's father took the Ford in for repairs at 9:00A.M. on July 30, 1980, nearly five hours before Earl Terrell vanished that afternoon. Terrell was long dead before Williams got the car back on August 7, and it was retuned to the shop the next morning (August 8), still refusing to start. A new estimate on repair costs was so expensive that Wayne's father refused to pay, and the family never again had access to the car. Meanwhile, Clifford Jones was kidnapped on August 20 and Charles Stephens on October 9, 1980. He defendant's family did not purchase the 1970 Chevrolet in question until October 21, 12 days after Stephen's death.

On February 27, 1982, Wayne Williams was convicted on two counts of murder and sentenced to a double term of life imprisonment. Two days later, the Atlanta "child murders" task force officially disbanded, announcing that 23 of 30 "list" cases were considered solved with his conviction, even though no charges had been filed. The other seven cases, still open, reverted to the normal homicide detail and remain unsolved to this day.

In November 1985, a new team of lawyers uncovered once-classified documents from an investigation of the Ku Klux Klan, conducted during 1980 and 1981 by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. A spy inside the Klan told GBI agents that Klansmen were "killing the children" in Atlanta, hoping to provoke a race war. One Klansman in particular, Charles Sanders, allegedly boasted of murdering "List" victim Lubie Geter, following a personal altercation. Geter reportedly struck Sanders's car with a go-cart, prompting the Klansman to tell his friend, "I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna choke the black ***** to death." (Geter was, in fact, strangled, some three months after the incident in question.) In early 1981, the same informant told GBI agents that "after twenty black-child killings, they, the Klan, were going to start killing black women." Perhaps coincidentally, police records note the unsolved murders of numerous black women in Atlanta in 1980-82, with most of the victims strangled. On July 10, 1998, Butts County Superior Court Judge Hal Craig rejected the latest appeal for a new trial in Williams's case, based on suppression of critical evidence 15 years earlier.



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Serial Killers: Defining Serial Murder

From Eric W. Hickey's "Serial Murderers and Their Victims"

Differences Between Mass Murderers and Serial Killers

[size=-1] Gary Ronald York and James Douglas Latham, spree killers who travelled from Florida to Utah

In both mass and serial murder cases, victims die as the offender momentarily gains control of his or her life by controlling others. But the differences between these two types of offenders far outweigh the similarities. First, mass murderers are generally apprehended or killed by police, commit suicide, or turn themselves in to authorities. Serial killers, by contrast, usually make special efforts to elude detection. Indeed, they may continue to kill for weeks, months, and often years before they are found and stopped-if they are found at all. In the case of the California Zodiac killer, the homicides appeared to have stopped, but an offender was never apprehended for those crimes. Perhaps the offender was incarcerated for only one murder and never linked to the others, or perhaps he or she was imprisoned for other crimes. Or the Zodiac killer may have just decided to stop killing or to move to a new location and kill under a new modus operandi, or method of committing the crime. The killer may even have become immobilized because of an accident or an illness or have died without his or her story ever being told. Speculation currently exists that the Zodiac killer is stalking victims in the New York City area. The Zodiac case is only one example of unsolved serial murders, many of which will never be solved.

Second, although both types of killers evoke fear and anxiety in the community, the reaction to a mass murder will be much more focused and locally limited than that to serial killing. People generally perceive the mass killer as one suffering from mental illnesses. This immediately creates a "they"/"us" dichotomy in which "they" are different from "us" because of mental problems. We can somehow accept the fact that a few people go "crazy" sometimes and start shooting others. However, it is more disconcerting to learn that some of the "nicest" people one meets lead a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde life: a student by day, a killer of coeds by night; a caring, attentive nurse who secretly murders sick children, the handicapped, or the elderly; a building contractor and politician who enjoys sexually torturing and killing young men and burying them under his home. When we discover that people exist who are not considered to be insane or crazy but who enjoy killing others for "recreation," this indeed gives new meaning to the word "stranger." Although the mass murderer is viewed as a deranged soul, a product of a stressful environment who is just going to "explode" now and then (but of course somewhere else), the serial murder is seen as much more sinister and is more capable of producing fear.

Third, the mass murderer kills groups of people at once, whereas the serial killer individualizes his or her murders. The serial killer continues to hurt and murder victims, whereas the mass murderer makes his or her "final statement" in or about life through the medium of abrupt and final violence. We rarely if ever hear of a mass murderer who has the opportunity to enact a second mass murder or to become a serial killer. Similarly, we rarely if ever hear of a serial killer who also enacts a mass murder.

The mass murderer and the serial killer are quantitatively and qualitatively different, and disagreement continues about their characteristics just as it does about the types of mass and serial offenders that appear to have emerged in recent years. Perhaps the single most critical stumbling block that today stands in the way of understanding serial murder is the disagreement among researchers and law enforcement about how to define the phenomenon.

Defining Serial Murder

6' 9" Serial Killer Edmund Kemper III, after his confession

In February, 1989, the Associated Press released a story about a serial killer who preyed on prostitutes in the same area of Los Angeles that harbored the Southside Slayer. He was believed to have killed at least 12 women, all with a small handgun. The news story referred to the victims as "strawberries"-young women who sold sex for drugs. Farther north, the Green River Task Force in Seattle, Washington, continues to investigate a series of murders of at least 45 young women over the past eight years. When the corpses of boys and young men began appearing along the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1980s, police became convinced a serial killer was at work in the area. The preceding cases are typical of homicides one might envision when characterizing victims of serial killers. The media quickly and eagerly focus attention on serial killings because they appear to be so bizarre and extraordinary. They engender the kind of headline that sell newspapers: "The Atlanta Child Killer," "The Stocking Strangler," "The Hillside Strangler," "The Sunday Morning Slasher," "The Boston Strangler," ad infinitum. The media focus not only on how many victims were killed but on how they died. Thus they feed morbid curiosity and at the same time create a stereotype of the typical serial killer: Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper, Albert Desalvo, and a host of other young white males attacking unsuspecting women powerless to defend themselves from the savage sexual attacks and degradations by these monsters.

But what is the reality? For those in law enforcement, serial killing generally means the sexual attack and murder of young women, men, and children by a male who follows a pattern, physical or psychological. However, this definition fails to include many offenders and victims. For example, in 1988 in Sacramento, California, several bodies of older or handicapped adults were exhumed from the backyard of a house where they were supposed to have been living. Investigators discovered the victims had been killed for their Social Security checks. It was apparent the killer had premeditated the murders, had selected the victims, and had killed at least six over a period of several months. Most law enforcement agencies would naturally classify this case as a serial killing-except for the fact that the killer was female. Because of rather narrow definitions of serial killing females are generally not classified as serial killers even though they meet the requirements for such a label. One explanation may simply be that we rarely if ever hear of a female "Jack the Ripper." Women who kill serially generally use poisons to dispose of their victims and are not associated with the sexual attacks, tortures, and violence of their male counterparts.

Although many offenders actually fall into the serial killer classification, they are excluded because they fail to meet law enforcement definitions or media-generated stereotypes of brutal, blood-thirsty monsters. The "angels of death" who work in hospitals and kill patients, or nursing home staff who kill the elderly, or the "black widows" who kill their family and relatives also meet the general criteria for serial killing except for the stereotypic element of violence. These men and women do not slash and torture their victims nor do they sexually attack them; they are the quiet killers. They are also the kinds of people who could be married, hold steady jobs, or simply be the nice man or woman who lives next door. They are rare among serial killers, just as serial murders are rare compared with other types of homicide.

To include all types of serial killers, the definition of serial murder must clearly be as broad as possible. For instance, Hickey (1986), by simply including all offenders who through premeditation killed three or more victims over a period of days, weeks, months, or years, was able to identify several women as serial killers. However, there exists such confusion in defining serial killing that findings can also easily be distorted. In addition, current research presents some narrow operational definitions of serial murder without any documented assurances that the focus does not exclude pertinent data. To suggest, for example, that all victims of serial murder are strangers, that the killers operate primarily in pairs, or that they do not kill for financial gain is derived more from speculation than verifiable evidence, given the current state of serial murder research.

Typologies of Murder

Randy Kraft, a highly organized "score-card killer" kept detailed records of his murders

In essence serial murderers should include any offenders, male or female, who kill over time. Most researchers agree that serial killers have a minimum of 3-4 victims. Usually there is a pattern in their killing that may be associated with the types of victims selected or the method or motives for the killing. This includes murderers who, on a repeated basis, kill within the confines of their own home, such as a woman who poisons several husbands, children, or elderly people in order to collect insurance. In addition, serial murderers include those men and women who operate within the confines of a city or a state or even travel through several states as they seek out victims. Consequently, some victims have a personal relationship with their killers and others do not, and some victims are killed for pleasure and some merely for gain. Of greatest importance from a research perspective is the linkage of common factors among the victims-for example, as Egger (1985) observed, "victims' place or status within their immediate surroundings (such as vagrants, prostitutes, migrant workers, homosexuals, missing children, and single and often elderly women)" (p. 3). Commonality among those murdered may include several factors, any of which can prove heuristic in better understanding victimization.

Much of our information and misinformation about criminal offenders is based on taxonomies, or classification systems. Megargee and Bohn (1979) noted that researchers usually created typologies based on the criminal offense. This invariably became problematic because often the offense comprised one or more subgroups. Researchers then examined repetitive crime patterns, which in turn created new complexities and problems. Megargee and Bohn further noted that, depending on the authority one chooses to read, one will find between two and eleven different types of murderers (pp. 29-32). Although serial murder is believed to represent a relatively small portion of all homicides in the United States, already researchers have begun the difficult task of classifying serial killers. Consequently, various typologies of serial killers and patterns of homicides have emerged. Not surprisingly, some of these typologies and patterns conflict with one another. Some are descriptions of causation, whereas others are diagnostic in nature. In addition, some researchers focus primarily on individual case studies of serial killers, whereas others create group taxonomies that accommodate several kinds of murderers.

Wille (1974) identified ten different types of murderers covering a broad range of bio-socio-psychological categories:


   1. depressive
   2. psychotic
   3. afflicted with organic brain disorder
   4. psychopathic
   5. passive aggressive
   6. alcoholic
   7. hysterical
   8. juvenile (the child was the killer)
   9. mentally retarded
  10. sex killers

Lee (1988) also created a variety of labels to differentiate killers according to motive, including:


   1. profit
   2. passion
   3. hatred
   4. power or domination
   5. revenge
   6. opportunism
   7. fear
   8. contract killing
   9. desperation
  10. compassion
  11. ritual

Even before American society became aware, in the early 1980s, of serial murder as anything more than an anomaly, researchers had begun to classify multiple killers and assign particular characteristics and labels to them. Guttmacher (1973) described the sadistic serial murderer as one who derives sexual gratification from killing and who often establishes a pattern, such as the manner in which they kill or the types of victims they select, such as prostitutes, children, or the elderly. Motivated by fantasies, the offender appears to derive pleasure from dehumanizing his or her victims. Lunde (1976) recognized and noted distinctions between the mass killer and the serial killer, notably that the mass killer appears to suffer from psychosis and should be considered insane. By contrast he found little evidence of mental illness among serial killers. Danto (1982) noted that most serial murderers may be described as obsessive-compulsive because they normally kill according to a particular style and pattern.

Researchers have been attempting to create profiles of the "typical" serial killer from the rapidly accumulating statistics on offenders and victims in the United States. The most stereotypical of all serial murderers are those who in some way are involved sexually with their victims. It is this type of killer who generates such public interest and alarm. Stories of young women being abducted, raped, tortured, and strangled appear more and more frequently in the newspapers.




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Prevalence

There have been conflicting reports as to the extent of serial murder. The FBI claimed in the 1980s that at any particular time there were roughly thirty-five active serial killers in the United States, meaning that the serial killers in question have committed their first murders but have not yet been apprehended or stopped by other means (e.g. suicide or a natural death.)

This figure has often been exaggerated. In his 1990 book, Serial Killers: The Growing Menace, Joel Norris claimed that there were five-hundred serial killers active at any one time in the United States, claiming five-thousand victims a year, which would be approximately a quarter of known homicides in the country. These statistics are regarded as suspect and unsupported by evidence. Some have argued that those who study or write about serial killers, be they employed in the judicial profession or journalists, have a vested interest in exaggerating the threat of such offenders.

In terms of reported cases, there appear to be far more serial killers active in developed Western nations than elsewhere. There are several reasons that may contribute to this:

* Detection techniques in developed nations are better. Multiple victims of one offender are quickly identified as being linked, so the apprehension of the offender comes quicker than in a nation where the police are generally more underfunded and have fewer resources.

* Developed nations have a highly competitive news media, so cases are reported more quickly.

* The United States and Western Europe have avoided the large scale, state-sanctioned censorship that news outlets in certain nations have, in which stories related to serial murder have been suppressed. An example of this is the case in Ukraine of serial murderer Andrei Chikatilo, whose activities continued largely unreported and poorly investigated by police in the former Soviet Union due to the idea that only supposedly corrupt capitalistic Western countries bred such killers. After the collapse of the USSR, there were a number of reports of prolific serial killers whose crimes had previously been hidden from the West behind the Iron Curtain.

Serial murder before 1900

Although the phenomenon of serial murder is generally regarded as a modern one, it can be traced back in history, albeit with a limited degree of accuracy.

In the 15th century, one of the wealthiest men in France, Gille de Rais, is said to have abducted, raped and murdered at least a hundred young boys. The Hungarian aristocrat Elizabeth B醫hory was arrested in 1610 and subsequently charged with torturing and butchering as many as 600 young girls. Although both De Rais and B醫hory were reportedly sadistic and addicted to murder, they differ from typical modern day serial killers in that they were both rich and powerful. Based upon the lack of established police forces and active news media during those centuries, it may very well be that there were plenty of other serial killers at that time who were either not identified or not publicized as well. Between 1790 and 1830 Thug Behram is believed to have individually killed 931 people by strangulation. He committed these killings as a member of the Thuggee cult, to which around 2,000,000 deaths in India are attributed. The cult's activities prompted a campaign against them by the British authorities in India. Behram is considered to be the most prolific serial killer in history, yet this could be questioned depending on the precise definition of serial killer, a definition which takes into account not simply numbers killed, but the manner in which they were killed and the killer's motive (see below).

Some historical criminologists have suggested that there may have been serial murders throughout history, but specific cases were not adequately recorded. It may even be the case that mythological beasts such as werewolves and vampires were inspired by medieval serial killers. After all, a werewolf is said to be a normal person who is occasionally overtaken by an animalistic urge to kill people savagely, and such a myth may have made an adequate explanation for cases of serial murder when the concept of psychology was several centuries away from being defined and studied. The idea of historical serial killers motivating the concept of such myths, however, is little more than speculation, although perhaps significantly there are a number of killers who were obsessed with blood and often even drank that of their victims.

In his famous 1886 book, Psychopathia Sexualis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing notes a case of serial murder in the 1870s, that of an Italian man named Eusebius Pieydagnelle who had a sexual obsession with blood and confessed to murdering six people. The unidentified Jack the Ripper killer slaughtered prostitutes in London in 1888. Those crimes gained enormous press attention at the time because, although there were plenty of murders in Victorian Britain motivated by robbery and theft, it was almost unheard of for someone to kill people simply for pleasure. London was also the center of the world's greatest superpower at the time, so having such dramatic murders of financially destitute women in the midst of such wealth focused the news media's attention on the plight of the urban poor and gained coverage worldwide. Joseph Vacher was executed in France in 1898 after confessing to killing and mutilating 11 women and children, while American serial killer Herman Mudgett was hanged in Philadelphia in 1896 after confessing to 28 murders.


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Types of serial killer

Organized and disorganized types

The FBI has roughly categorized serial killers into two different types, organized and disorganized.

* Organized types are usually of high intelligence and plan their crimes quite methodically, usually abducting victims, killing them in one place and disposing of them in another. They will often lure the victims with ploys appealing to their sense of sympathy. For example, Ted Bundy would put his arm in a fake plaster-cast and ask women to help him carry books to his car, where he would beat them unconscious with the cast and spirit them away. Others specifically target prostitutes, who are likely to voluntarily go with a serial killer posing as a customer. They maintain a high degree of control over the crime scene, and usually have a good knowledge of forensic science that enables them to cover their tracks, such as by burying the body or weighting it down and sinking it in a river. They follow their crimes in the media carefully and often take pride in their actions, as if it were a grand project. The organized killer is usually socially adequate and has friends and lovers, often even a spouse and children. They are the type who, when captured, are most likely to be described by acquaintances as "a really nice guy" who "wouldn't hurt a fly". Some serial killers go to lengths to make their crimes difficult to discover, such as falsifying suicide notes, setting up others to take the blame for their crimes, and faking gang warfare.

* Disorganized types are often of low intelligence and commit their crimes impulsively. Whereas the organized killer will specifically set out to hunt a victim, the disorganized will murder someone whenever the opportunity arises, rarely bothering to dispose of the body but instead just leaving it at the same place in which they found the victim. They usually carry out "blitz" attacks, leaping out and attacking their victims without warning, and will typically perform whatever rituals they feel compelled to carry out (e.g. necrophilia, mutilation, etc.) once the victim is dead. They rarely bother to cover their tracks but may still evade capture for some time because of a level of cunning that compels them to keep on the move. They are often socially inadequate with few friends, and they may have a history of mental problems and be regarded by acquaintances as eccentric or even "a bit creepy". They have little insight into their crimes and may even block out the memories of the killings.

A significant number of serial killers show certain aspects of both organized and disorganized types, although usually the characteristics of one type will dominate. Some killers descend from being organized into disorganized behavior as their killings continue. They will carry out careful and methodical murders at the start but, as their compulsion grows out of control and utterly dominates their lives, they will become careless and impulsive.


Motive types

The organized and disorganized model relates to the killer's methods. With regards to motives, they can be placed into five different categories:

Visionary

Contrary to popular opinion, serial killers are rarely insane or motivated by hallucinations and/or voices in their head. Many claim to be, usually as a way of trying to get acquitted by reason of insanity. There are, however, a few genuine cases of serial killers who were compelled by such delusions, such as Herbert Mullin, who slaughtered 13 people after voices told him that murder was necessary to prevent California from suffering an earthquake (Mullin went to great pains to point out that California did indeed avoid an earthquake during his murder spree.)
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Mission-oriented

These serial killers believe that their acts are justified on the basis that they are getting rid of a certain type of people (often prostitutes or members of a certain ethnic group). They believe that they are doing society a favor. Robert Pickton of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, is accused of being this type of killer. He is currently charged with the murders of 27 prostitutes from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and is suspected in the deaths of up to 30 more. It is not necessarily a type of person that society generally finds unpleasant, however, as the serial killer may have a delusion that society doesn't want a certain type of person, when in fact they really do.

Hedonistic

This type kills for the sheer pleasure of it, although what aspect they enjoy varies. Some may enjoy the actual "chase" of hunting down a victim more than anything, whilst others may be primarily motivated by the act of torturing and abusing the victim whilst they are alive. Yet others may kill the victim quickly, almost as if it were a chore, and then indulge in necrophilia or cannibalism with the body. Usually there is a strong sexual aspect to the crimes, even if it may not be immediately obvious, but some killers obtain a surge of excitement that is not necessarily sexual, such as David Berkowitz, who got a thrill out of shooting young couples in cars at random and then running away without ever physically touching the victims.

Gain-motivated

Most criminals who commit multiple murders for material ends (such as mob hit men) are not classed as serial killers because they are motivated by greed, rather than psychopathological compulsion. There is a fine line separating such killers, however. For example, Marcel Petiot, who operated in Nazi-occupied France, would classify as a serial killer. He posed as a member of the French Resistance and lured wealthy Jewish people to his home, claiming he could smuggle them out of the country. Instead he murdered them and stole their belongings, killing 63 people before he was finally caught. Although Petiot's primary motivation was materialistic, few could deny that a man willing to slaughter so many people simply to acquire a few dozen suitcases of clothes and jewellery was a compulsive killer and psychopath.

Power/control

This is the most common type of serial killer. Their main objective for killing is to gain and exert power over their victim. Such killers were usually abused as children which means they feel incredibly powerless and inadequate, and often they indulge in rituals that are linked, often very specifically, to forms of abuse they suffered themselves. One killer, for example, forced young girls to perform oral sex on him, after which he would spank the girl before finally strangling her. After capture, the killer claimed that when he was a child, his older sister would force him to perform oral sex on her, then spank him in order to terrify him into not telling their parents. The ritual he performed with his victims would negate the humiliation he felt from his abuse as a child, although such relief would only be temporary and, like other such killers, he would soon feel compelled to repeat his actions, until eventual capture. (The vast majority of child abuse victims do not become serial killers, of course, meaning that such abuse cannot be regarded as the sole trigger of such crimes in these cases.) Many Power/Control motivated killers sexually abuse their victims, but they differ from Hedonistic killers in that rape is not motivated by lust but as simply another form of dominating the victim.

Some serial killers may seem to have characteristics of more than one type. For example, British killer Peter Sutcliffe appeared to be both a Visionary and a Mission Oriented killer in that he claimed voices told him to clean up the streets of prostitutes.



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Why are serial killers not caught more quickly?

It is probable that many would-be serial killers are apprehended before they kill the three or more victims required to qualify them as such in the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Similarly, it is certain that some are detained under mental health regulations and do not directly answer for their crimes. Others go on to kill many more people over years without being apprehended.

Serial killers, despite the media attention, commit only a tiny fraction of all murders in any time period. Murder is usually either a crime of personal relationships and short intense emotion, or an unintended consequence of other crimes. Because of this, most murders are comparatively simple to solve; in most familial deaths, the murderer makes little effective effort to conceal the crime and confesses easily; in other cases, the murderer is usually a local or known to the police. These assumptions, with which any law enforcement officer naturally approaches a single murder, are barriers to catching a serial killer.

Another barrier to serial killers' early capture is their diverse backgrounds, choices of victim, and methods of killing. They almost never have any links to their victims梩hey pick by whim or impulse, seeking types or opportunity rather than any easily detectable link. As noted above, organized offenders can take steps to minimize the evidence they leave behind, and commit crimes away from their locale. It can take a number of murders before a serial killer is even suspected. Even if a serial killer is known to be operating, it is difficult to catch the culprit. Potential victims can be identified only by broad type, and generic area warnings produce little more than fear and misdirected violence.

The commonality of habitual traits of serial killers allows the construction of a psychological profile. This allows targeted interviewing of suspects, although there are often a large number of entirely innocent individuals who have some match to the profile. Also, some serial killers are skilled at concealing their true selves behind a charming facade.

Unfortunately, profiles are built upon historical precedents of known serial killers which sometimes do not accurately model actual culprits. Such problems plagued the hunt for the D.C. sniper, John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, whose initial profile indicated a Caucasian male. A different problem plagued the hunt for Aileen Wuornos in Florida's "Highway Killer" case; police initially believed the killer to be male. Regrettably serial killer investigations sometimes reveal an unsatisfactory side to law enforcement agencies梚nertia, incompetence, bureaucracy, mismanagement, agency "turf wars", missed opportunities, racial or gender bias, and other failures can slow down the investigation and, indirectly, allow further murders.

Whilst there is a public misconception that serial killers generally want to be discovered, in most cases this is not the case, as serial killers will often go to great lengths to prevent capture or to push police and investigators towards the wrong subjects. There are a number of examples where what police originally believed to be copy cat murders turned out to actually be the same person doing all of the crimes, such as Ivan Milat's back packer murders. The opposite is also often true.




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List by country

Australia

    * Eddie Leonski, the "Brownout Murderer" killed at least 4
    * Ivan Milat, the "backpack-murderer" killed at least 7 tourists
    * Christopher Worrell, the Truro murders, killed 7 victims
    * James Milller, the Truro murders, convicted of killing 6 victims

Belgium

    * Marc Dutroux - Belgian child molester and killer

Brazil

    * Marcelo Costa de Andrade
    * Francisco de Assis Pereira - Brazilian serial killer, known as the maniaco do parque (the park maniac)

Canada

    * Paul Bernardo - Canada's most famous serial killer, who killed two teenage school girls, with his wife Karla Homolka, and was also known as the Scarborough Rapist
    * Clifford Olsen - murdered eleven children

Colombia

    * Pedro Lopez - Apocryphal with 300 victims

Ecuador

    * Daniel Barbosa - The Beast Of The Andes

France

    * Michel Fourniret
    * Henri D閟ir

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