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Advertisement. The Sunset Strip Killers: Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy: Clark and Bundy, his live- in girlfriend, plotted to get prostitutes on L. A.’s Sunset Blvd. They saved one of the heads of the women as a trophy. After they were caught in 1.
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Clark was sentenced to death (and remains on death row) while Bundy got life for testifying against her boyfriend. Although they were only convicted of two murders, they were suspected of many more. The Monster Killer: Yang Xinhai: The most prolific serial killer ever in China, Yang admitted to murdering 6. Yang used every means at his disposal to kill his victims in their houses, using axes, hammers and shovels to do the evil deed.
Yang was executed in 2. Advertisement. The Casanova Killer: Paul Knowles: In just four months in 1. Knowles killed 1. The charming and persuasive Florida man was indiscriminate, murdering men, women and children in several states. The only blessing for the victims’ relatives was that Knowles was shot and killed by an FBI agent while attempting to escape in December 1. The Trash Bag Killer: Patrick Wayne Kearney: From 1. California highways and usually wrapped in trash bags.
Kearney, who had a 1. IQ, was finally caught and confessed to 3. He was convicted of 2. Advertisement. The Angel Of Death: Charles Edmund Cullen: The former nurse confessed to murdering 4. New Jersey from 1. But like many serial killers, he probably killed even more.
Cullen played God by poisoning his patients to death with unprescribed medication or failing to administer the correct drugs. Cullen frequently lost jobs in hospitals due to suspicious behavior but simply moved on and got hired at other facilities, leaving dead patients in his wake. He claimed to want to relieve people’s suffering, however, many of the patients weren’t terminal. Cullen is in prison for life. De. Salvo. The Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo: The Soviet serial killer sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least 5. Russia. In 1. 99.
Chikatilo was convicted and sentenced to death; he was executed by firing squad in 1. The seemingly mild- mannered schoolteacher confessed to the crimes and explained, “When I used my knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have to be destroyed.
I was a mistake of nature.”BTK Killer: Dennis Rader: The man who killed ten people around the Kansas area from 1. Bind, Torture, Kill” (BTK) wrote about his crimes in weird letters to the media and police. But the case went cold for years until Rader started sending letters again in 2. The innocuous looking dogcatcher stunned America in 2. Rader is serving ten consecutive life sentences.
AACharles Ng and Leonard Lake: The two men raped, tortured and murdered 1. Lake’s ranch in the early .
They were only caught by chance when Ng was seen shoplifting a vise the men intended to use in their torture games. After Lake killed himself upon being questioned in 1. Ng raping and torturing their victims. Ng went on the run but was extradited from Canada and then convicted for some of the murders, getting a death sentence. He now lives on Death Row. AAThe Beast: Luis Garavito: In 1. Colombian rapist and serial killer admitted murdering 1.
Although only 1. 39 killings were proven, that has made him the most prolific serial killer in history, and the true number of Garvito’s victims could exceed 3. Garvito preyed on impoverished Colombian boys from ages 8 to 1. In prison, the killer drew maps of where the bodies could be located. Incredibly, Garvito got just 3. Columbia—and could be released in 2. However, in 2. 00. Columbian judicial system began working to find ways to extend Garvito’s sentence.
The Atlanta Child Killer: Wayne Williams: The city of Atlanta was terrified when a serial killer who murdered 2. Prosecutors tried and convicted music promoter Williams of killing two adult men in 1. Although the Atlanta police announced Williams was also responsible for at least 2. However, the apparently related murders of young blacks in Atlanta ceased once Williams was behind bars. AACharles Ng and Leonard Lake: The two men raped, tortured and murdered 1. Lake’s ranch in the early . They were only caught by chance when Ng was seen shoplifting a vise the men intended to use in their torture games.
After Lake killed himself upon being questioned in 1. Ng raping and torturing their victims. Ng went on the run but was extradited from Canada and then convicted for some of the murders, getting a death sentence. He now lives on Death Row. AAThe Freeway Killer: William Bonin: Bonin raped, tortured and murdered at least 2. California. He was convicted of 1. Shockingly, during his time in prison, he corresponded with many of his victims’ survivors.
Bonin told the mother of one of the men her son had been his favorite victim, because “he was such a screamer.”AAAileen Wuornos: Charlize Theron won the Academy Award for playing America’s most famous female serial killer in the 2. Monster. Between 1. Wuornos, while working as a prostitute, killed seven men in Florida for their money so that her lesbian lover, Ty Moore, wouldn’t have to work anymore. The troubled drifter confessed to shooting the men but claimed all of them had raped or attempted to rape her. Wuornos was sentenced to death; she died in 1.
Juan Corona: The Mexican American was a religious married father of four who organized gangs of fruit ranch workers in California’s Sacramento Valley in the 1. Then male bodies started being found in shallow graves around the area. Eventually, Corona was convicted of the murders of 2. Barely surviving being stabbed in prison, Corona won a new trial in 1. A Mexican consular official who had visited Corona in prison testified that he had confessed to him. AAVelma Barfield: Fearing her boyfriend would find out she had forged his checks to pay for her prescription drug habit, Barfield poisoned him to death in 1. After an autopsy revealed the truth, Barfield eventually confessed to a total of six murders, including her own mother.
Velma attended the funerals of her victims. Bianchi and Buono (who operated an upholstery business), pretended to be undercover cops to lure their victims. Most were raped, strangled, and then carefully washed by the two sadists who enjoyed outsmarting the cops.
In 1. 97. 9, Bianchi was caught after killing two co- eds in Bellingham, Washington. Both got life sentences. Buono died of a heart attack in prison in 2. AAThe Scorecard Killer: Randy Kraft: Between 1. Kraft raped, tortured and murdered at least 1. California. And authorities believe he could be responsible for 5. Kraft was convicted in 1.
San Quentin. Like William Bonin, Kraft has been called the Freeway Killer because he dumped victims' bodies near freeways; but he’s also known as the Scorecard Killer because he kept a coded list prosecutors believe referred to his victims. AAThe Lonely Hearts Killers: Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck: From 1. New York to Michigan, meeting the victims through lonely hearts’ ads. The couple’s methods included strangulation, drowning, and shooting. They were finally caught and arrested after the double murders of a young mother and her child, aged 2. Fernandez and Beck were found guilty in a sensational trial and put to death in 1.
AAThe Co- Ed Killer: Ed Kemper: Kemper murdered his grandparents when he was 1. He later murdered his mother by hitting her with a hammer and strangled to death one of her friends. Kemper turned himself in and got life in prison. AAThe Giggling Granny: Nannie Doss: Known for laughing about the poisoning method she used to kill, Doss murdered 1. She confessed after an autopsy revealed her fifth husband’s body was riddled with arsenic. Doss was sentenced to life for that crime, never being charged with the others.
She died of leukemia in the Oklahoma pen in 1. AAChristopher Wilder: The photographer abducted, raped and murdered at least eight women during a six- week cross- country spree across America in 1.
During his rampage, Wilder photographed 1. Tina Marie Risico before kindapping and assaulting her.
Later, Risico turned into his accomplice, helping him abduct Dawnette Wilt, 1. Although he stabbed Wilt in the New York woods, she miraculously survived. Wilder committed suicide as the police closed in on him in New Hampshire in April 1. AAThe Hillside Strangler: Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono: The Hillside Strangler turned out to be two cousins who teamed up for the torture murders of ten women and young girls from late 1. Los Angeles hills.
Bianchi and Buono (who operated an upholstery business), pretended to be undercover cops to lure their victims. Most were raped, strangled, and then carefully washed by the two sadists who enjoyed outsmarting the cops.
In 1. 97. 9, Bianchi was caught after killing two co- eds in Bellingham, Washington. Both got life sentences. Buono died of a heart attack in prison in 2.
GGKiller Clown: John Wayne Gacy: Amongst serial killers, John Wayne Gacy will never be forgotten because in addition to murdering an unbelievable 3. Gacy enjoyed playing “Pogo the clown” in visits to children’s hospitals. What people didn’t know then was that the Chicago man was luring men to his home and murdering them, with all but one victim being asphyxiated or strangled. Gacy buried most of the bodies in the crawl space of his house. Gacy was sentenced to death in 1. His clown self portraits have become collector’s items. GGThe Night Stalker: Richard Ramirez: Ramirez sent shock waves through Los Angeles and San Francisco from April 1.
August 1. 98. 5 by randomly breaking into people’s homes to rape, rob and kill them. Because he committed the crimes in the evenings, Ramirez was known as the “Night Stalker.” The killer was finally caught and beaten by an angry mob in East Los Angeles. Ramirez, a Satanist with a pentagram drawn on his hand, appeared crazy in the courtroom; he was convicted of 1. He died this June in prison of cancer at age 5.