SERIAL KILLER TRIVIA
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ALBERT DESALVO
The Boston Strangler is briefly mentioned in the song "Dirty Water" by The Standells. The song centers around the singer's love of his home town of Boston, and in an aside toward the end of the song the words, "Have you heard about the Strangler?" are heard.
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ALBERT DESALVO
The song "Midnight Rambler" by the Rolling Stones (from the album Let It Bleed) was inspired by and almost mentions the Boston Strangler. After a series of lines ending in "rambler" and "gambler", the words 'Well you heard about the Boston...' are sung, yet what follows is obscured by music.
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ALBERT DESALVO
In 1971, Texas legislator Tom Moore, Jr. introduced a measure to demonstrate the lack of legislative scrutiny. The measure's passage effectively meant that DeSalvo was commended by the Texas House of Representatives as being "officially recognized by the state of Massachusetts for his noted activities and unconventional techniques involving population control and applied psychology."
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ALBERT DESALVO
British power electronics group Whitehouse have a track called "Dedicated to Albert De Salvo." Japanese doom metal band Church of Misery has a song titled "Boston Strangler (Albert DeSalvo)" on the album of the same name. Its lyrics are from the Strangler's point of view. The song "Boston Strangler" appears on the Macabre album Sinister Slaughter.
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ALBERT DESALVO
The Boston Strangler is briefly mentioned in the song "Dirty Water" by The Standells. The song centers around the singer's love of his home town of Boston, and in an aside toward the end of the song the words, "Have you heard about the Strangler?" are heard.
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ALBERT FISH
Albert Fish is mentioned in many books. Fish's crimes are recounted in Harold Schecter's Deranged and The Serial Killer Files.
He is mentioned in Stephen King and Peter Straub's novel Black House, and some of his letters are quoted.
Fish is mentioned in Chapter 11 of The Space Merchants as an example of an extreme masochist.
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ALBERT FISH
Most people know that Marilyn Manson took his name from a combination of Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson but did you know that his drummer Ginger Fish's stage name was derived in part from Albert Fish.
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ALBERT FISH
The Weasels (who have recorded a series of songs over the past two decades about various notorious killers) memorialized Fish in their song titled "A Fish." 'Murder metal' band Macabre have written three songs about him, namely "Albert was Worse than any Fish in the Sea", "Mr. Albert Fish Was Children Your Favorite Dish" and "Fishtales".
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ALBERT FISH
House of 1000 Corpses references Fish during the murder ride scene.Speaking of movies, in 2007, there will be two films released about Albert Fish; one entitled simply Albert Fish, with Oto Brezina starring and the other Wisteria: The Story of Albert Fish, with Patrick Bauchau in the title role.
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ALBERT FISH
Many other bands have made songs about Albert Fish. The Blood Duster song Albert is a reference to Albert Fish.
Grind band Dahmer have written a song about him, "Albert Hamilton Fish".
The lyrics for the song "Document. Grace Budd" by The Number Twelve Looks Like You are the last lines from the letter to Grace Budd's parents.
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ALBERT FISH
According to the Frederic Wertham, who examined him, Albert Fish had spent his life indulging in every known form of paraphilia, plus a few aberrations that were unknown at the time. For example, he would insert a long-stemmed rose into his penis and look at himself in the mirror, then he would remove the rose and eat it. His other sexual deviations included sadism and masochism, flagellation, exhibitionism, voyeurism, piquerism, pedophilia, coprophagia, fetishism, urolagnia, and cannibalism.
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ALBERT FISH
Doctors examining him for his later trial claimed that he was a sadomasochist, indulging in self-mutilation, driving needles into his body, mostly around his genitals. He said he tried sticking a needle in his scrotum but it was too painful, and there were needles in his pelvis that were permanently embedded. He would stuff cotton balls soaked with lighter fluid into his rectum and set fire to them.
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ALBERT FISH
Fish arrived in March of 1935, and was executed on January 16, 1936, in the electric chair at Sing Sing. He entered the chamber at 11:06 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 11:09 p.m. He was buried in Sing-Sing Prison Cemetery. He was recorded to have said that electrocution would be "the supreme thrill of my life". Just before the switch was flipped, he stated "I don't even know why I am here."
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CHARLES MANSON
On March 6, 1970, Manson released an album titled Lie: The Love & Terror Cult to help finance his defense. The album was put out by ESP Records and included the song that had previously been recorded by the Beach Boys.
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CHARLES MANSON
By 1974, the original Manson "family" had dwindled to only Fromme and Sandra Good. Motivated by Manson's new ideology, they sent a series of threatening letters to heads of corporations, making threats unless they stopped polluting the environment.
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CHARLES MANSON
On September 5, 1975, Fromme unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford in Sacramento. It appears that, although she managed to get close to Ford, by mistake the chamber of her Colt .45 pistol was empty. She was heard to say, "It didn't go off. Can you believe it? It didn't go off!" She stated she had committed the crime so that Manson would appear as a witness at her trial, and thus have a worldwide platform from which to talk about his apocalyptic vision. She escaped from prison in December 1987, apparently to try to reach Manson, but was recaptured two days later. |
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CHARLES MANSON
Manson gave two notable interviews in the 1980s: the first on June 13, 1981 at California Medical Facility by Tom Snyder for NBC's The Tomorrow Show, and the second at San Quentin Prison by Charlie Rose for CBS News Nightwatch (aired March 7, 1986). Rose's interview won the national news Emmy Award for "Best Interview" in 1987.
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DAVID BERKOWITZ
A 1985 TV movie, Out of the Darkness, depicted the hunt for Berkowitz, with Martin Sheen as detective Ed Zigo. The real-life Zigo, who appeared in the film as a negotiator, was on location during filming as a technical advisor.
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DAVID BERKOWITZ
In September 2006 a trailer for Chain Gang's mythical "Mondo Manhattan" film project surfaced on YouTube. It's alleged to be "the backstory on the cult that was behind the Son of Sam murders."
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DAVID BERKOWITZ
Paranoia about the Son of Sam killings is a background element in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel Blackout (2006) by Keith R.A. DeCandido, which takes place in New York City in July 1977.
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DAVID BERKOWITZ
The New York native rapper, Necro, in 2003 released the almbum titled "Brutality, Pt. 1". The album contained the song "Frank Zito", featuring his childhood Brooklyn buddy, Ill Bill. The two reference Berkowitz with the line, "I smile for the cameras like Berkowitz."
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DAVID BERKOWITZ
The Lyrics "I'm a brat, i'm the Son Of Sam, I walk the night, shoot me on site" are featured In the song "Lights on Distant Shores" By Electro/Indie group Eliza In Paintings.
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DAVID BERKOWITZ
Green Jelly, a parody metal band includes the lyrics "Toucan, Son of Sam" in their song "Cerial Killer" on the album "Cerial Killer Soundtrack" and at one stage had a member named Toucan Son of Sam.
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DAVID BERKOWITZ
In the Billy Joel song "Close to the Borderline" (from the album Glass Houses (1980)) Son of Sam is referenced with the following lyrics: "Blackout, Heatwave, .44 Caliber homicide"
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DAVID BERKOWITZ
The Beastie Boys song "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" (from the album Paul's Boutique (1989)) includes a reference to Berkowitz with the lyrics: "Predetermined destiny is who I am/They got your finger on the trigger like the Son of Sam."
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ED GEIN
Gein was widely believed to be the basis for main character Norman Bates in Robert Bloch's novel Psycho although Bloch later denied this in an interview.
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ED GEIN
Gein's story was adapted into its own movie called In the Light of the Moon, later to be retitled Ed Gein for the US market. It starred Steve Railsback as Gein and Carrie Snodgress as Augusta.
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ED GEIN
Leatherface, the homicidal, human skin-wearing villain of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, was also based on Gein.
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ED GEIN
As of January 2006, Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield, directed by Michael Feifer, is currently in production. It is expected for 2007.
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ED GEIN
Buffalo Bill, the main antagonist in The Silence of the Lambs, was modeled (in part) after Ed Gein. Both Bill and Old Eddie made vests from women's skin.
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ED GEIN
The film See No Evil, with WWE superstar Kane, also depicts some of Ed Gein's relationship with his mother.
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ED GEIN
Gein's crimes are referenced in a number of other movies including House of 1000 Corpses,Maniac and American Psycho.
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ED GEIN
There is a band by the name of Ed Gein. In the 1980s, there was also a New York City-based punk rock band named "Ed Gein's Car".
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ED GEIN
Gidget Gein, a former bassist for the band Marilyn Manson derived his last name from the most famous psycho of them all, Ed Gein.
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ED GEIN
In the popular Japanese manga Rurouni Kenshin, there is a character named simply "Gein", who makes life-sized dolls out of flesh salvaged from corpses. In a creator's notes section in Volume 24, creator Nobuhiro Watsuki notes that the character was indeed inspired by Edward Gein.
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ED GEIN
Saul, John (Author) In the Dark of the Night. A lampshade made of human skin belonging to Edward Gein is referenced in this novel.
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ED GEIN
On July 26, 1984, he died of respiratory and heart failure in Goodland Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute At his death, he cursed the name of his mother and an unknown person named Ane. His gravesite in the Plainfield cemetery was frequently vandalised over the years; souvenir seekers would chip off pieces of his gravestone before the bulk of it was stolen in 2000. The gravestone was recovered in June 2001 near Seattle and is presently displayed in a Wautoma, Wisconsin museum.
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ED GEIN
Gein was found mentally incompetent and thus unfit to stand trial at the time of his arrest, and was sent to the Central State Hospital (now the Dodge Correctional Institution) in Waupun, Wisconsin. Later, Central State Hospital was converted into a prison and Gein was transferred to Mendota State Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1968, Gein's doctors determined he was sane enough to stand trial; he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent the rest of his life in the hospital.
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ED GEIN
While Gein was in detention, his house burned to the ground. Arson was suspected. In 1958, Gein's car, which he used to haul the bodies of his victims, was sold at public auction for a then-considerable sum of $760 to an enterprising carnival sideshow operator named Bunny Gibbons. Gibbons called his attraction the "Ed Gein Ghoul Car" and charged carnival-goers 25 cents admission to see it.
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EDMUND KEMPER
The Berzerker's song "Forever" from the self titled album contains samples from Ed Kemper's testament, including "As I'm sitting there with a severed head in my hand, talking to it, or looking at it, and I'm about to go crazy, literally I'm about to go completely... Flywheel loose and just fall apart". It also contains samples such as "At the age of 24, he murderered his mother, then called police and confessed to having dismembered college co-eds for two years, as well as cannibalizing and raping their headless bodies" and "put her vocal chords in a garbage disposal, then threw darts at her severed head".
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EDMUND KEMPER
Church of Misery's song "Killfornia" contains a long testament by Kemper, also featuring the line "As I'm sitting there with a severed head in my hand..."
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EDMUND KEMPER
American death-grind metal band Macabre wrote a song about Edmund Kemper on their 1993 album Sinister Slaughter entitled "Edmund Kemper Had a Horrible Temper."
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EDMUND KEMPER
He was once quoted as saying, "When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things: One part of me wants to take her home, be real nice and treat her right; the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick." In Bret Easton Ellis' book American Psycho, main character Patrick Bateman, himself a serial killer, uses this quote when asked about women, although he mistakenly attributes it to Ed Gein.
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EDMUND KEMPER
Author Thomas Harris based the character of Buffalo Bill in his book The Silence of the Lambs in part upon Kemper. In the book, Buffalo Bill was a serial killer who, like Kemper, had begun his "career" by impulsively killing his grandparents as a teenager.
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EDMUND KEMPER
System of a Down's song "Forever" (aka "Fortress" or "Outer Space") from the leaked album "Toxicity II" contains lyrics referencing Kemper including "Edmund Kemper solved it all, He fooled the shrinks." The song was later dropped from the released "Steal This Album!"
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EDMUND KEMPER
On August 27, 1964, Kemper shot his grandmother while she sat at the kitchen table putting the finishing touches on her latest children's book. When his grandfather came home from grocery shopping, Kemper shot him as well. Then he called his mother, who urged him to call the police. When questioned, he said that he "just wanted to see what it felt like to kill Grandma and Grandpa." Kemper was just 15 at the time.
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EDMUND KEMPER
On August 27, 1964, Kemper shot his grandmother while she sat at the kitchen table putting the finishing touches on her latest children's book. When his grandfather came home from grocery shopping, Kemper shot him as well. Then he called his mother, who urged him to call the police. When questioned, he said that he "just wanted to see what it felt like to kill Grandma and Grandpa." Kemper was just 15 at the time.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
Lionel Dahmer published a book, A Father's Story, and donated a portion of the proceeds from his book to the victims and their families. Most of the families showed support for Lionel and his wife, Shari.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
Dahmer's younger brother David changed his last name and lives in anonymity. Many relatives of famous serial killers have been forced to do this in order to lead normal lives.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
Johnny Knoxville, star of The Ringer (2006), plays the mentally-challenged character by the name of Jeffy Dohmor.
The movie Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret Life was released in 1993, starring Carl Crew as Dahmer.
In the movie Exit Wounds (2001), a jailed character complains of the many "Jeffrey Dahmer look-alikes" in the jail.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In 2002, the biopic Dahmer, starring Jeremy Renner in the title role, premiered in Dahmer's hometown. The film, which portrayed Dahmer in a somewhat sympathetic light, met with protest from the victims' families, and quickly went to video.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In the 1997 movie Con Air, actor Steve Buscemi's character, Garland 'The Marietta Mangler' Greene, referes to serial killers, Dahmer (Jeffrey) and Gacy (John Wayne).
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JEFFREY DAHMER
Dahmer was one of the serial killers emulated by the villain in the movie Copycat (1995). Like Dahmer, the villain went to gay bars and drugged his victims' drinks; he also cuts off one victim's head with a surgical saw.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In the movie Demolition Man (1993), the criminal Simon Phoenix (played by Wesley Snipes) discovers Dahmer's name in a list of cryogenically frozen people and decides to release him, declaring, "Jeffrey Dahmer? I love that guy!" This scene is frequently deleted in modern broadcasts of the film because of Dahmer's murder in prison in 1994.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In the movie Final Destination (2000), Alex Browning (played by Devon Sawa) argues with 2 agents about how he is normal and that he sees visions saying: "I'm not going Dahmer on you guys."
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In the film Phone Booth (2002), a reference is made to Jeffrey Dahmer and the fact that he is well known for being a serial killer.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In the 8 Ball & MJG song, Relax and Take Notes, MJG makes a reference to having the ghost of Jeffrey Dahmer ridin' with him.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In Rob Zombies 'The Devils Rejects' there is a reference to Dahmer with the body parts in the freezers, and the log books of their victims.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
Horror writer Poppy Z. Brite has written several works with protagonists inspired by Dahmer, including the short story "Self-Made Man" and the novel Exquisite Corpse, in which a pair of homosexual necrophiliac-cannibalistic lovers plot the murder of a young Vietnamese man. Joyce Carol Oates's novel Zombie was also based on Dahmer.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In Chuck Palahniuk's novel 'Lullaby', a paramedic named John Nash references Dahmer. “You remember Jeffrey Dahmer.” Nash licks and says, “He didn't set out to kill so many people. He just thought you could drill a hole in somebody's skull, pour in some drain cleaner, and make them your sex zombie. Dahmer just wanted to be getting more.”
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JEFFREY DAHMER
Dahmer is also mentioned in many songs. He is mentioned in the song "Turn The Heat Up" by Bobaflex.
The Canadian grindcore band Dahmer is named after Jeffrey Dahmer.
The American Power violence band Apartment 213 is a reference Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment number.
There is a track on Venetian Snares' album Meathole titled Sinthasomphone, a reference to Dahmer's thirteenth victim.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
The song "Dahmer is Dead" by the Violent Femmes clearly references the killer. The American death metal band Macabre has written a concept album about Jeffrey Dahmer titled Dahmer. The song "Way Cool" by Freestyle Fellowship is a song about Jeffrey Dahmer.
Punk singer Tesco Vee sold aprons with a photoshopped image of Dahmer as Chef Boyardee with the tagline "Chef Jeff".
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JEFFREY DAHMER
The song "Dirty Frank" by Pearl Jam is a song about "Dirty Frank Dahmer" who keeps cupboards full of human corpses to use as ingredients.
The song "Room 213" by GGFH is about Jeffrey Dahmer.
The song Lord Abortion by popular British based Black Metal band Cradle of Filth chronicles the actions and life of a modern day Jack the Ripper, and references Dahmer with the line "I know I'm sick, as Dahmer did."
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In Dr. Dre and Ice Cube's song Natural Born Killaz, there is a reference to Dahmer.
The song "Jeffrey Dahmer's Cookbook" by death/grind band Fuck...I'm Dead is a reference to Jeffrey Dahmer.
The song "213" by the thrash metal band Slayer is about Jeffrey Dahmer.
The song "Siccmade" by gangster rapper Brotha Lynch Hung makes a reference to "J. Dahmer".
The song "God Bless" by Combichrist mentions Dahmer's name, as well as a very long list of other serial killers.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
The song "Trigger Inside" by Therapy? contains the lyric "I know how Jeffrey Dahmer feels, lonely, lonely".
The song "Fearless" by Insane Clown Posse contains the lyric "I'll meet Jeffrey Dahmer at some kinda of bar let him take me home and eat me" The song "Hazy Shade Of Criminal" by Public Enemy contains the lyric "Jeffrey Dahmer enter the room without cuffs."
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JEFFREY DAHMER
The song "Joker's Wild" by Insane Clown Posse contains mention of Dahmer, where the announcer (Shaggy 2 Dope) asks the question "Who killed 17 people, then later ate there bodies?", to which the person being asked replies "J...Jeffrey Dahmer?" where Shaggy then says"NO, the correct answer is your mother!", after which a gun shot is heard.
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In the song "Who's on The Microphone?" Biggie Smalls mentions Dahmers cannibilism.
Swedish metal band Terror 2000's song "Satan's Barbeque" is about a a Barbeque at Satan's house with Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and George Foreman.
In the song "Do The Charles Manson" by underground rapper Necro the lyrics contain the words " Do the Charles Manson, Do the Jeffrey Dahmer".
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JEFFREY DAHMER
In the song "Straight Boys" by internet celebrity Jeffree Star, lyrics include "I want a boy like me but hotter/to eat me out like Jeffrey Dahmer." Ras Kass´s song "The Nature of the Threat" contains the lyrics "Whites claim they had to civilize these pagan animals, but up until 1848 there's documented cases of whites being the savage cannibals, eatin Indians, In 1992, it's Jeffery Dahmer."
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JEFFREY DAHMER
Eminem's "Fubba U Cubba Cubba" contains the lyrics "Jeffrey Dahmer left me with his legacy to carry on". He also references Dahmer in one of his old freestyle verses with the line "Storing dead bodies in Grandma's little basement."
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
His birthname was Ricardo, but he changed it to Richard. His parents were known to be highly religious and, particularly his father, not shy of physical punishment, from which Ramirez would try to escape by spending nights in the cemetery.
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
By the time of the trial, Ramirez had many female (and male) fans who were writing him letters and paying him visits. Since 1985, freelance magazine editor Doreen Lioy wrote him nearly 75 letters during his incarceration. In 1988 he proposed to her. In 1996, Ramirez married Miss Doreen Lioy in the San Quentin waiting room. She is an Editor who works on teen magazines, has a B.A in English literature, and is said to have an IQ of 152. She dosen't smoke, swear or drink and still claims to be a virgin.
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
Whilst on trial, Ramirez cut a pentagram into the palm of his hand and delighted in flashing it at reporters. Today, this is one of the most well known images of Richard Ramirez.
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
Writer of X Files (Glen Morgan) once read an article about Richard Ramirez. Before his capture it was rumored that he entered the homes of his victims by the small window in the bathroom. This rumor would later be debunked after his arrest, but the story intrigued Morgan so much that it was the basis for the creation of the character Eugene Victor Tooms. To flesh out the story, the writers drew their inspiration from Jack the Ripper and a large ventilation shaft outside their office.
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
Ramirez was charged with 63 crimes: including 13 murders, and 30 other offences including attempted murder, rape and sexual assaults.
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
It is speculated that Ramirez was influenced to go on his killing spree by the stories told by his cousin who claimed to have been a Green Beret in Vietnam. Mike, the cousin, boasted to the 10-year-old Ramirez of torturing and mutilating Vietnamese women and showed him grisly Polaroid pictures, purportedly of his victims. Ramirez was also present when the cousin murdered his wife (blood from her shooting is said to have splattered on Ramirez's face).
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
The trial of Richard Ramirez was one of the most difficult, and longest, criminal trials in American history. Nearly 1,600 prospective jurors were interviewed. More than one hundred witnesses testified, and while a number of witnesses had a difficult time recalling certain facts four years after the crimes, others were quite certain of the identity of Richard Ramirez.
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
On August 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times reported that some jail employees overheard Ramirez planning to shoot the prosecutor with a gun, which Ramirez intended to have smuggled into the courtroom. On August 14, the trial was interrupted because one of the jurors, Phyllis Singletary, did not arrive to the courtroom. Later that day she was found dead in her apartment. The jury was terrified. However, Ramirez was not responsible for Singletary's death; she had been shot and killed by her boyfriend, who later killed himself with the same weapon in a hotel. The alternate juror who replaced Singletary was too frightened to return to her home.
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RICHARD RAMIREZ
On August 7, 2006 his first round of state appeals ended unsuccessfully when the California Supreme Court upheld his convictions and death sentence.
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TED BUNDY
While awaiting execution in Raiford Prison, the prisoner in the cell next to Bundy's was Ottis Toole, the former lover and murder partner of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. Toole is also believed to be the individual who murdered six-year old Adam Walsh, the son of now-TV personality John Walsh.
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TED BUNDY
The remains of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund, the two women who disappeared from Lake Sammamish State Park on July 14, 1974, were lost forever when the King County Medical Examiner's Office was relocated. Their families sued King County, and they received a settlement of $112,000 per family.
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TED BUNDY
Thomas Harris was in court the day of the infamous bite mark testimony in Bundy's 1979 trial (he had a press pass). Harris was then inspired to create the character Francis Dolarhyde for his novel Red Dragon. Also, many references to Bundy abound in Red Dragon: the teeth the killer uses are identical to Bundy's; and t-shirt slogans that appeared after Bundy's second escape (e.g. "Ted Bundy Is A One Night Stand") are attributed to the fictional killer in the novel.
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TED BUNDY
One of Marilyn Manson's ex bandmates was named Olivia Newton Bundy. The name "Olivia Newton Bundy" comes from actress Olivia Newton-John and Ted Bundy.
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TED BUNDY
For his novel The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris based the character of Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in part on Bundy. (His other inspirations were Gary M. Heidnik, Edmund Kemper, and Ed Gein.) Like Bundy, Bill would put his arm in a sling, approach the women he intended to murder by asking them for help, and then incapacitate them.
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TED BUNDY
In American Psycho, Christian Bale, who portrayed serial killer Patrick Bateman, makes a reference to Ted Bundy, asking his friend if she knew that Bundy had a dog named Lassie.
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TED BUNDY
The Jane's Addiction song "Ted, Just Admit It" on their 1988 album Nothing's Shocking features sound bites of Ted Bundy speaking.
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TED BUNDY
In the film Serial Mom, Bundy leaves a message for the title character saying "It's lonely here on Death Row."
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TED BUNDY
The song titled "Meticulous Intention," by the Gore Metal band Aborted, is about the crime Bundy committed on January 4, 1974. Ted Bundy is one of the serial killers named in the Combichrist song "God Bless".
Ted Bundy Holiday is a song off of Archaic Defeat's Phantom Power EP.
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TED BUNDY
Japanese doom metal band Church of Misery wrote a song entitled "I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)," which appears on their latest album "The Second Coming". The cover features Bundy's picture and the back cover has a grainy black and white photo of the infamous VW Beetle.
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TED BUNDY
Korn lead vocalist, Jonathan Davis owns Bundy's old VW car as part of his serial killer memorabilia. There are rumors however that Mr. Davis has begun to sell the items in his serial killer collection.
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TED BUNDY
In Natural Born Killers, protagonist Mickey Knox is told that the TV episode about him received higher ratings than the one about Ted Bundy, among other murderers.
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TED BUNDY
Ted Bundy's picture, along with the pictures of other famous killers, appears in the opening credits of Criminal Minds.
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TED BUNDY
In the episode of the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros, titled Viva Los Muertos, the parody of Fred Jones, of Scooby-Doo fame, named Ted was based on Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and David Koresh.
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TED BUNDY
In the episode of South Park that aired on October 25, 2006, Ted Bundy is depicted with John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer. The three parody the three stooges, he plays Moe Howard with Gacy being Jerome "Curly" Howard and Dahmer playing Larry Fine.
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TED BUNDY
In the second series of The League of Gentlemen, Edward kidnaps a woman for his son to marry by putting a sling on his arm, and asking a nearby woman to help him carry some bags of straw to his car; a parody of Ted Bundy.
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TED BUNDY
In the movie Scream 2, there is a reference to Bundy; "You wanna be one of the big boys?! Huh?! Manson? Bundy? O.J.?"
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TED BUNDY
The death metal band Macabre recorded a concept album named Sinister Slaughter in 1993: each track refers to a serial killer, and the second song is dedicated to Ted Bundy.
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