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Velma Barfield made international headlines when she became the first woman to be executed in America since 1962 and first since the re-introduction of the death penalty in 1976. She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection. She was put to death at 2.00 a.m...
This is a story you will not soon forget, (especially if you work as a waitress:). This is the story of Joe Ball. You see Joe was not your average businessman, (as you will soon find out). Joe ran a small bar outside of Elmsdorf, Texas, located off of Highway 181. The name of...
Benjamin (Tony) Atkins (August 26, 1968 – September 17, 1997), also known as the Woodward Corridor Killer, was an American serial killer who killed 11 women in Detroit, Michigan during a period of nine months between December 1991 and August 1992. All the victims were found...
Born in 1948, the son of a retired navy admiral turned international engineer, Douglas Clark had lived in 37 countries by the time he settled in Southern California. He liked to call himself the king of the one-night stands, supplementing his machinist's income through affairs...
By all rights, Harvey Carignan should never have become a serial killer. Sentenced in Alaska to be hanged for murdering a woman during 1949, the hulking killer might have been eliminated early on had not the system intervened. An over-zealous sheriff had elicited confessions...
Joni Lenz's roommates had not been particularly worried when they didn't see her in the morning of January 4, 1974. But when she still wasn't up and around that afternoon, they went into her basement bedroom to see if she was sick.A horrifying sight confronted them. Ann Rule...
Richard Trenton Chase had a thing for blood. He also had a fear of disintegrating. Born May 23, 1950, he liked to set fires as a child and to torment animals. He had a sister, four years younger, and his father was a strict disciplinarian who bickered constantly with his wife...
Captain Joseph Borrelli of the New York City Police Department was one of the key members of the Omega Group. Operation Omega was the task force headed by Deputy Inspector Timothy Dowd to find the psycho who was killing women in various parts of the city with a .44 caliber...
Dennis Andrew Nilsen (born 23 November 1945, Fraserburgh, Scotland) also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly Killer is a British serial killer who lived in London. Nilsen killed at least fifteen men and boys in gruesome circumstances between 1978...
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was born on 16th October 1936 in Yablochnoye, a village in the heart of rural Ukraine, within the USSR. During the 1930s, the Ukraine was known as the “Breadbasket” of the Soviet Union, and the policies of communism, realised through Stalin’s enforcement...
The following article is a fictionalized and embellished reconstruction of Dr. H. H. Holmes’ thoughts, based on facts available to the author. Any perceived permutations of prejudice are not representative of the author’s sentiments. Chicago June 27, 1893, the World's Fair...
That is how Manuel Delgado Villegas defined himself in 1992 during the only interview he gave in his life, relaxed and smoking one cigarette after another before TVE cameras (spanish public television), in the psychiatric penitentiary hospital of Fontcalent, Alicante...
In 1895 a railway guard saw Dean board a train carrying a young baby and a hatbox; on the return trip she only had a hatbox. After searching along the tracks with no luck police searched and unearthed from the Deans garden the recently buried bodies of two babies...
On November 3, 1998 Maddie Clifton aged 8 went missing, after the police called off the search for Maddie over 400 members of the public continued to search, but with no luck. The search ended a week after the disappearance when PHILLIP'S mother Melissa went to clean his room, finding...
(Interviewer) I mainly just start out asking about Henry Lee Lucas and if we get off on a tangent that’s fine but we will use that as a starting point, talk about his involvement with cults and how wide spread it is and the Hand of Death in particular...
'I killed nobody, none, okay I ain’t kill several in Colorado, you’ve been reading too many books letting them go to your head all the time' (Richard Tagmeyer) But you said you killed some people. 'Not in Colorado, I’ve never killed nobody in Colorado.' Toole...
Why did you agree to be interviewed? 'Ah, well for a number of reasons, to start out with, I guess to be interviewed, I don’t know whether your aware that Fred is writing a book, for starters this would probably be a good I guess you could say something to...
William Heirens: also known as "The Lipstick Killer"; confessed to the murders of two women and a child between June 1945 and January 1946. Though William Heirens was convicted of three murders and he served 65 years of his life in prison, there have been...
Many people often wonder why serial killers take trophies from their victims, feeling it is just another way to degrade them. Other believe it could be as a memento for them to relish over later; however, could there be something deeper when it comes to...
There is an old biker saying that I found to be especially applicable to this case: “Three can keep a secret if two are dead.” On August 8, 1973, Dean Arnold Corll was killed by one of his own accomplices, a young man named Elmer Wayne Henley, in an act of...
The Mexican American War, also known as the Invasion of Mexico was one of the defining moments of the 1800's. The war not only echoed throughout history, impacting the lives of many that were involved in it, but it also redefined the course of history, altering the...
With the publication of Timothy Wyllie’s book on The Process, a new perspective of the group has emerged which reveals a radically different view from all that have been written about to this point—the majority of the books and articles having enmeshed The Process...
The remains of people who have met their end by fair means or foul are for the most part in their sanctioned state and place, be it in the bone, ash or even preserved cadaver, but there are many who have simply vanished far and wide, in myriad, misfortunate or...
Disclaimer. What the author has written is according to his imaginings about Jeffery Dahmer’s life and crimes, based on facts, but significantly embellished. In no way does the author glorify the crimes herein. And in no way does the author seek to malign people...
There is something in the compost heap and you put it there. Like radioactive waste, it emanates as if seeking detection, seeking yours too. That sense of dread, atavistic, anathema. You wonder how this came to pass, but know only that the finger is pointed at you...
The Green River Valley, a spectacular and stark mountain scape, both serene and threatening, alike the Donner Pass of those ill-fated pilgrims. Wilderness and madness. Here crashing through the undergrowth a dead girl is dragged in her tawdry attire, dumped for nature...
To the English America is an extreme, enormous, egregious fantasia of Croesus we cannot help but begrudgingly admire. The American Dream; it is a veritable fairytale Manichean. For all that shining light there be darkness, and boy do you have it; of course it is the guns and...
Joint enterprise of creatures in the pursuit of their prey is nature in play; a primal command insensate. It is in the hunting beasts in the broiling farrago of the savage African veldt working their synergies of potential the greater for survival; the domestic canines...
Few times do the police have the ability to stop a serial killer from progressing to that status, as they did with Harvey Carignan. Harvey Carignan was born on May 18, 1927 in Fargo, North Dakota. From a young age, Harvey suffered at the hands of his mother. As the illegitimate...
We have all seen the horror flicks where the killer takes his victim into his house of death and has his way with them. This is of course only a movie and not real life, maybe based on factual events but still only actors enacting the tragedies. The killers...
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA 1996. A small city with a population of approximately 33,000, Poughkeepsie lies roughly 90 miles north of the buzzing and pulsating New York City, notorious for high crime rates, major incidents and violent offenses, often including...
In this current jaded age we live in when we hear of serial killers with low kill counts we tend to dismiss them as non-entities in the serial killer Hall of Fame. Serial killers now as compared to twenty or more years ago are fighting a different...
I grew up in a rural area south of Rochester NY, close to the Genesee Junction, where the Pennsylvania Railroad crossed the New York Central. Just south of the junction was an ancient stone trestle that carried the north/south trains over Black Creek, about a...
Life in the old west was full of hardship, but also opportunity. One family seized their opportunity like no other. The Bender family banded together to take the lives of more than ten guests at their inn. For almost three years, the family preyed upon their...
In pop culture media some vampires are handsome young things who’re deeply remorseful for what they are - Edward from Twilight, Louis from The Vampire Chronicles - while others are (at least slightly more physically) grotesque creatures that revel in the monsters they...
Most people have heard of "The Homicidal Triad" in reference to serial killers...bedwetting, fire-setting, and cruelty to animals. It's believed that a serial killer will have all of these in their past and that they alone can be signs of a sociopathic personality...
Most people are fully aware and prepared for the dangers that come as the sun goes down. They lock their doors, set their alarms, and stay inside until the next day arrives. It's understandable; a great deal of crimes do occur at night with all those opportunities...
Poisonings can be discussed in a number of different ways when the topic of murderers comes up. In this article we’ll take a slightly more unique and in-depth look at the method of killing by focusing on three common poisons used by those who commit homicide...
Necrophilia, the cornerstone of every psycho it seems...and a damn creepy idea to the rest of us. After all who in the world would want to have sex with a dead person?! Well there are a number of different reasons, some more comprehendible and romanticized and others...
Frequently, when victimology (the study of victims of crime) is discussed in criminal profiling it conjures up thoughts of beautiful young women and the near unspeakable things a serial killer has done to them. But that image discounts a large portion of victims...
Ah geography, it can tell you so much...the history of a continent, the political and religious undertones of a country, social growth and expansion of a society...if there's a serial criminal in your neighborhood. One frequently used method in law enforcement...
The concept of those who worship Satan is hundreds and hundreds of years old and so is the fear associated with them and what they might be capable of. Often Satanism is connected to torture, murder (serial or otherwise), and child abuse which are all scary...
Edward and his grandmother were sitting at the kitchen table , drinking coffee and chatting before Edward excused himself. He grabbed a rifle from the kitchen and told his grandmother he was going to shoot some birds. Instead, he made his way outside the house and stood...
Most everyone knows the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Though the work is fiction, it is loosely based on dissociative identity disorder. A shocking and unbelievable phenomenon. Such characters do exist, however. The evil deeds more horrific than any...
Learned “True Crime” enthusiasts and aficionados have wondered for years if (and it’s a big ‘if’, too!) “The Lipstick Killer” and the notoriously elusive killer of “The Black Dahlia” (Elizabeth Short-22-DOB—July 29th, 1924) were...
The attributes of Morris Solomon Jr’s murders were rape, as all of his victims had sexual undertones when they were discovered. However, because his victim’s corpses were in the later phases of decomposition, definitive causes of death was extremely challenging...
“I disposed of the body… You aren’t going to find him”. Patrick Wayne Kearney was a 1970s serial killer from California and this was his M.O. During his twelve-year killing spree that lasted from 1965-1977, a total of thirty-two men were killed this way and...
A Serial con man turned to serial murderer, and was luring women into his web of sex and sadomasochism. He then killed them and disposed of their bodies. The streak of the unsolved homicides spanned three decades before cops brought the sociopath to justice and...
Investigators examined the terrifying case of a serial killer nicknamed “The Ghost of Baton Rouge .” A predator who stalked, beat, and savagely murdered six women in a 60 mile radius surrounding the state capital of Louisiana. This savage criminal evaded...
Legend has held that the first widely recognized first female serial killer in the United States is Lavinia Fisher. She was born in 1793, but, the location of her birth, her maiden name, or any information about her childhood, is unknown. Lavinia grew up to marry...
The motives of the serial killers on this list vastly differ. Some of these serial killers are pedophiles and psychopaths who take their hatred out on young children. A few of the vicious killers on this list were also mothers who took the lives of their own children...
The Honolulu Strangler was Hawaii’s first known serial killer and responsible for the deaths of five women in Honolulu in 1985 and 1986. The killer bound his female victim’s hands behind their backs, and then would rape and assault them, before killing them by strangulation and dumping their bodies...
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