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Donald Harvey

Serial Killer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:20:33 +0000

The so-called “Angel of Death” killer was an inside man, a hospital employee and orderly whose access to unattended hospital patients and means to extinguish their lives proved fatal in double digits for American patients in the Midwest and Southeast. Donald Harvey started his criminal career simply by strangling patients too weak to struggle or [...]

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Zodiac Killer

Serial Killer — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:12:52 +0000

The Zodiac Killer was never caught because the law enforcement people in power at the time had used secondary means of catching a first rate criminal. The systems then in place were thought by many to be acceptable to the norms of the time, but criminal minds get away with crimes because their etymology of [...]

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Jerome Henry Brudos

Serial Killer — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:45:29 +0000

The quiet Pacific Northwest in the 1960′s was home to one of the most murderous serial killers in American history. One ordinary boy, a generation earlier, who preferred to play with women’s shoes had become a native. Jerome Henry Brudos, known as the Lust Killer or the Shoe Fetish Murderer, who laid waste to a [...]

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Dennis Rader

Serial Killer — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:44:21 +0000

The BTK Killer conformed to the classic serial killer profile, showing that any combination or social profiling will always yield an adaptation to the serial killer profile. The BTK killer was a man named Dennis Rader, outwardly a pillar of his community. But the mask of a law-abiding family man with children and ties to [...]

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Rodney James Alcala

Serial Killer — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:12:02 +0000

Rodney Alcala is a convicted serial killer whose raping and tortured killings of four women has resulted in a death sentence. Rodney Alcala raped one woman with a claw hammer. Yet the spurious criminal justice system that rewards convicted killers with lifetime jail sentences has upset many members of the general, let alone the victims [...]

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Wayne Williams

Serial Killer — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:25:55 +0000

In 1979, Atlanta was re-emerging as the jewel of the South, a town rumbling with political and economic pulses that created opportunity, arts, and culture echoed only faintly elsewhere. Unfortunately, poverty and African-American race relations would pave the way for a killer to murder many young people whose futures were eradicated overnight. The deaths of [...]

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H. H. Holmes

Serial Killer — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:09:52 +0000

The Chicago World’s fair has a grandiose and sumptuous feel to it even in the 1880’s suggesting grand hotels, formal dresses, and fancy mustaches. This Fair was to cast a positive glow over a city that regularly made headlines for violence, riots, and murders. Even the Mayor of Chicago was murdered on his own doorstep. [...]

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Jane Toppan

Serial Killer — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:44:42 +0000

Jane Toppan was as violent a shock to nineteenth century America as the Manson murders would be almost a century later. One of many serial killers using an avocation to nursing or medicine, Jane Toppan was a nurse who had access to both medicine and victims with little or no supervision. But many experts attest [...]

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Donald Henry Gaskins

Serial Killer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:33:19 +0000

Donald Henry Gaskins was a serial killer of absolutely ugly dimensions who ruled the Deep South with an unimaginable terror. South Carolina was an unsafe place to be looking for a ride on the highway, especially from 1955 through to 1977. The target of Gaskins’s murders was principally women, although the motivation is unclear. His [...]

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David Parker Ray

Serial Killer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:16:37 +0000

While it is a mark of camp culture to reference sadomasochism and sexuality as a game or dungeon pursuit, David Parker Ray made this a reality. His custom built $100,000 trailer full of torture devices and S & M paraphernalia gives testimony to the deeply rooted deviancy at work in his nature. The instinct to [...]

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