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Aileen Wuornos

Serial Killer — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:07:50 +0000

Aileen Wuornos was a tragic case of American history gone wrong, a female serial killer whose troubled life spiraled out of control into multiple murders. The Florida coast experienced a streak of chilling killings through the mid to late eighties. Cold case after cold case piled up when the woman prostitute assaulted victims as she [...]

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Edmund Kemper

Serial Killer — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:19:45 +0000

One of the astonishing serial killer stories to come out of the 1960′s and 1970′s of American Criminal History was Edmund Kemper. One of the earliest serial killers, Kemper suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and murdered his own mother as the culmination of a string of intensive and fatal attacks. Often posing as a police officer, [...]

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John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo

Serial Killer — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:36:40 +0000

Washington D.C. is the American nation’s capital, a paradise of security and armed forces presence and command. Yet in 2002, two men held the city captive while arresting pedestrian traffic with random sniper shots killing random victims with no warning. Indiscriminate selection of victims on the Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C. area roads. The random [...]

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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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