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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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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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Henry Lee Lucas

Serial Killer — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:58:30 +0000

How could one man conceive of committing three hundred killings? Henry Lee Lucas was probably the only serial killer whose killings had an unmistakably rational basis in his psychological upbringing. Born in 1936, this man would challenge law enforcement to prove, disprove, and prove again just which killings he was culpable for. Was Lucas making [...]

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Ted Bundy

Serial Killer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:51:43 +0000

Why is Ted Bundy so mesmerizing a media figure? The sensation surrounding this most deadly of killers stems from his repeated and almost gleefully enthusiastic transgression of the most precious and sacred of human shibboleths, the taking of human life. But perhaps also later in his career he became enamored of his profile as a [...]

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