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BTK Killer

Bind Torture and Kill. Oldest of four children Killed 10 people. More suspected. Well educated Worked as an ADT Security Services, a company that set up alarm systems. Highly involved in his Christ Lutheran Church where he was the president. Spy on the victims when they were at home fo weeks. Find out best time. Cut off phone lines. Threaten them with a gun, torture them through strangling, kill them. Steal things from the crime scenes. Family murder: Otero. Spying on the parents. He believed every person he killed would be his sex slave in heaven. BTK killer loved media attention. Arrested as a suspect in the killings. DNA of daugher found the DNA at the crime scenes. Pictures found at Radar's home of him dressed up as a woman bondaged. DNA from fingernails matched. Sentenced to 175 years in prison without parole. No death sentence under Kansas Law.

Carl Watts

Born November 7, 1953. Parents divorced. Would visit his grandmother in the South. Loved the south so much that he changed his name to Coral. Mother remarried in 1962. Coral was upset. Got meningitis at 8. Caused brain damage and chronic sleep problems. Got held back. Missed a year of school. Attacked a woman while on his paper route at age 15. Institutionalized. Psychiatrist considered him dangerous. Placed on outpatient treatment 3 months later Did drugs, was a longer, violent behavior with female students. Poor grade, athletic. Lane college. Sent home for injuries. He went to college but because of confidentiality reasons, the psychiatrist couldn't tell anyone about him being crazy. Confessed to killing 80 women. 14-44 age. Police never able to connect him to the murder. 2 women identified him in a line up. Sentenced to 1 year for assault and battery charges. Nicknamed Sunday Morning Slasher. Killing young women in Texas. He told police that he had to kill women because they had evil eyes and he had to release their spirits. "If they ever let me out, I'll kill again." Tried to escape from prison after being sentenced to 60 years without parole. Appealed the conviction. Won. Was to be released in May 9, 2006. Eyewitness to a murder convicted him for a life sentence. Killed only women.

Carl Panzram

Born on June 28, 1891 Working immigrants from Germany and had little success in America. Arrested at 8 for being drunk and disorderly. Turned 11 Carl broke into neighbor's house and stole everything that he could. At 14 he hopped a train and left his family forever. He bought a yacht. Sailed to cities and asked guys to help him. Would get them drunk, then rape, kill, and dispose of their bodies. Did this for a while until his boat sank. Raped and killed little boys. Admitted to the killings and was sentenced to die. He was hung.

Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway Mom controled him. Attacked people who looked like prostitutes. People were thrown into river and held down by rocks. Claimed to kill 60 then 70. Admitted to kill 49, didn't know who the last 5 were. Confirmed 49. Took 5 months of negotiations, then admitted to 48 murders. Necrophiliac Buried the bodies to keep from having sex with them. 48 life sentences without parole. Washington State Penatentiary. Didn't have death penalty then.

Bruce Mendenhall

Known as The Truck Stop Killer Raised in Richland Country, Il. Has a wife and two daughters. Once ran for mayer and received 49 votes. Neighbors agreed that he was "strange but not unfriendly." Killed mostly young prostitutes. Killed on the road. Killed different ways. Arrested in Nashville, TN. Rifle, knives, handcuffs, latex gloves, black tape, a nightstick, and sex toys were found in his truck. DNA of five fictims found. Looked like the police sketch of a witness. Confessed to 6 killings when he was suspected for 1. Implicated in 7 murders.

Theodore Kaczynski

Unabomber Sent first bomb in 1978. Sent a total of 16 bombs. Killed 3 people and injured 23 before arest. Arrested in 1995 and tried in 1996. Sent bombs by hand and mail. First bomb was detonated by a primitive trigger mechanism. First few bombs lacked FC which meant Freedom Club. Refered to himself as we. Fingerprints from his bombs didn't match the letters so there may have been a copycat letter. False evidence. Said his name was Nathan. Told investigators that he lived somewhere else. One package included Ice Brothers. Signed something with RH. Wrote a 35,000 word paper. Found a live bomb and other bombs in his house. Sketches done 20 years before arrest. Criminal profiling said that he was above average intelligence, against technology, connected to academics.. All true. Attempted to hang himself during trial. Said to sell his stuff to raise the money he had to pay victims.