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Ted Bundy -	Born in Hoover, Vermont -	Unknown biological father, but it is thought his maternal grandfather was actually his father as well -	Grandfather was abusive and violent toward the women of his family -	Had been told his mother was actually his sister. Did not find out that she was his mother until college. -	Good student -	Religious -	Boy Scout -	Was socially akward as a teenager -	Claimed to be fascinated with sex and sexual images even as a young boy. -	Before he was out of high school, he was addicted to porn, and was arrested for stealing twice. -	January 4th, 1974 – Bundy beat an 18 year old woman with a metal rod, and sexually assaulted her. -	People began disappearing about once a month. -	Would fake an injury to get women to help him, and would then assault them -	After being recognized as a prime suspect, he was not yet arrested, and the killings continued -	He moved to Utah, and then Colorado. -	Was finally arrested on August 16, 1975 -	Escaped on June 7, 1977, but was caught 6 days later -	Escaped on December 30th 1977 by sawing a hole in the ceiling of his cell, and fled to Tallahassee Florida. -	Was captured again for driving a car with invalid plates, but was recognized and put in jail again. -	He got the death sentence for his many murders.

John Allen Muhammad (The Beltway Sniper) -	Born on Dec. 31, 1960 in New Orleans -	6’ 11” -	Went into the Louisiana National Guard in 1978 -	Joined the Army in 1985, and was a mechanic, metal worker, truck driver, and assault weapons specialist -	In 1999 he went to Antigua and was convicted of immigration and credit card fraud. -	Met Malvo there -	His wife divorced him in 1999 and later got a restraining order against him. -	Sniper attacks began on Sept. 5, 2002, with subsequent attacks on Sept. 21, Oct. 2, Oct. 3, with the October 3rd attacks claiming 6 lives. -	On Oct. 14, another attack occurred, ad the police received a call from the sniper on the 17th. -	Another attack occurred on Oct. 19th, this time in Ashfield, Virginia

Dennis Rader (BTK Killer) -	Fantasized (sexually) while killing -	Oldest of 4 children -	Was a zoosadist (killed and abused animals) -	Was in the Air Force for a time -	Worked in a deli department at a supermarket -	Was well educated in electronics and justice -	Would spy on his victims when they were at home. -	He would cut their phone lines, threaten them with a gun, strangle and release them repeatedly, and then finally kill them. -	He masturbated while killing, and many of the victims were found half-naked, though it should be noted that he never assaulted any of his victims before or after death. -	-Believed that his victims would be his sex slaves in heaven, similar to the Zodiac Killer -	Wrote letters and poems which he sent to the Wichita Eagle. He would include photos to prove he was the culprit -	Arrested in 2005, Rader matched all the information which he had given police in a letter in 2004 -	Sentenced to 175 years in prison, since the death penalty did not exist in Kansas.

Carl Eugene Watts -	Parents had a bad marriage, and divorced when he was 2. -	Enjoyed hunting and skinning rabbits -	Unofficially changed his name to Coral. -	He contracted a severe case of meningitis which almost killed him, and left him with brain damage and sleep problems. -	Began to have nightmares about fighting off the evil spirits of women, and attacked a woman while on a paper route, after which he was institutionalized, but was an outpatient. -	Attended Lane College on a football scholarship, but was injured and sent home. Before attending college, he was evaluated again, and found to have strong homicidal tendencies. -	Confessed to killing up to 80 women, and killed from 1974-19-82 in 4 different states. His first victim was stabbed 33 times. -	Became known as the “Sunday Morning Slasher” -	He told police he killed women because they had “evil eyes” and that he had to “release their spirits”. -	Died of prostate Cancer on Sept. 21, 2007

Carl Panzram -	Was arrested at age 8 for being “Drunk and disorderly”. -	Commited a large number of crimes, including murder, rape, and assault. -	Was one sick mofo.

Ed Gein -	Father was a raging drunk, though his mother never really divorced. Was bullied in school because he had a growth over one eye. -	Mother moved the family to an isolated place, where they had little contact with the rest of the world. -	He killed his brother, and after his mother died, he began making a “woman suit” out of his victims, so he could pretend to be his mother. He specifically attacked women who bore a resemblance to his mother. -	He admitted to shooting Mary Hogan, among other things. -	In addition to his “woman suit”, he made clothing and furniture out of various human organs body parts.

Albert Fish (Wolf of Wisteria, Brooklyn Vampire, The Gray Man) -	Born May 19, 1870 in Washington, DC -	Executed 1936 -	Was a serial killer, cannibal, and liked pain (masochism) -	His father was 43 years older than his mother. -	He got erections during his frequent beatings, grew up in an orphanage, and drank urine and was a corophage. -	When he was 20 he moved to NY and became a male prostitute. -	He claims to have molested over 100 people, most of them boys under the age of 6. -	His first attack was in 1919 when he stabbed a mentally retarded boy.

Ed Kemper -	Was born in Burbank on December 18,1948. -	Acted out sexual scenes using Barbie dolls. -	When he was locked in the basement, he often tortured and killed animals. -	August 1964, he wanted to go outside to shoot birds, but his grandmother wouldn’t let him. -	He stabbed his grandmother 20-30 times, and shot his grandfather as he got out of the car. -	He was taken to a hospital, and was released, though the killings resumed shortly thereafter. -	In addition to killing girls, he would rape the bodies, eat the remains, and play cruel jokes on people (he once planted a head in his mother’s garden because she wanted people to look up to her.) -	He turned himself over after killing his own mother, raping her corpse, and throwing her vocal cords into a garbage disposal.

Gary Leon Ridgway (The Green River Killer) -	Killed women who looked like prostitutes. Victims were killed by strangulation, and then had rocks placed in their vaginal cavities, and were thrown into the river where they were weighed down by heavy rocks. -	He is thought to have killed 49 people, although he confessed to different numbers during different interviews. -	He was sentenced to 48 life sentences without parole, since Washington does not use the death penalty

Bruce Mendenhall (The Truckstop Killer) -	Once ran for mayor in his town, and lost with only 49 votes. -	People said that he was strange, but not scary or unfriendly -	He was arrested in 2007 at a truckstop in Nashville, TN, and was incarcerated after police realized he looked like a sketch.