serial+killer+presentations


 * ted bundy:** (lost what i had, this is what i remember) born 1946- died 1989. admitted to killing 29 young women. normal dude until he realized a history of incest. found weird stuff in his car, finally arrested. escaped jail. arrested again. escaped again. caught in florida. arrested again.


 * john allen williams:** born 1960. went to army and given specialty for the M16. he felt sympathy for the 9/11 hijackers. honorably discharged in 1994. married but divorced and lost custody of children. september 5th, 2002 was first killing with sniper. murders occurred in 48 hour period.

- The D.C. sniper - converted to Islam shortly after joining the army - he said that he felt sympathy for the 9/11 hijackes - became a member of the Nation of Islam - In 99 he went to Antigua and was covicted of immigration paper and credit card fraud - wife divorced him in 1999, his wife said he was a controlling parent and was acting irrationally - opened up a martial art center with a partner - Sniper attacks started in 2002, a pizzeria owner in Maryland was shot six ties and killed- his laptop was later found in Muhammad's car - Sept. 21- liquor store clerk killed -October 3rd- killing spree - October 17th police recieved a phone call from the sniper- said he was God and that they didn't know who they were dealing with - October 19th- man shot and killed in a parking lot in Virginia - found a four page letter from the snoper in the woods at the scene that led them to Muhommad - Police set up a hotline and recieved many calls about a large white box van at the scene of the crimes - within two hours- a man at a rest stop reported the car Evidence- fingerprints- guns (ballistics tests), Laptop, Car
 * John Allen Williams**

- bind, torture, kill - Dennis Rader - Thought the people he killed would be his slaves in the after life
 * The BTK killer**

- parents had a bad marriage - his mother left his dad and took him and his sister to Michigan - he enjoyed hunting and skinning rabits - unofficially changed his name to Coral because that's   how Souterners pronounced it - Coral's mother remarried - got near fatal menengitis, it caused brain damage - Attacked a woman at age 15 while on his paper route - Institutionalized, placed on outpatient treatment three months later - Violent behavior with female students in his classes - Athletic gift- got a football scholarship - Sent home because of injuries - Psychiatrist said he was dangerous - Killed from 1974- 1982 - first murder- he stabbed a woman 33 times - Sentenced to a year for asault and battery charges - caught in '82- after he beat, choked, and killed two roomates (Lister and Aquilar) - Admitted to 80 years killings - He was eligible for parol, he could have been the first serial killer let out of jail - Joseph Foy had an eyewitness account to one of his murders - Died of prostate cancer
 * Carl Eugene Watts**

- Cheri Jo Bastes has been linked to the Zodiac after the San Francisco Chronicle recieved a letter from the Zodiac claiming that he killed her - Kathleen Jones- had her baby and got abducted, rode in the car with him for nearly three hours, she jumped out of the car, she ran to a police station where she found a picture of athe Zodiac and claimed him to be the guy who had abducted her - Only real evidence are the letters he sent to the Chronicle, they had a signature with blanks in it - Suspect- Arthur Leigh Allen -> bloody knives found in his car after killings, he claimed he was killing chickens -> Allen's handwriting didn't match the Zodiac and neither did his DNA -> He died on August 26, 2006 - Claimed to have killed 37 people total
 * The Zodiac Killer**

- Was born on June 21st 1891 - His parents were divorced, he was beaten by his brothers - Taken to the Minnesota State Training School - At 14, left his family - Raped men- got them drunk, raped them and then killed them
 * Carl Panzram**

- Killed girls that looked like his mom, skinned them and killed them - was a target for bullies at school - his mother was overly protective - he had a growth over one of his eyes - became violent growing up, he killed his brother and then set the yard on fire as a teenager - his mom died in a car wreck, so he made a woman suit out of his victims - Evidence -lamp shades and chairs covered by human skin - the head of a woman found in a paper bag - had a nipple belt - mammary vest - shrunken heads
 * Edward Gein**

- serial killer and cannibal - born in 1870 - executed in 1936 - had mental illness in the family - his father was 43 years older than his mother - spent time at public baths watching boys undress - moved to new york at 20 and became a male prostitute - had sex with other men in prison - first attack was in 1910 in Wilmington Delaware - "wolf of wisteria" - went willingly to the police office
 * Albert Fish**

- had 2 sisters, his father left when he was eight - he was born in 1948 - threatened to rape is sisters - once buried a cat alive - at 15 his mother couldn't control him anymore - couldn't stand his mother - he was 6'9 - august 1964, he stabbed his grandmother - then killed his grandfather- all at 15 - sent to a hospital when until he was 21 - he got out earl bc he was the assistant to his psychologist - he diescted bodies, had sex with them, cut off the heads - he ate the bodies - killed eight girls - he killed her mother - pleaded insanity in court, but he's still in prison
 * Ed Butcher**

- "the green river killer" - all women that looked like prostitutes - died of strangulation - thrown in the river and held down by rocks - victims were 16-22 - admitted to more murders than other serial killers - took five months of police and prosecutor negotions - he killed one girl, had sex with her, and would come        back and have sex with the body - December 18, 2003, supreme court sentenced him to life
 * Gary Leon Ridgway**

- The unabomber - The first bomb was in 1978 - Held responsible for a total of 16 bombs - Set his bombs by hand and also sent them by mail - Arrested in 1995 and tried in 1996 - The first bomb was detonated by an extremely primitive trigger mechanism - The first few bombs had the letters "FC" standing for freedom club - A fragment of a bomb revealed his name was Nathan - he accidently told investigators in a letter that he lived in the Sierra Mountains - He claimed he wrote a 35,000 word paper "industrial  	society and its future" - Arrested in 1995 - An above average intelligence - He was a neo-luddite (against technology) - Diagnosed with schizophrenia but competent to stand trial - Non of evidence has ever been cross examined
 * Theodore Kaczynski**