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Jeffery Dahmer - responsible for the death of at least 17 men and boys - born in 1960 and lived in Ohio - molested as a child - parents got divorced and he lived with his father and didn't see his mother or brother - he killed animals in hos yard and then would use acid to take - he went into the army but was dismissed for drunkenness - he lived with his grandmother - he killed animals as a child and would pour acid on them - he would eat the people that he killed and then our acid on their bodies - he would go to the gay bars to attract his victims - he would rape people and hen he wouldn’t kill all of them - when the police went into the apartment there was a shrine with candles and human skulls - in court he had admitted everything that he did and he made a plea for insanity - he was given 15 life term sentences - an inmate killed him in 1994

Ted Bundy: - 1946- 1989 - he seemed to be normal - raped and killed young women between 1974 and 1978 - he would rape them and then he would kill them by bludgeoning or strangling them and then would engage in necrophilia - born in Vermont - it was thought that his grandfather had raped his mother and then had Ted - he had thought that his mother was actually his sister - Ted was detached from his step father - His mother/sister married a man who adopted Ted and so his name became Ted Bundy - Good student, member of the church youth group - In high school he started to become kind of weird - Fascinated by porn and sex and violence - He was arrested for stealing things - He beat a girl while she was sleeping and he sexually assaulted her, but she was still alive and suffered form brain damage - He attacked another victim 27 days later - People began to disappear about once a month - He would fake an injury to get the girls to help him, but then he would rape them and kill them - He was seen by people in a park and people went missing from the park on that same day - His girlfriend recognized a picture and turned him in - Bodies were found in ditches and in parks - He moved to Utah and killed people there - He killed people in Colorado - In 1975 he was arrested in Utah because he didn’t stop for a police officer and they found a ski mask, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, and an ice pick - 1977 he was allowed into the library of the jail and he escaped through a window - he was caught again and put in jail - he sawed a hole in the ceiling and escaped to Florida - Killed people at Florida state university - Identified by FSU victims - There were bite marks on the butt of one of the victims that matched Ted Bundy’s teeth - They found fibers on the victim that matched fibers in the car that he had - Executed on January 24, 1989

BTK Killer: Dennis Radar - bind, torture, and kill - he killed mostly women, but one of his killings was an entire family - he killed 10 people, but more are suspected - air force and well educated - every job that he got, he would get fired - he got a divorce because he was driving his wife crazy - highly involved in his church - he would spy on his victims and find out the best time to kill them - he would cut the phone lines - he would steal from the crime scenes - he would strangle his victims - he believed that every person that he killed would be his sex slave in heaven - profile: he was addicted to media attention and he wanted to outwit law enforcement - he would contact the news and send pictures - Dennis Radar matched the description: he had met the victims before, air force, college, work - They matched DNA from him under the fingernails of victims - 175 years in prison without parole

Carl “Coral” Eugene Watts - born 1953 - parents divorced in 1955 - he moved with his mother and sister to Michigan - he would hunt and skin rabbits - he changed his name to coral because that is how the southern people said Carl - mother was remarried in 1962 - had nightmares about fighting off the evil spirits of women - he attacked a woman while on his paper route - psychiatrist deemed him dangerous - used drugs and was a loner and had violent and volatile behavior - he confessed to killing up to 80 women - went to jail for a year but was released in 1976 - one of his victims faked being strangled so that she could escape and save her friend - 1980: he was taken in to the police station - his blood sample didn’t link him to any other crimes - moved to Texas where he got caught trying to kill the roommates - said that women had evil eyes and he was trying to release their spirits - 1982: 60 years no parole - was eligible for parole after an appeal in the case in 2006 - sentence to life fro the murder of Helen Dutcher in 1979 because someone had a witness account of the murder - he killed all women

The Zodiac: - he would shoot all of the victims, except for two of them - they never caught him - claimed to have killed 37 people in total - would send letters to the newspapers with a code and would tell them to print it in the newspaper so that all the people could read it

Carl Panzram - 1891 - parents were immigrants from Germany - the parents got divorced and he was beaten by his brothers - at 8 he was arrested for being drunk - he stole and when his brothers found the stolen things, the brother beat him unconscious - 14: he hopped a train and left the family forever - Sodomy, arson, larceny, robbery, firearm possession - He would sail to different cities and get men drunk, rape them, kill them and then drop the bodies in the ocean - His ship sank in the ocean - He claimed to be out of the country during most of the murders - He escaped prison many times - He admitted to the murders - He was sentenced to hang until dead and he was put to death

Edward Theodore Gein - his dad was a drunk - his mom was a Lutheran - he was bullied because he had a growth over one of his eyes - he killed his brother and set the house on fire - he would make woman suits out of his victims in order to be like his mother - he got caught because he “gutted” a person in his shed and they found it - they found skulls, lamp shade made of human skin, light pull made of human lips, chairs covered in skin, nipple belt, a head in a paper bag, mammary vest, face masks, shrunken heads - he dug up women to skin them

Albert Fish - born 1870 - executed 1936 - cannibal - mental illness ran in the family - his father was 43 years older than his mother - he went to an orphanage and was beaten and ate nasty things - he became a male prostitute - molested 100-400 boys under the age of 6 - he would eat people - he was 65 when he was executed and he was put in the electric chair

Edward Kemper (the co-ed butcher) - he scared his sisters by telling them that he would rape them - his room was the basement - he would torture animals - 6’9’’ - first killing at 15 when he killed his grandmother and grandfather - he would always pick up female hitchhikers and stab and shoot them - he would eat some of the people because he wanted them to be part of him - he killed his mother

Gary Leon Ridgway - The Green River Killer - grew up in Washington - he had a controlling mother - he killed only women who looked like prostitutes - he would strangle them and put rocks inside of the victims - they were thrown in the river with rocks tied to them - he claimed to have killed 60 to 70 people but only admitted to 45 of them - he admitted to necrophilia - he sadi that he had to bury them or put them in the river so that he wouldn't have sex with them - he is in jail in Walla Walla Washington

Bruce Mendenhall the Truck Stop Killer - he has a wife and two daughters - he ran for mayor and came in third out of three - neighbors said that he was strange, but not mean or unfriendly - victims were young prostitutes - he killed when he was on the road - run over, shot, and stabbed (the ways he killed the victims) - arrested July 12, 2007 at a truck stop in Nashville, TN - they found a rifle, knives, handcuffs, latex gloves, black tape, and a nightstick in his truck - DNA of five different women were found in the truck - he confessed to six killings - he is in jail

the Unabomber Kaczynski - first bomb was in 1978 - bombed from 1978-1999 (would bomb twice a year except for a 3 year break) - he was responsible for 16 bombs - he killed 3 and injured 23 - he sent bombs by hand and mail (he would put the return address to the person he wanted to send it to and so then when they tried to send it to them they would return it to them) - the first bomb was detonated by an extremely primative trigger mechanism - he would stamp FC on them (Freedom Club) - There may have been a copycat bomber because there were non-matching finger prints - he "accidently" told them that he lived in the Sierra Mountains, but he actually lived in Montana - looked for someone with a military background - THey had a sketch from a person who saw someone leave a package in a parking lot - the profile was right about the man being intelligent and had degrees in science and math - he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia - attempted to hang himself during the trial - attacked airlines and univeristies