Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Serial Killers Ted Bundy - The Crimes and Life of One of America’s Most Infamous and Blood Thirsty b 7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers. Strictly speaking, a serial killer is someone who murders at least two people in separate events that occur at different times. While “serial murder” is not formalized by any legal code, the crimes of serial killers have often been seized on by the media and the public consciousness—especially in cases where there are many victims or the murders are carried out in gruesome fashion. The following list explores some of the most notorious serial killers the world has ever known. Jack the Ripper. We call him “Jack the Ripper,” but we don’t really know who the person behind one of the older and most notorious murder sprees was. The killer appeared in London’s Whitechapel district in 1888 and murdered five women—all prostitutes—and mutilated their corpses. Police surmised the killer was a surgeon, butcher, or someone skilled with a scalpel. The killer mocked the community and the police by sending letters outlining the acts. Although many suspects have been named over the years, the killer has never been identified. Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey Dahmer started killing in 1978, just 18 years old, and wasn’t arrested for murder until 1991, after a would-be victim escaped and led police back to Dahmer’s Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home. It was there that some of the gruesome details of his life of killing were seen via photos of mutilated bodies and body parts strewn across the apartment. He even had a vat of acid he used to dispose of victims. In all, Dahmer killed 17 people, mostly young men of color. He served time in prison twice—the first time for molestation and the second time for murder—and was killed by a fellow inmate in 1994. Harold Shipman. Harold Shipman, also known as “Dr. Death,” is believed to have killed at least 218 patients, although the total is quite likely closer to 250. This doctor practiced in London and between 1972 and 1998 worked in two difference offices, killing all the while. He wasn’t caught until a red flag was raised by several people, including an undertaker who was surprised by the sheer number of cremation certificates Shipman was a part of, along with the fact that most of the cases were elderly women found to have died in bed not at night but rather during the day. Police mishandled the investigation, and Shipman kept killing until he got greedy and tried to concoct a will for a victim that named him beneficiary, which led the victim’s daughter to become suspicious. He was finally convicted in 2000 and committed suicide while in prison in 2004. John Wayne Gacy. A construction worker known by his suburban neighbors as outgoing, John Wayne Gacy was involved in politics and even acted as a clown for birthday parties. He was no clown. Gacy came under suspicion in 1978 when a 15-year-old boy, last seen with him, went missing. That wasn’t the only time families of missing boys had pointed fingers at Gacy, but it was the first time authorities took them seriously. Soon after, a search warrant granted police access to the Gacy home, with the smell of nearly 30 bodies buried in a four-foot crawl space under his home. He was convicted of 33 counts of murder, with additional counts of rape and torture, and was executed by lethal injection in 1994. H.H. Holmes. Chicago has had its share of killers, but perhaps none more haunting than H.H. Holmes, the pharmacist who turned a hotel into a torture castle. Ahead of the 1893 world’s fair, Holmes moved to Chicago and started outfitting a three-story hotel with all manner of nefarious contraptions, including gas lines, secret passages and trapdoors, hallways to dead ends, chutes to the basement, soundproofed padding, and torture devices strewn throughout a maze. The gas allowed Holmes to knock out his guests before the worst of what was to happen came next, often on his surgical tables. He then burned the bodies in the building’s furnace, selling skeletons to medical schools and running life insurance scams. In all, he copped to more than 30 murders—found only after a fellow scammer turned him in for falling short on a financial agreement—before he was hanged in 1896. Pedro Lopez. One of the world’s most prolific serial killers might still be out there. Pedro Lopez is linked to more than 300 murders in his native Colombia and in Ecuador and Peru. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women. After Lopez’s arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims. He was later convicted of murdering 110 girls in Ecuador and confessed to 240 more murders in Colombia and Peru. The “Monster of the Andes” didn’t even spend 20 years in prison, as he was released in 1998 for good behavior. More than 20 years since, his whereabouts remain unknown. MOB TALK RADIO. Although the Ann Marie Burr case is still open it's unlikely we will ever know exactly what happened to her. With Bundy dead and no other suspects or DNA evidence it will be extremely difficult to prove whether he did kill Ann Marie or not. However for me there are too many coincidences. Bundy is probably the standard that other serial killers in America are compared to today. I believe Ann Marie Burr was Bundy's first victim. Sadly Don Burr passed away in 2003 followed by Beverly in 2008. They never did find out what became of their precious daughter. Monday, January 16, 2017. AN ERA ENDS IN PHILADELPHIA. by Jeff Canarsie An era in Philadelphia lore has ended with the death of Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo. Nicky died Friday in the medical center inside of Butner FCI in North Carolina. Nicky had been in ill health for months and while it was not reported publicly, I have been told that Nicky wasn't expected to make it through Christmas, and his weight had been plummeting for months prior. There is a lot one can say about Nicky Scarfo, as he was more like Al Pacino in Scarface than Marlon Brando in the Godfather. He was a blood thirsty gangster that believed that one could change the forecast by putting bullets in his problems. History will argue that under the Scarfo reign there was more bloodshed than anything, but also under Nicky the Philadelphia LCN made some serious money, especially with SCARF INC, a construction company of dimwits who did rebar and cement work(and not exactly the right way either, much to the laughter of other companies) Sort of like the rehab windows thing Vincent Gigante had, but at least he put the windows in right side up. In mentioning Vincent Gigante, Scarfo owes his rise to infamy to "the chin." Had Gigante not played his hand, Scarfo likely would have ended up in a body bag himself, or stuck out in Atlantic City to collect nickles and dimes the rest of his life. It's not to say that Nicky wasn't capable, he was, he just had a penchant for murder and mayhem over making money. An example would be the time he stabbed a guy in a diner over a seat. There was a beef over a seat in a diner, and rather then just walk away, Scarfo used a butter knife to make his point clear. He would wind up doing time, and in effect getting himself banished to Atlantic City to dwindle. Scarfo was know to be stubborn as a mule and completely disrespectful. It truly depends on what circle you listen to, but Nicky just did what Nicky wanted to do. While he was coming up in the mob, the Philadelphia Consigliere at the time Joe Rugnetta had offered his daughters hand in marriage to a despondent Scarfo. Rather than politely decline, Scarfo explained he would not marry any "girl who looked like an ape." Rugnetta obviously wanted revenge. He was disrespected and wanted Scarfo's head on a platter. The boss, Angelo Bruno wouldn't allow it, and Nicky was forced to apologize and give up some money in return. This was just an instance of Nicky Scarfo doing exactly what he wanted and "fuck everyone else." The knife incident, his mouth, and the consternation of another mobsters daughter effectively ended up getting Nicky sent to Atlantic City. There wasn't any money at the time in Atlantic City and while Nicky did his best to service his small bookmaking and loan shark racket just wasn't producing enough to survive. He desperately wanted to get back to Philadelphia. Insert Vincent "the chin" Gigante. What hasn't been reported by many, is this. Vincent Gigante was responsible for some real cloak and dagger stuff. He was directly responsible for the attempted murder of Frank Costello(with Vito Genovese) he also was responsible for the murder of Angelo Bruno. Your mob authors haven't told you that. Instead they try and wave a tapestry of politics, and the truth is, many upper echelon mobsters have been involved in taking out bosses. From Lucky Luciano, Joe Bonanno, Carlo Gambino, and Vincent Gigante all played snake in the grass. NICKY'S ASCENT TO POWER. As I mentioned without Vincent Gigante, Nicky Scarfo would have been just another corner mobster. What makes this story interesting is that Gigante despite what has been reported had a huge hand in what happened to Angelo Bruno. Angelo Bruno as history will tell you was the "docile don." A quiet man who relied on dialogue over debauchery. He would rather talk something out than to use a gun. Where Bruno went off the rails was his penny pinching ways, and allowing other mob families to have enterprises in North Jersey. To the guys on the street they were fighting over ten rackets, which consequently has always been the issue for Philadelphia's underworld, and Bruno had allowed other families to enter the scene and operate in the territory. The other issue was Atlantic City and drugs. Once legalized gambling entered New Jersey, Philadelphia laid claim. It was in there territory and they felt that it belonged to them. The other five families didn't see it that way and it became a huge problem. Bruno was apt to fight the good fight, but realized there was more harmony in alignment rather than division which infuriated Philadelphia LCN members who felt choked off by Bruno financially, especially when he had a no tolerance for drug sales even though he was allowing Genovese's to openly sell in Philadelphia for a huge kickback. He allowed another family to sell drugs, but banned his own men. The turmoil was reaching a boiling point. The seeds were laid, when Consigliere Antonio Caponigro gunned down Angelo Bruno outside of his home with John Stanfa sitting in the front seat. The problem was, Caponigro thought he had permission of the Comission to carry out the murder. In fact, he did. The problem was Gigante was playing some very machiavellian shit. Gigante gave the go ahead, and sent Frank "Funzi" Tieri to discuss the issue with Caponigro. Caponigro believed everything was good, and killed Bruno. A week later Caponigro was sent for, to face Vincent Gigante. Vincent Gigante simply asked Tieri if he had given permission to Caponigro, which he denied. Caponigro argued, and shortly after the meeting Caponigro was killed. What makes this interesting is that, the idea that the commission was asked. Never happened. Gigante acted on his own, and wanted to restructure Philadelphia. So to save face, he explained that he would handle the "unsanctioned" murder of a boss in Philadelphia and the commission went along with it. It was a really shrewd move. Vincent Gigante then offered the role to Scarfo which he declined in favor of Chicken Man Testa. It's not that Scarfo didn't want the position or that he felt "Testa deserved it." Scarfo knew that there would be some revenge for the Caponirgro hit and didn't want any part of it. The bottom end for Gigante was restructuring of Philadelphia and a huge kickback of Scarf, Inc, and in turn when Scarfo did take over he had no issues sharing the spoils of Atlantic City with the other five families. It made business sense for everyone involved. Once Testa was killed in huge porch bomb, Nicky took over the reigns as boss. Nicky reorganized the family, took out the Riccobene's who wouldn't come in line and pay tribute. He would go on to kill anyone who spoke out of turn, even killing Salvatore Testa over fear that Testa was garnering too much attention from others in the mob. Nobody was safe under the Scarfo reign, and his zero tolerance and blood thirsty actions made Philadelphia more unstable than anything. They don't call it the Scarfo Wars for nothing. He more than likely was the only boss to openly enjoy participating in murders when he didn't have to. The hell Scarfo unleashed in Philadelphia still resonates today as Philadelphia has always been known to be a bit shaky on the back end. This is also the reason why Philadelphia has no seat on the commission, they are just an unstable bunch, or at least were. History will look back on Scarfo more as a serial killer than your prototypical boss, and that's probably the way Nicky would want to be remembered, you know, as Michael Corleone, who walks into the bar, pops two guys and leaves the gun at the scene to show emphasis. That's who Nicky was, who he will always be, a stone cold gangster. Phildelphia will never be the same without Little Nick running amok. An expert reveals the 12 key traits common in serial killers, and some of them might surprise you. Some specific traits of serial killers, determined through years of profiling, include: Smooth talking but insincere. Ted Bundy was a charmer, the kind of guy that made it easy for people to be swept into his web. " I liked him immediately , but people like Ted can fool you completely," said Ann Rule, author of the best- selling "Stranger Beside Me," about her experiences with Bundy, a man she considered a friend. " I’d been a cop, had all that psychology — but his mask was perfect. I say that long acquaintance can help you know someone. But you can never be really sure. Scary." Egocentric and grandiose. Jack the Ripper thought the world of himself and felt he would outsmart police, so much so that he sent letters taunting the London officers. " Dear Boss," he wrote, "I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they won’t fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. That joke about Leather Apron gave me real fits. I am down on whores and I shan’t quit ripping them till I do get buckled. Grand work the last job was. I gave the lady no time to squeal. How can they catch me now? I love my work and want to start again. You will soon hear of me with my funny little games. I saved some of the proper red stuff in a ginger beer bottle over the last job to write with but it went thick like glue and I can’t use it. Red ink is fit enough I hope ha. ha. The next job I do I shall clip the lady’s ears off and send to the police officers . My knife’s so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get a chance. Good luck." Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.2 “Partners in Pain” Triple feature edition! Issue #2 of Serial Killer Quarterly, "Partners in Pain" recounts the gruesome tales of 15 serial murderers operating in 7 different teams from 19th century Scotland to 21st century Santa Monica. Bestselling author Cathy Scott guides the reader through the fog choked alleyways of Edinburgh where Irishmen William Burke and William Hare fatally suffocated up to 25 people in 1828. Our second feature by Dr. Katherine Ramsland focuses on Houston's wicked "Candy Man" Dean Corll - one of the most sadistic murderers in 20th century criminal history. Feature number three takes us back to the United Kingdom as Carol Anne Davis explores whether both John Duffy and David Mulcahy were truly the "Railway Killers". Kim Cresswell relays the perverse folie a deux of Doug Clark and Carol Bundy whose rampage began in 1980 on LA's sunset strip. Robert Hoshowsky and Curtis Yateman write of confinement and torture in their pieces on Leonard Lake and Charles Ng and "Ken and Barbie Killers" Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. Lastly, Aaron Elliott takes a look at a rare female-female serial killer duo, LA's Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt, who drugged and ran over two men with their car in order to collect on their life insurance policies. Also includes, Anthony Servante's analysis of poems by the Zodiac Killer, Joseph Kallinger, and Israel Keyes, and a review of the film 'Natural Born Killers'. Отзывы. Дополнительная информация. Где читать книги. Смартфоны/планшеты. Ноутбуки и настольные компьютеры. Устройства для чтения книг. Похожие электронные книги. Dr. Katherine Ramsland wades through the heavy fog surrounding the "Moors Murders": a series of high-profile child killings committed in the Swinging Sixties by Scottish sadist Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, his English girlfriend and accomplice. To this day, they continue to be the most shocking and headline grabbing crimes in modern Britain! With Katherine's background in psychology and philosophy, there is surely no one better suited to explore Brady's "existentialist exercises" in murder, his psychopathic pedophilia, and folie-a-deux relationship with Hindley. Where the "Moors Murders" remain Britain's most notorious series of murders, the atrocities committed by Fred and Rosemary West are undoubtedly the most depraved. Kim Cresswell churns the stomach with her unbelievable account of incest, bestiality, rape, torture, murder, necrophilia and filicide, culminating in a "Garden of Bones" in Gloucester. Carol Anne Davis looks at one of the greatest abuses of police power in English history: the entrapment of Colin Stagg for the 1992 ripper-style murder of blonde beauty Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common. Meanwhile, the real killer, Robert Napper, was already confined to Broadmoor asylum for the 1993 evisceration murder of Samantha Bisset and the rape and deadly suffocation of her infant daughter. Edgar-Award winning author Burl Barer makes his Serial Killer Quarterly debut, lending his highly original voice to an intriguing re-examination of the murders ascribed to "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, and the phenomenon of homicidal fame. Robert J. Hoshowsky, Aaron Elliott, and Kim Cresswell also look at three comparably notorious historical London slayers in their pieces on creepy old John Christie, "Acid Bath Vampire" John George Haigh, and Jack the Ripper suspect and bride poisoner George Chapman. Author and criminologist Judith A. Yates attributes a minimum of 20 victims to America’s first serial killers, Micajah & Wiley Harpe, who rather than bringing “peace on earth and good will to all men,” sought to exterminate the entire human race. Similarly, whenever Ted Bundy went “walking in a winter wonderland” it was in the snowy mountains of Washington or Colorado – landscapes strewn with the ravaged corpses of his 30+ female victims. Kevin M. Sullivan – author, Bundy researcher, and retired preacher – looks at arguably the most infamous serial slayer in American history, and his victims – known and potential. In her true crime debut, forensic psychologist Joan Swart goes above and beyond to tell us the tale of America’s most prolific homosexual sadist. With possibly a higher body count than Bundy and the Harpes combined, Randy Kraft may have actually rung in the New Year by torturing, killing, and mutilating several of the over 60 young men whose lives he appears to have extinguished. Lee Mellor , author, criminologist, and SKQ editor-in-chief, writes of the 22 strangulation-slayings and post-mortem rapes perpetrated across the USA and in Canada by “Gorilla Murderer” Earle Leonard Nelson during the mid-1920s, as well as 10+ cold-blooded murders linked to “Coin- Shop Killer” Charles T. Sinclair throughout the Eighties. Spokane prostitute killer Robert Lee Yates – another necrophile – has admitted to shooting 16 victims and defiling their bodies, but author and journalist Karen D. Scioscia asks: were there more? Are you full of holiday cheer yet? Well, at least we know that Christmas was truly a time for family in the Bender household – even if their feasts were purchased with the money they stole from the people rotting under their floorboards. Dane Ladwig looks at the more than 20 hammer murders believed to have been committed by The Bloody Benders in the mid-nineteenth century. Three years before Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, a bold and barefoot killer was slipping into Austin's outbuildings to murder and rape black servant girls, sometimes after death. In his Servant Girl Annihilator, acclaimed true crime writer Harold Schechter drags this gruesome piece of Texan history back into the light for modern eyes to behold. 2500 miles north as the crow flies, and 20 years later, a series of bizarre decapitation/arson murders commenced in the gold-gutted Yukon. Canadian serial murder specialist Lee Mellor takes a look at these slayings, along with providing nail-biting articles on America's most infamous unsolved serial murder case, the Zodiac Killer of San Franscisco, as well as the Montreal Child Murders: a spate of tragic pedophile killings which plagued the city throughout the Eighties. Another Franco-American cultural centre was shaken to the core between 1918-1919, when the shadowy Axeman of New Orleans slashed and bludgeoned unsuspecting Italian couples in their beds. Grinning Man Press co-founder Aaron Elliott tells of this jazz-happy native of Tartarus, and his possible (but improbable) connection to organized crime. The mob also appear as unlikely suspects in prolific author Michael Newton 's The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. Set against the backdrop of prohibition-era Cleveland, a seemingly-bisexual butcher left at least 10 victims dismembered and disfigured in and around the city while legendary detective Eliot Ness faltered in his attempts to capture the perpetrator. In more recent events, Robert Hoshowsky and Kim Cresswell reveal the details of intriguing serial murder mysteries on America's two coasts: California's menacing Golden State Killer (aka the Original Night Stalker) and New York's Long Island Serial Killer. Considering how many of these offenders may still be at large and lurking in a community near you, Grinning Man Press warns that “Unsolved in North America” may destabilize your sense of personal security, result in intense fear and paranoia, and lead you to invest great quantities of money in alarm systems, intricate locks, and firearms. Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.1 “21st Century Psychos” Dr. Katherine Ramsland examines the life and crimes of Israel Keyes - arguably the most organized and mobile serial murderer in American history. In direct contrast to Keyes's secretive slayings, the Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, murdered random civilians in broad daylight and openly taunted the authorities. Michael Newton - author of 265 books including the groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - details their three week reign of terror in his feature "Islam Will Explode". Lee Mellor's "Web of Spiders" discusses the milestone case of "Slavemaster" John Edward Robinson: the Internet's first serial killer. Other articles in "21st Century Psychos" include: "Love in the Ashes" - Arthur Ellis-award nominee Robert J. Hoshowsky takes on Sheila Labarre - an aging nymphomaniac who seduced, slaughtered, and incinerated three male victims on her New Hampshire farm, challenging our views on the nature of female serial killers forever. "The Interview" - Curtis Yateman's impressionistic look at the 2009-2010 murders committed by Canadian Airforce base commander Col. Russell Williams. "Checkmate" - The story of post-Soviet Russia's most prolific serial slaughterer, "Chessboard Killer" Alexander Pichushkin, as recounted by Grinning Man Press co-founder Aaron Elliott. "Canada's Killer Countryboy?" - Award-winning author,Kim Cresswell, sheds light on clean-cut "country boy" Cody Legebokoff, who at the age of 21 was charged with the murders of four women in western Canada. Is his guilt a certainty, or is there more to this story than meets the eye? Also read. Infamous Words, Feasts of Death and Killer Flicks: Grinning Man Reviews - Mr. Brooks. Отзывы. Дополнительная информация. Где читать книги. Смартфоны/планшеты. Ноутбуки и настольные компьютеры. Устройства для чтения книг. Похожие электронные книги. Three years before Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, a bold and barefoot killer was slipping into Austin's outbuildings to murder and rape black servant girls, sometimes after death. In his Servant Girl Annihilator, acclaimed true crime writer Harold Schechter drags this gruesome piece of Texan history back into the light for modern eyes to behold. 2500 miles north as the crow flies, and 20 years later, a series of bizarre decapitation/arson murders commenced in the gold-gutted Yukon. Canadian serial murder specialist Lee Mellor takes a look at these slayings, along with providing nail-biting articles on America's most infamous unsolved serial murder case, the Zodiac Killer of San Franscisco, as well as the Montreal Child Murders: a spate of tragic pedophile killings which plagued the city throughout the Eighties. Another Franco-American cultural centre was shaken to the core between 1918-1919, when the shadowy Axeman of New Orleans slashed and bludgeoned unsuspecting Italian couples in their beds. Grinning Man Press co-founder Aaron Elliott tells of this jazz-happy native of Tartarus, and his possible (but improbable) connection to organized crime. The mob also appear as unlikely suspects in prolific author Michael Newton 's The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. Set against the backdrop of prohibition-era Cleveland, a seemingly-bisexual butcher left at least 10 victims dismembered and disfigured in and around the city while legendary detective Eliot Ness faltered in his attempts to capture the perpetrator. In more recent events, Robert Hoshowsky and Kim Cresswell reveal the details of intriguing serial murder mysteries on America's two coasts: California's menacing Golden State Killer (aka the Original Night Stalker) and New York's Long Island Serial Killer. Considering how many of these offenders may still be at large and lurking in a community near you, Grinning Man Press warns that “Unsolved in North America” may destabilize your sense of personal security, result in intense fear and paranoia, and lead you to invest great quantities of money in alarm systems, intricate locks, and firearms.