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10 Infamous Serial Killers

A serial killer is a person who kills at least two people in distinct incidents that take place at various times. Although there is no legal definition of “serial murder,” serial killers’ crimes are frequently picked up by the media and the general public, particularly when there are numerous victims or the killings are carried out in a graphic manner. Murders and serial killings are genuinely sad and terrifying stories that can appear on the news every day. These killers have disturbed the solid affection and trust that support humanity. Their deeds are a stain on society and have caused a lot of suffering for other people. These serial killers frequently carry out their horrific killings in cruel and cunning ways. The worst part is that many people even attempt to rationalize their behavior because they do not believe they are wrong. Their actions are frequently taken for no apparent cause, and their reasoning lacks any foundation. Here is a list of the most notorious serial killers.

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1. Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy headshot-by Unknown photographer-

Many people in the United States were more than glad to give Ted Bundy the limelight he craved as a result of his killings. His hunting zone was the western United States, where an undetermined number of murders mostly of college-age women were occurring from Washington and Oregon all the way to Utah and Colorado. After being apprehended and found guilty of abduction in Colorado, Bundy fled the country and relocated to Florida, where he continued to commit more murders. As the alleged killer participated in what is said to have been the first murder trial to be broadcast on television, encouraged interviews, and boasted of his following, Bundy’s final arrest and its aftermath captivated the attention of the country. In 1989, he was finally put to death in the electric chair.

2. Pedro Lopez

It’s possible that one of the most prolific serial killers in history is still at large. More than 300 homicides in Pedro Lopez’s native Colombia, as well as in Ecuador and Peru, have been connected to him. Tribal women made up at least one-third of those homicide victims. Police discovered the graves of more than 50 of Lopez’s teenage victims after his arrest in 1980. Later, after confessing to 240 additional murders in Colombia and Peru, he was found guilty of killing 110 girls in Ecuador. The “Monster of the Andes” was freed in 1998 for good behavior, thus he didn’t even serve 20 years in prison. His whereabouts have been a mystery for more than 20 years.

3. John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne Gacy was a construction worker who was well-liked by his suburban neighbors. He was also active in politics and occasionally performed as a clown at children’s birthday parties. In 1978, Gacy was suspected after a 15-year-old boy who had been last seen with him vanished. It wasn’t the first time that relatives of missing boys had blamed Gacy, but it was the first time that officials had paid attention to them. The smell of over 30 people buried in a four-foot crawl space beneath the Gacy residence was there when authorities were given access to the house thanks to a search warrant. He was put to death by lethal injection in 1994 after being found guilty of 33 counts of murder and extra counts of rape and torture.

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4. H.H. Holmes

Dr. Henry Howard Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett)-by though likely a mugshot-

Although Chicago has seen its fair share of murderers, H.H. Holmes, the chemist who converted a hotel into a torture facility, is probably the eeriest. Before the 1893 world’s fair, Holmes relocated to Chicago and began building a three-story hotel with a variety of sinister devices, including soundproof padding, gas lines, hidden passages and trapdoors, hallways that led to nowhere, chutes that led to the basement, and torture equipment was strewn throughout a maze. Before the worst of what was to come, the gas permitted Holmes to put his guests to sleep, frequently on his operating tables. He then perpetrated life insurance scams and cremated the corpses in the building’s furnace before selling the remains to medical colleges. Before being hung in 1896, he confessed to a total of more than 30 killings, which were only discovered after a fellow conman reported him for breaking a financial deal.

5. Harold Shipman

At least 218 victims are thought to have died at the hands of Harold Shipman, widely known as “Dr. Death,” however the actual number is probably closer to 250. Between 1972 and 1998, this doctor worked in two different offices while maintaining his London-based practice and killing. He wasn’t discovered until several people raised a red flag, including an undertaker who was shocked by the number of cremation certificates Shipman was involved in and the fact that the majority of the cases involved elderly women who were discovered to have passed away in bed during the day rather than at night. The police botched the case, and Shipman continued killing until he became avaricious and attempted to rig a will for a victim that named him beneficiary, raising suspicions in the deceased’s daughter. He was ultimately found guilty in 2000, and in 2004 he committed suicide in jail.

6. Jack the Ripper

Illustrated Police News – Jack the Ripper-by British Library-

Although he is referred to as “Jack the Ripper,” nobody actually knows who was responsible for one of the oldest and most infamous murderous rampages. In 1888, a serial killer struck in London’s Whitechapel neighborhood, killing five women all prostitutes, and dismembering their bodies. Police speculated that the murderer was a surgeon, butcher, or expert with a scalpel. By mailing letters documenting the acts, the killer made fun of the neighborhood and the police. Over the years, a number of suspects have been named, but the murderer has never been found.

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7. Jeffrey Dahmer

Even though Jeffrey Dahmer began killing when he was only 18 years old, he wasn’t caught until 1991, when a would-be victim managed to escape and lead authorities back to Dahmer’s Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home. Photos of dismembered bodies and body parts littering the flat there revealed some of the gory particulars of his life of murder. Even his acid vat for disposing of victims was there. Dahmer killed a total of 17, largely young black guys. He was murdered by a fellow prisoner in 1994 after serving two prison sentences, the first for molestation and the second for murder.

8. Luis Garavito

Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos-by The Colombian National Police-

With almost 300 victims, Luis Garavito is Columbia’s worst serial killer. His method involved luring impoverished boys between the ages of 6 and 16 with money, candy, or odd tasks before torturing, raping, and killing them as a result. Although he acknowledged committing 138 crimes, the overall number of his victims exceeds that amount by a factor of two. He has more murder victims than Pedro López, the worst serial killer in the history of the globe, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Garavito was detained on separate counts of attempted rape on April 22, 1999, but his confession was insufficient to establish that he committed the murders. Following the discovery of solid proof at various crime scenes, Garavito was given a number of sentences totaling 1,853 years and nine days in prison. He is one of history’s worst serial killers.

9. Richard Ramirez

Richard Ramirez CDCR-by San Quentin State Prison, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation-

With 15 murder victims and multiple cases of torture, Richard Ramirez, sometimes known as the Night Stalker, was a prolific serial murderer in the United States. He was a heavy drug user who began to believe in Satanism as a result of developing epilepsy as a child, which served as the catalyst for his crime. He began with a break-in and a theft, but it quickly escalated to violence. He had sexually assaulted, stabbed, and killed an elderly woman during a burglary at her home as his first victim. Residents of Greater Los Angeles, and eventually the San Francisco Bay Area, were horrified by his campaign of house invasions and murders. His conduct demonstrated “cruelty, callousness, and viciousness beyond any human understanding,” the judge who handed down the sentence said. While awaiting death, Richard Ramirez succumbed to B-cell lymphoma without having time to consider his misdeeds.

10. Alexander Pichushkin

Alexander Pichushkin, often known as the “Chessboard Killer” or the “Bitsa Park Maniac,” was known for murdering homeless men. He used alcohol to entice them inside his house, where he used blunt objects to kill them. Numerous hammer blows to the back of the heads were evident in the majority of his victims, and empty vodka bottles were put into their gaping skull wounds. In order to fill all 64 squares on a chessboard, he set out to commit 64 murders. He was apprehended, though, and is now serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of at least 49 individuals.

Psychologists have researched some of the horrifying serial killers who have made media headlines throughout the years in an effort to understand the causes of serial homicide. One horrific truth that psychologists have discovered through their research may sum up all of their findings; given the appropriate circumstances, anyone may turn into a serial killer.