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A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them.

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Psychological gratification is the usual motive for serial killing, and most serial killings involve sexual contact with the victim,but the Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) states that the motives of serial killers can include anger, thrill-seeking, financial gain, and attention seeking. The murders may be attempted or completed in a similar fashion. The victims may have something in common, for example, demographic profile, appearance, gender or race.

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Although a serial killer is a distinct classification that differs from that of a mass murderer, spree killer, or contract killer, there exist conceptual overlaps between them. Some debate exists on the specific criteria for each category, especially with regards to the distinction between spree killers and serial killers.

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A little snippet about the Zodiac Killer

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A little snippet about the Zodiac Killer

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The killer fashioned this name for himself in taunting letters he sent to the Bay Area Press. He left ciphers to be decoded and out of the four he sent, only one was definitely solved. The killer operated in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His last letter said: Me- 37 and SFPD (San Francisco Police Dept.)- 0. He claimed to have killed 37 victims but the newspapers confirmed only 7. The case file is still open.

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A little snippet about The Hitchhiker"s Killer

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Gaskins has claimed to have killed between 80 to 90 people by torturing and mutilating them. He started killing in 1969, picking up hitchhikers on the coastal highways of the American South. A criminal associate witnessed him killing two young men and confessed to the police. He was sentenced to death which was later turned to life imprisonment without any parole. Gaskins added another murder to his name and became the only man to have ever killed an inmate on death row.

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He got more names due to his hideous acts. Some of them were The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer or Dracula Miyazaki. The reason for this being that he abducted little girls, killed them and indulged in sexual activities with their corpses. On one occasion, he not only drank the victim's blood but ate her hand as well. He also preserved body parts as trophies and sent postcards to the families describing the murder. His father committed suicide and Miyazaki was hanged in 2008, aged 45.

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Ted Bundy was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile. He operated in various states in the USA and confessed to killing 30 women. He revisited crime scenes and indulged in sexual acts with the corpses. Bundy decapitated at least 12 victims and kept their heads as trophies in his apartment. Aged 42, Bundy died on the electric chair in 1989. His own defence attorney said, "Ted, was the very definition of heartless evil."

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The real killers or killer were never identified. The name came into being because the victims had organs missing and judging by procedure the killer seemed to have surgical experience. Jack the Ripper who was later believed to be a single person killed female prostitutes in the slums of London between 1888-91.

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I searched the internet, I only chose 10 of the 20 famous serial killers. If you want to see 10 others, you can use the link below. And also I've added a little information about these 10 famous serial killers (later shifted to the right side).

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The world has known many serial killers. The list of such people who have committed inhumane crimes is endless. But then there are some who have actually stolen the spotlight for the hideous crimes committed against humanity. Here are 20 most evil and notorious serial killers the world has ever seen:

1. The Zodiac Killer

The killer fashioned this name for himself in taunting letters he sent to the Bay Area Press. He left ciphers to be decoded and out of the four he sent, only one was definitely solved. The killer operated in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His last letter said: Me- 37 and SFPD (San Francisco Police Dept.)- 0. He claimed to have killed 37 victims but the newspapers confirmed only 7. The case file is still open.

2. Donald Henry Gaskins: The Hitchhikers' Killer

Gaskins has claimed to have killed between 80 to 90 people by torturing and mutilating them. He started killing in 1969, picking up hitchhikers on the coastal highways of the American South. A criminal associate witnessed him killing two young men and confessed to the police. He was sentenced to death which was later turned to life imprisonment without any parole. Gaskins added another murder to his name and became the only man to have ever killed an inmate on death row.

3. Tsutomu Miyazaki: The Human Dracula

He got more names due to his hideous acts. Some of them were The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer or Dracula Miyazaki. The reason for this being that he abducted little girls, killed them and indulged in sexual activities with their corpses. On one occasion, he not only drank the victim's blood but ate her hand as well. He also preserved body parts as trophies and sent postcards to the families describing the murder. His father committed suicide and Miyazaki was hanged in 2008, aged 45.

4. Ted Bundy: The Crazy Necrophile

Ted Bundy was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile. He operated in various states in the USA and confessed to killing 30 women. He revisited crime scenes and indulged in sexual acts with the corpses. Bundy decapitated at least 12 victims and kept their heads as trophies in his apartment. Aged 42, Bundy died on the electric chair in 1989. His own defence attorney said, "Ted, was the very definition of heartless evil."

5. Jack the Ripper aka Whitechapel Murder

The real killers or killer were never identified. The name came into being because the victims had organs missing and judging by procedure the killer seemed to have surgical experience. Jack the Ripper who was later believed to be a single person killed female prostitutes in the slums of London between 1888-91.

6. Luis Garavito: The Beast

Also dubbed by the media as the Le Bestia (The Beast), the Colombian is probably one of the world's worst serial killers. He confessed to the torture, rape and murder of 147 young boys. But the number is believed to be over 300. He was found guilty on 139 counts, which should amount to 1,853 years in prison. But Columbian law limits it to 30, which is what he was sentenced to in 1999. He may be released earlier for cooperation and good behaviour.

7. Ahmad Suradji: The Sorcerer

The cattle-breeder from Indonesia admitted to killing 42 girls and women between 1986 to 1997. As a part of his ritual, he used to bury them waist deep. Bodies were found in a sugarcane field with their heads facing his house, which he believed would give him more power. Suradji was sentenced to death by a firing squad in 2008.

8. Alexander Pichushkin: The Chessboard Killer

He was also known as the 'Chessboard Killer' and the 'Bitsa Park Maniac'. His targets were homeless men whom he lured to his house with vodka. He is believed to have killed 49 people, most of them with repeated hammer blows to their heads and inserted a vodka bottle into the gaping skull wound. He initially said he wanted to complete the number of squares on a chessboard and kill 64 people. Also, it is believed that he was in competition with another Russian serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 for 53 killings. It was the very same year Alexander started killing.

9. Andrei Chikatilo: The Butcher

Andrei, the Butcher of Rostov, said, "When I used my knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature." He was responsible for sexually assaulting, killing and mutilating 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in Russia. After being captured in 1992, he was ordered to be killed by a firing squad in 1994.

10. Charles Edmund Cullen: The Angel Of Death

Cullen worked as a nurse in many hospitals but kept switching jobs as he was fired for suspicious behaviour from many of them. He confessed to murdering 40 elderly patients in New Jersey from 1984 to 2003. He did this by poisoning his patients to death with unprescribed medication. He stated that he wanted to relieve the patients from their suffering much like an angel would. Experts say he had more than 300 victims. Cullen has been imprisoned for life.

11. Patrick Wayne Kearney: The Trash Bag Killer

Also called the Trash Bag Killer, he operated between 1975 -1977. Kearney had a high IQ but once captured, he confessed to 32 murders of homosexual men. Kearney would dump their bodies along California highways and wrapped them in trash bags thus earning the name. He was convicted of 21 murders, but was sentenced to life because of his confession.

12. Dennis Raider: BTK Murderer

Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Raider murdered 10 people in Wichita, Kansas. He even sent letters to police taunting them under his alias name BTK which stood for 'Bind, Torture, Kill'. His technique was to stalk his victims before breaking into their homes, binding their limbs and finally strangling them. He disappeared in 1988, but remerged in around 2005 when he sent a floppy disc to the press which helped in tracing him. Rader confessed to his crimes and is serving 10 consecutive life sentences with the earliest release date possible on February 26, 2180.

13. John George Haigh: Acid Bath Murderer

John George Haigh was also known as the 'Acid Bath Murderer' and operated during the 1940s. He was convicted for the murders of 6 people, although he claimed to have killed 9. He was a professional conman, who lured wealthy people by charm and deceit, into to a warehouse where he shot them. Later he would dissolve their bodies in sulphuric acid then forge papers to sell their possessions and collect their life savings. He was sentenced to death and hanged in 1949.

14. Paul Knowles: The Casanova Killer

Also known as the Casanova Killer, Knowles used his charm into making victims believe him and later killed them. He killed a total of 18 people, although the count might be more. His victims included men, women and children. The man from Florida was eventually killed by an FBI agent in 1974 when he was trying to escape.

15. William Bonin: The Freeway Killer

Bonin was also known as the 'Freeway Killer'. Between 1979 and 1980, he raped, tortured and murdered at least 21 young men. Bonin would dump their bodies along freeways in South California. After being convicted for 14 of his killings, he was executed by lethal injection in 1996. His sadistic side was still seen during his prison sentence where he corresponded with many of his victims' families about how their children reacted to his torture.

16. Aileen Wuornos: The Monster

Her story allowed Charlize Theron to win an Academy Award. She played Aileen in the 2003 movie, 'Monster'. While working as a prostitute, Aileen killed seven men in Florida for their money and confessed to shooting them, claiming all of them had either raped or attempted to rape her. She died in 1992 by lethal injection.

17. Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal

Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for dismembering 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer also indulged in necrophilia and cooking body parts of his victim, then eating them. He was eventually caught after a prospective victim managed to overpower him. Dahmer was sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment in 1992. But he was beaten to death by a fellow prisoner at the Columbia Correctional Institution two years later.

18. John Wayne Gacy: The Burial King

Gacy operated between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. He sexually assaulted and murdered 33 teenage boys and young men. Gacy would lure his victims to his home with the promise of work or money before murdering them by strangulation using a tourniquet. He buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space under his house and later disposed the bodies off in the Des Plaines River. Convicted of 33 murders, Gacy was sentenced to death and spent 14 years on death row before he was executed by lethal injection on May 10, 1994.

19. Tommy Lynn Sells: The Brutal Texan

Tommy Lynn Sells is perhaps the most dangerous Texan in history. He claimed to have killed at least 70 people. He brutally murdered people between 1985 and 1999 including stabbing a 13-year-old girl 16 times. Sells broke into the bedroom of a 10-year-old girl, stabbing her and left her to die. But despite her injures, she managed to survive and gave a detailed description of Sells to the police. He was sentenced to death & remains on death row in a high security prison in Texas.

20. Pedro Rodriguez Filho: The Brazilian Maniac

Arrested in 1973, Pedro was later convicted in 2003 for the murder of at least 71 people and was then sentenced to 128 years imprisonment. He was only 14 when he committed his first killing. He wreaked havoc on local drug dealers, in revenge for his girlfriend's killing while he was imprisoned. In prison, he even executed his own father, who was also serving time for murder. Filho went onto kill at least 47 inmates while imprisoned. His continued killings have led to his sentence to be increased to 400 years imprisonment.

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20 Of The Most Notorious Serial Killers The World Has Ever Seen

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The world has known many serial killers. The list of such people who have committed inhumane crimes is endless. But then there are some who have actually stolen the spotlight for the hideous crimes committed against humanity. Here are 20 most evil and notorious serial killers the world has ever seen: 1.

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Also dubbed by the media as the Le Bestia (The Beast), the Colombian is probably one of the world's worst serial killers. He confessed to the torture, rape and murder of 147 young boys. But the number is believed to be over 300. He was found guilty on 139 counts, which should amount to 1,853 years in prison. But Columbian law limits it to 30, which is what he was sentenced to in 1999. He may be released earlier for cooperation and good behaviour.

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The cattle-breeder from Indonesia admitted to killing 42 girls and women between 1986 to 1997. As a part of his ritual, he used to bury them waist deep. Bodies were found in a sugarcane field with their heads facing his house, which he believed would give him more power. Suradji was sentenced to death by a firing squad in 2008.

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He was also known as the 'Chessboard Killer' and the 'Bitsa Park Maniac'. His targets were homeless men whom he lured to his house with vodka. He is believed to have killed 49 people, most of them with repeated hammer blows to their heads and inserted a vodka bottle into the gaping skull wound. He initially said he wanted to complete the number of squares on a chessboard and kill 64 people. Also, it is believed that he was in competition with another Russian serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 for 53 killings. It was the very same year Alexander started killing.

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Andrei, the Butcher of Rostov, said, "When I used my knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature." He was responsible for sexually assaulting, killing and mutilating 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in Russia. After being captured in 1992, he was ordered to be killed by a firing squad in 1994.

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A little snippet about Charles Edmund Cullen

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Cullen worked as a nurse in many hospitals but kept switching jobs as he was fired for suspicious behaviour from many of them. He confessed to murdering 40 elderly patients in New Jersey from 1984 to 2003. He did this by poisoning his patients to death with unprescribed medication. He stated that he wanted to relieve the patients from their suffering much like an angel would. Experts say he had more than 300 victims. Cullen has been imprisoned for life.

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That's all from the magazine about the famous serial killers around the world 10 of the 20 serial killers according to Akarsh Mehrotra. and there are also some serial killers that can be used as novels or films.

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Zodiac Killer is the nickname for a serial killer from the United States who operated in Northern California in the late 1960's and early 1970's. His identity is not known to this day. The word Zodiac was used by the serial killer as a signature on a series of derisive letters sent to the local media. The letter contains four ciphers, only one of which has been successfully cracked. The Zodiac carried out attacks in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four men and three women aged 16 to 29 years were targeted. A number of suspects have been named by law enforcement and amateur researchers, but there is no evidence of involvement in the serial killings. In April 2004 the San Francisco Police Department suspended investigations of the case, but the case was reopened in early 2007. Cases also remain open in Vallejo as well as in Napa County and Solano County. The California Department of Justice has maintained an open case regarding the Zodiac murders since 1969.

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Confirmed victim
Although the Zodiac has confessed to 37 murders, researchers agree on only seven victims, two of whom survived. They are:
1. David Arthur Faraday (17) and Betty Lou Jensen (16) were shot dead on Lake Herman Road, within the city limits of Benicia on December 20, 1968.
2. Michael Mageau Renault (19) and Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin (22) were shot in the parking lot of Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo on July 4, 1969. Mageau remained alive, while Ferrin died on the way to the hospital.
3. Bryan Calvin Hartnell (20) and Cecelia Ann Shepard (22) were stabbed near Lake Berryessa in Napa County on September 27 27 1969. Hartnell survived despite nine stab wounds in the back, but Shepard died of his wounds on September 29, 1969.
4.Paul Lee Stine (29) was shot dead in the Presidio Heights neighborhood in San Francisco on October 11, 1969.

Possible victims
The murder victims below are suspected of being Zodiac victims, but the researchers did not agree with them.
1.Robert Domingos (18) and Linda Edwards (17) were shot dead on the beach around Lompoc on June 4, 1963. Edwards and Domingos were identified as Zodiac victims possibly due to similarities to the attack on Lake Berryessa.
2. Cheri Jo Bates (18) was stabbed to death and nearly beheaded near Riverside City College in Riverside on October 30, 1966. The relationship between the Zodiac and Bates that may have emerged only 4 years later was murdered, when the San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery received a whisper about the equations of the Zodiac serial killer state and Bates death.
3. Donna Lass (25) was last seen in Stateline, Nevada on September 6, 1970. A postcard with a Forest Pines condominium reclaimed that the Chronicle received on March 22, 1971 is interpreted as a Zodiac confession to the murder of Lass. There is no evidence of the Zodiac being involved in its disappearance.
There are only three survivors after meeting the Zodiac who might:
4. Kathleen Johns (22), he said, was kidnapped on March 22, 1970 on Highway 132 west of Modesto. Johns was able to run from the car of the man who took him and his daughter somewhere between Stockton and Patterson for about 3 hours.

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Gaskins was born March 31, 1933 in Florence County Carolina, to a mother named Eulea Parott, along with other out-of-wedlock children. His body is small when compared to his age, so he got the nickname Pee Wee. As an adult he was only 5 '4 "and weighs 59 kilograms. Gaskins was marked by neglect. When he was only one year old, Gaskins drank a bottle of kerosene, so that his body movements were disturbed until he was three years old. His mother paid little attention to him, until he realized that his name was Donald is currently on trial for the crimes of robbery, assault, and rotating rape.

After his confession in crimes committed, Gaskins attended a school of change. There he was repeatedly raped by fellow prisoners. After running away, he married and volunteered to return and finish his sentence. He was then released in 1951, when he was 18 years old. Gaskins worked on a tobacco plantation until his detention in 1953, after he attacked a girl with a hammer. Gaskins is serving a six-year sentence at the South Carolina Penitentiary. After being raped and bullied in prison, she later became respected by other inmates after killing the most respected person there, Hazel Brazell. As a result, he received an additional three years in prison. But from there he turned from a victim, to an aggressor. He escaped from prison in 1955 hiding behind a garbage truck and moved to Florida, where he got a job in a running circus. He was arrested again and detained, until finally being released on parole in 1961.

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Gaskins was arrested again on November 14, 1975, when fellow perpetrator Walter Neeley confessed to the police that he witnessed Gaskins kill Dennis Bellamy and Johnny Knight. Neeley confessed to police that Gaskins told him he killed people who were recorded as missing over the past five years, and gave clues to where they were buried. On December 4, 1975, Gaskins led the police to his estate in Prospect, where he buried eight of his victims

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Gaskins was tried on eight counts of murder on May 24, 1976, found guilty on May 28, then sentenced to death, which was later reduced to life imprisonment, because under the South Carolina General Assembly's 1974 the state tried to follow directions from the United States Supreme Court regarding the rule of the death penalty. .

Unfortunately, Gaskins went on to commit another murder on September 2, 1982, which earned him the title of the Cruelest Man in America. Even though he was already detained in the highest security block at the South Carolina Correctional Institution. He killed another death row inmate, Rudolph Tyner, who killed an old couple in a robbery in Burgess. Gaskins was paid to carry out this revenge murder by Tony Cimo, son of victim Tyner. Several times the assassination attempt on Tyner failed, most notably involving poison sprinkled on his food and drink. Gaskins then decided the use of explosives would be effective. Gaskins hid the C4 explosive on the speakers of a radio, which promised to make it easier for them to communicate between the prisoners. He asked Tyner to put the device in his ear, then set off the explosion. Gaskins stated that, "The last thing Tyner heard was me laughing."

For his actions which were not deterrent to killing, Gaskins was again sentenced to death. This case also marks the first time a white person has been sentenced to death for the murder of a black person. While on death row, Gaskins has also claimed between 100 and 110 murders. These included Margaret "Peg" Cuttino, the 13-year-old son of South Carolina Senator James Cutting Jr. Gaskins was executed September 6, 1991, at 1:10 a.m. in the electric chair, about 11 hours after he attempted suicide by cutting a blood vessel in an arm. His final sentence was, "I'm going to have a lawyer speak on my behalf. I'm ready to go now."

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Other names are The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, Dracula, Rat Man
Born August 21, 1962, Itsukaichi, Tokyo, Japan
Died June 17, 2008 (age 45), Tokyo, Japan
Because he died Hanging
The sentence of death
Time of the 1988–89 killings
Date of arrest July 23, 1989, in Saitama, Tokyo

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Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮 﨑 勤 Miyazaki Tsutomu, 21 August 1962 - 17 June 2008) is a murderer and psychopath, pedophile, necrophilic, rapist and cannibal from Japan. In his childhood, he often read comics and watched thriller genre films, collected adult anime videos during his teenage years and watched illegal porn videos for minors. As a teenager, he often recorded the underwear of girls playing tennis until he became a psychopathic monster as an adult. Tsutomu Miyazaki killed 4 (four) child victims by being strangled, sexually harassed, cut off both hands and feet, burned the remains of the body and became ashes, abused, mutilated, eaten one of the body parts, drank the blood and disposed of the body parts in different locations

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Ted Bundy is a child of Eleanor Louise Cowell who was born in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946. Because Ted was a child born outside of his marriage, to cover up his embarrassment Louise was forced to keep Ted a secret that Ted was her child. Louise also took Ted to his parents' house in Philadelphia. Ted was raised as the adopted son of his grandparents. Ted was told that his mother, Louise, was his sister. After several years, Louise moved with Ted to Tacoma, Washington to marry a man named Johnnie.

Ted grew up in a working class family. Ted already displayed a terrifying sense of attraction at an early age. By the time he was 3 years old, Ted had already shown an affinity for knives. When he started school, Ted was known as a shy but smart kid. He got high marks in his studies but he couldn't get along with his friends. As a teenager, Ted began to show his dark side. He often peeked at other people's windows but he never stole anything.

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Ted Bundy admitted that he had committed the murder of 36 women. However, experts believe that the number of murders committed by Ted may be closer to 100 or maybe more. Until now, no one knows for sure how many people have been victims of Ted Bundy's murder. Most sources say that Ted started his action in 1974. That year there have been reports of missing women around the Seattle and Oregon areas. According to the story circulating, Ted was known as a man with a neat appearance and black hair. Ted seduces his victims to enter his car by pretending to be in pain.

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In the fall of 1974, Ted Bundy moved to Utah for a reason. After his move, the police began to receive multiple reports of missing women. The following year, Ted was arrested for possessing robbery items such as a crowbar, face mask, rope and handcuffs in his car. After his arrest, however, the police began to link Ted to more serious criminal cases. In 1975, Ted was arrested for the kidnapping of Carol DaRouch. Carol is one of the few women who has survived Ted's crimes. Ted Bundy was later found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Unfortunately in 1977, Ted managed to escape 2 times. At that time he was charged with the murder of a young woman in Colorado. While on his way to the courthouse library, Ted escapes for the first time by jumping over a window. However, he was recaptured after 8 days of escaping. In December 1977, Ted managed to escape a second time by punching holes in the ceiling in his detention cell. This provides an opportunity for Ted to carry out his brutal action again.

After successfully escaping for the second time, Ted went to Tallahassee, Florida. On the evening of January 14, 1978, Ted entered the Chi Omega student dormitory, at Florida State University. There he attacked 4 young women and killed 2 of them. On February 9, Ted got back into action by kidnapping a 12 year old girl named Kimberly Leach. The crime was the end of Ted Bundy's journey. Ted was finally arrested in February 1978. The evidence against Ted was the murder of 2 Chi Omega women, in which there were bite marks on one of the corpses. The bite marks proved to match Ted Bundy.

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On January 24, 1989, at about 7 a.m., Ted was executed by electric chair in the Florida State Prison. Outside the prison, many residents cheered Ted's death, and some even lit fireworks.

Ted's body was then cremated in Gainesville. Before he died, Ted requested that his ashes be scattered in the Cascade Mountains in Washington, where Ted had killed at least 4 victims in the area.

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And this is one of those movie posters that tell about the zodiac

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the origin of the nickname Jack the Ripper

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the origin of the nickname Jack the Ripper

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The London public at that time did not necessarily label the killer with a nickname that is still legendary today. The nickname Jack the Ripper comes from some anonymous letter that came out of nowhere. The letters were initially believed to be letters written by the perpetrators. However, there are many experts who consider these letters to be hoaxes made by certain parties to increase public interest in this case. Possibly, the fake letters were made by media journalists. Of course, it is with the aim of getting the public excitement which can be summarized as a news source.

Due to the massive coverage of the serial killings, the British public was stirred up and shrouded in excessive fear, especially since the London police were still unable to reveal the facts behind the panicked Jack the Ripper atrocities, especially in the poor area of ​​Whitechapel. As noted on the National Archive page, the anonymous letters that were once sent to the public are now stored in the National Archives of London, England. Uniquely, these strange letters did not only come from England, but also from France and the United States.

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Only a few victims were officially recorded

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It is not known exactly how many victims of the Jack the Ripper murders. However, officially, there were at least five recorded victims, as written on the Britannica website. They are Marry Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly.

The five victims recorded were prostitutes who came from poor and slum areas. The killings that were carried out were also sadistic. Because in addition to cutting the victim's neck, the victim's stomach was also mutilated. This mutilation case raises speculation that the perpetrator is someone who has knowledge of body anatomy.

Although there were several victims who were officially recorded, the police and the public in general believed that the other murder victims were also mostly committed by the same perpetrator, namely Jack the Ripper. There were many mysterious murder cases in the following years and Jack the Ripper remains the main suspect.

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Investigations carried out by London police at the time did not come up with any clues

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Investigations carried out by London police at the time did not come up with any clues

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Detailed investigations and investigations into this murder case yielded shallow and vague conclusions. National Geographic wrote that at that time, almost all members of the community took part in the police investigation.

How is the result? Still nothing. In fact, the murder cases committed by Jack the Ripper had caused an uproar and divisions among Londoners in general. The poor people blaspheme and blame the rich. On the other hand, the rich also blame the poor.

There are several people who are suspected by the police. However, the police were unable to arrest them for lack of evidence. Ironically, in the midst of a pretty tense London situation, the actor nicknamed Jack the Ripper is still walking leisurely and freely in the middle of the city.

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In fact, even now, the culprit behind Jack the Ripper is still vague and mysterious. However, some modern forensic experts have begun to feel with certainty and claim that they have a single perpetrator, as written in Science Mag. In 2014, a genetic test carried out with state-of-the-art equipment concluded that Aaron Kosminski, a barber originally from Poland, was the sole culprit with 99 percent certainty.

DNA investigations were carried out on a scarf belonging to the victim with a small amount of blood stained and a spot of male semen. It is not easy to find accurate results because the cloth is very ancient and the forensic traces in it are also very blurry. However, with mitochondrial DNA analysis technology, a bright clue was obtained. Yes, the test results point to the DNA of the surviving descendant of Aaron Kosminski. The sperm trail on the victim's shawl is genetically identical to Kosminski's descendants. In the past, Aaron Kosminski was once included as one of the main suspects, but the police did not arrest him because there was not enough evidence.

However, again, until now this case is still mysterious. There are other DNA experts who argue that a sperm test using the mitochondrial DNA method will not determine who the culprit is because the test will instead bias and lead to clues to thousands of men in London around the crime scene. Kosminski was also admitted to a mental hospital because he was suffering from a severe mental disorder. He finally died in 1919 in the mental hospital. Kosminski was diagnosed with a mental disorder in the form of self-torture obsessed with deviant sexual arousal.

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It is estimated that Garavito started his evil habits in 1992. He was always selective in choosing victims, usually those aged 6-12 years old, with a specific background, orphaned, poor or homeless. He knew these children had problems and that no one would be looking for them if they disappeared. Usually he would approach them in the suburbs, but sometimes he would also meet them on busy streets. Most of them were promised gifts or money. Sometimes he offers a job. To foster the trust of potential victims, he disguises himself as certain characters such as priests, old people, drug dealers, or farmers. In order to avoid suspicion, his disguises were always changing.

Between 1992 and 1999, Luis Garavito preyed on countless male victims throughout Colombia without the slightest fear of arrest. When he was caught, then he admitted to having killed hundreds of children while touring 54 cities in the country. The fact that he continues to wander, disguises himself, and that his victims will not be searched for when he goes missing, keeps him safe in his actions. It is estimated that the killings were carried out in the vicinity of Pereira, his home area. As soon as his potential victim was exhausted by Garavito's walking distance, he would begin to tie, torture and rape her. Sometimes their genitals are cut off and put into the victim's mouth. Their bodies are usually found in shallow graves with several bite marks. The scene of a case is usually filled with bottles of liquor and lubricant. After being arrested, Garavito admitted to being drunk when he killed them and claimed that his body was in the possession of "the ruler".

Garavito's action was smooth because Colombia had just escaped the Colombian Conflict in 1964. At that time many children without families roamed the streets. With a state of extreme hunger and tattered clothes, almost no one cared if they suddenly disappeared.

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Garavito's crimes began to unravel in November 1997, when the bodies of 25 unidentified children were found in Pereira in a mass grave. In February 1998, two other bodies were found side by side outside the city of Genoa in Colombia. The other one was found with the weapon Garavito used to kill. Police also found notes around the site with address clues that led the police to Garavito's lover. At that time, he admitted that he had not seen Garavito for seven months, but then handed over Garavito's belongings which later became evidence, including photographs of boys, murder records and a long list of the names of his victims.

Garavito has actually been under suspicion and has been detained since 1996. On 9 June 1996, a boy went missing in Boyaca, and his body was found five days later. The child's mother began a search and discovered that her child was last seen in a shop with another child and an adult male. Garavito admitted that he did buy the children candy, but then he didn't bother them. This confession was enough to get him released again and he killed another child four days later.

Evidence of Garavito's actions was obtained from his lover. The police then managed to track down Garavito's residence. But he no longer lives there. It's just that, then he has no more luck after being attacked by a vagrant. The homeless man witnessed Garavito attack a street child and tried to defend the child. He did not realize that what he was fighting was the sadist murderer in history.

Luis Garavito was finally arrested on 22 April 1999. However, the police who detained him were not aware of Garavito's atrocities. Unexpectedly, his actions were later exposed during the interrogation and he admitted that he had killed a dozen children. Together with this confession, and Garavito's DNA evidence attached to the victim, as well as the glasses that were left at the crime scene. The glasses are specially made for the eye damage he suffered.

As noted by the newspaper El Tiempo, Garavito uncovers the motive for the cruel act he committed while being exposed to a prison psychologist. The answer is "I felt a sense of satisfaction, even though when the murder finally took place, guilt came over me.

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In the end, Garavito confessed to killing 140 children in Colombia and was charged with 172 murders. He was found guilty on 138 counts. Although he received a sentence of 1,853 years in prison, Colombian law limits imprisonment to a maximum of 40 years (according to article 37.1 of the Colombian Penal Code). Because he collaborated with the police to pinpoint the location of the victim's body, his sentence was commuted to 22 years. He is supposed to be free by 2021, but Colombian law also stipulates that crimes against children deserve no relief. He was exiled from the other inmates to keep him safe. He is very paranoid and afraid that others will try to poison him. Therefore he only eats food from trusted people.

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Because the three murders by Luis Garavito, Pedro López, and Daniel Camargo Barbosa were similar and occurred in the same country, it is thought that something was wrong with social life in Colombia at that time. After the Second World War, there was indeed chaos and political instability in Colombia, which was named the La Violencia era. The murder of the presidential candidate from among liberals is contagious and has led to the fall of 220,000 victims since around 1958. Acts of violence and murder are considered normal and become part of everyday life. This situation continued into the 2000s, which made it difficult for the police to carry out a thorough investigation.

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Ahmad Suradji (popularly known as Dukun AS; also known as Nasib Kelewang, Datuk; born January 10, 1949 - July 10, 2008 at the age of 59 years) was a murderer of 42 women whose bodies were buried in sugar cane plantations in Sei Semayang Village, Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatra from 1986 to 1997.

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His real name is Nasib. Because he often uses a kelewang when he steals oxen in the Stabat area, he is also called "Nasib Kelewang" by his friends. [1] The name "Ahmad Suradji" was carried after he was released from prison because he was tripped over in a case of ox theft, while the name Datuk was given by his friends because he married three siblings and lived in the same house.

Everyday Suradji works as a farmer. He only graduated from elementary school and has three wives and nine children. The police first discovered the body of one of the victims on April 27, 1997, a 21 year old woman named Sri Kemala Dewi. A week later, a witness said that on the day Dewi disappeared, he had taken Dewi to Suradji's residence. The police later found a pile of women's clothes and jewelry there, including belongings of Dewi. Suradjapun was arrested.

Whether Suradji himself pleaded guilty is not clear. There are sources who say that he does not want to confess, but there are also those who claim that he has confessed his actions. In a report, Suradji confessed to killing because he wanted to perfect the knowledge he was learning. In order for his knowledge to be perfect, he had to kill 70 women and suck the saliva of the victims. This knowledge he himself got from his father when he was 12 years old, although his attention to this knowledge only began to be felt when he reached the age of 20.

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On April 27, 1998, he was sentenced to death by a panel of judges at the Lubuk Pakam District Court because he was found guilty of murdering the women. He was executed on Thursday, 10 July 2008, at 22.00 to be precise by the execution team of the Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) of the North Sumatra Regional Police (Polda). The case of the US Shaman was turned into a film with the title The Mystery of Sugar Cane Plantation.

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Alexander Pichushkin was born on April 9, 1974 in the Russian part of the Soviet Union. He was initially a sociable child, but that all changed when he suffered a head injury, causing a shift in his behavior. He became hostile and impulsive, and he was frequently bullied at school. Eventually, his mother decided to transfer him to a special needs school; however, upon reaching early adolescence, his grandfather removed him from said school. This was because he regarded Pichushkin to be intelligent, and the school was focused more on overcoming disability rather than promoting achievement.

Pichushkin moved in with his grandfather and was taught how to play chess. He would go on to play against elderly men in Bitsa Park. Unfortunately, Pichushkin continued to be bullied by mainstream students in his adolescence, and things took a turn for the worse when his grandfather died, which devastated him and led to a vodka addiction. He returned to his mother's home and enrolled as a student. Meanwhile, Pichushkin kept playing chess in Bitsa Park and also developed a sadistic hobby in which he would record himself threatening children. He watched these videos repeatedly to reaffirm his power, but his murderous urges were not satisfied.

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All of the following were killed in Moscow.
Confirmed
July 27, 1992: Mikhail Odichuk, 18
2001:

May 17: Yevgeny Pronin, 52

May 23: Vyacheslav Klimov, 64

June 22: "Yuri" (unidentified)

June 26: Nikolai Tikhomirov

June 29: Nikolai Filippov, 72

July 2: Oleg Lvov, 49

July 13: Gennady Safonov, 61

July 14: Sergei Pavlov, 44

July 20: Viktor Elistratov, 45

July 21: Viktor Volkov, 54

July 26: Andrei Konovaltsev, 22

2002:

January 29: Andrei Veselovsky, 42

February 13: Yuri Chumakov, 48

February 23: Maria Viricheva, 19 (survived)

February 27, 2002: Vera Zakharova, 48

March 7: Boris Nesterov, 46

March 8: Alexey Fedorov, 41

March 10: Mikhail Lobov, 14 (survived)

August 24: German Chervyakov, 43

September 13: Nikolai Ilyinsky, 40

September 25: Vyacheslav Minayev

September 30: Sergei Fedorov, 42

November 2: Alexey Pushkov, 46

November 12: Valery Dolmatov

2003:

March 13: Alexey Fatkullin, 72

March 27: Viktor Ilyin

April 4: Igor Kashtanov, 62

April 6: Oleg Boyarov

May 10: Vasily Stanovoy, 40

May 12: Sergei Chudin, 45

August 30, 2003: Egor Kudryavtsev

October 14: Vladimir Fomin

November 14: Vladimir Fedosov, 44

November 15: Konstantin Polikarpov, 31 (survived)

2005:

February 22, 2005: Peter Dudukin, 57

June 8: Andrei Maslov, 40

September 28: Yuri Kuznetsov, 46

October 15: Nikolai Vorobyov, 31

November 16: Nikolai Zakharchenko, 63

November 21: Oleg Lavrienko, 36

November 28: Vladimir Dudukin, 73

December 6: Nikolai Koryagin, 72

December 16: Viktor Soloviev, 49

December 19: Boris Grishin, 64

December 26: Alexander Lyovochkin, 51

2006:

February 27: Yuri Romashkin, 55

March 4: Stepan Vasilenko, 68

March 24: Makhmud Joldoshev, 24

April 12: Larissa Kulygina, 48

June 14: Marina Moskalyova, 36

Possible

Unspecified date in 1992: Sergei (surname unrevealed)

Unspecified date in 2002: Olga (surname unrevealed)

Note: Pichushkin claimed to have murdered 60 people in total.

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"True Genius" - While Pichushkin has yet to be directly mentioned or referenced on the show, he appears to have been an inspiration for the episode's main unsub, Caleb Rossmore - Both are serial killers who developed a fondness for chess at an early age, had obsessions with another serial killer (Andrei Chikatilo in Pichushkin's case, The Zodiac Killer in Rossmore's), had a teenage accomplice (though Pichushkin's never actually participated in his crimes and was murdered by him), killed a boy when they were teenagers, then reemerged years later to begin killing again, and during their later murders they targeted men and women (though Rossmore copied the Zodiac Killer's victimology, while Pichushkin killed almost indiscriminately), performed overkill on them (Rossmore on his female victims only), killed them in parks, had three survivors, and had signatures involving leaving items at their murder scenes.

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Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the "Butcher of Rostov", was one of the Soviet Union's most notorious serial killers. Between 1978 and 1990, he is believed to have sexually abused, mutilated and murdered at least fifty women and children. In 1992, he was convicted of 52 counts of murder, and he received the death penalty.

Also Known As: The Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper
Known For: Serial killer convicted of 52 counts of murder
Born: October 16, 1936 in Yabluchne, Ukraine
Died: February 14, 1994 in Novocherkassk, Russia

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Born in 1936 in Ukraine, to poor parents, Chikatilo rarely had enough to eat as a boy. In his teenage years, Chikatilo was an introvert and avid reader and attended rallies and meetings with the Communist Party. At the age of 21, he joined the Soviet Army and served a two-year sentence, as required by Soviet law. In the early 1970s, Chikatilo worked as a teacher, and that's when he committed his first known sexual harassment. Both Chikatilo and his wife, as well as at least one ex-girlfriend, stated that he was impotent.

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In 1973, Chikatilo stroked a teenage student's breast and then ejaculated at him; several months later there were repeated violations against other students. Despite complaints from parents, as well as rumors that she repeatedly masturbated in front of students, she was never charged with the crime. However, within a few months, the school director finally ordered him to resign or be fired; Chikatilo chose voluntary resignation. He moved from school to school over the next several years, until his career ended in March 1981, when he was accused of molesting students of both sexes. However, no charges were filed, and he worked as a traveling clerk at a factory. Currently, he had committed at least one murder.

In December 1978, Chikatilo kidnapped and attempted to rape nine-year-old Yelena Zakotnova. Still suffering from impotence, he choked and stabbed her, then threw her body into the Grushevka River. Later, Chikatilo admitted to having ejaculated while stabbing Yelena. Police investigators found some evidence linking her to Yelena, including blood in the snow near her home, and a witness who saw a man who matched her description talking to the child at his bus stop. However, a worker living nearby was arrested, forced to confess, and convicted of the girl's murder. He was eventually executed for the crime, and Chikatilo remained free.

In 1981, twenty-one year old Larisa Tkachenko disappeared in the city of Rostov. He was last seen exiting the library, and his body was found in a nearby forest the next day. He had been brutally assaulted, beaten and strangled to death. In his later confession, Chikatilo said he had tried to have sex with her but was unable to achieve an erection. After killing him, he mutilated his body with a sharp stick and his teeth. However at that time there was no link between Chikatilo and Larisa.

Nine months later, Lyubov Biryuk, thirteen, was on his way home from the shop when Chikatilo jumped from the bush, grabbed him, tore his clothes and stabbed him nearly two dozen times. Her body was found two weeks later. Over the following months, Chikatilo increased his urge to kill, killing at least five more people between the ages of nine and eighteen before the end of 1982.

Its typical modus operandi is to approach runaway and homeless children, lure them to isolated locations, and then kill them by stabbing or strangling. He viciously mutilated the body after death, and later said that the only way he could achieve orgasm was by killing. Apart from teenagers of both sexes, Chikatilo also targets adult women who work as prostitutes.

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A Moscow police unit began working on the crime, and after studying the mutilations in the body, it was soon determined that at least four of the murders were the work of a single assassin. As they interrogated potential suspects - many of whom were forced to confess to various crimes - more bodies began to appear.

In 1984, Chikatilo came to the attention of Russian police when he was seen trying to talk repeatedly to young women at bus stations, often touching them. After investigating his background, they soon discovered his past history and rumors about his teaching career several years earlier. However, blood group analysis failed to link him to the evidence found on the bodies of several of the victims, and he was left alone.

In late 1985, after more murders had occurred, a man named Issa Kostoyev was appointed to lead the investigation. To date, more than two dozen murders have been attributed to the work of one person. Cold cases are re-examined and previously examined suspects and witnesses are interrogated again. Perhaps most importantly, Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky, a prominent psychiatrist, was granted access to all case files. Bukhanovsky then produced sixty-five pages of psychological profiles of the unknown assassin, the first of its kind in Soviet Russia. One of the main features of the profile is that the killer is likely to suffer from impotence, and can only achieve arousal by killing; the knife, according to Bukhanovsky, is a penis substitute.

Chikatilo continued killing over the next several years, as many of the victims' bodies were found near the train station, Kistoyev directed undercover and uniformed officers along miles of railroad tracks, starting in October 1990. In November, Chikatilo killed Svetlana Korostik; she was observed by a plainclothes officer as she approached the train station and washed her hands in a nearby well. In addition, he had grass and dirt on his clothes and small wounds on his face. Even though the officer spoke with Chikatilo, he had no reason to arrest her and let her go. Korostik's body was found nearby a week later

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Police put Chikatilo under surveillance and watched him continue to have conversations with children and single women at the train station. On November 20, they arrested him, and Kostoyev began interrogating him. Although Chikatilo has repeatedly denied involvement in the killings, he did write several essays while in custody that fit the personality profile described by Bukhanovsky five years earlier.

Finally, the police brought Bukhanovsky himself to talk to Chikatilo, because Kostoyev was not successful. Bukhanovsky read Chikatilo's quote from the profile, and within two hours, he confessed. Over the next few days, Chikatilo would confess, in grisly detail, the thirty-four murders. He later acknowledged an additional twenty-two that investigators were unaware of.

In 1992, Chikatilo was formally charged with 53 counts of murder and found guilty of 52 counts. In February 1994, Andrei Chikatilo, Butcher of Rostov, was executed for his crimes with a single shot to the head.

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This is one of the books about Andrei Chikatilo

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Charles Edmund Cullen (born February 22, 1960) is an American serial killer who confessed to killing up to 40 patients during his 16-year career as a nurse in New Jersey. However, in subsequent interviews with police, psychiatrists, and journalists, it became clear that he had killed many more, whom he could not specifically recall, although he could often remember the details of their murders. [4] Experts estimate that Cullen may ultimately be responsible for 400 deaths, which would make him the most prolific serial killer in recorded history.

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Charles Cullen was born in West Orange, New Jersey to a working-class Irish Catholic family, the last of eight children. His father Edmond, a bus driver, was 56 years old when Charles was born, and died on September 17, 1960 when Charles was only seven months old. Cullen described his childhood as "miserable" and constantly bullied by his sister's boyfriend and schoolmates. When he was nine years old, he made his first suicide attempt by drinking a chemical from a chemical set. Later, while working as a nurse, Cullen claimed to have fantasized about stealing drugs from the hospital where he worked and using them to end his life.

Cullen's mother, Florence Cullen was killed in a car accident on December 6, 1977 at the age of 60, when Charles was still in his final year of high school. Charles remembers his mother's death as "devastating," and he is upset that the hospital refused to return his body - instead cremating it. The following year, Charles dropped out of school and enlisted in the United States Navy, where he served on the submarine USS Woodrow Wilson. Cullen successfully passed the basic training and rigorous psychological examinations required for the submarine's crew, who are expected to spend two months underwater in the cramped ship.

Cullen rose to the rank of second class officer as part of the team that operated the ship's Poseidon missile. He was no better match in the Navy and was fooled and bullied by his fellow crew members. A year into his service, the prominent Cullen petty officer at Woodrow Wilson found him sitting in missile control wearing a surgical mask, gloves and scrubs instead of his uniform. Cullen was disciplined for this act, but never explained why she was dressed that way. The Navy made the decision to reassign Cullen to lower pressure work on the supply ship USS Canopus. He attempted suicide and was admitted to the Navy's psychiatric ward several times over the next several years.

Cullen received a medical discharge from the Navy in 1984, for undisclosed reasons. Shortly thereafter, he enrolled at the Mountainside Hospital Nursing School in Montclair, New Jersey. Elected president of her nursing class, she graduated in 1986 and began working in the burns unit at St. Petersburg. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. During this time, he met and married his wife Adrianne Baum. Their daughter Shauna was born later that year. The Cullen's wife became increasingly disturbed by his unusual behavior and abuse of the family dog.

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The first murder Cullen later admitted to took place at St. Petersburg. Barnabas. On June 11, 1988, Cullen administered a fatal intravenous drug overdose to a patient. Cullen eventually confessed to killing several other patients at St. Petersburg. Barnabas, including an AIDS patient who died after being given an insulin overdose. Cullen left St. Barnabas in January 1992 when hospital authorities began investigating who contaminated the IV bag. The investigation determined that Cullen was most likely responsible, resulting in the death of dozens of patients in the hospital.

One month after leaving St. Barnabas, Cullen worked at Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, where he killed three elderly women with an overdose of the heart drug digoxin. His latest victim said that a "sneaky male nurse" had injected him while he was sleeping, but family members and health care providers at the hospital dismissed his comments as baseless. The following year, Cullen moved into a basement apartment in Phillipsburg after the controversial divorce from his wife. She shares custody of her daughter. Cullen later claimed that she wanted to stop breastfeeding in 1993, but court-ordered child support payments forced her to continue working.

In March 1993, Cullen broke into coworkers' homes while she and her young son slept, but left without waking them. He then started stalking the woman, who filed a police report against him. Cullen later pleaded guilty to offense and received one year of probation. The day after his arrest, Cullen attempted suicide again. She took two months off and was treated for depression in two psychiatric facilities, but attempted suicide two more times before the end of 1993. That September, a 91-year-old cancer patient reported that Cullen, who was not the assigned nurse, broke into her room and injected her with a needle. . He died the next day. His son protested that his death was unnatural and Warren Hospital gave Cullen and several other nurses, who passed Cullen's lie detector tests. Cullen continued working at Warren until the following spring.

Cullen began a three-year stint in the intensive care / cardiac care unit at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington. He claims he didn't hurt anyone for the first two years, but hospital records for that time period had been shattered when he was arrested in 2003. Cullen confessed to killing five patients between January and September 1996, again with a digoxin overdose. He then landed a job at Morristown Memorial Hospital, but was soon fired for poor performance. Cullen remained unemployed for six months and stopped making child support payments. After seeking treatment for depression in the Warren Hospital emergency room, Cullen was admitted to a psychiatric facility for a short time.
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Cullen was arrested at a restaurant on December 12, 2003, charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder. On December 14, he admitted to homicide detectives Dan Baldwin and Tim Braun that he had murdered Florian Gall and attempted to murder Jin Kyung Han, both patients at Somerset. In addition, Cullen told the detectives that he had murdered as many as 40 patients over his 16-year career. In April 2004, Cullen pled guilty in a New Jersey court to killing 13 patients and attempting to kill two others by lethal injection while employed at Somerset.

As part of his plea agreement, Cullen promised to cooperate with authorities if they did not seek the death penalty for his crimes. A month later, he pled guilty to the murder of three more patients in New Jersey. In November 2004, Cullen pled guilty in an Allentown court to killing six patients and trying to kill three others. He repeatedly interrupted the proceedings by taunting the judge with the chant, "Your Honor, you need to step down." Cullen was ordered to be restrained and gagged.

On March 2, 2006, Cullen was sentenced to eleven consecutive life sentences in New Jersey, and is not eligible for parole until the year 2403.Currently, he is held at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton. On March 10, 2006, Cullen was brought into the courtroom of Lehigh County President Judge William H. Platt for a sentencing hearing. Cullen, upset with the judge, kept repeating, "Your Honor, you need to step down" for thirty minutes until Platt had Cullen gagged with cloth and duct tape. Even after being gagged, Cullen continued to try to repeat the phrase. In this hearing, Platt gave him an additional six life sentences. As part of his plea agreement, Cullen has been working with law enforcement officials to identify additional victims.

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Cullen stated he administered overdoses to patients in order to spare them from being "coded" — going into cardiac or respiratory arrest and being listed as a Code Blue emergency. He told detectives that he could not bear witness to or hear about attempts at saving a victim's life. Cullen also stated that he gave patients overdoses so that he could end their suffering and prevent hospital personnel from dehumanizing them. However, not all of his victims were terminal patients. Some, like Gall, had been expected to recover before Cullen killed them. Nurse Lynn Tester described many of the victims as "people on the mend" in a police interview.

Instead of using common painkillers and stimulants, access of which was strictly regulated by hospitals due to their value as street drugs, Cullen chose instead to use as his tools of choice drugs such as digoxin and insulin, which had little use outside of a hospital setting and were less likely to attract attention.

Investigators stated that Cullen may have caused patients to suffer, but that he appears not to realize this, contradicting his claims of wanting to save patients. Similarly, Cullen told investigators that although he often observed patients' suffering for several days, the decision to commit each murder was performed on impulse. Cullen told detectives in December 2003 that he lived most of his life in a fog and that he had blacked out memories of murdering most of his victims.[citation needed] He said he could not recall how many he killed or why he had chosen them. In some cases, Cullen adamantly denied committing any murders at a given facility, but after reviewing medical records, he admitted that he was involved in patient deaths.

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Cullen was largely able to move from facility to facility undetected because of the lack of requirements to report on suspicious behavior by medical workers, and inadequate legal protection for employers. New Jersey and Pennsylvania, like most states, required health care facilities to report suspicious deaths only in the most egregious cases, and penalties for failing to report incidents were minor. Many states did not give investigators the legal authority to discover where a worker had previously been employed.

Employers feared to investigate incidents or give a bad employment reference for fear that such actions might trigger a lawsuit. According to detectives and Cullen himself, several hospitals suspected he was harming or killing patients, but failed to take appropriate legal actions. Following Cullen's criminal conviction, many of the hospitals where he had worked were sued by the families of his victims. The files and settlements against the New Jersey hospitals, all settled out of court, are sealed.

In some cases, individual workers took it upon themselves to informally try to prevent Cullen from being hired, or to have him terminated. Some contacted nearby hospitals in secret, or quietly spoke to their own superiors, to alert them that they should not hire Cullen.[citation needed] When Cullen took a job at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown in June 2001, a nurse who had heard rumors about him at Easton Hospital advised her co-workers. They threatened to quit en masse if Cullen was not immediately dismissed, which he was.

Prompted by the Cullen case, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and 35 other states adopted new laws which encourage employers to give honest appraisals of workers' job performance and which give employers legal protections when they provide a truthful employee appraisal. The New Jersey laws in particular formed the model that the rest of the states would follow. First, the 2004 Patient Safety Act increased hospitals' responsibility for reporting "serious preventable adverse events". The 2005 Enhancement Act was a supplement to the Patient Safety Act, and required hospitals to report certain details about their employees to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs. It also mandated that complaints and disciplinary records relating to patient care be kept for at least seven years.

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