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Hunting for Serial Killers

Comfort /Gain Killers: they are not professional because they select their own targets and do not receive a salary from a third party for commiting murder, rather they commit murder in response to an emotional need for comfort or security. In order to become comfort/gain killers these criminals get themselves involved in theft, fraud, non payment of debts, embezzlement and other property crimes.

1. Dr. Henry Howard Holmes: was a comfort/gain killer who operated in Chicago during the late nineteenth century. Dr. H. H. Holmes murdered his victims, mostly females, for life insurance policy settlements and related inheritance gains.

2. John List: On November 9, 1971, 46-year-old accountant John List killed his two teenage sons, his teenage daughter, his wife, and his mother in their Westfield, New Jersey, mansion. List had left behind a letter in which he claimed he had killed his family because of financial problems and a sense that his children were becoming immoral and less religious.Using a revolver and a semi-automatic handgun. After murdering his family, he left his house to start over with a new identity. The corpse of his family members weren’t discovered  for a month. However, List had left a letter in which he claimed he had killed his family because of financial problems and a sense that his children were becoming immoral and less religious.

3. Anne Marie Hann: Anne marie Hanne is a German serial killer, who allegedly began poisoning and robbing elderly men and women in German community to support her gambling habit. Her first victim was Ernst Kohler, who died on May 6, 1933. Hahn had befriended him shortly before his death; he left her a house in his will.

4. Steven Sueppel: Steven Sueppel murdered his wife and their four adopted children then slammed himself into a pole and killed himself. After killing his entire family and himself, investigators discovered Sueppel had been indicted a month earlier on charges that he’d embezzled more than half a million dollars from his former employer, appearing that he killed his family and himself because of all the debt he owed.

5. Christian Longo: Christian Longo killed his 27-year-old wife, son, and two daughters, then dumped them in the water. While investigating the murders, officials learned Longo was a con artist who had gotten himself and his family into serious financial trouble by forging checks and using other people’s credit cards, even stealing a minivan from a car dealership by using a fake driver’s license. This is a clear indication that Longo killed his family due to the amount of money he owed and how much trouble he got himself into.

Hired Assassins: Professional hit men kill they do it because it’s their job. They are emotionally detached contract killers rather than self-serving serving killers.

1. Glennon Edward Engleman : Is a contract hitman who killed at least seven murders for monetary gain over the course of 30 years. He was already serving two life sentences when he killed a man and his wealthy parents in a separate contract killing. He enjoyed planning and carrying out killings and disposing of the remains, in order that it would net him financial rewards.

2. Richard Leonard Kuklinski : was an American contract killer who was convicted of murdering six people, though the true number of murders he committed is speculated to be over two hundred. He was associated with members of the American Mafia, namely the DeCavalcante crime family of Newark, New Jersey, and the Five Families of New York City. During his criminal career, fellow mobsters called him "the one-man army" or "the devil himself"] due to his fearsome reputation and imposing physique. Kuklinski lived with his wife and children in the New Jersey. His family was unaware of Kuklinski's double life and crimes. By the early to mid-1980s, Kuklinski was involved in narcotics, pornography, arms dealing, money laundering, hijacking and contract killing. While his range of criminal activities expanded, he began to make mistakes. Although Kuklinski is claimed to have killed anyone who could testify against him, he got sloppy about disposing of his victims. Law enforcement began to suspect Kuklinski and started an investigation, gathering evidence about the various crimes he had committed. The eighteen month long undercover investigation led to his arrest in 1986. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988, with an additional 30 years added on.

3. Marinko Magda: is a Serbian hitman who is currently serving his time for three charges of first degree murder. But that does not do justice to the real number of murders he has committed. In 1994 he killed five people in the town of Subotica: Milan Petrić, Stana Petrić, Dane Petrić, Josip Agatić and Verica Agatić. On January 13, 1994 in Szeged, Hungary, the 42-year-old Bálint Z. Nagy (a local confectioner), his 42-year-old wife, and their 16- and 10-year-old children were shot dead in their apartment. On January 28, 1994 the Hungarian police arrested Marinko Magda as the main suspect of murder of the Z. Nagy family. An investigation revealed that the same weapon which was used to kill the Nagy family was used to kill a Hungarian couple, Horváth Antal and his wife, as well as Dragutin Kujundžić (a Croatian), on December 20, 1993, in Kecskemét, Hungary. Magda received a life sentence for killing three people in 1995. Given that before 1998, all life sentences were, at minimum, 25-30 years imprisonment, he is expected to remain behind bars until at least the year 2020, unless he dies beforehand.

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Robert Pickton | # of killings 49  | Reason: Sold their remains and fed them to his pigs | Target: Women
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Richard Speck | # of killings 8 | Reason: Possession  | Target:  Women (student nurses)
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Ted Bundy | # of killings 36 | Reason: Possession | Target: Women (who looked similar to his ex girlfriend - who rejected him)
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Bruce McArthur |  # of killings 5 | Reason: Wanted to rid the world of gay people - Buried remains in plot pants around Toronto. | Target: Gay men
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Amelia Dyer | # of killings 300| Reason: Baby Farming Adopting unwanted infants in exchange for money | Target: Infants
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Serial killers killing to kill (control and power)

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Serial killers killing to kill (control and power)

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Sailson Jose das Garcas:
claims to have murdered 41 Men, Women, and Children in Brazil for the adrenaline rush

Joanna Dennehy:
Murdered men for the fun of it in the city of Peterborough in the east of England.

Ted Bundy:
Killed women similar in looks to his girlfriend supposedly as a means to revenge after his girlfriend rejected him.

Alexander Pichushkin:
Moscow's serial killer, killed as a game with his friend, for the competition of it. Also known as the the Chessboard Killer and the Bitsa Park Maniac, as he killed in Moscow's Bitsa Park. The name "chessboard killer" came from his goal of killing as many people as there are squares on a chessboard, 64.

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Serial Killers who 🤬 for control and power

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Serial Killers who 🤬 for control and power

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Dennis Rader - He is also known as the BTK Killer or the BTK Strangler. "BTK" stands for "Bind, Torture, 🤬", which was his infamous signature. He sent letters describing the details of the murders to police and local news outlets before his arrest

Ahmad Suradji - 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.

John Wayne Gacy (killer clown) - All of Gacy's known murders were committed inside his Norwood Park ranch house. His victims were typically induced to his address by force or deception, and all but one of his victims were murdered by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a makeshift tourniquet; his first victim was stabbed to death. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home. Three other victims were buried elsewhere on his property, while the bodies of his last four known victims were discarded in the Des Plaines River.

Javed Iqbal (Pakistan, Murdered 100 boys)- Javed Iqbal Mughal, was a Pakistani serial killer who was found guilty of the sexual abuse and 🤬 of 100 boys. Had a lust for 🤬 (🤬 or oral sex) and used this pleasure on little boys. Issue Started around 1999.

Daniel Gonzalez - Wanting to make the newspaper headlines, Gonzalez plotted a horrifying spree to 🤬 10 people. So, on 15 September 2004, wearing a white hockey mask and armed with a kitchen knife, Gonzalez fatally stabbed his first random victim – Marie Harding, 73.n= In a note to himself afterwards, he described the 🤬 as One of the best things I’ve done in my life.

Robert Hansen - murdered at least seventeen women near Anchorage, Alaska, between 1980 and his capture in 1983. A psychopath, Hansen took his captured victims to a secluded area where he would let them loose and then hunt and 🤬 them just for the fun of it. He was in essence a twisted trophy hunter who preyed on humans.

Dennis Nilsen aka the Kindly Killer - Dennis is a British serial killer and necrophiliac who murdered 12 young men between 1978 and 1983 in London England. Dennis was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he served a minimum of 25 years. One of his quotes that he is famous for is the following: “The most exciting part of the little conundrum was when I lifted the body, carried it. It was that expression of my power to lift and carry and have control. And the dangling element of limp limbs was an expression of his passivity”.

Sailson Jose das Gracas"I murdered 41 people for pleasure"A Brazilian man has reportedly admitted being a serial killer after he calmly confessed to police he had murdered more than 40 people.Sailson Jose das Gracas told police he would find white women, study them for a month and then “take advantage” of them. The twisted killer, 26, is reported to have confessed to killing 41 men, women and children after he was arrested for stabbing a woman to death.

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Killers who are driven by imagined voices or hallucinations. Can be internal (driven by voices inside their head) or external (voice from God or the Devil) to kill. Impulsive and disorganised, visionary killers often suffer from schizophrenia, psychosis, or dissociative identity disorder.

David Berkowitz | Claimed his dog was possessed by the 🤬 and told him to 🤬. Shot and killed 6 people. American.

Herbert Mullin | Believed that human sacrifices prevented earthquakes from destroying California. Killed 13 people. American.

Tsutomu Miyazaki | Ordered by his alter-ego “Rat Man” to commit crimes. He was a cannibal and necrophile. Killed 4 people, all children. Japanese.

Peter Sutcliffe | Targeted prostitutes (like a missionary killer), because he claimed God told him to. He claimed the voices came from a tombstone. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Killed 13 women. British.

Albert Fish | Abused at a young age when he put into an orphanage, he heard voices of John the Apostle telling him to 🤬 children. Raped, murdered, and cannibalised at least 3 children, suspected of killing another 5. American.

Dennis Rader | Known as the BTK (bind, torture, 🤬) killer, he believed he was instructed by a “demon” inside his mind. Killed 10 people. American.

Sean Sellers | A Satanist who believed the demon Ezurate had possessed him and told him to murder. At 17, he killed 3 people, including his mother and stepfather. American.

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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.

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."

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.

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.

Earle Nelson (1897–1928) – American serial killer.
Most of Nelson's victims were landladies, whom he would approach on the premise of renting a room. Nelson often studied his worn Bible, using it to keep his victim at ease and off-guard around him. Once he made sure he had gained their trust, he would kill them, usually by strangling them, and engage in necrophilia with their corpse.

Edmund Kemper, known as “The Co-ed Killer”
Edmund Kemper is an American serial killer and necrophile who carried out a series of brutal murders in California in the 1970s. He murdered his grandparents when he was 15 years old then later killed and dismembered six female hitchhikers in the Santa Cruz area. He then murdered his mother and one of her friends before turning himself in to the police days later. He was found guilty in November 1973 of eight counts of murder. He asked for the death penalty, but instead received life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, nicknamed ‘The Tool Box Killers’
Two American serial killers who together murdered five young women in California in 1979. Bittaker and Norris lured victims into their van and drove them to secluded areas where they both raped and tortured them horrifically before murdering them. In 1981 Bittaker and Norris were charged with murder, kidnapping and rape. Bittaker was sentenced to death and remains on death row to this day.[update] Norris was spared execution in return for his testimony against Bittaker and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley killed five children between 1963 and 1965, in Greater Manchester, England. The victims where between 10 and 17 years old and were sexually assaulted before being brutally murdered. Three of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor and the last victim’s body was found at Brady’s house. The whereabouts of the fourth victim, Keith Bennett remains unknown. Both Brady and Hindley were later sentenced to life imprisonment. Hindley died in prison in 2002 while Brady has since been confined in the maximum security Ashworth Hospital.

Fred & Rose West

Between 1967 and 1987 Fred West and his wife Rose tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls. The pair were finally apprehended and charged in 1994 after police obtained a search warrant and located several human bones buried within the garden and under the floor boards of their home. During his trial, Fred West hanged himself prior to being convicted. In 1995 Rose West was jailed for life having been found guilty on 10 counts of murder.

David Parker Ray  is easily one of the most twisted minds on this list. In 1999, Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo escaped a small motor home, running naked into the desert after overpowering Ray's girlfriend. Police followed her directions back to the trailer, where they found a horrifying dungeon built specifically for the purpose of torturing women. After that, Ray became known as the toy box killer. He would pick up women, sometimes only young girls, and then rape and torture them systematically for weeks and months, with his friends and his girlfriend participating. When they first arrived, the girls would hear a recording in which Ray would tell them all the horrors they were about to endure, including mutilation, beatings, rape, and even forced bestiality. It is suspected that he tortured as many as 60 women over a 40-year span.