Six Serial Killers Who Were Never Caught

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   Jack the Ripper

   
   

   Let's start with the most famous serial killer of all time, Jack the Ripper. This murderer operated in the Whitechapel area of London, England, in 1888 and is credited with at least five victims, though more (or even fewer) is possible. His main targets appeared to be prostitutes. It has never been fully confirmed, but several letters sent to London police were said to have been from Jack the Ripper, though the veracity of these letters has often been questioned. Similar murders, showing a penchant for mutilation and butchery, against prostitutes had happened in London before 1888 and continued on later, though none of those have been directly linked to this killer. Numerous suspects have been named as Jack the Ripper over the years, though the truth remains unknown more than a hundred years later.

   
   


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   The Zodiac Killer

   
   

   Like the others listed here, the identity of this serial killer has never been known for sure, though there has been at least one strong suspect who died in 1992. The Zodiac Killer was active in California in the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. He killed at least five people, though in letters to police and the media, he claimed to have killed many more. Two of his victims survived, though none could ever tell police who the killer was, though there were some basic descriptions offered. During one attack, this killer was known to have worn a bag over his head, making identification difficult. He also played a cat-and-mouse game with law enforcement, mailing cryptic notes and coded letters to police, newspapers and television stations. Police at the time also thought it possible the Zodiac Killer took credit for disappearances and murders of which he was not truly connected. The final murder count will likely never be known.

   
   


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   Cleveland Torso Murderer

   
   

   Between 1935 and 1938, 12 to 15 murder victims are suspected of having been killed by the Cleveland Torso Murderer, who received his name because he usually dismembered his victims. There has been some evidence and speculation that similar killings were going on as early as the 1920s and into the 1950s in the northern Ohio region (and some in Pennsylvania), but none of these others have definitively been tied to this one killer. Of those thought to have been slain by the Cleveland Torso Murderer, 12 are considered definite victims of this killer, while others are still somewhat questionable. Only two of the victims have ever to be identified. There have been two suspects tied to these murders. The first one was arrested by law enforcement officers and died in jail, police brutality being suspected. The second, and arguably stronger, suspect was a doctor who was institutionalized in 1938 and died in a hospital in 1965; this doctor was known to have been a member of a medical unit that performed amputations during World War I.

   
   


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   Axeman of New Orleans

   
   

   This serial killer was active in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, in the years 1918 and 1919. His victims are numbered at 12. He first attacked a sleeping couple in their home on May 12, 1918, killing both, and then continued apparently at random to kill with an ax until mysteriously stopping in October of 1919. Mystery has always surrounded this serial killer, and continues to do so. Some eyewitnesses thought they saw more than one possible suspect at the scene. There were also a few hints of organized crime being involved, especially since the Axeman's early victims were Italian-Americans. Then there's also the odd letter on March 13, 1919 that was supposedly from the Axeman and arrived at the local newspapers; the letter stated that the Axeman would kill again at 15 minutes past minute on the night of March 15, 1919, but would spare any New Orleans households where jazz music was playing. Newspaper reports from the time say that March 15 was filled with jazz music all over the town, and no one was murdered. There has never been a solid suspect or suspects in the case of the Axeman of New Orleans.

   
   


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   Phantom Killer

   
   

   The murderer dubbed the Phantom Killer first struck in Texarkana, Texas, on February 23, 1946, attacking a young couple in a vehicle, but killing neither. From then until May 4 of that year, at least five people were killed and three others attacked. All are alleged to have been victims of the Phantom Killer. Who was this murderer? It is still not known. On May 6, a man's mutilated body was found on railroad tracks near Texarkana, and some believed he might have been the killer even though a coroner reported the man had been stabbed repeatedly before coming to rest on the tracks. Another suspect was a small-time burglar and car thief, though no strong evidence was never found against him. It has been so long, it is not likely the Phantom Killer is still alive.

   
   


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   Phantom of Heilbronn

   
   

   This is the only female killer to make this list, and it's only hypothesized that's she's a she, and it's also possible she might not even exist. The Phantom of Heilbronn is the given name for an unknown assailant who shot and killed a female police officer in Heilbronn, Germany, in 2007. DNA evidence has linked this mysterious killer to possibly as many as 60 other crimes, at least six of them murders, in Germany, Austria, France and possibly other parts of Europe. Most recently, in March 2009, police investigators came to a surprising conclusion: the so-called Phantom of Heilbronn doesn't exist at all. How could this happen? Supposedly the cotton swabs used by police to collect DNA evidence were contaminated before being shipped to law enforcement, which could explain the same DNA being found at so many crime scenes. Still, there are those who are skeptical and believe a female killer is still on the loose in Europe and has been operating since the early 1990s.

   
   

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Here's What I Think About...Serial Killer Aileen Carol Wuornos

Aileen Carol Wuornos was the daughter of a sociopathic child molester who was killed in prison by strangulation. Her childhood was anything but storybook, and she was pregnant at 14, soon after turning to prostitution. In a very brief, two-year span of time, she killed seven men who had picked her up while she was hitchhiking, claiming that they either raped her or attempted to rape her. She was executed October 9, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Florida where her murdering spree took place.

Despite her many killings, Wuornos didn't really become famous until the movie "Monster" which detailed the portion of her life around the time of the killings, but the movie only told a small portion of her life. Born on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan, she was abandoned by her own parents at a very young age and was adopted by her grandparents. Her childhood was troubled to say the least.

Once she made her way from Michigan to Florida, in the early 70's, she worked as a prostitute and a thief in order to support herself and a woman she met with whom she had an intimate relationship with.

When someone is forced to grow up early and is exposed to years of mental and sexual abuse, as Wuornos had alleged, I believe they live their life as just a continuation of those things unless they are identified early. If anyone had stepped into her life to start it on a new course, this "monster" might never have evolved.

It wasn't until she had been tried and convicted and sentenced to die that she began gaining supporters who believed that she was raped by the men she murdered. One of those supporters - a born-again Christian woman - actually adopted her,a caring gesture that had come many years too late for Aileen.

Did she deserve to die for her crimes? Absolutely. Could things have turned out differently for her with some nurturing and guidance at a young age? Probably.

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Hammer Head Johnson: A Serial Killer But Also A Victim

Rocky “Hammer Face “Johnson was just released after serving twenty five years in mental health facility. He served the time because he went on a murderous spree, killing seven innocent victims.

Sadly, he was a victim himself due to undeserved mental torture inflicted upon him by his parents. He never went to school,ever.His parents kept him locked in a cab over camper shell that was attached to a 1963 Chevy pickup.

In rural Tennessee,the boy was fed only sparsely on wild game that the parents would trap and often just throw it in the back of the truck, and Rocky had to kill it with a short handled 12lb.sledgehammer.

Rarely was he provided with fire or heat, often having to eat the wild animals raw. All he had was an old rusty pair of scissors to skin the animal.

Devoid of any social skills, never changing his clothing, and a camper infested with roaches and maggots, it was a miracle the young boy ever survived.

One day, his parents just disappeared. On the eighteenth day he was so hungry and his parents not responding to his screaming and beckoning he pounded his way through the bolted door with his sledge.

The poor boy had been locked in that camper for eleven years.

This was in the middle of hunting season. After walking several miles, he came across a hunter with a campfire. He was scared,paranoid,lonely and hungry. He smelled rabbit, and he was starving. The hunter was disemboweling a nice big buck, and didn't see poor little Rocky. The boy was hungry, walked right up to the fire and grabbed the rabbit and took a huge bite, burning his mouth. The hunter turned around and startled and panicked the boy, approaching him.

The young boy stabbed the rusty scissors into his leg causing him to scream, piercing his femoral artery. Then frightened and not knowing what to do and covered in blood, he started smashing the hunters face with the sledgehammer until he stopped moving. It was grotesques. Very similar scene was discovered at two other campsites, two more in the local supermarket parking lot in the morning two days later.

One morning after that, a few miles closer to the deeper woods a family's dog went missing. The family put up flyers hoping for people to help find it. He was a well known and liked dog, and affectionate. His name was Sparky.

Rocky was sleeping not far from the edge of the woods when a couple was out taking a morning stroll with their dog, also keeping an eye out for Sparky,just in case they might spot him. The dog started barking, alerting Rocky. The other canine smelled the corpse of Sparky and started running into the woods. Rocky jumped into a tree with a low hanging branch,scared,but ready to attack. The poor twisted boy was already the proud victor in stabbing and/or pummeling the face of unsuspecting victims, five humans and one dog, and it was getting easy.

He lunged out at the charging dog and stabbed him right in the chest, puncturing the heart, and the dog dropped and bled to death with hardly a whimper. Moments later, the couple arrived, Rocky hit the man, who arrived first in the knee. As he buckled to the ground, Rocky hit him in the neck with the hammer, a crushing blow, breaking his neck, and smashing the back of hid head into the tree, rendering him unconscious, while the blood spattering out of his neck was showering six feet in every direction. The wife came running, saw her husband on the ground, and suddenly remembered her self defense classes she had taken at the Y.M.C.A.She saw the boy, gave him a roundhouse kick to the chin, but not before the resilient bastard clocked her on the side of the head at about half strength. She was hurt, but able to escape.

Eventually the boy caught up to her, and finished the job with one blow to the temple, sending a viscous intermittent squirt spray with bone fragments and a some brain bits sputtering out. She was only about thirty feet from the beginning of the woods.

The news spread fast over the little backwoods town. Now the killer had a name, Hammer Head, but no one had any idea what the serial killer looked like. People locked the doors at night now.Hammer Head ran deep into the woods, knew how to kill animals and men now,fearlessly,at the tender age of eleven. Many of the back country folk were related or friendly, and it was not uncommon to find dwellings in the middle of nowhere. The boy was discovered by the Hansen brothers, and overtaken, covered in blood.

Many secret roads exist in these woods, known only to the locals.

Once in town, it was discovered who the boy was and what the situation was all about. After many psychiatric obervations,it was decided to evaluate the boy under close watch, in a mental health facility.

They came to realize the poor lad had the thinking mind at the level between three and a half and four years of age. He began to take accredited schooling classes and slowly learn table manners, minimal social interaction, and eating warm meals. He was always kept under very close watch and could spend no more than thirty minutes in the company of others.

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Self Portrait of a Madman: Charles Manson

Charles Manson was born November 12, 1934 to an unmarried 16 year old alcoholic. He was known as "no name Maddox" for the first couple of weeks after his was born until he was named officially Charles Milles Maddox. After his mother married a laborer named William Manson, she gave her baby her husband's last name. After his mother and brother were sent to prison, Charles Manson was given to family members to raise. When they were released, Charles went back to a life of living out of motel rooms and off the streets with his mother. She rejected him completely trying to send him to a foster home before he was 12 years old. He spent the next two decades in and out of prisons and boys homes.

In 1967 he was released from prison again saying:"I can't handle the maniacs outside, let me back in". He asked that he not be released from jail believing his life was better behind bars. After spending more than half of his live institutionalized in boy's homes and correctional facilities, he traveled to San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district in the heyday of the free love hippie movement. He began to gain a following, preaching principles of scientology and brainwashing mixed with drugs and sex. The group moved out to the desert and gained more followers through Charlie's "charm" and dogma. His followers, "The Family", believed Manson to be God and did everything he said.

Charlie was a frustrated artist -- much like Adolf Hitler. He wanted to be a musician and wrote dozens of songs about his ideas and life. He preached love while espousing hate and death at the same time. A chance encounter with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys lead to Charlie getting some free recording time in studio although he never got signed with a label.

Manson and his followers grew in numbers as well as dedication to Charlie. The killings began with the family trying to start a race war to bring Charlie's ideals of "Helter Skelter" to reality. First came the murder of Gary Hinman. Next came the slayings of Sharon Tate, her unborn baby, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski. Manson then ordered the killings of Rosemary and Leno Bianca the next night. Several of the family members, including Charles himself were convicted of the Tate and Labianca murders. Charles was sentenced to death (although this sentence was later revoked to life in prison) but this did not stop his popularity in pop culture.

His influence lives on in fashion, music, movies, documentaries, even a South Park episodel and an opera! The easiest recognizable image of Charles Manson is the cover of Life Magazine in 1969 which shows his crazy eyes. His self portrait is clearly an ode to that photo. He is clearly influential and clearly a madman whose name is instantly recognizable even though he is now 74 years old.

Many pieces of his prison art have been released since his incarceration. None show any real artistic ability. What this piece does show, however, is a very cluttered mind overtaken with colour and imagery including what appears to be snakes, sperm, eyes and swastikas. He was once quoted as saying: "You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy. "

Charles Manson lives on as the drama continues on -- there was digging for more bodies at the Spahn ranch as late as March of this year and in June Susan "Sadie" Atkins was denied compassionate parole leave. Of his publicity and notoriety, Manson has said: "There are days when I get caught up in being the most notorious convict of all time. In that frame of mind I get off on all the publicity, and I'm pleased when some fool writes and offers to 'off some pigs' for me. I've had girls come to visit me with their babies in their arms and say, 'Charlie, I'd do anything in the world for you. I'm raising my baby in your image.' Those letters and visits used to delight me, but that's just my individual sickness. What sickness is it that keeps sending me kids and followers? It's your world out there that does it. I don't solicit my mail or ask anyone to come and visit me. Yet the mail continues to arrive and your pretty little flowers of innocence keep showing up at the gate."

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Criminal Mind

Criminal Mind

Opening

“A lady and her sister attended their grandmother’s funeral... and saw a handsome guy..... the next week... She killed her sister....why?”

this question has been asked by psychologists to most of the prisoner in the United State... and believe it or not...most of the Dangerous Prisoner such as Charles Manson... Ted Bundy...has the same answer...

It captured my interest to know.... why people intended to commit with crime? What are they thinking off? Can’t they differentiate between right and wrong? Or they do it for pleasure?

According to leading criminologist, James Alan Fox - The most successful, prolific killers are extraordinarily ordinary.

And we as human being like to think of the killers as monsters, but most of the time they look like any other person on the street.

What cause them to do it?

Edmund Kemper – aka Coed Butcher – an American serial killer; says

"It was an urge. ... A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I was taking risks to go out and kill people risks that normally, according to my little rules of operation, I wouldn't take because they could lead to arrest."

It's commonly believed that serial killers cannot stop, because their compulsion is so strong that they're literally addicted to murder. In addition, they feel no remorse so they have no reason to refrain from indulging their hunger for blood - or else they're just plain psychotic

Killers may all have different motives, for it comes down to ‘getting even’ with someone that has done them wrong. This can be for political or person reasons such as jealousy, revenge or profit. These people feel they have bee ‘wronged’ in some way and by killing they are getting even

Over all, the statistics say crime rates are rising faster in big cities while dropping in smaller cities. The city then focuses on a smaller city and how they are keeping crime lower than the national crime rate average.

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Psychotic disorders

are a group of serious illnesses that affect the mind. These illnesses alter a person's ability to think clearly, make good judgments, respond emotionally, communicate effectively, understand reality and behave appropriately. When symptoms are severe, people with psychotic disorders have difficulty staying in touch with reality and often are unable to meet the ordinary demands of daily life. However, even the most severe psychotic disorders usually are treatable.

Symptoms vary from person to person and may change over time. The major symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations and delusions.

Hallucinations are unusual sensory experiences or perceptions of things that aren't actually present, such as seeing things that aren't there, hearing voices, smelling odors, having a "funny" taste in your mouth and feeling sensations on your skin even though nothing is touching your body.

Delusions are false beliefs that are persistent and organized, and that do not go away after receiving logical or accurate information. For example, a person who is certain his or her food is poisoned, even if it has been proven that the food is fine, is suffering from a delusion.

Psychologists say that most of the serial killer admits that they have been ‘told’ to do it. They heard some voice that they thought it was the voice of god.... – Charles Manson is one of those whom said the he is doing the right thing.

In addition, people with certain psychotic disorders may have an imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain

CLOSING- (read out the answer )

I read out again the question,

“A lady and her sister attended their grandmother’s funeral... and saw a handsome guy..... the next week... She killed her sister....why?”

(Answer : Because she hope to meet the guy again at her sister funeral)

I really hope I receive a different answer, because if you give the same answer.... the possibility is there...

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