The worst maniac in history. Brutal maniacs and serial killers. The worst killer in human history
Those people who have committed more than three murders are classified as serial maniacs. In history there are various attempts to classify such. According to some reports, the most famous maniacs and the largest number of serial crimes are committed in America (3/4 of all crimes), and the population of this state does not exceed 10% of the entire planet, so the FBI classification is of interest.
Varieties of maniacs
For the first time this classification was formulated by Robert Hazelwood, together with the criminologist J. Douglas - they proposed to divide the criminals of the world into maniacs of two types: they attributed organized non-social maniacs to the first group, and disorganized asocial maniacs to the second.
Organized non-social criminals
In life, this is an absolutely ordinary normal person (of course, not counting the fact that a killer maniac is hiding under the mask).
- He makes a good impression, charming, monitors his appearance, his well-being, home; quite adequate, adapted among people, although not always successfully; capable of changing occupations, easily converges with people; can be both lonely and can have a family and even children, therefore, when disclosing his atrocities, those who knew him are shocked.
- Has no mental illness or it does not manifest itself pronounced. All behavior and life of the killer, as well as his dangerous deeds, are orderly, organized.
- He may have high intelligence, often graduates from university; able to show interest in the problems of society; is interested in the media, reads news about the history of his actions, plans and admires what he has done.
- During interrogation, he behaves in a focused manner, he can have ready answers to the questions of the investigator, he is able not to react to false facts and disclose only those circumstances that are known to the bodies of inquiry.
- They plan their dangerous actions to reduce the risk of being caught in advance. He tries not to commit crimes near the places where he lives or works, studies and the like. Comes up with an alibi in case he gets caught; acts according to a previously developed plan, if the plan is violated, it can abandon the plan.
Disorganized asocial criminals
Nikolay Dzhumagaliev
Cannibal killer of the USSR. Killed 9 women. The first victim in 1979 was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist sect. After brutal violence, he killed and dismembered a woman's corpse. Then he brought the remains to his house, where he melted the fat, salted and ate it. He was sent to a special hospital where he is undergoing compulsory treatment.
Igor Irtyshov
(1993-1994). A pedophile killer who has committed a number of crimes in Russia. He grew up in an incomplete family in the Krasnodar Territory. As a child, he received a head injury. He came to St. Petersburg and there he made 8 attacks on teenagers from 9 to 15 years old with the aim of rape. Some attacks have resulted in the death or disability of the victims. In 1994 he was sentenced to capital punishment, later changed to life imprisonment.
Oleg Rylkov
The maniac, who committed violence against 37 young boys and girls on the territory of the Russian Federation, in particular in Togliatti, killed four of them. Currently, the offender is in the Black Dolphin colony, where he is serving a life sentence.
A Soviet killer maniac who committed a series of murders with extreme cruelty. He was nicknamed "Night Beast". In 1970, the Samara court passed a death sentence.
Alexander Spesivtsev
Cannibal and maniac killer who committed several murders in 1996 in Novokuznetsk (Russia). Spesivtsev was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was sent to a clinic for the mentally ill. However, three years later he was discharged from the hospital. He decided to take revenge for all the insults he received in the mental hospital. Many women and children were injured at his hands. At the moment, he is recognized as insane, after which he is subject to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric dispensary.
(1979-1985). A Soviet cannibal killer-maniac who killed and ate 7 women with accomplices M. Shakirova and A. Nikitin. In 1994, a court sentenced Sukletin to death, and the accomplices were sentenced to 15 years each.
A maniac and a killer who operated on the territory of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Charged with 40 unresolved and 60 pending murders in 2007. After a year he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Afterword
Many serial killers believe they deserve torture. They often abduct apparently decent women, forcing them to perform the most indecent acts. In our country, psychiatry deals only with the question of the mental state of a person in a particular case. Society does not draw the necessary conclusions from the criminal chronicle, giving rise to another series of maniacs.
Maniacs stir the minds of people not only in crime films, but also in life. Although we do not see Chikatil every day, there are crime reports that tell us that murders take place every day, and by hundreds, some percentage of them, by the hands of maniacs.
What drives maniacs, serial killers? Is it possible to take pleasure in the torment of another? And ease your mental anguish by killing innocents? Many people tried to understand the motives of their crimes, but even if some of them become understandable, it is impossible to accept them as acceptable from the point of view of morality, life for a normal person.
Today we will tell you about the most famous maniacs, about foreign and Soviet. Foreign maniacs were more enveloped in notoriety due to the number and methods of murders. But for example, I personally did not know such comrades as Ted Bundy until very adult age, but Chikatilo, albeit from TV announcers, knew every child in the 90s.
"A serial killer is a person who has committed three or more criminal murders, separated in time (" cooling period ") by more than a month."
The FBI defines a serial killer as a person who has committed two or more murders under certain conditions: this is not a contract murder, not robbery, not mass, not self-defense, and the like. That is, inflicting death on other people for a maniac (a person who commits serial murders) is sadistic in nature and has a perverse goal to alleviate internal conflicts, the killer's complexes. According to psychiatrists, sadism is based on addiction akin to narcotic, alcoholic, it can no longer stop.
Serial murders are committed by maniacs in one place (near work or home) or by the type of wandering - in different places, sometimes, especially if the killers have an unhealthy psyche or a special plan for revenge - the places of murders on the map can form signs - a triangle, a six-pointed star, a circle.
The types of maniacs are: "tyrants" - by killing a helpless victim, they assert themselves, feel their superiority.
"Sexual maniacs" - when the murder is a consequence of rape or sexual gratification.
"Missionaries" are judges who cleanse the world of filth, for example, from prostitutes, lesbians, gays, blacks, etc. The same Jack the Ripper.
"Crazy" (or "visionaries") - suffering from a severe mental disorder (paranoid schizophrenia, for example), and at the call of "voices", or under the influence of hallucinations kill people to avoid a collision with a meteorite, doomsday, etc.
These types are often mixed. In addition, serial killers can hatch plans for years and act clearly, postpone the crime if all the conditions are not present, and can impulsively, under the influence of physiological stimuli, mental disorder.
The list of the most famous maniacs includes, first of all, the already mentioned Chikatilo, Slivko, Onoprienko, Tkach, Golovkin (Fisher), Mikhasevich, Spesivtsev, and others, from foreign ones - Jack the Ripper, Zodiac, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Lee Lucas.
Let's start with foreign ones.
Jack the Ripper.
An assassin active in the late 19th century, mostly in 1888. there are versions that a number of other murders were also committed by Jack the Ripper, or the murders were committed by a different person.
Naturally, this is a pseudonym. The Ripper committed, according to known information, at least 5 murders of prostitutes, all in the fall of 1988. All the victims were between 45 and 50 years old, only one, the last, the youngest and most beautiful, a little over 20 years old. They were all slum prostitutes. From the "letters" of the ripper to the police - this is the name of some messages sent by the alleged killer, although it is not clear who sent them, perhaps even journalists, to stir up interest in the topic of what was happening.
Jack choked his victims, slit their throats, then gutted their entrails. The most cruel is the last murder of Mary Kelly, a young girl, when the ripper took out the victim's heart and brutally mutilated the body.
Who was this "purifier" of the world from prostitutes remained unknown ... There were a lot of versions, even until 2014, with the help of DNA of the surviving samples of liquids of the alleged killer, the maniac was calculated, but all this remained speculation.
One of the most striking versions was Van Gogh. Forensic scientists established a connection between the murders and the dates of his mother's birthday, during his stay in the hospital, no letters were sent from Jack to the police, in one of the paintings there was a victim of the ripper, he committed suicide in 1890, and after the murders did not happen again in the coming years.
Despite the small number of victims, he left a powerful mark on history, culture, many films were shot about him, books were written. The masses are interested in his motives, mystery, methods of murder. He remained the most famous "cleaner" forever. Jack the Ripper was imitated several times, also killing a contingent subject to discrimination on some grounds.
Ted Bundy
“Theodore Robert" Ted "Bundy (November 24, 1946 - January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophiliac in the 1970s. Young girls and girls became its victims. The exact number of his victims is unknown. Shortly before his execution, he confessed to 30 murders between 1974 and 1978, but the actual number of his victims may be much higher.
The "face" of this "sweet killer" does not at all imply the thought that he is a merciless and cruel killer, a rapist. Moreover, in the comments to articles about him, women even call him "darling", "cutie" ... To be honest, even though I personally won't call him "cutie", I also can't believe that the world famous bloodthirsty killer can look so harmless, corny, pretty.
As in the case of Pichushkin, there is the impression that such types are either mentally ill and have a split personality or have slandered themselves for the sake of fame (and this is not uncommon, a number of sociologists generally separately singled out people striving for fame by any means, including the darkest, for example, by killing as many people as possible, you cannot become famous for the good - become famous for the evil - this is the slogan of those who could not earn respect with dignity).
Well, they don't present themselves with a hammer and a saw, there is physiognomy, and by the features of the face and appearance you can still see the seal of an evil entity, for example, Chikatilo, even if he did not commit all the episodes of crimes to him sane, it is obvious that the murderer and the mentally ill person.
And the maniac is seen as such a closed, downtrodden, detached, mentally abnormal comrade who cannot communicate with women, and it is difficult to imagine him attractive, sociable. However, if outwardly pleasant people can be maniacs once again proves how deceiving psychology, appearance, intuition are.
Ted Bundy has committed at least 30 murders of girls and girls. Before the death of the victims he tortured and beat. He dismembered corpses, raped, ate ...
"He described himself as 'the most heartless son of a bitch you can meet.' Experts considered Bundy a psychopath with charisma, who could rub into trust, who did not admit guilt for more than one crime despite the fact that he confessed in 30 episodes, however, he blamed everything except himself. He was electrocuted on January 24, 1989 in Florida.
Zodiac
Zodiac was a serial killer operating in Northern California and San Francisco (USA) in the late 1960s. The identity of the offender has not yet been established. "
The data on the number of victims vary greatly: “5 killed, 2 wounded (proven); the killer himself claimed 37 victims. "
“The zodiac is a pseudonym used by the killer in a series of scathing letters he sent to local newspapers. The letters also contained four cryptograms in which the killer encrypted information about himself. Only one cryptogram was decrypted. The zodiac committed murders between December 1968 and October 1969. "
The case was opened as early as 2004 in San Francisco, closed, then, in 2007, reopened. In some districts, the case has remained open from 1969 to the present day. That is, they are still looking for the killer, the main motive is a mental disorder. Only 7 episodes of the Zodiac attacks on 4 men and 3 women aged 16 to 39 years have been reliably established, of which two survived, five died. Presumably there are many more victims. The zodiac used a symbolic signature for their messages. One of the deciphered cryptograms said that he planned to make himself slaves in the Other World from the killed victims. The zodiac simply killed and shot, used edged weapons, did not rape, did not eat, simply killed. The tracks were tangled, the killer remained unidentified ...
Peter Sutcliffe
He is on lifelong psychiatric treatment, according to other sources, just a life imprisonment. Imitated Jack the Ripper by killing prostitutes. At the same time he was married.
From childhood, he was distinguished by absolute conflict-freeness, obedience, was born prematurely, weak. Moreover, during quarrels with his wife, despite her screams, he never shouted back, he was always kind ... No one could even imagine that there were such "devils" in him ... Sutcliffe killed 13 women - proven episodes, of the unproven, presumably several tens, seven more survived. He killed or beat women to death.
Jeffrey Dahmer
Years of life - May 21, 1960 - November 28, 1994. American serial killer, victims - 17 young men and men who were killed by a maniac between 1978 and 1991.
He raped and eaten the dead - that is, he was engaged in cannibalism and necrophilia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, killed by a cellmate in 1994.
Daniel Camargo Barbosa
Lived: January 22, 1930 - November 13, 1994. Colombian serial killer and rapist who raped and killed at least (according to official reports) 150 women in Colombia and Ecuador.
After a series of traumatic events in his life, Barbosa began to commit murders and rapes of girls. The first person he killed was a 9-year-old girl, at the time of the crime he was over 40 years old. He was sentenced again to imprisonment, from where he escaped.
The authorities believed that he had been eaten by sharks on the waterway and pronounced dead, but Barbosa swam ashore and raped a 9-year-old girl the same day, and another one the next day. Then, over the course of two years, he raped and killed several dozen women and girls with a machete or rope. He was killed in 1994 by a relative of one of the victims.
Pedro Alonso Lopez
Born 1948 - Colombian serial killer. According to his confessions and the assumption of investigators, he committed about 300 murders.
Of the proven ones: in 1983, he was found guilty of 53 murders in Ecuador, another 57 were not proven.
He was repeatedly sent to prison, raped and killed on the way out. After the arrest, he showed the burial where the bodies of more than 50 girls and women were.
"Pedro Alonso Lopez entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific serial killer, who, according to his confession, has more than 300 murders in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru."
Received the maximum possible prison term in his country - 20 years, 4 years before graduation was transferred to a mental hospital. Alive to this day.
Chikatilo
“Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (October 16, 1936, Yablochnoye village, Sumy region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR - February 14, 1994, Novocherkassk, Rostov region, Russia) - Soviet serial killer, pedophile, necrosadist, necrophile and cannibal. Nicknames: "Rabid Beast", "Red Partisan", "Rostov Ripper", "Red Ripper", "Killer from the Forest Belt", "Citizen X", "Satan", "Soviet Jack the Ripper".
He committed murders from 1978 to 1990 in the Rostov region and other regions of the USSR, 53 murders were proved (however, 10 were later excluded by the decision of the USSR Armed Forces from the verdict for lack of evidence): of the victims - 21 boys aged 7 to 16 years, 14 girls aged from 9 to 17 years old, 18 girls and women.
Chikatilo claimed that he had committed at least 56 murders, the operatives assumed that more than 65. Several people innocently suffered from Themis, on which the latter, in the person of the court, investigators, blamed Chikatilo: one person was shot, another committed suicide, the third after stay in prison went blind, more than a dozen more served a prison term. Testimony was beaten out of them in cruel ways, psychotropic drugs were injected, evidence was fabricated.
But the fact that Chikatilo is a murderer, how many people and whether he committed all of the crimes imputed to him, no one will say for sure, however, the fact that he is a murderer and a mentally ill person is evident from his behavior, appearance. The motive for the killing is sexy, the pleasure of killing. Although some sources indicate that Chikatilo was incapable of sexual activity, and the murders were compensation for the impairment, in others - that it was during the murders that he could feel full, and the suffering of the victim brought him the highest pleasure. However, the killer himself said that he killed not for sexual reasons, but for the sake of the murder itself, after which he felt relief.
A number of criminologists unequivocally argued that Chikatilo was incapable of rape in any form, and the episodes associated with rape were not incriminated by him, and that the bullying of the victim was connected with the fact that Chikatilo asserted himself in this way, receiving relief from the torment of a defenseless victim. But be that as it may - before his death over children and adolescents, young women, he greatly mocked, cut off parts of the organs still alive according to the case file.
I did not feel any remorse about what was done, moreover, I felt sorry for myself on various occasions, cried because of the injustice to myself, I did not remember the fate of the victims.
Chikatilo was recognized as sane, but there are versions that under pressure from society, so that imprisonment and execution would not be replaced by compulsory treatment, since criminologists, investigators and psychiatrists said that he was seriously mentally ill, this was understandable to everyone who saw his behavior in court. The maniac was shot in 1994.
Golovkin
“Sergei Aleksandrovich Golovkin (November 26, 1959, Moscow, USSR - August 2, 1996, Moscow, Russian Federation) - Soviet and Russian serial killer, sadist, pedophile, whose victims, according to the materials of the court, were 11 boys between 1986 and 1992. All murders, with the exception of the first one, were committed on the territory of the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. "
It's hard to believe that a handsome, tall (almost two meters) guy is capable of such atrocities.
He received the unspoken nickname "Fisher", after the first murders he began to use the basement of his garage for rape and abuse of the victim, where he equipped everything for torture.
Killed at least 11, according to other sources 13 boys, investigators assumed that much more. He brutally mocked the victims, raped, tortured ... He committed murders for the purpose of internal relief, from childhood he was quiet, downtrodden despite his height and large build, never had relations with women.
“In September 1992, Golovkin raped and killed three boys at once, whom he lured into his garage, offering to commit theft from a warehouse. The last of them was tortured and raped by Golovkin for several hours, after which he hanged him and went to work.
“I told the three that along with them there would be eleven boys on my account, I set the order by telling the children who would die for whom. I dismembered Sh in front of E., while showing the internal organs and giving anatomical explanations. The boy went through all this calmly, without hysteria, sometimes he only turned away. "
At this time I went to work as if nothing had happened ...
Golovkin was shot by a court verdict in 1996.
Mikhasevich
Gennady Modestovich Mikhasevich, 1947-1988 - Soviet serial killer.
In 1971-1985, he committed approximately 36 murders of women and several more attempts, allegedly committed many more murders.
During the periods of the murders, he had a family, was positively characterized at work, moreover, he had mistresses.
According to one version, he wanted to commit suicide after coming from the army because of unhappy love, but when he saw a young woman, he decided that it would be better to "strangle a woman than die because of a woman." Women were raped, killed, strangled.
Cream
Anatoly Yemelyanovich Slivko, 1938-1989 - Soviet serial killer and pedophile, who operated in the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory from 1964 to 1985.
According to proven episodes, he killed 7 boys under 16 years old, tortured and mocked several dozen boys, but they survived. He was shot in 1989.
The stories of many maniacs come with a break from childhood. Many of them said that they received relief after the death of the victims, their mood improved, as if they were feeding on the energy of the victims and felt like kings who could take life. Reading the stories of maniacs, I remembered Fromm with his necrophilia and biophilia, which makes a person a necrophiliac, a maniac, a murderer. He begins initially not at the level of words, but actions to hate life, any of its manifestations, in other words, in religious language - they sell the soul to the devil.
That is, a person experiences a breakdown, psychotrauma, not being able to free himself from painful experiences, forgive the offender, realize himself in life, rebuild himself on the wave of life - the killers cultivate their inferiority, lock on to their complex, and, being flawed, play out on the weak and defenseless, because for many of them this is the only way to realize their fantasies, including sexual ones.
Well, since their life, as they believe, blaming life, has made them crippled, they instinctively kill the victim, self-asserting their superiority. Of course, this is wild and incomprehensible to an ordinary person, but the paradox of a sick and healthy psyche is that they are on different planes. Personally, I do not believe that the maniacs who killed children, people, mocked people, are mentally healthy ... They are all seriously ill, another thing is that if the court admitted this, they might still be alive and resting in a psychiatric hospital.
We have already addressed the themes of unsolved murders, female murderers and murderous duos. Today we decided to put together another killer rating and talk about the worst serial killers of all time. The rating is placed in ascending order of the horror of the murders committed.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Albert Fish
In tenth place is the American serial killer - Albert Fish. Fish is known as one of the most brutal killers, vile pedophiles and sadists. After the capture, Fish confessed to molesting more than 400 children, whom he first tortured and then killed. In life, Fish was not tall, his neighbors spoke of him as a kind and trusting person. But when he was left alone with his victims, he became - a monster, vicious and cruel. The crimes he has committed seem incredible. Officially, Fish confessed to three murders, and it is believed that he killed three more. Fish was convicted and executed.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Dennis Lynn Rader
Dennis Lynn Rader (Dennis Lynn Rader) - now serving life, seventy-year American serial killer, on account of which ten murders. Raider is believed to have killed for nearly twenty years, from 1974 to 1991. He really wanted everyone's attention, therefore, after each murder, he wrote letters to the police and the local newspaper with a detailed description of the place of the murder and the number of victims. Raider was arrested in 2005.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer is an American serial killer. He was tried for the murder of 17 men and boys. Dahmer killed from 1978 to 1991. In addition to, in fact, the murders of his victims, Dahmer was accused of pederasty, necrophilia and cannibalism. Dahmer committed his first crime at the age of 18. The first time he was arrested was in 1988 when he tried to rape a 13-year-old boy. Damer was released after 10 months for good behavior. The second and last time Dahmer was arrested in 1991. In his house, 15 dismembered bodies were found. The killer was sentenced to 937 years in prison, but in 1994 Dahmer was killed by a cellmate.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Richard Trenton (Richard Chase)
Richard Trenton (Richard Chase) - Another American serial killer, nicknamed "The Vampire of Sacramento" as a result of drinking the blood of his victims and eating their remains. Mental abnormalities were discovered in Richard in his youth, and over time, the matter only worsened. The murder of six people was officially recognized. Trenton also killed puppies and drank their blood. He was caught a year after the first murder. Trenton was sentenced to death through the gas chamber. However, Trenton was found dead in his cell, committing suicide by drinking all of his antidepressants, which he had previously collected over several weeks.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Andrey Chikatilo
Andrei Chikatilo is a famous "butcher" from Rostov. According to the official version, Chikatilo killed 53 people, including children, girls and women. As a rule, these were homeless people who lived near railway and auto stations. Chikatilo was sentenced to death by firing squad.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Bruno Lüdke
Bruno Lüdke is a German serial killer. Lyudke was officially charged with the murder of 51 people, mostly women. Lyudke committed his first murder at the age of 18, in 1927, and killed for 15 years. During World War II, Ludke worked as a policeman, which gave him even more freedom, which he abused. He was arrested in 1943, but before the trial began he was declared insane and hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. There, doctors conducted several terrible experiments on Lyudke, one of which was the testing of a lethal injection, in 1944.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee is an American serial killer who confessed to killing 3,000 people, although there were 11 proven ones. Many unsolved murders were closed by hanging on Lucas. Lucas was sentenced to death, which was commuted to life in prison. In 2001, Lucas dies in a prison cell of heart failure.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Joachim Kroll
Joachim Kroll is a German serial killer, pedophile and cannibal. Was formally charged with eight murders, confessed to twelve. He worked for almost twenty years, from 1955 to 1976. He worked very meticulously, and committed murders in the same place, only several years later, so they could not capture him for so long. He strangled his victims, raped them, then cut off pieces of bodies in order to eat later. The remains of the victims, Kroll kept in the refrigerator. During interrogation, the killer confessed that he kept the bodies of his victims in order to reduce his expenses for purchasing meat for food. Kroll was captured by accident due to his negligence. The Kroll trial lasted 151 days. The killer was sentenced to life in prison, ten years later, Kroll died in prison from a heart attack.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Pedro Alonso López
Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer who is still the Guinness Book of World Records for the Most Brutal Maniac in the World. Lopez's death toll ranges from 61 to 300. The killer operated from 1969 to 1980. Lopez committed his first murder at the age of eighteen. He raped, killed and flayed a man. A few days later, from three more. He was captured and convicted. The court considered that the young age of the murderer mitigates the punishment over him. Lopez was sentenced to just 8 years in prison. Lopez killed his three inmates behind bars, but the sentence was not revised. After being released from prison, Lopez continues to rape and kill. The second time he was arrested by accident. Lopez confesses to all the murders, shows the mass grave of 50 murdered women. He also talks about the incredible murders committed outside Ecuador. He is tried and given a maximum term of 20 years. However, four years before the end of the term, he is transferred to another prison and the trace of Lopez himself is lost.
Police around the world define serial killers as criminals who have killed three or more people over a long period of time. As a rule, these are men who, in everyday life, in every possible way emphasize their decency. True, there are women among them.
We offer you to "admire" the ten most terrible killer maniacs, who were caught at different times.
1. John Wayne Gacy
Known in the US as the "Killer Clown". As a child, he suffered from his father's alcoholism and aggressiveness. At the age of 9 he became a victim of a pedophile. Until his first arrest in 1968 (for the rape of a teenager) he was known as an exemplary family man and workaholic. He spent 18 months in prison instead of 10 years (exemplary behavior). Released and married a second time, he began to participate in a clown costume in all kinds of holidays and festivals. From 1972 to 1978 he strangled to death 33 people. As a rule, in the evenings he drove his car to entertainment establishments, looking for a sexy guy. Then he got to know him, brought him home, tortured and raped for a long time. The torture was accompanied by reading passages from the Bible for the dying person. The victims were buried in the basement of the house and in the nearby river. Executed May 10, 1994.
2. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
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One of the most brutal and brutal serial killers in US history. For 13 years (1978-1991), this maniac, who defended his doctoral dissertation in chemistry, killed 17 young men and adolescents. He found his victims in bars and invited them to pose in the nude. When they agreed, they came to his house, Dahmer pumped them drugs, had sex with them, and then strangled them. He continued to have sex with already dead bodies, dismembered them, and used some parts of the bodies for food. He loved to drill a hole in his head with an electric drill while still alive. He was arrested by accident. On November 28, 1994, beaten to death by his cellmate.
3. Theodore Robert Bundy
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American serial killer, known by the nickname "Nylon Killer". He always looked like a needle, was friendly with everyone. But under the guise of a charismatic gentleman, the face of a cruel beast was hidden. From 1974 to 1978 he kidnapped and killed 30 young women. Experts argued that he was responsible for many more victims. Luring the unfortunate, he often pretended to be disabled and asked them for a little help. Often he entered houses at night and killed sleeping women. Then he had sex with them, dismembered their bodies. He took with him "souvenirs" - the heads of the dead. Executed by electric chair in January 1989.
4. Gary Ridgway
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The Green River Killer strangled at least 71 women in the 1980s and 1990s. He was arrested after the investigation was able to prove with the help of DNA analysis his sexual relationship with the found corpses. Most of his victims were prostitutes. The favorite method of murder is strangulation. Arrested in 1997. In 2003 he was sentenced to 48 life sentences. The first of them he is currently serving in one of the American prisons.
5. Ed Gein
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This maniac has committed only two murders of women. However, their cruelty, as well as the sadistic inclinations of the fanatic, shocked all of America. The corpses were dismembered, gutted like animal carcasses, and then used as a kind of "decor" in the house. When the police broke into Hein's home, a terrible collection was discovered there - for several years the maniac secretly dug up the graves of recently deceased young women, brought the bodies home. There he took off their skin and sewed clothes out of it, and hung the severed heads on the walls. Since the court found the killer insane, Gein spent the rest of his days in a mental hospital, where he died on July 26, 1984.
6. Henry Lee Lucas
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This American serial killer has 11 proven victims. However, the criminal himself boasted that he had actually committed 350 (!) Murders. This subhuman began his bloody "activity" with the murder of his own mother. In 1998, he was sentenced to death in Texas, but George W. Bush, then Governor of the state, canceled the execution. After a second trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison on March 13, 2001.
7. Eileen Carol Warnes
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The only female killer in this top ten. Many experts call her the first female maniac in the United States. This prostitute had a promiscuous sex life with both men and women. She did not disdain incest with her own brother. In 1989-1990, she killed seven men in Florida. As she later explained to investigators, they all wanted to injure her during sex. She was arrested in 1991. On October 9, 2002, a lethal injection stopped her heart.
8. Richard Trenton Chase
Even a 4-year-old child nowadays knows that there are bad guys who in no case should be followed, even if they offer delicious sweets, chewing gum or invite to look at cute puppies. Unfortunately, this does not reduce murders, rapes and other crimes. Indeed, most often these guys are not so bad in their appearance, therefore they mislead not only children, but also adults. Yes, they may not be uncles at all.
Terrible statistics of the most famous killer maniacs are kept all over the world. In the practice of law enforcement agencies, there are many cases where the main persons involved were men, women and even children. It is scientifically proven that anyone can become a murderer under certain circumstances. But, if this is done not because of the surrounding factors or the situation, but at the behest of the soul, such a person is terrible both for himself and for society. In this article, we will consider what the most cruel killer maniacs have met in the world, how they were caught and punished. But right away I want to say that the caught criminals, for sure, are much less than those still walking among us. There have been cases when terrible monsters fell into the hands of law enforcement agencies purely by accident, for example, about a fine for improper parking, and at that time another victim was tied up in the trunk. So, we bring to your attention the nightmare TOP of the most brutal killer maniacs in the world.
TOP 10
John Wayne Gacy or the killer clown
This person rightfully deserves a place in this terrible top. He acted in America and during this time he raped and killed 33 young men. He was executed in 1994 by lethal injection. Few people know that it is his story that lies in the motive of Stephen King's novel It.
As a child, he experienced several classic signs of a future maniac. His father was an alcoholic who beat the whole family and was also raped. At the age of 26 he was sent to prison. For the rape of a boy, he served a year and a half instead of 10. He was released for good behavior, which was then regretted for a long time. Sitting behind bars, he thought of a new look, bought a clown costume and began to approach his victims much faster and easier.
After the first arrest in the eyes of the public, he led an absolutely normal life. Became the manager of a fast food restaurant, married twice. For a long time, the people around him could not believe that it was he who was a killer clown, since he was distinguished by his diligence and ability to communicate. They say that he worked 12 or more hours. As it was later proved by representatives of law enforcement agencies, he was detained for so long in the service precisely because of his love for teenagers. He constantly forced them to have sexual intercourse, but the victims were mostly silent.
Sergey Tkach
Lived 65 and killed over 37 women and underage girls. He was called the Pologov maniac. He was a rapist and a pedophile. The court sentenced him to 4 life sentences. After the capture, he wrote a report for another 107 victims. He was convicted in the Dnepropetrovsk region, served a sentence in the Zhytomyr prison in Ukraine, and acted mainly in the Crimea. He died in 2005.
He choked and drowned his victims on the basis of a sexual motive. He worked as an investigator in law enforcement agencies, which is probably why he covered his tracks so well. He served in the Soviet Army, received the specialty of a surveyor technician, after which he was recommended to work in the police. He was dismissed for official falsification, which they managed to prove. It was after this that he began to kill.
He was interested in girls and girls from 9 to 17 years old. He tracked them down in forest plantations near the motorway and railroad. He chose this method of murder so that the law enforcement agencies would think of someone new. He did not leave marks on the bodies of the victims. During the rape, he constantly used condoms, trampled the tracks, undressed his victims, removing their clothes and shoes, and then burned it all, removed all the cigarette butts and leftovers. After the committed crime, I tried to leave on the sleepers. So it was very difficult for the service dog to take his trail.
In the investigation of the Weaver's murders, the limitation period was the main problem. The fact is that some of them were committed several decades ago and there is no longer any evidence left.
Jeffrey Dahmer
He was 34 years old when he was killed by inmates through severe head trauma. Law enforcement gave him the nickname Milwaukee Monster or Cannibal. The victims were men and boys whom he raped, killed, and then ate. There were 17 of them in total.
Dahmer's childhood was absolutely normal until the moment when his parents noticed his habit of collecting animal corpses. He put them in a jar of formaldehyde and kept them. It is proven that he committed murder for the first time at the age of 18. First he stunned his victim with dumbbells, then strangled her and cut her into pieces.
What prompted the murder of this maniac is still not known for certain. At the age of 8, he is said to have experienced violence from a neighbor. But the killer himself denied this. Formaldehyde, in which the killed animals were rolled up, he took from his father. His dreams at an early age were same-sex sex, dismemberment, and necrophilia.
After leaving school, he received his education, married, worked and served in the army. After his second victim, he could no longer stop. He was caught after another young man managed to get out and called the police. His cannibalism and cannibalism were proven for certain during a search. They found body parts in the refrigerator, and men's torsos in a barrel of acid.
Andrey Chikatilo
He was nicknamed, the red ripper was born in Ukraine, he was executed in the Rostov region in Russia at the age of 57. A total of 53 victims were killed, 10 of which were unprovable. Perversion and violence have become his trademark. He killed on the basis of a sexual motive, since he reached orgasm exclusively during the death of the victim. Notable for cannibalism and cannibalism.
In his life he worked, studied, got married, had children, friends, and in between these he killed. Actively operated for 12 years. The victims of the killer maniac were 14 girls, 18 women and twenty-one boys.
Considering what prompted the murder of this person, it is worth noting his childhood. It has been scientifically proven that he was born with signs of hydrocephalus, suffered from urinary incontinence. And also, his mother constantly beat him. Relationship with her can be called a separate story. When the Holodomor began in Ukraine, his elder brother Stepan disappeared without a trace. His mother said that he was kidnapped and eaten. But, in fact, it is not known whether this brother was at all. After the capture of Chikatilo, scientists began to understand the history of his family, and they did not find any Stepan. By the way, the mother's beatings are also unprovable. Some forensic scientists hold the idea that the killer invented all this in order to justify himself and his parents were actually worthy members of society who worked hard. But there is no exact information about this.
Chikatilo worked as a teacher and educator. Constantly noted his genius and hostility of the surrounding world. His first victim was a nine-year-old girl whom he took her life in a house he had bought in secret from her family. Her body was found nearby in a pond. The cause of death was 3 penetrating stab wounds to the abdomen and mechanical asphyxia. On the body, traces of rupture of the vagina and rectum were found after anal and vaginal intercourse. Chikatilo lured the girl into the house with promises to give chewing gum.
This was followed by a break of three years, after which a series of murders began. I met my victims on buses, at train stations, then lured them into a forest, park or other secluded place under a plausible pretext, supposedly to show a short way or carry a heavy bag. There, pounce on them with a knife. 60 stab wounds were found on one body. Some had eyes gouged out, tongues and genitals bitten off.
He was first arrested in 84. He attracted the district police officer with his abnormal behavior. By that time, 7 corpses of his victims had already been found in the region. During his arrest, they took blood from him, which turned out to be of the second group. The last victim's sperm was 4. This provided him with an alibi, thanks to which he was released. In the end, it turned out that this person had a thematic paradoxical feature of the body, or that the forensic experts simply did the wrong analysis. When he was released, he killed 21 more people.
They caught him thanks to the psychological portrait of the killer, which was first compiled on the territory of the Soviet Union. His last victim was a 22-year-old prostitute who was killed in the forest. The sergeant, who saw him leaving the forest belt, asked to show his documents, since Chikatilo did not at all look like a mushroom picker, dressed in a suit and tie. Several days later, after the body of the second victim was found near this railway station, the policeman remembered the suspicious person. The investigation led to the arrest of Chikatilo in 1990.
Pedro Alonso Lopez
It is considered the most brutal maniac in history, hitting the Guinness Book of Records. He was born in Colombia, where he died. Lived 69 years, during which he committed 53 murders in Ecuador. Another 57 failed to prove. It is believed that he killed 350 people in total, but these cases have remained unsolved to this day.
The maniac was arrested in 1983. They caught him completely by accident. He was seen by local residents when he made another rape attempt. After his arrest, he immediately confessed to all his atrocities and showed a mass grave with bodies. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to just 20 years in prison, which is the maximum sentence for Colombia. Of these, he served 16 years, and then was transferred to a special hospital. This decision was made for exemplary behavior and cooperation with the investigation.
Received the nickname Monster of the Andes. As a child, he was thrown into the street by his mother, after which he was picked up by a pervert, with whom he lived. It was this “guardian”, according to unverified data, who became the first victim of the maniac. Pedro killed him at the age of 18, and before that he raped him. A gang of friends helped him in this.
Law enforcement agencies caught him and imprisoned him for 8 years. After he was released from prison, he moved to Peru, where the bloody series began. They caught him for a very long time, since in most Latin American countries the police have no influence. According to unverified reports, his atrocities were exposed by the Peruvian drug business authority. It was in this connection that Pedro moved to Ecuador, where he continued to kill.
Harold Shipman
Doctor Death lived and killed near Manchester, England. 15 victims have been proven for certain. How many there were is now unknown, but they say that there are at least 250. He was arrested in 1998. Then he was sent to prison, where he died in 2004, having lived to be 57 years old.
He was a psychopath with a high IQ, who always distinguished himself favorably from other people. He killed with lethal injections for a selfish motive. His first victim was an elderly woman who called him as a doctor and complained of joint pain. The doctor injected her into a vein of morphine, the dose of which led to death. After that, Harold took a souvenir from the table and left the house with impunity. Death was declared natural.
Most often, he killed elderly retirees and constantly took away something for himself. After he began to forge the wills of the deceased, he began to receive a good profit. It was proved that Shipman even killed the relatives of his acquaintances and subordinates, for example, the secretary. According to the killer himself, told to his cellmate, he killed 508 people in the area.
The most violent female killer - Black Widow or Belle Sorenson Gunness
She herself or with the help of other people killed 40 people in the area. They were mostly relatives or close friends. After their death, she received excellent insurance, due to which she lived.
It is proven that she killed her husband, children and several suitors. How she died is unknown. It is believed that her body was found decapitated and distorted, but whether this is her is not proven.
Jane Toppan is responsible for the deaths of 31 people. She was tried in 1901 for a crime committed over decades. The court declared her insane and sent her to a psychiatric clinic. The motives behind the actions were the desire to kill as many helpless people as possible. She worked as a nurse and used her future victims as guinea pigs. She experimented with atropine and morphine, observing changes in the nervous system.
The most mysterious maniacs in the world
In this TOP, it is necessary to allocate a separate place for killer maniacs who never got caught by law enforcement agencies.
For starters, this is, of course, Jack the Ripper
It operated in the second half of the 19th century. Who he was, why he killed and when he died, no one knows to this day. His victims were exclusively prostitutes. What they annoyed him remained a mystery, covered in darkness. The number of specifically identified victims is not less than 5. The method of killing was periodically different. In most cases, he cut the throats of women, but he could also choke them.
At the time of his revelry, England was just experiencing an influx of Irish emigrants. Large cities were not only overpopulated, but the number of their inhabitants was increasing every day. Many women who were unable to get a job became prostitutes. After the city authorities began to interfere in their activities, they noticed that some of the girls disappeared without a trace.
The first body found was Mary Ann Nichols, nicknamed Polly. The last recorded and most famous was Mary Jane Kelly. She was different from other victims in that she was the youngest. With her craft, she earned decent money, for which she could rent a room, where she was killed. Many researchers of our time note that most likely, the girls were strangled before their throats were cut. From a psychological point of view, it is worth noting that this method of killing is personal. That is, the killer either knew the victim well, or he identified it with someone he could not reach.
Some forensics think that Jack the Ripper's mother was also a prostitute and may have been abused by her clients as a child. The killer cut his throat strictly from left to right, leaving a deep wound. The scary thing is that after the death of a woman, he opened her. He took away some organs, while others put others on display.
The investigation was conducted for a very long time, but did not give any results. The killer wrote letters to the police, bullying them (some experts believe that these were fakes, written by a mentally ill person who wanted to take the glory of the original). It is noted that the Ripper could have been a highly skilled surgeon, and it has also been reliably proven that he was left-handed.
The Zodiac is the second bloodiest murderer never caught.
He lived in America, and acted in the middle of the last century in Northern California and San Francisco. He called himself the zodiac in letters that, like Jack the Ripper, sent to the police.
According to unverified reports, the number of victims ranges from 37. It is interesting that he may still be alive to this day. Therefore, the investigation into his case is still ongoing. Modern criminologists and profilers note that this person is undeniably a psychopath, but very smart, almost brilliant. Most likely, his life skills and high IQ helped him avoid police punishment, even though he sent encrypted cryptograms with information about himself 4 times in local newspapers. By the way, the information encrypted in them has not been fully disclosed.
Law enforcement authorities proved 5 killed victims and two wounded. Their age ranged from 16 to 39 years. Killed the Zodiac with an unregistered pistol. His victims were mostly in cars. The investigation of the case was closed in 2004, but resumed in 2007. Professionals do not lose hope of finding him and finally punishing him.