America has a long history of psychotic and downright wicked serial killers. Although reading about them creeps us out, today we're going to talk about 10 of the worst offenders, the type of people that you should hope to never meet in person.
Below are the 10 American serial killers who will haunt us forever.
10. Richard Kuklinski
Born: 04-11-1935.
Died: 03-05-2006
Nickname: The Iceman
Richard Leonard Kuklinski was a hitman associated with the American Mafia, preferably The DeCavalcante Crime Family of Newark, New Jersey.
Richard’s Mother and Father were extremely abusive towards him, his two brothers and sister. Richard’s older brother was actually killed by his father due to injuries he sustained from a beating, but his father and the family lied and told the police he had fallen down some stairs. His younger brother was convicted of raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl. In an interview when Richard was asked about his
. Gary Ridgway
Born: 02-18-1949
Nickname: The Green River Killer
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Gary Leon Ridgway was convicted of 48 murders, as part of a plea bargain, he was convicted of 49, making him the most prolific serial killer in terms of confirmed kills. Since his arrest in 2001, he has confessed to 71, but many believe he has killed more than 90 because bodies are still being found that date back to his killing spree 1982-1998.
His victims were mostly sex workers and other women in venerable situations; he also preyed on young runaways. He would strangle his victims mostly by hand and in a few situations with a ligature. He would then dump the body in a forested area and would often return to the bodies to have sex with them. It was because of this disturbing action he was eventually caught using DNA found at the scene.
Gary had a troubled childhood where his parents were involved in numerous violent arguments and his father was a school bus driver who often complained about sex workers plaguing the streets. Gary had a bed wetting problem until he was 13 years of age. His mother would clean his genitals after every occurrence. Gary admitted in an interview that he had felt sexual attraction and anger towards his mother and had often fantasized about killing her.
Gary is still serving his life without the possibility of parole sentence at Washington State Penitentiary.
8. The Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac Killer was active in Northern California from the late 60s to the early 70s. Five confirmed deaths and 2 injuries. Investigators believe the number could be between 20-28 deaths. The killer has claimed to have murdered 37.
The Zodiac Killer was active in Northern California from the late 60s to the early 70s. Five confirmed deaths and 2 injuries. Investigators believe the number could be between 20-28 deaths. The killer has claimed to have murdered 37.
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The victims were mostly shot by a .38 caliber handgun. A few were stabbed to death, one man was stabbed so violently he was nearly decapitated.
The Zodiac murders were marked “inactive” in April of 2004 but later reopened in March of 2007.
There have also been copycat killers who were inspired by The Zodiac Killer in both New York (Heriberto “Eddie” Seda) and Japan (The Kobe Child Murders).
7. Charles Manson
Born: 11-12-1934
Died: 11-19-2017
Charles Milles Manson was a long time criminal and cult leader. In the late 60’s he created what was known as the Manson Family. Manson’s followers committed 9 murders in 4 different locations in July and August of 1969. In 1971 Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Manson was obsessed with a belief in “Helter Skelter” (a term he took from a Beatles song), which he described as an impending apocalyptic race war. He believed that the murders would inevitably cause the beginning of this said “race war.”
6. John Wayne Gacy
Born: 03-17-1942
Died: 5-10-1994
Nickname: The Killer Clown
John Wayne Gacy Jr. was a serial killer and rapist. He was convicted of 33 counts of murder, 1 count of sexual assault, 1 count of indecent liberties with a child and 1 count of sodomy. His killings would span from early 1972 to late 1978.
His victims consisted of young men and mostly teenage boys. He forced or deceived his victims into his Norwood Park ranch house and would strangle all but one of his victims, the first being stabbed to death. He would make his victims perform sever sex acts and admitted that as he killed a person at the moment of their death he would experience a “mind-numbing orgasm.”
Gacy managed several restaurants and would invite his younger workers of both sexes to attend him at his “club” located in the basement of his home. He would give alcohol to the minors and make sexual advances on the male attendees. If he was turned down by these advances he would claim they were a joke or a test of moral values.
He would lure several of these young men and boys to his basement. He would most often have drinks with them to mellow them out, and then he would try to find ways to get them to agree to put on handcuffs. Once this was achieved he would become violent and explain to the victim what was going to happen to them. After he would kill his victims he would hide the bodies in a crawl space and buried a few in his yard.
Gacy acquired the nickname “The Killer Clown” because of his community volunteer work as “Pogo the Clown.” He stated that acting as a clown allowed him to “regress into childhood”.
As is tradition, his childhood was messed up by an alcoholic and abusive father, who would constantly beat him, his mother and three sisters. Gacy would get the worst of the beatings, he was often verbally and physically abused for no reason as a close friend of the family would later confess.
Gacy was put to death in 1994 by lethal injection. His final words were “Kiss my ass.”
5. Ed Gein
Born: 08-27-1906
Died: 7-26-1984
Nickname: The Butcher of Plainfield
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Edward Theodore Gein doesn’t have much to offer in the category of body counts or heinous acts on the living, but he is most remembered for body snatching and screwing around in graves of recently deceased females.
He had a somewhat difficult childhood. His father was an alcoholic which his mother despised. After his father quit a few dead-end jobs and a sold grocery store Ed and his family moved to a 155-acre farm. Ed’s mother used this isolation to her advantage turning away any outsiders that might have any influence on Ed and Ed’s brother Henry.
Gein’s mother Augusta was fervently religious in the Lutheran faith. She would only allow the boys to attend school and that was all. Outside of school, the boys had several chores around the farm and when they weren’t doing that, they were being preached to, usually about the evils of the world, alcoholism and how all women (except her of course) were all prostitutes and instruments of the devil. She reserved time to read the Bible every day. She would only select the graphic verses from the Old Testament concerning death, murder and when God would smite all of mankind.
Ed’s father died of heart failure due to his alcoholism. Ed’s brother Henry died face down in a field in strange circumstances after Ed and himself were burning away weeds on the property. Much suspect foul play, or that even Ed killed him, but the police marked it up as “heart failure” simply because he was not burned or injured.
They caught Ed after a store owner (Bernice Worden) disappeared and Ed was seen the night before saying he would be back the next morning for a gallon of antifreeze. The next day the store was empty and the cash register was open and there was blood on the floor. A sales slip for a gallon of antifreeze was the last receipt written before the disappearance. Gein was arrested at a local grocery store. That same evening the Waushara County Sheriff’s department searched Ed’s property. In a shed, they found a woman’s decapitated body hanging upside down by the ankles and “dressed out like a deer.” She had been shot by a .22 caliber rifle.
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