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From those immortalized onscreen to those too brutal for the movies, these are the worst serial killer stories you won’t be able to stop reading. From household names like Ted Bundy and the Zodiac to killers still on the loose, learn about the most evil serial killer stories history has to offer.
- The World’s Worst Serial Killer. Colombian media describe him as “the world’s worst serial killer” and not unfairly so. Luis Garavito is responsible for the rape, torture, and murder of 138 kids and teenagers.
- The Monster of the Andes. Pedro López is a Colombian serial killer. López was found guilty in 1983 for the murder of 110 girls in Ecuador. Despite claiming to have raped and killed more than 300 girls in many different countries in South America, the government of Ecuador released him from prison in 1998 for ‘good behavior’ and believe it or not, the “Monster of the Andes” is now living somewhere among us as a free man.
- The Most Cold-Hearted SOB Ever. Ted Bundy is one of the most famous American serial killers of all time, due to his charismatic personality. Despite raping and reportedly killing 30 young women and girls during the 1970s, Bundy was described as a charmer by his own victims.
- The Werewolf of the Russian Steppes. Mikhail Popkov sexually assaulted and murdered more than 80 people in Russia, between 1992 and 2010. His victims were all women, and he lured them into his car by pretending to be a police officer.
May 15, 2024 · Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Bundy are some of the most famous serial killers in history who continue to generate horror and morbid curiosity.
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- Belle Gunness Married to Kill
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- John Wayne Gacy Performed as A Clown at Children's Parties
- Jeffrey Dahmer Committed His First Murder at 18
- Ted Bundy: The First Televised Murder Trial
- Jack The Ripper: There Are Over 100 Possible Suspects
- H.H. Holmes: A Pharmacist Who Built A 'Murder Castle'
One of history’s deadliest serial killers was a married family man who managed to squeeze in 218 credited murders (and as many as 250) while working as a popular British physician. Harold Shipman began his murderous spree in 1972, and it’s believed he killed at least 71 patients while working at his first practice, and doubled that number at a seco...
The woman who became known as the “Lady Bluebeard” immigrated to America from Norway in 1881, settling in Chicagowhere she married a fellow Norwegian immigrant. The couple had four children (two of whom died young) and ran a candy store. By 1900 the store had mysteriously burned down, and Gunness’ husband was dead. Although both happened under susp...
The man whose macabre and horrific acts helped inspire Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre grew up in an isolated area of Wisconsin. He was an abused child of an alcoholic father and a puritanical and domineering mother who instilled in her son a pathological fear of both women and sex. When his father, brother and mother ...
To most of his suburban Chicago neighbors, John Wayne Gacy was a friendly man who threw popular block parties, volunteered in local Democratic politics and often performed as a clown at local children’s parties. But Gacy, who had already served a stint in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage boy, was hiding a horrific secret right beneath his n...
Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in 1978 when he was just 18. He would go on killing until his arrest in 1991, after an African American man escaped his clutches and hailed down police near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When the victim led police back to his captor’s apartment, they discovered photographs of dismembered bodies, the severed heads a...
Handsome, well-educated and brimming with charm, Ted Bundyseemed the unlikeliest of serial killers. Which made his decade-long, multi-state killing spree all the more surprising—and to some, appealing. Born to an unwed, teenage mother, Bundy never learned his father’s identity and was raised believing that his grandmother was actually his mother (a...
In 1888, London’s Whitechapel district was gripped by reports of a vicious serial killer stalking the city streets. The unidentified madman lured prostitutes into darkened squares and side streets before slitting their throats and sadistically mutilating their bodies with a carving knife. That summer and fall, five victims were found butchered in t...
H.H. Holmes spent his early career as an insurance scammer before moving to Illinois in advance of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair to work as a pharmacist. It was there that Holmes built what he referred to as his murder “castle”—a three-story inn that he secretly turned into a macabre torture chamber. Some rooms were equipped with hidden peepholes, ...
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One of the world’s most prolific serial killers might still be out there. Pedro Lopez is linked to more than 300 murders in his native Colombia and in Ecuador and Peru. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women. After Lopez’s arrest in 1980, police found the graves of more than 50 of his preteen victims.
The Most Terrifying Serial Killers in Fiction to Read Right Now. From classic fairytales like Bluebeard to more modern horrors like Hannibal Lecter, murderous monsters of the more human variety have long held a firm grip on readers’ imaginations.
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