Herbert Mullin Serial killer and lunatic Part One

“I saw the light over the confessional and the voice said: That’s the person to kill.” —Herbert Mullin

There are a number of murderers that society has seemed to have forgotten about. Herbert William Mullin is a serial killer who was active during the 1970s. He killed 13 people in the state of California. He claimed that the murders were going to prevent further earthquakes from affecting the state. He was determine to be considered sane and stood trial and was convicted for first degree murder. While this man does not seem sane at all he was still sent to trail and got a life sentence. He is still in prison today but not talked about.

Early Life

Mullin was born in 1947. His father was a veteran from World War II who taught his son about guns when he was young. Mullin was not abused as a child and had many friends. After he graduated from high school his best friend was killed in a car accident. Mullin made a shrine to his friend in his bedroom. He also expressed fears that he was a homosexual even though he had girlfriends.

Mullin continued to have mental health issues and in 1969 his family had him checked into a mental hospital for treatment. He was in and out of several treatment centers over the next couple of years but each time he did not stay long. He had some warnings that his mental health was further deteriorating. He would put cigarettes out on his skin and would shout at people in this apartment that did not exist. Some experts stated that Mullin had paranoid schizophrenia which was starting to show up in high school. His experimentation with LSD could have sped up the onset process.

Murders

In 1972 when Mullin was 25 years old he moved back to live with his parents. He stated that he was hearing voices in his head. These voices told him that an earthquake was about to happen and sacrificing humans would be able to save the state from disaster. During this time the Vietnam War was going on. According to Mullin there was enough death of Americans to keep the earthquake from happening. By late 1972 when the war was not in full force Mullin was convinced he had to kill people to keep the earthquake from occurring.

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Tex Watson - Hand of Evil

CHAPTER THREE TEX WATSON

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. -Charles Manson

Charles Denton Watson better known as Tex was a member of the Manson family when they committed their horrible crimes. Tex was considered to be Charles Manson’s right hand man. While Tex is known for being a convicted serial killer his life did not always start out that way. Tex was under the control of Mason much like the other members of the family.

Charles Watson was born in Farmersville , Texas on December 2, 1945. He was the youngest of the three children in his family. Tex got his nickname from being from the state of Texas. While living in Texas he regularly attended the Copevielle Methodist Church. Tex as an honors student in high school and was also involved in the high school athletics program. He even attended college and joined a fraternity before things took a downhill turn.

In 1967 Tex was working at the Braniff Airlines and used his free tickets to visit from friends living in Los Angeles. Once he got to LA he decided to stay. Tex joined in with the other young people and the hippy crowd. He became involved with drugs and the free spirit lifestyle of that time.

- “I did not teach Tex. I told Tex to do what you think is right and ride your own beef. All that confusion at the Ranch was from Tex. I didn’t show Tex how to burn people, someone else taught him that. Tex was trying to be Manson in his mother’s body and Tex took a knife and a gun that someone else showed him how to use. So, why was Manson at the top when Tex was the man at the top with the knife and with the gun and with the will?” - Charles Manson

Tex lived and worked in LA and met Charles Manson by chance. He was hitchhiking with Dennis Wilson who was a member of the Beach Boys. He invited Tex to come in and meet some people that were hanging out at his home. Tex started hanging out around the house often with Mason and his family. He was drawn into the lifestyle and the relationship the family had with each other. After living with the family he got more into drugs and began to lose touch with reality and those close to him.

Tex met a girl and moved in with her. For a short time he left the family. Once they broke up Tex went back to live with the Mason family at Spahn Ranch in 1969. Here he listened to Mason talk about Helter Skelter. This was going to be a race war where the blacks would rebel against the whites. Manson and his family were the chosen ones that got to live. Mason decided to help this along.

Charles Mason instructed Tex and other female members of the family to start a murder spree. The first victims were Sharon Tate who was pregnant and her friends. Within a couple of days the group was out on another killing spree. This time they murders the LaBiancas once again under the instruction of Mason. There are other murders this group was suspected of.

- “I walked with Tex, but when Tex took out his knife and went out for so and so, I said “excuse me, I gotta go to the canteen and get some ice cream.” Don’t judge me behind what Tex did. If you kill somebody, you’ve killed yourself. Because if you live by that gun and you live by that knife, and you kill by that gun and you kill by that knife, then you got no turns coming at the bitch table if it’s your turn to die from that gun and that knife.” - Charles Manson

In 1969 Tex decided to leave the family and go back to Texas. He felt like he no longer fit into his hometown. He had an urge to return to Mason but felt he would be murdered if he did. Tex was getting off the drugs when he was arrested in November 1969 for serial murder.

Tex was charged with seven counts of murder. He was convicted on all counts and sentenced to death. Once the death penalty was outlawed in California he sentence was converted to life in prison. Tex found God and became a born again Christian. From prison, he wrote several books and even got married.

Currently Charles Tex Watson is at the Mule Creek State Prison in California. He has been denied parole 13 times and at the age of 71 is still incarnated today.

Aileen Wuornos, The Monster behind Monster- Part 1

 I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again -Aileen Wournos


     Of the more than 2,500 hundred individuals classified as serial killers, only 7.5 percent are female [1]. Aileen Wuornos, who was the subject of the 2004 hit movie, Monster, is widely believed to be the United States’ first serial killer and is arguably one of the most infamous women in this small group. The following takes a look at her life, which began on Leap Day, 1956 and ended at the time of her execution on October 9, 2002 at Florida State Prison.

The Early Years
        Born Aileen Carol Pittman, Aileen was born into a dysfunctional family completely devoid of normal family relationships. Her father, Leo Pittman, was a convicted molester who committed suicide and is usually referred to as a psychopath, while her teenage mother, Diane Wuornos, abandoned Aileen and her brother by the time she was 4. The pair was adopted by their maternal grandparents, which likely started her on the path to serial killer. Sexually and physically abused from a young age by her pedophile grandfather, Aileen, developed a sexual relationship with her brother and began engaging in sex for food and drugs by the time she was nine. When she became pregnant at 14 with a baby, who according to some reports was fathered by her brother, she opted to put the baby up for adoption. At 15, her alcoholic grandmother died and her grandfather threw her out.




Living as a Teen on the Streets of Rochester, Michigan
 Although she was made a ward of the state, Aileen quickly ran away and began living in the woods near the home she has been forced out of. For money and to support a growing drug habit, she turned to prostitution before she started hitchhiking across the United States. Before she was 20 years old, she had been arrested numerous times for everything from firing a weapon from a vehicle to DUI, assault, and disturbing the peace, which stemmed from an attack on a bartender.

Marrying a Wealthy Yacht Club President
 By 1976, Aileen had managed to hitchhike all the way from Michigan to Florida, where she met 69-year old Lewis Fell, who almost immediately fell in love with and married her during the same year. While she could have used this as an opportunity to completely change the direction of her life, she, instead, brought chaos to his high society lifestyle. After just a few months, Lewis had the marriage annulled. Before the year was out, she had lost her brother to throat cancer, inherited a $10,000 insurance policy, which she blew through, and continued down her self-destructive path.

Building Up to the Murders

 From 1977 to 1986, Aileen wandered aimlessly around the state of Florida, primarily living off money she made as a prostitute or stole. During this time, she was arrested for several offenses, including forgery, theft, assault, and armed robbery, which resulted in her incarceration for slightly more than a year.

         In 1986, Aileen met Tyria Moore who she soon started a lesbian relationship with and was supporting with the money she earned prostituting. Their relationship, which is most often described as intense and volatile, lasted just over four years, though it didn’t end until Aileen had started her murder spree.



The Murders
         In December 1989, the naked body of 51 year-old Richard Mallory, a convicted rapist, was found along I-95 in Volusia County, FL. He had been shot three times with .22 caliber pistol. Police made very little progress trying to identify his killer before a second body was found in Citrus County, FL in June 1990. 43-year old David Spears had been shot with a .22 pistol six times. Before they could positively identify Spears, the naked body of a badly decomposed male was found in Pasco County, FL. Eventually identified as 40-year old Charles Carskaddon, he had been shot nine times with .22 caliber pistol. By this time, police saw a pattern, but they didn’t know who was behind the killings.

The Infanticide of Amelia Dyer

The Infanticide of Amelia Dyer

 

"You’ll know all mine by the tape around their necks.". - Amelia Dyer

Amelia Dyer is a women who manages to embody quite a few truths all at once, given the gravity of her crimes and the manner in which history has ultimately treated those crimes. 'Amelia Dyer' is not a name that rolls off the tongues of many people today, even though these same people would be able to name serial killers like Ted Bundy and Aileen Wuornos.

There is a common perception today that the media has a tendency to sensationalize the trials of serial killers and other monsters more than the media of the past ever did. However, history shows us that if anything, people in the past turned murder into even more of a spectacle than the people of today. They had dramatic public executions for their murderers. The trial of Amelia Dyer was one of the most sensationalized trials in all of history, rivaling the trials of modern murderers like O.J. Simpson. However, she was hanged in a manner that was as dispassionate as the manner in which she murdered at least three hundred babies.

Amelia Dyer managed to be emblematic of a greater social evil in Victorian society: infanticide. Dead infants filled the streets in Victorian Britain to the point where the police did not even investigate what happened to them. Women who had illegitimate children during this time period were not allowed to work in any field other than the illegal and stigmatized field of prostitution, and the fathers were not legally obligated to care for the children.

 

People may remember the character of Fantine from Les Miserables as an emblematic example of a fictional woman caught up in this situation. Fantine took the route of prostitution and poverty. Other women put their babies in the baby farms in order to get rid of them and avoid the life of horror they would have to endure instead. Lots of the women who did this did not want to think about what went on in these baby farms. They hoped that their babies would be adopted in these baby farms, but these institutions certainly could not be regulated under the circumstances.

A baby farm murderer like Amelia Dyer was essentially taking advantage of these poor women who were in a desperate situation and exploiting a greater social evil for her own sadistic desires. Amelia Dyer managed to carry on as a serial killer of infants for an astonishing thirty years, taking advantage of a society that dehumanized illegitimate children. She may have taken in six babies a day according to some reports, killing ten infants a year. She killed the children who could not be adopted. Since baby farms were not legal and the situation was a dire one, even many of the people who might have wanted to stop her felt powerless to do so.

Amelia Dyer was executed in 1896, and the photographic evidence of her shows a woman who seems completely ordinary. It is hard to imagine this simple elderly midwife committing hundreds or even thousands of murders. Her story demonstrates the fact that evil people hide in the shadows that society creates for them.

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Charles Manson, The Family Man

Born to a sixteen year old alcoholic prostitute, Manson was born Charles Miles Maddox on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati. His mother, would marry a man, but the marriage would not last. Charles was placed in a boy's school, and would run back to his mother. She did not want to have anything to do with him. He lived on the streets and quickly started stealing. When he first started getting locked up, he was considered dangerous. After a while, he would discover that being a model prisoner had its benefits.

In 1955, he would marry a seventeen year old and the couple moved to California. Even though she was pregnant, he started committing crimes again, mainly stealing cars. His wife would leave him in 1956, with their child and her new lover.

It is said, by different probation officers that he had, that he was suffering from rejection, psychic trauma, and instability, making him try to get some status and trying to get people to love him. He was viewed as unpredictable and safe but only with supervision.

He spent time in prison, from 1958 until early 1967, for writing bad checks and pimping for ten years. While inside, he would rape an inmate while he held a razor on the inmate. He would tap into his creative talents and learned how to play the guitar.

After being released in 1967, he started a campaign that would put him down as one of the most infamous serial killers of all time. He thought he would bring about the end of the world. He was influenced by different works of art, drugs, and religions (such as the Church of Final Judgment, Scientology, Book of Revelations, LSD, and Helter Skelter by the Beatles). All these things made him have strong feelings that the world was going to end, and he was going to be the one that was going to bring it about. 

Manson started to put together a group who shared his feelings about living unconventionally and use of drugs. They became known as 'The Family”. “The Family” grew to have over a hundred followers, mostly made up of impressionable young girls from broken but middle class families, who started to believe that Manson was Christ and that his talk of a race war soon happening would come true. Manson started out preaching to these kids about peace, love, and acceptance, typical hippie beliefs of the time. He would quickly change to talk of revolution and violence.

It was easy for him to convince them of an impending race war. He would lecture them during meal times while they were on an isolated ranch, called the Spahn Ranch, that used to be used for western movies. His voice and opinion was the only things that these girls would hear. He also set up an arrangement with the owner of the ranch that his female followers would sleep with the owner as well as working on the property in lieu of paying rent.

Manson wanted to become a pop star and devoted some time to it. Some people told him that he was not a very good musician. Manson, on the other hand, believed that he was a musical genius and they just did not see it. He hooked up with Dennis Wilson (drummer and co-founder of the Beach Boys), that put him on the outside of the music scene in Los Angeles. Wilson paid for Manson's studio time so that Manson could record his music. He also allowed Manson and part of “The Family” to stay in his house for some time.

Since 1949, Manson has spent all but four years locked up; including half of his first 32 years. Him and his gang have killed an estimated 35 people, but were never tried for most of them for different reasons. Either a lack of physical evidence or the fact that most of those people involved in the killings were already convicted of murder in the LaBianca and Tate cases.

Most of the people involved in the Tate and LaBianca murders were sentenced to death, but because California abolished the death penalty the next year, all death penalties were commuted to life with parole. Manson has had twelve parole hearings, as of 2012, and has been denied each and every time. He has been eligible for parole since the late 1970s.

Leslie Van Houten and The Manson Family

Leslie Van Houten

Leslie Van Houten was born in a Los Angeles suburb, Altadena, growing up in a middle class family on August 23, 1949. She had an older brother and an adopted brother and sister that were Korean. Her parents divorced at fourteen, and had a bout of drug use (Benzedrine, LSD, and hasish) the next year. The fact that she was from a broken home and came from a middle class family, made her a perfect fit as a woman being a part of the Manson family.

Van Houten was part of a commune for a few months in 1968, at the age of nineteen, with two women and a man that broke up in the summer. She followed one of the women, Catherine Share, to Charles Manson's commune. Manson's ideas at this time were like the cultural utopianism that was circulating through the hippies at the time. They did not work, but rather freeloaded and ate out of garbage bins (which is a form of environmentalism).

While living with Manson, everything was controlled by Manson. Having sex, eating, drug use, and sleeping. They did not have the ability to wash themselves or their clothes. His was the only opinion they would hear while they stayed at a very isolated ranch (the Spahn Ranch) that was formerly used as a movie set for western movies. Whenever meals were eaten, he would lecture them constantly about his different ideas of acceptance and free love (traditional hippie ideas at the time).

By 1969, Manson's former message of peace and love would change to violence and revolution. And all they would do is listen to the White Album by the Beatles and read the Book of Revolutions. His bizarre plan to start a race war included killing Sharon Tate and all the people that were living in the house with her. Van Houten was not involved in these killings directly.

Leslie Van Houten took part in killing Rosemary and Leno LaBianca; she asked to take part in this killing after feeling left out of the killing of Sharon Tate. Sixteen of the 42 stab wounds that Rosemary had inflicted upon her were done by Leslie. Most of the stab wounds that Rosemary suffered were after she had died.

Van Houten is the woman responsible for telling the police the bulk of the information that they were able to gather on all of the killings. She told them things like who was present and took part in the Tate and LaBianca killings, as well as who showed up to the crime scene but did not take an active part in killing anyone. Through this testimony, the police were able to figure that Linda Kasabian was a crucial witness, due to the fact that she waited outside at the Tate murders and went to the LaBianca house with Steve Grogan, Susan Atkins, Manson, and Watson. She did not kill anyone, but would serve as a key witness for the prosecution.

At trial, Van Houten would fire three different lawyers on the grounds that she refused to say that her involvement with the LaBianca murders was due to Manson's hold over her. During trial, she did not seem to take the trial very seriously and would be heard giggling while people would be giving testimony. She said that she was given LSD before trial. No verdict was found. 

Van Houten was granted two re-trials. The first of which was granted because of a failure to call a mistrial after Van Houten's lawyer had passed away. Her new defense council would argue that her ability to think rationally was diminished due to her use of LSD and the influence that Manson had over her.

At her second re-trail, the prosecution added robbery to the charges to try to undermine her diminished mental capacity defense with the help of the felony murder rule. She was on bond before being found guilty and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.

In 1971, Van Houten was found guilty and given the death penalty, but the next year, California would ban the death penalty and commute all people given death penalties to life in prison. At the age of 19, she was the youngest member of the Family to be convicted and also the youngest in the state of California to be given the death penalty. She's been in prison for over forty years and had twenty parole hearings; she is still in prison. At one of these hearings, Barbara Hoyt said that Van Houten was considered a leader in the Manson family. Since being in prison, she has gotten two degrees and helps elderly inmates. 

The Russian serial Killer, The Red Ripper

The Russian serial Killer, The Red Ripper

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994)

This monster was allowed to commit his serial killings for over a decade due in large part to the fact that in the former soviet Union they had never entertained the concept of the serial killer. A sadistic killer known as the Red Ripper killer at least 53 women and children before he was captured.
Below you will read part of his long and bloody history. If you want the whole story you can find it in my ebook The Serial Killers Pure Evil volume one. His is the story of a man who should have been locked away for crimes during his younger days, but because he was not discovered then dozens would die horrible deaths later.

He was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper or The Rostov Ripper who murdered 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990. He was convicted of 52 murders in October 1992 (although he did confess to a total of 56 murders and was tried for 53 of these killings) and was executed for the murders for which he was convicted in February, 1994.
Chikatilo was known by such titles as The Rostov Ripper and the Butcher of Rostov due to the fact that a majority of his killings were committed in the Rostov Oblast of the Russian SFSR.

Early life

Andrei Chikatilo was conceived in the town of Yablochnoye (Yabluchne) in present day Sumy Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. He was conceived not long after the starvation in Ukraine created by Joseph Stalin's constrained collectivization of farming. Ukrainian ranchers were compelled to turn in their whole yield for statewide appropriation. Mass starvation ran uncontrolled all through Ukraine, and reports of human flesh consumption took off. Chikatilo's mom, Anna, let him know that his older sibling Stepan had been grabbed and eaten  by starving neighbors, despite the fact that it has never been autonomously settled whether this really happened.

Chikatilo's guardians were both homestead workers who lived in an one-room hovel. As a kid, Chikatilo slept in a bed with his mother and father. He was a perpetual bed wetter and was censured and beaten by his mom for every offense.

At the point when the Soviet Union entered World War II, his dad, Roman, was drafted into the Red Army and there after taken prisoner after being injured in battle. During the war, Chikatilo saw an impacts' portion of Blitzkrieg, which both panicked and energized him. On one event, Chikatilo and his mom were compelled to watch their hovel burn to the ground. In 1943, while Chikatilo's dad was at the front, Chikatilo's mom brought forth an infant girl. In 1949, Chikatilo's dad, who had been freed by the Americans, returned home. Rather than being rewarded for his war efforts, he was marked a coward for surrendering to the Germans.

Modest and studious as a boy, Chikatilo was an energetic peruser of Communist writing. He was likewise an objective for harassing by his peers. During youth, he found that he suffered from imptence, this exacerbating his social awkwardness and self-loathing. Chikatilo was shy in the company of females: his first sexual experience as an adolescent was the point at which he, age 17, hopped on a 11-year-old companion of his little sister and wrestled her to the ground and discharging as the young girl struggled in his grip.

In 1953, Chikatilo completed school and appllied for a a acholarshipvat the Moscow State University; despite the fact that he passed the placement test, his grades were not good enough to be accepted. Somewhere around 1957 and 1960, Chikatilo performed his mandatory military service.



 
Marriage and educating vocation

In 1963, Chikatilo wedded a lady to whom he was presented by his more youthful sister. The couple had a child a girl. Chikatilo later said that his conjugal sex life was minimal and that, after his wife noted that he was not able to keep up an erection, he and his wife concurred that he would have to discharge by hand and push his semen inside her vagina with his fingers. In 1965, their girl Ludmila was conceived, trailed by a boy, Yuri,  in 1969. In 1971, Chikatilo finished a correspondence course in Russian writing and got his degree in the subject from Rostov University.

Chikatilo started his profession as a teacher of Russian dialect and writing in Novoshakhtinsk. His profession as an instructor finished in March 1981 after a few reports from children of both sexes that they had been molested by him. Chikatilo in the end took a job as a a supply representative for a manufacturing plant.

Starting the killings

In September 1978, Chikatilo moved to Shakhty, a little coal mining town close Rostov-on-Don, where he committed his first recorded murder. On December 22, he attracted a 9-year-old young lady named Yelena Zakotnova to an old house which he had secretly acquired; he tried to rape her, but was unable to get an erection. At the point when the child fought back, he strangled her to death and cut her body, discharging during the time spent cutting the girl. Chikatilo then dumped Zakotnova's body in an adjacent stream.

In spite of evidence connecting Chikatilo to the young lady's murder (spots of the young lady's blood were found in the snow close to Chikatilo's home and a witness had given police a definite depiction of a man nearly looking like Chikatilo who she had seen chatting with Zakotnova at the transport stop where the young lady was most recently seen alive), a 25-year-old named Alexsandr Kravchenko who, as an teen, had served a correctional facility sentence for the rape and murder of a high school girl, was captured for the murder and later confessed to the crime. He was tried for the homicide in 1979. At his trial, Kravchenko withdrew his admission and professed his innocents, expressing his admission had been acquired under compelling coercion. Notwithstanding his retraction, he was indicted for the murder and sentenced to 15 years' in prison (the greatest conceivable length of detainment around then). Under great pressure from the victims relatives, Kravchenko was retried and in the end executed for the homicide of Lena Zakotnova in July, 1983.

After Zakotnova's homicide, Chikatilo wasonly able accomplish sexual arousal and climax through stabbing and slashing of his victims and he later expressed that the urge to relive the experience of killing overwhelmed him.

Chikatilo committed his next homicide in September 1981, when he attempted to engage in sexual relations with a 17-year-old named Larisa Tkachenko in a backwoods close to the Don waterway. At the point when Chikatilo could not get an erection, he became enraged and battered and choked her to death. As he had no blade, he mangled her body with his teeth and a stick.


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