“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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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.
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.
"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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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
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.
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. To read the rest of his story you can find it in my ebook at most major online retailers, coming soon to Amazon kindle. Please take a moment to bookmark this blog and if you would like to trade a review for a free copy of my book all that you have to do is leave a comment requesting a copy and I will sens you a PDF version of the book in exchange for a review at any of the major retail sites or on your facebook.
The serial killer Ed Gein has been the inspiration behind three of the most well know motion picture serial killers of all time and most of you are completely unaware of this fact. Ed Gein shocked the world with his crimes and went on first to inspirer Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock to create the greatest thriller of all time, Psycho. The character of Norman Bates was based upon Ed Gein and his crimes.
Almost fifteen years later a new generation of film goers were introduced to the character known as Leatherface in the movie the Chainsaw Massacre. This character butchers women with the goal of making a new body composed of human flesh.
Sixteen years later the world is introduced to Buffalo Bill in the best picture winner The Silence of the lambs. This character has killed a series of women so that he can again take their flesh so that he can inhabit it.
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John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) This is an excerpt from my book. The chapter is on the serial killer known as the killer clown due to the fact that he worked part time as a clown for children’s parties. If you would like a free copy of my book in exchange for giving it a far review state in the comment box below that you would like to trade a review for a copy and I will send you a PDF version of the complete book.
John Wayne Gacy - From The Serial Killers Pure Evil Volume One. Gaci was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men between 1972 and his arrest in 1978, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, under the name of "Pogo the Clown". Early life John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, the second of three children, to John Wayne Gacy, Sr. (June 20, 1900 – December 25, 1965), a machinist, and Marion Elaine Robinson (May 4, 1908 – December 14, 1989). Cook County marriage records provide his mother's name as Marion E. Robertson. He was of Polish and Danish heritage. He had a troubled relationship with his father, an alcoholic who abused him and called him a "sissy". He was close to his sisters and mother, who affectionately called him "Johnny". When Gacy was 11, he was struck on the forehead by a swing. The resulting head trauma formed a blood clot in his brain that went unnoticed until he was 16, when he began to suffer blackouts. He was prescribed medication to dissolve the clot. After attending four high schools, Gacy dropped out before completing his senior year and left his family, heading west. After running out of money in Las Vegas, Nevada, he worked long enough to earn money to travel back home to Chicago. Without returning to high school, he enrolled in and eventually graduated from Northwestern Business College. A management trainee position with the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company followed shortly after graduation, and in 1964, Gacy was transferred to Springfield, Illinois. There he met coworker Marlynn Myers, and they married in September 1964. He became active in local Springfield organizations, joining the Jaycees and rising to vice-president of the Springfield chapter by 1965. Marlynn's parents, who had purchased a group of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchises, offered Gacy a job as manager of a Waterloo, Iowa KFC, and the Gacy's moved there from Springfield. Imprisonment, divorce, parole The Gacy's settled in Waterloo and had two children, a son and a daughter. Gacy worked hard at his KFC franchise but still found time to again join the Jaycees.[13] Rumors of Gacy's homosexuality began to spread but did not stop him from being named "outstanding vice-president" of the Waterloo Jaycees in 1967.[14] However, there was a seamier side of Jaycee life in Waterloo, one that involved prostitution, pornography, and drugs, in which Gacy was deeply involved. Gacy was cheating on his wife regularly. At the same time, Gacy opened a "club" in his basement for the young boys of Waterloo, where he allowed them to drink alcohol and made sexual advances towards them. Gacy's middle class idyll in Waterloo came crashing down in March 1968 when two Waterloo boys, aged 16 and 15, accused him of sexually assaulting them. Gacy professed his innocence and it appeared he might beat the charges, but in August of that year he hired another Waterloo youth to beat up one of his accusers. The youth was caught and confessed all, and Gacy was arrested. Before the year was out, he was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to 10 years in the Iowa State Penitentiary. Gacy's imprisonment was rapidly followed by his wife's petition for divorce, which was final in 1969. He never saw his children again. During his incarceration, Gacy's father died from cirrhosis, on Christmas Day 1969. He was paroled in 1970, after serving 18 months. After Gacy was released, he moved back to Illinois to live with his mother. He successfully hid this criminal record until police began investigating him for his later murders. Businessman and political activist Gacy moved in with his mother and got a job as a chef in a Chicago restaurant. In 1971, with his mother's financial assistance, he bought a house at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, in an unincorporated area of Norwood Park Township, Cook County, which is surrounded by the northwest side Chicago neighborhood of Norwood Park. The house had a four-foot deep crawl space under the floor. On February 12, 1971, Gacy was charged with disorderly conduct; a teenaged boy claimed that Gacy picked him up and tried to force him into sex. The complaint was dropped when the boy did not appear in court. The Iowa Board of Parole did not learn of this, and Gacy was discharged from parole in October 1971. On June 22, 1972, Gacy was arrested again and charged with battery after another young man said that Gacy flashed a sheriff's badge, lured him into Gacy's car, and forced him into sex. Again charges were dropped. In June 1972, Gacy married Carole Hoff, an acquaintance from his teenage years. Hoff and her two daughters moved into the Summerdale Avenue house. In 1975, Gacy started his own business, PDM Contractors, a construction company. At the same time, his marriage began to deteriorate. The Gacy's' sex life came to a halt, and John Gacy would go out late and stay out all night. Carole Gacy found wallets with IDs from young men lying around. John Gacy began bringing gay pornography into the house. The Gacys divorced in March 1976. Gacy became active in the local Democratic Party, first volunteering to clean the party offices. In 1975 and 1976, he served on the Norwood Park Township street lighting committee. He eventually earned the title of precinct captain. In this capacity, he met and was photographed with First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who was in town for the annual Polish Constitution Day Parade, held on May 6, 1978. Gacy was directing the parade that year, for the third year in a row. Carter posed for pictures with Gacy and autographed the photo "To John Gacy. Best Wishes. Rosalynn Carter". In the picture, Gacy is wearing an "S" pin, indicating a person who has received special clearance by the United States Secret Service. During the search of Gacy's house after his arrest, this photo caused a major embarrassment to the Secret Service.
This is an excerpt from my new ebook The Serial Killers volume one Pure Evil. This is from the chapter on the serial killer Ed Gein. He was the inspiration for the movie Psycho. Also Buffalo Bill in the Silence of the Lambs and Leatherface in the Chainsaw Massacre. This almost forgotten killer inspired some of the world's most famous movie villains and this is part of his story.
BIOGRAPHY:
Ed
Gein’s family consisted of his parents, namely, George Gein and
Augusta and his only sibling, his brother named Henry George Gein.
George, his father was an alcoholic and never supportive. Augusta
worked at her farm in Plainfield, where they soon started living.
The
two brothers were always kept isolated and rarely had social
interactions. They worked in the farm with their mother and she was
the one who actually groomed them. Augusta had, from the very start,
taught her boys that the world is a bad place, surrounded by evil
beings and all females were prostitutes, symbols of the devil. She
used to teach them the bible with more emphasis on the verses about
death, murder and similar topics.
The
two boys were being abused by their mother for being similar to their
father, who according to her was a completely useless creature. Henry
soon realized the wrong thoughts of his mother and tried to explain
the same to Ed, being disturbed by his attachment to her. In 1940,
George died of cardiac arrest and the two boys had to work to earn a
living.
TRAGIC
CLOSE DEATHS:
In
1944, due to an accidental fire Gein lost his brother. The police
suspected it as a murder due to some odd proofs but soon the case was
closed declaring asphyxiation as the cause of death. Soon after, in
December 1945, Ed had to bear the pain of his mother’s demise which
was due to strokes. This death was the life turner as Ed was left
alone in this world.
TRANSFORMATION:
Edward
had sealed all of the rooms of his house except the ground floor
living room and the kitchen. Ed spent most of his time alone in the
farmhouse reading about female anatomy and sexual practices. The Nazi
camps’ human experiments attracted him too. Soon, he started the
practice of digging out the dead bodies from the graves for
experimentation.
The
practice continued for long till the time when Gein started to change
himself to turn into a woman. He made items from the body or skin
that he later wore to feel like a female. He made a complete female
costume of this sort.
Gein
started craving for fresher samples and began to search for it. On
December 8, 1954 Ed killed Mary Hogan, a lady who owned a tavern. The
police couldn’t find out the cause and failed to solve the case. On
November 16, 1957, Bernice Worden, Plainfield hardware store owner
went missing when her son suspected Gein , as he was the one in the
store that evening.
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Despite what you have seen in some films and far too many television shows serial killers are not heroic figures. They do not sparkle and glitter like vampires in the movie Twillight. Serial killers are mean and nasty creatures that usually resemble actual human beings at the surface level only. You see what most of these evil men and women have in common is a total lack of the positive human emotions.
You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience. - Richard Ramirez
Serial killers are not driven by a need to impress you with their vocabulary or their cooking skills. Although some of them actually do have British accents and a few are attractive even by Hollywood standards.
Also we must understand that despite what the politically correct would want you be believe they come in all shapes, sizes, genders and races. The serial murderer could look like anyone at all. They range in age from teen to senior citizen. Some of them are ice cold killing machines while others hide a ragging kill machine behind eyes that are constantly searching for their next victim whom when found they will torture and brutalize before killing.
I believe that the best line ever spoken by an onscreen serial killer is from the brutal film The Devil’s Rejects. “I am here to do the devil’s work.”
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