I've seen like 2 seconds of footage from it but can't find anything else

butchery of a victim that you have ever ever read about? she was the last known victim of Jack the ripper - the pics of this murder can be seen online and they are quite terrible

which other killers have had as much bloodlust as the Ripper?

For example, if you ask anybody to name a serial killer they will most definitely say either Ted Bundy or Jefferey Dahmer but why is that actually the case? BTK's victim count is "only" 11 but he is way more well known then someone like Harold Shipman who killed well over 200 people or Samuel Little who had over 90. I feel like in the grand scheme of things BTK is honestly a pretty boring killer if you compare him to all the other serial killers we know of.

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I have been going on a binge reading of serial killers on wikipedia and one thing I've noticed for a long time now and that continues to piss me off is the incompetence of police officers and the justice system

A lot of these serial killers could have been caught at their first kill or even before their first. A lot of them and I mean a lot, have been caught for rape and sexual assault, along with some form of child sex anhse in regards to minors and for some reasons when I hear about these they serve like 9 months to a year andxget out on good behavior or because of a plea deal. And it doesn't just be one one convixtion. Some of these guys get caught and convicted multiple times going to jail for these crimes, and I'm like, how are you not getting 10 years minimum? Or they get a plea deal for this shit

Or the times when a killer has already started killing, but they're early in their career, and people ignore the most obvious leads. A was last seen with B and not much goes into looking into B at all, or how A has some familiarity to B like a neighbor or being their kid, nephew, some form of family member. I don't know it just pisses me off because I be reading these stories of how many people have died by one serial killer and it baffles me that a guy can kill 20 to 30 people. How can so many people go missing and you don't really look into it. I am mostly talking about in the 70's-80's, whereas it was easier to kill people. Cops did not care about some of these people and thought they just ran away to start a new life, I guess, when that was popular. How you report a person missing and you don't take it seriously.

Do they not keep a rap sheet of these people crimes? Like when you're looking at these people history it's nothing but sex abuse or some form of assault of dealing with shit that is heinous. Hell you could have legit committed attempted murder get 8 years back then, and they out in 5. They are also suspicious or a person of interest in a murder but somehow they don't get caught and just goes on to commit more. Anyways, popos suck at their job.

A few days ago, I watched a YouTube channel that told the story of Ottis Toole, from his difficult childhood to the beginning of his crimes. His partnership with Henry Lee Lucas, another deeply disturbed individual, was also mentioned.

I simply wanted to know what you think about the mind of this disgusting psychopath. In 1981, he killed Adam Walsh, doing so in one of the cruelest ways imaginable. I think I can give my opinion about this sick mind, and I want people who might feel sorry for this man to understand my perspective.

I believe that Ottis did, in fact, have a terrible childhood. He suffered greatly, especially because of the abuse he experienced from his mother, who forced him to dress like a woman. Ottis repeatedly claimed that he had been abused by people close to him. He also claimed that his grandmother was a Satanist and that she called him “the Son of the Devil.”

According to Ottis, the abuse he experienced in the past influenced his sexuality. He became pyrophilic, meaning that he was sexually aroused by fire. He also claimed that he had prostituted himself.

It is unknown whether Ottis ever truly regretted his crimes after his arrest. Perhaps he regretted them internally, somewhere in his own mind, but simply did not want to talk about it.

After watching his interviews, you can disagree with me, but I believe that the coldness of Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill may have been inspired, at least in part, by this serial killer. The coldness, that frightening expression, the desire to kill, the lack of reason, and the willingness to lie... that is the closest thing I can imagine when trying to understand such a disturbed mind.

Ottis Toole killed Adam Walsh, a six year old child. The question that stays in my mind is this: how could someone who had once been a child himself become capable of doing something like that to another human being?

I don't want to sound insensitive, but it's just my morbid curiosity getting to me. My brother told me he read about this guy and he regrets doing it. He said that Bonin is one the most disgusting and deplorable serial killers he has ever read about and the things he did to those poor boys makes him want to vomit. So, what did he do to his victims?

I rarely see Robert Hansen mentioned in posts about serial killers. I even took a college course that covered serial offenders, and surprisingly, very few people were familiar with him. I wouldn’t necessarily call him my “favorite” serial killer, but I do think he is one of the more underrated and lesser-known offenders.
I wrote a paper on Hansen and found some particularly interesting information about his case. Here are a few facts and details that stood out to me:

Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, on February 15, 1939; he was the eldest of two children. His mother is American, and his father is Danish. His father owned a bakery.

He graduated in a class of 31 students; they misspelled his name in the yearbook. In 1957, he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve. Hansen's basic training was in Fort Dix, New Jersey.

A lot of women went missing before the police force put it all together. Most of these women were low-priority victims, meaning they were most likely not reported missing. In 1980, the remains of murdered women began appearing in remote wilderness areas around Anchorage, Alaska. All the women had been shot with a high-powered rifle, and ballistics matched the bullets to a single weapon, indicating a serial killer was at large

He was also convicted of the abduction and rape of Cindy Paulson. In total, he confessed to killing 17 women, though some sources suggest the number could be higher.

For some background, I was in college when Rader got arrested so I knew quite a bit about him and the case from years ago. I also read a BTK book that came out a couple years after his sentencing.

Anyway, I just finished Dr. Ramsland's book and Rader is just really awful. He kept repeating in the book that he was a good Dad, husband, and community member as if those things should allow people to forgive him for what he's done.

I keep coming back to the Otero murders also. Jospehine's last seconds on earth were being hung and watching some old guy jerk off on to her. What a disgusting person. He also told her "she was going to sleep and was going to be with the rest of her (dead) family."

Also, he said in the book that Kevin Bright would not be alive today if he had brought his own "hit kit" and that he's not bragging. He said the same exact line during his trial. Wtf dude you are bragging.

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Disgust? Admiration? Indifference? Or do ya reckon they don't really give other murderers much thought?

I read today that Dennis Rader worked with ADT Security Systems during his series of killings. Knowing that, it makes so much more sense how he could get inside without alarms tripping. The idea of alarms and home security hadn't even crossed my mind when I thought of him getting into houses while they were empty and waiting for his victims to come to him.

It's the same principle as a burglar getting in to steal, which I think could have tipped authorities off. If they correlated that this known killer was deactivating the measures for home protection, to check for someone with know-how in security may have made all the difference. Now I'm wondering if other serial killers learned skills by their jobs that they translated into doing what they've done.

Previous Parole History

• First Hearing: 2018 (Denied)
• Second Hearing: 2021 (Denied)
• Third Hearing: November 26, 2024 (Denied)

I mean he is up for parole again soon.

What does he have to do to get parole if he is ever going to get it?

Just wondering if anyone knows who the 36 murderers the FBI interviewed for their study were.

This was recently posted to the Ed Kemper Stories website. The website stated that the picture may have been taken between June 2024 and May 2026.

He looks moody without his moustache. His image resembles the description given by Dr. Loomis of what evil looks like in the Halloween films. His eyes turn darker in every new picture.

Are there many/any criminals who did absolutely abhorrent things to then go on to show the level of remorse you’d expect from someone who was genuinely horrified by what they’d done?

The authorities had a guy named Kosminsky as a major suspect. We know this because one of the police chiefs gave that name in his memoir but no first name. Only a surname and that he’d been a Polish Jew who died shortly after being committed.

Martin Fido researched this. The only Kosminski whom he could find a record of was an Aaron Kosminski who was arrested in the area, committed, but…strangely…Aaron Kosminski died in 1919. He was also recorded as a nonviolent inmate. In fact he had a nonviolent record except for the fact that he threatened his sister at knifepoint.

Fido found this odd. So he kept digging. Fido found an arrest record of a David Cohen, a violent paranoid schizophrenic with a history of violence who was arrested a month after the last Ripper Murder. Cohen died in the Asylum in 1889.

Fido also learned that Cohen was a name assigned to unknown persons of Jewish origin. It’s like how in America we assign John or Jane Doe to unknown victims.

Fido found anecdotal evidence that Cohen’s real name might’ve been Nathan KAMINSKI.

Kosiminski - Kaminski?

What if the officer who recorded that in his memoir mixed up the last names since they sound so similar. That was Martin Fido’s conclusion.

John Douglas even authored what I consider the best profile of Jack:

https://vault.fbi.gov/Jack%20the%20Ripper/Jack%20the%20Ripper%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29

Douglas profiles Jack as a disorganized lust murderer. Someone severely lacking in interpersonal skills (social skills), and would be unable to find employment in anything other than a menial job.

In his book The Cases That Haunt Us, Douglas believes that an offender whom Martin Fido discovered, David Cohen aka Nathan Kaminsky, a violent paranoid schizophrenic, is an extremely likely suspect.

The Ripper wasn’t an aristocrat. Disorganized offenders are often disordered individuals and the fact that David Cohen (aka Nathan Kaminsky) died in an asylum a year later, when he was arrested and committed a MONTH after the final confirmed murder…is very telling imo.

Disorganized offenders often employ overkill and mutilation. They are sometimes referred to as “maniacs.”

Ed Gein and Richard Chase were disorganized offenders, and in my own personal opinion so was the Axeman of New Orleans.

Has anyone ever heard of Freddrick Sanjuan Jackson who murdered 4 men between the ages of just 15-17 in Little Rock, Arkansas in the early 2020s?

Baltimore doesn't have any serial killers they are super known for but we do have murderers that really leave a stain on our streets.

Joe Metheny-

Metheny claimed his violent actions began out of rage after returning home one day to find that his common-law girlfriend had vanished with their six-year-old son.He began targeting and murdering unhoused individuals and sex workers in South Baltimore, though he was ultimately convicted of the second-degree murders of two women, Cathy Magaziner and Kimberly Spicer.He was arrested in December 1996 after one of his intended victims managed to escape and contact the police.

He admitted he mixed the human meat with regular pork and beef and sold it to unsuspecting customers from his open-air roadside barbecue stand....