Documentaries - Serial Killers
Description:
A serial killer is someone who murders three or
more people with a 'cooling off' period between
each murder, whose motivation for killing is
largely for psychological gratification. All
serial killers suffer from some form of Antisocial
Personality Disorder but rarely psychopathy. They
are usually not psychotic, and thus appear to be
quite normal and often even charming, a state of
adaptation which Hervey Cleckley calls the
"mask of sanity." There is sometimes a
sexual element to the murders. The murders may
have been completed/attempted in a similar fashion
and the victims may have had something in common,
for example occupation, race, sex, etc. Also, the
victims of a serial killing generally belong to
the same race as the killer.
The term serial killer is widely believed to have
been coined either by FBI agent Robert Ressler or
by Dr. Robert D. Keppel in the 1970s (the credit
for the term is disputed). Serial killer entered
the popular vernacular in large part due to the
well-publicized crimes of Ted Bundy and David
Berkowitz in the middle years of that decade.
These 10 videos are a glimpse into the lives of
the most prolific serial killers of all time.
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#1 - John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994)
also known as The Killer Clown, 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." He was also in the Guinness Book of
World Records for the longest sentence imposed on
a mass murderer; he was given 21 consecutive life
sentences and 12 death sentences.
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#2 - Jeffry Dahmer
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 Γ??
November 28, 1994) was an American serial
killer.
Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and
1991, with the majority of the murders occurring
between 1989 and 1991. His murders were
particularly gruesome, involving rape, necrophilia
and cannibalism.
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#3 - Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy (November 24, 1946 Γ?? January 24,
1989) was an American serial killer. Bundy
murdered scores of young women across the United
States between 1974 and 1978. After more than a
decade of vigorous denials, Bundy eventually
confessed to 29 murders, although the actual total
of victims remains unknown. Estimates range from
29 to over 100. Typically, Bundy would bludgeon
his victims, strangulating them to death. He also
engaged in rape by necrophilia.
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#4 - Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 Γ??
July 26, 1984) was a notorious American killer.
Though only two murders on his part were proven,
he gained great infamy due to necrophiliac
behavior (which involved the skinning of his
murder victims and exhumed corpses, the decoration
of his home with parts of corpses, and the
creation of articles of clothing and furniture
from the skin of corpses). Although he is
considered to have engaged in necrophiliac
behavior, there is no significant evidence to
prove that he engaged in sex with the corpses.
Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under
mysterious circumstances, six people disappeared
from the Wisconsin towns of La Crosse and
Plainfield between 1947 and 1957.
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#5 - Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Carol Wuornos (born Aileen Carol Pittman)
(February 29, 1956 Γ?? October 9, 2002) was
an American serial killer who was convicted and
sentenced to death by the state of Florida in
1992. She ultimately received five additional
death sentences. Wuornos admitted to killing seven
men in separate incidents, all of whom she claimed
raped her (or attempted to) while she was working
as a prostitute. She was put to death via lethal
injection on October 9, 2002.
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#6 - Gary Ridgeway
Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949), known
as the Green River Killer, is one of the most
prolific serial killers in American history. On
November 30, 2001, as he was leaving a Renton,
Washington factory where he worked, he was
arrested for the murders of seven women whose
deaths were attributed to the "Green River
Killer". Four murders were linked to him
through DNA and three through paint he used at his
job. Two years later he pleaded guilty to 48
counts of aggravated murder, although the
estimates run much higher. Ridgway has been
married three times and has one son. He carried
his son's photo in his wallet to lure most of his
victims into his pickup truck.
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#7 - Dennis Rader
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an
American serial killer who murdered 10 people in
Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas,
between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK
killer (or the BTK strangler), which stands for
Bind, Torture and Kill, which describes his modus
operandi. Letters were written soon after the
killings to police and to local news outlets,
boasting of the crimes and knowledge of details.
After a long hiatus these letters resumed in 2004,
leading to his arrest in 2005 and subsequent
conviction.
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#8 - Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 Γ?? March
13, 2001) was an American criminal, convicted of
murder and once listed as America's most prolific
serial killer. However, he later recanted his
confessions. He once flatly stated "I am not a
serial killer" in a letter to researcher Brad
Shellady.
Lucas confessed to involvement in about 3,000
murders, an average of about one murder per day
between his release from prison in mid-1975 to his
arrest in mid-1983. A more widely circulated total
of about 350 murders committed by Lucas is based
on confessions deemed "believable" by a
Texas-based "Lucas Task Force," a group
which was criticized by Texas Attorney General Jim
Mattox for sloppy police work and taking part in
an extended "hoax".
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#9 - David Berkowitz
David Richard Berkowitz (born June 1, 1953), also
known as the .44 Caliber Killer and the Son of
Sam, is an American serial killer.
Shortly after his arrest in 1977, Berkowitz
confessed to killing six people and wounding seven
others in the course of eight shootings in New
York City between 1976 and 1977. He has been
imprisoned for the crimes since 1977. The crimes
had terrorized New York for a year. Berkowitz
subsequently claimed that a neighbor's dog was
possessed by a demon that commanded Berkowitz to
kill.
Berkowitz later amended his confession to claim he
was the shooter in only two incidents, personally
killing three people and wounding a fourth. The
other victims were killed, Berkowitz claimed, by
members of a violent Satanic cult of which he was
a member. Though he remains the only person
charged with or convicted of the shootings, some
law enforcement authorities argue that Berkowitz's
claims are credible: according to John Hockenberry
of MSNBC, many officials involved in the original
"Son of Sam" case suspected that more than
one person was perpetrating the murders.
Hockenberry also reports that the Son of Sam case
was reopened in 1996 and, as of 2004, it was still
considered open.
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#10 - Albert Desalvo
Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 Γ??
November 25, 1973) was a criminal in Boston,
Massachusetts, United States who confessed to
being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer
of 13 women in the Boston area. His confession has
been disputed, and debate continues regarding
which crimes DeSalvo actually committed.
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