Famous Serial Killers

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Serial killers are people who kill multiple people and often don’t have a real motive. They also tend to follow behavior patterns with their murders. Although Serial killers are very terrible people it is interesting to see into the life of one. These are some famous US serial killers and a small look into their lives.

Jeffery Dahmer-

Jeffery Dahmer was born in 1960 and started killing in 1978, when he was 18 years old. His childhood has been debated but most people believe he was neglected as an infant. Jeffery usually killed young, gay, black men. Jeffery Dahmer killed 17 people before a a man named Tracy Edwards escaped him, and his story led to jeffery’s arrest. Jeffery Dahmer was sentenced to 15 life sentences and he served 3 years and 4 months in prison before he was killed. Jeffery Dahmer was beaten to death by a man named Christopher Scaver who was also a prisoner.

Harold Shipman-

Harold shipman (Also known as Dr. Death) was born in January, 1946. It is estimated that he killed about 250 of his patients. He mostly killed elderly woman, and they were supposed to have died in there beds. Harold Shipman was caught after trying to forge the will of one of the patients he killed. Harold was arrested in the year 2000 and sentenced to Life in prison. He served 4 years in prison before he decided to hang himself.

H.H. Holmes-

H.H. Holmes was born in 1861 and moved to chicago in 1893 where he started outfitting a three story hotel (Later to be known as the Murder Castle). He put all kinds of things in the hotel including gas lines, secret passages and trapdoors, hallways to dead ends, chutes to the basement, soundproof padding, and torture devices put throughout a maze. Holmes used the gas to knock out his victims before bringing them to his surgical tables. He disposed of the bodys with a furnace in the basement. Despite Holmes admitting to killing 27 people he was only sentenced for the murder of his business partner Benjamin Pitezel. Holmes was executed by hanging him in 1896. It was said that he killed anywhere between 20 and 200 people.

Pedro Lopez-

Pedro Lopez (aka Monster of Andes) was born in 1948 and was said to have killed at least 110 people from 1969 to 1980. Pedro mostly killed young girls between the ages of 9 and 12 years old. Despite his terrible crimes he only served 16 years before being released for “good behavior”. Even today Pedro Lopez’s whereabouts are unknown.

Ted Bundy-

Ted Bundy was born in 1946 and loved attention for his kills. Bundy had a complicated childhood, for starters his sister was actually his mom. Although according to a article written by Ann Rule bundy had known. And it it suspected that Bundy’s grandfather had abused him psychologically and physically, although bundy later claims to have a good relationship with him. Bundy killed and raped mostly collage aged woman. Ted bundy admitted to killing 30 people even though it is believed that he killed more. One woman named Carol Deronch was able to escape from ted bundy and later identify him in a police lineup. Ted bundy was arrested during after speeding in a stolen car. Ted bundy was sentenced to death in 1979. He was in prison for 9 years before being executed via electric chair.

SOURCES:

https://www.britannica.com/list/7-of-historys-most-notorious-serial-killers

ttps://www.biography.com/crime/hh-holmes#murder-castle

https://www.biography.com/crime/ted-bundy-childhood

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/the-women-who-survived-ted-bundy

Kidnapping / Abduction Survivors

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KIDNAPPING / ABDUCTION

Do you know, every 40 seconds a child goes missing or is abducted in the United states? The most common age to get kidnapped / abducted is when you are 12-20 years old, or in middle school. Luckily, 99% of juvenile kidnapping cases were not found dead, but alive. There are many cases where the person who was kidnapped survived, these are some examples of those people.

JAYME CLOSS

Jayme Closs was kidnapped on October 15 2018, the same night her parents were shot and killed. The police followed thousands of tips and did everything they could to find her, but their efforts to find her failed. Until January 10 when Jayme Closs was found outside of a small town called Gordon, which was located about an hour away from her home. 21 year old Jake Thomas was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Jayme Closs’s parents and Jayme’s kidnapping after pleading guilty.

ELIZABETH SMART

Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when she was kidnapped by Brian David, then held captive by Brian and his wife. She was held in the woods, where she was abused and sexually assaulted for nine months. Elizabeth’s sister recognized the kidnappers voice, which led them to get a sketch of him and eventually catch the kidnapper. Brian was sentenced to life in prison while his wife was released after 15 years in September 2018.

KARA ROBINSON

Kara Robinson is a 15 year old girl who was kidnapped while she was watering her friend’s plants. Richard Evonitz came up to the house and got Kara to come closer to him by pretending to give her a flier, when she got close enough to him he held a gun to her neck and forced her to get into a container in the trunk of his car. Kara was held hostage for 18 hours, where she was repeatedly sexually assaulted. Kara waited for her captor, Richard Evonitz, to fall asleep. Then she wiggled out of her restraints and escaped through the front door where she flagged down a vehicle and got them to help her. Richard was then connected to three other murders of girls around Kara’s age, and was suspected that he would’ve killed her too. Her captor shot himself when he was cornered by the police.

KAMIYAH MOBLEY

On July 10 1998, A woman named Gloria Williams had a miscarriage. Leading her to kidnap Kamiyah Mobley, who was born only a few hours earlier. Gloria brought her back home to her husband and her other children, where she raised Kamiyah as her own. When Kamiyah was 16 she wanted to get a job, which forced Gloria to explain to her why she didn’t have a valid birth certificate and social security card. For the next year of her life they lived in hiding, until someone sent in an anonymous tip about Kamiyah. Kamiyah has a strained relationship with her biological mom, and she has made it known that she supports Gloria, who Kamiyah continued to address as “mom”.

KATIE BEERS

After Katie beers was kidnapped, on December 28 1992 two days before her tenth birthday, she terrified the nation with a phone call that was released to the public: “Aunt Linda, a man kidnapped me and has a knife, and oh no, here he comes right now,”. A family friend, John Esposito, kidnapped her and sexually abused her in a bunker located in his basement. Katie Beer’s was missing for 17 days before John led the authorities to the bunker where he kept her. He told the authorities he had made the bunker for her, but Katie Beers sees the case differently. She associated the kidnapping with “”saving her”. Before the kidnapping Katie was living with her godmother and her husband, who abused her.

These are all examples of people who survived kidnappings/Abductions and their stories. Although these people got a happy ending not every kidnapping story has a good ending. Do you know anyone who’s been kidnapped? How did their story end?

Serial Killers

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Ted Bundy, a serial killer was one of the most notorious killers in all the world. He admitted he killed 36 women but the police believe he killed many more. The way his mind worked and all serial killers minds work is abnormal and terrible. He was killed on January, 4, 1946 but although he was killed the scars of his horrifying past will always be with us.

The Mind

The mind of a serial killer is very odd and peculiar. The way they think is different from anything else that you have ever heard of. The way their minds develop into a serial killer has a lot to do with their childhood.

One sign is when the child wants to harm or does harm small animals because they are not trying to harm the animal and are more curious what the animal will do.

Another sign is head trauma. A lot of serial killers suffer from head trauma at a young age and it makes it so the child does not have empathy later in life.

Last one is that they see a lot of extreme violence at a young age and can see violence as a good way and reasonable way to resolve problems. All of these things can contribute to a child growing up to be a serial killer.

Early Life

One of the things Bundy experienced as a young boy was his mother got pregnant with him unmarried and the biological father of Ted Bundy was never known. Bundy was the mother’s secret shame and was delivered to a home of unwed mothers and then later Bundy’s mother got him and took him to her parents house and they adopted Bundy and he was raised that his mother was his sister and that his grandmother and grandfather were his parents. Later his biological mother married and he took the name Bundy from her husband. From all sides he had a content working class family growing up. He showed a very odd fascination with knives at the age three and he did well in school but not with the people around him. He was a rather strange child with a normal childhood.

The Monster He Was

Bundy was a smart person with an IQ of 136 and attended the University of Washington and there he fell in love with a girl and she had all the things he wanted including money and class but devastated by their break up a lot of the young women he killed later on resembled his old college girlfriend. Bundy admitted to killing 36 women but the FBI believes that he killed many more.

Catching Bundy

They caught Bundy in 1975 and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for kidnapping a girl named Carol DaRonch. Bundy escaped two times while he was in prison. The first time was when he was going to his murder trail and he acted as his own lawyer and when they were traveling to the courthouse library and he jumped out the window of the vehicle and was caught eight days later. The second time Bundy made a hole in the ceiling of his cell and lost over 30 pounds to fit through the small hole. He had a 15 hour head start because the police did not notice he was gone until then. In the time he was gone he killed a 12 year old girl and 2 sorority girls. They caught him eventually and he was sentenced to death and was killed in Florida’s electric chair nicknamed “Old Sparky.” When he died the prison crowds cheered and even set off fireworks after Bundy’s execution. Ted Bundy the serial killer.

The Twisted Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer

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Jeffery Dahmer was a famous serial killer around the late 70’s through the early ’90s. He was famous for the dismemberment of 17 men and boys and was a well-known sex offender. But his later murders involved necrophilia and even cannibalism. He was diagnosed with many disorders that might have made him do these terrible things like a personality disorder. Plus, Jeffrey had a weird obsession with animals and animal bones that he preserved. Also, Jeffery Dahmer didn’t have the easiest childhood, he was often overlooked as an infant and spent most of his life alone. As well as, how Jeffery was arrested. Lastly, how Jeffery Dahmer was treated in his last remaining days and his cause of death.

Disorders

He had many disorders including. Borderline personality disorder is when a person has mental illness characterized by long term unstable relationships, substance abuse, depression, and most likely have eating disorders. He also had Schizotypal personality disorder which means you have severe social anxiety and thought disorders although there are many other symptoms these are some of the main ones. People with this disorder typically have trouble building bonds or relationships and try and avoid them altogether. He also had Psychosis which is not to be confused with a psychopath, which means that his mind had difficulty determining what is real or not and might be delusional or hear things that no one else in the room hears. Psychosis can be caused by mental illnesses like bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia. Jeffery Dahmer had a lot of mental illnesses that made him think or believe the wrong things but luckily he is no longer with us and we can sleep a little easier.

Obsessions

Furthermore, Jeffrey had a weird obsession as a child that bleed into his teen years. He would find dead animals and put their dismembered parts in jars and said that he was “just curious how they fit together”. This was an easy task for him to do since his dad had a lab in the woods that looked like an old shack but had walls of dead animals in jars. Once he got bored of little animals he killed a dog and put its head in a jar and pinned its body up against a tree in the forest by the old chemistry shack.

Childhood

As Well As, Jeffrey had a ruff childhood as many serial killers do. Let’s start with his mother her name was Joyce Annette she had a lot of problems when he was a kid like, she tried to commit suicide by overdose and while he started first grade she was always in bed recovering from weakness. However, his dad Lionel Herbert Dahmer was a student at the University of Marquette, working towards a degree in chemistry. He had a chemistry shack in the woods by their house that he kept all kinds of experiments. Plus, he had a brother named David but since the incident, he changed his name and does not want to be associated with this at all.

Arrest

Further, Jeffrey was arrested for killing a man. First, he went up to a group of three men and offered them $100 for one of them to accompany him to his apartment so he could take nude photographs of them. A man named Tracy Edwards said he would. Upon entering the apartment there was a bad smell and there was boxes of hydroelectric acid that Dahmer claimed he used to wash bricks. He successfully handcuffed Edwards. Edwards got scared when Jeffrey pulled out a knife so Edwards told him if he put the knife down and took off the handcuffs he would do the photos. Dahmer agreed so Edwards unbuttoned his shirt and Dahmer put his head against his chest to listen to his heartbeat. Then he said he was going to eat Edwards’s heart then he killed him with a knife.

Prison Life and Death

In addition, Jeffery Dahmer died at age 34 in prison. Jeffrey Dahmer died in the shower room of the prison and was murdered with a metal bar. He was murdered by ‘Jesse Anderson and Christopher Scarver’ but 1 hour later Jesse Anderson was beaten with the same instrument. Jeffrey was supposed to serve a life sentence because of his murders. Christopher Scarver had more years added on to his sentence for the murders of Dahmer and Anderson.

In conclusion, Jeffery Dahmer was one of the most feared serial killers in America. And he was a cannibal to the victims he murdered. First, Jeffrey had many disorders including personality disorder. Secondly, he had a weird obsession that included roadkill. As well as, he was arrested for the murdering of Tracy Edwards. Lastly, how Jeffrey Dahmer died. Jeffrey Dahmer was a very messed up disgusting man but luckily his rain of terror was put to rest and people can sleep a little easier.