Stories about serial killers are always attracted by their savagery and realism. Who are they, the most cruel criminals, on whose common account is not one hundred innocent victims?
Alas, none of the programs can explain why the maniacs went for crimes. What pushed to commit murder with sophisticated cruelty, will forever remain a mystery. We have prepared for you a list of the 25 most cruel serial killers of our time. Sure, the facts listed below, you are deeply shocked!
1. David Berkowitz
He is called the Son of Sam or a 44-caliber assassin. In 1976, with the help of a bulldog revolver, he shot six people and severely wounded seven others. Berkovits sent several letters to the police with bullying and promises to continue to kill. Residents of New York lived in fear, until in 1977, David was not caught. Maniac confessed to the deed, and he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for every murder. It is unlikely that he will ever see freedom.
2. Edmund Camper
Killer and necrophilia, who committed a series of crimes in California in the 70's. At the age of 15 he killed his grandfather and grandmother, and after dismembering six girls hitchhiking on Santa Cruz. Soon after, Edmund killed his own mother and comrade, and a few days later he came to the police. In November 1973, he was found guilty of 8 murders. Camper asked for the death penalty, but instead he was given a life sentence without parole.
3. Larry Bittaker and Roy Norris
This couple killed five women in California in 1979. Bittaker and Norris lured the victims into the van, drove them away, raped, badly tortured and then they were killed. In 1981, they were charged with kidnapping and rape. Bittaker was sentenced to death, but he still sits on death row. Norris managed to escape. For this he had to testify against his partner. In exchange for honesty, he received only 45 years in prison.
4. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
From 1963 to 1965, they killed five children in Manchester, United Kingdom. Their victims were from 10 to 17 years old. Before the death, the children were raped. Three victims were found buried in graves in Saddlworth-Maura, another child was found in Brady's house. Where the body of Kate Bennet, the fifth victim, is unknown until now. The murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment. Hindley died in prison in 2002, after which Brady was transferred to the Ashworth hospital.
5. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono
They wielded in California from 1977 to early 1978. Cousins managed to steal 10 girls aged 12 to 28 years. Each of his victims, the maniacs were choked in the hills above Los Angeles. They were called "predatory stranglers." Bianchi tried to deny the deed, referring to his unbalanced psyche, but he was recognized as sane. Then he gave testimony against Buono. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment. Buono died in the cell in 2002.
6. Dennis Rader
He killed 10 people in the county of Sedgwick, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Rader admired his fame and wrote letters to the police, signing a certain BTK. Dennis pursued the victims before they penetrated their homes. Afterwards, he tied them and strangled them. In 1988, Rayder disappeared, but in 2005 he appeared again. Maniac sent a diskette to the editor, which led to his fiasco. The sender of the diskette managed to track down, Rader was arrested and charged. The murderer confessed to the crimes and is now serving 10 life sentences. So before February 26, 2180, at liberty, you can not wait.
7. Donald Henry Gaskins
He began to kill in 1969. His victims were people hitchhiking in the south of America. Gaskins claimed that he killed 80-90 people. Arrested him in 1975, when an enlisted criminal told the police that he personally witnessed the murder - then Gaskins killed a couple of young people. He was convicted of 8 murders and sentenced to death. Subsequently, the sentence was commuted to life without the right of parole. What's creepy, even being in prison, Donald continued to kill. His victim was one of the prisoners. After this crime Gaskins became the first who managed to be killed on death row.
8. Peter Manuel
An American with Scottish roots killed 9 people between 1956 and 1958. But the police suspects him of killing 18 people. It was not possible to prove the guilt for a long time. But Peter confessed to perfect after seeing his mother. Manuel was hanged in Glasgow prison in July 1958. He became one of the last prisoners hanged in Scotland. Soon, the death penalty in the country was canceled.
9. John George Haye
He was in the 1940s. He was convicted of killing 6 people, although John himself claimed that he stripped the life of the 9th. Hey managed to charm his victims, posing as a wealthy businessman. All the unfortunate John lured to the warehouse, and after shooting and dissolving corpses in acid. In this case, every victim before his death, he asked to rewrite all the property and savings. Although the remains of the dead were not found, evidence of Hay's guilt is enough. In 1949, he was sentenced to death by hanging in Wandsworth prison.
10. Fred and Rose West
From 1967 to 1987, the spouses of Westa tortured, raped and killed young women and girls. On their conscience - a minimum of 11 victims. In 1994, the couple finally managed to detain after the police finally received a search warrant for their home and found several human bones in the garden. During the trial, Frank hanged himself, and Rose, after confessing 10 murders, was sentenced to life.
11. Arthur Shawcross
For the first time he was killed in 1972. His victim was a 10-year-old boy. The maniac raped and killed the child, and threw the body in the forest belt. The next victim was an 8-year-old girl. Soon after this murder, Arthur was captured and imprisoned for an unintentional murder. After 14 years of freedom, the man did not even think of repenting. On the contrary, he killed 12 prostitutes between the ages of 22 and 59 years. During the last murder, Shawcross was caught and sentenced to 250 years in prison. Maniac died behind bars in 2008 as a result of cardiac arrest.
12. Peter Sutcliffe
In 1981 he was found guilty of 13 murders of women, another 7 of his victims managed to survive. Peter exterminated prostitutes in Leeds. Sutcliffe was arrested for driving cars with fake numbers. The police began to question him, and the man confessed to all the murders. And although at the trial he denied his guilt, Arthur was sentenced to life imprisonment. To this day, he is in a psychiatric hospital.
13. Richard Ramirez
He was a Satanist and terrorized Los Angeles between 1984 and 1985. He was nicknamed the Night Stalker. Ramirez broke into the houses of the victims, shot, cut and utterly disfigured them. Richard did not care who to kill. He equally cold-bloodedly dealt with both children and the elderly. At the crime scene, Ramirez left pentagram drawings. In 1985, he was seized and sentenced to death. On a death row, he lived until 2013, until he died of complications of lymphoma.
14. Jeffrey Dahmer
The American serial killer and sexual homosexual maniac raped, killed and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Over many of his victims he committed acts of necrophilia, and after dismembering their bodies. Caught Dahmer after one of the victims managed to fight off him. In 1992, Jeffrey was convicted of 15 murders for 15 lifetime sentences. But after 2 years a maniac beat to death a cellmate.
15. Dennis Nielsen
"British Jeffrey Dahmer" is a homosexual killer who killed 15 gay men from 1978 to 1983. His victims, he dismembered, and then burned or drowned the remains in the toilet. For the fact that in his sewerage found human flesh, Dennis and seized. In 1983, he was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of early release.
16. Ted Bundy
One of the most famous maniacs of the 20th century. He abducted, raped and killed women and girls. Bundy's victims were taken to abandoned areas and beheaded after an act of violence. He managed to escape from the police twice, but in the end in 1989 he was executed in an electric chair.
17. Charles Ng and Leonard Lake
They tortured and killed the victims at a ranch in the Calaveras district. On their conscience from 11 to 25 lives. The crimes were revealed in 1985, when Lake committed suicide after his arrest. Nig caught in the store. The police searched the ranch and found human remains. After a lengthy examination, Ng was found guilty and sentenced to death. At the moment he is on death row.
18. John Wayne Gacy
He outraged 33 boys and boys. Manuik was instrumental in 1972 - 1978 in Illinois. He lured the victims into the house, promising to help with work or money. Before killing the unfortunate strangled a tourniquet. Victims of Gacy buried in the basement, and when the place was finished - drowned. He was convicted of 33 murders. The penalty is the death penalty. After 14 years on death row, Gacy was killed by the introduction of lethal injections.
19. Andrei Chikatilo
Soviet serial killer, who was called the Rostov butcher. He raped and killed about 52 women and children in Russia from 1978 to 1990. When he was caught, Chikatilo confessed to 56 crimes, for 53 of which he was convicted. Relatives of the victims prayed for release, and they could deal with the maniac on their own. But in 1992 he was sentenced to death, which was put into effect in 1994.
20. Tommy Linn Cells
He convinces that he killed about 70 people, for which he is considered one of the most dangerous criminals of Texas. One of his victims - a 13-year-old girl - Tommy 16 times hit with a knife. Despite the wounds, the victim managed to survive and described the criminal to the police. Soells was found, arrested and put on death row in a strict-security prison in Livingston.
21. Gary Ridgway
He was caught in 2001 for four murders, but later Ridgway confessed to having at least 70 other victims on his conscience. He managed to avoid the death penalty through cooperation with the police - Gary showed the burial place of the dead. He threw the five unfortunates into the river. Condemned a maniac for 49 murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
22. Pedro Rodriguez Filho
For the murder of at least 71 people, he was sentenced to 128 years in prison (although the Brazilian criminal code forbids keeping a criminal behind bars for more than 30 years). He committed the first crime at the age of 14. At 18 in his "track record" was added another 10 people. Filho was imprisoned, and he killed his father. And then another 47 prisoners. After Pedro stayed behind bars for 34 years, in 2007 he was released, but in 2011 they again put him in prison.
23. Daniel Camargo of Barbosa
It is believed that he raped and killed about 150 girls in Colombia and Ecuadoro in the 1970s and 80s. Barbosa confessed to killing 72 girls. After he was arrested in Quito, the maniac showed the guards the order of the graves of his victims, whose identities had not yet been established. In 1989, he was sentenced to maximum punishment, and in November 1994, a cousin of one of the victims killed Barbosa in prison.
24. Dr. Harold Shipman
This is one of the most terrible maniacs in Britain. He was proven to be involved in 250 murders. As a doctor, he was considered a respected person. Only when the number of cremations began to grow rapidly, the society was worried. As it turned out later, Shipman specifically injected his elderly patients with poison into the blood. After several successful murders, he began to force the victims to rewrite the inheritance. The judge sentenced the doctor to 15 life sentences. In 2004, he hanged himself.
25. Pedro Alonso Lopez
He killed more than 300 girls in South America. Pedro lured the victims in a secluded place and killed them. Lopez got caught during another attack, which failed. The police did not believe that he killed 300 people until he saw a mass grave. In one grave there were 53 bodies. In 1980, he was imprisoned for 18 years, and then deported to Colombia and arrested again for life.