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Out of these serial killers - Which 4 are the scariest killers? (Part One)

Who's your picks?


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Richard Ramirez was the boogeyman in LA during his reign, dude was all around and victimized all types. I remember all the older kids were talking to us youngins about how the Night Stalker was gonna creep in through your window.

His victim of choice was asian women, but he'd kill anybody who got in his way.

Supposedly his uncle exposed him to brutal torture photos of soldiers dismembering female Vietnamese villagers at a young age and it messed him up for good.
 
Just let you know, there will be a Part 2 of 15 other serial killers. And could be more feel free to suggest some names if you can.

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Ted Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered a number of women and girls during the mid and late 1970s. He ultimately confessed to his crimes and was sentenced to death by electric chair. Later, the life of one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century inspired a number of books and movies.

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Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin, also known as The Chessboard Killer and The Bitsa Park Maniac, is a Russian serial killer. He is believed to have killed at least 49 people, and possibly as many as 60, between 1992 and 2006 in Southwest Moscow's Bitsa Park, where a number of the victims' bodies were found.

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Richard Leonard Kuklinski, also known as The Iceman, was an American criminal and convicted murderer. Kuklinski was engaged in criminal activities for most of his adult life; he ran a burglary ring and distributed pirated pornography. He committed at least five murders between 1980 and 1984.

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Henry Lee Lucas was an American convicted serial killer. Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983. He rose to infamy while incarcerated for these crimes when he falsely confessed to approximately 600 other murders to Texas Rangers and other law enforcement officials.

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One of America’s most notorious serial killers, Robert Hansen was called ‘The Butcher Baker’ as he owned a bakery. He is said to have killed seventeen women and raped many others in and around Anchorage, Alaska, during the 1970s and 1980s. Most of his victims were strippers and sex workers. He was sentenced to 461 years in prison in 1984.

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American serial killer, rapist, and burglar, Richard Ramirez terrorised the people of California, primarily Los Angeles, between 1984 and 1985 before being eventually captured by the police. The brutal criminal, also known as Night Stalker, was finally found guilty of 43 charges, including 13 murders and was sentenced to death. While on a death row, he died of cancer.

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English serial killer Peter Sutcliffe was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper as he was likened to the infamous unidentified serial killer, Jack the Ripper, by the press. Convicted of killing 13 women and injuring nine other, Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2000, ITV aired a crime drama miniseries based on Peter Sutcliffe's murders titled This Is Personal.

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Andrei Chikatilo, known as the “Butcher of Rostov” and the “Rostov Ripper,” was a Russian serial killer who confessed to killing 56 people, from the 1970s to the 1990s, and was sentenced to death for 52. He also sexually assaulted his victims, who were all either women or children.

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Myra Hindley was an English murderer accused of raping and killing five children aged between 10 and 17 along with her partner, Ian Brady. The killings, which were carried out between July 1963 and October 1965, were dubbed the Moors murders. The killings and its aftermath were dramatized and adapted into an award-winning TV film titled Longford.

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Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, bank robber, burglar, arsonist, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile who murdered a minimum of three victims across the United States from June 2011 to February 2012. While awaiting trial, Keyes committed suicide by hanging, and slashing his wrists.

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Zodiac Killer was an the unidentified American serial killer who spread terror in the northern California from late 1960s to early 1970s. In his letters to police and press, he claimed to have killed 37 people, out of which five were confirmed. Though he was never caught, his case inspired numerous books, films and television series including Clint Eastwood’s classic Dirty Harry.

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Karla Homolka raped and killed three minors along with her ex-husband Paul Bernardo. After their arrest, Bernardo was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Homolka served 12 years in prison following a plea bargain. Although she had claimed that she was an unwilling accomplice to the killings, a videotape that surfaced after the plea bargain suggested otherwise, resulting in public outrage.

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Japanese serial killer, rapist, and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki, better known as the Otaku Murderer or the Little Girl Murderer, kidnapped and killed four girls, from ages 4 to 7, and then dismembered the bodies and indulged in necrophilia. He was convicted in 1997 and hanged to death in 2008.

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Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, also known as La Bestia is a Colombian serial killer, pederast, rapist, child molester, and necrophile. In October 1999, he confessed to committing the rape, torture, mutilation and murder of 147 minors, predominately young men and boys in the western Colombian region.

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The Boston Strangler is the name given to the murderer of 13 women in the Boston, Massachusetts area during the early 1960s. The crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo based on his confession, details revealed in court during a separate case, and DNA evidence linking him to the final victim.

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Craig Chandler Price is an American serial killer who committed his crimes in Warwick, Rhode Island between the ages of 13 and 15. He was arrested in 1989 for four murders committed in his neighborhood: a woman and her two daughters that year, and the murder of another woman two years earlier. Craig Price is the youngest serial killer in U.S. history.

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Samuel Little was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 people, all women. He was convicted in 2014 of the murders of Carol Ilene Elford, Guadalupe Duarte Apodaca, and Audrey Nelson Everett. In 2018, he was convicted for the murder of Denise Christie Brothers.

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Frederick Walter Stephen West was an English serial killer, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, most of them with his second wife, Rose West. All the victims were young women.
Richard Ramirez
Richard Kuklinski
Ted Bundy
Zodiac Killer

There are some really good documentaries on the first three I listed available on streaming platforms. Probably one on the Zodiac Killer as well, although I don't recall seeing one. I guess the Zodiac Killer is extra scary in a sense because he was never caught. Openly taunted authorities and still got away with it.

Ted Bundy was scary in how methodical he was and how he planned and executed his escapes. He knew he'd be jumping out of the window in a higher floor in a courthouse, so he trained his legs to take falls better than he otherwise would. Even though he hurt his ankle during the fall, he was able to get away and escape for several days before being caught. And then he escaped again uninjured this time and managed to stay on the run much longer...
 
He hung around the DeMeo crew and was only a hustler/burglar. He eventually killed people and a policeman had the brilliant idea of giving him a cool nickname. He ran with it and went full Henry Lee Lucas with the stories. It makes for a cool character (I think he inspired 2 songs), but he's a fraud.

"I killed a guy with a crossbow." The records show no corpse at the morgue with arrow injuries.
"I killed DeMeo." DeMeo was killed because the cops had him dead to rights.
"I know who killed Hoffa." Do I need to that one?
 
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His victim of choice was asian women, but he'd kill anybody who got in his way.

Supposedly his uncle exposed him to brutal torture photos of soldiers dismembering female Vietnamese villagers at a young age and it messed him up for good.
I don't think that's accurate. I think the parts of L.A. and San Francisco he frequented have high Asian populations (SF especially). So yeah, he killed some Asians, but most were not Asian. The part about his uncle is accurate, but I think if he was totally focused on Asians, they would have made up at least a majority of his victims instead of being proportionally represented on his victim list with the demographics of the areas he lived in.
 
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper by Philip Sugden is, by far, the best book on Jack.

Nearly every other book that’s been written are rife with inaccuracies and the author’s pet theory on the Ripper’s identity. Sugden just collects every scrap of data (coroner’s reports, eyewitness testimony, etc…) available and presents it without opinion.

Highly recommend it to any Ripper fans out there.
 
Richard Ramirez is a top spot because (and professionally I hate hearing this especially from those without the proper clinical background) you can see it. There's nothing resembling a person in those eyes. No amount electro shock, prayer, CBD oil, cognitive therapy or whatever would ever fix whatever was going on in there.

Edmund Kemper has to be on the next go around. Imagine a 6'9" 300lb+ Ned Flanders who liked to cut girls' heads off before throat fucking them. Yeesh!
 
Out of that list, Richard Ramirez and Ted Bundy for different reasons. Ramirez because of how prolific and frequent he broke into homes in the middle of the night as if it were nothing, and Bundy because he was so intelligent yet could blend in so easily.
 
I don't think that's accurate. I think the parts of L.A. and San Francisco he frequented have high Asian populations (SF especially). So yeah, he killed some Asians, but most were not Asian. The part about his uncle is accurate, but I think if he was totally focused on Asians, they would have made up at least a majority of his victims instead of being proportionally represented on his victim list with the demographics of the areas he lived in.

The worst part about the Night Stalker was it was the 80's with no internet, and they kept reporting it on the evening news every night and showing his composite sketches in all the newspapers. But the sketches kept changing every week and no one knew what he really looked like. And nobody was safe because the guy DGAF and raped or murdered anyone regardless of age or race.

The early police sketches are below. Especially liked the one wearing boxing headgear. WTF. When they finally came out with a better one (bottom one was just a few days before he was caught), I was like, "great, I'll keep a lookout for an ambiguously hispanic dude who uses Soul Glo and looks like half the male population of Los Angeles."

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You can find her in Quebec. She lives there with her new husband and 2 kids. Apparently shes a part of school activities and volunteers some of her time as a supervisor on field trips.

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Only in Canada can someone take part in the rape and murder of multiple girls, including their own sibling and manage to go on to lead a seemingly normal life a decade later.

Yeah that's insane. Apparently she married her lawyer I believe.
 
Richard Ramirez
Richard Kuklinski
Ted Bundy
Zodiac Killer

There are some really good documentaries on the first three I listed available on streaming platforms. Probably one on the Zodiac Killer as well, although I don't recall seeing one. I guess the Zodiac Killer is extra scary in a sense because he was never caught. Openly taunted authorities and still got away with it.

Ted Bundy was scary in how methodical he was and how he planned and executed his escapes. He knew he'd be jumping out of the window in a higher floor in a courthouse, so he trained his legs to take falls better than he otherwise would. Even though he hurt his ankle during the fall, he was able to get away and escape for several days before being caught. And then he escaped again uninjured this time and managed to stay on the run much longer...

Oh thanks for sharing that, I had no idea of that story about Bundy.
 
Wasn’t Ed Gein more like a grave robber? I believe he only killed 2 people and most of his home furnishings were from stolen corpses
 

I think Wayne Gacy was just a terminal closed homosexual. If you read his bio, he was active in the city council and I think Lions Club or something like that. I don't think he got particular joy from killing but he couldn't accept he was gay nor could he stay celibate. Most of the other killers killed for the sake of killing. Gacy I think would have not been a killer had some LGBT community been available or he hadn't been afraid of being prosecuted. To him, being gay was worst than being a murder.
 
Paul John getting some love. Dude killed to become famous and that was his motivation and yet he is unknown despite having an interesting story. Kind of looks like Tyler Durden.
 
I think Wayne Gacy was just a terminal closed homosexual. If you read his bio, he was active in the city council and I think Lions Club or something like that. I don't think he got particular joy from killing but he couldn't accept he was gay nor could he stay celibate. Most of the other killers killed for the sake of killing. Gacy I think would have not been a killer had some LGBT community been available or he hadn't been afraid of being prosecuted. To him, being gay was worst than being a murder.
You don't kill that many people and get no joy out of it. He was a sick MFer gay or not.
 
You don't kill that many people and get no joy out of it. He was a sick MFer gay or not.

No. I used to read up on serial killers. He was a psychopath but in comparison to others, in my opinion, had he lived in NYC things would have been different. One odd thing is that when arrested he mentioned others working with him and later the two that he mentioned were part of a sex trafficking ring, making many wonder if Gacy was a sex trafficker and not conventional serial killer. An undercover cop picked up a conversation between these two and Gacy at a bar where Gacy told them "You owe me", and the other guy responded "or what. You'll bury me like the other five". That makes me wonder if the cops buried this so as to not ruin their investigation into the sex trafficking ring. Investigators on some of the murders concluded their were likely others involved.
 
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