Most Psychotic Killers in History:
Joachim Kroll:
Nicknames: The Ruhr Cannibal, The Ruhr Hunter, The Duisburg Man-Eater
When It Happened: 1955-1976
Number of Victims: 14
Punishment: Life Imprisonment
How He Did It: Kroll confessed to 14 murders, saying that he often sliced off portions of his victims' flesh so that he could later cook and eat them in order to save money on groceries. He was caught in 1976 in the process of doing so to his most recent victim; when police entered his home, a hand was cooking in a pot of boiling water, and the victims' internal organs had clogged the waste-pipe.
Ted Bundy :
When It Happened: 1974-1978
Number of Victims: 30-36+ women
Punishment: Electrocution
How He Did It: Bundy lured unsuspecting women to his Volkswagen Beetle by asking for assistance or feigning disability or injury. He sometimes wore a cast or used crutches to help give the impression that he was in a weakened state. He attacked others by assaulting and/or murdering them as they slept. He then groomed and performed sex acts on the decomposing bodies, and kept severed heads in his apartment.
Number of Victims: 30-36+ women
Punishment: Electrocution
How He Did It: Bundy lured unsuspecting women to his Volkswagen Beetle by asking for assistance or feigning disability or injury. He sometimes wore a cast or used crutches to help give the impression that he was in a weakened state. He attacked others by assaulting and/or murdering them as they slept. He then groomed and performed sex acts on the decomposing bodies, and kept severed heads in his apartment.
Albert Fish:
Nicknames: Gray Man, The Werewolf of Wysteria, The Brooklyn Vampire, The Moon Maniac, and The Boogey ManWhen It Happened: 1924-1928
Number of Victims: 4+
Punishment: Electrocution
How He Did It: Fish raped and cannibalized children, and claimed to have raped or killed at least 100. In a letter to his attorney, he described in gruesome detail the murder of 4-year-old Billy Gaffney, in which he killed the child, drank his blood, and dismembered and cannibalized the body.
Rodney Alcala:
Nickname: Dating Game Killer
When It Happened: 1971-1979
Number of Victims: 8-130 women
Punishment: Death sentence (Currently incarcerated)
How He Did It: Alcala lured women to their eventual death by offering to photograph them; he would then strangle them until they lost consciousness, allow them to revive, and then repeat the process multiple times until eventually killing them. He is known as the Dating Game Killer because in the midst of his killing spree, when he was already a convicted rapist, he appeared as a contestant on 'The Dating Game' -- and won. In the end, the woman who chose him as her date on the show refused to go out with him because she thought he was "creepy."
When It Happened: 1971-1979
Number of Victims: 8-130 women
Punishment: Death sentence (Currently incarcerated)
How He Did It: Alcala lured women to their eventual death by offering to photograph them; he would then strangle them until they lost consciousness, allow them to revive, and then repeat the process multiple times until eventually killing them. He is known as the Dating Game Killer because in the midst of his killing spree, when he was already a convicted rapist, he appeared as a contestant on 'The Dating Game' -- and won. In the end, the woman who chose him as her date on the show refused to go out with him because she thought he was "creepy."
JACK UNDERWEGER:
Nicknames: Jack the Writer, The Vienna Strangler
When It Happened: 1974-1992
Number of Victims: 10-15
Punishment: Life Imprisonment (Committed suicide by hanging)
How He Did It: Unterweger killed prostitutes by strangling them with their own undergarments. After entering prison for such crimes, he was discovered to be an excellent writer, and many campaigned for his release from prison. After his minimum 15 years were served, he was released and once again began killing in the same manner as before, landing him right back in prison.
When It Happened: 1974-1992
Number of Victims: 10-15
Punishment: Life Imprisonment (Committed suicide by hanging)
How He Did It: Unterweger killed prostitutes by strangling them with their own undergarments. After entering prison for such crimes, he was discovered to be an excellent writer, and many campaigned for his release from prison. After his minimum 15 years were served, he was released and once again began killing in the same manner as before, landing him right back in prison.
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