Serial Killers of the '80s: Stories Behind a Decadent Decade of Death Volume 5 (Profiles in Crime)

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Admitted serial killer will never be eligible for parole". The Charlotte Observer. September 5, 1998. Archived from the original on November 11, 2023 . Retrieved January 9, 2023– via Newspapers.com. Smothered elderly women in the Dallas area and stole valuables. Chemirmir was indicted in connection with 22 deaths and was convicted in two of the cases. He was killed in prison in September 2023.

We all know people who are abused early in life who don’t turn out this way, but they may not have the genes that make them susceptible in the first place,” Fallon says. “So, it’s not just the early environment by itself. And it’s not just the gene. It’s the interaction of these two that predisposes you to these radical, aggressive, antisocial behaviors. All the people I’ve ever studied, every murderer and every dictator, every one of them was either abandoned or abused between birth and three years old — except Pol Pot. He said he had a great upbringing.” It should be noted that Fallon has never been able to physically examine a serial killer’s brain — either via a brain scan or other methods — as they have refused his requests. Embarked on a two-state killing spree with his girlfriend and a teenage friend after serving time for killing a man

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Known as "The Plainfield Ghoul"; Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the novels/films, Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre DeAngelo was in the Navy; he never saw combat. Yet his father was in the Air Force and, according to family members, DeAngelo witnessed his sister being raped by two soldiers when the family was stationed in Germany. “Certainly, to a normal boy, that would be traumatic,” Holes says. “Now, would that cause that boy to become a sexual predator by itself? I doubt it. But thinking about another predator that I know, Phil Hughes, by that age he was already having violent sexual fantasies against girls and women.” Hughes killed at least three women in California in the Seventies. “I could see somebody like Phil — when he sees this violence being inflicted on his sister — he is not being traumatized. He’s being stimulated by it. And I’m wondering if DeAngelo was also stimulated,” Holes says.

Responsible for the deaths of six or seven people in New Orleans and the surrounding areas from 1918 to 1919 Ocala Star-Banner - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Archived from the original on September 29, 2023 . Retrieved October 7, 2023. Known as "The Desert Killer"; raped and murdered young girls and women in El Paso, Texas, burying their bodies in the desert afterwardsAlso known as the "Babysitter"; responsible for the murders of four or more children in Oakland County, Michigan in 1976 and 1977 Known as "The Torso Killer"; raped, strangled and dismembered numerous women across New York and New Jersey

Known as "The Boy Torturer". 14-year-old Massachusetts boy who killed two younger children. Youngest person in the history of Massachusetts to be convicted of murder. The killing spree of “Son of Sam” in New York was publicized around the world. Beginning in the summer of 1976, six people were killed and seven others wounded by a .44-caliber gun. The murder weapon was the main link police had for the crimes until April 1977 when Berkowitz left his first letter near the scene of a crime. The letter is the first time Berkowitz uses the name “Son of Sam.” Berkowitz wrote more letters as “Son of Sam,” taunting police about future murders that followed that summer. His victims were usually young women with long dark hair, reports of which caused many New Yorkers to panic, according to the Time article “Son of Sam Is Not Sleeping.”Killed his wife in Pennsylvania, then went on a killing spree in Virginia with his cousin, Ray Dandridge