Who's your favourite serial killer?

Acacia · 01-01-2012 2:24pm

marketty wrote: »

I don't admire him (not sure what you're getting at?) but for pure couldn't-make-it-up evil, read the confession Albert Fish made to one of his victims mothers. Makes Hannibal Lecter look like a wimp. Fact is often stranger and scarier than fiction.

Just googled him there cause I never heard of him before... kinda wish I hadn't; that's one funked up individual.

I wouldn't say she's my 'favourite' killer (kinda hard to phrase that without sounding weird), but I've always hard an interest in Aileen Wuornos and her life story. It's so depressing, especially her childhood. The film about her life 'Monster' was devastating to watch. The Nick Broomfield documentary is also really good.

Lone Stone · 01-01-2012 2:25pm

wooo quotes for my thesis on serials killers

crazygeryy · 01-01-2012 2:34pm

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

I was born the day Ted Bundy met the electric chair. My sister even jokes every year on my birthday, oh it's Ted's anniversary today!!
But I wouldn't be saying he was a legend, he was a sick, twisted and evil person.
The zodiac killings were very interesting though.

lol thats funny.
the one thing about ted though that i think he was right about was the influence pornography can have on a person.if you watch the interview he does on youtube you will get what i mean, otherwise the man was a lunatic.

they all have one thing in common,**** childhoods.aileen wurnos childhood was awful.

as for having a favourite lol dennis nilsen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nilsen
was fascinating because he just did it and made no effort to deny it or hide the evidence.they knocked on his door and he said youd better come in lol and he told them everything.

by the way youtube is incredible for documentaries on these people.

Tipsy McSwagger · 01-01-2012 2:39pm

Ed Kemper

Amongst other fcuked up things he did he cut his mothers head off and had sex with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper

crazygeryy · 01-01-2012 2:39pm

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

I used to have something of an obsession with the subject of serial killers. They are abhorrent, of course, but they are also fascinating. If you study any field, the norm is rarely as interesting as the outliers. When the subject is social behaviour, serial killers are about as abnormal as it gets.

One of the nuttier ones I've come across (not literally) is the case of H. H. Holmes It reads like fiction, from his purpose built murder castle to the profits he made from selling his victim's skeletons etc to medical schools (Holmes was himself a doctor). His murders appeared to be indiscriminate: men, women and children disappeared into his dungeon. He confessed to something like 30 murders, but may have killed as many as 200.

did you see this?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358500/

and if you did is it any good?

Standard Toaster · 01-01-2012 2:45pm

Andrei Chikatilo - The Rostov Ripper

Well worth the read, what a nutter.

aujopimur · 01-01-2012 2:56pm

Otis Toole, another busy sex with head the guy, look him up.

Shane St. · 01-01-2012 2:56pm

not how I had intended to start the new year. watching videos of serial killer interviews.

Deus Ex Machina · 01-01-2012 2:58pm

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Ed Kemper

Amongst other fcuked up things he did he cut his mothers head off and had sex with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper

Crazy thing about Kemper was that he was managed to convince the psychiatrists whom evaluated him that he had reformed (probably helped by his 136 IQ) despite the fact that a previous psychiatric evaluation concluded that he should never be released into society again and that there was a high probability that he would re-offend.

The first evaluation should have probably been taken more seriously, just a few years after his release he was out decapitating women.

He's up for parole this year. Who knows, maybe his charm and intellect might get him released again!

Turtyturd · 01-01-2012 2:59pm

Jack the Ripper....I like a bit of mystery.

working fool · 01-01-2012 3:01pm

mary harney ?

smcgiff · 01-01-2012 3:20pm

This remorseless bastard...

Tipsy McSwagger · 01-01-2012 3:42pm

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

Crazy thing about Kemper was that he was managed to convince the psychiatrists whom evaluated him that he had reformed (probably helped by his 136 IQ) despite the fact that a previous psychiatric evaluation concluded that he should never be released into society again and that there was a high probability that he would re-offend.

The first evaluation should have probably been taken more seriously, just a few years after his release he was out decapitating women.

He's up for parole this year. Who knows, maybe his charm and intellect might get him released again!

Heads will roll if he is released.

Johnny Foreigner · 01-01-2012 3:45pm

Bertie Ahern.
He has murdered the Irish economy.

Johnny Foreigner · 01-01-2012 3:48pm

Tony Blair and George W. Bush.

earpiece · 01-01-2012 3:50pm

Darth Vader..... what a legend with the throat thing.......... yet he was so misunderstood!!!

Paparazzo · 01-01-2012 3:54pm

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Ed Kemper

Amongst other fcuked up things he did he cut his mothers head off and had sex with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper

I was going to say Jeffrey Dahmer, but he never had sex with his mums head. Just read Kempers wiki page, when he was a child he acted out bizarre sexual rituals with his sisters' dolls!

Immaculate Pasta · 01-01-2012 3:54pm

Already been said but Ted Bundy is the one which certainly springs to mind.

I spent about an hour reading his entire wikipedia page several weeks back which coincided with me being home alone at night and it was just before I was going to sleep and it definitely gave me the chills. He was one sick individual :cool: