Who is your favorite serial killer.?

badabing106

Real or fictional

Jack the ripper. no one can hold a candle to him. Never been caught

nullzero

badabing106 wrote: »

Never been caught

That implies that he may yet be caught.

Beasty

James Bond is still going strong 60 or so years on

KungPao

Jeffrey Dahmer was a bit of a character.

Barry Badrinath

John Wayne Gacy.

Headcase!

One_Of_Shanks

Gerry Adams. Never been caught either.

Mr. FoggPatches

Snap and crackle, but not pop. Never pop.

nullzero

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Gerry Adams. Never been caught either.

Oh very topical, I see what you did there.

tomwaterford

Larry Murphy



-support irish

KungPao

Fred West was great craic. He's underrated.

Fuzzytrooper

Myself......I've said too much

mojesius

Ted Bundy was an interesting one. The many faced killer who drove a VW beetle.

Fictional - Hannibal
Fava beans and a fine chianti

RayM

Harold Shipman, obviously.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Tony the Tiger.

He's Grrrreat!

Laois_Man

The younger George Bush

He was funny

Albeit, unintentionally so

Pretty tasteless thread, right up there with most memorable murders.

Who in hell has a 'favourite' serial killer?

salmocab

Candie wrote: »

Pretty tasteless thread, right up there with most memorable murders.

Who in hell has a 'favourite' serial killer?

16 people who posted before you

Rumpy Pumpy

Che Guevara. That tshirt is timeless as well.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Candie wrote: »

Pretty tasteless thread, right up there with most memorable murders.

Who in hell has a 'favourite' serial killer?

Oh serial! I thought it was cereal.


Yes, even more tasteless now.

How about your favourite lethal virus or favourite despot

Outlaw Pete

Albert Fish.

At least he had the good grace to cook us before eating us.

The_Valeyard

Charles Manson count?


But only because of South Park.

One_Of_Shanks

Candie wrote: »

Who in hell has a 'favourite' serial killer?

Going on the documentaries I've seen, the answer is millions of American women.
Apparently it's a thing.

If I hadn't met the missus who knows what I might have done.......

God she saved so many lives

But seriously, it's a light-hearted, slightly weird thread. I wouldn't go taking it to heart. Likewise any of the other pish that gets posted in this forum.

eviltwin

I subscribe to a podcast called My Favourite Murder so that tells you how much a murderino I am. Favourite serial killer is H H Holmes.

Outlaw Pete

Bonnie & Clyde had nothing on The Ken and Barbie Killers (Karla Homolka & Paul Bernardo).

That couple were fcuked up. Frighteningly, she's no longer in prison and living under a new name.

tupenny

Weird topic i guess but for me, Dennis Rader.
The lack of remorse and "matter of fact" way he speaks of his victims is just mind boggling.
There's something really intriguing about the personalities of these creatures

pew

Aileen Wurnos.

metaoblivia

The Original Night Stalker/East Bay rapist. The man committed over 50 rapes and 12 murders across California, sent letters to the press, taunted his his surviving victims with phone calls and was never caught. He's the reason California started taking DNA samples from every person convicted of a felony because they were hoping to find him since they have his DNA from crimes scenes. But so far, no luck.
I don't like the word "favorite" here but to me it's one of the most intriguing serial killer/rapist cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Night_Stalker

Sweetemotion

The serial killer of serial killers, Pedro Rodrigues.

buried

Wouldn't be a favourite but the most interesting and frightening one for me was Carl Panzram. If you doubt or don't even believe in the existence of actual evil this creature is worth reading about. When they caught him some prayer group thought they could reason with him, asked him why he had done the horrific things he did "I wish the whole of humanity had one single neck so I could strangle it" he told them. When they were about to hang him, the executioner made some mistake with the contraption, and Panzram's final words were "Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could have killed 10 men in the time its taking you fooling around"

kittensmittens

eviltwin wrote: »

I subscribe to a podcast called My Favourite Murder so that tells you how much a murderino I am. Favourite serial killer is H H Holmes.

Hadn't heard of him before but that must surely be who the character in AHS "Hotel" was based on!

Amalgam

Dennis Nilsen (wikipedia). Strangling Hobos and quite possibly, eskimo kisses. Very english, very eighties..

I like to think he inspired Krombopulos_Michael..

"Oh Stephen, here I go again"

furiousox

Zodiac.

suicide_circus

Candie wrote: »

Pretty tasteless thread, right up there with most memorable murders.

Who in hell has a 'favourite' serial killer?

oh calm down, psychopaths are disturbing and unpleasant but can be undeniably fascinating

Favourite may be the wrong word, but either way the Freeway Killers, Bonnin and Kraft, were depraved, reading about their crimes is actually depressing.

boobar

Dexter.

Good humoured and very stylish....until he became a lumberjack.

RobbingBandit

The Night King

Spanish Eyes

What about all those bodies of kids in the Tuam graveyard attached to the Convent.

Ah well there were only 800 of them.

That is up there surely.

KungPao

boobar wrote: »

Dexter.

Good humoured and very stylish...

Good call. But I don't like your inclusion of spoilers. If I had read this literally 24 hrs ago, I'd be a sad little monkey.

La_Gordy

Andrei Chikatilo - he murdered over 50 people, cannibalised some of them, eviscerated many and was able to do so for years around the Soviet Union. A film based on the Rostov Ripper - Citizen X, is also great, starring Donald Sutherland.

CyberGhost

I would not say "favourite" but probably Ted Bundy. BTW, both Bundy movies(Ted Bundy (2002) and Deliberate Stranger (1986)) are great.

Is Kaklinski a serial killer? Or a mafia hitman? I don't know, but another interesting character.

Fictional, Patrick Bateman. Even though he can't get a reservation at Dorcia.

tupenny wrote: »

Weird topic i guess but for me, Dennis Rader.
The lack of remorse and "matter of fact" way he speaks of his victims is just mind boggling.
There's something really intriguing about the personalities of these creatures

Yea, I watched that video too. It's like he's giving a weekly report at work.

Olishi4

mojesius wrote: »

Fictional - Hannibal
Fava beans and a fine chianti

I actually found Buffalo Bills character more interesting tbh.

Irl, I always found the story of Mary Bell and the two little boys that she killed very upsetting. She peer pressured her friend to be an accomplice in the murders. I dont think technically that she is classed as a seriel killer. She was released in her early twenties with anonymity and afaik apparently went on to have a relatively normal life.

MadDog76

I've always been fascinated by the Jack The Ripper and Zodiac cases.

Luis Garavito deserves a mention purely because of his number of victims ........ 138 proven with a possible 300+.

Also, Pedro Lopez because he was proven to have killed 110 (with a possible 300+) yet was released in 1998 and his current whereabouts are unknown! :eek:

tomwaterford

MadDog76 wrote: »

I've always been fascinated by the Jack The Ripper and Zodiac cases.

Luis Garavito deserves a mention purely because of his number of victims ........ 138 proven with a possible 300+.

Also, Pedro Lopez because he was proven to have killed 110 (with a possible 300+) yet was released in 1998 and his current whereabouts are unknown! :eek:

Howard shipman is believes to have killed 200+....yet rarely mentioned in these things

Gwynplaine

Dexter Morgan.

KungPao

tomwaterford wrote: »

Howard shipman is believes to have killed 200+....yet rarely mentioned in these things

It's mad. over 200 people!

Harold killed old people though, not so "glamorous" as some others...killing prostitutes and young people etc.

As an aside, I googled the word "prostitutes" to check my spelling (I promise, bogey word to spell for me sometimes) and the results are interesting.

dd972

They might be dangerous and unpredictable however serial killers are generally muppets and losers, they'd be toast in prison if they got on the wrong side of major league gangsters like the mafia, terrorists or armed robbers.

tomwaterford

KungPao wrote: »

It's mad. over 200 people!

Harold killed old people though, not so "glamorous" as some others...killing prostitutes and young people etc.

As an aside, I googled the word "prostitutes" to check my spelling (I promise, bogey word to spell for me sometimes) and the results are interesting.

You are right it was Harold!!!


People look to America etc at serial killers....but one of the most prolific was no real distance from ireland

Lone Stone

i like myself

Amalgam

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2016/1121/833358-anatomy-of-an-irish-serial-killer-documentary-on-one/

I forgot about this, RTE Radio 1 had an interesting documentary about an Irish serial killer that doesn't come up often, for some reason Kieran Patrick Kelly's infamy gets brushed aside. A nasty piece of work.

Interesting documentary, for reasons you don't expect, see link above. Broadcast dates from November 2016.

Cartouche

Check out Andrei Chikatilo , the Red Ripper

Skommando

Abortion 'doctors' are very favoured.