Most Evil S2 Ep5 Cult Members

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths. 05 "Cult Followers" aired on September 9, 2007 and features:

Ron Luff, Jeffrey Lundgren, Charles Manson, Charles "Tex" Watson, Jim Jones.

Serial Killers on the Loose

JULY 19, 2017 - 9 Current Serial Killers Still At Large

When you think of serial killers, well-known murderers of the past like John Wayne Gacy or Charles Manson come to mind. They’re even famous enough to find their way onto slick apparel in our shop. These nine current serial killers, however, have eluded identification and could be lurking near you.

The Long Island Killer

Jeff Davis 8 Killers

Daytona Beach Killer

The B1 Butcher

The Maryvale Shooter

The West Mesa Bone Collector

Brazil’s Rainbow Maniac

The Johannesburg Killer

Highway Serial Killings

An ever-elusive bunch, serial killers are perhaps the most unsettling phenomenon of modern life. While there are many serial killers out hunting today, it’s comforting to know that the killers featured in these six documentaries aren’t hiding out in your neighborhood.

Most Evil S2 Ep4 Unsolved Murders

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths. and on this episode : The Lipstick Killer (possibly William Heirens), Black Dahlia (possibly George Hill Hodel), James McVey killers

The Moors Murders Code

16th May 2017 - CODE OF THE KILLERS Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley’s twisted secret notes may reveal burial site of last missing victim’s body.

Hopes that lost remains of Kieth Bennett, 12, could be found with help of classified coded letters...

CODED letters between Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley may help find the last missing body of a victim.

The Sun on Sunday asked to view the notes written after the killers’ 1965 arrest under Freedom of Information laws — but were stopped by the Ministry of Justice.

Ian Brady has never revealed where he buried the body of Keith Bennett, 12.

Evil Myra Hindley would write in code to Brady.

Kieth Bennett's remains have never been found.

A spokesman said making them public could end hopes of one day finding the grave of Keith Bennett, 12.

He added: “The information in this file potentially still retains value in assisting police.

“Combined with new information, or reinterpreted, it could prove key in finally bringing this case to a conclusion.”

Leopold and Loeb The Perfect Crime Trial of the Century

The murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold that shocked the nation is best remembered decades later for the twelve-hour long plea of Clarence Darrow to save his clients from the gallows. His summation, rambling and disorganized as it was at times, stands as one of the most eloquent attacks on the death penalty ever delivered in an American courtroom. Mixing poetry and prose, science and emotion, a world-weary cynicism and a dedication to his cause, hatred of bloodlust and love of man, Darrow took his audience on an oratorical ride that would be unimaginable in a criminal trial today.... There would have been no arrests and no trial but for what the prosecutor called "the hand of God at work in this case." A pair of horn-rimmed tortoise shell glasses were discovered with the body of Bobby Franks. The glasses, belonging to Nathan Leopold, had slipped out of the jacket he removed as he struggled to hide the body. They had an unusual hinge and could be traced to a single Chicago optometrist, who had written only three such prescriptions, including the one to Leopold. When questioned about the glasses, Leopold said that he must have lost them on one of his frequent birding expeditions. He was asked by an investigator to demonstrate how the glasses might have fallen out of his pockets, but failed after a series of purposeful trips to dislodge the glasses from his coat. Questioning became more intense.

Leopold said that he spent the twenty-first of May picking up girls in his car with Loeb and driving out to Lincoln Park. Loeb, when questioned separately, confirmed Leopold's alibi. State's attorney Robert Crowe, heading the investigation, was skeptical. Among the items found in a search of the Leopold home was a letter written by Nathan strongly suggesting that he and Loeb had a homosexual relationship. Still, prosecutor's were on the verge of releasing the two suspects when two additional pieces of evidence surfaced. First, typewritten notes taken from a member of Leopold's law school study group were found to match the the type from the ransom note, despite the fact that an earlier search of the Leopold home turned up a typewriter with unmatching type. Then came a statement from the Leopold family chauffeur, made in the hope of establishing Nathan's innocence, that spelled his doom. He said he was certain that the Leopold car, the one the boys claimed they had spent the night driving around with girls, had not left the garage on the day of the murder.

Loeb confessed first, then Leopold. Their confessions differed only on the point of who did the actual killing, with each pointing the finger at the other. Leopold later pleaded with Loeb to admit to killing Franks but, according to Leopold, Loeb said, "Mompsie feels less terrible than she might, thinking you did it and I'm not going to take that shred of comfort away from her."

The Loeb and Leopold families hired Clarence Darrow and Benjamin Bachrach to represent the two boys. Nathan said his first impression of Darrow was one of "horror", unimpressed as he was by Darrow's unruly hair, rumpled jacket, egg-splattered shirt, suspenders, and askew tie. His opinion of Darrow would soon change. He later described his attorney as a great, simple, unaffected man, with a "deep-seated, all-embracing kindliness." In his book Life Plus Ninety-Nine Years, Leopold wrote that if asked to name the two men who "came closest to preaching the pure essence of love" he would say Jesus and Clarence Darrow.

It was Darrow's decision to change the boys' initial pleas to the charges of murder and kidnapping from "not guilty" (suggesting a traditional insanity defense) to "guilty." The decision was made primarily to prevent the state from getting two opportunities to get a death sentence. With "not guilty" pleas, the state had planned to try the boys first on one of the two charges, both of which carried the death penalty in Illinois, and if it failed to win a hanging on the first charge, try again on the second. The guilty plea also meant that the sentencing decision would be made by a judge, not by a jury. Darrow's decision to plead the boys guilty undoubtedly was based in part on his belief that the judge who would hear their case, John R. Caverly, was a "kindly and discerning" man. With the public seemingly unanimous in calling for death, Darrow did not want to face a jury. In his summation Darrow noted, "where responsibility is divided by twelve, it is easy to say ‘away with him'; but, your honor, if these boys are to hang, you must do it--...it must be by your cool, premeditated act, without a chance to shift responsibility."

The defense hoped to build its case against death around the testimony of four psychiatrists, called "alienists" at the time. The best talent psychiatric talent 1924 had to offer was sought out by both sides to examine the defendants.

Joel Rifkin Biography

A LOOK BACK: NECROPHILIAC SERIAL KILLER JOEL RIFKIN ARRESTED, CONFESSED TO KILLING 17 VICTIMS...

MINEOLA, LONG ISLAND — On June 28, 1993, Joel Rifkin, the unemployed landscaper who had killed 17 women and was driving around with one of their corpses in the back of his truck, was arrested.

State troopers, after noticing Rifkin’s vehicle didn’t have a license plate, pursued him on the Southern State Parkway in his 1984 Mazda pickup in what witnesses described as a “slow speed chase.” It ended when Rifkin crashed into a utility pole in Mineola, Long Island. When officers pulled back a blue vinyl tarp, they were horrified to find a body.

Rifkin immediately confessed to police that he killed the woman — and 16 others. Eventually, Rifkin would be described as the most prolific serial killer in the history of New York.

The woman found in his truck was Tiffany Bresciani, a prostitute who was also the girlfriend of punk band Reagan Youth‘s singer Dave “Insurgent” Rubenstein. Both Bresciani and Rubenstein struggled with heroin addiction, and Bresciani had been working the streets of the Lower East Side to support their habits. Soon after Bresciani was discovered to have been murdered by Rifkin, Rubenstein committed suicide.

Rifkin’s MO was picking up prostitutes for sex, and then killing his victims by suffocating or strangling them.

Rifkin was able to give the troopers detailed information on the victims. He discussed how he favored white, Latina, and Asian women, and how he got rid of the bodies by putting them in oil drums and dumping them in the Hudson and Harlem rivers. He also recalled dumping one woman’s body in a creek, and another in a town dump in Westchester.

When the cops were able to search Rifkin’s room at his mother’s house, they found numerous trophies such as underwear, jewelry, makeup, and wallets that could be connected to unsolved murders. In the garage they found a chain saw and other tools coated with human blood and flesh.

Rifkin came from a prominent family: He was the adopted son of the late, respected East Meadow school board vice president, Bernard Rifkin.

However he struggled academically, and was described a a shy child who believed that he was a disappointment to his very intelligent father. He was also bullied by his classmates and excluded from events due to his appearance and poor social skills, which led to him isolating himself even more. He reportedly immersed himself in reading about serial killers and watching films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy, in which he could watch women being strangled.

Once in college, he gained some independence when his parents gifted him a car. He used it to troll Manhattan for prostitutes.

In March 1989, he made his first kill. After inviting a woman — later identified through DNA as Heidi Balch — back to his family home, Rifkin had sex with her, and then suffocated her. He then removed her teeth and, using an X-Acto knife, dismembered her body into six parts which he distributed in different areas throughout Long Island, New York City, and New Jersey.

After his detailed descriptions of his crimes, Rifkin’s guilt was never in doubt, but at trial, his lawyer claimed that he was legally insane. But the prosecution’s expert witness described the 34-year-old as a sadist and necrophiliac who even as a child was fascinated by strangulation.

Jurors voted unanimously on their first ballot that he was guilty of murder, agreeing that he did not meet the legal definition for insanity because he knew what he was doing when he strangled his victims, and knew it was wrong. Prosecutors claimed that Rifkin knew that he was a serial killer, and had studied books on police procedures so that he could attempt to outsmart police.

Rifkin was found guilty of nine counts of second degree murder in 1994 and sentenced to 203 years to life in prison. He is currently behind bars at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.

He has also been named as a suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders, attributed to “LISK,” or the Long Island Serial Killer. In an April 2011 prison interview with Newsday, Rifkin denied having anything to do with the Gilgo murders. But experts and victims’ rights advocates, however, say Rifkin’s statements have no value.

Most Evil S2 E2 Stalkers

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths. This episode contains names of : Richard Farley, Robert John Bardo, Mark David Chapman, Gerald Atkins.

Most Evil S2 E1 Jealousy

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths.

Samuel Collins, Clara Harris, Andrew Cunanan, Agustin Garcia, Ira Einhorn, Jean Harris, Brynn Hartman

Peter Manuel Scotland's most evil Murderer

28 DEC 2016

Scotland's worst serial killer Peter Manuel and his reign of terror.

In 1958, Peter Manuel was found guilty of seven murders and was hanged on the gallows at Barlinnie Prison - this is a timeline of his evil life.

The murderer of at least nine people, he is Scotland's worst serial killer.

In 1958, Peter Manuel was found guilty of seven murders and was hanged on the gallows at Barlinnie Prison.

He confessed to an eighth, although not convicted, and he was not tried for a ninth, because it occurred in England, in another jurisdiction.

Here, we take a look at the life of the evil killer and his reign of terror.

Early years

• Manuel was born on March 13, 1927 to Scottish parents in New York City.

• Manuel's migrated back to Scotland in 1932 and moved to Birkenshaw, North Lanarkshire.

• By 1937, Manuel was known to local thief as a petty thief.

• In 1943, Manuel, now 16, committed a string of sexual attacks. He was sentenced to nine years in Peterhead Prison.

• In 1955, aged 28, Manuel successfully conducted his own defence on a rape charge at Airdrie Sheriff Court.

Murder spree

• On January 2, 1956, Manuel stalked and killed 17-year-old Anne Kneilands, raping her and bludgeoning her to death on East Kilbride golf course.

He was later found not guilty of murdering Anne. The case had been dropped due to a lack of evidence.

• On September 17, 1956, Marion Watt, her sister Margaret Brown and 17-year-old Vivienne Watt, were all shot dead in their Burnside home. Manuel was out on bail for a nearby burglary at a colliery but investigators preferred Marion's husband William, who was away on a fishing holiday in Ardrishaig.

They wanted to believe that he had driven 90 miles during the night, faked a burglary, murdered his family and driven back. And they went to extraordinary lengths to stand it up, producing two 'witnesses' whose stories were so shaky they would fall apart at the most cursory examination.

Despite the fact that the level of petrol in Watt's car had not gone down, that there was no evidence of him filling up on his alleged murder mission, police searched the route for any hidden stash. There was none.

After two months, without producing any substantive piece of evidence, Watt was released

• Just over a year later, on December 8, 1957 Manuel almost certainly shot and killed taxi driver Sydney Dunn while searching for work in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Dunn's body was found on moorland in Northumberland but by then Manuel had returned to Glasgow.

He was never tried for this murder as it was in a different jurisdiction – or perhaps the Crown believed that with the stack of other murders they had him anyway – although a button from his jacket was found in Dunn's taxi.

• Isabelle Cooke, 17, was the next victim on December 28, 1957. She disappeared from her home in Carrick Drive, Mount Vernon (the same street Tam McGraw would later live in) on her way to a dance at Uddingston Grammar School.

Manuel stalked, raped and strangled her and buried her in a nearby field. He would later lead officers to the spot to dig, telling them, “This is the place. In fact I think I'm standing on her.”

• Parents Peter and Doris Smart and 11-year-old Michael were all shot dead in their family home on January 1, 1958.

For the next five days, Manuel stayed in the house, opening and shutting curtains, driving the car around the area, spending some of the holiday money, brand new banknotes, which the Smarts had put away.

He even gives a lift to a police officer and, although the cop does not know it at the time, can't resist taunting him. Three days before Hogmanay, Isabelle Cooke had disappeared from her home in Mount Vernon and Manuel can't stop himself pointing out that the police are looking in the wrong place. And of course Manuel knew, because he had killed Isabelle and buried her.

Arrest, trial and execution

• January 6, 1958 - It was the new banknotes stolen in the Smart killings which were finally to be his undoing – that and a tip-off – by spending them freely, particularly in pubs in Glasgow's east end.

Police traced the notes to the Smart murders, and after they arrested his father Manuel confessed to eight killings, but not the Watt murders - although he was subsequently to confess even to these.

• At Manuel's trial, now pleading not guilty to all charges, he sacked his counsel and conducted his own defence and, although the judge conceded he was skilled at it, the evidence was so overwhelming that it took the jury less than three hours to convict him.

• On July 22, 1958, Manuel was hanged on the gallows at Barlinnie Prison. His last words are reported to have been, "Turn up the radio and I'll go quietly".

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng The Prossecutors

“ I want to be able to use a woman whenever and however I want. And when I'm tired or bored or not interested, I simply want to put her away, lock her up in [her cell], get her out of my sight, out of my life. ”

— Lake in one of his video tapes

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng were a pair of serial killers, rapists, and abductors believed to be responsible for as many as 25 murders.

"No gun, no fun. No kill, no thrill. Daddy dies, Mommy cries, Baby fries."

-Ng's work-time chant

Lake and Ng targeted women, but were not hesitant to abduct entire families. After killing the men and children to get them out of the way, they would hold the women captive in a custom-built room in a bunker at Lake's ranch, tie them up and torture and rape them, videotaping each other while doing so. Sometimes they also lured men to the compound with promises of work and robbed them, after which Lake stole their identities. After killing the victims by either strangling or shooting them, they would often bury them in shallow graves on the property, though there is evidence that some were also dismembered and burned and their remains shattered.

Known Victims

Unspecified dates from 1983 to 1985:

The Dubs family

Harvey Dubs (father)

Deborah Dubs (mother)

Sean Dubs (son)

The Bond family

Lonnie Bond (father)

Brenda O'Connor (mother)

Lonnie Bond, Jr. (son)

Kathleen Allen, 18

Michael Carroll

Robin Scott Stapley

Randy Johnson

Unspecified dates in 1983:

Charles Gunnar

Donald Lake (Lake's younger brother; disappeared and was presumed to have been killed by Lake and Ng)

November 1984: Paul Cosner, 39 (possibly; the charges were dropped)

Note: The massive amount of burned, shattered bone fragments suggests that Lake and Ng killed several more victims besides the ones found buried; investigators suggested that the total victim count may be as high as 25.

The Collector, the book that inspired Lake to abduct and imprison women, also appears to have served as inspiration for some other killers. Robert Berdella, a.k.a. The Kansas City Butcher, who abducted young men and tortured them, photographing the process, claimed to have been inspired by the movie adaptation. Christopher Wilder, a.k.a. The Beauty Queen Killer, who abducted and raped at least ten girls aged 10-12, eight of whom died, during the course of a month-long spree before killing himself, had a copy of The Collector in his possession at the time of his death and was reputed to have memorized the whole book.

Though Lake and Ng have only been mentioned by name once in the show, specifically in Zoe's Reprise (when Rossi reads aloud from the foreword of his book, Deviance: The Secret Desires of Sadistic Serial Killers, along with Dahmer, DeBardeleben, and Berdella), the duo appear to have served as basis for Francis Goehring and Henry Frost in the episode Identity. Like Lake and Ng, the pair abducted women, kept them enslaved at a private compound which the dominant partner had obtained from his ex-wife, raped them and tortured them, videotaping the acts, and then killed them and disposed of them on the property. Additionally, the home videos where Goehring voices his narcissistic beliefs and his plans to enslave women are very similar to tapes made by Lake and Ng where Lake talks about his plan to do so. Also, like Lake, Goehring committed suicide before he could be arrested for his murders.

Lake and Ng are also similar to Gary and Ervin Robles. Both were serial killing teams, family annihilators, and robbers, whose teams consisted of a Caucasian male and another male that was of a different race and had at least one member who was abused by parental figures (Ng was abused by his father; Gary and Ervin were abused by their foster parents). In addition, one of the members of both teams assumed the identities of one of their victims before being arrested.

Ng's background of being abused by his father and being sent to boarding school by him seems to have been some inspiration for that aspect of Hollis Walker's background.

Mary Jane LeFlore Case Cold Justice

After nearly 30 years, an arrest is made in a Hunstville cold case.

June 30, 2017 - After more than two decades, dozens of investigators and the intervention of experts at a true crime television show, police believe they've found the killer of a Texas woman whose murder has remained unsolved. 

On Thursday, the Huntsville Police Department arrested Larry LeFlore for the 1991 murder of his wife, Mary Jane LeFlore. Everyone from family members to former Harris County prosecutor Kelly Siegler kept the cold case alive, culminating into an arrest.

"We kept looking at it over the years when Mary Jane LeFlore first disappeared. It's been a long slog," said Walker County District Attorney David Weeks. "We kept working the case. To be honest, Larry LeFlore was a person of interest early on. We had some information but we just felt we weren't there yet." 

Interview with a Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross

April 04, 2017 - Profile of Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross,

Follow the Deadly Path of the Genesee River Killer...

CONFESSIONS

Shawcross was brought in for questioning a second time. After several hours of interrogation, he still denied having anything to do with the murdered women. It was not until the detectives threatened to bring his wife and his girlfriend Clara in together for questioning and that they could be implicated in the murders, did he begin to waver.

His first admission that he was involved in the murders was when he told police that Clara had nothing to do with it. Once his involvement was established, the details began to flow.

The detectives gave Shawcross a list of 16 women missing or murdered, and he immediately denied having anything to do with five of them. He then confessed to murdering the others.

With each victim that he confessed to the killing, he included what the victim had done to deserve what they got. One victim tried to steal his wallet, another wouldn't be quiet, another made fun of him, and yet another had nearly bitten off his penis. 

He also blamed many of the victims for reminding him of his domineering and abusive mother, so much so that once he began to hit them, he couldn't stop.

When it came time to discuss June Stott, Shawcross appeared to become melancholy. Apparently, Stott was a friend and had been a guest in his home. He explained to the detectives that the reason he mutilated her body after killing her was a kind favor he extended to her so that she would decompose faster.

REACHING THROUGH THE PRISON BARS

A common trait of serial killers is the desire to show they are still in control and can reach through the prison walls and still do damage to those outside. 

When it came to Arthur Shawcross, this certainly appeared to be the case, because, throughout the years when interviewed, his answers to the questions seemed to change depending on who was doing the interviewing.

Female interviewers were often subjected to his long descriptions of how much he enjoyed eating the body parts and organs that he had cut out from his victims. Male interviewers often had to listen to his conquests in Vietnam. If he thought he sensed sympathy from the interviewer, he would add more details about how his mother would insert sticks into his anus or offer up specific details into exactly how his aunt took sexual advantage of him when he was just a child.

However, Shawcross was transparent, so much so that the interviewers, detectives, and doctors that listened to him, doubted much of what he said when he would describe his childhood abuse and his enjoyment of cutting up women and eating body parts.

THE TRIAL

Shawcross pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. During his trial, his lawyer tried to prove that Shawcross was a victim of multiple personality disorder stemming from his years of being abused as a child. Post-traumatic stress disorder from his year in Vietnam was also anted up as a reason why he went insane and murdered women.

The big problem with this defense was that there was no one who backed up his stories. His family completely denied his accusations of abuse.

The Army provided proof that Shawcross was never stationed near a jungle and that he never fought in combat, never burned down huts, was never caught behind a firebomb and never went on jungle patrol as he claimed.

As to his claiming to have killed and devoured two Vietnam women, two psychiatrists that interviewed him agreed that Shawcross changed the story so often that it became unbelievable.

EXTRA Y CHROMOSOME

It was discovered that Shawcross had an extra Y chromosome which some have suggested (although there is no proof) makes the person more violent.

A cyst found on Shawcross' right temporal lobe was said to have caused him to have behavioral seizures where he would display animalistic behavior, such as eating the body parts of his victims.

In the end, it came down to what the jury believed, and they weren't fooled for a moment. After deliberating for just one-half hour, they found him sane and guilty.

Shawcross was sentenced to 250 years in prison and received an additional life sentence after pleading guilty to the murder of Elizabeth Gibson in Wayne County.

DEATH

On November 10, 2008, Shawcross died of cardiac arrest after being transferred from the Sullivan Correction Facility to an Albany, New York hospital. He was 63 years old.

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H H Holmes

H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer is a 2004 biographical documentary film directed by John Borowski. The film relates the true life story of American serial killer H. H. Holmes. Produced over a four-year period, the film highlights locations such as Holmes' childhood home in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and the courtroom in Philadelphia where the "trial of the century" was held.

The film focuses on Dr. Holmes' entire life (1861–1896). It consists of reenactments, expert interviews, and period photography. The film is narrated by Tony Jay.

Most Evil S1 Ep 8 Up Close

Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University during seasons 1 and 2 and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3. On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths.

From the denials of a convicted child molester to the frank admission of a killer claiming 70 lives, a human voice emerges from the chaos and violence. To prevent violent crime, it is necessary to understand it, and this hour bring it into sharp focus.
Featuring : Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, Cathy Wood, Cindy Hendy, Westley Allan Dodd, Tommy Lynn Sells, Leonard Lake.

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files

Jeff (also called The Jeffrey Dahmer Files) is an independent documentary film about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmerduring the summer of his arrest. The film was directed by Chris James Thompson and stars Andrew Swant as Dahmer in fictionalized re-enactment segments which are interwoven with interviews of the medical examiner assigned to the case (Jeffrey Jentzen), the lead detective (Pat Kennedy), and Dahmer's next door neighbor (Pamela Bass).

The film premiered at the 2012 SXSW film festival where it received positive reviews and obtained sales representation from Josh Braun at Submarine Entertainment. The film also played at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, the Independent Film Festival of Boston, and the Maryland Film Festival in Baltimore.

The documentary was picked up by IFC Films who re-titled it The Jeffrey Dahmer Files. Jonathan Sehring, President of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, said: “Chris James Thompson has made one of the creepiest documentaries of the year that lingers in the mind long after the film has ended. He’s approached the well-known subject of Jeffrey Dahmer in a new and inventive way that managed to completely unnerve us." The film was released theatrically and on Video On Demand through IFC on February 15, 2013, followed by a DVD release. The film was later released through Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Google Play. ^[1][2]

Jeff was shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Super 16 mm film over the course of three years. It was executive produced by Chris Smith (director of American Movie), Barry Poltermann, and Jack Turner.

David Berkowitz Biography

 August 8, 2017 - Son of Sam speaks out: "There was a battle going on inside me"

David Berkowitz terrorized New York City by killing six people and wounding seven others in seemingly random shootings from 1976 to 1977. Now, four decades after he was arrested, Berkowitz speaks out about what led him to kill, his life before he turned into a murderer, and life in prison today in "Son of Sam │The Killer Speaks"  a CBS News special to be broadcast Friday, August 11, 2017, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

"I see that people will never understand where I come from, no matter how much I try to explain it," Berkowitz tells CBS News correspondent Maurice DuBois in his first major TV interview in a decade and his only interview about the 40th anniversary of his arrest. "They wouldn't understand what it was like to walk in darkness."

Using firsthand accounts from shooting victims, police and reporters, "Son of Sam │The Killer Speaks" relives the fear that paralyzed many New Yorkers as word spread that someone was committing random shootings -- all done with a high-power .44 caliber weapon. The killer hit strangers, often couples in parked cars, and the women usually had long, dark brown hair. The shooter was dubbed the ".44 Caliber Killer" by New York newspapers. For a while, as the victim count rose, the only substantial clues police had were two letters: one sent to Detective Joe Borelli, the head of the task force looking for the killer and the other to newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, then at the New York Daily News.

"I should have been dead," says Robert Violante, who was shot on July 31, 1977 while sitting in a parked car with Stacy Moskowitz, who later died from her injuries.

"Effectively, it was him winning over us each time he got away with it," says former NYPD Detective Bill Clark.

Before he was captured, Berkowitz lived alone in Yonkers, where he admitted to feeling "isolated." "I didn't see it at the time," Berkowitz says. "I was just very lost and confused. There was a battle going on inside me."

The shootings, he tells DuBois, were "a break from reality, thought I was doing something to appease the devil. I'm sorry for it."

Berkowitz also wants to distance himself from the "Son of Sam" moniker he was tagged with during the killing spree. "As far as I'm concerned, that was not me," Berkowitz says. "That was not me. Even the name, I hate that name, I despise the name."

Which name, Dubois asks. "That moniker, Son of Sam," Berkowitz says. "That was not -- that was a demon."

DuBois sat down with Berkowitz at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York, where he opened up about what led to him to pull the trigger. Berkowitz is serving 25 years-to-life for each of the six murders.

In an extensive interview, Berkowitz talks with DuBois about the impact finding out he was adopted had on him, about his outreach inside and outside of prison walls, and how the world has changed around him. For instance, in the time since he was incarcerated, cellphones and the Internet have proliferated.  "That's all space-age stuff to me," Berkowitz says. "I'm from the dark ages. You know, when I left, tokens on the subway, you know, yeah?"

And, because he's been there so long, Berkowitz says many of his fellow inmates don't know who he is.  "Some guys, they're not even familiar with the case," Berkowitz tells DuBois. "I'm just another face in the crowd."

Berkowitz, a born-again Christian, reveals how he feels about the pain he caused the families of those he killed and his victims and whether or not he takes responsibility for what happened.

DuBois asks Berkowitz, now 64, what he would tell his 23-year-old self if he had the chance to go back and do so. "Ugh, turn around before it's too late because destruction is coming," Berkowitz says.

The Crossbow Cannibal Crimes that shook Britain

22 JAN 2012 - "Crossbow Cannibal" Stephen Griffiths slashes wrists after being handed razor blade by inmate.

It is the sixth time he has tried to kill himself at Wakefield ­Prison.

“Crossbow ­Cannibal” Stephen ­Griffiths has tried to kill himself in jail for a SIXTH time... and he did it with a razor handed to him by a fellow inmate.

The serial killer, 42, who is on permanent suicide watch, slashed his wrists in his cell in the middle of the night.

Prison officers saw what ­Griffiths was ­doing and rushed in, grabbing the razor and pinning him down to stop him.

The killer was examined by a doctor who said his wrist wound should be ­treated with ­stitches.

But Griffiths, serving life for murdering three women, refused so nurses wrapped his arms in bandages to stop the bleeding.

It is the sixth time he has tried to kill himself at Wakefield ­Prison, which is known as ­Monster ­Mansion because it holds so many ­murderers and rapists.

Prison chiefs have launched an inquiry into how the heavily-monitored prisoner was able to get the weapon into his cell.

A source said: “It appears that Griffiths was given a razor blade by one of the other prisoners so that he could do this to himself.

“It’s not great that he managed to get hold of a blade and try to kill himself while on suicide watch so an investigation has been launched. It was only the quick action of the officers that saved him.” Former criminology student ­Griffiths is being held on the prison’s health-care wing.

This was the first time he was able to get hold of a blade. He has previously tried to kill himself with ­batteries, plastic bags and shards of broken glass. He also went on hunger strike for ten months last year.

Griffiths, who gave his name at a court hearing as “The ­Crossbow Cannibal”, was jailed for life in December 2010. He had ­admitted killing ­Suzanne Blamires, 36, Shelley Armitage, 31, and Susan ­Rushworth, 43, after luring them to his flat on the edge of the red light district in Bradford, West ­Yorkshire.

His crimes were discovered after a caretaker saw footage of Miss Blamires’ murder as he reviewed CCTV footage from the block of flats where Griffiths lived. It showed him firing a crossbow bolt at his victim, then holding the bow above his head in a triumphant gesture before ­raising a can of drink to the camera. He claimed he had eaten parts of his victims’ bodies.

The Ministry of Justice said yesterday it did not comment on individual prisoners.

Most Evil S1 Ep 7 Science of Murder

 Using shocking examples of brutal crime, The Science of Evil explores whether killers are forged in abusive homes, or whether there are some people actually wired to be cold-blooded.

Dr. Michael Stone profiles: * Charles Whitman, "UT-Austin Tower Sniper", spree killer. * Arthur Shawcross, "Genesee River Killer", serial killer and rapist. * Ed Gein, serial killer, necrophile and cannibal. * Gary Heidnik, serial killer and rapist.

Using shocking examples of brutal crime, examine the origins of killers. Are murderers the result of abusive homes, or are some people actually wired to be cold-blooded?

The Killing Cousins David Allen Gore and Fred Waterfield

On the eve of his death penalty trial for the 1983 abduction, rape and murder of a Vero Beach High School senior, David Alan Gore told authorities what they had long suspected: Lynn Elliott, 17, wasn’t his first killing.

She was his sixth, Gore, then 29, confessed to prosecutors in November 1983.

Gore, 58, admitted killing six women in Indian River County between 1981 and 1983. Most were sexually assaulted, some were tortured and others were dismembered and buried in hidden graves in citrus groves west of Vero Beach.

Through police investigations, interviews with Gore and his cousin and co-defendant Fred Waterfield, 59, authorities uncovered evidence the one-time Indian River County sheriff’s auxiliary deputy targeted at least a dozen women for kidnap and rape beginning in 1976, often with Waterfield’s participation.

In his initial sworn statements, Gore fingered Waterfield as the killer, but after a jailhouse religious “awakening,” Gore renounced his lies, changed his confession and in October 1984 took responsibility for the six murders.

Waterfield, he said, was his accomplice.

Larry Hall To Catch a Serial Killer

A Serial Killer in the Neighborhood

Larry DeWayne Hall, who is serving a life sentence on a federal kidnapping charge, is in many ways a cinematic serial killer --- bullied as a child, a juvenile bed-wetter, he even grew up on a cemetery, where his father was the sexton.  He drove a van incessantly and stalked his victims.  Some investigators believe Hall, who traveled the country as a Civil War reenactment buff, may be responsible for the disappearances and deaths of as many as 40 women and girls.

In other ways Hall is an atypical serial offender.  He’s a twin, for instance.  He’s described as having a dependent personality, and rarely displayed anger.

But the most surprising, and frightening, detail about Hall?  Despite having confessed to multiple violent crimes, including the mysterious abduction of Laurie Depies in Wisconsin in 1992, Hall has never been convicted of murder.

Christopher Hawley Martin, who grew up in the same small town as Hall, Wabash, Ind., is an ordained pastor, a musician and writer.  Martin’s interest in the neighborhood serial killer led him to write the book Urges: A Chronicle of Serial Killer Larry Hall.  After reading the book I emailed with Martin about Hall.  I was interested to know more about Martin’s thoughts on Hall’s background, his ability to evade capture, his contradictions, and what other long-unsolved mysteries might be connected to Hall.

Martin’s fascinating answers, below:

How did your interest in Larry Hall begin? Did you know Hall or his family growing up in Wabash?

My father, Richard, was a policeman in Wabash, Indiana for many years. My sister, Shirley, followed our father into law enforcement. Shirley and I had read about serial killers for decades and we had many times compared ideas on their behavior and motivations. Shirley told me sometime in the late 1980s that she was sure we had a serial killer operating somewhere in the region because there were murdered and missing women in Marion, Kokomo, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, and other cities and towns in Indiana and Michigan.

I remember when Larry Hall was arrested in 1994 for the kidnapping of Jessica Roach of Georgetown, Illinois and what my sister had said about a serial killer. Jessica was found murdered in a cornfield near Perrysville, Indiana in the autumn of 1993. I knew several of the police who had had contact with Larry over the years and I talked to them about his behavior. I suspected Larry was responsible for many more murders and disappearances than most people suspected. The prosecutors and investigators I worked with concurred.

Larry and Gary Hall were Civil War reenactors and journeyed to many states pursuing the hobby. I began to research where they traveled and if there were murdered or missing women at or near the reenactment events. A chilling picture emerged ... there were many.

I believed the full story of Larry Hall had not been revealed. I had written for several magazines including Business People and North American Whitetail, so I decided to write a book telling the story of Larry Hall.

There is a very large cemetery in Wabash, Indiana named after the nearby falls in Charley Creek ... Falls Cemetery. I lived in the neighborhood as a youngster and of course, there were many myths and legends about the cemetery and the house on the grounds. The sexton and his family lived there. In December of 1962, identical twins, Larry DeWayne, and Gary Wayne Hall were born and came home to the house in Falls Cemetery. There was a problem during the birth, which resulted in Larry being deprived of oxygen.

I attended the same elementary school as the Halls and, although there is ten years’ difference in our ages, we were taught by several of the same teachers. We played in the same places, including the cemetery, Charley Creek and the nearby Wabash City Park.

As the twins grew, they were seen around town and were ridiculed and scorned because of their small stature, odd behavior and because they lived in a cemetery. I would see them in public places but I did not personally know the twins. They kept to themselves.

I first talked to Gary Hall via telephone in 2009 when I was researching the book. I wrote to Larry Hall at about the same time. He wrote back and later called me from prison. We have corresponded and spoken many times since. I last talked to Larry on March 4 and received a letter from him the next week.

I see Hall recently confessed to the abduction of Laurie Depies, a connection you touch upon as a possibility in your book. I know you think Hall is a good suspect for the Springfield Three disappearances as well. I couldn't help but notice the resemblance between Depies and Susie Streeter. If Hall is involved in the Springfield case, how do you think it came about?

Larry has admitted responsibility for Laurie Depies. He has also confessed in three other cases since the book was published.

Dennis Rader The BTK Killer Speaks

OCTOBER 16, 2017

That creepy ADT guy on ‘Mindhunter’? He’s based on a Kansas serial killer!

If you spent any time checking out Netflix’s new “Mindhunter” television series over the weekend and you’re from Wichita, you might have gotten an eerie feeling from the ADT serviceman who showed up in Episode Two.

The uniform. The glasses. The mustache. His strictness about office supplies.

The fact that he’s from Kansas.

It all seems a little too familiar, right?

That’s because the ADT guy is based on Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer who terrorized the Wichita area for more than 30 years.

The 10-episode series is based on the book “Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit” co-written by former FBI Special Agent John Douglas, who pursued some of the country’s most notorious serial killers. Douglas is the real-life inspiration for Jack Crawford, the FBI agent-in-charge in “The Silence of the Lambs” and Thomas Harris’ other Hannibal Lecter novels.

“Mindhunter” premiered Friday on Netflix.

The series is set in 1977, after Rader had already murdered seven of his 10 victims – many of whom he stalked and strangled. Rader, who called himself BTK — for Bind Torture Kill — worked as an ADT Security Services installer from 1974 to 1988 in Wichita.

He lived in Park City until his arrest in 2005. His murder spree stretched from 1974 to 1991.

Mindhunter’s ADT serviceman first appears in the opening scene of Episode Two and continues making appearances throughout the show, including scenes where he’s shown mailing a letter and practicing tying a knot, according to reports about the show. (Rader sent graphic letters and riddles to Wichita news organizations and police while he evaded capture and used ropes to bind some of his victims.)

The series finale closes in Park City with the ADT serviceman tossing sketches of what appear to be bound victims into a burning barrel outside of a house.

Rader, who is now serving 10 consecutive life sentences in El Dorado Correctional Facility, kept souvenirs from his victims and is known to have a fondness for drawing.

There’s no official word yet on whether the character based on Rader will appear in a second season.

Who is BTK?

Dennis Rader was a husband, a sexual pervert, a Boy Scout volunteer, a murderer, church leader, child killer, stalker. He terrorized Wichita for 31 years. 

One of the most diabolical serial killers in American history was forgotten to the ages. In the 1970s, Dennis Rader, the self-titled BTK (Bind ’em, Torture ’em, Kill ’em), terrified Wichita, Kansas with his horrifying murders. And then, just like that, he vanished. In 2004, he reemerged from his self-exile, and a year later he was behind bars for crimes that were barely remembered outside longtime Wichita residents. His desire for attention was a fascinating look inside the mind of a serial killer. How he became such a monster is an important case study to prevent others from taking his dark passage.

For a guy who fashioned himself as an evil genius killer terrorizing Wichita, Rader was pretty stupid. The 1977 pronunciation of “homicide” was seen as a clue, but it was only a clue to how dumb Rader was. His first communication to the press was so riddled with grammatical errors that most assumed it was done on purpose. It wasn’t. “I write this letter to you for the sake of the tax payer as well as your time. Those three dude you have in custody are just talking to get publicity for the Otero murders. They know nothing at all. I did it by myself and with no ones help. There has been no talk either. Let’s put this straight . . . ” That was Rader’s attempt to put forward his best grammar. Rader was a poor student in high school and college. He did eventually receive a degree from Wichita State, but it was when he was much older (and in his killing days). He once accidentally left a draft of a communication out for his wife to find. He explained it off as a writing experiment in one of his classes. Years later, after reading over a letter to one of his brothers, she noted, “You spell just like BTK.” No one ever put the two together despite the surprising fact that Rader didn’t try to hide his poor grammar when composing his BTK communications.

Dennis Rader is a coward and a vicious killer; there’s no doubt about that. He ruined the 10 lives he took and did untold damage to the surviving members of their families. Charlie Otero, the eldest Otero child, suffered greatly at the loss of his parents and two youngest siblings. He arrived home shortly after his two other siblings discovered the gruesome crime scene. Charlie’s life ended that day for all intents and purposes—he lost his faith, he lost his desire to achieve his career goals (Wichita State and a career in the Air Force, like his father), and became obsessed with finding out who killed his father. He didn’t learn until much later they were the victims of a serial killer.

Ted Bundy Biography

American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century.

Who Was Ted Bundy?

Theodore "Ted" Bundy (November 24, 1946 to January 24, 1989) was a 1970s serial murderer, rapist and necrophiliac. He was executed in Florida's electric chair in 1989. His case has since inspired many novels and films about serial killers.

Victims: How Many People Did Ted Bundy Kill?

Ted Bundy admitted to 36 killings of young women across several states in the 1970s, but experts believe that the final tally may be closer to 100 or more. The exact number of women Bundy killed will never been known. 

Death in the Electric Chair

On January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy was put to death around 7 a.m. at the Florida State Prison in an electric chair sometimes known as "Old Sparky." Outside the prison, crowds cheered and even set off fireworks after Bundy's execution.

Ted Bundy’s Wife and Daughter

In February 1980, Ted Bundy married Carole Ann Boone, a mother-of-two whom he’d dated before his initial arrest, in a Florida courtroom during the penalty phase of his trial. When Boone gave birth to a daughter in 1982, she named Ted Bundy as the father. Boone eventually realized Bundy was guilty of the crimes and stopped visiting him during the last two years of his imprisonment. 

Family, Childhood and Education

Ted Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946, starting life as his mother's secret shame. Eleanor Cowell was 22 years old and unmarried when she had her son Theodore, which humiliated her deeply religious parents. She delivered the child at a home for unwed mothers in Vermont and later brought her son to her parents in Philadelphia. To hide the fact he was an illegitimate child, Bundy was raised as the adopted son of his grandparents and was told that his mother was his sister. Eleanor moved with Ted to Tacoma, Washington, a few years later. In 1951, she married Johnnie Bundy and the couple had several children together. From all appearances, Bundy grew up in a content, working-class family.

Bundy showed an unusual interest in the macabre at an early age. Around the age of three, he became fascinated by knives. Bundy was a shy but bright child who did well in school, but not with his peers. As a teenager, a darker side of his character started to emerge. Bundy liked to peer in other people's windows and thought nothing of stealing things he wanted from other people.

While a student at the University of Washington, Bundy fell in love with a wealthy, pretty young woman from California. She had everything that he wanted: money, class, and influence. He was devastated by their breakup. Many of his later victims resembled his college girlfriend—attractive students with long, dark hair. His killings also usually followed a gruesome pattern. He often raped his victims before beating them to death.

He graduated from University of Washington with a degree in psychology in 1972 and had been accepted to law school in Utah. By the mid 1970s, Bundy had transformed himself, becoming more outwardly confident and active in social and political matters. Bundy even got a letter of recommendation from the Republican governor of Washington after working on his campaign.

How Was Ted Bundy Caught?

The most damning evidence connecting Ted Bundy to the two Chi Omega murders at FSU were bite marks on one of the bodies, which were a definitive match to Bundy. In July 1979, Ted Bundy was convicted for those crimes. He was given the death penalty twice. He received another death sentence the following year in the murder of Kimberly Leach.

Bundy’s Trial

Ted Bundy’s charm and intelligence made him something of a celebrity during his trial. Bundy fought for his life, spending years appealing his death sentence. He tried to take his case as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, but he was turned down. He also offered information on some of unsolved murders to avoid Florida's electric chair, but he could not delay justice forever. Ted Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989. 

Where Is Bundy's Grave?

Bundy's body was cremated in Gainesville, and no public ceremony was held. Before he was executed he requested his ashes be scattered in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, where he murdered at least four of his victims.

QUICK FACTS

NAME

Ted Bundy

OCCUPATION

Criminal, Murderer

BIRTH DATE

November 24, 1946

DEATH DATE

January 24, 1989

DID YOU KNOW?

Ted Bundy was a 1970s serial murderer, rapist and necrophiliac.

DID YOU KNOW?

Bundy was executed in Florida's electric chair in 1989.

DID YOU KNOW?

Bundy admitted to 36 killings of young women, but experts believe he could've actually killed more than 100 people.

DID YOU KNOW?

Murder is not about lust and it’s not about violence. It’s about possession.

PLACE OF BIRTH

Burlington, Vermont

PLACE OF DEATH

Starke, Florida

ORIGINALLY

Theodore Robert Cowell

Dorothea Puente The Boarding House Killer

APRIL 4 2011

Saga of a lethal landlady: serial killer Dorothea dead at 82

"She was sexually abused while at an orphanage. At 16, she married, had two children and gave them up for adoption. At 19, she was a widow convicted of forging cheques."

Dorothea Puente, a notorious, grandmotherly boarding house operator convicted in the 1990s of killing her tenants, has died in prison aged 82.

Puente died of natural causes at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, said Paul Verke, a Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman.

She was serving life-without-parole sentences for two first-degree murder convictions and a concurrent 15-years-to-life sentence for a second-degree murder conviction, Mr Verke said.

Her macabre story, including allegations that she buried several victims in the yard of her Victorian-style home in Sacramento, made headlines across the country.

At 64, Puente was tried on nine murder charges after police unearthed seven bodies around her home.

Two more bodies, including that of a former boyfriend found in a box in the Sacramento River, were discovered later.

After a five-month trial, jurors deadlocked in 1993 on six of the murder charges.

The investigation began in 1988 after a social worker looking into the disappearance of a mentally disabled man became suspicious of Puente's unlicensed boarding home.

During Puente's trial, which was moved to Monterey County because of media coverage, prosecutors said police had been told months earlier that Puente was killing people and burying them.

But the tip was discounted because it came from a heroin addict facing other charges.

Puente preyed on what investigators called "shadow people" - the elderly, alcoholics and the disabled.

Though there were no witnesses to the slayings, prosecutors said Puente was one of the most "cold, calculating" female serial killers the country had ever seen.

They claimed she used drugs to overdose her victims and then collected their money and social security cheques.

She took in $87,000, prosecutors claimed, and spent it on a face lift, among other things.

Puente was on parole at the time of her crimes for an unrelated earlier conviction related to using drugs to rob elderly victims.

She was arrested in 1988 in Los Angeles, where she had fled when the bodies were discovered.

A man she met in a bar recognised her and turned her in.

Puente reportedly befriended him after learning he was collecting disability checks.

Puente denied killing the victims, saying they died of natural causes. Her attorney portrayed her as the product of a troubled childhood.

There were conflicting accounts of her childhood, with various reports indicating she was one of seven or one of 18 children.

She was scarred by her parents' alcoholism during her early years in Southern California.

Her mother was a prostitute who died when Puente was 10, and her father sometimes held a gun to his head and threatened to kill himself in front of his children, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.

After her mother's death, she moved through several homes.

According to witnesses at the trial, she was sexually abused while at an orphanage. At 16, she married, had two children and gave them up for adoption. At 19, she was a widow convicted of forging checks in Riverside.

Puente's attorney said his client didn't report her tenants' deaths because she was afraid of violating her parole by running a boarding house that catered to the elderly and infirm.

DC Sniper Case The Final Report

September 22, 2017

Here's a look at the shooting spree that occurred in the Mid-Atlantic/Washington area in October 2002. Ten people were killed and three injured in sniper-style shootings.

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were arrested, tried and convicted for the shootings. Muhammad received a death sentence and was executed on November 10, 2009. Malvo was convicted and is waiting for resentencing after a federal judge overturned his two life sentences.

Timeline - DC Area Shooting Spree: 

October 2, 2002 - A shot is fired through a window at a Michael's crafts store in Aspen Hill, Maryland, but no one is hit. 

- Not linked by ballistic evidence.

October 2, 2002 - The first killing takes place when 55-year-old James D. Martin, a program analyst for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is shot in the parking lot of Shoppers Food Warehouse in Wheaton, Maryland. 

- Not linked by ballistic evidence.

October 3, 2002 - Police are called to a crime scene and find James L. Buchanan, a 39-year-old landscaper who has been fatally shot while mowing a lawn at a commercial establishment near Rockville, Maryland.

October 3, 2002 - Premkumar Walekar, 54, a part-time cab driver, is killed while pumping gas into his taxi at a station in the Aspen Hill area of Montgomery County, Maryland.

October 3, 2002 - Sarah Ramos, 34, of Silver Spring, Maryland, is killed at a post office near Leisure World Shopping center. A witness reports seeing a white van or truck speed from the post office parking lot immediately after the shooting.

October 3, 2002 - Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, of Silver Spring is shot dead at a Shell gas station in Kensington where she was vacuuming her van.

October 3, 2002 - In the only killing in Washington and the first one to occur at night, Pascal Charlot, 72, is shot in the chest as he walks along Georgia Avenue. He is taken to a hospital, where he dies less than an hour later.

October 4, 2002 - In a Michael's parking lot in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Caroline Seawell, 43, is shot as she puts her bags inside her Toyota minivan. She is released from a Fairfax hospital on Monday, October 14.

October 7, 2002 - Iran Brown, 13, is shot and critically wounded outside Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Maryland's Prince George's County.

October 9, 2002 - A tarot card is found near the scene of the shooting at the school. CNN sources say it is the "Death Card" with the message "Call me God" for police.

October 9, 2002 - Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, is killed while pumping gas at a station in Manassas, Virginia. A white minivan seen in the area is first thought to have some connection with the shooting but is later cleared by police.

October 11, 2002 - Kenneth Bridges, 53, a Philadelphia businessman, is killed at an Exxon station just off I-95 near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Police enforce a huge roadblock, trying to find a white van-like vehicle (similar to a Chevy Astro) with a ladder rack on top.

October 14, 2002 - Linda Franklin, 47, of Arlington, Virginia, is killed by a single gunshot in a Home Depot parking lot in Falls Church, Virginia.

October 19, 2002 - Jeffrey Hopper, 37, is shot in a parking lot at a Ponderosa Steakhouse near I-95 in Ashland, Virginia, 83 miles south of Washington. Doctors remove the bullet from the victim during surgery on October 21 and connect him to the others by ballistics.

October 21, 2002 - Police surround a white van at a pay phone at an Exxon gas station in Richmond, Virginia. They arrest one man in the vehicle and a second man "in the vicinity" but later say that they cannot be connected to the sniper shootings.

October 22, 2002 - Bus driver Conrad Johnson, 35, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, is shot as he stands on the top step inside his commuter bus in Aspen Hill, Maryland. He later dies at a hospital in Bethesda. Investigators confirm on October 23 that his death is connected to the sniper.

October 24, 2002 - John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo are arrested. They are found sleeping in a 1990 Chevy Caprice at a rest stop in Frederick County, Maryland.

November 10, 2009 - After receiving the death penalty in 2004, Muhammad is executed.

May 26, 2017 - A federal judge overturns two of Malvo's life sentences in Chesapeake and Spotsylvania County in Virginia. Malvo remains in prison as his Virginia convictions still stand, as well as his previous sentences from Maryland. 

Moses Sithole Infamous Murders

Sithole was formally charged with 38 murders. While in remand, Sithole agreed to give a recorded interview to an inmate under the premise that it would be sold and his part of the benefits would go to his daughter. This time, Sithole admitted to 29 murders and said that he "did not know where the other nine came from". According to Sithole, he got his main thrill from watching his victims' eyes bulge out when they died. At his trial, however, Sithole declared himself innocent of all charges, and accused the police of forcing him to confess. On December 4, 1997, Sithole was found guilty of 38 counts of murder, 40 counts of rape, and six counts of robbery, and sentenced to 2,410 years in prison with no possibility of parole for 930 years. Sithole is currently serving his sentence in the C-Max section of Pretoria Central Prison, the highest security block in all of South Africa.

Sithole targeted unemployed black women in their 20s who looked after their appearance. He offered them a desk job, and after a train trip, he led them on foot to one of his killing sites in the Gauteng area, claiming that it was a shortcut to his office. Once there, he told them that he had been hurt by a woman and that he was going to rape and kill them unless they defeated him. He would then bind their hands, undress them, rape them more than once, and strangle them in the location. He strangled the first victim with his own hands, and the rest with a ligature taken from the victims themselves (mostly their own panties, but sometimes also belts, shoelaces, and purse handles). The last victims were strangled with a garrote made with their clothing and a stick. These last victims were also raped and killed directly over an older body, and their hands were bound to their necks, to make them unable to struggle without strangling themselves. Sithole would masturbate while his victims died. Afterwards, he covered their faces with their own clothing and weighed the clothes down with stones.

"[Sithole is] very charming, very well-spoken... whatever I asked him, he answered. He was pleasant, he was polite... Scary."

-Dr. Lorna Martin, the district surgeon

Pistorius profiled the ABC Killer as a black male in his late 20s or early 30s, who is self-employed, with access to money, drives an expensive car, and wears flashy clothes and jewelry. He is also socially competent, charming, and a ladies' man; probably married, separated or divorced; visits places where alcohol is sold and enjoys socializing; has antecedents for fraud or theft; might tell someone that he is the killer, but using the third person, and taunt the police; follows reports of the murders and the investigation in the press; detests women, despite being very charming to them; collects mementos that he disposes of later, and masturbates after the crimes; has a high sex drive and peruses pornography; was exposed to sexual violence in his past, perhaps as a juvenile; and is very intelligent and streetwise.

Ressler said that the ABC Killer "has a high sex drive and reads pornography. His fantasies, to which he masturbates, are aggressive, and he believes that women are merely objects to be abused. He enjoys charming and controlling women. When he approaches a victim, it is done in a very calculating way, and he is very conscious that he is eventually going to kill the victim, and savours the thought while he softens her up."

Richard Ramirez Biography

Where Is Richard Ramirez's Wife Today? Doreen Lioy Is Mysterious...

Jun 12 2016

In 2013, CNN reported that serial killer Richard Ramirez, also known as "the Night Stalker," had died of natural causes while on death row in California. In the spring and summer of 1985, Ramirez had terrorized residents of Southern California and San Francisco. He was captured, convicted of numerous crimes including 13 murders and 11 sexual assaults, and sentenced to death. Over the past year, the Night Stalker case has been brought back into the public eye — Ryan Murphy's version of Ramirez was featured in American Horror Story: Hotel and the upcoming Lifetime movie The Night Stalker is inspired by his case. Although the film adds a number of fictional characters, the Night Stalker isn't the only real person depicted — so where is Richard Ramirez's wife, Doreen Lioy today?

Although Ramirez was single when he went to prison, The San Francisco Chronicle reports that, like many notorious death row inmates, he received a large volume of love letters while he was in jail. According to the outlet, Lioy sent him 75 letters throughout an 11-year period and they married in 1996. According to a 1997 CNN report, she always believed Ramirez was innocent and stated that: "He's kind, he's funny, he's charming... I think he's really a great person. He's my best friend; he's my buddy." Lioy also claimed that her family had disowned her because of the marriage and that being married to a death row inmate was a "lonely lifestyle."

After Ramirez's death, The Los Angeles Times published a brief account of staff writer Christopher Goffard's impression of Lioy. Goffard was at San Quentin to interview a different inmate for a story when he observed Ramirez and Lioy in the visiting room. He described Lioy as a journalist who first saw Ramirez on TV and claimed she could see his "vulnerability." Goffard reported that Lioy visited her husband four times a week and was frequently one of the first people in the visiting line. When anyone commented on the fact that she was married to a convicted serial killer, Lioy would reportedly roll her eyes and say, "hometown girl makes bad."

There were no reports of a divorce and a New York Times article about Ramirez's death indicated that he was still married to Lioy in 2013. However, his estranged niece Shelly Ramirez was interviewed by the Daily Beast several weeks after his death and the article noted that Ramirez's body had not yet been claimed. Scott Robinson, a spokesperson from San Quentin, told the Daily Beast that there had been a conversation with his next of kin, but the body would be cremated if no one claimed it. Robinson also told the outlet that: “[Ramirez] wasn’t allowed to have personal visits all of 2010 and the last few years he has refused to visit with everyone.”

Today, no details about Lioy are available and her whereabouts are unknown. Her CNN interview about her marriage to Ramirez indicated that she wasn't close with any family members or friends due to their disapproval of the relationship. Whatever Lioy is up to today, she's clearly made an effort to avoid public attention.

Execution Viewer Discretion is Advised

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I don't have a background story on this but seems real enough to me.

I always wondered what happens between victim and killer(s), those last minutes... Because we normally only get to see reconstructions or body photos, mostly the aftermath, so I thought to share this...

Mystery on Twin Peaks Drive 48 Hours Mystery

2012, Dec 22

Barb Thompson has lived on her farm in Spokane, Washington, breeding horses, for more than 30 years.

She was just 19 when Ronda was born. Barb's husband left three years later, leaving the newly-single mom with an energetic little girl to raise.

"We got her a pony. She was just hell on wheels. And then she went to the bigger horses and jumping," Thompson told "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Peter Van Sant.

The farm is a place where Thompson draws strength, but a place she's had to leave over and over as she tries to unravel the mystery of her daughter's death.

It was on Dec, 16, 1998, in Toledo, Washington. Ronda Reynolds, then 33 years old, was discovered in her home on Twin Peaks Drive, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide, but one person wasn't buying it.

"It was suicide from the beginning. They already had it labeled, but there is something inside of you that says something's wrong," Thompson cried. "I was going to find the truth, whatever that truth was."

On this particular day in October 2011, Thompson is stopping in Seattle to pick up an old friend: Best-selling true-crime writer Ann Rule.

They're an unlikely duo who never would have met had it not been for Ronda's troubling death.

"I remember hearing it on the radio that December in 1998. ...And it just hit me wrong then. I said, 'Uh-uh. This -- this isn't quite right,'" Rule told Van Sant. "Barb...called me in the first year."

"She just called you out of the blue?" Van Sant asked.

"Oh, yeah. Yeah."

Thompson convinced the world-famous author to join her in investigating Ronda's death.

It took 10 years of intense legal wrangling, but finally in 2011, a coroner's inquest was launched to decide once and for all if Ronda's death was a suicide or a homicide.

Thompson says the daughter she raised could never have taken her own life.

"I know my child. I know her zest for life," she said.

Ronda's zest for life would end up leading her down an unusual path.

"She must have been four or five years old when I realized her one dream in life was law enforcement," Thompson continued.

Ronda was 22 when she achieved her dream, becoming the youngest female state patrol trooper in Washington history. Just a year after joining, she a married ex-Marine and fellow trooper Mark Liburdi.

"Mark was a single parent with three children. And she fell in love with these three children," said Thompson.

But in 1994, Ronda Reynolds' life suddenly began to unravel. Injured on the job, she was accused of taking both disability and her regular pay. Ronda claimed it was all an innocent mistake.

"But sadly," Thompson explained, "it left a black mark on her name."

Ronda eventually resigned her dream job.

"During this time, her marriage was going downhill with Mark Liburdi," said Thompson.

Ronda and Liburdi sought counseling through their Jehovah's Witness church where the elder was none other than Ron Reynolds.

"And is it true you were a marriage counselor to them at one point?" Van Sant asked Ron Reynolds.

"I -- that's true," he replied.

Reynolds and his own wife, Catherine, were splitting up. And in the most unlikely of twists, counselor and counselee started their own romance.

"Ronda just called me up one day...telling me that she really liked me and she wanted to see me. And so from then on we started a relationship," he told Van Sant.

"You fell in love with her?"

"Uh huh, absolutely," Reynolds replied.

In January 1998, just five weeks after her divorce from Mark Liburdi was finalized, Ronda and Ron Reynolds were married. With her new husband came five stepsons.

Two of Reynolds' boys were full-blown teenagers, including 16-year-old Jonathan.

"It was a new mom, in our house and everything," he said. "There wasn't a lot of lovey-dovey stuff going on. But she was really friendly with us."

The family settled into a new home, with spectacular views of the twin peaks - Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens. Reynolds was principal of the local elementary school. But just months after marrying, the relationship started to strain.

"She was running up a credit card bill, over $20,000, probably around $25,000," Reynolds told Van Sant.

"She'd used your credit card without your knowledge?"

"She took out the credit cards in my name without my knowledge. So it was actually a case of forgery," Reynolds replied.

Feeling betrayed, Reynolds demanded a divorce. But Ronda told her mom an entirely different story.

"Six or seven months into the new marriage that he was back seeing and having an affair with his ex-wife," said Thompson.

Asked if that was true, Reynolds told Van Sant, "Along about November...I did see Catherine a couple times."

By mid-December 1998, after just 11 months of marriage, Ron and Ronda were through. Ronda packed up her belongings and made plans to fly home to Spokane.

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Jeffrey Silverthorne captured a series of chilling photographs between 1972 and 1979 in a morgue in Rhode Island. Albeit the grim nature of his subjects, Silverthorne’s mission was to highlight the lingering humanity in every body even in the transitional state balancing between life and death. His aim was far more than just to create haunting images. The following images come from corpses that died in an array of different ways.

Last Chance for Justice 48 Hours Mystery

2011 Sep 10

COLUMBUS, Wis. - Growing up in Columbus, Wis., 31-year-old Christopher McIntyre thought he had an idyllic, small-town childhood.

"For the most part, I was a happy and normal kid growing up just like everybody else," he tells "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Erin Moriarty.

Until the day he learned an awful truth.

"I guess I was about 9 or 10. That's when my father decided to let me know. The woman I thought was my mother I found out was not my real mother," he says. He told me...'You'll never meet your real mom. She's - she's gone.'"

Christopher was only 3 months old and asleep in his crib when his mother, Marilyn, was murdered in 1980. His father, Lane, had struggled for years to find the right time to tell him.

"I was waiting for him to get a little older," Lane tells Moriarty.

For Christopher, the truth was "confusing" and "tough" to hear.

"She never got to hear Christopher call her 'Mom,'" Carolyn Rahn says. "So much...was taken away from her."

Carolyn is Marilyn McIntyre's identical twin. Her world was torn apart when her sister was brutally murdered nearly three decades ago.

"It was hell. ...I turned to alcohol. My marriage failed," she says. "I wasn't there for my children."

"I think she feels like when Marilyn died, a big part of her died," says Carolyn's daughter, Terra Doucette, who was born less than a year after Marilyn's death.

"My first memories are seeing my mom crying on the phone about Marilyn," she says.

As Terra grew up, she witnessed her mother's constant efforts to convince the Columbus Police Department to re-open Marilyn's case.

"I couldn't tell you how many detectives we went through," Carolyn says. "We didn't know where else to turn or where to go."

In 2007, 27 years after Marilyn's murder, Terra decided to take matters into her own hands. She made a phone call that would prove to be fateful.

Ironically, she called the wrong number.

"I thought I was calling the Columbus Police Department. And instead, it was the number to the Columbia County Sheriff's Department," she says.

"I had never heard that there was an unsolved homicide within the county. It wasn't in our record system, says Detective Lieutenant Wayne Smith.

After reviewing the case, Det. Lt. Smith made a crucial decision: the Sheriff's Office would reopen the investigation.

"You could tell right away that...they cared," Carolyn says. "And they seemed shocked that it had went on this long."

As Smith and county detectives began digging into the old case files from 1980, their first question was simple: Who was Marilyn McIntyre?

"She was my best friend," says Carolyn.

Marilyn and Carolyn were born on Nov. 14, 1961. Only five years later, tragedy struck.

"Our real mother was killed in a car accident in 1966," says Carolyn.

The twins, along with older siblings Brenda and Dean, were soon living with their father and an abusive stepmother.

"It was - physically abusive, mentally, verbally abusive," Carolyn says. "And it was mainly on Marilyn and I. ... And at the age of 13, we finally moved into foster care."

At age 16, Marilyn was looking for stability in her life... something she found in 21-year-old Lane McIntyre.

"I was just enamored with Marilyn right away," he tells Moriarty. "She was so pretty. I was like, 'just control yourself.'"

According to Carolyn, "It was love at first sight."

"I wanted to take care of her, you know, be there for her," says Lane.

But while Carolyn approved of the relationship, Marilyn's older sister, Brenda Daniels, was wary.

"I just didn't think he was good enough for Marilyn," she says. "She had a rough life growing up. Was this guy gonna make it any easier? No."

Despite Brenda's concerns, the couple married on Jan. 19, 1979, when Marilyn was just 17 years old.

"It was a small party, maybe only a dozen people," Lane recalls. "But it was one of the happiest days of my life."

Soon, Lane and Marilyn added a new member to the family. Christopher was born in December of that year.

"That coming summer was gonna be the best summer of our lives, being husband and wife with our brand-new baby," says Lane.

The evening of March 10, 1980, started like any other night in the home of Lane and Marilyn McIntyre.

"We did laundry," Lane says. "And then I left for work."

"Do you remember the last thing you said to Marilyn or what she said to you?" Moriarty asks Lane.

"She said, 'I love you. Do you love me?' And, [I said] 'Of course I do,'" he replies.

The next time Lane saw his wife, she was dead.

Lee Erdmann was the Columbus police chief in 1980. He found it significant that there was no sign of forced entry or a robbery, indicating that Marilyn knew her killer.

"And what did you see when you walked in?" Moriarty asks.

"A body on the floor with a knife sticking in the side of her chest. And a mutilated head," he says. 

Family Affair 48 Hours Mystery

July 13, 2012

You can thank or blame John Berendt who wrote "Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil," that highlighted one of the town's notorious murders. The book exploded on the bestseller lists and remade sleepy Savannah into a must-see destination, so much so that today tourists on buses, bicycles and even Segways meander around the town looking for the Southern gothic mansion where the book's centerpiece murder took place.

Last summer, a different murder, or murders, brought me back to Savannah. It was the horrific middle-of-the-night shotgun murders of Philip Heidt, his son Carey and the attempted murder of Philip's wife, Linda. The incident happened in the rural town of Springfield, only about 40 minutes or so outside Savannah proper.

The murders happened in August 2008 but the story surrounding those murders was so sensational, it holds residents spellbound to this day.

And as Carey's widow, Robin Heidt, likes to say, she remains "a woman in the center of a storm."

There are not many who would dispute that statement. In the early 90s, Robin married into the prosperous Heidt real estate family in Effingham County. She was in the catbird seat back then - the admired mother of three children, wife to a wealthy real estate man.

Then, by her own admission, she sidled up to her brother-in-law Craig Heidt to inform him she had romantic feelings for him. He said he felt the same and soon, she says, they were off and running, making love on a couch in his parents' house while his parents were sleeping.

The love affair intensified from there. Robin sometimes even joined Craig at his isolated hunting cabin, leaving husband Carey - Craig's brother - at home to watch the couple's three young children. Incredibly, she told her husband Carey about the affair and this once close-knit family quickly came apart at the seams.

It was brother against brother, father against son. Tensions escalated as Philip Heidt, the family patriarch and father to Craig and Carey, threatened to cut Craig out of his will. Carey, meanwhile, took it upon himself to remove wayward wife Robin as the beneficiary of his $3.5 million life insurance policy, putting the money in trust for his children.

Then came the night of August 25, 2008. Someone snuck into the Heidt house after midnight and went room to room with a shotgun killing Philip and Carey in the beds where they slept, and shooting Linda - Philip's wife - in the face. She survived, just barely.

Before noon the next day, a dozen people informed police of the love affair going on between Robin and Craig and all eyes were on Craig as the possible killer. But would a son shoot his father, mother and brother at point blank range over a woman?

There was no physical evidence at the crime scene linking Craig to the murders and, besides, he had grown up in the house, so what would it matter if DNA or fingerprints were found? Craig maintained his innocence and hoped that Robin would stand by him. She did, for a time.

The secrets surrounding the Heidts, once an upstanding family, were painfully revealed one at a time, right up to the sensational double murder trial. The Heidt family tragedy became one of the region's most-talked about murders. And the twists and turns are so fantastic, it could be a book.