The most famous serial killers throughout history

When can we say about a murderer that he is a serial killer

We can say that a serial killer plans and executes at least two murders, however, this definition is not adopted in any legal text.

Throughout history, a lot of stories have spread about serial killers who are closer to being bloodthirsty serial killers.

Some of their stories, if had not been revealed, we would have considered them stories inspired by fiction and legends.

Here is a list of stories of the most famous serial killers throughout history:

Jack The Ripper:

In 1888 in London specifically in the Whitechapel district appeared Jack The Ripper or, as his fame was, because he did not know what his full name was.

This name was behind one of the most heinous and oldest murders in history, as he killed five girls who were girls at night and mutilated their bodies so much that the police believed that the perpetrator of these crimes was a doctor because of his skill in using a scalpel.

After each crime, he would send a letter to the police telling them the details of his crime and how he had committed it, and his goal of these letters was only to ridicule society and the police, nothing more.

Over the years, the police have suspected many people, but they have not been able to determine the true identity of Jack The Ripper to this day.

Harold Shipman :

Perhaps we all believe that medicine is the most humane profession, and a doctor who starts his career as a doctor swears to do his best to protect and treat patients.

But the hero of this story named Harold Shipman was not like that, his nickname was the killer doctor.

This criminal practiced as a doctor in London between 1972 and 1998, during which he killed almost 250 victims, all of whom were patients.

Most of his victims were elderly women, and they all died in the daytime on the bed and not as it was in the medical reports that they die at night. The Undertaker was surprised by a large number of death certificates with Harold Shipman's signature, but police investigations could not come to anything.

But he made a mistake because of his greed and greed, falsifying papers for one of his victims stating that she had ceded her wealth to him, which made her daughter suspect it investigations began that ended with his conviction in 2000 and he was imprisoned, but in 2004 this serial killer committed suicide, ending the story of the killer doctor.

Jeffrey Dahmer :

Can you believe that someone keeps a container of acid in his house to dissolve his victims in

He is Jeffrey Dahmer, a young man who started killing at the age of 18, specifically in 1978, and was arrested only in 1991 when one of his victims ran away and led police forces to him at his home in Milwaukee.

When the police raided his house, they found many gruesome details of his life spent in murder, from photos of mutilated bodies and fragments scattered around his house.

Dahmer killed 17 people, mostly people of color.

He was convicted of murder and was killed in prison by another prisoner in 1994.

John Gacy :

A well-known Social and life-giving construction worker and political activist in his hometown, he sometimes dresses up as a clown to share the joy of children on their birthdays.

Can we imagine that behind these traits is a serial killer?

In 1978, a 15-year-old boy disappeared and was last seen with Gacy, which made the parents point fingers at him, and when the police issued a warrant to search his house, they were shocked when they found 30 bodies buried in a narrow space under his house and the smell was the one that led them to discover these bodies.

He was convicted of 33 murders as well as rape and torture charges.

In 1994 he was executed by poison injection.

Henry Holmes :

A three-story hotel equipped with gas lines, secret passages, hidden doors, basements leading to dead ends, chutes ending in the cellar, soundproof gaskets, surgical tables, an oven, and a lot of instruments of torture.

This description is not of the filming location of one of the horror films, but of a hotel set up by pharmacist Henry Holmes in Chicago in 1893.

He would use gas to knock his victims unconscious and then perform a torture party that often ended on the surgical table, then he would burn the corpses and sell the skeletons of his victims to medical schools.

He committed more than 30 murders and was discovered only when there was a dispute over money between him and one of his colleagues.

He was executed by hanging in 1896.

Ted Bundy :

It is normal for a child to make a noise or break something to get the attention of those around him to get their attention, but the killer Ted Bundy was impressed by the attention that results from murders, he wanted to be the focus of everyone's attention like a movie star but he chose to be a murderer.

The western United States of America was the scene of his crime and his hunting club, and most of his victims were young women, and it is not known exactly how many.

Bundy was arrested in Colorado and convicted of kidnapping but escaped and moved to Florida where he committed other crimes.

He did not ask for a lawyer to defend him, but he asked to defend himself in his televised trial, and he welcomed personal interviews, boasting about the number of his fans.

He was executed by electric chair in 1998.

Pedro Lopez :

He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and released in 1998 for good behavior, his whereabouts remain unknown until now.

This killer, who is now free on the loose, was convicted of 110 murders from Ecuador and later confessed to another 240 crimes in Colombia and Peru, and when he was arrested in 1980, the police found the grave of 50 of his victims. And after all this and because of his good behavior in prison he is released.

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