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Worlds Worst Serial Killer?

Fishooks12 · 2011-11-08 15:14:15

It's always something that has fascinated me, the whole notion of killing for pleasure and what drives a person to do it. The only proper insight I've ever really gotten is a fantastic Australian film based on the Snowtown serial killer John Bunting. It goes some-way to portraying how some people can justify such horrible…

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It's always something that has fascinated me, the whole notion of killing for pleasure and what drives a person to do it.

The only proper insight I've ever really gotten is a fantastic Australian film based on the Snowtown serial killer John Bunting.

It goes some-way to portraying how some people can justify such horrible acts in their own mind, in Johns case he saw himself as some sort of vigilante

But who's the worst serial killer of all time?

(By the way, before someone suggests it, I'm not a serial killer :cool:)

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hall of fame

killers_handbook

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#2 08-11-2011 4:15pm
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Fishooks12 wrote: »

But who's the worst serial killer of all time?

I am. I haven't killed anyone yet.

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#3 08-11-2011 4:16pm
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He hasn't been caught yet....

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#4 08-11-2011 4:16pm
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Dahmer and Gacy were two veeeery disturbed individuals.

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#5 08-11-2011 4:17pm
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this guy

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#6 08-11-2011 4:17pm
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Not again. Why are people interested in this crap? Planning a spree to outdo Brevik?

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#7 08-11-2011 4:20pm
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I remember seeing that film starring Brian Dennehey as Gacy. Very disturbing

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#8 08-11-2011 4:20pm
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Confab wrote: »

Not again. Why are people interested in this crap? Planning a spree to outdo Brevik?

Some people are interested in the human mind

Begs the question though, why did you click on a thread entitled "World's worst serial killer" if you have "no interest in this crap"

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#9 08-11-2011 4:22pm
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Surely the world's worst serial killers are the ones who got caught before they had a chance to go serial...

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#10 08-11-2011 4:23pm
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That Dexter fellow. The documentary is frankly shocking.

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#11 08-11-2011 4:24pm
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Fishooks, it has to be Albert Fish. Desperate character

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#12 08-11-2011 4:26pm
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If the bible only contains the truth .....

then here is your answer

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#13 08-11-2011 4:26pm
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Watching a docu on BBC4 last night about the Shankill butchers... reckoned that those bastards as a collective were Britain's worst serial killers...

As for the world's worst? No clue, maybe Hitler or one of those madfellas?

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#14 08-11-2011 4:28pm
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I have a good few books on the subject and this guy ranks amongst the worst:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_L%C3%B3pez_(serial_killer)

Pedro Lopez - thought to have killed in the region of 350 children across South America.

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#15 08-11-2011 4:29pm
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Its gotta be The Butcher of Rostov - Andrei Chikatilo, an extremely evil man.

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#16 08-11-2011 4:35pm
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going by the number killed, wasnt Harold Shipman the worst?

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#17 08-11-2011 4:36pm
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These boys were up there.

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

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#18 08-11-2011 4:38pm
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Orando Broom wrote: »

These boys were up there.

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

Christ I remember my friend had this on his phone before, really horrible

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Ted Bundy must be up there among the worst, he's got to be one of the most fascinating too.

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#20 08-11-2011 4:55pm
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Orando Broom wrote: »

These boys were up there.

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

I came on to have a laugh and say that I ate a box of honey nut cheerios and a box of cornflakes in one day......

but after reading this wiki ffs.. hands down these are the most sickest people in the world, even the horror movie maker couldn't watch till the end.

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#21 08-11-2011 4:57pm
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Countess Elizabeth Slatory(sp)

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#22 08-11-2011 5:03pm
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Confab wrote: »

Not again. Why are people interested in this crap? Planning a spree to outdo Brevik?

Ah ah Brevik was a spree killer not a serial killer.

They might not have been the most prolific but Fred & Rosemary West were evil bastards.

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dark crystal wrote: »

I have a good few books on the subject and this guy ranks amongst the worst:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_L%C3%B3pez_(serial_killer)

Pedro Lopez - thought to have killed in the region of 350 children across South America.

After his jail term, he started preying on young girls in Peru. He later claimed that, by 1978, he had killed over 100 of them. He had been caught by a native tribe, who were preparing to execute him, when an American missionary intervened and persuaded them to hand him over to the state police. The police soon released him. He relocated to Colombia and later Ecuador, killing about three girls a week.

Thank God for missionaries. :rolleyes:

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#24 08-11-2011 5:06pm
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joseph brand wrote: »

Thank God for missionaries. :rolleyes:

Yes, all of them go around looking to free serial killers. The dastards.

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Dennis Nilsen is probably Britain's best nominee. He's the original Jeffrey Dahmer.

Strange how Ireland doesn't seem to have many/any? We must be a very well behaved bunch of people. Either that or the Gardai can't catch them.

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#26 08-11-2011 5:22pm
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Luis Garavito was one of the most despicable I have ever read about (and due for release in a few years :eek:)

but nothing to the likes of these killers using ideology to justify the murder of millions of victims

Heinrich Himmler
Mao Zedong
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Stalin

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#27 08-11-2011 5:22pm
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He was probably never caught. Those stories of people being killed by werewolves and the undead throughout history were likely killed by people who were very real.

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#28 08-11-2011 5:23pm
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EarlyStorms wrote: »

Its gotta be The Butcher of Rostov - Andrei Chikatilo, an extremely evil man.

Slayer have a song about him. You know you're a good serial killer when Kerry King and the lads write a song about you, Dahmer and Ed Gein have gotten the Slayer treatment as well.

Andrei Chikatilo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRBqw9e-Zcg

Dahmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLzkABLX6x4

Ed Gein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_ntrq_K40

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Arawn wrote: »

Countess Elizabeth Slatory(sp)

Bathory?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory

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Zadkiel wrote: »

Bathory?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory

thats the one, I knew it didn't sound quite right

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#31 08-11-2011 5:27pm
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On the subject ive always believed there was a serial killer in the Leinster Area.I'd say he's pretty dormant now with the introduction of mobile phones and that.But ive often wondered if there was one out there how many did this evil fooker kill?

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