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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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#62 08-11-2011 10:44pm
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Confab wrote: »

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

Spree killers are distinctly different from serial killers.

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#63 08-11-2011 10:47pm
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I destroyed my corn flakes this morning. Wha ha ha ha haaaa

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#64 08-11-2011 11:10pm
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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.

strobe wrote: »

Jesus! Am I reading that right? They released the guy in 1998?

And hes now wanted for a fresh murder committed in 2002. Crazy.

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#65 08-11-2011 11:19pm
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losthorizon wrote: »

And hes now wanted for a fresh murder committed in 2002. Crazy.

Not saying he's one of the worst but as ye're talking about killers being released... Rodney Alcala was a convicted rapist when he appeared on the Dating Game tv show. And then went on to kill many people.As a learned boardsie informed me earlier today

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#66 08-11-2011 11:21pm
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spudington16 wrote: »

Spree killers are distinctly different from serial killers.

more whimsy and an open top sports car?

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#67 08-11-2011 11:23pm
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stupidusername wrote: »

Not saying he's one of the worst but as ye're talking about killers being released... Rodney Alcala was a convicted rapist when he appeared on the Dating Game tv show. And then went on to kill many people.As a learned boardsie informed me earlier today

Here's another one in that vein. He had killed 2 people before appearing on tv show Bullseye. Killed another 2 people about 3 weeks after the show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cooper_(serial_killer)

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#68 08-11-2011 11:44pm
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strobe wrote: »

Jesus! Am I reading that right? They released the guy in 1998?

yep - whereabouts currently unknown.

Men like that don't stop killing once they're released - by the time they eventually catch up with him, you can probably add another 50 odd murders onto his running total.

Scary stuff.

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#69 08-11-2011 11:46pm
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Dotrel wrote: »

Here's another one in that vein. He had killed 2 people before appearing on tv show Bullseye. Killed another 2 people about 3 weeks after the show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cooper_(serial_killer)

He looks a bit like Mel Gibson.

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#70 09-11-2011 12:42am
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Just remembered. Met Joe Satriani once,I shook his hand firmly.

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#71 09-11-2011 12:45am
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George W. Bush.

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#72 09-11-2011 12:59am
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Christ, some of this is grim reading. :eek:

dark crystal wrote: »

yep - whereabouts currently unknown.

Men like that don't stop killing once they're released - by the time they eventually catch up with him, you can probably add another 50 odd murders onto his running total.

Scary stuff.

Why the hell some of these people are released from prison, I will never know. :mad:

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#73 09-11-2011 1:01am
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St.Spodo wrote: »

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

I've read so much about him. A very interesting character, led complete double-lives that couldn't have been more different from each other. With a lot of serial killers, you could tell that they were a bit odd, but Bundy just seemed like a very normal, upstanding guy. Also appeared very intelligent and spoke very articulately about his crimes. Even in his last interview it's rather hard to believe he did such terrible things even as he's talking about it. I guess that's what makes him scary though - he seems so normal and nice on the outside, but is the complete opposite underneath it all. A very complex personality.

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#74 09-11-2011 1:56am
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One of the scariest things about Andrei Chikatilo is that he could have been stopped after his first murder.

Police were investigating him and found semen on the victims body. The semen corresponded to whatever blood type and when police sampled Chikatilo's blood he had a different blood type to the semen. Chikatilo had the extreme fortune of having a rare condition where his blood type and semen type are different. Police released him without charge and he went on to murder 50+ more people :eek:

The "Chessboard Killer" is a recently caught and convicted serial killer and seemed to be in some sort of insane competition against Chikatilo.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Pichushkin&mobileaction=view_normal_site

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#75 09-11-2011 3:50am
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Trent

...that is all

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#76 09-11-2011 4:07am
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El Weirdo wrote: »

Fishooks12 wrote: »

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

I am. I haven't killed anyone yet.

YET!?!?!?

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#77 09-11-2011 4:15am
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Probably a toss up between Aids and the AK-47.

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#78 10-11-2011 10:03pm
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Shankill Butchers were a pretty scary bunch o lads

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#79 10-11-2011 10:05pm
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some one I know very well was mates in school with this guy

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#80 10-11-2011 10:06pm
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Saila wrote: »

this guy

Friends
Cereal Killer has not made any friends yet :eek:

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#81 10-11-2011 10:12pm
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Somebody mentioned Dennis Nilson

It is said that in the year he was caught, Dyno Rod solved more murders in London than the Metropolitan Police.

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#82 10-11-2011 10:12pm
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Orando Broom wrote: »

These boys were up there.

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

I'll wager a considerable amount of Greek debt that I'll never see anything worse than that video.

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#83 10-11-2011 10:21pm
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dfx- wrote: »

I'll wager a considerable amount of Greek debt that I'll never see anything worse than that video.

that video truely shocking

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#84 15-11-2011 3:29pm
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th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

I suppose Jack the Ripper is the most famous, seeing as he was never caught
Dunno who the worst is , hard to rate I would imagine

I was watching a great doc actually about Jack the Ripper.
A Retired detective took up the case and although they don't know who it was believed the person to be german.

The reason behind this was the exact same murders popped up in Germany at the time when nothing was happening in the UK. Then it started again in the UK & stopped in Germany.

That doesn't mean the killer was German I suppose but there ye go.

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

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#85 15-11-2011 3:40pm
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Sc@recrow wrote: »

I remember seeing that film starring Brian Dennehey as Gacy. Very disturbing

The party on the grounds of Stateville Prison when they executed him was epic !!

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