In May 1998 convicted killer was released from a prison in Austria, having only served 15 years and four months behind bars, his name – Jack Unterweger. Unterweger was living the double life, of a celebrated writer and that of a serial killer. Once released from prison he went on to kill nine women and […]
Jack Unterweger – ”The worst serial murderer in modern European history.’’ Read Post »
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. His conviction for thirty-three murders, by one individual, then covered the most homicides in United States legal history. Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13,
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This case is one of the most heinous that shocked Australia and the world. The regional South Australian town of Snowtown is considering a name change following one of the state’s darkest crime and Adelaide is still struggling with reputation. John Justin Bunting (4 September 1966 in Inala, Queensland) is an Australian serial killer from Adelaide,
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“Psychopath knows the words but not the music”, J. H. Johns and H. C. Quay. Many researchers, clinicians, and writers use the terms psychopath and sociopath interchangeably for many reasons, but we use antisocial personality disorder described in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as well, widely used as the ‘’diagnostic Bible’’ for
In 1989, Westley Allan Dodd kidnapped, molested and fatally stabbed 11-year- old boy and his brother, 10, whom he encountered in a Vancouver, Wash., public park. A short time later, Dodd abducted and took pleasure in prolonged torture and murdered 4-year-old boy. In 1992, the state of Washington hanged Dodd for those murders. His execution
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Theodore Robert Cowell was born in Burlington, Vermont on 24th November 1946. His mother Louise was unmarried, and her pregnancy was the result of a fling with an alleged sailor, who abandoned her. In 1946, it was not considered acceptable to bear a child out of wedlock, and Louise opted to give birth in the
Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer, also known as the “Candy Man”, who, together with two youthful accomplices named David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, took pleasure in the extreme and prolonged sexual torture of his victims, and murdered a minimum 28 boys. Dean Corll was born in 1939, in Indiana
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