Too Evil (For A Proper Name)

Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948), is an American serial killer , suspected cannibal and necrophile who committed the murder of numerous women in the early 1970s, as well as the murders of his mother and paternal grandparents. He killed up to 10 individuals in total. Kemper is widely known for his high intelligence and giant stature, standing 6 foot 9 inches (or 2.06 m) tall and havi...

Dale Merle Nelson (March 19, 1939 – February 10, 1999) was a Canadian mass murderer who killed eight people (including five young children) and partially ate one victim in 1970 following a drinking binge and possible use of LSD .

The Hi-Fi murders were the torture of five people resulting in three deaths during a robbery at the Hi-Fi Shop, a home audio store in Ogden, Utah , United States, on the evening of April 22, 1974. Several men entered the Hi-Fi Shop shortly before closing time and began taking hostages. They forced their victims to drink corrosive drain cleaner , which the perpetrators believed would fatally poison...

USS Indianapolis was a Portland -class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy , named for the city of Indianapolis , Indiana. Launched in 1931, she was the flagship of the commander of Scouting Force 1 for eight years, then flagship for Admiral Raymond Spruance from 1943 to 1945 while he commanded the Fifth Fleet in battles across the Central Pacific during World War II . In July 1945, Indianapol...

John Emil List (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer and long-time fugitive . On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children in their Westfield, New Jersey home, then disappeared. He had planned the murders meticulously; nearly a month passed before his family's bodies were discovered. List assumed a new identity, remarried, and eluded justice...

Westley Allan Dodd (July 3, 1961 – January 5, 1993) was an American convicted serial killer and sex offender who sexually assaulted and murdered three young boys in Vancouver , Washington, in 1989. He was arrested later that year after a failed attempt to abduct a six-year-old boy at a movie theatre in Camas, Washington . Dodd wrote detailed accounts of his murders in a diary that was found by pol...

The Ripper Crew or the Chicago Rippers was an organized crime group of serial killers , cannibals , rapists , and necrophiles . The group was composed of Robin Gecht and three associates: Edward Spreitzer and brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis. They were suspected in the murders of seventeen people by beheading, dismembering, disemboweling and gouging heart and lungs out or skinning in Illinois...

The 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary riot was the deadliest prison riot in U.S. history, resulting in 33 inmate deaths and 12 guards held hostage. The riot occurred on February 2–3, 1980 , at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) near Santa Fe. Inmates seized control of the prison, taking 12 officers hostage and attacking other prisoners with improvised weapons such as lead pipes, homemade shanks...

Jerome Henry (Jerry) Brudos, known as the “Lust Killer” and “Shoe Fetish Slayer”, was an American serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least four women in Oregon between 1968 and 1969. His obsession with women's shoes and underwear began at age five and escalated from theft to abduction, assault, and murder. Victims were often dressed in stolen lingerie and photographed post-mortem, wi...

Herbert William Mullin  (April 18, 1947 [1]  – August 18, 2022) [2]  was an American  serial killer  who killed 13 people in  California  in the early 1970s. He confessed to the killings, which he claimed prevented  earthquakes . In 1973, after a trial to determine whether he was  legally insane  or  culpable , he was convicted of two  murders in the first-degree  and nine in the  second-degree  a...

Gary Michael Heidnik  (November 22, 1943 – July 6, 1999) was an American  murderer  and  serial rapist  who kidnapped, tortured and raped six women, murdering two of them, while holding them captive in a self-dug pit in his basement floor in  Philadelphia  between 1986 and 1987. He was  sentenced to death  and executed by  lethal injection  in July 1999, the last person executed in the state of  P...

Hamilton Howard  " Albert "  Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American  serial killer ,  rapist ,  child molester  and  cannibal  who committed at least three  child murders  between July 1924 and June 1928. He was also known as the  Gray Man , the  Werewolf of Wysteria , the  Brooklyn Vampire , the  Moon Maniac , and the  Boogey Man . Fish was a suspect in at least ten murd...

Herbert Richard Baumeister  (April 7, 1947 – July 3, 1996) was an American businessman and suspected  serial killer  who came under suspicion of murdering over a dozen men in the early-to-mid 1990s, most of whom were last seen at  gay bars  in central  Indiana . Police ultimately found the remains of eleven men, eight identified, on Baumeister's property. He died by  suicide  after a warrant w...

Hadden Irving Clark  (born July 31, 1952) is an American murderer and suspected  serial killer  currently serving two 30-year sentences for the murders of 6-year-old Michele Lee Dorr in 1986, and 23-year-old Laura Houghteling in 1992. He was also given a 10-year sentence for robbery after stealing from a former landlord.

Joseph Edward Duncan III  (February 25, 1963 – March 28, 2021) was an American convicted  serial killer  and  child molester  who was on  death row  in federal prison following the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family of  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho . He was also serving 11 consecutive sentences of  life without parole  for the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez of  Beaumont, Cal...

Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker  (September 27, 1940 – December 13, 2019) and  Roy Lewis Norris  (February 5, 1948 – February 24, 2020), also known as the  Tool Box Killers , were two American  serial killers  and  rapists  who committed the  kidnapping , rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls in  Southern California  over a five-month period in 1979. Described by  FBI  special agent  John Edwar...

Susan Marie Powell Cox ; born October 16, 1981) is an American  missing person  from  West Valley City, Utah , whose disappearance and suspected murder in December 2009 garnered national media attention. Her husband, Joshua Powell , was named by law enforcement as a  person of interest  in the case but was never charged. Joshua killed himself and the couple's two young sons in February 2012 af...

Arthur John Shawcross  (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008), also known as the  Genesee River Killer , was an American serial killer active in  Rochester, New York , between 1972 and 1989. Shawcross's first known murders took place in his hometown of  Watertown, New York , where he killed a young boy and a girl. Under the terms of a  plea bargain , he was allowed to plead guilty to one charge of...

Joseph Kallinger  (born  Joseph Lee Brenner III ; December 11, 1935 – March 26, 1996) was an American  serial killer  who  murdered  three people and  tortured  four families. He committed the later crimes with his 12-year-old son Michael.

Robert Andrew Berdella Jr.  (January 31, 1949 – October 8, 1992) was an American  serial killer  who  kidnapped , raped, tortured, and murdered at least six young men after forcing his victims to endure periods of up to six weeks of captivity. His crimes took place in  Kansas City, Missouri , between 1984 and 1987.

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