Criminal Profiling In the late 1960’s, the FBI was desperate to get a handle on the growing phenomenon of the serial killer. Yet-to-be-caught serial killers such as Ed Kemper and Henry Lee Lucas were actively killing, while eluding arrest — both terrifying the public and frustrating law enforcement. Indeed this era, peaking in 1989, would […]
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“I am still here. Like a spirit roaming the night, thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping …” The Son of Sam: a name that seems so ordinary, yet is forever linked to murder, terror, and and the devil. Fictional Childhood David Richard Berkowitz was actually not the Son of Sam’s birth name. He was born Richard David
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“The real problem is to define when human life is worth living and when it has to be eradicated.” His victims called him the Angel of Death. Others called him “absolute evil, only playing the part of a human.” People have argued he was worse than Hitler. His name was Josef Mengele. Young Mengele Josef
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When I started this true crime blog, I promised you we’d go into the mind of a serial killer. So far we’ve looked at psychopathy and sociopathy. Now it’s time to go deeper. Interview with Death In the 1980’s, psychologist and author Joel Norris was researching psychopathy and his theory that violence is a disease
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“I can’t say I’m normal…” Shawn Michael Grate, while not a household name like Ted Bundy, used his ladies-man charm to terrorized Central Ohio for a decade. A Mysterious Childhood Born August 8, 1976, in Marion, Ohio, Shawn Michael Grate has somewhat of a mysterious or missing childhood. The Wikipedia article on Grate says nothing
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The Florida Highway Killer “You killed seven people in one year.” “Oh well!” “But you killed seven men.” “Yeah, sure did.” I referenced female serial killer Aileen Wuornos in a previous blog post (Are Some People Born Evil). This is her story. Stolen Childhood Aileen Carol Wuornos was born in 1956 to teenage parents. She
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The Golden State Killer “I did it because I could.” Joseph James DeAngelo almost got away with nearly 200 felonies including 13 murders. It seemed he was the perfect criminal. Growing Up Joseph DeAngelo Jr. was born in 1945 to an Army sergeant. His childhood was grim. DeAngelo and his siblings were subjected to various
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The Night Stalker “Ramirez developed a fixation on Satan. He finally had a name to call the darkness growing within him.” Some serial killers check every box – then there are others like Richard Ramirez that break all the “rules.” Dancing with Death Death seemed to never be far from Richard Ramirez. He nearly died
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It’s a grim reality that evil exists in this world and has taken up residence in the hearts of men. A question I have personally asked more than once and that many people wonder is the question in the title of this post: “Are some people born evil?” I’ve done quite a bit (too much
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“If ever there was a case where the death penalty is appropriate, this is the case.” The Hillside Strangler killings are among a rare class of murders that were perpetrated by a serial killer team: Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. They also happened to be cousins. Angelo Buono The older Angelo Buono (born 1934)
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