23 Famous Serial Killers Who Are Still Alive.
This is a list of serial killers, who are still alive.
When serial killers are caught, after a long period of horrific, evil crimes, it's almost
expected that their lives will be coming to an end.
The usual sentence for multiple murders, especially ones committed by serial killers, is death.
So that's why it's so remarkable, to hear about serial killers, who are currently still
alive, most of whom are serving life sentences in prison.
Very few serial killers, who have been caught have been released from prison, but there
are still some odd exceptions, where the law and morality don't intersect.
Who are these serial killers, who are still among the living?
How did they escape a death sentence while on trial?
What were their crimes, and who were their victims?
How did these serial killers murder their victims?
This list answers these questions, and more about some of the world's most notorious
living serial killers.
Many famous serial killers were murdered in jail.
The male and female serial killers on this list, either received life sentences, or managed
to avoid life in prison.
These rare serial killers may have taken the lives, of at least three people, some with
victim numbers over 50, yet are still alive.
1.
Charles Manson.
Born in Ohio in 1934, Charles Manson is notoriously connected to the brutal slayings of actress
Sharon Tate, and other Hollywood residents, but he was never actually found guilty, of
committing the murders himself.
However, the famous Tate-La Bianca killings have immortalized him, as a living embodiment
of evil.
Images of his staring "mad eyes" are still used today to illustrate countless serial-murder
news stories.
The Manson Family including Charles Manson, and his young, loyal dropout disciples of
murder, is thought to have carried out some 35 killings.
Most were never tried, either for lack of evidence, or because the perpetrators were
already sentenced, to life for the Tate/La Bianca killings.
In 2012, Manson was denied parole for the 12th time.
The first victims fell on August 9, 1969, at the home Roman Polanski had rented located
at 10050, Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, an area just north of Beverly Hills.
Manson chose four of his most obedient comrades Charles "Tex" Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia
Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian to carry out these heinous crimes.
Kasabian acted as the getaway driver, and was to become the star witness during the
trial.
The victims inside the house, actress Sharon Tate; writer Wojciech Frykowski, and his partner,
the coffee bean heiress Abigail Folger; and celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, had returned
to the Polanski residence after dining out.
Polanksi himself was away in London shooting a film.
The first victim was 18-year-old Steven Parent, who had been visiting his friend William Garretson,
who took care of and lived in a guest home, on the Cielo Drive property which Polanski,
and Tate rented.
He was spotted by the intruders, and was shot as he drove away from the house, in the dark
early morning hours.
Kasabian was horrified by the shooting of the boy, and she remained outside to keep
watch.
When the other three broke into the house, they herded the occupants into the living
room, and tied them up.
Manson himself took no part in the actual killings, but directed his murderous disciples
to the address, and instructed them to kill everyone.
According to one of the Family member's statements, the Polanksi household had been targeted,
because it represented Manson's rejection by the showbiz world and society.
Jay Sebring was shot and brutally kicked as he tried to defend Ms. Tate.
During the terrifying fracas, both Frykowski and Folger managed to escape from the house,
but were chased and stabbed to death.
At the trial, Kasabian described how she saw Frykowski staggering out, of the house covered
in blood, and was horrified at the sight.
She told him she was "sorry," but despite her pleas to his attacker to stop, the victim
was bludgeoned repeatedly.
Folger escaped from the house with terrible injuries, but was caught on the front lawn
and stabbed 28 times.
2.
Dennis Rader – BTK Dennis Lynn Rader was born on March 9, 1945,
in Pittsburg, Kansas.
From the 1970s to the 1990s, the "BTK Killer"—which stands for "bind, torture, and kill"—terrorized
the Wichita, Kansas area.
In 2005, he was finally caught and revealed to be Dennis Rader, a seemingly average married
father of two.
The oldest of four sons, Rader grew up in Wichita, Kansas.
There may have been signs of trouble, early on as a Los Angeles Times report stated, that
he used to hang stray cats as a child.
Rader served in the U.S. Air Force, from the mid to late 1960s.
He married his wife Paula in 1971, and worked for a camping gear company for a few years.
He went to work for ADT Security Services in 1974.
That same year, Rader committed his first crime.
On January 15, 1974, Rader killed four members of the Otero family in their home, Joseph
and Julie Otero and two of their children, Josephine and Joseph Jr.
They died by strangulation, and Rader took a watch and a radio from the home.
Strangulation and taking souvenirs would become part, of his modus operandi, or pattern of
behavior.
He also left semen at the scene and later said, that he derived sexual pleasure from
killing.
The Oteros' 15 year old son, Charlie, came home later, that day and discovered the bodies.
The BTK Killer struck again a few months later.
Waiting in their apartment on April 4, 1974, Rader killed Kathryn Bright, by stabbing and
strangling, and attempted to kill her brother, Kevin.
Kevin was shot twice, but survived.
He described Rader as "an average-sized guy, bushy mustache, 'psychotic' eyes," according
to a TIME magazine article.
Despite his cat and mouse game with authorities, Rader was able to keep the lid on his secret,
murderous life.
He continued to work at ADT.
On the surface, Rader was reportedly an attentive husband and father.
He and his wife had their first child, a son, in 1975 and a daughter in 1978.
The next year, Rader graduated from Wichita State University, with a degree in administration
of justice.
Still he continued to taunt authorities, and appeared to be poised to strike again.
In April 1979, Rader waited in an elderly woman's home, but he left before she came
home.
He sent her a letter, to let her know that the BTK Killer had been there.
In an effort to catch him, the authorities released the 1977, recording of the phone
call to police, hoping that someone might recognize the voice.
After several years without a known crime, Rader killed his neighbor Marine Hedge, on
April 27, 1985.
Her body was found days later on the side of the road.
The next year, he killed Vicki Wegerle in her home in September.
His final known victim, Dolores Davis, was taken from her home on January 19, 1991.
It is not known why Rader seemed to stop killing.
He had left ADT in the late 1980s, and started working as a Park City, compliance supervisor
in 1991.
In his new position, Rader was known to be a stickler for the rules.
He measured the height of people's lawns, and chased stray animals while toting a tranquilizer
gun.
According to reports, Rader took pleasure in exerting his limited authority over his
neighbors, and other members of the community.
He was also a Boy Scout troop leader, and an active member of his church.
With many news stories marking, the thirtieth anniversary of the Otero murders, the BTK
Killer resurfaced in 2004.
Rader sent local media outlets, and authorities a number of letters.
These were filled with items related to his crimes, including pictures of one of the victims,
a word puzzle, and an outline for the "BTK Story."
During 2004 and 2005, he also left packages with more clues around, including a computer
disk.
That disk helped lead authorities to Rader's church.
They also noticed his white van on security, tapes of some of the package drop off areas.
Authorities were also able to obtain, a DNA sample from Rader's daughter, which helped
cement their case against him.
Rader was arrested on February 25, 2005, and later charged with 10 counts of first-degree
murder.
Some neighbors and members of his church, where he served as president of the church
council, were stunned by the news and could not believe, that the man they knew was the
serial killer that, had haunted the area for so long.
To the surprise of many, Rader pled guilty to all of the charges on June 27, 2005.
As part of his plea, he gave the horrifying details of his crimes in court.
Many observers noted that he described the gruesome events, without any sign of remorse
or emotion.
He escaped the death penalty, because he committed his crimes, before the state's 1994 reinstatement
of the death penalty.
Rader is currently serving 10 life sentences in a Kansas prison.
3.
Dennis Nilsen Dennis Nilsen was born November 23, 1945 in
Fraserburgh, Scotland.
Though Nilsen recognized his homosexual desires, he was never comfortable with them, and began
acting on them through murder and dismemberment.
Nilsen's first victim was in 1978, he went on to kill, upon his confession, twelve young
men and dissect their bodies.
In February 1983 a tenant, at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, complained that the toilets
were blocked, and the Dyno-rod company was called in to investigate.
What they discovered in the drains would lead to the arrest, of one of Britain's most prolific
serial killers.
Dennis Nilsen, a 37 year old civil servant living in the attic, had murdered at least
15 men in the space of five years.
In many cases he would keep the corpses, in his home for several months before cutting
them up, and disposing of them, either on a bonfire or by flushing them down the toilet.
He would later confess to having sex, with the dead bodies of his victims.
The first known victim is 14 year-old Stephen Holmes on December 30, 1978.
Nilsen invited him back to his flat, at 195 Melrose Avenue in Cricklewood, strangled him
with a necktie, and then drowned him in a bucket of water.
Eight months later Nilsen burnt the body in the garden.
On 3 December 1979 Kenneth Ockendon, a 23 year-old Canadian student, was invited back
to the same address and strangled.
He was followed by 16 year-old Martyn Duffey, on May 17, 1980, and 27 year-old Billy Sutherland,
in August 1980.
Nilsen admitted to killing seven other unidentified men, and keeping their bodies under the floorboard,
before the murder of Malcolm Barlow, 24, on September 18, 1981.
He burned five of them on a bonfire at the back, of his home on October 4, 1981.
The next day he moved to 23 Cranley Gardens.
The first victim at the new flat was John Howlett in March 1982, (exact age and date
unknown).
He was followed by Graham Allen, in September 1982 (age and date unknown), and finally Stephen
Sinclair, 20, on January 26, 1983.
Nilsen was arrested two weeks later on 9 February, after the discovery of human flesh in the
drains.
When questioned by detectives at the flat, he feigned shock before showing them two bags,
full of body parts in his cupboard.
During the summing up, the judge dispensed with the majority, of the psychiatric jargon
that had perplexed the jury, by instructing them that a mind can be evil, without being
abnormal.
The jury retired on November 3, 1983, but were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
The following day, the judge agreed to accept a majority verdict and, at 4:25 p.m., they
delivered a verdict of guilty on all six counts of murder.
The judge sentenced Dennis Nilsen to life in prison, without eligibility for parole
for at least 25 years.
4.
Charles Cullen While working as a nurse over the course of
16 years, Charles Cullen killed at least 35 victims, although the suspected number is
actually in the hundreds.
He killed patients through overdoses, and medical contamination in New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
hospitals.
Cullen was arrested in 2003, and sentenced to 127 years in prison.
Since then, investigations into the hospitals, that employed Cullen have revealed, that some
may have been aware, that he was harming patients without taking any measures to stop it.
Charles Cullen was a critical care nurse, who admits to killing up to 40 people.
Some suspect it was a lot more.
The murders took place over 16 years in seven different hospitals.
There were suspicions at nearly, all of them that Cullen was harming patients, yet none
of them passed that information on to subsequent employers.
Newspaper headlines called him "The Angel of Death," but as you will see, Charles Cullen
was no mercy killer.
Until we interviewed him a few weeks ago, he had never spoken publically about his crimes,
never tried to explain why he did it, or even express remorse to the families of victims,
when he finally faced them in court.
Thomas Strenko: This monster didn't even know us or our son, but had the audacity to end
his life.
Richard Stoeker: I'd like to tell you a little about my mother, that you murdered.
You don't even have the guts to look this way do you?
Clara Hardgrove: Charles.
Why don't you look up at us?!
I'd like to show you what you did to our children.
This is their dad in his coffin.
How do you like that?
This was the scene seven years ago, at the Somerset County Courthouse in New Jersey,
as Charles Cullen sat through his sentencing hearing, refusing to speak, or even acknowledge
the family members, of people he had murdered.
Even the judge was exasperated.
Judge Paul Armstrong: Mr. Cullen, I asked you a question...Why is it that you have chosen
not to address the court?
Can you hear me, Mr. Cullen?"
He's kept that silence behind the walls, of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, where
he is in protective custody to keep him safe from other inmates.
Protecting himself from his own demons has been more difficult.
We found out when we sat down across from him, in a cramped cubicle separated by a thick
layer of glass, to talk about the people he's killed.
Steve Kroft: Is 40 an arbitrary number?
Charles Cullen: Forty is an estimate.
I gave a number between 30 and 40.
I think I have identified, you know, most of them.
Steve Kroft: Look, you pled guilty to murder.
But you don't use that word.
Charles Cullen: I think that I had a lot of trouble accepting, that word for a long time.
I accept that that's what it is.
Steve Kroft: Do you consider yourself a serial killer?
Charles Cullen: I mean, I guess it depends upon a person's definition.
If it's more than one and it's a pattern, I guess then yes.
In Cullen's case, all his victims were patients assigned to hospital units where he worked
as a nurse.
They ranged in age from 21 to 91.
Some were critically ill.
Others were ready to be discharged when Cullen injected them with drugs that would kill them.
It was a pattern that began 26 years ago at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston,
New Jersey, Cullen's very first nursing job.
Charles Cullen: I worked on the burn unit.
So, I mean, there was a lot of pain, a lot of suffering.
And I didn't cope with that as well as I thought I would.
Steve Kroft: And that was the first place that you gave someone medication, that caused
them to die?
Charles Cullen: Yes.
The patient was John Yengo, a judge from New Jersey, who was suffering from a severe case
of sunburn, until Cullen injected him with a fatal overdose of lidocaine.
Steve Kroft: Do you remember the person?
Charles Cullen: I mean, I remember one and that's the only person, I've been able to
identify.
But there could have been more...St. Barnabas didn't know about the patient Cullen murdered,
but it did suspect him of trying to kill, or harm a half dozen other patients by randomly,
and repeatedly poisoning bags of saline solution.
5.
David Berkowitz - The Son of Sam.
Berkowitz's killing spree began on July 29, 1976, with the shooting of two teenage women,
outside a Bronx apartment building.
At the time of the attack, Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti were sitting in Valenti's car,
in front of Lauria's home.
Berkowitz shot the two women, killing Lauria and injuring Valenti.
Three months later, Berkowitz struck again.
He shot at a couple sitting in a parked car, severely damaging the man's skull.
That November, Berkowitz attacked two teenage girls walking home.
He shot both of the girls, leaving one of them a paraplegic.
At the time, the police did not think these shootings were related.
In January 1977, Berkowitz again targeted a couple, sitting together in a car at night.
He walked up to Christine Freund, and her fiancé and fired twice, striking Freund in
the head.
She later died of her injuries.
For all of his shootings, Berkowitz used a .44 caliber gun.
Before long, the police would create a special, task force to hunt down the 44 caliber killer.
That March, Berkowitz claimed another victim, Virginia Voskerichian, a college student.
He killed her as she returned home from classes.
The next month Berkowitz killed a couple, Valentina Suriani and Alexander Esau, in their
parked car.
This ruthless killer began taunting the police, leaving a letter for a police captain near
the scene.
In his note, Berkowitz called himself the Son of Sam.
Berkowitz's final attack occurred in the early hours of July 31, 1977.
He shot another couple, Stacy Moskowitz, and Bobby Violante, in Brooklyn.
Moskowitz later died, and Violante was blinded in one eye, and lost most of the vision in
the other from his injuries.
Fortunately for the police, a witness noticed something at the scene that, helped in cracking
the case.
At the scene of the Moskowitz-Violante shootings, a witness saw a man getting away in a car
that had a parking ticket on it.
Only a handful of tickets were given out that day, and one of them was for Berkowitz.
The police arrested him on August 10, 1977.
According to The New York Times, Berkowitz said, "Well, you've got me" when they took
him into custody.
During questioning, Berkowitz explained that he had been commanded to kill, by his neighbor
Sam Carr, who sent messages to him through Carr's dog.
"He told me to kill.
Sam is the devil," Berkowitz said.
Many months were spent on determining whether, Berkowitz was fit to stand trial.
He underwent numerous psychological evaluations.
In August 1978, Berkowitz pled guilty to the six killings.
He later received 25 years to life for each murder.
Berkowitz is currently serving a life sentence, at Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg,
New York.
Since entering prison, he has become a member of the Jews for Jesus religious group.
Berkowitz has refused to attend any of his parole hearings, since he became eligible
for possible release in 2002.
He was rejected for parole in 2014.
His case will be reviewed again in 2016.
In a New York Post report, Berkowitz's lawyer, Mark J. Heller revealed the infamous killer
isn't interested in parole, because he believes that "Jesus has forgiven him and set him free."
Berkowitz's crimes have become the subject, of numerous books and documentaries, including
2001's Summer of Terror: The Real Son of Sam Story.
Spike Lee also explored the effect Berkowitz's reign of terror had on a New York neighborhood
in the drama Summer of Sam (1999).
6.
Wayne Williams Wayne Bertram Williams was born on May 27,
1958, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Little has been reported about Williams's early life, but his public journey to infamy,
began on July 28, 1979, when a woman in Atlanta came across two corpses hidden, under bushes
at the side of the road.
Both were male, black and children: Edward Smith, 14, reported missing a week before,
was shot with a 22 caliber weapon.
The other victim, 13-year-old Alfred Evans, was reported missing three days before.
Evans was murdered by asphyxiation.
This discovery would mark the start, of a string of killings lasting 22 months in Atlanta
that, became known as the Atlanta Child Murders, and it would continue in late September, when
Milton Harvey, age 14, was also found dead.
The end of 1979 brought two more child victims: Yusef Bell had been strangled, and Angel Lenair
was tied to a tree, with her hands bound behind her, also strangled.
When two more bodies continued the trend into the spring of 1980, and a 7-year-old girl
was reported missing, the FBI was called in to help local police.
They launched a major investigation, and an FBI profiler worked on the case as well.
To this point, the bodies of the victims were found in wooded areas, but in April 1981,
the killer changed his MO: The bodies were now being dumped in the Chattahoochee River.
This allowed investigators to narrow their search, and they soon staked out all 14 bridges
that, span the river in the Atlanta area.
In late May, a group of law-enforcement officers on surveillance, at the river heard a loud
splash around 3 a.m.
On the bridge, a car fled the scene, and the police pursued and pulled it over.
The driver was Wayne Williams, a 22-year-old black freelance photographer.
The police had no idea what the splash was at this point, so they had to let Williams
go.
Two days later, however, the body of Nathaniel Cater, 27, was found downstream, and Williams
was brought in for questioning.
Williams's alibi proved weak, and he failed several polygraph examinations.
On June 21, 1981, Williams was arrested, and on February 27, 1982, he was found guilty
of the murders of Cater, and another man, Jimmy Ray Payne, 21.
The conviction was based on physical evidence, matching fibers found on the victims, and
in Williams's personal possessions, and eyewitness accounts, and he was sentenced
to two consecutive life terms.
Once the trial was over, law-enforcement officials declared their belief that, evidence suggested
that Williams was most likely linked, to another 20 of the 29 deaths the task force had been
investigating.
DNA sequencing from hairs found on different victims, revealed a match to Williams's
own hair, to 98 percent certainty.
But that 2 percent doubt was enough to prevent further convictions.
While subsequent efforts led by his own protestations, were mounted to prove Williams innocent, the
killings stopped once he was imprisoned.
7.
Donato Bilancia Bilancia was born in Potenza, Basilicata,
in 1951.
When he was about five years old, his family moved to northern Italy, first to Piedmont
and then to Genoa in the Liguria region.
He was a chronic bedwetter, until age 10 or 12, and his mother shamed him, by placing
his wet mattress on the balcony, where it could be seen by the neighbors.
When undressing him for bed, his aunt would shame him by pulling down his underwear, in
front of his cousins to show his underdeveloped penis.
At age 14, he decided to start calling himself Walter.
He dropped out of high school, and worked at jobs such as mechanic, bartender, baker
and delivery boy.
While still underage, he was arrested and released for stealing a motor scooter, and
for stealing a truck loaded with Christmas sweets.
In 1974 he was stopped, and jailed for having an illegal gun.
At some point he was committed, to the psychiatric division of the Genoa General Hospital, but
escaped.
After he was apprehended, he spent 18 months in prison for robbery.
He served several prison terms in Italy, and France for robbery and armed robbery.
In spite of his history of psychiatric problems, up to age 47 he had no record of violence.
Bilancia was a compulsive gambler who lived alone.
His first murder was the October 1997 strangulation of a friend, who betrayed him by luring him
into a rigged card game, in which he lost £185,000 (about $267,000).
The authorities originally thought, this death was a heart attack.
Bilancia's next two murders were the revenge shooting, of the game's operator, and of his
wife.
He emptied their safe afterward.
Bilancia later said these first killings gave him a taste for murder.
In all his killings he used or carried a .38 caliber revolver loaded with wad cutter ammunition.
He made no attempt to conceal his victims' bodies.
That same month, he followed a jeweler home to rob him, then shot him and his wife dead,
when the wife began screaming.
He emptied their safe of jewelry.
He next robbed and murdered a money changer.
Two months later, he killed a night watchman making his rounds, simply because he did not
like night watchmen.
He killed an Albanian prostitute and a Russian prostitute.
A second money changer was killed next, shot multiple times and his safe emptied.
In March 1998, while receiving oral sex at gunpoint from a prostitute, he shot and killed
two night watchmen who interrupted, then shot the prostitute, who survived to help develop
a police sketch and later testify against him.
He also killed a Nigerian prostitute and a Ukrainian prostitute, and robbed and assaulted
an Italian prostitute without killing her.
On April 12, 1998 he boarded the train from Genoa to Venice, because he "wanted to kill
a woman".
Spotting a young woman travelling alone, he followed her to the toilet, unlocked the door
with a skeleton key, shot her in the head and stole her train ticket.
Six days later, he boarded the train to San Remo, and followed another young woman to
the toilet.
He used his key to enter, then used her jacket as a silencer, and shot her behind the ear.
Excited by her black underwear, he masturbated, and used her clothes to clean up.
The murders of two "respectable" women sparked a public outcry, and the creation of a police
task force.
In his last killing before his arrest, Bilancia murdered a service station attendant, after
filling up with petrol, then took the day's receipts, about 2 million lira (about $1000).
Based on the description of the black Mercedes, one of his prostitute victims was seen entering
the night she was killed, police considered Bilancia "suspect number one", and followed
him for ten days.
They collected his DNA from cigarette butts and a coffee cup, matching it to DNA found
at crime scenes.
On May 6, 1998 he was arrested at his home in Genoa, and his revolver seized.
After eight days in police custody he confessed, speaking for two days and drawing 17 diagrams.
On April 12, 2000, after an 11-month trial, Bilancia was sentenced to 13 terms of life
imprisonment plus, an additional 20 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of the
prostitute who survived.
The judge ordered that he never be released.
8.
Kristen Gilbert Meet Kristen Heather Gilbert, a smart, accomplished
RN, but a troubled soul.
In her youth, Kristen Strickland was known as a pathological liar.
According to friends and neighbors, she often made the unfounded claim that she was a distant
relative of the infamous ax murderer Lizzie Borden.
Ex-boyfriends described Kristen as strange and controlling, eventually exhibiting a pattern
of verbal and physical abuse toward them.
For attention, she would fake suicide attempts, or when angry, she would tamper with her boyfriends'
cars or physically attack them, scratching them with her nails.
Nevertheless, she graduated high school 1.5 years early, with high honors, and then enrolled
in a state college and majored in pre-med.
Kristen got a job as a home health aide with a visiting nurses association.
During her tenure there, she once scalded a retarded child with hot bathwater, burning
over 60% of the boy's body, but was never prosecuted for the incident.
In 1988, Kristen earned her degree as a registered nurse.
In the same year, she met Glenn Gilbert, and the couple eloped.
It was not an ideal marriage from the start; early on, during an argument, Gilbert chased
her husband through the house with a butcher knife.
Shortly after her marriage, she landed a job at the Veterans Administration Medical Center
in Northampton, Massachusetts, working on Ward C.
In 1990, the Gilberts had their first child, a son.
After returning from maternity leave, Kristin switched to the 4 PM to midnight shift on
Ward C, and almost immediately, strange things began to happen.
During her shift, an unusually large number of patients began dying due to cardiac arrest,
tripling the rate of deaths over the previous 3 years.
During each incident, Kristen's calm and competent nursing skills shone, and she won the admiration
of her fellow workers.
The couple's marriage began to fall apart after the Gilberts' second son was born in
1993.
At that time, Kristen was developing a friendship with James Perrault, a newly hired VA Hospital
security guard.
He worked from 3 PM until 11 PM, and the two often went to have drinks with other workers
at the end of their shifts.
Any time there was a medical emergency on Ward C, James was called to the scene.
In the fall of 1994, the relationship between Kristen and James moved from friendship to
romance.
Soon afterward, Kristen's husband began to notice the food Kristen served him had an
odd taste to it.
Although nothing was ever proven, Glenn Gilbert became convinced that his wife was trying
to kill him, telling friends that she wanted him dead by Thanksgiving.
When James presented Kristen with an ultimatum to leave Glenn, or end their relationship,
Kristen immediately left her husband and 2 sons and moved into her own apartment, and
their affair blossomed.
The unusually high death rates during her shift continued.
In fact, Gilbert was jokingly given the name "Angel of Death" by her co-workers because
so many people died while under her care.
However, there was nothing amusing to a few of the nurses on the ward.
The whispers about Kristen continued, but many chose not to believe she would be involved
in something as sinister as killing patients.
Others were not so trusting and began to monitor drugs that could cause cardiac arrest.
One such drug, epinephrine, kept coming up missing.
Unofficially, Ward C was under the close eye of a handful of the nurses assigned to it.
Under Gilbert's care, 4 patients were dead and 3 others had succumbed mysteriously to
near-fatal heart failure.
Added to that was the inexplicable shortage of epinephrine.
Although many of the patients who died were elderly and in serious condition, there were
also patients who, although sick, had no history of heart problems, yet were dying of cardiac
arrest.
She was even accused of killing one patient so that she could leave early for a date.
It got so bad that in 1996, 3 nurses came forward to report their fear that Kristen
was a killer, and their concerns inspired an investigation.
Authorities interviewed all the employees on Ward C and put together a grisly motive
for why the death rate had tripled.
According to the prosecutors, Gilbert stole epinephrine from the hospital stock and used
the drug to induce massive heart attacks in her victims.
It was surmised that Kristen administered epinephrine to patients so that her lover,
James, would be summoned to the ICU, where she could then be close to him, and impress
him with her skills as a nurse.
It also allowed her time to flirt with him, as was witnessed by several of her co-workers.
Gilbert's behavior became unpredictable.
She purchased a toy to disguise her voice and called the VA Hospital while Perrault
was on duty.
She told him that 3 bombs were set to go off in 2 hours in Building One of the hospital.
Employees and patients, many of whom were sick and elderly, had to be evacuated.
Gilbert was arrested, tried, and convicted for this apparent attempt to divert the investigation
against her.
She served 15 months in federal prison for falsely phoning in a bomb threat to a federal
institution.
During her prison term, federal investigators exhumed several of the bodies of those who
died during Gilbert's shift at the VA Hospital.
Just as the nurses feared, a toxicology analysis found epinephrine in their tissues, and since
that drug had not been prescribed to any of the victims, there was no reason for it to
be in their bodies.
During the investigation, Gilbert was not working, and immediately, the death rate on
Ward C dropped to normal.
After Gilbert left the hospital, her relationship with Perrault began to dissolve.
Her temperament began to get more volatile as the finger-pointing became firmly directed
at her, and Perrault began to pull away.
In June 1996, he decided to end the relationship.
Gilbert pleaded with him to continue the relationship, to no avail.
A month later, Gilbert overdosed on drugs and was admitted to a hospital psychiatric
ward.
In 1998, Gilbert, age 30, was indicted for murdering 4 of her patients and attempting
to kill 3 others by injecting them with epinephrine.
Perrault eventually testified against his former lover, reporting that Gilbert had actually
admitted to him one day that she'd killed her patients by injection.
It was discovered that in the 7 years she worked at the VA Hospital, 350 deaths had
occurred during her shift.
In 2001, she was found guilty of 3 counts of first-degree murder, 1 count of second-degree
murder, and 2 counts of attempted murder.
Because these crimes were committed on federal territory, the government could have given
her the death penalty.
However, she was sentenced to 4 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole
plus 20 years, and is serving her time in a federal prison in Texas.
9.
Beverley Allitt The serial killer nurse Beverly Allitt must
serve a minimum, of 30 years in jail for the murder and abuse of children in her care,
the high court ruled today.
A high court judge ruled that Allitt, dubbed the "Angel of Death", should serve a minimum
sentence of 28 years, and 175 days, taking into account the one year, and 190 days she
spent in custody before being sentenced.
Allitt was given 13 life sentences in 1993, for murdering four children, attempting to
murder another three, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to a further six,
at Grantham and Kesteven hospital in Lincolnshire.
Mr Justice Stanley Burnton, sitting in London, confirmed the minimum sentence of 30 years,
which is the same term previously recommended by the trial judge, and the then Lord Chief
Justice.
Allitt will be 54 before she will be considered for parole.
The former nurse was diagnosed as suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP) when
she carried out the attacks between 1991 and 1993.
The 39-year-old is now being held at the Rampton high-security hospital in Nottingham.
Allitt murdered the four children by injecting them with high doses of insulin.
MSbP is a condition identified by the paediatrician Sir Roy Meadow in 1977, and described as a
form of child abuse in which carers deliberately induce, or falsely report illnesses in children
to focus attention on themselves.
The judge said: "I have to say that I regard the determination of the minimum period in
a case such as the present, and fortunately cases as extreme as this are rare - as a very
difficult task.
"Once it is accepted that the offender was suffering from mental disorder, difficult
ethical and indeed philosophical questions arise as to the degree to, which responsibility
for the offences in question should be regarded as diminished.
"I have found that there is an element of sadism, in Ms Allitt's conduct and her offending.
But that sadism is itself, if not the result, certainly a manifestation of her mental disorder,
and it would be unduly simplistic to treat it in the same way, as one would if the offender
were mentally well.
"By her actions, what should have been a place of safety for its patients became not just
a place of danger, but if not a killing field something close to it?"
The four children murdered by Allitt were seven-week-old Liam Taylor, 11-year-old Timothy
Hardwick, two-month-old Becky Phillips, and 15-month-old Claire Peck.
They all died between February and April 1991, while Allitt was a nurse at the Lincolnshire
hospital.
Nine other children survived her murder attempts.
Allitt was subsequently found to have been the only nurse on duty, at the time of all
the poisonings.
The judge said: "These were multiple murders and attempted murders of young children, whose
lives were snuffed out almost before they had begun."
Having considered all the medical evidence, he was satisfied that she was suffering from
"an abnormality of mind" when she committed the offences.
Joanne Taylor, the mother of Allitt's first victim, Liam Taylor, said she was pleased
with the judge's verdict and his reference to Allitt's sadism.
Taylor, who was in court with her husband, said: "That's what we all felt at the time.
There's a fine line between evil and illness, and I'll never forget him saying that word
today."
David Peck, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, and the father of 15-month-old Claire, who died
in March 1991, said: "I'm absolutely delighted with the outcome, and pleased for the other
families as well.
"We can now put this behind us after 15 years.
I couldn't ask for anything better."
Claire, who suffered from asthma, was admitted to hospital and collapsed when Allitt was
alone with her.
Allitt was convicted of her murder after the jury heard evidence that the toddler had been
injected with potassium and lignocaine.
10.
Paul Bernardo The lawyer for the families of Paul Bernardo's
murder victims say, they are "devastated" by the news that the notorious killer is scheduled,
for a day-parole hearing next year, but "knew this day would come."
Tim Danson, a lawyer for the families of 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, and 15-year-old Kristen French,
has confirmed that Bernardo's preliminary hearing, for day parole is scheduled for next
March.
In 1995, Bernardo was convicted of raping, and murdering the teen girls.
He was sentenced to life with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Bernardo became eligible for day parole, after serving 22 years, despite his designation
as a dangerous offender.
If granted day parole, Bernardo would be permitted to leave the prison during set times, and
then return at night.
Danson told CTV News Channel on Tuesday, that he is confident that Bernardo's request
will be denied, and that the convicted killer will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
However, Danson said he and his clients are taking "nothing" for granted.
"We will be preparing the victim impact statements, and participating in the parole
hearing," Danson said.
"Nevertheless, I am confident that he will not be successful."
Danson said though the Mahaffy, and French families "knew this day would come," they
are devastated by the news, that Bernardo is seeking day parole.
"It's gut-wrenching," Danson said.
It's hard to believe they have to confront this all over again.
That they have to disclose, in a public hearing, the most private feelings and emotions, which
is very difficult."
He said the families have "adapted" to life following the horrific, murders of their
daughters "to the extent that it's humanly possible, and then something like this just
brings it all up again, and it's torture for them."
Danson added that it will be "tough" for the families to be in the same room, as Bernardo
during the hearing, but they understand that it is part of the legal process.
"I think what overtakes them is to still be there for their daughters, and to make
sure that Paul Bernardo doesn't get out."
Holly Knowles, a spokesperson for the Parole Board of Canada, says Bernardo became eligible
for day parole on Feb. 17, 2015.
He is eligible for full parole in 2018.
Danson said Bernardo's dangerous offender designation is a "very significant" finding
that, he believes must be considered.
"Before the parole board considers the normal criteria, for parole eligibility, our view
is that they must deal with the dangerous offender designation, that Paul Bernardo will
have to put forward a compelling, and reliable medical evidence that would displace the evidence,
that was put forward over 20 years ago, for which he was found to be a dangerous offender."
Knowles told The Canadian Press that dangerous offenders, are not to be conditionally released
by the parole board, "unless and until they are deemed to be no longer an undue risk to
the community."
Citing privacy laws, Knowles said she could not comment on Bernardo's case.
However, Knowles said a dangerous offender designation is taken into consideration, along
with psychological assessments, and victim impact statements, during a parole board's
decision-making process.
11.
Karla Homolka Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka has resurfaced
in a suburb of Montreal, CityNews has learned.
Homolka, who was convicted in 1993, to 12 years in prison in the deaths of schoolgirls,
Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, is living in Chateauguay, Quebec, with her three children.
Breakfast Television Montreal reporter, Domenic Fazioli has confirmed that Homolka is living
in a home in the city, of 45,000 in southwestern Quebec.
Homolka is now going under the name of Leanne Teale, Fazioli has confirmed.
Two of her children are attending a local public school.
Homolka lived in Quebec following her 2005 release from prison, where she married Thierry
Bordelais, and gave birth to a boy.
Bordelais is the brother of Homolka's lawyer during the high-profile murder trial.
The pair had two more children together.
According to the Canadian Press, she moved to the Antilles to escape media scrutiny in
2007.
In 2012, journalist Paula Todd found Homolka living in Guadeloupe.
In the first-degree murder trial of Luka Magnotta in 2014, Homolka's sister revealed that
she was back in Quebec.
Homolka and her then-husband Paul Bernardo were arrested in the 1991, and 1992 rape-murders
of Mahaffy and French, as well as the rape, and death of her sister, Tammy.
Homolka told investigators that Bernardo had abused her, and testified against him in exchange
for a reduced prison sentence.
Bernardo was convicted of first-degree murder in the teens' deaths, and received a sentence
of life in prison, and a dangerous offender designation.
12.
Peter Sutcliffe "In this truck is a man whose latent genius,
if unleashed, would rock the nation, whose dynamic energy would overpower those around
him.
Better let him sleep?"
Sutcliffe's handwritten sign placed on the windscreen of his lorry.
On 2 June 1946, in Bingley, Yorkshire, John and Kathleen had their first child, Peter
William Sutcliffe.
Peter was later joined by another five siblings.
"Growing up with Peter…he was a really nice guy.
He being so much older than me, he was more like a father figure as my dad was never around.
He was either working or out at the pub or doing sports events.
And Pete used to teach me things that, a father should really, so he was a great big brother."
Carl Sutcliffe.
Their father John was very jealous and constantly accused Kathleen, of sleeping around.
Hypocritically, it was in fact John who was having the affairs.
John was a big, burly, sporty and sociable man.
His eldest Peter was small, shy and introverted.
Peter stayed close to his mother.
Peter hated school.
He found it hard to make friends, and was often bullied.
Once, unable to take anymore, he hid from school for a fortnight.
When his parents and school realised the reason, they stopped the bullying.
As a teenager, Peter bulked up through bodybuilding.
He dropped out of school aged just fifteen.
Some of his first jobs were unusual.
"While not specifically conducive to their criminal pursuits, some jobs held by serial
killers are consistent with their morbid psychologies.
Peter Sutcliffe...for example, found employment in a mortuary."
Harold Schechter the Serial Killer Files.
Schechter adds Sutcliffe 'enjoyed toying with the corpses-arranging them, in grotesque
poses and using them as ventriloquist dummies.'
Another job Peter did was grave digging.
He liked to play 'morbid pranks' with the skeletons, and was seen stealing the jewellery
of the dead.
In his spare time, Peter visited a waxwork museum.
His favourite section displayed the 'devastating symptoms, of advanced venereal disease.'
Aged 20, Peter was still a virgin.
In 1966 he met Sonia Szurma, the daughter of Czech immigrants.
In August 1974, he married Sonia, the only woman he'd ever dated.
Due to his erratic employment, the newlyweds were financially forced, to move in with Sonia's
parents.
Unknown to them, Peter was spending his spare money on prostitutes.
Together with a friend, Trevor Birdsall, he'd cruise Yorkshire's red-light areas.
In June 1975, he got his HGV licence.
His lorry-driving job allowed him to come, and go when he pleased.
WHAT TRIGGERED THE RIPPER?
One theory is that a bad experience with a prostitute, led to Sutcliffe's violent hatred
of sex-workers.
Another is that in trying to reconcile the loving mother, he had idealised with the sluttish
adulteress his father had portrayed her as, Peter followed the same sexist stereotyping
evidenced in many male dominated cultures: Each woman was either a pure Virgin Mother
worthy of a sacred love.
Or they were a sinful whore.
And if they were the latter, they were less than a human, and killing would be more the
eradication of an infestation than of murder.
As he later stated; "I were just cleaning the streets."
Over the next savage five years, Peter Sutcliffe would murder thirteen women, and viciously
attack seven others.
During this period, he was a devoted husband, and seemingly ordinary guy.
"How can you do that and then come, and have Sunday dinner with your mum, and smile
and laugh and just act like nothing's happened?"
Carl Sutcliffe, Peter's brother.
Another theory is that Sutcliffe was reacting to Sonia's many miscarriages.
Peter desperately wanted to be a father.
Then in 1975, 29-year-old Peter was told that, his Sonia would never have children.
It's noteworthy that Peter often mutilated the stomach, and torso area of his victims.
Was he unconsciously acting out the belief that, if his wife couldn't have children,
nor should others?
Soon after being told he would never be a father, Peter made his first attack.
Three quarters of a century after Jack the Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe took up his vengeful
attacks on prostitutes.
He would go onto kill more than twice, as many victims as his Victorian forerunner.
13.
Rosemary West Serial killer Rosemary West murdered at least
10 young women.
Most of them were dismembered, and buried in the cellar of her home on Cromwell Street.
Their behavior extended beyond the family circle when, in late 1972, they engaged 17-year-old
Caroline Owens as a nanny.
She was incarcerated, stripped and raped.
Despite threats that she would be killed and buried in the cellar, Owens was able to make
an escape, and reported the Wests to the police.
Charges were brought against them.
Incredibly, despite his existing criminal record, West was able to convince a 1973 court
magistrate that Owens had consented to the activities.
Owens was too deeply traumatized over what, she had survived to give testimony.
The Wests both escaped with fines.
Rose was pregnant at the time with their first son, Stephen, who was born in August.
Over the next several years Lynda Gough, Lucy Partington, Juanita Mott, Therese Siegenthaler,
Alison Chambers, Shirley Robinson and 15-year-old schoolgirls, Carol Ann Cooper and Shirley
Hubbard all became victims of the Wests.
After brutal sexual attacks, all were murdered, dismembered and buried in the cellar under
25 Cromwell Street.
Rose had several more children, and daughter Louise was born in 1978.
(Not all Rose's children were believed to be fathered by West.)
Barry joined the brood in 1980, with Rosemary Junior following in 1982, and Lucyanna in
1983.
The children were aware to some extent of the activities in the house, but West and
Rose exercised strict control over them.
West's sexual interest in his own daughters didn't wane either, and when Anna Marie moved
out to live with her boyfriend, he switched his attentions to younger siblings, Heather
and Mae.
Heather resisted his attentions and, in 1987, told a friend about the goings on in the house.
The Wests responded by murdering, and dismembering her, and burying her in the back garden of
No. 25, where son Stephen was forced to assist with digging the hole.
Eventually their activities drew the attention of Detective Constable Hazel Savage, who oversaw
a search at Cromwell Street, in August of 1992 that led to their arrest.
On December 13, 1994, West was charged on twelve counts of murder.
He hung himself in his cell while awaiting trial.
Rose went on trial on October 3, 1995.
The jury unanimously found her guilty on 10 separate counts of murder on November 22,
1995.
She was later sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Rose refused to accept her fate, and launched appeals in 1996 and 2000, claiming variously
that new evidence clearing her had come to light, and then that huge media interest had
prevented her, from receiving a fair trial.
The 1996 appeal was rejected, and she dropped the later one.
She remains incarcerated.
The Wests' home at 25 Cromwell Street, or the "House of Horrors," as it was dubbed by
the media, was razed to the ground in October 1996.
In its place is a pathway that leads to the town center.
Rose was again the focus of media attention in January 2003, when it was claimed that,
she was to marry Dave Glover, the bass player of rock group Slade, following a courtship
via letters.
Glover disputed that there was an engagement, and said the media attention over his letters
to Rose had cost him, his position with the band.
14.
Scott Lee Kimball In a 147-page letter to his family, serial
killer Scott Lee Kimball for the first time admitted, his full responsibility in the deaths
of his four known victims, according to a summary of the document obtained by the Camera
on Wednesday.
Kimball, who committed the murders, while working as an informant for the FBI, pleaded
guilty in 2009, to two counts of second-degree murder.
Despite his guilty plea, though, he maintained that, while he was involved with the deaths,
other people were present and, in two of the cases, fired the shots that killed the victims.
The letter is in the hands of the FBI, and a law enforcement source with knowledge, of
the investigation confirmed its authenticity.
According to the summary, Kimball said he was responsible for the death of Kaysi McLeod,
19, of Westminster, and disposed of her remains, though he did not plan for her to die.
Kimball reportedly wrote that, he was the only person present when McLeod overdosed
on alcohol, methamphetamine and oxycontin that he gave her.
Kaysi McLeod disappeared on her way to work at Subway in 2003.
Kimball, who was dating McLeod's mother, was supposed to give her a ride that day, but
he earlier claimed he went hunting instead.
McLeod's body was found by a hunter in Jackson County in 2007.
Kimball had previously admitted to being present, when McLeod overdosed but said that other
people were there.
The summary says Kimball also confessed to killing Jennifer Marcum, 25, of Aurora.
He previously said he facilitated her death, in a Utah canyon in 2003, but someone else
shot her.
He reportedly writes in the letter that, he prepared a "hot shot" to kill the single mother,
and exotic dancer with an overdose of heroin.
Her body has still not been found.
Scott Kimball led investigators to the remains of LeAnn Emry, 24, of Centennial, in a canyon
near Moab, Utah, but he had maintained someone else shot the woman, who was the girlfriend
of Kimball's former cellmate.
According to the summary, Kimball admits in the letter that, he shot Emry twice in the
back of the neck, when she tried to escape him.
Kimball also repeated his confession to the murder of his uncle, Terry Kimball, 60, of
Westminster, in the letter.
Ed Coet, Kimball's cousin and the author of a book on his crimes, has seen the letter
and confirmed the details in the summary.
He said Kimball knows the FBI has the letter, and is prepared to be interviewed again about
the crimes.
Coet said Kimball is concerned with the salvation of his soul.
"Scott does not want to go to hell when he dies," he said.
15.
Ian Brady On the night of July 12, 1963, 16-year-old
Pauline Reade became their first victim.
She was kidnapped by Hindley, while on her way to a local dance; then driven up to where
Brady was awaiting their arrival.
Reade was raped, beaten and stabbed before being buried.
Four months later, on November 23, 1963, 12-year-old John Kilbride disappeared from the vicinity,
of the market in Ashton-Under-Lyne, never to be seen again
On June 16, 1964, 12-year-old Keith Bennett disappeared, while on the way to his grandmother's
house.
His disappearance was not noted until the next day, and a massive police search revealed
no clues.
Hindley had in fact lured him into her car, with a request for assistance in loading some
boxes, then rendezvoused with Brady on Saddleworth Moor, where Keith was taken, by Brady, to
a gully next to a stream, then raped, strangled and buried there.
On the afternoon of the Boxing Day holiday, 1964, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey disappeared
from a local fairground, and again a huge police effort, bolstered by volunteers, and
unearthed no clues as to her whereabouts.
October 7, 1965 proved the turning point for the police, when Myra Hindley's 17-year-old
brother-in-law, David Smith, arrived at Hyde Police station with a horrific tale of violence.
Knowing Brady through the family connection, Smith was initially beguiled by Brady's unorthodox
and violent politics, but this changed when he arrived at Hindley and Brady's home, on
the evening of October 6, to witness Brady killing 17-year-old Edward Evans with an axe.
After Evans was finally throttled with a length of electrical flex, Hindley and Brady joked
about the mess, and also told Smith of other victims buried on the Moors.
Concealing his horror for fear of meeting a similar fate, Smith assisted them with the
clean up, before returning home to tell his wife and alert the police.
Convinced by Smith's tale, police and reinforcements arrived at Brady's home, found the body of
Evans in an upstairs bedroom, and arrested Brady immediately.
Brady claimed that there had been an argument between himself, Evans and Smith that had
got out of hand, denying that Hindley had anything to do with the murder.
She remained at liberty until four days later, when police found a document in her car describing
in detail how she and Brady had planned to carry out the murder.
The investigation would probably have gone, no further than the death of Evans, if Smith
had not mentioned Brady's claim that, other bodies were buried on Saddleworth Moor.
Already familiar with the various unexplained disappearances, police were able to pinpoint
the area favored by Brady and Hindley, and began digging for the bodies of the children,
who had gone missing in the area over the previous two years.
The naked body of Lesley Ann Downey was found on October 10, 1965, followed eleven days
later by the body of John Kilbride.
Despite discovering the two bodies, the police had only circumstantial evidence against the
pair.
Fortunately, a more thorough search of their home led to the discovery of a left luggage
ticket, which led in turn to a locker at Manchester Central Station.
There, Police found sadistic gadgets and pornography, including photographs of Lesley Ann, bound
and gagged in Hindley's bedroom.
A tape recording was also found, on which the little girl could be heard crying, and
begging for her life, as well as the voices of Brady and Hindley.
Her mother, Ann Downey, was forced to identify the voice on the tape as that of her daughter
Even with the mounting evidence against them, Brady and Hindley denied murdering Lesley
Ann, trying again to implicate David Smith.
They claimed that Lesley Ann had left their home unharmed, and that Smith must have murdered
her later.
The evidence linking Brady and Hindley, with John Kilbride's murder was not as strong,
but proved sufficient to charge them, with the result that they were charged with the
murders of Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey, and John Kilbride.
Despite exhaustive searches, the bodies of the other two victims could not be found,
and no charges were brought.
In February 2006, Brady sent the mother of victim Keith Bennett a letter.
In the letter he complained of his treatment at the high security hospital saying, he was
being kept alive by force-feeding for "political purposes."
Brady also claimed that he could take police to within 20 yards, of where Keith Bennett
is buried.
Staff at the hospital believe Brady was able to send the letter via a third party.
As of 2011, Brady was the longest serving prisoner in England and Wales.
16.
Maxim Petrov Maxim Vladimirovich Petrov (born 1965), is
a Russian serial killer, convicted for the killing of 12 people in St Petersburg, between
1999 and 2000.
Petrov, nicknamed Doctor Death by the Russian media, was a practicing doctor who targeted
patients, from a local health center, killing them by lethal injection at their homes then
robbing them.
In 1997 Petrov began robbing, his patients by visiting their home, unannounced, and usually
in the morning, when relatives would be at work.
He would then measure their blood pressure, and suggest they needed an injection, which
anaesthetized them.
While they were unconscious, Petrov stole their possessions, even taking rings and earrings
from his victims' bodies.
The first few victims did not die, instead waking up later after he had left.
Petrov committed 47 robberies until his arrest in 2000.
Petrov committed his first murder on 2 February 1999, during his thirtieth robbery, when he
was interrupted by the daughter of an anaesthetised patient, who returned home while he was stealing.
He stabbed the daughter with a screwdriver, and then strangled the unconscious patient
with a stocking.
After this, Petrov's modus operandi changed: he began to use a lethal mix of a variety
of different drugs, to inject into his victims instead of an anaesthetic, so that the victim
would die, and so the police would think that, the killer had little medical knowledge.
Petrov would then set fire to their homes to destroy any evidence.
The police did not release a photofit of the suspect, thinking he would soon be caught.
However, it took until the following year for them to realise, how the victims were
being selected.
All were included in the same list of lung patients, who had undergone a fluorography,
which he found in a local health centre.
Using this list, they identified 72 possible future victims in an operation, called "Medbrat"
("Male Nurse"), involving 700 police officers.
They arrested Petrov when he visited one of the patients on 17 January 2000.
On his arrest, Petrov admitted to the murders, but recanted his confession a few months later,
blaming it on the intense psychological pressure, he had endured while in custody.
Various possessions stolen from the victims were later found in his flat, though he had
already sold others at the market.
Six of the patients who were not killed were seriously injured.
Petrov was suspected of committing 19 murders, but tried for just 17.
In 2002, Petrov was found guilty of 12 murders, and was sentenced by Judge Valentina Kudriashova
to life imprisonment.
17.
Robert Pickton Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton was
dubbed, The Pig Farmer Killer due to his profession as a farmer and tendency to kidnap, and murder
women.
His number of victims is anywhere between 6 and 49 women.
He killed from 1983 to 2002, when he was caught, and sentenced to life in prison.
It began as so many of these sensational cases do, with almost no one noticing.
The Robert Pickton trial is a lot, like a snowball falling downhill.
It doesn't seem like much when it starts, but by the time it reaches the bottom, it's
become an avalanche.
While the families of the victims are expressing hope that, their long ordeal has finally reached
a courtroom, they remain infuriated that police ignored their concerns, about missing loved
ones for almost two decades.
At first, authorities admitted they were baffled.
"In the case of these missing women, we don't have a suspect, in fact, we don't
have a crime," Const.
Anne Drennan of Vancouver Police agreed in April 1999.
Police kept up the hunt, if reluctantly.
"We don't have any crime scenes," Const.
Sarah Bloor related two years later.
"We don't have any leads like crime scenes, or anything like that to help us uncover more
facts."
They finally formed a task force as it became clear, a serial killer may have been walking
the seedy streets of East Vancouver.
By then, 31 women had simply vanished.
But authorities obviously found what they were looking for.
On February 6, 2002, dozens of police officers armed with search warrants, for firearms offences
raided a pig farm in the suburb of Port Coquitlam.
Two weeks later, on February 22nd, one of the property's co-owners, Robert William
Pickton, was officially charged with the murders of Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson.
They would be the first named, in what would balloon into the biggest murder case in Canadian
history.
They would not be the last.
By October 2nd, Pickton would stand accused, of 15 counts of first-degree murder.
The case is massive and so is the investigation.
It takes five long years before it will reach a courtroom, and the case reduced to only
six counts of murder out of 26, to make it easier on the jury.
Pickton has pleaded not guilty to the horrifying charges against him, and there are predictions
this proceeding could last a year or more.
18.
Russell Williams Colonel Russell Williams, a decorated military
pilot, became one of Canada's most notorious serial killers, when it was discovered that
he killed, robbed and raped multiple women in 2009-2010.
He was sentenced to life in prison in 2010.
Williams began breaking into homes near his Tweed cottage in 2007, and near his Ottawa
home in 2008.
He scoped out the homes of neighbours, making certain no one was home, and stealthily made
away with women's lingerie, and other personal items.
Many of the victims – attractive women, it appears – were totally unaware their
homes had been burglarized.
After 62 break-and-enters and attempts, Williams graduated to sexual assault in Sept., 2009.
He broke into two homes near his Tweed cottage, and forced women to do certain sex acts.
He also photographed them.
No penetration was involved, but it is believed he ejaculated.
Meanwhile, the comparatively harmless fetish break and enters continued in the Tweed areas
and in Ottawa.
Williams stalked the women, often entering homes multiple times.
He broke into one of the victim's homes following his assault on her.
Police, for a brief spell, suspected the colonel's neighbour was good for the assaults, but never
the colonel.
Unlike most sexual serial killers, who assault and kill simultaneously, leaving no witness
behind, Williams was escalating.
He was also breaking another rule of serial criminals: he knew some of the people whose
homes he was invading, and he would also know his first murder victim.
In Nov., 2009, he killed a co-worker he'd stalked.
Marie-France Comeau, 38, died from asphyxiation.
This time, there was penetration.
And then, the break and enters stopped.
By February, 2010, Williams' urges were back.
He kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Jessica Lloyd, 27, a Belleville resident whose
absence was immediately noted.
Williams was getting sloppy.
A tire tread at the Lloyd home was later matched to his sports utility vehicle in a police
roadblock.
Called in for questioning at the same time police were poised, to execute search warrants
of his properties, Williams was initially uncooperative but as police relayed news,
of what they'd found to his interrogators, the colonel confessed to the sex assaults
and murders.
He later attempted suicide in his jail cell.
While unlike many serial killers, he does have something in common with Paul Bernardo:
Both showed a pattern of escalation.
He also stuck close to home, keeping to his "comfort" zones.
19.
Peter Tobin.
After he raped and killed, Peter Tobin sometimes sought sanctuary in religious groups.
With a killing history, that stretched from Glasgow to Brighton, could police have caught
not only the Scottish 1960s 'Bible John' serial killer, but also the English 1980 child
murderer of the 'Babes in the Woods'?
And with 1,400 separate outstanding lines of inquiry for the police still to follow,
could Peter Tobin be the UK's most prolific sexual serial killer?
Peter Britton Tobin was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, an area South West of Glasgow.
He was one of eight children, with four brothers and three sisters.
By the age of seven, a disruptive nature sees him sent to reform school, and a minor conviction
later lands him in a young offender's institution.
But he grows into smart and handsome man, and finding work as a chef in Glasgow, he
spends his weekends dancing, frequenting a club called, 'The Barrowlands'.
It was there that aged 22, he met his first wife, Margaret Mountney, just 17.
At first, he's a true romantic, taking her for long drives along the banks of Loch Lomond,
and introducing her to his polite, but now frail and elderly parents.
Everything changes when they move into their East Glasgow flat.
Their union is marked by repeated rapes, beatings and house arrest.
Tobin cuts the throat of his wife's puppy, 'just to stop it yelping', and when she
complains, he beats and rapes her at knifepoint.
He later uses the knife inside her, cutting her so deeply that neighbours are alerted,
when she bleeds through the ceiling.
Their intervention saves her life, but her internal injuries are so severe that, she
will never have children.
In 1993, after a move to the Hampshire town, of Havant in the South of England, Tobin uses
his son as bait to lure two 14 year old girls, to his flat on the pretext of babysitting.
Once inside, he threatens them with a knife, and forces them to ingest a drug, anatryptaline,
an antidepressant that can cause drowsiness and dizziness.
He then sexually assaults one and buggers the other.
After being interrupted by his son, he turns on the gas, and taking his son with him, he
leaves them to die.
Miraculously, five hours later, one of them wakes.
Despite having her wrists and ankles tied, she manages to ring the police.
Tobin evades capture by changing his name to Peter Wilson, and hiding in a religious
community called the Jesus Fellowship.
But his callous crime is highlighted on the BBC programme, 'Crimewatch', along with
his photo.
His new community report him, and he's arrested.
In 1994, Winchester Crown Court hears how he treated the girls as "cruelly as a cat
would treat a mouse".
He pleads guilty and is sentenced to 14 years in jail.
The authorities believe they have dealt with, and detained a sex offender.
They have no idea that they have let slip through the system, a serial killer who has
killed and will kill again.
In May 2004, he's released and moves to Paisley, Scotland, near to where he grew up.
Being a registered sex offender, he avoids detection by changing his name.
He finds work at a church.
It is here that he will commit one last savage crime.
It's the discovery of this that will reveal his true history of violence.
20.
Hu Wanlin.
Hu Wanlin was born in China in 1949.
Although he only achieved a primary school degree, he called himself a "miracle doctor"
practicing medicine illegally.
In the '80s he is convicted of fraud, kidnapping, human trafficking and murder and it is in
prison that he decides to practice as a doctor, starting 1993.
In 1997, he faces another trial and he is released, allowing him to focus on selling
his medicaments.
These were prepared with herbs and with sodium sulfate, which, in large quantities, is poisonous.
Wanlin also thought that water was the cause of many diseases, and urged his patients not
to drink it, leading to dehydration.
In 1998 he was expelled by the local authorities, because of the illegal practice of medicine,
and moved to Henan in June, continuing with his illegal activities.
In addition to herbal medicine practice, he practiced qi gong thanks to which in order
to heal the patients, he then does not even need to touch them, only having to transfer
them his "qi".
He called himself a "miracle doctor", and sometimes gave his diagnosis without even
visiting, the patient because all he needed was only to have a quick look, at them for
a few seconds.
His care, however, rather than cure his patients, ended up killing them, in fact, there are
about 146 deaths connected to the self-appointed doctor.
The police, however, could only prove three of them with certainty.
In 1999 he was arrested again, and sentenced to only 15 years in prison, term he would
only serve partially.
This could happen because in China, at the time, there was no licensing system for doctors,
system which was introduced thanks to this case.
This country has a great tradition of herbal medicine, but the reputation of Hu Wanlin,
who claimed he could cure cancer and AIDS, is also due to China's health care system.
Not everyone can afford health insurance, finding themselves forced to fall back on
less expensive methods, but, alas, less effective and in some cases lethal.
21.
Steve Wright Steve Wright, aka the Suffolk Strangler, killed
five prostitutes in 2006.
The English serial killer was caught ten days, after his last murder and sentenced to life
in prison.
He is currently serving his life sentence, and may go on trial for his connections to
the murder, of at least two other women.
Wright met Pamela Wright (the shared surname was coincidental), in 2001 in Felixstowe and
they moved to the house, in Ipswich together in 2004.
Wright had always admitted that he used sex-workers, and had done since he was in the Merchant
Navy, and continually throughout his life.
In Ipswich he admitted he went to certain massage, and sauna establishments that were
actually brothels.
Throughout his trial he had stated that he had used professional sex-workers on many
occasions, including three, of the victims and when his partner began working night shifts,
and their sex life became almost non-existent, he returned to using professional sex-workers
who were based on the nearby streets, procuring a dozen in the final three months of 2006.
Between 30 October and 10 December 2006, Wright murdered five sex-workers in Ipswich.
Forensic evidence led to his arrest on 19 December.
At the time of the murders, Wright was working as a forklift truck driver.
He was found guilty of all five murders on 21 February 2008.
On the following day, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the judge recommended
that he should never be released.
It was announced on 19 March 2008 that Wright was to appeal his convictions [citation needed],
but on 2 February 2009, it was announced that Wright had decided to drop this appeal case.
Prostitutes nicknamed him "Mondeo Man" and "Silver-Backed Gorilla", because of his hair
colour and stocky build, and some said he liked dressing up in tight women's clothing,
and wearing a black curly wig.
Tiny flecks of blood were found on the back seats of Steve Wright's Ford Mondeo, and partially
matched the DNA profile of Paula Clennell.
Wright is still being investigated in connection, with other unsolved murders and disappearances.
He is one of a number of high profile murderers or sex offenders, to have been identified
as possible suspects in the Suzy Lamplugh case; he had worked with Lamplugh on the QE2
ocean liner during the early 1980s.
Lamplugh went missing in London in July 1986, and was legally declared dead in 1994, but
her body has never been found.
However, the Metropolitan Police have stated, that this is not a strong line of enquiry.
Cleveland Police have not ruled out a link between Wright, and the murder of Vicky Glass,
a heroin addict who vanished from Middlesbrough in September 2000, and whose naked body was
later found in a brook on the North York Moors.
In June 2012, criminologist David Wilson suggested that, the killer of Norwich prostitute Michelle
Bettles may have been Wright, but his theory was dismissed by the police.
Bettles was strangled in March 2002, and her body was found three days later in woodland.
22.
Viktor Sayenko Viktor Sayenko and two accomplices were responsible
for the deaths, of 21 people in 2007.
The Ukraine murders became well known across the globe, when one of the many video recordings,
of the horrific crimes was leaked on the Internet.
Sayenko was reportedly trying to get rich off, of his snuff videos, but that motive
was never proven.
He is currently serving life in prison.
Shocking crimes happen around the world on a daily basis, but most are almost completely
unknown.
This disgusting murder spree isn't well known in the U.S., which makes it even more shocking.
In 2007, a gruesome "snuff" video made its way through shocking video sites.
It showed a victim being murdered by two young men.
Those boys were the "Dnepropetrovsk maniacs," also known as the "hammer maniacs."
They were from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and went on a spree of bludgeoning members of
their community.
There were 21 deaths total, but no real motivation to explain the violence.
It just goes to show how arbitrary the act of murder can be.
The first of the Dnepropetrovsk murders took place in 2007.
19-year-olds Viktor Sayenko, and Igor Suprunyuck.
Suprunyuck walked through town, carrying hammers.
As the boys passed a woman, Suprunyuck suddenly spun around, attacking her with the claw of
the hammer.
They killed her.
Then, they continued to do so until they were caught.
Soon after the first murder, the boys killed a man sleeping nearby on a bench, similarly
bludgeoning him to death.
The next week, two more bodies were found.
And then a third.
Authorities were beginning to worry they had a killing spree on their hands, one that kept
getting more brutal with each victim.
The killers were very proud of their atrocious acts, often taking pictures and creating videos.
As the murderers progressed, the victims showed signs of torture and mutilation.
One pregnant woman was found, with her fetus cut out of the womb.
23.
Junko Ogata A Fukuoka common-law couple were sentenced,
to hang Wednesday for torturing and killing seven people, who shared their dwelling between
1996 and 1998, in a case whose only evidence was the testimony provided by the accomplice,
and a woman who managed to escape the mayhem.
The Kokura branch of the Fukuoka District Court said Futoshi Matsunaga, 44, the mastermind,
and his accomplice, Junko Ogata, 43, must hang for murdering five of Ogata's relatives,
including two children, and the escapee's 34-year-old father.
The pair were also convicted of fatally injuring Ogata's father, but the court ruled they
had not intended to kill him.
Presiding Judge Toshinobu Wakamiya called the couple's actions brutal, and unprecedented.
The court said the couple conspired to kill six of their victims, and Matsunaga was the
mastermind and Ogata his willful executioner.
Matsunaga immediately appealed the sentence to a high court.
Ogata's lawyers said they would consult with her on whether to appeal.
The couple confined and assaulted their victims, to extract money from them.
When the money ran out or the pair, feared they would be discovered, the victim was killed,
and the corpse was dismembered, and thrown into the sea, the court said, noting several
of the victims were forced to borrow huge sums, of money before they were slain.
Some of the victims were ordered to take part in the killings, and dismembering of the bodies
before they were murdered themselves, according to the court.
The couple tried to destroy all traces of the crimes.
Because police found no physical evidence, including the victims' bodies, the prosecutors'
case was based on testimony from Ogata, and a 21-year-old woman, who escaped from the
pair's apartment, where she had been held captive and tortured with electric shocks.
The court deemed the two women's statements, and court testimony as reliable.
Ogata "spoke candidly and in concrete terms, including facts that were disadvantageous
for her," Judge Wakamiya said.
The murders came to light in March 2002 when the woman, then a teen, escaped and alerted
police.
Her father was one of the victims.
Throughout the trial, Matsunaga denied having committed murder, claiming he only abused
the victims, because he did not like their attitude and did not intend to kill them,
because they were his "money trees."
He insisted that Ogata committed the murders on her own.
Ogata basically owned up to the charges during the trial, which started in May 2003.
But her attorneys had asked the court to spare her life.
Ogata claimed Matsunaga abused, and manipulated her into a physical and mental state in which,
she had no choice but to obey his orders.
During a court session in March, prosecutors called Matsunaga "the mastermind, who lost
his sense of right and wrong," while Ogata was "a loyal executor of (his) instructions."
The couple's relationship was a necessary element of the crimes, like "two sets of
wheels," the prosecutors said in a statement, adding that the murders were deeply connected
with "Matsunaga's abnormal desire for money and his self-centered nature, which
caused him not to care if others were destroyed."
The couple began their relationship in 1982, and in February 1985, Ogata left her parents'
home in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, to live with Matsunaga.
Matsunaga and Ogata moved into an apartment in Kitakyushu with the teenage girl and her
father in October 1994.
In February 1996, the 34-year-old father died from repeated physical abuse.
The following year, six members of Ogata's family — her parents, Takashige and Shizumi,
her sister, Rieko, and her brother-in-law, Kazuya, and their two children, Aya and Yuki
— were forced to live with the couple in the Kitakyushu apartment.
All six were slain between December 1997 and June 1998.
Takashige, 61, was electrocuted in December 1997.
Shizumi, 58, Rieko, 33, and Yuki, 5, were strangled between January and May 1998, while
Kazuya, 38, died in April 1998 from physical abuse.
Prosecutors were unable to establish whether Aya, 10, who was killed in June 1998, was
electrocuted or strangled.
The death sentence was what prosecutors had demanded.
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