This is a change of tone from my usual ramblings over current events and pop culture. It's hard to approach a serious issue like this from a subjective viewpoint even though I do find this subject fascinating. War criminals and political leaders are exempt from this as they didn't actually do the dirty work themselves; this is for the people that acted on their own authority. Obviously their will be mature themes throughout, so don't say you haven't been warned.
Dishonorable mentions:
Ed Gein - Being the inspiration for three serial killers in various films is a pretty impressive achievement, but if truth be told skinning your victims is nothing compared to the horrors on this list.
Ted Bundy - Raped and murdered 12 young women in the early 70's to get their heads as trophies. What a charming man.
Richard Chase - A man who actually drank the blood of his victims. He did this to prevent the Nazis from turning his blood into poison, which to be fair was a big problem in late 70's Sacramento.
#10 Harold Shipman (Dr. Death) (1946-2004) (250+ Victims)
One of the most charming men of all time; this British doctor was responsible for the deaths of over 250 of his unsuspecting patients, making him one of the most prolific serial killers of all time. It might not have ended that way if he'd been caught in 1975 when he was fined for prescribing himself huge amounts of pethidine, a painkiller that unfortunately for Shipman's patients wasn't for his personal use. His primary method was to poison his patients, usually with a diamorphine overdose that made it seem like the deaths were a complete accident. This continued until 1998 when coupled with his terrible medical record he was found to have been forging the wills of some of his patients so they would leave him a large sum of money. He would claim the patients died of old age, and would then leave hundreds of thousands of pounds in his name. It was only when they recovered the bodies it was discovered that he was not only a murderer, but a fraudster as well.
In the end Shipman was given a total of fifteen life sentences and not surprisingly removed from his position as a trusted doctor. He only ended up serving not even one of these terms as he hung himself in 2004, an act that newspapers such as 'The Sun' couldn't get enough of, as they don't value human lives, even if it is the one of a murderous doctor. To the day of his death Shipman denied any responsibility for his murders, as did his wife, who can hardly be blamed for not wanting to accept the truth. There is a silver lining to this story, as his crimes may actually save more people in future years due to Britain's health legal structure being completely overhauled after this man's actions. I'm not trying to glorify or compromise with what this man did, but it's nice to know that his victims didn't die for nothing.
#9 Andrei Chikatilo (The Rostov Ripper) (1936-1994) (56+ Victims)
A total of 52 women were sexually assaulted, murdered and then mutilated by this deranged man between 1978 and 1990. Just the look of his picture sends shivers down your spine. This story begins with his childhood penis, which would be on the end of many jokes as it didn't work. The ridicule he got for his erectile dysfunction was all the motive he needed for his deranged actions. The only time he could reach the point of orgasm was to stab his victims whilst raping them to then masturbate over. He discovered this with a nine year old girl who became his first victim, but eventually he moved on to strangling and mutilating his victims with various weapons including his teeth, all under the cover of secluded areas. The majority of his murders were of young school girls who he picked up from various bus stops, then taking them into some nearby woods to manhandle and stuff their mouths with mud so nobody could hear them screaming. If he couldn't get an erection, which was almost all the time, he would then repeatedly stab them for his arousal.
Amazingly he was arrested once during the height of his killing phase, but was released due to the blood samples on the victim not matching up to his. This was of course a mistake, and it wasn't until an undercover officer saw him walking around with blood and grass stains on his clothing that he was eventually caught. His murders were so spread out that police never thought to link the crimes, and so he was a difficult criminal to catch. When they did put him on trial it was all over very quickly, and instead of a bulletproof screen he was given a cage in the middle of the courtroom that was built by the families of his victims, which is a pretty nice gesture. They then threatened to kill him throughout the whole trial, which isn't so nice, but you can't really blame them when faced with a man who did such evil things to their daughters. The Russian government found they had to execute him as a matter of national security, and in January 1994 he was killed by a firing squad under the orders of newly elected president Boris Yeltsin. A swift end to a despicable man.
#8 Pedro Lopez (Monster of the Andes) (1948-) (300+ Victims)
Yeah this one is slightly uncomfortable, not only because the man is still alive, but also because he's also a free man. Yes you read that correctly; somehow raping and murdering over 300 girls in Colombia doesn't get you a life behind bars, it only gets you released on good behaviour in 1998, 18 years after he was arrested for the second time. That's less than a month for each victim, and he's till thought to be murdering people. Well done the Colombian government, who to this day don't know where the man is located, which I thought would be quite important with a history like this one.
The usual signs that this guy's been around are numerous strangulation victims in derelict buildings and remote forests, usually found in mass graves of fifty or so bodies that police have found two of so far. He cites his motive as retribution for being gang raped during his first prison stint, which is something pretty traumatizing, but still doesn't excuse murdering those responsible and many others in around the country. Reading about this guy makes you realise that Colombia is the murder capital of the world for good reasons; a man with probably the worst criminal history of all time is released from your prisons not just once but twice. I wish I could say it's a fucking joke, but when the result is 300 lives lost it's something truly shocking.
#7 Dennis Nilsen (The Kindly Killer) (1945-) (15 Victims)
In terms of actual deaths this guy's a lightweight, but he finds his way onto this list for some very disturbing reasons. Those reasons mainly consist of this man's love of corpses, and he would acheive this by luring his victims into his Muswell Hill apartment in London by pretending to be in a position of need, often promising gifts or money. Once they were in his property he would strangle his victims and dress them up so he could have some company. Predictably he never got much of a response and so he would then dissect the bodies, keeping some momentos, and then flushed the rest down the toilet. According to Nilsen this was the most humane way to die, and he actually thought that he was doing his victims a favour by murdering them.
The motive for all this was out of loneliness, which almost makes the tale a tragic one. Nilsen's only friend in life had been his grandfather, and so after his passing Nilsen started killing innocent people to fill the void left by his sole friend's company. His first victim was murdered simply out of desperation when the man tried to leave Nilsen's apartment, and in a panic Nilsen strangled him so they could be together again, having sex with the corpse multiple times overnight. Nilsen would frequently masturbate and sleep with the corpses he collected before leaving them to decompose under his floorboards, which was much to the dismay of anyone who lived nearby. This would lead to his downfall, as local residents who thought the plumbing was causing the stench hired a plumber to inspect the nearby pipes, and he subsequently found human remains. An event I'm sure he still hasn't lived down to this day. Nilsen is still being held in a prison in East Yorkshire with no chance of parole, but one horrible legacy left behind.
#6 Joachim Kroll (The Ruhr Hunter) (1933-1991) (14 Victims)
This guy might not have been the sharpest tool in the shed, as it didn't take the police long to find him, but what he did in that time is pretty sickening. His killings were rather isolated, and it's still not clear what his motive behind this obsession with death was; Kroll just suddenly started killing people for fun. What he would do to the corpses is also fucking gross. After strangling the victim Kroll would have sex with the corpse and then masturbate all over it, sometimes having a threesome with a rubber sex doll. He would then dissect the body and gradually eat the parts. The police found him out on a simple door to door search, where Kroll gave himself up instantly, thinking they would give him help and not lock him away. The story goes that he showed the officers a mutilated corpse of a four year old girl, with her hand on a frying pan waiting to be eaten. When asked Kroll simply explained that he ate corpses to save on grocery bills, which is a pretty extreme measure and one that I don't recommend. Kroll's time came in prison when his heart literally exploded in an astonishing twist of fate. Still, I guess that's karma for you.
#5 Pedro Filho (Killer Petey) (1954-) (100+ Victims)
Probably the world's ultimate psychopath, if that's even an achievement. His whole life has been fucked up thanks to his father literally beating his brain out of shape when he was still in the womb. Even before this man's 18th birthday he had already killed 10 people, showing that this guy has been killing for all his life thanks to his dysfunctional family. This culminated when his father decided to kill his mother with a machete, and in response Filho executed his own father and then ripped out and ate his still beating heart. You would think it would stop at his 1974 arrest for his father's murder, but in prison it somehow gets even worse. By the time of his release he killed a total of 47 inmates, earning him a sentence of over 400 years. This didn't seem to bother the Brazilian government, and as we've found out, South American countries aren't great at keeping their serial killers locked away, and Brazil is no exception. The law states that a prisoner cannot be held for longer than 30 years, which is a pretty brave move when the lives of your civilians are held on the trust of your rehabilitation skills. Since 2007 Filho has been a free man, and is thought to still be operating in the Fortaleza region where he has thankfully only committed minor crimes since his release. Seriously Brazil, what the fuck did you think would happen with your stupid laws.
#4 John Wayne Gacy (The Killer Clown) (1942-1994) (34 Victims)
This man is the stuff of nightmares. You always wondered why you were scared of clowns, and now it's not just their menacing appearance that will haunt you for the rest of your life. Clowns have always been freaky, but they're much worse when they decide to kill 33 teenage boys in their own home and then bury them under the floorboards. Apparently Gacy was actually a popular man in the neighborhood, often organizing gatherings and performing at parties where he would lure his victims into his home for some rape and strangulation. His original motive was that of sexual desire, but soon this turned into brutal murder from a sexually confused man.
There is a wild rumor flying around the internet that this man posed as a statue one evening in some random home. This is simply not true as first of all his victims were always murdered in his own home, and secondly he was caught by a family who filed a missing persons report for their fifteen year old son who had last been seen talking to Gacy about a job in the construction industry. Gacy's most common method to lure young boys would be to advertise jobs for his construction business, and only then would he capture the young men with his alter ego 'Pogo the Clown'. Eventually this crazed killer was dispatched by a lethal injection in 1994, increasing the total number of deaths from this man's atrocities up to 34, and with it the reputation of one of the world's sickest men.
#3 Jeffrey Dahmer (The Milwaukee Cannibal) (1960-1994) (17 Victims)
Possibly the most disgusting man in the history of the world, and there is even visual evidence for this. If you haven't just eaten then you can search for Polaroid images of this man' victims and see for yourself what a fucked up guy we are dealing with here. Dahmer's crazed killings began when his parents divorce drove him to explore his sexual desires, which included homosexuality and necrophilia. His first recorded murder was that of a hitchhiker at a time when Dahmer had just graduated high school. Dahmer drugged the man and had sex with him, bludgeoning him to death when he tried to leave. This would lead to a grizzly cycle that involved Dahmer picking up men from Milwaukee gaybars, strangling them, and then dissecting their remains to store in his grandmother's basement. He would keep various body parts in fridges, and mount skulls and genitals as if they were a trophy. How anyone never found out about this from the stench is surprising, and why nobody tried to stop this is another big question. Dahmer knew what he was doing was wrong, but as nobody cared he couldn't suppress his sexual and twisted urges.
His killings escalated even further when he was arrested and incarcerated for sexual assault. His one year rehabilitation programme failed and he started to lobotomize his victims to try and keep them alive and under his control for eternity. He would now drill into their skulls and inject them with acid while they were still alive in the hope of controlling them. Predictably this led to more deaths that increased on a weekly basis. Dahmer found he could no longer store the bodies so he had to start consuming them or dissolving them in acid baths, creating a thick sludge that could easily be flushed down the toilet. He still wasn't caught when the police found a naked 13 year old boy running through the streets. When asked Dahmer simply replied that the boy was his gay lover, and after a quick, and rather poor look into his house the police let him continue. The boy, who was the younger brother of a child that Dahmer had previously molested was then subsequently killed and raped by Dahmer. Unbelievable. He was eventually caught, admitting to the police that they wouldn't believe what they would find inside his house, with various body parts and photographs still being preserved. All through the trial he was calm and collected, just accepting his chilling actions as a way of life. His demise came from inmate Christopher Scarver who beat him to death whilst performing a routine chore, bringing to an end the worst murderer in US history.
#2 Aaron Kosminski (Jack The Ripper) (5 Possible Victims)
I have given this man a name, although the truth is we still don't know who the real 'Jack the Ripper' was. Kosminski was a Polish immigrant who was most likely to have been the killer, but thanks to the recent genetic experiment having significant flaws we still don't know the killer's identity. Even though we don't know who we was his status is that of legendary. 'The Whitechapel Murderer' became world renowned for the killings he orchestrated in the run down areas of London. All we know of him is that he sent a letter signed 'Jack the Ripper' to the police with a human kidney attached inside. Whether this was a genuine letter is still up for debate, as it could have been a publicity stunt, but what wasn't a stunt was the brutal way in which this man dispatched his victims.
His preferred victim was a prostitute, which makes this story even more compelling. The fact that in Victorian London people were captivated by the murder of some ordinary and insignificant prostitutes shows you how twisted this man really was. Jack would dissect his victims for the police to find later, often leaving them on the streets, but for his last victim, Mary Kelly, he just left her in bed. There are some pictures of that on the internet; they're terrible quality, but to say they're unpleasant is an understatement; you can barely recognise the corpse. To this day the legend has still not been solved, making this man the greatest crime mystery of all time, and also one infamous and deranged killer.
#1 Gilles De Rais (Bluebeard) (1405-1440) (~200 Victims)
On first inspection you might not think this guy looks menacing at all, heck he was even a distinguished military veteran under Joan of Arc, so why is he at number one? Well that has something to do with his personal life, when he wasn't leading Brittany or writing plays. You see De Rais was a rather strange man, and a big believer in the occult, often wanting to summon demons for his pleasure. When the demons didn't come to him he thought he must make a sacrifice to appease the angry spirit that wouldn't appear to him; that meant meant a sacrifice of young children. That's why in 1432 this man started killing local children to please the spirits, and that meant a lot of innocent local children that just kept increasing in number as the demon still didn't appear to him. Then it got a lot worse; he started to molest the children before brutally killing them for his own pleasure, getting aroused by their inherent fear. What he would do to them after that is just unbeleivable.
Once the children were brought to De Rais he would hang them by a noose so they couldn't scream. He would then masturbate onto their bodies whilst decapitating them, and then disemboweled their remains. There was occasionally a bit of torture beforehand if De Rais wasn't feeling horny enough yet, and he would even on occasion cut off their genitals and wank into the site of their inner organs that he would try and penetrate. Not finished yet he would then lie on top of the boys and laugh at them as they died a slow and agonising death, repeatedly kissing them in the process. If they were an attractive specimen he would then mount their heads on a spike to compare with his other victims at a later date, but if not he would burn the bodies and then bathe in their blood. I hope this is enough to convince you that this is the most sadistic man of all time, so please remember that you next time you moan about people watching porn for arousal. The final death toll was thought to be around 200, although some accounts suggest a figure of around 600, making him the most deadly and disgusting man on this well stacked list. He was eventually put on trial by the French government and executed for his atrocities that easily make him the worst serial killer of all time.
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