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Son of Sam with now deceased serial killer, Gary Evans.

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Facts about David Berkowitz

Killed six people and wounded seven others in New York City between 1976 and 1977.

Most of the victims were young women or couples in cars on secluded streets.

Claimed a demon spoke to him through a neighbor’s dog.

Called himself the “Son of Sam” in letters he wrote to newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin.

He once worked as an auxiliary policeman in the Bronx.

He confessed to the murders in 1977 and is serving six consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences.

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Mugshots of America’s most notorious serial killers.

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Arthur Shawcross (born June 6, 1945) is an American serial killer, also known as The Genesee River Killer. He claimed most of his victims after being paroled early following a conviction for murdering a child. He was born in Maine, but the family moved to Watertown in New York State when he was young. Shawcross dropped out of school in the ninth grade, and when he was 19 he enlisted in the army. He fought in the Vietnam War where he was to later confess he had murdered and cannibalized two young Vietnamese girls, although there is nothing to back up this claim.

Back in civilian life, living in Watertown once more, Shawcross married four times, but his wives invariably left him after a short time because of his violent and erratic behavior. It was there, in May 1972, that he murdered 10-year-old Jake Blake. He lured the boy to some woods where he assaulted and strangled him. Four months later, he raped and killed an eight-year-old girl named Karen Ann Hill. Arrested for these crimes, Shawcross confessed to both murders but was later able to obtain a plea bargain with the prosecutors. He would plead guilty to killing just Karen Ann Hill on a charge of manslaughter, instead of first-degree murder, and the charge of killing Jake Blake would be dropped. With little evidence to go on, prosecutors went along with this, and the self-confessed double child killer was given a 25-year sentence. Shawcross served 15 years before he was released on parole in March 1987. He had difficulty settling down as he was chased out of homes and fired from workplaces as soon as neighbors and employers found out about his criminal record. Eventually he settled in Rochester, New York, and lived with a woman named Clara. Starting in March 1988, Shawcross began murdering prostitutes in the area, claiming 11 victims before his capture less than two years later. They were usually strangled and battered to death, and were often mutilated as well. After the last victim’s body was found in January 1990, the police decided not to remove it and instead keep surveillance on the area, based on a psychological profile that suggested the killer would return to the scene. Shawcross was spotted masturbating as he sat in his car on a bridge over the creek in which the body of his final victim was floating. He was arrested and eventually confessed in custody.

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William Suff also known as the Riverside Prostitute Killer and the Lake Elsinore Killer, is a Californian serial killer. In 1974, Suff and his then-wife were convicted of beating their two-month-old daughter to death in Texas. Although he was sentenced to 70 years in prison, he was released on parole in 1984. He subsequently raped, stabbed, strangled and sometimes mutilated 12 or more prostitutes in Riverside County, beginning in 1986. On January 9, 1993, he was arrested after a routine traffic stop.

Described as a mild mannered loner, Suff worked as a county stock clerk who delivered supplies to the task force investigating his killing spree. He liked to impersonate police officers and even cooked chili at office picnics. In fact, it is alleged that he used the breast of one of his victims in his chili, which won the “Riverside County Employee Chili Cookoff.” He was also working on a book about wild, lethal dogs. He enjoyed vanity plates and was an avid volunteer in the county’s car-pooling program.

On July 19, 1995, Suff was found guilty of killing 12 prostitutes, although police think that he might be responsible for up to 22 deaths. On November 1995, he was condemned to death.

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The Mauerovas are a family of cult members and cannibals from the Czech Republic. Over an 8 month period, relatives and fellow cult members participated in despicable acts against two brothers. The actual details of what a mother allowed to be done to her young children are extremely disturbing. By a remarkable chain of events, the truth about the Maurova family was discovered on May 10, 2007 when horrific images on a baby monitor (which they had installed in their house to view the crimes) where picked up by a neighbor who had the exact same monitor. A total of six people were eventually convicted.

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Below is a chronological list of the known victims of Ted Bundy. Bundy never made a comprehensive confession of his crimes and his true total is not known, but before his execution, he confessed thirty murders to Bill Hagmaier. Ten of his victims remain unidentified. All the women listed were killed, unless otherwise noted.

1974

* Jan. 4: Joni Lenz (survived). Bludgeoned in her bed as she slept.

* Jan. 31: Lynda Ann Healy (19). Beaten & bludgeoned unconscious while asleep and abducted from the house she shared with other University of Washington co-eds.

* Mar. 12: Donna Gail Manson (19). Abducted while walking to a jazz concert on The Evergreen State College campus, Olympia, Washington. Body never recovered.

* Apr. 17: Susan Rancourt (18). Disappeared as she walked across Ellensburg’s Central Washington State College campus at night.

* May 6: Roberta Kathleen Parks (22). Vanished from Oregon State University in Corvallis while walking to another dorm hall to have coffee with friends.

* Jun. 1: Brenda Ball (22). Disappeared from the Flame Tavern in Burien, Washington.

* Jun. 11: Georgeann Hawkins (18). Disappeared from behind her sorority house, Kappa Alpha Theta, at the University of Washington in Seattle.

* Jul. 14: Janice Ott (23) and Denise Naslund (19), both from Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah, Washington.

* Aug. 2: Carol Valenzuela (20). Last seen at a welfare office in Vancouver, Washington.

* Oct. 2: Nancy Wilcox (16). Disappeared in Holladay, Utah.

* Oct. 18: Melissa Smith (17). Vanished from Midvale, Utah on her way to a friend’s house.

* Oct. 31: Laura Aime (17). Disappeared from a Halloween party at Lehi, Utah.

* Nov. 8: Carol DaRonch (18, survived). Escaped from Bundy by jumping out from his car in Murray, Utah.

* Nov. 8: Debra (Debby) Kent (17). Vanished from the parking lot of a school in Bountiful, Utah, hours after DaRonch escaped from Bundy. Body never recovered.

1975

* Jan. 12: Caryn Campbell (23). While on a ski trip with her fiancée in Aspen, Colorado, Campbell vanished between the hotel lounge and her room.

* Mar. 15: Julie Cunningham (26). Disappeared while on her way to a nearby tavern in Vail, Colorado. Body never recovered.

* Apr. 6: Denise Oliverson (25). Abducted while visiting her parents in Grand Junction, Colorado.

* May 6: Lynette Culver (13). Snatched from a school playground at Alameda Junior High School, Pocatello, Idaho.

* June 28: Susan Curtis (15). Abducted from the campus of Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

1978

* Jan. 15: Lisa Levy (20), Margaret Bowman (21), Karen Chandler (survived), Kathy Kleiner (survived). The Chi Omega killings, Tallahassee, Florida.

* Jan. 15: Cheryl Thomas (survived). Bludgeoned in her bed, eight blocks away from the Chi Omega house.

* Feb. 9: Kimberly Leach (12), kidnapped from her junior high school and raped, Lake City, Florida.

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Thug Behram, of the Indian Thuggee cult, has frequently been said to be the world’s most prolific serial killer. According to numerous sources, he was believed to have murdered 931 victims by strangulation by means of a ceremonial cloth (or rumal, which in Hindi means handkerchief), used by his cult between 1790-1830.

Attribution of so many killings to this one murderer is, however, the product of confusion and mistaken reporting of unchecked statements. The original source for Behram’s ‘confession’ is a manuscript on Thuggee written by James Paton, an East India Company officer working for the Thuggee and Dacoity Office in the 1830s. Paton’s MS - now in the British Library - states that Behram had merely estimated that he had “been present” at 931 cases of murder, the killings themselves being committed by a gang of 25 to 50 men, at least half a dozen of whom, other than Behram himself, would have played an active role as stranglers.

In addition, Behram’s statement is unverified and the Thug never stood trial for any of the murders he confessed to, having turned King’s Evidence and agreed to inform on his companions.

It should further be emphasised that this Thug gave a second, much less publicised, account, concerning the actual number of murders he committed. At another point in Paton’s papers, Behram is quoted as saying: “I may have strangled with my own hands about 125 men, and I may have seen strangled 150 more.”

Since Behram’s alleged murders were committed in the course of a 40-year career, and since it was in Thug informers’ interests to make themselves appear as important as possible to their British captors, it would be unwise to attribute any specific total of killings to this one murderer.