Ted Bundy (The Lady Killer)
(November 24, 1946 January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer and rapist who murdered numerous young women across the country between 1974 and 1978. His total number of victims is unknown. After over a decade of vigorous denials, Bundy eventually confessed to over 30 murders. Bundy is often considered the prototypical American serial killer indeed, the term 'serial killer' was coined in order to describe him. Bundy is believed to have been a sociopath. He is often described as an educated, handsome and charming young man despite the brutality of his crimes. Typically, he murdered young women and girls by bludgeoning them, and sometimes by strangulation. He is also believed to have raped many of his victims as well, in addition to mutilating and molesting their bodies after their deaths. The morning of his execution, Bundy enjoyed a last meal consisting of steak, fried eggs, hash browns and coffee. Some accounts from prison guards later stated that, in the minutes leading up to Bundy's execution, he had to be forcibly dragged from his cell for preparation. At 7:06 AM on January 24, 1989, 42-year-old Ted Bundy was executed in the electric chair by the State of Florida for the murder of Kimberly Leach. His last words were, "I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends." Then, an electric potential of over 2,000 volts was applied across his body for less than two minutes. He was pronounced dead at 7:16 AM.

Andrei Chikatilo (Citizen X)
Andrei Chikatilo, one of the worst serial killers, who murdered up to 53 young girls and boys in Russia starting in 1982 and ending in 1990, when he was captured. Chikatilos reasons for gouging at his victims eyes was that he believed that the victims eyes kept an image of the killer in them after death. Chikatilo was found legally sane and sentenced to die for the 53 deaths. He was executed by a gunshot to the head in 1994.

Doug Clark
Doug considered himself the "king of the one-night stands." He loved sex with prostitutes, especially real young ones from LA's notorious Sunset Strip. Carol, his girlfriend, was no Mother Teresa. She thought that murder was fun and liked photographing hookers sucking Doug's dick. He enjoyed shooting his victims as he came in their mouths. He also liked chopping their heads off. Once, for kicks, Carol applied make-up to a severed head and Doug took it to the shower for a little necrophilic fellatio. Carol told an old boyfriend about Doug's strange habits. When the old boyfriend threatened to tell police, Carol stabbed him to death and chopped off his head.

Jeffrey Dahmer (The Milwaukee Cannibal)
Jeffrey Dahmer, was born May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. When young, he impaled the heads of animals he killed on stakes in his yard. As an adolescent, he had fantasies of killing and mutilating men. His first murder was in Bath Township, Ohio, in 1978. A second murder followed in 1987. He killed another 15 young men, most of them in Milwaukee, over the next five years. Dahmer's gruesome crimes involved cannibalism and necrophilia. Some claimed Dahmer escaped detection for so long was because police attached a low priority to investigating the disappearance of homosexual or racial minority victims.

Albert Fish (The Real Life Hannibal Lector)
Albert Fish killed between eight and fifteen victims, and he was a cannibal, child molestor, and sado-masochist. In 1928, Albert kidnapped 12 year old Grace Budd, took her to an abandoned shack, and proceeded to strangle her, cut her up, and cook her into a stew, which he ate. Albert sent a letter to her parents, telling them how he took her, and killed and ate her. Albert said she was not molested before she died, she died a virgin. When caught, Albert pled insane, but was found fit to stand trial. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. He helped the attendents strap himself in, and stated "the electric chair, the supreme thrill, the only one I haven't tried."

John Wayne Gacy (Pogo The Clown)
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of thirty-three boys and men, 29 of whom he buried in his crawl space, between 1972 and his arrest in 1978. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he attended, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup.

According to reports, Gacy did not express remorse. His last words were to the effect that killing him would not bring anyone back, and it is reported his last words were "You can kiss my ass", which he said to a guard while he was being sent to the execution chamber Some have pointed to his poor relationship with his abusive, alcoholic father, his head trauma and subsequent blackouts in his teenage years as some basis for his acts. There has also been some speculation that murdering men and boys whom he called "worthless little queers and punks" was Gacy's subconscious expression of self-hatred for his own homosexuality (Gacy claimed to hate gays and "gay-acting people," and that he was bisexual.) During his time on Death Row, Gacy took up oil painting, and his favorite subject was painting portraits of clowns. He claimed to have used his clown act as an alter ego, once sardonically saying that "A clown can get away with murder." After his execution, his paintings were sold at auction. Reportedly, the main buyer destroyed the paintings after winning the bids.

Edward Gein (The Real American Psycho)
Born at the turn of the century on August 27,1906 in the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin to George And Augusta Gein. "Weird old Eddie", as the local community had come to know him, had begun to develop a psychotic interest in the intimate anatomy of the female body. Soon he graduated on to the real thing by digging up decaying female corpses by night in the local Wisconsin cemeteries. These he would dissect and keep some parts heads, sex organs, livers, hearts and intestines. Then he would flay the skin from the body, wearing it himself to dance and cavort around the homestead - a practice that apparently gave him intense gratification. On other occasions, Gein took only the body parts that particularly interested him. He was especially fascinated by the excised female genitalia, which he would fondle and play with, sometimes stuffing them into a pair of women's panties, which he would then wear around the house. Obviously, he quickly became a recluse in the community, discouraging any visitors from coming near his by now neglected and decaying farm. Gein's fascination with the female body eventually led him to seek out fresher samples. His victims, usually women of his mother's age, included 54-year old Mary Hogan, who disappeared from the tavern she ran in December 1954, and Bernice Worden, a woman in her late fifties who ran the local hardware store, who disappeared on the 16th November 1957. Mrs. Worden's son Frank was also the sheriff's deputy, and upon learning that weird old Eddie Gein had been spotted in town on the day of his mother's disappearance, Frank Worden and the sheriff went to check out the old Gein place, already infamous amongst the local children as a haunted house.There, the gruesome evidence proved that Gein's bizarre obsessions had finally exploded into murder, and much, much worse. In the summer kitchen of the house was the naked, headless body of Bernice Worden, hanging upside down from a meat hook and slit open down the front. Her head and intestines were discovered in a box, and her heart in a plastic bag in the dining room. The skins from ten human heads were found preserved, and another skin taken from the upper torso of a woman was rolled up on the floor. There was a belt fashioned from carved-off nipples, a chair upholstered in human skin, the crown of a skull used as a soup-bowl, lampshades covered in flesh pilled taut, a table propped up by a human shinbones, and The four posts on Gein's bed were topped with skulls and a human head hung on the wall alongside nine death-masks - the skinned faces of women - and decorative bracelets made out of human skin. The stunned searchers also uncovered a soup bowls fashioned from skulls, a shoe box full of female genitalia, faces stuffed with newspapers and mounted like hunting trophies on the walls, and a "mammary vest" flayed from the torso of a woman. Gein later confessed that he enjoyed dressing himself in this and other human-skin garments and pretending he was his own mother. The scattered remains of an estimated fifteen bodies were found at the farmhouse when Gein was eventually arrested, but he could not remember how many murders he had actually committed.

Gary Heidnik
Gary's goal in life was collecting ten sex-slaves and fathering as many children as he could before dying. He kept the hapless women in a pit in his basement and fed her only bread, water and dog food. By February, 1987, one of the sex-slaves starved to death after hanging from the rafters for several days. The new recruit he procured proved not to be submissive enough and was promptly killed by Gary by hooking her to electrodes and forcing her to stand in a pit full of water. He also grounded pieces of their flesh, mixed it with dog food and fed it to the other captives. In 1987, one of the captives escaped and told authorities.

Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (born November 11, 1934) is an American career criminal and was the leader of a group known as "The Family", in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He took an indirect role in several brutal murders, most notably that of movie actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant at the time. He was convicted of murder in what came to be known as the "Tate-La Bianca case", named after the victims, although he was not accused of committing the murders in person. He is currently serving a lifetime sentence in California's Corcoran State Prison, and is up for parole in 2007; due to his eccentric and arguably dangerous behavior as well as his notoriety, it is highly unlikely he will ever be released. Manson has never admitted guilt and maintains his innocence. Since his trial and conviction, Manson's name and image have been integrated into American pop culture generally as a symbol of ultimate evil. Both have been used by many artists (mostly musicians). He was also friends with several notable musicians before the murders were committed, including Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys, and is a marginally successful musician himself whose songs have been covered by many artists. Manson was last entitled to a parole hearing in 2002, and was denied early release, in particular due to a "litany" of offenses ranging from drug trafficking to arson to assaulting guards. He is next eligible for parole in 2007.

Ian Brady
Brady is known primarily for his role in a series of murders that took place in Greater Manchester between 1963 and 1965. These were dubbed the Moors Murders, as several victims were buried along the Saddleworth Moor near Oldham. Brady was responsible for five murders during the 1960s. In 1987 he claimed to police that he had carried out another five killings and even said where he had buried the bodies, but the police were never able to prove whether these claims were true. The five killings that Brady admitted carrying out were committed with Hindley as his accomplice.

Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker)
Richard Munoz Ramirez is a convicted Mexican American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media as he terrorized California with a series of car and home abductions, rapes, and murders during the first half of 1985. During his trial he tattooed a pentagram on the palm of his hand which he flashed at the press cameras. After being sentenced to death he said: "You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society. I need not look beyond this courtroom to see all the liars, the haters, the killers, the crooks, the paranoid cowards -- truly trematodes of the Earth, each one in his own legal profession. You maggots make me sick! Hypocrites one and all. We are all expendable for a cause. No one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly, as do the governments of the world which kill in the name of god and country. I don't need to hear all of society's rationalizations. I've heard them all before and the fact remains that what is, is. Legions of the night--night breed-- repeat not the errors of the Night Prowler and show no mercy. I will be avenged." Then, as he was lead out of court, he exclaimed "No big deal, death comes with the territory. See you in Disneyland!"

Manuela and Daniel Ruda
Daniel Ruda, 26, and his wife Manuela, 23, admit killing Frank Haagen, aged 33, with hammer blows and 66 knife stabs in July last year, but deny responsibility for the act. "I got the order to sacrifice a human for Satan," Daniel said in a statement read out by his lawyer to the court in Bochum, near Dortmund. Mrs Ruda told the court how she and her husband had lured their victim to their flat, and attacked him. "Daniel struck him on the head twice with the hammer. But he suddenly stood up again and walked towards the television. "Then my knife started to glow and I heard the command to stab him in the heart," she said. After killing Mr Haagen, the couple cut an occult star on his stomach, drank his blood from a bowl and had sex in a coffin in which Mrs Ruda usually slept. Mr Haagen's mutilated and partially decomposed body was found in their flat. It had a scalpel protruding from his stomach, and a pentagram, the sign of the Devil, carved into his chest. A prosecutor told the court he was horrified by the murder scene. "I have never, ever seen such a picture of cruelty and depravity before. They simply had a lust for murder," he said. Mrs Ruda appeared at the court in gothic clothing, her head partly shaved to reveal an inverted crucifix and a target tattooed on her skull. She said she had developed her taste for vampirism in the UK, where she spent time in London and Scotland.

Carl Panzram
In 1920, at the age of 29, Panzram took the final step in his life of crime by graduating to murder. He lured sailors in New York away from bars, got them drunk, shot them and dumped their remains into the river. After tiring of that, Panzram went to Africa where he raped and killed an 11-year-old boy. In his confession to this murder, he wrote: "His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him and he will never be any deader." A few days later he hired six men to go hunting crocodiles with him. Once in the swamps, however, Panzram shot all six men to death, hacked them up and fed them to the crocodiles.

Peter Kurten
Pete earned the moniker "The Vampire of Dusseldorf" because he enjoyed drinking the blood of his victims. He also killed animals when he was feeling thirsty. On occasion he delighted in setting fires to abandoned buildings hoping to roast whatever transients might be sleeping inside. Like most sexual sadists, Peter lived a seemingly "normal" life. His wife never imagined such a mild mannered man could be responsible for such ruthless killings. When confessed to the police his wife, who was sitting next to him, fainted. Peter proceeded to give police a detailed recounting of 77 criminal acts over ten years.

Arthur Shawcross
An unrepentant cannibal, Arthur ate two Vietnamese girls during his tour of duty in 'Nam. In fact, Vietnam became a living fantasy of horror and gore for Shawcrosst. He boasted he was never happier than in 'Nam. Shawcross claimed to have killed women and children indiscriminately while fighting for Uncle Sam. He bragged that he not only tortured, mutilated and dismembered his victims, but he also roasted their carcassess and ate them. Several years after his time in Nam, Shawcross went on a twenty-month murder spree in which he bagged and chewed on eleven women.

David Berkowitz
Known as the Son of Sam. Another adopted serial killer in the Archives. Between June 1976 and August 1977 he terrified lovers on the streets of New York with eight shootings that left six dead. This former postal worker killed six and wounded seven after a 6,000-year-old spirit invaded his neighbor's Labrador and commanded him to do the evil. He sent numerous letters to Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News and the NYPD exulting his exploits. The plump killer got his moniker from a note he left at the scene of one shooting which read: "I am a monster. I am the Son of Sam." Berkowitz was sentenced to six consecutive 25 years-to-life terms at Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg.

Richard Chase
This maniac became known as the "Vampire Killer of Sacramento" after a four day blood binge in January, 1978, in which he claimed six lives. Previously he had tried to inject rabbit's blood into his veins. When he was institutionalized he exhibited such strange behavior that the hospital staff nicknamed him "Dracula". He complained that someone had stolen his pulmonary artery and that his head kept changing shape. By 1977 it seemed that his delirium had been kept in check by his medication and he was released from the hospital to make room for more seriously ill patients. Apparently Rich then decided to stop taking his medication. He started thinking that his blood was turning into powder and a Nazi crime syndicate that had been haunting him since high school was paying his mother money to poison him. So he did what any other red-blooded American would do under such duress. He became a vampire. A typically "disorganized" killer, Chase picked his victims randomly and left as much evidence as he could around his home and the crime scenes. He drained his victim's blood, blended it with body organs and drank it. Chase was arrested a few days after his 4-day bloody swan song through Sacramento. After his arrest Richie raved about UFO's and other imagined stalkers that were after him. He died of an overdose of antidepressants in his cell in Vacaville just after Chrismas in 1980.

Ottis Toole
Though he claimed to be a serial killer and cannibal, and was the suspect in several unsolved murders, he recanted and restated a number of confessions. Toole was twice convicted of murder, and confessed to four more murder charges before dying in prison. He was perhaps best-known as a suspect in the murder of Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh, who created the television program America's Most Wanted, and as the reputed partner of Henry Lee Lucas. About 1978, Toole met Lucas in Florida. Both would later claim to have committed many hundreds of murders, sometimes at the behest of a secret cult called "The Hand of Death." Lucas would recant his confessions, saying he made such statements only to improve his living conditions in jail. Though some authorities have argued there is significant doubt as to Lucas' guilt, Toole is still generally seen as a serial killer. In April 1984, Toole was convicted and sentenced to death for a 1982 arson incident that killed 64-year-old George Sonnenberg in Jacksonville, Florida. Later that year, Toole was judged guilty of the 1983 murder of 19-year-old Tallahassee, Florida, resident Ada Johnson, and received a second death sentence; on appeal, however, both sentences were reduced to life in prison. Toole pleaded guilty to four hundred more murders in 1991 and received four more life sentences. Toole died in September of 1996 in prison from cirrhosis of the liver.

The Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac killer was the nickname of a serial killer who found his victims in and around San Francisco, in the late 1960s. In 2004 the San Francisco Police Department officially declared the case inactive, though the killer's identity still remains unknown. The total number of the Zodiac Killer's victims is not known. Robert Graysmith lists 49 names in his book, including the eight definite