Serial Killer

  • From Hell

    There are many theories on who Jack the Ripper was but there is only one thing that can be said with certainty, he was a vile and evil creature.There is a special place in hell for people like him. Jack the ripper was well aware of this himself that’s probably why one of his letters

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  • The Dating Game killer

    In 1978, Rodney Alcala appeared on The Dating Game — the popular game show in which three eligible bachelors vied for a date with a bachelorette. The show was heavy on innuendo. The host introduced Alcala as a “successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the darkroom at the age of 13,

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  • Gilles de Rais was probably born in late 1405 to Guy II de Montmorency-Laval and Marie de Craon in the family castle at Champtocé-sur-Loire. He was an intelligent child, speaking fluent Latin, illuminating manuscripts, and dividing his education between military discipline and moral and intellectual development.Following the deaths of his father and mother in 1415, Gilles and his younger

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  • With Stephen King’s  “It” taking cinemas by storm it is time to have a look at the real Clown Killer. John Wayne Gacy. Although Pennywise is a total fictional character(well at least I hope so) there are similarities between him and John Wayne Gacy. John Wayne Gacy was convicted of the torture, rape, and murder

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  • Hell Broke Loose

    “Hell broke loose” was a  December 1885 newspaper headline relating to the Servant Girl Annihilator in Austin,Texas. This case had striking similarities with the “Jack the Ripper” case, however it happened 3 years before the Ripper caused hell in London. Author Shirley Harrison contends that Jack the Ripper and the Servant Girl Annihilator were both

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  • Serial killers are not just a western phenomenon. There are and there have been serial killer all over the globe. However the story of  Seisaku Nakamura is an even more disturbing one, the reason being is that he killed his first victims when he was aged 14. Seisaku Nakamura (1924 – 1943) is also known as Hamamatsu

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  • On January 12, 1948, two police officers from the Waseda precinct in Tokyo accidentally came upon the remains of five infants. While that shocking find was clearly suspect, it was affirmed by an autopsy that showed the infants’ deaths were not natural. An investigation led to the arrest of one Miyuki Ishikawa, two conspirators, and

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  • Wartime is the perfect opportunity for killers to apply their ‘trade’, when a body is found the authorities will automatically assume that it is just another victim of war, at least that is what John Cummins must have thought when he copied Jack the ripper in February 1942. But unlike Jack the Ripper Cummins just

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  • War time is a great opportunity for evil men to act upon their instincts and get away with it. Fortunately they don’t always succeed. When I was doing research on Paul Ogozow, the S-Bahn murderer, I discovered there was a whole list of serial killers that operated during WWII and even in WWI. Eddie Leonski,

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