BIOS OF LESSER KNOWN KILLERS & MASS MURDERERS
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ANDREI CHIKATILO
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994) was a Russian serial killer, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper. He was convicted of the murder of 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990.
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ARTHUR SHAWCROSS
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, which led to criticism of the justice system.
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BOBBY JOE LONG
Bobby Joe Long (The Classified Ad Rapist) was a distant cousin of Henry Lee Lucas. Bobby suffered from a hereditary disorder in which he had an extra "X" chromosome which made his glands produce abnormal amounts of estrogen. His victims of choice were prostitutes whom he considered scum.
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CARL PANZRAM
Carl Panzram (June 28, 1891 – September 5, 1930) was an American serial killer. While imprisoned, Panzram wrote an articulate autobiography about his life and his descent into crime. Many of the claims he made in it are unverified.
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DANIEL RUDA
Manuela Ruda, 23, and her husband Daniel, 26, stabbed Frank Haagen 66 times, beat him with hammers, drank his blood, and left his decomposing body next to the coffin in which Manuela liked to sleep.
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DANNY ROLLING
Danny Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 – October 25, 2006), "the Gainesville Ripper", was a confessed and convicted U.S. serial killer. After confessing to the murder and mutilation of five students in Gainesville, Florida, in August 1990, he was ultimately executed.
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DAVID GORE
Born in 1951, in Florida, David Gore resembled the stereotypical Southern redneck, weighing close to 275 pounds, and such a firearms fan that he studied gunsmithing in his free time. He also studied women, but in a different fashion.
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DENNIS NILSEN
Dennis Andrew Nilsen (born November 23, 1945) is a Scottish serial killer who lived in London. During a murderous spree lasting five years, he killed at least 15 men.
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DOROTHEA PUENTE
Dorothea Puente (born January 9, 1929) is a convicted serial killer. On November 11, 1988, police found a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old Dorothea Puente. Seven bodies were eventually found. Puente was charged with a total of nine murders, convicted of three, and is now serving two life sentences.
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DOUG CLARK
The Sunset Strip Murders in Los Angeles is a highly unusual case of two partners in crime (Carol Bundy and Doug Clark) committing gruesome serial killings.
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FRITZ HAARMANN
Fritz Haarmann (October 25, 1879 – April 15, 1925) was a notorious serial killer born in Hannover, Germany. From 1919 to 1924, Haarmann committed at least 24 murders, and possibly many more.
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GARY HEIDNIK
Gary Michael Heidnik (November 22, 1943 – July 6, 1999) was an American criminal who kidnapped women and kept them prisoner in his basement. He is often referred to as a serial killer, although having committed only two murders, he would not fit the standard FBI definition of a serial killer.
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GARY RIDGWAY
Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah), known as the Green River Killer, is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.
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GERALD SCHAEFER
This homicidal Broward County, Florida, ex-policeman, though convicted in 1973 of only two mutilation murders, is believed to be responsible for at least thirty more killings.
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H.H. HOLMES
Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1860 – May 7, 1896), better known under the alias of "Dr. H. H. Holmes," was an American serial killer. Holmes trapped and murdered possibly hundreds of guests at his Chicago hotel, which he opened for the 1893 World's Fair. He confessed to 27 murders, though only nine have been confirmed.
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JOHN ROBINSON
John Edward Robinson (born December 27, 1943) was an American serial killer convicted in 2003 of the murders of several women.
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LARRY EYLER
Unknown to friends and relatives, Larry Eyler was a young man at war within himself, struggling to cope with homosexual tendencies which simultaneously fascinated and repelled him. Like John Gacy and a host of others, he would learn to take his sex where he could find it, forcefully, and then eliminate the evidence his abiding shame of.
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MANUELA RUDA
Manuela Ruda, 23, and her husband Daniel, 26, stabbed Frank Haagen 66 times, beat him with hammers, drank his blood, and left his decomposing body next to the coffin in which Manuela liked to sleep.
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PETER KURTEN
Peter Kürten (May 26, 1883-July 2, 1931) was a German serial killer dubbed The Vampire of Düsseldorf by the contemporary media. He committed a series of sex crimes, assaults and murders against adults and children, most notoriously from February to November 1929 in Düsseldorf.
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PETER SUTCLIFFE
Peter William Sutcliffe (born June 2, 1946), infamous as the "Yorkshire Ripper", was convicted in 1981 of the murders of thirteen women in the north of England and attacks on seven more from 1975 to 1980.
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RICHARD CHASE
Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in California. He earned the nickname The Vampire of Sacramento because he drank the blood of his victims and ate their internal organs. He did this as part of a delusion that he needed to prevent Nazis from turning his blood into powder via poison they had planted beneath his soap dish.
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ROD FERRELL
Rodrick Justin Ferrell (born March 28, 1980 to teenage parents) was the leader of a loose-knit gang of teenagers from Murray, Kentucky infamously known as the "Vampire Clan". In 1998 Ferrell pled guilty to the double-slaying of a couple from Eustis, Florida, becoming the youngest person in United States on Death Row.
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TOMMY LYNN SELLS
Tommy Lynn Sells is an American Serial Killer. He was born with a fraternal twin sister on June 28, 1964 in Oakland, California, but lived mostly in Frisbee, Missouri.
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