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Yeah I find them pretty fascinating also.

I'm also fascinated with some major Missing Person Cases, and Holocaust stories. Major UFO sightings are also pretty interesting.

I don't research them in great depth, mostly just read wikipedia.
 
This isn't really a serial killing, just an unsolved murder, but could be of interest to a few of you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud

This guy was found dead at Somerton, SA, 1948, in extremely mysterious circumstances. The wiki page is a pretty good read, it would make a pretty good movie too.

EDIT: Just watched that youtube video of alcala after reading his wikipedia page. Very creepy guy, seeing that video knowing he's already taken lives. It's good reason to have police checks on people who go on TV shows like that, it could have ended pretty badly for that girl.
 

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cammo84 said:
This isn't really a serial killing, just an unsolved murder, but could be of interest to a few of you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud

This guy was found dead at Somerton, SA, 1948, in extremely mysterious circumstances. The wiki page is a pretty good read, it would make a pretty good movie too.

EDIT: Just watched that youtube video of alcala after reading his wikipedia page. Very creepy guy, seeing that video knowing he's already taken lives. It's good reason to have police checks on people who go on TV shows like that, it could have ended pretty badly for that girl.
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Very interesting case. :thumbsu: Thanks for the post.
 
Anyone know of Richard Kuklinski? I've read his book "The Ice Man", pretty crazy stuff. Worth looking up the interviews on youtube in which he tells of various stories of the 200+ people he killed. Wound up working as a hitman for the mob which got him involved with more obvious crime which eventually led to him being caught by police. OP should definitely check him out if he hasn't already done so!
 
Mr Gor said:
Anyone know of Richard Kuklinski? I've read his book "The Ice Man", pretty crazy stuff. Worth looking up the interviews on youtube in which he tells of various stories of the 200+ people he killed. Wound up working as a hitman for the mob which got him involved with more obvious crime which eventually led to him being caught by police. OP should definitely check him out if he hasn't already done so!
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I read that. Some really intense moments in that one. Can't believe that he killed a guy by letting the rats eat him alive. That is by far the worst way to die.
 
BACCS said:
Over the past couple of years I have become fascinated with the life and mind of a serial killer. I watch countless documentaries on them, and my favourite TV show just happens to be Criminal Minds, suprise suprise. Is anyone else as fascinated as I am, with the life and mind of a serial killer?
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Yup, have always loved reading books on them and also watching true crime shows (none of that CSI rubbish :rolleyes:)... and Silence of the Lambs would be my all time fav movie.

Also recently found this website if you wanna check it out.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/index.html

Has details on various famous crimes, inluding serial killer cases- but also many others. Each case has a number of "chapters" on it, just like a book would have.
 
JUBJUB said:
In the final season of The Shield Dutch mentions to a kid suspected of murder that more than 50% of the worlds serial killers have spent part of their life in California.Is that stat true ?
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I thought it would have been Adelaide rather than California.:D

A lot of serial killers seem to come from the US though and California is the biggest state in terms of population so maybe that stat is true.
 
cammo84 said:
This isn't really a serial killing, just an unsolved murder, but could be of interest to a few of you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud

This guy was found dead at Somerton, SA, 1948, in extremely mysterious circumstances. The wiki page is a pretty good read, it would make a pretty good movie too.

EDIT: Just watched that youtube video of alcala after reading his wikipedia page. Very creepy guy, seeing that video knowing he's already taken lives. It's good reason to have police checks on people who go on TV shows like that, it could have ended pretty badly for that girl.
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That is a very interesting and odd case. Cheers.:thumbsu:
 
Shell said:
Yup, have always loved reading books on them and also watching true crime shows (none of that CSI rubbish :rolleyes:)... and Silence of the Lambs would be my all time fav movie.

Also recently found this website if you wanna check it out.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/index.html

Has details on various famous crimes, inluding serial killer cases- but also many others. Each case has a number of "chapters" on it, just like a book would have.
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Mr Gor said:
Anyone know of Richard Kuklinski? I've read his book "The Ice Man", pretty crazy stuff. Worth looking up the interviews on youtube in which he tells of various stories of the 200+ people he killed. Wound up working as a hitman for the mob which got him involved with more obvious crime which eventually led to him being caught by police. OP should definitely check him out if he hasn't already done so!
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Thanks for these guys, this has given me plenty of reading and watching material for the holidays.:thumbsu: Now this is another one I came accross on YouTube last night on Jeffrey Dahmer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3szsOUF-o8. I could not believe the lengths this guy went to with his killings, even canabalising some of his victims.
 

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Watched the Truro Murders case on Crime Investigation Australia the other night. Chilling. I was getting more and more freaked out with every successive girl he killed. Scary to think how many more he would have killed had he not died.
 
The Ice Man is an interesting read and no doubt he is one ****ed up unit, but I wonder how much of it is true. I would be surprised if he wasn't making shit up. Is there a major mafia hit during the time that he doesn't take credit for?

Looking forward to reading Carlo's book on Ramirez.

I have spent many many hours on Crime Library over the years.
 
119Points said:
Anyone been following the Joran Van Der Sloot case? Creepy guy...
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Just had a read of the wikipedia article on him, what a seriously weird and disturbed human being. Only a matter of time before he is convicted of Holloway's death too IMO, and rightfuly so.
 

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BACCS said:
Cheers mate, will have a little watch later on.:thumbsu: But just gave that article a read, and to have an IQ of 166, a degree in law, only to waste that on a life of murder is baffling.
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One of the interesting things about Alcala was that he was actually released under a Californian law in the 1970's when they had a large focus on rehabilitation, and they tried to integrate criminals back into society before serving their whole prison sentences.

A lot of serial killers on this thread are American, here's a Russian one. I remember seeing news footage of him in court in a cage. Interestingly in the USSR at the time he was committing the murders, it was considered an impossibility that a socialist country could experience the phenomenon of a serial killer (was considered to be common in capitalist societies).

http://www.serialkillercalendar.com/briefANDREICHIKATILObio.html

Russian media speculated that another serial killer may have been in some type of "macabre competition" with Chikatilo ... "Chessboard killer" -

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300358,00.html

..and here's a particularly prolific Canadian serial killer, Robert Pickton, known as the "Pig Farm Killer"

http://www.serialkillers.ca/robert-william-pickton/
 
I've always been fascinated with those type of people as well, but I'm also fascinated with the Martin Bryant's and the Columbine School Shooting etc.. Don't get me wrong, it's a disgusting and terrible thing to do but I am interested in why they do what they do.
 
I watched the Iceman interviews on CI a few months back and he is a highly intelligent man and I don't doubt for one second that he killed as many people as he says he did. And for all his claims, no mafia informants have come out and refuted any of them, as far as I know. Probably don't want to wind up dead.:D

As for the Zodiac Killer, I think it's fairly widely accepted that Arthur Leigh Allen was the most likely suspect. Unfortunately he was too good and left very little evidence to link him to the murders and the case against him was mostly circumstantial. Was interesting though that the murders stopped around the same time he was put in jail on an unrelated matter and started again soon after he was released.
 
Forthwrite said:
Agreed. I'm interested in the mind of these people as well.

Julian Knight is another - He's eligible for parole in 2014. :eek:
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You think that is bad? Wait until you read this. From this link:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/199066/top_10_serial_killers_of_the_world.html?cat=17
Pedro Alonso Lopez - This by far is one of the most dangerous serial killers of all time with a victim count of over 300. Better known as the Monster of Andes, Lopez killed nearly 100 tribal women in Peru by 1978. Caught by tribal authorities who were ready to sentence him to death, an American missionary who was passing by convinced the tribe to let her take him to the police, the police - who let him go - were not convinced that the killings were of importance to them. Lopez than went to Ecuador where he would kill between three and four girls a week. Once caught in 1980, Lopez confessed to over 300 murders, police only believed him when an unexpected flash flood uncovered a mass grave with most of Lopez's victims. He then was released by the Ecaudor government and deported back to Columbia in 1998.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/199066/top_10_serial_killers_of_the_world.html?cat=17
If you don't want to read it all.... basically, this guy has claimed to have r*ped and killed over 300 young girls between the ages of about 8-12, in countries ranging from Ecuador to Columbia. Only 110 have been confirmed, but he is adamant there are plenty more. But, with the shocking legal system over there, the sentence for 1 murder is the same for 1000, so he only received 16 years, getting out 2 years early on good behaviour.:eek: He was last seen in Columbia in 1998, and to this day no one knows if he still alive, but many believe he is.
 
Ebert80 said:
One of the interesting things about Alcala was that he was actually released under a Californian law in the 1970's when they had a large focus on rehabilitation, and they tried to integrate criminals back into society before serving their whole prison sentences.

A lot of serial killers on this thread are American, here's a Russian one. I remember seeing news footage of him in court in a cage. Interestingly in the USSR at the time he was committing the murders, it was considered an impossibility that a socialist country could experience the phenomenon of a serial killer (was considered to be common in capitalist societies).

http://www.serialkillercalendar.com/briefANDREICHIKATILObio.html

Russian media speculated that another serial killer may have been in some type of "macabre competition" with Chikatilo ... "Chessboard killer" -

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300358,00.html

..and here's a particularly prolific Canadian serial killer, Robert Pickton, known as the "Pig Farm Killer"

http://www.serialkillers.ca/robert-william-pickton/
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I've seen the doco on 'The Chessboard Killer', shocking stuff. His main motive for so many kills was so that he would become the most prolific killer in Russian history. In the pathetic and disgraceful words of Ted Bundy:
"We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow."
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TheStinger said:
I watched the Iceman interviews on CI a few months back and he is a highly intelligent man and I don't doubt for one second that he killed as many people as he says he did. And for all his claims, no mafia informants have come out and refuted any of them, as far as I know. Probably don't want to wind up dead.:D

As for the Zodiac Killer, I think it's fairly widely accepted that Arthur Leigh Allen was the most likely suspect. Unfortunately he was too good and left very little evidence to link him to the murders and the case against him was mostly circumstantial. Was interesting though that the murders stopped around the same time he was put in jail on an unrelated matter and started again soon after he was released.
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On the Zodiac Killer, any link to Arthurt Leigh Allen was refuted when DNA failed to connect him to any of the letters. It is probably a mystery that will never be solved, but people just won't stop trying.
 

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