children called him Doctor Vomit; worked with the Nazis in euthanasia; awarded prestigious honors for his research into the minds of defective children
a nurse and a retired U.S. Navy admiral; romantic couple; nurse was a compliant assistant to him because she believed she loved him; he kept some of the heads and used them sexually in the shower
Known as the German Cannibal; homosexual German computer expert; invited men through a chat room to fulfill his fantasy of “slaughter and consumption”
Known as “the Green Man”; father sold him and his sister into slavery to a farmer for several months
Known as the Genessee River Strangler; confessed to the murders of 11 women; sexually assaulted, mutilated, and cannibalized some of his victims ;called “Oddie” by his peers
Known as the Hillside Stranglers; cousins who decided to kill someone to see what it would feel like; one was a smooth-talker and ladies’ man and the other was more silent; sadistic
an aspiring geneticist, who accepted Nazi philosophy, and worked on identical twin research
licensed nurse; raped a partially paralyzed 55-year-old male, quick temper and sometimes threw medical charts and slammed his fist on counter when summoned by patients for assistance
self-conscious about his class status; enjoyed his fame; made an image for himself to move more freely so that he could fulfill his fantasies; mainly killed young females who came from middle or upper-middle-class families; lured them by asking for assistance
killed his grandma because he wanted to know what it would feel like; when he was younger he would act out mock executions with his little sister; began killing more people after psychiatrists said he was safe
father was a lorry driver, wrote illegal prescriptions for himself; killed regularly at his practice using diamorphine
Injected her patients with large doses of adrenaline; liked the thrill of medical emergencies and wanted to impress her boyfriend
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Known as the Green River Killer; sociable and enjoyed doing missionary work; connected to the murders of seven prostitutes, drug addicts, and young female runaways in Seattle
worked as a nurse’s aide at Mary Mount Hospital; killed his aunt; subjected to sexual molestation by uncle and a male neighbor; referred to his actions as mercy killings
used succinylcholine; suspected of killing 46 babies and children
Eyeball Serial Killer; murdered several female prostitutes; became a biology teacher and a taxidermist; painted portraits without eyes because he couldn’t do them justice
Known as the “Angel of Death”; respiratory therapist; injected fatal doses of Pavulon; murdered close to 200
an alcoholic at a young age; drugged boys and men to sexually assault and kill them; attempted to make zombies out of some of them
Trophy Collector; interest in women’s shoes; sexual fantasy for revenge against women; killed a girl who knocked on his door by chance and kept her foot for his amusement
Known as the Giggling Grandma; laughed and smiled while confessing to killing four of her husbands; murdered using rat poison with arsenic
Known as American Psycho; wanted a sex change operation; collected body parts and fashioned them
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