who is the most notorious serial killer of all time?

[fumbduck]

Ed Gein only killed two people... why is he a serial killer?

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Ninjja

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: Ninjja
This crimelibrary website is so disturbing. But i was rooted to my computer screen with the Dahmer story at work, so terrible and awful are his crimes. I can't even imagine what the others would be like. *shudder*

yea I've been in the states for 5 years, so I always thought that these serial killers are only in the movies..

Damn US has the most serial killers in the world..

i've been in the states for 6 years now (moved from England). the gun crime rate is so much higher here.

What the hell does that have to do with the topic?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Mwilding
This shouldn't be a debate. Jack The Ripper is the most notorious serial killer of all time.

The key word is notorious.

agree 100%

Agree 110%

For number 2 I vote the Zodiac killer. There's an incredible number of people obsessed with finding out who he was.

I'd vote Bundy #2. JtR #1 by a huge margin though.

 

[bradruth]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: bradruth

Originally posted by: ThePresence
David Berkowitz - The Son of Sam.

It's been speculated that he did that whole crazy shtick for entertainment, to get an easier sentence, or both. Especially his claim that his neighbor's dog told him to kill. IIRC, he didn't kill that many people either.

He killed six people I believe. But he terrorized the entire NYC. People were afraid to go out at night.

Not John Leguizamo.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: fumbduck
Ed Gein only killed two people... why is he a serial killer?

I think he'd still earn that distinction, in that he killed more than one person, in a ritualized manner. He is also distinguished in that he inspired "Psycho," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and Buffalo Bill in "Silence of the Lambs."

 

[Bootprint]

Nice people.


Dean Corll (27) Born on Christmas Eve, 1939, this Texan maniac enjoyed killing young boys in the comfort of his own home. Friendly Dean would invite kids into his house to sniff glue and then, when they passed out, he would slip on the handcuffs and party in their butts all night long before snapping their life away. Not the shy type, Dean enjoyed biting his victim's penises off and kept a collection of them in a bag. In August 1973, one of his teen-aged helpers, Elmer Wayne Henley, shot and killed the portly psychopath after saying he would help him snatch more youngsters. Police found seventeen bodies under the floor of a boat house Dean rented as well as the bag full of severed genitalia.