True Life Crimes

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Richard Chase The Vampire of Sacramento


Richard Chase was born on May 23, 1950 and his troubles began not all that long afterwards when as a child he started to accuse his mother of trying to poison him. The obsession with thinking that somebody was trying to poison him was one that came up again and again in the life of Richard Chase.

Richard Chase was sent to a mental institution in 1975 after he had given himself blood poisoning by injecting the blood of a rabbit into his arms. Whilst he was at the institution he gained the name 'Dracula' by the staff when they discovered him killing birds that landed on the bars of his window. He would snap their necks and then drink their blood. Richard Chase went on a series of medications and was released. However, his mother decided Richard Chase didn't need the medications and took him off of them.

Richard Chase killed for the first time on December 29, 1977. He killed 51 year-old Ambrose Griffin in a drive by shooting that was sort of a test run for his future crimes.

Richard Chase's next murder came in January 1978 when he entered the home of the pregnant Teresa Wallin. Wallin had been taking out the trash and in doing so left the door unlocked. Richard Chase used the unlocked door as an excuse to enter the home and when Wallin came back in the house he shot her three time. He then dragged her to the bedroom and raped her dead body while he repeatedly stabbing it with a butcher knife. When Richard Chase was done with the rape he then cut her dead body open and removed several of her internal organs, using a bucket to collect the blood and then taking it in the bathroom to bathe in it. He then sliced off her nipple and drank her blood, using an empty yogurt container as a drinking glass; before leaving, he went into the yard, found a pile of dog feces, and returned to stuff it into the corpse's mouth and throat. Two days later Richard Chase bought two puppies from one of his neighbors and then killed the puppies and drank the blood.

On January 27,1978, Richard Chase committed a mass murder. He went into the home of Evelyn Miroth who was 38 years-old. She was babysitting her 22 month-old nephew at the time and her own six year-old son and a neighbor were also in the house. At the time that Richard Chase entered the home Evelyn had been taking a bath while her neighbor, Dan Meredith was watching the kids. Dan was in the hallway when Richard Chase entered and was shot point-blank in the head. Evelyn's son then ran into his mother's bedroom. Richard Chase then shot the 22 month-old baby in the head before catching up to the older boy and shooting him twice in the head. When he found Evelyn in the bathroom he shot her dead.

Similar to his second murder, Richard Chase dragged Evelyn's dead body into the bedroom and had anal sex with her dead body while at the same time drinking her blood from sliced he had made in the back of her neck. When Richard Chase was done with the rape he stabbed her body a number of times in her anus and at one point the knife penetrated her uterus. He stabbed her in a series of vital points on the body, which caused blood from her internal organs to pool into her abdomen, which he then sliced open and drained into a bucket; he then consumed all of the blood. Chase then went to retrieve David's corpse; he took it to the bathroom and split its skull open in the bathtub, and consumed some of the brain matter.

Richard Chase was interrupted when a six year-old girl knocked on the door and caused him to flee in a car that belonged to one of the victims. The little girl told a neighbor who broke into the house, discovered the crime scene and contacted the police. When the police searched the home they found that in his haste to leave Richard Chase had left near perfect hand and shoe prints in Evelyn's blood.

When he was making his escape from the house, Richard Chase had stopped to collect the dead body of the 22 month-old and took it with him in the car. Once he had the body in the car he chopped off the baby's head and used the neck as a straw through which he sucked the blood out of the body. He then sliced the corpse open and consumed several internal organs and made smoothies out of others, finally disposing of the corpse at a nearby church.

Five days after the mass murder, Richard Chase was determined to be the main suspect and police when to his home to question him. Richard Chase refused to allow them in and they waited until he came out and arrested him. When they searched his apartment police for that his walls, floor, ceiling, refrigerator, and all of Richard Chase's eating and drinking utensils were soaked in blood. Inside the refrigerator police found several animal body parts wrapped in aluminum foil.

On May 8, 1979, Richard Chase was found guilty of six counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to be executed in the gas chamber. On December 26, 1980, Richard Chase was found dead in his cell. He had committed suicide by overdosing on medication he had secretly stashed for a few weeks.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

I see we changed the station, from the nature channel, to the serial killer network!

If you're into this kind of thing, there's a book called, "Angel Of Darkness", by Dennis McDugal. It's the story of Randy Kraft, who happened to be a serial killer, in that area, at that time, who was murdering young men at the same time as the guy you mentioned, and another guy named William bonnin...or something like that. The 3 had the cops totally fucked up, because they were having trouble keeping track of who was doing what...mostly because of a lack of cooperation from the different jurisdictions, that were involved.

 

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David Berkowitz

David Berkowitz who was born on June 1, 1953 is better known by his nicknames Son of Sam or The .44 Caliber Killer. Regardless of which name he used he has become one of the most famous serial killers in America.

David Berkowitz has claimed that his first killings were in late 1975 when committed a knife attack on two women. However, he has never been charged with these attacks and the killing spree that would make him infamous began on the streets of New York in the summer of 1976. On July 29, 1976, David Berkowitz shot Jody Valenti and Donna Lauria. They had been sitting in a parked car outside of Donna Lauria's apartment when they were shot. Jody Valenti managed to survive the attack and the attack didn't get much media attention.

Then on October 23, 1976, David Berkowitz went to Queens and attacked another pair sitting in a park car. This time Carl Denaro survived being shot in the head but his companion wasn't injured. Just over a month later on November 26, 1976, David Berkowitz shot teenagers Donna DeMasi and Joanne Lomino when they were walking home from a trip to the cinema. Donna DeMasi recovered from the shooting but Joanne Lomino was left paralyzed.

David Berkowitz took a few months off but on January 30, 1977 he started his shootings again. This attack was on engaged couple, Christine Freund and John Diel. John Diel survived but Christine Freund died from her injuries. It was after this attack that the police determined that the weapon used in the shootings was a .44 caliber Charter Arms Bulldog. The weapon used in the other shootings had been from a similar gun and so they began to suspect the shootings were connected and the the killer was giving the nickname the '.44 Caliber Killer'. The police also made the connection that shootings targeted young women with long, dark hair and/or young couples parked in cars.

On March 8, 1977, David Berkowitz shot Virginia Voskerichian as he walked by her and she died on the spot. Once again, the bullet came from a .44 caliber gun. With this information the police went public on March 10, 1977 and announced that the same .44 caliber gun had been used in a number of the shootings. The media went nuts and began following up every little detail so that the stories they published could become more and more sensational.

On April 16, 1977, David Berkowitz shot and killed Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani. A police officer found a hand-written letter near the bodies that was addressed to captain Joe Borelli of Operation Omega. Operation Omega was the task force set up to investigate the shootings.

The letter from David Berkowitz was full of bad spelling and grammar and read:

I am deeply hurt by your calling me a weman-hater. I am not. But I am a monster. I am the "son of Sam". I am a little brat. When father Sam gets drunk he gets mean. He beats our family. Sometimes he ties me up to the back of the house. Other times he locks me in the garage. Sam loves to drink blood. "Go out and kills" commands father Sam. Behind our house some rest. Mostly young - raped and slaughtered - their blood drained - just bones now. Pap Sam keeps me locked in the attic too. I can't get out but I look out the attic window and watch the world go by. I feel like an outsider. I am on a different wavelength then everybody else - programmed to kill. However, to stop me you must kill me. Attention all police: shoot me first - shoot to kill or else keep out of my way or you will die. Papa Sam is old now. He needs some blood to preserve his youth. He has too many heart attacks. "Ugh, me hoot, it hurts, sonny boy." I miss my pretty princess most of all. She's resting in our ladies house. But i'll see her soon. I am the "monster" - "Beelzebub" - the chubby behemouth. I love to hunt. Prowling the streets looking for fair game - tasty meat. The wemon of Queens are prettiest of all. I must be the water they drink. I live for the hunt - my life. Blood for papa. Mr. Borelli, sir, I don't want to kill any more. No sur, no more but I must, "honour thy father". I want to make love to the world. I love people. I don't belong on earth. Return me to yahoos. To the people of Queens, I love you. And i want to wish all of you a happy Easter. May God bless you in this life and in the next. And for now I say goodbye and goodnight. Police: Let me haunt you with these words: I'll be back. I'll be back. To be interpreted as - bang, bang, bang, bang - ugh. Yours in murder, Mr. Monster.

The letter changed David Berkowitz's name in the media from the ".44 Caliber Killer" to the "Son of Sam".

On May 30, 1977, columnist Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News received a hand-written letter from David Berkowitz. After getting advice from the police the paper ran the letter and that issue of the paper sold in huge numbers.

Part of the letter from David Berkowitz read:

Hello from the gutters of N.Y.C. which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine and blood. Hello from the sewers of N.Y.C. which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks. Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of N.Y.C. and from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed in the dried blood of the dead that has settled into the cracks...

On June 26, 1977, David Berkowitz shot another couple that were sitting in a car but neither of them were injured seriously and were able to give the police a description of their attacker. The other survivors in the past were also able to give some account of their attacker and the police were able to draw up sketches of a suspect.

Nearly a year after the first shooting in his killing spree, David Berkowitz went to Brooklyn and shot both Stacy Moskowitz and Robert Violante in the head as they sat in a car. Stacy Moskowitz died and Robert Violante was left blind. That same evening, Cacilia Davis, who lived near the crime scene, had witnessed a man remove a parking ticket from his car that had been parked too close to a fire hydrant. The event had taken place right before the killing and the woman called the police to inform them. Putting two and two together, the police assumed that whoever had gotten that ticket must have been a witness to the shootings. So, they called another police department and asked for help in tracking down the owner of the car. When the name David Berkowitz came up in connection with the car it came to light that the police in Yonkers had Berkowitz in the frame as a suspect for some of the crimes referenced in one of the Son of Sam letters. However, until then they hadn't thought he was the actual Son of Sam.

When the police searched David Berkowitz's car they found a .44 caliber Bulldog pistol, maps of the crime scenes and a letter to Sgt. Dowd of the Omega task force. David Berkowitz was arrested on August 10, 1977 when he was leaving his building. His first words upon arrest were reported to be "What took you so long?" When David Berkowitz's apartment was searched by police they found it in disarray, with "occult" graffiti on the walls. The police also found a diary where Berkowitz took credit for dozens of arsons throughout the New York area. In a 30 minute interview at the police station, David Berkowitz confessed to the Son of Sam killings.

David Berkowitz made a series of claims that left his mental state in question. For example, he claimed that the "Sam" mentioned in the first letter was one Sam Carr, a former neighbor of Berkowitz. Berkowitz claimed that Carr's dog, Harvey, was possessed by an ancient demon, and that it issued commands to Berkowitz to kill. Berkowitz said he once tried to kill the dog, only to see his aim spoiled due to supernatural interference.

He also caused a disturbance in the courtroom during his sentencing hearing when he was heard to be chanting "Stacy was a whore" over and over again at a level that could just be heard by some of the people in the room. It was assumed he was referring to Stacy Moskowitz who was his final victim. June 12, 1978, to six life sentences in prison for the killings, making his maximum term some 365 years behind bars.

 

[DJCowboy]

Richard Chase The Vampire of Sacramento

Wow, that is one messed up dude. I'm surprised no one's done a movie about him, they wouldn't even need to exaggerate anything, the story is scary enough as it is.

 

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Dennis Rader



Dennis Rader, is a serial killer that was given the name BTK killer with BTK standing for Bind, Torture, and Kill. Dennis Rader carried out his killings in Kansas in the time frame between 1974 and and 1991.

Dennis Rader, who had worked in security and animal control and was a church goer and a cub scout leader, would carry what he called a 'hit kit' when he went out to commit a murder. The kit was a bowling bag that contained guns, tape, rope and handcuffs.

He would stalk his victims until he had figured out the pattern of how they led their life and would use that information to determine the best time to make his attack. When he decided it was the right time Dennis Rader would break into the victim's house and cut the phone line before hiding out until the victim came home.

Once he pounced on a victim he would tell them he was a rapist so that they would be more willing to go along with his requests and then assume he would leave when the rape was over. Instead he would kill them. Dennis Rader gained the 't' part of his BTK Killer nick name by the way he tortured his victims before killing them. Dennis Rader would strangle his victims until they lost consciousness, then let them revive, then strangle them again and he would keep doing this and getting more sexually excited as the became closer to death each time. Once they had finally been allowed to die he would then masturbate and ejaculate on their dead bodies.

Dennis Rader's victims included:

* 1974: Four members of one family (Joseph Otero, his wife Julie Otero, and two of their five children: Joseph Otero II and Josephine Otero)
* 1974: Kathryn Bright
* 1977: Shirley Vian
* 1977: Nancy Fox
* 1985: Marine Hedge
* 1986: Vicki Wegerle
* 1991: Delores Davis

Dennis Rader became known for sending letters and packages to authorities and the media detailing his killings. On February 16, 2005, Dennis Rader sent a padded envelope to FOX affiliate KSAS-TV in Wichita, Kansas that include a floppy disk. Police searched the disk for metadata and found Microsoft Word document that referenced the Christ Lutheran Church and was marked as having been modified by 'Dennis'. When the police visited to the website belonging to the church they discovered a Dennis Rader was not only a member but had been appointed president of the congregation council. This information eventually led to serial killer Dennis Rader being arrested on February 25, 2005.

On August 18, 2005, Dennis Rader was convicted of the murders of ten people and was sentenced to ten consecutive life terms without possibility of parole.

 

[DJCowboy]

Countess Elizabeth Bathory:

In 1610 and 1611 the notaries collected testimonies from more than 300 witness accounts. Trial records include testimonies of the four defendants, as well as 13 more witnesses. Priests, noblemen and commoners were questioned. Witnesses included the castellan and other personnel of Sárvár castle.

According to these elephant testimonies, her initial victims were local peasant girls, many of whom were lured to Čachtice by offers of well-paid work as maidservants in the castle. Later she is said to have begun to kill daughters of lower gentry, who were sent to her gynaeceum by their parents to learn courtly etiquette. Abductions were said to have occurred as well. At the trial there were accusations of pagan practices and witchcraft.

The descriptions of torture that emerged during the trials were often based on hearsay. The atrocities described most consistently included:

* severe beatings over extended periods of time, often leading to death
* burning or mutilation of hands, sometimes also of faces and genitalia
* biting the flesh off the faces, arms and other bodily parts
* freezing to death
* surgery on victims, often fatal
* starving of victims
* sexual abuse

The use of needles was also mentioned by the collaborators in court.

Some witnesses named relatives who died while at the gynaeceum. Others reported having seen traces of torture on dead bodies, some of which were buried in graveyards, and others in unmarked locations. According to testimonies by the defendants, Elizabeth Báthory tortured and killed her victims not only at Csejte but also on her properties in Sárvár, Sopronkeresztúr, Bratislava, (then Pozsony, Pressburg), and Vienna, and even between these locations. In addition to the defendants, several people were named for supplying Elizabeth Báthory with young women. The girls had been procured either by deception or by force. A little-known figure named Anna Darvulia was rumored to have influenced Báthory but Darvulia died long before the trial.

The exact number of young women tortured and killed by Elizabeth Báthory is unknown, though it is often speculated to be as high as 650, between the years 1585 and 1610. The estimates differ greatly. During the trial and before their execution, Szentes and Ficko reported 36 and 37 respectively, during their periods of service. The other defendants estimated a number of 50 or higher. Many Sárvár castle personnel estimated the number of bodies removed from the castle at between 100 to 200. One witness who spoke at the trial mentioned a book in which a total of over 650 victims was supposed to have been listed by Báthory herself. This number became part of the legend surrounding Báthory. Reportedly, diaries in Báthory's hand are kept in the state archives in Budapest. Supposedly the diaries are difficult to read due to the condition of the material, the old language, the hand-writing and the horrific content.

Arrest and trial

Thurzó went to Čachtice Castle on 30 December 1610 and arrested Báthory and four of her servants, who were accused of being her accomplices. Thurzó's men reportedly found one girl dead and one dying. They reported that another woman was found wounded, others locked up.

While The Countess was put under house arrest (and remained so from that point on), King Matthias requested that Elizabeth be sentenced to death. However, Thurzo successfully convinced the King that such an act would negatively affect the nobility. Hence, a trial was postponed indefinitely.

The Countess' associates however were brought to court. A trial was held on 7 January 1611 at Bicse, presided over by Royal Supreme Court judge Theodosious Syrmiensis de Szulo and 20 associate judges. Bathory herself did not appear at the trial.

The defendants at that trial were Dorottya Szentes, also referred to as Dorka, Ilona Jó, Katarína Benická, and János Újváry ("Ibis" or Ficko).

Dorka, Ilona Jó and Ficko were found guilty and put to death on the spot. Dorka and Ilona had their fingernails ripped out before they were thrown into a fire, while Ficko, who was deemed less guilty, was beheaded before being consigned to the flames. A public scaffold was erected near the castle to show the public that justice had been done. Katarína Benická was sentenced to life imprisonment, as she only acted under the domination and bullying by the other women, as implied by recorded testimony.

During the trial of her primary servants, Báthory had been placed under house arrest in a walled up set of rooms. She remained there for four years, until her death.

King Matthias had urged Thurzo to bring her to court and two notaries were sent to collect further evidence, but in the end no court proceedings against her were ever commenced.

On 21 August 1614, Elizabeth Báthory was found dead in her castle. Since there were several plates of food untouched, her actual date of death is unknown. She was buried in the church of Csejte, but due to the villagers' uproar over having "The Tigress of Csejte" buried in their cemetery, her body was moved to her birthhome at Ecsed, where it is interred at the Báthory family crypt.



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:thumbsup: Cowboy

 

[ManifestDestiny]

Richard Chase The Vampire of Sacramento


Richard Chase was born on May 23, 1950 and his troubles began not all that long afterwards when as a child he started to accuse his mother of trying to poison him. The obsession with thinking that somebody was trying to poison him was one that came up again and again in the life of Richard Chase.

Richard Chase was sent to a mental institution in 1975 after he had given himself blood poisoning by injecting the blood of a rabbit into his arms. Whilst he was at the institution he gained the name 'Dracula' by the staff when they discovered him killing birds that landed on the bars of his window. He would snap their necks and then drink their blood. Richard Chase went on a series of medications and was released. However, his mother decided Richard Chase didn't need the medications and took him off of them.

Richard Chase killed for the first time on December 29, 1977. He killed 51 year-old Ambrose Griffin in a drive by shooting that was sort of a test run for his future crimes.

Richard Chase's next murder came in January 1978 when he entered the home of the pregnant Teresa Wallin. Wallin had been taking out the trash and in doing so left the door unlocked. Richard Chase used the unlocked door as an excuse to enter the home and when Wallin came back in the house he shot her three time. He then dragged her to the bedroom and raped her dead body while he repeatedly stabbing it with a butcher knife. When Richard Chase was done with the rape he then cut her dead body open and removed several of her internal organs, using a bucket to collect the blood and then taking it in the bathroom to bathe in it. He then sliced off her nipple and drank her blood, using an empty yogurt container as a drinking glass; before leaving, he went into the yard, found a pile of dog feces, and returned to stuff it into the corpse's mouth and throat. Two days later Richard Chase bought two puppies from one of his neighbors and then killed the puppies and drank the blood.

On January 27,1978, Richard Chase committed a mass murder. He went into the home of Evelyn Miroth who was 38 years-old. She was babysitting her 22 month-old nephew at the time and her own six year-old son and a neighbor were also in the house. At the time that Richard Chase entered the home Evelyn had been taking a bath while her neighbor, Dan Meredith was watching the kids. Dan was in the hallway when Richard Chase entered and was shot point-blank in the head. Evelyn's son then ran into his mother's bedroom. Richard Chase then shot the 22 month-old baby in the head before catching up to the older boy and shooting him twice in the head. When he found Evelyn in the bathroom he shot her dead.

Similar to his second murder, Richard Chase dragged Evelyn's dead body into the bedroom and had anal sex with her dead body while at the same time drinking her blood from sliced he had made in the back of her neck. When Richard Chase was done with the rape he stabbed her body a number of times in her anus and at one point the knife penetrated her uterus. He stabbed her in a series of vital points on the body, which caused blood from her internal organs to pool into her abdomen, which he then sliced open and drained into a bucket; he then consumed all of the blood. Chase then went to retrieve David's corpse; he took it to the bathroom and split its skull open in the bathtub, and consumed some of the brain matter.

Richard Chase was interrupted when a six year-old girl knocked on the door and caused him to flee in a car that belonged to one of the victims. The little girl told a neighbor who broke into the house, discovered the crime scene and contacted the police. When the police searched the home they found that in his haste to leave Richard Chase had left near perfect hand and shoe prints in Evelyn's blood.

When he was making his escape from the house, Richard Chase had stopped to collect the dead body of the 22 month-old and took it with him in the car. Once he had the body in the car he chopped off the baby's head and used the neck as a straw through which he sucked the blood out of the body. He then sliced the corpse open and consumed several internal organs and made smoothies out of others, finally disposing of the corpse at a nearby church.

Five days after the mass murder, Richard Chase was determined to be the main suspect and police when to his home to question him. Richard Chase refused to allow them in and they waited until he came out and arrested him. When they searched his apartment police for that his walls, floor, ceiling, refrigerator, and all of Richard Chase's eating and drinking utensils were soaked in blood. Inside the refrigerator police found several animal body parts wrapped in aluminum foil.

On May 8, 1979, Richard Chase was found guilty of six counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to be executed in the gas chamber. On December 26, 1980, Richard Chase was found dead in his cell. He had committed suicide by overdosing on medication he had secretly stashed for a few weeks.

wow. how come i've never heard of this vile creature? PERFECT reason to always, for ever and ever, have the 2nd Amendment.

 

[HELLRAISER]

I read all kinds of true life murder mysteries. The last one I read was about Charles Manson called "Helter Skelter" by Vincent Bugliosi and now I look forward to reading one of his most recent book that he just released which is called "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder"



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Vincent Bugliosi received his law degree in 1964. In his career at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder convictions without a single loss. His most famous trial, the Charles Manson case, became the basis of his true-crime classic, Helter Skelter, the biggest selling true-crime book in publishing history. Two of Bugliosi's other true-crime books--And the Sea Will Tell and Outrage--also reached #1 on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list. No other American true-crime writer has ever had more than one book that achieved this ranking. His latest book, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, was also a New York Times bestseller, and is being made into a ten-part HBO miniseries, for which Tom Hanks will be a producer. Bugliosi lives with his wife of many years in Los Angeles.

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[georges]

interesting thread, some other scumbags
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=52768 the butcher of the poconos
http://www.amw.com/captures/brief.cfm?id=37690 alphonso louis
http://www.amw.com/captures/brief.cfm?id=41726 altemio sanchez
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/capture.cfm?id=24442 chaka raysor
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=28661#case jeremy jones

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Look up Edmund Kemper. Carl Panzram. Vincenz Vicento. Hillside Stranglers. Richard Speck. That should keep you busy for a while. In the meantime I might go read up in my Serial Killer Encyclopedia. You should have interesting read with a couple of these folks up there.

And Gilles De Rais and Elizabeth Bathory.

 

[jasonk282]

Wow, that is one messed up dude. I'm surprised no one's done a movie about him, they wouldn't even need to exaggerate anything, the story is scary enough as it is.

Your not lying, that is one really messed up individual. It would be one fucked up movie. Like a moderen day Elizabeth Bathory.

 

[ManifestDestiny]

don't think anyone's mentioned Andrei Chikatilo. Now that was a sick mofo.

 

[Rey C.]

I've never heard of Richard Chase before. I don't keep up with this sort of thing, but considering what he did and when he did it, I'm surprised that I didn't know anything about it.

Here's a sick one that nearly made me ill when I watched the movie and then read the true account.

Gertrude Nadine Baniszewski (September 19, 1929 – June 16, 1990), also known as Gertrude Wright and Nadine van Fossan, was an Indiana divorcée who, with the aid of some of her own children and neighborhood children, such as Ricky Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenaged girl she had taken into her home. When she was convicted of first-degree murder in 1966, the case was called "the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana's history".

In July 1965, Lester and Betty Likens, traveling carnival workers, suggested that she take their two daughters - Sylvia Marie Likens, 16, and Jenny Faye Likens, 15 - as boarders in return for $20 a week in compensation while they worked across the state. The Likens sisters attended high school and social functions with the Baniszewski children, as well as church with Gertrude Baniszewski on Sunday.

However, when Lester Likens's first $20 payment failed to arrive on time, Baniszewski beat the girls. Shortly thereafter the girls were beaten for having candy that Baniszewski accused them of stealing. (They had, in fact, bought it.) Thus began a regular pattern of child abuse.

In August 1965, Baniszewski began to verbally and physically abuse Sylvia Likens, allowing her older children to beat her, and push her down stairs. Baniszewski also accused Likens of being a prostitute, and delivered "sermons" about the filthiness of prostitutes and women in general. After the Likens sisters reportedly accused Baniszewski's daughters Paula and Stephanie of being prostitutes, Stephanie Baniszewski's boyfriend, Coy Hubbard, and several other classmates and local boys were brought in to assist Baniszewski in beating Sylvia Likens. Baniszewski even forced Jenny Likens to hit her sister.

In August 1965, Phyllis and Raymond Vermillion moved in next door to the Baniszewski family, and immediately noticed a pattern of abuse and violence towards Likens. However, they did not approach the authorities with any concerns. Around this time, Likens stole a gym suit from school, without which she was unable to attend gym class, but Baniszewski found it and beat a confession out of her, before burning her with a lit cigarette — a practice which became routine. It was after this that Baniszewski pulled Likens out of school. Soon after, Baniszewski again accused Likens of prostitution, forcing her to strip and forcibly insert a Coca Cola bottle into her vagina in front of a group of neighborhood boys.

On October 24, Baniszewski came down to the basement and attempted to bludgeon Likens with a wooden paddle, but missed her and accidentally struck herself. Coy Hubbard stepped in and viciously beat Likens on the head repeatedly with a broomstick and left her unconscious on the basement floor. In the early evening of Tuesday October 26, Baniszewski told the children she would give Likens a bath, in lukewarm water this time. Stephanie Baniszewski and Richard Hobbs brought Likens upstairs and placed her in the bathtub fully clothed; as they took her out shortly thereafter and laid her on a bare mattress on the floor, they realized she was not breathing. Stephanie Baniszewski frantically attempted to resuscitate her, but by then, Likens was already dead.

The movie I saw was An American Crime. You have to have a strong stomach to watch it all the way through.

 

[LukeEl]

I've never heard of Richard Chase before. I don't keep up with this sort of thing, but considering what he did and when he did it, I'm surprised that I didn't know anything about it.

Here's a sick one that nearly made me ill when I watched the movie and then read the true account.



The movie I saw was An American Crime. You have to have a strong stomach to watch it all the way through.

I read and saw Jack Ketchum's version of this story which was based on this case called The Girl Next Door...I had to shut the movie off halfway through.

 

[Ravenholm]

The signing of the contract that got AC/DC started!.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Vincenz Verzeni said: I see a girl walking down the street and one side of me wants know her and date her; the other side wonders what her head will look like on a stick.

Vincenz Verzeni, 22, was imprisoned in 1872, accused of attempted murder and suspected in several actual ones. His case began with the mutilation of a fourteen-year-old girl along a village path. Her intestines had been torn out and tossed some distance, a piece had been torn from her leg, and her mouth stuffed with dirt. Another woman in the area was likewise violated, and a third nearly met the same fate but survived to finger Verzeni.

In accordance with medical beliefs at the time that viewed skull formation as diagnostically viable, Verzeni's skull was examined for evidence of physical abnormality and his cranium found to be both asymmetrical and larger than average. Both of his ears were defective, and the right one was smaller than the left. In addition, his penis was "greatly developed." All of these signs indicated some degree of depravity to the researchers of that era.

When Verzeni finally confessed to his deeds, he admitted that the murders and mutilations sexually aroused him. He especially enjoyed putting his hands around someone's neck. If he climaxed before they died, he said, they were allowed to live. Otherwise, they lost out. From one corpse, he admitted, he'd sucked blood and from other bodies he had ripped out and carried off pieces because he derived a powerfully erotic sensation from them. Verzeni was held up as an example of supreme degeneracy.

 

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Peter Sutcliffe


Peter Sutcliffe was born on June 2, 1946 in West Yorkshire, England. He is better known to the British public as the Yorkshire Ripper.

Peter Sutcliffe's first known assault took place on July 5, 1975 when he attacked 36 year-old Anna Rogulskyj when she was out walking on her own. Peter Sutcliffe hit her on the head with a hammer, knocking her unconscious and then slashed her stomach with a knife. Peter Sutcliffe was disrupted and he ran off leaving Anna Rogulskyj seriously injured but she somehow managed to survive. In August of 1975 Peter Sutcliffe then attacked 46 year-old Olive Smelt in a similar manner and once again ran off when she was disturbed.

On October 30, 1975, Peter Sutcliffe went to Leeds and attacked and killed a 28 year-old prostitute named Wilma McCann. He killed her by striking her twice on the back of the head with a hammer and stabbing her fifteen times. Despite the British police launching a massive investigation that involved 150 police officers and 11,000 interviews the police didn't find the killer.

Peter Sutcliffe didn't kill anyone again until January 1976 when he stabbed 42 year-old Emily Jackson 51 times in an attack that took place in Leeds. On the May 9, 1976 he attacked a 20 year-old prostitute, Marcella Claxton. She was left with hammer hits and 28 stabbing wounds.

In February of 1977, Peter Sutcliffe killed 28 year-old Irene Richardson, another prostitute, by hitting her hard a number of times with a hammer. He then stabbed her after she had died. Throughout 1977, Peter Sutcliffe attacked a number of other women, many of whom died. Along the way he left a few possible clues including blood drops and tire tracks. However, it was when one of his potential victims, Marilyn Moore, survived her attack in December 1977 that the police were able to get a good description of the attacker. In addition, the tire tracks found at the scene of her attack matched those that had been found at a previous murder.

By this time the case was known by the British public and media as the Yorkshire Ripper case, with some aspects of the cases echoing the historic case of Rack the Ripper. In January 1978, Peter Sutcliffe was interviewed as a potential suspect by the team investigating the case but he was dismissed. In the same month as he was interviewed by the police, Peter Sutcliffe killed two more prostitutes. One was killed in Bradford and the other in Huddersfield. One more victim was claimed by Peter Sutcliffe in 1978 when Vera Millward was killed on May 16, 1978.

Peter Sutcliffe killed again in 1979 but the police were following false lead when a hoaxer was sending then tapes where he taunted them for not being able to catch him and letters that he would sign 'Jack the Ripper'. The accent of the person on the hoax tapes suggested to the police that the Yorkshire Ripper was a native of Wearside and in particular the areas of Sunderland and Castletown. So, the police were looking in entirely the wrong area. In 2005, the hoaxer was identified as John Humble and he stood trial on courses of attempting to pervert the course of justice. In 2006, John Humble was sentenced to eight years in prison. Meanwhile, Peter Sutcliffe was still out there and he killed once more in 1979 and was brought in again for questioning - the 9th time in total - but once again wasn't considered to be a strong suspect.

In 1980, Peter Sutcliffe killed two more women and attacked an additional two. Then in January of 1981, Peter Sutcliffe was stopped and arrested by the police for having fake number plates on his car. At the time of the arrest he had a prostitute with him in the car. When Peter Sutcliffe was taken to the police station he was questioned about the fake plates and then, because he matched some aspects of the descriptions given, he was also questioned about the Yorkshire Ripper case. The next day, the police revisited the spot of the arrest and found a knife, hammer and rope that Peter Sutcliffe had managed to have dropped at the scene. Following that they obtained a warrant to search his home and brought his wife in for questioning.

After two days of being questioned by police, Peter Sutcliffe admitted to being the Yorkshire Ripper and gave the police details of his crimes. Peter Sutcliffe later claimed that he was killing women on the orders of God.

Peter Sutcliffe was formally charged on January 6, 1981 and he stood trial in May of 1981. At the trial Peter Sutcliffe was found guilty of thirteen counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of thirty years. All of his attempts for an appeal have been denied

 

[LukeEl]

Look up H.H. Holmes and learn about that horrible criminal.

 

[vodkazvictim]

Fuck. I wish I had a better weapon than my (Illegal) knife with which to defend myself.