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Families of serial killers
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:18 am
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:18 am
It's always amazed me that these killers can look to lead a very normal life, all the while going around killing people, often with their families having no clue.
The list of such killers is staggering and the psychopathy behind their facade of normalcy is frightening.
Ted Bundy
John Wayne Gacy
Dennis Rader aka "BTK"
Gary Ridgeway aka "The Green River Killer"
Keith Hunter Jesperson aka "The Happy Face Killer"
Richard Kuklinski aka "The Iceman"
Sean Vincent Gillis
Robert Hanson aka "The Butcher Baker"
Five of the above were married at the time of their arrest and it blindsided their families to find out just how evil their husbands and fathers were.
Dennis Rader went as far as to keep souvenirs of his victims stashed at his home and office as President of the local Lutheran Church as did Robert Hanson with many articles of jewelry from his many victims.
I recently saw a show about Sean Vincent Gillis who killed several women in La. When authorities finally got a fix on him through DNA and initiated his arrest, he and his wife were asleep in their home when the cops broke in and took him into custody.
His wife was asking the cops what it was all about and when they told her she was married to a serial killer, she didn't believe it. It was only when she went to the jail for a visit and she asked him face to face if it was true and he answered "yes" that she got up, turned around and walked away never to see him again.
I can't imagine living what you believe to be a normal life only to find out you're married to or fathered by a depraved, murderous fiend.
The list of such killers is staggering and the psychopathy behind their facade of normalcy is frightening.
Ted Bundy
John Wayne Gacy
Dennis Rader aka "BTK"
Gary Ridgeway aka "The Green River Killer"
Keith Hunter Jesperson aka "The Happy Face Killer"
Richard Kuklinski aka "The Iceman"
Sean Vincent Gillis
Robert Hanson aka "The Butcher Baker"
Five of the above were married at the time of their arrest and it blindsided their families to find out just how evil their husbands and fathers were.
Dennis Rader went as far as to keep souvenirs of his victims stashed at his home and office as President of the local Lutheran Church as did Robert Hanson with many articles of jewelry from his many victims.
I recently saw a show about Sean Vincent Gillis who killed several women in La. When authorities finally got a fix on him through DNA and initiated his arrest, he and his wife were asleep in their home when the cops broke in and took him into custody.
His wife was asking the cops what it was all about and when they told her she was married to a serial killer, she didn't believe it. It was only when she went to the jail for a visit and she asked him face to face if it was true and he answered "yes" that she got up, turned around and walked away never to see him again.
I can't imagine living what you believe to be a normal life only to find out you're married to or fathered by a depraved, murderous fiend.
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Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:19 am to gumbo2176
You never really truly know another person
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:30 am to gumbo2176
I always feel bad for some serial killers. Obviously not as badly as I feel for the families of the deceased, but some of them when interviewed you can tell they’re all fricked up in the head. Some of them were truly evil and seemed to like it, but some of them you can see the fricked up child in them coming to face the consequences. It’s just so sad all around.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:43 am to Odysseus32
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but some of them when interviewed you can tell they’re all fricked up in the head. Some of them were truly evil and seemed to like it, but some of them you can see the fricked up child in them coming to face the consequences. It’s just so sad all around.
a serial killer is evil and fricked up in the head. PERIOD. FULL STOP. There is no other discussion or analysis needed.
I can understand a crime of passion. But a true serial killer isn't operating on such a level.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:46 am to gumbo2176
Life 360 and location sharing will make it harder for those to hide this from their families in today's world. Plus all the big brother camera's everywhere.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:50 am to gumbo2176
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Sean Vincent Gillis
Is this that Netflix guy in the Post Malone commercials?
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:50 am to gumbo2176
People are great at adapting and that's what serial killers have to do. They don't look like a hollywood version of a serial killer. And that might be part of it for some of them, they get off on the fact no one would expect them. Of course its harder to be a serial killer today
Maybe I am thinking of someone else in La, but I thought he lived with his mom?
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I recently saw a show about Sean Vincent Gillis who killed several women in La. When authorities finally got a fix on him through DNA and initiated his arrest, he and his wife were asleep in their home when the cops broke in and took him into custody.
Maybe I am thinking of someone else in La, but I thought he lived with his mom?
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:51 am to gumbo2176
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Ted Bundy John Wayne Gacy Dennis Rader aka "BTK" Gary Ridgeway aka "The Green River Killer" Keith Hunter Jesperson aka "The Happy Face Killer" Richard Kuklinski aka "The Iceman" Sean Vincent Gillis Robert Hanson aka "The Butcher Baker"
Samuel Little was the most prolific serial killer of all and he is the least well known.
I wonder why the media never talks about him?
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:56 am to gumbo2176
You left out Derrick Todd Lee
Posted on 2/12/26 at 11:56 am to jasonbr1975
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Life 360 and location sharing will make it harder for those to hide this from their families in today's world. Plus all the big brother camera's everywhere.
This a true in many cases I've seen resolved in true crime shows. The amount of surveillance cameras in use today can make it easier to follow people's movement across some pretty vast distances.
Ring cameras on homes, surveillance cameras on the interior and exterior of businesses added to the "Crime Cameras" law enforcement put up make it virtually impossible to avoid detection.
That is how the police in Kansas got a lead on the Jeep Cherokee Dennis Rader was driving. He went to a big box store's parking lot and placed a message for the cops in the back of a pickup truck parked on the outskirts of the lot but it was clear enough to identify the vehicle.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:03 pm to gumbo2176
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I can't imagine living what you believe to be a normal life only to find out you're married to or fathered by a depraved, murderous fiend.
imagine your child being a pedo or finding out your wife is banging a tenth grader.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:04 pm to TexasTiger89
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You left out Derrick Todd Lee
There are far too many to mention or my post could have become a book.
I'm aware of him and also Ronald Dominique aka "The Bayou Strangler" who killed 23 men.
My list was shortened. Hell, California has had way too many over the years and I can go all the way back to the Manson killings that happened when I was in my late teens.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:06 pm to Odysseus32
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I always feel bad for some serial killers.
yeahhh I don't think so
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:09 pm to gumbo2176
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That is how the police in Kansas got a lead on the Jeep Cherokee Dennis Rader was driving.
I thought they got him from the Metadata off a floppy disk he sent to a newspaper with a message on it.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:13 pm to weagle1999
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Samuel Little was the most prolific serial killer of all and he is the least well known.
I wonder why the media never talks about him?
More than likely because most of his victims were living on the fringes of society themselves.
It's a fact that people who are prostitutes, drug addicts, homeless, etc. don't get the attention like Cindy Lou, the girl kidnapped from her babysitting job will get from the cops.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:18 pm to ChiTownBammer
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I thought they got him from the Metadata off a floppy disk he sent to a newspaper with a message on it.
Yes, that is how they got a fix on him and when they drove by his house they saw the Jeep Cherokee parked in the driveway.
In order to get a sample of DNA the authorities got court order to get a sample from a PAP Smear his daughter had while attending college and saw that she was the daughter of BTK.
That didn't totally prove Rader was BTK since there is always the possibility she was fathered by someone else. It wasn't until they actually got his DNA that it was a fact.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:20 pm to gumbo2176
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Dennis Rader aka "BTK"
Talk about hiding in plain sight. This one always fascinated me.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:23 pm to slidingstop
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I can understand a crime of passion. But a true serial killer isn't operating on such a level.
They do love what they do so there may be a hole in your argument. If you love your job you will never work a day in your life.
Posted on 2/12/26 at 12:25 pm to Odysseus32
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I always feel bad for some serial killers. Obviously not as badly as I feel for the families of the deceased, but some of them when interviewed you can tell they’re all fricked up in the head.
This is probably true of serial rapists, folks that go on the dark web and look for kiddie porn. I assume most of them know it’s fricked up, and some probably want to stop, but they are chemically imbalanced and are addicted.
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