re: What serial killer fact sounds fake, exaggerated, or fiction. But is 100% real?

The Clinton's need to be somewhere on this list.

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Andrei Chikatilo (“The Butcher of Rostov”): Perhaps the most infamous, he murdered and mutilated at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990, primarily in the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Uzbek SSR. His case eventually forced Soviet authorities to abandon the claim that serial murder was impossible in a communist society.

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There's a pretty good HBO movie about this case from 1995




Timesuck did an episode on him too that goes into great detail about this sick frick.

A murderer and potential serial killer appears in The Exorcist.

Friedkin wanted the cerebral angiography scene to be as realistic as possible, so he cast radiographer Paul Bateson. In 1979 Bateson was convicted of killing a film journalist. He became the prime suspect in the Bag Murders, a series of unsolved murders of gay men in Manhattan. He was never officially convicted of these crimes. Friedkin visited him several times in jail and made Cruising inspired by this case.

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I thought his daughter turned him in?

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Like already mentioned, the floppy got him named as a prime suspect. Once they had a name, they checked out his house and saw a black Jeep in the driveway. The same type of vehicle the cops had of BTK dropping off a
package with a message in a Home Depot parking lot on video.

The police found out his daughter was in college and they got a search warrant to access her medical records that produced a pap smear she had done and got his familial DNA from that, and that led to his downfall.

This one, although not officially labeled a serial killer, is about Russell Williams.

He killed 2 women after years of breaking into homes in Canada and at first only stealing women's underwear. He then progressed to breaking in when they were home, tying them up and taking pictures of them in underwear and naked. Then it went up a notch with him raping them.

That worked for a while, but he finally killed 2 women, both of which worked beside him at some time.

Here's the kicker-------the guy was a highly respected Colonel in the Canadian Air Force, ran one of Canada's premier bases, often was tasked with flying high-ranking dignitaries when they visited Canada, including the Queen of England, around the country.

He was eventually undone when his tire tracks were found in the snow when he parked his vehicle in an empty lot near one of his murder victims houses and the cops matched them to his vehicle doing a simple roadblock to see if they found vehicles running on that type tire.

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Honestly, kind of dull. There is a LOT of detail about the fair, and it's interesting to see all the legacy names that were involved.

There is precious little about Holmes's actual murdering. It's a lot of missing persons reports and "offscreen" killing.

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Dammit, that was one of my concerns when I looked into and and bought it. I have a couple of books on SKs, but they are more general information kinds of things with little more information that you'd find on a Wiki page or in a well-researched article. So I wanted to get an actual book on one of them and figured HH Holmes was a decent one to start. And the general consensus was that this book was pretty good.

I am not a huge fiction fan, so I was hoping this one would at least be more centered in the non-fiction aspect of it, and would get into the murders and his castle and all of that. Disappointing to hear that that's not really the case. Oh well.

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He killed hookers that no one cared about

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People care about the 5 hookers Craig James killed. (Allegedly.)