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re: What serial killer fact sounds fake, exaggerated, or fiction. But is 100% real?
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:06 am to FlyingTigerBo
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:06 am to FlyingTigerBo
The video of BTK just nonchalantly talking about the way he killed his victims is something
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Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:12 am to FlyingTigerBo
The Clinton's need to be somewhere on this list.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:17 am to Tubedog13
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Also I'm surprised I made it to page 3 without a mention of HH Holmes.
I only care about DH Holmes.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:22 am to Porter Osborne Jr
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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.
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.
This post was edited on 6/25/26 at 11:25 am
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:30 am to Cregg
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The video of BTK just nonchalantly talking about the way he killed his victims is something
When I saw video of his telling the court about how he planned and carried out the murders of his victims, it just highlighted how demented his mind works.
To go into the detail and recall his actions with no more feeling than if he was giving out instructions on how to bake a cake was pretty unnerving to realize the man had no moral compass what so ever.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:44 am to gumbo2176
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.
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.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:45 am to A10Rebel
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I thought his daughter turned him in?
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 post was edited on 6/25/26 at 11:48 am
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:57 am to FlyingTigerBo
Pretty much anything related to Richard Ramirez.
The Night Stalker is probably my all time favorite true crime documentary and I watch a lot of true crime. Right up thee with Paradise Lost and The Jinx.
The Night Stalker is probably my all time favorite true crime documentary and I watch a lot of true crime. Right up thee with Paradise Lost and The Jinx.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 11:59 am to FlyingTigerBo
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.
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.
This post was edited on 6/25/26 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 6/25/26 at 12:17 pm to CocomoLSU
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How was it? I just bought it a few weeks ago to read.
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.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 12:31 pm to wesfau
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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.
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.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 12:36 pm to jchamil
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Why is this a thing
Can't say certain trigger words on most apps, so its a workaround.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 12:46 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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He killed hookers that no one cared about
People care about the 5 hookers Craig James killed. (Allegedly.)
Posted on 6/25/26 at 12:47 pm to CocomoLSU
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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
It's entirely non-fiction. Immaculately researched and pieced together into a coherent, linear narrative. Which was kind of my problem with it: there isn't any life/color in the very oblique references to the killings.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 1:06 pm to FlyingTigerBo
As a rule they tend to have maybe average IQs maybe an average of 95 and 1 in 6 serial killers are women
Posted on 6/25/26 at 1:25 pm to grizzlylongcut
While technically Kaczynski is considered a serial killer, he carefully chose his victims very specifically and mailed them the thing that killed them. He at least explained himself and it sort of made sense albeit in a twisted convoluted way
Posted on 6/25/26 at 1:32 pm to Cregg
I didn’t realize the killer in Silence of the Lambs was based on a real killer (Ed Gein) until this past year when Monster was released on Netflix.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 1:34 pm to gumbo2176
A lot of serial killers seem to start with the crime of stealing women's bra and underwear.
Posted on 6/25/26 at 1:40 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
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didn’t realize the killer in Silence of the Lambs was based on a real killer (Ed Gein) until this past year when Monster was released on Netflix.
Leatherface was more based on Gein.
Jaime Gum was inspired by 3 serial killers: Gein, Bundy, and Heidnek
Posted on 6/25/26 at 2:03 pm to CocomoLSU
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For those who find shite like this fascinating, I'd recommend the Mindhunters book by John Douglas. It's great and goes into some details about a ton of SKs.
Didn’t know this. The Netflix series ended at S2 (end of the Atlanta murders). I know there’s more
I’ll look into this
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