Serial Killer Detectives
You may have read many stories about serial killers and detectives, their chase and the kind of Hide & Seek situation but how do you distinguish a serial killer from a murderer? A serial killer is actually a person who kills people without any personal agenda. Most of the homicides that take place are due to personal dislikes or a clear reason behind it. Serial killers are different, they kill people who they do not even know. Serial killers can be put onto four basic categories; Power & Control, Visionary, Mission and Hedonistic.
Power & Control:
These types of serial killers like to humiliate their victims and they seek sexual pleasure by dominating the victim and killing them later.
Visionary:
This type of serial killers sees visions, they do whatever the visions tell them. These serial killers are psychotic and mentally unstable.
Mission:
These kinds of serial killers choose to kill a certain kind of people, for example; a serial killer may go after women in their early 20s who are white and have blonde hair.
Hedonistic:
This kind of serial killers seek sexual gratification by inflicting violence upon the victim, they will torture the victim and mutilate before killing them.
Detectives can be private investigators who work for a fee and investigate for a private party or they can be people of authority such as a police officer. The job of a detective is to gather evidence and solve the mysteries behind the crimes.
The game of hide & seek between serial killers and detectives have been going on forever. This goes back to the 19thcentury of United Kingdom. Mary Ann Cotton, an infamous serial killer who had killer two husbands, two lovers and 11 out of 13 of her children. Her crimes were discovered by Dr. Robinson, from whom she was stealing the arsenic to kill all of her victims. She was sentenced to death by hanging, one of the first serial killers to be sentenced in United Kingdom.
The following are some of the worst serial killers of history who committed murders without a second thought:
A History Of Serial Killers…
Harold Shipman:
Harold Shipman was a serial killer who was convicted for killing 15 people but the reports later claimed that he had killed 260 people between 1975 and 1998. Harold was a man of position and this 57-year-oldused to abuse his position to kill old women by injective drugs into their bodies. He was uncovered when he was caught forging a will of £386,000, a will of one of his many victims Kathlees Grundy was 81 years-old. Harold was convicted in year 2000 and sentenced to life imprisonment, he was later found hanging from the ceiling in his cell.
Dennis Nilsen:
Dennis was a cook in the army, his crimes were that he used to pick up students or homeless men and used to have sex with them, after sex he would strangle and drown them to death. He used to store the dead bodies in his flat located in London for months and eventually hack them up. He was actually caught when a group of plumbers noticed that the drain pipes of his flat were blocked by human remains. He was sentenced to imprisonment for life in 1983, he is now 64 years old and still in hail.
Peter Sutcliffe:
Peter is known by the name “Yorkshire Ripper”. He has killed at least 13 women, most of them were prostitutes in the span of five years. He was caught when he was once stopped with a prostitute, there he confessed that he had killed 13 women. He claimed that he committed all of the murders during a state of “diminishing responsibility”. He was still convicted and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is in Broadmoor Hospital and 63-year-old.
These were some of the notorious serial killers but wait we still have more. The following are some of the stories from the history about famous serial killers who murdered and killed people for pleasure, some were found but some of them were never uncovered.
The Lyme Regis Murders
by author
Andrew Segal
Three little piggies going to market each,
Changed their minds, went down to the beach.
A great big rock then cracked each head,
And, left the three of them, all stone dead. R.A.
Three found dead, throwing a quiet seaside town into turmoil.
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The shoreline was deserted apart from the four individuals cavorting close to the water’s edge. A single gull wheeled overhead screaming out what might have been a warning, had anyone understood, or been prepared to listen. Offshore the swell rose and fell ominously, a restless movement like the bulk of a heaving whale, as it too whispered a plea for mercy.
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Now For Some Infamous Serial Killers...
Jack the Ripper:
The famous Jack the Ripper, almost everyone knows about this famous serial killer but no one know about who he really was since he was never caught. In the year of 1888, Jack the Ripper had started killing people near the Whitechapel of London. He used to slit throats and abdomen of people and leave them to die, he had done that to at least five prostitutes. He was a psycho who used to cut open the uterus of women and take it with him as a prize. Sadly, the truth behind this mysterious figure will never be solved but Jack the Ripper has inspired many minds to write stories and novel, even make movies about him.
Gilles de Rais
The story of Gilles de Rais is from 15thcentury, he was a knight and lord, led the French army and was a companion of Joan of Arc. He was a true madman. De Rias had killed at least 40 children between the year of 1432 and 1433. Dead bodies of naked boys were found in his estate in year 1437. He used to lure the boys to his estate, make them wear fancy clothes, give them a big meal and lots of wine before showing them his true nature. He was eventually burned and hanged to death in the year of 1440, he remained composed and ashamed when he was going through the process of his execution.
H.H. Holmes
Holmes was an insurance scammer before he moved to Illinois in 1893 and started working as a pharmacist. It was from there that Holmes build his “castle” – an inn of three stories that was full of peepholes, trapdoor, secret passages, ladders and hallways that lead to dead ends. There was greased descend that went straight to the basement where he used to keep a surgical table and a furnace.
Holmes used to lead his victims, most of which were young women, to his “castle” and used to poison the women using the gas pipes installed in the inn. He would later take them to the basement and experiment on their bodies. He would either burn the bodies in the furnace or skin them and sell the skeleton to medical schools.
Holmes, even then, used to run the life insurance scam and used to get money from insurance companies. Holmes was betrayed by one of his co-conspirators; he tipped the police about Holmes’s activities when he did not pay him his cut on time. Holmes was convicted for killing 4 people but he had confessed that he had killed at least 27 people. He was hanged in 1896.
Werewolf of Dole
The story of Gilles Garnier is one of the horrific ones. Garnier is said to be a werewolf but was actually not one, he did not run the Dole fruit company either. Between the years of 1560 to 1570, Garnier was settled outside Dole as a hermit and he eventually go married. Before marrying, he used to manage the food for himself but after he married things got tough, at the same time, children started disappearing from the town and their mutilated bodies were being discovered.
Since it was the 16thcentury and people used to believe in such things like werewolves, the law authorities and the official though the same. The authorities issued a decree that cheered the people to hunt for this werewolf. Eventually, a group of men found a dead that was being devoured by what they thought was a werewolf but upon closer inspection they found out that it was Garnier the Hermit. Garnier was captured and when he was on trial, he confessed to the court that he was visited by a demon that offered him a gel that would turn him into a wolf so that hunting would be easier.
Garinier confessed in front of the court that he had killed two girls, two boys and he would eat their flesh wherever the bodies would drop after being strangled, he used to bring some pieces of flesh to his wife. Garnier tried to blame the devil for his acts as he was either insane or tried to make a fool of the court. He was still found guilty of witchcraft and was burnt.
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