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Edmund Kemper: A Killer With Severe Mommy Issues
All told, “Big Ed” killed ten people—his grandparents, his mother, his mother’s friend, and six young women he picked up hitchhiking in Northern California from 1972-1973, which earned him the moniker “The Co-Ed Killer.” His gruesome crimes involved decapitation, necrophilia, and cannibalism. What seems nearly as unsettling as his crimes, though, is his rare ability…
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My Sister Was Murdered And She Won’t Shut Up About It
As kids, my sister Cassie and I didn’t know we were different. How could we? We spent all of our time in the house. Our parents never let us play outside. They said this was for our own protection. I remember clearly our father outlining all of the horrors of the world beyond our front…
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8 Dead Nurses In One Night: The Horrible Story Of Richard Speck
Chicago, Summer 1966: Heroin, Murder, and Richard Speck Over the course of four hours one night in July 1966, pockmarked drifter Richard Speck—high on heroin, armed with a knife, and dressed all in black—tied up and murdered eight Chicago nursing students one by one in their South Side townhouse. In 1978 during the only interview…
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Gerard John Schaefer: A Serial Killer Who Wrote ‘Killer Fiction’
True-crime writing usually sucks because its authors are normally voyeurs rather than criminals. Since most of them have never done anything more nefarious than run an occasional red light, their writing suffers from an implicit lack of authenticity. At a safe distance from their dangerous subject matter, true-crime authors are mostly poseurs because they’ve never…
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Paraquat Pot: The True Story Of How The US Government Tried To Kill Weed Smokers With A Toxic Chemical In The 1980s
The chemical, known as “paraquat,” is an herbicide sprayed over marijuana fields in Mexico in the 1970s—with the aid of US money and US-provided helicopters—and over marijuana fields in Georgia in the 1980s under the direction of the Reagan Administration. But normally, anything poisonous enough to kill plants is also toxic enough to kill humans,…
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19 Moms Who Killed Their Kids
Thirty-nine-year-old Megan Huntsman of Pleasant Grove, Utah, has allegedly confessed to fatally strangling and suffocating six of her newborn babies from 1996 to 2006. Acting on a tip from her estranged husband, police searched her home in April 2014 and found seven dead infants, six of them stuffed into cardboard boxes. The seventh infant had reportedly been stillborn. A…
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Albert Fish: The Gruesome Story Of The Brooklyn Vampire
Albert Fish was a prolific serial killer, rapist, and cannibal who was known as Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man. He said he had over 100 victims, claiming he had “children” (victims) in every state”. 5 Creepy Facts About Albert Fish 1. Albert Fish claimed to…
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Gary Ridgway: The Gruesome Story Of The Green River Killer
Biography: Who Was The Green River Killer? Gary Leon Ridgway was born in 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah. According to relatives, he came from a troubled home where his parents had frequent violent arguments. His mother was said to be overbearing. His father, a bus driver, frequently complained about prostitutes in his city. Ridgway…
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‘Three Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide:’ Judith Barsi’s Tragically Short Life
Judith Barsi was born on June 6, 1978, the only child of Hungarian emigrants to America plumber Joe Barsi and homemaker Maria Barsi. From the time of Judith’s birth, Maria foresaw an entertainment career for her daughter. Maria’s brother Joseph Weldon admonished, “Don’t waste your time. The chances are one in 10,000 that you’ll succeed.” Despite…
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30 Classically Creepy Cannibal Killers
1. He Barbecued His Victims and Ate Them With Bloody Sauce A mildly retarded epileptic, Ottis Elwood Toole endured extreme childhood abuse. His mother dressed him in girls’ clothes and called him “Susan.” Other relatives sexually abused him from age five onward. His grandmother allegedly forced him to perform Satanic rituals involving self-mutilation and grave-robbing.…