Serial Killer of the Month: Aileen Wuornos

Serial Killer of the Month: Aileen Wuornos
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Aileen Wuornos, originally Aileen Pittman, was born in Rochester, Michigan. Her teen parents separated months before she was born. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: Gertrude Baniszewski

Serial Killer of the Month: Gertrude Baniszewski
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Sylvia Likens was found crumpled on the filthy mattress — mutilated, dead. This was a cold October day, the 26th. In 1965. She was only 16. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: John Reginald Halliday Christie

Serial Killer of the Month: John Reginald Halliday Christie
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John Reginald Halliday Christie used these characteristics over the span of approximately 10 years to kill seven women and one of the victims’ infant daughter. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: Judy Buenoano

Serial Killer of the Month: Judy Buenoano
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In June 1971, Judy Buenoano’s husband, returned to Orlando, Florida from a tour of duty. Soon he was experiencing weakness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: Frederick West

Serial Killer of the Month: Frederick West
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Frederick West was born in 1941 in the rural village of Much Marcle, which is 12 miles northwest of Gloucester in England. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: William George Heirens

Serial Killer of the Month: William George Heirens
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His class­mates at the University of Chicago were shocked to hear that William George Heirens had been arrested for burglary. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: Gerard John Schaefer

Serial Killer of the Month: Gerard John Schaefer
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Gerard John Schaefer, a deputy sheriff in Martin County, Florida, drove along the beach in July of 1972 when he stopped to pick up two hitchhikers. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: Ivan Milat

Serial Killer of the Month: Ivan Milat
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Australia has always brought adventurous young backpackers from all over the world, but from 1989 to 1991 Ivan Milat waged war on them. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: Larry Eyler, the Interstate Killer

Serial Killer of the Month: Larry Eyler, the Interstate Killer
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Larry Eyler, then 31, had been a house painter and liquor store clerk. In the summer of 1983, a string of murders across the dusty cities of Indiana and Illinois had similarities… … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: David Berkowitz

Serial Killer of the Month: David Berkowitz
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History takes the memories of many people and, by a kind of nostalgic superimposition, blows them up into great devils or gods. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: Jerome Henry Brudos

Serial Killer of the Month: Jerome Henry Brudos
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Jerome Henry Brudos was a fetish murderer. His fetish: shoes. His style: escalatingly violent and homicidal. … read more

Serial Killer of the Month: Ted Bundy

Serial Killer of the Month: Ted Bundy
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This article appears with condolences to those who died at the hands of Ted Bundy, or any of the other monsters who have been discussed since this series began. … read more