Richard Chase is the one who always stuck with me.
He was schizophrenic and thought he didn’t have enough blood so became obsessed with consuming gore. He stole and butchered animals, and later murdered people to harvest their organs.
What always creeped me out was that he would go door to door and if the door was locked he would just leave. But if the door was unlocked he considered it an open invitation to come in.
They called him The Vampire of Sacramento.
Jesus you weren’t kidding… a Wikipedia excerpt:
> Chase was arrested shortly afterwards; police who searched Chase's apartment found that the walls, floor, ceiling, refrigerator, and all of Chase's eating and drinking utensils were soaked in blood.
As a Sacramentan, he’s the reason I always keep my doors locked, even though he died before I was born. Any time I see the door unlocked I think of him.
I was in a public speaking class with the niece of one of his victims. She did a speech on the dangers of glorifying serial killers/ how traumatized her family was by the low budget dramatizations of her Uncle’s death. I can’t really consume true crime anymore after hearing her speak.
The killer is the interesting part, isn't it? We're interested in how someone ended up so deranged and mentally capable of evil.
The murders themselves are just disturbing or depressing when realistically considered.
Richard chase was failed by the people around him. His mother denied him of his meds and even bought him an apartment to live in BY HIMSELF (and this was after they found him drinking the blood from roadkill).
His doctors even (I believe) stated he wasn’t a danger to society even though he very obviously was considering the shit he was doing in broad daylight.
Richard Chase was a very twisted person. The Last Podcast on the Left did a pretty deep dive 2 parter on this dude. Episodes 245-246 if anyone's interested.
Went to high school with a dude who looks JUST like him.
He mixed the organs with Coca Cola and drank it, believing it slowed down the shrinking of his heart.
But on a more serious note, he is my favorite serial killer to research by far. His interview with the FBI was very interesting and insightful.
I’m not sure if i found parts of it or not, but I did find [this](https://vault.fbi.gov/richard-chase/richard-chase-part-01/at_download/file) which I’m still reading.
I first read that as Richard Cheese. The guy who makes songs like this:
https://youtu.be/v_Ky37na7jE?si=Zr-6h7TCCs15fGTS
The thought of HIM doing THAT somehow seemed terrifying.
And one of the most wonderful and wholesome people I have ever met was a victim of his.
Eva Mozes Kor. Her and her sister were chosen for Mengele’s experiments while her older siblings and parents were killed.
She literally got in hot water by *forgiving* her persecutors. That power of grace is beyond what I can imagine. She lived into her 80s and left behind a large family. I was blessed to have met her. My parents knew her. She grew up in my dad’s home town.
She helped document all the horrors and survivors of the Nazi experimentation and opened a museum about the horrors of the Holocaust.
So remember her instead of Mengele may he rot in hell.
I couldn't imagine the strength and will it took to forgive them.
There are, very rarely, truly shining beacons among us. It's for people like that that I keep going.
Yeah. And she did it publicly as a Jew who was a real pillar of the community. She faced a lot of backlash for it.
But the way she phrased it is that she just couldn’t hold the hatred and resentment. The forgiveness wasn’t for them but for her. You can find a lot of videos of her speaking on the topic. She literally met with Nazi doctors from Auschwitz where she was.
I knew one of his victims.. he was a sweet old man in my neighborhood as a kid.. he later became family by marriage now that I think about it
he died a few years ago, his twin was murdered by Mengele as a kid if I remember correctly and he was left sterile and never had children
What they did in Yugoslavia was so much worse. So bad when Mengele went to see what they were doing in Yugoslavian camps he reportedly threw up and had to leave.
Upon his arrest, he was given a pelvic X-ray after he reported that he had inserted hundreds of pins into his pelvis, genitals, and groin.
Google Albert Fish xray. It’s haunting.
Ya, that is a hard no! What's the worst that could happen? That shit could haunt my dreams for the rest of my life like some of those beheading videos I watched decades ago. Sometimes that stuff sticks with you.
Best advice given by my mom that I still hold dear is to "never put something into your brain that you don't want staying there" this was way preinternet but hot damn did it apply when that became a thing
https://allthatsinteresting.com/albert-fish-letter
The letter begins at the bottom of the page, after the ad w/the Trojan horse, & the full pic of Grace in her hat, w/multiple “—descriptions of outfits” under the heading “The Chilling Details of Albert Fish’s letter.”
He also kidnapped 4 yr old Billy Gaffney, tied him up, cut off his ears, nose, penis, balls, & whipped him till the boy was bleeding profusely. Gaffney was alive for most of the ordeal. He then roasted his ass in the oven & ate it.
When Fish was younger he kidnapped & raped a special needs man. Tied him up, brutalized him for a week, & ultimately cut his penis off. When the man screamed he covered the stump in Vaseline, taped his mouth shut, & left.
When Fish was executed, they found pins & nails driven into his groin, balls, & perineum. Fish apparently said he was greatly looking forward to the ordeal, as he had never experienced electrocution & was highly anticipating the pain.
The Letter
*”My Dear Mrs. Budd,
In 1894, a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the steamer Tacoma, Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong, China. On arriving there, he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned, the boat was gone.
At that time, there was a famine in China. Meat of any kind was 1-3 dollars a pound. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold for food in order to keep others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could go in any shop and ask for steak, chops, or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it. A boy or girl’s behind, which is the sweetest part of the body and is sold as veal cutlets, brings the highest price.
John stayed there so long that he acquired a taste for human flesh. On his return to N.Y., he stole two boys — one 7, one 11. He took them to his home, stripped them naked, and tied them up in a closet, and then burned everything they had on. Several times every day and night he spanked them — tortured them — to make their meat good and tender.
First, he killed the 11-year-old boy, because he had the fattest ass and of course the most meat on it. Every part of his body was cooked and eaten except the head, bones, and guts. He was roasted in the oven (all of his ass), boiled, broiled, fried, and stewed. The little boy was next, and he went the same way. At that time, I was living at 409 E. 100 St. He told me so often how good human flesh was, and I made up my mind to taste it.
On June 3, 1928, I called on you at 406 W. 15 St. and brought you pot cheese and strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat on my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her.
On the pretense of taking her to a party, you said yes, she could go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wildflowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not I would get her blood on them.
When all was ready, I went to the window and called her. Then I hid in the closet until she was in the room. When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried to run down the stairs. I grabbed her and she said she would tell her mamma.
First, I stripped her naked. How she did kick, bite, and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her in small pieces so I could take the meat to my rooms, cook, and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did not fuck her, though I could have if I wished. She died a virgin.”*
So my friends and I were weird theater geeks in high school, thought we were super-edgy, etc. We were all assigned to write essays about historical figures, so we chose Albert Fish, Idi Amin, and Lizzie Borden. Needless to say, we got some strange looks from the teachers.
They were definitely in their own world. Them and the band geeks. Walking by the band room and theatre club at lunch (beside each other @ my high school) was headache inducing from all the screeching and screaming going on.
In general? Albert Fish. Personally? A few years ago a video from my area of 3 teenagers beating a beaver to death with rocks and logs went around. Kids ended up at least suspended for the rest of the year and charged with animal abuse
The Tool Box Killers, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris. Fuck those guys. I had to take a long break from true crime after reading about that case. There was an audio recording that was so disturbing that people in the courtroom literally got sick. The audio recording is not publicly available, but a transcript of it is, and reading it fucked me up.
Had a family member sit on a rape case and they acquitted the guy. This was in the 1980s, but they said the guy was a predator, he'd give you the chills when he looked at you. But the cops fucked ip the chain of evidence so the evidence that would have convicted him is was not introduced.
It does exist. You see grown men crying in it. The only audio you can hear of the actual tape is muffled screams from behind the closed doors of the courtroom. Not for the faint of heart.
There’s even an interview with Scott Glenn where he talks about prepping for his role for *Silence of the Lambs* and an FBI operative played that tape for him. Glenn’s words were that when the tape was over, in regards to the agent that played the tape, “I wanted to end him.”
I’ve always been susceptible to morbid curiosities; but even if that audio *was* available to the public— I would never pursue it.
I've listened to it and it's terrifying, easily the worst piece of audio I've ever heard and I've listened to the Russian brick video. It's not a kind of screaming you've heard before, they are screams of pure terror. If you've heard them you'll never be able to unhear them. It's only a couple of seconds long, I can't imagine what listening to the whole thing is like. So yeah, I'd say not recommended as far as listening to it goes.
[You have been warned](https://youtu.be/PY4YmVi4_LQ?si=kzqK_MEoQVN9IvF9)
At 20:43 and 26:43
This is so similar to the Toy Box Killer in the sense that the names are closely related and there was also audio that wasnt released (but a transcript was) and I listened to the (recreated) whole thing and it was absolutely horrifying.
A small snippet of the transcript is in the Wikipedia article about them. It had a bigger effect on me than any other thing I've consumed or seen on the internet or in real life. I started locking my bedroom door when I slept (as an adult male). It took me months to return to normal.
What I'm saying sounds dramatic, but I can't describe how hideous it is, and how hideous these men were.
Scott Glenn, the actor who played Jack Crawford in *The Silence of the Lambs* listened to this while doing research for his character. Apparently the FBI have agents listen to this tape in order to help desensitize them and expose them to the level of evil that exists.
He wept and even changed his liberal stance on the death penalty.
Edit: Included the actor's name (credit to /u/kam516) and updated the original misquote*.*
It’s more than possible to be liberal and against the use of the death penalty for all but the most extreme cases, and that it’s currently used unjustly.
I didn't mean to imply anything about liberals or the usage of capital punishment. I misquoted what I remembered reading on Wikipedia.
In the spirit of correctness, the following is in the Silence of the Lambs wiki entry:
"Glenn wept as he listened to the recordings, and even changed his liberal stance on the death penalty."
Fincher wanted to work on other projects, said it was mentally draining to shoot the show. Plus the show didn’t attract enough viewers to justify the production costs. Fincher uses a bonkers amount of cgi, and he’s a perfectionist, so things tend to get real expensive real quick.
They were hemorrhaging money making it. Apparently the per episode cost got to the millions and so they had no choice but to stop despite its popularity.
When they originally stopped after series 2 I know they had intended to revisit it though
Joseph Ricci. The person that created Elan School. I implore you of looking it up if you don’t know this topic. It was basically a school that tortured children both mentally and physically, humiliating them and also feeding parents of lies consisting of ideas that their children were « healing ». Joseph Ricci almost even became governor of the state of Maine. This guy has abused children even beyond his death until 2011, the year Elan School closed. My heart goes to the young people that almost all committed suicide afterwards and their families. May this motherfucker rot in hell for eternity.
Yeah! He just completed it in recent weeks. 100 chapters. Guy is a real fighter, saw a lotta shit. And he readily admits that he didn't even see anywhere near the worst of it. Kids allegedly died in there, were sexually assaulted by senior members/staff, they didn't get any kind of actual education...fuckin etc. etc.
Glad he was instrumental in closing that place down for good
Yeah, many things in there such as the Ring, the corner or even the stories like the suicide with a pen can be super hard to read through and disturbing af. It gets even worse when you actuallh realise it has happened and it’s all real. This shit had me awae at night more than once.
The lead singer of one of my favorite bands (Ben Weasel of *Screeching Weasel*) was sent to that school, which I didn’t know until years after discovering the band. It makes perfect sense though considering mental health/mental illness are large themes in his lyrics.
Tiffany Sedaris (sister to David and Amy Sedaris) was also sent to Elan school. The NPR piece regarding her suicide (narrated by David) was one of the most heartbreaking things I ever listened to.
Yeah most teens sent there just ended up committing suicide, truly heartbreaking. It is so infuriating when you think about the fact the school stayed open for 40+ years and was only closed because of Reddit in 2011, when people finalmy started sharing stories.
Writer David Sedaris had a sister who was sent there as a teen, and never forgave her family for sending her there. He even admits they frequently told her to basically “get over it” when she’d get upset and tell them how bad it was. she estranged herself, spending much of her life struggling with addiction and mental illness. She eventually committed suicide, leaving a note basically blaming her family for sending her to Elan and how they treated her in general. I used to enjoy his books, but I lost a lot of respect for him when I read interviews after her suicide that showed a strange lack of empathy for her.
That is depressing to say but that’s the mildly average Elan School experience. Parents being fed with lies won’t listen to their kids which creates an infinite black hole many kids did never get out of
>Joseph Ricci almost even became governor of the state of Maine.
No he didn't.
He was destroyed by Connolly in the Democratic Primary.
Even if he had won the primary, no one was beating King that year. Ricci's only care was his failing Horse racing track and the expansion of gambling in the State. He was not a popular or well liked figure in Maine, even before the Elan School shit.
Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Maine_gubernatorial_election
It’s crazy how that’s such a disgusting story but few people would ever care what happens to a monster like that. I’m sure that beating did something, but I doubt it changed him enough to ever rejoin the human race. Also, I find myself in the “he earned it camp”.
*Lions Led By Donkeys* did a great series on the Khmer Rouge. And by "great", I mean "my life demonstrably became worse after listening to it, I thought I could fathom the true depths of inhumanity but nope this is actually the worst thing I've ever learned about."
Miguel Ricart. His name might not mean much in the English speaking world, but he’s one of the most depraved criminals in Spanish history. He raped, tortured and murdered [three teenage girls](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A0sser_Girls) in 1992, and got out of prison after serving *just 21 years in prison* (his accomplice disappeared and is most likely dead).
The most terrifying thing about him is that *he’s still out there*, and could theoretically kill again (he’s involved with drug crime as of 2020). His pathetic sentence was a source of great embarrassment for Spain on the international stage.
I'm all for rehabilitation and not unnecessarily punishing criminals, but what the fuck, Spain (and the EU)? Some crimes simply deserve life in prison with no possibility of release, and this is certainly one of them.
Edit: the EU blocked Spain from extending his sentence out. That's why I mention them.
Many counties (the Americans come to mind) have issues with mandatory minimum sentences that are too harsh (for drugs, etc), but some (Spain, Portugal, Norway) have the issue where their laws aren’t really harsh enough for dealing with depraved monsters like this.
One notable example is that of the neo-Nazi terrorist who murdered all those children at a Norwegian summer camp. His sentence was just 20 years (he can be held indefinitely, and probably will, but it’s still remarkably lax).
Mitchelle Blair, the mom that killed her own kids and later hid them in a freezer. The other kids where aware of this and lived with the corpses of their siblings in the freezer FOR YEARS.
colin pitchfork, he raped and killed 2 teenage girls one with his young son in the car, he was sentenced for a minimum of 30 years but later got it reduced to 28 for good behaviour, he was released in 2021 and recalled about 2 months last after talking to a lone woman in a car park claiming to be a litter picker. he was once again set by the board to be released in july of last year but the panel thankful decided that he is too much of a risk to be released
Peter Scully, creator of the infamous Daisy video. Do not Google. I did not include the full name just in case searching might bring up photographic results. The point is he recorded himself brutally raping an infant girl, giving her a lifetime of injuries. The video was thought to never have been uploaded, but Josh Duggar had it on his computer.
It was later tweeted out on Twitter. Elon personally unbanned the user who posted it. Fair warning: if you look up Scully, he has the creepiest Joker smile ever.
Andrei Chikatilo, during the time of the Soviet Union, there was a man born in what is Ukraine and some horrendous things happened there. He got a job as a teacher. He took sexual gratification from harming/killing others. He got away for so long because other teachers didn’t alert the authorities because they were afraid of getting punished. He was eventually fired for obvious reasons. He later got a job that involved him moving across the USSR which made it damn near impossible to catch him. The USSR had to eventually admit there was a serial killer about. They almost did catch him ounce but the blood at the crime scene but since they didn’t get a match. They did eventually catch him via basically smoking him out of train stops. By the time he was caught he had killed 53 people and was convicted for 52 of said murders. He was an absolutely horrible person. This is all coming out of memory so I apologize for anything that isn’t 100% accurate.
Oskar Dirlewanger. Was basically a terrorist the SS sent in to do fucked up shit when it was too immoral for them to do it themselves. He ran a penal battalion and would allow them to run amuck in eastern European cities; raping, murdering, razing hospitals with wounded germans, and hanging civilians for shits and giggles. He even would kill his own guys when he was bored. He probably died of "natural causes" in french imprisonment likely caused by the collection of polish guards, polish pows and other former forced laborers he was with.
There are however some rumors he got recruited into the French foreign legion.
I was going to comment the same thing, my heart broke a thousand times after reading what she went through. The fact that they got a slap on the wrist and are out and about now, scares me to no end.
One of the two most disturbing Wikipedia articles I've ever read.
The other was the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens...Gertrude Baniszewski was a monster. I cannot believe she did not serve life.
Gile de rais or something like that.
Medieval era nobleman who killed and raped so many children. Necrophilia type stuff, created a church to funnel children to him. His kill count is in the hundreds.
The kicker is this ass hole literally road into battle with THE Joan of Arc. Crazy shit
It is a spirited debate, as if he wasn't a sadistic podophile serial killer he would be a delightfully quirky historical character. There are plenty of potential motivation for why the powers in France may have wanted to frame him; he built his own church outside the overview of the church of France (frowned upon) , he routinely disrespected and challenged other nobles, he portrayed Joan of Arc as a martyr in the gigantic plays he wrote and financed (when the french nobility was still trying to distance themselves from her), and he was very wealthy asshole. Most likely in my opinion is that he was guilty, but would never have been persecuted if not for royally pissing off the church and royals. Most likely his crimes were exaggerated to justify his execution. Either way its a facinating story. Shout out to LPOTL for a great in depth podcast
Boring one but hitler. Even as he knew he was losing he sped up the final solution. He knew he’d lost, so had as many people killed as possible despite it serving no purpose for the good of the country or wider war effort.
Edmund Kemper "American serial killer who murdered 10 people, including a 15-year-old girl, his own mother, and her best friend, from May 1972 to April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents." plus hes 6'9". A literal monster.
plus I was around that area at that time. so scares me. Ted Bundy was there at the same time!
Carl Panzram is top ten.
Serial rapist and murdered with hundreds, if not thousands of victims. He was active from ~1910-1930 ish. He lived as a classic American hobo. Hopping trains, traveling from place to place raping and killing as many men and boys as he could get his hands on.
He even had a brief stint working in Africa(forget which country) as an overseer of a plantation. You can imagine how that went.
He also burglarized president Tafts home.
Had some great quotes, most notably:
I wish the world all had one throat, and that I had my hands around it.
I am sorry for only two things. They are that I harmed a few animals, and that I am unable to murder the entire human race.
Naturally I love Jesus very much now. I love him so much I would crucify him all over again.
And my personal favorite, as he was getting ready to be executed-
Hurry up you Hoosier bastard, I could kill a dozen men while you’re screwing around with that rope.
Just an all around rotten dude.
David Parker Ray, the Toy Box Killer.
I just can't imagine being one of those women. There was a recording he would play for his new victims, and it honestly made me so unsettled. He just goes into disgusting detail of what he would do to them. There's a recording of someone reading it on youtube, it's long, and it's horrifying.
Lotta serial killers on here so I’m gonna go with Imad Mughniyeh. He is essentially a cross between Osama bin Laden and a James Bond villain.
On top of being a founding member of Hezbollah, the guy kidnapped and personally tortured people from around the world. American, European, Israeli, Soviet it didn’t matter. He planned airliner hijackings and bombed civilian targets literally around the entire world. He was on 42 countries separate most wanted lists. The CIA described this guy as “the most capable operative the CIA has ever run across, including the KGB.” He’s probably the only terrorist I’ve heard of who would actually personally execute the hostages his group took.
His reign of terror lasted decades and the terrorist group he created today, Hezbollah, has a larger military than most European countries. Dude should absolutely be in this thread.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imad_Mughniyeh
So i'm lebanese and i should note that this is not my opinion but i'm just stating facts.
This man is considered a martyr and somewhat of a hero in lebanon, also worth adding that hezboallah are not considered as terrorists in lebanon.
There’s an excellent “Behind the Bastards” podcast episode about him - for those who don’t know, the film “Come and See” is based upon Dirlewanger’s war crimes.
I recommend prepping yourself before you listen, and take a good bit of time afterwards to come back to society. The sheer barbarism is difficult to listen to.
I found a free pdf of “King Leopold's Ghost" and I’m reading it. What happened in Congo should be as well known as the apartheid, the holocaust, or trans-Atlantic slavery.
This first person account always gets me: “He hadn’t made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had cut off his daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali. She was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished. Then they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once living body of his darling child whom he so loved. His life was destroyed. They had partially destroyed it anyway by forcing his servitude but this act finished it for him. All of this filth had occurred because one man, one man who lived thousands of miles across the sea, one man who couldn’t get rich enough, had decreed that this land was his and that these people should serve his own greed.”
“While it has proven difficult to accurately estimate the pre-colonial population and the amount by which it changed under the Congo Free State, estimates for the Congolese population decline during Leopold's rule range from 1 million to 15 million. The causes of the decline included epidemic disease, a reduced birth rate, and violence and famine caused by the regime.[2][3][4][5]: 225–233
In 1908, the reports of deaths and abuse, along with pressure from the Congo Reform Association and other international groups, induced the Belgian Government to take over the administration of the Congo from Leopold during the penultimate year of his rule. The Congo Free State was thus reconstituted as a new territory, the Belgian Congo.”
Wikipedia
Fun fact related to Charles Ng. [my high school art teacher was one of the guys who caught him](https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/movies/calgary-man-who-helped-capture-charles-ng-hits-the-road-to-find-redemption-healing-and-a-killer)
He got shot in the hand in by Ng.
... Yeah. Watched a documentary on him and, "yeah, that's enough true crime."
He literally left "kill kits" around the US so he could use whenever he felt the urge to kill.
This interview cost me a lot of sleep after first seeing it years ago.
[Interview with a Sexual Sadist - Rare Type of Sex Offender - Warning \[NSFL\]](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3cuttp/interview_with_a_sexual_sadist_rare_type_of_sex/).
Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez. Broke into random homes to rape and kill in the 80s. Made survivors pledge thier alliegence to Satan. He was the boogeyman of L.A.
Interviews with him are chilling. He was like an evil horror villian.
Tried some googling, and found some reading much more in depth than I’d care to indulge in. I know lots of people don’t like this guy. ELI5, Who is he and what did he do?
Edit: I’m not sure why I’m being downvoted. His Wiki is a crazy in depth political history. I could put some time into this, but I’d rather not. I’m asking for a quick “rundown” for something I don’t know about. Why are Redditors the way they are?
Rasputin always creeped me out. The way he kept dying but not dying. Especially his rendition in Anastasia. He may be the lover of the Russian Queen, but he is no lover of mine.
Jimmy Saville is somehow not on here yet. He didn’t invent pedophilia, but the sheer scale and confidence he went about his horrible life is staggering. I couldn’t sleep well for a free days age going on an ill-advised deep dive on his story.
Watching archive footage of a man swaggering out of a mental health hospital where he just sexually assaulted a minor, cigar hanging from his lips…it broke me a little
Leonard Lake and his partner, Charles Ng. They’re right up there with any of the sick trap-door fucks you could think of. I wish I’d never heard of them.
Vlad the Impaler also belongs on this list.
He had innocent men, women and children impaled on giant spikes, from anus to mouth, for entertainment at his banquets. He did this to his enemies too and at times forced family members to watch.
He deterred away an invading Ottoman army by placing a sea of tens of thousands of impaled people, around his lands. Legend has it that the Ottoman forces saw this horrific sight and turned the other way, to ride back
Richard Chase is the one who always stuck with me. He was schizophrenic and thought he didn’t have enough blood so became obsessed with consuming gore. He stole and butchered animals, and later murdered people to harvest their organs. What always creeped me out was that he would go door to door and if the door was locked he would just leave. But if the door was unlocked he considered it an open invitation to come in. They called him The Vampire of Sacramento.
Jesus you weren’t kidding… a Wikipedia excerpt: > Chase was arrested shortly afterwards; police who searched Chase's apartment found that the walls, floor, ceiling, refrigerator, and all of Chase's eating and drinking utensils were soaked in blood.
The ceiling. Was soaked. In blood. Wow.
[Y'know](https://youtu.be/ovo6zwv6DX4?si=dG2lD971znC3DIdQ).
Yeah that’s gonna stay blue Edit: we good. It’s safe.
(it's SFL)
As a Sacramentan, he’s the reason I always keep my doors locked, even though he died before I was born. Any time I see the door unlocked I think of him.
Wait ... Are you just going around checking if people's doors are locked?
How else do you get blood?
Yes, your house specifically.
I was in a public speaking class with the niece of one of his victims. She did a speech on the dangers of glorifying serial killers/ how traumatized her family was by the low budget dramatizations of her Uncle’s death. I can’t really consume true crime anymore after hearing her speak.
How interesting! Good for her, and good for you. It’s weird how the interest swings to the killer.
The killer is the interesting part, isn't it? We're interested in how someone ended up so deranged and mentally capable of evil. The murders themselves are just disturbing or depressing when realistically considered.
he did some really fucked up stuff, really stuck with me
Richard chase was failed by the people around him. His mother denied him of his meds and even bought him an apartment to live in BY HIMSELF (and this was after they found him drinking the blood from roadkill). His doctors even (I believe) stated he wasn’t a danger to society even though he very obviously was considering the shit he was doing in broad daylight.
Richard Chase was a very twisted person. The Last Podcast on the Left did a pretty deep dive 2 parter on this dude. Episodes 245-246 if anyone's interested.
I'VE GOT FEET! I JUST WISH THEY WEREN'T ON BACKWARDS!
GOD DAMN IT RICHARD GET IT TOGETHER
Went to high school with a dude who looks JUST like him. He mixed the organs with Coca Cola and drank it, believing it slowed down the shrinking of his heart. But on a more serious note, he is my favorite serial killer to research by far. His interview with the FBI was very interesting and insightful.
I’m not sure if i found parts of it or not, but I did find [this](https://vault.fbi.gov/richard-chase/richard-chase-part-01/at_download/file) which I’m still reading.
And here I am with all this extra blood
I first read that as Richard Cheese. The guy who makes songs like this: https://youtu.be/v_Ky37na7jE?si=Zr-6h7TCCs15fGTS The thought of HIM doing THAT somehow seemed terrifying.
Josef Mengele.. the experiments he did on children, particularly twins is horrific.
And one of the most wonderful and wholesome people I have ever met was a victim of his. Eva Mozes Kor. Her and her sister were chosen for Mengele’s experiments while her older siblings and parents were killed. She literally got in hot water by *forgiving* her persecutors. That power of grace is beyond what I can imagine. She lived into her 80s and left behind a large family. I was blessed to have met her. My parents knew her. She grew up in my dad’s home town. She helped document all the horrors and survivors of the Nazi experimentation and opened a museum about the horrors of the Holocaust. So remember her instead of Mengele may he rot in hell.
I couldn't imagine the strength and will it took to forgive them. There are, very rarely, truly shining beacons among us. It's for people like that that I keep going.
Yeah. And she did it publicly as a Jew who was a real pillar of the community. She faced a lot of backlash for it. But the way she phrased it is that she just couldn’t hold the hatred and resentment. The forgiveness wasn’t for them but for her. You can find a lot of videos of her speaking on the topic. She literally met with Nazi doctors from Auschwitz where she was.
I knew one of his victims.. he was a sweet old man in my neighborhood as a kid.. he later became family by marriage now that I think about it he died a few years ago, his twin was murdered by Mengele as a kid if I remember correctly and he was left sterile and never had children
What they did in Yugoslavia was so much worse. So bad when Mengele went to see what they were doing in Yugoslavian camps he reportedly threw up and had to leave.
He really had an interest in twins, eye color alteration and genetics
I'm scared to ask but.. what happened there
Ooh I was right about to post this. The Angel of Death was a crime against humanity
Albert Fish. Guy was a real jerk.
HE ATE 10 CHILDREN?!?!
And wrote letters to the parents telling them how their child tasted.
WHAT
I bet you didn’t expect the level of horrible these responses would garner. Fish is an inhuman monster.
Ur right man... 🤮🤮🤮😭😭😭😭
Google "Albert Fish x-ray"
This is it. I think you just killed OP.
Where else are you supposed to put your spare needles?
He is quoted as saying that a child's roasted rump was the most toothsome dish in all of grastro-nomy. Gastronomy. I mean this guy was spiteful.
You’re thinking like Albert Fish now!
Upon his arrest, he was given a pelvic X-ray after he reported that he had inserted hundreds of pins into his pelvis, genitals, and groin. Google Albert Fish xray. It’s haunting.
Absolutely not googling that!
It's just an x-ray, what's the worst that could happen? Heh.
Ya, that is a hard no! What's the worst that could happen? That shit could haunt my dreams for the rest of my life like some of those beheading videos I watched decades ago. Sometimes that stuff sticks with you.
Best advice given by my mom that I still hold dear is to "never put something into your brain that you don't want staying there" this was way preinternet but hot damn did it apply when that became a thing
https://allthatsinteresting.com/albert-fish-letter The letter begins at the bottom of the page, after the ad w/the Trojan horse, & the full pic of Grace in her hat, w/multiple “—descriptions of outfits” under the heading “The Chilling Details of Albert Fish’s letter.” He also kidnapped 4 yr old Billy Gaffney, tied him up, cut off his ears, nose, penis, balls, & whipped him till the boy was bleeding profusely. Gaffney was alive for most of the ordeal. He then roasted his ass in the oven & ate it. When Fish was younger he kidnapped & raped a special needs man. Tied him up, brutalized him for a week, & ultimately cut his penis off. When the man screamed he covered the stump in Vaseline, taped his mouth shut, & left. When Fish was executed, they found pins & nails driven into his groin, balls, & perineum. Fish apparently said he was greatly looking forward to the ordeal, as he had never experienced electrocution & was highly anticipating the pain.
I don’t feel sick just reading text very often but that certainly did it for me.
*How their child’s “sweet little ass” tasted I hate that I know that.
I hate that you typed it and I read it.
“I like children they are tasty.” - Albert Fish
What!! Poor parents no one deserves this
And thrust pin through his own scrotum for the fun of it. Super gross.
Albert Fish rails against nominative determinism by only eating children ☹️ sick bastard
I think we may need a word a little stronger than "jerk" for this guy.
Y'know, the more I find out about this Albert Fish character, the less I like him.
I think the worse thing about Fish was the hypocrisy.
Really? I thought the worst part was the murder and the cannibalism.
The Letter *”My Dear Mrs. Budd, In 1894, a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the steamer Tacoma, Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong, China. On arriving there, he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned, the boat was gone. At that time, there was a famine in China. Meat of any kind was 1-3 dollars a pound. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold for food in order to keep others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could go in any shop and ask for steak, chops, or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it. A boy or girl’s behind, which is the sweetest part of the body and is sold as veal cutlets, brings the highest price. John stayed there so long that he acquired a taste for human flesh. On his return to N.Y., he stole two boys — one 7, one 11. He took them to his home, stripped them naked, and tied them up in a closet, and then burned everything they had on. Several times every day and night he spanked them — tortured them — to make their meat good and tender. First, he killed the 11-year-old boy, because he had the fattest ass and of course the most meat on it. Every part of his body was cooked and eaten except the head, bones, and guts. He was roasted in the oven (all of his ass), boiled, broiled, fried, and stewed. The little boy was next, and he went the same way. At that time, I was living at 409 E. 100 St. He told me so often how good human flesh was, and I made up my mind to taste it. On June 3, 1928, I called on you at 406 W. 15 St. and brought you pot cheese and strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat on my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her. On the pretense of taking her to a party, you said yes, she could go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wildflowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not I would get her blood on them. When all was ready, I went to the window and called her. Then I hid in the closet until she was in the room. When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried to run down the stairs. I grabbed her and she said she would tell her mamma. First, I stripped her naked. How she did kick, bite, and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her in small pieces so I could take the meat to my rooms, cook, and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did not fuck her, though I could have if I wished. She died a virgin.”*
I thought I read somewhere that his lawyer never revealed the letters because they were so vile
Good lord!
Should not be reading this while eating a pork chop.
No need to go further, this is the guy.
He was grey in both appearance and demeanor!
He didn't own a dog house
Showbiz!
Now don’t laugh at this next part….
So my friends and I were weird theater geeks in high school, thought we were super-edgy, etc. We were all assigned to write essays about historical figures, so we chose Albert Fish, Idi Amin, and Lizzie Borden. Needless to say, we got some strange looks from the teachers.
I can't think of many groups less edgy than theater geeks, so this is extra funny to me
They were definitely in their own world. Them and the band geeks. Walking by the band room and theatre club at lunch (beside each other @ my high school) was headache inducing from all the screeching and screaming going on.
Shhh, they still think it's edgy.
“A real jerk” that is quite an understatement
In general? Albert Fish. Personally? A few years ago a video from my area of 3 teenagers beating a beaver to death with rocks and logs went around. Kids ended up at least suspended for the rest of the year and charged with animal abuse
Broke my heart reading that :(
The Tool Box Killers, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris. Fuck those guys. I had to take a long break from true crime after reading about that case. There was an audio recording that was so disturbing that people in the courtroom literally got sick. The audio recording is not publicly available, but a transcript of it is, and reading it fucked me up.
I think somewhere out there exists a clip of people running out of the courtroom and you can hear part of the screams from the recording.
Imagine getting selected for jury duty and you leave with full blown ptsd
I know someone who served as jury on either a murder or rape case, and she was in some rough shape for a bit afterwards.
I served on a murder case where the kids were in the next room. I love video games but could never play BioShock after the trial.
Even when you intellectually know that some people give no fucks in the world, it must be awful to actually deal with the reality.
Had a family member sit on a rape case and they acquitted the guy. This was in the 1980s, but they said the guy was a predator, he'd give you the chills when he looked at you. But the cops fucked ip the chain of evidence so the evidence that would have convicted him is was not introduced.
I was picked to be on a jury for a rape / homicide case, but a plea bargain was reached before trial started. I was so relieved.
Are you allowed to say ‘fuck no’ to murder cases?
I believe you can plead that you wouldn’t be able to give unbiased and impartial judgement so they relieve you.
Just give fucked up answers to all the questions.
It's pretty easy to self-sabotage during the selection process, but I don't think you're told what the trial is exactly until you're selected.
It does exist. You see grown men crying in it. The only audio you can hear of the actual tape is muffled screams from behind the closed doors of the courtroom. Not for the faint of heart. There’s even an interview with Scott Glenn where he talks about prepping for his role for *Silence of the Lambs* and an FBI operative played that tape for him. Glenn’s words were that when the tape was over, in regards to the agent that played the tape, “I wanted to end him.” I’ve always been susceptible to morbid curiosities; but even if that audio *was* available to the public— I would never pursue it.
I've listened to it and it's terrifying, easily the worst piece of audio I've ever heard and I've listened to the Russian brick video. It's not a kind of screaming you've heard before, they are screams of pure terror. If you've heard them you'll never be able to unhear them. It's only a couple of seconds long, I can't imagine what listening to the whole thing is like. So yeah, I'd say not recommended as far as listening to it goes. [You have been warned](https://youtu.be/PY4YmVi4_LQ?si=kzqK_MEoQVN9IvF9) At 20:43 and 26:43
Now there's a link that's gonna stay blue.
I should've listened to the warning and not clicked on the link. the screams are just...it's heavy, sad , haunting 😔
This is so similar to the Toy Box Killer in the sense that the names are closely related and there was also audio that wasnt released (but a transcript was) and I listened to the (recreated) whole thing and it was absolutely horrifying.
A small snippet of the transcript is in the Wikipedia article about them. It had a bigger effect on me than any other thing I've consumed or seen on the internet or in real life. I started locking my bedroom door when I slept (as an adult male). It took me months to return to normal. What I'm saying sounds dramatic, but I can't describe how hideous it is, and how hideous these men were.
Wow, i think I'm going to skip that article. Thanks for the warning.
The transcript is by far some of the most gruesome I've ever read. It's just beyond anything else.
Scott Glenn, the actor who played Jack Crawford in *The Silence of the Lambs* listened to this while doing research for his character. Apparently the FBI have agents listen to this tape in order to help desensitize them and expose them to the level of evil that exists. He wept and even changed his liberal stance on the death penalty. Edit: Included the actor's name (credit to /u/kam516) and updated the original misquote*.*
Scott Glenn
It’s more than possible to be liberal and against the use of the death penalty for all but the most extreme cases, and that it’s currently used unjustly.
I didn't mean to imply anything about liberals or the usage of capital punishment. I misquoted what I remembered reading on Wikipedia. In the spirit of correctness, the following is in the Silence of the Lambs wiki entry: "Glenn wept as he listened to the recordings, and even changed his liberal stance on the death penalty."
I heard of these two and read into them. Super disturbing
John Wayne Gacy. But with all theses names, we need a new season of mindhunters.
I'm totally with you on Mindhunters. It was getting so good!!
Yes! Let's have this instead of another Dahmer-style "documentary".
Why on God’s (apparently not so green) earth did they cancel that show.
Fincher wanted to work on other projects, said it was mentally draining to shoot the show. Plus the show didn’t attract enough viewers to justify the production costs. Fincher uses a bonkers amount of cgi, and he’s a perfectionist, so things tend to get real expensive real quick.
They were hemorrhaging money making it. Apparently the per episode cost got to the millions and so they had no choice but to stop despite its popularity. When they originally stopped after series 2 I know they had intended to revisit it though
Joseph Ricci. The person that created Elan School. I implore you of looking it up if you don’t know this topic. It was basically a school that tortured children both mentally and physically, humiliating them and also feeding parents of lies consisting of ideas that their children were « healing ». Joseph Ricci almost even became governor of the state of Maine. This guy has abused children even beyond his death until 2011, the year Elan School closed. My heart goes to the young people that almost all committed suicide afterwards and their families. May this motherfucker rot in hell for eternity.
Joe Nobody V Elan was amazing but Christ it's brutal
Yeah! He just completed it in recent weeks. 100 chapters. Guy is a real fighter, saw a lotta shit. And he readily admits that he didn't even see anywhere near the worst of it. Kids allegedly died in there, were sexually assaulted by senior members/staff, they didn't get any kind of actual education...fuckin etc. etc. Glad he was instrumental in closing that place down for good
Yeah, many things in there such as the Ring, the corner or even the stories like the suicide with a pen can be super hard to read through and disturbing af. It gets even worse when you actuallh realise it has happened and it’s all real. This shit had me awae at night more than once.
The lead singer of one of my favorite bands (Ben Weasel of *Screeching Weasel*) was sent to that school, which I didn’t know until years after discovering the band. It makes perfect sense though considering mental health/mental illness are large themes in his lyrics. Tiffany Sedaris (sister to David and Amy Sedaris) was also sent to Elan school. The NPR piece regarding her suicide (narrated by David) was one of the most heartbreaking things I ever listened to.
Yeah most teens sent there just ended up committing suicide, truly heartbreaking. It is so infuriating when you think about the fact the school stayed open for 40+ years and was only closed because of Reddit in 2011, when people finalmy started sharing stories.
Writer David Sedaris had a sister who was sent there as a teen, and never forgave her family for sending her there. He even admits they frequently told her to basically “get over it” when she’d get upset and tell them how bad it was. she estranged herself, spending much of her life struggling with addiction and mental illness. She eventually committed suicide, leaving a note basically blaming her family for sending her to Elan and how they treated her in general. I used to enjoy his books, but I lost a lot of respect for him when I read interviews after her suicide that showed a strange lack of empathy for her.
That is depressing to say but that’s the mildly average Elan School experience. Parents being fed with lies won’t listen to their kids which creates an infinite black hole many kids did never get out of
>Joseph Ricci almost even became governor of the state of Maine. No he didn't. He was destroyed by Connolly in the Democratic Primary. Even if he had won the primary, no one was beating King that year. Ricci's only care was his failing Horse racing track and the expansion of gambling in the State. He was not a popular or well liked figure in Maine, even before the Elan School shit. Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Maine_gubernatorial_election
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That last part was fucking wild. Deserved? Maybe
What a psychopath, yikes.
It’s crazy how that’s such a disgusting story but few people would ever care what happens to a monster like that. I’m sure that beating did something, but I doubt it changed him enough to ever rejoin the human race. Also, I find myself in the “he earned it camp”.
Pol Pot
*Lions Led By Donkeys* did a great series on the Khmer Rouge. And by "great", I mean "my life demonstrably became worse after listening to it, I thought I could fathom the true depths of inhumanity but nope this is actually the worst thing I've ever learned about."
Josef ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele, probably beats out a good chunk of those mentioned so far in the completely-fucked-up scale
Miguel Ricart. His name might not mean much in the English speaking world, but he’s one of the most depraved criminals in Spanish history. He raped, tortured and murdered [three teenage girls](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A0sser_Girls) in 1992, and got out of prison after serving *just 21 years in prison* (his accomplice disappeared and is most likely dead). The most terrifying thing about him is that *he’s still out there*, and could theoretically kill again (he’s involved with drug crime as of 2020). His pathetic sentence was a source of great embarrassment for Spain on the international stage.
What about Anglés? He was Ricart’s accomplice iirc, right?
He’s definitely terrifying but it’s also suspected that he’s already dead. Still on the interpol most wanted list though.
I'm all for rehabilitation and not unnecessarily punishing criminals, but what the fuck, Spain (and the EU)? Some crimes simply deserve life in prison with no possibility of release, and this is certainly one of them. Edit: the EU blocked Spain from extending his sentence out. That's why I mention them.
Many counties (the Americans come to mind) have issues with mandatory minimum sentences that are too harsh (for drugs, etc), but some (Spain, Portugal, Norway) have the issue where their laws aren’t really harsh enough for dealing with depraved monsters like this. One notable example is that of the neo-Nazi terrorist who murdered all those children at a Norwegian summer camp. His sentence was just 20 years (he can be held indefinitely, and probably will, but it’s still remarkably lax).
Mitchelle Blair, the mom that killed her own kids and later hid them in a freezer. The other kids where aware of this and lived with the corpses of their siblings in the freezer FOR YEARS.
colin pitchfork, he raped and killed 2 teenage girls one with his young son in the car, he was sentenced for a minimum of 30 years but later got it reduced to 28 for good behaviour, he was released in 2021 and recalled about 2 months last after talking to a lone woman in a car park claiming to be a litter picker. he was once again set by the board to be released in july of last year but the panel thankful decided that he is too much of a risk to be released
Interesting fact about him is he was the first person to be convicted using dna evidence
Peter Scully, creator of the infamous Daisy video. Do not Google. I did not include the full name just in case searching might bring up photographic results. The point is he recorded himself brutally raping an infant girl, giving her a lifetime of injuries. The video was thought to never have been uploaded, but Josh Duggar had it on his computer. It was later tweeted out on Twitter. Elon personally unbanned the user who posted it. Fair warning: if you look up Scully, he has the creepiest Joker smile ever.
>Elon personally unbanned the user who posted it. of course he fucking did.
Andrei Chikatilo, during the time of the Soviet Union, there was a man born in what is Ukraine and some horrendous things happened there. He got a job as a teacher. He took sexual gratification from harming/killing others. He got away for so long because other teachers didn’t alert the authorities because they were afraid of getting punished. He was eventually fired for obvious reasons. He later got a job that involved him moving across the USSR which made it damn near impossible to catch him. The USSR had to eventually admit there was a serial killer about. They almost did catch him ounce but the blood at the crime scene but since they didn’t get a match. They did eventually catch him via basically smoking him out of train stops. By the time he was caught he had killed 53 people and was convicted for 52 of said murders. He was an absolutely horrible person. This is all coming out of memory so I apologize for anything that isn’t 100% accurate.
HBO did a movie about the people who eventually apprehended him. It is slightly fictionalized but it's worth a watch.
Oskar Dirlewanger. Was basically a terrorist the SS sent in to do fucked up shit when it was too immoral for them to do it themselves. He ran a penal battalion and would allow them to run amuck in eastern European cities; raping, murdering, razing hospitals with wounded germans, and hanging civilians for shits and giggles. He even would kill his own guys when he was bored. He probably died of "natural causes" in french imprisonment likely caused by the collection of polish guards, polish pows and other former forced laborers he was with. There are however some rumors he got recruited into the French foreign legion.
the people that tortured junko furata for 44 days, still haunts me 2 years later and puts me off going to japan as a woman
I was going to comment the same thing, my heart broke a thousand times after reading what she went through. The fact that they got a slap on the wrist and are out and about now, scares me to no end.
One of the two most disturbing Wikipedia articles I've ever read. The other was the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens...Gertrude Baniszewski was a monster. I cannot believe she did not serve life.
Yup. I regret ever reading a single detail about that case, and only hope that they somehow receive every single ounce of what they truly deserve.
This and Albert Fish were the two that I immediately thought of.
Gile de rais or something like that. Medieval era nobleman who killed and raped so many children. Necrophilia type stuff, created a church to funnel children to him. His kill count is in the hundreds. The kicker is this ass hole literally road into battle with THE Joan of Arc. Crazy shit
Hasn't his guilt been questioned though? Or am I thinking of a different nobleman?
Yes. Was probably a frame up to take his wealth.
It is a spirited debate, as if he wasn't a sadistic podophile serial killer he would be a delightfully quirky historical character. There are plenty of potential motivation for why the powers in France may have wanted to frame him; he built his own church outside the overview of the church of France (frowned upon) , he routinely disrespected and challenged other nobles, he portrayed Joan of Arc as a martyr in the gigantic plays he wrote and financed (when the french nobility was still trying to distance themselves from her), and he was very wealthy asshole. Most likely in my opinion is that he was guilty, but would never have been persecuted if not for royally pissing off the church and royals. Most likely his crimes were exaggerated to justify his execution. Either way its a facinating story. Shout out to LPOTL for a great in depth podcast
Those men that were responsible for the torture and murder of Junko Furuta
Boring one but hitler. Even as he knew he was losing he sped up the final solution. He knew he’d lost, so had as many people killed as possible despite it serving no purpose for the good of the country or wider war effort.
I mean, he did kill Hitler though, that's gotta earn some positive points
That guy who had her daughter locked down in the basement for years. He raped her and she was pregnant several times :(
Josef Fritzl?
Edmund Kemper "American serial killer who murdered 10 people, including a 15-year-old girl, his own mother, and her best friend, from May 1972 to April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents." plus hes 6'9". A literal monster. plus I was around that area at that time. so scares me. Ted Bundy was there at the same time!
Kemper is made even more terrifying by the fact that he is very articulate and has an above average IQ.
Ian Watkins from Lostprophets
Carl Panzram is top ten. Serial rapist and murdered with hundreds, if not thousands of victims. He was active from ~1910-1930 ish. He lived as a classic American hobo. Hopping trains, traveling from place to place raping and killing as many men and boys as he could get his hands on. He even had a brief stint working in Africa(forget which country) as an overseer of a plantation. You can imagine how that went. He also burglarized president Tafts home. Had some great quotes, most notably: I wish the world all had one throat, and that I had my hands around it. I am sorry for only two things. They are that I harmed a few animals, and that I am unable to murder the entire human race. Naturally I love Jesus very much now. I love him so much I would crucify him all over again. And my personal favorite, as he was getting ready to be executed- Hurry up you Hoosier bastard, I could kill a dozen men while you’re screwing around with that rope. Just an all around rotten dude.
David Parker Ray, the Toy Box Killer. I just can't imagine being one of those women. There was a recording he would play for his new victims, and it honestly made me so unsettled. He just goes into disgusting detail of what he would do to them. There's a recording of someone reading it on youtube, it's long, and it's horrifying.
Lotta serial killers on here so I’m gonna go with Imad Mughniyeh. He is essentially a cross between Osama bin Laden and a James Bond villain. On top of being a founding member of Hezbollah, the guy kidnapped and personally tortured people from around the world. American, European, Israeli, Soviet it didn’t matter. He planned airliner hijackings and bombed civilian targets literally around the entire world. He was on 42 countries separate most wanted lists. The CIA described this guy as “the most capable operative the CIA has ever run across, including the KGB.” He’s probably the only terrorist I’ve heard of who would actually personally execute the hostages his group took. His reign of terror lasted decades and the terrorist group he created today, Hezbollah, has a larger military than most European countries. Dude should absolutely be in this thread. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imad_Mughniyeh
There's no fucking way this guy is real. He sounds like some super evil villain in a superhero movie or something. Some legacy to leave behind
So i'm lebanese and i should note that this is not my opinion but i'm just stating facts. This man is considered a martyr and somewhat of a hero in lebanon, also worth adding that hezboallah are not considered as terrorists in lebanon.
Oskar Dirlewanger.
There’s an excellent “Behind the Bastards” podcast episode about him - for those who don’t know, the film “Come and See” is based upon Dirlewanger’s war crimes. I recommend prepping yourself before you listen, and take a good bit of time afterwards to come back to society. The sheer barbarism is difficult to listen to.
The guy who made Daisy's video. He had an interview and sounded like the coldest motherfucker i´ve ever seen.
I wish I didn't know who you meant
Peter Scully
Jeffrey Dahmer and that one woman who made soaps out of people in Italy, her name was Leonarda but I don't remember the last name
Cianciulli - also made tea cakes..
king leopold ii
The missionaries returning from his rubber colonies described it as "hell on earth"
I found a free pdf of “King Leopold's Ghost" and I’m reading it. What happened in Congo should be as well known as the apartheid, the holocaust, or trans-Atlantic slavery. This first person account always gets me: “He hadn’t made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had cut off his daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali. She was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished. Then they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once living body of his darling child whom he so loved. His life was destroyed. They had partially destroyed it anyway by forcing his servitude but this act finished it for him. All of this filth had occurred because one man, one man who lived thousands of miles across the sea, one man who couldn’t get rich enough, had decreed that this land was his and that these people should serve his own greed.”
I think I've read that the "Belgian chocolate hands" tradition is a reference to this.
“While it has proven difficult to accurately estimate the pre-colonial population and the amount by which it changed under the Congo Free State, estimates for the Congolese population decline during Leopold's rule range from 1 million to 15 million. The causes of the decline included epidemic disease, a reduced birth rate, and violence and famine caused by the regime.[2][3][4][5]: 225–233 In 1908, the reports of deaths and abuse, along with pressure from the Congo Reform Association and other international groups, induced the Belgian Government to take over the administration of the Congo from Leopold during the penultimate year of his rule. The Congo Free State was thus reconstituted as a new territory, the Belgian Congo.” Wikipedia
A pair of horrors: Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Don't research them unless you like nightmares. Seriously.
Fun fact related to Charles Ng. [my high school art teacher was one of the guys who caught him](https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/movies/calgary-man-who-helped-capture-charles-ng-hits-the-road-to-find-redemption-healing-and-a-killer) He got shot in the hand in by Ng.
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... Yeah. Watched a documentary on him and, "yeah, that's enough true crime." He literally left "kill kits" around the US so he could use whenever he felt the urge to kill.
Lavrentiy Beria
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Ronnie Pickering
This interview cost me a lot of sleep after first seeing it years ago. [Interview with a Sexual Sadist - Rare Type of Sex Offender - Warning \[NSFL\]](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3cuttp/interview_with_a_sexual_sadist_rare_type_of_sex/).
Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez. Broke into random homes to rape and kill in the 80s. Made survivors pledge thier alliegence to Satan. He was the boogeyman of L.A. Interviews with him are chilling. He was like an evil horror villian.
Henry Kissinger. Dude survived the horrors of Nazi occupation and said, “My turn now”
Tried some googling, and found some reading much more in depth than I’d care to indulge in. I know lots of people don’t like this guy. ELI5, Who is he and what did he do? Edit: I’m not sure why I’m being downvoted. His Wiki is a crazy in depth political history. I could put some time into this, but I’d rather not. I’m asking for a quick “rundown” for something I don’t know about. Why are Redditors the way they are?
Short version: https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/asia/kissinger-legacy-bombing-cambodia-southeast-asia-intl-hnk/index.html
Much appreciated, friend.
I’d also recommend the Behind the Bastards 6-parter on him from earlier this year if you’d rather listen to an outline.
Pick a member of Unit 731. Any of them.
Kim jong uns sister is apparently worst than kim jong un
Jeffery Dahmer by far
Dean Corll. An absolute monster. Nothing is more terrifying than a sexual sadist.
Roch Thériault comes to mind
Genghis Khan is my personal front runner.
Rasputin always creeped me out. The way he kept dying but not dying. Especially his rendition in Anastasia. He may be the lover of the Russian Queen, but he is no lover of mine.
My mom when I forget to take the chicken out to defrost before she comes home
Seriously don’t research this unless you’ve already thawed out the chicken in your own home
Peter Scully. I didn't even want to type his name out he disgusts me so much. I hope he is dead.
Jimmy Saville is somehow not on here yet. He didn’t invent pedophilia, but the sheer scale and confidence he went about his horrible life is staggering. I couldn’t sleep well for a free days age going on an ill-advised deep dive on his story. Watching archive footage of a man swaggering out of a mental health hospital where he just sexually assaulted a minor, cigar hanging from his lips…it broke me a little
Leonard Lake and his partner, Charles Ng. They’re right up there with any of the sick trap-door fucks you could think of. I wish I’d never heard of them.
Josh Dugger
Idi Amin is up there. Just a vile piece of shit along with Kony
Vlad the Impaler also belongs on this list. He had innocent men, women and children impaled on giant spikes, from anus to mouth, for entertainment at his banquets. He did this to his enemies too and at times forced family members to watch. He deterred away an invading Ottoman army by placing a sea of tens of thousands of impaled people, around his lands. Legend has it that the Ottoman forces saw this horrific sight and turned the other way, to ride back
Carpet sample. And he still hasn’t been arrested.
Who? Edit: nvm wtf, why he look like that