14 Unsettling Facts About Famous Serial Killers

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Mack Ray Edwards, he was a serial killer who worked for CalTrans. He’d kill his victims and then bury the bodies in places he would later help build the highways over.

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Robert Hansen would kidnap women and turn them loose in the Alaskan wilderness, where he would then hunt them down like animals and kill them.

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The Hillside Stranglers picked up a young woman to murder. Then they discovered that her father was Peter Lorre, a legendary Hollywood character actor. They let her go because they feared that killing a celebrity’s daughter would bring too much attention down.

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Pedro Alonso Lopez plead guilty to the murders of 100+ girls and only received a maximum sentence of 16 years as that was the maximum possible sentence in Ecuador.

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Jeffery Dahmer tried to make “sex zombies” out of some of his victims by drilling holes in their heads while they were alive and pouring acid into the holes.

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In the John Wayne G case there were so many bodies crammed underneath the house that the bodies melted together and the bones had to be sorted for more than 2 years to put together the full skeletons.

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There’s a network of serial killers currently active that the FBI are trying to track down. They’re truckers that target prostitutes and addicts across the United States and actively help each other by transporting bodies and communicating with each other about what cities have been visited by one other in recent times.

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The serial killer Bela Kiss liked to pickle people in barrels stored in his basement.

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PeeWee Gaskins, most prolific serial killer in SC drove around in a hearse with a bumper sticker that read “I haul dead people.”

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When police eventually came to the house of Ed Gein they found an absolute pigsty. Gein had been living alone since the death of his brother in a barn fire and had let much of the house go into disrepair. It was the type of disorganized mess that you would expect from a man who spent his nights completely disconnected from reality.

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Brazilian serial killer “little Petey” murdered over 40 people in prison. He began by murdering the gang that killed his girlfriend and then stabbing his father, who was in prison for killing his mother, during a visit.

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The Green River killer took the jewelry off his victims and left it in the ladies restroom at his workplace, and got off on seeing the “found” jewelry on various woman around the office.

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Dennis Radar, aka BTK (Bind Torture Kill) was caught after he sent the police a floppy disc where they found metadata linking to his church. He was arrested shortly thereafter.