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As above, Mines Ed Gein.
Difficult one this one ...........but I've always had a soft spot for Dennis Nilsen.
Probably Nestle Cheerios, so high in salt they must have caused many a stroke/heart attack.
Cannot say i have a favorite one but i was fortunate to get an invite to the Black Museum at Scotland Yard many moons ago and the Dennis Nielson stand was presented to us and as he was an Ex Army chef he apparently cooked great food and his curries were a regular feature in the office he worked at. We were then shown the pan he used to cook the curries in, it had solidified parts of human fat in the bottom in a hard gelatine form, he apparently boiled the blokes the heads of the blokes he had killed and the folk in his office had eaten scoff from that pan. Freak !!
People need to have a favourite? BTW - what's your favourite disease?
Got to be Shipman for me.
Legend. 8)
George Bush or Tony Blair
Hitler....gotta admire his commitment to the end.
difficult to say favourite, but being heavily into the Smiths I have a certain fascination for the Moors Murders (as opposed to Brady and Hindley themselves)
Side question: working in Bradford about 2 streets away from where Sutcliffe lived throughout his 'career' I've also a bit more than a passing interest in that series now. It un-nerves me a bit; is there something odd about me? But then I see the number of books written and others fascination with serial killers and it makes me think I'm not that unusual. What fascinates so many of us with these things?
It's got to be Nestle in General..... I think they've killed more people than any other serial killer....
Herman Webster Mudgett - otherwise known as Dr Henry Howard Holmes.
Took killing to a new level in that he actually built a hotel that was a death factory, complete with gas rooms, hidden chutes for bodies and suffocation chambers.
27 confirmed murders, but estimates do go as high as over 200.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
Dennis Nielson +1
The first real scary killer i remember whilst growing up, i was about 10 when he got caught.
He'd have killed a lot more if it wasn't for all that fat and entrails clogging up the sewers...
As Death Valley 69 was a favourite song of mine for a long time I'd have to say Charlie Manson.
Plus his trial statement makes interesting reading. It used to do the rounds in photocopy 'zine format back in the day...
Harold Shipman for me.
Apparently, they are making a film about him starring Robert DeNiro.
Going to call it "Old dear hunter".
IGMC
jack the ripper fascinates me
jack the rip two for me! maybe because its unsure who it was..
Richard Kuklinski
A cold bastard.
tony the tiger .................. he's got to eat all those kid he does the tv ad with hasn't he đŸ˜†
Peter Sutcliffe is the only serial killer I've had any interest in, as he lived and worked in my home town and I knew some of his family.
As far as mass murderers go, I think Stalin was responsible for about 23 million, made the Nazis appear amateurish.
if we are talking numbers wouldn't God (take your pick which brand/ franchise you want) be the top scorer?? More people have been killed in his name that any other, make's Stalin seem amateurish
my favourite complete idiot is themoomonkey.
haven't you got anything better to do with your brain/life?
*anker.
Manson doesn't really qualify, because he didn't get his own hands dirty and because the body count was less than a dozen.
Jeffrey Dahmer gets my vote.
Ted Bundy for me. Such a charmer and knew how to treat a lady. đŸ˜¯
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my favourite complete idiot is themoomonkey.
haven't you got anything better to do with your brain/life?
*anker.
Not want to play? đŸ˜†
my favourite complete idiot is themoomonkey.
haven't you got anything better to do with your brain/life?
*anker.
Daily Mail website broken? đŸ˜†
you all forgot Rudolf Hess
Hannibal Lecter FTW!! 8)
In fiction, the best( by far)are the Angel Gang from Judge Dredd, " Junior, there aint nuthin' wrong with killin', but a man kin get obsessed!" "I aint obsessed, pa, I jes' wanna DO IT!"
Real life, well, I always thought that Dahmer was interesting; I remember watching a programme where a police psychologist thought that he probably wouldn't have killed his victims if they hadn't have made a move to leave him.
However, as a patriotic Scot, I'd have to mention The Sawney Bean clan.
Hannibal Lecter FTW!! 8)
Homer Simpson, Mr Blobby and HL - my rĂ´le models in life - yay!!
Peter Kurten is the man
Peter Kurten is the man
Didn't he eventually pull himself together?
Sorry, getting my coat ....
Zodiac killer for me , My grandad went to school with Christie the "10 Rillington Place" killer and my mom told me the things about him what my grandad had told her later on in life,how he was ridiculed by the kids in my grandads class for having a small manhood and being a proper weirdo
harold shipman for me he was my gp too,
ed kemper
john wayne gacy
very disturbed men.
Eusebius Pieydagnelle.
Yes, I have just trawled Wikipedia for the most obscure fella I can find.
6 kills btw..
i have a huge book, titled..A TO Z OF SERIAL MURDERERS.
make a great winters night reading.
come to think of it, i have a shed load of books about murderers... đŸ˜ˆ
Dennis Nielson for me, he did his later 'work' next door to my sisters gaff in that there world famous London village!
H.H Holmes is a pretty interesting story, his incredible murder-machine hotel in particular should be a staple of every architect's studies, but he was also an unusual model of a serial killer - he was money motivated, at least to begin with, he would sell dodgy life insurance policies, make himself the beneficiary then bump the victim off, but he was pocketing the premium [i]and[/i] the payout, his victims were paying him rent, and then he'd sell the bodies for medical research too.
The interesting thing is that his killing drove him mad, so later he became the kind of cruel, sadistic power-game killer that most serial killers start out as.
As far as mass murderers go, I think Stalin was responsible for about 23 million, made the Nazis appear amateurish.
Whilst I wouldn't want to trivialise the undeniably monstrous crimes committed by Stalin, I'm not sure that 23 million is a completely honest one, as I assume that figure isn't just those who were killed under his direct orders, but also all those who died during the famine. If you go down that road of "political consequences" you would have to look at famine under the Tsar, or even possibly accuse Robert Walpole of being a mass murderer for the political consequences which led to the Irish potato famine. You would also have to subtract from the total the amount of lives saved as a result of Stalin's 'Five Year Plans' which dragged a backward agrarian pre-industrial society, into a modern industrial superpower. And also subtract the lives saved as a result of the massive expansion of the world's first national health service, which occurred under Stalin. As I said, I wouldn't want to trivialise Stalin's crimes, but it is probably best to concentrate on just those who died as a result of executions carried out under his orders, rather than the messy business of "political consequences".
But [i]even if[/i] we were to accept the figure of 23 million, Hitler did a lot better than that. As a result of Hitler ordering Operation Barossa, the Nazi armies were in just 4 years between 1941 and 1945, responsible for the deaths of 24 million soviet citizens. And when you take all of the other victims of Hitler into account, Stalin does indeed appear to rather 'amateurish'.
Getting back to the OP and [i]serial[/i] killers, I chose Dennis Nilsen because he would for several months after killing his victims, wash and clothe them and sit them in a chair and talk to them - which is rather nice, doncha fink ?
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