'''Charles Albright''' (born August 10, 1933) is a possible [[serial killer]] from Dallas, Texas, convicted of killing Shirley Williams, a known
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'''Łucjan Staniak''', a [[serial killer]] from Poland, was convicted of [[murder]]ing six women from 1964 un
* [http://www.geocities.com/verbal_plainfield/q-z/staniak.html Serial Killers A – Z]
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'''Daniel Camargo Barbosa''' was a [[serial killer]] from South America who became known as the ''Beast Of The Andes''
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'''Luigi Chiatti''' (born on February 27 1968) is an Italian [[serial killer]]. He was born '''Antonio Rossi''' from a 24-year-old single mother,
*[[List of serial killers]]
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'''Karl Denke ''' (August 12, 1870 – December 22, 1924) was a [[serial killer]] from Germany.
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'''Fritz Honka''' (1935 - 19 October, 1998) was a German [[serial killer]]. Between 1971 and 1974, he killed at least four prostitutes from H
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...'' Persian: محمد بيژه ) (February 7, 1975-March 16, 2005) was an Iranian [[serial killer]].
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'''Michael Lupo''' (1953-1995) was a [[serial killer]] originally from Italy, operating in Britain.
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'''Joseph Vacher''' (1869 - December 31, 1898) was a French [[serial killer]], sometimes known as '''The French Ripper''' due to comparisons to
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'''Ahmad Suradji''' was a [[serial killer]] in Indonesia. Suradji, a cattle-breeder born in 1949, was also kno
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'''Mudgett''', better known as "H.H. Holmes", was a successful swindler and serial killer who built a "Murder Castle" in Chicago, a three-story human abattoir
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'''Paul Charles Denyer''' (b. 1972) is an Australian [[serial killer]], currently serving life imprisonment in HM Prison Barwon for the m
...er''' due to his crimes occurring within the Frankston area. The Frankston Serial Killer was featured in the pilot episode of the Seven Network show Forensic
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...The Freeway Killer''', a nickname he shares with two other separate serial killers, [[William Bonin]] and [[Randy Steven Kraft]].
...onably stable family, at least in comparison to those of many other serial killers. His early life was not without some trauma, however; a thin and sickly chi
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...r''' or the '''Dark Strangler''' (died January 13, 1928) was an American [[serial killer]].
*[[List of serial killers]]
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'''Edward Joseph Leonski''' (12 December 1917 - 9 November 1942) was a [[serial killer]] who committed his crimes in Australia, although Leonski himself wa
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'''William MacDonald''' is an Australian [[serial killer|serial murderer]].
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...rossman''' (who commonly called himself just Karl Grossman) was a German [[serial killer]]. He committed suicide while awaiting execution without giving a fu
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...rn in 1968 in St. Francisville, Louisiana, USA), dubbed the '''Baton Rouge Serial Killer''', has been linked by DNA to the deaths of five women in the Baton
*[[List of serial killers]]
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'''John Wayne Glover''' (1932-September 9, 2005) was a convicted Australian [[serial killer]]. He was responsible for the North Shore Granny Murders in Sydney,
...anny Killer's Reign of Terror'' [http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Evil-Granny-Killers-Terror/dp/187547112X/ref=sr_11_1/002-5638738-9128856?ie=UTF8&qid=1175522239
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...noprienko''' (Анатолій Онопрієнко), born 1959) in Zhytomyr, Ukraine is a [[serial killer]]. He is also known by the nicknames of "The Beast of Ukraine", "The
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/495477.stm BBC: World's worst serial killers]
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'''Juan Vallejo Corona''' (born in 1934) is an American [[serial killer]] that was convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971.
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...Andes''' (born 8 October 1948 in Santa Isabel, Colombia) is a confessed [[serial killer]] from South America, accused of killing more than 300 people. Apart
*[[List of serial killers]]
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'''Jerry Brudos''', (31 January 1939- 28 March 2006) was a [[serial killer]] and a [[necrophilia|necrophiliac]] also known as "The Lust Killer"
...ovie “Polyester” portrays a disturbed teenager named Dexter Fishpaw with a serial foot stomping fetish. It is alluded that he uses pictures of shoes as a por
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...n Judenburg, Styria, Austria, died June 29, 1994 in Graz, Austria) was a [[serial killer]] who [[murder]]ed prostitutes in several countries.
...that is still only known as "[[Jack the Ripper]]" (who remains an unknown serial killer from the 19th century). With FBI evidence against Johann Unterweger
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...slightly [[ambiguous]] term, with similarities to [[mass murder]]er and [[serial killer]].
...t two or more locations with almost no time break between murders." Serial killers are different in that they have gaps between attacks, while mass murderers
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...death over a prolonged period of time. It is often a practice of [[serial killers]].
...g of pleasure from inflicting pain on others. In the United States, those killers accused of torture murder are most often <!-- nearly always? --> charged wi
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...e than 300. He has been described by the local media as "the world's worst serial killer" because of the high number of victims.
...s demanding changes in the law in order to extend the number of years that killers like Garavito would have to stay in prison [http://www.thepetitionsite.com/
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'''Fritz Haarmann''' (October 25, 1879-April 15, 1925) was a notorious [[serial killer]] born in Hannover, Germany.
...man is mentioned by name in the film, along with another well-known German serial killer, [[Karl Grossmann]]).
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'''Peter Kürten''' (May 26, 1883-July 2, 1932) was a German [[serial killer]] dubbed '''The [[Vampire]] of Düsseldorf''' by the contemporary me
...e sane. Regardless, profiling of suspects was carried out in many cases of serial killings following the Kürten incidents.
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'''Colin Ireland''' (born March 16 1954) is a British [[serial killer]] known as the "Gay Slayer" because he specifically murdered gay men
...convictions for burglary and robbery in his twenties, decided to become a serial killer as a New Year resolution at the beginning of 1993, when he was 39. T
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...spelled '''Otis''') was an American criminal. Though he claimed to be a [[serial killer]] and [[cannibalism|cannibal]], and was the suspect in several unsol
...significant doubt as to Lucas' guilt, Toole is still generally seen as a [[serial killer]].
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...pest") (Buenos Aires, October 31, 1896- Ushuaia, November 15, 1944), was a serial killer who terrified the Argentinian city of Buenos Aires when just sixteen
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...U.S.-born [[serial killer]] who is considered one of the most psychopathic killers in British criminal history. He was the second last person to be hanged in
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'''Joachim Kroll''' (April 17, 1933 - July 1, 1991) was a German [[serial killer]] and [[cannibal]]. He was known as the '''Ruhr Cannibal''' (''Ruhrk
*[[List of serial killers]]
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...Zucco''', (April 3, 1962-May 23, 1988) was born in Venice, Italy. He was a serial [[murder|killer]] who murdered several people in Europe in 1987 and 1988.
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'''Bible John''' is the nickname of an unidentified [[serial killer]] who is thought to have operated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the late
...s at Stirling University released a digitally remastered image of what the serial killer might look like today.
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'''Rosemary West''' (born November 29, 1953 as Rosemary Letts) is a British [[serial killer]]. Now an inmate at HM Prison Bronzefield, Kent.
...ers were all believed to have been carried out with her husband and fellow serial killer, [[Fred West]].
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...Teale''') (born August 27, 1964 in Scarborough, Ontario), is a Canadian [[serial killer]], known for the [[murder]]s he committed with his wife [[Karla Homo
...'' His assumed surname, "Teale," was apparently an homage to the fictional serial killer Martin Thiel played by Kevin Bacon in the film ''Criminal Law.''
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'''Herbert Williams Mullin''' (1947 -) is an American [[serial killer]] who committed 13 [[murder]]s in California in the early 1970s.
...nd, it was mistakenly thought to be a victim of [[Edmund Kemper]], another serial killer operating in the area at the time.
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...Burbank, California, also known as ''The Co-ed Killer'', is an American [[serial killer]] who was active in the early 1970s. Kemper killed and dismembered s
At the time of Kemper's murder spree in Santa Cruz, another [[serial killer]] named [[Herbert Mullin]] was also active, earning the small Califo
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'''Peter Stumpp''' (died 1589) was a German farmer and allegedly a [[serial killer]] and [[cannibalism|cannibal]], also known as the ''[[Werewolf]] of
Not only was Stumpp accused of being a serial murderer and [[Cannibalism|cannibal]], but also of having an incestuous rel
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'''Carl Panzram''' (June 28, 1891-September 5, 1930) was an American [[serial killer]].
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'''John Edward Robinson''' (born December 27, 1943) is an American [[serial killer]] convicted in 2003 of the murders of several women.
*[[List of serial killers]]
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...Utah known as the '''Green River Killer''', is one of the most egregious [[serial killer]]s n American history. On November 30, 2001, as he was leaving a Ren
...Robert Keppel and Dave Reichert, who periodically interviewed incarcerated serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] from 1984 to Bundy's execution in 1989 in the hopes of
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'''Michel Fourniret''' (born Sedan, April 4, 1942) is a French [[serial killer]] who confessed, in June and July 2004, to kidnapping, raping and mu
*[[List of serial killers]]
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...ary Leon Ridgway''' (born February 18, 1949) is one of the most prolific [[serial killer]]s in American history. He was arrested on November 30, 2001, for th
...ert D. Keppel and Dave Reichert, who periodically interviewed incarcerated serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] from 1984 to Bundy's execution in 1989 in the hopes of
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'''Albert Henry DeSalvo''' (September 3, 1931 - November 25, 1973) was a [[serial killer]] active in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1960s. Between June 1
...e of the vicious crimes (however, it is not uncommon for people who knew a serial killer to never have suspected him to be capable of such violence. In the c
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===Serial killers===
Necrophilia has also been a motive for some [[serial killer]]s, including murderers [[Ed Gein]], [[Richard Chase]], [[Winston M
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'''Serial killers''' are people who, on multiple occasions spread over time, murder victims w
...h, as opposed to those who are motivated by financial gain (e.g., contract killers) or ideological/political motivations (e.g., terrorism, democide). Many tim
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==Convicted serial killers by country==
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...ayne Gacy, Jr.''', (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American [[serial killer]]. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 3
...tographed with future-First Lady Rosalynn Carter[http://home.wtal.de/infos/killers/gacycarter.jpg].
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'''Joseph Paul Franklin''' (April 13, 1950-) is an American serial killer who may have killed 20 people between 1977 and 1980. He has been con
...egory:Popular culture|pop culture]] reference, unlike less prolific serial killers such as [[Charles Manson]].
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...sin, U.S.A. He died on November 28th, 1994 in Portage, Wisconsin. He was a serial killer, a [[Necrophilia|necrophile]] and [[Cannibalism|cannibal]], who is b
...head wandering around nude [http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/serial-killers/jeffrey-dahmer/]. Dahmer claimed they had an argument. After being returned
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...on January 2, 1938 in Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland) is a convicted British [[serial killer]].
Brady spent 19 years in a mainstream prison (at one point befriending serial poisoner and fellow Nazi aficionado [[Graham Frederick Young]]) before he w
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...ichard Trenton Chase''' (May 23, 1950 December 26, 1980) was an American [[serial killer]] who killed six people in the span of a month in California. He ear
...hat is known in psychiatric circles as the "triad" of the early signs of a serial killer: He wet the bed, he [[pyromania|started fires]], and he tortured ani
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...ever, he later recanted his confessions. He once flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady
...in the words of author Sarah L. Knox, "as one of the world's worst serial killers, even after the debunking of the majority of his confessions by the Attorne
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...sdale''' in Manchester, July 1960) became one of Britain’s most prolific [[serial killer]]s when he was convicted of 26 charges of manslaughter in 1981.
...is reason that people are reluctant to place Lee in the category of serial killers, in that it was the cause rather than effect which gave him his thrills.
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'''John George Haigh''' (July 24, 1909-August 10, 1949) was a [[serial killer]] in England in the 1940s. Authorities attributed to Haigh the murde
*Haigh has been compared to the French serial killer [[Marcel Petiot]]. It is possible that Haigh had read about the expl
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Between 1940 and 1956, a serial bomber terrorized New York City by planting bombs in public places includin
...the Boston Police to the apprehension of [[Albert DeSalvo]], the notorious serial sex murderer known as the "Boston Strangler". The media dubbed Dr. Brussel
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...rol Pittman''') (February 29th, 1956, October 9th, 2002) was an American [[serial killer]] sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992. She ultimately
...as run during the credits of the documentary ''Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer''.
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...ember 29, 1941 – January 1, 1995) was an English construction worker and [[serial killer]] who, together with his wife [[Rosemary West]], is believed to have
[[Category:Serial killers]]
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...о'' (born on October 16th 1936, dead on February 14th 1994 was a Russian [[serial killer]], nicknamed the '''Rostov Ripper'''.
...s or candy. In the USSR at the time, reports of crimes like child rape and serial murder were often suppressed by the state-controlled media, as these crimes
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...z Ramirez''' (born February 29th, 1960 in El Paso, Texas) is a convicted [[serial killer]] awaiting execution on California's death row.
[[Category:Serial killers]]
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...ng a hog in a nearby shed.<ref>[http://www.radford.edu/~maamodt/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Gein,%20Ed.htm]</ref> When Gein reached puberty, Augusta became i
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...ginald Halliday Christie''' (April 8, 1898–July 15, 1953) was an English [[serial killer]] active in the 1940s and 1950s. He was arrested, tried and hanged f
*[[List of serial killers]]
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...typical victim selection categories. '''Sexual sadism''' is similar to '''serial killing''' in that the aspect of fantasy-reenactment cycle is the same.
=====Sadist Serial Killers=====
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...grave. Detectives trying to piece together enough evidence to convict her killers had to ask Lesley's mother to positively identify her daughter's voice on t
* Serial Killers and Mass Murderers: 100 Tales of Infamy, Barbarism and Horrible Crime - Joy
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...its that regularly appears in its computer records of serial rapists and [[serial killer|murderers]], and the standard diagnostic and treatment manual for ps
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...2004) was a British general practitioner who was the most prolific known [[serial killer]] in the history of Britain (and possibly the world).
[[Category:Serial killers]]
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...ten considered the prototypical American serial killer — indeed, the term 'serial killer' was coined in order to describe him.
*In ''American Psycho'', Christian Bale who portrayed serial killer Patrick Bateman makes frequent references to Bundy.
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...mate of ''Horror Movie Big Brother'', alongside other famous slasher movie killers such as [[Jason Voorhees]], [[Freddy Krueger]], [[Pinhead]], and [[Leatherf
...titled ''Beasts Who Walk As Men: A Case History of America's Vilest Serial Killers'', finds a page in it mentioning Michael, as well as Jason Voorhees and the
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...riday the 13th: Hell Lake''. In ''Hate-Kill-Repeat'', two religious serial killers attempt to find Jason at Crystal Lake, believing that the three of them sha
...d a six issue series called ''Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash'', starring the two killers and Ash from the ''Evil Dead'' series. The story focuses on Freddy using th
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'''Dennis Lynn Rader''' (born March 9, 1945) is an American [[serial killer]] who murdered at least 10 people in Sedgwick County (in and around
...second letter, and it was finally announced that Wichita did indeed have a serial killer at large. A poem was enclosed entitled "Oh Death to Nancy". In 1979
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'''Jack the Ripper''' is a pseudonym given to an unidentified [[serial killer]] active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent d
...eatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer terrorizing the residents of Whitechapel, nicknamed "Jack the Ripper
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...known by his nicknames Son of Sam or The 44 Caliber Killer, is an infamous serial killer who confessed to killing six people and wounding several others in N
...King/Peter Straub novel Black House, which is set during a period where a serial killer is on the loose, the main character, Jack Sawyer, says, "Maybe the g
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She is considered the most famous [[serial killer]] in Hungarian and Slovak history as well as the world's most prolif
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The '''Zodiac Killer''' was a [[serial killer]] who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. His identit
...obert]]. (2007). ''Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer'' (Berkeley; reissue edition). ISBN 0-4252-1273-4.
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Kosminski does meet some of the criteria in the general profile of serial killers as outlined by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal profiler John
It is also possible the Ripper was an unknown Whitechapel resident. Serial killers, like the [[Dennis Rader|BTK killer]], [[Ted Bundy]], the [[Green River Kil
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...at the "free Beausoleil" motive was contradicted by other testimony of the killers. Additionally, despite declaring they would die for Manson, the other peopl
...n of all pending death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972. The killers, giggling in court, were asked if they felt remorse, and gave answers that
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The Swiss equivalent for manslaughter is ''Totschlag''. Killers are sentenced for Totschlag when they committed the crime in a very, and es
*[[Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer]], Director: [[Nick Broomfield]], 2003
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...eme cases of real life sexualized cannibalism, such as those of the serial killers [[Albert Fish]], [[Ed Gein]], [[Jeffrey Dahmer]], [[Sascha Spesiwtsew]], [[
...te]]. ''Exquisite Corpse''. A horror novel about two cannibalistic serial killers in love.
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...rderers who performed this seemingly vampiric ritual upon their victims. [[Serial killer]]s [[Peter Kürten]] and [[Richard Chase|Richard Trenton Chase]] wer
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...vel ''The Hobbit'') and it was used as well for what would now be called a serial killer.
...m their primieval form which portrayed them as wild beasts and mercilessly killers. The films speculate the first werewolf and vampire were brothers, who were
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