The hillside stranglers

The Hillside Strangler, later the Hillside Stranglers, is the media epithet for one, later two American serial killers who terrorized Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978, with the nicknames originating from the fact that many of the victims' bodies were discovered on the sides of the Hollywood Hills. The police, however, knew because of the positions of the bodies that two individuals were killing together, but withheld this information from the press. These two individuals were discovered to be cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who were later convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering ten females, ranging in age from 12 to 28 years old.

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Lucian Staniak

Lucian Staniak was born in the 1920s in Poland. There is not much known about his history prior to his murder series. It is believed that Staniak began his murder series in 1964. All of his victims were teenage Caucasian females. He would typically rape his victims and then mutilate them. Most of his victims were disemboweled and left with torn clothing. Staniak would use artists knives or other sharp objects to murder his victims. He did not make an attempt to bury the bodies, but instead wanted them to be found in various places and positions. He would typically write a note for the police to find. It was always written with red ink that had been diluted with turpentine. Staniak would murder his victims as he travelled by train for work. On February 1, 1967 Staniak was arrested for the murders of 6 women. He confessed to over 20, but police did not tie him to those murders. He claimed that he was driven to murder because his parents and sisters were killed in a car accident and th...

Robert Berdella

Robert Andrew Berdella Jr. (January 31, 1949 – October 8, 1992) was an American serial killer , known as The Kansas City Butcher and The Collector , who kidnapped, raped , tortured , and murdered at least six men between 1984 and 1987 in Kansas City, Missouri after having forced his victims to endure periods of up to six weeks of captivity. Describing his murders as being "some of my darkest fantasies becoming my reality",Berdella pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the first degree murder of one of his victims, Larry Pearson, in August 1988, and would later plead guilty to one further charge of first degree murder, and four charges of second degree murder in December 1988.He died of a heart attack while incarcerated at the Missouri State Penitentiary in October 1992. Berdella became known as "The Kansas City Butche...

Jhon Geroge Haigh

John George Haigh (24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer. He was convicted for the murder of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine. He battered or shot his victims to death and used concentrated sulphuric acid to destroy their corpses before forging papers so he could sell the victims' possessions and collect substantial sums of money. During the investigation, it became apparent that Haigh was using the acid to destroy victims' bodies because he misunderstood the meaning of the term corpus delicti , and mistakenly believed that, if the bodies could not be found, a murder conviction would not be possible. Despite the absence of his victims' bodies, there was sufficient scientific evidence for him to be convicted for the murders and subsequently executed. his parents, Donald and Amy. McSwan worked for them by collecting rents on their London properties, and Haigh became envious of his lifestyl...

Harold Shipman

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