Jack the Ripper
In the Whitechapel district of London in 1888, a person best known as Jack the Ripper was savagely murdering females, often prostitutes, by cutting their throats and then removing their internal organs. There are 5 woman who are widely to be believed as murdered by Jack the Ripper. These women are known as "canonical five". The names of these victims include: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelley.
The Ripper was regularly employed, and lived locally. That is about all that can actually be said as to who this person was. However there are many theories about his identity no one has been able to really say who Jack the Ripper truly is.
The Ripper was regularly employed, and lived locally. That is about all that can actually be said as to who this person was. However there are many theories about his identity no one has been able to really say who Jack the Ripper truly is.
Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
These murders took place in Wineville, California, and what happened in this place is extremely disturbing. Gordon Northcott murdered and sexually abused 3 boys with the help of his mother Sarah Louise Northcott. As well as one Mexican boy all on his own whom he beheaded. Gordon took his nephew, Sanford Clark, to be with him in WIneville, and sexually abused him as well as forced him to participate in these murders. Sanford later testified against his uncle and grandmother resulting in Gordons death sentence, and Sarahs life sentence. The victims included: Walter Collins, the Winslow brothers and a boy known as "the headless Mexican".
H. H. Holmes
During the height of the Chicago's Worlds fair a man by the man of H. H. Holmes was murdering woman in his "Murder Castle".
H. H. Holmes was really known as Herman Webster Mudgett. He graduated from Michigan University Medical School, and then shortly after moved to Chicago to pursue his career in pharmaceuticals. He was often involved in some pretty shady business involving real estate, and promotional deals using his alias of "H. H. Holmes". He was arrested and confessed to killing 27 victims. He is only known to have officially killed 9 people, however it is guessed that he may have killed at least 200 people. His actual victims include: Julia and Pearl Conner, Emeline Cigrand, Anna "Nannie" and Minnie Williams, Benjamin Pitezel, Nellie, Alice, and Howard Pitezel.
H. H. Holmes was really known as Herman Webster Mudgett. He graduated from Michigan University Medical School, and then shortly after moved to Chicago to pursue his career in pharmaceuticals. He was often involved in some pretty shady business involving real estate, and promotional deals using his alias of "H. H. Holmes". He was arrested and confessed to killing 27 victims. He is only known to have officially killed 9 people, however it is guessed that he may have killed at least 200 people. His actual victims include: Julia and Pearl Conner, Emeline Cigrand, Anna "Nannie" and Minnie Williams, Benjamin Pitezel, Nellie, Alice, and Howard Pitezel.
Ed Gein
The real American psycho, he was a serial killer, and body snatcher. Gein committed his crimes in his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin which gained a huge amount of notoriety after authorities discovered that he had been digging up corpses from graveyards and made trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Mr. Gein had two victims local tavern owner Mary Hogan whom he killed on Dec. 8th, 1954 and Bernice Worden a local hardware store owner on Nov. 16th, 1957. His story has influenced the creation of several fictional killers including: Norman Bates from the movie Psycho, Leatherface of the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jame Gumb (Buffalo Bill) of the novel and movie silence of the lambs.
On November 16th, 1957 the Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden went missing. Police immediately suspected Gein since Wordens son told investigators that Gein had been in the store the evening before, saying he would be back for some anti-freeze. The last receipt made was for a gallon of anti-freeze written by Bernice. Upon searching Geins property the investigators found Wordens decapitated body in a shed, hung upside down by ropes at her wrists, with a crossbar at her ankles. Her torso was "dressed out like a deer". With further searching of the property the investigators found in Geins home: four noses, whole human bones and fragments, nine masks of human skin, bowls made from human skulls, ten female heads with the tops sawn off, human skin covering several chair seats, Mary Hogan's head in a paper bag, Bernice Worden's head in a burlap sack, nine vulva in a shoe box, a belt made from female human nipples, skulls on his bedposts, a pair of lips on a drawstring, skulls on his bedposts, and a lampshade made from the skin of a human face. Gein admitted to all the crimes claiming he robbed 9 graves and made over 40 nocturnal visits to three local graveyards. between 1947 and 1952. Soon after his mothers death he decided he wanted a sex change and so began to create a "woman suit".
On November 16th, 1957 the Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden went missing. Police immediately suspected Gein since Wordens son told investigators that Gein had been in the store the evening before, saying he would be back for some anti-freeze. The last receipt made was for a gallon of anti-freeze written by Bernice. Upon searching Geins property the investigators found Wordens decapitated body in a shed, hung upside down by ropes at her wrists, with a crossbar at her ankles. Her torso was "dressed out like a deer". With further searching of the property the investigators found in Geins home: four noses, whole human bones and fragments, nine masks of human skin, bowls made from human skulls, ten female heads with the tops sawn off, human skin covering several chair seats, Mary Hogan's head in a paper bag, Bernice Worden's head in a burlap sack, nine vulva in a shoe box, a belt made from female human nipples, skulls on his bedposts, a pair of lips on a drawstring, skulls on his bedposts, and a lampshade made from the skin of a human face. Gein admitted to all the crimes claiming he robbed 9 graves and made over 40 nocturnal visits to three local graveyards. between 1947 and 1952. Soon after his mothers death he decided he wanted a sex change and so began to create a "woman suit".