Serial Killers | Karl Denke

Here lies the mysterious German cannibal Karl Denke. There is not alot known about this serial killer. He was born August the 12th 1870 in The Kingdom of Prussia Germany. Today it is known as Ziebice Poland.

There are not many accounts of his childhood but we do know that in later years, he was well respected around town. Some used to refer to him as father Denke. Karl was also the organ blower at the local church.

After the 21st of December 1924, locals would have been looking at Karl Denke in a whole new light. On this particular night a coachman heard human cries coming from Karl Denke's room. The victim was being attacked with an axe by Denke.

He managed to escape from Karl Denke and told police of the attack. The police raided Denke's dwelling and what they found shocked them beyond belief.

There were big jars in his kitchen full of human meat, being pickled in brine. They found human bones and tubs of human fat. There were bits of human skin, ready to be fashioned into belts and such. Karl Denke even made shoe laces from human hair and sold them door to door.

As well as finding blood stained clothes, the police also discovered a journal and it is claimed that there were descriptions, of as many as 40 victims who Karl Denke had killed. In the book were names, dates and the weights of the people he had pickled.

These journal entries dated back to 1921. He also had identification and clothing from at least a dozen male victims. Karl Denke was arrested that night and hung himself on the 22nd of December, with a hankerchief in his cell.

He does have a display at the Ziebice museum that features his bloody axe and knives. It is also said that Karl Denke even sold his human flesh at the local Breslau market, known today as the Wroclaw Market.

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Serial Killers | Jeffrey Dahmer - Video Interview

Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer is one of America's and one of history's most famous Serial Killers. In this video interview Jeffery Dahmer talks to Stone Phillips

This interview took place in February 1994. The Serial Killer talks about his early years, and of the compulsions that drove him to kill. Jeffrey Dahmer was not the type of guy, you would want to sit beside in Biology class during dissection.

Jeffrey Dahmer is quite relaxed as he talks of what his life was like as a child. Stone Phillips asks all the questions, we all, would like to ask. In fact while watching this video, you sometimes forget, that you are staring at a serial killer.

Just press play on the above video and learn some more about Jeffrey Dahmer. One of History's most famous Serial Killers. Read More on Jeffrey Dahmer Here!

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Serial Killers | Peter Sutcliffe - The Yorkshire Ripper

This is he face of the "Yorkshire Ripper" His name is Peter William Sutcliffe and he is responsible for the death of 13 women. Seems Peter was abit of a loner at school and once had a job as a grave digger. As a young man he did like to sleep with prostitutes but after being conned out of money by one of them, experts feel this may have triggered his hatred of women. He married in 1974 and they tried to have children, but after many failed attempts, they discovered that his wife could not have children. The first attack happened on the the 5th of July 1975 in Keighley.

He attacked Anna Rogulskyj as she walked home. He hit her on the head with a ball-pein hammer and slashed her stomach with a knife. A neighbour interrupted Sutcliffe and he fled, leaving the victim alive but unconscious. He attacked again in August, this time in Halifax and again the victim survived because he was interrupted. On August the 27th he attacked 14 year old Tracy Browne in Silsden as she walked along a country lane. He hit her 5 times on the back of the head. Sutcliffe was never charged for this assault until he confessed in 1992. His next victim was to be the first killed by Sutcliffe. She was a mother of 4 and was hit twice with the hammer, then stabbed 15 times in her neck, chest and abdomen. This first murder took place in Chapeltown on the 30th of October 1975 and traces of semen were found on her underwear. An extensive police investigation took place but Sutcliffe slipped through the net. It is important to note, that none of the above victims were prostitutes.

Sutcliffe took a break until January 1976 when he struck again. This time it was 42 year old housewife Emily Jackson. She had financial problems and was using the family van to make cash by selling her body. Her husband would be in the pub, and was well aware his wife was entertaining her clients in the back of the family van. Sutcliffe hit Emily on the head with his hammer and stabbed her several times with a sharpened screwdriver. Sutfcliffe also left an impression of his boot on Emily's thigh, were he had stomped on her. His next attack was on the 9th of May and his victim survived. She had accepted a ride from Sutcliffe as she walked home from a party. She was hit on her head with the hammer as she exited Sutcliffes vehicle.

Sutcliffe's next attack was in 1977 on the 5th of February. The victim was a 28 year old prostitute who was killed by the hammer blows to her head. Afterwards Sutcliffe mutilated her corpse with his knife. He also left tyre tracks at the scene. 2 months later he killed again on the 23rd of April. Again the victim was a Prostitute and this time he killed her in her flat. Police found a boot print on her bedclothes. 2 months later and he strikes again, this time his youngest victim and not a prostitute. Jayne MacDonald was only 16 years old, and it was after this killing that the public [Especially women] realised the Yorkshire Ripper had a hatred for all women, not just prostitutes.

July 1977 and he is at it again. This time the victim is seriously assaulted and left for dead, as Sutcliffe was interrupted yet again. A witness to this assault saw the vehicle but gave the wrong description to police. The next killing by Sutcliffe was an interesting one. The victim was 20 year old Manchester prostitute Jean Jordan, killed on the 9th of October 1977. However her body was not found for 10 days [Jean's body was discovered by actor Bruce Jones who was a a local dairy worker at the time] Police realised when they examined the scene that the body had been moved several days after the killing. The reason for this was made clear by Sutcliffe himself, who later told police that he had given Jean a new 5 pound note and it dawned on him days later that the note was traceable. He returned to the scene and could not find her handbag. He then tried to cut off her head with a broken pane of glass and a hacksaw. He did this to make it look like it was not a killing by the Yorkshire Ripper. Police did locate the missing 5 pound note and after some extensive research, narrowed it down to 8000 local workers, who would have been given the new 5 pound note in their pay. In fact Sutcliffe was one of 5000 men interviewed.

Sutcliffe however slipped through the net [Bear in mind, it is the 70's and police did not have the tools they have today] Later in December that year another prostitute was attacked in Leeds. She survived and was able to give police a description of the Ripper. Police also found tyre tracks at the scene, which matched the tyre tracks found in February. A new year rolled around and the Ripper killed again in January 1978. This time the victim was a 21 year old Bradford prostitute. Sutcliffe hid the body under a discarded sofa at the scene. Her body was not found until March that year. On the 31st of January 1978 another prostitute was killed in Huddersfield, she was 18 years of age, and her body was not found for 3 days.

A few months rolled by before the Ripper struck again. This time a 40 year old prostitute killed in the car park of the Manchester Royal Infirmary on the 16th of May. It was to be nearly a year before the Yorkshire Ripper attacked again, during which time his mother passed away in November 1978. It was the 4th of April 1979 the Ripper killed a 19 year old bank clerk in Halifax as she walked home. Around this time the police received a hoax tape from a man claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper. Police really thought this was the killer and concentrated all their efforts on this man. They even went as far as making the recording available to the public to listen to. Police also concentrated on the accent of this man, an accent that was nothing like the real Rippers. This man was arrested in 2005 and sentenced to 8 years prison for perverting the course of justice.

So the real ripper continued to kill and his next victim was a 20 year old Bradford student, killed near her university. This attack and murder alarmed the public again [Especially woman] as the victim was not a prostitute, but a student and this meant no woman in Yorkshire was safe. Peter Sutcliffe was re-interviewed twice in 1979, in regards to the 5 Pound note and despite being on a list of only 300 possible suspects he slipped through the net again. In fact he was interviewed 9 times by the police in total. It seems the Yorkshire Ripper had some incredible luck as he was arrested in April of 1980 for drunk driving, and as he awaited trial for this charge, he felt confident enough to strike again. He killed a 47 year old in August and a university student from Leeds in November. He also attacked a Doctor in Leeds on the 24th of September 1980 and a 16 year old in Huddersfield on the 5th of November 1980 and both these victims survived.

His luck continued after these attacks, as a friend of Peter Sutcliffe suspected him of being the Yorkshire Ripper and reported this to police on the 25th of November. Nothing came of this and Sutcliffe's friend just presumed he had been investigated and cleared of being the Yorkshire Ripper. It was the 2nd of January 1981 when the Yorkshire Rippers luck ran out. He was stopped by police for having false license plates on his car. He had a 24 year old prostitute with him at the time. He was taken to the Dewsbury police station where he was questioned about the Ripper murders, as he matched alot of the physical characteristics in the case. The next day after his arrest police found a knife, hammer and rope, discarded at the place where police had arrested him. They also found another knife in the toilet cistern at the police station where Sutcliffe was questioned. Sutcliffe had used the toilet during questioning and had hidden the knife there.

When he was stripped at the police station Sutcliffe had some rather odd under garments on. He had a V neck sweater under his trousers. the arms had been pulled over his legs, so that the V-neck exposed his groin; the elbows were padded to protect his knees as, presumably, he knelt over his victims' corpses. Sutcliffe confessed to the killings on the 4th of January 1981. He told police all the gory details and claimed he was told by God to kill prostitutes. He went to trial and was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation that he not be considered for Parole for at least 30 years. He has been attacked by fellow prisoners a few times and has lost vision in his left eye because of one attack.

He was sent to Broadmoor Hospital in March 1984 under under section 47 of the Mental Health Act 1983. On 17 February 2009, it was reported that Sutcliffe was 'fit to leave Broadmoor'. If the Ministry of Justice agrees with the doctors' verdict, he will be sent to a medium-secure unit where he could be allowed out on short release for rehabilitation. Read More On Peter Sutcliffe

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Serial Killers | John Wayne Gacy - Killer Clown

This image to the left is of John Wayne Gacy, pictured here with Rosalynn Carter in 1978. Just looking at this photo one cannot begin to believe that this could be the same John Gacy who had already killed over 30 men before this photo was taken. In fact Rosalynn Carter who was the first lady at the time of this photograph even signed the picture "To John Gacy. Best Wishes Rosalynn Carter" and it gets better.

In this picture Gacy is wearing an "S" Pin. These are given to people who have been given special clearance by The United States Secret Service . As you can imagine they were a little embarrassed after it was discovered what Gacy really was.
John Wayne Gacy got the nick name "The Killer Clown" because he used to entertain local children in a clown suit. He used the name Pogo The Clown, but this clown was not all he seemed. The murders started in 1972 and continued up to 1978.

Gacy was married to Marlynn Myers in 1964 and her parents purchased a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Franchise. Gacy became the manager of one of the outlets. Gacy was named outstanding Vice President of the Jaycees in 1967. It was around this time that Gacy started up a club in his basement, and used to invite young boys around, feed them up on alcohol and come onto them. By the end of 1968 Gacy had been arrested and convicted of Sodomy and was sentenced to 10 years in the Iowa State Penitentiary. [So much for the model citizen!]

His wife filed for divorce and he was paroled in 1970 after serving only 18 months. [Guess he was a model prisoner] In 1971 with some financial help from his mother Gacy purchased a house in Chicago. Under the floor of this house was a crawl space, four feet deep. Gacy kept trying to get it on with young boys, and was taken to court on two occasions in 1971 and 1972, for disorderly conduct and battery. Both times charges were dropped by Chicago Police. In June 1972 Gacy remarried.

Carole Hoff was an old teenage friend of Gacy's and she and her two daughters moved in with Gacy. In 1975 Gacy started his own business, a construction company and around the same time his second marriage was on the rocks, after the couples sex life came to a halt and Carole found wallets with Young Men's I.D's in the house. Gacy was also bringing home Gay Porn. Needless to say the marriage was over, and they divorced in 1976.

It was from this point on, that the killing really increased. In 1977 a 19 year old man laid a complaint with Chicago Police, that Gacy had kidnapped him at gunpoint and forced him into sex and again Chicago Police took no action. In March 1978 Gacy lured another young man into his car and chloroformed him, then took him back to his house where he raped and tortured him then dumped him in a park. Police could not find the offender, but the young man remembered a black Oldsmobile, the Kennedy Expressway and some side streets. The victim did some detective work of his own and staked out the exit on the Kennedy Expressway. He saw the Oldsmobile and followed it to Gacy's home. Police issued a warrant and arrested Gacy on July 15th.

As Gacy was awaiting trial for battery charges relating to this event a 15 year old boy disappeared from a Des Plaines Pharmacy where he worked on December the 11th 1978. He told a fellow employee he was going down the street to see some guy about a construction job. Gacy had been at the Pharmacy earlier, but denied this and talking to the boy, when police called the next day. But unlike the Chicago police force the Des Plaines police checked Gacy's record and discovered he had been in prison for Sodomy.

Detectives searched Gacy's home on December the 13th and found some really suspect stuff. Drivers Licences for other people, a 1975 high school class ring, some handcuffs, clothing too small for Gacy, a syringe, and a piece of two by four with holes drilled in the ends, and a receipt from the Pharmacy where the 15 year old had gone missing. They also smelt a foul odour coming from the crawlspace under the house. The ring was traced to John Szyc who disappeared in January 1977.

On December the 21st 1978, one of Gacy's employees told police that Gacy had confessed to more then 30 murders. Police issued a second search warrant and returned to Gacy's home. This time they searched the crawl space and found human bones. Gacy was informed he was to face murder charges and told investigators he was responsible for some 25 to 30 murders. He even drew them a diagram of the crawl space showing where the bodies were buried. Gacy then told how he would pick up male prostitutes and male teenage runaways then take them back to his house. Then he would handcuff them, and stuff clothing in their mouths, so their screams couldn't be heard. Then he would choke them and sexually assault them. Gacy like Ted Bundy would keep the bodies, until they decomposed.

For 4 months they pulled human remains out of his crawlspace, and a total of 29 bodies were found in the crawlspace and his property. [He ran out of room in the crawlspace, so he buried them outside] The youngest victims were 14 years old. Gacy's trial began in Chicago, on February the 6th 1980. He plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Gacy even claimed the deaths were accidental as part of erotic asphyxia, but of course he had already confessed. He even joked that the only thing he was guilty of was running a cemetery without a license. [Funny Guy!] He was found guilty on March the 13th and sentenced to death.

On May 10th 1994, Gacy was put to death by lethal injection at the Stateville Correctional Center. His last meal: One dozen deep fried shrimp, a bucket of original recipe chicken from [You guessed it] KFC and a pound of fresh strawberries and french fries. John Wayne Gacy's last words "Kiss My Ass" His brain was removed after his execution and is in the possession of Dr Helen Morrison. Wonder if she keeps it on the mantelpiece......Read More On John Gacy

John Wayne Gacy Movies

"Gacy" 2003
The most prolific serial killer in American history, John Wayne Gacy (Mark Holton) kept his secret by appearing as a model citizen in his suburban Chicago neighborhood--even going so far as to volunteer as a clown at a local hospital. But as other side became known, a nation watched in horror as 30 brutal murders were traced back to Gacy, and the bodies were discovered in the crawlspace under his home. GACY is a disturbing account of the sickening deeds of this real life monster.
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