Dennis Rader: The BTK Killer

Even though he has confessed to murdering all those people it was never confirmed. The taunting letters and unthinkable body count

The Zodiac killer, a mysterious serial killer from the 70’s, was told to be a short, heavily built white man with glasses and brown hair (Katz 2). Accordingly, the Zodiac Killer has claimed anywhere from five to thirty seven lives, only a few that the police are aware of have been proved to be victims of the Zodiac (Olsen 2). The killer has severely injured two people

Jeffrey Dahmer was an infamous serial killer and sex offender. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 21, 1960. Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991. He was sentenced to 15 life terms, but was later murdered by an inmate in 1994. His murders included rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism.

The Murder Trial of Biggie Smalls Rathbone, William Unit 7 Assignment CJ 101 Wallace Biggie was one of the most powerful rappers before getting murdered in drive by shooting in March of 1997. At time he was killed the police had many theories of why he got murdered on that day. The police had multiple suspects about who did it but wasn’t sure of who or why they murdered Biggie Smalls. On that day Biggie was on his way to the hotel from the music party. When his SUV came up to the stop light, he could hear someone call his name, so he rolled his back window down to see who that’s when he was shot multiple times in the torso and then the suspects drove away from the murder.

The case of Hae Min Lee’s cold-blooded murder is a long and complicated story; one that takes twelve episodes of a podcast to discuss and theorize, and seventeen episodes of another podcast to present all the evidence found related to the case. Who could have possibly killed this talented, kindhearted person? Who could have been sociopathic enough to strangle an innocent seventeen-year-old girl to death in her car? There is no way to absolutely prove that anyone committed this awful crime, even Adnan Syed, the one who has been incarcerated for it and who ultimately took the responsibility. This was almost entirely based on the extraordinarily unreliable testimony of one person: Jay Wildes.

But in all The Barrow Gang had killed 13 people. While the gang was on the run they had robbed the total of 15 banks in all. From 1931 to 1935 the media had gave a lot of attention to Bonnie and Clyde making them famous for their crime. During the 1930’s Bonnie and Clyde were America's most famous outlaws, and still are one of the greatest crime partners in history. “Clyde might have been a criminal and a killer but he was always close to his

They were later found guilty of ten counts of murder. Neither ever confessed to the crimes and claimed that they had been scapegoats for the police. tgcom24.mediaset.it 11 Ted Bundy Was Noticed Driving Erratically Ted Bundy’s true victim count will never be known.

Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer in the late 1900’s. He murdered seventeen young men and boys between the years of 1978 - 1991. He would kidnap them, take them back to his apartment, and murder them or rape them. Sometimes, he would murder them first and then rape them or he would rape them and then murder them. After one of his kills he would cut off their limbs and put them into trash bags and store them away.

Serial Killers are everywhere throughout history. From Jack the Ripper who targeted prostitutes to the Anthrax Killer who sent letters laced with a very pure form of the disease-causing bacteria. Sometimes Investigation takes many years to catch the killer but in some cases the killers are never caught. These Notorious killers sent shockwaves of panic and fear throughout their communities. To fully understand all of this, we need to understand what a serial killer is.

Jeffrey Dahmer was a famous murderer from 1978 until 1991. During the time he was free he killed seventeen men by meeting them at gay bars, bus stops, and other places, promising them sex or money if they followed him home. Upon arriving to his house Jeffrey would give them drugs that were laced with alcohol before suffocating them to death. He would take pictures of the men after he killed them and proceeded to have sexual intercourse with their dead bodies. Dahmer went so far with these killings that he kept some parts of the bodies as souvenirs such as, their genitals, tongues, and skulls.

(Biography Channel, 2012). Before execution Bundy confessed to thirty murders. His victims lived in six different states across the United States including: Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and Florida. (Murderpedia). It took a few years for the police to link all the disappearances and the murders of these girls.

Case Study 1: BTK In 2005, serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as BTK (bind, torture, and kill), was arrested and convicted of murdering 10 people in Kansas between the years of 1974 and 1991. Rader sent numerous notes to the police, but they couldn’t prove for sure that he was the one committing the murders. In 2004, he began sending things to the police once again. However, this time Rader sent a document created in Microsoft Word on a floppy disk.

Introduction John Wayne Gacy was one of the most notorious serial killers in the 1970’s. Killing over thirty three teenage boys, Gacy was also one of the most successful serial killers of his time. Known as “The Killer Clown” Gacy often dressed as a clown as a hobby in order to entertain sick children and also supply his fetish for young boys. His first known instance of sodomization occurred with one of his teenage employees who brought charges against him in May of 1968. Gacy repeatedly proclaimed his innocence saying that the sec was consensual but he was eventually charged and put in jail after being deemed fit for trial after a psychiatric investigation.