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  1. May 15, 2024 · Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Bundy are some of the most famous serial killers in history who continue to generate horror and morbid curiosity.

    • The curry murder. In 1984, Nagaratha Vally Ramiah made a police report about her missing husband, Ayakanno Marimuthu. Three years later, the case became warm when an informant notified the police of what transpired.
    • Geylang Bahru family murders. Probably one of the heinous crimes in Singapore, the Geylang Bahru family murders took place on the unassuming morning of 6 January 1979.
    • Toa Payoh ritual murders. Riddled with human scarification, sexual abuse and blood rituals, the Toa Payoh ritual murders shook Singapore. The murder investigations of Agnes Ng Siew Heok and Ghazali bin Marzuki led the police to the mastermind Adriel Tan and his two accomplices: his wife Catherine Tan Mui Choo and his mistress Hoe Kah Hong.
    • McDonald’s boys case. It’s hard to imagine people can actually go missing on our little island. But that’s what happened to two 12-year-old boys on 14 May 1986.
    • Harold Shipman, Aka 'Dr. Death,' Killed 218 Patients
    • Belle Gunness Married to Kill
    • Ed Gein: The Inspiration Behind 'Psycho'
    • John Wayne Gacy Performed as A Clown at Children's Parties
    • Jeffrey Dahmer Committed His First Murder at 18
    • Ted Bundy: The First Televised Murder Trial
    • Jack The Ripper: There Are Over 100 Possible Suspects
    • H.H. Holmes: A Pharmacist Who Built A 'Murder Castle'

    One of history’s deadliest serial killers was a married family man who managed to squeeze in 218 credited murders (and as many as 250) while working as a popular British physician. Harold Shipman began his murderous spree in 1972, and it’s believed he killed at least 71 patients while working at his first practice, and doubled that number at a seco...

    The woman who became known as the “Lady Bluebeard” immigrated to America from Norway in 1881, settling in Chicagowhere she married a fellow Norwegian immigrant. The couple had four children (two of whom died young) and ran a candy store. By 1900 the store had mysteriously burned down, and Gunness’ husband was dead. Although both happened under susp...

    The man whose macabre and horrific acts helped inspire Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre grew up in an isolated area of Wisconsin. He was an abused child of an alcoholic father and a puritanical and domineering mother who instilled in her son a pathological fear of both women and sex. When his father, brother and mother ...

    To most of his suburban Chicago neighbors, John Wayne Gacy was a friendly man who threw popular block parties, volunteered in local Democratic politics and often performed as a clown at local children’s parties. But Gacy, who had already served a stint in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage boy, was hiding a horrific secret right beneath his n...

    Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in 1978 when he was just 18. He would go on killing until his arrest in 1991, after an African American man escaped his clutches and hailed down police near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When the victim led police back to his captor’s apartment, they discovered photographs of dismembered bodies, the severed heads a...

    Handsome, well-educated and brimming with charm, Ted Bundyseemed the unlikeliest of serial killers. Which made his decade-long, multi-state killing spree all the more surprising—and to some, appealing. Born to an unwed, teenage mother, Bundy never learned his father’s identity and was raised believing that his grandmother was actually his mother (a...

    In 1888, London’s Whitechapel district was gripped by reports of a vicious serial killer stalking the city streets. The unidentified madman lured prostitutes into darkened squares and side streets before slitting their throats and sadistically mutilating their bodies with a carving knife. That summer and fall, five victims were found butchered in t...

    H.H. Holmes spent his early career as an insurance scammer before moving to Illinois in advance of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair to work as a pharmacist. It was there that Holmes built what he referred to as his murder “castle”—a three-story inn that he secretly turned into a macabre torture chamber. Some rooms were equipped with hidden peepholes, ...

  2. Serial killers like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Jack the Ripper are among the most frightening criminals in history.

  3. Jul 9, 2023 · From the gruesome slaying of Nicole Brown to the unsolved case of JonBenét Ramsey, learn about the worst murders in history. What's more chilling: These murders' grisly details or the fact that so many remain unsolved?

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  4. The following list explores some of the most notorious serial killers the world has ever known. Jack the Ripper We call him “ Jack the Ripper ,” but we don’t really know who the person behind one of the older and most notorious murder sprees was.

  5. Oct 4, 2022 · In this compilation of American serial killers, top (left to right) are John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer, center is Dennis Rader, bottom are Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgeway. A criminologist ...