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Top 5. // Edward ‘Ed’ Gein (1947-1957)  //  - Inspired the movies: Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs  - Skinned victims, exhumed corpses, and used the pieces of his victims as home decorations  - Used skin for dust bins, furniture and clothes ** Background:  ** -younger of 2 boys -father was alcoholic, mother was deeply religious, Gein was very attached to her and she tought him about the evils of women and discouraged any sexual desire. -After his mother died, he started experimenting with dead bodies. Robbing graves, including exhuming his mother’s body. He wanted to turn himself into a woman. To do this he felt the need of fresh bodies, so he started his killing spree. Police counted 15 victims, all of which were woman. ** Sentence **: admitted to Waupan State Hospital and died of cancer at the age of 78. // Ted Bundy (1974—1978)  //  - “Proved even the Devil can be attractive.”  - Necrophilia  - He would drink before victimizing, and would lure in his victims by faking an injury, act as a policeman, then get them to his car and hit them over the head with a crowbar.  - He would visit the corpse sites at Taylor Mountain, apply makeup to them, and then sleep with them till they putrefied. ** Background  **  - Might have started killing at the age of 14. Another theory is that many of his victims had a similar physical resemblance to his first girlfriend.  - Spent years trying to get back his first love, and when he did he started to kill many innocent people, then dumped his girlfriend like she did to him. ** Sentence:  **  - Executed in 1989 after confessing to 40 murders. Before execution, he blamed his addiction to pornography for what he had committed.  - Famous Quote: “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.” // Davis Berkowitz (1976-1977) “Son of Sam”  //  - Killed 6 people and wounded many others.  - Claimed that in order to keep the demons quiet, he would start doing what they wanted. Ex: When dogs howled, he believed that the demons telling him to kill women.  - Shot his neighbor’s dog because he thought it was possessed.  - Each night demons told him to kill and quench their thirst for blood.  - ** Background:  ** <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - Carried a lot of anger because he felt the guilt of his biological mother’s death who died giving birth. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - Later was left behind by his parents at age 18, then found out his biological mother was alive and he had a sister as well. However, by this time he preferred isolation and delusions. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - ** Sentence:  ** <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - Received a year long prison sentence, told FBI he invented the “Son of Sam” to convince people he was crazy. Then said real reason was because of his hate towards his mother for leaving, and his failure with women. // John Wayne Gacy (1972-1978)  // -Would lure his victims by showing them a clown act involving handcuffs, then would put them in handcuffs. Once boys were handcuffed, he’d use rope or a board across their throats to kill while raping them. -** background ** -Had 2 sisters, and an alcoholic father that was abusive. -seemed normal and was able to manipulate people very well. -Got married and had 2 kids of his own, wife left him when he was arrested for trying to get a fellow employee to engage in homosexual acts. -Health note: fell of a swing when he was 11, suffered from blackouts until he was 16, then later diagnosed with a blood clot and his condition was fixed. ** Sentence  ** -finally surrendered when police were about to catch him, told them there were “four Johns”, a contractor, a clown, a politician, and another that went by the name Jack Hanley and he did evil things. -24 murders, drew a map to 28 graves under his house and garage. He also admitted that he threw 5 others into the Des Plaines River. -Executed with a lethal injection on May 10th 1994 // Jeffrey Dahmer (1978-1991)  // <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - First murder at 18 years old. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - Was sentenced to a year in work release camp, served 10 months got out for good behavior. Then started his killing spree. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - His murders involved cannibalism, removing limbs, and other types of tortures. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - 15 murders, sentenced to 15 life terms, then expressed remorse. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - Beaten to death by a fellow inmate and died of head trauma. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - ** Background:  ** <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - By the time he was a teenager, he had alcoholism and was a loner. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - As a child, had a fascination of dead animals. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - He was forced to enlist into the army by his father, and after 2 years was discharged due to drinking heavily. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> - He then moved in with his grandmother, who asked him to move out 6 years later for exposing himself in public. Work cited: [|**http://www.dirjournal.com/info/americas-famous-serial-killers/**] [|**http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/ted-bundy.html**] ** http://quazen.com/reference/biography/10-weird-facts-about-ted-bundys-childhood/   ** ** citationmachine.com  **