10 of America's most notorious serial killers FacebookEmail Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest 10 of America's most notorious serial killers Juan Corona was convicted of the 1971 murders of 25 itinerant laborers in California, whose bodies were found in shallow graves in fruit orchards in Sutter County, Calif. He was sentenced to life in prison. He supplied workers to ranchers as a labor contractor and maintained a bunkhouse for the laborers. Post to Facebook 10 of America's most notorious serial killers Juan Corona was convicted of the 1971 murders of 25 itinerant laborers in California, whose bodies were found in shallow graves in fruit orchards in Sutter County, Calif. He was sentenced to life in prison. He supplied workers to ranchers as a labor contractor and maintained a bunkhouse for the laborers. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: CancelSend A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed.

Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs 10 of America's most notorious serial killers None Juan Corona was convicted of the 1971 murders of 25 itinerant laborers in California, whose bodies were found in shallow graves in fruit orchards in Sutter County, Calif. He was sentenced to life in prison. He supplied workers to ranchers as a labor contractor and maintained a bunkhouse for the laborers. AP None Aileen Wuornos was convicted of killing six men and executed in 2002 in Florida. She had been supporting herself as a prostitute and said she had acted in self defense. Peter Cosgrove, AP None File - In this undated file photo, Robert Hansen leaves court in Anchorage, Alaska. Hansen, a convicted Alaska serial killer who hunted down women in the Alaska wilderness in the 1970s as Anchorage boomed with construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, died Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. He was 75.

AP/ The Anchorage Daily News None Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal,'' was convicted of sexually assaulting, killing, dismembering and eating some of his victims and preserving body parts. He was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life in prison in 1992. He was convicted of an additional murder in Ohio. Dahmer died in prison in 1994, beaten to death by another inmate. Mark Elias, AP None Wayne Williams was blamed for a string of Atlanta child murders in 1979-1981. He was convicted in 1982 of killing two men and sentenced to life in prison. Atlanta police later said he was responsible for at least 23 of 29 child murders in the city, but he was not charged and maintains innocence. AP None David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam'' killer, terrorized New York City in 1976 and 1977 when he killed six victims and wounded seven others using a .44 caliber revolver.

He was the object of a massive manhunt and left brazen letters taunting police and promising more slayings, describing himself as "Son of Sam.'' He is serving life in prison. AP None Dennis Rader was known as the BTK serial killer responsible for the deaths of 10 people in the Wichita area between 1974 and 1991. He signed notes with the letters BTK, which stood for "bind, torture, kill.'' He was convicted in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison. Travis Heying, AP None John Wayne Gacy, known as the "killer clown,'' was accused of killing at least 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Many of the victims were buried beneath his Chicago home. He was known for entertaining children dressed in a clown costume. He was executed in 1994. AP None Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, was convicted of 48 murders and later confessed to more, killing women and girls in Washington state and California in the 1980s and 1990s. He got the nickname because five victims were found in the Green River.

Most of his victims were strangled. He was spared the death penalty in return for information and was sentenced to life without parole. Greg Gilbert, AP None Ted Bundy confessed to 30 killings in seven states between 1974 and 1978, but his true death toll is unknown. He was regarded as handsome and charismatic, and he preyed on young women on college campuses and elsewhere. He escaped prison in Colorado and was ultimately convicted in Florida and put to death in the electric chair. Donn Dughi, AP Serial killers in the U.S.: a legacy of murder FacebookEmail Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Serial killers in the U.S.: a legacy of murder Serial killers list: -- Ted Bundy. Bundy confessed to 30 killings in seven states between 1974 and 1978, but his true death toll is unknown. He was regarded as handsome and charismatic, and he preyed on young Post to Facebook Serial killers in the U.S.: a legacy of murder Serial killers list: -- Ted Bundy. Bundy confessed to 30 killings in seven states between 1974 and 1978, but his true death toll is unknown.

He was regarded as handsome and charismatic, and he preyed on young Check out this story on USATODAY.com: CancelSend A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 3 To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Serial killers in the U.S.: a legacy of murder William M. Welch , USA TODAY Published 7:50 p.m. ET Oct. 20, 2014 | Updated 12:27 a.m. ET Oct. 21, 2014 Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Juan Corona was convicted of the 1971 murders of 25 itinerant laborers in California, whose bodies were found in shallow graves in fruit orchards in Sutter County, Calif. He was sentenced to life in prison. He supplied workers to ranchers as a labor contractor and maintained a bunkhouse for the laborers. AP Aileen Wuornos was convicted of killing six men and executed in 2002 in Florida. She had been supporting herself as a prostitute and said she had acted in self defense.

Peter Cosgrove, AP Fullscreen File - In this undated file photo, Robert Hansen leaves court in Anchorage, Alaska. Hansen, a convicted Alaska serial killer who hunted down women in the Alaska wilderness in the 1970s as Anchorage boomed with construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, died Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. He was 75. AP/ The Anchorage Daily News Fullscreen Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal,'' was convicted of sexually assaulting, killing, dismembering and eating some of his victims and preserving body parts. He was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life in prison in 1992. He was convicted of an additional murder in Ohio. Dahmer died in prison in 1994, beaten to death by another inmate. Mark Elias, AP Fullscreen Wayne Williams was blamed for a string of Atlanta child murders in 1979-1981. He was convicted in 1982 of killing two men and sentenced to life in prison.

Atlanta police later said he was responsible for at least 23 of 29 child murders in the city, but he was not charged and maintains innocence. AP Fullscreen David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam'' killer, terrorized New York City in 1976 and 1977 when he killed six victims and wounded seven others using a .44 caliber revolver. He was the object of a massive manhunt and left brazen letters taunting police and promising more slayings, describing himself as "Son of Sam.'' He is serving life in prison. AP Fullscreen Dennis Rader was known as the BTK serial killer responsible for the deaths of 10 people in the Wichita area between 1974 and 1991. He signed notes with the letters BTK, which stood for "bind, torture, kill.'' He was convicted in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison. Travis Heying, AP Fullscreen John Wayne Gacy, known as the "killer clown,'' was accused of killing at least 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Many of the victims were buried beneath his Chicago home.

He was known for entertaining children dressed in a clown costume. He was executed in 1994. AP Fullscreen Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, was convicted of 48 murders and later confessed to more, killing women and girls in Washington state and California in the 1980s and 1990s. He got the nickname because five victims were found in the Green River. Most of his victims were strangled. He was spared the death penalty in return for information and was sentenced to life without parole. Greg Gilbert, AP Fullscreen Ted Bundy confessed to 30 killings in seven states between 1974 and 1978, but his true death toll is unknown. He was regarded as handsome and charismatic, and he preyed on young women on college campuses and elsewhere. He escaped prison in Colorado and was ultimately convicted in Florida and put to death in the electric chair. Donn Dughi, AP Like this topic? You may also like these photo galleries: Replay Last Slide Next Slide The arrest of a man suspected of being a serial killer in Indiana is the latest in a line of notorious mass murderers in the U.S.

Here is a look at ten of the most notorious serial killers in recent U.S. history: -- Ted Bundy confessed to 30 killings in seven states between 1974 and 1978, but his true death toll is unknown. He was regarded as handsome and charismatic, and he preyed on young women on college campuses and elsewhere. He escaped prison in Colorado and was ultimately convicted in Florida and put to death in the electric chair. -- Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, was convicted of 48 murders and later confessed to more, killing women and girls in Washington state and California in the 1980s and 1990s. He got the nickname because five victims were found in the Green River. Most of his victims were strangled. He was spared the death penalty in return for information and was sentenced to life without parole. -- John Wayne Gacy, known as the "killer clown,'' was accused of killing at least 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Many of the victims were buried beneath his Chicago home. He was known for entertaining children dressed in a clown costume. He was executed in 1994.

-- Dennis Rader was known as the BTK serial killer responsible for the deaths of 10 people in the Wichita area between 1974 and 1991. He signed notes with the letters BTK, which stood for "bind, torture, kill.'' He was convicted in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison. -- Aileen Wuornos was convicted of killing six men and executed in 2002 in Florida. She had been supporting herself as a prostitute and said she had acted in self defense. -- David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam'' killer, terrorized New York City in 1976 and 1977 when he killed six victims and wounded seven others using a .44 caliber revolver. He was the object of a massive manhunt and left brazen letters taunting police and promising more slayings, describing himself as "Son of Sam.'' He is serving life in prison. -- Wayne Williams was blamed for a string of Atlanta child murders in 1979-1981. He was convicted in 1982 of killing two men and sentenced to life in prison.

Atlanta police later said he was responsible for at least 23 of 29 child murders in the city, but he was not charged and maintains innocence. -- Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal,'' was convicted of sexually assaulting, killing, dismembering and eating some of his victims and preserving body parts. He was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life in prison in 1992. He was convicted of an additional murder in Ohio. Dahmer died in prison in 1994, beaten to death by another inmate. -- Robert Hansen was accused of abducting, assaulting and killing at least 17 women and possibly several more in Alaska. He pleaded guilty to four murders but was linked to at least 17 and possibly more. He was sentenced in 1983 to life in prison and died at age 75 Aug. 21, 2014, while in prison. -- Juan Corona was convicted of the 1971 murders of 25 itinerant laborers in California, whose bodies were found in shallow graves in fruit orchards in Sutter County, Calif. He was sentenced to life in prison.

He supplied workers to ranchers as a labor contractor and maintained a bunkhouse for the laborers. 77 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN 3 COMMENTEMAILMORE Read or Share this story: NEVER MISS OUT The Short List Let us bring the headlines to you every night. Stay current and catch up on the biggest stories of the day. 1000+ images about Jeffrey Dahmer on Pinterest | Jeffrey dahmer, Serial killers and Crime scenes Forward “I still have guilt. I will probably never get rid of that, but yes, I’m free of the compulsion and the driving need to do it… I don’t think I’m capable of creating anything. I think the only thing I’m capable of is destroying … I’m sick and tired of being destructive. What worth is life if you can’t be helpful to someone?” - Jeffrey Dahmer See More stumbleupon Email Comment Serial killers, by definition, are those who kill three or more people in a certain period of time. Usually, they are males who possess a mask of sanity. This mask of sanity means that they appear normal from the outside and are law-abiding. They also appear pleasant and approachable.

However, beneath this facade, serial killers are actually sociopaths who do not have the capability to empathize with their victims. For the past few years, the authorities have been successful in arresting these people. However, it took them quite a long time to get a hold of them. Here are the top ten most notorious serial killers of all time. 10. Dennis Rader For about seventeen years, Dennis Rader killed at least ten people in the Kansas area. Scary as it may seem, Rader was feared for being a BTK killer, which stands for Bind, Torture, and Kill. He is also fond of sending notes to people from the media and even local authorities, where he describes how he kills his victims. According to his notes, Rader binds his victims and strangles them until they pass out. He would force his victims to wake up and do the same thing all over again. As the victim dies, Rader then gets sexual gratification from a piece of his victim’s clothing. He taunted the police for not being able to catch him. Unfortunately for him, his own letters led to his eventual capture in the year 2005.

The police were able to get a deleted file from the disk that Rader sent them. The said file contained information about the church where Rader attended. He was convicted with 10 counts of murder and is still in jail, serving a life sentence without parole. 9. Andrei Chikatilo Andrei Chikatilo was born in the Ukraine and grew up to be a Soviet killer. He was famous for his nicknames such as “The Rostov Ripper”, “Butcher of Rostov”, and the “Red Ripper”. According to records, he killed at least 52 children and women in a span of 12 years. Chikatilo’s first victim was a nine-year old girl. During this incident, he realized how he could experience sexual gratification by slashing and stabbing children and women to death. He was in and out of jail as there was never enough evidence to put him there for good. With the authorities’ undying effort to unlock those murder mysteries, Chikatilo was eventually caught in the year 1990, and confessed to the murder of 36 people. He was convicted with 52 counts of murder in the year 1992. 8.

Richard Trenton Chase Richard Trenton Chase was known as “The Vampire of Sacramento”. He was nicknamed as such because of the fact that he eats the body parts of his victims and drinks their blood. Chase started with killing animals and eating them raw. He was then confined in a mental asylum and was given anti-psychotic drugs. He was later on released, which eventually led to his unmerciful killings. He killed six people in just one month. After murdering them, Chase would engage in sex with his victims’ bodies. It was even discovered that he would blend the corpses with soft drinks in order to make a “milkshake”. He was finally caught in the year 1979 after he murdered an entire household. Chase was sentenced to death by gas chamber but he killed himself before the date of execution. 7. Aileen Wuornos Only a few females have found comfort in being serial killers and one of them is Aileen Wuornos. Her life was actually full of neglect and abuse. She got pregnant at the age of 15 and she had an incestuous relationship with her own brother. Wuornos fell in love with a woman and she supported her by becoming a prostitute.

During her years in this business, she killed seven men, claiming that they were trying to hurt and harm her during their sexual encounters. She was arrested and sentenced with death penalty through lethal injection. 6. Henry Lee Lucas Henry Lee Lucas was known to be America’s most prolific serial killer. He killed at least 350 people in a span of twenty years, although his confessions reveal that he actually murdered more than 600 victims. He spent ten years in jail after he murdered his own mother. Due to overcrowding in jail, he was eventually released and when he got out, he became a drifter and made friends with Ottis Toole. Toole later on became his accomplice in more than 108 murders. He died in prison due to natural causes in the year 2001. 5. Ed Gein Ed Gein confessed to only two murders. The number of people he killed may not match the definition of ‘serial killer’ but his terrifying acts had made him the inspiration for several horror-suspense movies including Psycho. Gein lived with his brother and mother. When both of them died, Gein started to visit cemeteries to dig up bodies of women whom he thought resembled his mother best.

The body parts of the two people he killed were scattered all around the town. Police discovered skulls made into bowls, chairs upholstered in human flesh and a belt made out of human nipples. He was arrested and spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. 4. Gary Ridgway Gary Ridgway strangled about 71 women in a span of 8-10 years. His first five victims were found in the Green River, thus the nickname “Green River Killer”. Ridgway picked up prostitutes and then strangles them. He managed to escape the authorities until he was finally caught in the year 2001. 3. Ted Bundy Ted Bundy was described to be a very charismatic and friendly guy. Behind this personality is the twisted mind of a serial killer. In just four years, he was able to kidnap and kill 30 young women in the United States. To entice his victims, he would pretend to be an authority figure or a disabled person. There are also times that he would just break into the homes of his victims and stab them to death while they were sleeping. He would then rape and dismember his victims after killing them, keeping their heads as souvenirs.

He was finally arrested in the year 1979 and was sentenced to death penalty by electric chair in 1989. 2. John Wayne Gacy Known as “The Killer Clown”, John Wayne Gacy was one of the most notorious serial killers in history. He was caught assaulting two teenage boys sexually and was then sentenced with 10 years in jail. Due to his excellent behavior as an inmate, he was released on parole. As the years went by, he enjoyed dressing up as “Pogo the Clown” and started volunteering at parades and parties. Behind the costume was the person who killed 33 young men, burying their bodies in his yard, house, and the river near his house. After he was arrested, the authorities found bones in his house, forcing him to confess to the murders. 1. Jeffrey Dahmer According to history, Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the scariest serial killers in the United States. In thirteen years, Dahmer killed 17 boys and men. However he didn’t just kill them; these murders included rape, necrophilia, dismemberment and cannibalism. The police discovered something very disturbing in his apartment.

Apparently, he was doing a horrific sexual act by drilling into the heads and skulls of his victims who are still alive. When they were already dead, he either had sex with the corpses or ate pieces of them. He was arrested in the year 1994 and was beaten to death by an inmate inside jail. 432 Shares Infamous serial killers Infamous serial killers Updated 5:24 PM ET, Thu October 22, 2015 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Infamous serial killers John Wayne Gacy killed 33 men and boys between 1972 and 1978. Many of his victims, mostly drifters and runaways, were buried in a crawlspace beneath his suburban Chicago home. Here's a look at some other notorious convicted serial killers. Hide Caption 1 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Jeffery Dahmer was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms for the murders of 17 men and boys in the Milwaukee area between 1978 and 1991.

Dahmer had sex with the corpses of his victims and kept the body parts of others, some of which he ate. Dahmer and another prison inmate were beaten to death during a work detail in November 1994. Hide Caption 2 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Law enforcement officers meet in San Francisco in 1969 to compare notes on the Zodiac Killer, who is believed to have killed five people in 1968 and 1969. The killer gained notoriety by writing several letters to police boasting of the slayings. He claimed to have killed as many as 37 people and has never been caught. Hide Caption 3 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Authorities said DNA recovered from the body of Mary Sullivan matches that of her suspected killer, the confessed Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo. After a sample was secretly collected from a relative, DeSalvo's body was exhumed in July 2013 for more DNA testing. From mid-1962 to early 1964, the Boston Strangler killed at least 13 women.

DeSalvo was stabbed to death in 1973 while serving a prison sentence for rape. Hide Caption 4 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Ed Gein killed at least two women and dug up the corpses of several others from a cemetery in Wisconsin, using their skin and body parts to make clothing and household objects in the 1950s. Hide Caption 5 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers In 1973, Juan Corona, a California farm laborer, was sentenced to 25 consecutive life sentences for the murders of 25 people found hacked to death in shallow graves. Hide Caption 6 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Joseph Paul Franklin was convicted in 1997 of murdering Gerald Gordon outside a St. Louis synagogue in 1977. Franklin was also convicted of at least five other murders, receiving a string of life sentences, but he suggested that he was responsible for 22 murders. He was best known for shooting Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, who was paralyzed from the attack. Franklin was executed in November 2013.

Hide Caption 7 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers In 1977, David Berkowitz, also known as Son of Sam, confessed to the murders of six people in New York City. Berkowitz, now serving six consecutive 25-to-life sentences, claimed that a demon spoke to him through a neighbor's dog. Hide Caption 8 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Cousins Kenneth Bianchi, seen here, and Angelo Buono were charged with the murders of nine women between 1977 and 1978. Also known as the Hillside Stranglers, the cousins sexually assaulted and sometimes tortured their victims, leaving their bodies on roadsides in the hills of Southern California. Hide Caption 9 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Wayne Williams killed at least two men between 1979 and 1981, and police believed he might have been responsible for more than 20 other deaths in the Atlanta area. Williams was convicted and sentenced to two life terms in 1982.

Hide Caption 10 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers After serving 15 years for murdering his mother, Henry Lee Lucas was convicted in 1985 in nine more murders. Lucas was the only inmate spared from execution by Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Hide Caption 11 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Richard Ramirez, also known as the Night Stalker, was convicted of 13 murders and sentenced to death in California in 1989. The self-proclaimed devil worshiper found his victims in quiet neighborhoods and entered their homes through unlocked windows and doors. Hide Caption 12 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers During a routine traffic stop, a police officer found a dead U.S. Marine in the front seat of a car driven by Randy Steven Kraft. Kraft was linked to 45 murders and sentenced to death in 1989. He would pick up hitchhikers, give them drugs and alcohol, sexually assault them and then mutilate and strangle them.

Hide Caption 13 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Ted Bundy raped and killed at least 16 young women in the early to mid-1970s before he was executed in 1989. A crowd of several hundred gathered outside the prison where he was executed, and they cheered at the news of his death. Hide Caption 14 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Joel David Rifkin was stopped by police for driving without a license plate when a body was found in his pickup. Rifkin killed 17 women in New York between 1991 and 1993 and was sentenced to life in prison. Hide Caption 15 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Charles Ng, seen here, and accomplice Leonard Lake tortured, killed and buried 11 people in northern California between 1984 and 1985. After the men were arrested for shoplifting, police found bullets and a silencer in their car and took them into the police station for questioning. Lake killed himself there with a cyanide pill. Ng was later sentenced to death.

Hide Caption 16 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Robert Lee Yates Jr. killed 15 people, most of them between 1996 and 1998. He buried one of them in a flower bed by his house in the Spokane, Washington, area. Most of his victims were prostitutes or drug addicts he killed in his van. He is on Washington's death row. Hide Caption 17 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, confessed to 48 killings after his DNA was linked to a few of his victims. Remains of his victims, mostly runaways and prostitutes, turned up in ravines, rivers, airports and freeways in the Pacific Northwest. Hide Caption 18 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida in 2002 for the murders of seven men whom she had lured by posing as a prostitute or a distressed traveler.

Hide Caption 19 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Derrick Todd Lee was accused of raping and killing six women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, between 2001 and 2003. He was arrested in Atlanta for the murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, convicted in 2004 and sentenced to death. Hide Caption 20 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Danny Rolling pleaded guilty to the 1990 murders of five students he raped, tortured and mutilated in Gainesville, Florida. Rolling was also found responsible for a 1991 triple homicide in Shreveport, Louisiana, and was executed in 2006. Hide Caption 21 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Angel Maturino Resendez, also known as the Railway Killer, was a drifter from Mexico. During the 1990s, he would rob and kill his victims near railroad tracks on both sides of the border and then hop rail cars to escape. Resendez was executed in 2006.

Hide Caption 22 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Pig farmer Robert Pickton was charged with 26 counts of murder after police found the bodies of young women on his farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. He was convicted of six murders in 2007, and he is serving a life sentence. Hide Caption 23 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers The BTK Strangler, Dennis Rader, killed 10 people between 1977 and 1991 in the Wichita, Kansas, area. He was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms in 2005. Rader named himself BTK, short for "bind, torture, kill." Hide Caption 24 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Police found the decomposing and buried bodies of 10 women and the skull of another woman at the Cleveland home of ex-Marine Anthony Sowell. He was convicted and given the death penalty in 2011.

Hide Caption 25 of 26 Photos: Infamous serial killers Chester Dewayne Turner was sentenced to death for murdering 14 women and one victim's unborn fetus in the Los Angeles area between 1987 and 1998. Turner was later convicted and sentenced to death for four more murders. Hide Caption Busted: How 5 Infamous Serial Killers Were Finally Caught - CrimeFeed Busted: How 5 Infamous Serial Killers Were Finally Caught 16 How do investigators piece together clues to capture serial killers ? Many of the world’s most infamous serial killers seemed to live double lives, evading police for years and hiding in plain sight. We can thank modern science, arrogant behavior and simple luck for helping police take down five of the most notorious serial killers. Dennis Rader Photo: YouTube 1) A Floppy Disk And A Pap Smear Did Dennis Rader In Dennis Rader, also known as the BTK killer, murdered 10 people during his 16-year killing spree. Rader was a pillar of his community and even worked at a security system company. During his murdering rampage, Rader would taunt police by sending letters with details about his killings.

Thankfully Rader’s need to gloat about his sick crimes lead to his capture. Prior to his eventual arrest, the search for Rader went cold until police received a bizarre letter, asking if they could trace information off of a floppy disk . The police lied to Rader, telling him that there was no way of tracking him down from a disk.Once police convinced the BTK Killer to send them the disk it was only a matter of time before they were able to uncover that author of the letter was named Dennis, owned a black Jeep Cherokee and had a connection to the local Lutheran Church. Despite the extensive circumstantial evidence, police needed more concrete proof. In a controversial move, the police obtained DNA from Rader’s daughter’s pap smear. The DNA matched evidence found under the fingernails of a BTK victim. With the combined DNA evidence and Rader’s twisted letters, police were able to make an arrest. Once on trial, Rader gave a chilling account of his crimes and got 175 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

Perhaps if Rader had not been so brazen with police, he would still be terrorizing Kansas… Ted Bundy Photo: Wikimedia Commons 2) Ted Bundy Was Ultimately Apprehended For Driving A Stolen Car Few people know that Ted Bundy escaped from police custody two times. After killing dozens across several states , Bundy was on trial for the murder of Colorado resident Caryn Campell. Bundy was transferred to Aspen and elected to serve as his own attorney. During a visit to a courthouse library, he escaped out of a window. Bundy was able to roam around Apsen as a fugitive for six days before a police car stopped him for erratically driving a stolen car. Bundy was put back behind bars but was quick to plan another escape. With the help of his friend and future wife, Carole Ann Boone, Bundy was able to escape yet again. Tragically, Bundy was able to make his way to Florida, where he killed four female college students within 15 minutes. He was eventually picked up near the Alabama state line, again driving a stolen car. By this point Bundy was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List.

In the end Bundy confessed to numerous homicides and remains one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. It’s gut-wrenching to think how many lives would have been saved if Bundy had not escaped prison… Jeffrey Dahmer Photo: YouTube 3) A Male Escort Led Police To Jeffrey Dahmer…And The Severed Head In His Fridge Dahmer, known for molesting, murdering and eating his victims, is rightfully considered one of the most gruesome and heartless serial killers of all time . Jeffrey Dahmer prayed on young men in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1978 to 1991. By the summer of 1991, Dahmer was killing about one person per week. In August of 1991, 32-year-old Tracy Edwards went to Dahmer’s home, lured with the offer of $100 in exchange for “keeping Dahmer company.” Edwards quickly noticed a foul odor in Dahmer’s apartment and spotted a 57-gallon drum. Dahmer forcibly handcuffed Edwards and held a knife to his chest, informing his intended victim that he wanted to cut out his heart and eat it.

Edwards thought fast, convincing Dahmer he wouldn’t leave and asking to be un-cuffed to use the bathroom. Edwards plotted his escape plan, punching Dahmer in the face and fleeing through the front door. Police returned to the scene with Edwards and uncovered photos of dismembered bodies in their search for the handcuff key. Even more gruesome, Police discovered a severed head in the fridge. Upon his arrest Dahmer told police, “for what I did I should be dead.” Dahmer got his wish in 1994 when he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate while serving 15 consecutive life sentences. According to the inmate who took his life , Dahmer arranged his jail cell meals to resemble body parts and lathered them with ketchup to mimic blood. David Berkowitz Photo: YouTube 4) A Parking Ticket Sealed David Berkowitz’s Fate David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, terrorized New York City in the summer of 1976. In total, Berkowitz shot and killed six and wounded seven. Prior to his arrest Berkowitz sent a series of brazen letters to the police, attaining almost celebrity status and worldwide notoriety.

Adding to the chaos that infamous summer, New York City experienced a major heat wave and 25-hour blackout. Given the killer’s tendency to target young women with long hair, many New Yorkers cut their hair and/or avoided leaving their homes. Berkowitz’s twisted killing spree finally ended on August 10, 1997 when an eyewitness came forward after seeing a man carrying what looked like a gun just before she heard shots fired. Crucial to her testimony, the witness noticed that police were writing parking tickets on the same block where she had seen the suspected shooter. Police were able to search the through issued parking tickets and discover Berkowitz’s car. The devoted search team, known as “Omega,” pieced together the evidence and arrested Berkowitz while he was leaving his home. Sealing his fate, Berkowitz was caring a semiautomatic rifle and admitted that he was on his way to shoot another victim when police apprehended him. Berkowitz was eventually given 25 years to life and has yet to receive parole. And did we mentioned that he claimed demons and his neighbor’s black Labrador retriever named Sam had commanded him to commit the killings?

Israel Keyes Photo: Wikimedia Commons/FBI 5) Israel Keyes’ Greed And Insatiable Drive To Kill Marks His Downfall Israel Keyes made killing a hobby, studying famous serial killers and striving to defy the trademark behaviors of past murderers. To elude police and differentiate himself from other serial killers, Keyes avoided murdering close to his home and never killed in the same area twice. Despite his methodical nature and high intelligence , Keyes was eventually apprehended on on March 13, 2012. Just prior to his arrest, Keyes kidnapped, robbed, raped and murdered 18-year-old Anchorage resident, Samantha Koenig. Keyes demanded a $30,000 ransom for the young woman after creating the illusion that she was still alive — even though he had dismembered her and thrown her body in Matanuska Lake north of Anchorage. Keyes led police to him by withdrawing money from the account where the ransom money was deposited, as well as using Koenig’s debit card across the Southwest. Despite decades of rapes, murders, arsons and burglaries, Keyes was only caught when he broke his own rules and killed near his Anchorage home.

In an odd twist of fate, Keyes’ murder charges were dismissed after Keyes committed suicide while awaiting trial. Although the killer admitted to numerous murders before his death, we may never know the full extent of his crimes. While we can rest easy that these five killers are no longer roaming the streets, imagine how many others police have yet to find… FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL: SICKEST SERIAL KILLERS | National Enquirer FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL: SICKEST SERIAL KILLERS Nov 8, 2014 @ 23:42PM Nov 8, 2014 @ 23:42PM From the darkest moments of criminal history a TRUE CRIME roundup of the most vile serial killers that make Charles Manson seem a puppy dog. Richard Trenton Chase: While many crime buffs may not be familiar with the name Richard Trenton Chase , this American serial killer was evil enough to earn the nickname "The Vampire of Sacramento" due to his bloody killing spree during a month in the 1970s where he drank the blood of his six victims and ate their flesh, according to the TruTV Crime Library.

Powered by the highly irrational belief that he needed to prevent the Nazis from turning his blood into powder through poison, Chase made his first kill in a drive-by shooting on December 29, 1977 when he gunned down a 58-year-old engineer. His next victim was far more cold-blooded as he broke into the home of a pregnant woman, shot her dead, had sex with the mutilated corpse, and then bathed in her blood. Several similarly graphic killings soon occurred, the worst being of a 22-month old boy whose internal organs he ate before disposing of the body at a nearby church. His bizarre choice of burial place led to Chase's arrest when a witness saw him leaving the scene and police found fingerprints and shoe-prints. He was found guilty of six counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. The cannibal's fellow inmates were so scared of his flesh-eating fetish that they tried to convince him to commit suicide, which he seemingly did on December 26, 1980 by overdosing on antidepressants.

Jeffrey Dahmer: Desperate for company, Jeffrey Dahmer became one of the country's most notorious serial killers when he murdered at least 17 young men between 1978 and 1991 after inviting them into his home. The Wisconsin native's first murder occurred when he was just 18 when he picked up a hitchhiker and killed him because he “didn’t want him to leave.” In 1988, Dahmer was arrested for sexually fondling a 13-year-old Laotian boy, but despite serving 10 months in a work camp there was no sex registry at the time, and he returned to oblivion after serving five years probation. The compulsion to kill haunted and his methods of murder escalated to include rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. The lonely predator would lure his victims into his now infamous Milwaukee apartment where he would drug them, before eventually getting the idea of creating "zombies" or submissive, eternally youthful sexual partners by drilling holes in their skulls and injecting hydrochloric acid into their frontal lobes.

After one would-be victim escaped, police searched the apartment and made the grisly discovery of severed heads, multiple photographs of murdered victims and human remains, severed hands and penises, and human remains in the fridge. Dahmer pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but a 1992 trial found him guilty of 15 counts of murder and he was sentenced to life for each. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, Wisconsin. Ted Bundy: Dashing and charismatic, Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy won the trust of his female victims before snuffing out their lives. He claims to have committed up to 30 homicides across seven states between 1974 and 1978. The dark-haired seductive serial killer commonly approached his victims feigning injury, before overpowering them, luring them into his Volkswagen and bludgeoning them with a crowbar and taking them to a secluded spot. He often returned to the crime scene for several hours, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses and is said to have kept the decapitated heads of some women at his apartment for months.

Self-described as "the most cold-blooded son of a b***h you'll ever meet," Bundy was initially arrested in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault, but it soon became clear that he was responsible for a much longer list of grisly crimes across the country. While facing murder charges in Colorado, he successfully pulled off two dramatic escapes and committed multiple assaults and three more murders on the run, before being recaptured in 1978 in Florida, where he received three death sentences in two separate trials. The sadistic sociopath was eventually given the electric chair in the Sunshine State's Raiford Prison in 1989 at age 42. Dennis Rader: The acronym BTK is as far from a BLT as you can get, instead of a juicy sandwich it stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill," the favorite activity of serial killer Dennis Rader, who used his M.O. on at least 10 victims in and around Wichita, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991.

Rader came up with the eerie shortcut in letters to police and news media bragging about the killing sprees – calling his victims “projects” and describing their deaths as “putting them down" like euthanizing animals. The organized murderer carried a "hit kit” in a briefcase or a bowling bag containing guns, tape, rope and handcuffs, along with "hit clothes," that he would ditch right after the crime. Rather than a quick death, Rader took pleasure in taunting his victims by strangling them until they lost consciousness, reviving them and then strangling them again, because the near-death experience reportedly sexually aroused him. He got away with his sadistic acts until his ego got the better of him and after a lengthy hiatus of boasting letter writing, he put pen to paper again in 2004 and was eventually arrested a year later. The attention-hungry killer said he re-sparked communication after a book and TV show came out on his killings, and because his children had grown up and he was bored with too much time on his hands.

He was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences adding up to 175 years with no chance of parole and is currently at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas. Andrei Chikatilo: Known as the Butcher of Rostov and The Red Ripper, Andrei Chikatilo terrorized the Ukraine for 12 years where he amassed 53 victims. His first documented murder occurred in 1978 in the small mining town of Shakhty, near Rostov, when he lured a nine-year-old girl into a house planning to rape her. When she struggled, Andrei stabbed her and his sexual arousal made him decide he could only be satisfied while slashing women and children to death. Another man was arrested and executed for the crime, and thus began Chikatilo's lifetime of horror. He began approaching prostitutes, homeless people or runaways at bus or railway stations and enticing them to follow him to a nearby forest where they met their gruesome fate. Unable to get an erection, he would go into a murderous rage that was hidden from the headlines by the state-controlled media due to the Soviet Union's opinion that mass murder was a capitalist notion.

Giving in to his sick compulsion for over a decade, he was finally caught for good after he was spotted by police surveillance at the Donleskhoz Station. After initially pleading his innocence, he eventually confessed and his trial in 1992 became the first major media event of liberalized post-Soviet Russia, during which he was kept in a cage in the corner of the courtroom to prevent being attacked by victims' families. On October 15 of that year he was found guilty of 52 out of 53 murder charges and sentenced to death for each. He was executed by a single gunshot to the head on February 14, 1994.

Question: What notorious Milwaukee serial killer was known for eating his victims?
Answer: Jeffrey Dahmer