Andrei Chikatilo, a.k.a Butcher of Rostov and Red Ripper, was a Soviet serial killer who sexually assualted and mutalted a minimum of 52 women from the late 70s to 1990. As you have probably guessed, the majority of his murders were committed in the Rostov Oblas of the Russian SFSR.
Chikatilo was a very awkward kid especially around women. He was impotent and once ejaculated while wrestling with his crush. Thatâs when he says his hatred for women started as they all laughed at him. He went on to become a teacher and had multiple reported sexual assaults on young girls. This only got worse. Sexual assaults then turned into murders as his 1st victim was a 9 year old girl named Yelena.Â
Chikatilo was finally arrested when Soviet cops found evidence linking him to murders, but according to their law could only hold him for 10 days before they had to either charge him or release him. He gave a full confession of every murder he ever committed. One of the things he confessed to was ripping the victimâs genitals, lips, nipples and tongues with his TEETH.Â
He was convicted of 52 of the 53 murder charges. Sentenced to death for each of them. The bottom picture is of a severed head of one of his victims used in his trial. He was executed with a single gunshot behind the right ear on Feburary 14.Â
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The Investigative Team of Netflixâs Mindhunter – and the real people they are based on
Agent Holden Ford and Agent John Douglas
The author of the original âMindhunterâ FBI agent John Douglas has proved to be the inspiration for many fictional characters, including The Silence of the Lambsâ Jack Crawford and Criminal Mindsâ Agent Rossi and now most recently: Mindhunterâs Agent Holden Ford.
Douglas began working in the FBIâs Behavioural Sciences Unit in 1977, teaching hostage negotiation at the FBI Academy. Alongside his partner Robert Ressler, Douglas traveled across the United States instructing local law enforcement.
Douglas retired from the FBI in 1995, after the stress of working on the case of the Green River Killer (later discovered to be Gary Ridgway) took a toll on his health. Douglas has remained an active consultant since then however, most notable on the case of the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey.
Agent Bill Tench and Agent Robert K. Ressler
Robert Ressler was a US army veteran who joined the FBI in 1970. Ressler was the first person to coin the term âserial killerâ and worked with his partner Agent Douglas to organise the interviews of 36 incarcerated serial killers.
Together Ressler and Douglas interviewed Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Ed Kemper, Dennis Rader, Lawrence Bittaker and many more notorious killers.
Ressler was also integral in the creation of the FBIâs Vi-CAP program designed to co-ordinate information on unsolved violent crimes. Ressler worked on several infamous serial killer cases including that of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Vampire of Sacramento Richard Chase before his retirement in 1990.
Doctor Wendy Carr and Doctor Ann Wolbert Burgess
Doctor Burgess is currently teaching forensic science at Boston College, but once worked closely alongside Agents Douglas and Ressler. Doctor Burgess co-authored and published âSexual Homicide: Patterns and Motivesâ alongside Ressler and Douglas in 1988.
Burgess also co-founded a counseling program for victims of sexual violence at the Boston City Hospital. She has also worked closely with sociologist Doctor Lynda Holmstrom to highlight the symptoms caused by rape trauma syndrome.
I made a post similar to this for the serial killers of Mindhunter so it felt right to research and post about the good guys too.
In the 1970âs FBI agent Robert Ressler traveled to various prisons to interview the most infamous killers of that time, in order to gain knowledge and data to start the BAU (behavioral analysis unit). One of the prisoners he visited was serial killer Edmund Kemper III. The agent was left alone with Kemper in his cell during the interview. Ed noticed the apprehension coming from Ressler, who had been repeatedly pressing a hidden button to call a guard over. To this Kemper replied, âRelax. Theyâre changing the shift.â Then he added, âIf I went apeshit in here, youâd be in a lot of trouble, wouldnât you? I could screw your head off and place it on the table to greet the guard.â Ed stated afterward that he was joking, but Ressler never entered a cell alone again with Kemper and it became FBI policy to interview serial killers in pairs.
Source: Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI by Robert Ressler
Often, when Ed Kemper picked up young female hitchhikers, the women would start talking to him about the serial killer in their area who was murdering co-eds. Â Little did they know that they were riding in the same vehicle as the man whom they were discussing. Â However, Kemper found himself unable to harm these women. Â âThe second they started talking about that, they didnât know it, but they were getting a free ride. Â I couldnât touch that with a ten-foot pole, I swear,â he stated in an interview.
@dahm-sub @hausoftruecrime @lovely-loathsome What are your thoughts about the story of the victim who let him back into his car when he locked himself out? Any insight into the psychology of that, cause i cant come up with an answer.Â
@livefromapt213 OMG itâs so wild but it makes sense when you take into account a few factors. Â One, victim Aiko Koo was only 15 years old. Â So, more than likely, she was far too naive and forgiving of others for her own good. Â Two, by that point Kemper had managed to talk her into giving him her trust. Â He said to detectives that they actually had a pretty deep, personal conversationâafter he brandished a gun on her, lol. Â Kemper was highly intelligent and an eloquent speaker, so itâs not too difficult to imagine him being able to coax a teenage girl into believing heâd do her no harm. Honestly, the fact that they had such a heart-to-heart discussion makes his murder of her far more fucked up in my opinion, because most serial killers donât get personal with their victims; interaction makes the person seem more real, less like an object. Â I believe heâs claimed her murder was the one for which he felt something close to remorse.
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Since 1960, volunteers at Californiaâs Medical Facility State Prison have been narrating books; Kemper is one of them.
From 1977 to 1987, Edmund Kemper personally had spent over 5,000 hours in the recording booth and had more than four million feet of tape to his credit. In total, Kemper narrated several hundred books, including âThe Glass Keyâ, âPetals on the Windâ. âFlowers in the Atticâ, âMerlinâs Mirrorâ, âThe Rosary Murdersâ, âSphinxâ, and even the âStar Warsâ.
The Killers of Netflixâs Mindhunter & Their Real Life Counterparts
Co-Ed Killer Edmund Kemper
Standing at an enormous 6âČ9âł, Ed Kemper was responsible for ten murders between 1964 and 1973. Kemper was the first serial killer interviewed by Agent Ford in Mindhunter and remains alive in prison at the California Medical Facility aged 73. The real life inspiration for Agent Ford, FBI profiler John Douglas described Kemper as: âamong the brightest prison inmatesâ. This is reinforced by Kemperâs high
IQ of 145.
Richard Speck
Richard Speck was a mass murderer who killed 8 female students on one night in 1966. Speck was a married father himself, but was by all accounts an alcoholic and abusive husband. Speck spent the remainder of his life in prison after his crimes, dying of a heart attack the night before his 50th birthday in 1991. FBI profiler John Douglas described his meeting Speck:
âAs he saw us approaching his jail cell, he went crazy, he went nuts like an animalâ.
Lust Killer Jerry Brudos
Jerome Henry Brudos was a serial killer responsible for the murder of at least four women between 1968 and 1969 in Oregon. Like Speck, Brudos was a married father. Brudos also had an intense obsession with womenâs feet and shoes. Jerry Brudos died of liver cancer aged 67 in 2006. Having served over 37 years in prison, he was the longest incarcerated inmate in the Oregon penal system.
BTK Killer Dennis Rader
Although only teased in Mindhunter, Dennis Rader is one of Americaâs most notorious serial killers. As shown in Mindhunter, Rader worked for the ADT security company in Wichita, Kansas. He was also responsible for the murder of ten people between 1974 and 1991. A majority of his murder victims were female, amongst them being the entire Otero family. Rader broke into the home of the Oteros in January 1974 before systematically torturing and murdering Joseph and Julie Otero as well as their 11 year old son and 9 year old daughter. Rader remains alive in the Kansas El Dorado Correctional Facility aged 72.
Iâve posted about Mindhunter before but not in such detail, I was rewatching it and thought this would be an interesting post to make. Itâs a really great series and Iâm looking forward to season two a great deal.
Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old student from Canada who was visiting Los Angeles, California, in early 2013. Unfortunately, the hotel Elisa chose to stay atâHotel Cecilâwas a notorious place for sinister happenings such as thefts, suicides, and murders. The Cecil Hotel, as most reports hasten to mention, was at one time home to serial killer Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. The Nightstalker, and at another to fellow serial killer Jack Unterweger. It was also allegedly the last place butchered actress Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. The Black Dahlia, was seen before her grislyâand still unsolvedâmurder in 1947.Â
The last sign of Elisa before her death was in an elevator caught on security footage (watch here) where she is seen to exhibit strange behavior. The footage begins with Elisa stepping into the elevator and pressing all of the buttons for unknown reasons. The elevator doors, however, refused to close. Elisa is then seen cautiously moving forward and darting her head out of the elevator doors as if she were expecting to find someone out there, possibly even looking for her. She just as quickly retracts as if not wanting to be caught. Afterward, Elisa presses herself into the corner of the elevator as if trying to hide from an unseen presence. The elevator doors are still malfunctioning at this point. Elisa steps out of the elevator and returns back inside and, once again, presses all of the buttons. The doors still refuse to shut and Elisa steps out of the elevator and begins making strange gestures, as if she were pretending to be swimming. Elisa then wanders off and is not seen again. Only thirty seconds after she leaves do the elevator doors finally close.Â
Two weeks after Elisaâs disappearance, residents of the hotel complained that the water was discoloured and tasted bitter. When the water tanks on the roof were inspected to discover the cause, Elisa Lamâs nude body was found dead and bloated inside. It was determined that she ended up inside of the tank only moments after she left the elevator. The most confusing part of it all was how Elisa Lam even managed to access the roof undetected when it was blocked behind two locked alarmed doors. Even if she had done that alone, climbing up the water tank, opening one, and closing it behind her would have been extremely difficult for her. Despite this, investigators ruled her death an accident.Â
Seeing the surveillance footage, most people would conclude that she was under the influence of drugs. However, Elisa did not have a history of drug use and her autopsy concluded that no drugs were involved. When one looks at the context and the circumstances of this death, things become even more mysterious. Minutes have been erased from the security footage of Elisa Lam in the elevator which only an employee would have access to. To this day, Elisa Lamâs death remains unsolved.
Hinterkaifeck, a small farmstead situated between the Bavarian towns of Ingolstadt and Schrobenhausen (approximately 70Â km north of Munich), was the scene of one of the most puzzling crimes in German history. On the evening of the 31st of March 1922, the six inhabitants of the farm were killed with a pickaxe, and the murder is still unsolved.
The six victims were: the farmer Andreas Gruber (63) and his wife CĂ€zilia (72); their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel (35) and her two children CĂ€zilia (7) and Josef (2); as well as the maid Maria Baumgartner. The two-year-old Josef was rumoured to be the son of Viktoria and her father Andreas: it was common knowledge that they had an incestuous relationship.
The Crime
A few days prior to the crime, farmer Andreas Gruber told neighbours about discovering footprints in the snow leading from the edge of the forest to the farm; however, there were none leading back. He also talked about hearing footsteps in the attic and finding an unfamiliar newspaper on the farm. Furthermore, the house keys went missing several days before the murders, but none of this was reported to the police.
Six months earlier, the previous maid had left the farm, claiming that it was haunted; the new maid, Maria Baumgartner, arrived on the farm on 31 March, only a few hours before her death.
Exactly what happened on that Friday evening cannot be said for certain. It is believed that the older couple, as well as their daughter Viktoria and her daughter CĂ€zilia, were somehow all lured into the barn one by one where they were brutally slaughtered. The perpetrator(s) then went into the house where they killed two-year-old Josef who was sleeping in his cot in his motherâs bedroom, as well as the maid, Maria Baumgartner, in her bed-chamber.
On the following Tuesday, the 4th of April, some neighbours went to the farmstead because none of the inhabitants had been seen for several days, which was rather unusual. The postman had noticed that the mail from the previous Saturday was still where he had left it. Furthermore, young CĂ€zilia had not turned up for school on Monday, nor had she been there on Saturday.
The Investigation
Inspector Georg Reingruber and his colleagues from the Munich Police Department made immense efforts investigating the killings. More than 100 suspects have been questioned through the years, but to no avail. The most recent questioning took place in 1986, but even that was fruitless. In 2007 the students of the Polizeifachhochschule (Police Academy) in FĂŒrstenfeldbruck got the task to investigate the case once more with modern techniques of criminal investigation. Their final report is kept secret.
To this day, many hobby investigators continue to investigate the case.
The police first suspected the motive to be robbery, and interrogated several inhabitants from the surrounding villages, as well as travelling craftsmen and vagrants. The robbery theory was, however, abandoned when a large amount of money was found in the house. It is believed that the perpetrator(s) remained at the farm for several days â someone had fed the cattle, and eaten food in the kitchen: the neighbours had also seen smoke from the chimney during the weekend â and anyone looking for money would have found it.
Even the death of Karl Gabriel, Viktoriaâs husband who had been reported killed in the French trenches in 1914, was called into question. His body had never been found.
The following day, on the 5th of April, court physician Dr. Johann Baptist AumĂŒller performed the autopsies in the barn. It was established that a pickaxe was the most likely murder weapon. The corpses were beheaded, and the skulls sent to Munich, where clairvoyants examined them without result. The autopsy also showed that the younger CĂ€zilia had been alive for several hours after the assault. Lying in the straw, next to the bodies of her grandparents and her mother, she had torn her hair out in tufts.
-Albert Fish
Another infamous cannibal serial killer is Albert Fish, who murdered eight-year-old Grace Budd and ate her body over a series of nine days. In one of the most brazen acts of murder, Fish strolled right into the Budd residence seeking a victim. His initial target was Graceâs older brother, Edward Budd, who was 18 at the time, but upon seeing Grace, Fish decided that she would be much more suitable for his depraved plan of homicide and cannibalism. After a brief time with the Budds, Fish was able to convince the family to allow him to take the helpless Grace with him to a supposed party for his nephew that he claimed he was to be attending that evening.
The Budd parents let Grace walk right out of the front door, hand in hand with a cannibalistic murderer. Fish would later write to Grace Buddâs mother detailing his killing and eating of her daughter in one of the most disturbing letters ever penned in the history of mankind. A portion of the letter to Mrs. Budd read:On Sunday June the 3â1928 I called on you at 406 W 15 St. Brought you pot cheeseâstrawberries.
We had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her. On the pretense of taking her to a party. You said yes she could go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wildflowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not I would get her blood on them. When all was ready I went to the window and called her.
Then I hid in a closet until she was in the room. When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried to run down the stairs. I grabbed her and she said she would tell her mamma. First I stripped her naked. How she did kickâbite and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms. Cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body.
Albert Fish would later be tried and executed in the electric chair for his crimes in 1936
A Japanese serial murderer who lured suicidal young people to his home before killing and dismembering them used a Twitter profile called âhanging proâ to snag his victims. Police said Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, confessed to killing nine people over a two-month spree after he was arrested on Tuesday.
On Twitter, his profile featured a manga drawing showing a man whose neck and wrist are scarred and who is wearing a rope around his neck alongside a bio describing his expertise in hanging, Japan Times reported.The profile explained: âI want to help people who are really in pain. Please DM me anytime.â In a post made on October 21, Shiraishi wrote: âBullying is everywhere, in school and at work.âThere must be many people in society who are suffering after attempting suicides, though their cases are not reported in the news. I want to help such people.â He would often respond to suicidal tweets written by other people by saying things like: ââLetâs die together.ââ
Takahiro would meet up with his victims and kill them that same day. Four of his victims are thought to be 17 years old, the remaining five were in their 20s. According to news reports, the police discovered body parts from eight women and one man in Mr. Shiraishiâs apartment, along with a saw, ropes and an awl, apparently used to restrain and cut the bodies. The body parts, which included severed heads, were found in cold-storage containers and tool boxes, some covered in cat litter. (Source)
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