“The person to blame is the person sitting across from you. Not parents, not society, not pornography. Those are just excuses.”

- Jeffrey Dahmer

May 28th / 68 notes

Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood are a rare case in which two women teamed up in a series of sexual murders. Wood was a recently divorced 450-pound supervisor in a nursing home when she entered into a lesbian relationship with Graham, a nurses aide. The dominant Graham told Wood that it would be a sexual thrill to murder six elderly patients in the home so that their last names would spell out the word murder. Their spelling game failed when some of the patients did not die as easily as the couple hoped. Nevertheless, using a wet washcloth to suffocate the patients, Graham killed five victims while Wood stood guard. After each murder, the couple immediately retired to a vacant room in the nursing home and had sex. In exchange for her testimony, Wood received a twenty-to-forty sentence, while Graham was given six life sentences.

May 28th / 115 notes

Hedonist Thrill Killers

These types of offenders specifically derive sadistic pleasure from the process of killing - not the actual killing, but the acts leading up to it. To enjoy the act, they need to keep their victims immobilised and alive and aware of what is happening to them. They often kill in elaborate ritualised methods and sometimes take a respite and revive victims who lose consciousness before continuing their torture. A surviving victim of Richard Cottingham testified that he wiped her face down with a cool, damp cloth between bouts of torture. These sadistically driven killers derive pleasure from the pain and suffering their victims go through as they die. Once the victim is dead, they almost immediately lose interest. Postmortem mutilation and necrophiliac acts are not a frequent characteristic of this kind of murder. Thrill murders often involve three distinct crime scenes - where the victim is captured, a highly controlled environment where the victim is tortured and killed, and finally a site where the victim is quickly dumped. Thrill killers are often attractive, intelligent, charismatic psychopathic personalities, relying on their charm to seduce and lure victims to their deaths. They may pose as police officers and “arrest” their victims. They are highly controlled and controlling, carefully selecting and stalking their desired victim type. They either maintain a carefully chosen location where they torture and murder their victims or customise a vehicle, frequently a van, for their killing. The body is often disposed of so as to deliberately lead investigators away from the killing scene.

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John Wayne Gacy very gradually ensnared his victims. He plied them with marijuana and alcohol and began by showing them heterosexual porn movies. He then shifted to gay porn. If the guest did not object, Gacy then did his “hand-cuff trick.” Once he had his victims imprisoned, he sodomised them. Gacy developed an elaborate ritual of torture in which he submerged his victims in a bathtub full of water with a plastic bag over their head and revived them before they died. Eventually they either died from the treatment or Gacy arranged them with his “rope trick.” He looped a cord around the victim’s throat, attached it to a stick, and slowly twisted the stick, tightening the noose. Gacy confessed that as he killed his victims, he recited aloud the Twenty-Third Psalm: “The Lord is my shepherd… Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil….”

May 27th / 211 notes

“In that book the District Attorney got rich on, he’s got me so powerful that a look from me stopped his watch. In one movie, he had me making the hands of a clock spin by giving it a glance. The only way I ever stopped a watch is by stepping on it. But all that bullshit has people believing I hold some kind of magic.”

— Charles Manson, 1988

• (Source: Manson in His Own Words)

May 27th / 60 notes

Acid attack on a Pakistan woman. 

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In October 1996 there were 41,584 inmates in the Michigan corrections system, of which 14 percent were serving terms for homicide (5,927 killers). Of those, 2,476 offenders - 42 percent of all the murderers - had committed sexual homicides. Unfortunately the study did not differentiate between single and serial offenders. The distribution among categories indicated that power-assertive offenders consisted of 38 percent of sexual killers, anger-retaliatory 34 percent, power-reassurance 21 percent, and anger-excitation a mere 7 percent.

May 27th / 77 notes

Albert Fish regularly scoured the classifieds in his endless search for victims. In 1928, Fish came across a Situation Wanted ad placed by a young man named Edward Budd, who was looking for a summer job in the country. Masquerading as the owner of a big Long Island farm, the monstrous old man visited the Budd household, intending to lure the youth to an abandoned house and torture him to death. Fish altered his plans when he laid his eyes on Edward’s little sister, 10-year-old Grace. It was the little girl who ended up dead, dismembered, and cannibalised - all because her brother’s innocent ad brought a monster to their door.

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