On the night of July 4, 1954 Marilyn Sheppard was brutally murdered. On this night, in Cleveland, Ohio, she was beaten to death in her home. In the crime scene investigation it said that it was a “tidy, ransacked house” which meant that it looked like a robbery, but nothing was stolen. Who committed this brutal murder? Well according to police records, her very own husband, Sam Sheppard (www.statementanalysis.com).
Charles Manson, Occupation, Murderer Birth Date: November, 1934 (age 81) Place of Birth Cincinnati, Ohio. Charles Manson is an American cult leader whose followers carried out several notorious murders in the late 1960s and inspired the book Helter Skelter. Charles Manson is notoriously connected to the brutal slayings of actress Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents, but he was never actually found guilty of committing the murders himself. However, the famous Tate-La Bianca killings have immortalized him as a living embodiment of evil. Images of his staring "mad eyes" are still used today to illustrate countless serial-murder news stories.
The Axeman of New Orleans The boogeyman is a known figure all around the world, everyone has different interpretations of it and it’s typically something a child is afraid of in their nightmares, but this boogeyman was real and terrorized a whole city. A case with many twists and turns that will eventually lead to nothing. Getting away with twelve attacks and six deaths, the Axeman of New Orleans suspected as a member of the mafia, a German spy or even a demon from hell(Serial Killers 2017).
The video starts in a desert like setting. The sky is baby blue surrounded by high rising mountains. There’s an open road where Kylie Jenner rides a silver platinum, estimated three hundred-thousand-dollar Bentley to a motel. There she’s listening to music and looking at herself in the car visor mirror applying her lip gloss called Glosses. After she applies the lip gloss, she sits back in the car when the scene cuts into the motel with a woman walking around a room.
The manson family cult was consisted of around about one hundred people who shared his love for unconventional living According to Biograohy.com and cnn.com he sent 4 of his most loyal and obedient followers to kill everyone in the house of Roman Polanski on August 9, 1969 one of the victims was actress Sharon Tate who was eight months pregnant at the time. On August 10, 1969, one day after Sharon Tate's murder, Manson ordered Watson, Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten to murder Leno LaBianca and his wife. According to Wikipedia his family members also tried to assassinate the U.S. president. And Manson was also involved with the murder of Gary Hinman. According to Biography.com the Manson family was thought to of carried out 35 killings most of them were not tried because of lack of evidence or because the perpetrators were already sentenced to life .
1920’s Unsolved Mysteries It’s easy to say that the 1920’s was an iconic era; women began rebelling to gain respect; jazz music was up and coming, alcohol was banned, and there was an increase in gangster activity. The prevalence of these actions coinciding lead to a huge increase in organized crime, because prohibition left society with anticipation… anticipation that left crimes, unresolved.
The Manson Family Murders On August 8, 1969, actress Sharon Tate, who was 8 ½ months pregnant, and four others including a famous hairdresser, a coffee heiress, a filmmaker, and a 18-year-old were brutally murdered at the beverly hills home of Tate. All of the victims were shot or stabbed multiple times by the direction of Manson. That evening he told three female members of the Family--Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian--to get an additional change of clothes, a knife, and a driver's license. Manson discussed details of his plan with a fourth Family member, Charles "Tex" Watson.
The date of August 9, 1969, seems familiar to some people and to others there is no such relevance or significance. On that date, Manson and members of his brainwashed “family” undertook their grisly killing spree in Los Angeles. Charles Manson is a living embodiment of evil. Manson was connected to the brutal slayings of actress Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents, but he was never actually found guilty of committing the murders himself. The Manson Family is thought to have carried out 35 killings but, most were never tried due to lack of evidence or perpetrators were already sentenced to life for the Tate/La Bianca killings.
The couple was a supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary. The couple was killed by Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel and Van Houten. A man who had a connection with Charles Manson gave a tip to the police about the murders he had his people carry out. The trial begins and Charles Mason has carved the letter X on his forehead. Some of his followers did the same by carving an X on their forehead for their trial too.
The story of Ronald Gene Simmons. On the 22nd of December, 1987 the worst mass murder in Arkansas history took place. A man by the name of Ronald Gene Simmons went on a killing spree. He started off by killing his wife, kids, and his three year old granddaughter, but it didn’t stop there. He killed his family and quite a few harmless townspeople because he went insane, because why else would you kill harmless people?
"Charles Manson" is an absolute monster of a man. The "Messiah," as some say. After all of this, Manson went to prison and was charged with the murder of Sharon Tate, along with her husband and guests. He later died in 2017 from colon cancer at the age of 83. Unfortunately, one of the Manson family members, Leslie Van Houten, was granted parole by California's parole board, which recommended her release in 2016.
That is 10 confirmed killings of young women, all victims being subjected to brutal rape and bondage beforehand. Their bodies were dismembered and buried, either underneath the West family porch, or further into the backyard. His sick interests in young women was not just excluded to those he was not related to. Fred West also sexually abused his daughters, and murdered his daughter Heather once she rebelled. After killing 11 victims, it was inevitable the police would become privy to his and his wife's
Have you ever wondered why people kill each other, the same species of animals killing each other just for the fun of it, why would and twisted mine do a bad thing like that? Imagined if you wanted to kill someone just for fun and you have that want to kill someone for fun. These are why serial killers kill and who or what motivates them.
One of the most prolific serial killers of the modern era is The Zodiac Killer. This particular serial killer was suspected of killing up to 37 people without being caught by authorities. As of the writing of this research paper, the Zodiac Killer still hasn't been caught; even though, there are many theories as to what happened to this killer, no one knows the exact reason why the Zodiac Killer has not been found. The mystery behind the Zodiac Killer can be summed up in two theories: The Zodiac killer stopped killing due to an injury, or Lawrence Kane is the Zodiac killer.
This representation of the serial killer has evolved substantially since its introduction into fiction. Now, they are regarded as three-dimensional characters, with reasons behind their action, instead of monstrous beings whose only plan is to cause havoc for the thrill of it. Studies made to understand serial killers better have also helped us in establishing patterns to build tropes and personalities for fictional serial killers. Their shared many traits have thus been used to create archetypes and tropes that would translate easily for entertainment purposes.
