It’s hard for us to understand what goes on in the minds of serial killers. That’s what makes them so morbidly fascinating to us. We want to understand how they could be so different from the rest of us while at the same time we find ourselves appalled and sickened by their crimes.
They say that death brings enormous clarity to most people, sometimes even for killers as well. Some serial killers manage to leave the world peacefully but for the most part they are still full of rage and hatred for humanity. Their final words are often a clue that gives us a little insight into their last thoughts.
The killers we are looking at today mostly died by execution but there are a few who were themselves murdered or committed suicide instead of facing
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So he decided that he would dissolve his victims bodies in acid and experimented by using mice. His gruesome method of disposal earned him the nickname “the Acid Bath Killer”. After he had dispatched his victims he would forge papers to sell their possessions and then pocket the cash. During the 1940’s he killed six women this way.
In a final letter to his girlfriend, written before he was executed, he said, “"It is difficult to say farewell under these circumstances, but you will understand that you will always be in my thoughts. You know I have been proud of our association: it has always been an honourable one. I shall remember your great kindness and devotion. Now I must leave you."
9 I’m Ready To Go
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Most people have never even heard of the American serial killer Donald Gaskin but his story is truly frightening. Gaskin was a career criminal and gun for hire who claims to have killed at least 100 people during a nearly thirty period between the 1950’s and the 1980’s. He killed both for pleasure and for money, and often raped and tortured his victims too. Most of his victims were hitchhikers, both male and