Nine-year-old Cecil "CJ" Dotson Jr., who survived being stabbed in the head, identified his uncle Jessie as the lone attacker and that he was responsible for murdering 6 others and trying to
Donald Henry Gaskins (The hitchhikers killer) was born on March 13, 1933 in Florence County, South Carolina, SC and died at age 58 on September 6, 1991. At age 11, Gaskins quit school and started working on cars at a local garage. While working in the garage, he met two boys the same age. They’re both out of school too. When they met, they started calling themselves “The Trouble Trio”.
Arthur Shawcross, otherwise known as “The Genesee River Killer”, was a serial killer most famous for the murder of eleven women in the upstate New York area from 1988 to 1990. However, these were not his only crimes. In the year 1972, he was also arrested for the murder of two children. Shortly after his arrest, Shawcross was released on parole and had his criminal records sealed in order to prevent a public panic at this newly released child murderer.
Gary Ridgway went on a killing spree for about 19 years. He would strangle young female runaways and prostitutes after having
Danny Harold Rolling is also known, as the Gainesville Ripper was an American serial killer who murdered five students at the University of Florida. Danny was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on May 26th 1954. His dad James was abusive from the start of his birth. His father was also a police officer. His father also abused his mom Claudia and brother Kevin.
He gained the nickname of “The Freeway Killer” because he would leave his victims alongside freeways and ramps. Some of Bonin’s victims were, Thomas Lundgren (13) May 28, 1979, Mark Shelton (17) August 4, 1979, Markus Grabs (17) August 5, 1979, Donald Hyden (15) August 27, 1979, David Murillo (17) September 9, 1979, Robert Wirostek (18)September 17, 1979, John Doe (19-25 c.) November 29, 1979, Frank Dennis Fox (17) November 30, 1979, John Kilpatrick (15) December 10, 1979, Michael Mcdonald (16) January 1, 1980. His last known victim was Steven Wells (18) June 2, 1980.
In the 1970s, the United States had a national drifter that claimed to have killed over six hundred people. He was first incarcerated for the murder of his mother and was later incarcerated for the murder of his girlfriend and his landlord. Lucas confessed to many murders, claiming he targeted female hitchhikers that were national vast. Henry Lee Lucas was an infamous murderer born to alcoholic parents Viola and Anderson Lucas in Virginia in 1936.
Jeffery Dahmer was an American serial killer in the 80s Dahmer killed 17 young men over the course of 13 years. Jeffery Dahmer was a child who was neglected by his parents, due to his father working continuously and his mothers addiction to drugs; therefore, he felt like never received any affection from either of them. The only bonding he and his father had was dissecting roadkill in the garage, thus teaching his son skills to utilize on his victims. By the time he was 18, Dahmer was already struggling with his personal desires, his hidden homosexuality, and fantasy for murder; however, this fantasy did not become reality until June of 1978 when Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and murdered him. Jeffery Dahmer, “the Milwaukee Cannibal” who was an American serial killer, murdered 17 and cannibalized some young men from 1978-1991; however He was caught in 1991 when one of his victims escaped.
the cops were right in there suspicions, Rhoades started killing people in utah, 3 victims Christine Gallegos, Carla Maxwell, and Lisa Strong. Then Rhoades started to kill people in Idaho,February 28, 1987,21 year old Stacy Dawn Baldwin was abducted while working at the Red Mini Barn convenience store in Blackfoot. She was then taken to a secluded location and shot several times. She died approximately an hour and a half later. then on March 17, 1987, Nolan Haddon, a 23 year old student, was shot five times while working at Buck's convenience store in Idaho Falls.
Rodney Alcala: Autobiography Rodney Alcala, a serial killer, murdered at least 9 women and girls across the US in the 1970s. Rodney had been to prison for sexual assault and other crimes, but that didn’t seem to stop him as he continued to rape and kill. The autopsies of the victims showed that he would strangle women and then wait until they regained consciousness before the final kill. His final crime before being put behind bars forever was the abduction and murder of a 12-year-old girl. Alcala ended up dying of natural causes in 2021.
During the times of 1972 to 1978, John Wayne Gacy Jr. killed 33 people in the Chicago area. He was known for raping, torturing, then strangling his victims (SC4). Then he would dispose of the bodies by either dumping them into a river or hiding them beneath his house. He wasn't caught until after the murder of his final victim in 1978. Then he became one of the most famous serial killers in American history.
By late 1979, the Golden State Killer, now known as Joseph DeAngelo, was targeting people in southern California. He continued to rape female victims, then brutally murdered them and their male partners (if present). Ten people (four heterosexual couples and two individual women) were killed by the Golden State Killer in Santa Barbaras, Ventura and Orange Counties between 1979 and 1986. Since the burglaries, rapes, and murders were spread out geographically, authorities attributed the varying crime sprees to different people.
The serial killer I chose is Albert Fish. Hamilton “Albert” Fish was born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C. to Randall and Ellen Fish. His father died of a heart attack when Albert was five. After, his mother put him and his three siblings in an orphanage so she could work. While living in the orphanage Fish experienced and watched brutal beatings, which soon helped him discover he enjoyed physical pain and began his obsession with sadomasochism.
John Wayne Gacy was one of America’s most notorious serial killers. Born and raised in Chicago, Gacy would go on to kill thirty-three boys within the Des Plaines area of Chicago, Illinois. He would rape, torture, then finally suffocate every single one of his thirty-three victims within the very walls of his own home. Having killed that many people, he became the serial killer with the most amount of confirmed kills in the United States at the time. He would be caught in early 1978 and sentenced to twenty-one life sentences, twelve death sentences, and to be executed by lethal injection, which would not happen until over a decade later in the middle of 1994.
The very first murder he was linked to would have been the first one he would of committed. This murder took place in Santa Barbara on June 4th, 1963. The young victims were couple Robert Domingos and his betrothed Linda Edwards. The couple had decided to participate in their senior ditch day, so they went sunbathing at a beach near Gaviota State Park. When they didn’t return by the next morning, Robert’s father went looking for them.
