Serial

Today, December 21st, 1978 the most vicious serial killer in American history was arrested in his home in Illinois, charged with the murder of 33 adolescent males that he buried under his house. On December 11, 1978, John Gacy visited a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois, to discuss a potential remodeling deal with the store’s owner. While at the store to discuss the potential deal, Gacy spoke to a 15 year old store employee about hiring him to do construction work. After Gacy left the store,…

His rampage took the lives of at least thirty five women, but there is a lot of controversy over this number. The exact number of women Bundy killed will never be known as experts predict that he killed at least 100 or more. He was known to be a serial killer who went on a killing spree after a devastating break up with his college girlfriend, Stephanie Brooks. His operating method consisted of pretending that he was injured to draw women into his car by requesting them for assistance. Bundy…

Though his killings occurred over thirty years ago Clifford Olson is still known as one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers. Active through the years 1980-1981 he was responsible for eleven gruesome murders in that short time span. The shocking nature of his crimes ensured nobody would forget his notorious deeds. To build on that, Olson is loathed because he extorted authorities into paying $100,000 for the locations of his victims’ remains, an agreement that haunted the survivors of…

looked upon.According to the Article,”Why Americans are Fascinated by Serial Killers”, it provides specific examples and theories that answer the prompt. To justify the reasons why Americans are fascinated by serial killers are through twisted emotions, the influence of the media and law enforcement, and murderabilia books, novels, magazines, TV series, etc. that are presented to the public to exaggerate the topic. The topic of serial killers can be frightening; however, it’s more than feeling…

Concurrently, media was full of a lot of something else—serial killers. From a contemporary perspective, it seems fitting, but the presence of multiple serial killers has a lot to say about the psyche of the contemporary German at this time. Lang has denied the direct affiliation with any particular killer on trial during the time the film was being written and produced. In his defense, there was a lot of material to work with considering the bounty of serial killers terrorizing Germany at the…

find the actual murderer (Jack the Ripper Biography). The name Jack the Ripper was created by one of the letters that was sent to the Metropolitan newsletter and they had signed it as "Jack the Ripper" (History.com Staff 1). He was one of the first serial killers that was being notice, because most of the population was just now becoming literate ("Casebook: Jack the Ripper"). The streets then were very close and small each murder happened a mile from one another ("Jack…

There is no pattern to how the fitful, abominable man known as Buffalo Bill, chooses his victims. But one thing is clear, all his victims, women, are found dead with their skin peeled off their bodies. Clarice Starling, who is just a behavioral science trainee now has to track down this awful man, but not without having to ask for the help of the renowned Doctor Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter who ate nine of his physcology patients before being arrested . Both versions of The Silence of Lambs…

He murdered 5 people all within a mile of each other. He had everyone on a search party for him. He may not have been the first serial killer, but he was one of the first to have been broadcasted all across the world. People think that his murders are what started international coverage of other murders. He also showed he had some knowledge of anatomy by how he murdered his victims…

On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee disappeared. She was a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County in Maryland. She was described as smart, and beautiful, and cheerful, a great athlete, and as responsible. Right after school she was supposed to pick up her little cousin from kindergarten and drop her home. But she didn't end up showing. That's when Hae’s family knew something was up, when the cousin's school called because it was unusual for her to be irresponsible. Later…

Sarah Koenig’s podcast, “Serial” became a popular podcast in 2014 with over 40 million downloads, according to Apple. It is a week by week story that is about a murder case in 1999. The summary of the case is one seventeen year old, Adnan, murdered his ex-girlfriend, Hae, and multiple people were involved with the case along with multiple different perspectives. Sarah Koenig is a journalist, and she wrote for a newspaper in Baltimore which is why she was asked to take a look at the case. Podcast…