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Robert John Bardo, stalked and killed actress Rebecca Schaeffer

In 1989, Rebecca Schaeffer was a Hollywood darling, former star of the television series My Sister Sam and several movies. But just as her career was taking off, her life was cut short by Robert John Bardo, a man who had been stalking Schaeffer for years. In July 1989, Bardo showed up at Schaeffer’s apartment and fatally shot her as she stood in her doorway.

Bardo’s crime sent chills through Hollywood, especially because of the ease with which he found Schaeffer through her driving records. The incident led to new anti-stalking laws, including the 1994 Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, which prevents the Department of Motor Vehicles from releasing private addresses.

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Kenneth Erskine is an English serial killer who became known as the Stockwell Strangler. During 1986, Erskine murdered as many as 11 elderly men and women, breaking into their homes and strangling them; most often they were sexually assaulted. The crimes took place in the Stockwell area of London. A homeless drifter and solvent abuser, Erskine was 24 years old when he committed the crimes, but had the mental age of a 12-year-old. He was convicted of seven murders, although police believe that he was responsible for four other murders with which he was never charged. Erskine was jailed for a minimum term of 40 years, but has since been found to be suffering from mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983, and is therefore now held at the maximum security Broadmoor Hospital. He is unlikely to be freed until at least 2028 and the age of 66. Almost 20 years on, the trial judge’s recommendation is still one of the heaviest ever handed out in British legal history. In February 1996 Erskine was again in the news, this time for preventing the possible murder of Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper”, by raising the alarm as a fellow inmate, Paul Wilson, attempted to strangle Sutcliffe with the flex from a pair of stereo headphones

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According to Colombian police, Luis Alfredo Garavito is a glib predator and a “solitary sadist” who stands accused as one of the world’s worst serial killers. In 1999, Garavito, a 42-year-old drifter, confessed to the slayings of at least 140 boys between the ages of 8 and 16 during a 5-year killing spree. Garavito would befriend the children and take them on long walks until they were tired. Then he would tie them up with nylon rope, slit their throats or behead them, and then bury their bodies. Most of Garavito’s victims were street children, children from poor families, or children seperated from their parents by poverty or political violence. Authorities said it was beacause there was no one to notice that the children were missing or to inquire about their whereabouts that Garavito was able to go on killing for so long without being detected.

“Let’s do it”

Gary Gilmore’s last words before being executed by firing squad

Gilmore had demanded that his death penalty be carried out. Reportedly, the night before his execution, he had a steak dinner and a 6-pack of beer. His uncle has stated that he smuggled in some Jack Daniels for Gary before his execution.

September 2008, just 11 months after moving to Canada to live with his father, 7 year old Randal Dooley died of a brain injury likely caused by repeated shaking. An autopsy also showed 13 broken ribs, a lacerated liver, and a tooth in his stomach – the results of being stomped on and kicked. Although Randall was 7 years old, he only weighed 40 pounds at the time of his death. The trial judge referred to this case as “one of the worst cases of child abuse in Canadian history”. Randal’s father Tony and Stepmother Marcia were both convicted of second degree murder in 2002.

Woo Bum-kon

Woo Bum-kon was a South Korean cop, who undertook the largest killing spree in modern times. By the end of his rampage, he left 57 people dead, 35 wounded and then took his own life. After a drawn out argument with his girlfriend, he went to the police armory of the village he lived in, and proceeded to get absolutely tanked. He then stocked up on weaponry, including a rifle and grenades, and left. First, he went to the local telephone exchange, and shot three operators so no-one could make a phone call. Then he slowly and methodologically went door to door, gaining entry because people trusted him as a police officer. He shot his victims in most cases, but in one case he took out an entire family with a grenade. This went on for eight hours before he moved on to a neighboring village to continue. This went on until he had made his way through five local villages, at which point he strapped two grenades to his chest, grabbed three hostages, and blew them and himself up.

Thrill Kill

A thrill killing is a term used to describe a premeditated murder committed by a person who is not necessarily suffering from mental instability, and does not derive sexual satisfaction from killing their victims, or have anything against them, and sometimes don’t even know them, but is instead motivated by the sheer excitement of the act.

Thrill Killers:

• Leopold and Loeb
• Robert Thompson and John Venables
• Lindsay Hoani Beckett and Leslie Alfred Camilleri
• The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs

“The coroner took nail clippings from JonBenet. Male DNA was found under JonBenet’s right hand fingernail that does not match that of any Ramsey”

-From Wolf v. Ramsey Civil Case

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“I hate most prostitutes. I did not want to pay them for sex. I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away, and might never be reported missing.”

-Gary Ridgway

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A Victim of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.