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A bathtub full of preserved human brains. Location unknown.

The Black Dahlia, before and after her gruesome murder.

Photo taken of Ted Bundy in his VW Beetle searching for his
next victim.

Quotes

"He told me how he wanted to be... He always wanted to be a little league baseball coach or a lifeguard. How much he wanted to get married and have children but things happen."
-Bill Torrey (about Richard Ramirez)

“There was this, uh…wet, thumping sound”
Zachary Davis, 15, giggles when describing how it sounded when he first smashed his mother in the head with a sledgehammer. 

"I say don't fall in love, because you'll get hurt before it's through. See I ought to know, cus I fell in love with you."
-Eric Harris

Isaac Turnbaugh

In 2002, Declan Lyons’ body was discovered outside the restaurant he worked - he had been shot through the head. For weeks, the case went unsolved - Lyons was a popular guy and apparently had no enemies. The murder seemed motiveless. A month after the discovery, Isaac Turnbaugh, a co-worker of Lyons, admitted that he had killed Lyons after taking mushrooms at a party. He also admitted that he was behind the 9/11 attacks. Unfortunately, this was brought up during his trial and the jury believed that the confession was just the drugs talking and acquitted him. The case went unsolved until 2011, when, apparently racked with guilt, Turnbaugh handed himself into the police and confessed that he had indeed killed Lyons. Regardless of this, due to “double jeopardy” Turnbaugh cannot be tried for the same crime twice and still remains a free man.

Definitions

Facial composites: also known as Police Sketches and Composite Sketches are often vital eyewitness accounts of an individual who has committed a serious crime. They are used by law enforcement to identify the suspect for wanted posters, warn the general public about serious offenders as well as being used as evidence against a suspect.

Serial Killer Facts

• Most serial killers suffer from child abuse. Neglect and child abuse not only impair a child's self esteem, they also interfere with his or her ability to function in society, succeed academically, and form healthy relationships with people.
• Many serial killers experienced sexually stressful events in childhood.
• In 20th-century America, the serial killer has come to embody a host of gnawing anxieties - anxieties about runaway crime, sexual violence, and breakdown of civil conduct.
• A study that focused on a group of sociopaths who had been adopted as infants showed that the biological relatives of sociopaths were 4 - 5 times more likely to be sociopathic than the average person. Researchers note that it is easier for "bad seeds to blossom in bad environments."
• Many serial killers report having and abnormally strong sex drive and many fantasized about dead women rather than living ones.
• There are six phases of the serial killer's cycle: 1) the Aura phase, where the serial killer begins losing a grip on reality. 2) the Trolling phase, when the killer searches for a victim. 3) the Wooing phase, where the killer lures his victim in. 4) the Capture phase, where the victim is entrapped. 5) the Murder or Totem phase, which is the emotion high for the killer. 6) the Depression phase, which occurs after the killing.
• Between 30 - 38 percent of psychopaths show abnormal brainwave patterns or EEGs.
• Most psychiatrists note that psychopaths cannot be successfully treated.
• Nearly 70 percent of serial killers received extensive head injuries as children or adolescents which, for many researchers, suggests a link between such injuries and serial murder. Some researches believe that the prefrontal cortex (the area involved in planning and judgement) does not function properly in psychopaths.
• Although it is impossible to predict if a child will grow up to be a serial killer, the three warning signs of future psychopathic behavior are 1) animal torture, 2) prolonged bedwetting and 3) juvenile pyromania. Criminologists call these symptoms "The Triad".
• While many children wet the bed, this behavior may be a sign of a deeper pathology when it persists beyond the age of 12. Over 60 percent of serial killers were still wetting their beds as adolescents.
• Out of all the states in the United States, California has the highest number of serial homicide cases in the 20th century, at 16 percent of the national total. Maine has the lowest: none.
• The United States has the highest number of serial killers, with 76 percent of the world's total. Europe comes in a distant second with 17 percent.
• England has produced 28 percent of Europe's serial killers. Germany 27 percent and France 13 percent.
• Most serial killers in the United States are Caucasian (84 percent): approximately 16 percent are African American.
• Men constitute the overwhelming preponderance of serial killers, at over 90 percent.
• While women make up just a very small percentage of serial killers, they constitute the majority of victims: 65 percent.
• It is rare for serial killers to prey on people from another race. Consequently, because most serial killers are white, so are most of their victims (89 percent).
• In the United States, a great majority of serial killers are single, white males from lower to middle class backgrounds, However, there are also Hispanic, Asian, and African serial killers. But, according to the FBI, whites are not more likely than any other race to be serial killers based on percentages.
• The motives of serial killers generally fall into four categories: 1) visionary, someone who feels compelled by entities such as God or the Devil to murder. 2) mission-oriented, to rid the world of homosexuals or prostitutes or to cure a societal ill. 3) hedonistic, someone who derives pleasure from killing. 4) power - or control-hungry. The categories overlap considerably.
• Most serial killers are young. 44 percent started when they were in their 20s. 26 percent in their teens and 24 percent in their 30s.
• In almost 15 percent of serial murder cases, the victims are chosen entirely at random.
• In an effort to establish precise criminal classifications, the FBI distinguishes between serial killing and spree killing. A serial killer always experiences an emotional "cooling-off" period between his crimes, a hiatus that lasts anywhere from days to years. A "spree killer" in contrasts, is someone who murders a string of people in several locations with no cooling off period.
• Serial killers usually come from families that are dysfunctional and debilitating. Additionally, they are rarely remembered by classmates because they did not have many close friends. Often, they grow up lonely and isolated.
• From an early age, many serial killers are intensely interested in voyeurism and fetishism as well as other paraphilia. Many will start as harmless peeping toms before moving onto the house breaking, rape, and murder. 
• Unlike some people with significant mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychopaths can seem normal and often charming, in a state of adaption psychiatrists call "the mask of sanity".
• Studies suggest that serial killers have an average or low-average IQ, but they are percieved as having IQs in the above-average range. Only serial killers who used bombs had an average IQ above the population mean.
• Historians note that legends such as werewolves and vampires were inspired by medieval serial killers.
• There are several subcultures that revolve around the hundreds of serial killers. This subculture includes the sale, collection, and display of serial killer memorabilia, which has been dubbed "murderabilia".

Vampire legends may be rooted in stories of actual serial killers