Who's your fave serial killer?

I've always been partial to the Zodiac myself

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

Genghis Khan

I'm a big fan of Gein, Zodiac, Gacy, Manson. I could probably go on about this for a hot minute.

David Berkowitz: without him, we wouldn't have this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THh1pPWEoWs

Let's not forget Milwaukee's finest, Jeffrey Dahmer.

@Skanko: FUCK YOU, you know JACK about Gilles de Rais.

My favorites are John Wayne Gacy, Jr., Bobby Joe Long, Leonard Lake, Elizabet Bathory, Carla Homolka and Paul Bernardo.

@jules - i dont know as much as you CLEARLY, but i know a bit.

ah. damn. I thought the @jules was referring to someone else.

I always thought that Ted Bundy did some nice work.

H.H. Holmes. He built a murder castle that "included soundproof sleeping chambers with peepholes, asbestos-padded walls, gas pipes, sliding walls, and vents that Holmes controlled from another room. Many of the rooms had low ceilings and trapdoors in the floors, with ladders leading to smaller rooms below. The building had secret passages, false floors, rooms with torture equipment, and a specially equipped surgery. There were also greased chutes that emptied into a two-level cellar, in which Holmes had installed a large furnace."

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/history/holmes/11.html

if you're going to include massacres, my vote is for Jim Jones. second place would be the ATF.

@? - didnt they call him the doctor or something?

albert fish is always interesting too, i mean anyone who inserted metal pins into his groin and liked to eat butts is interesting to read about.

bathory was crazy and is totally on my most interesting list.

ed gein... not only was psycho partly based on him, but he had a stack of cereal bowls in his kitchen made from human skull caps and a suit made from tanned skin, plus once he was institutionalized he gave serial killer lessons to other inmates.

oh, right... and i think 'a rose for miss emily', too.

@Skanko: Yup, Dr. Henry Howard Holmes was his alias. His real name was Herman Webster Mudgett and he graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School.

@jules - yes yes. that's why he's one of my favorites, he's so influential in the horror movie genre.

@ting WHERE DID YOU FIND THE BODIES?

@TWIGBy: I found them in my back yard! you sneaky bastard you!

The Green River Killer and BTK are good recent ones to read about.

ss, did you see the interview montel williams did with aileen wuornos? He told her she was the most evil person he had ever encountered.

the one i know the most about is dahmer. i lived in the milwaukee suburbs when the whole thing was going on. we watched the trial in school (third grade, maybe?) and talked about it extensively.

it was really creepy.

Edmund Kemper III. He was active in Santa Cruz in the '70s when Santa Cruz was "murder capital of the world" (there were three separate high profile serial killers working within five years of one another.)

The most horrific of Kemper's murders was when he killed his mother, decapitated her, used her severed head to perform oral sex on himself, and then used her head as a dart board while he waited for his next victim to come over.

He was also responsible for the quote, misattributed to Ed Gein, "When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her, be real nice and sweet and treat her right. [And the other part of me thinks] what her head would look like on a stick."

I only know so much about him because during the time all of this was happening he lived next door to my dad.

My dad was neighbors with a serial killer, who at one point planned to kill all of the people on the street but changed his mind at the last minute. My dad was almost killed by a serial killer!

My dad played bass for Tito Puente.

TITO PUENTE!?

I thought it was because she "always wanted people to look up to her"? Either way, someone who horribly murders people for the sake of bad puns is high up there on the list of 'best' serial killers.

Oh you know what you're right I think.

Oh Kemper was ANOTHER really good one i kind of forgot about. Oh i wish had all day to sit around and read about serial killers... oh wait... i do.

@stranger those aren't his real teeth...

Charles Starkweather/Caril Fugate

. .and Edmund Kemper