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August 28th 2009 07:56
Life.com presents: The Many Faces of Serial Killers. Sample of images and informatino below, see the full list of 31 murderers here.
From 1989 to 1990, prostitute Aileen Wuornos murdered seven men in Florida, later claiming they had raped her. She shot each man several times. She welcomed her pending execution, telling the Florida Supreme Court, "I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again." She was put to death by lethal injection in 2002; the following year, Charlize Theron played her in the movie "Monster," and ended up winning an Oscar.
Cult leader and murderer Charles Manson is responsible for at least nine deaths, but is most remembered for masterminding the shooting and stabbing murders of Sharon Tate and four others at her Hollywood home in 1969. He received a death sentence later commuted to life in prison.
Ted Kaczynski terrorized perceived enemies with deadly letters from 1978 to 1995, killing three people and injuring 23. Once a brilliant mathematician with a promising future, he used his talents to forward a violent neo-Luddite philosophy, and was brought down by his suspicious brother. He's serving life without the possibility of parole in a federal supermax prison in Colorado.
In October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and his 17-year-old ward, Lee Malvo, shot and killed 16 people and injured two others with a sniper rifle in several separate shootings that kept the Washington, D.C., area in a state of terror for three weeks. Muhammad (pictured) was sentenced to death.
Peter Sutcliffe, a.k.a. "The Yorkshire Ripper," used a ball-pein hammer to knock out victims before slashing them with a knife. He killed 13 women in England before he was caught in 1981. He claimed God told him to kill prostitutes. He's serving life in prison.
From 1910 to 1929 in Dusseldorf, Germany, Peter Kurten murdered nine people with hammers, knives, scissors, and his bare hands, male and female alike, from ages 5 to middle age. He was captured after his wife told the police, and was executed by guillotine in 1931. A psychiatrist who interviewed him in prison determined that Kurten needed the sight of blood to be sexually stimulated.
Aileen Wuornos: Female Serial Killer
Charles Manson: Evil Patriarch
The Unabomber: Death by Mail
The Beltway Sniper: Holding the D.C. Area Hostage
The Yorkshire Ripper
Peter Kurten: Vampire of Dusseldorf
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