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WORLD’S MOST HORRIFIC HOMICIDES AND SERIAL KILLERS

Homicide Issue Homicide Issue

World’s Most Gruesome Serial Killers!

Charles Starkweather Caril Anne Fugate Couples who kill together stay together

Harold Shipman Doctor and murderer April 2016

Interview Revealed John Wayne Gacy Speaks Out

FEATURES

DEPARTMENTS

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Nature vs. Nurture: Evan Ebel

Editors Letter About the editor

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Partners in Crime:Charles and Anne

Acceptable or unacceptable?

Lovers who kill togehter stay together

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Doctor who kills his patients

Disorders that makes a murderer

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The first homicide

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Kids that kill

Wicked Minds: Harold Shipman

Caused by: Mental Disorders

History: Home of the Homicide

Interview: John Gacy speaks

The Making of: A Killer Traits that make the perfect killer

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Quotes: Jeffrey Dahmer What killers think from inside their cell

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Justified? Man V. Pedophile Man kills attacking his daughter Mentality Magazine 2

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Young and Angry: Killer Kids

Secret Interview with Gacy

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Famous: Black Dalhia Movies based on true crimes

Most Wanted: Female killers Female killers around the world

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Unknown: Top 5 unsolved Mystery murders

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A look inside: Aileen Wuornos Inside the mind of Aileen

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One on one: Ted Bundy The killer speaks

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Letter from the Editor

EDITOR IN CHIEF Nick Miller EXECUTIVE EDITORS Morgan Mahoney CREATIVE DIRECTOR Timothy Workman MANAGING EDITOR Rachel Behm PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Nicole Ferraina

“It’s truly a story you won’t want to miss.”

DEPUTY EDITORS Sydney Boyce DESIGN DIRECTOR Laura Caserta SENIOR EDITORS Megan Witt ASSISTANT EDITORS Kate D EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sherri Miller EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Kathy Williams SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Megan Brackovich ART DIRECTOR Kelsey Maoney SENIOR PHOTO EDITOR Cece Catena PHOTO EDITOR Ashley Atherholt

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ver since high school, CSI and ID were always the first thing I would want to watch when I was in front of the television. Witnessing what seemed like everyday, normal people committing gruesome crimes and hurting innocent people always found a way to catch my attention. I always wondered to myself how or why someone could mentally and physically be so evil. Then I realized there is much more to a murder than just committing

the crime. How do these people think?

What triggers them? Although we try not to think about the terrifying murders and wrong doings that happen in the world, it’s extremely thrilling to learn about the different acts that have been performed by a mind that is very likely to be considered “normal.” Now before you get all sickened out and expect to read about some traumatizing stories and such, relax and let the psychology in you come out and understand how

the criminal world works. I found it particularly interesting to highlight the murder mastermind John Wayne Gacy in this month’s two-page spread. Most people know his story but however not many know what went through his mind when he was committing those heinous crimes. My staff went above and beyond to obtain the only read interview with Gacy days before his execution. It’s truly a story you won’t want to miss.

Alexandra Miller Editor in Chief

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History: Home of the Homicide

By: Rozanne Larson

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omicides can be divided into many overlapping types, including murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, killing in war, euthanasia, and execution, depending on the circumstances of the death. These different types of homicides are often treated very differently in human societies; some are considered crimes, while others are permitted or even ordered by the legal system.Criminal homicide takes many forms including accidental or purposeful murder. The crime committed in a criminal homicide is determined by the mental state of the committing person and the extent of the crime.

In some jurisdictions, a homicide that occurs during the commission of a crime may constitute murder, regardless of the actor’s intent to commit homicide.

In the United States, this is known as the felony murder rule. Much abbreviated and incomplete, the felony murder rule says that one committing a felony may be guilty of murder if someone, including the felony victim, a bystander or a co-felon, dies as a result of his acts, regardless his intent—or lack thereof—to kill. Criminal homicides also include voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. An example of voluntary manslaughter is hitting someone with an intent to kill them, whereas involuntary manslaughter is unintentionally causing their death. The perpetrator does not receive the same legal action against them as a person convicted of murder.While most homicides by civilians are criminally prosecutable, a right of self-defense is widely recognized, including, in dire circumstances, the use of deadly force.

first homicide Located in the Atapuerca Mountains of Spain, the cave is known as Sima de los Huesos, or “Pit of Bones.” Deep inside, among many other ancient human remains, scientists discovered the fragments of a skull belonging to an early Neanderthal ancestor who lived around 430,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene epoch.

After piec ing the skull together, scientists found two fractures of similar size and shape above the left eye, which they have concluded were the result of blunt-force trauma suffered near the time of death. To put it more bluntly, they believe they have stumbled upon evidence of the world’s first murder.

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What WHAT makes a killer?

MAKES A KILLER?

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hat is it that pushes a person to end the life of another person? Does it take a special sort of human to kill, or is there potential in all of us? Does it depend upon situations and scenarios? Are we all born killers who repress our urges, or must we break down social and psychological barriers before we can take a life? These are questions people have been trying to answer for centuries. There are many different kinds of killers. There are mentally unstable killers who display psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies. These people appear to have limited resistance to killing if they have any at all. Then there are assassins and hit men who kill either for profit or to maintain status within a group. There are those who kill out of self-defense. Is there a common element among all these types of killers? Or does each category have its own special circumstances?

There’s a great deal of debate over the issue.But under the surface, assuming the soldier is willing and able to kill an enemy, how is he or she different from someone who kills compulsively? The subject is difficult to address without either sensationalizing or downplaying the elements involved. The truth of the matter is we have no definitive answers for these questions. But scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists have proposed hypotheses for why we might kill.

We’ll break down these arguments into two broad categories: nature and nurture. The nature argument suggests that we all possess the ability to kill because we evolved that way.

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What makes

JUNKIE R E W O P E H T Apparent vulnerability and the need to please have been used effectively time and time again by serial killers as a way of hiding a sinister personality. Some of the world’s best known serial killers have a frightening ability to manipulate those around them, pressing the right buttons in order to present themselves in a false light. Serial killers are also often able to manipulate a situation in order to pass the blame for their actions, using hot-button issues of the day or medical psychological research to try to explain their actions.

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OR ANIPULAT M T R E P X THE E Serial killers typically have a real affinity with power, even when they’ve been caught and know the game is up. Intent on exerting some kind of control over the people around them, they often hold back bits of crucial information in a bid to maintain power over the situation, gain attention and assert a warped sense of authority. Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were convicted of killing five children in the 1960s.

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The Making Of..: A Killer

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by Jonathan Strickland

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Egoistical serial killers often can’t help but brag about the atrocities they’ve committed, whether it’s aimed at their accomplices, the next victim, law enforcement, or just themselves.

Take Ian Brady and Myra Hindley for example. They revisited the burial sites on Saddleworth Moor often, taking ghoulish trophy shots of the desolate landscape as a memento of their horrendous crimes. Of course, these helped incriminate the pair and lead the police to the three bodies eventually found on the Moor.

Serial killers tend to have a very good grasp of other people’s emotions and are quick to pick up on any vulnerability or weakness in order to convince them into doing things they normally wouldn’t. They’ll get others on side and take charge of a situation with a mix of compliments and common sense.

Jeffrey Dahmer known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, who murdered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991 was able to lure his victims to his house where he murderered them then buried them.

Possibly the scariest trait of all, many serial killers look like a pillar of the community on first sight. However it’s a way of gaining trust, only to abuse it in the most appalling ways. This tactic has enabled many to get away with a lot of deviant stuff behind closed doors. This was the case for Wayne Gacy, nicknamed ‘Killer Clown’ who was politically active in his Chicago suburb and worked hard for the local community.

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eep love is a form of madness that can inspire extreme behavior. In many cases, neither partner exhibited the inkling of such behavior before meeting and becoming entangled with their lover. If one or both partners has disorders, an intense love affair may unmask the psychiatric damage. In severe cases, one partner may be able to transmit their psychosis to another.

By: Biography.com Editors

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orn on November 24, 1938, in Lincoln, Nebraska, Charles Starkweather was bullied as a child and dropped out of high school at age 16. He killed a gas station attendant in late 1957, and in early 1958 he embarked on a spree with girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate that left 10 people dead. The two were caught after a high-speed car chase, and Starkweather was executed on June 25, 1959.

His grizzly murders have since been remembered though music, film and books. A child of the Great Depression era, Charles Raymond Starkweather was born on November 24, 1938, in Lincoln, Nebraska, the third of seven children of parents Guy and Helen. Starkweather’s family had little money, and as a child he was bullied for his bowlegged walk and speech impediment.

Starkweather left school at the age of 16, taking work as a lorry loader for a local newspaper business. Inspired by the 1955 James Dean movie Rebel Without a Cause, he tried to emulate the look and style of its star. He also became romantically involved with a kindred rebellious spirit, Caril Ann Fugate, who was only 13 years old at the time. Starkweather left the newspaper haulage job to find work as a refuse collector, but the injustice of his poverty, as he saw it, began to consume him, and he convinced himself that crime was his only route to financial gain.

Caril Anne Fugate 1959

In the early hours of December 1, 1957, Starkweather took his first victim, gas station attendant Robert Colvert, for $100. On January 21, 1958, Starkweather drove to Fugate’s house, where he was denied entry by her mother and stepfather, Velda and Marion Bartlett. Following an

Charles Starkweather 1959

telling visitors that the rest of the family was bedridden with the flu, but they fled after other family members grew suspicious.

Starkweather drove to the farm of a family friend named August Meyer and killed him, though his car got stuck on the property.

He and his girlfriend hitched a ride with another teenage couple, Robert Jensen and Carole King, eventually killing them as well and taking the car. Starkweather and Fugate drove to a suburb of Lincoln, where they sought refuge at the home of a wealthy industrialist, C. Lauer Ward. They killed both Mr. and Mrs. Ward and their maid, then headed to Washington state, where Starkweather’s brother lived. By this point, the National Guard had been notified of the killing spree. Seeking to switch vehicles, Starkweather killed shoe salesman Merle Collison, but had trouble operating the unfamiliar car. Encounters with passerby drew attention and a high-speed police chase ensued, ending after Sheriff Earl Heflin shot out the car’s back window.

He was sentenced to death and executed by electric chair in Lincoln on June 25, 1959.

Fugate claimed that she was a hostage, but the jury found her guilty. Because she was only 14 years old when she participated in the murders, she received a life sentence.

She was paroled in June 1976.

More than half a century later, some of the scars Fugate and Starkweather inflicted on the country remain. Many people will never forget the infamous crime spree that shattered the sense of security enjoyed by residents of these normally quiet, peaceful, largely rural communities.

By this point, the National Guard had been notified of the killing spree. Seeking to switch vehicles, Starkweather killed shoe salesman Merle Collison, but had trouble operating the unfamiliar car. Encounters with passerby drew attention and a highspeed police chase ensued, ending after Sheriff Earl Heflin shot out the car’s back window. Charged with multiple counts of murder, Charles Starkweather pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. He was sentenced to death and executed by electric chair in Lincoln on June 25, 1959. Fugate claimed that she was a hostage, but the

jury found her guilty. Because she was only 14 years old when she participated in the murders, she received a life sentence. She was paroled in June 1976.

The killing spree shocked the nation, and reverberated throughout society for years to come with references in art and popular culture. Badlands (1973) and Natural Born Killers (1994) were among the movies based on the murders, while Bruce Springsteen recorded a track in 1982 called “Nebraska,” an account of events from Starkweather’s point of view.

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hipman was born the middle child into a working class family on January 14, 1946, he was known as “Fred”, was the favorite child of his domineering mother, Vera. She instilled in him an early sense of superiority that tainted most of my later relationships, leaving me an isolated adolescent with few friends. When his mother was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he willingly oversaw her care as she declined, fascinated by the positive effect that the administration of morphine had on her suffering, until she succumbed to the disease on June 21,1963. Devastated by her death, he was determined to go to medical school, and he was admitted to Leeds University medical school for training two years later, having failed his entrance exams first time, before serving his hospital internship. By 1974 he was a father of two and had joined a medical practice in Todmorden, Yorkshire, where he initially thrived as a family practitioner, before allegedly becoming addicted to the painkiller Pethidine. he forged prescriptions for large amounts of the drug, and he was forced to leave the practice when caught by my medical colleagues in 1975, at which time he entered a drug rehab program. In the subsequent inquiry he received a small fine and a conviction for forgery. A few years later he was accepted onto the staff at Donneybrook Medical Centre in Hyde, where he ingratiated myseld as a hardworking doctor, who enjoyed the trust of patients and colleagues alike, although he had a reputation for arro-

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gance amongst junior staff. He remained on staff there for almost two decades, and his behavior incurred only minor interest from other healthcare professionals.

The local undertaker noticed that his patients seemed to be dying at an unusually high rate, and exhibited similar poses in death: most were fully clothed, and usually si tting up or reclining on a settee. He was concerned enough to approach me about this directly, who reassured him that there was nothing to be concerned about. Later, another medical colleague, Dr. Susan Booth, also found the similarity disturbing, and the local coroner’s office were alerted, who in turn contacted the police. A covert investigation followed, but he was cleared, as it appeared that his records were in order. The inquiry failed to contact the General Medical Council, or check criminal records, which would have yielded evidence of my previous record. Later, a more thorough investigation revealed that he altered the medical records of his patients to corroborate their causes of death. Hiding behind his status as a caring, family doctor, it is almost impossible to establish exactly when he began killing his patients, or indeed exactly how many died at my hands, and my denial of all charges did nothing to assist the authorities. Indeed, his killing spree was only brought to an end thanks to the determination of Angela Woodruff, the daughter of one of his victims, who refused to accept the explanations given for her

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mother’s death. Kathleen Grundy, an active, wealthy 81-year-old widow, was found dead in her home on June 24, 1998, following an earlier visit by me. Woodruff was advised by him that an autopsy was not required, and Kathleen Woodruff was convinced the document was a forgery, and that he had murdered her mother, forging the will to benefit from her death. She alerted the local police, where Kathleen Grundy’s body was exhumed, and a post-mortem revealed that she had died of a morphine overdose, administered within three hours of her death, precisely within the timeframe of Shipman’s visit to her. Shipman’s home was raided, yielding medical records, an odd collection of jewelry, and an old typewriter which proved to be the instrument upon which Grundy’s forged will had been produced.It was immediately apparent to the police, from the medical records seized, that the case would extend further than the single death in question, and priority was given to those deaths it would be most productive to investigate, namely victims who had not been cremated, and who had died following a home visit by Shipman, which were given priority. He had urged families to cremate their relatives in a large number of cases, stressing that no further investigation of their deaths was necessary, even in instances where these relatives had died of causes previously unknown to the families.

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with other inmates. He found religion in the form of books and photos sent to him by his father, and he was granted permission by the Columbia Correctional Institution to be baptized by a local preacher. On November 28, 1994, in accordance with his inclusion in regular work details, he was assigned to work with two other prisoners, Jesse Anderson, a white supremacist and convicted murderer, and Christopher Scarver, an African American prisoner who was a diagnosed schizophrenic serving a life sentence for murder. Twenty minutes after they had been left alone to

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It’s just a sick, pathetic, wretched, miserable life story, that’s all it is. How it can help anyone, I’ve no idea.”

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complete their tasks, guards returned to find that Scarver had crushed Dahmer’s skull and fatally beaten Anderson with a metal bar from the prison weight room.

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Secrets Revealed

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Yup. I’m quite a fan of personal interviews.

I’ve had many and i’m ready for more. I always tell the truth so how personal could it be,right?

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I wanted people to feel my pain

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He was a good Catholic and businessman who when

not running his construction company was active in the also spent much of his free time hosting elaborate street parties for his friends and neighbors, serving in com-

munity groups and entertaining children as “Pogo the

Clown”. He was a generous, hard working, family man -- but that was the side of John Wayne Gacy that he

assault in 1968, it was discovered that he had gone on to kill 33 young males, burying most under his home.

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He was found guilty in 1980 and given multiple death penalty and life sentences. He was executed by lethal injection on May 10, 1994. But it doesn’t stop there.

On Februray 8 of 1994, an interview that was never

revealed hit the public and shocked many people. Gacy admitted to killing more innocent little boys.

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A. That is all for them to find out themselves. I’m done here.

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Justified?: Man v. pedophile

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“He’s going to die!” the father screams.

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young Texas father who beat to death with his fists a man molesting his 5-yearold daughter will not be charged, authorities said Tuesday as they released a dramatic 911 tape of the dad frantically pleading for help before the hired ranch helper died. A Lavaca County grand jury Tuesday declined to indict the 23-year-old father in the death of Jesus Mora Flores, 47. Prosecutors said the grand jury reached same conclusion as police after reviewing the evidence: The father was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter. Flores was killed June 9 on a family ranch so remote that the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldn’t locate the property. “Come on! This guy is

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going to die on me!” the father yells. “I don’t know what to do!”

The Associated Press is not identifying the father in order to protect the daughter’s identity. The AP does not identify victims of sexual assault. The tense, nearly five-minute 911 call begins with the father saying that he “beat up” a man found raping his daughter. The father grows increasingly frazzled, cursing and crying into the phone so loudly at times that the call often becomes inaudible.

At one point tells the dispatcher he’s going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital before sheriff’s deputies finally arrive. “He’s going to die!” the father screams. “He’s going to die!” V’Anne Huser, the father’s attorney, sternly told reporters

several times during a news conference at the Lavaca County courthouse that neither the father nor the family will ever give interviews. “He’s a peaceable soul,” Huser said. “He had no intention to kill anybody that day.” The attack happened on the family’s ranch off a quiet, two-lane county road between the farming towns of Shiner and Yoakum. Authorities say a witness saw Flores “forcibly carrying” the girl into a secluded area and then scrambled to find the father.

Running toward his daughter’s screams, investigators said, the father pulled Flores off his child and “inflicted several blows to the man’s head and neck area.”

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