Volume 44 - No. 14
April 3, 2014
At the transcript of the trial, one of Gilles servants Henriet (an accomplice to his crimes) described the actions of his master, which included collecting children and being present while they were tortured and massacred.
by lyle e davis
You wonder what makes them tick, these serial killers. We read about the Ted Bundys, the Jeffrey Dahmers, the John Gacy’s . . . and we wonder.
It’s not a new phenomenon. It’s been around for ages. Still, the question we ask . . . “how can one human being do this to another human being . . . or to other human beings?”
We caution our readers that the stories you are about to read are often grisly. Blood curdling. Even though we have edited out some of the more repugnant element of some of the stories, what remains is still ugly and difficult, sometimes painful, to read.
The marshal would have his servants stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over John Gardner: him. The room was Was he a serial killer? Albert Fish often steeped in blood. He confessed to murdering two. Confessed to three When the horrible Did he kill more? deed was done, and murders We’ll probably never know the child was dead, though it is unlikely the marshal would be filled If you have a senstive stomach, that she knew him. He was with grief for what he had you may not wish to proceed. accused and ultimately con- done, and would toss weeping One of the earliest known and victed of torturing, raping and and praying on a bed, or recite recorded serial killers (for their murdering dozens, if not hun- fervent prayers and litanies on may be a number of unknown dreds, of young children, main- his knees, while his servants washed the floor, and burned and unrecorded) was Gilles de ly boys. in the huge fireplace the bodies Rais, a French nobleman, born According to surviving of the murdered children. in 1404. accounts, Rais lured children, mainly young boys who were Albert Fish, (show above, blond haired and blue eyed (as below the headline) also known he had been as a child), to his as the Gray Man, the Werewolf residences, and raped, tortured of Wysteria and possibly the and mutilated them. He and Brooklyn Vampire, boasted his accomplices would then set that he molested over 100 chilup the severed heads of the dren, and was a suspect in at children in order to judge least five killings. Fish conwhich was the most fair. The fessed to three murders that precise number of Rais’s vic- police were able to trace to a tims is not known, as most of known homicide, and confessed the bodies were burned or to stabbing at least two other buried. The number of mur- people. He was put on trial for ders is generally placed the murder of Grace Budd, and between 80 and 200; a few was convicted and executed. Historians think he may have have conjectured numbers been the precursor to the mod- upwards of 600. The victims Fish was visited in prison by ern serial killer. Before he ranged in age from six to eight- the mother of his victim Billy began his killing spree, he rode een and included both sexes. Gaffney to get more details as a military captain in the Although Rais preferred boys, about the death of her son. army lead by St Joan of Arc – he would make do with young Fish said: girls if circumstances required.
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The Serial Killrs
What’s worse, most of these serial killers have little or no remorse. Some of them even brag about their deeds.
Serial killers are not a rarity. Proof? Get on the Internet and Google “Serial Killers.” You will find hundreds, if not thousands.
It is likely that had John Gardner not been caught, after murdering Amber Dubois and Chelsea King, we would have had another serial killer . . . and that would be in our own back yard. And a terrible question remains. Technically, a serial killer is classified as “serial” after three murders. Did John Gardner kill others before Amber and Chelsea? We likely will never know as he has zero incentive to confess.
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