MAY 14, 2018
VOL. 02
PROFILE
Son of Sam Milwaukee Monster Charles Manson
Ian Brady
By Maciej Toporowicz
1993 Gouache on paper 30 x 22 inches
EDITOR’S DESK 4 CASE FILES 6
MODUS OPERANDI 10 FAMILY PORTRAIT 16 LAST BREATH 22
SON OF SAM 14 18 MILWAUKEE MONSTER CHARLES MANSON 30
CULTURE 34
Editor’s Desk S
erial murder peaked during the 1970s and 1980s and has declined dramatically ever since. Unfortunately, a reduction in known cases of serial murder is not the end of the story. It is possible, for instance, that a number of cases occurring in recent years have not yet been identified and solved, causing them to be absent from the database of known perpetrators. Even now, as in previous decades, so-called “linkage blindness” continues to prevent or at least delay recognition that a single killer may be responsible for widespread carnage. Before identifying a serial killer, we must first acknowledge the strong possibility that one is operating in a particular community. Over the decades, many serial killers have cleverly concealed the extent of their murderous behavior by varying their
modus operandi, as well as the types of victim they target. Forty years ago, when people were first apprised of accounts of serial murder (pg.10), the fascination with the phenomenon -- and with names like Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy -- was palpable. As a result, enterprising entrepreneurs marketed serial killer “murderabilia,” including calendars, trading cards, T-shirts, action figures, paintings and comic books (pg.35). As the public’s fascination with serial killers (pg.12) has subsided, so has its preoccupation with more typical cases that do not yield double-digit body counts or particularly gruesome tortures. To attract extensive publicity, a serial killer almost has to stay on the loose for decades, kill a dozen victims or more, and engage in disturbing rituals or
Alfred Gaynor. Original 8” X 11” artwork in color pencil and marker on paper.
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cannibalism. Fortunately, such characteristics are even rarer than the fans they inspire. Yet regardless of the decline in numbers, any serial murder remains a difficult and perplexing problem for law enforcement. There are still as many as 10 serial killers captured each year by the police, and even a drop in the numbers is unlikely to reduce the level of fear that serial killers still create. Indeed, the power they have over the public’s psyche remains extraordinary, and criminologists have a responsibility to try to understand how and why these offenders take the lives of innocent victims -- and how they can do so with such chillingly cool deliberation.
More on pg. 35.
Charles Milles Manson (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal and cult leader. In the late 1960s, he formed what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune in California. Manson’s followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971 he was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, all of which were carried out at his instruction by members of the group. Manson was also convicted of firstdegree murder for two other deaths.
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What the f**k is
going on? 07 May 2018
04 May 2018
Macomb Township dig may be tied to convicted child killer Arthur Nelson Ream
Indiana man pleads guilty to serial killing of 7 poor women
03 May 2018
DNA profile sought to solve mystery of Zodiac Killer
07 May 2018
Cadaver dogs searching properties linked to alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur
08 May 2017
Serial-killer couple confessed to killing missing N.O. woman. After 42 years, her remains might have been found
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13 April 2018
Paul Bernardo, convicted schoolgirl killer, in court on weapon charge
For Henry Lee Lucas, it was about quantity, not quality, and his body count tops out well over 150 victims across the Southeast. Maybe? Even after Lucas’ death from heart failure, people are debating whether or not he could have murdered hundreds of people while drifting across the United States. At one point, his self-professed murder toll was 600. Um, what? How?
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Police guard the grounds of a house they had searched after a landscaper was accused of murdering five people and putting their dead bodies in large planters on his clients’ properties, in Toronto, Ontario, on January 29. Police have found skeletal remains in flower pots used by the freelance landscaper.
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Béla Kiss
Jack Unterweger
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David Parker Ray
Harold Shipman
George Joseph Smith 11
David Berkowitz, the serial killer known as the Son of Sam, being taken into a Brooklyn precinct station in August 1977. Photograph courtesy of New York Times 12
SON OF SAM David Berkowitz, also known as Son of Sam, spread terror in New York City in the late 1970s. He is famous for believing he was controlled by a spirit named Sam living in his neighbor’s dog. By Lily Rothman 13
How they finally caught
Son of Sam By Lily Rothman
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espite a high-profile investigation and a series of taunting letters sent by the killer, it took months before New York police nabbed the serial killer who went by Son of Sam on Aug. 10, 1977. It turns out they caught David Berkowitz right in the nick of time. As TIME reported, he later told investigators that he’d been planning to head to a Hamptons nightclub with a semiautomatic rifle and
“...go down in a blaze of glory.” One reason the Son of Sam proved so elusive is that many traditional ways of tracking down a killer had backfired. For
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example, the police sketches were based on unreliable witness testimony, which meant the public was on alert for someone who didn’t resemble the killer. Nor was there a discernible pattern in the seemingly random murders. What made the difference in the end was Berkowitz’s compulsion to harass his neighbors with anonymous notes, one of whom claimed his dog had been shot with the same kind of gun used by the serial killer. When another neighbor returned home to find a fire near his apartment, he alerted the police, who realized that this was a pattern in Berkowitz’s behavior. They figured out his car make and license number, and began to
look at him as a potential suspect in the case: [The] tip that broke the case … came from Cacilia Davis, 49, a terrified woman who told a belated story to New York police. Davis, who lives near the Gravesend Bay site where Stacy Moskowitz was killed, said she was walking her dog Snowball near her apartment at 2:30 a.m. on the night of the murder. A young man “who walked strange, like a cat” approached her on the sidewalk, looked directly into her face, then passed. She said he held his right arm down stiffly, as though he were carrying something partly up his sleeve. Five minutes later she heard shots and the wail of a car horn. Next day, learning
Source: New York Daily News Archive / Getty Images
of the double shooting, she was certain the passing stranger had been the killer. When detectives questioned her, she recalled another vital detail: she had seen a cop tagging a cream-colored car parked illegally near a fire hydrant one block from the murder site. Incredibly, Berkowitz, who had so cleverly eluded police for so long, had used his own properly registered 1970 Ford Galaxie sedan as his getaway car for each attack, not bothering even to acquire stolen license plates. When New York police checked parking tickets for the murder night in the Gravesend neighborhood, they found one issued to Berkowitz; it led to his Yonkers address. They
wondered: What was a Yonkers resident doing 25 miles away in Brooklyn at 2:30 a.m.? Detectives staked out the apartment building. When Berkowitz emerged and the cops confronted him, he turned to one inspector and said,
“I guess this is the end of the trail.� Berkowitz pled guilty. In 2011, he said that he will no longer seek parole. Papers inside Mr. Berkowitz’s car included a copy of the parking ticket that James Justus, a police detective at the time, traced to him. Credit: Paul Hosefros/The New York Times
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MILWAUKEE MONSTER Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991. By Mary Papenfuss 16
Creepy yearbook photo of Jeffrey Dahmer in front row middle. Photograph courtesy of UnshovelingthePast 17
Cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer beaten to death over sick sense of humour, says prison murderer By Mary Papenfuss
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he man who fatally bludgeoned American cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer in prison, says he did it because he was disgusted by his crimes and the convict’s gruesome sense of humour. It’s the first time Dahmer’s killer, Christopher Scarver, 45, has publicly discussed why he attacked the notorious murderer 20 years ago in a Wisconsin prison. Both men were serving time in Wisconsin’s Columbia Correction Institution. Scarver was serving a life sentence for killing a former boss and Dahmer was ticking off 16 life sentences for killing 16 teenagers or young men from 1978 to 1991, and eating some of their body parts. Investigators found pieces of dismembered bodies in his refrigerator. While in prison, Dahmer would shape prison food to resemble human limbs, then drizzle them with ketchup to look like blood, said Scarver. “He would put them in places where people would be. He crossed
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the line with some people — prisoners, prison staff,” Scarver told the the New York Post. “Some people who are in prison are repentant — but he was not one of them.” Dahmer’s former prison minister also said that Dahmer had a macabre sense of humor. “If he saw a guard that was nervous and standing near enough to hear him, he would say, ‘I bite,’” said pastor Roy Ratcliff. “He sort of played with his persona to exaggerate it and make people more fearful. This was just his way — a morbid humor to deal with his hopeless situation.” Scarver knew the details of Dahmer’s murders and kept a newspaper clipping about them in his back pocket at the prison. He recounted how, one day while cleaning the prison bathrooms with Dahmer, 34, and inmate Jesse Anderson, one of them poked Scarver in the back with a mop handle. When neither one owned up to the provocation, Scarver picked up a heavy metal bar
from the prison weight room and followed Dahmer. When he cornered Dahmer alone he says he confronted him with the newspaper article on his murders. “I asked him if he did those things ‘cause I was fiercely disgusted. He was shocked,” Scarver said. “He started looking for the door pretty quick. I blocked him.” That’s when he smashed Dahmer’s head with the bar and “he ended up dead,” Scarver recalled. He then attacked Anderson with the bar and the inmate died within days. Scarver initially presented an insanity plea, but later changed it to no contest in exchange for a transfer to a federal penitentiary. He believes he was allowed to be alone with Dahmer, who was usually followed by a guard, because people in the prison wanted him dead. But a prison investigation determined that Scarver acted on his own.
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Charles Manson is brought into the Los Angeles city jail under suspicion of having masterminded the Tate-LaBianca murders of August 1969. Photograph courtesy of NBC News 20
CHARLES MANSON
Charles Manson started a murderous cult at a California commune and instructed his ‘family’ of followers to commit a series of murders. By Diane Sawyer 21
Interview with
Charles Manson Charles Manson was an American cult leader whose followers carried out several notorious murders in the late 1960s, resulting in his life imprisonment.
Describe yourself in one sentence. I’m a tramp, a b And a straight razor, if you get too close to me. mother? Uh, I didn’t know what that was. They are a monster because you reflect this news me before I got busted. I never had a beard before the rest of your life in prison? Well, we’re our own do our own times. We get stuck in our own litt way we do. You scared to die? Sometimes I feel I Dying is easy. Getting up everyday and going
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bum, a hobo. I’m a boxcar and jug o’ wine. e. When you were a boy, did you love your y think you are a monster. Yeah, they think you edia on me. Cult leader. I never had long hair I got busted. How do you feel about spending n prisons. We each our own wardens and we ttle trips and we kind a judge ourselves the I’m a-scared to live. Living is what scares me. through this again and again is hard.
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B.T.K
The Werewolf
Slavemaster
Lady Killer
Milwaukee Monster
Green River Killer
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Warning Graphic Content
Final Photos of
Murder Victims taken by their killers By Danny Salemme Writer for Rebel Circus
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he world is a scary place. Just when you think you’ve come to terms with the way of the world, something in the news messes it up. In every town in every state in every country, there are killers. Some have killed a few people, and some have killed more than most people can stomach. But even when it’s truly impossible to fathom, nothing compares to the weight of what the murder victims experienced. Keep reading to see haunting photos of murder victims taken by their killers, as compiled by Ranker. Sickening. Over the years, various killers have implemented photography into their murderous acts. They would take photos of their victims just before their deaths. Be aware that the photos you’re about to see are of actual victims just before their deaths.
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Judith Dull,
an aspiring model, was murdered by “Glamour Girl Killer” Harvey Glatman. Glatman moved to Los Angeles, where he posed as a professional photographer to lure girls into his hotel room with the promise of work. There, he tied them up, photographed them, and eventually killed them and dumped their bodies. Judith, 19 and divorced, showed up at Glatman’s under the premise that she would pose for a crime fiction magazine. Serial killer and necrophiliac Jerry Brudos took this photo of 19-yearold college student
Karen Sprinker
in his garage. He had kidnapped her from a department store parking lot and brought her to his house, where he made her model women’s underwear and pose for photos. He killed her by hanging her from a hook in his ceiling, then had sex with her body and cut off her breasts.
Shirley Ann Bridgeford, 24, met Glatman using a dating service called the Patty Sullivan Lonely Hearts Club. Glatman, using the name George Williams, picked Bridgeford up and told her that they’d drive around the countryside. Once at a remote spot, Glatman ordered Bridgeford out of the car and told her to undress. He then raped, photographed and humiliated her before strangling her to death, taking a few more pictures, and leaving her body.
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Another of Berdella’s victims,
Larry Pearson was a male prostitute. He lived as Berdella’s sex slave for about six weeks and was more cooperative than the others. When he finally did try to escape, Berdella killed him.
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Bob Berdella, a serial killer who preferred male victims, kept
23-year-old Todd Stoops for two months, torturing him daily with electric shocks, anal penetration and other abuse. Berdella didn’t intentionally murder Stoops; the young man died as a result of the countless injuries inflicted by his assailant. After repeated rape, Stoops developed a rectal rupture and was bleeding profusely. Berdella treated him with animal antibiotics and injected Drano into his eyes.
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Another killer posing as a photographer was William Richard Bradford. In 1984, while out on bail for a rape charge, Bradford met bartender Shari Miller. Promising to help her kick-start a modeling career, he took her to a scenic desert spot outside LA and snapped a few pictures before strangling her to death. He then cut off her tattoos and drove her body back to Hollywood, where he disposed of it in a dumpster.
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This picture of 14-year-old
Regina Kay Walters was
taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who toured the country in an 18-wheeler equipped with a torture chamber in the back. This photo was taken in an abandoned Illinois barn, where Rhoades killed Walters after cutting off her hair and making her wear a black dress and heels.
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The Men Making Money Off the Art and Personal Effects of
Rapists & Serial Killers By Mark Hay
The “murderabilia” market allows collectors to buy ghoulish artifacts like string art made by Charles Manson and dirt pulled from the crawlspace where John Wayne Gacy buried his victims.
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n the summer of 1994, about 300 people gathered on the premises of James Quick Auctioneers near Naperville, Illinois, to burn some art. The bonfire faced none of the cries of censorship that usually accompany the destruction of creative works. The two dozen paintings set aflame were original works by serial killer John Wayne Gacy, and to most people back then, this wasn’t fine art—these
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were talismans of an evil that needed to be destroyed. And that position is understandable, considering the “artist” behind the paintings had been convicted in 1980 of the rape and murder of more than two dozen boys. Gacy picked up painting during his 14 years on death row. Some of his works—like Sex Skull, a mass of nude bodies in the shape of a cranium in a pool of blood—are horrific, while others—such as his childlike renderings of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Elvis, and Jesus, or various iterations of his clown alter ego, Pogo—have an innocent quality that makes them especially unsettling. Upon his 1994 execution, Gacy had his lawyers put 40 of these paintings up for sale via James Quick Auctioneers, which garnered a great deal of national attention. For many, it
was an abomination that works with such dark origins could be turned into commodities. It upset two local (and now late) businessmen, Joe Roth and Wally Knoebel, so much that they decided to attend the event and drop upward of $15,000 to buy up the bulk of the paintings. When they announced that they intended to burn all the artwork right there on the James Quick premises and would allow the families of Gacy’s victims to toss the paintings onto the fire, they received a standing ovation. Other people even came out with more Gacy artifacts to place on the pyre. For most people, the June 19 1994 bonfire was the end of the story. But in truth, Roth and Knoebe’s bonfire barely made a dent in Gacy’s catalogue. And Gacy’s body of work is only a blip in the bigger world of art
produced by murderers, which is coveted by many because of the sense of gore and infamy that hangs over such pieces. Collectively known as “murderabilia,” these items have spawned an active and diverse market, much to the chagrin of both victim-rights advocates, who are afraid the profits from these sales go back to the killers, and the incarcerated murderers themselves, who are pissed that all the cash from these sales is going into the pockets of collectors. Yet neither group has made any traction in their efforts to dismantle and outlaw the sale of these items. Beyond paintings, murderabilia encompasses any number of ghoulish artifacts— from an action figure with body parts inside of it made by Jeffrey Dahmer to string art made by Charles Manson to dirt pulled from the crawlspace where Gacy buried his victims. Andy Kahan of the Mayor’s Crime Victims Office in Houston, one of the chief opponents of the murderabilia industry, has been cataloguing sales since 2008. In that time, he’s seen grotesque items like sperm-splattered photos of models, gruesome crime-scene pictures, fingernail clippings, and scrapings of foot calluses—all sourced from 234 different killers who hail from 41 states as well as Canada,
England, Japan, and Russia. “Some of the artwork is extremely sexually graphic,” says Kahan. “[They can] contain the names of victims in the drawing... like a line of headstones with their names on it.” “The items that I sell are kind of dark,” admits Eric Holler, the man behind Serial Killers Ink, one of the major sites that hawks the personal effects of criminals. length around Doris’ corpse was removed and used to strangle the 13 month-old boy. On April 2, both bodies were stacked into a carpet bag, along with bricks for added weight. Dyer then headed for Reading. At a secluded spot she knew well near a weir at Caversham Lock, she forced the carpet bag through railings into the River Thames. However, not everyone who catches wind of the murderabilia scene is eager to get a piece of it. Displays of murderabilia at galleries in Texas in 1998, Florida in 2006, and Las Vegas in 2011 sparked national conversations about whether making a profit off murderers’ works should even be legal and whether the gallery shows were too insulting and painful to the families of victims to be tolerated. “We all try to move on with our lives, but that’s proven rather difficult,” Shelly Mullins, whose relative James Byrd Jr. was killed in a gruesome hate crime in East
Texas in 1998, told the Houston Chronicle in 2014 after learning that four items from two of Byrd’s three murderers were up for sale on Harder’s Murder Auction site. “People out there continue to stir up things and make a mockery out of [his death] and do not take it seriously,” Byrd’s sister Louvon Harris told the Chronicle in 2010, when the site put up a bag of his grave dirt and photos of the crime scene. “He should be resting in peace. It’s very selfish and disrespectful of the family.” Most efforts to restrict the production, display, or sale of items related to the crimes of murderers have failed on free speech grounds. Kahan’s tried to refocus efforts on restricting direct payment to inmates for works sold by the major sites. He’s had some success at the state level, as in his push for Texas’s “Notoriety for Profit” legislation, which bans the use of the story or image of one’s murders to make a profit. But without a federal bill (which he’s tried and failed to push to a Senate vote three times) he believes he won’t be able to make a difference.
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Eyes and ears
Insidious: The Last Key
Brilliant parapsychologist Elise Rainier receives a disturbing phone call from a man who claims that his house is haunted. Even more disturbing is the address -- 413 Apple Tree Lane in Five Keys, N.M. -- the home where Elise grew up as a child. Accompanied by her two investigative partners, Rainier travels to Five Keys to confront and destroy her greatest fear -- the demon that she accidentally set free years earlier.
Altered Carbon
Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the lone surviving soldier in a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned -- on ice -- for centuries until Laurens Bancroft, an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man, offers Kovacs the chance to live again. In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder ... that of Bancroft himself.
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.
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Murderabilia
Andrew Borden Bobby Ray Gilbert
$150. 9X12 on Canson artist panel. Initialed and dated by year on the front.
Phillip Jablonski
$25. Eleven page (all pages front and back) handwritten letter. Letter is general content and is signed Phil.
$2,000. Andrew Borden signed and stamped authentic bank check dated November 20th, 1868 originating from Fall River, MA. The check is signed by Andrew Borden twice on the back and once on front. Framed piece includes a photograph print of the murder scene, a photograph print of Andrew and the actual original and true bank check from 1868.
John Wayne Gacy
$500. 11” X 14” marker drawing of Pogo the Clown on thick artist paper signed in full on the front.
Jeffrey Dahmer
$150. This 8” X 12” photograph on Fujicolor Crystal Archive professional photopaper is directly from the actual archival images of the “SIPA Press” international (French) newspaper database set to be released for newspaper publication
Issei Sagawa
$275. 8” X 11” signed print from Sagawa. Accompanied with photograph of Sagawa holding the exact piece.
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