Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, Scream… these movies featuring gruesome serial killers mercilessly tracking down innocent victims and murdering them in ruthlessly imaginative ways… they seem like interesting if violent ways to pass the time. It grips our mind and keeps us on the edge as long as the movie lasts. Then thankfully it gets over and we can get back to our own world where we are safe. What if you were to know that even the worst specimen of a serial killer in Hollywood has nothing on the real life ones that roamed around free and picked on intended victims with abandon. You may have heard of names like Jack The Ripper or the Stoneman Murders. But killers far more violent, far more dangerous created havoc where they lived, rendering nothing and no one safe. Read on for spine chilling true stories of human predators who have no conscience.
10. Robert Black
Robert Black, a van driver from UK, discovered that his job as a van driver gave him access to all kinds of places and this job was perfect for an aspiring serial killer. His specialty was little girls. Though he has been convicted of killing four of them from 1981 to 1986, police believe he killed many more. He would snatch little girls from on the road or convenient locales when no one else was looking. Their bodies would surface days later, mutilated and miles away from where they had been abducted. He was finally caught when spotted bundling a six year old girl into his van in 1990. He is currently serving prison term and will likely never be released.
9. Richard Chase
Richard Chase was an American serial killer who believed that the Nazis were turning his blood into powder by poison they had planted below his soap dish. As a result he was constantly afraid of running out of blood. He would shoot his victims, have sex with the dead body, and then bathe in the resulting pool of blood. Of the number of small children he killed, he ate their internal organs and drank their blood. He was eventually arrested and sentenced to the gas chamber. However, on 26th December 1980 he was found to have committed suicide in prison.
8. Javed Iqbal
Javed Iqbal Mughal was a serial killer from Lahore, Pakistan who was purported to have killed more than a hundred boys before the long arm of the law finally caught up with him. He initially sexually abused two minor boys in June 1998, for which he was supposed to go to prison. He was let off on bail after serving a very short time. It was then that the murderous rage took over. He would stand on street corners and charm boys and men. Once they agreed to come with him, he would drug and rape them. Then he strangled and dismembered their bodies. Then he dunked these dismembered pieces in hydrochloric acid to dissolve them. He would then dump the remains in the public sewers. He would keep the clothes and shoes of his victims as personal mementos. At his sentencing he showed no remorse. He is reported to have said, “I am Javed Iqbal, killer of 100 children. I hate this world. I am not ashamed of my action and I am ready to die. I have no regrets. I killed 100 children.”
7. Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer from Milwaukee who had killed more than seventeen men after luring them to his apartment. He had dismembered their bodies brutally and kept their skulls as souvenirs. He even admitted to eating parts of his victims. He was caught when his final intended victim had managed to escape from him and was running desperately down the road. Fortunately a police patrol car was going down that way that he managed to flag down. Dahmer was sentenced to nine hundred years in jail, but was found dead in his prison cell in 1994.
6. Colin Ireland
Colin Ireland was a former British soldier who decided to become a serial killer one fine day. He decided that homosexual men would make for the best and easiest victims because of their loose and flamboyant lifestyles and went after them. Before killing his victims, he would turn all their family picture frames on the mantelpiece towards the wall so that they would not witness the crime. With each successive murder, he grew in confidence and would call the Scotland Yard Police, taunting them to catch him. His first victim was theatre director Peter Walker. He stripped him naked and tied him to the bed before strangling him. Before leaving his residence, he called the police to alert them to the crime. He got away with five murders before the law caught up with him. He had picked up his latest victim, Emmanuel Spiteri, from a gay club. Footage of both of them crossing the street surfaced on CCTV footage and he was finally tracked down. What is even more pathetic is that he had strangled the pet cat of one of his victims Andrew Collier while in the process of murdering him.
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