Choosing serial killer as your occupation can’t be all fun and games. With so many famous murderers in the hall of fame – Ed Gein, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy – it’s hard getting some attention if you’re kinda average at your job.
Here are a couple of individuals that couldn’t make it to the upper echelons but were evil bastards nonetheless.
10. John Robinson
There are eleven women either dead or missing that are linked to John Robinson. Over a 16 year period, the married middle-aged father of four, met the women through the internet, and personal ads. The sadomasochist was found out when when two metal 55-gallon barrels were unearthed in his property in rural Kansas, and each happened to contain a female body. A few days later, three more female bodies were found in barrels in a storage locker rented by Robinson in Missouri. He was convicted of the murders and given the death penalty.
9. Larry Eyler
Larry Eyler started off his chosen occupation buy picking up men and taking them to a secluded spot for some great sex. He would then then handcuff them, beat them to death, disembowel them, and pull their pants down. That last bit must have been his funny side coming out. Eyler was connected to one of his crimes by a tyre track he left at one of the scenes, and upon searching through his trash, the police found the remains of a 15-year old boy. Eyler was sentenced to death, but died of of AIDS-related complications. After his death it was revealed that he had committed 21 murders.
8. Peter Kurten
Peter Kurten started his business in the city of Dusseldorf, Germany from 1929. Most of the victims were young women, although men and children were not excluded; they all were slashed or bludgeoned to death, and sometimes sexually assaulted. Kurten even sent friendly letters to the cops informing them where to find the bodies, he even drew a map.
Kurten got sexual gratification in the slayings; his ultimate satisfaction came when he caught the blood spurting from a victim’s wounds in his mouth and swallowed it. Known as the Vampire of Dusseldorf, Kurten murdered over 30 people, and was eventually was guillotined in Cologne, Germany in 1931.
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