Who was the most controversial serial killer?

Answer 1

There are some cases which you could call the worst of insanity in a serial killer.

Richard Trenton Chase was an American serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in California. He earned the nickname The Vampire of Sacramento due to his drinking of his victims' blood and his cannibalism. He did this as part of a delusion that he needed to prevent Nazis from turning his blood into powder via poison they had planted beneath his soap dish.

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving acts of forced sodomy, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism. Dahmer committed his first murder when he was 18, killing Steven Hicks, a 19 year-old hitchhiker. Dahmer invited Hicks to his house, and killed him because he "didn't want him to leave."

Albert Fish, also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria and possibly the Brooklyn Vampire, boasted that he molested over 100 children, and was a suspect in at least five killings. Fish confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide, and confessed to stabbing at least two other people. He was put on trial for the murder of Grace Budd, and was convicted and executed.

At his trial, several psychiatrists testified about Fish's sexual fetishes, including coprophilia, urophilia, pedophilia and masochism. X-rays of Fish's pelvis show needles which he inserted in to his skin for sexual pleasure.

Joachim Kroll said that he often sliced portions of flesh from his victims to cook and eat them, claiming that he did this to save on his grocery bills. In custody, he believed that he was going to get a simple operation to cure him of his homicidal urges and would then be released from prison. Instead he was charged with eight murders and one attempted murder. In April 1982, after a 151-day trial, he was convicted on all counts and was given nine life sentences.

There is a ancient serial killer that was insane in all the meaning of the word.

Gilles de Rais (a French nobleman) is considered to be the precursor to the modern serial killer. Before he began his killing spree, he rode as a military captain in the army lead by St Joan of Arc - though it is unlikely that she knew him. He was accused and ultimately convicted of torturing, raping and murdering dozens, if not hundreds, of young children, mainly boys.

According to surviving accounts, Rais lured children, mainly young boys who were blond haired and blue eyed (as he had been as a child), to his residences, and raped, tortured and mutilated them, often ejaculating, perhaps via masturbation, over the dying victim. He and his accomplices would then set up the severed heads of the children in order to judge which was the most fair. The precise number of Rais's victims is not known, as most of the bodies were burned or buried. The number of murders is generally placed between 80 and 200; a few have conjectured numbers upwards of 600. The victims ranged in age from six to eighteen and included both sexes. Although Rais preferred boys, he would make do with young girls if circumstances required.

Answer 2

There are some serial killers that qualify as crazy in the same level as the craziest. You might think that in a list of 10 crazy serial killer, some of the had to be canivals and you are right. In the related links box below, I posted the 10 craziest serial killers link.

Answer 3

Chicago killer John Wayne Gacy sparked a nation-wide controversy over his prison-cell artwork, using his celebrity for material gain. There is now a law in place that prohibits killers like Gacy benefiting from their horrible behavior.

*Honorable mention goes to Jeffrey Dahmer, or more specifically, the law enforcement officers that handed Dahmer's young victim right back into the killer's clutches. The 14 year old Laotian boy lasted mere minutes after the police departed Dahmer's apartment.