True Crime Literature

Aileen Wuornos is an example of a disorganized killer.

//Actually, Aileen Wuronos has characteristics of both organized and disorganized behaviours. Not only did her crimes display premeditation, but they required a thinking, rational mind and a certain organized thinking process.

In order to carry out her criminal acts without detection, Wuornos came prepared with the murder weapon, picked her victims and used the guise of sex to lure them to isolated areas, executed them, robbed them, and used and then disposed of their vehicles, which she scrubbed clean before abandoning them. These are behaviours of an organized killer.

An example of her disorganized traits included leaving the bodies of her victims in open areas with little attempt to conceal them. In conclusion, it is quite common for serial killer to have behaviours of both organized and disorganized, sometimes refered to as 'mixed'.

Well we know what happened to half of the famous organ. It was turned over first to Scotland Yard by it's receiver George Lusk, the leader of the East End Vigilante Committee. At that point Scotland Yard sent the kidney to Dr. Openshaw, the pathologist curator of the London Hospital museum. Dr. Openshaw's opinion was that is was in fact 1/2 of a human kidney, taken from a female in her 40s, that had indulged in alcohol more than was good for her, and that she was in the advanced stages of Brights disease. The chance that it could have been anyone other than the Ripper murder victim Katherine Eddows, would have been almost impossible. Without modern DNA testing this was about as positive a match as anyone could ever get.

She was. It is little known but in 1976 she married a man that had picked her up hitchhiking. Lewis Gratz Bell was 69 years, Aileen was 20. They were married in Kingsley Georgia but the marriage soured after only a month. Aileen could not seem to mend her ways. She felt she had the right to go out to bars every night after they married. Bell was having none of it and he made a break for it. When filing for divorce he claimed Aileen had beat him with his own walking cane. I feel this was Aileen's chance to have a somewhat normal and happy life. Bell had plenty of money and she would never have had to worry or hook again. But she was, it seems, incapable of having a healthy relationship, at least with a man.

Denis Rader had it made. He was not even suspected in the series of murders know as the BTK killings. But whether he knew it or not, he left hints for the police at each of his crime scenes. Clues into his character that were his undoing. Profilers knew the kind of criminal if not the 'who' that committed these crimes. They knew he would like to brag and take credit for his work. So in the years when BTK was not killing they came up with a plan, and Rader fell for it.

There are commonly very few reasons a serial killer will stop killing. If he is caught, moves, dies or is incarcerated. If none of these are the case eventually age will take it's toll and he will eventually run out of steam. Rader was well into his 50s and may never have killed again. Or if he did, maybe more sporatically than before as a younger man.

When bated by police BTK could not help himself. He slipped back into BTK quite easily and had plans to kill again if he had not been caught. If you look at Rader's pattern, he had several years between some kills. He thought and planned and waited. This was part of his MO. Some killers will wait only weeks or days, usually accelerating their crimes as time goes on. So all killers have their own agenda and kill on a timetable that suits them. BTK just had a much longer 'cooling off' time then some others.

Aileen Carol Wuornos's entire childhood was a nightmare. Abandoned by their mother at a very young age, 'Lee' and her older brother Keith were raised by their maternal grandparents as their own. Her grandfather had a volitale temper made worse by his almost constant consumption of alcohol. Her grandmother died relatively young due to alcoholism.

Almost before she reached a double-digit age Aileen was experimenting with sex and later prostitution. This behaviour does substantiate the rumor that Lee's grandfather sexually abused her. It is a fact that Lee and older brother Keith had sex occasionally. Pregnant at 14, she hid the pregnancy until it was so obvious she finally broke down and told her sister (actually her aunt) and was eventually sent to a home for unwed mothers.

It is safe to say that Aileen was abused by many, loved by few. She was a ticking time bomb, and blew irradically with little or no provocation. When she returned home after adopting her baby out, she gave up all pretense of childhood. She spent more and more time away from the grandparents house until she just never returned. Camping in empty cars, the woods, or with anyone who may lend a sofa, she finally moved south to Florida, unable to spend another Michigan winter without a permanent home. Although adolescence is no picnic for most of us, it was horrendous for Wuornos.

The Preppy Murder is the murder of Jennifer Levin in New York City. On an evening in August of 1986 a young woman was found in Central Park dead of unknown causes. It didn't take police long to find the responsible party. His name was Robert Chambers, a young man, clean cut and good looking, on his way up he hoped.

He claimed he accidentally killed Jennifer during 'rough sex'. He was tried and convicted but has since been paroled. But for Robert Chambers his upwardly mobile lifestyle took a downward spiral that has never recovered. Interested fact:Before his conviction Chambers

was videotaped at a party playing with dolls, mimicking Jennifer's vioce, acting out the murder. It was played at his trial and was the 'final nail in his coffin'. When the world saw that tape of Chambers being so glib about the killing, the world turned on him.

The Night Stalker, aka Richard Rameriz, will spend the rest of his days in a California prison. Most commonly recoginized as the killer with the pentagram drawn on his palm, Ramirez is a self-proclaimed Satan worshiper that terrorized the Los Angeles area in the 1970's. Unfortunately for the taxpayer Ramirez is alive and well and has since married although there is no hope that he will ever be released from prison.

Although not as plentiful as male serial killers, history shows that women are not immune to killing in numbers. The biggest difference in men and women serial killers is the how and why of their crimes.

Male serial killers are a whole different animal and are driven by completely different forces. For men its about control, sex, control. They are usually driven by strong violent fantasies. And they are usually strangers or near strangers to the victims.

Women serial killers are most likely to kill someone they know. Nurses kill their patients for varying reasons. They kill relatives for monetary gain. This is not the complete list but it gives a good idea of how a woman kills. They are big on poison, too.

Then there are the women, rare though they are, that kill their children. Not Andrea Yates, the Texas housewife that drowned her 5 small children in their bathtub. The women that suffer from Muchausen's by Proxy. These women kill their own children for the attention it brings them. Although Aileen Wuornos has been touted as the first female serial killer, she was far from it. What made Wuornos non-typical was she killed men she did not know. But it was about monetary gain. So except for the stranger/victims she was more typical than people realize. They had what she wanted/needed so she took it. (money, car)

These are just examples, and of course there are always exceptions to the rules but this gives a good idea of women killers.

Elroy's Black Dahlia is considered fiction for a very good reason. It strays far from the actual Dahlia case with the exception of some names and locations around the LA area. The movie that followed used the phrase 'Inspired by true events', which usually means it's more fiction than fact.

On May 31, 1893 a dairy farmer's daughter was murdered in her own kitchen with an ax or hatchett. Twenty-two year old Bertha Manchester had 23 separate ax wounds on her head and neck, very similar to the Borden's double murder which occured on August 4, 1892.

This was 'heaven sent' for the defense, with Lizzy in jail awaiting trial it would have been impossible for her to be the murderer. Thinking all 3 murders were done by the same person, this could have influenced the jury pool, which were not sequestered.

During the Borden trial, the murderer of Manchester was found to be a hired hand that Bertha's father had recently fired. And to make matters worse, Manchester had slapped the man, Jose Correira, a Portuguese immigrant, felt a slap was too offensive to ignore. Originally planning to murder Mr. Manchester, when he wasn't home, Correira decided to kill his daughter instead.

Yes, the event occurred in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 2003. The man was Brian Douglas Wells, a pizza delivery man who went to a bank with a bomb wrapped around his neck, claimed that other people had forced him to rob the bank and threatened to explode the bomb if he did not comply.

Mr. Wells was videotaped by local media as he sat on the ground, while police tried to determine their next action. Before a bomb team could arrive, the bomb exploded and killed him.

Based on Mr. Wells' statements, it was believed a person or persons had lured Mr. Wells to deliver a pizza to them, and then forced him to wear the bomb and carry out the bank robbery.

However, in 2007, federal prosecutors charged that Mr. Wells was a co-conspirator, and that he planned the bank robbery along with alleged defendants Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes.

On December 4, 2008, Barnes was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was found guilty on November 1, 2010 and will be sentenced in February 2011. Barnes stated that Mr. Wells at first thought the bomb would be a fake, and that when Wells discovered that the bomb was real, his accomplices fired a gun to threaten Wells into continuing with the bank heist.

News reports stated that Wells had a low IQ and was likely duped into participating in the robbery. Other people maintain he was an innocent victim who was murdered by the defendants when the bomb accidentally exploded. Whether Wells was a willing participant or not in the bank robbery, his traumatic death by explosives was certainly the harshest "sentence" among the people involved in this incident.

This incident has been dubbed the "collar-bomb" by news outlets.

There have been several serial killers that have targeted couples. The Zodiac from northern California killed couples, although not exclusively. Paul Stine, a San Francisco cab driver was shot in the head by Zodiac. It is also likely that Zodiac killed in southern California also. Several couples and lone women were the killer's choice.

New York City was the hunting grounds of Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz. From the summer of 1976 to summer 1977 Son of Sam killed six victims, wounded seven. The victims, mostly male/female couples parked in cars.

In Westchester county, New York, in the mid 1970's an unidentified shooter terrorized several communities by peeping in windows and firing his victims with inch long steel darts into their heads, necks and throats. The case was never solved and remains open and very cold.

Ingmar Guandique, a Salvadoran immigrant was convicted of killing Capitol Hill intern Chandra Levy, and was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison.

Good question! I have searched numerous times and the only info on this killer is: He was sentenced to death and now sits on California's death row at San Quentin Prison just north of San Francisco since January 6, 1998 for a December 9, 1995 murder. But there was no info on him or his victim's. On a site that lists all death row inmates in California only his name is listed. No vital information about him or who he killed. Sorry he is now currently being mentioned in several article due to political climate. he is on death row for killing another inmate an stabbing another. born 4/30/1970. El Monte ca. County. currently housed in protective custody. married to an attorney. although she was fired from her law firm for passing along information to him about other death row inmate's would pass this information along to correctional staffers information would also be used for extortion attempts. recently stabbed for filing a grievance about an outside shower, which resulted in lowering of water pressure. his nickname is King Rat. He has more cell moves than anyone previous record includes multiple burglary, armed robbery, false imprisonment w/injury,2 criminal traffic. former marriage Rosella Rodrigez. Caution to women Christian's, everything this man states in pen-pal adds about himself is false. he changes religion every few year's, he only wants your money!

Though there was a lot of speculation at the time of his arrest, nothing has been proved and there may not have been too much of an investigation. A co-ed disappeared from the same campus where Peterson was a student. At this late date there is probably little evidence and I doubt Scott Peterson would admit it even if had did it.

A 'soft kill' is a term used by investigators to describe a murder that produces little or no blood or any detectable violence at the crime scene. Causes of death that produce a soft kill may be strangulation, suffocation or poisoning.

There is no political bias in Helter Skelter. I've read that book many times and it really has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with winning an impossible case for the people of California. That's it.

This order forbids publication of any information that could identify a minor child in legal proceedings.

It was. Although Moxley was not raped, it was obvious from her clothing (pants pulled down) that sex was at least part of the motivation for her murder. Moxley, who was 15 at the time of her death in 1975 was denied justice until June 7, 2003, when Michael Skakel, the Moxley's neighbor, was found guilty of her murder.

yes, she is a serial killer from springdale arkansas, she is in the MPIC program in archer learning center. she killed 18 people in washington county jdc. if you see her, call police immediately.

The official complaint was OJ Simpson v. The State Of California. Had he been found guilty he would have done time in a state prison as opposed to a ferderal one.

John Berendt, first published in 1994.

According to the autopsy report, it was noted that she had a problem with her reproductive organs. It did not state exactly what that problem/problems happened to be though. I would say that the chance would be very likely for her to have 3 baby boys.

If it's not the strangest, it has to be close. On July 12, 1942 at the Green Parrot Restaurant and Bar on Third Ave. near 100th St., New York City. The proprietor was shot in an apparent robbery, of the 20 or so patrons in the bar that day no one seemed to see anything. They all claimed to be at the other end of the room. As it turned out the Green Parrot was named for the owners' parrot that lived at the bar. On the day of the murder the bird kept yelling, 'Robert, Robert, Robert. The police thought he was saying 'robber'. Once they figured he wasn't yelling 'robber' it didn't take them long to find the only regular customer with the name of Robert. Yes, Robert was the 'dirty bird' that shot the owner. It wasn't a robbery at all, but a murder committed out of rage. Thanks to the parrot, the killer got 7 to 15 years in Sing Sing Prison.