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The “Washington Snipers” (aka, “Beltway Snipers” or “D.C. Snipers”) killed ten people within a three-week period in the Washington, D.C., area in 2002. Originally thought to be a lone gunman, the killers turned out to be Gulf War veteran John Allen Muhammad and 18-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo, who were both convicted of capital murder. The media quickly labeled them “spree killers.” Forensically speaking, however, they are probably more accurately described as a serial killers.

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“Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood are a rare case in which two women teamed up in a series of sexual murders. Wood was a recently divorced 450-pound supervisor in a nursing home when she entered into a lesbian relationship with...
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Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood are a rare case in which two women teamed up in a series of sexual murders. Wood was a recently divorced 450-pound supervisor in a nursing home when she entered into a lesbian relationship with Graham, a nurses aide. The dominant Graham told Wood that it would be a sexual thrill to murder six elderly patients in the home so that their last names would spell out the word murder. Their spelling game failed when some of the patients did not die as easily as the couple hoped. Nevertheless, using a wet washcloth to suffocate the patients, Graham killed five victims while Wood stood guard. After each murder, the couple immediately retired to a vacant room in the nursing home and had sex. In exchange for her testimony, Wood received a twenty-to-forty sentence, while Graham was given six life sentences.

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“ The Zodiac Killer
The identity of this serial killer has never been discovered, although authorities attribute at least 5 killings to the self-proclaimed Zodiac Killer. In taunting letters to the police, the Zodiac Killer claims...
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The Zodiac Killer

The identity of this serial killer has never been discovered, although authorities attribute at least 5 killings to the self-proclaimed Zodiac Killer. In taunting letters to the police, the Zodiac Killer claims to have killed 37 people over the course of nine years.

This killer is best known for the letters and cryptograms he sent to California newspapers than for the 5 deaths that have been attributed to him directly. To date, police only know that the perpetrator is a male who claims to have killed at least 37 people during the span of his crimes in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Because the Zodiac Killer was never apprehended, the California Department of Justice has maintained an open case file on the murders since 1969. 
The first confirmed murder occurred on December 20, 1968 when a 17 year old male and 16 year old female were gunned down as they were parked on a well-known lover’s lane in Northern California.

Six and a half months later, Zodiac struck again, approaching a couple who were in a parked car at a Golf Course. Using a 9mm Luger, he fired 3 shots into each victim and turned away, returning when he heard one of the victims moan. He pumped two more shots into each victim and drove away. The Male victim survived the attack. Minutes later, a phone call was received by the Vallejo Police Department from a man claiming responsibility for the golf course shooting and the lover’s lane shooting the prior December.

On August 1, 1969, three letters were received by the 3 main newspapers in the San Francisco region. The letters, virtually identical in nature, claimed responsibility for the golf course and lovers lane murders. Each letter also contained one third of a 408 symbol cryptogram and demanded that it be printed on the front page of the next day’s edition. The killer came up with his Zodiac moniker with the next letter which was received by the San Francisco Examiner 6 days later. It began with the statement, ‘Dear Editor, This is the Zodiac speaking’. To prove his responsibility for the crime, in the letter he described several aspects of both shootings that had previously not been released to the public.

A little more than a month later, he claimed another victim, this time knifing a picnicking couple more than 500 times. The woman died in route to the hospital later that day, while the man survived the attack to provide police with a description of the hooded attacker. Once again, Zodiac phoned police to report the crime and claim responsibility. Two weeks later, Zodiac shot and killed a cab driver near The Presidio. Witnesses worked with the authorities to provide composite sketches of the killer, but no suspects were ever charged. The letters and cryptograms continued through the end of 1969. Throughout 1970, the San Francisco Chronicle received greeting cards and letters from the Zodiac Killer.

The correspondence denied responsibility for various crimes that had been committed, but alluded to other crimes that police had not connected to Zodiac. Each letter ended with a scorecard which counted the number of victims that he was claiming responsibility for. This continued from 1971 through 1973 claiming responsibility for crimes and offering clues to the whereabouts of some victims bodies. One of the final letters received by the Chronicle praised the movie, ‘The Exorcist’ and ended with the scorecard, Me = 37, SFPD = 0.

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“ Minnesota-born Carl Panzram was thirty-nine when he was executed after killing twenty-one people. Panzram was a personality of almost mythical proportions - he committed his first burglary at age eleven, and remained a professional...
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Minnesota-born Carl Panzram was thirty-nine when he was executed after killing twenty-one people. Panzram was a personality of almost mythical proportions - he committed his first burglary at age eleven, and remained a professional criminal the rest of his life. In 1920, he brazenly burglarized forty thousand dollars’ worth of property from former U.S. president William Howard Taft’s house. In jail, he terrorized the guards and administration by inciting riots, and burning down the kitchen and factory in one of the jails. At one point, he broke out of jail, stole a yacht, and sailed it to Africa and Europe. He lured soldiers on board his vessel, then sodomized them, killed them, and threw their bodies into the water. In prison Panzram wrote a book openly describing his sex crimes, confessing to some one thousand homosexual rapes. Panzram stated, “My motto is: Rob them all, rape them all, and kill them all.” In 1929, Panzram was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for burglary and threatened in the courtroom to “kill the first person who bothers me.” Ten months later, he beat in the head of a fellow prisoner with an iron bar. For this crime he received the death sentence. When an anti-capital group attempted to have Panzram’s sentence commuted, he raged: “The only thanks you or your kind will ever get from me for your efforts on my behalf is that I wish you all had one neck and that I have my hands on it… I believe the only way to reform people is to kill them.” On September 11, 1930, Panzram was led to the gallows and there asked if he had any last words. He replied, “Yes, hurry it up, you hoosier bastard. I could hang a dozen men while you’re fooling around.

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The disappearance of a 13-year-old girl in South Carolina in 1975 took police on a sickening journey into the world of serial killer Donald ‘Pee Wee’ Gaskins. While investigating the disappearance, police found two graveyards, one containing six corpses, the other two. With the assistance of one-time associate, Walter Neely, the police identified Gaskins as the contract killer in all cases. Gaskins had strong connections to the underworld. Using truth serum, Gaskins admitted to 13 killings and was sentenced to eight life terms. Unrepentant, Gaskins accepted another contract while in prison, this time to kill Rudolph Tyner. He rigged up an intercom packed with dynamite and blew off the side of Tyner’s head. For this Gaskins was finally sent to the electric chair on September 6, 1991, but not before admitting to 100+ murders.

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Dr. Michael Stone’s Scale of Evil

Dr. Michael Stone has created a scale he calls Scale of evil. The scale stretches from 1 to 22 and Dr. Michael Stone places each and every serial killer on this scale all depending on how evil they are.

Level 1 
“Those who kill in self defense and do not show psychopathic tendencies.”

Level 2. 
“Jealous lovers who, though egocentric or immature, are not psychopathic; crime passional”

Level 3
“Willing companions of killers: aberrant personality—probably impulse-ridden, with some antisocial traits”

Level 4
“Those who kill in self-defense, after extremely provocative behavior toward the victim”

Level 4
“Highly narcissistic, but not distinctly psychopathic persons, with a psychotic core, who kill loved ones or family members out of jealousy”

Level 5
“Traumatize, desperate people who kill abusive relatives and others.(like to support a drug habit)” but lack significant traits. Genuinely remorseful.“

Level 6
"Impetuous hotheaded murderers without psychopatic features.”

Level 7
“Highly narrsasistic , but not distinctly psychopathic people.”
with a psychotic core, who kill those close to them. Jealously is an underlying motive.

Level 8
“Non psychopathic people with smoldering rage who kill when that rage is ignited.”

Level 9
“Jealous lovers with marked psychopathic features”

Level 10
“Killers of people who where in the way or killed for example witnesses.(egocentric but not distinctly psychopathic)”

Level 11
“Psychopathic killers of people in the way.”

Level 12
“Power-hungry psychopaths who kill when cornered.”

Level 13
“Murderers with inadequate, rageful personalities and psychopathic features

Level 14
"Ruthlessly self-centered psychopathic schemers”

Level 15
“Psychopathic or cold blooded spree killers mulitple murders.”

Level 16
“Psychopaths committing multiple vicious acts.”

Level 17
“Sexually perverse serial murderers Torture-murderers. Murder is the primary motive, following prolonged torture(amoung the males rape is the primary motive with murder to hide the evidence. Systematic torture is not a primary factor”.

Level 18
“Torture murderers with murder the primary motive.”

Level 19
“Psychopaths driven to terrorism, subjugation, intimidation, and rape, but short of murder.”

Level 20
“Torture murderers with torture as the primary motive but in psychopathic personalities.”

Level 21
“Psyhcopaths preoccupied with torture in the extreme, but not known to have commited murder.”

Level 22
“Psychopathic, serial torture-murderers, with torture the primary motive.”

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The Murder of Elizabeth Short, AKA The Black Dahlia

On the morning of January 15, 1947, a housewife named Betty Bersinger was walking down a residential street in central Los Angeles with her 3-year-old daughter when something caught her eye. It was a cold, overcast morning, and she was on her way to pick up a pair of shoes from the cobbler.

At first glance, Bersinger thought the white figure laying a few inches from the sidewalk was a broken store mannequin. But a closer look revealed the hideous truth: It was the body of a woman who’d been cut in half and was laying face-up in the dirt. The woman’s arms were raised over her head at 45-degree angles. Her lower of half was positioned a foot over from her torso, the straight legs spread wide open. The body appeared to have been washed clean of blood, and the intestines were tucked neatly under the buttocks. Bersinger shielded her daughter’s eyes, then ran with her to a nearby home to call the police.

Two detectives were assigned to the case, Harry Hansen and Finis Brown. By the time the duo arrived at the crime scene — on Norton Avenue between 39th and Coliseum streets in Los Angeles — it was swarming with reporters and gawkers who were carelessly trampling the evidence. The detectives ordered the crowd to back off, then got down to business.

From the lack of blood on the body or in the grass, they determined the victim had been murdered elsewhere and dragged onto the lot, one piece at time. There was dew under the body, so they knew it had been placed there after 2 a.m., when the outside temperature dipped to 38 degrees.

The victim’s face was horribly defiled: the murderer had used a knife to slash 3-inch gashes into each corner of her mouth, giving her the death grin of a deranged clown. Rope marks on her wrists and ankles indicated she’d been restrained, and possibly tortured.

By measuring the two halves of the corpse, the detectives estimated the victim’s height to be 5'6 and her weight to be 115 pounds. Her mousy brown hair had been recently hennaed, and her fingernails were bitten to the quick.

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The Evolution of the Term “Psychopath”

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The term “psychopath” was introduced by J.L.A. Kock in his 1891 monograph “Die Psychopathischen Minderwertigkeiten” in his description of “psychopathic inferiorities”.

In 1939, Henderson described psychopaths in his book “Psychopathic States” as individuals afflicted with an illness:

  • “the term psychopathic state is the name we apply to those individuals who conform to a certain intellectual standard, sometimes high, sometimes approaching the realm of defect but yet not amounting to it, who throughout their lives, or from a comparatively early age, have exhibited disorders of conduct of an antisocial or asocial nature, usually of a recurrent or episodic type, who, in many instances, have proved difficult to influence by methods of social, penal, and medical care and treatment and for whom we have no adequate provision of a preventive or curative nature. The inadequacy or deviation or failure to adjust to ordinary social life is not a mere willfulness or badness which can be threatened or thrashed out of the individual so involved, but constitutes a true illness for which we have no specific explanation

In 1953, Thompson described psychopaths, in “The Psychopathic Delinquent and Criminal” as “such persons as those who seek momentary gratification, lack discretion, and fail to profit from experience, which leads to repeated failures.”

In Cleckley’s 1976 book, “The Mask of Sanity”, he outlined 16 characteristics of psychopaths:

  • intelligent
  • rational
  • calm
  • unreliable
  • insincere
  • without shame or remorse
  • having poor judgment
  • without capacity for love
  • unemotional
  • poor insight
  • indifferent to the trust or kindness of others
  • overreactive to alcohol
  • suicidal
  • impersonal sex life
  • lacking long-term goals
  • inadequately motivated antisocial behaviour

Currently, we use what is considered the best methodology in measuring criminal psychopathy, which is Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist.