JOHN REGINANLD CHRISTIE
On 24 March 1953 a new tenant was moving into his flat at 10 Rillington Place in London’s Notting Hill when he discovered a naked body of a woman. Calling the police, they found six bodies of women who had been raped and strangled, including the wife of the previous tenant, the tall, balding John Reginald Christie. Soon caught, he admitted the murders and was hanged in July 1953.

Ill-treated and bullied at school, Christie became a petty thief. His father kicked him out and in 1920 he married Ethel, a passive woman. In 1943 he had an affair with a married woman. When the husband found out, he beat him up.
Still sexually inadequate, it was this that led to his killings, the semen found in the bodies suggesting he was a necrophile. His failure to communicate coupled with his sexual inadequacy led him to prefer to have sex with dead women.

TED BUNDY
The Colorado police were perplexed when they arrested Ted Bundy for the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch. He was a long way from a typical suspect. He had a degree in psychology. However, whilst in custody he was linked to the murder of one Caryn Campbell.

In December 1977, 6 months after arrest, Bundy escaped. He was caught in February 1978, but during his period of liberty he had attacked at least 5 women, 3 of them fatally. By this time, nationwide enquiries had linked him to 19 murders of young women in California, Utah, Colorado and Washington State – as well as Florida where the latest attacks had occurred.

Ted Bundy was sentenced to death and served ten years on Death Row, executed in January 1989. During this time he was studied by psychologists. One of them, a Dr Carlisle, concluded that Bundy was … a man who has no problems, or is smart enough or clever enough to appear close to the edge of normalcy.

Yet in other interviews, a dark personality emerged. He collaborated on a book, claiming total innocence, but speculated freely on the mentality of the serial killer. For motive, he spoke of genuine pleasure in killing and claimed the act must be endlessly repeated to satiate the appetite.

He also claimed that a force existed within the personality of the killer; a form of beast within. This was the real culprit, and existed side by side with the person, allowing the killer to appear normal. To use Bundy’s own words: ‘sometimes I feel like a vampire.’

SERIAL KILERS
In the early 1960s Boston was terrorized by a killer who became known as the Boston Strangler. Killing 13 women, they were left naked, raped and strangled. Eventually, a handyman called Albert Desalvo was convicted for the murders.

In March 1953 a new tenant at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, discovered the first of 6 bodies hidden around the flat. Police found the previous tenant – John Reginald Christie – and he was later hanged for the crimes.
The above are typical serial killers – people who gain a thirst for killing and continue to do so over and over again. The murders are usually very personal events, the killer leaving much of his personality behind. Profilers often use the crime scene in order to understand what is going on in the killer’s mind.

As with most serial killers, Desalvo and Christie were loners. Motives vary. Christie appeared to be sexually frustrated, with evidence of having sex with the corpses. Desalvo, on the other hand, was a pervert. Before turning to murder, he had a career as a sexual molester.

This slow transition from lesser crime to murder can often be identified. Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed 15 times in America between 1978-91 began his career by killing animals. He was a walking zombie who considered himself a failure.
Sometimes, a killer can appear a confident, normal person. Homosexual John Wayne Gacy, who admitted to 33 murders of young men around Chicago in the 1970s and 80s, was a successful businessman and even entertained children as a clown.

Ted Bundy, who was executed in 1989, killed all over America. His deep frustrations were hidden behind a confident façade, and he even appeared a bit of a womanizer. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, who killed 13 women between 1975-81, lived with a wife who had no idea what he was up to.
Sutcliffe was, infact, an evangelical killer. God spoke to him to tell him to clean prostitutes off the street. He carried out his crimes in a matter of fact way. Alternatively, Dennis Nilson, who was discovered when his drains were blocked by body parts in 1983, killed 15 young men principally, it seems, because he had taken them to his flat and he didn’t want them to go.

One worrying aspect of serial killers is that they do not appear to be insane. In court they are judged sane and sent to prison rather than a mental institution. But maybe this point may hold the key to understanding them.
That they are monsters is not in doubt, but could it be that the monster is simply a part of their make-up that only surfaces from time to time? For instance, how can a ‘monster’ successfully lead a normal life undetected? Further, in most serial killings, silly mistakes are made, and often they are happy to be caught, as if there is a ‘conscience’ working behind the scenes.

These three aspects of the serial killer – the monster, the façade and the conscience – have similarities to a phenomenon known as multiple personality, where, due to psychological problems, the mind can fragment into different characters who take it in turn to occupy the host.

I am not saying that serial killers are multiple personality sufferers, but as Ted Bundy advised, sometimes a monster takes him over. Perhaps, to understand the serial killer, we need to know more about what goes on in his head.

BEVERLEY ALLITT
Nurses have been known to become serial killers. Consider Beverley Allitt. Working in a Grantham children’s ward in 1991, within a week, baby Liam Taylor died. Over the following months, four babies would die in all, with 24 incidences of cardiac arrest or respiratory failure.

One of these was Paul Crampton, 5 months old. When his blood was analysed, it was high in insulin. Checks showed that Beverley Allitt had been on duty during all the attacks and she was arrested. Remaining in Rampton Mental Hospital, Allitt suffers from Munchenhausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, where her need for attention results in her hurting, first, herself, and then others.

BOSTON STRANGLER
On 14 June 1962 the body of Anna Slesers was found in her Boston home. She was the first of 13 women of varying ages to be found dead in their homes, naked, raped and strangled with a stocking, their bodies left in obscene poses. This was the beginning of the Boston Strangler. The reign of terror ended in October 1964 when a man entered a house and assaulted a woman before saying sorry and leaving.

The description of the assailant fitted the Measuring Man, a sexual pervert who had assaulted dozens of women. Soon, handyman Albert Desalvo was arrested, and in the Bridgewater Mental Institute he confessed to being the killer. Through plea bargaining, he received life for lesser crimes and was stabbed to death in prison in 1973.

What kind of man was Desalvo? His mother gave him little affection and his father was brutal, one day breaking his wife’s fingers one by one. Soon becoming a housebreaker, Desalvo joined the US Army in Germany, marrying a local girl who divorced him for serial adultery and a high sexual urge.

Indeed, Desalvo claimed to always have an erection – the answer to his previous crime spree as the Measuring Man, so called because he’d con women into thinking he could make them into models, his advances beginning with measuring them up. It is believed he may have committed 300 rapes before finally turning to murder.

HAROLD SHIPMAN
Harold Shipman is thought to be Britain’s worst serial killer, killing a possible 215 people, mainly elderly patients, with overdoses of diamorphine. Born in Nottingham in 1946, his mother died when he was 17. It is thought his fascination with death began here. Marrying his wife, Primrose, in 1965, he first began practicing as a GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in 1979. Six years later, an investigation into death rates among his patients led to no action.

Investigated again in 1998 after another GP expressed concern, he is known to have killed three patients before his arrest. With many bodies exhumed, he was tried at Preston Crown Court in 1999 and found guilty of fifteen murders. Arrogant and unrepentant, Shipman hanged himself in his cell in January 2004.

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The media is calling them the Craigslist killers. They are 16-year-old Richard Beasley and 52-year-old Brogan Rafferty.

This duo is responsible for the Craigslist deaths. The duo is alleged to have used the popular classified advertising website Craigslist to lure their victims to their deaths.

What the duo did was place job adverts on Craigslist, and lure job seekers to a remote part of Ohio, where they shoot the jobseekers dead and bury them in shallow graves.

Police reports show that Beasley and Rafferty placed an advert on Craigslist with the attractive title: “Job of a Lifetime”. They were looking for applicants who would act as caretakers for a 688-acre patch of hilly farmland. The salary was $300.00 a week and accommodation in a trailer.

According to the police, over hundred people responded to the advert. And those men who were called to attend an interview were brutally killed.

Beasley and his mentor Rafferty would drive those men they have offered the fake ‘job’ to the supposed “farmland’ which in reality never existed. It was here they killed all their victims by a shot to their heads.

So far, police have discovered four bodies, but the search continues as police believe there may be more victims.

The duo managed to evade the law until one time they run out of luck with one of their victims – 48-year-old Scott Davis, who succeeded in fleeing from them when they drove him to the woods to be killed. Davis then called the police who arrived at the scene to be greeted with several recently dug shallow graves.

The duo was finally caught after FBI agents tracked them through their computers.

A serial killer is a person who carries out a series of murders over a period of time.  What causes these men and women to begin and continue their streak of awful murders?  How does one cope with the “blood on their hands”?  What determines their punishment for the crime they did?

Serial killers, such as Ted Bundy, Genene Jones, and Robert Hansen, follow a certain routine to qualify for the definition of a serial killer.  To be a serial killer, the person needs to follow a certain routine over a period of time, with a single victim each time.  These men and women are usually smart and elude detection.  Though this strikes fear throughout, another type of murder creates an awareness within the community.  Mass murderers usually kill several victims in an amount of time, such as minutes, hours.  Their normal crime scenes are shopping malls, restaurants, and government offices.  Unfortunately certain people fall to the conscienceless action, for example families, or random bystanders.

Serial killers have different motives for their actions.  They could be for sex or lust.  Sex murderers kills often out of fear or wanting to silence their victims‘ words.  However, lust murderers harbor deep-rooted fantasies thus want to commit their inner desires.  The “Southside Slayer” killed twelve women prostitutes with a small handgun, thus causing a worry in the town.  Ted Bundy, a well known killer, victimized forty young women between 1964 and 1978 in the Pacific Northwest, including Utah, Idaho, Colorado and another odd spot Florida.  He sexually assaulted the women before and after death, then murdered them with a blunt instrument or strangulation.  Robert Hansen had a “severe inferiority complex with girls”, so he started rape and torture young women.  These women included seventeen prostitutes, nude dancer, and women that made him feel weak.  He was known as Alaska’s worst mass murderer.

For gratification, some murderers seek other ways such as animal torturing, or using young persons.  Genene Jones seeks enjoyment by murdering six children with injections of succinylcholine, a hard to detect drug that paralyzes.  Her victim that convicted her, Chelsea McClellan, a fifteen month old, revealed the rest of the victim’s evidence.  Normally murderers who carry out several killings are psychologically unstable.  In younger years, killers might have felt a sense of rejection, failure, and loss of autonomy.  They are disoriented enough to think killing is a “recreational sport”.

In return for their wrong doings, serial killers are given a punishment.   Modern thinkers believe that death is only way to deter a criminal from striking again, yet others think this option is too cruel and expensive.  It’s the last resort to deter people from -committing particularly heinous crimes.

“We generally cannot incarcerate people for crimes they have to commit.”  (Hickey,1991)

The decision to kill or not is not always decided by the thoughts, it could be decided if the state has the penalty.  Other options for the killers are to take the plea bargains they were offered, which often lead to confessing and a lesser year sentence.  Some criminals get a life sentence without parole, meaning no possible chance of being free again.  Most serial killers or mass murderers are highly unlikely to have liberty to outside life.  From 1995 to 2000, seventy-one executions averaged per year, a twenty-one thousand percent increase from 1966 to 1980.

In the end, most well known serial killers are captured and executed within the year or a couple of months after.  If not, their actions taken in the prison will be worse than what would be produced, such as a riot, if they were still alive.  Their minds are unstable for their actions they created.  Thus they are either dead or not in the real world

Serial Killers Top 10 agressivity ranks.

This list goes from the most aggressive serial killer-1st-to the 10th, the least aggressive of this list.

·     Luis Gavarito (AKA “La Bestia”), from Colombia. He was suspect of murdering over 300 people but only 138 murders were proved to have been of his authority. Known child-murderer, torture-killer and rapist, his main primarily target were street children, most of them, young boys. He was arrested in 1999 and was judged and condemned to 1,853 years incarcerated but only got imprisionated for 30 on which was reduced to 22 years after aiding investigator.

·     Pedro Alonso Lopez, known as “The monster of the Andes” was a child-murderer and rapist of which targeted young girls, between the ages of 8 to 12. Convicted of only 110 murderers, but confessed to killing 300, the exact number is unknown. He was arrested in 1980 and judged in 1983 but he was released in 1998 after it was declared that he had been rehabilitated, it’s believed that he is still an active killer, but his whereabouts are unknown.

·     Thug Behram was born India in 1765 and died at 1840; he was the leader of the Thugee cult. He confessed that he had killed on his own more than then 125 victims and that he was also present at 931 murders, all perpetrated by his cult. It believes that the Thugee cult murdered from 50,000 to 1,000,000 people in total.

·     Javed Iqbal, from Lahore, Pakistan, was a child-murderer, confessed to have killed 100 children and convicted of the same number. He acted from 1996 to 1999. He was possibly tortured before he was killed inside his prison cell.

·     Gary Ridgway, AKA “The Green River Killer”, was from United States. His primarily targets were escorts from Seattle. He used to propose a prostitute, drive then to the banks of Green River and then strangle her to death. After so, he would dump the body in the nearby water. He was suspected of 90 murders but confessed to only 71, and convicted of 49. He is the man with the most murder convictions in the U.S. history. He was sentenced to lifetime in prison without the possibility of parole.

·     Gilles de Rais, was a nobleman from Brittany and a child-murderer, convicted of only 80 murders but suspected to up to 200, he fought alongside with Joan of Arc on the Hundred Years War.

·     Donald Henry Gaskins AKA “meanest man in America” or “Pee-Wee”, from South Carolina, USA, was a child-murderer, convicted of only 9 murders. He also killed 3 people while he was incarcerated, one of which using C-4. On the death row he confessed to have killed 110 children. Executed in 1991.

·     Daniel Barbosa, from Colombia, Ecuador, was a child-murderer, he possibly raped and killed over 150 people, his primarily target was young virgin girls. He only confessed to have killed 72 victims.

·     Pedro Rodrigues Filho was a Brazilian serial killer of which acted from 1967 to 2003. He was convicted and sentenced to 128 years, but Brazil doesn’t have lifetime sentences, and the maximum time someone can serve in prison is just 30 years. He claimed to have murdered more than 100 people, 40 of which were inmates.

·     David Parker Ray was a torture-murderer from New Mexico, USA, his primarily targets were women. He acted from 1950 to 1999, convicted of only 14 murders but suspected of 60. He is famous for having built a DS$100,000 torture chamber, of which he used to call it “his toy-box”.

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1. Daniel Camargo Barbosa – A Colombian serial killer born in January 1930 who lived to rape and kill more than 150 girls in Colombia and Ecuador between 1974 and 1986. Believed to be a psychopath, Daniel was also known as Manuel Bulgarin and died in November 1994.
2. Miyuki Ishikawa – She was born in 1897 in Miyazaki, Japan. Nicknamed demon midwife, she was accused of murdering more than 160 infants between 1944 and 1948. She was arrested in January 1948 and sentenced to four years in prison where she is believed to have died under unspecified circumstances on an unknown date.
3. Donald Gaskins – Born in March 1933, Donald was an American serial killer nicknamed pee wee and known as the meanest man in America for killing more than 100 victims between 1953 and 1982. He was arrested in December 1975 and was executed by means of an electric chair in September 1991.
4. Amelia Dyer – She was born in 1838 in Bristol, England. She was arrested in 1896, tried and hanged in June of the same year for the death of one victim known as Doris Marmon even though it is believed beyond any shadow of doubt that she killed more than 400 under similar circumstances.
5. Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova – A Russian serial killer woman born in 1730 in Moscow who went on to kill more than 100 of her female servants, then known as serfs, for which she was arrested in 1762 and sentenced to life imprisonment in the basement of Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow. She later died in 1781.

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The World’s most notorious serial killers: Part One

The World’s most notorious serial killers: Part Two

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1. Alexander Pichushkin – A Russian serial killer born in 1974 who managed to kill more than sixty people. He became Russia’s most prolific serial killer and was nicknamed the chessboard killer. He had a target of 64 but was arrested in 2006 before accomplishing his notorious goal. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with the first 15 years in solitary confinement.
2. Elizabeth Bathory – A Hungarian woman serial killer born in 1560 who was accused of torturing and killing more than 600 young girls. She was nicknamed the blood countess for being the most prolific female serial killer. She was arrested and confined in her own castle where she died in 1614 without trial.
3. Ahmad Suradji – An Indonesian serial killer born in 1949 and nicknamed Datuk. He was accused of killing more than 42 women and girls over a period of 11 years believing that the ritual killings would give him magical powers. He buried his victims up to the waist and strangled them with cables. He was executed in 2008 by a firing squad.
4. Gary Ridgway – An American serial killer born in 1949 and nicknamed the green river killer. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in 2003 for killing more than 70 women and confessed to killing 49. A truck painter, he killed his victims and dumped their bodies near the famous Green river near Seattle in Washington.
5. Moses Sithole – A black south African serial killer notorious for strangling 38 unemployed women while all along posing as a businessman able to assist them find jobs. He raped tortured and strangled his victims to death. Born in 1964, Moses was sentenced to 2410 years in prison with 930 of these being without option of parole.

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1. Harold Shipman – Born in 1946 in Nottingham England, he was a qualified doctor who instead of treating patients targeted them with lethal injections of diamorphine and managed to kill more than 250 patients, especially elderly women. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but managed to hang himself in 2004 while in his cell. He was nicknamed Dr. Death for his prolificacy in killing patients.
2. Pedro Alonso Lopez – A Colombian serial killer born in 1948 who targeted young girls between the ages of 8 and 12 for no apparent reason and managed to kill more than 300 of them before being arrested in 1980, imprisoned and rehabilitated. He was released authorities claimed the rehabilitation a success. He was nicknamed the Monster of the Andes.
3. Pedro Rodriquez Filho – A Brazilian serial killer born in 1954 convicted in 2003 for the murder of more than 100 people. He was nicknamed little peter the killer. He was sentenced to 128 years in prison but can only serve a maximum of 30 years under Brazilian law. He is set to be released in 2033.
4. Andrei Chikatilo – A Ukrainian serial killer born in 1936 who targeted mainly women and children and managed to kill more than 50 of them before being apprehended in 1990 but not before three other men were sentenced to hang for his crimes. He was executed for the murder of 53 victims in February 1994.
5. Anatoly Onoprienko – Another notorious Ukrainian serial killer born in 1959 and nicknamed the beast of Ukraine. He was arrested in 1996 and confessed to killing 52 people. 9 in 1989 and another 43 between 1995 and 1996. He was a forestry student for his antics, was nicknamed the terminator. Several suspected killers were captured, tortured and killed before he was arrested.

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Serial killers has a distinct pattern in the way that they kill, they see reality very different from you and I. They are most often very intelligent individuals (only few such as the Green River Killer are not).

A serial killer that has never been caught, is listed by the victims and other facts such as pattern and location.

Some unsolved serial murders,
some serial killers never caught.

The one most talked about serial killers never caught, is probably Jack the Ripper in the late 18 century in England.. It is defiantly with him that the world first encountered a real serial killer as we classify them today. What the police saw when they reached a crime scene of Jack the Ripper, could not possibly be describe in plain words. Jack the Ripper was more than gruesome, a horrible individual that left the world in a state of chock… how could a human being do such a thing?…

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More serial killers never caught.

Axeman of New Orleans, this killer took the lives of 12 innocent people between 1918-1919. It is suspected that he was inspired by Jack the Ripper, because he taunted the police. As rapidly as these murders had begun, as rapidly they stopped, no one was ever identified..

The Kingsbury Run Murders, also known as the Cleveland Torso killer. Around 16 victims are known about and it happened around the 1930’s

Another talked about serial killers never caught, has to be the Zodiac killer. A gruesome and vengeful killer or even killers,  that killed between the 1960 and 1970’s. This or these killers pattern was more to taunt than anything else, he would spontaneously kill and then in one case he called the dispatch and told them where to find the victims. He also taunted the police and media, by contacting them in different ways. He or they are believed to have killed 37 people.

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The Southside Slayer roamed around in Los Angeles in the middle of the 1980’s and killed at least 20 women. This crime is now believed to have been committed by four people.

Serial Killers Never Caught.

There are many unsolved murders that seem to have the same patterns. Another note to make, is that professional psychologists and other enforcement officers say that there is around 250 serial killers active on an average everyday…

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Childhood

Marybeth claims to have grown up in an abusive home. She says that her father once locked beat her and locked her in a closet. Later she said that he didn’t mean her any harm.

Marybeth was an average student throughout school. She graduated from Duanesburg high school and had intentions to go on to college, but she never did.

Adulthood

After high school, Marybeth worked a few different jobs.  The jobs were low in pay and she didn’t need a lot of skills to do the work. Eventually she was hired on at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady as a nurse’s aid. She did her job to the best of her ability and her performance was satisfactory. She wasn’t a happy woman, she was always seemed a bit depressed and others found her to be odd. 

Marybeth met Joe Tinning on a blind date. Joe worked for General Electric. He was a quiet and shy man. They got along quite well and married a couple of years later in 1965. The couple worked hard and tried to make a good life for themselves. They were like most other married couples. Within the first five years of their marriage, the couple had two children. A boy named Joseph Jr and a girl named Barbara.

In 1971, Alton, Marybeth’s father, died from a heart attack. The following December the couple’s third child was born. Her name was Jennifer. The new baby was very sick with meningitis and died in January of 1972.  Some believe that the deaths of her father and her baby, made her irritated a pre existing mental condition. She started to pull further away from the people around her.

The Children

Less than a month after Jennifer’s death, Marybeth brought her two year old son, Joseph, to the emergency claiming that he had a seizure. The medical staff observed him for a while, but couldn’t find anything wrong. They sent him home with his mother. Later that night she brought him back. He was dead. She told them that he had gotten tangled up in his sheets while he was sleeping. The cause of death was marked as unknown.

A little over a month later, Marybeth brought her four year old daughter, Barbara, to the ER. Marybeth said that her daughter had been having severe convulsions. The doctor wanted to keep the child overnight to keep an eye on her, but Marybeth took her home. A few hours later, Barbara was back at the hospital and she was unconscious. She died at the hospital. The cause of death was unknown.

On Thanksgiving of 1973, Marybeth gave birth to her fourth child. His name was Timothy. Marybeth brought him home from the hospital, and less than a month later, she brought him back. He was dead. Marybeth told the doctor that she had checked on him while he was sleeping and he was dead in his crib. The cause of death was marked as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Marybeth gave birth to her fifth child a couple of years later. He was an Easter baby and she named him Nathan. He died when he was five months old. She had been driving down the road with him in the passenger seat. She looked down and noticed that he wasn’t breathing. There was no medical reason why he should have died.

In 1978, the Tinnings adopted a baby boy named Michael. A couple of months later, Marybeth gave birth to her sixth child. Her name was Mary Frances. When Mary Frances was about three months old she was rushed to the hospital because she was having seizures. The hospital staff was able to save the baby. A month later, Mary Frances was brought back to the hospital. She was dead. Marybeth said didn’t know how it happened. They did an autopsy on the baby and found nothing. The death was marked as SIDS.

On November 19, 1979 Marybeth gave birth to her seventh child. He was named Jonathan. When he was about 4 months old he was brought to the hospital because he was unconscious. They were able to revive him and he was sent to a hospital in Boston, so he could have tests done. They could not find any reason for him to stop breathing. He was sent home and a few days later he was brought back to the hospital. He was dead.

About a year later, Marybeth showed up at the hospital with her adopted son, Michael. He too was dead. The doctors examined his body. They did find small traces of pneumonia, but not enough to cause the death of the child. This ordeal got people thinking that something wasn’t right. Before it was believed that there was some genetic link with the children that had caused them to die, but Michael was not a blood relative. That ruled out anything genetic.

Marybeth was 42 years old when she had her eighth child in 1985. She was a baby girl and they named her Tami Lynne. The newest member of the Tinning family was four months old when she suffered the same fate as her other siblings. Again the baby was tangled up in her blankets and found unconscious. The death of Tami Lynne sparked the police investigation.

The Arrest, Trial and Conviction

After 14 years of mysterious deaths of her children, Marybeth Tinning was taken in for questioning on February 4, 1986, at the Schenectady police station. She waived her rights and answered their questions. Marybeth admitted to suffocating three of her children (Timothy, Nathan and Tami), but said she didn’t do anything to harm the other children. She was arrested and formally charged with Tami’s death. She was charged with Tami’s death and not the others because they had the most evidence for Tami’s murder.  

The trial started on June, 22, 1987. It took place at the Schenectady County Court. Marybeth did not take the witness stand in her defense. Several doctors took the stand to vouch that Tami Lynne did not die from SIDS.

On July 17, 1987, Marybeth Tinning was found guilty of murdering her baby girl, Tami Lynn. On October 2, 1987, Marybeth received a sentence of twenty years to life in prison. Later charges were brought against her for the deaths of Nathan and Timothy, but were later dropped because of the lack of evidence. Marybeth resides in Bedford Hills Prison for Woman, which is located in New York. She was denied parole in 2007 and again in 2009.

References:

Crime Library on truTV.com: Marybeth killed her nine babies- Mothers Who Kill

CrimeCaseFiles.com: Marybeth Tinning

RoyalWeb: Marybeth Tinning

It has always been very complicated to comprehend the grounds of the inhumane behaviors displayed by all those notorious criminals, by dint of brutally attacked and fiercely mutilated dead bodies. The reasons may be some kind of abnormal mental illness or a frustration which has risen through years. Myths have grown through ages about serial killers, most people believed they were all men, some believed they kept newspaper clippings with them and many other beliefs and opinions are held. Well, let us see what the following 5 of the most vicious murderers have in their profiles:

1) Iqbal, Javed:

                        A ruthless murderer from Lahore, Pakistan killed around 100 boys in a period of just 6 months. He lured boys, mostly beggars of ages between 6 and 16 to his home, where he molested them, throttled them to death, dissected their bodies and disposed them into barrels of acid. A peculiar fact about him is that he kept a record of all his victims, which included their names, ages and photos. He later himself surrendered to the Pakistani authorities in 1999 and claimed all the murders. When questioned, he stated that those murders were carried out as act of revenge against police, who had once badly assaulted him during one of his previous arrests. He was sentenced to death and was to be slaughtered the same way as he had done to his victims. But before he could be executed he was found dead in his prison cell.

2) Jack The Ripper:

                               It was during August 7 and November 10, 1888, a murderer called Jack the Ripper haunted the White chapel area near London city. During this period, he is known to have killed at least 5 people and all these murders were alike. In all 5 cases, victim was a woman, all 5 women were prostitutes, each victim’s throat was cut and body fiercely mutilated. Police received furious notes from a person who called himself Jack the Ripper and related himself to the murder. In one case he mailed a half cut human kidney to the police station. These events caused uproar among the public, in spite of vigorous tries, the killer was never caught.

3) Shipman, Harold:

                               Lost his mother in a very early age, as he saw her die before his own eyes while taking doses of morphine to ease the pain of her death due to lung cancer. Shipman graduated from Leeds University with a medical degree in 1970, became a general practitioner by the year 1977 in the town of Hyde in Manchester. According to a report published in 2002, by the time of his conviction in 2000 on account of forgery, he had killed at least 215 of his patients, who were between the ages 47 and 93. In most cases shipman injected his patients with a deadly dose of painkiller diamorphine. People supposed he avenged the death of his mother, others reasoned he was following euthanasia, removing the older people from society. He committed suicide by hanging himself in prison, his motives remained ambiguous.

4) Zodiac Killer:

              Between 1966 and 1969 in northern California, USA, an unknown serial killer is known to have murdered 6 people. First of his noticeable victim was a college student of age 18, stabbed along a riverside in 1966. Not very long after this slaughter a local newspaper received notes from zodiac killer, who stated details about the murder and warned that this was neither first nor last. 2 years later in 1968 he shot a teenage couple in car, a year later another couple was shot in the same situation though the male survived. In 1969 police received an unexpected call from a person who claimed all the previous murders. Sometime later that year, he shot another couple, male survived this time too, also the same year he shot a taxi driver, who was last of his evident victims. The crimes stopped as mysterious as they started but crime writer, Robert Gray smith contended that he remained active in 1980’s. In 1990’s a school teacher Arthur Leigh Allen, convicted for child molesting in 1975, was suspected. But was never proved to be the Zodiac Killer.

A sketch of Zodiac Killer based on witness testimonies.

5) Boston strangler:

                        A serial killer from Boston, USA killed at least 13 women between 1962 and 1964. The very first of his victims was a 55 year old woman who was sexually assaulted and put to death in her own apartment in gainsborough street in June 1962. In the following months, more women of ages ranging from 65 to 85 were found dead in the same way. During December, a young woman of age 23 was smothered to death, followed by another death of a young woman only 3 weeks later. Till January 1964, 13 women were dead. In 1965 Albert Desalvo, a patient at state mental hospital with a record of burglaries in 1950’s, confessed to the murders, but had no physical link to any of the killings. However, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on behalf of sexual assaults. He was murdered in Walpole state prison in 1973. In 2001, DNA tests proved that Desalvo was not guilty to any of those murders. The original Boston strangler was never captured.