10 Monstrous Serial Killers this World has Ever Seen
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The word 'Serial Killer' is not at all aloof to the television world; there had been an innumerable movies and shows on them like American Psycho and Silence of the Lambs. What motivates a serial killer to kill people is unknown but for sure, they were successful in inducing horror in the world. Here is the list of 10 monstrous, blood-thirsty serial killers from Jack the Ripper to the present.

1. Jack the Ripper:

Name: Jack the Ripper (true name unknown)

Born : London, UK

Victim count: 5 (Possible victims - 11)

In the year 1888, for nearly 3 months, White chapel street (London) has lived in a state of extreme horror and distress. An unknown man nick-named Jack the Ripper killed 5 prostitutes in a ruthless, savage manner (However, it is said that the count may reach upto 11). All of them were sexually mutilated and some of them had internal organs missing. The purpose and the murderer still remain as an unsolved conundrum of this world, though it has completed 125 years.

2. Ted Bundy

Name : Theodore Robert Cowell

Born : Burlington, Vermont, US

Victim count: 30 (Possible victims - 36)

Being an expert in Psychology, he had a way of gaining trust from the victims. During 1970-78, he had committed many murders along with rape and torture. He used to lure his victims (everyone women), rape them and then strangling them to death. He threw the bodies near the Taylor mountain which he used to visit frequently. In interrogation, he left some shocking truths saying that he used to have sex with the decomposed dead bodies and also " I feel like a vampire", he said.

Interestingly, on the other side of the coin, Ted was an astute person. He assisted police in solving the Green river murder case. Finally, he was given the punishment of death in Railford electric chair in Florida prison on 24th January, 1989.

3. Zodiac killer

Name: Zodiac killer (true name unknown)

Born : California or Nevada, US

Victim Count: 28 (Possible victims - 37)

Zodiac killer, whose identity remains still dark killed 28 people in late 1960's and the early 1970's. On August 1, 1969, he sent three almost identical letters to Vallejo Times Herald, San Francisco times and San Francisco Examiner which took credit for his killings at Lake Herman road and Blue Rock springs. Some of the warning letters sent by him remain undeciphered.

Here is a letter of his which was deciphered by Graysmith in 1976. (Source :Wikipedia)

"I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experience it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is thae when I die I will be reborn in paradise and thei have killed will become my slaves I will not give you my name because you will try to sloi down or atop my collecting of slaves for my afterlife ebeorietemethhpiti".

The last 18 letters of the cipher remains mysterious. Some of his letters were unsolved as his identity.

4 Charles Manson:

Name : Charles Milles Maddox

Born : Ohio, U.S.

Victim count : 7

Notorious as the Mansion Family, he gained followers from different parts of California and he led a quasi-commune movement by manipulating the religion. He attracted many women and brain-washed them that all the Afro-Americans would gain power, would kill all the white families and Manson family would be the only one which would survive. Some of the Family's women believed him so blindly that they used to call him "Jesus Christ" and do anything for him. He committed many crimes along with 'Mansion family' including the murder of actress Sharon Tate and 6 others. Being proficient in writing and composing music, he used a term Helter Skelter for impending race war apocalypse. Finally, he was sentenced to death and later, it was reduced to a life imprisonment.

5. Gary Ridgway

Name : Gary Leon Ridgway

Born : Utah, U.S.

Victim count : 71 (Possible count - 92)

Famous as the Green river killer or the River Man, he murdered many women and children in the 1980's and 90's and is one of the most prolific and brutal killers of American history. His major target was the women in the age group of 15-40 and most of them are run away teens. He was sentenced to death initially but later on providing complete details of his murders, his punishment was reduced to 48 life imprisonments without parole.

6.Robert Pickton :

Name: Robert William Pickton

Born : Port Coquitlam, Columbia

Victim Count : 49

A multi-millionaire and a serial killer he is. He was convicted of killing 6 women with a high degree of torture in his pig farm in Vancouver. Though it is highly suspected that he killed 49 women, there was no strong evidence on him for that. When arrested, he boasted how he killed 49 women and due to his sloppiness, he could not make it to 50. In 2007, he was apprehended and given a imprisonment of life without a possible parole in 25 years.

7.Andrei Chikatilo :

Name : Andrei Romanovich Chitkalo

Born : Yablochneye, Ukraine

Victim Count : 53 (Confessed - 56)

Also known as the Red Ripper, the Butcher of Rostov and the Rostov Ripper, he committed serious crimes of sexual assault, mutilation and murder of atleast 53 women and children in the period of l978-1980. His primary target was children; he raped them, killed them and also ate some of their internal organs. In 1980, he was arrested and was sent out of this world in 1994 February by shooting a bullet into his head.

8. Javed Iqbal :

Name: Javed Iqbal Mughal

Born : Lahore, Pakistan

Victim count :100

Also known as Mukri, during a stint of 2 years, this serial killer killed 100 runaway boys from the streets of Lahore. He drugged, raped, killed them and disposed them in vats of hydrochloric acid and then dumped the liquified remains into Ravi river nearby. Police found all the details of his murders in his diary along with 2 vats of hydrochloric acid with partial human remains. Iqbal was sentenced to death by hanging but before execution, his body was found dead strangled by the bed sheets in prison.

9. Dr. Harold Shipman

Name: Harold Frederick Shipman

Born : Nottingham, U.K.

Victim count : 250+

Perhaps, he is not at all eligible to be called as a doctor. Nick-named as Dr. death or the angel of death, he is a blight in the medical history of the world killing more than 250 patients of him, most of them elderly women. Unlike other serial killers, he did not go for torture or sexual assaults and even more, his motive for his killings remain untold. He was arrested in 1998 and was given 15 life sentences and later, during his trial, he committed suicide by hanging on 13th January, 2004.

10. Alonso López:

Name : Pedro Alonso López

Born : Santa Isabel, Columbia

Victim count : 300+

Known notoriously as the monster of the Andes, this man was accused of raping and killing more than 300 women and children in various parts of Ecuador, Peru and Columbia. He enticed his victims to a secluded or unoccupied buildings and preyed on them then. He raped each of them and then killed them using barbaric, cold-blooded ways. He was caught by the market traders when an abduction failed as was arrested by police then. He was imprisoned in Ecuador in 1980 for 18 years and later in 2002, he was arrested again by Colombian government and awarded him life imprisonment.