From Jeffrey Dahmer to Ted Bundy, John Wayne and a countless list of serial killers have spread terror among the inhabitants of the world. It never hurts to travel to the past and recount those criminals who went down in history and not precisely because of their good deeds.
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The ‘most dangerous serial killer in all of history’ became America’s nightmare between 1974 and 1978, a period of time in which he committed 30 homicides – all of American women – in seven states. He not only killed his victims, but also abused and dismembered them, according to ‘BBC’.
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John Wayne Gacy
The ‘killer clown’ is not far behind. His criminal record shows that he raped and killed 33 young men between 1972 and 1978. “Killing me will not return any of the victims” was the killer’s revealing phrase before he died by lethal injection in 1994, according to the portal ‘Britannica’ .
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Charles Manson
This criminal and sectarian gave the international media something to talk about when the Manson family – a sect directed by him – murdered the actress Sharon Tate along with four other people in 1969. Two direct crimes are attributed to him and it is believed that he was the instigator of, at least seven more murders.
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Jack the Ripper
This anonymous serial killer – he was never identified – lives up to his nickname. Although he was not the deadliest -five murders of women are attributed to him in 1888 in London-, he was one of the cruelest: he cut the abdomen of his victims and removed their organs, according to ‘National Geographic’.
Jeffrey Dahmer
The ‘Milwaukee monster’ has been in the focus of criminalists and the general public not only for killing 17 men and teenagers between 1978 and 1991 -and for starring in a series on Netflix-, but also because his murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism and preservation of corpses.
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The Zodiac Killer
This anonymous serial killer accumulated several victims between 1968 and 1969 in California, United States. Officially, seven victims are attributed to him -four men and three women-; However, an alleged letter sent by him reveals that there may have been 37. He was never caught.
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Richard Ramirez
Harmless during the day and deadly at night, the cataloged “night stalker” was an American serial killer who killed 14 people between 1984 and 1985 in the city of Los Angeles, United States. He was captured thanks to the testimony of a survivor and died in 2013.
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Peter Kurten
The ‘Vampire of Düsseldorf’ murdered and drank blood for pleasure; that is why he nicknamed it, also associated with the German city where he committed most of his crimes in 1929. When he was captured, in 1930, he was charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders, according to ‘National Geographic’.
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