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Minnie Dean was born in Scotland and immigrated to New Zealand, where she died by hanging. She worked as a baby farmer in Southland.

In 1895, she was arrested after the bodies of several infants were found on her property. The nail in her coffin, so to speak, was sightings of Minnie Dean entering a train with a baby and leaving with only a hat box, later found to contain the body of an infant. She was convicted of one murder, though historians still debate how many deaths were deliberate versus linked to neglect, illness, or the high mortality rates of the era.

There are many questions surrounding the deaths that occurred under Minnie Dean's care, the main one being: was she actually guilty?

Legend says no plants will grow on her grave. She is part of local folklore, a symbol of true evil.

Reposted due to error.

Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos robbed and murdered 7 men in Florida. She later made various claims that some or even all of the men had raped or attempted to rape her, and that she never reported it because she thought nobody would believe her since she was a sex worker. She routinely claimed was that she killed her first victim, Richard Mallory, in self-defense. In the years then, some have insisted that Wuornos was telling truth. Even many of those who are less sympathetic to her suggest that she likely killed Richard Mallory in self-defense.

Nothing could be further from the truth, as documented by the records of her 1994 appeal by Aileen Wuornos to the Florida Supreme Court.

Aileen Wuornos was a liar and a murderer who confessed voluntarily, then committed perjury by crying rape in an attempt to avoid being held accountable for her actions. False accusations of rape are rare, but this case was one of them. The idea that Wuornos acted in self-defense against Richard Mallory, let alone any or even all of the others, is absurd. Wuornos was guilty as charged and sentenced appropriately under the law, which she very clearly thought she was above.

After her arrest, Wuornos asked for a lawyer and the police gave her one. After the lawyer advised her to remain silent, Wuornos explicitly stated that she was making a conscious decision to ignore their advice and thus waived her right to remain silent, then made a videotaped confession to all seven murders. In her videotaped confession, Wuornos admitted to shooting Richard Mallory execution-style in cold blood. She also confessed to the murders of David Andrew Spears, Charles Edmund Carskaddon, Peter Abraham Siems, Troy Eugene Burress, Charles Richard Humphreys, and Walter Gino Antonio.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA AILEEN C. WUORNOS, Appellant, vs. CASE NO. SC00- 1199 STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. ON APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, STATE OF FLORIDA ANSWER BRIEF OF THE APPELLEE

Richard Mallory had a prior conviction for attempted rape. However, that conviction occurred over 30 years ago and Wuornos never claimed to be aware of it before the fact. It was already known to her lawyers at the time of the trial and was deemed inadmissible in her appeals because it was a clear attempt to retroactively justify premeditated murder. Contrary to claims made by some of her sympathizers, no woman other than Aileen Wuornos ever accused Mallory of anything after his release.

>Indeed, the most recent evidence about Mr. Mallory's character comes from his girlfriend, Ms. Davis, who during a proffer testified that she knew him as a kind, gentle, and caring person. Ms. Davis did not know Mr. Mallory to be aggressive toward her or any other woman. It is no wonder that the defense chose not to call Ms. Davis as a witness, notwithstanding Mallory's confession to her that in his late teens he broke into a woman's house and was sent into a criminal rehabilitation program.

There is not so much as a miniscule shred of evidence that Richard Mallory ever reoffended after his release in 1962. This is in stark contrast to Aileen Wuornos, who had a long history of violence going back 15 years before she became a murderer.

In 1974, Wuornos fired a gun from a moving vehicle.

In 1976, Wuornos, then 20, met 69-year-old Lewis Fell, a multimillionaire retired yacht owner. Fell fell in love with Wuornos and they later married. Despite the age gap, it should be said that this was a relationship between two consenting adults. Fells seemed to be legitimately in love with Wuornos. He bought her new clothes, showered her with gifts and affection and seemed to genuinely care about her.

In response, Wuornos got into bar fights and beat Fell with own walking cane. The couple divorced and Fell got a restraining order against her. Wuornos later falsely accused him of beating her with his cane. It was the first of many false accusations made by Wuornos to avoid taking accountability for her actions. She told the truth to several people, including her mother. Her mother expressed shock that Wuornos would recklessly squander what may have been her best and only chance of a normal life.

>"Why would you do that?" [Aileen's mother] asked in astonishment. "This man's a multi-multi-millionaire and he can take care of you, and he must evidently care about you!" Aileen's explanation was that her clothes-buying sprees had finally gotten too much for Fell, who meted out money thirty dollars at a time, and when he reprimanded her, she grabbed his cane and beat him.

The accusations made by Donald Fell against Aileen Wuornos were consistent with her history. Fell had no history of violence. Wuornos did. Only six days prior to the annulment of her marriage, Wuornos threw a cue ball at a bartender, barely missing his head in the process. She pleaded guilty to assault and battery for this incident. After her brother died, Wuornos received $10,000 in life insurance money. It was gone in two months. She used most of it to buy a car which she wrecked shortly afterwards.

In 1981, Wuornos robbed a store at gunpoint. She served time in prison for this robbery and was released in 1983. While in prison, Wuornos was disciplined six times for fighting and disobeying orders, proving that her violence extend to women as well as men.

In 1986, Wuornos was charged with auto theft, resisting arrest, and obstruction by giving false information. Later that year, she was accused of robbing a male companion. Spare ammunition was found in her pockets and a .22-caliber pistol was found underneath the passenger seat she'd occupied. She failed to show up in court. When she was ticketed for speeding a week later, her citation had an extremely telling observation.

"Attitude poor. She thinks she is above the law."

In 1987, Wuornos and her girlfriend, Tyria Moore, were accused of beating a man with a beer bottle.

Sometime during the Christmas of 1989 and New Year 1990, James Dalla Rosa picked up Wuornos, who showed him a photo of two children and said that she was a high-class call girl who lived in a $125,000 home. She pulled from her bag a plastic case with various business cards – formerly the property of Lewis Gratz Fell. "These are some of my customers," she told James, who felt very uncomfortable. Sensing that the man had money, she said, "I prefer to go into the woods," James later testified.

After James rejected her offer, Wuornos became agitated, "moving jerkily, bouncing in her seat, snatching at her purse’, as the driver described her behavior. "She became angry after I was not receptive to her offer. Her demeanor changed tremendously." By rejecting the offer, James had just saved his own life. At this point, Wuornos had already become a murderer.

Even if Richard Mallory's prior conviction had been deemed admissible anyway, it wouldn't have changed the outcome of the trial. Like most murderers, Aileen Wuornos was a blabbermouth who did not know how to keep her mouth shut. Indeed, the morning after she robbed and murdered Richard Mallory, a drunken Wuornos confessed voluntarily to Tyria Moore. Contrary to claims by apologists for Wuornos, Moore did not "betray" Wuornos, even after it became clear that she was serious.

>Wuornos was intoxicated and told Moore that she had shot and killed a man early that morning. She said she sorted through the man's things, keeping some, discarding others. Wuornos said she abandoned the man's car near Ormond Beach, and left his body in a wooded area.

Tyria Moore's inaction and failure to immediately "betray" her girlfriend would result in the deaths of 7 more people, including of Aileen Wuornos herself. Several months later, Moore began seeing media reports that law officers were looking for two women suspected of being involved in a series of murders. Realizing that Wuornos was a serial killer, Moore became scared of her and returned to her home in Pennsylvania.

After officials in Florida contacted Moore and threatened to charge her as an accessory after the fact to murder, she agreed to return to Florida and cooperate with the investigation. Moore then tried to extract a confession from Wuornos, ultimately succeeding. Wuornos was arrested and made her videotaped confession soon after. At her first trial, Wuornos testified that she had killed Richard Mallory in self-defense.

>"I went to Tampa and made a little money hustling. I was hitchhiking home at night. This guy picked me up right outside of Tampa, underneath the bridge. So he's smokin' pot and we're goin' down the road and he says, 'Do you want a drink?' So we're drinkin' and we're gettin' pretty drunk. Then, around 5:00 in the morning, he says: 'Okay, do you want to make your money now?' So we go into the woods. He's huggin' and kissin' on me. He starts pushin' me down. And I said, 'Wait a minute, you know, get cool. You don't have to get rough, you know. Let's have fun. I said I would not [have sex with him]. 'Yes, you are, bitch.' You're going to do everything I tell you." > >[Wuornos talks in detail about Mallory allegedly tying her to the steering wheel of his car and raping her]. > >"I was yelling at him, and struggling to get my hands free. Eventually he untied me, put a stereo wire around my neck and tried to rape me again. Then I thought to myself, well, this dirty bastard deserves to die anyway because of what he was tryin' to do to me. We struggled. I reached for my gun. I shot him. I scrambled to cover the shooting because I didn't think the police would believe I killed him in self-defense. I have to say it, that I killed 'em all because they got violent with me and I decided to defend myself. I wasn't gonna let 'em beat the shit outta me or kill me, either. I'm sure if after the fightin' they found I had a weapon, they would've shot me. So I just shot them."

In rebuttal, the prosecution presented the original confession of Aileen Wuornos, which singlehandedly proved beyond any doubt that she was a liar and a murderer.

>When she first indicated she wanted to talk to law officers, she also expressed a desire to speak with an attorney. A lawyer from the public defender's office was summoned, who strongly advised Wuornos against confessing both before and during her comments to law officers. She stated that she did not want to follow her attorney's advice and then made her confession. > >In the earliest confession to law officers, Wuornos said that Mallory picked her up while she was hitchhiking, and they later went into a secluded wooded area to engage in an act of prostitution. She and Mallory then began disagreeing because he wanted to have sex after only unzipping his pants. Wuornos said she felt Mallory was going to "roll her" (take her money) and rape her. At this point, she grabbed a bag in which she kept a gun, and the two began struggling over possession of the bag. > >Wuornos said she prevailed, pointed the gun at Mallory, and said: "You son of a bitch, I knew you were going to rape me." > >Wuornos said that Mallory responded: "No, I wasn't. No, I wasn't." At this point, Wuornos told law officers she shot Mallory at least once while he still was sitting behind the steering wheel. Mallory then crawled out the driver's side and shut the car door. At some point he was able to stand again. > >Wuornos said she ran around to the front of the car and shot Mallory again, which caused him to fall to the ground. While he was lying there, Wuornos said she shot him twice more, then went through his pockets, and finally concealed the body beneath a scrap of rug. Later, she drove off in the victim's car.

On appeal, Wuornos said the police had tricked her and violated her right to counsel. It was too late and the tape proved that the police did everything by the books, whereas Wuornos had made a conscious decision to ignore the advice of her lawyer, waive her right to remain silent, and confess voluntarily. Her confession was further strengthened by the numerous inconsistencies in Wuornos's other statements, stolen items from Mallory which she had or pawned off, her confessions to the other six murders, which were deemed admissible because they established a pattern, the fact that at least one victim was fully clothed, and the testimony of Tyria Moore.

Faced with this evidence, the jury unanimously found beyond a reasonable doubt that Aileen Wuornos was a liar and a murderer who had shot Richard Mallory execution-style in cold blood, then falsely accused him of raping her in an attempt to avoid being held accountable for her actions. At the sentencing phase, a psychologist for the defense testified that Wuornos truly believed that she had killed Mallory in self-defense, but conceded that she knew right from wrong and and did not act under an uncontrollable impulse. The State's expert psychologist, Dr. Bernard, agreed that Wuornos had borderline personality disorder, but also found that she suffered antisocial personality disorder. Dr. Bernard also agreed that Wuornos had an impaired capacity and mental disturbance at the time of the murder, but believed the impairment was not substantial and the disturbance was not extreme.

Dr. Bernard did agree that there was evidence of non-statutory mitigating evidence including Wuornos' mental difficulties, alcoholism, disturbance, and genetic or environmental deficits. The jury was informed of the background of Wuornos and her history as a victim of gender-based violence.

>In the penalty phase, the defense introduced evidence about Wuornos' background. Her parents were divorced when she was born, and her biological father hanged himself in prison, where he was serving time for rape and kidnapping. Her mother abandoned her, and Wuornos was adopted by her grandparents. However, her grandfather was an alcoholic, and later committed suicide. Her grandmother also drank a good deal and died of a liver disorder. Wuornos' brother died of cancer at age 21. > >During junior high, Wuornos began exhibiting hearing loss, vision problems, and trouble in school. Her IQ was established at 81, in the low dull-normal range. School officials urged that Wuornos receive counseling and tried to improve her behavior by administering a mild tranquilizer. > >At about age 14, Wuornos was raped by a family friend. She waited six months before revealing that she was pregnant, and her grandparents blamed her for the pregnancy. Her grandfather later forced her to give up the child for adoption.

After hearing this evidence, the jury, which was composed of 7 women, exercised their legal right to condemn Wuornos to death anyway, finding that the severity of her crimes outweighed her upbringing and mental instability. The life story of Wuornos is tragic, but it was not unique as her sympathizers claim it is nor does it give her a free pass to become a serial killer and face lesser consequence than most other serial killers. In 1994, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously upheld the conviction and sentence for Wuornos.

The truth came out:

>Sgt. Bob Kelley of the Volusia County Sheriff's Department -- who investigated the killing of Wuornos' first victim, Richard Mallory -- said Wuornos shot her victims to death, robbed them and then dumped their bodies. > >"After she was convicted of the first murder of Richard Mallory, she then pled guilty to the others, and after a certain point in time she started to recant and say she wasn't a victim," Kelley said. "She simply robbed and killed those men to gain their personal property and to gain money."

Wuornos later pleaded guilty or no contest to five of the other murders. At sentencing, she said, in part, "I wanted to confess to you that Richard Mallory did violently rape me as I've told you; but these others did not. [They] only began to start to." At the sentencing for her final guilty plea, Wuornos looked at Assistant State Attorney Ric Ridgeway and shouted that she hoped his wife and children would get raped, proving that she was a hypocrite in addition to a liar.

In 2001, a mentally exhausted Aileen Wuornos finally realized that she was not above the law and her lies could not overcome the mountain of evidence of her guilt. She renounced her claims of self-defense and accepted her punishment. In a petition to the Florida Supreme Court, she stated her intention to dismiss her legal counsel and terminate all pending appeals. She also made a written confession, in which she said she had murdered all 7 victims in cold blood, knew what she was doing, and would kill again if she was ever got the chance.

>"I killed those men, robbed them as cold as ice. And I'd do it again, too. There's no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I'd kill again. I have hate crawling through my system ... I am so sick of hearing this 'she's crazy' stuff. I've been evaluated so many times. I'm competent, sane, and I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again."

Wuornos also said she "would prefer to cut to the chase and get on with the execution. Taxpayers' money has been squandered and the families have suffered enough."

Female Serial Killer Wants Death

At a competency hearing on July 20, 2001, Wuornos broke down sobbing and said "there's no sense in keeping me alive." She repeatedly confessed on the stand, stating, "I am a serial killer. I would kill again." She said she wanted to fire her attorneys and end her appeals because she wanted to come clean. Wuornos also apologized to the families of her victims and said she had lied in an attempt to beat the system.

>"I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system."

A judge found that Wuornos was competent to waive her appeals and expedite her execution. As she awaited and execution date, Wuornos gave several interviews. She confessed again.

Aileen Wuornos coming clean

>"Before we start, I have to say I cannot go into the execution chamber and die in the execution chamber as a liar. And I cannot go into that execution chamber and by executed under the devil. I have to come clean and cleanse my spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. So I have to come clean that I killed those 7 men in first degree murder and robbery. They had it right, they said it right, serial killer. Not so much as thrill kill, I was into the robbing biz… I mean serial killers are into to this thrill killing jazz; I was just into the robbing and just eliminating the witness. But still in it again, I have numbers so its serial killer. But I'm coming clean before I go into that execution chamber and be executed, that I killed them like this."

Against her wishes, attorneys for Wuornos argued that she was not mentally competent to make such a request. Wuornos insisted that she knew what she was doing, saying that she was "tired of lying." Less than a week prior to her scheduled execution, a court-appointed panel of psychiatrists agreed. Wuornos gave one last interview the day before her execution. In it, She frequently lashed out at the true crime industry, believing that media, police, and various individuals were profiting from her life story while ignoring her claims of abuse.

The final interview of Aileen Wuornos

>"You sabotaged my ass! Society, and the cops, and the system! A raped woman got executed, and was used for books and movies and shit!" Her final on-camera words were, "Thanks a lot, society, for railroading my ass." Dawn Botkins, a childhood friend of Wuornos, later told Nick Broomfield that her verbal abuse was directed at society and the media in general, not at him specifically.

Aileen Wuornos, 46, was executed voluntarily by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison in Raiford on October 9, 2002. She declined her last meal, which could have been anything under $20, and instead received a cup of coffee. Her last words were, "Yes, I would just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back, like Independence Day, with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I'll be back, I'll be back." Wuornos remains the last woman to be executed in Florida.

Kenneth McDuff was a serial killer who in 1966 at age 20, brutally murdered 3 teens. 17 year old Robert Brand, his 16 year old girlfriend Edna Louise Sullivan, and Brand's 15 year old cousin Mark Dunnam. McDuff along with his accomplice Roy Dale Green, drove up to the 3 teens who were standing at their parked car on a baseball field. McDuff forced them into his trunk at gunpoint and drive into a field and forced Sullivan out. He then fired six shots into the trunk, killing Brand and Dunnam. After driving to another location, McDuff and Green raped Sullivan before McDuff grabbed a broomstick from his car and choked her to death. He and Green then dumped her body in some bushes. McDuff was arrested and originally sentenced to death before it was commuted to life with possibilty of parole. Somehow he made parole in 1989, and he went on to kill over 6 more women. The first was 29 year old Sarafia Parker who he brutally beat and then strangled. Then in 1991 he kidnapped a sex worker named Brenda Thompson and tortured her to death. Five days later he killed 21 year old Regenia DeAnne Moore, tying her arms and legs with stockings before strangling her. A few months later he and another accomplice, Alva Hank Warley, kidnapped Colleen Reed at a car wash. McDuff jumped out of the car and grabbed Colleen's throat and threw her in the car. Worley drove around while McDuff raped Reed in the backseat, tortured her with cigarettes, and then drove to a field where he hit her in the face with lethal force. McDuff and Warley then buried her somewhere in the area. His last victim was Valencia Joshua, who he strangled in February 1992. He was caught on May 4, 1992 and once again sentenced to death, where he was executed in 1998. This guy really sickens me and the fact he was allowed to be on the streets after killing 3 kids is disgusting.

Danilo Restivo was born in Sicily in 1972 and moved to Potenza by the time he was 10. His father was considered a big influence there and one of the most powerful men. Keep this in mind because it will play a big role in the story.

Danilo was considered a loner and weird guy, and people in town were aware that he had the fetish of cutting girl's hair in public and keep the lock of hair in his room. In fact, he will always walk around with a pair of scissors, go on crowded buses and cut hair from girls, then before exiting the bus, he would stare and smile at them.

When he was still a kid, he lured a girl and her cousin (14 and 11 yo) into the woods, blindfolded and tied them to a chair. He then pointed a knife at the boy's throat, but his cousin reacted in time, knocking down Danilo and they managed to escape. The doctors said if the blade would have cut a few millimeters more, the boy could have died.

Danilo's father rushed to the victim's family and begged them to not press charges, and corrupted them with money (and his influence).

Fast forward a few years, comes Elisa Claps. She was 16. Danilo was obsessed with her and she knew it, and after asking her out multiple times, she agreed because she felt bad for him. They had to meet by the main church. Then, Elisa disappeared. Danilo was found by his sister, with a big cut in his hand and his clothes full of blood. He stated that he fell on the stairs and got hurt this way. Restivo told the police that he only had a short talk with Elisa by the church, then they both went their separate way.

Now, his father knew that his son was not a normal kid. In fact, after Claps's family insisted on talking with Danilo, he sent his son to Naples for a few days. The part where his father covered for him is too long to explain here, but he managed to get away every time using his influence.

The priest of the church also was suspected, because he never allowed anyone to enter the church for investigations, and he was a very powerful man too.

Then in 2002, Restivo moves to England to live with an Italian woman he had met online.

In front of his house lived Heather Barnett with her two kids. Restivo one day came into her house to ask if she could make some curtains for his house. Barnett agreed, but in an email to her sister she stated that he freaked her out, and that after his visit, her house's spare keys went missing.

Unfortunately, Barnett was found dead by her two kids in the bathroom. She had been hit in the head multiple times, her breasts had been cut off and placed above her head, and she had hair locks placed in her hands.

Back in Italy, Elisa Claps's body was finally found, 17 years after she went missing. And her body was found in the attic of the church, where the priest always refused to let detectives in. She was found in the attic. Someone also drilled holes in the roof to prevent the smell from spreading. Detectives concluded that Restivo could have not drilled those wholes since he was hurt, so someone did it for him.

Also, during those years, more than 20 people had been in that attic, and none of them reported the body..

Restivo's DNA was found on both the victims and he was sentenced to life in prison.

Also, he is suspected in the killing of 8 or 9 more girls, but never accused of it.

There is a video of English police secretly following him, as he is stalking a girl in a park, it's chilling: https://youtu.be/OmfKNENuDuI?is=CoLhGSkQ2AXlnUCv

I uploaded this yesterday but was removed due to not being 200 words, so I post it again and I will try to explain my project. I "collect" a picture of everybody who commits one of the crimes that I mentioned in the tittle. The last column is where u can find the person in the notebook. Maybe u notice that someone got their nationality weird, but sometimes I put where they were born or where they commit their crimes. The only condition is that person got a mugshot or a picture where u can see him clearly, not adding zodiac killer and shit like that. And btw, the numbers of victims is the one that authorities said, if they think they were 30 and he was accused of 5, the number is gonna be 5 for me. What u think? Im crazy? Who is missing???!! NEEED HELP. I already got 14 pages of pictures

A Brazilian man dubbed the "Homeless Exterminator" has been arrested in Espírito Santo state.

Marcelo Campos de Jesus, 37, was detained by civil police after murdering a 50-year-old homeless man named Vanilson Pereira. The victim was sleeping on the street in the Planalto Serrano neighborhood (Serra, Greater Vitória) when he was beaten to death with pieces of concrete.

According to authorities, Marcelo is suspected of killing at least seven homeless men in total. Six of the murders occurred in Teixeira de Freitas, Bahia, between November 2025 and April 2026. All victims were attacked in a similar way — with repeated blows to the head while they slept.

After the last murder in Bahia, he fled to Espírito Santo, where he committed the latest crime. He reportedly confessed to the killing in ES and used the little money stolen from the victim to buy trivial items like phone credits and candy.

Police are still investigating the full extent of the crimes. The case has shocked locals due to the targeted nature of the attacks against extremely vulnerable people.

1. Manuel Blanco Romasanta, “The Werewolf of Allariz”: Manuel Blanco Romasanta was a Spanish serial killer active between 1844 and 1852 who operated in different parts of the country, mainly in the autonomous community of Galicia. He was responsable for at least ten murders, since he confessed to 13 and authorities believed that the real number was around 20. His first known murder occurred at some point in 1844, when he killed the constable of the city of León, Vicente Fernández, as the man tried to collect a debt of 600 reales that Blanco owed to a supplier for the purchase of merchandise. His modus operandi consisted on luring women and children by acting as their guide throughout the country and killing them in an unknown manner to steal their belongings, sell their clothes and, according to rumors, make soap from their fat. He was apprehended on September 1852, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, after a complaint was finally lodged against his activities. When Blanco was brought to trial he claimed to be afflicted with lycanthropy, leading to a litigation that has never been repeated in the history of Spanish law. He gave detailed accounts of his transformations and assured that he couldn't control his actions, but when the prosecutor asked him to demonstrate these claims, Blanco replied that the curse only lasted 13 years and that it had expired the previous week. Allariz doctors, despite using very arcaic methods like phrenology, determined that he was lying. He was sentenced to death by garrote on April 6, 1853, however, a french hypnotist living in London wrote to the Spanish Minister of Justice stating that Blanco was suffering from a real condition and that he could treat him. Queen Isabella II commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment on May 13, 1854. After centuries of speculation, in 2011 two researchers presented evidence that Blanco died on December 14, 1863, at the age of 54 due to stomach cancer. To this day, there are still many doubts around Blanco's case, not only in regards to his crimes but even his own nature, as he was born under the name Manuela (femenine for Manuel) and was described as standing at between 4"6' and 4"11'.

2. Juan Díaz de Garayo, “El Sacamantecas”: Juan Díaz de Garayo Ruiz de Argandoña was a Spanish serial killer active between 1870 and 1879 who operated in Vitoria, a city in the province of Álava, Basque Country. He was responsable for killing six people (five women and a 13-year-old girl) and attacking four others. His first murder occurred on April 2, 1870, when he encountered a known sex worker and hired her for the afternoon. After having an argument due to the money required, Garayo ended up strangling her until she fell unconscious and drowning her in a nearby stream. His modus operandi consisted on approaching sex workers and strangling them to death, sometimes sexually assaulting them in the process, but after a while he started attacking random women that he saw alone on the streets and stabbing them, to the point of disembowelling the last one. He was apprehended on September 21, 1879, after Judge José Antonio de Parada and police agents in nearby regions launched an investigation and arrested him thanks to eyewitnesses. He confessed after the warden and key holder of the jail he was in appealed to his religious beliefs. He was executed by garrote on May 11, 1881, at the age of 59. He received the nickname “El Sacamantecas”, roughly translated as “The Fat Extractor”, in reference to a boogeyman-type character from Spanish folklore. Although he never took the fat from his victims, before his arrest many thought that the murders were the work of El Sacamantecas, something that Garayo seemed aware of. Curiously enough, Manuel Blanco Romasanta also received this nickname.

3. José María Jarabo, “El Jarabo”: José María Manuel Pablo de la Cruz Jarabo Pérez Morris, nicknamed “The Jarabo” in a coloquial reference to his name, was a Spanish spree killer active between the 19th and 21st of July, 1958, who operated in Madrid, in the autonomous community of the same name. He was responsable for the murder of four people (two men and two women) in two different locations. The crimes happened because Jarabo's ex-girlfriend, English-born Beryl Martin, wanted to retrieve a diamond ring the she had pawned to businessmen Emilio Fernández and Félix López. Instead of paying the vast amount of money to get the object back, Jarabo decided to kill both men. He first went to Emilio's home, where he encountered his maid, Paulina Ramos. Not wanting to leave any witnesses, he hit her with a clothes iron and stabbed her to death. When Emilio arrived, Jarabo shot him in the head, killing him instantly. Then, his pregnant wife Amparo Alonso came home, so he also shot her in the head after a short chase. Noticing that the ring and the letter that confirmed the transaction weren't there, he staged the scene to make it look like a murder-suicide, went to sleep and spent the 20th resting. On July 21, he entered the pawn shop thanks to a key that he took from Emilio, waited for Félix and shot him twice in the head. He was apprehended on July 22 after police were notified by the owners of a dry cleaning shop about a bloody suit that Jarabo had left them the day before. He was given four death sentences and executed by garrote on July 4, 1959, at the age of 36, with his death lasting 25 minutes due to the lack of strength from the executioner. His trial was attended by Spanish celebrities who were captivated by his personality and the sordid details of the case, leading to him also being nicknamed “The Preppy Killer” due to his wealthy family and expensive suits, despite the fact that he was in debt for most of his life.

4. Gustavo Romero, “The Valdepeñas Killer” : Gustavo Romero Tercero is a Spanish serial killer active between 1993 and 1998 who operated in Valdepeñas, in the autonomous community of Castile-LaMancha. He was responsable for the murder of three people (one man and two women), although police speculate that he may have killed/assaulted more during his stay in the province of Ciudad Real and the Canary Islands. His first known murders occurred on June 18, 1993, when he ambushed 24-year-old Ángel Ibáñez and his girlfriend, 20-year-old Sara Dotor, demanding the couple's money. Apparently, the latter recognized Romero as the nephew of her brother's employer, so he savagely stabbed Ibáñez in the chest. Dotor tried to escape, but Romero managed to stab her in the neck after a short chase. He then sexually assaulted her and stabbed her in the chest until she died. On June 25, 1998, he hit 21-year-old Rosana Maroto with his car while she was cycling on the road. He took her to a secluded area near an abandoned country house, where he sexually assaulted and strangled Maroto with her own shoelaces. Afterwards, Romero threw her body Into an empty well. He was apprehended on August 8, 2003, after his wife Yolanda reported him to authorities for domestic violence the previous month, claiming weeks later that she suspected him of the murders. Two witness testimonies and a DNA match tied Romero to both incidents, respectively. Despiste making excuses for his crimes and trying to make them seem unplanned, on April 22, 2005, he was sentenced to 103 years in prison and to compensate the families of the victims with 900.000 euros. He's currently 54 years old and expected to be released around 2035, after serving the maximun of 30 years in prison.

5. Joaquín Ferrándiz, “The Circle Killer”: Joaquín Ferrándiz Ventura, also known as “The Castellón Predator”, is a Spanish serial killer active between 1995 and 1996 who operated in different parts of the province of Castellón, in the autonomous community of Valencia. He was responsable for the murder of five women, three of them sex workers, after serving a six year sentence for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old girl in 1989, being paroled on good behaviour and thanks to a campaign made by his friends and family that claimed his innocence. His first known murder occurred on July 2, 1995, when he abducted 25-year-old Sonia Rubio, an English teacher, after seeing her leave a nightclub and took her to a secluded area where he tied, gagged and sexually assaulted her before strangling her to death. He repeated this same process with his next victims, sometimes employing tactics like deflating the tires on the women's cars to approach them and offer them a lift. He was apprehended on July 29, 1998, after authorities, who had began an investigation on his crimes with the help of criminal profiler Vicente Garrido and suspected him due to an altercation with a woman some time before, witnessed Ferrándiz trying to lure a potencial victim with the tire ruse. He was detained in his office and a parallel search of his home found the roll of duct tape that he used to gag the victims. Ferrándiz ended up admitting his guilt in the two crimes that police accused him of and confessed to three more that they hadn't. On January 14, 2000, he was sentenced to 69 years in prison and to compensate the families of the victims with 130 million euros. However, after serving only 25 years, Ferrándiz was released from custody in July 22, 2023, due to good behaviour. He's currently 61 years old and resides in the autonomous community of Basque Country. In his last statements to the press, he didn't take full responsabilty for the murders and claimed the he followed “an irrational impulse”, despite the fact that his crimes showed clear planning and premeditation.

6. José Rabadán, “The Katana Killer”: José Rabadán Pardo is a Spanish mass murderer who, on April 1, 2000, when he was just 16 years old, killed his parents and younger sister in their home with a katana that he had received as a gift. The incident occurred in Murcia, a city in the autonomous community of the same name. The reason behind the massacre was Rabadán's desire to run away from home, leaving no “loose ends” in the process. He first went to his father's room and struck him numerous times with his katana while he slept, then he did the same to his mother and sister (who was nine years old and had Down syndrome), though he also used a machete, chopping some of their fingers as they tried to defend themselves. After making sure everyone was dead, he put bags over their heads and moved the bodies to the bathroom. He then left home to meet up with a friend who had no idea about what he had done and tried to relocate to Barcelona by train. He was apprehended two days later after a short investigation by police and the help of staff members from the train station. In a quick and controversial trial that used the “Minor Law”, recently installed in January of 2000, Rabadán was sentenced to six years in a juvenile center and two years under supervised release. His case led to a huge persecution of videogames in Spanish society, as Rabadán was a fan of Final Fantasy VIII and even looked like the main character. He was released in 2008 and is currently 41 years old, works as a broker and got married, having fathered one daughter. In a recent interview, he explained that he doesn't remember the crime nor he understands what drove him to kill his family and claims that his interest in satanism, martial arts and videogames made him violent.

7. Alfredo Galán, “The Playing Card Killer”: Alfredo Galán Sotillo, also known as “The Deck of Cards Killer” or “The Tokarev Killer”, is a Spanish serial killer active in 2003 who operated in Madrid. In just three months (January-March), he was responsable for the murder of six people and the wounding of two others, all of them chosen at random and shot with a Tokarev pistol that he had obtained while he was deployed in Bosnia. His first known murder occurred on January 24, 2003, when he entered an apartment building and shot 50-year-old Juan Francisco Ledesma while he was feeding his two-year-old son. He received his nickname after leaving different playing cards at some crimes scenes, which was originally a complete coincidence that the press took notice of after his second murder and motivated Galán to make it his signature. He turned himself in on July 3, 2003, when he showed up drunk at a police station in Puertollano, in the province of Ciudad Real, and confessed to the crimes, giving details that were unknown to the general public and saying the he was tired of police incompetence. Psychiatrists determined that he committed the murders just to know what killing felt like, something that he wasn't able to do in the army, but then basked on the fame that the media gave him as a criminal. He was sentenced to 142 years and three months in prison and to compensate the families of his victims with 609.182 euros. He's currently 48 years old and, after serving 25 behind bars, he will be back on the streets again in 2027.

8. Joan Vila, “The Caretaker of Olot”: Joan Vila Dilmé, also known as “The Angel of Death”, is a Spanish serial killer active between 2009 and 2010 who operated in the Fundació La Caritat hospital in Olot, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. He was responsable for the murder of at least 11 people, all of them elderly patients whom he poisoned through different substances, including insulin, bleach and acidic liquids. His first known murder occurred on August 2009, when he killed an old woman named Rosa Barbures by making her drink a cocktail of drugs that he crushed and mixed with water. He was apprehended on October 18, 2010, when an autopsy on his last victim, Paquita Gironés, revealed that she had been poisoned with laundry detergent. Security footage also showed Vila entering the supply closet shortly before Gironés died. Over the following weeks, he confessed to the murders and claimed that it made him feel “like God”. After the trial in 2013, where his lawyer tried to convince the judge that Vila wanted to “relieve the victims of their pain”, he was sentenced to 127 years in prison, although he will only have to serve 40. He's currently 60 years old, and authorities still don't know how many pepole where murdered by him, since a total of 27 patients died while under his care.

Steven Malcolm Crockett, 19
Edsgr Anthony Underkofler Jr, 26
John Johnson, 25
William Lewis, 19
Steven Agan, 23
John Roach, 21
David Block, 22
John Bartlett, 19
Daniel Scott McNeive, 21
Richard Bruce, 25
Keith Lavell Bibbs, 16
Michael Christopher Bauer, 22
John Ingram Brandenburg Jr, 19
Gustavo Pineda Herrera, 26
Eric Hansen, 18
Richard Wayne, 17
Danny Bridges, 16

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Ervin Dwayne Gibson, 16
Jay Trulon Reynolds, 29
Jimmie T Roberts, 18
Ralph Ervin Calise, 28

What Larry Eyler did to them:

Between 1982 and 1984, Eyler is known to have committed a minimum of twenty-one murders and one attempted murder. All his murders involved the restraining of his victim, and several victims were subjected to varying degrees of sadomasochism before being stabbed and/or slashed to death, with the majority of the wounds being inflicted to the victim's chest and abdomen. His victims were typically plied with alcohol and sedatives such as ethechlorvynol before their restraint and murder. Several victims were disemboweled after death, and Eyler is known to have dismembered the bodies of four of his victims. His victims were typically discarded in fields close to major Interstate highways with their trousers and underwear frequently discovered around their knees or ankles and their shirts and wallets missing from the crime scene, he targeted mainly gay males, gay prostitutes, hitchhikers, but did kill some straight and bisexual men.