Delve into the darkest corners of criminal history as we explore the most disturbing facts about history's most notorious murderers. From cannibalistic tendencies to bizarre rituals with victims, these chilling details reveal the true depths of human depravity. Which of these disturbing facts shocked you the most? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00You see, Bill, I knew a week before she died, I was gonna kill her.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the creepiest pieces of trivia regarding the world's most famous serial killers.
00:12What? What's going on? Do you know this kid?
00:15Yes, sir. This is my boyfriend.
00:20Robert Pickton may have sold human meat to the public.
00:23One of the country's most notorious prisoners is dead.
00:27Robert Pickton has died from injuries sustained earlier in the month in a Quebec prison assault.
00:33Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton is basically a real-life Sweeney Todd.
00:37And yes, it is every bit as horrifying as it sounds.
00:40Pickton inherited his family's pig farm in the early 90s and began using it as a killing ground.
00:45Between 1995 and 2001, Pickton murdered at least 26 women at the farm, but he would later confess to 49.
00:52During the investigation, authorities discovered human remains mixed with ground pork in freezers on his property.
00:58This led to speculation that he had unknowingly or intentionally processed human flesh along with his pig meat.
01:05A health notice was then issued to the public, warning that anyone who had consumed pork from Pickton's farm might have unknowingly consumed human flesh.
01:13The families of these victims have very much been involved in advocacy, even in the years since.
01:20Even just a few months ago, were holding a vigil outside the pig farm where some of those remains were found.
01:28Richard Chase drank his victim's blood.
01:30He wants to explore the body. He wants to drink her blood.
01:35Known as the Vampire of Sacramento, Richard Chase earned his moniker owing to his habit of consuming human blood.
01:41Active for a brief period in the late 70s, Chase murdered six people while suffering from severe mental illness.
01:47He needed extensive care. He was not receiving as much care as he should have gotten.
01:53According to reports, Chase consumed the blood of most of his victims and would proceed to walk around the neighborhood in a messy stupor.
02:00Chase reportedly believed that his own blood was either turning into a dusty powder or that its supply was somehow depleting and that drinking fresh blood would save him from demise.
02:09And when police investigated Chase's apartment, they found many different items covered in blood, including cups and drinking utensils.
02:17I found a used yogurt cup, a paper cup, the yogurt came in, which had zigzag prints on it.
02:27And apparently he had been drinking the blood or doing something with the blood in that cup.
02:31John Wayne Gacy kept bodies in his crawlspace.
02:34Now he'll face his biggest challenge, putting names and faces to the bones found under John Wayne Gacy's house.
02:42Perhaps the most famous bit of trivia about John Wayne Gacy, besides the fact that he worked as a party clown, was that he kept corpses in the crawlspace of his Chicago house.
02:51Gacy murdered at least 33 men inside his house throughout the 1970s, often luring them there with promises of a job in his construction business.
02:59So you've never done construction work before?
03:02No. Well, like I said, it's just stuff around the house, helping my mom out, you know.
03:05Well, don't sweat it. There's nothing to it. And honest to God, you got the right build for it.
03:09He buried 29 of these victims in the crawlspace, layering quicklime and periodically spreading concrete in an attempt to mask the smell of their decomposing bodies.
03:18It clearly didn't work, as multiple neighbors inquired about the rancid smell coming from Gacy's house, but he would often blame it on dead rodents and plumbing issues.
03:27What happened in the Bukovic case? Where was he picked up and how did he get to the house and what happened with him?
03:36I don't want to go into the other five that I know about. Just take it that I didn't. Bukovic is not one that I killed, so I don't know nothing about him.
03:47Jack the Ripper allegedly sent a kidney through the mail.
03:50Try to stop him, Inspector.
03:52This arrived. It's afternoon's post.
03:54Not much is known about Jack the Ripper, as he was never caught. What we do know is that the District of Whitechapel established a vigilance committee to monitor and investigate the crimes, and that this committee was inundated with taunting letters supposedly written by Jack.
04:08Most of these letters have been debunked as hoaxes, but one, titled From Hell, is often considered to be real.
04:14As police investigators frantically round up possible suspects, a mysterious letter arrives at London's Central News Agency that appears to be from the killer himself.
04:25It was sent to the committee's chairman, George Lusk, and contained half of a human kidney.
04:30The letter states that it was taken from one of Jack's victims, and that the other half was fried and consumed.
04:35Debate continues to rage regarding the authenticity of the letter, but it is undoubtedly one of the creepiest aspects of Ripper lore.
04:43We demand something be done, and done tonight.
04:46From hell.
04:49Well, at least they got the address right.
04:52Ed Kemper killed members of his own family.
04:54In the end, I ran away to live with my father, but he didn't want me either.
04:59So they packed me off to live with my grandma.
05:02She thought I was a freak.
05:04Is that why you shot her?
05:06While he's known as the co-ed killer owing to his penchant for murdering college students,
05:10Ed Kemper also killed three members of his own family.
05:13At the age of 15, Kemper was sent to live with his paternal grandparents in North Fork, California, following a troubled childhood.
05:20However, continued disagreements and frustrations resulted in Kemper murdering both of his grandparents on August 27, 1964.
05:27It started coming to a head again, so I went back down.
05:30I ran away back down there.
05:32And then a month later, I'm up living with my grandparents in the mountains, and 10 months later, I murdered them.
05:36And then, following his co-ed killing spree, Kemper murdered his own mother, Clarnell Strandberg, on April 20, 1973.
05:44But he didn't just kill her.
05:46He also performed some extremely disturbing acts with her body.
05:49Tired of killing, Kemper then called the police on himself and was sent to prison, where he remains to this day.
05:55If there's one thing I know, it's this.
05:59A mother should not scorn her own son.
06:03If a woman humiliates her little boy, he will become hostile and violent and debased.
06:09Period.
06:10Israel Keyes staged a ransom photo with a corpse.
06:13We did spend a fair amount of time talking about his crimes and his offenses as well,
06:18and those times were definitely very chilling to hear him talk about what he's done.
06:23On February 1, 2012, Israel Keyes kidnapped 18-year-old Samantha Koenig from the Alaska coffee stand where she worked.
06:31He then took her home and murdered her before embarking on a cruise with his family.
06:35After returning from his trip, Keyes sewed Koenig's eyes open with fishing line, making it appear as if she were alive.
06:41He then put a newspaper into her hands, effectively staging a ransom photo and demanding $30,000 from her family.
06:48Every serial killer, including I believe Mr. Keyes, are not crazy.
06:52You cannot be that organized and deliberate and fit any legal definition of insanity.
06:58After the money was deposited, Keyes disposed of Koenig's body in a lake.
07:01Giving false hope to her family was exceedingly cruel.
07:04But luckily, it was this money that proved to be Keyes' downfall,
07:08as police finally arrested him after tracking his cash withdrawals at various ATMs.
07:12He talked about the rush that he got out of it, the adrenaline, and kind of the high from doing it.
07:18And I think, unfortunately, I think he enjoyed what he was doing.
07:23Ted Bundy would return to his crime scenes.
07:25You're a bright young man.
07:28If you had made a good lawyer, I'd love to have you practiced in front of me.
07:31But you went another way, partner.
07:32Despite his charming veneer, Ted Bundy is one of the most psychotic monsters in modern history.
07:39His true body count is unknown, but police believe that he is responsible for at least 36 murders.
07:44Sure, I get angry.
07:46I get very, very angry and indignant.
07:48I don't like being locked up for something I didn't do, and I don't like my liberty taken away,
07:53and I don't like being treated like an animal,
07:54and I don't like people walking around and ogling me like I'm some sort of weirdo, because I'm not.
08:00But it's more than just his body count that makes Bundy so infamous.
08:04He was known to return to his crime scenes, often to reposition the bodies,
08:08groom their hair, and apply makeup to their faces, and dress them in different clothes.
08:13But that's certainly not all he did.
08:15Perhaps his most infamous hiding place was Taylor Mountain in Washington,
08:18where several of his victims were ultimately found.
08:20Bundy later admitted that he hid the bodies there,
08:23hoping that the wildlife would ultimately claim them.
08:26By October 1974, five more bodies had been found.
08:30But most of them had decomposed, or were just scattered bones.
08:36Bundy had left no clues, and he was long gone.
08:40Jeffrey Dahmer tried to make zombies.
08:43Oh, God.
08:46I was hoping you were gonna die.
08:52And we can try something really fun.
08:54Perhaps the most infamous serial killer in American history,
08:58Jeffrey Dahmer tried turning his victims into submissive and mindless beings who would stay with him without resistance.
09:04To do this, Dahmer drilled holes into his victims' skulls and injected various substances,
09:09such as hydrochloric acid or boiling water, directly into their brains.
09:12The belief was that this operation would induce a permanent zombie-like state,
09:26but the experiments never worked, and the victims ultimately died from the toxic effects of the chemicals.
09:31The most famous example is that of Conorac Synthesomphon,
09:34who briefly escaped Dahmer's apartment following the gruesome operation.
09:38However, Dahmer was able to convince police that Synthesomphon was his drunk boyfriend,
09:42and he was returned to Dahmer's care, where he was subsequently murdered.
09:46Uh, you guys...
09:47I don't know what you guys do.
09:49Just take care of it.
09:51Okay?
09:52Yeah, I will.
09:54Thanks, officers.
09:56Sorry again.
09:57Albert Fish wrote a letter to his victim's mother.
09:59My dear Mrs. Budd.
10:03What's it saying, Edward?
10:05On Sunday, June the 3rd, 1928, we're at lunch.
10:10A heinous serial killer active in the 1920s, Albert Fish murdered at least three people,
10:16but he is a suspect in many other cases.
10:18In May of 1928, Fish murdered his final confirmed victim, Grace Budd, in an abandoned New York house.
10:24Six years later, in November 1934, Budd's mother received an anonymous letter,
10:29which is now attributed to Fish.
10:31I took her to an old house in Westchester, which I had already picked out.
10:36When we got there, I told her to remain outside.
10:39The letter is extraordinarily graphic,
10:42with Fish boasting and explaining the morbid details of her daughter's murder.
10:45The letter was handed over to the police, who confirmed the details.
10:49But this letter led to Fish's downfall,
10:51as police were able to track the envelope to his rooming house,
10:54where they ultimately arrested him.
10:55Fish then confessed that he murdered Budd and sent the horrific letter.
10:59You believe him?
11:01What he said he did to the girl after he killed him?
11:06Everything else in his confession on the letter to Mrs. Budd checks out.
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11:26The Toolbox Killers tape is used to train FBI agents.
11:30You struck Ms. Lamp with a sledgehammer.
11:33Do you recall the sledgehammer which was introduced?
11:36Yes, sir.
11:38Lawrence Bitteker and Roy Norris are collectively known as the Toolbox Killers.
11:42They kidnapped and murdered five girls in the summer of 1979,
11:46often subjecting them to horrific mistreatment in the process.
11:49Their methods often involved the use of household tools,
11:52hence the name Toolbox Killers.
11:54Their final victim was Shirley Ledford,
11:56and the killers captured her attack on tape.
11:58Norris has spoken about the tape,
12:00claiming that no actress could ever reproduce the guttural sound of a primal scream,
12:04and that no one, quote,
12:05could listen to more than a full 60 seconds of it.
12:08Indeed, this tape is now in the possession of the FBI,
12:11and is used to desensitize agents to the sounds of murder.
12:15When his tape recording of one murder was played in court,
12:19people rushed outside and vomited.
12:21Do you have any other creepy facts for us?
12:24Let us know in the comments below.
12:25I'm saying I've wanted to kill my mother since I was eight years old,
12:28and I'm not proud of that.
12:29I'm saying I'm not proud of that.