Killers

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deeply religious. He was said to be very attached to her. She taught them about immorality and the evils of women and sex and discouraged their sexual desires. He turned into an effeminate and shy boy.

His father died as a result of his alcoholism and later his brother Henry, who used to criticize his mother about Gein's unhealthy attachment to her, died in a mysterious fire. The younger boy was later suspected.

When police finally caught up with him, they found a variety of gruesome sights -- hanging corpses with their throats and heads missing, bowls made of skulls, pieces of jewelry made of human skin, hanging lips, skin upholstery for chairs, and masks made of facial skin and vulva (including his mother's) that were painted silver. The most shocking discovery was perhaps his mother's heart, which was found in a pan on the stove.

Police counted 15 women as his victims. Gein told the police that he never had sex with any of the dead women as "they smelled too bad." His ...

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was born Theodore Robert Cowell in 1946 in Burlington, Vermont to an unmarried mother of 22. He gets his name from his stepfather. He was made to believe by his grandparents that he was their son and that his mother was actually his sister.

He was a good student, and like most young people devastated when his first love left him. Bundy didn't deal with the grief as most people do though. He spent years trying to get her back, and when he did he started killing innocent people and then dumped his girlfriend just as she dumped him.

He was executed in 1989 after confessing to 40 murders.

David Berkowitz

Better known as the Son of Sam or the .44 killer, David Berkowitz is a New ...

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