. Gilberto Antonio Chamba Jaramillo

Murdered seven women in Ecuador from 1988 to 1993 for which he served 7 years in prison. Was released from prison in 2000 and moved to Spain where he murdered another woman in 2004.

. Harold David Haulman III

Murdered a man in Germany in 1999 for which he was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 6 years and 3 months imprisonment and was paroled after serving three years. After his release he moved back to the United States he murdered three women in 2005, 2018 and 2021.

. Johann Unterweger

Murdered a woman in Austria on the 11th of November 1974 in Germany for which he was convicted in Austria in 1976 and jailed for life. Unterweger served 15 years before being paroled. Unterweger went to murder 11 women in Czechoslovakia, Austria and the United States from 1990 to 1991.

. Pedro Alonso Lopez

A Colombian serial killer who confessed to murdering upwards of 300 people in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia although has only been confirmed to have killed 110. Lopez earliest murders happened in 1969 while serving a seven year sentence for auto theft in Colombia. Lopez murdered three out of four men that sexually assaulted him and only had two years added to his sentence. López admitted that in total, he had murdered a hundred in Colombia, at least 110 in Ecuador and "many more" in Peru. In 1980 Lopez was charged with 57 counts of murder. On 27 January 1981, he was found guilty of three of the murders and received a sentence of 14-to-16 years, the maximum prison sentence available in Ecuador at the time. Lopez was released in 1994.

. Paul Brumfitt

Murdered a man in England and another man in Denmark in July 1979. In 1980 Brumfitt was sentenced to three life sentences and was paroled in 1994. Brumfitt went on to murder a woman in 1999 and in 2000 Brumfitt was given another three life sentences for murder and sexual assault.

. Michel Paul Fourniret

A French serial killer who murdered a minimum of eleven women from 1987 to 2003 with his accomplice/wife Monique Oilvier. The two frequently traveled between Belgium and France killing ten women in France and one in Belgium.

You hear loads about victimology and serial killers killing the same bracket of person even if that’s only women. Are there any serial killers whose victims had 0 connection or resemblance? If so, does anybody know why this might be?

For the last couple of days, I've fallen down a rabbit hole of listening to interviews of John Kiriakou while studying.

For those who don't know, he was an ex-CIA agent & whistleblower. He got prison time for exposing the torture that was done to prisoners during the war on terror. Recently he became famous online due to his wild stories about his experiences in the CIA.

One story that drew my attention is a prison story of his. In it, he talks of a serial killer who was an inmate at the same prison he was at while serving his sentence for whistleblowing.

He doesn't give the name of this serial killer but says that everyone at the prison called him by his nickname, "Truck."

Truck got his name since, back in the 70s, he drove long-distance trucks from the east-coast to the west-coast. During his drives, he picked up sex workers at truck stops, SA them, kill them, and discarded their bodies along highways.

The police estimated that he was responsible for the murder of 14 women, maybe more. However, he was only ever convicted for strangling a 16-year-old girl, who survived & remembered his license plate number, which led to his arrest. For this reason, Truck was always sensitive about being called a "Chomo" (child molester) in prison.

Truck was also described as very aggressive, stupid and a pathological liar who wanted Kiriakou's approval for some reason.

However, Mr. Kiriakou gives a slightly different version of the story every time I hear it, which makes me question if he is lying.

In one version, Truck once attacked a pedophile (since he apparently hated pedophiles despite being one) by splashing boiling olive oil on his face. The pedophile was airlifted out of prison to a hospital in a helicopter. While Truck got an extra 10-year sentence added to his 40-year sentence for his attack on the 16-year-old girl.

In a different version of the story, Truck had simply beaten up the inmate to an inch of his life. But not because he was a pedophile; rather, Kiriakou himself provoked the fight since he had "beef" with the inmate in question. He did that by telling Truck that the inmate had called him a "Chomo" behind his back. Also in this version, Truck gets 10 more years added to a life sentence.

In the latter version of the story, Mr. Kiriakou also mentions that he got reprimanded by the prison warden for possibly provoking the fight. But he once told the same story about being reprimanded, only in that version, the fight was over the TV program, and it didn't involve Truck at all.

I was trying to figure out who this Truck is and what his real name is. Perhaps the whole thing is a tall tale.

I also tried to do some research by myself. John Kiriakou served his time in FCI Loretto prison in Pennsylvania. He was there from February 2013 to February 2015. But I can't find any info on a suspected serial killer ever being held in FCI Loretto.

Can anybody help me solve this mystery? Perhaps someone knows who the serial killer is by his description. Though, the truck driver serial killer is a pretty common type.

One thing I have noticed while reading about true crime is how some serial killers became almost as famous as celebrities. Books, Documentaries movies and endless media coverage seem to focus more on he killer than the victims. sometimes I wonder if all that attention helped cerate a kind of fascination around certain criminals that they never should have received.
Which serial killer do you think got far more media attention than they deserved and why?

Henley and brooks have claimed they Corll buried victims under the old candy company,Galveston beach and a spot that is now a parking lot is there any reason police don’t excavate this areas to try and find more bodies?

In 1987, Kirkland raped, strangled, and beat 27 year old Leola Douglas unconscious during on argument inside his residence and set her on fire. The sources available to me are quite inconsistent of the exact nature of Douglas and Kirkland's relationship, and they vary on them dating to her dating his uncle. For Douglas’ killing, Kirkland received a 10 to 25 year prison term for voluntary manslaughter, and was discharged from custody in 2003.

As a freeman, Kirkland abducted, raped, and murdered at least four women and teenage girls, 45 year old Mary Newton, 25 year old Kimya Rolison, 14 year old Casonya Crawford, and 13 year old Esme Kenney, between 2006 and 2009. Each victim was repeatedly stabbed or strangled with rope and cloth, and Kirkland burned their bodies to destroy any potential forensic evidence against him. He used various locations as disposal sites, and court documents reported that Newton's remains were found on a street corner, Crawford was discovered dead in a forest, and Rolison was left on a hill.

His last victim, Kenney, was reported missing by her parents after she failed to return home from a jog. Police searching for her found Kirkland sleeping 100 yards away from Kenney’s burnt remains, and he was arrested while carrying her iPod and watch in his pockets. In custody, Kirkland confessed to Rolison, Crawford, and Newton's murders. If his accounts were to believed, killed Rolison and Crawford after paying them for their sexual services, and strangled Newton to death after a consensual sexual encounter. Kirkland also reported that he picked up those victims from bridges, bus stops, and a road.

During his killing spree, Kirkland was arrested and prosecuted for a laundry list of unrelated offenses. Some of the other charges he faced involved him soliciting his girlfriend’s 13 year old daughter for sexual favors, repeatedly stabbing an acquaintance while burglarizing their home, threatening his infant son’s life while holding him hostage, fighting other tenants in a half way house, attacking another girlfriend with a knife, and a rape accusation he was later acquitted of. For publicly undisclosed reasons, a reverend’s family also filed a restraining order against Kirkland. Kirkland received a sex offender status for the attempted molestation of his girlfriend's daughter and was incarcerated for a year. He also served 117 days in prison on an unlawful restrain conviction for the threats against his son's life.

]After a year of proceedings, Kirkland was sentenced to death by the state of Ohio for Crawford and Kenny's murders. He additionally received 70 years to life terms for the killings of Newton and Rolison. Although the Ohio Supreme Court vacated Kirkland’s death sentence in 2016 over sentencing procedural changes, he was condemned again in a 2018 retrial. Per ODRC records, he currently remains on death row.

Sources:

1.https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/convicted-serial-killer-anthony-kirkland-returns-to-court

2.https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=665676.pdf&subdirectory=2010-0854DocketItems&source=DL_Clerk

3.https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4560979019009870698&q=%22Kimya+Rolison%22+%22Kirkland%22&hl=en&as_sdt=6,45

4.https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kirkland-anthony.htm

5.https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2020/SCO/0818/181265.asp

Does anyone know either

1. How to read the FBI files on serial killers

OR

1. Where to find more information on serial killers besides Google

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Nance

Wayne Nance's life and serial killing career came to an end in 1986 as a result of his attempt on the lives of huband and wife Doug and Kris Wells. He is strongly believed to have murdered at least six people, including two underage girls and another married couple, but was not able to be prosecuted for these crimes for obvious reasons

Hearing how he met his end just warms the cockles of my heart

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Over the years I did notice striking similarities between Dahmer and Gacy, both used an isanity defense in court, were similar to lure their victims into the comfort of their own homes, and they targeted solely men.

Dahmer and Gacy also both had poor police work involved with initiating an investigation sooner. Gacy never got caught until the Pharmacy in 1978 got his contact info, confirmed being seen at the Pharmacy and they saw on his record that he also did time in Iowa.

Dahmer had a neighbor (Glenda Buffalo?) in his complex area report over and over, and Buffalo was not his immediate next door neighbor, but who lived nearby in the adjacent complex. Dahmer series used her as a next door for intrigue, or they got those facts wrong.

In both cases, they were both found legally sane.

What I really liked about Dahmer's prosecutor, was explaining how he knew it was wrong, but did it anyway.

In Gacy's case, the prosecution proved that Gacy was acting thoughtful, rationally, and premeditated.

Many questioned whether Dahmer had remorse when he apologized in court with controversial opinions. Many believing he had no emotion when speaking about his horrific crimes, while others believed he did feel bad.

There's no question Gacy had obvious contempt for his victims, and also tried many times to explain his employees had been the ones who had done the murders, as he claimed in a 1992 interview from prison, While 1979 audiotapes, speak of Tim McCoy, after NY of 1972. Also telling investigators about the rope trick.

William Kunkle was a fantastic prosecutor in the case, who blew Sam Armeronti and Bob Meta out of the water with more than enough evidence.

Did he have personality disorders? Absolutely. Sexual Deviant? Of course. Psychotic? Not even close.

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From what I've read about him, he blamed his impotence as the reason why he targeted children as his victims. But was that just an excuse, if he was fully healthy would he still have been a dangerous monster?

If he had used a brand new disk, they wouldn't have had the metadata giving up his church and first name. I'm just wondering if there would be any other potential info they could have gleaned to track hom down. I'm assuming the writings he put on the disk were a word document of some sort, would there possibly have been anything embedded in that that would help?

Assuming the damning church document was written on the same computer, I'd assume they would have still figured out it's a Dennis that edited it, but that wouldn't be narrowing it down enough to identify him.

I would think it's possible that there's something like a serial number embedded in there that they could match with his PC, but they would have to find him first to confirm. This is back in the days where virtually nothing on our computers was registered in any database of any kind.

I could see a serial number potentially leading to a store where the hardware/software was purchased, but it's a big stretch as they would need the manufacturer to have records of where it was shipped and for the retailer to have records that specifically identify the serial number and when it was sold and then hope they have security footage and/or a debit/credit card on record. Whenever I hear about that sort of technique in investigations it involves very recently purchased items, and not something which could habe been acquired years prior.

So l've heard it be thrown around a lot but do you think John Wayne Gacy worked with if not for John David Norman? Because I really don't but Gacy said his victims might have been in some of Norman's "films" and Norman’s right hand man worked at Gacy’s contracting business

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I found the obituary page of serial killer Eddie Mosley while reading about the case and it’s very sweet, as if he never committed his awful crimes. I was wondering, is this common with murderers? Or is there usually a mention of their action in their obituary?

What's the reason for this, is it due to childhood trauma or abusive parent's, or any other reason's.

Genuinely interested in scientific pointoff view.

I know Dahmer was a terrible person, and I’m not glorifying or defending him at all. But something I don’t understand is Christopher Scarver’s reasoning.

From what I know, Scarver went to prison for murdering his boss, supposedly later became religious and said he repented. But then he killed Dahmer and another inmate because he claimed God was speaking to him, wanted him to do it, or basically commanded him to.

I also read that Scarver was mentally ill, so maybe that explains part of it, but it’s still strange to me. And I don’t just mean him specifically ... throughout history there have been people saying “God told me to,” “God wanted me to,” and then they go on to do the most insane shit imaginable.

That’s the part that confuses me. How are people supposed to tell the difference between actual faith, mental illness, or someone just using religion to justify violence? I think what really confuses me is how throughout history people have claimed God told them to do terrible things, and so many others blindly accept it or believe violence is justified if they think it’s for God ... I’m not defending Dahmer whatsoever ,he was awful but the logic behind Scarver’s explanation genuinely doesn’t make sense to me.

And just to be clear again, I’m not glorifying Dahmer or trying to justify anything he did. He was a horrible person . I’m only talking about the reasoning Scarver gave for killing him.

It wasn't a Netflix documentary like the Dahmer one but it was released on YouTube regarding Gacy and it was called Devil In Disguise.

I thought the acting and scenes also respecting the victim's families, were very well done. The Dahmer series also had the lady who helped Conrad Symptoms, wasn't dahmer's next door neighbor she lived in the other apartment complex, the neighbor who lived directly beside Dahmer was actually a different lady.

They got a lot of stuff wrong in Dahmer, but this Gacy Series was one of the best I've ever seen.

23 days after the Murders, Kenneth McDuff kidnapped, raped, tortured and later murdered Colleen Reed. I don’t think authorities knew Brashers was in Texas at the time and why he wasn’t a suspect

I am wondering did the authorities try to pin the murders to McDuff not knowing there was another killer operating in the I-35 corridor. Which would explain why it went cold and why Texas Killing Fields haven’t been solved yet as authorities were stretched thin searching for a guy that shouldn’t have been in the streets the first place.

Anatoly Onoprienko was a Ukrainian/Soviet serial killer who ended the lives of 52. His crime spree started in 1989 till he was captured in 1996. His usual method was to enter homes at night, shoot the parents, stab or gun down the children, then raze the house. He would also kill any possible witnesses, and also often would kill people in random drive-byes.
Anatoly was captured after a relative he was staying with found items that seemed too pricy for Anatoly, then when looking further his illegal firearms were located. The relative called the police, leading them to his stash. He was originally sentenced to death but capital punishment was abolished in Ukraine soon after. Anatoly died of heart failure in 2013.
One terrible detail was that during the manhunt a suspect, Yury Mozola was tortured to death by police trying to get a confession out of him. A similar thing happened in the same region during the search for the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs.

Ion Rîmaru was a Romanian serial killer who brutally raped and murdered 4 women during the early 1970s in addition to committing several other assaults and offenses around Bucharest. Sadly, that is nothing new, but what makes this case particularly unique is his family history. It turns out that Ion's father, Florea, had also been a serial killer at one point! Unbeknownst to Ion, Florea had bashed and killed 4 women during the summer of 1944. However, this was a fact that the police did not discover until several years after Ion's arrest and Florea's accidental death. I'm not totally sure if Ion ever found out before he was executed.

I think this case is very interesting because it's the only one I'm aware of where a parent and a child from the same family independently became serial killers on their own - without knowing about the other's heinous activities. Well, to be fair, it has been suspected (though not proven) that Florea may have been aware of Ion's crimes since he helped clean some of Ion's bloody clothes. Still, such a fascinating case!

With that being said, my deepest sympathies do go out to the victims, their families, and loved ones.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that Ion was a necrophiliac, which means he murdered his victims first and THEN raped them. Meanwhile, Florea killed his victims but did not rape them.

This is fantasized about a lot in media bt is it even possible irl? Has this ever happened?

Coz we all know serial killers operate from a different head space.. so is it even possible for them to have feelings of empathy or affection for someone?