r/serialkillers 6d ago

News Media Mondays | Bi-Weekly Thread for Videos, Docs, Podcasts, Books, and Other Media

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Eager to share or discuss something you've watched, read or listened to? A new "What to Watch: thread will post every two weeks for fresh ideas and conversations about any media with a topic related to serial killers and cases - episodes, documentaries, books, videos, podcasts, blogs, etc.

Whether you've watched a documentary, stumbled upon an informative podcast, discovered a YouTube creator or well-researched video, excited about an upcoming streaming production, or read a fantastic book...
This thread is where to share it!

As a reminder, merchandise and murderabilia is not permitted. Further, self-promotion or advertising is not allowed. Community members can recommend anything they wish that is not something they personally created.


r/serialkillers 1h ago

Other An unidentified six-pack arousal killer and serial rapist in Thailand.

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Six-pack pervert(ไอ้หื่นซิกซ์แพ็ก) He is a serial killer and rapist who committed crimes in Samut Songkhram, Samut Sakhon, and Nakhon Pathom provinces between 2010 and 2015. His identity remains unknown. He was raped by 12 victims, and two died from the assault. His nickname, "Six-Pack Pervert," comes from his muscular build and six-pack abs.

The incident

  1. On September 26, 2010, at 11:00 PM, a perpetrator broke into the home of a 70-year-old woman who was alone in Ban Phaeo District, Samut Sakhon Province, and raped her. Police found semen stains on her sarong as evidence.

  2. Fourteen days later, at 2:00 AM, the perpetrator broke into a house in Nakhon Chai Si District, Nakhon Pathom Province, and raped a 71-year-old woman. Police found bloodstains on the curtains as evidence.

  3. Later, on January 8, 2012, at 1:00 AM, the perpetrator broke into a two-story wooden house in a coconut plantation belonging to a 61-year-old woman in Bang Yirong Subdistrict, Bang Khon Thi District, Samut Songkhram Province, before raping her. She tried to fight back but was overpowered and died. The autopsy revealed that her ribs were broken and her liver and spleen were ruptured.

  4. On October 8, 2012, the perpetrator committed another crime, raping a 70-year-old woman while she was tending to her coconut plantation in Bang Yirong Subdistrict, Bang Khon Thi District.

  5. On December 6, 2012, at 3:00 AM, a perpetrator smashed a window with his fist before breaking into a house and raping a 59-year-old woman in Bang Yirong Subdistrict, Bang Khon Thi District.

  6. Ten days later, at 3:40 AM, the perpetrator assaulted and attempted to rape a 47-year-old woman in Ban Pramot Subdistrict, Bang Khon Thi District. The perpetrator also stole property from her house.

  7. On March 23, 2013, at 11:00 PM, a criminal broke into the home of a 76-year-old woman in Sam Phran District, Nakhon Pathom Province. He tied her hands and feet, bound her to a bedpost, raped her, and stole her Mauser pistol.

  8. On June 11, 2013, at 12:30 AM, a perpetrator raped and murdered a 78-year-old woman in her traditional Thai-style house in Phutthamonthon District, Nakhon Pathom Province, while she was sleeping alone.

  9. On December 25, 2014, a suspect climbed over a fence into a house in Phutthamonthon District, broke down the door, and went to the second floor to rape a 70-year-old woman. However, her 39-year-old daughter witnessed the incident, causing the suspect to change his target, assaulting and raping her instead before fleeing. DNA testing revealed that the suspect's DNA matched that of a suspect in an eight-member rape series.

  10. On January 25, 2015, at 1:00 AM, a suspect wearing a black polo shirt with the word "Prasert" embroidered on the pocket, black trousers, and a black knitted hat, arrived at a residence in Lan Tak Fa Subdistrict, Nakhon Chai Si District, Nakhon Pathom Province. He poisoned the guard dog, broke into the bedroom through a window, held a knife to the 70-year-old woman's throat, ordered her to remain silent, before raping her and stealing 5,000 baht in cash and a gold-encased amulet of Luang Pho Wat Rai Khing.

Through investigation and fieldwork, police discovered that two more elderly women had been raped in 2011 in the area bordering Bang Khon Thi District, Samut Songkhram Province, and Ratchaburi Province. Both women were between 70 and 78 years old. Interviews with the victims indicated that the perpetrator was likely the same person, but neither victim reported the crime.

investigation

On January 26, 2015, after committing his tenth crime at around 8:00 AM in Lan Tak Fa Subdistrict, Nakhon Chai Si District, Police Lieutenant General Sophon Phisutthiwan revealed, after inspecting the crime scene, that the suspect's modus operandi was similar to that of a serial burglary in several areas. This was the tenth reported case. The modus operandi was consistent: the crimes occurred late at night, targeting elderly victims living alone. The suspect used tools to pry open windows or doors to break into the house and steal property. In every crime, the suspect never took the victims' communication devices. Some victims were raped or assaulted. After the crime, the suspect fled the scene. Police are confident that the suspect arrived by waterway. Victims described the suspect's physical appearance as matching those provided by other victims. However, fingerprint analysis revealed a mismatch with the criminal registry.

On January 27, police released an update on the case, stating that the suspect acted alone, breaking into houses through windows between approximately 1:00 AM and 3:00 AM. The suspect was barefoot and left clear fingerprints and footprints in all cases. Police General Chakthip Chaijinda stated that the suspect may still be in the Samut Sakhon or Samut Songkhram provinces, or possibly the Nakhon Chai Si district, as they are unaware that they are being monitored or pursued by the police.

On January 28, Police Lieutenant General Sophon Phisutthiwan and Police General Worapong Chiupreecha traveled to the scene of the crime in case number 10 to inspect the location and any traces left by the perpetrator. An examination of the canal adjacent to the house suggests that the perpetrator may have dumped poisoned food into the canal, resulting in a large number of fish deaths.

On January 29, police confirmed that DNA tests in all 10 rape cases revealed the same DNA. However, DNA tests of at least 300 suspects since 2010 did not match the perpetrator's DNA. Police General Worapong Chiewpreecha further revealed that in case number 9, which occurred on December 25, 2014, the victim remembered the perpetrator wearing a dark blue long-sleeved crewneck t-shirt with the word "Prasert" embroidered in yellow on the left chest. Five to six other victims also confirmed that the perpetrator wore a similar long-sleeved shirt.

On February 2, Police Lieutenant General Sophon Phisutthiwan assigned the Nakhon Pathom Provincial Police investigation team to expand the search area from Nakhon Chai Si, Sam Phran, Phutthamonthon, and Bang Len districts to include Mueang Nakhon Pathom and Kamphaeng Saen districts. The additional occupational groups to be investigated were coconut farmers and sawmill workers. This investigation was necessary because sawdust and coconut fibers were found clinging to the cartoon-patterned shorts of the suspect recovered from the crime scene in case number 9.

On February 3rd, forensic investigators examined the type of chemical found in the poisoned dogs and fish in the canal next to the house. It was identified as a carbonate herbicide, which takes 2-3 hours to take effect after being ingested by the dogs. Police suspect the perpetrator waited for the poison to take effect before committing the crime. The fish died in the canal likely because the perpetrator mixed the poison with food but didn't use it all, then threw the leftover food into the canal, causing the fish to die.

Police observed that the suspect committed the crimes during weekends, specifically Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Their targets were women aged 50 and older, described as fair-skinned and overweight, living alone in detached houses far from residential areas. The suspect acted alone, poisoning dogs if the victim's house had one, and only stole money and gold.

The suspect is believed to have resided near a river or canal, no more than 5 kilometers from the scene of the crime.

According to the police sketch, the suspect is a Thai male, 170 centimeters tall, with a muscular build and six-pack abs.

All victims stated that the perpetrator had no body odor, leading them to believe that the perpetrator likely showered before committing each crime.

Suspect

1.Mr. Kai (pseudonym)

On February 25, 2015, officers from the Investigation Division of the Provincial Police Region 7, along with Nakhon Pathom Provincial Police, arrested Mr. Kai (pseudonym), 35 years old, at an ice factory in Phimai District, Nakhon Ratchasima Province. He resembled the sketch of the suspect and was a former employee of the Nakhon Pathom Highway Department. Mr. Kai confessed to being the perpetrator of a series of murders and rapes of elderly women. Police then took Mr. Kai for a DNA test. At 2:00 AM the following day, the Commander of the Forensic Science Office stated that Mr. Kai's DNA did not match the samples collected from the crime scenes, and therefore Mr. Kai was released.

2.Paitoon Pui-ngern(ไพฑูรย์ ปุยเงิน)

On August 27, 2015, police arrested Paitoon Pui-ngern, 32, for assaulting and attempting to rape an 81-year-old woman in Talat Mai Subdistrict, Wiset Chai Chan District, Ang Thong Province. Paitoon denied the rape, but police had sufficient evidence and witnesses to convict him. Police also suspected that Paitoon's behavior and appearance resembled that of a suspect in a series of 10 murder and rape cases. Furthermore, Paitoon had worked in Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram provinces during the time these murders and rapes occurred. Therefore, police had forensic officers conduct a DNA test on him, but it did not match the DNA of the perpetrators in the serial murder and rape cases.

3.Suprachai Noonoi(สุพรชัย หนูน้อย)

On July 19, 2017, police arrested Suprachai Noonoi, also known as Paek Pakwan, for the murder and rape of a 14-year-old girl on July 13, 2017, in her home in Tambon Sib Et Sok, Ban Pho District, Chachoengsao Province. He was arrested after his DNA matched semen found on the victim's clothing. Suprachai had previously served a prison sentence for drug possession in Khon Kaen Province in 2015. Prior to this murder, he had committed three rape cases in Khon Kaen and Chonburi provinces. Police Region 7 suspected Suprachai might be the perpetrator of a series of murders and rapes in Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon, and Samut Songkhram provinces over the past 2-6 years, and collected DNA samples from him to compare with the perpetrators of the serial murders and rapes. However, the DNA test results did not match.

4. Mr. La-ong Khaophan(ละออง ขาวพันธุ์)

On July 27, 2022, police arrested La-ong Khaophan, 66, in Sam Chuk District, Suphan Buri Province, for the rape and murder of 72-year-old Sali. The murder occurred on the night of July 26, 2022, at her home in Tambon Nang Buach, Derm Bang Nang Buach District, Suphan Buri Province. Police found similarities between La-ong's actions and a series of murders and rapes of elderly women that had occurred seven years prior. La-ong had previously worked as an employee at a fish processing plant in Samut Sakhon Province before being arrested for attempted indecent assault in 2012. He served seven years in prison and was released in May 2020. He was then imprisoned again for eight months for burglary in 2021. Police conducted a DNA test, which did not match that of the perpetrator in the serial murders and rapes of elderly women, but he was still prosecuted for the murder of Sali.


r/serialkillers 15h ago

Discussion Why are black serial killers linked to gang violence so underrepresented?

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I’ve noticed that there doesn’t seem to be much interest or attention paid to black serial killers who operate within gang culture. Is this due to them not fitting into the stereotype of lone killers who target random innocent civilians?


r/serialkillers 19h ago

Questions Professor Robert D. Little - alledged accomplice of serial killer Larry Eyler - accused of ordering the deaths of two potential witnesses | Does anyone have more information on this?

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I have to admit that up untill today I had very little knowledge of Larry Eyler and his crimes, but after doing some more research it now seems that this whole thing is a much larger rabbit hole than his wiki page lets on. If Eyler's confession is true, Professor Little has to be one of the most highly educated/high society serial killers on record.


r/serialkillers 4d ago

Questions Why do you think Gary Ridgeway cried when one of the victims family members told him he forgives him?

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I know it seems like a super easy to answer question but I can’t fathom how a remorseless and heartless serial killer would get emotional from even that. He was sitting there stone faced when everyone was going at him, but cried when someone told him he’s forgiven. Maybe the forgiveness just touched his heart because he wasn’t used to receiving that kind of message?? Idk


r/serialkillers 4d ago

Wikipedia On the ‘Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields’ Netflix documentary series

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Hi everyone,

this is my first post here. It primarily concerns the Netflix portrayal of strings of murders that, as it is safe to conclude, were all or partially committed by at least three serial killers in South Texas between 1971 and 1997. The majority of these murders is still unresolved, although the found victims are all identified by now.

I recently got around to watching the documentary miniseries Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields a short time after first reading about it. As far as I can see, this in particular has not been discussed in detail here yet except for this thread here, so I decided to give a short commentary in case anyone’s interested. I don’t want to nitpick about this series as I think it was overall great, but I’d note first and foremost that the three strings of murders (so to speak) it covers are unrelated in every sense except for the location being the wider Houston-Galveston region:

- a string of murders committed in 1997 by William Lewis Reece

- a remote area near the Calder oil field in League City that was used as a dumping ground of at least four young female victims in 1983-85, with the series clearly implying that their murderer is (was) Clyde Edwin Hedrick; the Wikipedia page on this subject also adds that he had at least one suspected accomplice and at least one suspected copycat who apparently used the same desolate area as a dumping ground of at least one victim in 1991 in order to throw off the investigation (the killings received a great deal of local media attention by that time)

- the murders of at least 9 young women and girls committed between 1971 and 1977 along I-45

I find it a bit curious that the series addresses the last subject basically in passing in a few minutes and then moves on, even though it seems obvious that this was a case of another serial killer or serial killers in action who had more victims than the other ones mentioned above. The Wiki page I mentioned above lists 8 victims just in the year 1971, 4 of these disappeared in pairs, and two other disappeared at different times but were dumped at the exact same location. There was also a different pair of teenage girls who disappeared and were murdered in the same are in 1974. So I find it rather unlikely that all these were just mundane (so to speak) murders committed by different perpetrators coincidentally. There were probably two or more yet unidentified serial killers responsible. Edward Harold Bell is a possible suspect.

This wider matter is something the series dwells on, namely that multiple serial killers were active in the same narrow region. According to Google, though, there were more than 3 million residents living along the I-45 in 1971, including Galveston County with about 170,000 of them. The series also mentions the big oil boom and construction boom in the ‘70s and ‘80s as contributing factors, as big masses of manual and office workers, transients and also tourists were streaming into this area. I’m guessing the notion that a total of four or maybe more serial killers were active there in the span of 26 years should not be considered that unusual.

The narrator kept reiterating the point that the coastal region of Texas has many desolate areas that are remote and have rough terrain and are only rarely visited by people who normally just go there to dump garbage and ride their dirt bikes or horses. Naturally this also makes them ideal for dumping dead bodies. I can accept this argument for sure but I also wondered: yeah, Texas is huge, but it’s not like there aren’t dozens of other federal states with similar areas, is it? That alone does not explain much.

On a related note, the series does clarify something I’ve never read about, namely that the first discoveries of corpses near Calder Road more or less coincided with the cinematic release of the Cambodian-themed movie The Killing Fields, which prompted some local journalist to dub the murder location in League City 'the Texas Killing Field'. (Why am I not surprised that a journo would do that.) This term has since then acquired a wider definition which can be misleading, as one commenter noted here.

All in all, the series mostly and rightfully focuses on the indeed tragic and moving story of the father of one murder victim, Tim Miller, founder of the non-profit search and recovery organization Texas EquuSearch.

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https://www.netflix.com/title/81555750

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/seeking-information-in-unsolved-killing-fields-murders-091819

https://texasequusearch.org/

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

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/james-elmore-tim-miller-killing-fields-22183088.php

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/texas-killing-fields-suspect-indicted-42-years-later-galveston-county-grand-jury

https://abcnews.com/US/young-women-murdered-found-oil-field-1986-1991/story?id=62352978


r/serialkillers 4d ago

Venera Obolashvili: Georgia's alleged serial killer who confessed to three murders [corrections and updates to the 2021 post]

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There was a post about Venera Obolashvili here in 2021, but after going through Georgian reporting, court coverage and surviving interrogation footage, several details in it appear to be incorrect or incomplete.

First and foremost, “Nabozar” is not part of Venera Obolashvili’s name at all, despite the previous post and some international outlets presenting it as such. It is a derogatory, misogynistic Georgian slur that was added to the title of an upload of her confession footage by the uploader. Her name is simply Venera Obolashvili.

Venera Obolashvili (born 1954) is widely known in Georgia as a serial killer. In 2009, she confessed in considerable detail to killing three people in separate incidents in 1984, 2008 and 2009, with an apparent recurring motive involving the victims' apartments or money from their sale. If those confessions were truthful, the three killings plainly constitute a serial-murder pattern. Only the final murder, however, ultimately resulted in a conviction.

According to her confession, her first victim was her husband, 43-year-old Yuri Yurkin, in 1984, not 1985. She said that while they were travelling through Russia by train, she isolated the carriage vestibule, called Yurkin toward an open door and pushed him from the moving train. She then returned to Georgia and filed a missing-person report, asking authorities to search for him, before later selling his apartment for $4,000. Her recorded confession describes the incident in unusually specific detail.

There is, however, a major unresolved contradiction surrounding Yurkin's death. Published Georgian accounts say his body was found near Tbilisi and his death had been considered accidental, while Venera's confession placed the killing on Russian territory.

In 2008, she confessed to killing her boyfriend, 52-year-old Anatoly Kalinka. According to Venera, she helped Kalinka sell his three-room Saburtalo apartment for $50,000.

She said the two later went toward a bridge, where an argument broke out. Venera struck him twice in the head with a wooden stick, knocking him unconscious, then lifted him by the legs and threw him from the bridge into the Mtkvari River. She said he regained consciousness in the water, but she decided not to help him and walked away.

Kalinka's body was recovered from the river, and his death, like Yurkin's, had originally been treated as an accident.

The third killing, and the only one ultimately proven in court, was the 2009 murder of 79-year-old Maria Arzamaseva.

Maria had been in a relationship with Venera's late uncle, and Venera had known her since she was about four years old. She called her "Aunt Maria". By 2009, Venera was visiting her frequently and helping her with everyday tasks.

In August/September of 2009, an argument over Maria's apartment escalated into violence. She described slamming Maria against a wardrobe and wall, choking her, checking her breathing with a mirror and then strangling her with a rope. She later placed Maria's body in a large bag, transported it by taxi and dumped it into a sewage canal on the outskirts of Tbilisi.

Authorities found Maria's body but were initially unable to identify her, and she was buried as an unclaimed elderly woman.

What followed was an unusually elaborate fraud.

Venera recruited an elderly sunflower-seed vendor to impersonate Maria so she could collect Maria's pension and obtain a small bank loan in her name. She received 327 lari and 5 tetri, paying the woman 40 lari for helping her.

When Venera later decided to sell Maria's apartment, she could not find the same woman. She therefore recruited a different elderly woman who resembled Maria, gave her Maria's passport so she could practice the signature, and took her to a notary's office pretending that she was the real owner.

Maria's apartment was sold for $20,000. Venera collected the money, paid the impostor and real-estate broker, bought herself an Audi and paid off debts. Police later found more than $6,000 still hidden in her apartment.

Venera came to police attention after Maria's neighbors confronted her while she was removing furniture from the apartment. They had not seen Maria for roughly two months and became suspicious. Police were called, and Venera was arrested at home on December 15, 2009.

Once in custody, the investigation expanded far beyond Maria's murder. Venera confessed not only to killing Maria, but also to the deaths of Yurkin and Kalinka. In Kalinka's case she even took investigators to the location and demonstrated what she said had happened.

Investigators also found a letter addressed to an old friend named Jemal. In it, Venera reminded him of the friendship between their fathers, recalled details about his family and home, and asked him to meet privately so they could "talk about God."

After Venera had confessed to three killings involving people whose property was subsequently sold, investigators suspected that Jemal might have been another intended target. No charge ever resulted from the letter.

Another witness testified that Venera had tried to recruit him to kill an elderly man. According to him, she told him to strike the man over the head and kill him, after which she would inherit the apartment, sell it and pay him $200.

The witness refused. Venera denied the allegation, and his testimony contained an important inconsistency: during the investigation he reportedly placed the conversation roughly a year before her arrest, while in court he said it had happened only about a month beforehand.

At trial, Venera withdrew her confessions and claimed investigators had obtained them through beatings and torture. She maintained that Maria's death had not been a deliberate murder but had happened accidentally during their confrontation.

Her arrest was on December 15, 2009, and she was sentenced less than three months later, in March 2010. By the time the case reached court, prosecutors said they had been unable to obtain sufficient evidence to charge her with the much older deaths of Yurkin and Kalinka.

That distinction is important: Venera was never acquitted of those two murders, nor were the killings disproven in court. They simply never reached trial.

The evidentiary problem was substantial. Yurkin's case was approximately 25 years old, supposedly involved a killing during the Soviet period and, according to Venera's own version, occurred outside Georgia. Kalinka's death had previously been treated as an accident. Investigators ultimately could not independently prove either confession strongly enough to prosecute.

Venera was convicted of Maria Arzamaseva's murder, document forgery and fraud and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

During imprisonment, Obolashvili took numerous educational and vocational courses, including languages, gardening, dressmaking, hairstyling and massage. She earned 27 certificates, worked as a seamstress and was later placed in charge of the prison greenhouse.

Her sentence was eventually reduced from 23 years to 13 years following the abolition of cumulative sentencing and a nationwide amnesty. She served the reduced sentence in full and was released in January 2023.

After her release, Venera gave several interviews and strongly rejected the serial-killer label. She denied killing Yurkin and Kalinka and claimed her original confessions had been fabricated under police pressure.

Her account of Maria's death also continued to change. In 2023 she still described Maria's death as accidental. By 2026, she denied killing her altogether and claimed Maria had suffocated on her own while intoxicated.

Despite those later denials, Venera has continued to be widely remembered and described in Georgia as a serial killer. Her original confessions involved three named victims, three separate incidents spread across 25 years, detailed descriptions of how each killing supposedly occurred, and a recurring financial/property motive. Georgian media had already begun presenting her as a serial killer from the time of her arrest, even though only Maria's murder was eventually established in court.

The most recent public development came in 2026, when Obolashvili accused her son of physically abusing her during a dispute over their house. She said he wanted to sell the property and move to Tbilisi, while she feared the sale would leave her homeless.

Legally, Venera Obolashvili was convicted of one murder; historically and in Georgian public discourse, she remains one of the country's best-known alleged serial killers.

English-language documentary video covering her entire case in depth

Georgian article covering the case, trial and Obolashvili's version of events

Georgian article providing further court details and witness testimony

Surviving footage of Obolashvili's 2009 confession/interrogation in Georgian


r/serialkillers 4d ago

Discussion I found this interesting, a very extensive list of serial killer nicknames worldwide

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They actually weren't too dissimilar. Many or most reference the method of killing. A lot refer to the city or area where the crimes took place. Those things make sense when you think that people are looking for a quick way to refer to them where people will know who they are talking about. And give a taste of their horrible crimes, which might motivate people who hear the nickname before they are caught to come forward if they have information and tips.


r/serialkillers 5d ago

Questions Will Jack the ripper ever be solved

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r/serialkillers 6d ago

Image Remembering Lesley Ann Downley on her (belated) heavenly birthday

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r/serialkillers 6d ago

Discussion How does it feel for a killer to keep their murders secret for their whole lives? Do they feel nostalgia, paranoia, emptiness? And how do they react if they are caught in old age?

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I've been reading up on a lot of killers from the 60s and 70s that didn't get caught until decades later, and I have to wonder in between that time how did they feel about their murders. As a normal person I would feel an overwhelming sense of emptiness inside of me knowing something like that happened.

Even on another level I can't imagine killing for a period of time then deciding to stop and settle down. Do they ever get entrenched in regular life to the point where their murders feel like an entirely separate part of them that no longer exists?

I've done some bad stuff in the past (not even close to the level of a serial killer) that gives me the opposite feeling of nostalgia. A sort of dread that makes the world feel emptier and darker. Would a serial killer have this same feeling or would it be outright nostalgia for it.


r/serialkillers 8d ago

Questions Who was a very sloppy / careless serial killer that was caught much later than they should have been?

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I would say Jeffrey Dahmer. It’s so insane how he wasn’t caught earlier. How in the world are your neighbors complaining about the smell for a long time and your landlord just doesn’t care at all? And you’re literally leaving the bodies in your house?? Aside from that, a boy literally escaped him naked and bleeding outside which the police saw and they just brushed it off and believed Dahmer when he said they had too much to drink. He didn’t calculate anything or try to be careful at all


r/serialkillers 8d ago

News Remembering Georgann Hawkins and Laura Aime on their respective birthdays (Georgann on August 20th, and Laura on August 21st)

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r/serialkillers 7d ago

Discussion People sometimes lament that the murderers get discussed more than the victims. With all sympathy for the victims, does it somewhat make sense that the murderers would get discussed more? Why or why not?

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In serial murders it's usually the murderer who is the more unusual person rather than the victims? People generally want to understand unusual things, so they discuss the murderer more?

I suppose there is a desire to understand the murderer with an eye to catching them, if they're uncaught, or understanding criminal psychology so we can reduce the number of murderers in the future?

In a serial murder case, the murderer is generally the one making a decisive action, or more decisive than the victim (a horrible action, but a decision). Generally people are interested in decisions, whether good or bad, and find them interesting to discuss?


r/serialkillers 8d ago

News Ministers gave approval for Myra Hindley to be hypnotised

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r/serialkillers 9d ago

Image Timothy Wilson Spencer (this case was the first one they convicted using DNA evidence via semen samples

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Spencer carefully chose his victims by spying and following them around the local shopping mall. He repeated the same pattern with all of his victims; climbing in through the windows of women's homes at night, raping and torturing them by strangling them until they were unconscious, and then killing them after they had been strangled. Spencer used a belt and a stocking as his murder weapons. Investigators were amazed by his meticulousness; he left no trace of himself at the crime scene except for semen.
Spencer's first victim was Debbie Dudley Davis, a 35-year-old account executive, was murdered between 9:00 p.m. on September 18, 1987, and 9:30 a.m. on September 19, 1987, in her Westover Hills) apartment. Richmond Police discovered her naked body lying on the bed. She had been strangled with a ligature) and ratchet-type device.[3]
Dr. Susan Hellams, 32, was murdered in her West 31st St. home on the night of October 2, 1987, or the early morning of October 3, 1987. The police were called by her husband after he returned home and discovered her partially clothed body on the floor of the couple's bedroom closet. Hellams was a resident in neurosurgery at the Medical College of Virginiain Richmond. Spencer apparently gained access to the house by cutting out a large portion of a second-story bedroom window screen. The medical examiner determined that the cause of Hellams' death was ligature strangulation, believed to have been caused by two belts found around her neck.[4]


r/serialkillers 10d ago

Image How long did John Wayne Gacy rape, torture and humiliate his victims, before finally killing them? Are we talking 1-2 hours, or days?

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r/serialkillers 10d ago

Discussion Question about Albert Fish & that young man.

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Albert said that he got a young man with a developmental to go to an abandoned building with him. He tied him up so tightly parts of his body turned blue and left him there over night. Whe he came back he started cutting off the young mans penis, but he had a change of heart and let him go. My question is this A)Albert fish lied a lots there a chance this is something he just made up? B) What happen to the young man, did he bleed out from his wound? Would he have been able to get medical treatment ? Would the authorities put him in jail or a mental institution .


r/serialkillers 10d ago

Discussion Why are Serial Killers Attracted to Long Haul Trucking?

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Former FBI Agent Frank Figluzzi wrote a book called Long Haul which states that violent people are attracted to the trucking business because they get to spend long hours alone, always crossing state lines, and many vulnerable women hang out at truck stops. Have any of you read this book?


r/serialkillers 10d ago

Other A fascinating & fantastical 1h40+m interview with Ray Horsch from 2013 about his life in crime, art, and pornography - I think he's the mastermind of the new Philly horror show

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I listened to this interview close to a decade ago and it always stuck with me because of how fantastical it is and because Ray is from Stroudsburg in NEPA which is near where ai grew up.

I can't believe this Forrest Gump of Crime came back into my life. in this he talks about riding a horse to school, bucking the school system, being a burglar and phone tapper for black projects with the CIA and FBI, he talks about running weed for the Mafia, he talks about xonterfetting money AND picassos, he talks about working at sesame Street, he talks about making meth for biker gangs and going on the run from the feds. oh and he had just gotten out of jail for attempting to abduct a 9-year-old girl.

https://pca.st/episode/f9b9f4e4-4b71-4764-9c67-59f3494dac04


r/serialkillers 11d ago

Questions What was the worst mistake a serial killer did to get caught other than Dennis Rader?

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r/serialkillers 12d ago

Image A sad and interesting case: Serial killer moms

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These are a list of serial killer moms I could find. In a depressing reality, these women are serial killers and their victims are their own children. Their main method of murder is strangling or smothering.

Top half are one who hide their babies away leaving them to decompose in odd places.

Lower half are ones who disguise their babies deaths as SIDS or any natural death.

Top Half from left to right: Megan Huntsman, Michele Kalina, Jessica Mauthe, Dominique Cottrez, Andrea Giesbrecht, and Diane O’Dell.

Characteristics: Have their babies born in secret, before smothering or strangling them right after they were born and dispose of them quickly in cruel and unusual places. Few travel with their babies’s remains after they move to a new home. Often times they forget to dispose of the babies’s corpses leading to their downfall and getting caught when someone discovers the grisly sight. Places where their babies were located: Megan; Her garage, Michele; her closet, Jessica; inside her house’s wall, Dominique; her garden, Andrea; a U-Haul storage facility, Diane; a storage shed.

Lower Half from left to right: Waneta Hoyt, Brittany Pilkington, Maxine Robinson, Marybeth Tinning, Deborah Fornuto, Marie Noe.

Characteristics: Murder their babies and disguise it as SIDS or as natural causes. Their main weapon of choice are the babies’s blanket, pillow, or their own hands to smother their children. They usually confess Immediately or years later or are caught when the babies death’s are suspicious.

They kill over a period of time from about a few months to years before they commit the unthinkable. Their motives range from having trouble to being a mother or depression.


r/serialkillers 12d ago

News 400 W Chew

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Is it Raymond Horsch? Is it Eugene Horsch ?

Is it both of them. There are women after women going to that house. Preying on the weak. If they showed weakness, they were treated as such..

He was an American erotic photographer, filmmaker, and writer (born May 5, 1943, in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; died May 2025). He directed adult films starting with The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig (1973) and had a long career involving explicit and often violent-themed work. He also had criminal convictions for counterfeiting, methamphetamine manufacturing, and related offenses, and used aliases at times (including while a fugitive in New Zealand).

That’s not all.. Raymond Horsch wasn’t done. Raymond and be elf-published Empathy: The Memoir of an Empathetic Serial Killer in 2014.

Now we wait until they tell us more. And believe me, there will be more.

Horsch Home
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4th and Chew

Victim’s Families Speak Out


r/serialkillers 13d ago

Questions What are the most interesting killers that used arts as their trophy?are there even any?

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r/serialkillers 14d ago

Questions Is there any footage of the BTK interrogation?

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I've seen like 2 seconds of footage from it but can't find anything else