Major Crimes and True Crime

Inside The Puzzling Death Of Alexander The Great And The Disturbing Theories Behind It After spending several hours drinking with friends in 323 B.C.E., 32-year-old Alexander the Great suddenly came down with a fever and began complaining of sharp pain in his back. Though he continued to drink wine, he struggled to quench his thirst — and before long, he could not move or speak. In a matter of days, the legendary Macedonian king was dead, much to the dismay of his loyal subjects. And millennia later, we still don't know exactly what caused Alexander the Great's demise. In the years since then, historians have suggested everything from typhoid to alcohol poisoning to assassination. But one new theory may be the most convincing yet — and the most disturbing.  In 323 B.C.E., Alexander the Great died of an unknown illness — and his body showed no signs of decomposition for six days. Alexander the Great’s death in 323 B.C.E. has puzzled historians for millennia. The ancient Greeks w...

Judy Buenoano: The Black Widow The "black widow" Judias V. Buenoano (April 4, 1943 - March 30, 1998) was an American serial killer who was executed for the 1971 murder of her husband James Goodyear. She was also convicted for the 1980 murder of her son Michael Buenoano and of the 1983 attempted murder of her boyfriend John Gentry. Buenoano is also acknowledged to have been responsible for the 1978 death of her boyfriend Bobby Joe Morris in Colorado. However, by the time law enforcement authorities made the connection between Buenoano and Morris, she had already been sentenced to death in the state of Florida. Buenoano is also believed to have been involved in a 1974 murder in Alabama, and in the 1980 death of her boyfriend Gerald Dossett. After her arrest, Dossett's body was Judias Anna Lou "Judy" Buenoano (born Judias Welty, also known as Judias Goodyear and Judias Morris; April 4, 1943 – March 30, 1998) was an American serial killer who was executed for the 19...

An x-ray of Serial Killer Albert Fish, who inserted needles up his rectum for sexual pleasure, 1920s Despite being a serial killer who is often not talked about, Fish cemented himself as a heinous criminal and an evil bastard in New York during the 1920s when he murdered at least three children. The story of Fish is one surrounded by myth, so I will do my best to tell it as accurately as possible. What we do know for definite is that Fish's family had a history of severe mental disorders and that he grew up in an orphanage where he endured a lot of physical abuse. Out of all the categorised serial killers, Fish seems to be one of the most sadomasochistic killers ever profiled. Sadomasochists are people who receive sexual pleasure from inflicting pain or receiving pain, a sadist and a masochist combined. Fish engaged in these activities to extreme measures, including being spanked with a paddle with pins in it, to literally setting his ass on fire by stuffing cloth in his ...

When Dennis Rader murdered a family of four in cold blood, he made the children watch as he strangled their parents. Then, he took the 11-year-old girl to the basement where he removed her underwear and hung her from a sewer pipe. He told the girl, "Well, honey, you’re going to be in heaven tonight with the rest of your family."  For 30 years, Boy Scout troop leader and church council president Dennis Rader was secretly the BTK murderer — while looking like the perfect family man to his neighbors in Kansas. Dennis Rader was the president of his church congregation as well as a loving husband and a doting father. Altogether, he seemed to be a reliable and responsible man to all who knew him. But he was leading a double life. She had no idea that for 30 years her father preyed on girls just like her. This is the brutal story of the BTK Killer. Dennis Lynn Rader was born on March 9, 1945, as the oldest of four in Pittsburgh, Kansas. He would grow up in a fairly humble home in Wi...

Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer who ground his victims into mincemeat. On Feb. 6, 2002, police executed a search warrant at the property for reports of illegal firearms. Both Robert and his brother David were arrested and police were then able to obtain a second warrant based on what they had seen at the farm. Within hours of officers arriving with a search warrant, the property became the site of the largest crime scene search in the country's history. A total of 200,000 DNA samples and 600,000 exhibits were seized and forensic experts were forced to use heavy equipment to sift through nearly 300,000 cubic metres of soil. Personal items belonging to missing women were found at the farm. On February 22, 2002, Robert Pickton was arrested and charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson. On April 2, three more charges were added for the murders of Jacqueline McDonel, Dianne Rock, and Heather Bottomley. A sixth charge for the ...

"l was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing." As Chicago's first serial killer, H. H. Holmes terrorized the Windy City in the late 1800s. From opening up a "murder hotel" to selling his victims' body parts on the black  market, Holmes showed no remorse for his heinous crimes. While it remains unknown how many people he murdered in his house of horrors, he once boasted of killing 27 people. However, some estimates claim the actual number may have been as low as 9- or as high as 200. “I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.” This quote was in the confession of Dr. H.H. Holmes when he was caught in 1896. These words are very chilling due to the fact that this man is believed to had killed up to 200 people and not only thinks that he couldn’t help himself but in so...

There can be pretty creepy photographers out there, taking photos of people and telling them to pose certain ways. But no one beats this disturbing photographer. Actually, Harvey Glatman wasn’t an official photographer but a serial killer. He was known as the Glamour Girl Killer, who identified himself as a fashion photographer. Glatman kept going to modeling agencies and told them that he needed women to pose for pulp fiction magazines. He would then lure the women to his apartment, tie them up, shot unsettling photos of them, and then sexually assaulted them before killing them. The fraud photographer was guilty for three murders in the years of 1957 and 1958. He was sentenced to death. Harvey Murray Glatman (December 10, 1927 – September 18, 1959) was an American serial killer active during the late 1950s. He was known in the media as the Lonely Hearts Killer and the Glamour Girl Slayer. He would use several pseudonyms, posing as a professional photographer to lure his vic...

Tallest Serial Killer At 6'9" Ed Kemper has been the tallest serial killer captured. This dude killed his own grandma by shooting her in the back of the head after an argument he had with her he then shot and killed his grandfather so he wouldn't have to see his own wife dead.  This fucking nephilin of a man would pick up young coeds and kill them by stabbing them and then having sex with the corpse.  Kemper eventially ran out of funds and moved back in with his mother where he continued his killings, murdering three more college students he picked up around the campus. After moving back in with his mother and killing more women he decided to bury one of the dismembered heads of his victims in his mother’s garden and left it facing upward toward her bedroom. According to him, he did this because his mother “always wanted people to look up to her.” Then, on April 20, 1973, Kemper’s murders reached their natural culmination when he bludgeoned his mother to death...

Excerpt from a letter sent by serial killer Albert Fish to a victim’s mother, November 1934 "First I stripped her naked. How she did kick — bite and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms. Cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did not fuck her tho I could of had I wished. She died a virgin” On Sunday June the 3 –1928 I called on you at 406 W 15 St. Brought you pot cheese — strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her. On the pretense of taking her to a party. You said Yes she could go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wildflowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not I would get her blood on them. When all was ready I went to the window and Called her. Then I hid in a ...

Dennis Rader (Born March 9, 1945), also known as Bind, Torture, Kill (BTK), was a serial killer who terrorized Wichita, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Rader's crimes were particularly heinous, as he would bind, torture, and kill his victims, often photographing his crimes and sending taunting letters to the media and law enforcement. Rader's nickname, BTK, stood for "Bind, Torture, Kill," which described his modus operandi. Rader was eventually caught in 2005, after sending a floppy disk to the police, which contained metadata that was traced back to him. Rader's early life appeared to be relatively unremarkable. He was born in 1945 in Kansas, and he married his high school sweetheart in 1971. Rader worked as a compliance officer for a security company and was also involved in his local church. However, behind this façade, Rader harbored dark desires and fantasies that he acted out through his crimes. He claimed that he was "addicted" to killing and that...

Robert Berdella was born in the state of Ohio, Jan. 31st , 1949 Todd Stoops, one of the victims of serial killer Robert Berdella, being given a 7,700-volt jolt of electricity in his torture house. Robert Berdella was born in the state of Ohio, Jan. 31st , 1949. His “descent into hell” begins in 1965, when he is victim of a sexual violence:  to scrape together some money begins to work as an assistant chef in a restaurant, but he gets raped by a colleague. In December of the same year his father, a figure to which he was very attached, died suddenly of a heart attack at only 39 years. Even worse, his mother immediately binds up with another man, who she would have married shortly thereafter: Robert is shocked by his mother’s very insensitive and “disrespectful” behaviour. Over the years, Robert becomes a great chef appreciated by many restaurants. Things are going so well  at work that, in September 1969,  he can even afford to buy a small house at 4315 Charlotte Street, w...

Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair on January 24, 1989  The infamous serial killer, who murdered more than 30 women, was sentenced to capital punishment in Florida State Prison.  Ted Bundy had been given the death penalty three times before he was finally executed. At 4.50am on the day of his execution, he refused a last breakfast of steak and eggs in his cell which was 30ft away from the electric chair. Around an hour later, his head was shaved along with his right calf – which were the attachments points for the electrodes. Despite his enormous amount of victims, Bundy was sentenced to death for three killings in Florida following his second escape from prison. He sexually assaulted and murdered two college students during a blood-thirsty rampage on January 15, 1978, in which he also bludgeoned three others who all survived. His last crime was the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Diane Leach who he abducted from her school in broad daylight on Feb...

Krystal Surles in an interview with 48 Hours Live to Tell  It was the 31st of December 1999, when serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells entered the trailer home of Terry Harris early in the morning. Sells was armed with a butcher knife and went into the room were 13-year old Kaylene (Katie) Harris and 11-year old Krystal Surles were sleeping in a bunk bed. Sells lay down next to Kaylene on the bottom bunk and began sexually assaulting her, Kaylene tried to get up but Sells stabbed her a total of 16 times while slitting her throat multiple times. She died almost instantly. Sells then remembered that Krystal was laying on the top bunk and quickly slashed her throat before leaving the trailer home. Krystal pretended to be dead, but got up after a while to look for help at a neighbor’s house. She survived the attack and identified Tommy Lynn Sells as the killer. Tommy Lynn Sells was sentenced to death on the 8th of November 2000, and was executed by lethal injection on the 3rd of Ap...

Robert Berdella (Serial Killer) Robert Andrew Berdella Jr. (January 31, 1949 – October 8, 1992) was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered at least six young men after having forced his victims to endure periods of up to six weeks of captivity. His crimes took place in Kansas City, Missouri, between 1984 and 1987. In the late 80's, Robert Berdella tortured and killed six men, chopped their bodies into small pieces, and stuffed their remains into dog-food bags(of course where else would I keep chopped human parts).....Read story  He also kept detailed notes on each of his victims, which later helped investigators prove their murders. Berdella almost got away with it all. Had it not been for his seventh would-be victim, 22-year-old Christopher Bryson, who managed to escape from the second floor of Berdella's home, he may have not been caught Berdella was originally charged with sexual assault, but after police obtained a search warrant, th...

Serial killer Harvey Glatman is executed in a California gas chamber for murdering three young women in Los Angeles. Resisting all appeals to save his life, Glatman even wrote to the appeals board to say, "I only want to die."...  As a Boy Scout, he developed an obsession with rope. When his parents noticed that he was strangling himself on occasion, they took him to a doctor who told them that it was just a phase and that he would grow out of it. As a teenager, he threatened a girl with a toy gun in Colorado. Skipping bail, he made his way to New York, where he later spent two years and eight months in Sing Sing prison on robbery charges. Following his release, Glatman moved to Los Angeles and opened up a television repair shop. He took up photography as a hobby, in addition to playing with ropes. On August 1, 1957, he combined these two interests in a sinister way. On the pretense of a freelance modeling assignment, Glatman lured 19-year-old Judy Ann Dull to his ap...