In , he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Since , he has been denied parole ten times and his next parole hearing will take place in Canadian serial killer and pig farmer Robert Pickton is believed to have killed 49 women on his property.
The details one witness gave investigators were horrific. They claimed in their testimony that Pickton had bragged that he killed the victims by strangling them; bled and gutted them; ran them through a wood chipper, and then fed their remains to his pigs. The investigation into the exact number of women he killed is still ongoing.
He confessed in his cell to an undercover police officer posing as his cellmate that he was aiming for a target of 50 victims.
Unaware he was being filmed, Pickton chillingly boasted :. I was just gonna do one more, make it even. In , he was transferred from Kent Institution in British Columbia to the Port-Cartier in Quebec where he will serve a life sentence. For more than 30 years, Dennis Rader haunted the community in Wichita, Kansas. He tortured and murdered 10 people, including two children. During his horrific killing spree, he sent letters to the media with details of his sinister crimes.
During his year-long marriage, his wife, Paula Dietz, had no clue her husband was the most feared man in Wichita. On February 25th, , police arrested Rader and broke the news to his wife and his daughter, Kerri Rawson.
Rader has no chance of parole for years. In his square-foot cell, Rader will have no television and limited access to reading materials, except for legal documents. He is only permitted to leave his cell in El Dorado for five hours per week and for brief showers. Serial killer couple Fred and Rose West murdered at least 12 girls and women — including their own daughter.
In , Fred took his own life but not before he fully confessed to every grisly detail of their crimes. Rose herself claimed she was innocent. The remains of nine young women — many of them dismembered, decapitated, and showing evidence of sexual torture — were buried under its cellar, bathroom floor, and garden. It is very likely there are even more victims whose fates may never be known.
Prison officials took the threat seriously. They moved West to another prison because they said it was a massive security threat. One of the most prolific serial killers of all time, Luis Garavito murdered between and young boys. It is believed the real victim count is as many as Colombian-born Garavito claimed he had suffered physical abuse throughout his childhood at the hands of his alcoholic father.
His murder spree had begun sometime in ; practically all of his victims were boys aged between who were orphaned, penniless, or homeless. Garavito was sentenced to 1, years in prison. The upcoming docuseries, John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise , follows the details surrounding the crimes of the sadistic serial killer.
The six-part Peacock docuseries "tells the story of Gacy through his own words, those who were forever changed by his unspeakable deeds, and those who believe that the full truth about the case remains concealed to this day. The series follows the investigation of Gacy and poses new questions about what may have happened and who else may be involved.
So, is the Killer Clown still alive? After being convicted of the murder of torture of 33 young boys, Gacy was executed by lethal injection on May 10, Though Gacy was killed after being convicted, not all serial killers are sentenced to death row. Keep reading to find out more about five serial killers who are still alive today. Dubbed the "Green River Killer," Ridgway received a life-long prison sentence after pleading guilty to murdering 48 women in , though he later confessed that the count was probably higher.
As part of his plea deal, Ridgway is currently serving a life sentence for each of his victims without the possibility of parole at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Wash. Dennis Rader :. Well, there are more serial killers alive today than you might expect. Gary Ridgway is one of many serial killers in prison. Rosemary West, one-half of a duo who committed unspeakable crimes, is one of many famous murderers still alive.
Paul Bernardo is probably one of the most dangerous serial killers alive. But there are unfortunately plenty of other serial killers currently in prison. Many famous serial killers were murdered in jail. The male and female serial killers on this list either received life sentences or managed to avoid life in prison. These rare serial killers may have taken the lives of at least three people, some with victim numbers over 50, yet are still alive themselves.
Berkowitz claimed he was told by a demon dog to shoot his victims. He killed 6 people before getting caught in August Berkowitz received 6 life sentences. Rader bound, tortured and killed his victims and then sent letters to the police and news outlets bragging about his crimes. He was caught in and sentenced to life in prison, one life sentence for each murder. Often known as the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway killed at least 48 people, with the number of victims probably closer to Ridgway lured prostitutes away to be strangled and raped.
He dumped the bodies in the forested areas in Washington, but some were also found in the Green River. He was caught in after nearly twenty years of murders and sentenced to life in prison.
Officials originally thought multiple offenders committed the crimes, but DNA evidence led to the realization it was one person. DeAngelo was arrested in based on DNA tracing from family members on public genealogy sites. In June he pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 13 rapes , and admitted committing other sexual assaults that he wasn't prosecuted for because the statute of limitations expired. While working as a nurse over the course of 16 years , Charles Cullen killed at least 40 victims - although the suspected number is actually in the hundreds.
He killed patients through overdoses and medical contamination in New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals. Cullen was arrested in and sentenced to years in prison. Throughout , Atlanta was terrorized by the Atlanta Child Murders where 29 children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered. Police began to suspect that he was the dreaded child serial killer in Although Williams still maintains he is innocent of the child murders, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Kristen Gilbert worked as a nurse in Massachusetts when she killed four patients by injecting them with epinephrine. The drug caused the patients to have heart attacks. Gilbert allegedly used these medical emergencies to get the attention of a police officer.
In , she called a bomb threat into the hospital as revenge for her coworkers suspecting her of murder. In , she was finally convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Beverley Allitt worked as a nurse in an English hospital when she killed four children and tried to kill three more. She also caused many other children to be grievously harmed through her insulin overdoses, although they survived.
In , she was sentenced to 13 life sentences. Along with his wife, Paul Bernardo killed and raped at least 3 young women, raping many more women during his time as The Scarborough Rapist. Together, he and his wife drugged and sexually assaulted her sister, who became their first joint victim. He was caught in and sentenced to life in prison. As the wife of serial rapist and killer Paul Bernardo, Karla Homolka was an accessory to a plethora of rapes and murders, many of which she took part in herself.
Homolka facilitated the rape and murder of her younger sister and at least two other women. The couple was arrested in She was released in after twelve years in prison. From , Rosemary West tortured and killed at least 10 women , with the assistance of her husband Fred.
West was a victim of frequent sexual abuse by her father from the time she was a child and well into adulthood. In , she was sentenced to life in prison. While her husband killed himself before going to trial, West still lives in prison in England. Colorado serial killer Scott Lee Kimball killed at least 4 people between and Although Kimball was caught in , he was allowed out of prison as an FBI informant. During that time, he allegedly killed more people in the West Mesa Murders.
Kimball is currently serving his year sentence. Russian doctor Maxim Petrov was arrested in for murdering at least 17 people through a lethal drug combination. He stole from them and then set fire to the homes of his victims. He is currently serving a life sentence.
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