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View Poll Results: The most scary serial killer ever?
Ted Bundy 28 15.64%
John Wayne Gacy 24 13.41%
Richard Ramirez 23 12.85%
The BTK Killer 13 7.26%
Henry Lee Lucas 6 3.35%
Green River Killer 5 2.79%
Jeffrey Dahmer 26 14.53%
The Hillside Strangler 2 1.12%
Robert Lee Yates 0 0%
Wayne Williams 1 0.56%
Other 51 28.49%
Voters: 179. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-03-2013, 07:50 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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I am not sure which serial killer I find the scariest. Just the other night I watched a show about a serial killer I had not heard about before, and now I can't recall his name. He killed eight or nine women in the mid-west, as well as many rapes. I found him particularly scary because he would stalk his victims, make sure they were alone, and then break into their house and hide, waiting for them to get home. I think that element of someone watching a person over time and then killing them in their own home (where they feel safe) is what gets to me the most.
That sounds like Dennis Rader - aka "BTK" for Bind, Torture, Kill.

He operated in Wichita from 1974-1991 and was captured in 2005.

Once he hid in someone's closet(her name was Anna) and waited for her to come home with his murder tools.

He had "social obligations" - his term for real life business - so he left.

When she got home, she could tell that someone had been there, and a week or so later he sent Anna a poem titled Anna, why did you not appear?

Anna moved out of the house that night.
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Old 12-03-2013, 09:44 PM
 
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Who was the gay dude that smothered and sexually assaulted teenaged boys? Not Dahmer or Gacy...

But, into lobotomizing and trying to make a sexual zombie like Dahmer did...

Back in the 70s I think.
Probably in the Midwest???
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Old 12-03-2013, 09:57 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Toss up between Richard Ramirez and Ted Bundy. Ramirez was just cold, cold, cold, with the deadest eyes. I found those lifeless eyes very scary.

Bundy played the nice looking friendly guy who any woman would trust. Too easy to get caught in his web.
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Old 12-03-2013, 10:15 PM
 
Location: in my mind
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That sounds like Dennis Rader - aka "BTK" for Bind, Torture, Kill.

He operated in Wichita from 1974-1991 and was captured in 2005.

Once he hid in someone's closet(her name was Anna) and waited for her to come home with his murder tools.

He had "social obligations" - his term for real life business - so he left.

When she got home, she could tell that someone had been there, and a week or so later he sent Anna a poem titled Anna, why did you not appear?

Anna moved out of the house that night.
The guy I saw on this show wasn't BTK.

But the ones who stalk their victims first (observe them over time to learn their habits) creep me out the most.

Due to reading so much true crime over the years, I would never live in a ground-floor apartment as a female.
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Old 12-04-2013, 09:44 AM
 
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Who was the gay dude that smothered and sexually assaulted teenaged boys? Not Dahmer or Gacy...

But, into lobotomizing and trying to make a sexual zombie like Dahmer did...

Back in the 70s I think.
Probably in the Midwest???

Dean Corll (Houston)?
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Old 12-04-2013, 11:09 PM
 
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Sheesh, kinda depressing that there's so many ... Nope, think this one worked alone.

Also, no horrific fantasies of sex zombies here...

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Old 12-05-2013, 05:05 AM
 
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Ted Bundy because he didn't seem to be anything other than a man in need of some help...that is real evil!
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Old 12-07-2013, 10:18 PM
 
Location: State of INSANITY
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Richard Kuklinski ( aka the "Ice Man")....mob killer-for-hire....He enjoyed his work immensely. For example, he would tie up people in caves, cover them with raw meat (or something like that) or, worse, would cut them so they would bleed, and then let the rats, who were enticed by the smell and fear--- eat them alive. He always made sure they were alive for the rats to find; killing them instantly was not for this guy, if the order called for the called for the "mark" to suffer. He made damn sure they did.

Further, he videotaped these killings to show the mobsters who hired him the true horror of how these unfortunates died. Even the the people who hired him were shocked by the video when they saw how these people died.

And the kill count? WHO KNOWS! He admitted himself he lost count in the 100s...All the while, he maintained a "normal" family existance at home in a nice upper-class suburb in New Jersey. His wife and kids had NO idea how he made a living. THIS to me, is the epitome of evil on Earth.

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Old 12-08-2013, 01:35 PM
 
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Secret diaries of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele offer glimpse into twisted mind - Mirror Online
Aribert Heim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Pol Pot in Cambodia 1975-1979

Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Killed More? by Timothy Snyder | The New York Review of Books

I find these people more scary, because they were able to convince others to acquiesce to their evil. I pray the world is done with evil on this scale.
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Old 12-08-2013, 02:52 PM
 
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I'd have to say either H.H. Holmes or the "Bloody Benders" of Kansas.
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