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Bundy still takes the title for me and probably always will.
Mainly because he wasn't an insignificant little creep IRL like Ridgeway and Rader and most of the rest, angry at women and the world and desperate to gain some control over someone.
Bundy planned and schemed and was insatiable and incredibly cruel.
He could have chosen to be successful and gone another way, he was intelligent enough and sane enough and handsome enough to become pretty much anything he wanted. He deliberately chose his evil and that's what makes him the most frightening IMO.
I read about Ted Bundy and had nightmares for weeks. I always double checked the locks on all the doors and windows before going to bed. The one that that freaked me out the most was when he broke in the sorority house and was able to kill multiple girls without waking the others.
The D.C. Snipers (Lee Boyd Malvo & John Allen Muhammed) just because they didn't care who they shot. They just killed people. Whereas other serial killers tend to kill a specific type of person. It's rare that a serial killer is killing young black women, so I don't find them scary.
However, Ted Bundy is pretty scary. He's been killing since he was a young kid.
Having read Erik Larsen's book Devil in the White City, I agree. Holmes gets my vote.
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H.H. Holmes.
He murdered a lot of people during the late 19th century in a castle-like building he had built for him that was all business spaces on the first floor and a boarding house on the 2 floors above.
He killed his victims with gas, then cremated them in a furnace he had built for the purpose down in the basement.
Most of the murders occurred during Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Millions of people flocked to Chicago to go to it, and thousands moved into Chicago believing the Expo would give them work.
Holmes was so mild mannered and inconsequential looking none of his victims ever thought he was a threat. But when he decided to kill someone, they very seldom survived. Most of his failures were do to interruption and gas failures than anything else.
He confessed to 27 murders, was executed for 4, and may have committed as many as 200.
I lived in Wichita when the Oterro family was murdered, so, I choose the BTK killer, Dennis Rader.
Me, too, but for some reason, I didn't really consider the BTK murders to be scary. I was single and lived alone, and never really had fear. Maybe because of the way his killings were spread out and each MO seemed to be different. It was awhile before anyone realized it was the same guy. Actually, he had to tell them and gave himself a name before the killings were tied together. He seems scarier now that the details are known than he did back then.
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