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Levi Boone Helm (January 28, 1828 – January 14, 1864) was an American mountain man, Old West gunfighter, and serial killer known as the Kentucky Cannibal.Helm gained his nickname for his opportunistic and unrepentant proclivity for consuming human flesh, usually in survival situations, though instances of killing people for their meat unprovoked were also documented.
Gerald "Jerry" Walter McFadden (March 21, 1948 – October 14, 1999), known as The Animal, was an American serial killer and sex offender who was convicted of the May 1986 murders of two women and one man in Smith County, Texas. He fled from jail shortly after his arrest, leading to the biggest manhunt in Texas history, with it coming to an end ...
Robert Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, on February 15, 1939, the eldest of two children to an American mother, Edna Margret Hansen (née Petersen; October 27, 1916 – April 24, 2005) [5] and a Danish father, local baker Christian "Chris" Hansen (September 16, 1907 – August 12, 1983). [6]
California leads the nation with 1,777 serial killer victims from 1992 to 2019, followed by Texas with 984 and Florida with 933. These figures are part of a broader pattern across the United ...
West's son, Stephen, has said he firmly believes the missing teenager was an early victim of his father, as Fred had openly boasted of having committed Bastholm's murder while on remand. [ 239 ] In May 2021, police announced their intentions to excavate the grounds of a café in Gloucester after receiving information that the body of Mary ...
Gary Heidnik was born on November 22, 1943, in Eastlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, to Michael and Ellen Heidnik.He had a younger brother, Terry. After their parents divorced in 1946, Heidnik and his brother were raised by their mother for four years before being placed in the care of their father and his new wife. [3]
Self-confessed serial killer Tamara Samsonova, 68, may have experimented with cannibalism as she brutally murdered each of her 11 victims. Over two decades, the senior woman beheaded and ...
The 1999 film Wild Wild West features a scene where Artemis Gordon obtains a clue by projecting the optograms of a dead scientist on to a wall (much to the disgust of his colleague James West). In 2007, the visual artist Derek Ogbourne created his 'Museum of Optography', after the trauma of being thumped in the eye a few years earlier.