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David Edward Maust (April 5, 1954 – January 20, 2006) was an American serial killer who targeted predominantly male teenagers. His murders occurred in Germany and the United States. In 1984 he was sentenced to 35 years in prison; he was released under probation in June 1999.
Angel Nieves Díaz (August 31, 1951 – December 13, 2006) was a Puerto Rican convict and a suspected serial killer who was executed by lethal injection by Florida. [1] Nieves, who had escaped from a prison in Puerto Rico while serving time for murder, was convicted of shooting and killing the manager of a strip club in Florida in 1979. [2]
Charles Reece is a composite of several serial killers, [5] and primarily based on Richard Chase. [ 6 ] The crimes that Reece commits are slightly different from Chase's, however; Reece kills three women, a man and a young boy, whereas Chase killed two men, two women (one of whom was pregnant), a young boy and a 22-month-old baby.
In early 1972, U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell released the serial numbers to the general public. [78] Two men used counterfeit $20 bills printed with Cooper serial numbers to swindle $30,000 from a Newsweek reporter named Karl Fleming in exchange for an interview with a man they falsely claimed was the hijacker. [79] [80]
The Starkweather–Fugate case inspired the films The Sadist (1963), Badlands (1973), Guncrazy (1992), Kalifornia (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), and Starkweather (2004). [42] "A Case Study of Two Savages," a 1962 episode of the TV series Naked City, was also inspired by the Starkweather killings (the couple was played by Rip Torn and ...
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (/ ˈ d ɑː m ər /; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, [3] was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. [4]
Danilo Restivo (born 3 April 1972) is an Italian serial killer.Restivo is serving a life sentence with a 40-year tariff for murdering his neighbour Heather Barnett in Bournemouth, England in November 2002. [1]
Jack Henry Abbott (January 21, 1944 – February 10, 2002) was an American criminal and author.With a long history of criminal convictions, Abbott's writing concerning his life and experiences was lauded by a number of well-known literary critics, including author Norman Mailer.