kokrah@... asked this question on 3/26/2000:

who is the most grousome serial killer of all times besides jeffrey dahmer, charles manson, ted bundy?

STB56 gave this response on 3/31/2000:

Ok where to begin? First of all let me appologize for taking so long to get back to you. Many people say that John Wayne Gasey was the worst serail killer in US history. Now if you ask me sure he killed about 30 people I think all of them if not most of them were teenage kids. And yes he burried them under his house in his crawlspace He also dressed up like a clown to get closer to little children, and he worked as a clown for a number of years, I have heard it rumored that this is where Steven King first got the idea of a killer clown for "IT", but I didn't see the movie so I have no idea. However I do not think that this compares to the likes of Dahmer who ate victims even though he did not kill that many, or to Bundy who once sliced off a girls nipple and ate it. As far as Mason goes there is speculation as to wheather or not he really killed anyone. He was probably at the crime scene and kept edging his followers on to kill but if he really killed nobody really knows. There have been extimates that between 50 and 100 serial killers are active almost every day in the United States. There grousomeness continues to amaze me and I do not think that I can say who is the most grotesque. Anything that you can think of has been done. I feel that any taking of a life in it's own merit is equally grotesque. However I find that eating different body parts in the act of canabilism is sickening. There are various people who like to tourture before they kill which is also sickening. As well as someone who has sex with someone who is dead. An example would be Edmund Emil Kemper III's who's murder spree began when he was 15 when he shot both of his grandparents. He was released from a juvenile correction facility at 21. Then he started killing hitchhikers. He killed two college students by stabbing them. He then brought the boddies home to his mothers house where he took Polaroid photos, dissected them, and played with various organs. He burried their bodies and threw their heads into a ravine. He then killed a 15 year old hitchhiker, he suffocated her, suxually assaulted her corpse, and brought it home once again for disection. The next day he had a periodic visit with a state psychiatrist to monitor his behavior, and the 15 year old girls head was in his trunk. The psychiatrist felt that his treatment was doing good and that he no longer needed treatment and his juvenile record should be sealed. Next he picked up a college student forced her into his trunk at gunpoint shot her, and as usually carried her body back to his mother's house, had sex with it in his bed, and then dissected it in the bathtub. He threw her remains off a cliff, but not the head. He kept the head and burried it in his backyard face up, looking toward his mother's bedroom window, since she'd always wanted people to look up to her. He killed two more women and did the same thing with them. His urge was growing at a phenomenal rate, and he even considered shotting everyone on the block but decided against it. On Easter weekend, as his mother slpet in her bed, Kemper went into her room with a claw hammer. He chickend out the first 3 times then finaly went in to killer her with the hammer. He decapitated her and raped her headless corpse. He cut out her larynx and put it down the garbage dispenser, but it jammed and threw it back at him, He said and I quote from Mind Hunter by John Douglas, "Even when she was dead, she was still bitching at me. I couldn't get her to shut up!" Then he called his mothers friend over, to have a suprise dinner. When she arrived he killed her and decapitated her, left her body in his bed, and slept in his mothers bed. He then turned himself into police. That is just one person who killed there are many many many others way to many to name. I will name Ed Gain. The movies Silence of the Lambs, and Texas Chainsaw masacher were based on him. He made a suit of skin that he used to wear around his house. He first started digging up boddies to get what skin he could. When that no longer worked he went on to kill. When the police found him he had a vast collection of bones that he used for everything. He had a chair, a table and a lamp made of human bones and remains. Supposedly when the police came to his house he was eating his cerial out of a skull he used as a bowl. There are many others like Steven B. Pennell who had a van, with a rape kit in the back. He would find victims, and rape and tourture them. Anything from squeezing their nipples and breasts, to cutting them on their legs, or whipping or beating their buttocks or vaginas, or hitting them with a hammer. James Russell Odem and James Clayton Lawson Jr. abducted a young girl who wored at a 7-11 Odem addmitting to raping the girl and says that Lawson slit her throat after he had gotten off of her. He said that Lawson butchered her up and tried to eat her sexual organs but it had made him sick. In a like manner it is rummored that Jack the Ripper, the worlds first documented serial killer, sent a letter with a kidney to Soctland Yard. In the letter it said, here is so and so's kidney I have eaten the other one. I hope this answers your question. If you would like to read more about serial killers pick up John Douglas's book called MindHunters. John Douglas did work for the FBI in the behavioral crime unit. He has a number of books out I have read MindHunters and his other book Sexual Homicide Patterns and Motives.

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