Spooky Behavior

SPRING BREAK MURDER

A story of murder, kidnapping, human sacrifice and a charismatic cult leader…

Matamoros, Mexico—an easy drive or stroll across the Rio Grande River from Brownsville, Texas—has been a popular hangout for vacationing college students since the 1930s. It is a typical border town, with all that implies: prostitution and sex shows, abundant alcohol and drugs, rampant poverty and crime. Each spring, some 250,000 students descend on Brownsville and Matamoros en masse. Those who came to celebrate in March 1989 didn’t know that Matamoros had logged 60 unsolved disappearances since New Year’s Day.

One who disappeared was Mark Kilroy, a pre-med junior from the University of Texas. Friends lost track of him in Matamoros, in the predawn hours of March 14, 1989, and reported his disappearance to police the next day. American officials kept a close eye on the case, while Matamoros police interrogated 127 known criminals—a process frequently involving clubs and carbonated water laced with hot sauce, sprayed into a suspect’s nostrils. No one had seen Kilroy.

The story of Marie Hilley is a study in deceit, pathological obsession and serial murder.

Those who should have known her best knew her least. In the established tradition of black widows, Marie murdered her husband. It didnt stop there. Her murderous escapades undermined what should have been the most sacred of family relationships. When it appeared she would finally be brought to justice for her crimes, she disappeared and began life anew with an assumed identity. One persona after another, discarded when it no longer suited her needs.

(Source: trutv.com)

H.H. Holmes’ Hotel of Horrors

Behind it’s outward appearance of normality, secret passages riddled the hotel-room walls, with peepholes for spying on the occupants. Trapdoors led into hidden staircases leading to the street. There were doors opening on to blank walls, an elevator shaft with no elevator, and an elevator with no shaft.

One room had been made into an airtight steel chamber, equipped with gas hoses leading to an adjoining room. And in the basement, which was connected by a spiral chute with Holmes’ top-floor office, was a lime filled concrete pit, vats of acid and a series of furnaces.

Whichever way the women died, they all ended up in the basement for disposal. Besides the limepit, Holmes had his ovens, and barrels of acid. Their bones were the only thing that gave him bother. Sometimes he would clean them and sell the skeleton to medical laboratories. Mostly, however, he would stack them in the empty acid barrels, mixing them with animal bones, against the eventuality of being discovered.

Women were not the only victims in Holmes’ castle. There was, for example an unfortunate inventor by the name of Warner, who was incinerated alive inside his newly-designed furnace. And there was also Rogers, a wealthy investor from Wisonsin, whom Holmes alternately gassed and starved until Rogers produced a cheque for $70,000. The man was then poisoned and his body sold for dissection.

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Dennis Nilsen

Dennis Nilsen lived in London and picked up his victims in pubs. As Brian Masters, author of the definitive biography of Nilsen put it, he was “killing for company.” Before he ever killed, he’d experienced an erotic attraction to death, so he would spend hours lying in front of a mirror, pretending to be dead. There was something about the vulnerability that stirred in him an intense hunger. He also invited a few lovers to role-play his fantasy, but then things got more serious.

His first murder occurred in 1978.  He strangled a man he barely knew with a necktie, completely caught up in the eroticism of having this kind of power over another, and then placed him beneath the floorboards of his apartment.  Once having tasted the climatic pleasure of this activity, he found ways to repeat it.

He continued to invite men to his home, strangling them, bathing the corpses, sometimes taking them to bed, usually attempting sexual contact, and finally butchering them or storing them in various places in his apartments.  He especially loved the first night with them when he could have them in his bed before decomposition made them smelly and messy.  He was enraptured with the fact that they couldn’t get up and leave.  That meant that he was in total control.  Sometimes after he bathed them, he’d then soak in the same water and then he would decide their fate: store them, sit them in a chair, or cut them up and distribute the parts.  With experience as a butcher, he had no trouble dissecting them and boiling the flesh from their skulls.  To him, the entire procedure was a loving act, the last that these men would know.  That idea gave Nilsen a great deal of satisfaction.

Often he flushed parts down the toilet, which eventually proved to be his undoing.  When the septic system clogged in the building, an investigation led to Nilsen and without hesitation, he pointed out a closet where police found the dismembered parts of two different men.  Another torso was found in his tea chest, along with a number of old bones, and he was arrested.  He then confessed to killing 15 men over a period of five years, partly because the idea of them leaving his apartment made him feel alone and partly because he simply enjoyed it. In prison, he made drawings of their corpses and body parts.

(Source: trutv.com)

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Necrophilia

Necrophilia is an erotic attraction to corpses, with the most common motive cited by psychologists as the attempt to gain possession of an unresisting or non-rejecting partner.

According to Dr. Jonathan Rosman and Dr. Phillip Resnick, there are three basic types of “true” necrophilia: Necrophilic homicide, which is murder to obtain a corpse; Regular necrophilia, the use of corpses already dead for sexual pleasure; and Necrophilic fantasy, envisioning the acts but not acting on them.

Those who never touch the dead but find sexual gratification merely from looking at them are labeled “platonic necrophilisists.”

The lust killer who also engages in sexual activities with a corpse is not generally considered a true necrophile, R. E. L Masters, former director of the Library of Sex Research, claims (although other criminologists differ with the opinion). He says that such sexual violation is only an extension of what the lust murderer will do as part of the overall crime. A true necrophile is only interested in the corpse, not the living person. If he kills, it’s only to get a corpse.

History offers several singular accounts of such activity, including the fear that ancient Egyptians expressed that embalmers would violate their deceased wives, so they kept them home until decomposition was clearly evident. One legend states that King Herod killed his wife and then had sex with her for seven more years.

Supposedly (if one can judge such a secret activity), necrophiles are primarily male (about 90%), but one female apprentice embalmer claimed that during the first four months of her employment, she had sex with a number of corpses. She admitted that she could not achieve satisfaction with the living, in part because she had been molested once and later raped. She could express herself to corpses without fear. While she did not engage in penile penetration, another female mortician did, and she managed it by devising a pump that fit under the skin of the penis.

Contrary to common belief, say Rosman and Resnick, most necrophiles are heterosexual, although about half of the known necrophiles who have killed were gay. In only about 60% is there a diagnosed personality disorder, with 10% being psychotic.

The most common occupations through which necrophiles in their study came across corpses include hospital orderly, morgue attendant, funeral parlor assistant, cleric, cemetery employee, and soldier—although the majority of people thus employed are {not} tempted to violate a corpse.

(Source: trutv.com)

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ramirez-dahmer-bundy:

“And I closed my eyes and I bit into it. And I said ‘This ain’t bad.’ It tasted like fresh ham.”

-Arthur Shawcross on his first experience of eating human flesh.

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Jeffrey Dahmer's victims

JEFFREY DAHMER’S VICTIMS

Name: Steven Hicks, age 19 years.
Location: Bath Township, June 1978.
Method: Dahmer got Hicks drunk then hit him with a dumb-bell and finally strangled him.
Disposal: After killing Steven he dismembered the body with a carving knife. He later pulverised the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered the bones around the property. The flesh was put into bags and buried in a crawlspace under the house. It wasn’t until three years later that police and forensics found the remains.

Name: Steven Tuomi, age 24 years.
Location: Ambassador Hotel, 21 November 1987.
Method: Got victim drunk, then smashed his chest in and attempted to rip out his heart.
Disposal: In a panic he rushed out to the nearest store and bought a large trunk where he placed the dismembered carcass. He then took the body back to his grandmother’s house and put it in the basement where he could continue to cut it up. After doing so, he put the remains into a plastic bag and threw it out with the garbage. No remains were ever found of Steven Tuomi.

Name: James Doxtator, age 14 years old.
Location: Dahmers grandmother’s house. West Allis, South of Milwaukee. Jan 16th 1988.
Method: The victim was drugged then strangled. His flesh was removed from the bones with acid and the bones were pulverized.
Disposal: Same as Steven Hicks.

Name: Richard Guerrero, age 23 years.
Location: Dahmers grandmother’s house. March 24th 1988.
Method: After having oral sex with the victim, he gave Richard a drink laced with sleeping pills, he then strangled him.
Disposal: Dahmer dismembered the corpse and disposed of the remains in the garbage.

Name:Anthony Sears, age 26 years.
Location: Dahmer’s grandmother’s house. March 25th 1989.
Method: Strangled him before dismembering the corpse. He cut off his head and genitals to keep as trophies, he then painted the skull grey.
Disposal: As previous victim.

Name: Raymond Smith, age 33 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. May 20th 1990.
Method: Strangled the victim, then engaged in oral sex with the cadaver. He then dismembered the body and removed the head, the skull was then painted grey and placed in his fridge.
Disposal: The bones were left in a tank of acid until all the bones were de-fleshed. He then placed the bones around his apartment as ornaments

Name: Eddie Smith, age 27 years old.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. May 24th 1990.
Method: He was enticed into Dahmers lair, where he was drugged, strangled then dismembered.
Disposal: The remains were placed in the acid to dissolve.

Name: Ernest Miller, age 22 years old.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street.
Method: Ernest Miller was lured into Dahmers apartment, by the temptation of earning $50 to pose nude for the camera. He was drugged, then had his throat cut.
Disposal: Dahmer removed the flesh with acid, bleached the skeleton and kept it in his wardrobe. He also kept the victims biceps and placed them in a freezer for later consumption.

Name: David Thomas, age 23 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. September 24th 1990.
Method: Dahmer gave him a ‘laced’ drink containing sleeping pills.
Disposal: As previous.

Name: Curtis Straughter, age 19 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. February 18th 1991.
Method: Drugged then strangled.
Disposal: His cadaver was dismembered and the bones crushed. The skull was kept and the remains were dumped into the garbage.

Name: Errol Linsey, age 19 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. April 7th 1991.
Method: Errol was tempted into Dahmers lair, by being offered money to pose naked. He was then strangled.
Disposal: Dahmer had oral sex with the corpse before dismembering it. He kept the skull as a trophy.

Name: Tony Hughs, age 31 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. May 24th 1991.
Method: Tony was deaf and mute, but was still tempted into Dahmers apartment by written request, asking him to pose nude. Once inside Dahmer drugged him and then strangled him.
Disposal: After killing him he left the body lying around the apartment for a couple of days before the process of dismemberment was engaged. The corpse was left dissolving in acid. His skull was kept.

Name: Konerak Sinthasomphone. age 14 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. May 27th 1991.
Method: Konerak was drugged and experimented on before he was strangled. The experiments were to drill a hole into the back of the cranium and injecting hydrochloric acid into the frontal lobes of the brain, while he was still alive. Such experiments were to create a ‘zombie’ in order to be in complete control of his victim.
Disposal: The body was dismembered and stored in the acid.

Name: Matt Turner, age 20 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. June 30th 1991.
Method: As with most other victims he was lured into Dahmers chambers were he was drugged and strangled.
Disposal: The body was dismembered and left lying around his apartment.

Name: Jeremiah Weinberger, age 23 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. July 7th 1991.
Method: Similar to Konerak, except he had boiling water injected into his head and left alive in a comerized state for two days. He was later strangled.
Disposal: The cadaver was dismembered and again stored in acid.

Name: Oliver Lacy, age 23 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. July 15th 1991.
Method: As with most of his victims, he was drugged and strangled.
Disposal: During dismemberment, Dahmer would sodomize the corpse before being ‘stored’. His heart was kept in the fridge.

Name: Joseph Bradehoft, age 25 years.
Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th Street. July 19th 1991.
Method: Joseph was lured into the apatment by being offered money to pose nude. He was then drugged and strangled.
Disposal: The corpse was again dismembered, but not completely. The head and torso were kept in his apartment.

Name: Steven Hicks, age 19 years.
Location: Bath Township, June 1978.
Method: Dahmer got Hicks drunk then hit him with a dumb-bell and finally strangled him.
Disposal: After killing Steven he dismembered the body with a carving knife. He later pulverised the bones with a sledgehammer and…

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I didn’t want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them.

David Berkowitz, aka Son of Sam

(Source: monstrous.com)

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One side of me says, I’d like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick?

Edmund Kemper, Serial Killer

(Source: monstrous.com)

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I don’t feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.

Ted Bundy (via theodore-bundy)

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theduchess24:

‘From sleeping co-eds to savvy barflies - hippies, prudes, daddy’s girls and children - no daughter was safe from Ted Bundy.’

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fuckyeahbizarrestuff:

Andrei Chikatilo
He was a Soviet serial killer, child molester and pedophile, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov. He was convinced for the murders of 52 women and children, although he has probably killed more. During late adolescence, he discovered that he was impotent, and the only way he was able to achieve sexual arousal and orgasm was through stabbing women and children to death. He would usually lure runaways, prostitutes or small children to a forest, where he would promise them help, money, or in the case of children - candy and toys. There, he would attempt to have sex with them, and not being able to achieve an erection, he would go into a murderous rage and stab them. He was arrested in 1990, and executed in 1994 with a gunshot to the head.

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