Psychopathic Killers
Although you might think you know what the traits are for a Psychopath and you feel like you can spot one a mile away, you are wrong. "Superficially charming, psychopaths tend to make a good first impression on others and often strike observers as remarkably normal. Yet they are self-centered, dishonest and undependable, and at times they engage in irresponsible behavior for no apparent reason other than the sheer fun of it"(Medical College of Georgia psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley). I told you it is different than you might think and it is definitely not what the T.V. shows make it look like. There are some very famous psychopathic killers in history and still some today even though we don't notice it yet.
- Béla Kiss (Kiss of Death) - He was a tinsmith and an amateur astrologer, when he was asked why he had seven metal drums in his backyard he told them that it was gasoline since the war was coming. He then went to the army and the landlord found the seven drums and called the police. Upon attempting to open the drums there was a suspicious smell, once they opened it they found the strangled body of a women. With the search of his house they found 24 bodies and the housekeeper knew nothing about it at all. She showed the police the secret room which she was never allowed to be in and in the room was bookcases filled with books about poison and strangulation. Letters and a photo album of 74 women were found.
- Earle Nelson (The Gorilla Killer) - When he was young he was hit by a car on his bike and was unconscious for 6 days. When he woke up he suffered from frequent headaches and memory loss. He was sent to prison after breaking into a cabin he thought was vacant. He tended to spend a lot of time in mental institutes. He attempted to molest a little girl when he was 21 and he ended up back in a mental hospital when she brought attention to him by screaming. When he was released in 1925 he began killing landladies by strangling them when they went to show him the rooms for rent. He would often hide the body under a bed and leave it there. He ended up killing 20 people and was hanged when caught.
- Henri Landru (Sketched Confession) - He quit school and joined the French army, when he was discharged he had a child with his cousin and married another women to have 4 kids with her and leave. His employer swindled him out of his money and he turned to fraud himself by putting ads in the newspaper like, “Widower with two children, aged 43, with comfortable income, serious and moving in good society, desires to meet widow with a view to matrimony." When the women came to his house to answer the ad he would kill them, disembowel them, then burn their bodies in his oven. He had so many aliases that he had to keep them in a ledger so that he knew which one he used for which person. He was eventually caught due to the sister of one of his victims and he was found guilty on he ledger alone. During his trial he traced the picture of his kitchen and gave it to one of his lawyers. On the back of the picture he wrote “It is not the wall behind which a thing takes place, but indeed the stove in which a thing has been burned” and this was taken as his confession. He was guillotined in 1922.
- Leonarda Cianciulli (Soap-Maker of Corregio) - She lived in Italy, and was the daughter of a rape. Her mother didn't want her at all so she had a very poor childhood. Her house with her husband an earthquake hit and destroyed it and she opened a small shop. She had a son and her son was going to be drafted into war and so she believed she had to kill some people so it would stop him from being drafted. The women came to her for advice, one about finding a husband and that she had to pre-write letters to her family and she planned to go on this trip and right before she left for the trip she went to visit Leonarda, she was drugged with wine and dragged to a closet and chopped up in 9 pieces, the blood collected in a basin. One of the victims sister-in-law saw her going into Leonarda's house and told the police. When the police went to her house she told them everything and never showed remorse. Her words, “I threw the pieces into a pot, added seven kilos of caustic soda, which I had bought to make soap, and stirred the whole mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick, dark mush that I poured into several buckets and emptied in a nearby septic tank. As for the blood in the basin, I waited until it had coagulated, dried it in the oven, ground it and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine, kneading all the ingredients together. I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Giuseppe and I also ate them.” Her words about the 3rd woman, “She ended up in the pot, like the other two…her flesh was fat and white, when it had melted I added a bottle of cologne, and after a long time on the boil I was able to make some most acceptable creamy soap. I gave bars to neighbors and acquaintances. The cakes, too, were better: that woman was really sweet.”