Serial Killers of the '80s: Stories Behind a Decadent Decade of Death Volume 5 (Profiles in Crime)

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Murdered an acquaintance; later killed a 10-year-old girl he had impregnated and two of her great-aunts Death Row Inmate Was Calm, Alone to End". Los Angeles Times. January 30, 2002. Archived from the original on June 7, 2023. Crimes referred to as "The Houston Mass Murders"; accomplice of Dean Corll, who he later killed in self-defense

Known as "The Glamour Girl Slayer" and "The Lonely Hearts Killer"; posed as a professional photographer in California to lure his victims with the promise of a modeling career before binding them and sexually assaulting them and photographing then murdering them Known as "The Butcher"; drug addict who killed people in West Virginia and Ohio, dismembering and beheading their bodies post-mortem For example, Fallon says there are far more female serial killers than we may be aware of. Though killers like Aileen Wuornos present a rare example, women often go under the radar because they’re more often psychopaths who use sociopaths to do their dirty work — much like Charles Manson used his followers to execute his crimes — than killers themselves. “So, there’s an artificially low number of female serial killers,” he says. “But if you count in the ones that are just manipulating people to do their dirty work, then that number goes up to what it is for men.” As proof, Fallon points to a 2019 study in which researchers studied 55 male serial killers and 55 female serial killers who committed their murders between 1856 and 2009 in the U.S. The study found that men often act as “hunters”— seeking out and killing strangers — while women are “gatherers,” killing those around them for gain. An example is Amy E. Duggan, a nursing home proprietor who married and killed five older men and convinced nine elderly women to put her in their wills before poisoning them in the early 1900s.

Known as "The Longview Serial Killer"; kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered underage girls across Washington State With accomplice Willie Steelman, killed witnesses to their robberies spree across California and Arizona

Known as "The Santa Strangler"; murdered women in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles and one in San Francisco, and is the prime suspect for two similar murders Shot his parents in 1971 when he was 13, killing his pregnant mother; stabbed his wife and niece to death in 2004 Known as "The Grim Sleeper"; charged after DNA evidence linked him with ten murders in Los Angeles since 1985 Transgender woman who was convicted of murdering two of her girlfriends and is being charged with murdering another woman.

Known as the "East-Harlem Rapist"; raped seven women in Manhattan from 1991 to 1998, killing three of them One of the pair known as "The Killing Cousins"; murdered women in Vero Beach and Indian River County, Florida, with the aid of his cousin Fred Waterfield Known as "The Shotgun Stalker"; responsible for random drive-by shotgun shootings in Washington, D.C. Bishop Found Guilty Of Murdering 5 Boys". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. March 20, 1984. p.8–A. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021 . Retrieved October 31, 2017. Convicted of murdering a young girl and one man in both Missouri and Kansas; acquitted, but still main suspect, in three other deaths

Hall, Michael (July 1, 2002). "Two Barmaids, Five Alligators, and the Butcher of Elmendorf". Texas Monthly. Texas. Archived from the original on June 28, 2015 . Retrieved March 4, 2011. Stephen Wayne Anderson, a murderous creep with an IQ of 136, earned admiration and awards from the literary community while writing on death row". New York Daily News. August 22, 2015. Archived from the original on September 16, 2018 . Retrieved December 25, 2020.Accomplice of Jurijus Kadamovas; Russian immigrant who kidnapped five people in California for ransom money and killed them