These disturbing serial killers wreaked havoc for years only to escape to scot free. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most notorious serial killers throughout history who never faced justice for their crimes.
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00:00This is the Zodiac speaking.
00:02Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the most notorious serial killers throughout history
00:07who never faced justice for their crimes.
00:10I mean, there were so many misconceptions around the Torso Murders.
00:14The Saw Killer of Hanover.
00:16Between 1975 and 1977, residents of Hanover, Germany made a series of chilling discoveries.
00:23Human remains left in plain sight across the city.
00:26I'm dead.
00:29Drop it.
00:33These belonged to at least six individuals, none of whom were ever identified.
00:38Authorities noticed a disturbing pattern.
00:40The bodies had all been dismembered, like with a saw or surgical instrument.
00:45Herb used a saw.
00:46This pointed to a single perpetrator, later dubbed the Saw Killer of Hanover.
00:50With no way to identify the victims, the investigation stalled,
00:54leaving the police unable to trace their killer.
00:57However, they believed that by placing the victims' remains in public locations,
01:01the perpetrator was likely trying to incite fear.
01:04In 1977, the murders abruptly stopped,
01:07suggesting that the killer either left Hanover, was imprisoned, or died.
01:11The Severed Leg Killer.
01:13In the early 2000s, Istanbul was gripped by fear when a series of dismembered legs
01:18were found in various locations across the city.
01:20These levels are consistent with residue on a dismembered leg we found in Miami.
01:25This was the grisly work of a maniac referred to as the Severed Leg Killer.
01:30The limbs belonged to eight victims, six of whom were female and two male,
01:34but only one of them was ever identified.
01:37We got a match.
01:37The rest of their bodies were never recovered,
01:40making it nearly impossible to determine who they were, let alone who killed them.
01:44A psychological profile of the perpetrator was created,
01:47which suggested he wasn't originally from Istanbul and likely had a violent past.
01:52However, even this failed to bring investigators any closer to uncovering his identity.
01:57The Connecticut River Valley Killer.
01:59More than seven women in New Hampshire and Vermont
02:01apparently lost their lives to an individual known as the Connecticut River Valley Killer.
02:05The community knew a serial killer had stalked the estuaries and villages many call home.
02:10These murders took place over a 10-year period,
02:12and mostly involved the victims being stabbed to death.
02:16The last confirmed case occurred in 1988,
02:19involving a woman named Jane Borosky,
02:21who was repeatedly stabbed outside a convenience store but miraculously survived.
02:25I'm trying not to get emotional right now about it,
02:29because, you know, there have been so many people,
02:35there's been so many persons of interest over the years.
02:38After Borosky reported the incident and helped develop a composite sketch of her attacker,
02:42the murders stopped.
02:44Despite these efforts, the killer's identity remains a mystery.
02:48In 2006, Borosky publicly named a man she believed was responsible,
02:52though he had already killed his family and taken his own life the previous year.
02:56She later retracted this claim.
02:58The I-70 Killer.
03:00In the spring of 1992,
03:02six store clerks were gunned down along the Interstate 70 highway in the Midwest.
03:06Victims of what police in four states are almost sure is a serial killer.
03:11The victims shared unsettling similarities.
03:14They were young, petite women with long brown hair.
03:17The only outlier, a male clerk,
03:19is thought to have been mistaken for a woman because of his long hair.
03:22In addition to this, all the victims were shot in the same manner,
03:26with a .22 caliber firearm.
03:28I think this guy is out there.
03:30It's just a matter of getting the information we need,
03:34because we need something to work with.
03:36The suspected culprit, dubbed the I-70 Killer,
03:39is believed to have claimed even more lives,
03:41two store clerks in Texas and another in Indiana between 1993 and 2001.
03:46Despite years of publicity and a detailed sketch of the perpetrator
03:50being circulated on crime shows, he remains unidentified.
03:54His quirk is that he got off on the fact that people were basically right there,
04:00and he was doing something that heinous and getting away with it.
04:03The Honolulu Strangler.
04:05Hawaii has rarely been plagued by serial killers,
04:08but in 1985, the Honolulu Strangler struck fear into the state.
04:12Believed to be Hawaii's second-ever serial killer,
04:15this individual claimed the lives of five women between 1985 and 1986.
04:20The killings prompted HPD to form a task force that included
04:23an FBI profiler who helped put together a profile
04:27of the person they believed could be the suspect.
04:30These young victims were sexually assaulted,
04:32strangled, and left with their hands bound behind their backs.
04:35After the fifth victim was discovered,
04:37police arrested a man named Howard Gay,
04:40whose ex-wife and girlfriend claimed he had a preference
04:42for tying their hands during sex.
04:44Howard Gay was originally from Buffalo, New York.
04:47A military serviceman, he had been stationed at George Air Force Base
04:51in California until 1965, when he was honorably discharged.
04:56Gay was interrogated and given a polygraph test, which he failed.
05:00But with no solid evidence implicating him,
05:02authorities had no choice but to release him.
05:04He died in 2003, and no one else has been arrested since.
05:09The Doodler
05:09Back in the mid-1970s, San Francisco's gay community
05:13was terrorized by a serial killer known as the Doodler.
05:16For nearly 50 years, it looked like we would never know
05:19the Doodler's true identity.
05:21Now that could be about to change, though.
05:23The case has been reopened, the reward has been doubled.
05:27This individual, who was reportedly a cartoonist,
05:29would lure his victims from gay nightclubs and bars,
05:32then draw a sketch of them before stabbing them to death.
05:35He is believed to have killed between six and 16 people,
05:39with at least three others narrowly surviving his attacks.
05:42A lot of horrible things were happening with gay men.
05:46These survivors helped police develop a sketch
05:48of the perpetrator, but when a suspect was finally arrested,
05:51they refused to testify for fear
05:53of outing themselves in public.
05:55As a result, the suspect walked free.
05:57It remains an open case in the San Francisco Police Department.
06:01With a $250,000 reward being offered for any leads.
06:05The Stone Man.
06:06The moniker of this notorious Indian serial killer
06:09is disturbingly quite literal.
06:11It comes from their method of killing victims
06:13with a heavy stone.
06:14This pattern, paired with the fact
06:16that the victims were unhoused,
06:18led police to suspect they had a serial killer
06:20on their hands.
06:21What did the police know?
06:22Very little, only that it was assumed
06:24that the killer was well-built.
06:26The first spree occurred in Mumbai between 1983 and 1988,
06:30leaving up to 26 people dead.
06:33After a brief hiatus, the killings resumed in Calcutta
06:36during the summer of 1989, claiming at least 13 more lives.
06:40We are going back to the Stone Age,
06:42is what Rajpal Singh, the Deputy Commissioner
06:44of the Calcutta Police, said at the time of the killings.
06:46It is still unknown if both sprees were carried out
06:49by the same person, or if a copycat was responsible
06:52for the Calcutta murders.
06:54Although numerous arrests have been made,
06:56no one has ever been charged, and the case remains unsolved.
07:01The Axeman of New Orleans.
07:02Between May 1918 and October 1919,
07:05the city of New Orleans, Louisiana,
07:07suffered a terrifying rampage
07:09that left its residents in perpetual fear.
07:12There were 12 attacks during this roughly 18-month period,
07:18and six deaths.
07:19A serial killer, who came to be known
07:21as the Axeman of New Orleans, broke into homes
07:24and used the victims' own axes to slay them.
07:27Most of the casualties were women,
07:29and many were of Italian descent,
07:31which raised various theories about his motives.
07:33Some even believed the killings were a twisted way
07:36of promoting jazz music, as a letter,
07:38supposedly sent by the Axeman,
07:40claimed he would spare those who played it.
07:42Better safe than sorry, have a jazz party.
07:45The murders mysteriously stopped
07:47after six people had died,
07:49and the Axeman's identity has never been uncovered.
07:52The Alphabet Killer.
07:53In Rochester, New York, between 1971 and 1973,
07:57three girls disappeared, only to later be found dead,
08:01having been sexually assaulted and strangled.
08:03The similarities between the cases were already disturbing,
08:06but one detail made them even more so.
08:09The first and last names of each victim,
08:11Carmen Colon, Wanda Walkowicz, and Michelle Maenza,
08:14began with the same letter.
08:16This led police to believe a serial killer was at work.
08:19As time has gone on, experts think the likelihood
08:21that this was intentional is very low,
08:23but even if the killer had chosen his victims on this basis,
08:26that's not even the strangest
08:28of the similarities in the crimes.
08:30Following Maenza's murder, eyewitnesses helped create
08:33a composite sketch of the man she was last seen with,
08:35but the search for him led nowhere.
08:37Most of the tiny nuggets of possible leads
08:40that crept up through the case,
08:41real concrete information, was not to be had.
08:43Police also questioned other suspects,
08:46including one of the girls' uncles,
08:48but with no solid evidence, they were all let off the hook.
08:51The Freeway Phantom.
08:52This serial killer was responsible
08:54for the deaths of five black girls
08:57and one young woman in the Washington, D.C. area
08:59between 1971 and 1972.
09:02I was in homicide and I remember
09:04when Carol Spinks' case happened.
09:07His method was typically to abduct his victims
09:10while they were alone, sexually assault and strangle them,
09:13then dump their bodies in places
09:15where they would be easily found.
09:16The killer also taunted authorities
09:18by leaving a note with one of the victims
09:20and forcing another to call her family
09:23with misleading information before killing her.
09:25This was the first time we had ever had anything like this,
09:29so we were totally, totally unprepared.
09:32The case was widely investigated
09:34with countless tips from the public,
09:36but no meaningful leads emerged.
09:38Robert Elwood Askins, a known sexual predator,
09:41was suspected of the crimes,
09:43but with no physical evidence, he was never charged.
09:45The case remains unsolved.
09:48The Skid Row Stabber.
09:49This serial killer should not be confused
09:52with the Skid Row Slasher, aka Von Greenwood.
09:55We're discussing the Skid Row Stabber,
09:57who reportedly had 11 victims to his or her name
09:59during their rampage in the late 1970s.
10:02The crimes all took place in or around
10:04Los Angeles' downtown Skid Row neighborhood
10:07and targeted the area's substantial homeless population.
10:10Bodies were usually dumped or disposed of
10:13within various Skid Row alleys,
10:14and to this day, no one knows the true identity
10:18of the Stabber.
10:19Bobby Joe Maxwell was arrested,
10:21tried and convicted of the Skid Row Stabber crimes,
10:24but the investigation was marred by corruption
10:26and circumstantial evidence,
10:28resulting in the ruling being overturned in 2010.
10:32The New Bedford Highway Killer.
10:34New Bedford, Massachusetts,
10:35is known for its thriving fishing industry
10:38and for being a setting
10:39in Herman Melville's classic work, Moby Dick.
10:42It's also infamous for having been the hunting grounds
10:45of the New Bedford Highway Killer in the late 1980s.
10:48The targets were all women with drug dependency issues
10:51or who worked in the city's sex industry,
10:54and their bodies were all found along major highways
10:57in the surrounding New Bedford area.
10:58The hardest thing for me is the families,
11:01and particularly the families of the two girls
11:05that we never recovered the remains of.
11:07A number of suspects have come up over the years
11:10as potential candidates for the New Bedford Highway Killer,
11:13including a hypothesis that the Portuguese criminal
11:16known as the Lisbon Ripper
11:17perhaps could have done double duty after leaving the area.
11:20I'll never give up on her, never.
11:22To this day, families of the victims
11:24remain desperate for answers.
11:26I believe someone knows something.
11:29I made her a promise I would never give up, and I won't.
11:32The Bible Belt Strangler.
11:34Also known as the Redhead Murders,
11:36the case of the Bible Belt Strangler remains unsolved.
11:39The perpetrator of these crimes
11:41received the moniker of the Bible Belt Strangler
11:43due to the crimes being committed
11:44in states like Tennessee, Arkansas,
11:46Kentucky, and Mississippi between the years of 1978 and 1992.
11:51Jane Doe's bad, because that means
11:54you don't know who they are,
11:55which means you don't know who their family is,
11:56you don't know who their enemies were.
11:58The case bears similarities
11:59to the New Bedford Highway murders,
12:01as the victims were usually either hitchhikers
12:03or sex workers, and their bodies were dumped
12:06on the side of local highways.
12:07Pretty much he's a white truck driver.
12:10I would say he's around 5'11", 6'2",
12:14between the ages of his mid-20s to his 40s.
12:18A trucker named Jerry Leon Johns
12:20is considered today as a likely suspect
12:22in at least one of the murders,
12:24but he died in prison before he could be indicted.
12:27Knowing that it's her is a major part,
12:31but I don't think that's gonna be fully on my closure.
12:34The Rainbow Maniac.
12:36The Brazilian police dubbed this killer the Rainbow Maniac
12:39because he exclusively targeted gay men
12:42who visited Patures Park
12:43in Brazil's Carapicuiba municipality.
12:46Authorities actually suspected that the Rainbow Maniac
12:49could be a state police officer,
12:51with almost every victim being shot multiple times,
12:54potentially by the same gun.
12:56A retired agent named Jairo Francisco Franco
12:59was tried for the crimes in 2011,
13:01but he was found not guilty.
13:03That was despite witness testimony
13:05that Franco frequented the area
13:07and was allegedly seen shooting one man 12 times.
13:11The Paraquat Murderer.
13:13Serial killer murders can be premeditated,
13:15opportunistic, or completely random,
13:18but rarely are they this indirect.
13:22The Paraquat murders weren't actually directed
13:24at any one specific person,
13:26but rather a series of random poisonings in Japan
13:29during the mid-'80s.
13:30Paraquat is a type of herbicide
13:32that was used to commit the crimes.
13:34The killers spiked drinks that were left in
13:36or on top of vending machines in the Fukuyama-Hiroshima area.
13:40In total, 12 people died,
13:42and over 30 additional victims were poisoned by the mixture,
13:45but survived.
13:47The Japan Soft Drink Bottlers Association
13:49wound up printing over a million warning labels
13:51for the vending machines.
13:53Darker still, the unsolved murder spree
13:55inspired a number of copycats.
13:58The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murderer.
14:00Hitchhiking isn't a common occurrence today,
14:02but it's important to remember that for many years,
14:05many people used this method of travel
14:07to get where they wanted to go on a budget.
14:09Unfortunately, as the victims
14:11of the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker murders tragically found out,
14:14you never know who it is that's picking you up.
14:17How come? I didn't do anything wrong.
14:19I'm gonna go down to the police station.
14:21Look, I'd really like to get my parents.
14:23The case is unique for its list of official and potential victims,
14:26as well as the laundry list of high-profile serial killers
14:30to whom these murders might be attributed.
14:32Ted Bundy, the Zodiac Killer, and the Hillside Stranglers
14:36have all been named as potential suspects
14:38for the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker murders,
14:40but to this day, no definitive name has been linked to the case.
14:44Did you ever know any of these girls?
14:47I've seen their pictures on television.
14:49Never met any of them?
14:52No, never.
14:53The Butcher of Mons
14:55We're not sure what's worse about the Butcher of Mons,
14:58the brutality of his crimes,
14:59or the disturbing skill that went into the surgical destruction of the bodies.
15:04The Butcher struck the Belgian city of Mons in 1996 and 97,
15:07and left plastic bags containing body parts on the side of local roads.
15:12There were similarities to the victims' histories
15:14in that they all tended to congregate at the local train station
15:17and had troubled backgrounds.
15:19Their remains were packaged with bright underwear
15:22and seemed to be strategically dropped at places with names
15:25that translated to evocative phrases like,
15:28the path of worry.
15:30Bible John
15:31If you dance with Bible John,
15:33you may just be dancing with death.
15:36This Scottish serial killer tended to target young brunette women
15:39at a local dance hall in the city of Glasgow.
15:42Sketches and composite drawings paint a portrait of Bible John as a young man,
15:46while the official psychological profile
15:48references John's apparent puritanical nature.
15:51The killer would reportedly quote the Bible
15:53and condemn those married women who would frequent the dance hall,
15:56equating the act with adultery.
15:59The infamous Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin
16:01is believed by some to be Bible John,
16:04but to this day,
16:05there is no definitive connection or answer in the case.
16:09The Monster of Mangones
16:11The moniker of Monster is disgustingly fitting here.
16:14This Colombian serial killer is believed to have been responsible
16:18for the murders of at least 30 boys during the 1960s and 70s.
16:21The monster's reputation and reign of terror
16:24were such that he became something of a terrifying local legend.
16:27This was in part due to sadism involved in his methods,
16:31which included the use of syringes to extract blood.
16:34This led to suspicion that the Monster of Mangones
16:37was the closest thing to a real-life vampire
16:40Colombia had ever seen.
16:42The Monster of Florence
16:44Italy has had a number of disturbing serial killer cases go unsolved.
16:48Among the most notable was the Monster of Udine,
16:51while another monster lurked in Tuscany,
16:54the Monster of Florence.
16:55The crimes were quite similar
16:57to the Son of Sam killings in New York City,
16:59as the culprit tended to target couples in parked cars.
17:02However, the Monster of Florence
17:04also removed organs from some victims.
17:07A turbulent police investigation followed.
17:10The conviction of one suspect, Pietro Pacciani,
17:14turned into an acquittal.
17:15Yet, after Pacciani's death,
17:17two alleged accomplices were tried
17:19and controversially sentenced to life in prison.
17:21To this day, the true identity of the Monster of Florence
17:25remains a mystery.
17:26The West Mesa Bone Collector
17:28Why does this case remain unsolved after all this time?
17:32On February 2nd, 2009,
17:34the bodies of multiple women were found buried together.
17:37They were mostly sex workers,
17:39and had all gone missing between 2001 and 2005.
17:43The gruesome discovery was made by a woman
17:45on the West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico,
17:48who noticed a human bone while walking her dog.
17:51The investigation and excavation ensued,
17:54and 11 bodies were found,
17:56bringing police to believe the work
17:57to be that of a serial killer.
17:58I know who killed her, and I know who did it,
18:02and I know why.
18:04Okay, bye.
18:06While there have been very few leads,
18:08investigators suspect that the killings
18:10might be linked to the yearly state fair,
18:12which draws large crowds and sex workers to the area.
18:17The Atlanta Ripper
18:18In 1911, the Atlanta Ripper began his killing streak.
18:22By year's end, anywhere from 15 to 21 women's deaths
18:26were connected to the murderer, or murderers.
18:29The victims of the Ripper were all dispatched
18:31in the same way, their throats deeply slit.
18:35Each of the female victims was black and in her 20s.
18:38However, it wasn't until the sixth murder
18:41that police began to consider the possibility
18:43of a serial killer.
18:44Some speculate that the lack of a lead,
18:46as well as racial prejudice of the time,
18:48led to the delay of the investigations,
18:51and their ultimately being dismissed.
18:53While several men were arrested,
18:55no charges were ever brought to court,
18:58and the case remains unsolved.
19:01Jack the Stripper,
19:02also known as the Hammersmith Nudes Murderer.
19:05Can we go now?
19:07We're not through yet.
19:08This murderer appeared and disappeared
19:10from the streets of London in the mid-1960s.
19:13This maniac earned the moniker Stripper
19:16by virtue of his habit of undressing his victims
19:19before dumping them.
19:20The victims, and two other possible victims,
19:23were all between the ages of 21 and 30,
19:26and frequently bore similar paint fleck marks,
19:29which was thought to point to where the murderer worked.
19:32However, despite evidence found, no arrests were made.
19:36John DeRose, chief superintendent of Scotland Yard,
19:39had identified one Mungo Ireland
19:42as the most probable culprit.
19:44Unfortunately, around the time a possible link
19:46was made to Ireland, he took his own life.
19:49The truth of his guilt or innocence died with him.
19:54The Texarkana Moonlight Murders
19:56have spawned several urban legends and films,
19:59but in 1946, for the residents of the twin cities
20:02of Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas,
20:05it was all too real.
20:07The first attack came against Jimmy Hollis
20:09and his girlfriend Mary Larry,
20:11who had parked their car on a secluded stretch of road
20:14known as Lover's Lane.
20:15Sammy, move your hand.
20:18Sound familiar?
20:19Both survived, though Hollis sustained skull injuries
20:23and Larry was assaulted.
20:25About a month later, another couple wasn't so lucky.
20:28Three weeks later, two teens were shot and killed.
20:31After that, a married couple was attacked,
20:34but only the husband died.
20:36Hollis and Larry were the best lead
20:37for the killer's appearance,
20:39stating that he wore a white hood.
20:41But when the killing stopped, so did investigations.
20:45The Servant Girl Annihilator.
20:46Occupation.
20:48With the exception of the white women,
20:49everybody is a servant, three of them are cooks.
20:51Between 1884 and 1885, the people of Austin, Texas
20:56were reeling in shock from a seemingly endless string
20:59of brutal murders.
21:00Each murder took place while the victims
21:02were in the so-called safety of their own beds.
21:05The Servant Girl Annihilator's name was devised
21:08by writer O. Henry in a letter penned to a friend,
21:11remarking, quote, town is fearfully dull,
21:14except for the frequent raids
21:16of the Servant Girl Annihilators,
21:18who make things lively in the dull hours of the night.
21:21She was dragged outside and the job was finished
21:24out in the yard.
21:25Well, that's one way to discuss an axe murderer.
21:28Wendy, I'm home.
21:30The murders ended suddenly on Christmas Eve, 1885.
21:33Some believe they only stopped as he boarded a ship
21:36to begin his reign of terror elsewhere.
21:39I promise, I will kill again.
21:45The Oakland County Killer, also known as the Babysitter.
21:49The loss of a child is every parent's worst nightmare.
21:52Over the course of about a year in the late 1970s,
21:55two boys and two girls went missing
21:57in Oakland County, Michigan.
21:58Their bodies were later discovered in public areas.
22:01They didn't cry until I left them.
22:03These crimes led to the largest murder investigation
22:06in U.S. history up to that time.
22:08Several witnesses came forward,
22:10but provided no concrete leads.
22:12One witness claimed to have seen one of the boys
22:14talk to a man in a blue AMC Gremlin,
22:17prompting investigators to inquire
22:19after every Gremlin owner in the county.
22:21If he was involved, he should have been in jail
22:24and he shouldn't have been out the night
22:25Timmy was abducted.
22:26But answers about the killer, or killers, remain elusive.
22:31Is that good enough for the family?
22:33No, it's not.
22:34Charlie Chopoff.
22:35This vicious killer was known
22:37for targeting African-American boys exclusively.
22:40He earned his ghoulish moniker
22:41from the brutal injuries he would inflict upon his victims.
22:45One of Charlie's victims did, however, survive his attack.
22:48And in 1974, police apprehended a suspect, Erno Soto.
22:53Caught in the act of kidnapping a Puerto Rican boy,
22:56Soto was brought in for questioning.
22:58The surviving boy said he thought he looked
23:00like his attacker, but he couldn't be sure.
23:03Give me an answer.
23:04How about him?
23:06Despite confessing to one of the murders,
23:09the Manhattan State Hospital,
23:10a psychiatric institution at which Soto was a patient,
23:13claimed Soto could not be guilty,
23:16but did say it was possible
23:17he could have slipped out on their watch.
23:19The Cleveland Torso Murderer.
23:21Back in the 1930s, a serial killer
23:24known as the Cleveland Torso Murderer
23:26stalked the streets of Ohio,
23:27particularly the neighborhood of Kingsbury Run.
23:30Town was in drifting fear.
23:32This individual preyed on vulnerable people,
23:34often those who were unhoused
23:36or working in the sex industry.
23:38The victims were found dismembered,
23:40with their torsos being the only recognizable parts left.
23:43Between 1934 and 1938,
23:46at least 12 victims were discovered,
23:48though many believe the true count is far higher.
23:51Out of the 12 official victims,
23:53only two were ever truly identified.
23:56The investigation was at one time spearheaded
23:59by renowned detective Elliot Ness,
24:01but even he struggled to find any solid leads.
24:03Two major suspects were investigated,
24:06including a doctor with wartime PTSD,
24:09but neither of them was ever charged,
24:11and the case has since gone cold.
24:13Who do I think did it?
24:15It was Dr. Francis Edward Sweeney,
24:17a skilled surgeon who fell into alcoholism
24:22and drug addiction.
24:23Jack the Ripper.
24:24You are gonna bring out Jack the Ripper.
24:27One of the most notorious cases in history,
24:30this unidentified serial killer
24:32sent the Whitechapel District of London
24:34into a panic in the late Victorian era
24:36after a series of ghastly murders was uncovered.
24:40It's hard to think of another killer
24:41who's inspired as much lore,
24:43research, or as many theories over his identity.
24:46In part because of the extreme brutality of the killings
24:49and the taunts the killer sent the frustrated police,
24:52his name has taken on an almost fabled aspect.
24:55So Jack the Ripper isn't just merely killing hordes.
25:01He's executing traitors.
25:02The most famous tease came in the form
25:04of the From Hell letter,
25:05which was sent with half the kidney of one of his victims.
25:09He claimed to have eaten the other half.
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25:27The Zodiac Killer.
25:29I'm not the Zodiac.
25:31Undoubtedly the most elusive killer in American history,
25:34the Zodiac Killer is like something straight
25:36out of a Hollywood nightmare.
25:38Also one to pen letters to the police.
25:41He did so by way of puzzles and complex cryptograms,
25:44boasting about his feats
25:46and demanding that his letters be published
25:48on page one of the newspapers
25:50or else the body count would rise.
25:53This killer would hunt his victims,
25:55usually young couples in secluded areas
25:57before carrying out his work.
25:59Similarities in method and physical description
26:02have led some to postulate
26:03that the Zodiac and Phantom Killer may be one and the same.
26:07Regardless, the Zodiac has left
26:09a grisly legacy all his own.
26:11This man was a terrorist
26:15and a terrorist that was American grown.
26:19What other elusive serial killers are still out there?
26:22Let us know in the comments below.
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26:30I do.
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