Serial killers Peter Kürten and Richard Trenton Chase were both called "vampires" in the tabloids after they were discovered drinking the blood of the people they murdered.
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The movie centers on a serial killer named Carl Stargher (played by Vincent D'Onofrio) who drowns his victims (all young women) and then bleaches their bodies so they resemble dolls.
Characters include Kelly McGlade; Burnistoun's answer to Beyoncé; Paul and Walter, the disturbingly odd brothers that run an ice cream van; Jolly Boy John, who tells the things that make him "For Real" to the accompaniment of a happy hardcore soundtrack ; McGregor and Toshan (the "quality polis"), best friends Scott and Peter and the Burnistoun Butcher, a serial killer who is unhappy with the way he is being portrayed by the media.
This novel is an early and unusual example of what has become known as a serial killer novel, but before the term "serial killer" was coined and before criminals such as the "Boston Strangler" came to the attention of the American public.
The Bulldog was used by the infamous serial killer David Berkowitz aka "The .44 Caliber Killer" and the "Son of Sam" who was responsible for a brutal series of attacks and murders in New York City during 1976–1977 (before he was caught due to an outstanding parking violation).
Gertrude "Bobby" Hullett (1906 – 23 July 1956), a resident of Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, was a patient of the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams, who was charged with her murder but never tried for it.
The album cover features the image of the serial killer Peter Kürten, who has an instrumental track "dedicated" to him.
Eddie Noack (April 29, 1930 – February 5, 1978), was an American country and western singer, songwriter and music industry executive best known for his 1968 cover of Leon Payne's serial killer song Psycho, was born De Armand A. Noack, Jr. in Houston, Texas.
Gabriel Antonio Pombo (Montevideo, 11 October 1961) is a Uruguayan writer and lawyer, who is known for his books, essays and interviews relating to serial murderers, and particularly about the famous case of Jack the Ripper, the mysterious and never discovered murderer of London.
Jack El-Hai has stated that, if Harry Hayward's admissions are true, then he predates Dr. H. H. Holmes as America's first documented serial killer.
Satan also decides to have a "really huge surprise as dessert"; he decides upon a cake the size and shape of a Ferrari Enzo, which three notorious serial killers—Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy—are entrusted with bringing to the party in time for midnight.
The CSI episode "Lab Rats" (2007), Grissom uses Matthews' condition as an analogy in describing The Miniature Killer, a serial killer obsessed with bleach.
Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, a.k.a "La Bestia" ("The Beast") or "Tribilín" (American Spanish translation of Disney's "Goofy") (born 25 January 1957 in Génova, Quindío, Colombia) is a Colombian rapist and serial killer.
Hughes has also done some acting, portraying Ivan Milat in the comedy movie, Fat Pizza, as well as appearing on TV commercials featuring losing weight with "The 14-day All-Bran Challenge".
Because the number nine is a lunar number, McDonough felt that the riff would fit the song's lyrics, which referred to serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein, whose actions McDonough associated with nighttime activity.
Her film roles include parts in Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, 10 Rillington Place (where she played Ethel Christie, the wife of serial killer John Christie), Young Winston (as Winston Churchill's nurse), Wish You Were Here (seen as Lynda's aunt Millie).
There are also many parodies of pop culture i.e. reality TV shows such as "Date My Mom", "So You Think You Can Dance" etc. and riffs on South Park, Manga, serial killers and more.
Peter Niers (or Niersch) was a German bandit, and reputed serial killer who was executed 16 September 1581 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, some 40 km distant from Nuremberg.
He is well known as the defense counsel for accused serial killer Robert Pickton.
Beattie is also known for interviewing serial killer Charles Manson for a class project as a professor at Newman University in Wichita, which stirred controversy and brought media attention to him.
Rudolfo or Rodolfo Infante Jímenez (born 1963, San Benito, Texas, United States) and Anna or Ana María Ruíz Villeda (born 1971, San Luis Potosí, Mexico) are a Mexican serial killers pair, active during 1991, in Matamoros, Mexico.
Serial killer John Bunting lived in Salisbury North where he committed some of his Snowtown murders .
In Stevens' novel By Reason of Insanity the serial killer character, Thomas Bishop, believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed in 1960 for various crimes including rape and kidnapping.
Tetraplegic forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) and a patrol cop, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), team up to solve a string of murders all connected to a serial killer by his signature: a single shard of bone is removed from each of the victims.
A travelling door to door beauty product salesman, he and his son go on an increasingly out of control road trip around Brighton, over which looms the shadow of a serial killer making his way towards Brighton, as well as Bunny's own mortality.
The film stars Kevin Kline as Nick Starkey, a smart ex-New York City police detective who is lured back into service by his police commissioner brother (Harvey Keitel) when a serial killer terrorizes the city.
Dees' current subject of investigation is the Night Flier, an apparent serial killer who travels between small airports in a Cessna Skymaster, gruesomely killing people in a way that leads Dees to think the man is a lunatic who believes himself to be a vampire.
The Sadist (German: "Der Sadist") is a book published by psychiatrist Karl Berg, following the confessions of Peter Kürten, a well-known serial killer in the late 1920s in Germany.
The Stranger Beside Me is a 1980 autobiographical and biographical true crime book written by Ann Rule about serial killer Ted Bundy, whom she knew personally before and after his arrest for a series of murders.
William Dathan Holbert, also known as Wild Bill, is a self-confessed serial killer from Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Jack is now worried that Humphries is a serial killer, due to his first name being the middle name of one of the subjects for "Decades of Death".
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993) is a documentary film about Aileen Wuornos, made by Nick Broomfield.
Burke's first novel, Judgment Calls, is loosely based on the case of Keith Hunter Jesperson, a serial killer known as the "Happy Face Killer" for the smiley faces he drew on his many letters to the media.
Chaplin also appeared in an episode of Law & Order (Season 14, episode 1, "Bodies") as pompous yet ethical legal-aid attorney Timothy Schwimmer who has to defend a serial killer (played by Ritchie Coster).
The Boston Strangler became a central figure in the second episode of TNT's Rizzoli & Isles starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander; the episode was called "Boston Strangler Redux", featuring a new serial killer who killed women with the same names as the original Strangler's victims, and was eventually revealed to have been committed by one of the original detectives investigating the case attempting to 'frame' the man he believed to be the real Boston Strangler.
It is best known for the ruins of the nearby Čachtice Castle, home of Elizabeth Báthory who is alleged to be the world's most prolific female serial killer.
Harrison's career and assassination are closely connected with the World's Columbian Exposition, and are discussed at some length as a subplot to the two main stories (about the fair and serial killer H. H. Holmes) in The Devil in the White City.
Chrome Division also released a music video for the song "Serial Killer" in an attempt to publicise the album, directed by noted Swedish director Patric Ullaeus.
Dean Corll (1939-1973), American serial killer and pedophile, also known as "The Candy Man"
James Franco portrays a serial killer named "Franco" on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.
He played the serial killer in 1990's The Rain Killer, and a gigolo in 1987's Creepshow 2.
In 2004 Lewis alleged that British playwright Bryony Lavery's hit Broadway play Frozen, particularly the character of 'Agnetha', a psychiatrist sent to evaluate a serial killer, was based on thematic similarities with her book Guilty by Reason of Insanity and verbatim extracts from a New Yorker article about her by Malcolm Gladwell.
They are most notable for having directed the short films Blood Possession starring Reverend Jen Miller and Faceboy, and "Puppeteer" starring Richard Manitoba, releasing four albums and three EPs as part of a project called H/ELLO, and playing serial killer Henry Lee Lucas as a child on A&E Biography.
In Dexter, serial killer Dexter Morgan knocks out his victims using a syringe of M99 (etorphine) in almost every episode throughout the show.
In the South Park season eight episode, "Cartman's Incredible Gift", Eric Cartman fakes psychic powers and pretends to identify a serial killer who has cut off and collected the left hands of his victims.
German director Andreas Schnaas has said that his film Violent Shit series is very loosely based on the exploits of Honka, who is mentioned in Violent Shit II, which states he was once cellmates with the fictional serial killer Karl Berger.
Gary M. Lavergne is an American writer of non-fiction novels about Texas mass murderers Charles J. Whitman and Abdelkrim Belachheb, and serial killer Kenneth Allen McDuff.
H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer is a 2004 biographical documentary film directed by John Borowski.
He has had numerous long term relationships including Tess, Morgan Braithwaite (Bonnie Soper), Jill Kingsbury (Natalie Medlock) and serial killer Penny Rourke (Carolyn Dando).
Marcelo Costa de Andrade, a Brazilian pedophile and serial killer, confessed the rape and death of 14 children in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói in 1991.
Jake has accepted his first lead, as 'John,' the comparatively less twisted of a psychopathic serial killer's two sons, in Morgan J. Freeman's film Born Killers (2005).
In the independent film American Nightmare, written and directed by John Keyes, Debbie Rochon portrays a serial killer named "Jane Toppan" who manages to kill numerous characters throughout the course of the film by various means.
In the final episode of television police drama The Shield which aired 25 November 2008, detective Dutch Wagenbach refers to Edwards while interrogating a teenager who he believes is a young serial killer, making the point that serial killers without a catchy nickname are easily forgotten by the general public.
David Meirhofer, serial killer, was a Manhattan resident until his suicide in custody in 1974.
In October 2013,he is attacked by serial killer Cameron Murray and is knocked out cold in the flooding Woolpack Cellar.
In the show, Delphine LaLaurie, a serial killer and socialite, tortures her slaves in horrible ways.
Stanisław Modzelewski, Polish serial killer active in Łódź, Poland during the 1960s
Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt for the BTK Strangler by lawyer Robert Beattie is a nonfiction book about a serial killer in Wichita, Kansas known as the BTK Strangler.
Usually running America's Next Serial Killer (a parody of America's Next Top Model).
His stage name was created by mixing the names of Olivia Newton-John, singer; and Ted Bundy, serial killer.
On February 15, 2011, Owen published letters in several major Canadian newspapers apologising for comments that he made blaming former Vancouver Police Department Inspector Kim Rossmo for delays in the investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton.
He has also recently completed two screenplays about the life of the controversial communist activist Angela Davis, as well as one about serial killer Jack The Ripper.
It is about a serial killer on the loose at the Vans Warped Tour who tries killing off the bands one by one, and features bands such as Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Less Than Jake, The Used, Big D and the Kids Table, Rancid, The Horrorpops, The Suicide Machines, Dropkick Murphys, The Phenomenauts and many more.
Ravan Raaj: A True Story is a 1995 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by T.Rama Rao, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Madhoo, and Aditya Pancholi and is centred around kidney smugglers and a serial killer.
Ronald E. Clark, American doctor suspected of being a serial killer
Police had concluded the suspect to be a serial killer, when Chief of Detectives Harry Welsh received an anonymous call from a woman who claimed one of the men involved in the murders had gone to New York and could be identified by a scar on his hand.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter (tenor) – A brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer who helps Clarice out in her investigation and eventually escapes prison in a bloody massacre.
Keith Hunter Jesperson - A serial killer who used the smiley face symbol on his letters to the police and prosecutors
Robert Lee Yates - A serial killer who used plastic bags with a smiley face printed on them to cover the heads of his victims
The film deals with Jean (Marc Barbé), a serial killer who follows the Tour de France cycling race in his car and murders women (mostly prostitutes) along his way.
Robert Hansen, a serial killer convicted of killing numerous women in or near Anchorage, Alaska.
Peter Dickson narrated the international version of the episodes "A Model Killer" that was about the slain serial killer Christopher Wilder (aka- "The Beauty Queen Killer") and "Cat and Mouse" about the 1985 search for South Carolina's convicted serial killer Larry Gene Bell.
Original Night Stalker, an unidentified serial killer and rapist unrelated to Ramírez
The film was based on the life and crimes of German serial killer Peter Kürten.
Tom Gordon was Co-commander of Delaware's first serial killer task force which led to the apprehension and prosecution of Steven Brian Pennell, the state's first and only known serial killer.
Dedbol is a series of disjointed dagli about random people—a serial killer, some kidnappers, a four-piece band, and girls on a shower party—converging for a split second in the Divine Intersection before splitting up again to conclude their narratives, borrowing Guillermo Arriaga’s narrative conceit from the seminal McOndo movie Amores perros only lacking the social and political implications of the original.
Serial killer Cedric Maake, who committed at least 27 murders throughout 1996 and 1997, was known as the Wemmer Pan Killer because a number of his victims were found in the vicinity.