What is shaking everyone? Hey, I'm mixed strange. I've got some crazy, strange stories for you today. This is Episode twenty five. Famous serial Killers, the world's most famous serial killers and murderers. Many serial killers have come and gone over the years, but some have forged a much deeper legacy than others. Some have been remembered because of their extreme body count, others for their strange perversion perversions excuse me, and some just have that indescribable quality that just makes a famous serial killer. All Right, to the list. First off, it's gonna be Ted Bundy, Then Jack the Ripper, ed Gin, Margeen Jane, John, Wayne Gacy, Carl Panzram, Jeffrey Dahmer, Are Eileen Warnos, Harold Shipman, Dennis Raider, the Zodiac Killer, HH Holmes, Edmund Kemper, Albert Fish. Just did a pod with him over on Crazy Not Crazy Strange Days, Chasing Bad with my buddy Joker. He's a sick guy for sure, Gary Ridgeway, Richard Ramiriez. Let's do it man, Ted Bundy number one. We can't talk make a serial killer list without mentioning Theodore Ted Bundy aka the Lady. This charming handsome, young deviant was a real lady killer in more ways than one. Good looking, ruthless, and cunning Bundy has become the gold standard of evil the world over, as is evident by the sheer amount of books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and even Ted Bundy t shirts that have chronicled his story. He is often described as one of the most famous American serial killers. Although he spent most of his childhood in Philadelphia, Bundy's first for Blood took him across the country throughout the nineteen seventies. But Ted Bundy murdered at least thirty people and took victims in Ohio, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Utah, Oregon, Florida, and possibly California. Ted had a thing for young brunette co eds yeah and would often pretend to be injured in order to lure these unlucky women into his now infamous VW Beetle. Once inside, Bold Bundy would attack them with a crowbar, rape them, then strangle them to death in the woods. As he progressed, Bundy began to take more risks, even going as far as to invade a sorority house and attack four women within a span of fifteen minutes. Unfortunately, his desires were unquenchable, and like most serial killers, he took many took too many risks. Bundy was caught in nineteen seventy five and sentenced to death by electric chair. He was executed in nineteen eighty nine and remains probably the most famous serial killer of all time. What about this guy was more famous? Number two? Jack the Ripper. Everybody knows about Jack the Ripper, man stalking the shadows of Victorian London. The legend of Jack the Ripper is the seductive tale of England's most famous serial killer that still captures the imagination even one hundred and thirty years on. There's a lot of mystery around the Ripper murders, and since he was never caught, nothing has ever been confirmed. But what we do know is that he killed at least five women by gutting, disembowing and leaving them dead on the midnight streets of London, England in eighteen eighty eight. Not content with just spilling the blood of innocent women, the elusive Jack taunted London police with letters and postcards, one of which was sent alongside the extracted kidney of one of his victims. Although Jack's first four victims were stabbed and mutilated within a matter of minutes, Jack's fifth and final victim, married Jane Kelly, was a different story. Jack oblitherated her to the point that she was unrecognizable, and to this day, the crime scene photos of the aftermath remain a disturbing image. The Ripper's legacy remains unmatched in the annuals of true crime, with historians and researchers still trying to make sense of the mess he made over a century ago. Let's get to number three. Done a show on this guy over at Chasing Bad as well, Ed Gean excuse me, No serial killer list is complete without mention of the grave robbing ghoul whose grim antics spawned one of the best horror characters of all time, Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ed Geen was the ultimate Mommies boy. He lived with his mother in their farmhouse in Plainfield, Wisconsin, until she died in nineteen forty nine, at which time Geen was forty years old. Soon after, Geen began paying visits to local cemeteries, where he would unearth the bodies of recently deceased women, steal them and fashion them into various household items, now you heard that right, like lampshades and belts and all kinds of crazy stuff. But eventually, grave robbing wasn't enough for Gin, so he turned his hand to murder. He shot and killed two local women with a rifle, loaded their corpses into his truck, and took them home to his decaying house. Again. Soon became a suspect in the disappearance of a local shop owner, Bernice Warden, and when police inspected Gin's house, they found some of the most hideous creations known to man human bones, bowls made of skulls, mutilated vaginas, a lampshade made from human skin, clothes made from flayed skin, and much more. Gain later confessed that his dream was to create a woman suit so that he could become his mother. Buffalo Bill Silence of the Lamb leather Face, I mean. This guy was the inspiration of many a horror movie because of his affinity for making furniture out of human skin. The character Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lamb was based on Gen's creations. Gen died in a mental hospital in nineteen eighty four, but his presence still haunts the backwoods of Plainfield. He's one of the United States's most prolific serial killers for good reason. John Wayne Gaysey Number four, the killer clown of Chicago. John Wayne Gaysey was the classic two face psychopath. By day, he was a successful businessman, community worker, and children's entertainment tainer, but by night he was a sadistic, murdering rapist who ran an unlicensed cemetery beneath his house. If we're talking serial killers with high vic them counts, Gasey is definitely near the top of the list. Gasey's murder spree began in nineteen seventy two when he was bought sixteen year old Timothy McCoy back to his home and stabbed him multiple times in the chest. As Gasey murdered the young boy, he claimed to experience an orgasm, and from that point on chased that same feeling with thirty two more victims. Jeez oh Man sick bastard. He procured boys by cruising around Chicago at night and picking them up off the streets, or sometimes he'd bring back boys who he'd hire to work for his construction company. Gasey would surprise attack them once they were in his home, then strangle them with either his hands or a makeshift tourniquit. He dubbed his rope trick who says clowns don't have us sense of humor? Number five. I've never heard of this fellow. I'm not a huge serial killer fan either, but Carl Pan's a ram. When you think of history's most infamous serial killers, Carl pens Ram pans Ram might not be the first name that comes to mind, but he's definitely worth a spot on the list. You see, every other serial killer on this list had a preferred victim type. Bundy liked young women, gacy, like teen boys, again like dead women. But pans Ram was a different type of beast. He didn't give a shit who you were. Pans Ram would kill you. In his own words, he was so full of hate that he had no room for any other emotions. Born in Minnesota in eighteen eighty nine, pans Ram lived a reckless life from a young age. He started train hopping as a young man to get around the country, attacking and burglaring random people along the way to sussain himself. After some prison stints where he was raped and tortured by guards, well go pans Ram decided his desire for vengeance became became unstoppable. He lured American soldiers away from bars and shot and killed them. He targeted boys as young as eleven, whom he'd sodomized then strangle. While only convicted of three murders, he actually confessed to killing over twenty people. He despised humanity and fantasized about killing on a mass scale. Behind bars, he allegedly told a prison guard, I wish the whole world had one neck and I had my hands around it. All right, I'm more famous killer here is Jeffrey Dahmer, number six. Between the years of nineteen seventy eight and nineteen ninety one, the Milwaukee cannibal Jeffrey Dahman. Dharmer raped, killed, and violated the remains of seventeen young men. Not only is Dahmer included on this serial killer list due to his eyebody count and his bizarre perversions, but he's also one of the very few killers to cross racial lines with his victims. Dahmer mostly killed young black men because that was his democrat was the demographic he was sexually attracted to. He lured them back to his apartment with promises of sex, booze, or drugs. Then Blitz attacked them and strangled them to death. After they were dead, he'd have with them, then mutilate their bodies, keeping several body parts as trophies. Yea. As Dahmer became more confident, he began to drug his victims so he could toy with them while they were still alive. In some cases, he drolled into their heads and injected them with chemicals in a strange attempt to create human zombies. Holy cow man. Dahmer was caught when one of his victims escaped and told the police of the horrors inside his apartment. Sure enough, police found human body parts, castrated penises and jars, and hundreds of polaroids of decapitated bodies. Wow, excuse me now, one of the only women on this list. I think this might be the only woman. Although there have been many women's serial killers, I don't know all the men get all the credit or the attention. Eileen warns, I think the pronunciation is murder. Isn't just a man's game. There are a handful of famous killers of the feminine persuasion out there too. During nineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety, Florida prostitute Aileen Warnos went on a brutal killing spree that cemented her status as America's most heinous female serial killer. Warns was a abused child who went on to become a sex worker who suddenly upped her game when she started murdering her clients. All of Warnas's victims were men who she shot sma multiple times, with Warno's claiming that each murder was committed in so off the fence. Allegedly, all of these men had hired her for sexual services but had become violent, so she naturally retaliated, retaliated by executing them, much like her victims. Her story is full of holes, yes she's but whatever you believe, she remains one of the most polarizing figures in criminal history. Her tragic story was adapted into the film Monster in two thousand and three, which one actress Sharlee's theorem an Academy Award in two thousand and four. History's notorious serial killers are disproportionately men, but Warnos manages to hold her own in terms of brutality and remorselessness. She once said, I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time. Harold Shipman is number eight on the list. Back over the pond, we go to Manchester, England, where the man dubbed doctor Death killed a record breaking number of victims over a twenty eight year reign of terror in the UK. Shipman is undoubtedly one of the most famous serial killers of modern times. On the surface, he looks like your average doctor, but Harold Shipman concealed a horrific secret. He was the most prolific serial killer in known history. Shipmen would visit his elderly patients in their homes and administer excessive amounts of morphine into their system, an act which Mirod mirrored his own his own mother's death. Now authorities became concerned when they noticed how many patients were dying under Shipman's care. The final straw came when the daughter of Shipman's final Shipman's final victim found that her mother had left a large sum of money to doctor Shipman Shipmen in her will. It was later found that Shipmen had been falsifying the documents of his dead patients to hide his activity. In total, it's believed that shipmen killed at least two hundred and fifteen people, with a possible total of two sixty plus. He denied all allegations, and unfortunately, he committed suicide in his prisons sell in two thousand and four, taking all of his secrets to the grave. The list of serial killers that are still alive get shorter and shorter by the year. Number nine. Dennis Raider bind torture kill. That was how Dennis Raider operated. This pillar of the Wichita community lived a double life. He was a loving husband, father, and company man, but he moonlighted as the elusive BTK killer, killing entire families and taunting police with mutilated Barbie dolls. He began in nineteen seventy four, where he invaded a family home and strangled both parents and two kids. Now similar murders fallen, and Raider began taunting police with confession letters. He taunted excuse. He targeted older women in their homes because he could easily overpower them. Unlike other famous serial killers, Raider was able to subdue his BTK alter ego for years at a time. He went from nineteen seventy seven to nineteen eighty five without murdering anyone, and again from eighty seven to nineteen ninety one. By this point, he'd killed ten people and he never killed again. But amazingly, BTK wasn't caught for another fourteen years. His ego forced him to continue his cat and mouse games with the police, which led to his eventual capture. He most likely would have gotten away with his crimes if he could have just led a quiet life and kept to himself. I did not know that about him, that he'd hibernate for a while and come back. I haven't come across any quite like that yet, any serial killer Number ten, the Zodiac Killer. Throughout the sixties and seventies, the Zodiac Killer terrorized the city of New York. He stabbed and shot couples in the dark lover's lanes, He taunted police, and he threatened to detonate a school bus full of children. But despite an extensive search for the elusive Zodiac Killer, the person responsible for these crimes remains uncaptured. Over the years, suspects have come and gone, and many advances have been made in the case, but no arrests have ever been made. Most recently, one of the Zodiac ciphers has been solved by amateur code crackers, an incredible fifty one years after it was originally sent to police. You can check out our Zodiac Killer cipher shirts here. Okay, so this is serial killershop dot com. They're pretty cool and they have some cool cool shirts and upper stickers and stuff. But so the Zodiac Killer, if the blue meanies are gonna get me, they'd better get off their asses and do something. So that's one of his little quotes, number eleven. HH Holmes widely considered to be America's first serial killer. HH Holmes was a businessman and con artist in addition to being a murderous fiend. In the late eighteen hundreds, Homes built a hotel commonly referred to as the Murderer Castle to appease his twisted desires. Holmes establishment was less of a hotel and more like Satan's den. Inside, he built soundproof and airtight rooms, mazes of hallways seemingly leading nowhere, shoots which dropped into acid vats, torture rooms, and even a crematorium. His plan was to kill, dismember, and then sell the body parts and organs. To medical schools. Holmes was caught after a failed insurance scam. It was sentenced to death. He was hanged in eighteen ninety six. Justice was quick back then. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, nor no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing hh. Holmes number twelve. Edmund ed Kemper. Standing at a gigantic six foot nine foot tall, along with a natural dominant demeanor, It's not difficult to believe that Edmund Kemper might be the most physically imposing serial murderer of the modern age. There's a quote from this dude. One side of me says, Wow, what an attractive chick. I'd like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder how her head would look on a stick, And it's ed Kemper. Kemper, known as the co Ed Killer, terrorized California throughout this nineteen sixties and seventies, abducting and killing college girls and hitchhikers. Once secluded, Kemper would strangle his victims in his car, take them home, and dismember their corpses. To conclude his reign of terror, Kemper killed his own mother and bury her head in his back garden. Bizarrely, Kemper handed himself into authorities. When asked what would be a fitting punishment for his crimes, Kemper calmly told the judge that death by torture would be the only suitable conclusion to his story. Wow, all right, excuse me. So Number thirteen is Albert Fish. He's one of the sickest individuals probably you know ever, but definitely even on this list. You know, you'd be surprised. But the dude's sick. He's a bad man, not good at all. Number thirteen Albert Fish. To say Albert Fish was a disturbed individual would be an understatement. Fish was perhaps one of the most perverted individuals to have ever lived, committing acts which, even by today's standards, are considered deeply unsettling. Excuse me, here's a quote from Albert. What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair, it will be the supreme thrill, the only one I haven't tried. That's Albert Fish. Known as the Werewolf of Wistyria, the Vampire of Brooklyn. It's got all kinds of names. The gray Men, we just did this dude? On Chasing Bad Last Night Not an easy episode. Fish was a serial murderer, child killer, and cannibal who claimed to have eaten children in every state between nineteen twenty four and nineteen thirty two. Fish abducted, killed, in ate at least three children, although he claimed to have killed many more. Fish also had achant a petch haunt whatever that is, pension for extreme sado masochism. After being apprehended, Fish was declared as psycho, a psychiatric phenomenon by experts claiming that no other living person harbored as many sexual abnormal abnormal ties as he did. In the hours before his execution, Fish penned his final statement, resulting in several pages of handwritten notes. Fish's lawyer said that he would never reveal Fish's last words to the public because of their extreme content. And he was a pretty pretty notorious letter writer too, So if you really are down with serial killers, check out Chasing Bad's episode The Gray Man Albert Fish. He is. He's a terrible it's terrible, it's hard. It's a hard one to get through. Number fourteen. Gary Ridgeway, more famously known as the Greenway Green River Killer, excuse me, it's pretty rarely. This is pretty uh recent, I think so. Gary Ridgway amassed one of the highest serial killer body counts in the US history, having murdered at least forty nine women over the span of twenty years. His quote, I did not know their names. I killed so many women. I have a hard time keeping them straight. So Ridgeway focused on sex workers and runaways, luring them to his car under the pretense of sleeping with them and then strangling them. He then disposed of their bodies in and around the river in Washington State. Over the years, police discovered body parts and skeletal remains in the Green River, prompting the theory that a serial killer may have been using the areas at dumping ground. DNA evidence later linked Ridgeway to several of the killings. It's widely believed that, in addition to the murders he was convicted for, Ridgeway could have killed many more. He also made our list of Washington State serial killers. So again, this is serial killers shop dot com. It's a pretty wild site. You have some cool T shirts and bumper stickers and stuff. If you're down with this true crime. So number fifteen. Richard Ramirez, also known as the night Stalker. Richard Ramirez terrorized southern California residents during the mid nineteen eighties with a series of brutal home invasion murders and sexual assaults. His unpredictable and sadistic modus operendi left the region in a state of perpetual fear until his capture in nineteen eighty five. A serial killer essay delving into the life of Richard Ramirez reveals the grim reality of his sadistic crimes and the impact they had on society during the mid to nineteen eighties. He was ultimately convicted of thirteen murders, five attempted murderers, eleven sexual assaults, and fourteen burglaries. He was sentenced to death and died in prison while awaiting execution. I wonder if somebody got him. So the conclusion here. Who is missing from this list? You know, head over to serial Killershop dot com and you can go ahead and comment on this and you can email me who is missing? Crazy Strange Days the a z at gmail dot com. 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