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5 notorious serial killers in US history

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Contents1. Ted Bundy2. H Holmes3. Pedro Lopez 4. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer5. John Wayne Gacy

1. Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy is recognized as America's most notorious serial killer, necrophiliac and rapist. In 1970 he murdered and sexually assaulted thirty-six women. He told police he loved watching movies and reading novels from which he drew inspiration to commit such crimes with women. In 1975, he was first imprisoned for attempted felony assault and kidnapping a victim. At 3 years old, he loves to play with knives. Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989 via electric chair at Florida State Prison.

2. H Holmes

HH Holmes is famous as America's first serial killer, bigamist and con man. He built a house where he brutally murdered his victims. He claimed to have killed twenty-seven victims. His house was later famous as "Castle of Murder ”. He was a pharmacist who belonged to an elite family. From an early age, he got involved in different scams and frauds and then he started killing innocent people. When he was a medical student, Holmes stole corpses from his university and made bogus insurance claims. He also performed different experiments with these bodies. In 1894, Holmes was hanged in prison for all the murders he committed in his past.

3. Pedro López

Pedro Lopez, also included in the list of the most notorious serial killers in Colombia, USA, who brutally killed and raped more than 110 young girls. At the age of 18, he committed his first crime for stealing someone's car and in flagrante delicto by the police. He also spends time in prison for committing this crime. Lopez also believed in the murder of approximately three hundred people. Lopez was linked to more than three hundred massacres in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. He was arrested by the police in 1980 and accused of killing 110 victims and sentenced to more than 14 years in prison and was released from prison due to his good behavior in 1998. He disappeared in 2002 and until here. it is not known whether he is alive or dead.

4. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer was another notorious sex offender and serial killer of America who admitted to killing seventeen young boys and men between the years of 1978 and 1991. His method of murder was different from that of many other serial killers. He kept the various parts of the victim's body, including his skeleton, and hung them in his home. Also, he had sex and took pictures of all his victims. In 1991 he was arrested by the police and imprisoned for all his crimes. He was not liked by his inmate who lived with them in the same prison. He also forced them to have sex with them. In 1994, Dahmer was brutally killed by one of his inmates in the prison named Christophe Scarver .

5. John Wayne Gacy

Another notorious serial killer in US history is John Wayne Gacy who brutally raped and killed thirty-three male victims. He buried all his victims in his house. Gacy was well known as a Killer Clown because he was a clown by profession. When he was an adult, he liked to make love with the same sex. Due to his homosexuality problem, Gacy liked to spend most of his time with small boys and adults. His modus operandi to kill his victims with his own hands and using a rope. After being arrested by the police, he committed all his murders and was sentenced to twelve death sentences by the court. John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection at the Stateville Correctional Center on May 10, 1994.