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00:00Hello and welcome to the Dark Mystery Lounge.
00:03Serial killers. They're crafty, they're cunning, and just plain evil.
00:08When it comes to intelligence, how smart are serial killers really?
00:12According to a 2005 study, found that the average IQ of a serial killer was just 94.7, which is of average intelligence.
00:21But for today's list, we are going to focus on the higher end of that spectrum.
00:25Let's take a look at Top 10 Serial Killers with High IQs.
00:37Juan Vallejo Corona, a.k.a. the Machete Murderer, is a Mexican-born serial killer who immigrated to the U.S. when he was just 16 years old in 1950,
00:49working on farms in California picking produce.
00:52In January 1956, after suffering what was thought to be a schizophrenic episode,
00:59Juan was committed to DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, California, where he was diagnosed with Schizophrenic Reaction Paranoid Type.
01:08Juan received 23 shock treatments before being pronounced recovered and released three months later.
01:15He was deported to Mexico upon release.
01:17Six years later, he got a green card and came back to the U.S. legally.
01:22When he came back, he became a licensed labor contractor, being put in charge of hiring workers to staff local fruit ranches.
01:31He hired migrant and transient workers.
01:33He was known to be a hard worker, but did have a violent temper.
01:37On May 19, 1971, a farmer owner who had used Juan to contract field workers noticed a freshly dug hole in his peach orchard, which was filled the next day.
01:50In the hole was the body of a man who had been stabbed and hacked.
01:54Yuba City Police got involved.
01:56The search for more graves turned up, more than anyone would have imagined, and by early June, the grand total had reached to 25 bodies.
02:05All men who had been seen with or had gotten their jobs through Juan's labor contracting business.
02:12Police searched his home and found two bloodstained knives, a machete, a pistol, and bloodstained clothing.
02:19There was also a work ledger that contained 34 names and dates, including seven of the known victims.
02:27The ledger came to be referred to as a death list by the prosecution, who alleged it recorded the dates the men were murdered.
02:35Juan had been supplying workers to ranches where the victims were discovered.
02:40He had housed many of the men who worked for him in a bunkhouse on the Sylvan Ranch, where most of the victims were discovered.
02:47To him, these victims were easy targets, because most of them were transient.
02:53No one was going to care if they just disappeared without notice.
02:56Juan was arrested, tried, and found guilty of 25 counts of first-degree murder.
03:02He was sentenced to 25 life terms without parole to run consecutively.
03:07Even though he was not supposed to be up for parole, apparently, in California,
03:12they still considered him eligible due to having a long sentence.
03:16I know, it's weird.
03:18He did have one successful appeal, but ultimately, it was a waste of time.
03:23They found him guilty again, and remained in prison for the rest of his life.
03:28He was denied parole eight times.
03:30On March 4th, 2019, Juan died of natural causes at the age of 85.
03:36Theodore Robert Bundy
03:38Theodore Robert Bundy, otherwise known as Ted Bundy, is one of the most notorious serial killers in history.
03:47He's pretty much the poster child when it comes to serial killers, all because he breaks the mold.
03:52Instead of being stupid, ugly, creepy, and about as charming as a wet paper bag, he comes off as the opposite.
03:59His charm, wit, good looks, and clean-cut appearance is one of many reasons why people flock to find out about him.
04:07A law student who had the brightest future ahead of him.
04:10Ted's reign of terror lasted from 1974 to 1978.
04:15He kidnapped, assaulted, and murdered at least 20 to 36 women and girls from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and lastly, Florida.
04:26What landed his button-old sparky was the Chi Omega sorority house murders and the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
04:35He represented himself in court and even got high praises from the judge after the trial was over,
04:41telling Ted that he would have made a damn fine lawyer and it's a waste that he went down the path that he did.
04:47Ultimately, he was sentenced to death.
04:49After numerous stalling tactics, like confessing to murderers that were not known at the time and even where their bodies could be found,
04:57helping out with his input on what kind of person would commit the Green River murders and multiple appeals,
05:03he got married to a former guard named Carol Ann Boone, whom he had a daughter with.
05:09She believed that Ted was innocent.
05:10She ended up divorcing Ted after his confession that he was indeed guilty of murder.
05:17He had his final interview with James Dobson, in which he blamed his crimes on pornography.
05:22He confessed to his mother during his final hours.
05:25Up until then, she thought he was innocent.
05:28Carol Ann refused his phone calls.
05:30On January 24, 1989, at 7.16 a.m., Ted was executed by a electric chair.
05:37His remains were cremated and scattered in an undisclosed location in the Cascade Range of Washington State.
05:44In accordance with his will, he was 42 years old.
05:53Lawrence Bideker and his friend Roy Norris were known as the Toolbox Killers,
05:59because majority of the instruments used to torture and murder their victims,
06:03such as pliers, ice picks, and sledgehammers, were items normally stored inside a household toolbox.
06:10Their crime spree lasted from June 24 to October 31, 1979, in Southern California.
06:17They kidnapped teenage girls, luring them into their van with promises of free rides, free drugs, and alcohol.
06:25Once they got the teens into the van, they would drive out to an isolated place,
06:29where they would assault, torture, and murder them.
06:32They threw four of the victims off a cliff or canyon.
06:36Their last victim, 16-year-old Shirley Ledford, was discarded on the front lawn of a random house on Halloween night.
06:43She was discovered the next morning.
06:45In November 1979, Roy became reacquainted with an old prison buddy named Joseph Jackson.
06:52The two of them previously spent time in California Men's Colony Prison together.
06:57Roy told Joseph what him and Lawrence had been up to in the past five months,
07:02going into detail about every single murder they committed.
07:05With all this new information, Joseph contacted his attorney about what he had learned,
07:10who told Joseph to contact police.
07:13They contacted LAPD, who in turn relayed the two men to the Hermosa Beach Police.
07:19Joseph and his attorney talked to a detective from Hermosa Beach,
07:23found that the confession matched with the missing persons cases of several teen girls that went missing over the past five months.
07:31Plus, Roy confessed to Joseph about a woman, Robin Robeck.
07:35They sprayed with mace in her face, then dragging her into the van and assaulting her.
07:40She survived her attack and reported it to police, but they were unable to find her assailants at the time.
07:47This same woman was able to pick them out of a photo lineup.
07:50On November 20, 1979, both Roy and Lawrence were arrested on parole violation and drug possession.
07:58Lawrence was charged with the essay of Robin Robeck.
08:02Roy at first wouldn't confess, but after some time, he began to tell police everything he knew,
08:08even cooperating with them to go to the San Gabriel Mountains to search for the bodies of the four girls.
08:14They found the skeletal remains of 15-year-old Jackie Gilliam and 13-year-old Jacqueline Lamp.
08:21Unfortunately, the bodies of 16-year-old Lucinda Schaefer and 18-year-old Andrea Hall were never found.
08:28Searching the van, they found 500 photos of young girls, a toolbox full of all the tools they used, and a bottle of acid.
08:36Roy took a plea deal that if he pled guilty and testified against Lawrence, the death penalty would be off the table.
08:42So he pled guilty to four counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder, two counts of R, and one count of robbery.
08:51In February 1981, after a plea of not guilty from Lawrence, and even testifying in his own defense,
08:57the jury found him guilty of five counts of first-degree murder, one charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder,
09:05five charges of kidnapping, nine charges of R, two charges of forcible oral copulation,
09:11one charge of sodomy, and three charges of unlawful possession of a firearm.
09:16He was sentenced to death.
09:18Lawrence Bittaker died from natural causes on December 13, 2019, at the age of 79.
09:24Roy Norris died on February 24, 2020, from natural causes at the age of 72.
09:36Harold Shipman, a.k.a. Dr. Death, is one of England's most notorious serial killers.
09:43He was a general practitioner, or GP, and had a good reputation as a compassionate and caring doctor and family man.
09:50Harold studied medicine at Leeds School of Medicine, University of Leeds, graduating in 1970.
09:58He began working at Pontefract General Infirmary in Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire,
10:04and in 1974 took his first position as general practitioner at the Abraham Omarud Medical Center in Tomwarden.
10:13A year later, he was caught forging prescriptions of Demerol for his own use.
10:17He was fined 600 pounds and briefly attended a drug rehabilitation clinic in York.
10:24He worked as a GP at Donnybrook Medical Center in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in 1977.
10:30Harold continued working as a GP in Hyde through the 1980s and established his own surgery at 21 Market Street in 1993,
10:40becoming a respected member of the community.
10:42In March of 1998, Linda Reynolds of the Brooks Surgery in Hyde expressed concerns to John Pollard,
10:50the coroner for South Manchester District, about the high death rate among Harold's patients.
10:56In particular, she was concerned about the large number of cremation forms for elderly women that he had needed to countersign.
11:04Police were unable to find sufficient evidence to bring charges and closed the investigation on April 17.
11:10After the initial investigation was closed, Harold killed three more elderly patients.
11:16A few months later, in August, a taxi driver named John Shaw told police that he suspected Harold of murdering 21 patients.
11:25Shaw became suspicious as many of the elderly customers he took to the hospital, who seemed to be in good health, died in Harold's care.
11:34Harold's last victim, Kathleen Grundy, a former mayor of Hyde, who was found dead in her home on June 24, 1998.
11:43He was the last person to see her alive.
11:45He later signed her death certificate, recording the cause of death as old age.
11:50Her daughter, solicitor Angela Woodruff, became concerned when fellow solicitor Brian Burgess informed her that a will had been made,
11:59supposedly by her mother, with doubts about his authenticity.
12:03The will excluded Woodruff and her children, but left 386,000 pounds to Harold.
12:10At Burgess's urging, Woodruff went to police, who began an investigation.
12:15Kathleen's body was exhumed and found to contain traces of diamorphine, aka heroin, often used for pain control in terminal cancer patients.
12:25Harold tried to claim that Kathleen was an addict and showed them the comments he had written to that effect in his computerized medical journal.
12:33Further examination of his computer showed that these entries were made after her death.
12:39Harold Shipman was arrested on September 7, 1998.
12:43The police found that Harold owned a brother typewriter, and that's what he used to forge the will.
12:49Turns out, this wasn't the first of his patients to die this way.
12:52Fourteen more elderly patients were given an overdose of diamorphine, signing patients' death certificates,
12:59and then falsifying medical records to indicate that they had been in poor health.
13:04On January 31, 2000, Harold was found guilty of 15 counts of murder and one count of forgery.
13:11He was sentenced to life in prison with the recommendation that he'd be subjected to a whole-life tariff,
13:18which was approved two years later.
13:20It was rumored that he had killed up to 250 patients in the same manner.
13:25After realizing he was going to spend the rest of his life in prison,
13:28on January 13, 2004, at the age of 57, Harold hung himself in his cell.
13:35It was found that he did this so his wife, Primrose Shipman, would receive his full NHS pension.
13:42She would not have been entitled to it if Harold had lived past the age of 60.
13:50Jeffrey Dahmer, aka the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was another notorious serial killer and sex offender.
14:00He is infamous for cannibalizing some of his victims, he preserved body parts and skeletal remains for his collection,
14:07and he often performed necrophilia on some of his victims.
14:11He was finally caught when his final potential victim punched him in the face and managed to escape Jeff's apartment, flagging down police.
14:20His trial, even though he admitted he was guilty, was more about whether he was sane or insane when committing these murders.
14:28In February 1992, he was deemed to be sane and was sentenced to 16 life terms, 15 in Wisconsin and 1 in Ohio.
14:38On November 28, 1994, Jeff was beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.
14:45His body was cremated and ashes split between his parents.
14:49I know I just gave you the shorter version of Jeffrey Dahmer's story.
14:53If you want to watch a more detailed version of his story, check out my video on him, episode 20.
14:59It will be in the description box below, or click the i above to check it out.
15:03Edmund Emil Kemper III was born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California, to Edmund Emil Kemper Jr. and Carnell Kemper.
15:19He was 13 pounds when he was born and was at least a head taller than his peers at the age of 4.
15:25Edmund Jr. was a World War II veteran who, after the war, tested nuclear weapons at the Pacific Proving Grounds before returning to California, where he worked as an electrician.
15:38Carnell was a very abusive woman.
15:40She would not only verbally browbeat her son, but also her husband as well.
15:45Edmund began his alarming behavior at the age of 10 by killing insects and eventually cats and other animals.
15:52He once killed the family cat because it favored his sister over him.
15:57He would play weird games like gas chamber and electric chair with his younger sister.
16:02He had a couple of near-death experiences, like when his older sister pushed him in front of a train, and when he almost drowned at the deep end of a pool.
16:11His parents separated in 1957 and got divorced in 1961, leaving Edmund to be raised by Carnell, which she never let up on her abuse of her son.
16:21Edmund ran away at 14 years old to live with his father.
16:25He found out that his dad had remarried and now has step-siblings.
16:29By this time, Edmund had grown to 6 feet 4 inches at the age of 15.
16:35His father sent him to live with his grandparents.
16:37He described his grandfather as senile and said that his grandmother,
16:42quote,
16:42was constantly emasculating me and my grandfather, unquote.
16:46On August 27, 1964, at the age of 15, Edmund was arguing with his grandmother at the kitchen table.
16:54He stormed off, came back with a rifle he was given for hunting, and badly shot her in the head and twice in the back.
17:01When his grandfather came back, Edmund shot him too, then called his mother, who told him to call police.
17:07He was arrested, and after talking with a couple of psychiatrists, they diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia,
17:13and was sent to the Atascadero State Hospital, a maximum security facility that houses mentally ill convicts.
17:21On December 18, 1969, Edmund's 21st birthday, he was released on parole to the care of his mother.
17:28She worked as an administrative assistant at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
17:34Later in 1972, after demonstrating to a psychiatrist that he was rehabilitated, his juvenile record was permanently expunged.
17:43Edmund worked a series of menial jobs before gaining employment with the State of California Division of Highways.
17:50He tried to apply to become a police officer, but at 6 foot 9, he was just too tall to become a cop.
17:56But he befriended a lot of the local police, even hanging out in a bar called the Jury Room.
18:02They nicknamed him Big Ed.
18:04Well, Ed had began to notice a lot of young college girls hitchhiking, and his homicidal urges came roaring back.
18:11Between May 1972 and April 1973, Ed killed 6 college girls.
18:17They were hitchhiking, which was a common way to get around if you didn't have a car.
18:22He would shoot, stab, smother, or strangle them.
18:25He would take them home, dismember them, performing sexual acts on their body.
18:30His final victims were his mother and his mother's friend, putting their bodies in a closet.
18:36Afterwards, he fled the scene, thinking that there was going to be a manhunt for him.
18:41He drove all the way to Colorado.
18:43Once he learned no one was looking for him, nothing on the radio or anything,
18:47he called the police from a pay phone and confessed to everything.
18:51Ed was indicted on eight counts of first-degree murder on May 7, 1973.
18:57He pled not guilty by reason of insanity to the charges.
19:01He even tried to take his own life twice while in custody.
19:04On November 8, 1973, he was deemed sane and guilty on all counts.
19:10He received seven years to life for each count.
19:13He's currently serving out his sentence at the California Medical Facility.
19:17He's still alive at 74 years old.
19:27Andrew Philip Cunanan was born on August 31, 1969, in National City, California,
19:35to Modesto Pete Cunanan, a Filipino-American, and Marianne Scalacci, an Italian-American.
19:43Pete was serving in the United States Navy in the Vietnam War at the time of his son's birth.
19:49Andrew was the youngest of four children.
19:52After leaving the Navy, where he had served as a chief petty officer, Pete worked as a stockbroker.
19:58Andrew attended private school and was known for being very bright and talkative.
20:02He also became a prolific liar.
20:05Given to telling tales about his family and personal life,
20:08he was adept to changing his appearance according to what he felt was most attractive at a given moment.
20:15In high school, Andrew started having sugar baby relationships with older wealthy men.
20:20He graduated high school in 1987,
20:23then enrolled at University of California, San Diego,
20:27where he majored in American history.
20:29When Andrew was 19, his father abandoned the family,
20:32fleeing back to the Philippines to evade arrest for embezzlement.
20:36After an argument with his mother that ended up with Andrew dislocating her shoulder,
20:41he dropped out of college and moved in with his best friend in the Castro District of San Francisco.
20:47He continued his sugar baby lifestyle, bouncing from one wealthy man to another.
20:53He also created violent pornography and dealing drugs.
20:56In December 1995, Andrew met Dave Madsen, a Minneapolis architect, in a San Francisco bar.
21:03They began a long-distance relationship, but David ended the relationship in the spring of 1996,
21:10telling friends he sensed something shady about Andrew.
21:14After breaking up with another wealthy man who was supporting him financially,
21:19his credit cards were maxed out due to his habit of abusing painkillers and alcohol.
21:24He was also a regular meth user.
21:26Andrew's close friend, Jeff Trail,
21:28a former Navy officer working as a district manager for a propane delivery company in Minneapolis,
21:35had told his former roommate, Michael Williams, that Andrew had resumed selling drugs.
21:41On April 24, 1997,
21:44Andrew announced that he was leaving for Minneapolis to take care of some important business.
21:49He arrived at his ex-boyfriend, Dave Madsen's apartment, on the 25th.
21:53The next day, April 26, he stayed at Jeff Trail's apartment while Jeff was out of town.
22:00When Jeff and his boyfriend came back, Andrew was gone.
22:03He had stolen Jeff's gun.
22:05Andrew called Jeff to come over to David's apartment to come and retrieve his gun.
22:10Once he arrived, Andrew beat Jeff to death with a hammer in front of David.
22:15On May the 3rd, David's body was discovered on the east shore of Rush Lake,
22:21near Rush City, Minnesota, with gunshot wounds to the head and back
22:25with the same gun that was stolen from Jeff's apartment.
22:30On May 3rd, Andrew drove to Chicago in David's stolen Jeep
22:34and killed 72-year-old Lee Miglin, a prominent real estate developer.
22:40He bound Miglin's hands and feet, wrapping his head with duct tape.
22:44He then stabbed him more than 20 times with a screwdriver,
22:47slit his throat with a hacksaw, and stole his Lexus sedan,
22:52leaving the Jeep parked in front of Miglin's house.
22:55Apparently, this car had a car phone,
22:58making it easy for police to track the stolen car and Andrew.
23:02On May 9th, in Pennsville Township, New Jersey,
23:06at Flinds Point National Cemetery,
23:08Andrew shot and killed 45-year-old cemetery caretaker William Reese.
23:13He ditched the Lexus and took Reese's red pickup truck.
23:17He drove all the way down to Miami Beach, Florida.
23:20On June 12th, he was listed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitive List.
23:25On the morning of July 15th, 1997,
23:29Andrew shot 50-year-old Gianni Versace twice
23:32on the front steps of Versace's mansion.
23:36After returning from a visit to the news cafe,
23:39where he picked up magazines,
23:40police found Reese's stolen truck in a parking garage
23:44with all of Andrew's clothes and other personal items.
23:47On July 23rd, 1997,
23:50Andrew's body was found in a luxury houseboat in Miami Beach
23:54after a caretaker reported to police of hearing a gunshot.
23:58He had shot himself in the head.
24:00Andrew's cremated remains were interred
24:03in the mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery in San Diego.
24:07He was 27 years old.
24:10Carol Edward Eddy Cole
24:17was born on May 9th, 1938, in Sioux City, Iowa,
24:22the second son of Laverne and Besta Cole.
24:25His younger sister was born in 1939,
24:28and soon afterwards,
24:29his family packed up and moved to California,
24:32where Laverne found work in a shipyard.
24:34Not long after that,
24:36Laverne went to fight in World War II.
24:38While his father was away,
24:40his mother had several affairs
24:42and sometimes took Eddie along to her rendezvous,
24:45threatening to beat him if he told his father.
24:48Besta was emotionally abusive to Eddie
24:50and dressed him as a girl.
24:52At school, he was teased about his girl's name by his peers.
24:56When he was 8 years old,
24:58Eddie retaliated against one of his classmates,
25:01a boy of the same age named Dwayne,
25:03by drowning him in a lake in Richmond, California.
25:07His death was deemed an accident
25:08until many years later when Eddie confessed to the murder.
25:12In high school,
25:14Eddie committed several petty crimes
25:16and was frequently arrested for drunkenness and minor theft.
25:20After high school,
25:21he joined the U.S. Army
25:22but was given a bad conduct discharge in 1958
25:26for stealing pistols.
25:28In 1960,
25:29Eddie attacked two couples parked in cars on a lover's lane.
25:34Afterwards,
25:35he called police
25:35and told them that he was plagued by violent fantasies
25:39involving strangling women.
25:40He spent three years in different mental institutions.
25:44At the last of them,
25:45Stockton State Hospital,
25:47Dr. Weiss wrote,
25:49quote,
25:49he seems to be afraid of the female figure
25:51and cannot have intercourse with her first
25:54but must kill her before he can do it, unquote.
25:58Dr. Weiss approved his release in April 1963
26:02despite hospital staff having diagnosed Eddie
26:05with antisocial personality disorder.
26:09After his release,
26:10Eddie moved to Dallas, Texas
26:11to live with his brother Richard.
26:13There,
26:14he met and married an alcoholic stripper
26:16named Billy Whitworth,
26:18though this did not change his perspective towards women.
26:21The marriage ended
26:22when Eddie burned down a motel
26:24after convincing himself
26:26that his wife was having sex with men there.
26:29He was charged with arson.
26:31Upon his release from prison,
26:33Eddie attempted to strangle
26:34an 11-year-old girl in Missouri.
26:36He was arrested again
26:37and sentenced to five years in prison.
26:40After his release,
26:41he moved to Nevada
26:42where he attempted to strangle two more women.
26:46On May 7, 1971,
26:48Eddie picked up a woman named S.C. Buckley
26:51from a San Diego tavern.
26:53He strangled her to death in his car
26:54and drove around with her body in the trunk
26:57before eventually dumping it.
26:59Two weeks later,
27:00he killed an unidentified woman
27:02and buried her in a wooded area.
27:04He later claimed
27:05that they had proven themselves
27:07unfaithful to their husbands
27:08and so reminded him of his adulterous mother.
27:12In July 1973,
27:14Eddie married barmaid Diana Pashaw,
27:16who was also an alcoholic.
27:18They fought often
27:19and Eddie would go away for days at a time.
27:22He would commit murders while he was away,
27:25including one woman
27:26he allegedly cannibalized to a degree.
27:28In September 1979,
27:31Eddie strangled Diana to death,
27:33wrapping her in a blanket
27:34and stuffing her in a closet.
27:36Her body was discovered eight days later
27:38after a neighbor called the police.
27:41It was determined she died from her alcoholism.
27:44Eddie was questioned
27:45and released with no charges.
27:47Eddie moved to Las Vegas the same year
27:50and married Marie Cushman,
27:52whom he met at a bar.
27:53That same evening,
27:55the two went to a motel
27:56where they had sex,
27:57then he strangled her to death.
27:59In 1980,
28:00Eddie moved back to Dallas,
28:02where he strangled three more women.
28:04Eddie was a suspect
28:05in the second of these killings
28:07and was also found
28:08on the scene of the third murder.
28:11He was arrested and held in custody.
28:13The police then came to the conclusion
28:15that the victims
28:16had probably died from natural causes,
28:18and Eddie was about to be ruled out
28:20as a suspect
28:21before he confessed to,
28:23along with this murder,
28:24all the other murders.
28:25Eddie claimed that he had murdered
28:28at least 14 women
28:29over the previous nine years,
28:31although he added
28:32that there may have been more
28:34and he couldn't remember exactly
28:36as he was usually drunk
28:37when he committed his crimes.
28:39On April 9, 1981,
28:42Eddie was convicted
28:43of three of the murders
28:44committed in Texas.
28:46He was sentenced to life
28:47at the Huntsville Prison.
28:49In 1984,
28:50Eddie's mother died
28:51and his attitude
28:52was reported to have changed.
28:54He agreed to face
28:55further murder charges
28:57filed in Nevada,
28:58even though it would possibly
29:00mean the death penalty.
29:02In February 1984,
29:04Eddie was extradited to Nevada,
29:06where he was tried
29:07and convicted
29:08for the strangulation deaths
29:10of two women
29:11in 1977 and 1979.
29:15In October 1984,
29:17Cole was sentenced
29:17to death in Nevada.
29:19For his last meal,
29:21Eddie ordered
29:21jumbo-fried shrimp,
29:23french fries,
29:24salad with French dressing,
29:26and Boston clam chowder.
29:28Eddie was executed
29:29by lethal injection
29:30at Nevada State Prison
29:32on December 6, 1985,
29:35at 2.10 a.m.
29:36He was 47 years old.
29:38Charlene Adele Gallego
29:47and her husband Gerald
29:48were a pair of serial killers
29:50who kidnapped
29:51and assaulted
29:52at least 11 women,
29:54most of them teenagers,
29:55making them into their
29:56love slaves
29:57before killing them,
29:59burying them
29:59in shallow graves.
30:01Born on July 17, 1946,
30:04in Sacramento, California,
30:06Gerald had a rough upbringing,
30:07His mother was a prostitute.
30:10She would bring home
30:10multiple boyfriends
30:11who would beat
30:12Gerald constantly.
30:14His estranged father
30:15was a criminal
30:16who in 1955
30:17became the first man
30:19executed
30:19in a Mississippi gas chamber
30:21for the killing
30:22of a police officer
30:23during a prison escape.
30:25He often begged
30:26to be hugged
30:27and was frequently
30:28left unclean
30:29and hungry.
30:30At the age of 10,
30:31Gerald was arrested
30:32for his first known
30:34felony offense,
30:35robbing a neighbor's home.
30:36This was the start
30:37of his criminal career.
30:39He had 23 arrests
30:40and served prison time
30:42after being convicted
30:43of robbery
30:44prior to his murders.
30:45At the age of 12,
30:47he assaulted
30:47a 6-year-old girl
30:49which resulted in him
30:50being sentenced
30:51to a California
30:52Youth Authority facility
30:53and would,
30:55during his adulthood,
30:56S.A.
30:57his own daughter
30:58as well as
30:59one of her friends.
31:00He was still married
31:01to a previous wife
31:02when he married Charlene.
31:04Charlene Adele Williams
31:06was born on
31:07October 10, 1956
31:09in Stockton, California.
31:11She was a smart,
31:12shy child
31:12from a supportive family.
31:14Her father
31:15was a well-known
31:15businessman
31:16who served
31:17as the vice president
31:18of a chain
31:19of supermarkets.
31:20As part of their
31:21professional lives,
31:22he and his wife
31:23would frequently travel.
31:25After Charlene's mother
31:26was severely injured
31:27in a car accident,
31:28Charlene took over
31:29her mother's responsibilities
31:31and started accompanying
31:32her father
31:33on his business travels,
31:35where she was
31:36frequently praised
31:37by her father's clients
31:38for being an educated
31:40and articulate young girl.
31:42Things started to change
31:43for Charlene
31:43as a young adult
31:45when she got into
31:45drugs and alcohol.
31:47Because of her
31:48overly flirty behavior
31:49with her male co-workers,
31:51Charlene was despised
31:53at work
31:53and developed a reputation
31:55as a nymphomaniac.
31:57Charlene was married
31:58to a wealthy young man
31:59who was addicted to heroin
32:00who asserted that
32:02Charlene was desperate
32:03for a threesome
32:04with him,
32:05her,
32:05and a prostitute
32:06because she was enamored
32:08with lesbian sex.
32:09Needless to say,
32:10that marriage didn't last.
32:12After the divorce
32:13from her first husband,
32:14Charlene married a soldier
32:15who Charlene described
32:17as a mama's boy.
32:18She became bored with him
32:20and they separated.
32:21After another failed relationship
32:23with a married man
32:24after insisting
32:25on a threesome
32:26with his wife.
32:27On September 10,
32:281977,
32:30Charlene met Gerald
32:31at a poker club
32:33in Sacramento,
32:34California.
32:35Within a week
32:35of their first encounter,
32:37Charlene moved in
32:38with Gerald.
32:39Charlene acted
32:39as a submissive partner
32:41in their sadomastic relationship.
32:44Although Charlene
32:44later claimed in court
32:46that she detested
32:47the painful experience,
32:48Gerald engaged
32:49in rough intercourse
32:50with her
32:51and particularly
32:52enjoyed sodomizing her.
32:54After living with each other
32:55for a few months,
32:56Gerald brought home
32:57a 16-year-old stripper
32:58so that they could
32:59have a threesome.
33:00But the only rule was
33:02that they could only
33:03touch him
33:03and not each other.
33:05Charlene did not
33:05obey this rule
33:06and got caught in bed
33:08with the same girl
33:09after returning home
33:10from work.
33:11He threw the girl
33:11out of an open window
33:13in a fit of anger.
33:14Gerald refused
33:15to sleep with Charlene,
33:16claiming that he had
33:17lost his libido
33:18and had become impotent.
33:20After a year,
33:21he admitted that
33:22he required a pair
33:23of loved slaves
33:24to keep him excited.
33:26Charlene was asked
33:27to find them
33:28and she obliged
33:29out of respect for him.
33:30Their first possible victim
33:32was 16-year-old
33:33Sandra Butler,
33:34who was last seen
33:35in Sparks, Nevada
33:36on June 26, 1978
33:38at 4th Street
33:40and Greenbray Street
33:41directly across
33:42from her family's apartment.
33:43She was last seen
33:44making her way
33:45to the Greenbray
33:46shopping center.
33:47She has not been seen
33:49or heard from since.
33:50Sandra had been given
33:51permission by her mother
33:52to ride her bike
33:54to the Reno Rodeo
33:55at the Washu County
33:56Fairground
33:57on the day she vanished.
33:59Charlene and Gerald
34:00admitted to being
34:01at the fairgrounds
34:02that same day.
34:03Her remains
34:04were never found.
34:05On September 10, 1978,
34:07the Gallegos
34:08kidnapped 16-year-old
34:10Kippy Vaught
34:11and 17-year-old
34:12Rhonda Scheffler
34:13from a Sacramento mall.
34:14The girls were restrained
34:16in the back of the van
34:17and threatened
34:18with a gun.
34:19They were essayed
34:19by Gerald all night.
34:21The next day,
34:22the girls were taken
34:23to Slojas, California.
34:25They were ordered
34:25out of the van
34:26crossing a field
34:27into a ditch
34:28where both of the girls
34:29were beaten
34:30with a tire iron
34:31and shot to death.
34:33On June 24, 1979,
34:3514-year-old Brenda Judd
34:37and 13-year-old Sandra Colley
34:39were kidnapped
34:40at Washu County Fair
34:42in Reno, Nevada.
34:43Both were persuaded
34:44to enter the Gallegos van
34:46with the promise
34:47of earning money
34:48by distributing flyers.
34:49On Interstate 80,
34:50Charlene took the van
34:52northeast of Reno
34:53as she watched
34:55in the rearview mirror.
34:56Gerald repeatedly
34:57essayed the two girls
34:58in the back of the van.
35:00Charlene then parked
35:01the van in a remote
35:02Humboldt sink area.
35:04Both of these girls
35:05were taken out of the van,
35:07bludgeoned with a shovel,
35:08then buried in a shallow grave.
35:10Their bodies were not found
35:11until 1999.
35:13On April 24, 1980,
35:15the Gallegos kidnapped
35:1617-year-old Stacy Ritkin
35:18and Karen Chipman Twiggs
35:21as they exited a bookstore
35:22and the promise
35:23of smoking some weed
35:24with them.
35:25Once again,
35:26Gerald would essay them
35:27while Charlene drove them
35:29to a remote location
35:3020 miles outside
35:32of Lovelock, Nevada.
35:33The girls were forced
35:34out of the van,
35:35beaten with a hammer,
35:37and buried in shallow graves.
35:38Their bodies were discovered
35:39three months later.
35:40On June 6, 1980,
35:43while hitchhiking
35:44in Port Orford, Oregon,
35:4621-year-old Linda Agula
35:48was kidnapped and murdered
35:50with a blunt object
35:51and buried in a shallow grave
35:53just outside of
35:54Gold Beach, Oregon.
35:55Linda was reported missing
35:56on June 20th
35:58and was found
35:59two days later by tourists.
36:01Linda was four months
36:02pregnant at the time
36:03and it was believed
36:04that she was still alive
36:06when they buried her
36:07because she had sand
36:08in her mouth,
36:09throat, and nose.
36:10On July 17, 1980,
36:1331-year-old Virginia Mochel
36:15was abducted
36:15from a parking lot
36:16of a West Sacramento tavern
36:18where she worked
36:19as a bartender.
36:20The Gallegos
36:21were acquainted with Virginia
36:22and had frequently
36:24been served drinks by her.
36:25She was kidnapped,
36:27essayed,
36:27and forced to beg
36:28for her life.
36:29She was strangled to death
36:30and discarded by a pond
36:32where her remains
36:33were found
36:33three months later.
36:35While leaving
36:35a fraternity party
36:36on November 1, 1980,
36:3822-year-old Craig Miller
36:40and his fiancée,
36:4221-year-old Mary Sellers,
36:44were forced
36:44into the Gallegos' van
36:46at gunpoint.
36:47After taking them
36:48to a remote location
36:49near Bass Lake, California,
36:52Gerald ordered Craig
36:53out of the car.
36:54Gerald shot Craig
36:55in the back of the head
36:56a total of three times.
36:58Gerald got back
36:59into the car
36:59and drove back
37:00to their apartment
37:01where he essayed
37:02Mary for hours.
37:04Afterwards,
37:05he ordered Charlene
37:06to drive to a rural area
37:08in Placer County, California.
37:10Once there,
37:11he ordered Mary
37:12out of the car
37:13then shot her three times
37:14at point-blank range.
37:16A friend of Craig
37:17and Mary
37:17witnessed their abduction
37:19and reported
37:20the car's license plate number.
37:21Police used this information
37:23to track down
37:24and arrest the Gallegos
37:25at a Western Union office.
37:27Charlene's parents
37:28were in the process
37:29of wiring her money.
37:31They both pled
37:31not guilty
37:32to the charges
37:33of kidnapping and murder.
37:35Charlene's attorney
37:36got her a plea deal.
37:37If she testifies
37:38against Gerald,
37:39she will have
37:39a reduced sentence.
37:41She agreed
37:41and confessed
37:42to everything that happened.
37:44She was sentenced
37:45to 16 years
37:46and 8 months.
37:47Gerald was sentenced
37:48to death
37:49in California
37:50and in Nevada,
37:51but his death sentence
37:52was overturned
37:53in 1997.
37:55In July 1997,
37:57Charlene completed
37:58her sentence
37:58and was released.
38:00Gerald died
38:00of cancer
38:01in 2002.
38:06Theodore John Kaczynski
38:10was born in Chicago
38:12on May 22, 1942
38:14to Theodore
38:15and Wanda Kaczynski.
38:17In elementary school,
38:19he seemed to be
38:19a healthy,
38:20well-adjusted little boy.
38:22When he entered
38:22junior high,
38:23his IQ was tested
38:25and scored 167,
38:27allowing him
38:27to skip 6th grade.
38:29Even though he was smart,
38:30he was bullied
38:31and often played alone.
38:33He excelled academically
38:34in high school.
38:36He played the trombone
38:37in the marching band
38:38and was a member
38:39of the mathematics,
38:40biology,
38:41coin,
38:42and German clubs.
38:43During his high school years,
38:45he became intensely
38:46interested in mathematics,
38:48spending hours
38:48studying and solving
38:50advanced problems.
38:51He graduated high school
38:52at the age of 15.
38:54Ted got a scholarship
38:55to Harvard University
38:57and started in 1958
38:59at the age of 16.
39:01Ted earned his
39:02Bachelor's of Arts degree
39:03in mathematics
39:04from Harvard in 1962.
39:07In 1962,
39:09Ted enrolled
39:09at University of Michigan
39:11where he earned
39:12his Master's
39:13and Doctoral degrees
39:14in mathematics
39:15in 1964
39:17and in 1967,
39:19respectively.
39:20In late 1967,
39:22the 25-year-old Ted
39:23became an acting
39:24assistant professor
39:25at the University
39:26of California, Berkeley
39:28where he taught mathematics.
39:30By September 1968,
39:31Ted was appointed
39:32as an assistant professor,
39:34a sign that he was
39:35on track for tenure,
39:37but his teaching evaluations
39:38suggest he was not
39:39well-liked by his students.
39:41He seemed uncomfortable
39:42teaching,
39:43taught straight from the textbook,
39:44and refused to answer questions.
39:46Without any explanation,
39:48Ted resigned
39:49on June 30, 1969.
39:50After resigning from Berkeley,
39:54Ted moved back
39:54to his parents' home
39:55in Lombard, Illinois.
39:57Two years later,
39:58in 1971,
40:00he moved to a remote cabin
40:01he built
40:02outside of Lincoln, Montana,
40:04where he could live
40:05a simple life
40:06with little money
40:07and without electricity
40:09or running water,
40:10working odd jobs
40:11and receiving significant
40:13financial support
40:14from his family.
40:15His goal was to become
40:16self-sufficient.
40:17He used an old bike
40:19to get into town
40:20and volunteered
40:21at the local library.
40:22His kind of lifestyle
40:23was typical
40:24for people in that area.
40:26His cabin was pretty simple.
40:28It contained a bed,
40:29two chairs,
40:30storage trunk,
40:31a gas stove,
40:32and lots of books.
40:34Starting in 1975,
40:36Ted performed acts
40:37of sabotage,
40:38including arson
40:39and booby-trapping,
40:40against developments
40:41near to his cabin.
40:42He also dedicated himself
40:44to reading about
40:45sociology
40:46and political philosophy,
40:48including the works
40:49of Jacques Ellul.
40:51Ted's brother David
40:52later stated that
40:53Ellul's book,
40:55The Technology Society,
40:56became Ted's Bible.
40:58Ted recounted in 1998,
41:00when I read the book
41:01for the first time,
41:03I was delighted
41:03because I thought,
41:05here is someone
41:05who is saying
41:06what I've already
41:07been thinking.
41:08He became more
41:09and more upset
41:10as the area around him
41:11was being developed,
41:13more people hiking
41:14near his cabin,
41:15even one of his
41:16favorite spots
41:17was ruined
41:18when there was a road
41:19right through
41:20the middle of it.
41:20He decided to get revenge.
41:22Between 1978
41:23and 1995,
41:25Ted mailed
41:26or hand-delivered
41:27a series of
41:28increasingly sophisticated
41:30bombs that killed
41:31three people
41:32and injured
41:3223 others.
41:3416 bombs
41:34were attributed
41:35to Ted.
41:36While the bombing
41:36devices varied wildly
41:38throughout the years,
41:39many contained
41:40the initials FC,
41:42which Ted later said
41:43stood for Freedom Club,
41:45inscribed on parts inside.
41:47He purposely left
41:48misleading clues
41:49on the devices
41:50and took extreme care
41:52in preparing them
41:53to avoid leaving fingerprints.
41:55Fingerprints found
41:56on some of the devices
41:57did not match
41:59those found
41:59on the letters
42:00attributed to Ted.
42:02They were mailed
42:02to different universities.
42:04One even exploded
42:05mid-flight
42:06on American Airlines
42:07Flight 444,
42:09and two of them
42:10were diffused successfully.
42:12In 1995,
42:14Ted mailed
42:14several letters
42:15to media outlets
42:16outlining his goals
42:18and demanding
42:19a major newspaper
42:20print his
42:2135,000-word essay
42:23titled
42:24Industrial Society
42:25and its Future,
42:26dubbed the
42:27Unabomber Manifesto
42:28by the FBI
42:29verbatim.
42:30He stated he would
42:31decease from terrorism
42:33if his demands
42:34were met.
42:35After a lot of debate,
42:36Penthouse initially
42:37volunteered to print it,
42:39but Ted refused,
42:40so the Washington Post
42:41published the essay
42:42on September 19, 1995.
42:45It's essentially
42:46an anti-technology essay.
42:48Because of the material
42:49used to make the mail bombs,
42:51U.S. Postal Inspectors,
42:53who initially
42:54had responsibility
42:55for the case,
42:56labeled the suspect
42:57the junkyard bomber.
42:59FBI Inspector
43:00Terry D. Turchi
43:01was appointed
43:02to the
43:03Unabomb,
43:04which stood for
43:05University and
43:06Airline Bomber
43:07Investigation.
43:09After a while,
43:10they just referred
43:10to this person
43:11as the Unabomber.
43:13The Unabomb task force
43:14set up a toll-free
43:16telephone hotline
43:17to take calls
43:18related to the investigation,
43:19with a $1 million reward
43:22for anyone
43:22who could provide
43:24information
43:24leading to
43:25the Unabomber's capture.
43:27Suspect sketches
43:28were released
43:29in 1987
43:30and in 1994.
43:32Ted's brother,
43:33David,
43:33had his suspicions
43:35that his brother
43:36might be the Unabomber,
43:37but he held out
43:38despite his wife's
43:39encouragement
43:40to talk to police.
43:41After reading
43:42the manifesto,
43:43he knew it was
43:43his brother.
43:44After hiring a P.I.
43:46to track Ted's activities,
43:48and David also hired
43:49a Washington, D.C.
43:50attorney
43:51to organize
43:52the evidence
43:53acquired by
43:54the private investigator
43:55and contact the FBI
43:57given the presumed
43:58difficulty
43:59of attracting
43:59the FBI's attention.
44:01David didn't want
44:02the same thing
44:03to happen to his brother
44:04like what happened
44:05at Ruby Ridge
44:06and Waco.
44:07He wanted his brother
44:08to be arrested unharmed.
44:10Even though David
44:11was trying to stay anonymous,
44:13the FBI quickly
44:14took action
44:15questioning him
44:16and his wife
44:17on what they knew.
44:18Unfortunately,
44:18his name
44:19was leaked
44:20to the news media
44:21and broadcasted
44:22on the evening news.
44:23Ted was arrested
44:24at his cabin
44:25on April 3rd, 1996.
44:28A search revealed
44:29a cache of bomb components,
44:31a 40,000-page
44:33handwritten journal
44:34that included
44:35bomb-making experiments,
44:37descriptions
44:37of the Unabomber crimes,
44:39and one live bomb.
44:41They also found
44:42what appeared
44:42to be the original
44:43typed manuscript
44:45of industrial society
44:46and its future.
44:47A federal grand jury
44:49indicted Ted
44:50in June 1996
44:51on 10 counts
44:53of illegal transporting,
44:54mailing,
44:55and using bombs.
44:56Initially,
44:57his attorney
44:58wanted to enter
44:59an insanity defense
45:00to avoid the death penalty,
45:02but Ted declined
45:03and dismissed
45:04his attorney.
45:05He got a second attorney,
45:06who agreed not to enter
45:08an insanity plea.
45:09After a psychiatric evaluation,
45:12Ted was diagnosed
45:13with paranoid schizophrenia.
45:15On January 21st, 1998,
45:17Ted was declared
45:18competent to stand trial.
45:20He pled guilty
45:21to all charges
45:22on January 22nd, 1998.
45:25He was sentenced
45:25to life in prison
45:26without parole.
45:28On June 10th, 2023,
45:30at 12.23 a.m.,
45:32Ted was found
45:33unresponsive in his cell.
45:35He was taken
45:35to a hospital
45:36where he was pronounced dead.
45:38Prison officials believed
45:39that he took his own life.
45:41He was 81 years old.
45:53If you've made it
45:54this far into the video,
45:55you're probably wondering
45:56why I didn't put
45:57Rodney Alcala
45:58and Nathan Leopold
45:59on this list.
46:00Well, simply put,
46:02Nathan Leopold
46:03doesn't count
46:04because he's not
46:04a serial killer.
46:06Yes, his IQ is 210.
46:07The highest for a murderer.
46:09But he only committed
46:10one murder,
46:11so he's disqualified.
46:13Old Rodney,
46:14on the other hand,
46:14is a serial killer,
46:16but his IQ
46:17was never confirmed.
46:18And if you've watched
46:19my Valentine's Day special
46:21about him,
46:22you know he's a major liar.
46:23If you want to check out
46:24that episode,
46:25it will be in the
46:26description box below.
46:28I know I oversimplified
46:30some of these cases.
46:31I plan on covering
46:32these cases in depth
46:34at a later date.
46:35I promise.
46:36It's just going to
46:37take some time.
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