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Taking a look at the opposite end of the IQ spectrum to see which serial killers scored the lowest. I will cover these people in depth at a later date.
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00:00Hello and welcome to the Dark Mystery Lounge. Last time we took a look at
00:04serial killers with high IQs. Evil people who just happen to be intelligent. This
00:10time around we're going to take a look at serial killers on the opposite end of
00:14that spectrum. Those serial killers that are indeed evil and cruel but are about
00:19as smart as a box of rocks. Let's take a look at the top five serial killers with
00:24low IQs.
00:30Henry Lee Lucas aka the confession killer was the youngest of nine children
00:37born in a one-room log cabin in Blacksburg Virginia to Anderson and Nellie Lucas.
00:43He was abused as a child by his mother who was a known prostitute. She would force
00:49Henry to watch her having sex with her clients. She beat him often and even
00:53dressed him as a girl pimping him out to both men and women. She once beat him so
00:58hard that he was in a coma for three days. He dropped out of the sixth grade and ran
01:03away from home. In 1960 while staying with his half-sister in Michigan his mother
01:09came for a visit. Henry and his mother had a heated argument in which he stabbed
01:15her in the neck with a knife killing her. He claimed self-defense but was convicted
01:19of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. But due to prison overcrowding, he was released after only serving 10 years. In 1976, he made friends with a guy named Otis Toole while at a soup kitchen in Jacksonville, Florida. He moved in with Otis' mother and met Otis' niece, Freda Becky Powell, who had a mild mental disability. Henry and Otis would end up committing multiple murders from 1970 to 1970.
01:491978 to 1981, when they parted ways. After getting arrested for firearm charges, Henry confessed to killing his girlfriend and another woman, Kate Rich, that was trying to help search for Henry's girlfriend. He claimed to have killed hundreds more, which got the attention of investigators of cold cases that they needed to be solved. With each confession, he would be given not only attention, but a lot of goodies, such as cigarettes, milkshakes,
02:17steak dinners, and even a TV. He claimed to have murdered 250 people, but was ultimately convicted for eight additional murders along with Powell and Rich. All the other confessions were thrown out due to lack of evidence or him having access to the case files themselves. He was sentenced to death in Texas. Henry's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1998 by then-governor George W. Bush.
02:45Yes, that George W. Bush. On March 12, 2001, at 11 p.m., Henry was found dead from congestive heart failure at the age of 64.
02:57Frederick Walter Stephen West and his second wife, Rosemary, or Rose, are a pair of serial killers from England. These two monsters arered, tortured, and mutilated at least 12 to 13 women and girls from 1967 to 1987.
03:22At least eight of the victims were kidnapped with a couple of sexual pleasures. They dismembered the bodies and buried them in either the cellar or in the backyard.
03:33Rose worked from home as a prostitute, even having a special room for her clients, which had peepholes installed for Fred to watch and even installed baby monitors so Fred could listen in.
03:45Rose gave birth to eight children. Two children from Fred's previous marriage also lived in the home. Both Fred and Rose were extremely abusive towards their children. The girls were essayed by Fred and beating the boys.
04:03Rose murdered Fred's eldest child from his previous marriage, Charmaine, while Fred was in prison. Then they murdered Fred's first wife, Catherine.
04:11The couple kidnapped young women in various ways, promise of a job, or kidnap them from the upstairs rooms they rented out.
04:20Their last victim was their own daughter, Heather, who confided in her friends at school about the abuse she endured.
04:27On June 18, 1987, in an attempt to finally escape the house, Heather applied for a job that would take her far away, but the application was denied.
04:37Heather was crushed and cried uncontrollably. The next day, as the kids came back from school, Heather was missing.
04:45The kids were told that Heather was accepted to that job and left.
04:50Things began to fall apart when the couple's 13-year-old daughter, Louise, was arred and sodomized by Fred.
04:57When she told her mother about what happened, Rose replied,
05:01Oh well, you were asking for it.
05:03Louise was repeatedly arred by her father.
05:06One time it was filmed.
05:08She finally had the courage to confide in a close friend as to what happened to her.
05:13That friend told her mother, who anonymously informed police on August 4, 1992.
05:19On August 6, the police searched the West household on the pretext of searching for stolen property.
05:26Although numerous objects of sexual paraphernalia, including 99 pornographic videos, of both homemade and commercial nature were discovered,
05:36police did not find the video depicting the R of Fred's daughter.
05:41Louise made a full statement to a specially trained solicitor about her abuse and that it had begun when she was 11,
05:48and that her mother was indifferent to her daughter's suffering.
05:51All the children were examined and found that they were being physically and or sexually abused.
05:57They were all taken into foster care.
06:00The children also divulged that their father would threaten them,
06:03saying that if they told anyone about the goings-on in the household,
06:08they would be buried under the patio like their sister Heather.
06:12Both Fred and Rose were arrested.
06:14Fred was charged with three counts of R and one count of sodomy.
06:19Rose was charged with child cruelty.
06:20The case largely fell apart when Louise refused to testify against her parents,
06:26and Anna Marie, who was the second child from Fred's first marriage,
06:30also withdrew her statements about the abuse she endured.
06:34But she did speak with Detective Constable Hazel Savage further about her mother and half-sister that are still missing.
06:41The West were acquitted, but the children remained in foster care with supervised visitation.
06:46On February 24, 1994, the police showed up to 25 Cromwell Street with a search warrant to search for the body of Heather.
06:56When Rose saw the search warrant, she went pale.
06:59Fred came home, and the police began to question them both.
07:03The next day, Fred confessed to the murder of Heather.
07:06He confessed to the other murders and even showed the officers where they were buried.
07:10Sure enough, they found the body of Heather and many more women and girls.
07:15On April 20, 1994, Rose was arrested.
07:19On June 30, 1994, Fred was formally charged with 12 counts of murder, and Rose was charged with nine.
07:27While they were in court together, Fred tried to get close to Rose, who had largely been ignoring him.
07:32Once he got close enough, she winced in discomfort.
07:36On July 3, Fred was charged for yet another murder, now 13 charges of murder.
07:42After Rose publicly rejected Fred and refused to reply to his letters, Fred became depressed.
07:48He withdrew his earlier confessions to having acted alone in the murders,
07:53and instead accused his wife of almost total culpability in all the murders to which he had been charged.
07:59On January 1, 1995, Fred took his own life by asphyxiation.
08:06Rose went to trial that February and was found guilty of ten counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
08:12She was given a whole life tariff, so she will never see the light of day again.
08:22Gary Ridgway, a.k.a. the Green River Killer, is the second most prolific serial killer in the United States.
08:29He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders.
08:33As part of a plea bargain, another conviction was added, bringing the total number of convictions to 49.
08:39He got his nickname due to the first five victims found in the Green River in Washington State.
08:46His reign of terror lasted from 1992 to 1998, but it could have continued until 2001.
08:53He would pick up prostitutes and other women in vulnerable circumstances, including teenage runaways,
09:00strangle them, and leave them in a wooded or overgrown area in King County.
09:05He would often return to the victims' bodies at a later date to sleep with them.
09:10The Green River Task Force even spoke with serial killer Ted Bundy in 1984.
09:15Ted offered his opinion on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of the killer.
09:21He suggested that the killer was revisiting the dump sites to sleep with his victims, which turned out to be true.
09:28And if police found a fresh grave, they would stake it out and wait for him to come back.
09:33Gary was arrested on charges related to prostitution in 1982.
09:38In 1983, he was considered a suspect.
09:41In 1984, he passed a polygraph test, and the police took hair and saliva samples.
09:47His murder spree largely stopped for a period of time when he began dating and eventually marrying his third wife, Judith, in 1988.
09:57The DNA samples that were taken from Gary were compared to the DNA samples taken from semen found on the victims, and they were a match.
10:06Some of the bodies even had small amounts of spray paint on them, which Gary works as a spray painter for a truck factory.
10:12On November 30, 2001, Gary was arrested on murder charges.
10:18In 2003, a plea agreement was made that if he confessed, the death penalty would be off the table.
10:25The judge sentenced him to 48 life sentences without the possibility of parole.
10:30He was also sentenced to an additional 10 years for tampering with evidence for each of the 48 victims, adding 480 years to his 48 life sentences.
10:40Later, he was given another life sentence after the remains of his 49th victim were found.
10:47As of 2023, he is still alive and serving his sentence at 74 years old.
10:58Otis Elwood Toole was a serial killer that paired up with Henry Lee Lucas for a short time.
11:04He was born in Jacksonville, Florida.
11:06Just like Henry's childhood, Otis was abused by his older sister, forced to dress up as a girl, and was SA'd by her many times.
11:15His father was no better.
11:16Otis was forced to sleep with his father's friends, then his father abandoned the family.
11:21His grandmother, who was a Satanist, would expose him to the practices and rituals in his youth, including grave robbing.
11:29Otis' abuse got worse when he revealed that he's gay.
11:32He would often run away from home and dropped out of the 9th grade.
11:37Otis would hitchhike to various states.
11:39He became the prime suspect for the murder of a woman in Nebraska in 1974.
11:45One month later, in October 1974, he became the prime suspect for the murder of a woman in Boulder, Colorado.
11:52He left and went back down to Jacksonville.
11:55He joined Henry Lee Lucas in 1976 on a murder spree.
11:59Some people speculated that the two were lovers, and that things turned sour when Henry started dating Otis' niece, Becky.
12:07He was arrested on June 15, 1983, for the murder of George Sonnenberg.
12:13He barricaded George in his own home and set it on fire, burning George alive.
12:18He was found guilty and sentenced to death in 1984.
12:21Later that year, he was found guilty for the 1983 strangulation murder of a 19-year-old Tallahassee woman and given his second death sentence.
12:32Later on, due to his appeals, his death sentence was commuted to life.
12:36He also confessed to four other murders, including the pair of unsolved murders dubbed the I-10 murders.
12:43But what was his claim to infamy was his confession to the 1981 murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh, who became host of America's Most Wanted.
12:54Otis received four more life sentences.
12:57He later recanted his confession about Adam, but it was too late.
13:01The case was closed, listing Otis as the killer.
13:05On September 15, 1996, Otis died of cirrhosis of the liver.
13:10He was 48 years old.
13:13Martin John Bryant
13:17Martin John Bryant is responsible for one of the deadliest mass shooting sprees in Australian history.
13:23Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Martin was a loner who went from being bullied in school to becoming a bully later on.
13:31Other kids his age just didn't want to be friends with him because he was odd.
13:36He broke his toys, hurt animals, and displayed other abnormal behavior.
13:41Despite being placed in special education while in high school, Martin dropped out at the age of 16.
13:47He was assessed for a disability pension by a psychiatrist who wrote,
13:52Martin received a disability pension, though he also worked as a handyman and gardener.
14:12His IQ was tested and his score was 66, which means he is borderline mentally disabled.
14:19As an adult, while looking for new customers for his lawn mowing service, he became friends with 54-year-old heiress Helen Harvey.
14:28He helped clean up her mansion, both inside and out.
14:32On October 20, Helen died in a car accident when she veered into the wrong side of the road.
14:38Martin was a passenger and suffered severe neck and back injuries.
14:42He spent seven months in the hospital.
14:44He was briefly investigated by police for the role he played in the accident,
14:49as Martin had a known habit for lunging for the steering wheel and Helen had already had three accidents as a result.
14:56She often told people that this was the reason why she never drove faster than 60 kilometers or 37 miles per hour.
15:04Martin was named sole beneficiary to Helen's will, leaving him a very large sum of money.
15:10On August 16, 1993, Martin's father, Maurice, took his own life, leaving Martin even more money.
15:18With both his father and his friend dead, Martin became increasingly lonely.
15:23He traveled for two years.
15:25Whenever he tried to be friendly and chat with the people sitting beside him during his travels,
15:30they would just tolerate him out of politeness.
15:33In 1995, Martin came back to Tasmania and became suicidal.
15:38He claimed that he had had enough.
15:41He started drinking more.
15:42That's when he started planning.
15:44On April 28, 1996, he committed a mass shooting known as the Port Arthur Massacre.
15:51He shot and killed 35 people and injured 23.
15:56On April 29, after shooting his hostage, he set fire to a guest house and tried to escape.
16:02He was arrested.
16:03At first, he wanted to plead not guilty to the charges, but ultimately changed his plea to guilty after his lawyer persuaded him to do so.
16:12He was sentenced to 35 life sentences without the possibility of parole.
16:17As of 2023, he's 56 years old and still serving out his sentence.
16:22I really only have one entry for this section.
16:33Aileen Wuornos took the IQ test and scored 81, which would be pretty low.
16:38But because she didn't believe in these kinds of tests, she pretty much half-assed her test on purpose.
16:44So I honestly believe it doesn't really count.
16:47If you want the full story on Aileen, check out episode 16.
16:52It will be in the description box below and in the eye above.
16:56Well, I guess it goes to show that you really don't have to have a high IQ in order to murder people.
17:01Whether you have a high or low IQ, you can always make a mistake and get caught.
17:06I guess it doesn't take much brain power to become a monster.
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