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From America's darkest corners come horrifying tales of murder and mayhem. Join us as we continue our chilling journey through the most notorious killers from each US state. From the Unabomber's remote Montana cabin to Ed Gein's house of horrors in Wisconsin, these disturbing cases reveal the twisted minds behind some of history's most infamous crimes.
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00:00Do you think there was a part of you that, at that time, enjoyed the killing?
00:06I wouldn't say enjoyed it. It's just something I felt I had to do.
00:09Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're exploring the second part of our series on the most notorious serial killers for each U.S. state.
00:16For this video, we'll be focusing on the killers who committed their crimes within the state's borders.
00:21Police found a knife and a hammer in his Chevy Blazer, but they released him, and he allegedly attacked again.
00:30He accepts the prosecution's offer of life in prison. There will be no trial, but the question of Kaczynski's sanity still provokes debate.
00:45From 1978 to 1995, no one was safe in the U.S. as the Unabomber was sending explosive packages across the country.
00:53During that time, 23 people were injured and three were killed.
00:57In 1995, the Unabomber contacted the media to make a deal.
01:02If the companies published their manifesto, which focused on anti-industrialization, they would stop their reign of terror.
01:09The threat had to be taken absolutely seriously because the Unabomber had, in fact, placed a bomb aboard an aircraft before.
01:17It wasn't lethal enough to blow the plane out of the sky, but we knew that his bomb-making ability had progressed enough that he certainly was capable of that now.
01:25The media agreed. However, this led David Kaczynski to realize his brother, Ted, was responsible.
01:32The FBI was soon tipped off and found him in a remote Montana cabin where he'd isolated himself from society for years.
01:40In 1998, after pleading guilty, Ted was sentenced to life imprisonment.
01:44In 2023, he took his own life in jail after receiving a cancer diagnosis.
01:49I can see this fellow who has to be, right now, having a psychological orgasm.
01:55They've elevated him to controlling, like a puppeteer, cities, newspapers, and everything else.
02:02Nebraska, Keith Hunter Jesperson.
02:12Wherever there was a female around, he had to say something that was inappropriate.
02:17He would start talking about his sexual acts with other women, and I didn't want to hear it.
02:22It was disgusting to me.
02:24After moving from Canada to the U.S., Jesperson became a truck driver.
02:28However, in 1990, he took his first life in Oregon.
02:32Afterwards, Jesperson signed a confession in a truck shop with a smiley face, earning him the nickname the Smiley Face Killer.
02:39Altogether, from 1990 to 1995, he took the lives of eight known victims across several states, including Angela Subriz, whose body was found in Nebraska.
02:49For some reason, I just kept on hitting her in the face, and because of that, I feared going to prison for slugging her in the face and causing bodily injury, and so I killed her.
03:01However, Jesperson did once claim to have taken around 160 lives.
03:06Believing he was set to be arrested following questioning for a murder in Washington, Jesperson handed himself to the police in 1995.
03:14Over the years, Jesperson has been sentenced for multiple murders, earning him several life sentences.
03:21Why did you do them?
03:22I can't answer on that right this time without talking to my attorney, because we still have legal grounds on this.
03:37Nevada. Gerald and Charlene Gallego.
03:39The Gallego's murders fit a pattern that would be repeated all too often, and Charlene's twisted tour revealed a method of operation highlighting the depravity of their murderous marriage.
03:52Using the Interstate 80 freeway as a hunting ground, killer couple Gerald and Charlene Gallego took at least 10 lives across California, Nevada, and Oregon between 1978 and 1980.
04:05Typically, Charlene would approach potential victims and lure them to the couple's vehicle, where they'd be attacked by Gerald.
04:12In 1980, several weeks after being spotted abducting Mary Sowers and Craig Miller in California and going on the run, the Gallegos were arrested.
04:21But no one was prepared for the horror Charlene would reveal, as she took investigators on a chilling tour of the couple's hunting grounds and burial sites.
04:31Shortly after giving birth to their child, due to a plea bargain, Charlene confessed and testified against her husband.
04:39While she was sentenced to 16 years and eight months in prison, Gerald was handed multiple death sentences in California and Nevada.
04:46However, before that could be enacted, Gerald passed away in 2002.
04:51It caused a lot of media sensation. It was followed by the media throughout the full extent of the trial.
05:00I believe he was going to be found guilty. He should have. He took many lives.
05:05New Hampshire, Terry Peter Rasmussen.
05:14Maybe a truck driver from Canada came down and was looking for a spot to dump his victims.
05:19Was it somebody who was passing through? A tourist, something like that.
05:22In 1985, two bodies were found in Bear Brook State Park in New Hampshire.
05:27In 2000, two more bodies were located nearby.
05:30For a long time, the authorities were unable to confirm their identities.
05:34However, starting in 2014, DNA testing would solve the mystery.
05:39The investigation then connected Denise Bodin's 1981 disappearance from New Hampshire to the Bear Brook murders.
05:45Bodin had vanished after leaving the state with her partner, Bob Evans.
05:49However, that was a pseudonym, as Evans was actually Rasmussen.
05:53That's when I got in touch with Mike Kokosky, and I just sent him a copy of my whole case file.
05:58And we started comparing and connecting dots between Rasmussen, a.k.a. Bob Evans, and the Allentown case.
06:09He'd been convicted of a 2002 murder in California and had passed away in jail in 2010.
06:15Due to using fake names and traveling across the country, Rasmussen's exact number of victims is unknown.
06:21However, it's speculated that it's upwards of six.
06:24He would single out single moms and start a relationship with them.
06:32And once he had total control over them, he'd murder them.
06:36They'd have young children.
06:38He'd take the kids with them.
06:45New Jersey, Richard Cottingham.
06:47In 1980, staff at the Quality Inn in Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey, called the police after hearing a woman screaming from one of the rooms.
07:08When the officers arrived, they found Cottingham tormenting a victim.
07:12Following this, the cops investigated his home.
07:15Inside a secret room was a collection of items belonging to many victims.
07:20Known as the Times Square Ripper, since at least 1967, Cottingham had been taking lives in New York and New Jersey.
07:27Cottingham pleaded guilty to one final Long Island murder.
07:31Maritza Rosada Nieves was found near a Jones Beach bathhouse in 1973.
07:35Through a series of trials in the 80s, he was convicted of killing two in New Jersey and three in New York, earning several life sentences.
07:43However, Cottingham had confessed to further murders, taking his count to at least 16.
07:48Yet, there's speculation it could be much, much higher.
07:52I mean, once they're in a darkened area, you know, in a wooded area, they do what you tell them to do.
07:58It's out of here.
07:59Right, exactly.
08:00New Mexico, David Parker Ray.
08:10Investigators have combed the lake over the years, but haven't had any luck.
08:15Libaser says Ray may have made the bodies nearly impossible to find.
08:19In 1999, after being abducted and tormented for days, Cynthia Vigil escaped from Ray's trailer in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, and contacted the police.
08:29The investigation soon discovered other victims.
08:32They stated that Ray, with the occasional help of accomplices, such as his daughter or partner, would take them to his toy box, a soundproof trailer, and abuse them for days before releasing them.
08:43According to Vigil Jaramillo, Ray and his girlfriend, Cindy Hendy, also did a lot of talking, leading her to believe she was not the only torture victim.
08:52One time she said that she would kill me like others had been.
08:56In 2001, after agreeing to a plea bargain, Ray was sentenced to 224 years.
09:02However, allegations emerged that Ray had also been taking lives, as evidenced by the large collection of mementos he kept and claims from his daughter's partner, Dennis Yancey, that he'd helped him.
09:13Yet, before he could speak to the police, Ray died from natural causes in 2002.
09:18I knew that not everybody I would ever defend would be innocent.
09:25I knew that some of the people that I represented would be truly bad people.
09:32New York, David Berkowitz.
09:41I'm deeply hurt by the newspaper calling me a woman hater.
09:45I'm not.
09:47But I am a monster.
09:48I'm a little brat.
09:49I am the son of Sam.
09:52Sam loves to drink blood.
09:53Sam loves to drink blood.
09:54Go out and kill, commands Father Sam.
09:57From 1975 to 1977, a series of murders and attacks had been plaguing New York City.
10:04As the police struggled to find the person responsible, they received a letter from the killer.
10:09Identifying himself as the son of Sam, he promised to take more lives.
10:13And sadly, he did.
10:16Yeah, I mean, there's no question that the police department was put under a lot of pressure by the press.
10:20A slow son of Sam news day would be seven or eight pages.
10:23Detectives would walk out and they'd have a TV crew follow him.
10:26Not long after, a survivor's story led the police to Berkowitz.
10:30The officers were especially interested to discover his neighbor was called Sam.
10:35Berkowitz confessed to taking six lives, but claimed he was forced to do so by Sam's demonic pet dog.
10:42However, deemed fit to stand trial, in 1978, he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
10:48Later, Berkowitz admitted the demonic dog claim was a hoax.
10:52There was a time in my life when I feel that I was just utterly under a powerful influence that was destructive.
11:00And I didn't care if I, it was a point where I didn't care if I lived or died.
11:04They walked their suspect through the growing mound of evidence condemning him.
11:19At every chance, they reminded him of the victims.
11:23From 1984 to 1985, multiple families had a member vanish in North and South Carolina.
11:30Shortly after, they began receiving phone calls and letters from the apparent killer,
11:34who taunted them and gave them directions to find their bodies.
11:38However, this contact provided the police with evidence that led to Bell's door.
11:43Bell was arrested the following morning.
11:45He just seemed to be shocked that law enforcement now had centered in on him.
11:52During the trial and aftermath, Bell made bizarre statements, such as claiming he was Jesus Christ
11:57and smearing his bodily waste on himself, which led to speculation that he was faking mental health issues
12:03to get a lenient sentence.
12:05Regardless, Bell was convicted of two murders in South Carolina and was executed in 1996.
12:10In 2025, North Carolina police concluded he'd also killed Sandy Cornett in 1984.
12:18Ten years after his trial, Larry Gene Bell became the last man to die in South Carolina's electric chair.
12:32North Dakota, Eugene Butler.
12:35In 1906, Butler, a reclusive resident in Niagara, North Carolina,
12:40began to show troubling behavior to his neighbors.
12:43During the night, he would ride his horse around his farm, screaming,
12:47earning him the nickname of the Midnight Rider.
12:50This resulted in Butler being committed to a psychiatric hospital,
12:53where he remained until passing away in 1913.
12:56In 1915, Butler's farm was being renovated after being inherited by relatives.
13:02This led to the discovery of a trap door near the property's foundations
13:06that contained the bones of multiple bodies.
13:09It's speculated that the victims were farmhands working for Butler.
13:20However, none of the bodies have been identified,
13:23which became even less likely when some of the bones were stolen shortly after being found,
13:28likely by souvenir hunters.
13:29Ohio, Jeffrey Dahmer.
13:38I do think I was born like this.
13:42Like, I don't think there was something that happened that made me like this.
13:48Because this was always just how I was.
13:52In 1978, weeks after graduating high school in Ohio, Dahmer began his descent into infamy.
14:00After he'd been to a rock concert in Chippewa Lake Park, Stephen Hicks was hitchhiking,
14:05resulting in Dahmer pulling over to pick him up.
14:07On the promise of having drinks, he drove Hicks to his childhood home.
14:11However, hours later, Dahmer took his life.
14:14He went further by scattering the remains around the property.
14:31Nine years later, in Wisconsin, Dahmer killed a second victim.
14:35After his arrest in 1991, he confessed to the police of taking more than 15 lives altogether
14:41in Ohio and Wisconsin.
14:43In 1994, while in jail after receiving 16 life sentences,
14:48Dahmer was murdered by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.
14:51Could someone like you be stopped?
14:54Could you be helped?
14:55No, I was dead set on going with this compulsion.
15:02It was the only thing that gave me any satisfaction.
15:11I don't think that rock music is responsible for all the world's evils, you know, as some pastors
15:21I'm sure would maintain.
15:22But the rebellious lifestyle that is glorified in rock music does carry over into the kid,
15:29you know, into a teenager's mind.
15:30In 1986, Sellers, a juvenile in Oklahoma, got into an argument with his mom.
15:36After failing to poison her, Sellers used a firearm to take her life and his stepfather's.
15:42It then emerged, according to his best friend Richard Howard, that Sellers had also murdered
15:47store clerk Robert Bauer the year before.
15:50During the trial, Sellers spoke about his passion for Satanism.
15:54Everything that he did was well thought out, well planned, far beyond these chronological
15:59years.
16:00When he decided to kill his parents, there was evidence indicating he'd been planning
16:04to do this over a period of time.
16:06This led to the jury handing him the death penalty.
16:09During his stint in jail, Sellers converted to Christianity.
16:13In 1999, he claims during his appeal that he had disassociative identity disorder.
16:18Regardless, the execution was set to go ahead.
16:21This, plus his age during the crimes, caused human rights groups to criticize the decision.
16:26Later that year, Sellers' punishment was enacted.
16:30I came to the point where I saw who I was, and I said, I will not be that anymore.
16:40Oregon, Gary Ridgeway.
16:42He wanted out of his small room, and he enjoyed the field trips, and, you know, we wanted information
16:50from him.
16:51Yeah, this is where it is, I think.
16:54From 1982 to at least 1998, the Green River Killer was prowling Washington and Oregon,
17:01taking the lives of many, many vulnerable women.
17:04From the start, police suspected Ridgeway of being responsible.
17:08However, they couldn't prove it, especially as he passed a controversial polygraph test.
17:12In 2001, thanks to the advancement in technology, Ridgeway's DNA was matched to evidence from
17:18several bodies.
17:20I'm sorry for killing all those young ladies.
17:23Ridgeway was convicted of killing 49 women.
17:26He confessed to 71.
17:28During interrogation, he confessed to taking up to 71 lives.
17:32In 2003, after a plea deal, the killer was connected to various killings, earning him 48
17:38consecutive life sentences.
17:40In 2011, Ridgeway admitted to taking Rebecca Marrero's life in 1982, bringing his count
17:45to 49, and turning him into one of the U.S.'s most prolific serial killers of all time.
17:51Something within Gary Ridgeway cracks.
17:56Bit by bit, he starts talking.
18:00I didn't know that it started at an early age.
18:03He was sacrificed to see if I could murder one of my own.
18:16At the end of murdering all the people on earth, I was going to murder my own family and then
18:21take my own life and become God.
18:24Having already spent time in jail for being violent towards his family, earning him a diagnosis
18:29of schizophrenia, Callinger took his juvenile son, Michael, on a crime spree through several
18:34states.
18:35In 1975, after taking a family in New Jersey hostage, Callinger killed Maria Fashing.
18:41In 1983, after collaborating with Flora Rita Schreiber, his book The Shoemaker, a nod to
18:47his past profession, was released.
18:49Within it, Callinger, as well as admitting to Fashing's murder, confessed to killing his
18:54other son, Joseph Jr., and a neighbor, Jose Callazo, who were found in abandoned buildings
19:00in Pennsylvania during 1974.
19:03As a result, Callinger received two more life sentences before passing away in 1996.
19:08Do you think you'd murder me, Joe?
19:10Yes.
19:11That's gruesome, Joe.
19:13That's horrible.
19:15Yes, it is.
19:15Rhode Island, Craig Price.
19:24And he left his finger right by my mouth, and I bit him.
19:27Accused of stabbing again, Craig Price terrorized a Warwick neighborhood after he murdered four
19:33people in the late 1980s.
19:34From 1987 to 1989, a series of terrifying robberies took place in Rhode Island.
19:40The culprit had brutally taken the lives of four, snapping the handles off the knives
19:45used in the process.
19:46Yet, what made this even more shocking was the fact that these crimes were committed by
19:50a juvenile, Price.
19:52At the time, he claims he was there looking to steal a VCR, but detectives didn't buy it,
19:57noting he went into the house with a small knife.
20:01Price says Joan Heaton awoke and spotted Price in the kitchen.
20:04Born and raised in Rhode Island, Price was remorseless in what he'd done following his conviction.
20:09Tried as a minor, he stated he'd made history upon his release, which was scheduled to happen
20:14when he turned 21.
20:16This led to citizens' groups protesting against Price getting out.
20:19However, due to the violence he did inside, that didn't happen.
20:23In 2019, Price was sentenced to 25 years to life after stabbing an inmate.
20:27But when you incur more and more and more time and you keep with the violent behavior,
20:32you're going to get out there and most likely be a menace out there.
20:36Somebody's going to get harmed again.
20:39South Carolina, Henry Louis Wallace.
20:47Serial killers have an ability to be very charismatic,
20:51and Henry Louis Wallace was very good at what he did because he'd be your friend.
20:56Born and raised in South Carolina, Wallace would begin his descent into killing in his home state in 1990,
21:03targeting black women.
21:04He would rob, assault, and murder his victims.
21:07Wallace would then move to North Carolina and continue his rampage.
21:10Upon his arrest in 1994, he confessed to having taken just over 10 lives.
21:16According to allegations later, including from former officers,
21:19investigators did question Henry Wallace when victim 2, Caroline Love, disappeared in June 1992.
21:26Wallace was dating Caroline's roommate.
21:28There was nothing in our missing person investigation that indicated that he had anything to do with her disappearance.
21:36Race played a role in the police paying less attention to the murder spree,
21:40leading to Wallace getting away for years.
21:43However, others have disputed this.
21:45In 1997, Wallace was found guilty of murder, earning him nine death sentences.
21:50Wallace has recanted his confessions and appealed his conviction, which has been rejected.
21:55Do you think Wallace's name should have come up in this investigation a lot sooner?
21:59Yes, Wallace should have emerged earlier as a possible suspect.
22:02To date, Charlotte police say they find virtually nothing to criticize.
22:12South Dakota, Michael Swango.
22:15It was a con game about death, and he wanted to get himself into a position
22:19where he could inflict death on patients and get away with it.
22:24And he would do anything he had to to get himself into that position.
22:29In 1985, the prospective doctor was sentenced for non-fatally poisoning a colleague.
22:35After his release, Swango forged documents to secure himself work as a physician
22:40at a hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
22:42Yet his patients began perishing mysteriously.
22:45After being fired and continuing to use forged documents to find other medical work,
22:50an investigation into Swango started in 1994.
22:54However, he fled to Zimbabwe, finding employment there.
22:57So Swango's move to Africa indicates a degree of calculated, methodical, logical planning
23:04on his part.
23:05He's very bright, and psychopaths are not crazy.
23:09So he's able to decide where the best place is to find the most number of victims.
23:15As mysterious deaths and the police followed.
23:18Upon arriving in Chicago, Illinois for a layover to a job in Saudi Arabia, Swango was arrested
23:23in 1997.
23:25After receiving a sentence for fraud in 2000, Swango pleaded guilty to four murders over several
23:30trials, earning multiple life sentences.
23:33However, there's speculation, he took 60 lives during his spree.
23:37In 2012, Little was arrested at a homeless shelter in Kentucky on substance charges.
24:04When his DNA was taken, the police were in for a shock, as he began being connected to several
24:09murders across many states over decades, starting from at least 1970.
24:15While Little would be convicted of eight murders, receiving four life sentences, he'd go on to
24:19confess to taking over 90 lives.
24:22These are the portraits drawn by Samuel Little himself, that there were many claims to have
24:26killed.
24:27They're so accurate, that family members have recognised lost loved ones from them.
24:32The disappearance of most of these women went unnoticed for years.
24:35The FBI managed to confirm that at least 60 of these claims were true, making him possibly
24:41the most prolific serial killer in US history.
24:43His victims included Zena Marie Jones, who was found in Arkansas in 1990, after vanishing
24:49from Tennessee, and Martha Cunningham, who he killed in 1975 in Tennessee.
24:55In 2020, Little passed away in jail.
24:58How far outside of Las Vegas do you think you were?
25:00Were you in Las Vegas?
25:02I was still in Las Vegas, yeah.
25:04Okay.
25:05But I was on the very outskirts.
25:07All right.
25:07The very outskirts.
25:13Texas, Dean Corll.
25:17He was the largest mass murderer in US history at that time, who abducted and killed at least
25:2328 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in the Houston area.
25:28On the surface, Corll seemed like an upstanding citizen.
25:32After serving time in the Army, he became vice president of the family's business, the
25:36Corll Candy Company in Texas.
25:38Corll quickly developed a positive reputation as he gave out free treats to children, becoming
25:43known as the Candyman.
25:45Yet, when he met David Brooks, and later Elmer Henley, that positive reputation would soon
25:50vanish.
25:50From 1970, with the aid of his accomplices, Corll began abducting, assaulting, and killing
25:56people.
25:56Conflict.
25:57God, I hope that they're found and that they can get some closure.
26:02You know, this boy has got parents, siblings, or somebody.
26:08He's got to.
26:09By 1973, it's believed he took at least 29 lives.
26:13That year, after forcing Henley to attack his friends, the accomplice fatally shot Corll.
26:18Henley and Brooks would both receive life in jail for their involvement, with the latter
26:22passing away in 2020.
26:24Henley led police to the bodies of teenagers who Corll buried on the beach between Galveston
26:29and Port Arthur.
26:30Corll had also buried his victims at his boat shed in Pasadena and in the National Forest
26:36in East Texas.
26:44Utah, Ted Bundy.
26:45While authorities don't know when Bundy first started to kill, the earliest crimes they were
26:51able to link to him were in Washington State in 1974.
26:54With charisma, good looks, and a history of working in politics and aiding people on mental
27:00health hotlines, Bundy hid his true horrible nature until 1974.
27:05That year, he began kidnapping, assaulting, and taking the lives of victims across several
27:10states.
27:11In Utah alone, three people were confirmed to have been killed by Bundy, with eight suspected
27:16altogether.
27:17I can see how certain feelings and ideas developed in me to the point where I began to act out
27:24on them, certainly very violent and very destructive.
27:27Following the escape of Carol Durant in Utah, Bundy was arrested in the state.
27:31As he faced charges for murder in Colorado, he escaped twice in 1977.
27:37Bundy continued his crimes until his arrest in Florida in 1978.
27:41While he confessed to taking 30 lives, 20 were confirmed by authorities, leading Bundy to
27:47being sentenced to death, which was enacted in 1989.
27:50The court is going to sentence the person found guilty of the offence.
27:56Your name, sir, was on that verdict.
27:59Take care of yourself, young man.
28:01I say that to you sincerely.
28:04Take care of yourself.
28:11Vermont.
28:12Israel, Keyes.
28:14Keyes knows the area.
28:15He entices the occasional sex worker into his vehicle.
28:20Deborah, desperate for money, asks Keyes what he wants her to do.
28:24In his car, his kill kit.
28:27In 2012, Samantha Koenig vanished from Alaska.
28:30Days later, the apparent kidnapper requested a ransom.
28:34However, while it was paid, the deposits from the account were tracked by the authorities.
28:38This led to the arrest of Keyes in Texas, who confessed to killing Koenig.
28:42He would go on to admit to further murders, including taking the lives of Bill and Lorraine
28:47Courier in Vermont during 2011.
28:50Unless you heard him talk about the murders, you would not know that he was a serial killer.
28:56With Keyes, it wasn't about a particular victim.
28:58It was about a location.
28:59Keyes would seemingly target people at random across the U.S.
29:03and was known for stashing murder kits in locations.
29:06Before he could be convicted, or the true extent of his crimes could be discovered,
29:10Keyes took his own life in 2012.
29:12He hinted in his final note that he may have taken over 10 lives during his spree.
29:17He talked about the rush that he got out of it, the adrenaline, and kind of the high from doing it.
29:22And I think, unfortunately, I think he enjoyed what he was doing.
29:33Virginia, Elias Abulazam.
29:35Abulazam is linked to three murders in Genesee County and a handful of other attempted murders
29:41that all occurred in the summer of 2010.
29:44The selection took place in Judge Judas Fullerton's courtroom at the Genesee County Courthouse.
29:49Born in Israel, Abulazam's family moved to the U.S. when he was a child.
29:53In 2008, he began working at a psychiatric hospital in Virginia.
29:57The following year, on top of others being attacked, Abulazam's neighbor, Jamie Lane, was killed.
30:03It wasn't until 2017 that Abulazam confessed to this.
30:07By 2010, Abulazam went to Michigan and Ohio, typically targeting black people.
30:12Last week, Abulazam was briefly taken into police custody in Arlington, Virginia,
30:17when a background check during a traffic stop revealed an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
30:22A knife and hammer were found in his car, but no connection was made and he was released on bail.
30:28Abulazam was then arrested in Virginia for an outstanding warrant and released on bond.
30:33Within a week, as evidence mounted that he'd been behind a series of attacks,
30:37the authorities were notified that he was attempting to fly to Israel
30:40from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
30:43While he was convicted of one murder, earning life imprisonment,
30:47it's believed Abulazam killed five altogether.
30:50So far in this slashing spree, he's only been charged with one crime,
30:53assault with the intent to murder this young man, Antoine Marshall.
30:57Do you think he intended to kill you?
30:59Yes, I do.
31:07Washington, Earl Nelson.
31:10I've got to do this, Charlie.
31:12So long as you know what you do about me.
31:14No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
31:18With a childhood head injury seemingly causing erratic and criminal behavior,
31:22Nelson was released from a California psychiatric hospital in 1925. The following year,
31:28he began the spree that made him known as the Gorilla Man. He typically targeted middle-aged
31:33landladies whom he'd assault and take their lives, occasionally robbing them too. Nelson traveled
31:38across many states, including Washington, where he took Florence Monk's life in 1926.
31:43The following year, he moved to Canada and continued his crimes by taking two more lives.
31:49This led to Nelson's arrest under the pseudonym of Virgil Wilson. While he confessed to killings
31:54and recanted, Nelson was found guilty of one murder and was executed in Canada in 1928.
32:00It's believed he killed just under 30 people.
32:09West Virginia, Joseph Paul Franklin.
32:12So you have cases where you were a sniper and then you have...
32:16Because I was not a sniper.
32:17Well, you were not a sniper. So you really have both.
32:20Following an abusive childhood, Franklin descended into being a white supremacist as he supported
32:25the Ku Klux Klan and admired Adolf Hitler. By 1977, he began attacking black and Jewish businesses
32:32and also taking lives as he traveled across several states. This included attempting to
32:38murder public figures such as Larry Flint and Vernon Jordan. In 1980, Franklin was arrested.
32:43I just felt like I was at war, you know, and it was the survival of the white race was at stake,
32:51stuff like that.
32:52Seventeen years later, he confessed to being responsible for West Virginia's
32:56rainbow murders in 1980, where he took the lives of Vicki Durian and Nancy Santamero.
33:02This led to Jacob Beard being released from jail after he was convicted of it. In 2013,
33:07Franklin was executed after being convicted of eight murders. However, it's believed he
33:12might have taken over 20 lives.
33:14He noticed the hillside and he thought it would be a good location to do what he describes as
33:21his hunting. And he stayed here long enough and he completed what he wanted to do. And when he did,
33:29it's just you and me now. I'm the man of the house. I'll take care of you.
33:44In 1957, Bernice Worden vanished from her hardware store in Plainfield, Wisconsin. After finding a
34:00receipt for Gein, it led to the locals' arrest. When the authorities searched his farm, not only did
34:06they find Worden's body, but they also discovered a lot of human remains. After Gein's overbearing
34:12mother had passed away in 1945, and his brother's suspicious death the year before.
34:17But the general sense in the community was that Gein had inflicted this terrible wound on the
34:22reputation of Plainfield. Something in Gein snapped as he blocked off rooms she'd used to keep them
34:28pristine. He claimed he robbed graves for body parts to make a suit. Gein also admitted to taking
34:35Mary Hogan's life in 1954. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Gein was deemed unfit for trial
34:42and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he remained until he died in 1984.
34:47The entire community was stunned. For the previous decade, they'd been living in the same town
34:53as a real-life bogeyman. It would now be down to the courts to decide whether or not Ed Gein was insane.
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35:23Wyoming, Rodney Alcala
35:26In 1978, Alcala appeared and won a date with Cheryl Bradshaw on The Dating Game. However,
35:44disturbed by his creepy behavior, she rejected the date. Thankfully, she listened to her instincts,
35:49as Alcala had been committing violent attacks since 1968. After his arrest, Alcala underwent
35:55several trials across California and New York over the years. While he was tied to nine murders,
36:01he was convicted of seven, earning him the death penalty. Rodney Alcala, addressing the same jury
36:06that convicted him of murder, makes an unusual plea for clemency. Let me put the death penalty in
36:14perspective for you. Following Alcala's photography work being published, Kathy Thornton recognized a photo
36:20of her sister, Christine, whose body was found in Wyoming in 1982. In 2016, plans to extradite Alcala
36:28to face trial for Christine's murder were dropped following claims he was too ill. In 2021, he died from
36:35natural causes. So, I guess this means we're not really meeting up in Carmel anymore?
36:42Yeah, I'm not going anywhere with you.
36:45Which of these cases shocked you the most? Let us know in the comments.
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