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Enter the darkest corner of true crime where evil meets the occult... Join us as we explore infamous killers who claimed satanic influences guided their heinous acts! Our countdown includes Richard Ramirez, Luis Garavito, The Beasts of Satan and more! What are your thoughts on the fetishization of these killers and their troubling legacies?
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00:00In that trial, Ramirez's fascination with Satanism emerged.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're examining those accused serial killers that have allegedly been in league with Satan.
00:11Little by little, the group will drift towards Satanism, adoration of the devil.
00:18Jonathan Celestino, the cross maniac.
00:21The spiritual and religious history of Brazil isn't without its dark side,
00:25an esoteric underbelly that could easily feed the desires of someone like Jonathan Celestino.
00:30This Brazilian serial killer became known as the cross maniac, as well as DogHell666,
00:36the latter of which was in reference to his profile on a Google-owned social media site known as Orkut.
00:41Celestino actually believed himself to be performing in the interest of God
00:44when he murdered three people in close succession back in 2008.
00:48Catalino Gardena, Lechicha Neves-Jolivera, and Gleis Kelly da Silva
00:53all fell to the cross maniac between July and October of that year,
00:56with their bodies being dumped in abandoned lots or cemeteries near the municipality of Hio Brilianchi.
01:02Temba Vilakazi, the railway killer.
01:05Sources differ as to how much an interest in Satanism permeated the murders committed by South African Temba Vilakazi
01:11back between the years of 2005 and 2012.
01:14The man known as Temba Vilakazi, the railway killer, left a trail of horror along the tracks.
01:21This is despite Vilakazi receiving tattoos on his forehead that read both Satanic and 666,
01:28the latter of which went on to become a moniker for Vilakazi,
01:31alongside another perhaps more infamous one, the railway killer.
01:35But beyond his crimes lies a warning.
01:38Spaces we think of as mundane can hide threats.
01:42No less than three victims are attributed to the railway killer's activity,
01:46with a number of other unsolved murders being tenuously linked to Vilakazi in a circumstantial context.
01:51The confirmed deaths were all of black men,
01:54while Vilakazi's methodology was vicious and often motivated by sexual violence.
01:59Peter Niers.
02:00Peter Niers' crimes were committed in the 16th century,
02:03so we'll likely never know how many of the alleged 544 victims can be legitimately tied to him.
02:09He became one of the most prolific and sadistic serial killers history has ever seen.
02:14Niers confessed to this astonishing amount under torture,
02:17although there remains little doubt that this German serial killer wasn't the nicest of men.
02:22The murder ballads and folktales that emerged during Niers' activity
02:25have led to his legend as the sort of occultist who engaged in black magic and cannibalism.
02:30They believed that Peter was a powerful, mystical being that could shapeshift
02:34and turn into logs and stones and various animals like cats, dogs and goats.
02:39The songs of his crimes read like the most morbid of bedtime stories,
02:43involving everything from infant sacrifice to satanic ritual.
02:46His execution was also most gruesome,
02:49having endured boiling oil and the Catherine wheel prior to being quartered alive.
02:53That was the horrific end to the story of Peter Niers.
02:56Sean Sellers.
02:57The execution of Sean Sellers in 1999 made history as the first in 30 years
03:02to be performed on someone convicted of a crime while under the age of 17.
03:06Sean Sellers, number 156641, was pronounced dead at 12.17 a.m.
03:14The execution has been carried out.
03:17Sellers actually claimed to be possessed by a demon when he murdered a local Circle K clerk in 1985,
03:22as well as his mother and stepfather in 1986.
03:25His case was just one example of the satanic panic that was rising during the cultural zeitgeist of the 1980s,
03:31since Sellers' defense initially attempted to blame the influence of Dungeons & Dragons for their clients' actions.
03:37The defense claimed diminished responsibility because of a teenage obsession with Satanism.
03:42It was a demon named Ezraite that reportedly guided Sean Sellers' actions as a teenager,
03:46although the convicted killer would eventually convert to Christianity while incarcerated.
03:51I didn't become a Christian because I was trying to escape penalty for what I did.
03:55I became a Christian because I hated who I was.
03:58I came to the point where I saw who I was, and I said, I will not be that anymore.
04:02I will never be that again.
04:05Robin Gecht and the Ripper Crew.
04:07Their merciless crime spree made headlines not only in the Chicagoland area, but across the United States.
04:12At 11.20 a.m., law enforcement responded to a call about a bad smell at a motel 25 miles outside the city.
04:22The Ripper Crew, led by Robin Gecht, were ultimately convicted of six murders,
04:26although their morbid legacy has been extended to include 18 total suspicions
04:30over the course of just over a year of deadly activity during the early 1980s.
04:34They were attacked and mutilated.
04:36Their victims were said to have been dismembered,
04:39with specific body parts utilized for satanic rituals supervised by Gecht.
04:43The Ripper Crew was eventually caught, however, with one member, Andrew Corcorellis,
04:47receiving the death penalty in 1999.
04:50Gecht, meanwhile, remains incarcerated at the time of this writing, as does Edward Spreitzer.
04:55Everybody thinks I'm a monster.
04:58Adolfo Constanzo.
05:00They were known as Los Narcos Santanicos, a gang that operated more like a cult,
05:05one that was headed by Cuban-American Adolfo Constanzo and his girlfriend Sara Aldrete.
05:10Constanzo's followers were said to have participated in black magic rituals and animal sacrifice,
05:15before eventually aligning themselves with Mexican drug cartels,
05:19as well as the corruptible elements present within that country's police force.
05:23Constanzo grew rich and powerful, and quickly became more than a priest for hire.
05:28Constanzo, Aldrete, and Los Narcos Santanicos didn't stop at killing animals, however,
05:33and would eventually turn their murderous attention to human beings, including American tourist Mark Kilroy.
05:39It's been said that Constanzo's cult was involved in organ harvesting during their late 80s period of activity,
05:44although their leader would eventually be shot by his associates during a standoff with police.
05:49Ritualized torture and the degree to which Constanzo enjoyed inflicting pain on his victims before killing them
05:55correspond, in my scale of evil, as some of the most heinous of crimes.
05:59Tomás Maldonado Cera, the Satanist
06:02The moniker of this Colombian serial killer was succinct and straight to the point.
06:06Tomás Maldonado Cera was known to the authorities, public and press,
06:10simply as the Satanist back during his era of activity between 2002 and 2018.
06:16Between 7 and 10 victims have been attributed to Cera during this time,
06:20bodies that were found in various states of mutilation,
06:23and with certain occult symbols carved into their flesh.
06:25Cera also seemed to target members of Colombia's LGBTQIA plus community.
06:30Although, this doesn't seem to have historically been the sole motivating factor in Cera's spree of assault and murder.
06:36Thankfully, that spree came to an end with the Satanist's arrest in 2019.
06:41Luis Garavito
06:42The crimes of Luis Garavito are the sort of nightmarish monstrosity that's difficult to believe could exist within our rational world.
06:48While playing with a Ouija board, Luis Garavito claims to have entered a state of psychosis.
06:55During this trance, he said the devil spoke to him and beckoned for his service.
07:00He was sometimes known as the Beast, a serial killer and necrophile with a reported victim list that spread into the hundreds,
07:07resulting in 142 convictions.
07:10Garavito repeated the cycle of abuse that was tragically inflicted upon him at a young age
07:14to victims throughout the countries of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
07:18His behavior became increasingly prolific and disturbing,
07:21including a period during the 90s where Garavito claimed demonic influence shifted his modus operandi from abuse to murder.
07:28Blood sacrifices of innocent lives tried to satiate Luis Garavito's perverse and unholy hunger for evil.
07:34The Beasts of Satan
07:36If The Beasts of Satan sounds like the name of a heavy metal band, you're not actually far off from the truth.
07:41Mario Maccioni was active within Italy's metal scene, alongside one of his victims, Fabio Tolis.
07:47Usually my son speaks in a very confident manner.
07:50That night, it felt strange to me.
07:54He was hesitating, almost mumbling.
07:58I had the impression that someone was telling him what to say on the phone.
08:02This served to set the stage for what would become a headline-grabbing crime spree of metal, murder, and mayhem.
08:07Tolis and an acquaintance, Chiara Marino, were murdered by Maccioni's group of killers, the Beasts of Satan,
08:14who targeted their circle of friends for crimes inspired by the occult.
08:17Among the people tacking on to this group, we find Chiara Marino will be the only woman, in fact, in the Beasts of Satan.
08:24Mariangela Pezzotta, a former girlfriend of member Andrea Volpe, would also fall victim to their attacks.
08:30Meanwhile, members of the group, including Maccioni, have since been released from custody, speaking publicly to their time as criminals.
08:38Because for them, evil flows in their veins.
08:40It is part of their DNA.
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08:56Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker
09:00It's a voice and image that have become almost indelibly linked with 1980s true crime,
09:06an infamous satanically inspired serial killer that was said to be nothing less than, quote, pure evil.
09:12His killings were so sadistic and brutal that even experienced detectives were shocked.
09:16Richard Ramirez, also known as The Night Stalker,
09:20cultivated a public image of inverted pentagrams and occult-motivated rhetoric spouted off during many darkly memorable interviews.
09:26As far as Satan is concerned, I believe in a malevolent being.
09:32His description eludes me, but I have felt powers that are evil.
09:38Ramirez suffered an extraordinary amount of abuse as a child,
09:41trauma that would eventually contribute to The Night Stalker's Californian reign of terror of over 15 victims.
09:47He would be found guilty of all of the 43 charges levied against him,
09:51including both first- and second-degree murder,
09:54dying in custody while awaiting the death penalty in 2013.
09:58Night Stalker Richard Ramirez died at age 53.
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