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Some took their secrets to the grave, while others still deny their crimes to this day. Join us as we examine the most notorious murderers who never confessed to their heinous acts! From H.H. Holmes' "Murder Castle" to the Toy-Box Killer's horrific torture chamber, these killers left investigators with more questions than answers.
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00:00If I thought that she knew enough to cause serious problems, you would not be turned loose.
00:04You would simply disappear.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at serial killers who never confessed to the
00:10full extent of their murders or took the truth to the grave.
00:14Maybe you remember now.
00:15No, I don't know. I meet kids every day. It don't mean I kill nobody.
00:23Richard Henkel. Richard Henkel operated under the radar,
00:26but don't mistake obscurity for innocence. His crimes echoed those of mob killers like Richard
00:32Kuklinski. Henkel's criminal life reportedly began with bank robbery and fraudulent schemes,
00:37later evolving to contract killings tied to mob associates. He initially came to the attention
00:42of the authorities for violent underworld activity in the 1970s and 80s. While Henkel finally confessed
00:47to a handful of murders, investigators and true crime researchers believe his involvement may
00:52have extended far beyond that. No one knows the precise number of his kills since he took the
00:57death toll to the grave. The Long Island Killer.
01:00He wanted to like really get into it. Like he asked me how I thought they could get rid of
01:06the
01:06bodies without being caught in that area. And I said, I've never been over there. I've never even seen
01:11Gilgo Beach. For years, young women working as sex workers on Long Island, New York vanished
01:17mysteriously. Some disappeared as far back as the early 1990s, with their remains later discovered
01:23along Gilgo Beach. Despite a growing number of victims, investigators struggled to find a solid
01:29suspect. That changed between 2023 and 2024, when Manhattan architect Rex Heuerman was charged in
01:36connection with seven of the Gilgo murders. Anytime you have somebody identified and that person's still
01:43at large, it's always a concern because if you do it once, you will go out there and do it
01:47again.
01:48While he maintains his innocence, the evidence against him is damning. DNA allegedly links him
01:53to multiple victims. Phone records show contact with these women and location data places him near
01:59their disappearances. Attention turns to the 2026 trial, which will determine whether justice is
02:05finally served or if the full truth remains buried. After years of searching and fear, years of true
02:12crime hobbyists and their theories, Rex, did you do it? Turned out the suspected Gilgo Beach killer was
02:18hiding in plain sight the whole time. H.H. Holmes. H.H. Holmes may have slaughtered hundreds of victims in
02:24the murder castle, which was torn down in the 1930s. The government later built a post office on the plot
02:30and part of the murder castle basement would have lined up exactly with the post office front lawn.
02:36From insurance frauds and swindling schemes to theft and murder, H.H. Holmes was as twisted as they
02:41came. Yet despite his reputation as one of America's first serial killers, Holmes was convicted only of
02:47the murder of Benjamin Peitzel. Evidence also suggests he killed Peitzel's young ones, but beyond that,
02:53much remains unproven. Over time, sensational murder castle stories and Holmes's lies have muddled
02:59the truth. The newspapers run wild with stories of Holmes's murder castle, claiming it contains
03:05secret passages, trap doors, gas and torture chambers, and a basement crematorium. This notorious
03:12killer even confessed to killing people who were still alive. Now, there's no telling the true number
03:17of his victims, or what the so-called murder castle was truly designed for. Still, investigators
03:23believe Holmes killed for practical reasons like money, silence, or self-preservation, which suggests
03:29he may have killed many more. It wasn't until the actual investigation started that someone who worked
03:35at the castle mentioned that on December 7th, they remember Holmes asking men to help him carry
03:43a very heavy trunk out of the castle. Israel Keys. There is no one who knows me, or who has
03:51ever
03:51known me. We now know confessed serial killer Israel Keys broken through a garage window, and then using
03:58the courier's crowbar, he broke through a kitchen window and slipped inside. Officially, this killer is
04:03linked to three confirmed murders, though investigators believe his true death toll is far higher. That
04:09uncertainty is what makes Israel Keys' case so disturbing. He kept murder kits across the country, killed at
04:16random, and never fully cooperated. Initially, though, Keys confessed to some crimes in an effort to shield
04:22his family from public scrutiny. You guys know about Lake Crescent in Washington? He revealed to us that one of
04:30the Washington state victims was actually, their body was sunk in this particular lake. When that failed and his
04:36identity became public, he shut down. In fact, investigators spent hours trying to get him to
04:41divulge more details, but it didn't work. After he took his own life, 11 skull drawings were discovered
04:47in his jail cell, suspected as the total number he killed. Even so, the full scope of his crimes may
04:53never
04:53be known. Keys made sure of that. I'm two different people, basically. How long have you been two
05:00different people? A long time. Randall Woodfield. As of today, detectives have definitively linked
05:07Randy Woodfield to seven murders, but they suspect the I-5 killer is responsible for as many as 24 more.
05:15Often called the I-5 killer, Randall Woodfield started his criminal career with robbery and sexual assault
05:21before escalating to murder. His crimes spanned across multiple states along the west coast from
05:26the 1970s through 1981, targeting mostly women, both strangers and people he knew. He's been linked to
05:3218 additional killings, with estimates placing his victim count as high as 44. My mother had called me
05:39and she told me that she had read an article in the Milwaukee Journal about serial killers. And right
05:45there with John Wayne Gacy and a couple other ones, the son of Sam was Randy Woodfield. Despite that,
05:50Woodfield was convicted of only one murder and one attempted murder. Even worse, unrepentant
05:55Woodfield has never confessed to any of his crimes and even denied involvement in cases where evidence
06:01strongly suggests otherwise. Though sentenced to life imprisonment plus 90 years, Woodfield has left
06:07a trail of unanswered questions and countless victim stories unfinished.
06:11You don't even deserve to breathe. I don't even know. You're a liar. You killed my best friend. You killed
06:16Sherry. I'm going to make sure that you spend the rest of your life in prison. Herb Baumeister.
06:22The bodies began turning up in 1980. Victims between 14 and 26 years old, strangled or stabbed,
06:29left in rural areas across the state. From a young age, Herb Baumeister displayed troubling behavior
06:35that escalated over time. By the early to mid-90s, he became a suspect in the disappearances of over
06:41a dozen gay men in Indiana. He'd meet them in popular gay bars, lure them to his property,
06:47strangle them, and dispose of their bodies. Even after he was identified, Baumeister and his wife
06:52refused to allow authorities to search their property. Increasingly alarmed by his erratic
06:57behavior, his wife eventually relented. The remains of at least 11 victims were later discovered.
07:03Realizing he was about to be caught, Baumeister fled and took his own life. Though he left a note,
07:08it revealed no details about his victims. More than one year ago, Baumeister's family became aware
07:14that police wanted to question him about the disappearances of the men. You're not with anybody
07:2024 hours a day, and this has certainly been a tremendous surprise and shock to them, the revelation
07:26of this lifestyle that has allegedly taken place with him. Lonnie Franklin Jr. He showed absolutely
07:35no emotion the entire time Franklin was in court. Not a surprise to the victims' families. The grim
07:41sleeper had a stop-start pattern that earned him his nickname and helped him hide in plain sight for
07:46decades. His killings began in the mid-1980s, targeting mostly black women who were sex workers
07:52or struggling with substance use disorder. Then he stopped, or appeared to, before resurfacing in
07:58the 2000s. After years of dead ends, police finally got a break thanks to his only survivor,
08:03Anitra Washington.
08:04All of these people are potential victims?
08:09I hope not. But they interacted with Lonnie Franklin at some point in their life.
08:18Familial DNA from Lonnie Franklin Jr.'s son then led investigators to him. Even after his arrest,
08:24Franklin pleaded not guilty and never confessed. Disturbing photographs and videos found in his
08:30possession suggest he may have killed more than he was convicted of. In the end, the grim sleeper took
08:35his secrets to the grave. In the end, he was caught. That's the best part. But never once did he
08:42utter
08:42why he did it. Wayne Williams. In May 1981, Atlanta police were staking out a bridge over
08:54the Chattahoochee River, where several bodies had been dumped, when they heard a splash.
08:59Minutes later, Wayne Williams was spotted driving away, instantly making him a suspect in the Atlanta
09:04murders. As the investigation unfolded, Williams gave inconsistent explanations,
09:08raising more red flags. Fibers from his home and car matched those found on multiple victims,
09:14and witness testimony pointed to him.
09:16Those fibers, along with witness testimony, led to the arrest and indictment of Wayne Williams
09:21for the murder of Nathaniel Cater, and another man, Jimmy Ray Payne, whose body was found a month
09:27earlier near where Cater's body was found. Still, Williams maintained his innocence, even claiming
09:33police had framed him. He was eventually convicted of murdering two adult men, but not for the
09:38minors. Today, the Atlanta murders remain largely debated. One question lingers, though. Why did the
09:44killing stop after Williams became a suspect? Y'all think Wayne Williams murdered all those kids?
09:50Prove it, or I think I'll be going home. David Parker Ray. Authorities caught Ray and Cindy Hendy
09:57out looking for Cynthia. The next time Cynthia would see him was in court when Ray was convicted.
10:03Sadly, not all crimes ever see justice. That is especially true for the victims of David Parker
10:08Ray. Known as the Toy Box Killer, Ray was convicted for kidnapping and torture, but not murder. In 1999,
10:16a woman escaped from his trailer, leading the police to a horrifying scene filled with torture devices,
10:21recordings, and restraints. Investigators believe Ray assaulted, tortured, and killed up to 60
10:27individuals. Yet no remains were ever found. When Ray died in 2002 and took that knowledge to his grave,
10:34it left investigators searching for answers. We're convinced that there are remains. That's just a
10:39matter of locating them. His own diary detailed the abuse he inflicted on victims, while his accomplice
10:45Cindy Hendy described their gruesome acts. Ray even promised to show police the burial sites, but died in
10:51custody before this could happen. With his death, the true number of his victims vanished with him.
10:57My trailer had numerous sex toys in it of different types, all different fetishes.
11:04I got pleasure out of the woman getting pleasure.
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11:24Dean Corll. Corll, known as the Candyman because his family owned candy shops, along with Henley and
11:31a second accomplice, David Brooks, kidnapped, sexually tortured, and killed more than two dozen boys and
11:38young men in the early 1970s. Between 1970 and 1973, Dean Corll and his accomplices, David Brooks and
11:46Elmer Wayne Henley committed some of the most sadistic crimes in Houston. Victims were lured to
11:51Corll's lair, where they were tortured, assaulted, then shot or strangled. Shockingly, these killings
11:57went unnoticed for years, until 1973, when Corll himself was killed.
12:02Back then, sadly, most of them were just considered runaways. There really wasn't any effort made to
12:11locate. You didn't have groups like Texas Equus Search. As it turned out, Corll had planned to
12:16murder Henley, but Henley managed to turn the tables. Fed up with Corll killing his friends,
12:22Henley shot him dead. He then reported himself to police, exposing their crimes and leading
12:27authorities to multiple burial sites. Because Corll died before he could be caught, there are still
12:32missing pieces of the full scope of his deadly deeds. Which of these stories do you find most
12:48chilling? Let us know in the comments.
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