Serial Killer Stuff

True crime fascinates me. The psychology behind peoples crimes is what interests me the most. My other obsession is my pets UK / 30

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‘’See, governments kill with impunity and sometimes they choose killers to go out and kill people for them. They justify it, they rationalize it, they pin medals on killers. Well, if you don’t have a license to kill for the government, they won’t pin a medal on you but they’ll put you in the gas chamber.’’

–Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker

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So fucking true

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Theresa Knorr was born Theresa Jimmie Cross in Sacramento, California. She was the youngest child in the family and very devoted to her mother. When her mother died in 1961, Cross went into a depression. At age 16, she married Clifford Clyde Sanders. They had a son, Howard Clyde Sanders, in 1964. Their marriage ended when Knorr shot Sanders, 22, to death in the summer of 1964 while they were living in Galt, California. She was tried, but acquitted of the crime, having claimed self defense. She was pregnant at the time and would shortly deliver her second child, Sheila Gay Sanders, in 1965. In 1966, when seven months pregnant with her third child, she married the child’s father, Robert Knorr. The child, Suesan Marlene Knorr, was born in September of that year, followed in 1967 by a son named William Robert Knorr, and in 1968, another son, Robert Wallace Knorr, Jr. In 1970, Theresa gave birth to a daughter, Theresa (Terry) Marie Knorr, named after herself. None of Knorr’s children were spared her physical, verbal, and psychological abuse. However, Knorr had a special hatred for her daughters Suesan and Sheila, fueled by jealousy that the girls were growing up and blossoming into young women while she faced the prospect of growing old and losing her looks, according to an interview with her surviving daughter, Terry, in an episode of A&E's Cold Case Files (titled “Mommy’s Rules”). For years, Knorr abused and tortured her children in various ways, including burning them with cigarettes and beating them. Knorr focused her anger primarily on her daughters and trained her sons to beat, discipline, and restrain their sisters. In a heated argument in 1983, Knorr grabbed a 22-caliber pistol and shot Suesan in the chest. The bullet became lodged in her back, but Knorr refused to seek medical help and left Suesan to die in the family bathtub. Suesan survived, so Knorr handcuffed her to a soap dish and began to nurse her back to health. Suesan eventually recovered from her wounds without professional treatment. In 1984, Suesan decided to tell her mother she would like to move out. Knorr agreed under the condition that Suesan let her remove the bullet from her back. The removal took place on the kitchen floor, using Mellaril capsules and liquor as the anesthetic. Knorr ordered Robert to remove the bullet with a box cutter. Infection soon set in and Suesan’s skin turned yellow from jaundice and she became delirious. She lay dying on the floor and Knorr permitted the other children to walk over her. As Terry told Cold Case Files, Knorr told her other children that Suesan’s illness was a result of possession by Satan and that the only way to purge the demon was with fire. She coerced Robert and Bill into helping her dispose of Suesan. They drove her to Sierra Nevada, Interstate 80 outside Truckee, laid her down, poured gasoline on her and burned her alive In 1985, Sheila also died at the hands of her mother. According to Terry, Knorr forced Sheila into becoming a prostitute and later accused her of transmitting an STD to her via a toilet seat. Thereafter, Knorr’s abuse of Sheila escalated. Sheila was locked in a closet and died of dehydration and starvation several days later. Her body was packed into a cardboard box and dumped along the side of a road. She remained unidentified for years afterward. Subsequently, Terry claimed her mother forced her to burn down the family’s Sacramento apartment, hoping to destroy any evidence that might implicate her in Sheila’s death. Terry later said she survived her mother’s abuse because she stood up to her and demanded to be allowed to leave the house. Knorr and her sons were arrested in 1993 when Terry contacted authorities after watching an episode of America’s Most Wanted, according to her Cold Case Files interview. On November 15, 1993, Knorr was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, and two special circumstances charges: multiple murder and murder by torture. Knorr initially pled not guilty, but when she learned that one of her sons decided to testify against her, she pled guilty to all charges to avoid capital punishment. On October 17, 1995, she was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. She will be eligible for parole in 2027. There is a book available called ‘The Mother From Hell’ written by Wensley Clarkson, I’d recommend it if you love true crime reads. It is very disturbing though, reading the exact details of what this monster put her daughters through.

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Naughty Jeffrey, arrested here for beung drunk and disorderly. I've always wondered what had happened to his chin in this mugshot. Had he been in right punch up with the police when being arrested? If anyone knows please enlighten me!

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Westley Allan Dodd argued that he should be executed as soon as possible. and told the justices that those who were trying to save him from the gallows were trying to blame his crimes on society when he was trying to accept total blame and punishment for his deeds. Dodd said to the justices: “Did the system fail? I have said all along the system does not work. The “system” did not commit hundreds of sex crimes against nearly 100 children. The system did not kill three little boys. I did. Is there mitigating evidence in my case? No. Do I feel remorse? No. If this case is sent back to a trial court, I will plead guilty again and physically and vocally demand my conviction and death sentence. I must be executed before I have an opportunity to escape or kill someone within the prison. If I do escape, I promise you I will kill and rape and enjoy every minute of it.”

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The Romeo Killer - the Christopher S. Porco story. On Monday 15th November 2014, a police officer discovered Peter Porco’s lifeless, bloodsoaked body near the front door of the house he shared with his wife Joan. Peter had sustained massive fatal head injuries and Joan was discovered upstairs in the couples blood-drenched bed suffering severe head and facial trauma. She survived the attack, but lost her left eye and a portion of her skull. The weapon, a firemans axe, was discovered in the couples bedroom. According to a police detective, Joan had identified her son Chris as the attacker when medical personnel who attended to her asked her questions regarding her attack. Joan, unsble to speak, identified her son Christopher as the attacker by nodding her head indicating yes and no to the questions she was being asked. However a few weeks later after she emerged from a medically induced coma, Joan maintained that Christopher had nothing to do with her husbands murder. Peter had sustained 16 serious blows from the axe, including one that penetrated his skull and another that took off part of his jaw. Dr Jeffrey Hubbard, a pathologist and Albany County coroner’s physician said at the Porco trial ‘There are no injuries here that are instantly or rapidly fatal.’ `The survival here could have been many hours.’ Hubbard’s testimony echoed the theory by prosecutors that, in the minutes or hours following the attack, Peter Porco went through his morning routine as if he were getting ready for work, unaware that he had been mortally wounded with an axe or that his wife Joan lay bleeding in their bed. Police reports and court records describe a macabre scene. It appeared as if the gravely wounded Peter Porco had stumbled out of bed after being attacked, spraying blood across walls and on doorways. It appeared that he tried to get dressed and make breakfast, leaving a trail of blood throughout the house before he collapsed. According to testimony, police and paramedics believed that Peter was operating on adrenaline, and was most likely completely unaware of what had just happened to him and his wife, or the condition of his body. On the afternoon of August 10, 2006, Porco was found guilty of second degree murder and attempted murder.

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Jeffrey Dahmer at the Columbia Correctional Institute, Portage, Winsconsin, where he was to serve 15 consecutive life sentences. Although Jeff killed and admitted to 17 victims in total, he was only convicted of 15 out of the 16 murders he actually commited in Winsconsin. There was no physical evidence regarding the death of Steven Tuomi to tie him to it - only Jeffs confession. After approximately 2 years of this photo being taken, on November 28th 1994, Dahmer was on cleaning duty in the prison gym with two fellow inmates. The trio were left unwatched by the guards for approximately 20 - 40 minutes, and upon the guards return Dahmer was discovered slumped on the floor with his head beaten to a pulp, and a bloody barbell rod nearby. The other inmate, Jesse Anderson, was also beaten in the nearby showers and he died from his injuries on 30th November. Lionel Dahmer spoke of his sons murder with Larry King in an interview, and revealed that he had spoken with an attorney that had intimate knowledge of the Colmubia Correctional Institute. The attorney told Lionel that he was 'confident that it was something that was allowed to happen'.

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These were the stairs to the rear of the Oxford Apartments. Jeffrey Dahmer would use these to take his victims up to his apartment because a. He was less likely to be seen and b. It was convenient. It was actually closer to his apartment than the front entrance. How convenient for you indeed Jeffrey.

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Jeffrey Dahmer arriving at the Columia Correctional Institution, Portage, WI. According to Herman Martins book (Serial Killers Soul) Dahmer first arrived at the facility in September 1991 while he awaited his trial, due to security risks, threats on his life, and the fear that he might attempt suicide. Inmates arriving at Columbia would have been required to take a shower and been given clean clothing, usually a green shirt and pants, underwear, brown socks and brown work boots. However, with Dahmers case being a heavily publicized case he would have worn orange clothing. Dahmer wore the orange clothing for months after his trial. It wasn’t until the fall 1992 when he was sent to the mental health unit that he was finally allowed to wear the regular green prison clothing.

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Crowds outside the Oxford Apartments the day after Jeffrey Dahmers arrest

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The colour version of Jeffrey Dahmers mugshots, taken on 23/7/1991. These were taken just a few days after Dahmers initial arrest, when Dahmers final victim Tracey Edwards, escaped from the Oxford Apartments and flagged down a passing police car. It is said, that had the cops been able to remove the handcuffs from Edwards wrist with their keys, Edwards would have kept quiet and left the cops as quickly as possible. There was a Texas arrest warrant out for Edwards at the time for the rape of a teenage girl. The keys did not work however which took the cops, and Edwards, back to Dahmers apartment and ultimately led to Dahmers arrest. Scary to think that if the cops keys had worked on those handcuffs, and Edwards had left the cops as he originally intended, that situation would have more than likey just been yet another example when Dahmer was so very nearly caught, but managed to avoid the attentions of the police and continue with his crimes.

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A rare shot of the chest freezer Jeffrey Dahmer had in his apartment. The 3 heads found inside belonged to Jeremiah Weinberger, Joseph Bradehoft and Matt Turner. Bradehoft had been kept intact for few days so Jeff could sleep next to him etc, however his head had become infested with maggots. Jeff then decided to dismember Joseph’s corpse and clean the head and freeze it. All the heads were neatly placed in the freezer in plastic bags, and tied with ‘twisty ties’.

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“ I was completely swept along with my own compulsion, I don’t know how else to put it. It didn’t satisfy me completely so maybe I was thinking another one (murder) will. maybe this one will, and the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control, as you can see. I got to the point where I lost my job because of it. ” -Jeffrey Dahmer

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Jeffrey Dahmer in the library at Columbia Correctional Institution

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“If I hadn’t been caught or lost my job, i’d still be doing it, I’m quite sure of that. I went on doing it, and doing it, and doing it, In spite of the anxiety and the lack of lasting satisfaction.” -Jeffrey Dahmer

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Forensics experts search for remains of Dahmer victims. #JeffreyDahmer #serialkiller #victims #forensics

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Jeffrey Dahmer

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I’ve had a fascination with Jeffrey Dahmer since I was 12. I think it’s because I’ve always understood the feeling of being isolated with my own thoughts and fantasies. Loneliness makes you to horrible, horrible things. It completely destroys you.

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Jeffrey Dahmer’s case is the most interesting to me for so many reasons. The morbid fascination with him is usually because people can relate to his story after experiencing similiar situations, thoughts feeling etc at some point throughout their own lives. For instance, the way he has described his parents relationship right from when he was younger, regarding the fighting, the divorce etc, and his feelings about all of that is all too familiar to me…this is the reason many feel sympathy for him. No one in the right mind condones his crimes, but most individuals that have an intimate understanding of his background, can easily see how things went the way they did