Murder Most Vile Volume 5

18 classic true crime cases from around the world, including; 

Innocence Betrayed: Tia Sharp is missing and only one person knows where she is, the pedophile who calls himself her granddad.

The Real Amityville Horror: The horrific true story behind America’s most infamous haunted house

The Vampire of Nuremburg: A monster is on the loose, desecrating graves and committing necrophilia. How long before he kills someone?

The Killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman is brutally murdered in front of 38 witnesses. So why didn’t anyone call the police?

Geisha, Harlot, Killer: from Japan, a bizarre tale of sexual obsession, murder and emasculation.

Killing for God: He called himself a preacher but behaved more like a mafia don. The incredible true story of Ervil LeBaron.

The Babes in the Wood Murders: A deadly pedophile is preying on the innocent children of Enfield

The Most Dangerous Man in Australia: Meet Derek Percy, quite possible the most prolific child murderer in Australian history.


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Murder Most Vile Volume 4

18 classic true crime cases from around the world, including; 

The Horrendous Death of Kelly Anne Bates: The pathologist counted over 150 injuries to her body, and that wasn’t even the worst of it.

Little Hitler: A Nazi-obsessed cross dresser is stalking the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, gunning down anyone he encounters.

The Woodchipper Murder: Richard Crafts claimed his wife had left him, but he couldn’t explain why he was spotted operating a woodchipper in the middle of the night in the midst of a snowstorm.

The Acid Doctor: A narcissistic doctor exacts a horrendous revenge for his wife’s perceived infidelity.

Ultimate Evil: A deadly pedophile is stalking the children of Maryland and Florida – with the tacit approval of his parents.

See You In Hell: Ronald Gene Simmons comes up with a unique way to rid himself of his family responsibilities – kill ‘em all!

Tainted Love: A mother’s love knows no bounds, not even stopping at incest and murder.

The Affaire Janet Marshall: A crude French laborer with a history of sexual assaults, a pretty English schoolteacher on a cycling holiday. When their paths cross it can only end in tragedy.

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Serial Killer Video: Richard Trenton Chase

Nicknamed the Vampire of Sacramento, Richard Trenton Chase was a schizophrenic serial killer who murdered six people over the span of just a month in Sacramento, California. He drank the blood of his victims because he believed that his own blood was turning to powder. 

Serial Killers: Jarvis Catoe

Born: 1905

Number of victims: 8  

Date of murders: 1935-1941  

Method of murder: Strangulation

Location: Washington DC / New York, NY  




When 26-year-old waitress Evelyn Anderson was found strangled to death in a New York alleyway on August 4, 1941, the police picked up a clue almost right away. Anderson’s watch had been stolen and it turned up in a pawn shop in the Bronx just days later, hocked by a man named Charles Woolfolk.

Under questioning, Woolfolk said that he received the watch from a lady friend, Hazel Johnson. She in turn said that it had been given to her by a man named Jarvis Catoe, a resident of Washington, D.C. Catoe, a 36-year-old black man, was arrested on August 29. Under questioning he admitted to killing Anderson, then dropped a bombshell, admitting to seven more murders  

Catoe’s murder spree had started years earlier when he raped and strangled Florence Darcy in 1935. After that murder he lay low for four years before killing Josephine Robinson on December 1, 1939. Three more murders quickly followed. Lucy Kidwell and Mattie Steward were killed in September and November 1940, before Catoe strangled Ada Puller on January 2, 1941.

So far the murders had attracted little attention as the victims were all black. But once Catoe shifted to Caucasian victims, there was a predictable outcry. Rose Abramovitz had been married for just one month when she was killed in her home on March 8, 1941. Then  Catoe committed a murder that attracted even more attention. Jesse Strieff, a secretary at the War Department, was picked up by Catoe during a downpour in Washington on June 15. Presuming he was a cab driver, she got into his car. Her nude body was found the following day, discarded in a garage. She’d been raped and strangled.

Yet despite a massive investigation by the Washington police, Catoe remained at large until his arrest in New York. Had he not confessed, the murders of Jesse Strieff and others would likely have gone unsolved.

Tried on eight counts of murder, Catoe was found guilty, the jury taking just 18 minutes to deliver its verdict. He was executed by electrocution in the District of Columbia on January 15, 1943


Read the full, horrific story of Jarvis Catoe, plus 49 more serial killer cases in  50 American Serial Killers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Vol. 2.  Available now on Amazon  

 

Serial Killers: Jerry Brudos

Born: January 31, 1939 in Webster, South Dakota

Number of victims: 4

Date of murders: 1968 - 1968

Method of murder: Strangulation 

Location: Oregon




A deadly fetishist, Brudos developed a fascination with women’s shoes at the age of just five. That fascination soon turned dangerous. By his teens he was stalking and attacking women, landing him in one psychiatric hospital after another. The treatment, however, did no good. By 17, Brudos was drawing up elaborate plans to dig an underground bunker to keep women as sex slaves.

Despite his difficulties, Brudos graduated high school and trained as an electrician. In 1961, he married and settled in Portland, Oregon. Around this time, that he began complaining of severe headaches and blackouts. The only thing that seemed to relieve his symptoms was prowling around at night, peeping into windows and stealing women’s footwear and undergarments.

In January 1968, 19-year-old Linda Kay Slawson was selling encyclopedias door-to-door in Brudos’ neighborhood, when she disappeared. In November of that year, Jan Susan Whitney, 23, vanished, her car later found abandoned at a rest area along Interstate 5 between Salem and Albany.

Karen Elena Sprinker, a 19-year-old honor student at Oregon State University, was killed in March 1969. Police suspected that she had been abducted from the parking lot at Meier & Frank in downtown Salem, where she was to meet her mother for lunch. A man watching Brudos description was reported near the scene.

Linda Dawn Salee, a 19-year-old secretary and part time Portland State University student, went missing from the Lloyd Center in Portland in April 1969. She’d gone to the mall to buy her boyfriend a birthday present.

After the mutilated bodies of three victims were fished from local rivers police received at tip from a Portland University student, leading them to Brudos. Inside Brudos home they found pictures of his victims as well as a severed female foot in the freezer, wearing a red pump.

Convicted on three counts of murder, Brudos was sentenced to life in prison. He died there in March 2006.


Read the full, horrific story of Jerry Brudos, plus 11 more serial killer cases in  American Monsters Volume 7. Available now on Amazon  

 

Serial Killers: Charles Albright

Born: August 10, 1933

Number of victims: 3 

Date of murders: 1990 - 1991  

Method of murder: Shooting

Location: Dallas, Texas 




Abandoned at birth by his biological mother, Charles Albright was adopted by Delle and Fred Albright. Delle, a schoolteacher, was very strict and overprotective of Charles. She also accelerated his education, helping him to skip two grades.

But despite his obvious intelligence, there was a dark side to Charles Albright. Beginning his criminal career with petty theft at age 13, he soon graduated to forgery and burglary, ending up with a one year jail term. After his release he enrolled at Arkansas State Teacher's College but was expelled for possession of stolen items. Unfazed by this setback, he simply forced his degree certificate.

Albright married soon after but divorced in 1974 after he was sent back to prison for theft. In 1981, he was arrested for sexually molested a nine-year-old girl but received only probation. Not long after he turned to murder. 

On December 13, 1990, the body of 35-year-old prostitute, Mary Lou Pratt, was found in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. She’d been shot in the head with a .44-caliber weapon and the killer had removed her eyes, apparently taking them with him. On February 10, 1991, another prostitute, Susan Peterson, was found shot to death. Her eyes had also been removed. A third woman, Shirley Williams, was found shot to death on March 18, 1991, her body bearing the familiar mutilations, with both eyes removed. 

Four days after the murder of Shirley Williams, the police received a tip-off naming Albright as the “Eyeball Killer.” He was arrested soon after.

Tried for murder in December 1991, Albright was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. 


Read the full, horrific story of Charles Albright, plus 11 more serial killer cases in  American Monsters Volume 5. Available now on Amazon  

 

Serial Killers: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

Number of victims: 5 

Date of murders: 1963 - 1965 

Method of murder: Strangulation, Bludgeoning

Location:  Manchester, England


Quite possibly the most reviled killers in British history, Brady and Hindley were a depraved couple who preyed on children, torturing and murdering five victims between July 1963 and October 1965.

The deadly pair first met while working together at Millwards Merchandising in 1961. Hindley was instantly attracted to Brady. For his part, he saw a pliant female who he could indoctrinate into his warped worldview of sadomasochistic sex, Nazi ideology and Friedrich Nietzsche. Hindley was a willing disciple and when Brady suggested kidnapping, torturing and killing children, she didn’t flinch.  

On July 12, 1963, Brady and Hindley lured 16-year-old Pauline Reade into their minivan. They drove with her out to Saddleworth Moor where Brady strangled her into submission and raped her. He then smashed in her skull with a shovel and slashed her throat. Pauline was buried on the moor, where she would remained undiscovered for over 20 years.

On November 23, 12-year-old John Kilbride was lured to Saddleworth Moor, where he was strangled to death with a piece of string and buried in a shallow grave. Another 12-year-old boy, Keith Bennett was sexually assaulted by Brady and then strangled to death on June 16, 1964. His body has never been found.

The fourth murder was the most horrendous of all. Ten-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, was kidnapped from a local fairground and taken to Brady’s apartment. There she was subjected to hours of torture and sexual assault while the vile couple recorded everything on tape and in obscene photographs. It is uncertain who killed Lesley Ann as Brady and Hindley blame each other. She was buried on Saddleworth Moor.

On October 6, 1965, the Moors Murderers claimed their fifth and final victim, 17-year-old Edward Evans. However, in this instance Brady miscalculated. He tried to involve Hindley's 18-year-old brother-in-law David Smith in the murder. Smith idolized Brady but he was shocked when Brady smashed in Edward Evans’ head with an axe. As soon as he was allowed to leave the house he contacted the police. 

Brady and Hindley were arrested and placed on trial. The death penalty had been abolished in Britain just a month before their arrest but the public was so outraged at the murders that there were widespread calls to reinstate in. That was never going to happen, so Brady and Hindley got the next best thing - life in prison. Hindley died in 2002. Brady remains incarcerated and will die in prison.


Read the full, horrific story of the Moors Murderers, plus 9 more serial killer cases in  British Monsters Volume 1. Available now on Amazon