Famous Serial Killers

Was Henry Lee Lucas America's most horrific serial killer ever or was he really the greatest liar ever. He gave detailed confessions of his crimes but later took back his confessions and said he lied so he could be famous. In the long drawn out confessions Lucas admitted to being involved in over 3000 murders. The below videos on Henry Lee Lucas will give you a real insight into Henry Lee Lucas really was.

It is known that Henry Lee Lucas killed his own mother in 1960. He was convicted of killing his mother and spent 10 1/2 years in a Michigan prison for the murder. Henry Lee Lucas died of heart failure in prison on March 13th 2001. We may never know how many people Lucas killed. Some people claim it was as few as 12 and some people claim it was in the low thousands.

John Wayne Gacy who was also known as the Killer Clown was a serial killer from the Chicago area and he was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys. He was executed on May 10th , 1994 and his last words are reported to have been " Kiss My Ass " He was executed by lethal injection. The below videos contain a live audio interview that was done with John Wayne Gacy.

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Joe Ball who was also known as he Alligator Man is believed to have killed 20 or more women in the 1920s and 1930s. He kept alligators in a pond and charged people to watch the alligators eat. It is said he fed the alligators live cats and dogs and then women in the area started vanishing. When two Texas Rangers came to question him on September 23 1938 Joe Ball pulled a revolver and shot hisself in the heart. He died at once. The alligator pond was later drained and when it was human remains from at least 4 people were found in the pond. It has always been assumed that Joe Ball killed his victims and then fed the remains to his alligators.

Theodore Robert Bundy who is better known as Ted Bundy is one of America's best known serial killers. He was convicted of killing 30 women and young girls and was executed in Florida's Electric Chair on January 24th 1989 at 7:06 A.M.  It is now widely believed that Bundy went to Florida and committed the murders he did there in order to die. He had asked in Colorado before he escaped from Jail there where would a serial killer be most likely put to death for his crimes. He was told Georgia or Florida. When Ted escaped from Jail he headed to Florida where he went on to commit more murders for which he was sentenced to death and executed for.  To the end Bundy was trying to trade the location of more bodies to keep from being executed. Police from many different locations were there interviewing him up until an hour before his death.

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1. Edward Gein

2. Richard Speck

3. John Wayne Gacy

4. Ted Bundy

5. Richard Ramirez (The Nightstalker)

6. Jeffery Dahmer

7.Gary Leon Ridgway (Green River Killer)

8. David Berkowitz (Son of Sam)

9. Henry Lee Lucas & Otis Toole (duo w/over 200 kills)

10. Pee Wee Gaskins

Some people may argue with the order they are listed and a lot of people have serious questions about the actual amount of people Henry Lee Lucas really did kill. We probally will never know the right number but he was a serial killer and many police argue that 200 is a low number when you combine Lucas and Toole. Many police officials also think Bundy may have been credited with some kills by Gary Leon Ridgway while others feel Ridgeway may have been credited with several of Bundys earlier kills.

None of our American Serial Killers even compare though to Harold Shipman from the UK who is credited with 250 plus kills. He was a Doctor ( General practitioner) who was the worst serial killer in the UK and probally the worst serial killer in the world.