The Zodiac Killings

The Zodiac killer originated in northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. To this day the killer remains unknown. The killer is responsible for at least five killings of couples in secluded areas. The killer got his name from the encoded letters sent to the police station. The letters consisted of different symbols. Only one of the letters was cracked. Within the letter the killer had written, “I like killing people because it is so much fun”. He said that in the afterlife the people he killed would be his slaves. The case still remains open and police are still getting tips and claims that people know who the Zodiac Killer is but none have been true.

Woman without a face

Did it really happen? Did this serial killer called woman without a face actually exist? At many murder scenes, up to fifteen, German investigators were perplexed as to how the DNA results all traced back to the same person. Police and detectives have recently come to the conclusion that the cotton swabs used for DNA testing had in fact been contaminated before shipping. Suspicions and doubts of the killer arose when her DNA appeared on documents that belonged to a person who had died in a fire. “The puzzle of the phantom killer has been solved,” said Volker Link, a prosecutor in Heilbronn. Or has it?

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is known for committing gruesome murders in London 1888 from August 7 to September 10. “The Whitechapel Murderer” and “Leather Apron” are other names that he has come accustomed to. He is responsible for five murders of women prostitutes all happening within a mile of each other. He humiliated and mutilated women. First he would slit their throats prior to abdominal mutilations. They are believed to be marked by sadistic butchery. Many propose that he possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge after three of the victims had the removal of their internal organs. His identity remains unknown and he is not only London’s but the world’s most infamous serial criminal.

Cleveland Torso Murderer

Also known as the “Kingsbury Run” the Cleveland Torso Murderer took place in Northeastern Ohio in the mid-1930s. The unidentified killer is known for his twelve killings each were beheaded and dismembered, he would also cut the torso in half on some of the victims, and the cause of many of the victim’s death was the decapitation itself. Most of the bodies weren’t found for over a year which proved identifying the bodies to be nearly impossible. In many of the cases the victims’ heads were never found. It is believed that the killer checked himself into a psychiatric hospital in 1938 to avoid arrest and prosecution.

Boy in the Box

On February 25, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a naked, battered body of a 4 to 6 year old boy was found in a cardboard box. The boy had many scars on his body suspected to have been from surgical procedures, and his eye showed that he had been treated for chronic conditions. A medical examiner ruled the death caused by blows and beatings to the head. In 2002 police got a call from a physiatrist claiming that one of their patients knew how the boy had died. The rumor was that the boy was purchased by the patient’s parents to use as a sex toy. One day when the boy struggled the ‘mother’ hit him hard enough to kill. Some of these statements proved true but still no way of knowing if all was truthful.