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John Wayne Glover-also known as the "Granny Killer"-was a serial killer who was active in Sydney, Australia, between 1989 and 1990 who murdered at least six-and as many as 13-elderly females after hitting them with a claw hammer and then ritually strangling them with their own pantyhose. It was widely believed that Glover's victims represented his mother and mother-in-law who he blamed for his misdeeds. He was ultimately sentenced to six life sentences...
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Real life tales of couples who both shared a blood lust for murder. James Marlow and Cynthia Coffman were a troubled couple who were convicted of murdering five people during a deadly rampage that spanned multiple states. Meanwhile, Fred and Rosemary West created their own "house of horrors" as they abducted and tortured people throughout Great Britain.
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Kenneth Allen McDuff, also known as the "Broomstick Killer" because of the way he murdered one of his first victims: 16-year-old Edna Louise Sullivan who he killed in August 1966 along with her boyfriend and his cousin. After being sentenced to death, the United States Supreme Court, in 1972, determined that the death penalty was unconstitutional and, as a result, McDuff's death sentence was commuted to life in prison. He was eventually paroled and...
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"Trust me, I'm a doctor" - Harold Shipman Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman was known in England as "Dr. Death." He is one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history who, between 1974 and 1998, was suspected of killing over 215 of his patients by poisoning them with lethal injections of morphine. He was ultimately found guilty of 15 murders and sentenced to life in prison, never to be released. Shipman committed suicide while in prison on...
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Kenneth Erskine, known as "The Stockwell Strangler" due to the geographic proximities of his murders, was a deeply troubled young man who had demonstrated worrisome signs of violence and schizophrenia from a young age. He was a gerontophile in that he had an unnatural sexual attraction to the elderly.
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Christa Gail Pike, born 10 March 1976, currently sits on Tennessee's death row for the murder of Colleen Slemmer, 19, on 12 January 1995. The murder occurred when Pike was 18 years old. Pike and her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp who was 17 at the time of the murder were convicted of Slemmer's murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Another friend of the defendants and the victim, Shadolla Peterson, also 18 at the time, was convicted as an accessory...
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