Here's a disturbing film for you all to watch. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is everything you'd expect it to be. A deranged killer, killing. That's what it is. Most of what you're going to read, or watch, on this page will be pretty disturbing. Feel free to chicken out and look elsewhere to get your jollies, but you know there is a dark side of you that wants to look into this much darker side of the world.

Now here's a disturbing list by the numbers. To get things started I will use this video to show some of the body counts of some of the most heinous serial killers of our time, or at least somewhat of our time. I guess there are a few older serial killer references in there like Jack the Ripper. The list ends with Harold Shipman who is also mentioned later on in this issue. 

With a possible victim count of up to 650, it is safe to say that The Blood Countess was quite a "colorful figure" in history to say the least. If the accusations of what she did to her victims are true then Elizabeth Bathory is one of the most horrible countesses to ever live. Chaining up her victims until their hands squirted blood, forcing them to cook and eat parts of themselves, among other horrible acts, Elizabeth Bathory was a dreaded historical figure and was part of the inspiration for such monstrous creatures as vampires.

 What a bitch.

Jack the Ripper is one of the most iconic figures in modern culture. When you think serial killer, at least one of the people you think of is usually Jack the Ripper. Though nobody has figured out who he was and it is doubted that he ever was captured, he stands out as a dark figure in our world. 

Oddly enough he only really had 5 confirmed kills. Sounds kind of like a score or something. Look-e here, there is a Jack the Ripper video game. A few of them actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper_(2004_video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper_(1987_video_game)
I think these games involved you trying to catch Jack the Ripper and not actually playing as the murderer.

Starting as a pedophile and an all-around depraved individual, Albert Fish murdered children and taunted the families with horrific letters of how he killed them and ate their bodies.

 Authorities believed that Albert Fish killed as many as 10 children before he was caught. 

He was killed in the electric chair on January 16, 1936.

 Like many others on this list, there is a movie based on this wretched slime of a human being. The Grey Man was a 2007 biographical thriller based on his atrocities. The entire movie is on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y282p2VT9c8

Here is a pretty good example of how our culture glamorizes these monsters. ---It's a pretty good assumption that none of his victims will ever get a Netflix series based on their life, but hey all they did was die at his hands, right?

 Dahmer was a homosexual and a cannibal. Only one of which is currently illegal in the United States. I'll let you figure out which one. He committed the murder of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the preservation of body parts. He was beaten to death by a fellow inmate while in prison. Seems like there might be a little bit of justice in this world.

With a victim count of 250, Harold Shipman is the most prolific serial killer in the modern era. He was a doctor who mainly killed elderly women. Known as Dr. Death or the Angel of Death, Shipman acted as the physician to many of his victims and had many methods to dispatch their lives. His usual drug of choice to murder his victims was morphine which he gave lethal doses to his patients. 

 He was convicted of murdering 15 patients under his care. He was sentenced to life in prison in England. He died by hanging himself in his cell. 

I'd like to thank all of you for coming to my Ted talk. Ha ha ha. Just kidding. I had to write that shitty joke.

 By the look at the video, you would think that Zac Efron was a serial killer. Well he wasn't...or isn't...well who knows for sure at this point, but this is about Ted Bundy. A charming man who lured and killed multiple women and was sentenced to death for it.

 His true victim number is unknown though he has confessed to over 30 of the killings. Because he was accused of killing multiple women across the United States he was given 3 death sentences over 2 separate trials. He even called himself "the most cold-blooded son of a bitch you'll ever meet." He decapitated several of his victims and kept the head in his apartment. 

He was executed via the electric chair in Florida in 1989.

 And that concludes my Ted talk.

Confessing to the murder of 93 women over four decades Samuel Little was the most prolific serial killer in United States history. Seeming almost proud of his exploits he would never shy away from telling the story of his murders. Felt no remorse or regret. His method of killing was strangulation. He managed to get away for so long because his victims were drug addicts and drug addicts. People who fell through the cracks of our society and whom no one would come looking for or make a big fuss about them missing. He found it sexually satisfying for killing these women. Despite being a career criminal, he spent less than 10 years in prison before his death. He dies from a heart condition in his 80s. 

The B.T.K. killer started killing in Wichita in the 70s and through the 80s disappeared for several decades having never been caught then he resurfaced in the 2000s as he taunted the police with more letters about his crimes. Enjoying getting credit for his crimes the B.T.K. killer would send letters and even call the police and the press to get credit for his crimes.

 It is said that he loved the concept of killing. He would bind, torture, and then kill them. 

His real name is Dennis Rader, he is currently serving 10 life sentences in El Dorado correctional facility.

Part 2 of my Ted talk - Would you stop it with the Ted talks bit? - Why? I find it humorous, on this dark topic. - Well no one said you had to write about serial killers. - Hey I am doing it anyway. - Alright but this is the last one. - Fine.

 Anyway, Ted Kaczynski, aka, the Unabomber, is known more as a domestic terrorist than a serial killer, but I put him on this list anyway. Only really killing 3 people but injuring about 23, the Unabomber built a total of 16 bombs from a secluded cabin in the woods. Unlike most of the killers on this list, Ted Kaczynski did not kill for the purpose of sexual gratification. While living in the woods he saw firsthand the destruction of nature through industrialization and decided to fight against it. 

Ted Kaczynski was incarcerated at the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, but has been since moved to the Federal Medical Center, Butner in North Carolina.

This disturbing film is, fortunately, a work of fiction. It tells the tale of a serial killer that recorded most of his exploits. The police found a collection of the tapes after searching an abandoned residents and finding several bodies buried in the backyard. Upon examining the tapes they were able to put together that this was a home of a serial killer. Rather disturbing film to watch as, despite the murders depicted, he also kept a woman hostage for many years and broke he of her free will and ability to make decisions for herself. If you want to see this movie, it is still available on Tubi.