Your favorite serial killer.

[Stupot]

I liked:
Brad Pitt as Early Grayce in Kalifornia,
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
and most of all Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster.

[Technocrat]

Nobody can top H. H. Holmes! He used an entire hotel he had built in Chicago as his murder weapon!



"The ground floor of the Castle contained Holmes's own relocated drugstore and various shops, while the upper two floors contained his personal office and a maze of over one hundred windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly angled hallways, stairways to nowhere, doors openable only from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions. Holmes repeatedly changed builders during the construction of the Castle so only he fully understood the design of the house, thus decreasing the chance of being reported to the police.

After the completion of the hotel, Holmes selected mostly female victims from among his employees (many of whom were required as a condition of employment to take out life insurance policies for which Holmes would pay the premiums but also be the beneficiary), lovers and hotel guests, torturing and killing them. Some were locked in soundproof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that let him asphyxiate them at any time. Some victims were locked in a huge soundproof bank vault near his office where they were left to suffocate. The victims' bodies were dropped by secret chute to the basement, where some were meticulously dissected, stripped of flesh, crafted into skeleton models, and then sold to medical schools. Holmes also cremated some of the bodies or placed them in lime pits for destruction. Holmes had two giant furnaces as well as pits of acid, bottles of various poisons, and even a stretching rack. Through the connections he had gained in medical school, he sold skeletons and organs with little difficulty."

27 confirmed victims, and that's only because the bodies were so badly dismembered they couldn't accurately say how many there were. After he fled creditors in Chicago, he tried to construct *another* hotel like this in Texas!


Though for sheer quantity, Harold Shipman still holds the highscore at 218 confirmed kills.

[GarageGothic]

Technocrat, I think you've just pitched the coolest game concept ever. "Murder Castle" - part Dungeon Keeper, part Hitman/Manhunt, and plenty of controversy to get media attention! 

I tend to prefer serial killers who are the protagonists of their stories - Dexter Morgan, Norman Bates, Peter Lorre's character in 'M'. But that's doesn't seem to be the style you're going for, so for antagonists - John Lithgow in the fourth season of Dexter and also as the 'Liberty Bell Killer' in 'Blow Out', and Dr. Gull in Alan Moore's 'From Hell' (the graphic novel, not the fucking movie bastardization). Also I recommend you check out 'Peeping Tom' and 'Jennifer Eight'.

[InCreator]

Seconding that austrian guy from 40-s with tiny moustache. Dude singlehandedly just... went and did what others couldn't even imagine in their most raging "hate the world" fantasies. Also, going against whole world is guaranteed epic move, no matter how it feels to the "world". Also, it's quite hard to gain so much infamity that whole generations are constantly teached (brainwashed, even) to hate you.

[Khris]

Seconding that he doesn't count as serial killer at all. He's responsible for the millions of deaths, but he didn't murder anyone, he "merely" order other people to kill.

[kconan]

  For non-fiction serial killers, after the previously mentioned H. H. Holmes,  the next most interesting could be Jack Unterweger.  Unterweger is an Austrian who murdered a bunch of prostitutes in the 70s, was jailed, and then was out in 1990 after he wrote a bestselling book and was touted (mainly by himself and bunch of saps who campaigned for his release) as a model of Austrian prison rehabilitation.  In the early 90s, he became a minor celebrity as a journalist and talk show host...while returning to his former hobby of murdering prostitutes.  He was caught in 1994 for murders both in the U.S. and Europe, and then hung himself in prison.

  John Malkovich recently played the guy in an opera.

[Phemar]

Definitely Dexter Morgan! Best show to grace TV with its presence in a while

[Wonkyth]

The Dexter of the book was better.

[Phemar]

I'm still trying to get hold of the books. However I don't know if I'll be able to see the book Dexter as a different character. I'll always picture him as Michael C. Hall, as he looks on television

[GarageGothic]

Phemar, avoid "Dexter in the Dark" like the plague. I haven't read the two others which are supposedly much better, but that third one was laughably bad.

[InCreator]

Seconding that he doesn't count as serial killer at all. He's responsible for the millions of deaths, but he didn't murder anyone, he "merely" order other people to kill.

Try saying something like this when you have russians (especially elderly ones) around.
You'd have a whole new bunch of killers to pick!

[Anian]

Try saying something like this when you have russians (especially elderly ones) around.
You'd have a whole new bunch of killers to pick!

I didn't say he wasn't a mass murderer, I said he's not a serial killer (in the traditional meaning of the word, as in not kidnapped people in vans and sliced their eyelids out before skinning them and dropping their bodies in the river or such, he mostly ordered this things)

But, just in case, you could always just run off to Finland if there's any trouble (link).  

[InCreator]

That's true.

However, Winter War was one-time victory. I doubt russkies would fall for weather & lack of motivation twice. Especially since days of trench digging are history and current rocket batteries might even reach Sweden... or something. Afghanistan would be safer haven!

[Iliya]

Andrei Chikatilo suffered from a rare disease. His DNA taken from the blood didn't mach to the DNA from his sperm. He was arrested few times, but then released, because the DNA didn't match to the DNA found in sperm in victims' bodies.

[Re1Mu2R3]

Not really a serial killer but I like Hannibal Lecter..

Fed some of his patients to his guests lol. That was sick...

[Diath]

When it comes to movies, I would say the Hannibal Lecter series as others have mentioned. But I am surprised that no one on this topic has mentioned Jeffery Dahmer yet. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer

[[Cameron]]

Gary Ridgway for total body count alone.
Also, Patrick Bateman is a major favourite from American Psycho.

[virtualpsycho]

Reading the autobiography of Michael Petterson "Charles Bronson" the prizefighter at the moment and he is describing some of the most vile and disgusting people imaginable during his track through several mental asylums.... One thing that was stated in the book was "a dangerous/violent man/woman is just unpredictable". It the simplicity behind this overall look at the majority of the criminally insane which puts fear into most people.

Whatever the reason for studying this, just remember to be unpredictable with the character. From serving cupcakes in a professional manner in one minute to forcing the fat round end of a spoon into someone's ear and then brain the next.

We are all killers at the end of the day, look at war footage also or the original uncut version of last house on the left.

Hope this helps.

[R4L]

Reading the autobiography of Michael Petterson "Charles Bronson" the prizefighter at the moment and he is describing some of the most vile and disgusting people imaginable during his track through several mental asylums.... One thing that was stated in the book was "a dangerous/violent man/woman is just unpredictable". It the simplicity behind this overall look at the majority of the criminally insane which puts fear into most people.

Whatever the reason for studying this, just remember to be unpredictable with the character. From serving cupcakes in a professional manner in one minute to forcing the fat round end of a spoon into someone's ear and then brain the next.

We are all killers at the end of the day, look at war footage also or the original uncut version of last house on the left.

Hope this helps.

From the virtual psycho.... 

[virtualpsycho]

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