Curated playlist
Executed American serial killers
- John Wayne GacyOn the 21st of December 1978, an evidence technician named Daniel Genty crawled into a space measuring 28 by 38 feet beneath a ranch-style house outside Chicago. He worked his way to the southwest corner and began to dig. Within minutes he…
- Ted BundyIn June 1974, Ted Bundy walked into the middle of an active Seattle police investigation to collect evidence he had left behind. Bundy would murder dozens of young women and girls in 1974-1975 and 1978. On the night of the 11th of June…
- William BoninWilliam George Bonin was an American serial killer, and the prosecution against him once called him "the most arch-evil person who ever existed." Between 1968 and 1980 he attacked boys and young men in southern California, and briefly in…
- John Allen MuhammadJohn Allen Muhammad was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m. on the 10th of November 2009. The place was the Greensville Correctional Center, near Jarratt, Virginia. Seven years earlier, in 2002, shootings attributed to him and a young partner…
- Danny RollingDanny Rolling, who became known as the Gainesville Ripper, murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida, over four days in August 1990. Police had almost nothing to go on while it was happening. When he was finally caught, he…
- Albert FishAlbert Fish was caught because of a letter he mailed in November 1934 to the mother of a girl he had killed six years earlier. Mrs. Budd could not read, so her son read the pages aloud to her. The letter carried no signature. Police traced…
- Joseph Paul FranklinJoseph Paul Franklin chose his own name, and it was not the one he was born with. By his own admission or by court verdict, he shot 22 people across ten American states. Sixteen of them died. He was a white supremacist, and he picked…
- Aileen WuornosAileen Carol Wuornos was born on the 29th of February 1956, a leap day that comes around only once every four years. She became an American serial killer, and she was executed in 2002 after a long wait on Florida's death row. Her story has…
- H. H. HolmesH. H. Holmes confessed to 27 murders, and some of the people he named turned out to be alive. He was born Herman Webster Mudgett, and newspapers later called him the Beast of Chicago, the Devil in the White City and the Torture Doctor. His…
- Carl PanzramCarl Panzram told investigators that he had murdered twenty-one boys and men, yet only five of those killings could ever be confirmed. Authorities suspect the real toll in the United States alone passes one hundred, with more victims in…