Serial killer John Wayne Gacy in an undated photo with his second wife, Carole Hoff.
A quote from Ted Bundy’s prison psychiatrist:
“I feel that Mr Bundy is either a man who has no problems or is smart enough and clever enough to appear close to the edge of ‘normal’….Since it has been determined by the Court that he is not telling the truth regarding the present crime, I seriously question if he can be expected to tell the truth regarding participation in any program or probation agreement.”
“I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that’s what I should have done.” - Jeffrey Dahmer
Ted Bundy mostly kept to himself during the years he was in prison. In a way, prison was a relief to him; he had always fared better behind bars than on the streets. The stress of maintaining his image out in the real world weighed crushingly on him; it was so much easier in the unreal world of prison. On death row, Bundy claimed to have shrugged off his past like an overcoat on a suddenly balmy winter afternoon. “It’s just done! it’s back there in the mists.” he told one interviewer. “I say ‘mists’ because I don’t think anyone actually touches the past the way they can touch the present or future.” For a time, Bundy joined the sect and was given vegetarian meals on death row. He built up a considerable collection of socks, and slipped into an occasional reverie about how delightful it would be to wear a brand new pair every day of the year. He drifted on a cloud of smuggled marijuana and hashish. All in all, with his dope and his socks and his mysticism, Bundy was a mellow prisoner.
In 1978 Alcala, despite his status as a convicted rapist and registered sex offender, was accepted as a contestant on The Dating Game. By then he had already killed at least two women in California and two others in New York. Host Jim Lange introduced him as “…a successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the darkroom at the age of 13, fully developed. Between takes you might find him skydiving or motorcycling.”
Actor Jed Mills, who competed against Alcala as “Bachelor #2”, later described him as a “very strange guy” with “bizarre opinions”. The third contestant, Armand Chiami, has not made any public comments.
Alcala won a date with “bachelorette” Cheryl Bradshaw, who subsequently refused to go out with him, according to published reports, because she found him “creepy”. Criminal profiler Pat Brown, noting that Alcala killed Robin Samsoe and at least two other women after his Dating Game appearance, speculated that Bradshaw’s rejection might have been an exacerbating factor. “One wonders what that did in his mind,” Brown said. “That is something he would not take too well. [Serial killers] don’t understand the rejection. They think that something is wrong with that girl: ‘She played me. She played hard to get.’”
“It was to avoid the great earthquake that was coming earlier this year. And it was prevented”
- Herbert Mullin
"Henry is going to be executed but I’ll be alive surrounded by cute fuck-boys. I have everything I want in prison. Except I miss the freedom to drive down the highway robbing and killing from town to town. That’s excitement at its best and miss being able to bar-b-que a boy when I get the urge. I did like to bar-b-que. You can write it in your story that anyone who wants to write me and get a recipe for my home made sauce, I’ll send it free. Just send a few stamps for the reply letter. That’s all honey."
Ottis Toole. (via ramirezbundydahmer)
everyone-has-a-dark-side-honey:
“I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don’t know how else to put it. It didn’t satisfy me completely, so maybe I was thinking, ‘Maybe another one will. Maybe this one will.’ And the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control, as you can see.” - Jeffery Dahmer
Residences where Ted Bundy lived:
- McMahon Hall, University of Washington
- 658 North Skyline, Tacoma, Washington - 1963
- 5015 16th Street, Seattle, Washington - 1967
- 873 North 16th Street, Seattle, Washington - 1968
- 3214 North 20th, Tacoma, Washington - 1968
- 4039 South Warner, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania - 1969
- 1252 15th Ave, Marin County, California - 1970
- 4143 12th Northeast, Seattle, Washington - Date unknown
- 5208 18th Northeast, Seattle, Washington - Date unknown
- 1252 15th Ave, Seattle, Washington - Date unknown
- 3510 West Elmore, Seattle, Washington - Late 1973
- 565 1st Ave, Salt Lake City, Utah - 1976
- 413 “B” Street, Salt Lake City, Utah - 1976
- 364 Douglas Street, Salt Lake City, Utah - 1976
- 409 West College Avenue, Tallahassee, Florida, 1978
It’s hard to say which of the many Paraphilias practiced by serial killers is the most disgusting, though coprophagy - i.e., deriving sexual pleasure from eating feces - clearly ranks high on the list. Needless to say, this was a favourite pastime of the monstrously perverted Albert Fish. During Fish’s 1935 trial for the cannibal murder of little Grace Budd, his attorney cited the old man’s fondness for eating human excrement as evidence of his extreme abnormality. The prosecution countered by calling a psychiatrist who insisted that “very successful people, successful artists, successful teachers, successful financiers” regularly engaged in the same activity. Such people, he declared, were “socially perfectly all right” - a bit of testimony that left many spectators wondering who was crazier, Fish or the supposed expert witness.
