Elite facts presents 10 horrifying
serial killers that will give you
nightmares 10 Catherine Knight Catherine
Knight is well known for being a
certified nutjob her first attempt on
someone's life was when she tried to
strangle her first husband to death on
their wedding night for daring to only
have sex with her three times before
falling asleep after coming to his
senses her first husband finally left
her in response Knight took their child
and placed her on some train tracks
luckily the child was saved by a hobo
Knight eventually met a man named John
Price who was the father of three
children they eventually moved in
together even though price was well
aware of her outbursts
some time later price kicked her out and
filed a restraining order against her he
was so worried that he ended up telling
his co-workers that if he ever failed to
show up for work she had probably killed
him after letting her back into his life
in exchange for sex price would
eventually pay the ultimate penalty as
Knights stabbed him 37 times at prices
request his co-workers called the police
due to his absence from work when the
police showed up at his house they
discovered his skinned headless body
lying on the living room floor Knight
had draped his skin completely intact in
a single piece over a doorway like some
sick curtain prices head was found
boiling in a pot on the stove and his
buttocks were served on a plate and set
on the table for prices adult children
to view we dare you to try and sleep
after hearing this 9 Richard Trenton
chase in California in 1977 Richard
Trenton chase killed six people within
the space of one month it was said that
he drank their blood and consumed some
of their body parts thus giving him the
nickname the vampire of Sacramento
he was eventually sent to a mental
hospital after being caught eating raw
animals and even blending animals up
with coca-cola to make milkshakes as
expected when he was eventually released
from the hospital it didn't take long
for him to start killing again his
reasoning for these murders was that he
quote had to prevent Nazis for
turning his blood into powder via poison
they had planted beneath his soap dish
in 1980 he committed suicide in his jail
cell 8 Ted Bundy let's be honest we've
all heard of Ted Bundy it should come as
no surprise that he's on this list for
his infamous acts of rape and murder too
many young women across the United
States between 1974 and 1978 he would
meet with these women in a public area
to gain their trust until he could
eventually get them alone and murder
them he was known for staying with the
corpses for hours and even days after
their murder as he would play dress-up
with them and even have sex with them
until they were too decomposed to meet
his needs 7 the Zodiac killer one of the
most notorious and still uncovered
killers on this list and in modern
history the Zodiac killer was at large
in Northern California during the 1960's
and 1970's his death toll racked up
around seven people despite lack of
evidence and closing the case for being
inactive it was reopened again in 2007
he was famous for sending letters to the
local newspapers claiming they contained
the key to the uncovering of his
identity each letter contained 1/3 of a
cryptogram and although it was
deciphered it gave away nothing about
his identity one of the cryptograms that
was sent in 1969 has never been decoded
1974 was the final year that there was
any sign of activity from the Zodiac
killer and 1967 was the year of his
final murder as far as we know 6 John
Wayne Gacy John Wayne Gacy also known as
the killer Klown is said to have drawn
inspiration from Stephen King's popular
novel it as his job was to perform at
children's parties in a clown costume
this made things incredibly easy for him
as he could quickly gain the trust of
the kids he was performing for before he
would murder them in 1994 he was
executed by lethal injection
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Jeffrey Dahmer Jeffrey Dahmer is said to
have been responsible for the murders of
at least 17 men and boys between the
late 1970s and early 1990s he reportedly
engaged in sodomy before the murders and
would perform acts of necrophilia
dismemberment and cannibalism he was
arrested for fondling a
thirteen-year-old boy but was released
when he managed to convince the judge
that he was an innocent boy lover in
need of some therapy in 1991 after all
the therapy he was provided he was still
killing people and it got to a point
where he was killing one person a week
he was finally arrested for attempting
to murder Tracy Edwards Dahmer had
planned to dispose of his body by
dissolving it in acid and pouring the
remains down the toilet
but Edwards escaped and went to the
police who searched Dahmer's house only
to discover photos of dismembered bodies
and they even found a head in the fridge
he was found guilty on 15 counts of
murder and sentenced to 15 life terms
totaling 937 years in prison in 1994 he
was beaten to death in a prison yard in
Wisconsin for Andrei Chikatilo from 1978
to 1990 the serial killer nicknamed the
butcher of Rostov Andrei Chikatilo
killed at least 52 women and children he
was finally convicted in 1992 and
executed in 1994 all of his killings had
a sexual motive to them since he could
only get off by stabbing or slashing
women or children to death 3 Charles
Edmund Cullen from 1984 to 2003
Charles Edmund Cullen confessed to
murdering 40 mostly elderly patients in
New Jersey he was able to perform these
acts due to his job as a nurse at a
retirement home it has been reported
that Cullen tried to play God by
poisoning his patients to death with non
prescribed medication or failing to
administer the correct drugs Collin
frequently lost jobs in hospitals due to
suspicious behavior but simply moved on
and got hired at other facilities
leaving dead patients in his wake
because of these acts he was given the
nickname the
Angel of Death to Douglas Clark and
Carol Bundy Douglas Clark and Carol
Bundy who are also known as the Sunset
Strip killers were known as such for
murdering prostitutes on LA's Sunset
Boulevard it was said that Clark lured
them in and killed them during sex by
shooting them in the back of the head
they even saved one of the heads as a
sick kind of trophy after they were
caught in 1980
Clark was sentenced to death while Bundy
got life for testifying against her
boyfriend although they were only
convicted of two murders they were
suspected of many more one Gary Ridgway
probably best known as the Green River
Killer Gary Ridgway reportedly strangled
around 71 women within Washington State
between the 1970s and the 1990s the
reason for his nickname is because of
the way he disposed of his first five
victims simply throwing them into the
green river he was eventually arrested
after DNA evidence linked him to several
missing women and he took a plea bargain
to avoid the death penalty as a part of
the deal Ridgeway agreed to reveal the
location of all of his victims bodies
Ridgeway would pick up prostitutes and
Runaways from their trust by showing
them a photo of his son and then
strangled him either with his bare hands
or with ligatures he would often return
to the bodies later to have sex with
them or arrange them in various poses
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