Welcome back everyone, I am Danny Burke, you know that but you might not know who this
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OK and now were gonna get into the Top 10 Scariest Criminals From Texas.
A. Starting off at number 10 now we have Joe Ball.
This American serial killer is sometimes known as The Alligator Man - and its going to become
obvious why very soon.
After fighting in Europe during WW1, he opened a saloon called the -Sociable Inn- in Elmendorf
Texas.
At first, everything seemed normal, people were coming in for some bevvies and banter
it was all a great time.
However, it can’t always be just bevvies and banter.
Local heads turned when he built a pond and bought 5 alligators to live in it.
He would charge visitors if they wanted to see them, especially during feeding time.
The meals were mostly live cats and dogs.
Then, women in the area were reported missing - some of them were barmaids at the inn, then
former girlfriends of Joe Ball and then finally his wife.
Joe Ball had been killing them, butchering their remains and then feeding them to his
Alligators.
Now i’m not sure how people settled relationship quarrels back then but I feel like there are
a lot better ways than just feeding the missus to the pet alligators.
Thats just me though.
Starting in 1936, he did this for 2 years.
He was taken in for police questioning but didnt crack - he believed he was safe because
there was no way for police to find the bodies.
However, he had an accomplice who did talk.
The man told police how Ball had forced him to move female body parts at gun point.
The police showed up at the inn and asked to inspect the meat barrel.
Joe Ball hit the -NO SALE- button on the cash register.
He then reached inside and grabbed his pistols from the draw and shot himself in the heart
- and thus ends the story of The Alligator Man …
Next up at number 9 we have We have Andrea Yates.
In 2001, she confessed to drowning her 5 children in their bathtub.
She had been suffering with postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis.
She was in and out of her psychiatric clinics to help treat her and was given cocktails
of medications to help curb her suicidal tendencies.
Her psychiatrist warned Andrea and her husband Rustie not to have any more children as it
would only worsen her hospitalization.
Soon after her release though, she conceived her 5th child.
By the following year, she had degenerated into a near catatonic state.
She began mutilating herself and reading bible verses feverishly.
On June 20th 2001, her husband left for work, against their doctors instructions to supervise
Andrea around the clock.
She then filled the bathtub with water and one by one, she began to drown her young children.
The final child tried to run when he saw his sister floating in the bathtub, but he too
was caught and drowned.
A. Next up at number 8 we have The Candy Man.
Thats the gruesome nickname given to Dean Corll, a paedophile killer responsible for
the murder of at least 28 people in Texas.
Some even believe that number could be as high as 47.
28-47 i mean thats a bloody big range.
He would often take his victims car and house keys as a trophy.
His sole targets were males between the ages of 13 to 20 and he would lure them in with
the help of two teenage accomplices.
Victims would be tortured, beaten and raped, sometimes for days before Corll eventually
strangled or shot them.
Corll got his nickname the Candy Man due to his family owning a candy making business
which he was fired from for making sexual advances on employees.
Um objection, why did his parents do nothing when they saw this go on?
They couldve saved the world from a lot of grief.
In a cruel twist to the murders, Corll would often make the teenagers write letters to
their parents explaining their absence, leaving police to assume they had simply run away
from home …
Moving on to number 7 now we have Carl Eugene Watts.
When Watts was 12 years old he began to fantasize about torturing and killing girls and young
woman.
During adolescence he began to stalk girls and its thought he killed his first victim
before the age of 15.
In 1969, he was arrested for sexually assaulting 26 year old Joan Gave.
He was sentenced to a mental hospital in Detroit.
In 1974, he killed his first official victim, torturing and brutally murdering 20 year old
Gloria Steele.
From there, he would go on to kill a further 22 confirmed people, mostly women, and would
claim that he also killed up to 40 or perhaps even 80 people during his killing spree.
He was sentenced to life in prison where he died in 2007 at the age of 53.
Next up at number 6 we have the George Hennard.
Also known as the Lubys massacre, this mass shooting took place on October 16th 1991 in
a Lubys Cafeteria in Killeen Texas.
On that day, Hennard drove a pickup truck through the front window of the cafe and he
screamed about local women being vipers and said this is what theyve done to him and his
family and that that day was payback day.
He then opened fire on everyone inside and continued to hunt people down as they fled.
He killed 23 people, 10 of them with single shots to the head, and wounded another 37.
After a tense standoff with police, he committed suicide with a shot to the head.
The event now stands as the 4th deadliest non-school mass in US history.
Moving on now to number 5 we have The Eyeball Killer.
In the 1990s, Texas was terrorized by a serial killer with a grizzly signature move - eye
removal.
Their first victim was Mary Pratt, killed on December 13th 1990.
When the body was autopsied, the coroner found that her eyes had been carefully removed from
their sockets.
This grizzly detail was kept hidden from the media and the case soon went cold.
On February 10th 1991, Susan Peterson was found dead - her eyes had also been removed.
Police increased patrols in the area of Dallas where the murders were taking place, but still
the Eyeball Killer claimed another victim - Shirley Williams, found on March 18th.
Her eyes were also missing but she also had facial bruises and a broken nose - consistent
with being punched in the face.
A woman tipped off the police about a man called Charles Albright.
She said he was known to have an obsession with knives and eyes.
Police found he had a history of assaulting prostitutes.
They acquired a search warrant for his home and found a number of suspicious items that
possibly linked him to the murders.
He was charged with the eyeball killer murders and a further unsolved murder of Rhonda Bowie.
The prosecution's case fell apart though and he was sentenced to life for only one of the
murders.
Although heavily suspected to be the Eyeball Killer, the murders remain officially unsolved.
A. Next up at number 4 we have David Koresh.
He was the leader of a Christian religious group in Elk Texas called the Branch Davidians.
The group had been known to officials for over a decade and they did have run ins with
the law before but everything came to a head in 1993.
On February 28th, Americas Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms attempted to execute
a search warrant on the Brand Davidians compound.
They were investigating sexual abuse charges and illegal weapons violations.
No i’m no expert but im 100% sure neither of those fall under the category of divine.
The group responded to this with guns - a fierce gun battle erupted, resulting in the
deaths of four government agents and 6 Branch Davidians.
The FBI then took over and sieged the building for 51 days.
During the final assault by the FBI, a fire broke out and spread quickly through the compound.
9 made it out alive but a further 76 were killed, including their leader David Koresh.
And good riddance to him.
Moving on to number 3 now we have Devin Patrick Kelley.
On November 5th 2017, Kelley opened fire in a small church in the rural community of Sutherland
Springs, Texas.
26 people were killed, including an unborn baby.
It became the deadliest mass shooting in the history of Texas.
20 others were injured.
Kelley was later found dead in his car from a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head
after an intense police chase.
Investigators determined that Kelley was in a domestic dispute with his mother in law
and would often send her threatning texts.
She often attended the church and it seems Kelley went there to kill her, however, she
was not there that day when he unloading his guns.
One official said at the time, -there are many ways that he could have taken care of
the mother in law without coming with 15 loaded magazines and an assault rifle to a church,
I think he came here with a purpose and a mission- …
A. At number 2 now we have The Texarkana Moonlight Murders.
I’m including this in our video about Texas but this story is famous across America - it
even inspired two movies.
In 1946, Jimmy Hollis and Mary Jeanne Larey were parked in their car in a secluded area
of a park.
They were attacked by a stranger wearing a white mask with holes cut out around the eyes
and mouth.
Hollis was beaten and Larey was molested.
They survived but the next victims unfortunately did not.
Richard Griffin and Polly Ann Moore parked their car in a similar spot and were brutally
shot in the back of head, execution style.
The same happened to another couple and then another.
One of the final victims was Katie Sharks, she narrowly escaped but wasnt able to see
the killer because of the blood pouring from her face into her eyes.
The killer never attacked again and their identity remains a mystery to this day.
And finally at number 1 now we have Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer and John
William King.
These were the 3 men who committed one of the most horrific murders Ive ever heard of.
On June7th 1998, these 3 white supremacists kidnapped James Byrd Jr in the town of Jasper
Texas.
They dragged him out the back of a pickup truck along an asphalt road for 3 miles.
James remained conscious through most of the ordeal and was killed halfway through the
dragging when his right arm head were severed from his torso.
His body was dumped outside of a church.
The killers made little to no attempt to hide the killing and police quickly tracked them
down and they were sentenced for the murders.
The ring leader, Brewer, was sentenced to death and executed via lethal injection on
September 21st 2011.
King remains on death row while appeals are pending.
Berry was sentenced to life in prison.
The killing actually led to a new law being passed by President Obama to protect individuals
on the basis of race, sexual orientation
and gender.