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crimes.
We love to know how people so smart could truly be so evil!
But, how smart are they really?
Some of the world’s worst criminals were geniuses by many standards.
Does this mean Einstein and other geniuses of the past centuries could have just as easily
been villains?
We’ll never know, but what we do know that these are of the Top 10 Criminals with the
Highest IQs.
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10.
Edmund Kemper The famously-tall criminal, standing at 6
feet 9 inches, Edmund Kemper, who had a reported IQ of 145, is also known as the "Co-ed Killer",
as most of his victims were students at co-educational institutions.
Kemper would claim the lives of 10 people over the span of about 9 months from May of
1972 to February of 1973.
Since his incarceration since 1973, Kemper has waived his right to a parole hearing several
different times, claiming he was happy in prison.
Early after his imprisonment, he asked for the death penalty, but California has suspended
capital punishment at the time, so he instead received eight life sentences.
9.
Andrew Cunanan Andrew Cunanan recently became a common reference
after American Crime Story featured him on their second season, The Assassination of
Gianni Versace.
Cunanan was a murderer with an IQ of approximately 147.
He was a good looking young man who would befriend wealthy older men, spend their money
and use it to impress other members of the gay community in San Diego.
Impressing, impersonating, and flirting can’t last forever, though.
After a few years, he turned into a spree killer, murdering five men, including Versace
and the Chicago real estate developer, Lee Miglin.
Good looks and high IQs are always a dangerous combination.
8.
Jimmy Savile Our next case tells us that you can actually
be famous, smart, and still be a criminal.
Just look at Jimmy Savile, a DJ, television and radio personality who allegedly sexually
abused hundreds of people.
Yes, I said “hundreds”.
Savile had an IQ of 150, and was well-known during his life for raising millions of dollars
for charity.
However, during his life and especially after his death, many came out with stories of trauma
caused by the celebrity.
It wasn’t just a few people either, there were hundreds of cases throughout 14 police
forces across the nation.
His victims averaged in their 20's, and up to 47 years old, but perhaps the most disturbing
detail, some of his victims were as young as 8.
7.
Carroll Edward Cole Carroll Edward Cole was an American serial
killer with an IQ of 152.
He was executed in the mid-1980s for killing fifteen women over a period of 14 years.
He grew up with a difficult home life and suffered from aggressive thoughts that only
got worse as he grew up.
His IQ was tested as a young boy and ranked at “genius” level, but in functional ways,
Cole was barely making it, with low grades and a growing criminal history, robbing a
liquor store and drinking until he gave up on school altogether.
Soon after, he was picking up women on the road and at taverns and murdering them, usually
through strangulation.
Sometimes, he’d drive around with bodies in the trunk for days.
For several women, he’d excused the action as a reaction to the fact that they were being
unfaithful to their husbands, which triggered his hate for his mother.
6.
Charlene Gallego Charlene Gallego was a serial murderer who
committed her crimes with her husband, Gerald, between 1978 and 1980, killing 10 people in
total.
She was a musical prodigy and had an IQ of 160.
The pair were dubbed The Gallego Sex Slaves Killers which pretty much lays out the nature
of their crimes.
Charlene would lure teenage women to a location, sometimes to a car where her husband Gerald
would tie them up, kidnap them, and rape them.
They’d then kill the teenagers with a single shot to the back of the head.
The couple was eventually caught after the witnessing of one of their kidnapping led
the police to their vehicle.
In the end, Gerald was sentenced to death but died of cancer in 2002 while awaiting
execution, and Charlene was offered a 16 year, 8-month sentence, in which she completed in
1997.
5.
Ted Kaczynski One of the most infamous people on our list,
Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber.
Kaczynski’s story, like Andrew Cunanan’s, was also told on the television series “Manhunt”.
With an IQ of 167, this serial bomber and overall nutcase was a math prodigy.
He was accepted into Harvard at the tender age of sixteen, and he later became a math
professor and the author of a rather controversial manifesto where he talked about modern society,
industrialization, and advocated for anarchism.
He didn’t stop there, though, oh no.
He proceeded to send bombs in the mail targeting people who were involved with modern technology.
In the process, he managed to kill three people and injure dozens more.
He was eventually caught, and remains in prison to this day and has somewhat of a following,
with people writing to him and some copycat mail bombs being sent as recently as 2018
to critics of President Trump.
4.
Rodney Alcala A serial killer with an interesting name and
M.O., Rodney Alcala, also known as the Dating Game Serial Killer, had an IQ of 170.
Let’s start with the fact that this story has a happy ending since Alcala was sentenced
to death in 2010.
The facts that led to this, however, were terrifying.
Alcala murdered at least five women between 1971 and 1979.
His name comes from his 1978 appearance on The Dating Game, right in the middle of his
time actually murdering people.
Do they have NO screening for reality shows?
He would torture his victims by strangling them until they lost consciousness, then waiting
until they woke up, and then repeated the process until he killed them.
Authorities also found over 1,000 photos of women and boys in explicit positions.
3.
Alberto DeSalvo “Boston Strangler” Alberto DeSalvo was a Boston man that confessed
to being the “Boston Strangler” for two years in the sixties.
During this time, he says he murdered 13 women in the area.
His IQ is debated.
Some people say it was as low as 95, but his actions don’t seem to be very “below average”.
Others say it was as high as 172, which makes more sense.
See, after being caught and put in a mental hospital, where he disclosed intimate and
gruesome details of his crimes, he allied with other inmates and broke out of the State
Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Of course, then he turned himself in, recanted his confession, went to prison and eventually
died there.
Was this all a story of an above average intelligent man who couldn’t shake his murderous temptations?
2.
Daniel Gajdusek, Nobel laureate Leopold and Loeb teach us that criminals don’t
have to be high school dropouts or people who didn’t have anything better to do with
their lives.
They can be university students, lawyers, or, like here, a Nobel Laureate.
Daniel Gajdusek was an American physician and researcher with an IQ of 180 who won a
Nobel Prize with his partner Baruch S. Blumberg for his work on Kuru, an infectious disease.
20 years after his success, he was charged with child molestation for which he served
a year in prison and then exiled himself in Europe where he died.
Gajdusek had brought over fifty young kids, mostly boys, from the South Pacific to the
United States with him to receive an education.
As it turns out, one of these boys later came forward accusing him of abuse.
1.
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb Leopold and Loeb, as they’re commonly known,
were two wealthy students from the University of Chicago who also became the kidnappers
and murderers of a young boy named Bobby Franks.
Leopold’s IQ was said to be in the 200s and Loebs around 160.
These two believed they could carry out the perfect crime by kidnapping a young boy and
holding him for ransom.
After their failed attempt and even after hiring notorious lawyer Clarence Darrow, they
were both still sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years.
Loeb was murdered in prison at the age of 30, and Leopold was released in the late 1950s
after serving 33 of his 99-year sentence.
Whether or not they had above average intelligence, their story was impactful enough to be later
portrayed in movies and novels.