The term famous last words holds a lot of weight.
Often in pop culture, looking at the last words of icons or celebrities who have made
the world a better place by contributing their art or talent offer up some valuable insight
for those of us still in the land of the living.
But, sometimes, the last words of a famous individual can be much more menacing and foreboding.
The individuals on our list today are all high profile criminals, most of which are
guilty of some of the most heinous crimes known to mankind.
And their last words are ones that send shivers up your spine.
Some of these last statements are eerie.
Others are just a verbal middle finger.
But regardless, all of them are unsettling in their own way.
These are the top 5 scariest last words from inmates.
5 Peter Kurten Peter Kurten was a German serial killer who
committed a slew of murders and violent and sadistic sexual assaults back in 1929.
He earned himself the nickname of The Vampire of Dusseldorf and the king of sexual perverts;
he would often drink his victims blood.
He was found guilty of nine counts of murder, seven counts of attempted murder, and was
also convicted of arson, attempted robbery, breaking and entering, burglary, seduction,
theft and threatening behavior.
He also confessed to the murders of a nine year old and 17 year old girl in 1913, and
also claimed that his actions were taken in an attempt to achieve the greatest heights
of sexual ecstasy.
His sentencing for the former charges was death by beheading, which occurred in July
of 1931.
Before he was beheaded, his last words were, “After my head is chopped off, will I still
be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump
of my neck?
That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
4 Timothy McVeigh Timothy McVeigh is often considered to be
a product of the white supremacist movement.
He was the man behind the 1995 bombing of an Oklahoma City government building which
killed 168 people, including small children, and injured over 680.
After the events of the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident and 1993 siege on Waco, Timothy felt inclined
to get revenge by targeting a federal government building in which some of the individuals
who he believed were responsible.
Both of those incidents involved those with ties to the white superacist movement, and
the operations led by the government to diffuse those individuals had gone haywire, resulting
in civilian deaths.
He, along with two army veteran friends of his, crafted a bomb and targeted the building,
but ultimately, his two friends backed out, articulating their fear of actually harming
innocent people.
McVeigh didn’t care though, and carried out his plan anyway.
He was sentenced to death, and his last words were remorseless and still blindly arrogant
in his crusade to defy.
“I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul.”
3 Barbara Graham Barbara Graham was convicted of murdering
a 64 year old widow named Mabel Monohan.
She spent most of her life enduring hardship, working as a prostitute, and after marrying
a man named Henry Graham, who was a hardened criminal, she fell deeper down the rabbit
hole herself.
That’s when she met Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, friends of her husbands, the latter
with who she had an affair.
Perkins had a lead on an old woman who had a lot of money on her property, Mabel, and
they planned to rob her house in Burbank.
The crime didn’t go as planned, and Monohan was killed in the process.
Nick named Bloody Babs by the press at the time, she was convicted of murder at the age
of 31, sentenced to die by gas chamber.
Her last words are perhaps the most profound out of all the individuals on this list.
“Good people are always so sure they’re right.”
Barbara was the third woman in the state of California to be executed by gas.
Later, in 1958, a film was made about her, starring Susan Hayward, who won an Oscar for
her performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Graham 2 Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most notorious and disturbing serial killers of all time.
Dahmer raped, murders and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between the years of 1978
to 1991, some of which he allegedly ate parts of, with his first murder being committed
at the age of 18, three weeks after he had graduated from high school.
He was finally apprehended when a victim of his, Tracy Edwards, a 32 year old man, was
lured back to his apartment to pose for nude photographs for $100.
When Dahmer assaulted him, telling him he intended to eat his heart while holding a
knife to his chest, Edwards eventually managed to escape him by punching him and catching
him off guard.
Eventually Edwards managed to find two police officers after escaping, which eventually
led to Dahmer’s capture, and his confession on July 23rd of 1991, in which he willingly
had admitted to murdering all of his victims.
Unlike the other criminals on this list, Dahmer was not sentenced to death.
Rather, he was sent to jail, sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment in 1992.
In 1994, he was beaten to death by another inmate named Christopher Scarver after being
left unsupervised in the showers, having be bludgeoned in the head with a metal bar.
Scarver would later claim that god told him to do it.
Dahmer was rushed to a hospital but declared dead an hour later.
His last words were reported to be, “I don’t care if I live or die.
Go ahead and kill me.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer 1 Aileen Wuornos
Aileen was a serial killer active in Florida between 1989 and 1990, killing seven men by
shooting them at point blank range.
According to her, all of her victims had raped or attempted to rape her while she was working
as a sex worker, and claimed that all of the homicides were done in self-defense.
Most of her victims had been shot multiple times, in the lungs, torso or head, with their
nude bodies later found by police, and their cars later found abandoned elsewhere.
Aileen and her lover Tyria Moore would hunted down after one of the victim’s cars were
found abandoned and witnesses had identified them in the nearby area.
Moore would later give police a confession about the murders in exchange for immunity
from prosecution.
A few days afterwards, Aileen confessed to the murders.
She was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 2002, and her last words were “Yes, I
would just like to say I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back, like Independence
Day, with Jesus.
June 6, like the movie.
Big mother ship and all, I’ll be back.
I’ll be back.”
Talk about eerie.
Charlize Theron would portray Aileen in the film Monster, and won an Oscar for
the role.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos There we have it!
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