Serial Killer Thread

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thanx for that tip,imma check it out

[the silencer]

damn....



humanity is FUCKED up..

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DAVID GORE

Born in 1951, in Florida, David Gore resembled the stereotypical Southern redneck, weighing close to 275 pounds, and such a firearms fan that he studied gunsmithing in his free time. He also studied women, but in a different fashion. He lost one job as a gas station attendant after the owner found a peephole Gore had drilled between the men's and women's restrooms. Born in 1952, cousin Fred Waterfield was another product of Florida's Indian River County. He was a high school football star whose bad temper and liking for violent sex made him and David seem like brothers. In 1976, they put their heads together and decided to combine their favorite sports by hunting women.

Their first attempts were embarrasing. Following a female motorist outside Yeehaw Junction, Fred flattened her tires with a rifle , but the intended victim escaped on foot. Later, the cousins followed another woman from Vero Beach to Miami, giving up the pursuit when she parked on a busy street. Their first successful rape took place near Vero Beach, and while the victim notified police, she later dropped the charges to avoid embarrassment in court. By early 1981, Gore was working days with his father as caretaker of a citrus grove, patrolling the streets after dark as an auxiliary sheriff's deputy. Fred had moved north to Orlando, managing an automotive shop, but he made frequent visits home to Vero Beach. Together they recognized the potential of Gore's situation, packing a badge by night, killing time in deserted orchards by day, and Fred offered to pay cousin Dave $1,000 for each pretty girl he could find. It was an offer David could not refuse. In February 1981, David found 17-year-old Ying Hua Ling disembarking from a school bus, tricking her into his car with a flash of his badge. Driving her home, Gore "arrested" her mother and handcuffed his captives together, then phoning Waterfield in Orlando before he drove out to the orchard. Killing time while waiting for his cousin, David raped both victims, but Fred was more picky. Rejecting Mrs. Ling as too old, he tied the woman up in such a fashion that she choked herself to death while struggling against her bonds. He then raped and murdered the teenager, slipping David $400 and leaving him to get rid of the corpses alone in an orchard a mile from the Ling residence.

Five months later, on July 15, David made a trip to Round Island Park, looking for a blonde to fill his cousin's latest order. Spotting a likely candidate in 35-year-old Judith Daley, Gore disabled her car, then played Good Samaritan, offering a lift to the nearest telephone. Once inside his pickup, Gore pulled out a pistol, cuffed his victim, and called cousin Fred on his way to the orchard. Waterfield was happier with this delivery, writing out a check for $1,500 after both men finished with their victim. Two years later, Gore would tell about Judith Daley's fate, describing how he "fed her to the alligators" in a swamp ten miles west of Interstate Highway 95. A week later, Gore fell under suspicion when a local man reported that a deputy had stopped his teenage daughter on a rural highway, attempting to hold her "for questioning." Stripped of his badge, David was arrested days later, when officers found him crouched in the back seat of a woman's car outside a Vero Beach clinic armed with a pistol, handcuffs, and a police radio scanner. A jury deliberated for thirty minutes before convicting him of armed trespass, and he was sentenced to five years in prison. Turning down psychiatric treatment recommended by the court, he was paroled in March of 1983.

A short time after Gore's release, his cousin moved back home to Vero Beach, and they took up where they left off. On May 20, they tried to abduct an Orlando prostitute at gunpoint, but she slipped away and left them empty-handed. The next day, they picked up two 14-year-old hitchhikers -- Angelica Lavallee and Barbara Byer -- raping both before Gore shot the girls to death. Byer's body was dismembered, and buried in a shallow grave, while Levallee's was dumped in a nearby canal.

On July 26, 1983, Vero Beach authorities received an emergency report of a nude man firing shots at a naked girl on a residential street. Surrounding the suspect house, owned by relatives of Gore, officers found a car in the driveway with fresh blood dripping from its trunk. Inside, the body of 17-year-old Lynn Elliott lay dead with a bullet in her skull. Outnumbered by the police, Gore surrendered, directing officers to the attic where a naked 14-year-old girl was tied to the rafters.

As the victim told police, she had been thumbing rides with Lynn Elliott when Gore and another man picked them up, flashing a pistol and driving them to the house, where they were stripped and raped repeatedly in separate rooms. Elliott had managed to free herself, escaping on foot with Gore in pursuit, but she had not been fast enough. Gore's companion had left in the meantime, and detectives turned to their suspect in to find out who he was.

Gore cracked while in custody, describing crimes committed with his cousin. On January 21, 1985, Fred Waterfield was convicted in the Byer-Levallee murders, receiving two consecutive life terms with a specified minimum stint of 50 years before parole. Gore received the death penalty for his part in the crimes. Both are still currently incarcerated in Florida.

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PHANTOM KILLER

The Phantom Killer was an unidentified serial killer believed to have committed a number of murders in Texarkana between February 23 and May 4, 1946. The Phantom is also known as the Texarkana Phantom and the Moonlight Murderer, having often killed when the moon was full.
The murders and attacks

The Phantom first struck on February 23, attacking Jimmy Hollis, 24, and his girlfriend, Mary Jeanne Larey, 19, who were parked on a secluded road outside Texarkana. A man, armed with a handgun, forced Hollis and Larey out of the car and pistol-whipped Hollis. He then sexually assaulted Larey with the gun before fleeing when he saw the headlights of an approaching car. According to Larey and Hollis, their assailant was about 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and his head and face were covered by a white mask.
A month later, on the evening of March 23, Richard Griffin, 29, and his girlfriend, Polly Ann Moore, 17, were murdered. Both were found the next morning in Griffin’s car on a rural Bowie County road, outside Texarkana. Both had been shot in the back of the head, by a .32 revolver. A bloodstained patch of earth found 20 feet (6.1 m) away suggested that both victims were killed outside the car and put back in it.
Early on April 14, Paul Martin, 17, and Betty Jo Booker, 15, were killed in Texarkana’s Spring Lake Park. Martin’s body was found a mile and a half from his car (which was in the park) near a rural highway. Booker’s body was found two miles from the car, near a patch of woods. Both had been shot several times. As with Griffin and Moore, the bullets that had been fired from a .32 revolver. Soon after, the killer was dubbed the Phantom in the Texarkana Gazette.
By this time, the citizens of Texarkana had entered a state of panic. Many residents bought firearms, fortified their homes, and stayed in at night. The police, meanwhile, began patrolling Texarkana’s secluded streets and Lover's lanes, apparently prompting the Phantom to change tactics.
On May 4, a man attacked a farmhouse in Miller County, Arkansas, 12 miles from Texarkana. The prowler, standing outside the house, shot Virgil Starks, 36, twice through a parlor window, killing him. Virgil’s wife, Katy, 35, upon hearing breaking glass, left her bedroom and entered the parlor. The assailant, still outside the house, shot her twice, hitting her in the face and mouth, but Mrs Starks managed to escape from the house and get help from a neighbor. While Mrs Starks sought aid, the killer searched the house, leaving muddy footprints on the floor. By the time the police reached the house, the killer had gone. Although ballistics tests would later reveal that the bullets removed from the Starks had been fired from a .22 semiautomatic pistol, not a .32 revolver, the murder of Virgil Starks is generally believed to have been committed by the Phantom.
Two days later, a man’s body was found on rail tracks north of Texarkana. Some reporters speculated that the man, Earl McSpadden, was the Phantom and that he had committed suicide. However, following the coroner’s report of May 7 it was revealed that McSpadden had been stabbed to death before his body was put on the tracks, leading some to believe that McSpadden was another victim of the Phantom.
Only major suspect

The only major suspect in the Phantom case was Youell Swinney, a 29-year-old car thief with a record of counterfeiting, burglary, and assault who was arrested in Texarkana in July, 1946. Swinney’s wife, who was also arrested, told police that Swinney was the Phantom and that she had been with her husband when he committed the murders. Swinney’s wife kept changing the details about the killings and police came to view her as an unreliable witness. After being questioned by the police in Texarkana, Swinney was questioned in Little Rock. Swinney was eventually convicted of car theft in Texas and, as a repeat offender, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 1970, Swinney petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he should be released because he was not provided with an attorney at his trial in 1947. Swinney’s conviction was overturned on appeal and he was set free in 1974. Swinney died in 1994. The case of the Phantom has never been solved and remains open, although as of 2006 it is considered cold. William T. Rasmussen, author of Corroborating Evidence II (2006), presents intriguing similarities between the Phantom Killer of Texarkana and the Zodiac Killer who terrorized California in the late 1960s.
In 1977, American International Pictures released The Town That Dreaded Sundown, which was about the Phantom killings.

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

One of the more entertaining reads you can do about a serial/contract killer is of the Cleveland Mafia connected German hitman Hans Graewe.
Get the book Mob Nemesis from your local library and read up on the chapters about him. Eyewitness accounts from Carmen Zagaria, the guy who ratted him out.

Graewe was a sick fuck. Ironic story, its in the book, he was supposed to have murdered my grandfather, but missed his chance.

But really its a good read. Mob Nemesis by Joe Griffin

found a little something concerning him,these guys are fucking nuts man



Tommy James Sinito
AKA The Chinaman. If the early years of Tommy Sinito’s upward climb through Mafia ranks from errand boy to made man allowed him to expand his horizons. As a made man his life would be a mixture of triumph and tragedy. Throughout his Mafia career. Tommy’s grit and determination, qualities he used to climb the Mafia ranks, helped him to enforce orders of the Cleveland’s Mafia leaders. This stubborn streak emerged when he defended Licavoli’s and, Lonardo’s (the "old men" as he called them) leadership decisions to lower ranked Mafia associates.
One of the more bizarre crimes Tommy Sinito became involved in was 1978 assassination plot to kill then Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich. The three year on again, off again, assassination plot ended when Dennis lost the 1979 mayoral election.

Dennis Kucinich, nicknamed "The Boy Mayor" in 1977 rode into office on a wave of optimism for the City of Cleveland. He planned to make Cleveland into a dynamic place to live and work. within months Kucinich found the honeymoon was over with the media and the public. His nickname changed from "The Boy Mayor" to "Dennis the Menace". His bright political future came to a dead stop, his decision not to sell the Cleveland Municipal Light Electric Company to the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company was one the major reason why. The city’s going into economic default was another..
Kucinich found himself reviled by all of the public media outlets, both electronic and print, in Cleveland. Kucinich became material for late night talk show hosts and other standup comedians. Cleveland again became known as the mistake on the lake. When he appeared to throw out the first pitch of the season for the 1978 Cleveland Indians opening game at the old Municipal Stadium, Kucinch had to wear a bullet proof vest for protection.
Under his turbulent administration the city went into economic default. It had the poorest bond rating in the country. No finanical institution would extend credit to help Cleveland pay its bills. The city couldn’t burrow money. Cleveland as a major city had to pay its bills as it went. His time as Cleveland’s mayor is considered one of the worst in Cleveland’s history.
Throughout his short time as Cleveland’s mayor both the city and he became the butt of every comedian in the country. Kucinich became the target of venomous outrage at his new found national identity. His naive political thinking didn’t meet the challenge of tough urban politics. He survived a recall election only to lose the mayoral election in 1979 to former Cuyahoga County auditor George Voinovich. For the next nine years under the leadership of then Mayor Voinovich, City Council Presidents Basil Russo and George Forbes, they repaired the economic damage Kucinich had done to the city. Under Voinovich’s leadership Cleveland was repaired to became a "comeback" city both nationally and economically.
One decision Kucinich made while mayor was to review various city held contracts the city had with various companies. In an effort to save money for the financially strapped city have these contracts re-bid on, with the contracts going to the lowest bidder. This decision put him at odds with the Cleveland Mob. The Cleveland Mafia didn’t care Kucinch sold the Municipal Light system to the highest bidder, its sale didn’t affect them. Re-bidding on the city contracts they held through various front companies would
Some city contracts, especially in garbage hauling, had been under total mob control since the late 1940s. When Dennis announced in both daily papers, the Plain Dealer and the now defunct Cleveland Press, that he planned to review all city held contracts and open them to the lowest outside bids, he made Cleveland’s Mafia leaders angry. If he were successful, this decision would collide with Mob interests.
Kucinich made other economic decisions affecting mob interests, reviewing all of the garbage hauling contracts made him the target of their anger. Every mob held front company having any city contracts could have been investigated and criminal charges might been brought. This meant being convicted on federal racketeering charges under RICO (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations). Under RICO statutes, sentencing penalties are stiff with long jail sentences. None of Cleveland’s mob leaders wanted any investigations of their front businesses to happen.
Sinito was ordered to find an "outsider" to assassinate Kucinich. The Cleveland Mafia leaders didn’t want any evidence traced back to them. Mob leaders didn’t want to use the services of the local Murder Machine of Carmen Zagaria, Kevin McTaggart and the Graewe brothers, Hans and Fritz, all serial killers. Using local talent would lead back to them Sinito had to obtain the services of an outside contract killer. Sinito’s uncle Joey Maxim, who worked in an Atlantic City casino helped his nephew Tommy make a connection. Maxim made contact with a contract killer. Maxim didn’t know wjen he’d contacted a Maryland State Police officer using the name Gene. A police officer who specialized in posing as a contract killer.
First contact between the two men came in the Atlantic City casino where Tommy’s uncle worked. Gene walked into the casino’s lounge where he’d been told to meet Sinito. Tommy who felt he was being watched nodded his head twice. Gene nodded back, Sinito knew the Kucinich assassination plot was on. The only name Gene had to work with was the first name Tommy. Cleveland Police searched their records and made the connection to Mafia associate Tommy Sinito.
The original plan was to pay Gene $25,000 for his services. Several plans were discussed; one, kill Dennis as he left Tony’s Diner on West 117th and Lorain Avenue. Gene would perch on an outside steel fire escape across the street, armed with a sniper rifle and shot Dennis when he came out of the diner. A seconnd plan shot Dennis as he marched down Euclid Avenue in the 1979 Columbus Day Parade. Both plans fell through when Dennis wasn’t re-elected in 1979.
How did Dennis earn the Cleveland Mob’s hatred? There were some things they liked about Dennis. Nowever when he questioned the garbage hauling contracts various mob members had with the Cleveland. Dennis threatened them, they had held these contracts for years as an monoply Kucinch wanted all garbage hauling contracts reviewed and re-bid on going to the lowest bidder. A steady source of income would dry up if this occurred. Dennis had to go. No one thumbed their nose at the Mob and got away with it! Money runs deeper than blood to the Mob
If Dennis and his people couldn’t be controlled by bribery, other plans had to be made. Bizarre plans were hatched to control Dennis. For three years the Mob bounced ideas between themselves, none of them were ever realized.
Gene found the Cleveland Mob connected to an interlinked chain of criminal influence reaching from Cleveland to Youngstown, the corruption crescent of Ohio. The chain stretched to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and on to Washington, D.C. The Mob’s influence ran deeper than Gene realized.
Even the Permanent U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Organized Crime warned in the 1970s that Mafia influence could migrate from major urban centers to smaller towns and cities that were easier to control. The Mob had fled the city to the rural wilderness to pursue its criminal activities.

Gene’s involvement in the assisnation plot grew stranger. Each time Gene came to Cleveland and met with various mob members to investigate the plot, mob leaders, who thought he was a contract killer, gave him free rein to plan. While mob leaders Gene met with made veiled references to the Kucinich plot, none of them ever discussed it openly.
Gene made two more trips to Cleveland and made one to West Virginia to discuss the assassination plot. To make his image as a successful contract hit man believable, he drove a expensive late model car and wore expensive clothing. He wanted to project success and fooled them into believing he could do the job. While the amateurs he’d dealt with before wanted to make the plans for each contract killing, the Mafia members let him plan he wanted to do. Cleveland Mafia leaders let Gene do the planning Gene bounced some assassination scenarios off them trying get their reactions
They made Gene nervous, he’d never had dealings with real criminals and to protect himself. He couldn’t conduct any business until mob leaders approved of them. Gene wore a wire 24/7 to reecord his conversations with mob membeeers to protect imself. Dealing with professionals was a different game from dealing with amateurs. One slip in his cover he’d be killed.
Every meet Gene had with the Cleveland Mafia became more dangerous.
Always the hustler, Tommy Sinito ran interence between Gene and mob leaders, balanced both sides. During every meeeting Gene had with the mob, Sinito listened to both sides and tried to accomplish what the Cleveland Mob had given him orders to do.
Gene grew more terrified sfter each meeting he had with Cleveland’s Mob leaders. Their professional behavior worried him, Gene played along to complete his investigation. To protect himself Gene traveled from Matyland to Cleveland with six other undercover policemen. Nothing resulted from the Mob’s assisnation plot, it fizzled out after Dennis lost the 1979 mayoral election. Gene returned home to Maryland. Case closed. In 1984 the 1978 Dennis Kucinich plot would result in a probe into the Cleveland Mafia’s part in the assisnation plot.
Sinito along with other Mob associates he worked with weren’t afraid use their fists for beat downs and enforce the mob’s leadership decisons. Joseph "Joey Loose" Iacobacci a memeber of Sinito’s crew, earned his nickname from the fact he had a short fuse and a bad temper. His nickname came from screw loose. Early on Joey Loose earned his reputation with the big cigar boys running the mob.
Iacobacci and Sinito earned their bones as they beat down associates of Irish gangster Danny Greene. It’s rumored Iacobacci and Sinito murdered one of Greene’s lower level associates and Greene’s response was to have one of his gang, possibly his cousin Kevin McTaggart, wire a bundle of dynamite to the frame of Sinito’s car. Tommy Sinito disarmed and disposed of the bomb himself. Danny Greene’s act forced Sinto and Iacobacci to be drawn unwillingly into the Greene/Nardi wars. With Iacobacci in his crew Sinito wasn’t afraid of the outcome of any clashes he had with Danny Greene’s gang.
Neither Sinito or Iacobacci were afraid of jail. They used threats and their fists to collect the interest on loansharked money owed to the mob. If caught and convicted, they weren’t afraid of jail, both men regarded jail as a rite of passage. They carried with them the reputation of action, not bragging to get things done.
Long before being made, Sinito earned the reputation of being reliable and trustworthy. He, too, was a good earner, something the mob admired.
Sinito and Iacobacci only used violence as a means to the end. Both men used their strength to enforce the Mafia’s rule. Even with his hair trigger temper Iacobacci didn’t enjoy bullying those weaker than he was. Sinito and Iacobacci looked down on bullies who attacked the weak and defenseless, behavior older Mafia leaders disdained, behavior they felt was beneath themselves.
Bullies didn’t carry any street creds only disdain from older Mafia members. The rule wouldn’t brother with a bully it didn’t earn any one creds with mob leaders.
Sinito learned to behave as a made man from older members .He learned to blend in with his Mafia bosses, being a good talker he could use charm to work around problems he needed to solve.
In 1979 in a small private back room at the Italian-American brotherhood Club in the Murraiy Hill district on Mayfield Road in Cleveland. Surrounded by Angelo "Big Ange" Lonardo, John "Jack White" Licavoli and Charlie Casra (a retired member of the Clveland Family) Tommy and joseph Gallo became made men Lonardo joked he had to conduct the induction because he was the only one who remembered the Oath.
Each man repeated the rules they had to obey as made men as Big Ange spoke it. "No one leaves the family alive.They couldn’t talk to the FBI. No use/or sale of drugs. Never engage in prostitution or use the services of a prostitute. Never become involved with other Mafia members wives or girlfreinds."
Both men were instructed in the rules they had to obey in the Cleveland Mafia family. They had to let Licavoli and Lonardo know what their plans were and let the the bosses know about them. Nothing could be done unless the bosses approved of them.
Big Ange pricked their trigger fingers and drew blood. Both men were told not to their blood brothers. These who had also taken the Oath. They would be those brothers they could trust in the future.
Lonardo handed each man a Saint card, he set the Saint cards on fire and the men held them in the palms of their hands, they juggled the burning Saint cards from hand to hand. They watched them buen to ashes.
"As these ashes are blown away so shall you soul if you betray those who are your brothers/" Big Ange said. "If you betray any of your brothers, you will blow away like these ashes. After Lonardo said this, he ordered the men to blow the ashes away. "Do not betray your trusted brothers!"
Sinto and Gallo became made men. For Toomy, like the first time he’d entered Jackie Presser’s resturant in Mayfield Heights, The Forge. He found himself part of the upper Mafia leadership. Despite all odds he’d made it! He’d become made! Sinito was more than an errand boy, a lower level associate, he was made. Now he would direct business for the Cleveland mob. No more reflected glory from his bosses, now he would create his own glory.
Tommy Sinito found himself on the inside looking out, Joseph Gallo and he had been made! They’d joined a brotherhood, one with extensive political and criminal connections.
The small pain of having his trigger finger pricked, was nothing compared to the effort he’d used being made, and the pain and the worry were worth it! He still had to earn for the Cleveland Family in the next years he would. The loansharking scheme that operated out of the Appliance Mart stores he co-owned with his brother Chuck and the massive drug ring he’d financed, would make lots of money for the Mob.
Sinito came a long way from the cramped Cleveland neighborhood he’d grown up in. During the 1930s, 40s and 50s Cleveland neighborhood were populated with a mixture of Italians and other ethnic, most of them first and second generation immigrants. An ethnic community filled the narrow brick streets City streets lined with two story Cleveland Doubles sitting on tiny fifty foot lots. Their well tended green yards smooth as velvet arpets surrounded the small homes with yards filled with colorful flower beds. Tree lawns filled with leafy Maple and Oak trees shadied the streets and sidewalks.
Every back yard had a vegetable garden filled with tomato, pepper, onions, zucchini, squash, eggplants, garlic and herbs. Gardens yielded their harvest in the fall to be canned or pickled preserved for future use. Surplus vegetables were given to their neighbors. Nothing from these gardens was wasted Some back yard gardeners cultivated grapevines for the illegal wine making a skill every first generation immigrate Italian used to make wine for private use.
People sat on their front porches and they watched the daily show of their neighbors walking past. They yelled "Hello" at people they knew. Strangers were regarded with suspicion. A hold over from the old country outsiders can’t be trusted. Keep silent and watch any outsiders carefully and be quiet when the police appeared. Strangers and authorities weren’t to be trusted. Be quiet, don’t talk to the police and other authorities, solve your problems yourself!
In 1951 Cleveland’s east side neighborhoods were still ethnic. It wouldn’t be until the great urban migration out to the inner ring neighborhoods surrounding Cleveland. Bedford, Bedford Heights, Maple Heights, Garfield Heights and Solon were Cleveland suburbs who saw a major influx of people flooding in to these cities increasing their populations. In the late 1940s and early 1950s the Kinsman and Woodland neighborhood remained fill of Italians and other ethnics.
It was a different time too for the Cleveland Mafia. During the early 1930s. Mafia members numbers hadn’t been whittled down, it was a strong presence beyond Cleveland and retained control of the city. Under the leadership of Al Polizzi (Boss from 1931-1945), Mafia membership remained strong, t had over 50 made men on its books. There were over 60 Mafia associates to run errands and do the low level jobs the made men wouldn’t do. These members guarded the neighborhoods they lived in.
Unfortunately under John Scalish’s (Mob Boss from 1978 to 1983) leadership, Mafia membership declined. Scalish, a poor manager, failed to replace members lost too either retirement, death or were imprisoned. He didn’t open the books and create new members. Men, who could be trained as successors to manage the Cleveland family and keep it running.
What Scalish had was political influence, a lot of political influence. He was on a first name basis with most, if not all major political figures in the Cleveland area. John Scalish used his political influence, he was never arrested or convicted of any crimes.
Under Scalish’s leadership the Cleveland Mafia’s numbers declined, a poor shadow of it’s former glory.
Even with it’s reduced membership, the Cleveland Family still remained a strong presence in some of Cleveland neighborhoods. Men who traded small favors, a bag of groceries here, a loan of money there, for small favors in return. Using their influence to control their neighborhoods. These favors were given with the promise of future payment in return.
Wherever mob associates lived it became their neighborhood, a place to protect and reap profits from. People who lived and grew up in these neighborhoods understood this. Mob members protected their turf, they became the others who ruled the local neighborhoods.
Others, mob associates, lived in the neighborhood. members of the Mafia. When they went to any of the local stores, they were placed first in line. Local bakers kept the best baked goods for them. When they walked down the sidewalks everyone who saw them whispered and shook their heads. Men of respect who were treated like royalty. Young men who lived in the neighborhood saw the wealth and respect Mob members earned and they wanted it for themselves.
On one of the front porches a teenaged boy sat and watched as the expensive, late model car moved slowly from house to house in the neighborhood. Sinito baby-sitting his younger cousin Tommy Longo studied the quiet, well dressed men on their weekly rounds to collect money owed to the mob. Longo, seven years younger than Sinito, sat on the wooden floor of the porch and played with a small rubber jack ball. Sinito’s timid, shy, cousin ignored what went on outside of the porch. Sinito watched the men move from house to house collecting on the factory gate loans, loan-sharked money used to finance other illegal mob activities. Sinito polished his glasses wondering how he could ease his way into the mob.
Tommy Sinito wanted in, he started to gain their trust by running small errands. He always finished any small job older Mafia members ordered him to do. Resourceful he always found ways to turn a profit. From his early Mafia years Tommy gained the reputation of being an earner.
Surrounded by family members who dabbled in illegal activities Sinito gravitated to illegal ways to earn a living. He knew people, some even in his own family, connected to Cleveland’s criminal underground. Seeing the respect they got.Tommy always the street hustler and good talker eased his wayin to work with the big cigar boys. Running small errands, being quiet with no big talk. Doing the criminal dozens by bragging about what he could do wouldn’t work, action would!
Sinito’s uncle Joey Maxim had emerged triumphant from a brush with the Illinois Boxing Commission. Maxim, in 1951, had been accused of being doped before his heavy weight fight with Ezzard Charles.
The Illinois Boxing Commission found Joey Maxim innocent. The boxing commission reprimanded his manager Jackie Kearns of starting the rumors by "loose talk." Kearns was warned to be quiet in the future about the boxers he managed. The next year, in 1952, Maxim became boxing’s Lightweight Champion of the World on June 25 by defeating the legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson
On June 26, 1952 headlines set in 72 point print, the largest size available, announced in Joey Maxim’s win in both The Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Cleveland Press Joey Maxim’s win over Sugar Ray Robinson after a fourteen round fight, fought in New York’s Madison Square Gardens. Joey Maxim’s win caused Cleveland to go into a frenzy of excitement local boy made good! Cleveland had something to celebrate! The last sporting event to have a frenzy surrounding it was the Indians winning the 1948 Championship Pennant. Maxim became a star, he’d earned his place in the fight game. Through his uncle Tommy Sinito had early connections to Cleveland’s criminal underworld, connections that would be useful to him later on..
The fight game, as some called it was controlled by criminal syndicates. The fights were a good source of money for the Mob. The money earned by kickbacks from ticket sales, concession sales, illegal betting on fixed fights and other activities made it a profitable sport. The next profitable sport for the mob was horse racing, it too generated a lot of money to finance mob activities. There isn’t any evidence Joey Maxim did anything illegal in his boxing career. People in the sport regarded him as an "honest" boxer, unlike other boxers in the fight game.
Twenty minutes away from the Kinsman and Woodland neighborhood, by either trolley, bus or car was Cleveland’s original municipal sports stadium. League Park.
League Park, until 1961, remained the original home of the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland’s original municipal sports stadium, League Park was located at the intersection of East 65th and Lexington Avenue. An odd shaped ball park, it only seated 4,000 people. The Cleveland Indians only played day games, there were no lights installed for watching night games. Indian fans, gathered to watch the team play sat in the steel and concrete double decker seats. Fans drank beer, ate roasted peanuts, hot dogs, popcorn and cheered the home team.
Every summer the Cleveland Indians played their home games at League Park. League Park became a regular gathering place for various members of the Cleveland mob. Angelo "Big Ange" Lonardo along with his associates and hangers on, attended the home games to cheer on his team.
On warm summer afternoons while the boys of summer played ball, home games faithfully attended by Tommy and his brother Chuck. Others attended the home games too. Sinito recognized them like everyone else did, mob members who sat by themselves, an unfriendly circle to outsiders. Noisy while they cheered, quiet when outsiders approached.
"Gangsters, people muttered when they saw the group sitting there .Mobsters!" they whispered while edging around them to find seats.
"Like royalty," Sinito probably thought, "Treated with more respects than the suckers who work regular jobs. Jobs at the Collinwood Yards! Sweaty factory jobs! Small pay, small respect. No small pay jobs for me!"
Sinito eased his way in taking his brother Chuck with him. He made himself indispensable to those mobsters around him. He earned his street creds makimg a name for himself by finishing what he started. You could take his word to the bank, if Tommy Sinito said it would be done, it would be done!
Tommy Sinito had moved on from the cramped Cleveland neighborhood he’d grown up in. He moved on to larger horizons in a bigger world, one he’d only seen from the outside. Now he was inside looking out, a heady sensation. The slight pain from the pin prick faded as he celebrated his new rank.Tommy "The Chinaman" Sinito made man in the Cleveland Mafia. His loyalty was to them, they were his family now the brotherhood who asked him to join. The oath he took, he kept. The Mafia Oath he’d be going to hell for
Unlike some of the associates Sinito surrounded himself, Carmen Zagaria,. Kevin McTaggart and the Graewe brothers, Hans and Fritz. Men who enjoyed inflicting pain and then murdered their victims, using these tools as a means to an ends in protecting their interests and profits from their criminal enterprises. Tommy Sinito remained a peaceful man, he preferred to use reason. He didn’t enjoy violence. He didn’t use violence, except to protect mob interests, he wasn’t shy about using threats or his fists to enforce the mob leaders decisions. if vtolence was needed, Sinito wasn’t afraid to use it. With the exception of mob member David Perrier’s murder. A murder he’d been ordered to do by Big Ange Lonardo to eliminate David Perrier who Big Ange felt the FBI could flip Perrier as a possible informant on the mob’s activities. The violent acts Sinito did committed were done on orders of his mob bosses.
Tommy Sinito surrounded himself with men who weren’t afraid to use violence to achieve their ends. The Graewe brothers, Hans nd Fritz, Kevin McTaggart and Carmen Zagaria. Men who became Cleveland’s version of Brooklyn’s Mafia family Murder Machine. The Graewes, McTaggart and Zagaria had nineteen murders to to their credit, murders people didn’t knew about until Zagaria became an FBI informant and confessed about them. Cleveland’s Murder Machine used violence to enforce and protect large drug ring they operated. Everything from beat downs on street drug dealers, to torture and murder. All four men functioned as a well oiled team each man complementing the other’s deadly talents.
None of the men Sinito surrounded himself with were as pathologically violent as Fritz and Hans Graewe. Hans eclipsed his brother Fritz in his murder skills and rode around in an battered Volkswagen bus he called the Ambulance, he’d called himself "The Surgeon", other people called him "The Butcher". Everyone who dealt with him feared him. Hans, like Zagaria, was a major player in the massive drug ring operation Zagarua managed.
The Graewe brothers learned to love cruelty from their father, a first generation German immigrant, who had been an SS officer in Nazi Germany. He taught them to be cruel and kill from an early age. The Graewe brothers tortured and killed small animals, they escalated to torturing and killing people. Life meant nothing to them.
Not only did they learn cruelty from their father. Both Graewe brothers absorbed the Nazi philosophy their father taught them. The philosophy of a "master race" superior to those around them. One of Hans Graewe’s burning ambitions was "to kill a Jew!"
Fritz and Hans for them murder was a lifestlyle, a causal thing, something to refined and enhanced. Few people crossed drug kingpin Carmen Zagaria , they knew the Graewe brothers and Kevin McTaggart backed Zagarua’s decisons.
Everyone including the FBI agents who who conducted the BUSMARK investigation of the drug ring admited they were afriad of Hans Graewe.
Dean Winslow, lead FBI agent in the BUSMARK probe learned of Hans’s threats to his family. An informant had told Winslow " Hans was threatening to kill his family." Everyone the agents interviewed agreed they were afraid of Hans. No one wanted to testify against either Carrmen Zagaria, Kevin McTaggart or the Graewe brothers.
Winslow said, "I wasn’t concerned, but we couldn’t stay home all day to protect our families.
For their own protection the agent’s families were moved from place to place for six months to keep them out of Hans Graewe reach. The FBI considered him a dangerous man. After Hans was convicted and imprisoned on all the charges, the agents families were brought out of hiding to resume their normal lives.
Hans Graewe’s grisly acts of murder generated a lot of fear. "Everyone who ever talked about him is scared to death of the man." Winslow said.
Graewe left a grisly, bloody trail of dead and dismembered bodies behind him.
Hans served his purpose in the drug ring’s operations. Even mob associates, like James Coppola, who worked with the Graewes, McTaggart and Zagaria felt they were out of control.
These men guarded Sinito’s interests. Violence was the chosen method, it worked, inducing an atmosphere of fear around the drug ring kingpins. The massive drug ring operation created by the merger of the smaller drug rings in the 1970s continued to operate and generate profit for the mob. It operated until the FBI arrested and got convictions to imprison the drug kingpins running it. The Zagaria, Gallo and Sinito drug ring accounted for 40% of illegal drug sales in Cuyahoga County.
The criminal acts committed by the Graewe brothers, Kevin McTaggart and Zagaira were the tip of the iceberg. The illegal activities committed to protect mob interests and the 20 million dollar profit a year from its illegal drug sales, made it a worth while investment. The money flowed in and everyone profited. Tommy Sinito was personally responsible for ordering three murders, he committed himself. Sinito being Machivallian, who, to keep power, used the tools around him..
Sinito while basically peaceful was no lovable gangster. He had no trouble in committing murder when it served his purposes. He was always loyal to Cleveland’s Mafia family.
Tommy Sinito ruled, with an iron hand, his part of the Mafia family. He wasn’t tolerate of those he considered sliding through, and not serving both his and the mob’s interests. Machivaillian in his decisions, he used the tools around him. Zagaria, McTaggart and the Gaewe brothers. Sinito became a fox who recognized the traps, a lion who guarded against the wolves who could ravage the Mafia’s interests.
He guarded his interests well, if these interests were served by violence and murder, then Sinito used these keep control. He owed his alliance to the old men who ruled the Cleveland Family. Sinito guarded their interests and guarded them well.

[J-Cee]

WOW you guys are pretty gay and gothic. people dying, we all will in one form or another, get over it.

smh

yeh..see if u have that same opinion if a serial killer rapes and murders your mother........

...everyone dies...right...?

[J-Cee]

One of My Favourites

The Iceman.Richard Kuklinski ...hitman for the mob...not really considered a serial killer dont think,but killed many many ppl.

heres a link to videos where he confesses all his shit and goes into detail etc..interesting shit.
his approx guess of many ppl he killed is over 100

vid 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TegpgDHEarY

the rest in the vid series are to the right

[SickSide]

Albert Hamilton Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American sado-masochistic torture murderer, serial killer and cannibal. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, and The Bogeyman.[1] He boasted that he had "had children in every state,"[1] putting the figure at around 100, although it is not clear whether he was talking about molestation or cannibalization, less still as to whether it was true or not. He was a suspect in at least five killings in his lifetime. Fish confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide, and confessed to stabbing at least two other people. He was put on trial for the kidnap and murder of Grace Budd, and was convicted and executed via electric chair.

Early life

He was born as Hamilton Fish in Washington, D.C., to Randall Fish (1795-1875).[2] He said he had been named after Hamilton Fish, a distant relative. His father was 43 years older than his mother.[3] Fish was the youngest child and he had three living siblings: Walter, Annie, and Edwin Fish. He wished to be called "Albert" after a dead sibling, and to escape the nickname 'Ham and Eggs' that he was given at an orphanage in which he spent many of his early years.

Many members of his family had mental illness, and one suffered from religious mania.[4] His father was a river boat captain, but by 1870 he was a fertilizer manufacturer.[3] The elder Fish died of a heart attack at the Sixth Street Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1875 in Washington, D.C. Fish's mother put him into an orphanage. He was frequently whipped and beaten there, and eventually discovered that he enjoyed physical pain. The beatings would often give him erections, for which the other orphans teased him.[5]

By 1879, his mother got a government job and was able to look after him. However, his various experiences before this had affected him. He started a homosexual relationship in 1882, at the age of 12, with a telegraph boy. The youth also introduced Fish to such practices as drinking urine and coprophagia. Fish began visiting public baths where he could watch boys undress, and spent a great portion of his weekends on these visits.[5]
Albert Fish's mugshot in 1903
Albert Fish's mugshot in 1903

By 1890, Fish had arrived in New York City, and he said he became a male prostitute. He also said he began raping young boys, a crime he kept committing even after his mother arranged a marriage. In 1898, he was married to a woman nine years his junior. They had six children: Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John, and Henry Fish. He was arrested for embezzlement and was sentenced to incarceration in Sing Sing in 1903. He regularly had sex with men while in prison.[5]

Throughout 1898 he worked as a house painter, and he said he continued molesting children, mostly boys under six. He later recounted an incident in which a male lover took him to a waxworks museum, where Fish was fascinated by a bisection of a penis; soon after, he developed a morbid interest in castration. During a relationship with a mentally retarded man, Fish attempted to castrate him after tying him up. The man became frightened and fled. Fish then began intensifying his visits to brothels where he could be whipped and beaten more often.[5]

In January 1917, his wife left him for John Straube, a handyman who boarded with the Fish family.[6] Following this rejection, Fish began to hear voices; for example, he once wrapped himself up in a carpet, explaining that he was following the instructions of John the Apostle.[5]

[edit] Early attacks and attempted abductions

Fish committed what may have been his first attack on a child named Thomas Bedden in Wilmington, Delaware in 1910.[7][8] Afterward, he stabbed a mentally retarded boy around 1919 in Georgetown, Washington, D.C..[9] Consistently, many of his intended victims would be either mentally retarded or African-American, because, he believed, they would not be missed.[10]

On July 11, 1924 Fish found eight-year-old Beatrice Kiel playing alone on her parents' Staten Island farm. He offered her money to come and help him look for rhubarb in the neighboring fields. She was about to leave the farm when her mother chased Fish away. Fish left, but returned later to the Kiels' barn where he tried to sleep for the night before being discovered by Hans Kiel and told to leave.

[edit] Grace Budd
Grace Budd (1918-1928)
Grace Budd (1918-1928)

On May 25, 1928 Edward Budd put a classified ad in the Sunday edition of the New York World that read: "Young man, 18, wishes position in country. Edward Budd, 406 West 15th Street." On May 28, 1928, Fish, then 58 years old, visited the Budd family in Manhattan, New York City under the pretense of hiring Edward. He introduced himself as Frank Howard, a farmer from Farmingdale, New York. When he arrived, Fish met Budd's younger sister, 10-year-old Grace. Fish promised to hire Budd and said he would send for him in a few days. On his second visit he agreed to hire Budd, then convinced the parents, Delia Flanagan and Albert Budd I, to let Grace accompany him to a birthday party that evening at his sister's home. Albert senior was a porter for the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Grace had a sister, Beatrice; and two other brothers, Albert Budd II; and George Budd. Fish left with Grace that day, but never came back.[11]

The police arrested Charles Edward Pope on September 5, 1930 as a suspect of the kidnapping. He was a 66-year-old apartment house superintendent, and he was accused by his estranged wife.[12] He spent 108 days in jail between his arrest and trial on December 22, 1930.[13]

[edit] The letter

Seven years later, in November 1934, an anonymous letter was sent to the girl's parents which led the police to Albert Fish. The letter is quoted here, with all of Fish's misspellings and grammatical errors:

Dear Mrs. Budd. In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the Steamer Tacoma, Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong, China. On arriving there he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned the boat was gone. At that time there was famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1-3 per pound. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold for food in order to keep others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could go in any shop and ask for steak—chops—or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it. A boy or girl's behind which is the sweetest part of the body and sold as veal cutlet brought the highest price. John staid [sic] there so long he acquired a taste for human flesh. On his return to N.Y. he stole two boys, one 7 and one 11. Took them to his home stripped them naked tied them in a closet. Then burned everything they had on. Several times every day and night he spanked them – tortured them – to make their meat good and tender. First he killed the 11 year old boy, because he had the fattest ass and of course the most meat on it. Every part of his body was cooked and eaten except the head—bones and guts. He was roasted in the oven (all of his ass), boiled, broiled, fried and stewed. The little boy was next, went the same way. At that time, I was living at 409 E 100 St. near—right side. He told me so often how good human flesh was I made up my mind to taste it.On Sunday June the 3, 1928 I called on you at 406 W 15 St. Brought you pot cheese—strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her. On the pretense of taking her to a party. You said yes she could go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wildflowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not I would get her blood on them. When all was ready I went to the window and called her. Then I hid in a closet until she was in the room. When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried to run down the stairs. I grabbed her and she said she would tell her mamma. First I stripped her naked. How she did kick – bite and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms. Cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did not fuck her tho I could of had I wished. She died a virgin.[4]

Mrs. Budd was illiterate and could not read the letter herself, so she had her son read it instead.[14] Fish later admitted to his attorney that he did indeed rape Grace.[15] Fish was a compulsive liar, however, so this may be untrue. He had told the police, when asked, that it "never even entered his head" to rape the girl.[16]

[edit] Capture

The letter was delivered in an envelope that had a small hexagonal emblem with the letters "N.Y.P.C.B.A." standing for "New York Private Chauffeur's Benevolent Association". A janitor at the company told police he had taken some of the stationery home but left it at his rooming house at 200 East 52nd Street when he moved out. The landlady of the rooming house said that Fish had checked out of that room a few days earlier. She said that Fish's son sent him money and he had asked her to hold his next check for him. William F. King,[17] the lead investigator, waited outside the room until Fish returned. He agreed to go to the headquarters for questioning, but at the street door lunged at King with a razor in each hand.[18] King disarmed Fish and took him to police headquarters. Fish made no attempt to deny the Grace Budd murder, saying that he had meant to go to the house to kill Edward Budd, Grace's brother.[19]

[edit] Postcapture discoveries

[edit] Billy Gaffney

A child named Billy Gaffney was playing in the hallway outside of his family's apartment in Brooklyn with his friend, Billy Beaton on February 11, 1927. Both of the boys disappeared, but the friend was found on the roof of the apartment house. When asked what happened to Gaffney, Beaton said "the boogey man took him." Initially Peter Kudzinowski was a suspect in the murder of Billy Gaffney. Then, Joseph Meehan, a motorman on a Brooklyn trolley, saw a picture of Fish in the newspaper and identified him as the old man that he saw February 11, 1927, who was trying to quiet a little boy sitting with him on the trolley. The boy wasn't wearing a jacket and was crying for his mother and was dragged by the man on and off the trolley. Police matched the description of the child to Billy Gaffney. Gaffney's body was never recovered.[20] Billy's mother visited Fish in Sing Sing to try and get more details of her son's death.[21] Fish confessed the following:

I brought him to the Riker Avenue dumps. There is a house that stands alone, not far from where I took him. I took the boy there. Stripped him naked and tied his hands and feet and gagged him with a piece of dirty rag I picked out of the dump. Then I burned his clothes. Threw his shoes in the dump. Then I walked back and took the trolley to 59 Street at 2 a.m. and walked from there home. Next day about 2 p.m., I took tools, a good heavy cat-o-nine tails. Home made. Short handle. Cut one of my belts in half, slit these halves in six strips about 8 inches long. I whipped his bare behind till the blood ran from his legs. I cut off his ears, nose, slit his mouth from ear to ear. Gouged out his eyes. He was dead then. I stuck the knife in his belly and held my mouth to his body and drank his blood. I picked up four old potato sacks and gathered a pile of stones. Then I cut him up. I had a grip with me. I put his nose, ears and a few slices of his belly in the grip. Then I cut him through the middle of his body. Just below the belly button. Then through his legs about 2 inches below his behind. I put this in my grip with a lot of paper. I cut off the head, feet, arms, hands and the legs below the knee. This I put in sacks weighed with stones, tied the ends and threw them into the pools of slimy water you will see all along the road going to North Beach. I came home with my meat. I had the front of his body I liked best. His monkey and pee wees and a nice little fat behind to roast in the oven and eat. I made a stew out of his ears, nose, pieces of his face and belly. I put onions, carrots, turnips, celery, salt and pepper. It was good. Then I split the cheeks of his behind open, cut off his monkey and pee wees and washed them first. I put strips of bacon on each cheek of his behind and put them in the oven. Then I picked 4 onions and when the meat had roasted about 1/4 hour, I poured about a pint of water over it for gravy and put in the onions. At frequent intervals I basted his behind with a wooden spoon. So the meat would be nice and juicy. In about 2 hours, it was nice and brown, cooked through. I never ate any roast turkey that tasted half as good as his sweet fat little behind did. I ate every bit of the meat in about four days. His little monkey was a sweet as a nut, but his pee-wees I could not chew. Threw them in the toilet.[4]

[edit] Previous incarceration

Fish married on February 6, 1930 at Waterloo, New York to "Mrs. Estella Wilcox" and divorced after one week.[22] Fish had been arrested in May 1930 for "sending an obscene letter to a Negro woman who answered an advertisement for a maid."[23] He had been sent to the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in 1930 and 1931 for observation, following his arrests.[24]

[edit] Trial and execution
Fish inserted over a dozen needles into his pelvis and perineum as seen in this x-ray used at his trial
Fish inserted over a dozen needles into his pelvis and perineum as seen in this x-ray used at his trial

The trial of Albert Fish for the premeditated murder of Grace Budd began on Monday, March 11, 1935, in White Plains, New York with Frederick P. Close as judge, and Chief Assistant District Attorney, Elbert F. Gallagher, as the prosecuting attorney. James Dempsey was Fish's defense attorney. The trial lasted for ten days. Fish pleaded insanity, and claimed to have heard voices from God telling him to kill children. Several psychiatrists testified about Fish's sexual fetishes, including coprophilia, urophilia, pedophilia and masochism, but there was disagreement as to whether these activities meant he was insane. The defense's chief expert witness was Fredric Wertham, a psychiatrist with a focus on child development who conducted psychiatric examinations for the New York criminal courts; Wertham stated that Fish was insane. Another defense witness was Mary Nicholas, Fish's 17-year-old stepdaughter. She described how Fish taught her and her brothers and sisters a "game" involving overtones of masochism and child molestation.[4] The jury found him to be sane and guilty, and the judge ordered the death sentence.

After being sentenced Fish confessed to the murder of eight-year-old Francis X. McDonnell, killed on Staten Island. Francis was playing on the front porch of his home near Port Richmond, Staten Island in July 15, 1924. Francis's mother saw an "old man" walk by clenching and unclenching his fists. He walked past without saying anything. Later in the day, the old man was seen again, but this time he was watching Francis and his friends play. Francis' body was found in the woods near where a neighbor had seen Francis and the "old man" going earlier that afternoon. He had been assaulted and strangled with his suspenders.[25][9]

Fish arrived in March 1935, and was executed on January 16, 1936, in the electric chair at Sing Sing. He entered the chamber at 11:06 p.m. and was pronounced dead three minutes later.[26] He was buried in the Sing Sing Prison Cemetery. He was recorded to have said that electrocution would be "the supreme thrill of my life".[27] Just before the switch was flipped, he stated "I don't even know why I am here."[16]


Fish X-ray

[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

damn

[Jammin]

iam surprise that nobody talked about JEFFREY DAHMMER the most fucked up serial killer ever .... yall need to read what he did, he's the sickest

[Jammin]

here's a documentary about dahmer

[Jammin]

DAHMER I HATE YOU !!!



fucked up

[J-Cee]

John Wayne Gacy

(March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an Americanserial killer.
He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men between 1972 and his arrest in 1978, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, under the name of "Pogo the Clown."
Early life
Born John Wayne Gacy, Jr. in Chicago, Illinois, the second of three children,[1] he was raised a Catholic in a suburb of Chicago. He had a troubled relationship with his father, John Samuel Gacy, Sr. (June 20, 1900 - December 25, 1969), a physically abusivealcoholic who often called his son a "sissy."[2] He was close to his mother, Marion Elaine Robinson or Robertson (as listed in Cook County Marriage Index) (May 4, 1908 –[December 1, 1989).[3]
When Gacy was 11, he was struck on the forehead by a swing. The resulting head trauma formed a blood clot in his brain which went unnoticed until he was 16, when he began to suffer blackouts. He was then prescribed medication to dissolve the clot. [4][5]
After attending four high schools, Gacy dropped out before completing his senior year and left his family, heading west. After running out of money in Las Vegas, he worked long enough to earn money to travel back home to Chicago. Without returning to high school, he enrolled in and eventually graduated from Northwestern Business College.[6][7] A job selling shoes followed shortly after graduation, and in 1964 the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company transferred Gacy to Springfield, Illinois. In September of 1964, Gacy married Marlynn Myers. He became active in local Springfield organizations, joining the Jaycees and rising to vice-president of the Springfield chapter by 1965.[8]
Marlynn's parents, who had purchased a group of Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, offered John a job as manager of a Waterloo, Iowa KFC, and the Gacys moved there from Springfield.[9]

[edit] Imprisonment, divorce, parole

The Gacys settled in Waterloo and had two children, a son and a daughter. Gacy worked hard at his KFC franchise but still found time to again join the Jaycees.[10] Rumors of Gacy's homosexuality began to spread but did not stop him from being named "outstanding vice-president" of the Waterloo Jaycees in 1967.[11] However, there was a seamier side of Jaycee life in Waterloo, one that involved prostitution, pornography, and drugs, one which John Gacy was deeply involved with. Gacy himself was cheating on his wife regularly.[12] At the same time Gacy opened a "club" in his basement for the young boys of Waterloo, where he allowed them to drink alcohol but made sexual advances towards them.[13]
Gacy's middle class idyll in Waterloo came crashing down in March 1968 when two different Waterloo boys, aged sixteen and fifteen, accused him of sexually assaulting them.[14] Gacy professed his innocence and it appeared he might beat the charges, but in August of that year he hired another Waterloo youth to beat up one of his accusers. Gacy's henchman was caught and confessed all, and Gacy was arrested.[15] Before the year was out he was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to ten years in prison.[16]
Imprisonment was rapidly followed by his wife's petition for divorce. Gacy and his wife were divorced in 1969. He never saw his children again.[17] During his incarceration, Gacy's father died from liver cirrhosis, on Christmas Day 1969.[18] He was paroled in 1970, after serving 18 months. After Gacy was released, he moved back to Illinois to live with his mother.[19] He successfully hid this criminal record until police began investigating him for his later murders.

[edit] Businessman and political activist


Gacy with Rosalynn Carter, 1978


Gacy moved in with his mother and got a job as a chef in a Chicago restaurant.[20] In 1971, with his mother's financial assistance, he bought a house at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, in an unincorporated area of Norwood Park Township, Cook County,[21] which is surrounded by the northwest side Chicago neighborhood of Norwood Park. The house had a four-foot deep crawl space under the floor.[22]
On February 12, 1971, Gacy was charged with disorderly conduct; a teenaged boy claimed that Gacy picked him up and tried to force him into sex. The complaint was dropped when the boy did not show up in court. The Iowa Board of Parole did not learn of this and Gacy was discharged from parole in October 1971.[23] On June 22, 1972, Gacy was arrested again and charged with battery after another young man said that Gacy flashed a sheriff's badge, lured him into Gacy's car, and forced him into sex. Again, charges were dropped.[24]
In June of 1972, Gacy married again, to Carole Hoff, an acquaintance from his teenaged years. Hoff and her two daughters moved into the Summerdale home.[25] In 1975, Gacy started his own business, PDM Contractors, a construction company.[26] At the same time, his marriage began to deteriorate. The Gacys' sex life came to a halt, and John would go out late and stay out all night.[27] Carole found wallets with IDs from young men lying around. John began bringing gay pornography into the house.[28] The Gacys divorced in March 1976.[29]
Gacy became active in the local Democratic Party, first volunteering to clean the party offices.[30] In 1975 and 1976 he served on the Norwood Park Township street lighting committee.[31] He eventually earned the title of precinct captain.[32] In this capacity, he met and was photographed with First LadyRosalynn Carter, who was in town for the annual Polish Constitution Day Parade, held on May 6. Gacy was directing the parade that year, for the third year in a row. Carter posed for pictures with Gacy and autographed the photo "To John Gacy. Best Wishes. Rosalynn Carter". In the picture Gacy is wearing an "S" pin, indicating a person who has received special clearance by the Secret Service.[33] During the search of Gacy's house after his arrest, this photo caused a major embarrassment to the Secret Service.[34]

[edit] Murders

In July of 1975, one of Gacy's employees, John Butkovich, disappeared. Butkovich had recently left Gacy's employ after an angry argument over back pay Butkovich was owed. Butkovich's parents urged police to check out John Gacy, but nothing came of it and the young man's disappearance went unsolved.[35]
After Gacy's divorce, the killings began in earnest, and Chicago police would miss several more chances to stop John Gacy. In December of 1976 another Gacy employee, Gregory Godzik, disappeared, and his parents asked police to investigate John Gacy, one of the last people known to have spoken to the boy. But in neither case did the police pursue Gacy and in neither case did they discover his criminal record.[36] In January 1977 John Szyc, an acquaintance of Butkovich, Godzik, and Gacy, disappeared. Later that year another of Gacy's employees was arrested for stealing gasoline from a station; the car he was driving had belonged to Szyc. Gacy said that Szyc had sold the car to him before leaving town, and the police failed to pursue the matter further.[37]
Not all of Gacy's victims died. In March of 1978, Gacy lured Jeffrey Rignall into his car. Gacy chloroformed the young man, took him back to the house on Summerdale, raped and tortured him, and dumped him, alive, in Lincoln Park. Police drew a blank, but Rignall remembered, through the chloroform haze of that night, a black Oldsmobile, the Kennedy Expressway, and some side streets. He staked out the exit on the Expressway until he saw the black Oldsmobile, which he followed to 8213 West Summerdale. Police issued a warrant,[38] and arrested Gacy on July 15. He was still facing trial on a battery charge for the Rignall incident when he was arrested in December for all the other murders.[39] In December 1977, still another victim, a 19-year-old boy, complained that Gacy had kidnapped him at gunpoint and forced him into sex. Yet again, Chicago police took no action.[40]
Gacy's downfall came in December 1978, following his last murder because of one simple act of carelessness: killing a boy who lived in his own neighborhood. Robert Piest, a fifteen-year-old boy, disappeared on December 11 from the Des Plaines, Illinois pharmacy where he worked after school. Just before he vanished, Piest told a co-worker he was going to a house down the street to talk to "some contractor" about a job.[41] John Gacy had been at the pharmacy that night discussing a remodeling job with the owner. Gacy denied talking to Piest when Des Plaines police called him the next day,[42] but the Des Plaines police did what Chicago police failed to do and checked Gacy's record, discovering that he had done time for sodomy.[43] A search of Gacy's house on December 13 turned up some suspicious items--a 1975 high school class ring, drivers' licenses for other people, handcuffs, a two-by-four with holes drilled in the ends, a syringe, clothing too small for Gacy, and a photo receipt from the pharmacy where Robert Piest worked. Detectives noticed an offensive odor coming from the crawlspace beneath the house.[44]
Further investigation revealed that a Gacy employee, Gregory Godzik, had disappeared. The high school ring was traced to John Szyc, also missing.[45] From Gacy's second wife they learned of John Butkovich, missing since 1975.[46]
On December 21, 1978, one of Gacy's employees told the police that Gacy had confessed to over thirty murders.[47] Shortly thereafter Gacy was arrested for marijuana possession.[48] Police took out a second warrant, went back to the house on Summerdale, and found human bones in the crawlspace.[49] Gacy then confessed to some 25-30 murders, telling investigators that most were buried in the crawlspace and on his property and that he threw the last five, after the crawlspace was full, off the I-55 bridge and into the Des Plaines River, including that of Piest.[50] Gacy drew police a diagram of his crawlspace to show where the bodies were buried.[51]
Gacy told the police that he would pick up male teenage runaways or male prostitutes off the streets, and take them back to his house with either promising them money for sex, or just grab them by force. Gacy would often stick clothing in their mouths to muffle their screams. After he would choke them with a rope or a board as he sexually assaulted them. Gacy would also keep the bodies with him for as long as decomposition would allow. He picked up at least one of his victims at the bus station. The youngest identified victims were Samuel Stapleton and Michael Marino, both 14 years old; the oldest were Russell Nelson and James Mazzara, both 21 years old. Eight of the victims were so badly decomposed that they were never identified. Twenty-nine bodies were found in Gacy's crawlspace and on his property between December 1978 and March 1979.[52] Robert Piest's body was discovered in the Des Plaines River on April 9.[53]

[edit] Trial and execution

On February 6, 1980, Gacy's trial began in Chicago.[54] During the trial, he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. However, this plea was rejected outright; Gacy's lawyer, Sam Amirante, said that Gacy had moments of temporary insanity at the time of each individual murder, but regained his sanity before and after to lure and dispose of victims.
While on trial, Gacy joked that the only thing he was guilty of was "running a cemetery without a license." At one point in the trial, Gacy's defense also tried to claim that all 33 murders were accidental deaths as part of erotic asphyxia, but the Cook CountyCoroner countered this assertion with evidence that Gacy's claim was impossible. Gacy had also made an earlier confession to police, and was unable to have this evidence suppressed. He was found guilty on March 13 and sentenced to death.
On May 10, 1994, Gacy was executed at Stateville Correctional Center[55] in Crest Hill, Illinois, by lethal injection. His last meal consisted of a dozen deep fried shrimp, a bucket of original recipe chicken from KFC, a pound of fresh strawberries and French fries. His execution was a minor media sensation, and large crowds of people gathered for "execution parties" outside the penitentiary, with numerous arrests for public intoxication, open container violations, and disorderly conduct. Vendors sold Gacy-related T-shirts and other merchandise, and the crowd cheered at the moment when Gacy was pronounced dead.
According to reports, Gacy did not express remorse. His last words to his lawyer in his cell were to the effect that killing him would not bring anyone back, and it is reported his last words were "kiss my ass," which he said to a correctional officer while he was being sent to the execution chamber.[56]
Before the execution began, the lethal chemicals unexpectedly solidified, clogging the IV tube that led into Gacy's arm, and prevented any further passage. Blinds covering the window through which witnesses observed the execution were drawn, and the execution team replaced the clogged tube with a new one. Ten minutes later, the blinds were reopened and the execution resumed. It took 18 minutes to complete.[57]Anesthesiologists blamed the problem on the inexperience of prison officials who were conducting the execution, saying that proper procedures taught in "IV 101" would have prevented the error. This apparently led to Illinois' adoption of a different method of lethal injection. On this subject, the chief prosecutor at Gacy's trial, William Kunkle, said "He still got a much easier death than any of his victims."
After his execution, Gacy's brain was removed. It is currently in the possession of Dr. Helen Morrison, who interviewed Gacy and other serial killers in an attempt to isolate common personality traits of violent sociopaths; however, an examination of Gacy's brain after his execution by the forensic psychiatrist hired by his lawyers revealed no abnormalities.

[edit] Victims

Known Gacy victims, with date of disappearance.

• Timothy McCoy, 18, January 3, 1972
• John Butkovitch, 17, July 21, 1975[58]
• Darrell Sampson, 18, April 6, 1976[59]
• Randall Reffett, 15, May 14, 1976[60]
• Sam Stapleton, 14, May 14, 1976[61]
• Michael Bonnin, 17, June 3, 1976[60]
• William Carroll, 16, June 13, 1976[62]
• Rick Johnston, 17, August 6, 1976[63]
• Kenneth Parker, 16, October 25, 1976[64]
• Michael Marino, 14, October 25, 1976[64]
• Gregory Godzik, 17, December 12, 1976[65]
• John Szyc, 19, January 20, 1977[66]
• Jon Prestidge, 20, March 15, 1977[62]

• Matthew Bowman, 19, July 5, 1977[67]
• Robert Gilroy, 18, September 15, 1977[67]
• John Mowery, 19, September 25, 1977[67]
• Russell Nelson, 21, October 17, 1977[67]
• Robert Winch, 16, November 10, 1977[67]
• Tommy Boling, 20, November 18, 1977[67]
• David Talsma, 19, December 9, 1977[68]
• William Kindred, 19, February 16, 1978[69]
• Timothy O'Rourke, 20, June 1978[70]
• Frank Landingin, 19, November 4, 1978[71]
• James Mazzara, 21, November 24, 1978[72]
• Robert Piest, 15, December 11, 1978[73]

[edit] Unidentified victims

Eight of Gacy's victims are still unidentified. Below are the reconstruction images of the eight still-unidentified victims.[74] It is also believed that there may have been other victims never identified or found who were buried at other locations. [75]

The ninth unidentified victim, case file, 959UMIL[76] was identified in June 2007 as Timothy McCoy from Nebraska. McCoy was Gacy's first known and identified victim.[citation needed]


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[RADIOACTIVE MAN]

yes.!!!i love this thread

[Dooch]

Nice find shifter....if you like that whole story you should check out the book To Kill The Irishman
Its a real easy engrossing read about the war between the Cleveland Mafia and Irish gangster Danny Greene.

Sinito, Graewe, McTaggert those guys are all a part of it.

One of my coworkers and friends knows all these guys. His father was a part of the Collinwood group...he was nuts. He's in the Mob Nemesis book.
He has a ton of stories too. He dug the hole as a 13 year old kid for a guy they murdered in the Mob Nemesis chapter.
He's a good dude tho, whats a kid gonna do when his father has him at gunpoint??

Get that book tho