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PREDATORS- KRISTEN GILBERT
" THE ANGEL OF DEATH"
Kristen Gilbert was a bright, attractive, well-trained nurse who, in 2001 was found guilty of killing her patients at a Veterans Administration medical center.
Kristen Gilbert was a bright, attractive, well-trained nurse who, in 2001 was found guilty of killing her patients at a Veterans Administration medical center.
PREDATORS- ED GEIN
" THE AMERICAN PSYCHO"
Fast Facts:
Born: August 27, 1906
Birthplace: La Crosse, Wisconsin
Died: July 26, 1984
Known victims: Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden
Weapons used: Guns
Killing span: 1941 to 1957
Location of murders: Plainfield, Wisconsin
Found legally insane and unfit to stand trial
Gein is not notorious for the number of people he killed, but rather for the horrific ways in which he employed the corpses of his victims. Gein engaged in necrophilia, and skinned both his murder victims and corpses he would exhume from the grave. Upon his capture, authorities discovered that Gein had decorated his home with body parts gathered from different corpses. Gein would also remove the skin from the faces of the corpses of middle-aged women and wear the skin as a mask. Gein was found not fit to stand trial and was sent to a mental hospital for the rest of his life.
Fast Facts:
Born: August 27, 1906
Birthplace: La Crosse, Wisconsin
Died: July 26, 1984
Known victims: Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden
Weapons used: Guns
Killing span: 1941 to 1957
Location of murders: Plainfield, Wisconsin
Found legally insane and unfit to stand trial
Gein is not notorious for the number of people he killed, but rather for the horrific ways in which he employed the corpses of his victims. Gein engaged in necrophilia, and skinned both his murder victims and corpses he would exhume from the grave. Upon his capture, authorities discovered that Gein had decorated his home with body parts gathered from different corpses. Gein would also remove the skin from the faces of the corpses of middle-aged women and wear the skin as a mask. Gein was found not fit to stand trial and was sent to a mental hospital for the rest of his life.
PREDATORS-SIPHO TWHALA
"Phoenix Strangler"-Sipho Twhala (South African serial killer)
South Africa's alleged "Phoenix Strangler," Sipho Agmatir Thwala, is suspected of raping and strangling 19 victims with their underwear before burying them in shallow graves. On March 31, 1999, the Durban High Court found Thwala guilty of only 16 murders and 10 rapes, and he was sentenced to 506 years in prison. Thwala, 31, of KwaMashu, became the most wanted man in KwaZulu-Natal province, located in eastern South Africa along the Indian Ocean during an alleged year-long reign of terror. At the time of his murderous spree - between 1996 and 1997 - the Phoenix and KwaMashu communities were gripped with terror, not knowing who would be next or when he would strike again. Thwala, who was acquitted of rape and murder in 1994, was arrested for the serial killings at his Besters squatter camp home in a pre-dawn swoop by police in August 1997. His arrest came days after DNA samples taken from the suspect, who was released on the rape and murder charges in 1994, matched those taken from several crime scenes. The killer apparently lured his victims to the sugarcane fields fields of Mount Edgecombe, near Phoenix.
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