None of us are saints.

Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood are a rare case in which two women teamed up in a series of sexual murders. Wood was a recently divorced 450-pound supervisor in a nursing home when she entered into a lesbian relationship with Graham, a nurses aide. The dominant Graham told Wood that it would be a sexual thrill to murder six elderly patients in the home so that their last names would spell out the word murder. Their spelling game failed when some of the patients did not die as easily as the couple hoped. Nevertheless, using a wet washcloth to suffocate the patients, Graham killed five victims while Wood stood guard. After each murder, the couple immediately retired to a vacant room in the nursing home and had sex. In exchange for her testimony, Wood received a twenty-to-forty sentence, while Graham was given six life sentences.

This was his own personal mask he used to enjoy wearing when he would bind himself up. Eventually, he left it at one of his crime scenes. He would later say that he regretted doing so, and missed his mask. His known body count is 10. He is doing his time at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas.

The correspondence denied responsibility for various crimes that had been committed, but alluded to other crimes that police had not connected to Zodiac. Each letter ended with a scorecard which counted the number of victims that he was claiming responsibility for. This continued from 1971 through 1973 claiming responsibility for crimes and offering clues to the whereabouts of some victims bodies. One of the final letters received by the Chronicle praised the movie, ‘The Exorcist’ and ended with the scorecard, Me = 37, SFPD = 0.

Minnesota-born Carl Panzram was thirty-nine when he was executed after killing twenty-one people. Panzram was a personality of almost mythical proportions - he committed his first burglary at age eleven, and remained a professional criminal the rest of his life. In 1920, he brazenly burglarized forty thousand dollars’ worth of property from former U.S. president William Howard Taft’s house. In jail, he terrorized the guards and administration by inciting riots, and burning down the kitchen and factory in one of the jails. At one point, he broke out of jail, stole a yacht, and sailed it to Africa and Europe. He lured soldiers on board his vessel, then sodomized them, killed them, and threw their bodies into the water. In prison Panzram wrote a book openly describing his sex crimes, confessing to some one thousand homosexual rapes. Panzram stated, “My motto is: Rob them all, rape them all, and kill them all.” In 1929, Panzram was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for burglary and threatened in the courtroom to “kill the first person who bothers me.” Ten months later, he beat in the head of a fellow prisoner with an iron bar. For this crime he received the death sentence. When an anti-capital group attempted to have Panzram’s sentence commuted, he raged: “The only thanks you or your kind will ever get from me for your efforts on my behalf is that I wish you all had one neck and that I have my hands on it… I believe the only way to reform people is to kill them.” On September 11, 1930, Panzram was led to the gallows and there asked if he had any last words. He replied, “Yes, hurry it up, you hoosier bastard. I could hang a dozen men while you’re fooling around.

The disappearance of a 13-year-old girl in South Carolina in 1975 took police on a sickening journey into the world of serial killer Donald ‘Pee Wee’ Gaskins. While investigating the disappearance, police found two graveyards, one containing six corpses, the other two. With the assistance of one-time associate, Walter Neely, the police identified Gaskins as the contract killer in all cases. Gaskins had strong connections to the underworld. Using truth serum, Gaskins admitted to 13 killings and was sentenced to eight life terms. Unrepentant, Gaskins accepted another contract while in prison, this time to kill Rudolph Tyner. He rigged up an intercom packed with dynamite and blew off the side of Tyner’s head. For this Gaskins was finally sent to the electric chair on September 6, 1991, but not before admitting to 100+ murders.

Level 1  “Those who kill in self defense and do not show psychopathic tendencies.” Level 2.  “Jealous lovers who, though egocentric or immature, are not psychopathic; crime passional” Level 3 “Willing companions of killers: aberrant personality—probably impulse-ridden, with some antisocial traits” Level 4 “Those who kill in self-defense, after extremely provocative behavior toward the victim” Level 4 “Highly narcissistic, but not distinctly psychopathic persons, with a psychotic core, who kill loved ones or family members out of jealousy” Level 5 “Traumatize, desperate people who kill abusive relatives and others.(like to support a drug habit)” but lack significant traits. Genuinely remorseful.“ Level 6 "Impetuous hotheaded murderers without psychopatic features.” Level 7 “Highly narrsasistic , but not distinctly psychopathic people.” with a psychotic core, who kill those close to them. Jealously is an underlying motive. Level 8 “Non psychopathic people with smoldering rage who kill when that rage is ignited.” Level 9 “Jealous lovers with marked psychopathic features” Level 10 “Killers of people who where in the way or killed for example witnesses.(egocentric but not distinctly psychopathic)” Level 11 “Psychopathic killers of people in the way.” Level 12 “Power-hungry psychopaths who kill when cornered.” Level 13 “Murderers with inadequate, rageful personalities and psychopathic features Level 14 "Ruthlessly self-centered psychopathic schemers” Level 15 “Psychopathic or cold blooded spree killers mulitple murders.” Level 16 “Psychopaths committing multiple vicious acts.” Level 17 “Sexually perverse serial murderers Torture-murderers. Murder is the primary motive, following prolonged torture(amoung the males rape is the primary motive with murder to hide the evidence. Systematic torture is not a primary factor”. Level 18 “Torture murderers with murder the primary motive.” Level 19 “Psychopaths driven to terrorism, subjugation, intimidation, and rape, but short of murder.” Level 20 “Torture murderers with torture as the primary motive but in psychopathic personalities.” Level 21 “Psyhcopaths preoccupied with torture in the extreme, but not known to have commited murder.” Level 22 “Psychopathic, serial torture-murderers, with torture the primary motive.”

By measuring the two halves of the corpse, the detectives estimated the victim’s height to be 5'6 and her weight to be 115 pounds. Her mousy brown hair had been recently hennaed, and her fingernails were bitten to the quick.

Currently, we use what is considered the best methodology in measuring criminal psychopathy, which is Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist.

Carl Panzram was hanged on September 5, 1930. When asked by the executioner if he had any last words, Panzram barked, “Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill 10 men while you’re fooling around!”

Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole teamed up to make the deadliest serial murder team in history. Or perhaps not. Due to their seemingly endless confessions and subsequent recanting, combined with alleged “case-clearing” by opportunistic law enforcers, the true totals of the killer duo will never be known for certain. There is no doubt that both were cold-hearted degenerates that took far more than their share of innocent lives.  Both had childhoods that no one would wish on their worst enemy. Lucas was one of nine children born on August 23, 1936, to a prostitute and her legless husband, both of whom were hopeless alcoholics. His mother physically and mentally abused her mate and their children, most of whom were removed from the home or sent away. As for Lucas, he was sent to his first day of school dressed as a girl and reportedly was not allowed to wear shoes. An older brother began engaging in sex with him and introduced him to bestiality in Lucas’ early teens. Adding to this horrid Virginia upbringing was his appearance, which was unattractive even before he lost an eye in an accident at the age of seventeen.  Toole was born in Florida and like Lucas was one of nine children, he being the youngest. He suffered several head injuries during his childhood, resulting in a lifelong struggle with seizures, and was sexually molested. Also like Lucas, Toole reported being dressed in girl’s clothing on occasion, no doubt a factor in his future transvestitism, and engaged in sex with a sibling (in his case an older sister). Toole was also far below average in the attractiveness department and had a speech impediment that made him nearly impossible to understand at times.  Both were already dangerous individuals, and possibly already serial killers, by the time they hooked up in Jacksonville in 1975. Lucas had already killed his mother and raped her corpse while Toole was an accomlished serial arsonist. Lucas began staying with Toole in his mother’s home along with Toole’s young niece Becky Powell. When his mother died, Toole took his niece and Lucas on the road, where all three reportedly engaged in sex with one another. Lucas and Powell even passed themselves off as man and wife though she was barely a teenager and he was in his early forties. During their drifting the trio was surely responsible for several killings. The total number could be anywhere from a few to a few hundred.  Toole and Lucas eventually parted ways, with Powell accompanying her older boyfriend to Texas where they settled down in 1982. Lucas soon murdered Powell and Kate Rich, the woman they had originally stayed with when they first arrived in Texas, in seperate incidents. Lucas had sex with both women’s corpses. He was soon arrested on unrelated charges and confessed to both slayings. For his part, Toole was arrested at about the same time for the arson murder of an old acquaintance in Florida.  The rest of the story is a confusing mess of false confessions and retractions by both killers, especially Lucas, resulting in an almost complete inability to pinpoint what killings the two committed either together and on their own. Lucas was eventually found guilty of ten homocides and sentenced to death in Texas for the murder of the Jane Doe hitchhiker known as “orange socks”, but was eventually pardoned for this killing and re-sentenced to life in prison. Toole also had his death sentence for murder commuted to life and gained additional fame for confessing to the abduction and slaying of six-year-old Adam Walsh, son of “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh. Toole later recanted. Toole has since died of cirrhosis in 1996 and Lucas also died of natural causes in March of 2001. 

I don’t know what God will do with me, and since I believe that God directs what happens in this world, I also think He allowed it, permitted it. He could maybe have prevented it. Perhaps He even tried. - Armin Meiwes, The Rotenburg Cannibal

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By measuring the two halves of the corpse, the detectives estimated the victim’s height to be 5'6 and her weight to be 115 pounds. Her mousy brown hair had been recently hennaed, and her fingernails were bitten to the quick.