by Jennifer Jimenez ’25
The series “Dahmer, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” has become one of Netflix’s most streamed shows ever, reflecting society’s fascination with crime and serial killers.
With that in mind, there are many serial killers beyond Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, etc. that “crime buff culture” often forget about, and although not the most uplifting topic, there’s definitely much that can be learned in terms of sociology and human psychology from the following serial killers.
In Latin America there are worse murderers than Jeffery Dahmer, starting in Colombia where there is the infamous Luis, “la Bestia” (the beast) Garavito, a pedophile child murderer and sexual aggressor who killed more than 300 minors. The beast’s long criminal history was possible thanks to the fact that he worked as a street vendor, touring a large part of the country. In 2001 he was sentenced to 1853 years and 9 days in jail today, and now suffers from terminal leukemia.
Pedro possibly ended the lives of 350 children and adolescents in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. When he was a child, his mother worked as a prostitute in the same room where they slept with his 12 brothers. Homeless for a while, he was eventually adopted, but nevertheless eventually returned to the streets, turning to a life of petty crime in the process. However, petty crime eventually grew to unspeakable violence and murder. After his horror spree, he was arrested in 1980 in Ecuador, where he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. In 1998 he was released on bail. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
The 6’9 Kemper was physically and emotionally abused by his mother, and his first notable act of violence was beheading his family cat.He then went on to kill his grandparents at the age of 15. He was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was admitted to a psychiatric center from which he was released at the age of 25 years. Unfortunately, this time away and treatment did nothing to quell Kemper’s anger, as he went on to kill 2 hitchhikers shortly after his release. Kemper gagged the victims, stabbed them, took pictures, dismembered them and practiced necrophilia with their bodies. He repeated this horrendous and unspeakable act with his 6 other known victims, but many believe the actual number to be well over 100. After years of abuse, Kemper eventually killed and beheaded his mother and her best best friend. Remarkably, he turned himself into police the next day, eventually being sentenced to 8 life sentences.
Harold Shipman better known as “Doctor Death” a British doctor responsible for ending the life of 218 patients and if we talk about possible victims the figure could even rise to 1500. He was the spoiled child of his family, and very close with his mother. His mother however died of cancer and in his last days she was given high doses of morphine, which ironically would be the same painkiller that he would later use for his victims. His first victim was Eva Lyons, who he injected with a lethal dose in 1975, with his last known victim being killed in 1998. Shipman however, made the fateful mistake of falsifying the wills of his victims, which eventually led to relatives of one becoming suspicious. This suspicion led to the exhumation of their body, and the discovery of lethal doses of morphine. In the year 2000 he was sentenced to 1000 years in prison with consecutive life sentences for the crimes of 15 of his patients. But in the 2004 he took his own life in his cell in Wakefield.
The sadistic pair Lawrence Bittaker and his accomplice Roy Norris, used instruments commonly found in toolboxes to kill their victims, hence the name. These psychopaths also recorded all the tortures, and it is reported that the videos are used by the FBI in training and desensitizing new agents. The pair were eventually brought to trial and sentenced to death for killing 5 people. Tragically, the person in charge of the investigation took his own life in 1986, forever traumatized or tortured by what he had seen and heard investigating the Toolbox killers.
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