The most interesting killers. Songs that have become "killers" in real life. The worst killer in human history
Stories about serial killers always attract with their wildness and realism. Who are they, the most cruel criminals, on the total account of which there are more than one hundred innocent victims?
Alas, none of the programs can explain why it was the maniacs who committed crimes. What prompted them to commit murders with sophisticated cruelty will forever remain a mystery. We have prepared for you a list of the 25 most brutal serial killers of our time. We are sure that the facts listed below will shock you deeply!
He is called the Son of Sam or a .44 killer. In 1976, with the help of a bulldog revolver, he shot dead six people and seriously injured seven more. Berkowitz sent several letters to the police with bullying and promises to continue killing. New Yorkers lived in fear until David was caught in 1977. The maniac confessed to his deed, and he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for each murder. It is unlikely that he will ever see freedom.
Murderer and necrophile who committed a series of crimes in California in the 70s. First, at the age of 15, he killed his grandparents, and then dismembered six girls hitchhiking in Santa Cruz. Shortly thereafter, Edmund killed his own mother and comrade, and a few days later came to the police. In November 1973, he was found guilty of 8 murders. Camper asked for the death penalty, but was instead given a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
This couple killed five women in California in 1979. Bittaker and Norris lured victims into a van, drove them away, raped them, tortured them horribly, and then killed them. In 1981, they were charged with kidnapping and rape. Bittaker was sentenced to death, but he is still on death row. Norris escaped execution. For this, he had to testify against his partner. In exchange for honesty, he received only 45 years in prison.
4. Ian Brady and Myra Heindley
From 1963 to 1965 they killed five children in Manchester, UK. Their victims were between 10 and 17 years old. Children were raped before they died. Three victims were found buried in graves at Saddleworth Maur, and another child was found at the Brady home. Where the body of Kate Bennet, the fifth victim, is still unknown. The killers were sentenced to life imprisonment. Hindley died in prison in 2002, after which Brady was transferred to Ashworth Hospital.
5. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono
They operated in California from 1977 to early 1978. The cousins managed to kidnap 10 girls aged 12 to 28. The maniacs strangled each of their victims in the hills above Los Angeles. They were called "predatory stranglers". Bianchi tried to deny what he had done, referring to his unbalanced psyche, but he was recognized as sane. Then he testified against Buono. Both were sentenced to life in prison. Buono died in a cell in 2002.
6. Dennis Rader
Killed 10 people in Sedgwick County, Kansas between 1974 and 1991. Rader was delighted with his fame and wrote letters to the police, signing himself as a certain BTK. Dennis stalked the victims before breaking into their homes. He then tied them up and strangled them. In 1988, Rader disappeared, but reappeared in 2005. Maniac sent a floppy disk to the editorial office, which led to his fiasco. The floppy sender was tracked down, and Rader was arrested and charged. The killer confessed to the crimes and is now serving 10 life sentences. So until February 26, 2180, you can not wait for him at large.
7. Donald Henry Gaskins
He started killing in 1969. His victims were people hitchhiking in the American South. Gaskins claimed to have killed 80-90 people. He was arrested in 1975, when one recruited criminal told the police that he personally witnessed the murder - then Gaskins killed a couple of young people. He was convicted of 8 murders and sentenced to death. Subsequently, the sentence was commuted to life without parole. What is creepy, even while in prison, Donald continued to kill. One of the prisoners became his victim. After this crime, Gaskins became the first person to be killed on death row.
An American with Scottish roots killed 9 people between 1956 and 1958. But the police suspect him of killing 18. It took a long time to prove guilt. But Peter confessed to what he had done after seeing his mother. Manuel was hanged in Glasgow Prison in July 1958. He became one of the last prisoners to be hanged in Scotland. Soon the death penalty was abolished in the country.
9. John George Hay
He operated in the 40s. He was convicted of killing 6 people, although John himself claimed to have taken the lives of 9. Hay managed to charm his victims by posing as a wealthy businessman. John lured all the unfortunate to the warehouse, and then shot and dissolved the corpses in acid. At the same time, before his death, he asked each victim to transfer all property and savings to himself. Although the remains of those killed were not found, there is enough evidence of Hay's guilt. In 1949 he was sentenced to death by hanging at Wandsworth Prison.
10. Fred and Rose West
From 1967 to 1987, the Wests tortured, raped and killed young women and girls. On their conscience - at least 11 victims. In 1994, the couple was finally apprehended after the police finally got a warrant to search their home and found several human bones in the garden. During the trial, Frank hanged himself, and Rose, after confessing to 10 murders, was sentenced to life.
First killed in 1972. His victim was a 10-year-old boy. The maniac raped and killed the child, and threw the body in the forest belt. The next victim was an 8-year-old girl. Shortly after this murder, Arthur was captured and imprisoned for manslaughter. Having been released after 14 years, the man did not even think to repent. On the contrary, he killed 12 prostitutes between the ages of 22 and 59. During the latest murder, Shawcross was caught and sentenced to 250 years in prison. Maniac died behind bars in 2008 as a result of cardiac arrest.
In 1981, he was found guilty of 13 murders of women, and 7 more of his victims managed to survive. Peter exterminated prostitutes in Leeds. Sutcliffe was arrested for driving a car with fake license plates. The police began to interrogate him, and the man confessed to all the murders. And although he denied his guilt at the trial, Arthur was sentenced to life imprisonment. To this day, he is in a mental hospital.
13. Richard Ramirez
Was a Satanist and terrorized Los Angeles from 1984 to 1985. They called him the Night Stalker. Ramirez broke into the houses of the victims, shot, cut and mutilated them in every possible way. Richard didn't care who he killed. He dealt with the children and the elderly with equal cold-bloodedness. At the crime scene, Ramirez left drawings of pentagrams. In 1985, he was captured and sentenced to death. He lived on death row until 2013, when he died from complications of lymphoma.
American Serial killer and a homosexual sex maniac raped, killed and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Over many of his victims, he performed acts of necrophilia, and then dismembered their bodies. Caught Dahmer after one of the victims managed to fight him off. In 1992, Jeffrey was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to 15 life terms. But after 2 years, the maniac was beaten to death by a cellmate.
"British Jeffrey Dahmer" is a homosexual killer who took the lives of 15 gay men from 1978 to 1983. He dismembered his victims, and then burned or drowned the remains in the toilet. For the fact that human flesh was found in his sewers, Dennis was captured. In 1983, he was tried and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
One of the most famous maniacs of the 20th century. He kidnapped, raped and killed women and girls. Bundy's victims were taken to abandoned areas and beheaded after an act of violence. He managed to escape from the police twice, but in the end in 1989 he was executed in the electric chair.
They tortured and killed victims on a ranch in Calaveras County. On their conscience from 11 to 25 lives. The crimes came to light in 1985 when Lake committed suicide after being arrested. Ng caught in the store. The police searched the ranch and found human remains. After a lengthy examination, Ng was found guilty and sentenced to death. He is currently on death row.
He abused 33 boys and young men. The maniac operated in 1972 - 1978 in Illinois. He lured victims into the house, promising to help with work or money. Before killing the unfortunate, he choked with a tourniquet. Gacy buried the victims in the basement, and when the place ran out, he drowned them. He was convicted of 33 murders. Punishment - the death penalty. After 14 years on death row, Gacy was killed by lethal injection.
Soviet serial killer, who was called the Rostov butcher. He raped and killed about 52 women and children in Russia from 1978 to 1990. When he was caught, Chikatilo confessed to 56 crimes, for 53 of which he was convicted. Relatives of the victims prayed that he be released, and they could deal with the maniac on their own. But in 1992 he was sentenced to death, which was put into effect in 1994.
He convinces that he killed about 70 people, for which he is considered one of the most dangerous criminals in Texas. One of his victims, a 13-year-old girl, was stabbed 16 times by Tommy. Despite the injuries, the victim managed to survive and described the perpetrator to the police. Sells was soon found, arrested, and placed on death row at a maximum security prison in Livingston.
21. Gary Ridgeway
He was caught in 2001 for four murders, but Ridgway later admitted to having at least 70 more victims on his conscience. He managed to avoid the death penalty thanks to cooperation with the police - Gary showed the burial places of the dead. Five unfortunates he threw into the river. The maniac was convicted for 49 murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
22. Pedro Rodriguez Filho
For the murder of at least 71 people, he was sentenced to 128 years in prison (despite the fact that the Brazilian criminal code prohibits keeping a criminal behind bars for more than 30 years). He committed his first crime at the age of 14. At 18, 10 more people were added to his “track record”. Filho was imprisoned, and in prison he killed his father. And then another 47 prisoners. After serving 34 years behind bars, Pedro was released in 2007, but was jailed again in 2011.
It is believed that he raped and killed about 150 girls in Colombia and Ecuador in the 1970s and 80s. Barbosa confessed to killing 72 girls. After he was arrested in Quito, the maniac showed the guards the graves of his victims, whose identities had not yet been established. In 1989 he was sentenced to the maximum sentence, and in November 1994 cousin one of the victims killed Barbosa in prison.
24. Dr. Harold Shipman
This is one of the most terrible maniacs in Britain. His involvement in 250 murders has been proven. As a doctor, he was considered a respected person. It wasn't until the number of cremations began to skyrocket that the public became concerned. As it turned out later, Shipman deliberately injected poison into the blood of his elderly patients. After several successful murders, he began to force the victims to rewrite the inheritance for themselves. The judge sentenced the doctor to 15 life terms. In 2004, he hanged himself.
25. Pedro Alonso Lopez
Killed over 300 girls in South America. Pedro lured the victims to a secluded place and killed. Lopez got caught during another attack that ended in failure. The police did not believe that he had killed 300 people until they saw the mass grave. There were 53 bodies in one grave. In 1980, he was imprisoned for 18 years, and then deported to Colombia and arrested again for life.
We have already addressed the topics of unsolved murders, female killers and murderous duets. Today we decided to make another killer rating and talk about the most terrible serial killers of all time. The rating is placed in ascending order of the horror of the murders committed.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Albert Fish
In tenth place is the American serial killer - Albert Fish. Fish is known as one of the most brutal killers, vile pedophiles and sadists. After being captured, Fish confessed to molesting more than 400 children, whom he tortured and then killed. In life, Fish was not tall, the neighbors spoke of him as a kind and trusting person. But when he was left alone with his victims, he became a monster, vicious and cruel. The crimes he committed seem incredible. Officially, Fish confessed to three murders, and it is also believed that he killed three more. Fish was convicted and executed.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Dennis Lynn Rader
Dennis Lynn Rader is a 70-year-old American serial killer now serving a life sentence, with ten murders to his credit. Rader is believed to have been killing for almost twenty years, from 1974 to 1991. He really wanted everyone's attention, therefore, after each murder, he wrote letters to the police and the local newspaper with detailed description the location of the murder and the number of victims. Rader was arrested in 2005.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer is an American serial killer. He was tried for the murder of 17 men and boys. Dahmer killed from 1978 to 1991. In addition to actually killing his victims, Dahmer was accused of pederasty, necrophilia and cannibalism. Dahmer committed his first crime at the age of 18. The first time he was arrested was in 1988 when he tried to rape a 13-year-old boy. Dahmer was released 10 months later for good behavior. The second and last time Dahmer was arrested was in 1991. 15 dismembered bodies were found in his house. The killer was sentenced to 937 years in prison, but in 1994 Dahmer was killed by a cellmate.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Richard Trenton (Richard Chase)
Richard Trenton (Richard Chase) is another American serial killer who received the nickname "Vampire of Sacramento" as a result of the fact that he drank the blood of his victims and ate their remains. Mental abnormalities were discovered in Richard in his youth, and over time, the matter only worsened. Officially recognized as the murder of six people. Trenton also killed puppies and drank their blood. He was caught a year after the first murder. Trenton was sentenced to death by gas chamber. However, Trenton was found dead in his cell, having committed suicide by drinking all of his antidepressants, which he had previously collected for several weeks.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Andrey Chikatilo
Andrey Chikatilo is a well-known "butcher" from Rostov. By official version Chikatilo killed 53 people, including children, girls and women. As a rule, these were homeless people who lived near railway and bus stations. Chikatilo was sentenced to death by firing squad.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Bruno Ludke
Bruno Lüdke is a German serial killer. Officially, Ludke was accused of killing 51 people, mostly women. Ludke committed his first murder at the age of 18, in 1927, and killed for 15 years. During the Second World War, Ludke worked as a policeman, which gave him even more freedom, which he abused. He was captured in 1943, but before the start of the process he was declared insane and hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. There, doctors performed several horrific experiments on Ludke, one of which was lethal injection in 1944.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas is an American serial killer who confessed to killing 3,000 people, although there were 11 people proven. Many unsolved murders were closed by hanging on Lucas. Lucas was sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment. In 2001, Lucas dies in a prison cell from heart failure.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Joachim Kroll
Joachim Kroll is a German serial killer, pedophile and cannibal. He was officially charged with eight murders, confessed to twelve. He operated for almost twenty years, from 1955 to 1976. He worked very meticulously, and committed murders in the same place, only after a few years, so he could not be captured for so long. He strangled his victims, raped them, then cut off pieces of the bodies in order to eat them later. The remains of the victims, Kroll kept in the refrigerator. During interrogation, the killer confessed that he kept the bodies of his victims in order to reduce his expenses for the purchase of meat for food. Kroll was captured by accident, through his own negligence. The Kroll trial lasted 151 days. The killer was sentenced to life imprisonment, ten years later Kroll died in prison of a heart attack.
The worst serial killers of all time. Top 10. Pedro Alonso López
Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer who is still the "Most brutal maniac in the world", listed in the Guinness Book of Records. The number of victims of Lopez ranges from 61 to 300 people. The killer operated from 1969 to 1980. Lopez committed his first murder at the age of eighteen. He raped, killed and skinned a man. A few days later, with three more. He was captured and convicted. The court considered that the young age of the killer mitigates the punishment against him. Lopez was sentenced to only 8 years in prison. Behind bars, Lopez killed his three cellmates, but the punishment was not reviewed. After being released from prison, Lopez continues to rape and kill. The second time he is arrested by accident. Lopez confesses to all the murders, shows the mass grave of 50 murdered women. He also talks about the incredible killings outside of Ecuador. He is tried and given a maximum sentence of 20 years. However, four years before the end of his term, he is transferred to another prison and the trail of Lopez himself is lost.
The most bloodthirsty killers of all time, terrified law-abiding citizens with their monstrous atrocities. No sane person is capable of comprehending the actions of these monsters. Fortunately, most of these maniacs have already been executed or are serving life sentences.
In this ranking of the most terrible maniacs in history, we will tell you about the killers from various countries on the planet - Brazil, China, Russia, Afghanistan, Colombia, USA, Ukraine and India. Multinational list of notorious thugs.
10. Anatoly Onoprienko
Anatoly Onoprienko received the well-deserved nickname "The Beast from Ukraine". When he was arrested in 1996, he confessed to killing 52 people. Onoprienko began his bloody campaign in 1989, when he shot 4 people from a sawn-off shotgun in the Zaporozhye region, whose car broke down on the road, as well as a random passerby and a policeman on duty.
One of the most terrifying mass murder, this beast in human form committed on December 31, 1995. On this day, when people set the tables in anticipation of the holiday, preparing for the New Year, the maniac broke into the house of the Kryuchkov family and staged a bloody massacre.
He shot a married couple and their two twin daughters. One of the dead girls was so frightened that she bit her hand to the bone, and the killer cut off her mother's finger, because he could not rip off the wedding ring. Then he profited from a few inexpensive things and set fire to the house along with the dead owners.
In 1998, the maniac was sentenced to death, but due to the fact that in 2000 a moratorium on the death penalty was announced in Ukraine, Onoprienko received life imprisonment. In 2013, the worst maniac in Ukraine died in prison.
9. Andrei Chikatilo
One of the most elusive maniac killers in history modern Russia became Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the "Red Ripper" and "The Butcher from Rostov." He committed murders for a long 12 years, from 1978 to the 1990s!
Once he was even detained on orientation by police officers, but after checking the data, they released him. Then no one could even imagine that an exemplary family man, an ideologically savvy communist with many letters of honor, could turn out to be a murderous psychopath.
He basically killed young girls and women, committing violent acts on them, cut off the breasts and genitals of many, the maniac committed all his murders on sexual grounds.
The search for the killer was so extensive that it was included in forensic books. Thousands of police officers, the best investigators of the prosecutor's office and KGB officers were looking for an elusive maniac, and on November 20, 1990, the psychopath was detained. He had a briefcase with him, in which the policemen found a can of vaseline, a long piece of rope and a knife.
The trial of this monster began on April 14, 1992, and the sentence was fair - the death penalty. On February 14, 1994, the life of one of the most terrible maniacs in Russia was interrupted by a bullet in the back of the head.
8. Abul Jabar
Abul Jabar is the most bloodthirsty maniac from Afghanistan, he was suspected of killing 300 men and young guys, although at the time of execution only 65 murders could be proven. He was an active homosexual, and very strong. His favorite way of dealing with his victims was, of course, very unusual.
Jabar raped the poor fellows who fell into his hands and during the climax, strangled the victim with his own turban.
The killer was arrested in 1970 and shot the same year. Unfortunately, due to an error in the judicial system, before the real maniac was executed, the Afghan authorities shot two innocent people.
7. Yang Xinhai
Maniac Yang Xinhai from China is considered the most terrible villain in the country in terms of the number of murders he committed. Xinhai confessed to 65 murders and 23 rapes between 1999 and 2003.
Usually the killer committed his crimes at night, he entered the homes of the victims in clothes and shoes of large size in order to throw the police off the trail and calmly dealt with the victims with the help of household equipment. He cut the unfortunate owners with a shovel, an ax, but his favorite weapon was an octagonal hammer.
There were cases when Xinhai massacred entire families. In 2002, a maniac killed his father and his six-year-old daughter with a shovel, and then raped his pregnant wife, whom he then also tried to kill, but fortunately the woman was able to survive.
Xinhai was arrested in 2003 and executed in 2004, exactly on Valentine's Day.
6. Kampatimar Shankaria
When it comes to finding out the reasons why people become maniacs and commit bloody crimes, psychiatrists try to identify the old childhood psychological trauma of the criminal, because of which he turned into a monster.
But in the case of the maniac from India, Kampatimar Shankaria, everything was different. He killed because it gave him incomparable pleasure.
The maniac was detained in 1979 and the investigation managed to prove 70 murders committed by Shankaria in just two years. He was sentenced to death by hanging, and before the executioner knocked the stool from under his feet, the killer said: “I killed all these people in vain. No one should be a monster like me."
5. Gary Ridgway
America is famous for the number of serial killers, but Gary Ridgway ranks first among the bloody maniacs. This man has killed more people than any other American. The criminal committed his crimes in the period from the 1980s to the 1990s, his victims were young women, to whom he showed a photograph of his son and told a sentimental story about his disappearance.
Then he lured the unfortunate to a secluded place and, after being raped, strangled them with his bare hands. The maniac drowned the first 5 victims in the Green River, for which he received the nickname "Green River Maniac." Ridgway preferred to kill prostitutes, as he thought that no one would be looking for them, and he hid the bodies in an overgrown, forested area. This is the only killer in history who has never returned to the place where the victims were hidden in order to rape them again.
Later, he began to strangle his victims with a noose, as many women left him severe cuts and scratches on his hands during the struggle, and the killer was afraid that the police would be able to expose him in these footprints.
At the time of his arrest, Ridgway confessed to killing 71 women, although the investigation was able to prove only 48 murders committed by a maniac.
His propensity for violence manifested itself at the age of 16, when he stabbed a 6-year-old boy in the chest and in the liver area. Luckily, the kid survived.
The police detained the maniac on November 30, 2001. On charges of 48 murders in the 1st degree, Ridgway was threatened with the death penalty, but he made a deal with the investigation. He showed all the burial sites of his victims that the police could not find, and as a result, America's worst maniac received 48 life sentences without parole and an additional 480 years in prison for hiding evidence.
4. Pedro Rodriguez Filho
Pedro Rodriguez Filho was born in Brazil. Doctors discovered that he had skull fractures, which may have been caused when a drunken father punched his pregnant wife in the stomach. Maybe this trauma played a major role in the development of the future psychopath. The boy's propensity for violence manifested itself at the age of 13, due to a petty quarrel, he pushed his cousin under a cane press, the boy was seriously injured, but survived.
At the age of 14, he shot dead with a rifle near the city hall, the vice-mayor of the town, because he fired his father, who worked as a security guard and stole food.
By the age of 18, he already had 8 murders and 16 attempted murders. Some time later, Pedro's father kills his mother with a machete. The enraged young man in response kills his father with the same machete, opens his chest and eats his heart.
He was sent to prison, where during his imprisonment he killed 47 cellmates, and in total he is credited with 71 murders, although Filho himself claimed that he "sent more than 100 people to the next world."
Laws in Brazil prohibit keeping a person in prison for more than 30 years, and in 2007, the country's worst killer was released. In 2011 he was detained again in own house and sent for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric clinic, where he is still being held.
3. Daniel Camargo Barbosa
Daniel Camargo Barbosa brutally murdered and raped from 72 to 150 young girls and women, the exact number of victims could not be established. He committed his crimes in Colombia and Ecuador. The maniac lured gullible girls into the forest, and then brutally dealt with them with a machete, then took jewelry and personal belongings from the dead, and sold them in the market.
He especially liked to deal with girls of 9-11 years old, since they squeal the most before death and this delivered a maniac true pleasure. The police detained the killer on February 26, 1986, just a few minutes after he dealt with another 9-year-old girl. According to the laws of Ecuador, a prisoner cannot be in prison for more than 16 years. He was due to be released in 2002.
But on November 14, 1994, real justice prevailed. Before him one of the relatives of the victims was able to get to prison and killed the maniac.
2. Pedro Lopez
A bloodthirsty maniac from Colombia, he killed more than 300 girls and women in Peru and Ecuador, for which he received the nickname "Monster from the Andes", which he was very proud of. His childhood was difficult, his mother was a prostitute, in whose care there were 13 children.
And unable to withstand constant hunger, Pedro ran away from home, but soon fell into the hands of an elderly pedophile, who for several months raped a teenager with friends.
When the future maniac managed to get free, he took revenge on the offender and his friend in a very cruel way: he gathered a group of his friends and broke into the old man's house, and then skinned everyone present alive. Pedro was sent to prison for 8 years, where he was raped by fellow inmates, but after he killed three prisoners with a sharpener, the harassment stopped.
The maniac came out of prison embittered at the whole world, fiercely hating all people, after which a series of brutal murders of girls and women began. Law enforcement officers detained the killer in 1980, when one of his victims managed to get out alive and report to the police. He boasted that he “slaughtered more than 300 whores with pleasure,” the investigators did not believe him until the maniac led them to the mass grave of his victims, where the half-decomposed remains of 53 women were found.
Pedro López was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum sentence in Peru. His further fate is unknown, they say, after his release, he fled to Ecuador, according to other rumors, he emigrated to America, and some claim that relatives of the dead killed him.
1. Luis Garavito
Luis Garavito, a Colombian serial killer nicknamed "The Beast", committed 138 murders, proven by the investigation, although he himself boasted that he sent more than 300 people to the next world. The maniac basically dealt with homeless children, whom he brutally raped before his death. His tactics were very simple, Garavito approached children on the street and lured them to a deserted place with candy or toys, where he killed them.
When journalists asked him why he became one of the worst maniacs in history, Garavito replied that his father abused him as a child, and in this way he took revenge on him.
In 1999, he was arrested in Colombia and sentenced to 22 years in prison. And in 2001, he gave an interview to one of the popular TV channels that he plans to soon go on parole, and then go into politics to protect the rights of homeless children. This report stirred up the whole country, causing a wave of indignation among the inhabitants. The authorities had to find a loophole in the legislation in order to solder another term to the thug. And now this beast will be released very soon.
The image of the killer normal people usually formed under the influence of worn-out Hollywood clichés. But in real life there are very few lone mercenaries - it is easier to remove a worker who works without the support of an executor after a case than to pay. Real professionals unite in a kind of guild, and some of these organizations become so powerful that their fame remains for centuries.
The Vishkanya sect appeared in ancient India, at the time of a large-scale internecine war. With the help of professional assassins, the kings intended to avoid bloody battles, solving the whole matter with little bloodshed. Vishkanya mercenaries were really able to fulfill their mission: to eliminate the highest ranks of the enemy, unprincipled professionals successfully used poisoned concubines.
werewolf
The most promising members of the Hitler Youth and the Waffen SS were selected for the Werwolf volunteer detachment. These young fighters underwent excellent sabotage training, and they passed the exam by eliminating an enemy officer on his territory. The soldiers of this unit were left by Germany during the retreat, so that the canned killer could demoralize the enemy from the rear. "Werewolfs" functioned until the end of the spring of 1945.
Vigilance Committee Sarah Sota
Founded in 1884 as a political club, the Sara Sota Vigilance Committee was considered a highly prestigious club in New York. The police accidentally stumbled upon the facts, thanks to which The Times quickly renamed the Committee the Sarasota Murder Society. The members of the organization were a bunch of snobs of the highest order: at their meetings they chose people who were unpleasant for some reason and sentenced them to death. Over the years of activity, the Committee of Vigilance sent to the other world more than two hundred "unworthy".
Black Hand
We can say that it was this organization that provided the cause of the First World War. The fighters of the "Black Hand" fought for the idea of a united Serbia, not disdaining either terror or torture of civilians. The first assassination attempts on Emperor Franz Joseph and on the governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, General Potiorek, ended in complete failure. But the group began a large influx of fresh blood. One of the newcomers was Gavrila Princip, who successfully carried out the second assassination attempt on Franz Josef.
Sicarii
The name of the killer was taken from the favorite weapon, the curved dagger of Sika. This grouping of fighters for the freedom of the Jewish people was formed under Roman rule. Selflessness, reckless courage, willingness to give their lives for a common cause - it is not surprising that even the professional legionnaires of the Roman army were afraid of the Sicarii. Today the term is used to refer to any type of Jewish radical.
Murder Inc.
Murder, INC was an affiliate of the notorious National Crime Syndicate with over 2,000 murders to its credit. In fact, these guys were the special forces of the Italian mafia, designed to eliminate especially important opponents. The group gathered every evening in one of Brooklyn's convenience stores: there were no payphones in the 1930s, and there was a telephone behind the sales counter. Liquidators from Murder, INC traveled on missions all over East coast. It is noteworthy that most of the murders were committed, for some reason, with an ice pick.
Assassins
Hasan-ibn-Sabbah died in 1124, leaving his flock to inconsolably mourn the body in the fortress of Alamut. For the next hundred and fifty years, the fortress will become the heart of a powerful guild of assassins, whose name has become a household name. The Assassins worked throughout Asia and Europe, taking out even the most protected statesmen with frightening ease. Before the start of the Mongol invasion, the power of the Elder's followers knew no bounds.
Professional killers - Who are they? People from the special services or graduates of military educational structures. You can't get combat training in prisons. In order to calmly deal with a person in broad daylight in front of a crowd, you need to be able to detach yourself from the environment around you, see a clear goal in front of you and have skills brought to automatism.
From time to time we are shaken high-profile murders , such as the execution of businessman Kalmanovich- his "execution" was more than a demonstration. It happened in the center of Moscow, under the windows of the police department. Such criminal reprisals in Russia would not have been possible if there were not people who could conceive them and skillfully implement them. Among them there are well-coordinated groups, well-armed with the latest combat innovations in the arms industry, and inconspicuous lone shooters - they are always on the alert, in full combat readiness, waiting in the wings.
Almost all high-profile murders are on the account of professional killers. Cases that are on everyone's lips, criminal myths that are full of criminal mystery and secrecy from the public. Crimes that are considered unsolved does not mean that the investigation does not have truthful information. The often clear and professional execution, and the resulting lack of evidence, is the main reason for the transformation of a contract killing into a myth. Many high-profile custom executions will remain legends.
Killer Alexey Sherstobitov (Lesha the Soldier)
There are different ways to assess human life in the criminal market. For a drug addict, a dose is enough to fulfill an order, but the cost of a beautiful demonstration action is high. And yet, reprisal on order does not have a fixed fee - as a rule, everything depends on the customer, as well as the victim herself and her connections (otherwise, there may be those who wish to take revenge). And yet, to more specific figures, usually it is not less than 100 thousand dollars. Also, in many ways, the amount depends on the nature of the consequences - punitive, or the person must be sent to a hospital bed, or it may even have a moral impact. The price can double if the customer wishes to leave intact the driver of the car in which the victim will be, as well as unharmed and his fellow travelers. This is quite difficult to do when, according to the criminal scenario, the car will be poured with automatic fire. By the way, in such cases, the performers specify in advance whether it is permissible to miss a little or it is better to overdo it.
Over time, the level of execution of custom murders. Now they are very different from contract killings that were in the 90s. Then they killed very simply: at the safest time in the safest place (in a dark alley, at night). Today, there are more and more unpredictable scenarios.
Here, for example, the execution of an authority known to everyone in criminal circles, a classic only at first glance. A sniper, shooting at close range, and even during rush hour, really does not risk. But the shot is in the stomach. But in the two seconds that he had at his disposal, again given the short distance of about 80 meters, he could shoot in the head or heart - that would be for sure. But no, it makes a person suffer. This suggests that customized massacres increasingly have a demonstrative personal background.
There is an opinion that after the execution of the order by the killer, he is killed - If this were the case, where would they come from then? Only scumbags are removed in this case, who are sometimes involved in some orders, where special accuracy of the shot is not expected, where cruelty prevails more, these are called “disposable” fighters. But again, it will require a professional to eliminate it. So does it make sense to entrust the work to an unpredictable scumbag. It would be more correct to say that the rumors that the killers are being killed are spread by them themselves.
Now about the customers, who they are - people interested in other people's lives. As a rule, these are civilized citizens, and they have no direct contacts with criminals. They reach out to perpetrators through corrupt police officers, private detectives, private security firms, security services, etc. There it is quite possible to find those who will help to bring together with whom you need. It happens that the customer subsequently refuses the order he has conceived or he is helped to do it (there are real psychologists in such structures who can explain the severity of the consequences). In this situation, the imaginary customer gets a huge compensation (up to 50%). And they put such dreamers on the hook, wedging, for example, into their business. In any case, this type of acquaintance results in a lot of money. The real customer is only one in ten.
Killers, who are they in real life? These people can be bodyguards, criminals or businessmen. They are called "black" bodyguards. However, staying in constant combat and physical readiness costs a lot of money. Therefore, sitting in anticipation of an order is fraught with lack of money. Often, groups of such killers find sponsors - these are business structures that more often solve commercial problems by force. In general, the services of "black" security guards are quite in demand, this is due to their professionalism. It is impossible even to compare the level of training of the “black” and “white” guards, the latter in specialized schools are taught such a minimum that it’s ridiculous to say. Competitors of the criminal "black" guards can only be police guards (and even then conditional).
Killer methods have evolved over the past decade from typical to more sophisticated and spectacular. The customer wants something exotic and bright. Increasingly, there are staging accidents, industrial injuries and poisoning with a slow-acting poison. Deprivation of the victim of vision, genitals, donation, etc.
However, the level of preparation of such orders virtually eliminates accidental casualties.