14 Disturbed Killers Who Skinned Their Victims

Ed Gein was close to Buffalo Bill, perhaps the closest the world ever got. Some argue he was much worse.November 1957A woman named Bernice Worden disappeared from her hardware store job. Police investigation led to Ed Gein's house. They looked inside and saw something horrifying.They found Worden strung up, dismembered, and gutted like a deer. The situation only worsened.Initially, they found Worden strung up and dismembered. They also found her gutted like a deer. Things got worse from there.

Gein killed people and robbed graves for years. He skinned bodies to make tools, furniture, and art. Police found human skin chairs, lamp shades, gloves, corsets, leggings, a belt from nipples and noses, bone eating utensils, and lips as decorations. Police photographed these items before destroying them. Gein died in a mental health institute in 1984.

Jeffrey Dahmer is one of America's most notorious serial killers.Jeffrey Dahmer appears on the list '14 Disturbed Killers Who Skinned Their Victims'.Dahmer murdered at least 17 people across the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. He targeted young boys and men. He raped them before and after they died. He dismembered Anthony Sears' body in 1989 after sex. Dahmer boiled the skull to remove skin, then painted the skull like a plastic model while awaiting sentencing for sexual exploitation.

Dahmer removed skin from victims more than once. In 1991, Dahmer met a boy named Errol Lindsey and invited him to his apartment. Dahmer killed the boy by strangulation, then flayed the body. Dahmer soaked the skin in cold water and salt for weeks, hoping to keep it. After a few weeks, Dahmer discarded the skin because it was spoiling.

A fellow inmate killed Dahmer in 1994. That inmate claimed God told him to do it.

Katherine Knight became the first Australian woman to get a life without parole sentence, and rightly so. One night in 2000, Knight visited her boyfriend, John Price, during a fight. Price stabbed him thirty-seven times with a butcher knife; he bled out on his home floor. The violence did not end there.

Knightthen skinned him and hung the skin on a meat hook.She butchered parts of his body and made an extravagant meal. She served the meat with baked potato, pumpkin, zucchini, cabbage, yellow squash, and gravy, according to a Murderpedia author. Police found the dishes set neatly at the table, with the names of his children on cards at each spot. It looks like she planned to serve his body parts to his own children.

Katherine Mary Knight claimed she remembered doing nothing, but a judge disagreed. She still serves her life sentence in New South Wales.

Michael W. Ryan is a deplorable person. During the 1980s, he led a religious white supremacist group. That group focused on hating Jews, destroying authority, and believing other races were inferior. This alone makes him terrible.This is the reason for his imprisonment.This is what will make you queasy.

In 1982, Ryan was arrested for killing five-year-old Luke Stice, a follower's son, and another member named James Thimm. Reports showed Ryan abused the child over several days, including forcing him to have sex with his father, before killing him. Ryan then beat Thimm, forced him to have sex with a goat, and finally skinned him.Ryan killed Thimm while he was still alive.Thim died when Ryan stomped on his skinned, bleeding chest.

It is not surprising Ryan received a death sentence, though he...Ryan died on death row in 2015.He died before his execution.

Even beautiful people can be ugly killers. On Thanksgiving Day in 1991,...Aspiring Egyptian American model Omaima Nelson attacked her husband, Bill, at their Costa Mesa, California apartment. She stabbed him with scissors, then beat him with a clothes iron until he died. She then did the only logical thing: she skinned and cooked him.Omaima Aree Nelson attacked her husband, Bill, at their Costa Mesa, California apartment. She stabbed him with scissors, then beat him with a clothes iron until he died. Then, she skinned and cooked him.

Nelson currently serves a 27-year to life sentence in a California women's prison.

Nelson currently serves a 27-to-life sentence in a California women's prison.

Mary Bell's case is tragic and horrifying. Bell killed two young boys when she was only 11. Her mother was a prostitute who had...That last detail puts her on this list. Police found the 11-year-old girl had skinned the boy's penis and perhaps tried to cut it off. This likely relates to her own abuse, but no one knows what Mary intended with the skin. She was released from prison, got a lot of psychiatric care, and now lives under a new name.Her mother also allegedly tried to kill her multiple times, making this a disturbed little girl. In 1968, Bell killed a four-year-old boy. Two months later, she killed a second, strangling them both and mutilating the bodies. She carved their skin, cut their hair, and horribly mutilated their penises.

Police found the 11-year-old girl had skinned the second boy's penis and possibly tried to cut it off. This detail places her on the list. She has since been released from prison, received extensive psychiatric care, and lives under a new name.

Masnah Ismail offers an unusual resume.She is also known as Mona Fandey.Mona Fandey was a Malaysian pop singer, witch doctor, and murderer. She was executed in 2001 for horrific crimes. After her singing career, locals called her a shaman. She turned to dark witchcraft so strong politicians sought her help. A politician sought her aid. As he prepared for a cleansing ritual, she hacked off his head and limbs with an axe. She then skinned his body and split it into 18 pieces.

The trial was so traumatic it caused Malaysia to stop jury trials. During her trial, Fandey kept smiling, dressed extravagantly, and posed for the press.

Mary Bell is the youngest skinning killer on this list. Sandy Charles is the next closest. When Charles was 14, he and an unnamed seven-year-old accomplice lured a young boy into the bushes. Charles claimed he wanted to play a game with the boy, but once the boy arrived,he beat the child to death.From there, he cut skin strips from the body to take home. He then boiled the skin until the fat turned to liquid. This makes one wonder why.

Charles claimed he wanted to fly. He said he got the idea from a movie calledWarlock. In that film, an evil warlock kills a young boy. The warlock then uses the skin and fat to make a potion that lets him fly. Accounts disagree on whether Charles and the other boy actually drank the fat and skin. Charles did claim a spirit in his room told him he had to do it.Accounts differ on whether Charles and the other boy actually drank the fat and skin.

In 1985, a woman disappeared.Beverly Capone went missing in Westchester, New York. Police thought the disappearance connected to a murder from days earlier involving a man namedPolice suspected the disappearance linked to a murder just days earlier, where a man namedAlex Mengel.Mengel killed a cop and stole his car. When police found Capone's body, they found she was scalped and parts of her face were skinned. Mengel apparently did this to wear the skin of her head as a wig in triumph during his next crime.

Investigators think Mengel may have caused more killings than we know. He might have also scalped more women. Mengel was killed in a police struggle, so we may never know.

Parents reading this might want to skip this gruesome story.Otty SanchezOtty Sanchez had documented mental illnesses. However, a terrifying morning in July 2009 changed things. Police responded to a disturbance. Upon entering her home, they found her crying, trying to kill herself, claiming she had eaten her baby. Police quickly confirmed she was right.

The genitals of her infant son were mutilated. The head was nearly decapitated and crushed. Much of the body was skinned or flayed, though police could not confirm if this happened before or after the baby died. Bite marks covered the exposed flesh. Coroners reported she ate part of the baby's brain. Police needed psychiatric treatment because the scene was so traumatic.

Sanchez was ruled insane. She continues to serve time in psychiatric care.

If you watchedAmerican Horror Story, you might recognize this name. Unfortunately, she was a real person. Her cruelty was perhapsworse than the show showsIn the mid-1800s, LaLaurie tortured many slaves in her home. She often did things to them while they were alive for her sadism. She cut off limbs. She skinned victims' limbs or torsos in circles to look like caterpillars. She skinned their joints and left the wounds open until they festered. We only know she murdered four slaves; there are likely many more. She is also reported to have tortured children.

LaLaurie fled and evaded justice. She likely died in 1849, though no one knows exactly where or how. If you visit New Orleans, you can still go to the place where she killed her victims. That place is now privately owned andNo one is allowed inside..

This story is sad and frightening. In 2008, Jeremiah BerryJeremiah confessed to killing his father. He then dismembered and skinned the corpse. He reportedly fed the skin to coyotes. He claimed he did this both out of madness and self-defense, saying he was not guilty by reason of insanity. This story has more than just a grisly murder; Jeremiah's father may be to blame.

Jeremiah claims his father told him God said the boy needed a sex change to become his father's wife. He then repeatedly raped Jeremiah, which caused the teen to snap. He shot his father after mutilating the corpse, a crime for which he served three years in prison. JeremiahJeremiah Berry was found dead in 2012.Jeremiah Berry committed suicide.

As for killers who skinned their victims, Vlad the Impaleris probably one of the most famous. Vlad killed people, mounting their heads and body parts on pikes. He was a very scary person. Vlad liked to torture women. He cut off their breasts while skinning them alive. He cut off noses and ears and removed their sexual organs too. In one case, he skinned a woman and posed her body in a local square. He laid the skin out on a nearby table so it would not be wasted. Because of this violence and bloody history, it makes sense that the character Dracula partly came from this man.

Vlad the Impaler lived in the mid-1400s. During his life, he killed up to 40,000 people. This makes him one of the most prolific serial killers ever. Vlad was one of the first killers to skin his victims. He will not be the last.