12 Vicious Killers With No Remorse

Dennis Rader.better known as"BTK".Rader used the modus operandi: "bind, torture, kill". The court sentenced Rader to 10 consecutive life terms in 2005 for a string of murders starting in 1974 in Wichita, KS.

Describing the strangulation of 24-year-old Shirley Vian, he explained he first tied her children in another room to keep them quiet. When that failed, he forced them to witness their mother's execution.:

We moved them to the bathroom. She helped me. Then I locked the door. We put toys, blankets, and random things in there so the kids felt comfortable. I shut one bathroom door so they couldn't open it. Then I shoved, she went back and helped me push the bed against the other bathroom door. Then I tied her up. She got sick and threw up. I gave her water, comforted her a bit, then I tied her up, put a bag over her head, and strangled her.

Richard Ramirez terrified southern California with a violent attack during the summer of 1985.summer of 1985The murderous drifter from Texas, known as the "Night Stalker," beat, raped, strangled, shot, and cut the throats of his victims in a violent spree he claimed honored Satan.

After being convicted of 13 murders and 30 other felonies—a work that sent him to the gas chamber—Ramirez gave a remorseless monologue.chilling monologue"You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in us all. That's it."

A PhD student in criminology at England's Bradford University.Stephen GriffithsGriffiths wanted fame beyond what academia offered. Griffiths held dark ambitions, copying his idol Peter Sutcliffe, known as "The Yorkshire Ripper." Craving infamy that placed him among history's great mass murderers, Griffiths began the first of three homicides in 2009. This series of crimes shook Bradford and earned him the nickname "The Crossbow Cannibal."

CCTV video showed Stephen Griffiths celebrating the murder of his final victim, 36-year-old Suzanne Blamires. Griffiths held up his crossbow and gave the finger at a camera in his apartment hallway. The video never reached court; Griffiths wanted to confess, describing how he dismembered victims in his bathtub and ate parts of their flesh.

Joseph Paul FranklinJoseph Paul Franklin was a neo-Nazi serial killer. He shot pornography magnate Larry Flynt. Flynt survived the attack. Franklin killed at least fifteen people in a spree starting in 1977. Authorities suspect him of 22 racially-motivated murders. Killing Gerald Gordon outside a St. Louis synagogue earned him the death penalty.

Franklin showed no remorse in court. He later tried to justify his crusade toCNN: "I felt like I was at war. The survival of the white race was at stake. I consider it my mission, my three-year mission. That time lasted the same as Jesus' mission, from age 30 to 33."

Serial killer, rapist, and possibly the source of creepy clowns.John Wayne GacyGacy carried out 33 murders from 1972 to 1978 in suburban Chicago, IL. The contractor and part-time children's birthday clown lured teenage boys to his home. He used promises of partying or construction jobs. Then, he raped, strangled, and buried them in his crawlspace.

The law caught Gacy in 1978. A mother alerted authorities that her son had disappeared with the man. Gacy confessed all his crimes to detectives. He later recanted and joked at his trial that he only ran a cemetery without a license. The jury found him guilty of many murders and sentenced him to death. Gacy died in 1994. He offered last words: "Kiss my a**."

Carl Panzram is called by some the most sadistic serial killer in history. He committed 21 murders and an unknown number of rapes—all involving young boys and men. The Minnesota native carried out his crimes across the United States and the African country ofAngola, where he claimed to have killed six local guides before feeding them to crocodiles.

Panzram went to the gallows at Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1930. He smashed a fellow inmate's skull with an iron bar while seeking a 25-year bid for the murder and rape of two boys. He met execution with anger and defiance, saying, “Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard!”

In an autobiography dictated by a cellmate, Panzram wrote his final words. These nihilistic screeds showed no humanity, not even for his most chilling crimes, including thisinfamous passage:

In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings. I committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons, and sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. I am not sorry for any of these things.

Between 1924 and 1934,Albert FishAlbert Fish became "The Gray Man." He committed ten murders in New York state. In 1935, he received a conviction for three murders of young children.

Fish had unique fetishes, including putting kerosene-soaked wool in his anus and setting it on fire, and shoving needles into his abdomen. He also ate huge amounts of raw meat. Fish later started eating human flesh. After murdering, dismembering, and eating 10-year-old Grace Budd in 1928, he wrote a cruel letter detailing his cooking process to the child's mother.child's mother:

"First I stripped her naked. How she did kick - bite and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her into small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms. Cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did not f*ck her though I could have if I wished. She died a virgin."

During his trial, Fish did not try to act sorry. He bragged at one point that he "had a child in every state.""had a child in every state."When sent to the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, Fish declared his final moments on Earth.to be "The supreme thrill of my life."

Andrei Chikatilo, dubbed the "Butcher of Rostov," is the most grimly successful serial killer in Russian history. From 1978 to 1990, he killed 53 people, 35 of whom were children or young teens. This puts him among history's worst mass murderers.a grimly successful serial killerAndrei Chikatilo achieved grim success in Russian history. From 1978 to 1990, he killed 53 people. Thirty-five of those victims were children or young teens. This spree of violence places him among history's worst mass murderers.

Chikatilo lured victims—often the homeless or disabled—from bus and train stations to forests outside Rostov. There, he raped, tortured, killed, and mutilated them, sometimes eating their organs. He was arrested in November 1990. During his trial, he offered no remorse, only pity for himself. He said, "When I used my knife, it brought psychological relief." He added, "I was like a crazed wolf. [I] just turned into a beast, into a wild animal."

For his terrible crimes, Chikatilo was executed by a single bullet to the back of the skull in 1994. For his final words, he offered the darkly humorous, if unnerving plea "Don’t blow my brains out! The Japanese want to buy them!"

Joanna DennehyShe is the third woman in UK history given a life sentence—a rare punishment for a rare crime: the female serial killer. Dennehy killed three men in Peterborough, England, in March 2013. She pleaded guilty upon arrest, avoiding a long trial, but she used her brief time in court well.

While waiting for her judge's summation, Dennehy showed no remorse. She smirked and laughed at her crimes, even yelling "b*tches" at one point. This likely earned her no sympathy. She looked shocked and stunned when a humorless judge gave her a life sentence.

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris murdered many young women in the Los Angeles area during the late '70s. Bittaker and Norris used pliers and other tools from Bittaker's kit to rape and torture their victims before killing them.

Bittaker and Norris, known as "The Toolbox Killers," were caught. California sent Bittaker to death row.At his trial, Bittaker seemed jovial and defiant. He laughed even while facing terrible evidence. Bittaker, the remorseless monster, signed his letters, Lawrence "Pliers" Bittaker.Bittaker, at his trial, seemed jovial and defiant. He laughed despite the horrifying evidence. The monster he was, Bittaker signed his letters, Lawrence "Pliers" Bittaker.

H.H. Holmes.H.H. Holmes terrorized Chicago in the 1890s, killing 27 people. Holmes took migrant workers for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair as boarders in his mansion, which functioned like a murder castle.

Holmes's huge fortress had sealed rooms where he gassed or suffocated guests. He also had chute systems for disposing of bodies. This was a streamlined murder and hospitality operation. Holmes was caught; at his hanging, he showed no remorse for the lives he ended; instead, he offered aHolmes gave a spirited explanation.:

“Yes I was born with the devil in me. The evil stood by my bed when I was born, and it has stayed with me ever since.”

That settles that.

Aussie serial killer William MacDonald, also known as"The Sydney Mutilator"MacDonald claimed he killed several gay men in the early 1960s. He stabbed them to death before mutilating their genitals. After his arrest and trial, MacDonald enjoyed detailing andHe relived his crimes., which became a media sensation across Australia.

The scenes MacDonald painted were so real that some jurors fainted and left the courtroom. The judge saw a remorseless psychopath who would likely offend again, so he gave MacDonald life imprisonment. MacDonald died in prison at age 90.