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Your local killers.
#1
Your local killers.
Who are the most famous serial killers in your local area? 
 I'm asking the question giving room for maneuver on the technicalities of what it is to be a serial killer.  I mean they don't even really have to have killed anyone I suppose, just gruesome enough crimes that they're well known. 

Around my area I think the most infamous are the moors murderers.  I don't know how infamous they actually are outside of England maybe you can tell me.

If you don't know who they were, it was a couple, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.  They killed children and buried them on the moors in the 1960s.

They both lived near where I work, one of the older people I work with met Myra a few times from delivering things to the office she worked at.
Where they buried the bodies is the area where I go cycling, but around a mile away.

I just got thinking about this today when I went cycling and I went deeper into the moors than usual and the deadly silence of the place and the lack of people around gives the place an eerie atmosphere.
Plus I just found out today that a man killed himself on the path which I posted a picture of on here of my bike ride route.  He actually traveled from Pakistan, went to this part of the countryside, poisoned himself with strychnine and lay there dead on that exact pathway.  I can't even imagine how it would be to be on my own and find a dead body up there which someone must have done.
It just got me thinking about the crazy murders and deaths that can happen on your doorstep.  

Harold Shipman is another one who is fairly local to me, within a few miles.


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#2
RE: Your local killers.
Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper.  Had folk afraid to go to school.

Quote:In August 1990, Rolling murdered five students (one student from Santa Fe College and four from the University of Florida) during a burglary and robbery spree in Gainesville, Florida. He mutilated his victims' bodies, decapitating one. He then posed them, sometimes using mirrors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Rolling

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#3
RE: Your local killers.
As Becc's mentioned a while ago, Ivan Milat, the backpack killer from down the road.

The Wolf Creek movies are based on him. (miles overembelished though)
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RE: Your local killers.
Opiate abuse is currently culling the herd in this area . . .
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RE: Your local killers.
Nothing very interesting here in San Diego. But some guy did drive railroad spikes into the heads of 5 homeless people, killing 3. He was apparently homeless himself, so it appears he wasn't a homeless hater. Jon David Guerrero's his name. 

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/...cy-hearing
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RE: Your local killers.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafet...es/1200386
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RE: Your local killers.
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire ripper.
I lived in Leeds in the late 70s.
The polioce came to my place of work(Northern Gas Board) and played us a recording of , supposedly, his voice. They didn't get him until 3 years after(1981).
One of my housemates was reported to the police for 'looking suspicious'. Suffice it t o say he wasn't the ripper.
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RE: Your local killers.
Well we don't have serial killers as such, but in the nineteeth century there was a killing so brutal that an expression based on it is still in common usage.

"Sweet Fanny adams" is a replacement word for nothing, but came from sailors usage for unsightly meat rations, and here is where it came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Adams

Quote:They found Fanny's body in the hop field, horribly butchered. Her head and legs had been severed and her eyes removed. Her eyes had been thrown into the River Wey. Her torso was dismembered and the entire contents of her chest and pelvis had been torn out and scattered across the hop field, with some internal organs found further slashed or mutilated. Her remains were taken to and put back together in a nearby doctor's surgery at 16 Amery Street.


She was 8.



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RE: Your local killers.
Closest to St. Louis would be H. H. Holmes, father of a thousand movies.
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#10
RE: Your local killers.
Jesse pomeroy and the Boston strangler
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