Famous serial killers in europe

Or is it down to departments in the individual European National police forces? Do individual countries, or even better at a European level keep statistics on missing persons? Figures that could be compared with America and allowances made for the distorted effect of conflicts like Yugoslavia. I assume that would be a good place to start anyone any ideas? Europe alreday has Europol. They are the ones looking for cross-border criminals within the EU since There is a reference to it in the film Ocean's Check this selection of my best forum topics My book selection Follow me on Facebook and Twitter My profile on Academia.

Originally Posted by Maciamo. Yet, in the link you posted :. France holds man over 18 murders A year-old man has been arrested by French police on suspicion of murdering 18 people, most of them homosexuals, between and , officials say. During the s, there was a spate of unsolved murders of homosexuals across the border from Mulhouse in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

The arrest followed a 2 year investigation by a Montbeliard police officier, who spotted the suspects name in database files relating to a string of unsolved murders. I haven't come accross a mention of Europol in any of the reports yet but I wonder could a FBI style agency have been of benefit here? With the free movement of goods and peoples and criminals more urgency should be placed on the matter. France has proposed setting up European Police stations in tourist areas staffed by officers from all over the Eu, long over due.

It will also examine the introduction of a response network similar to the US "amber alert" model. You should look into Thomas Quick. Originally Posted by Starship. Originally Posted by LeBrok. How do you know that?! What about them abusing wives, husbands, kids, the easiest prey. You're sure they will resist?

Don't apologies, your English is great and better than mine, : I agree with your posts. My point was that serial killers are the extreme case of psychopaths. Most of them are not going to the extreme of torturing to death, but thrive on small mischieves , and suffering of people around them.

Many of them pick an occupation to be in position of power, like person guards, drill sergeants, orphanages, even teachers, etc. I wish you luck in your study.

He spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. John Wayne Gacy was charged with committing 33 murders. Gacy was later executed by lethal injection. There they found a class ring and clothing belonging to several young men previously reported missing. In a 4-foot crawl space beneath the house, where a penetrating odor was present, they were shocked to find the decomposing bodies of 29 boys and teenagers that Gacy had raped and murdered.

Law enforcement also came under criticism, as the family members of several of the victims had previously pointed to Gacy as a possible suspect. In addition to the bodies found at his house, Gacy admitted to killing several additional men, disposing of their bodies in a nearby lake. His attempts at presenting an insanity defense failed, and he was convicted on 33 counts of murder and executed by lethal injection in Jeffrey Dahmer at his initial appearance at the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, where he was charged with four counts of first-degree intentional homicide, July 26, Dahmer was arrested after police found the body parts of 11 men in his Milwaukee apartment.

Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in , when he was just He would go on killing until his arrest in , after an African American man escaped his clutches and hailed down police near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dahmer had lived a shiftless life, dropping out of college and the Army and living with various family members before being kicked out by his grandmother and settling in the Milwaukee apartment.

Three years before his arrest—and with several murders already under his belt—Dahmer was convicted of drugging and sexually molesting a young teenager. After serving only a year, he was released and continuing his killing binge, which focused almost entirely on young men of color.

In , Dahmer was sentenced to years in jail, but was killed by a fellow inmate just two years later. Handsome, well-educated and brimming with charm, Ted Bundy seemed the unlikeliest of serial killers. Which made his decade-long, multi-state killing spree all the more surprising—and to some, appealing.

Following a difficult adolescence, Bundy graduated from the University of Washington—and soon embarked on his murderous spree, killing his first victim in Seattle in Eventually, police discovered a video of Fred raping his own daughter and launched a full investigation.

Fred hanged himself before trial and Rosemary is still serving a life sentence. Nicknamed Dr. Death , Dr. Harold Shipman is responsible for the deaths of as many as of his patients. In , he was only found guilty of 15 murders, but it is believed that the real number is much higher.

His killings took place from the mids to Shipman targeted elderly women and would administer lethal doses of diamorphine to them.

This drug, commonly known as heroin, was used to help cancer patients manage their pain. It was an average day in London. Plumbers were heading to the apartment building of Dennis Nilsen. They had received complaints that all the drains in the building were not functioning properly.

When the plumbers got to work, they soon realized that this was no average clog; the pipes were full of human remains. They had smelled the scent of rotting flesh and arrested him. When asked how many people he had murdered, he responded 15 or Nilsen began his killing spree in victimizing only homeless gay men.

He would lure these men into his home, strangle them to death, and kept their bodies in his apartment. In Europe, you may also get underreporting because serial killers could be active in multiple countries, and communication between law enforcement between countries is far weaker than internally in a country. However, when compared to Canada or Australia on a per capita basis this actually holds less weight, and the United States has 3 times more serial killers per capita.

While this explanation has some merit it's also a traditional political response by American politicians in regards to negative statistics that they are just better at gathering the data.

Media saturates coverage when a serial killer is found or a mass killing occurs. Violence sells. While the average consumer sees it, we are shocked, horrified, weep for the families of the victims and the victims themselves but a few see it and think "cool".

The more media obsess about past killers the more likely it is to breed future ones. England with serial killers and South Africa with serial killers are at the second and third position globally. In England, the worst serial killer in history is a woman serial killer, Angel Maker.