Ted Bundy (22+) The Picasso of the serial killing community. Ted was handsome, charming, intelligent, self-assured, with a
brilliant future, and deadlier than a rattlesnake. Using his good looks, he was able to invisibly abduct and kill his victims and continue with his
seemingly charmed life. This law student and Young Republican liked to wear an arm sling to appear vulnerable and get women to help him
with his groceries. Once he lured his victims to the door of his car he would bludgeon them and take them away to privately enjoy their death.
He favored killing pretty, dark-haired cheerleader types. He would attack his prey with blunt objects and was fond of raping and biting them.
The bite marks on one of his victims were used as evidence against him at his trial in Florida.
In December 30, 1977, after a previous failed attempt, Ted escaped while awaiting trial through a court house window and relocated to
Tallahassee, Florida, near Florida State University. There he perpetrated his blood-soaked "Guernica" of crime. In January 15, 1978, he set forth
on a night of butchery and killed two girls and wounded two others in and around the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee. Two weeks
later he stole a van and killed 12-year-old Kimberly Leach in Lake City, Florida, for which, eventually, he was fried. Poor Kimberly's body was
found in a pig trough next to a plaid jacket that was not Ted's. She was buried in a cemetery near a Purina plant under a heart-shaped
tombstone with her picture on it.
Ted defended himself in trials in Utah, Colorado and Florida as the police tried to put together a trail of dead girls leading to him. During his
various trials, a very self-possessed Ted Bundy defended himself garnishing praise and a legion of female admirers. After numerous appeals
Bundy was electrocuted by the state of Florida in 1989. For his last meal he had steak, eggs, hash browns and coffee.
[Ted Bundy's fried skull after being electricuted]
Edison was propositioned by the New York City Correctional Institution to design an electric chair for
execution. A small group of influential individuals felt that the present form of execution (hanging) was
becoming out-dated and inhumane for a modern city such as New York at the turn of the century.
Following this proposition Edison flatly refused; he was devoutly in opposition to any forms of capital
punishment. But after a few days of thought about Westinghouse's success with alternate current power
systems and his steady decline in the electric light business he agreed to design an electric chair for
execution but only with his competitors power source; Alternate Current.
Edison told the correctional institution Alternate Current was so deadly it would take approximately 5
seconds to electrocute a man to death using 1,000 volts of alternate current. But the first individual that
was executed in this new chair surprisingly did not die after the first 5 seconds of electrocution but was
pronounced dead after 4 minutes of a steady stream of current into his body. During this 4 minutes the
convict started to smoke, both the hair on his arms and head ignited in flames and blood spilled from
every orifice of his face. Subsequently this display of electric power was considered a horrible failure.
Truckload of Dahmer's gear destroyed
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Business leaders said they prevented a freakshow by destroying a truckload of items serial killer
Jeffrey Dahmer used to torture, murder and sometimes cannibalize 17 people.
Victims' relatives said they had simply closed a chapter in a book that will never end.
"It's never going to be over for us," said Dawn Tuomi, whose brother Steven was murdered by Dahmer. "I still have unopened
Christmas gifts from 10 years ago. The memories are still there."
Tuomi attended a news conference Thursday with the business leaders who had raised $407,225 to keep the items from a
public auction.
The fund's leader, real estate magnate Joseph Zilber, said his intent in buying the belongings was to make sure that someday no
one "will see this freak show ... and think he can outdo Dahmer."
Among the items in Dahmer's estate were utensils he used to cannibalize victims, saws and blades and a refrigerator where
police found human heads.
Zilber's spokesman Michael P. Mervis refused to say how or where the items were disposed of. He said only that they had
been taken away to a Waste Management Inc. site out of Wisconsin on Wednesday, the day after Columbia County Circuit
Judge Daniel George approved their release to the Milwaukee Civic Pride Fund.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported today the items were destroyed in Illinois.
Dahmer, a former Milwaukee chocolate factory worker, confessed to killing, dismembering and in some cases cannibalizing 17
young men and boys before his 1991 arrest at his Milwaukee apartment. He was bludgeoned to death by another inmate in
state prison in November 1994.
Families of some of Dahmer's victims had earlier obtained a court order turning the items over for auction, hoping to raise $1
million in compensation.
Appalled at the prospect, Zilber donated $100,000 to start the fund-raising to purchase and destroy the estate.
After legal fees for a state-appointed attorney, each of the 11 families will receive $32,500 as early as next week.
Despite the publicity that would have accompanied the auction, Tuomi said she would have preferred the sale because "it
would have compensated us more."
Other family members scoffed when Mervis told reporters nothing was left of Dahmer's deadly items and that "no one on the
face of the earth will ever see them again."
Estate items listed
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Items from serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's estate that were destroyed:
* A refrigerator where victims' heads were found.
* A 57-gallon vat that contained body parts in an acid bath.
* Pictures of victims in various stages of mutilation.
* Hatchet, sledgehammer, knives, saws, hammers and drill bits used to dismember victims.
* A hypodermic needle used to drug victims.
* Power tools.
* Handcuffs.
* A collection of Bibles.
* Kitchen utensils.
* A lava lamp.
* Gargoyle figurines.
* A videotape of the movie "The Exorcist."
[A pic of Jeffery Dahmer's 14th victim dissolving in an acid vat]
Gein's desolate farmhouse was a study in chaos. Inside,
junk and rotting garbage covered the floor and counters. It
was almost impossible to walk through the rooms. The smell
of filth and decomposition was overwhelming. While the
local sheriff, Arthur Schley, inspected the kitchen with his
flashlight, he felt something brush against his jacket.
Eddie Gein's kitchen
When he looked up to see what it was he ran into, he faced a large, dangling carcass hanging
upside down from the beams. The carcass had been decapitated, slit open and gutted. An ugly
sight to be sure, but a familiar one in that deer-hunting part of the country, especially during deer
season.
It took a few moments to sink in, but soon Schley realized that it wasn't a deer at all, it was the
headless butchered body of a woman. Bernice Worden, the fifty-year-old mother of his deputy
Frank Worden, had been found.
While the shocked deputies searched through the
rubble of Eddie Gein's existence, they realized that
the horrible discoveries didn't end at Mrs.
Worden's body. They had stumbled into a death
farm.
The funny-looking bowl was a top of a human skull. The lampshades and wastebasket were made
from human skin.
A ghoulish inventory began to take shape: an armchair made of human skin, female genitalia kept
preserved in a shoebox, a belt made of nipples, a human head, four noses and a heart.
The more the looked through the house, the more ghastly trophies they found. Finally a suit made
entirely of human skin. Their heads spun as they tried to tally the number of woman that may have
died at Eddie's hands.
All of this bizarre handicraft made Eddie into a celebrity. Author Robert Bloch was inspired to
write a story about Norman Bates, a character based on Eddie, which became the central theme
of the Albert Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho.
In 1974, the classic thriller by Tobe Hooper, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has many Geinian
touches, although there is no character that is an exact Eddie Gein model. This movie helped put
"Ghastly Gein" back in the spotlight in the mid-1970's.
Years later, Eddie provided inspiration for the character of another serial killer, Buffalo Bill in The
Silence of the Lambs. Like Eddie, Buffalo Bill treasured women's skin and wore it like clothing in
some insane transvestite ritual.
[a pic of Ed Gein's tombstone]
Here are some Jeff Jokes:
Jeff Jokes
Q: What did Jeffrey tell his mother when she told him that she didn't like his friends?
A: "That's Ok, Mom, just eat the noodles!
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Q: Why did Jeffery Dahmer keep testickles in the refridgerator?
A: Because sometimes you feel like a nut...sometimes you don't.
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Q: What were Jeffery Dahmer's favorite foods?
A: Ground Chuck and Quiche Lorraine.
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Q: What did Dahmer do when he finished his vegetables?
A: He threw away their wheelchairs!
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Q: What did Jeffery Dahmer say to Loraina Bobbit?
A: Excuse me, but are you going to eat that?
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Q: Why did Jeffery Dahmer keep a blender on his porch?
A: So he could greet everyone with a handshake!
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Q: What did Jeffery say when the judge was coming down real hard on him?
A: Come on judge....have a heart!
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Q: What would Jeffrey Dahmer considered a six course meal?
A: The McCaughey sentuplets.
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Q: What did Jeffery Dahmer do when he broke his leg?
A: Threw it away and got another one from the fridge.
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Q: What did Jeffery Dahmer do after he dumped his girl friend?
A: He wiped!
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[A picture of Bobby Joe Long with an extra "x" chromosome!]
