Serial killers with mustaches

He was executed in , being tortured throughout three days, and finally drawn and quartered. She tortured and beat to death at least serfs, the majority of whom were poor young women. After years of this, families of victims sent a petition to Empress Catherine , who launched an investigation. In , Saltykova was arrested and held in prison for six years while authorities examined the records of her estate. They found numerous suspicious deaths, and she was eventually found guilty of 38 murders.

Because Russia did not have the death penalty, she was sentenced to life imprisonment in the cellar of a convent. She died in South African serial killer Moses Sithole grew up in an orphanage and was first charged with rape as a teenager. He claimed that the seven years he spent in prison were what turned him into a murderer; Sithole said his thirty victims reminded him of the woman who had accused him of rape. Because he moved around to different cities, Sithole was hard to catch.

He was managing a shell charity, allegedly working towards fighting child abuse, and lured victims in with the offer of a job interview. Instead, he beat, raped, and murdered women before dumping their bodies in remote locations. In , a witness placed him in the company of one of the victims, and investigators closed in.

He was sentenced, in , to fifty years for each of the 38 murders he committed, and remains incarcerated in Bloemfontein, South Africa. As an adult, Toppan trained to be a nurse at Cambridge Hospital.

She experimented on her elderly patients with a variety of drug combinations, altering dosages to see what the results would be. Later in her career, she moved on to poisoning her victims. It is estimated that Toppan was responsible for more than thirty murders.

In , she was found by a court to be insane and was committed to a mental asylum. Active in Spokane, Washington, in the late s, Robert Lee Yates targeted prostitutes as his victims. A decorated military veteran and former corrections officer, Yates solicited his victims for sex, and then shot and killed them. Police questioned Yates after a car matching the description of his Corvette was linked to one of the murdered women; he was arrested in April after a DNA match confirmed her blood was present in the vehicle.

Yates has been convicted of seventeen counts of first-degree murder and is on death row in Washington, where he regularly files appeals. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile.

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Mary Ann Cotton was a British woman whose mugshot seems to register some surprise at being arrested — though the idea that Cotton would be shocked about being apprehended is fairly far-fetched, considering that she managed, in an incredibly short period, to murder three of her own husbands, two boyfriends, and 11 of her own children.

She's noted as one of the first female serial killers in British history, although her methods — arsenic poisoning, chiefly — seem a bit quaint in comparison to werewolf frenzy and human teacakes. Cotton became a thoroughly terrifying public figure when her case came to trial in — though she was only being tried for the death of her last son, the press had discovered the unusually "bad luck" that seemed to plague nearly everyone in her family, and Britain was suitably outraged.

She became a by-word for wickedness after being found guilty and hung. John Bodkin Adams 's mugshot is another one which is creepy purely due to its veneer of respectability — because Bodkin Adams, a British physician, is now widely suspected to have been a serial killer. Some historians suspect that Adams may have killed over people in his care, through drugging them to death or other acts of medicine-based maleficence.

His trial was a sensation, involving missing evidence, new judicial precedents and political meddling by government figures. And when Bodkin Adams was acquitted, he had to go into hiding to avoid public retribution. It's weird that Bodkin Adams isn't known at all today, because in the '50s he was one of the most notorious figures across the world.

Because he was acquitted in a thoroughly disorganised trial, however, he's fallen into obscurity. But we still have his mugshot from his brief time in police custody to remember him by — just look at those round glasses and that neat little tie and tell me that you don't feel a shiver.

Once imprisoned for six counts of murder, Chase was feared by his inmates and used to attempt to convince him to commit suicide.

Starting out as a circus strongman, Charles Bronson was first imprisoned in for armed robbery and has since spent very little time outside from behind bars. In more recent years, Bronson has turned his very strong hands to writing and animation. He also holds six world records for feats of strength and fitness. Ned Kelly was an Irish Australian bushranger who lived from to In November he was executed by hanging after being convicted for three counts of murder. He is an iconic figure in Australian history, though popular opinion is extremely varied.

Some consider him somewhat of a folk hero, a resistor against the ruling class. Others associate him with murder and refuse to herald him whatsoever; he was, after all, feared across the Victoria area for violence and theft.

After his arrest in , Albert Fish admitted to molesting over four hundred children as well as torturing and killing several others; the exact toll of his victims remains unknown.

He claimed to have voices inside his head insisting that he murder innocent children, however his plea for insanity was dismissed by the jury who found him sane.. It is said that whilst describing in fine detail the horrific nature of his many, many crimes, Albert Fish would do so with a smile on his face. Convicted of the sexual assault and murder of a devastating minimum of thirty three young men and boys, Gacy was executed by lethal injection in aged He committed all of the murders within his home in Chicago, Illinois, and twenty six of his victims were buried on his property.

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The founder of the Mongol Empire Genghis Kahn was born in and died in Augusto Pinochet: The Paintbrush. A dictator of the Chilean people… From , Pinochet was an army general and later a dictator over the Chilean people, until in power was transferred to a democratically elected president. Harold Shipman: The Walrus. One of the most prolific serial killers in history Born in England in , he studied at the Leeds School of Medicine and began working as a physician in Dawood Ibrahim: The Paintbrush.

India's most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim is the leader of an criminal organisation in India known as D-company. Charles Schmid killed three girls, but was popular among his friends, giving him the name "The Pied Piper of Tuscon. Ted Bundy? More like Ted Bundle of sexiness. He killed over 30 women between , which leaves me thinking, why couldn't I have been alive then?

With his hot professor gone wild look, I would love him to teach me about the end of my life. Charles Manson ran the Manson Family cult, but he's also been running through my dreams. He was a talented murderer and a mediocre musician, but I bet he was a sensational lover.