This charming son of an American naval officer, despite his stable childhood, became compulsive about killing beautiful young women mostly beauty queens who could be models. It was an addiction, spurred by sexual fantasies and excited by a certain type of attractive victim. Eight beauties definitely died by his hand, but he is almost certainly responsible for many other deaths as well.


Lawrence Bittaker
He signs his prison fan mail "Pliers."

His psychiatrist saw what he was: "a highly dangerous man, with no internal controls over his impulses, a man who could kill without hesitation or remorse." When he was released from prison, Bittaker told a cellmate that someday he planned to be "bigger than Manson."

Along with prison-buddy psychopath Roy Norris, Bittaker constructed a van called the Murder Mack and collected pretty teenage girls to rape, torture and kill in the San Gabriel Mountains. In the isolated mountain areas, they went to work on their young victims with vice-grip pliers, urging them to scream into their tape recorder before they snuffed out their voices forever.

Yes, hes on death row in California - a condition that stretches into decades -- playing cards with other serial killers, filling frivolous lawsuits against the state and selling his fingernail clippings to murder groupies.


Derrick Todd Lee
Beautiful white women are abducted from their homes in the Baton Rouge, La. Area and panic ensues as the Baton Rouge residents realize there is a serial killer in their midst. Big city cops with a flawed FBI profile in hand, look for a white killer, but DNA finally turns them in the right direction.


The Gainesville Ripper
On August 20 1990, the beautiful university town of Gainesville, Florida was ranked as being the thirteenth best place to live in the United States by Money magazine. By the end of the following week it looked as though Jack the Ripper had been reincarnated in sunny Florida. First, a bloodied naked body of a young woman was found lying grotesquely on a bed with her arms above her head. Then, another young woman was found nearby. Both had been stabbed repeatedly, mutilated and deliberately positioned for maximum shock effect.

It got much worse. They saw what appeared to be a naked body seated on the edge of the bed, bent over at the waist with a small pool of blood at the feet. Then came the shocking realization that it was the headless corpse of the once beautiful Christa. On the bed next to her were her two nipples. Shades of the Jack the Rippers treatment of Mary Kelly.

The monster who tortured and mutilated five young women was Danny Rolling, a young man who was himself the victim of almost constant physical and mental abuse in his childhood.



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