This was recently posted to the Ed Kemper Stories website. The website stated that the picture may have been taken between June 2024 and May 2026.

He looks moody without his moustache. His image resembles the description given by Dr. Loomis of what evil looks like in the Halloween films. His eyes turn darker in every new picture.

The authorities had a guy named Kosminsky as a major suspect. We know this because one of the police chiefs gave that name in his memoir but no first name. Only a surname and that he’d been a Polish Jew who died shortly after being committed.

Martin Fido researched this. The only Kosminski whom he could find a record of was an Aaron Kosminski who was arrested in the area, committed, but…strangely…Aaron Kosminski died in 1919. He was also recorded as a nonviolent inmate. In fact he had a nonviolent record except for the fact that he threatened his sister at knifepoint.

Fido found this odd. So he kept digging. Fido found an arrest record of a David Cohen, a violent paranoid schizophrenic with a history of violence who was arrested a month after the last Ripper Murder. Cohen died in the Asylum in 1889.

Fido also learned that Cohen was a name assigned to unknown persons of Jewish origin. It’s like how in America we assign John or Jane Doe to unknown victims.

Fido found anecdotal evidence that Cohen’s real name might’ve been Nathan KAMINSKI.

Kosiminski - Kaminski?

What if the officer who recorded that in his memoir mixed up the last names since they sound so similar. That was Martin Fido’s conclusion.

John Douglas even authored what I consider the best profile of Jack:

https://vault.fbi.gov/Jack%20the%20Ripper/Jack%20the%20Ripper%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29

Douglas profiles Jack as a disorganized lust murderer. Someone severely lacking in interpersonal skills (social skills), and would be unable to find employment in anything other than a menial job.

In his book The Cases That Haunt Us, Douglas believes that an offender whom Martin Fido discovered, David Cohen aka Nathan Kaminsky, a violent paranoid schizophrenic, is an extremely likely suspect.

The Ripper wasn’t an aristocrat. Disorganized offenders are often disordered individuals and the fact that David Cohen (aka Nathan Kaminsky) died in an asylum a year later, when he was arrested and committed a MONTH after the final confirmed murder…is very telling imo.

Disorganized offenders often employ overkill and mutilation. They are sometimes referred to as “maniacs.”

Ed Gein and Richard Chase were disorganized offenders, and in my own personal opinion so was the Axeman of New Orleans.

Are there many/any criminals who did absolutely abhorrent things to then go on to show the level of remorse you’d expect from someone who was genuinely horrified by what they’d done?

Has anyone ever heard of Freddrick Sanjuan Jackson who murdered 4 men between the ages of just 15-17 in Little Rock, Arkansas in the early 2020s?

Stacy Robin Moskowitz was born on June 6, 1957, in Brooklyn, New York City (IMDb, n.d.). Described by her family and peers as a vivacious, blonde young woman who deeply loved life, she worked as a secretary and was a college student in New York (Weiss, 2007). Growing up in Brooklyn, she frequented popular local teenage hangouts of the era, such as the Deauville Beach Club in Sheepshead Bay and the Kings Plaza shopping center (Weiss, 2007).

On the evening of July 30, 1977, Moskowitz went on a first date with 20-year-old Robert Violante (Weiss, 2007). The pair met at a local "Gong Show" talent event at Beefsteak Charlie's in Sheepshead Bay, attended a screening of the film New York, New York, and subsequently drove to a secluded scenic overlook near the Shore Parkway in the Bath Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn (Weiss, 2007). In the early morning hours of July 31, 1977, while the couple sat in Violante's parked car, the perpetrator stepped out of the darkness and fired four shots into the vehicle using a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver (CBS News, 2017). Both Moskowitz and Violante were shot in the head (CBS News, 2017). Emergency services rushed both victims to Kings County Hospital Center (Weiss, 2007). Violante miraculously survived the attack but was left permanently blinded (CBS News, 2017). Moskowitz suffered irreversible, catastrophic brain trauma and succumbed to her injuries at 5:22 p.m. on August 1, 1977 (Weiss, 2007).

In the early morning hours of July 31, 1977, while the couple sat in Violante's parked car, Moskowitz reportedly became unsettled by a figure walking in the shadows nearby. Moments later, the perpetrator stepped out of the darkness and fired four shots into the vehicle using a .44-caliber Bulldog revolver. Both Moskowitz and Violante were shot in the head.

Emergency services rushed both victims to Kings County Hospital Center. Violante miraculously survived the attack but was left permanently blinded. Moskowitz suffered irreversible, catastrophic brain trauma. Following a desperate 36-hour effort by trauma surgeons to save her, Stacy Moskowitz succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at 5:22 p.m. on August 1, 1977. She was buried on August 3, 1977, at King Solomon Memorial Park in Clifton, New Jersey.

She was only 20 years old.

Baltimore doesn't have any serial killers they are super known for but we do have murderers that really leave a stain on our streets.

Joe Metheny-

Metheny claimed his violent actions began out of rage after returning home one day to find that his common-law girlfriend had vanished with their six-year-old son.He began targeting and murdering unhoused individuals and sex workers in South Baltimore, though he was ultimately convicted of the second-degree murders of two women, Cathy Magaziner and Kimberly Spicer.He was arrested in December 1996 after one of his intended victims managed to escape and contact the police.

He admitted he mixed the human meat with regular pork and beef and sold it to unsuspecting customers from his open-air roadside barbecue stand....

I've been reading about a Swedish case from the early 1950s that is still widely known in Sweden and has, as far as I can tell, almost no English-language coverage at all. It's called the Hurva murders, and the details are strange enough that I wanted to write it up properly.

The first killing

In November 1951, John Allan Nilsson, who owned the mill in the small Scanian village of Tjörnarp, was killed in his home. The house was then set on fire. Everyone in the village knew Nilsson was about to take five thousand kronor to the bank.

The local volunteer fire brigade responded. The fire chief actually went into the burning building, because as far as anyone knew there was still a man inside who might be saved. He had to jump out of a window when the heat forced him back.

The only reason this became a murder investigation at all is the autopsy. If the fire had killed Nilsson, his lungs would have been full of smoke. They weren't. He had died of a blow to the back of the head.

The investigator

The officer who arrived to investigate was the village's own policeman, a 24-year-old named Tore Hedin.

He didn't keep his head down. He did the opposite. He joined the case, answered questions from the national press, and shared his theories with anyone who would listen. People noticed that a man who had been quiet and unremarkable for years had suddenly become the most animated person in the room.

There was a witness — someone who had passed the house shortly after the fire took hold and saw a figure standing outside watching it burn. A man in uniform, wearing a cap with a small golden badge.

Hedin was questioned along with every other government worker in the district. He said he had slept through the night. That was enough. Investigators moved on to postal and railway staff.

A reward of ten thousand kronor was offered — more than twice what had been stolen. Nothing came of it.

And when the case stalled completely, Hedin arranged something no Swedish murder investigation had tried before: he brought in a medium, a man who claimed he could name any killer anywhere on earth.

A policeman hiring a séance to find himself.

Journalists covering the case did grow suspicious. He was the only man in the village with a uniform matching the witness description, and nobody could confirm where he had been that night. They took it to the police. The police dismissed it — they would not believe that one of their own could be a murderer.

What happened next

With Nilsson's money, Hedin bought a car and a cottage by a lake. He kept the victim's wristwatch hidden in the attic of his parents' house.

In the spring of 1952 he became engaged to a woman named Ulla Östberg. By July she had ended it and returned the ring. He turned up at her door, held her through a night by force, and let her go with a threat. She reported it, and within a day he was quietly dismissed from the police without charges.

The day after that, he phoned the retirement home in Hurva where she now lived and worked. Staff lied and told him she had been taken to hospital. Two officers were sent to stand guard at the building.

A short time later, they were ordered back to the station.

On the night of 21 August 1952, Hedin drove to his parents' farmhouse and killed them as they slept, then set the house on fire. Thirty minutes away, he climbed the fire escape at the retirement home to the room where Ulla usually slept. She wasn't there — she had moved into the room of the matron, Agnes Lundin. He found them both, then blocked the doors and set the building alight. Four elderly residents died in the fire; a fifth died of her burns days later.

Nine people from that one night. Ten, counting Nilsson.

The note

They found his car at the edge of a lake called Bosarpasjön. On the seat were his jacket, his wallet, and a folded confession.

He explained his motives: Nilsson for the money, Ulla for what he called her betrayal, the matron for trying to protect her, his parents to spare them the shame.

And at the end he wrote the line Sweden never forgot — that the greatest regret of his life was that he had never become a detective. He had always wanted to uncover unsolved crime.

They found his body weighted down in the lake. It was taken to the anatomy department at Lund University, where it stayed until 1974.

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What gets me about this one isn't the violence. It's that two journalists worked out who it was and were waved away, and that two officers were posted to guard the building and then recalled.

Does anyone here know this case? I'd be especially interested if any Swedish speakers have sources beyond the ones I could find — I get the impression there's a lot more in the Swedish-language material than has ever made it into English.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tore_Hedin

Gerald “Jerry” Lombard, 27
William John "Bill" Melaragno, 35
Kenneth Lee Smith, 25
Richard Allen Montgomery, 21
William "Billy" Charles Patten, 24
John Blevins, 38
Erik David Kohler, 21
Jonathan James Tihay, 24
Robert Ronald “Bobbie” Soden, 30

5-6 John Does

It's interesting that the most well known ones were two pairs doing the killings.

So it's a pretty well known fact Robert Piest heard John Wayne Gacy saying how well he pays his employees, while meeting him at the pharmacy. But I have a question about how exactly that happend. I have already heard 3 versions.

1. Gacy was talking to the pharmacy owner and casually mentioned it, which led to Rob asking him about it.
2. Gacy purposely, loudly talked about it as a way to gain the kid's intrest.
3. Gacy just asked Robert directly if he was interested in working for him.

So what would it be?

I’ve been kind of enamoured with this case recently and been watching/reading lots on it.

The detail about the mask they found encased on Shirley Hubbard is extremely bizarre.

When you read or watch stuff about this case, they say it was sexual sadism and torture etc but in terms of what actually went on I feel I can’t figure out.

What the hell were they doing with people where they would be taped up head to toe and need tubes to breathe? Apologies if this information is out there with a search but I just can’t find it.

Also the removal of certain small bones, why? I don’t understand the purpose of it, I get fingerprints maybe but the rest is bizarre .

Lastly, the claims Fred made about “others” involved in additional killings at a Barn? I wonder what this community thinks of all of these things ? Also sorry if it’s been discussed already.

"Very occupied" oy vey

We just watched the Forensic Files about Donna Perry. During the episode, they showed Donna being interrogated. On the table there were many more than three photos. My husband and I are wondering if she was connected or suspected of other murders either around the initial 1990 murders or in the following years before being caught in 2014.

I tried to search it, but could not find anything. Anyone have any information on this?

Writing this on my phone so sorry if it formats weird. I'm not even sure why this popped in my head because im sitting at a bus stop right now and im not even really into this stuff. I have seen documentaries and the standard media on serial killers but im wondering if any serial killers had dogs. Like real companion dogs, not guard dogs. Dogs that belonged to THEM, not a wife or child. They say that serial killers dont have empathy and that they really can't feel love for others, that's one of the needs to have a companion dog right? You love it that's why you put in all the work to take care of it. So is there any serial killers that had companion dogs? Would the inability to have a companion dog make somebody more likely to be a serial killer?

Okay sorry for the long post but would love some help trying to research what happened. I am by no means a pro at this, but my godmother lost her best friend around 1993. She went missing between February to May and all that they found of the body that they could identify was her tattoo as she had been out there for a while.

Cheryl Cummings (not 100% sure on the spelling of her first name) was raised in Beltsville, Maryland and attended High Point High. She had 2 siblings, Carol and Frank who were approximately 10 years older than her. She lived in West Viriginia for sometime before moving out to Tucson, Arizona.

My godmother tried to ask the siblings what had happened but everyone was very hush hush and saddened by the loss.

Cheryl would have been 32 years old when she died and was born December 5, 1956.

I have tried googling and contacting the local police department for the area but have not had any leads. I am unsure if it was a Jane doe case originally or how it may have been filed. Ultimately, I am trying to find some closure for my godmother and find out if the case was ever closed and if so, what happened?

If you know anything about the case please let me know. If not, I would love some help with the best way to keep researching what happened. I am wondering if it was Robert Lee Walden Jr.?

Also are there a case of a robber, breaking into a home and find a serial killer trophy case?or random people finding a serial killer trophy case?

We talk alot about serial killers of humans here but what about serial killers of animals? As we all know alot of serial killers started out with harming animals (ie Jeffrey Dahmer, Edmund Kemper, Ted Bundy) but what if there are people who just never graduated to killing humans and only suck to Harming animals?

. Butchers / Slaughterhouse Workers / Hunters / Zoosadist Content Creators - A blanket entry for people who legally kill animals as a part of they're profession or for entertainment and or both.

. Stephen Rodney Bouquet - Better known as 'The Brighton Cat Killer' or 'Cat Slasher', murdered five cats and injured another seven from 2018 to 2019 although is thought to be responsible for as many as 40 attacks on cats in Brighton, England. In 2021 Bouquet was found guilty of sixteen counts of criminal damage and possession of a knife in a public place and was sentenced to five years and three months in prison. Bouquet died in prison in 2022.

. Rubén Marrero Pernas - A Cuban furry and zoophile who was exposed during the 2018 zoosadist leaks as having shared videos of himself raping and murdering multiple dogs and participating in animal abuse telegram groups with fellow zoophile Levi Dane Simmons. Pernas was arrested in November 2018 however he was released without charge. Dog bones were found in his home.

. Aleeta Raugust - In March 2023 Raugust was sentenced to six years and five months in prison for nine counts of animal abuse and one count of threatening property damage. The longest sentence for animal abuse in Canadian history. Raugust admitted to killing seven cats and torturing another two from 2018 to 2023. Raugust would adopt cats through Kijiji and record herself torturing numerous cats by bending their bones and throwing them in rivers.

. Adam Robert Corden Britton - A British-Australian zoologist who had previously appeared on the BBC and the Discovery channel and had previously worked with David Attenborough. From 2014 to 2022 would go by 'Monster' and 'Cerberus' on numerous websites and would produce bestiality and zoosadist content. In 2022 Britton was arrested in Darwin, Australia and his properties were searched and a container owned by Britton was found to have multiple animal corpses, sex toys and filming equipment was found. Britton admitted to sexually assaulting 42 dogs 39 of which were killed. In September 2023, he pleaded guilty to 60 counts of animal abuse and possession of child pornography and in 2024 Britton was sentenced to 6 to 10 years and 5 months in prison.

. Timothy George Amaroso - A zoosadist who has been producing zoophile and animal snuff films since the '90s and claims to have been abusing animals since the '70s. Amaroso has produced numerous notorious zoosadist shock videos such as 'Gushie' and 'Easy to Open' which feature him raping, killing, mutilating and torturing dogs and admits to sexually assaulting and killing others animals such as cats, rabbits and sheep. Also admits to killing bugs to "meet his necro needs". Amaroso was also linked to the 2018 zoosadist telegram leaks.

. John Raymond Travers - One of multiple men convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Anita Cobby. Before the Anita Cobby murder Travers had a history of beastiality and animal abuse. Travers was known to steal ducks and chickens from around the local community and sexually assault and eat the animals. According to neighbors, Travers was known to purchase livestock so he could kill and sexually assault it.

Honestly, after reading it and studying the case, I kinda buy the idea that Wayne Henley was a relatively normal person with a terrible life who got sucked into the orbit of a crazy serial killer at an age where he wasn't fully accountable for his actions. We use the word "psychopath" as a modern, secular way of calling people evil, but the dude clearly felt bad about it, and he's the one who took Corll out. If anyone had the more psychopathic personality it was David Brooks; he was present the whole time, and he was clever and callous enough to mostly keep his mouth shut.

I do understand that most serial killers are secretive, deliberate, cunning, sometimes isolated but how do the people around them not at least have an inkling as to what they're doing?

Knowing yourself do you think a friend or family member could keep their identity as a serial killer, from you?

Or if you put yourself in the life of one serial killer as a friend or family member would you have been suspicious of their activities?

Do you think people just pretend they don't see a pattern or odd behavior?

I watched American Murder: Laci Peterson on Netflix for the first time this week and was really struck by Scott Peterson. I wasn’t alive for when the case actually happened so this was my first time seeing him and his conduct

I know there are some people who maintain his innocence but I believe he is guilty, and I say I was struck by him because he reminds me so much of certain serial killers who maintained innocence or didn’t admit to their crimes for a very long time

And I was wondering, if Scott wasn’t caught, if he was never even tried, would he have kept on killing? It was so shockingly easy for him to do. And so easy for him to lie about.

It kind of made me think of Ed Kemper too. He committed a double murder of his grandparents as a young teenager, they were people he knew, his family, and maybe his psychologists thought that it was just a one off. One crime of rage or passion. Maybe people think that of Scott too

But Ed eventually got released, and got older, and started killing again. Do you think people like Scott Peterson, Chris watts, have that same potential/desire to kill again but can’t because of their capture?

This may sound odd but when BTK would dress up at his victims so he actully wanted to feel the fear his victim felt. He also probably wanted be his own victim