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6 ways to spot a serial killer

When a serial killer is arrested it is not uncommon to hear from family, friends and neighbours that “he seemed

In short Anthony Hardy, the “Camden Ripper”, killed at least three women who worked as prostitutes in London in 2002-2003,

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In short The Cleveland Torso Murderer, or “Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run”, is a never-identified serial killer who between 1935

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The stories we are going to tell share the same origin, the same substratum. What is 4chan? Let’s start from

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In short Between 25 June and mid-July 2007, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, 19-year-olds Igor Suprunyuk and Viktor Sayenko killed 21 people,

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In short Peter Kürten (1883-1931), the “Vampire of Düsseldorf”, was a German serial killer who in 1929 terrorised Düsseldorf with

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In short Darya Saltykova (1730-1801), a Russian noblewoman widowed in 1755, tortured and killed dozens of serfs on her estate

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In short Carl “Charlie” Brandt seemed a model husband. In September 2004, staying with his niece Michelle Jones in Maitland,

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In short Between 1926 and 1928 Canadian Gordon Stewart Northcott abducted, abused and murdered at least three boys at his

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In short Alexander Pichushkin, the “chessboard killer”, killed at least 49 people between 1992 and 2006 in Moscow’s Bittsa Park,

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In short Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, born in 1952 in Kazakhstan and nicknamed “Metal Fang” because of his dental crowns, killed and

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In short Sergei Ryakhovsky (1962-2007), known as the Balashikha Ripper or “the Hippopotamus” because of his size, killed at least

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