Gary Leon Wasn 't The Brightest Kid

Thomas Lester Pugh born in Stigler, Oklahoma in 1937 to John and Cora Pugh, he was the oldest of two kids he had a sister Gene Pugh. Thomas grew up in the San Bois Mountains working on a farm with his family until the second grade when his family moved to California to follow the fruit harvest. In California I just went from one school after another out there (said Thomas Lester Pugh). The Pugh family moved back to Oklahoma to Glenpool, about 15 miles south of Tulsa, when Thomas was in the fifth grade and that’s where they settled down and stayed. In high school Thomas was pretty popular he was voted the best athlete, class vice president, “biggest wolf”, and “best dancer”. During his years of high school he loved to play basketball even though he was very short, at the height of 5’8 he liked playing it gave him a challenge, and during his four years of basketball he had a higher point average than anyone on the team. After graduating high school he was inducted into the army where he spent the next twenty-five months, where he was assigned into the artillery division, he hated everyday of it. After being released from the service he operated his own service station in Glenpool and a house moving service after his discharge in 1962. For the next ten months he ran these two little businesses but after it all settled into routine I just hated it he said (Thomas Lester Pugh). This is when Thomas took a new route in his life, on March 9, 1963, Pugh was arrested in Pryor for

Gary Ridgway, or the Green River Killer, was born February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Gary had not died yet. Ridgway grew up in a troublesome household where violent arguments between his parents was commonplace. Ridgway’s mother would embarrass and humiliate him in front of the entire family. Still a little kid, Gary had an I.Q. of 82, indicating low intelligence. In high school he was a very poor student and had to repeat a grade twice in order to graduate. At age 16 Gary took a large step in the wrong direction when he stabbed a six-year-old.

Gary Ridgway was a truck painter and he had a special place where he would go and dump his victims; in and around the green river. The first body was discovered in the green river by passing pedestrians in spring of 1982 it was the body of young 16 year old Wendy Lee Coffield and she was strangled to death. (Seattle times 2003) It seems that the green river killer didn’t care what age a girl was he was cynical enough to have sex with her and kill her. Age was defiantly not a factor; he viewed women as objects

Theodore Bundy was an infamous American serial killer who preyed upon numerous young women during the 1970s and possibly earlier. He was associated with at least 30 counts of homicide and suspected of an estimated one hundred or more. Beyond homicide, he also made it apparent that he was capable of other sinister crimes such as rape, kidnapping, and necrophilia. His most frequent method of killing was an attack with a blunt weapon to the head. However, he did not merely kill his victims; evidence concludes that each were also sexually assaulted and sodomized. It is reported that he even revisited his crime scenes to further engage in sexual acts with the decomposing corpses. Moreover, at least 12 of his victims had been decapitated .

Los Angeles, California went through a time period where serial killings happened and the suspect was on the run for over two decades. Most of the victims were prostitutes in South Los Angeles. The serial killer began his killings in 1987, apparently stopped for 13 years then resumed with his killings. The killer left little to no evidence, besides his DNA from sexually assaulting his female victims. For decades LAPD failed to find the killer or anyone who was related to him (Dolan & Landsberg, 2010).

His first murder is believed to have occurred in 1974, when a young woman was kidnapped from her basement apartment in Seattle. The only evidence that remained was a few blood stains (Salem Press, 2008). Upsurges in abductions of young women, in their college years, around the King County area in Washington followed suit. As time progressed, skeletonized remains of those missing women were later discovered amongst the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. After kidnapping his victims, Bundy would often rendered them unconscious, take them to a remote location where he would then strangle and assault them (Salem Press, 2008).

Shot in the Heart is the shocking story of the life of Gary Gilmore which serves as a portrait of how his parents’ histories of violence, combined with the violence and fear in his everyday life contributed to the notoriety of Gary Gilmore who we know today as a cold-blooded murderer, and the only prisoner who demanded the implementation of his death sentence for his crimes. In this essay, I will discuss how Bessie Gilmore’s Mormon teachings to her sons of Mormon legends as well as his father Gary Gilmore’s regular beatings of his boys as well as his criminal and generally violent histories contributed to development of Gary Gilmore’s own criminal and personal history. When considering what makes a person do the things they do, the

Before he would kill in Illinois he would go back to the Palm Springs area and kill again. In spring of 1995 he met Denise Maney a prostitute from the area. He did his usual thing he drove her out to the desert where they had sex, but then he did something he had only done with Jennifer Asbenson, he began to rape her. This time his victim wasn’t able to get away he made her walk into the desert after he restrained her. When they got a good distance into the desert he put the gun into her mouth and shot killing Maney instantly. Urdiales would go back to Illinois and kill someone who was a little closer to him than the previous victims. In April of 1996 Laura Uylaki who had gone on a couple of dates with Urdiales was with Urdiales near Wolf Lake. An argument had broken out between the two and when Urdiales showed his gun to Uylaki, she made an attempt to get out of the truck and get away but Urdiales ran after her fired his weapon and killed Uylaki. Too dispose of the body Urdiales, dumped her into the lake. His next victim would be dumped a little closer to Pontiac. On July 13, 1996, Urdiales met Cassandra Corum, a prostitute from the Hammond Indiana area. They were in Urdiales truck when an argument occurred, he then handcuffed her, taped her feet, taped her mouth shut, and took her clothes off. He began driving south on Interstate 55, after driving for a

Daniel Harold Rolling is rapist and serial killer. He is born Shreveport Louisiana in May 26 1954. He elevated by his mother and his father. His father was a police officer, his mother Claudia, and his later brother Kevin. He was 11 when he began to play guitar, writing and singing his own songs. He was abused by his father when he was a kid, and he was on medication. Rolling was injured for 6 months because his father kicked him on the wall. He always had a problem with school in third grade. After Rolling dropped out of high school in 1971, he has GED, and he enlisted in the Air Force, where he excelled in his course work but drank heavily, smoked marijuana and used LSD. When Rolling was a teenager, he was arrested for robberies to many times in Georgia, and they caught him watching on cheerleaders getting dressed. At age 31 Rolling had a motorcycle accident. From these childhood struggles, he had been a mental illness. In 1974 rolling been married w and he had a beautiful daughter in 1975 from this responsible Rolling be doing two jobs and he is going back church for helping themselves about drug and alcohol. For this pressure, rolling left everything and began drinking, and smoking marijuana. He was being physically abused by his father from all this problem, he tries to kill

The police were notified that shortly before his disappearance, the young boy had told his mother that he was going to visit a contractor to talk about a job opportunity. A person known to Robert identified the contractor in question as John Gacy. The police obtained a search warrant for Gacy’s home and the area surrounding it. In December of 1978 the police found several bodies around his property. 29 bodies were found underneath Gacy’s house, 26 in the crawlspace and 3 others were found in other areas beneath his home (“Crime Museum,” 2015). Though Gacy had initially claimed innocence, he eventually confessed that he had committed approximately 25 to 30 murders since 1972. His last known victim Robert Piest’s body was finally recovered from a lock on the Illinois River in April 1979 (“The Famous,” 2016).

On Friday, December 22, 1978, Gacy finally confessed to police that he killed at least thirty people and buried most of the remains of the victims beneath the crawl space of his house. According to the book Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Sullivan and Maiken, Gacy said that, "his first killing took place in January, 1972, and the second in January, 1974, about a year and a half after his marriage." He further confessed that he would lure his victims into being handcuffed and then he would sexually assault them. To muffle the screams of his victims, he would stuff a sock or underwear into their mouths and kill them by pulling a rope or board against their throats, as he raped them. Gacy admitted to sometimes keeping the dead bodies under his bed or in the attic for several hours before eventually burying them in the crawl space.

Gary Ridgway grew up like any other ordinary suburban kid. He had a problem of wetting the bed which his mother would make fun of him and embarrass him in front of family and friends. As a young teen, he was always getting into trouble such as stabbing a six year-old boy in the ribs when he was a young teen. In high school Gary continued to go down hill and get bad grades. Gary graduated high school and joined the Navy. While he was in Vietnam, he discovered prostitutes and ended up getting sexually transmitted diseases. Soon after being home from Vietnam, Gary was killing and raping prostitutes on the streets of Seattle, Washington. Gary would go on to murder about 71 young women who he targeted because they were either prostitutes or runaways.

Serial killers traumatize entire communities and cause tremendous disturbance to everyone. The Gilgo Beach serial killer is also known as the Long Island serial killer and Craigslist Ripper is said to have been responsible for 10 to 17 murders. The killer is said to target those who work in the sex industry and is believed to have been active for more than 20 years. Although the killer has been active more than 20 years the police are nit anywhere near to catching him. This essay will take a look at the investigation of the serial killer, take a look at who some of the victims were and finally give my opinion on how the case is being handled. It is important to note that the identity of the killer has not been identified therefore there has not been a trial and a sentencing. Also for the purpose of this essay I will be referring to the Unsub as The Gilgo Beach serial killer or simply as the killer.

Described as “THE execution” (Lyons & Trei, 1989, p. Ia) serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was put to death by the State of Florida at 7.16 A.M. January 24, 1989. During his life he had been convicted of the 1978 rape and murder of a 12 year old, Kimberly Leach in Lack City; and the death of Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, sorority sisters at Florida State University. Just two days before his execution Bundy also admitted to killing a number of other females of various ages in Washington, Colorado, Utah, Oregon and Florida although he was never tried or convicted for those (Rule, 1989, p. 479-480). In total it is estimated that he killed between 25 and 30 women (Rule, 1989).

Ridgway’s childhood is more straight forward when it comes to affecting his future behavior. His mother was an intimidating woman who constantly asserted her dominance over both her son and her husband. She never did sexually abuse him, but he later admitted that her demeanor and dress made him feel some sexual attraction towards her. In high school, he was a D student who did not go on to college after graduating. After graduating he had a couple odd jobs and would eventually marry three women, on separate occasions, and then be divorced by all of them. His ex-wives and ex-girlfriends all reported him being abusive and sexually insatiable throughout all his relationships. He was not only like that with his significant others, but also with the prostitutes he used, explaining his victim type. He seemed to be judgmental about the prostitutes and their way of life because he frequently complained about them, but he still continued to use their services. While he was going from girlfriend to girlfriend after his second divorce was also when he performed the majority of his killings (Lackey, Jones, Johnson).