Wayne's Arrest

Arthur Shawcross is a man that committed his life to killing people. He was born on June 6, 1945 in Kittery, Maine. “Serial killer Arthur Shawcross was born on June 6, 1945, and died on November 10, 2008 while serving a life sentence for the murder of 11 women” (Arthur Shawcross 2015). Arthur is what is called a serial killer/murder. The term “serial murder” from our class notes means, “The killing of several victims in three or more separate incidents over time (separated by weeks or more)” (Miyuki 2017: Chapter 9, 27). Soon after Arthur was born, his family moved to Watertown, New York. Shawcross claims when he was a child, he was abused by his mother and the relationship he had with his father was not much better. Also, he claimed that this

On March 17, 1942, John Wayne Gacy was born into an Irish middle-class family. His parents were Marion Gacy and John Gacy Sr. Gacy Jr. had enjoyed a uninteresting childhood until he suffered a head injury at a playground when he was 11. Up until age 16, Gacy had suffered blackouts due to the injury. After all he was put through, he worshipped his father like a hero, despite the fact that his father was an abusive alcoholic with a bad temper and an intense hate for homosexuals. Gacy was often accused and beaten by his father for being sickly.

Jeffrey Dahmer was an infamous serial killer and sex offender. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 21, 1960. Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991. He was sentenced to 15 life terms, but was later murdered by an inmate in 1994. His murders included rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism. Since most of Dahmer’s victims were African American males, many people believed his acts had to do with racism.

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 .

He was a serial killer as well. He was sadistic, which means he drove pleasure from inflicting pain upon others. He was also narcissistic which means he had an excessive interest in his own physical appearance. He killed around 30 people, or at least that’s what he confessed to. Another serial killer is Jeffrey Dahmer, who was a cannibal. When they found him, he was in a state of dissociation. When he is in a state of dissociation, he can forget things and there is a lack of connection in his thoughts, according to the article titled Dissociation and Dissociative

The city of Atlanta had experienced over a two year period from 1979-1981 of egregious acts of murders committed on more than twenty African American adolescent males. However, Wayne Williams, a native of Atlanta, was the center of law enforcement investigation, which implicated his involvement in at least two of the children murders around that time. Nonetheless, law enforcement linked Wayne Williams to those murders because of detailed evidence found on the victims, which was later discovered that evidence was from Williams apartment (Curriden, 1992). Furthermore, the evidence which was found was a unique fiber from the carpet of Williams apartment and the number of people having this fiber was very small in number (Curriden, 1992)). The fiber evidence was the main part of the case to associate Williams with

Eventually, he ended his rampage in a third floor lecture hall where he shot and wounded several more people before ending his own life. Suicide notes found on him revealed that his motives were based on his hatred for feminists, stating that they have “ruined his life”. It also revealed a hit list containing 15 public figures, probably found through news media sources, but stated that he was unable to act upon it. Instead, all his victims turned out to be strangers that were unfortunate enough to be caught in the killing spree (Maser, 1987).

If someone ever met Andrew Urdiales he would be the type that one would forget. He is not very outgoing and would keep to himself, during his childhood he did not have many friends and was an average student. Urdiales was a marine stationed in Southern California when he committed his first murder killing Robbin Brandley a twenty-three year old college student. From July 1988 to August 1996 Urdiales would go on to kill seven more women. Most serial killers kill each victim similar to all the other victims, Urdiales was different though his first murder he stabbed the victim to death while his last he shot in the head.

After the killing of 19-year-old William Kindred in February of 1978, Gacy's crawlspace was so full of bodies that he had to resort to dumping Kindred and the remainder of his victims into the Des Plaines River. The other victims that were dumped off of the I-55 bridge into the Des Plaines River included 20-year-old Timothy O'Rourke, 19-year-old Frank Landingin, 21-year-old James Mazzara, and 15-year-old Robert Piest.

Harvey Robinson, then 19, is a serial killer who operated between 1992 and 1993, where he killed three women and attempted to kill a fourth. His victims were, in chronological order: Joan Burghardt, 29, Charlotte Schmoyer, 15, and Jessica Jean Fortney, 47. His fourth victim, Denise Sam-Cali, managed to survive the attack and escape. Robinson murdered Joan by bludgeoning her in her home, Charlotte was kidnapped and stabbed to death, and Jessica died from strangulation. His final victim, Denise, was beaten. Each of the four victims had been raped as well.

The Zodiac Killer...Who is he? Was he ever caught? How many individuals did he murder? The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer in northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He still remains unknown. He has five confirmed deaths, possibly 20-28 total deaths, and two injured. They do not know when he was born, and any criminal penalties. They do not know who he is but some may believe they have an identity.

Richard Kuklinski was a convicted murderer and contract killer who was born on April 11 in 1935. Kuklinski claims to have killed over 200 people over the course of his “career” during 1949 to 1986. At first, he would simply kill people who annoyed him, got on his nerves, or who he ‘needed’ to kill. When the mob caught wind of a man who killed as frivolously as Kuklinski, they began to hire him out as a contract killer. He lived in New Jersey and New York and committed most of his crimes in that area. In 1988, he was caught and sentenced to life in prison -- he later died in prison in March of 2006

Anthony Wayne was born on January 1, 1745 and died on December 15, 1796. Wayne was one of five children born to Isaac and Elizabeth Iddings Wayne in Easttown Township, near Chester County, Pennsylvania. His father was an emigrant from Ireland and came from a Protestant Anglo-Irish family. Growing up, Wayne was very good at math, so naturally, he became a surveyor. He pursued his college degree at his uncle, Gabriel Wayne’s private college in Philadelphia, which is now called the University of Pennsylvania. He was not a very good student and was very interested in a military career. His father had to keep him on top of his studies and soon enough, he graduated in 1765 but without earning a degree.

There is a different openion about the number of victims. Some said dozen murders occurred and few said five. All the victims were women and all of them were prostitutes.

In Rhode Island, Craig Price, age fifteen, deliberately killed a mother and her two young daughters. Yet, this wasn't his first offense, nor his first murder. Two years earlier he had murdered another woman. He also had a long record of assaults, burglaries, and other crimes.