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10 Scary Letters Will Surely Make You Shiver
Ten creepy letters sure you are unknown number ten, Albert Fish
Creepy serial
Killer Albert Fish was known as the boogeyman as he preyed on small
Children and was a suspect in at least five brutal child murders in
1928 he kidnapped ten-year-old Grace Budd
Then he murdered her and cannibalized her remains at an abandoned house in Westchester County, New York
Afterward fish sent a letter to buds mother describing in horrifying detail how he murdered the young girl
He wrote when all was ready. I went to the window and called her
Then I hid in a closet until she was in the room
When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried to run downstairs. I
Grabbed her and she said she would tell her mama
How she did kick bite and scratch I cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms
Cook and eat it
The letter became the downfall of fish as police were able to trace the killer from the unique
Branding on the envelope he had sent
number nine Donald Harvey
Donald Harvey was a former orderly in hospitals in Ohio and Kentucky during the 1970s and 1980s
During this time he killed an estimated 37
Patients. However, the real victim count is believed to be much higher as Harvey claimed
The figure is closer to 70
His killing spree began by accident after hooking up the patient to an empty oxygen tank, and then he just couldn't stop
The cold-blooded killer never showed any remorse for his crimes in one interview?
He said some of those might have lasted a few more hours or a few more days, but they were all going to die
I know you think I played God and I did in a chilling letter that he wrote behind bars the serial killer
joked
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
Change the things I can and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off
Number 8. Dr. HH Holmes
Dr. HH holmes was a twisted serial killer who built a *** castle in Chicago
With the intention to kill as many victims as possible the 100 room building had long winding
corridors that would disorient victims
It also had trapdoors false walls and gas chambers Holmes then sold the cadavers to medical research
Institutions and the organs were traded on the black market on
April 11th
1896 he wrote a full letter of confession to the Philadelphia North American newspaper. I
Was born with the devil in me
I could not help the fact that I was a murderer no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sane. I
Was born with the evil one
standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world and he has been with me since
One month later. He was hanged at Moyamensing prison for his crimes
Number seven, Gary Ridgway
Gary Ridgway became known as the Green River Killer after he confessed to murdering
48 sex workers and Runaways in the state of Washington during the 1980s and 1990s
Ridgeway said I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught in
1984 he wrote a letter about the murders
Titled what you need to know about the Green River man and sent it to the Seattle post-intelligencer
in
Disturbing detail the killer wrote about necrophilia and cutting off the fingernails of victims before signing off as calm effort
Police claimed that it was a brazen attempt to throw off investigators
At the time they did not follow up on this key evidence
Ridgeway's game of playing cat-and-mouse with the police finally came to an end in
2001 when DNA evidence connected him to the murders
He was spared the death penalty as part of a plea bargain where he disclosed the locations of the missing bodies
His plea bargain raised his *** convictions to 49
number six Ian Brady
The Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley killed five children between 10 and 17 years old in the early
1960s
three graves were discovered on Saddleworth Moor in Manchester, England
But the killer's never revealed the final resting place of their other victims
Hindley claimed that she was under Brady's spell and that she took part in the crimes against her will
However, he tells a different story in one letter that he wrote from prison to a journalist Brady explained
Hindley has crafted a Victorian melodrama in which she portrays herself as being forced to *** serially
We both habitually carried revolvers and went for target practice on the moors if I were
Mistreating her she could have shot me dead at any time
For 30 years. She said she was acting out of love for me. Now. She maintains she killed because she hated me a completely irrational
hypothesis in
character she is essentially a chameleon adopting whatever camouflage will suit and voicing whatever she believes the
individual wishes to hear
She can kill both in cold blood or in a rage
Number five the Axman of New Orleans
The Axman of New Orleans is an unidentified serial killer who butchered six victims and injured 12 others in
1918 and 1919 a
Letter believed to be from the killer was published in newspapers and claimed that he would spare anyone who was playing jazz music
dated March 13
1919 the anonymous killer wrote
I am very fond of jazz music and I swear by all the devil's in the nether
Regions that every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in full swing at the time. I have just mentioned if
Everyone has a jazz band going. Well then so much the better for you people
One thing is certain and that is that some of your people who do not jazz it out on that
Specific Tuesday night will get the ax
Then the murders suddenly stopped as quickly as they had started the crimes remain unsolved to this day
Number four the Beltway snipers
Over a three-week span in 2002 the Beltway snipers killed ten people in the states of Maryland and Virginia
John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo shot each victim with a single bullet fired from a distance
Then the killers vanished they wrote down their demands in a three-page letter with a cover note that read for you
Mr. Police
Call me God
They demanded ten million dollars in unlimited withdrawals or the lives of children in the area would be threatened
The letter was left pinned to a tree
Outside a restaurant where the snipers had shot and wounded a man who was out to dinner with his wife
They were eventually caught when one of the snipers mentioned an unsolved *** in Montgomery
Alabama in a traced phone call
Authorities were able to link both of the murders with fingerprints and make an arrest
Mohammed was put to death by lethal injection and Malvo received a life sentence
number three Dennis Rader
Dennis Rader gave himself the title BTK after his chilling *** method of bind torture kill
between
1974 and
1991 Rader killed 10 people in
Sedgwick County Kansas with gaps in between to dedicate more of his time to being a family man
Rader believed that he could outwit the police so he sent them taunting letters
One of his poorly written letters read when this monster enter my brain. I will never know but it here to stay
Society can be thankful that there are ways for people like me to relieve myself at time by daydreams of some victim being
Torture and being mine it a big complicated game my friend of the monster play pudding victim's number down
Followed them checking up on them waiting in the dark waiting waiting
Maybe you can stop him. I can't he has a read Lee chosen his next victim
He signed it yours truly guiltily
BTK
He was caught after he upgraded his technology and sent his letters on a floppy disk, which was immediately traced to him
number 2 Jack the Ripper
The terrifying case of Jack the Ripper still hunts London today in
1888 the chilling serial killer targeted impoverished areas around
Whitechapel
the bodies of his victims were discovered with their throats cut open and with abdominal
mutilations on
September 27th, 1888 the Central News Agency received this letter
The next job I do I shall clip the lady's ears off and send to the police officers just for jolly wouldn't you?
Keep this letter back till I do a bit more work then give it out straight
My knifes so nice and sharp. I want to get to work right away if I get a chance
Good luck yours. Truly Jack the Ripper three days later a double *** took place
True to his word the Ripper cut a portion of the ear lobe off his victims
The case has never been solved
number one the Zodiac killer
In the late 1960s the Zodiac killer targeted four men and three women between the ages of
16 and 29 in Benicia Vallejo Lake Berryessa and San Francisco
Five victims were killed during his reign of terror
He sent several letters including four cryptograms to the local Bay Area press
It's believed that his true identity will be revealed if the ciphers can be decoded
Only one of the ciphers has ever been solved
Schoolteacher Donald harden and his wife Betty cracked the code which reads?
You