Wieke's weetjes: 10 ‘fun’ facts about serial killers

Yess, here is your enthusiastic true crime addict again. This time with a list of facts that is really quite grim, and at times particularly disgusting. So I hope you are not almost eating, because your appetite will be gone after this, I guarantee you. What sick people there are on the planet, huh?

1. When they discovered the basement of John Wayne Gacy where he had stored all his victims, there were so many bodies that it took more than two years to identify each victim. It was so cramped that the bodies had started to melt together due to the heat, and thus the bones had to be sorted again.

2. Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer who ate his victims, handed out sandwiches to his neighbors that probably contained meat from his victims.

3. That same Jeffrey Dahmer had kidnapped fourteen-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone, but he managed to escape. When police officers found him, drugged, naked, covered in bruises and with blood coming from his backside... They brought him back to Dahmer, after which he was murdered.

4. The last about Jeffrey Dahmer: he didn't want victims with tattoos, because according to him, that meat really tasted a lot less good.

5. The serial killer BTK (Dennis Rader) was caught by his own stupidity. He communicated with the police through advertisements in newspapers; he asked the police if they could trace him if he gave them a floppy disk. The police said they couldn't. Rader sent the floppy, the police traced him.

6. Ted Bundy worked at a suicide hotline at the time of his murders.

7. Joseph DeAngelo, known as The Golden State Killer, East Area Rapist, and Visalia Ransacker, broke into several homes to rape women. If the partner was lying next to them, he would place a cup and saucer on their back. If the partner moved, he would hear it and threatened to shoot them.

8. When the officers raided Ed Gein's house, it was in worse condition than a pigsty. They found various body parts, severed female genitals, and... A nearly finished women's suit made from the skin of his victims. Sorry, did you still need to eat?

9. The transcript of the Toy Box Killer talking to his victim is so horrific that it is used to train new detectives in murder cases so they learn to deal with their work.

10. Albert Fish (I find him one of the scariest serial killers ever) sent a letter to the girl he had murdered and eaten. In it, he described in detail what he had done to her and how her flesh tasted. Good news: this man got the electric chair.