Peter Norris Dupas

"An evil, cold, baby-faced liar who would possibly cause the death of one of his victims if he wasn't straightened out."

Peter Norris Dupas is an Australian serial killer, currently serving three life sentences for murder. His violent criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women with increasing levels of violence. His criminal signature is to remove the breasts of his female victims.

At the age of 15,while wearing his school uniform Dupas, still attending high school at Waverley High School in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley, visited his next door neighbour requesting to borrow a knife for the purpose of peeling vegetables. As the woman commented on what a good boy he was for helping his mother with the cooking, he lunged at her with the knife and stabbed her in the stomach without saying a word. Dupas was apprehended after he stabbed the woman in the face, neck and hand as she attempted to fight off his attack. He later told police he could not help himself and did not know why he began to attack the woman.

"He knocked me down onto the floor and fell on top of me," the woman told the police. "He kept on stabbing me with the knife and I kept trying to ward him off. I felt the knife cut into my hands, mainly my right hand, my face and my neck.

In October 1969, a mortuary located at the Austin Hospital was broken into. The bodies of two
elderly women were mutilated using a pathologist's knife. One body contained a strange wound
inflicted with a knife to the area of the thigh.

In 1979, approximately two months after his release from prison, Dupas again molested women in four separate attacks over a 10 day period. On February 28, 1980, Dupas received a five year minimum prison sentence for three charges of assault with intent to rape, malicious wounding, assault with intent to rob, and indecent assault.

Dupas raped his first victim in a Frankston public toilet block. His next three victims escaped, but one, an elderly woman, was stabbed in the chest as she offered as much resistance as she could muster in an attempt to escape. His attempt at rape foiled, Dupas bolted. The woman told police that as she started getting to her feet after her assailant had run away, she realized that blood was pouring from the left side of her chest. She had been stabbed.

Murder of Nicole Patterson

Nicole Amanda Patterson was a 28 year old psychotherapist and youth counsellor employed with the Ardoch Youth Foundation, an organisation formed to assist young drug users. Patterson had
placed several classified ads in a local newspaper, the Northcote Leader in an effort to expand her client base.Two neighbours reported hearing the screams of a young woman coming from Patterson's house between 9.00a.m. and 9.30a.m. on the day of her murder. Attempts by Patterson's boyfriend to contact her in the afternoon failed, raising suspicions.

On April 19, 1999 the body of Nicole Amanda Patterson was discovered by a friend in the front
room of her Harper Street, Northcote residence. Patterson's friend had visited to attend for a dinner engagement. Upon hearing music from a radio and discovering the front door unlocked,
she entered the house and found the body of Patterson severely mutilated. Patterson died from 27 stab wounds to her chest and back. Her body was discovered naked from the waist down, with her skirt found in a nearby bedroom and her underwear around her ankles. Small pieces of yellow PVC tape were attached to her body and both of her breasts had been removed using a sharp knife. Her handbag and drivers licence were stolen during the attack The murder weapon and Patterson's breasts have never been recovered.

Murder of Margaret Maher

Margaret Josephine Maher, 40, was a prostitute working in the Melbourne area who was last seen alive at the Safeway supermarket at 12.20a.m. in Broadmeadows on October 4, 1997.
Her body was discovered under a cardboard box containing computer parts at by Ronald Frank McDonald, who made the discovery while he was collecting aluminium cans beside Cliffords Road, Somerton with his wife, Eva and their children. A black woollen glove was found near Maher's body which police later confirmed contained DNA matching that of Dupas.

A post-mortem examination revealed Maher had suffered a stab wound to her left wrist, bruising to her neck, blunt force trauma to the area of her right eyebrow and lacerations to
her right arm. Maher's left breast had been removed and placed into her mouth. At the time of Maher's murder, Dupas had been out of prison for just over a year after serving time for rape offences and was no longer under the supervision of the government corrections agency, Corrections Victoria.

Murder of Mersina Halvagis

Mersina Halvagis was a 25-year-old Melbourne woman murdered in an attack on November 4, 1997, while visiting her grandmother's grave in the Greek Orthodox section of Fawkner Cemetery in Fawkner, a northern suburb of Melbourne.The alarm was raised by Halvagis' boyfriend when she failed to meet with him later that day as the couple had planned. Halvagis' body was discovered at 4.35 a.m. on November 5, 1997, by Halvagis' fiancée in an empty plot, three graves from where her grandmother was buried. Police believe Halvagis was attacked from behind while kneeling to attend to a flower arrangement, and that she died from massive injuries, including 87 stab wounds about her knees, neck, with most wounds concentrated around her breasts. Her upper clothing had been pulled over her head towards her chest.

Murder of Helen McMahon

Helen McMahon was a 47-year-old woman found bashed to death on a Rye beach in February 13, 1985. McMahon was sunbathing topless on the beach when attacked. Her body was discovered naked, covered by her beach towel. The location of the murder of McMahon was nearby to the location where Dupas had earlier raped a 21-year-old woman at a beach in Blairgowrie, for which he was convicted and served a term of imprisonment. Police believe McMahon may have been Dupas' first murder victim, although her murder officially remains unsolved.

Murder of Renita Brunton

Dupas is a suspect in the murder of 31-year old Renita Brunton at Sunbury, Victoria in 1993

Murder of Kathleen Downes

Dupas is a suspect in the murder of 95-year-old Kathleen Downes at the Brunswick Lodge nursing home in Brunswick. Downes was stabbed to death at 6:30a.m. on December 31, 1997, a month after Halvagis' murder. Police investigations revealed Dupas had telephoned the nursing home some time before the murder. No charges have been laid regarding Downes' murder.

On August 2007 Peter Dupas was sentenced to serve life imprisonment.

Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

+Lizzie Andrew Borden, born July 1860, was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts, in the United States.

+Lizzie never dated; She is one of the two spinster daughters of Andrew Borden. She was well liked and active in civic and charitable work. She taught Sunday school at Central Congregational, was an officer of the Christian Endeavor Society, and member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Emma, her sister, 42, rarely went anywhere except to visit another nearby spinster, Alice Russell.

+Before the murders, she was allegedly refused the opportunity to purchase prussic acid by a local druggist, which she claimed was for cleaning a seal skin coat. Shortly before that fateful day, the entire household took violently ill. As Mr. Borden was not a popular man in town, Mrs. Borden feared they were being poisoned, but the family doctor diagnosed it as bad food.

+Thursday morning, August 4, 1892. Andrew Borden's body was found on the living room. It was on its right side on the sofa, feet still resting on the floor. His head was bent slightly to the right and his face had been cut by eleven blows. One eye had been cut in half and was protruding from his face, his nose had been severed. Most of the cuts were within a small area extending from the eye and nose to the ear. Blood was still seeping from the wounds. There were spots of blood on the floor, on the wall above the sofa and on a picture hanging on the wall. It appeared that he had been attacked from above and behind him as he slept.

+Upstairs, Dr. Bowen (also a neighbor), found that Mrs. Borden had been struck more than a dozen times, from the back. The autopsy later revealed that there had been nineteen blows. Her head had been crushed by the same hatchet or axe that had presumably killed Mr. Borden, with one misdirected blow striking the back of her scalp, almost at the neck. The blood on Mrs. Borden's body was dark and congealed.

+Mr. and Mrs. Borden had both been killed by blows from a hatchet, which in the case of Andrew Borden, not only crushed his skull but cleanly split his left eyeball.

+Lizzie was found not guilty on all three charges. The jury was earnestly thanked by the court, and dismissed.

+Lizzie died on June 1, 1927, at age 67, after a long illness from complications following gall bladder surgery. Emma died nine days later, as a result of a fall down the back stairs of her house in Newmarket. They were buried together in the family plot, along with a sister who had died in early childhood, their mother, their stepmother, and their headless father.

Ivan Milat

+Backpacker Murderer+

Born: December 27, 1944
Guildford, New South Wales
Number of victims: seven confirmed
Span of killings: 1989 through 1994
Country: Australia

Australian serial killer, convicted of the murder of seven local and international hitchhikers during the 1980s and 1990s.

+Sept. of 1992, while running in the Belanglo State Forest, a pair of trail runners discovered the decomposing corpses of Caroline Clark and Joanne Walters buried under sticks and leaves. It was only the beginning of what would eventually result in the capture of Australia's most famed serial killer. Searchers would then discover five more bodies stowed away in the woods of the park, ending the mystery of the disappearances of foot travelers in the area.The bodies discovered by the runners were identified as Clark and Walters, both of whom were British and traveling together on foot. They had last been seen over five months before.

+Oct. 1993, the remains of hitchhikers James Gibson and Deborah Everlist, both 19, were found in the same vicinity. They had disappeared in 1989 while hitchhiking.

+Almost a month later, Nov.1, 20-yr-old Simone Schmidl's body, also a hitchhiker, was discovered under the now-familiar pile of brush. When a pair of jeans found near Schmidl's body were found to be the property of yet another missing person, the searching continued. Predictably, the jeans' owner,Anja Habschied, a German national and her boyfriend Gabor Neugebauer were found nearby dead. The young couple had been missing since December of 1991.

+On Nov. 4, more than 300 police officers conducted a search of the area and found two more skeletons, identified as the remains of 21-year-old Gabor Kurt Neugebauer and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Anja Susanne Habschied, also German tourists who have recently vanished. Neugebauer had been shot repeatedly. Habschied had been decapitated.

+A possible eighth victim was added to the list in November. An examination of unsolved murders turned up the name of Diane Pennacchio, a 29-year-old mother whose body had been found in bushland in 1991. She had been stabbed to death and the body had been placed face down with hands placed behind her back near a fallen tree, as had those of the previous victims. A triangular canopy of sticks had been built over the bodies and covered with ferns.

+February 1994, there was a breakthrough in the investigation. A 20-year-old woman told police that while hitchiking in January 1990 in New South Wales she was offered a lift, which she had accepted. While in the vehicle the driver had behaved strangely, and she got out of the vehicle and ran into the Belangalo State Forest. As she ran, the driver allegedly fired shots at her, but missed.

+Then another information from a second witness, British tourist Paul Onions, who told police that on Jan 25,1990 he accepted a lift from a driver in the same area. The driver told him that he needed to stop the vehicle to get music cassette tapes out the rear of the car. When the driver produced a gun from the glove compartment, Paul Onions ran away, and the driver fired shots at him. A passing driver rescued Paul Onions from the scene. Onions was able to identify the driver from police photographs and identify the vehicle.

+May 1994 police carried out dawn raids on seven properties, taking three men into custody. One of these men was 49-year-old Ivan Milat, who was charged with armed robbery and discharging a firearm, who was then later to be charged with the murders. During the raids police found parts of a .22 calibre rifle that matched the type used in the backpacker murders, along with personal items from several of the victims.

+On May 30, following continued police investigations, Milat was charged with the murders of seven backpackers.

+Milat has stated plans to escape at every opporunity but thus far has not made good on the threat. He has, however, attempted to kill himself at least twice after swallowing such materials as razor blades and staples.

+In March 1996 the trial finally opened and, in July, he received seven life sentences, one for each of his victims.

+There were obvious similarities between the way all the victims had disappeared and been disposed of, also their causes of death were a bit dissimilar.Clark had been stabbed in the chest area, Clark had been stabbed and shot in the head several times, Gibson had been repeatedly stabbed, Everist had been slashed in the face in additon to her stab wounds, Schmidl had also been stabbed, Habschied was decapitated, and Neugebauer had been shot in the head five times with the same weapon that killed Walters. The stabbing victims all had a unique injury, though, a stab wound to the upper back that severed the victim's spinal cord and rendered them helpless. Also, many of the victims were partially undressed with their pants buttoned but not zipped. Evidence of crude bondage and strangulation was present in most of the cases.

Huang Yong

"I've always wanted to be an assassin since I was a kid, but I never had the chance," - Huang

+Former soldier, then a migrant worker. Lured boys from internet cafes and newspaper job offers. Sometimes he claimed to be developing a new video game, God Riding on a Wooden Horse. The game apparently involved being tied to a noodle rolling machine followed by strangulation. September, 2001 Huang started to lure young people, from video halls, Internet cafes and video game rooms to his house by offering to recommend them for well-paid jobs or to fund their schooling or sightseeing tours.

+A 16-year-old boy named Zhang Liang went to police in November of 2003. He claimed that a man by the name of Huang Young, 29, had invited Liang to the man's apartment by offering the boy a job. Once there, however, Yong had bound Liang and strangled him into unconsciousness three times, splashing the youth's face with water to revive him for another session. Yong told the terrified Liange, "I've already killed 25. You are number 26."

+After choking Liang three times and three times reviving him, the boy somehow convinces Huang to let him free. He even received fare from his attacker to get home. The next day he went to police and detectives searched his Dahuangzhuang house for evidence. The were not disappointed. Buried beneath and around the ramshackle home were the dismembered remains of eighteen boys.

+Yong make a full confession to 25 slayings, all boys he had lured away from internet cafes and video game arcades. After tying them up to his noodle-rolling machine he would delight in strangling a boy into unconsciousness with a length of rope over and over again. Huang killed the boys and buried them, but kept their belts as souvenirs.

+When finally tired of his death game Yong would finish his prey, cut up the body, and bury it in the personal graveyard that was his property. Huang told the court he did not pick female victims because it would make him less of a "hero." And elderly men were too vigilant, he added.

+Yong was convicted of slaying seventeen boys and sentenced to death on December 9, 2003. Police held back the members of the victims' families as a grinning Huang arrived escorted by two officers. He wore handcuffs and a prison vest with the number 99. After a three-hour trial, he was executed by a gunshot to the head on December 26. Not long afterwards reporters and a forensic scientist unearthed two more bodies at Yong's former residence.

Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, aka. 'La Bestia'

+"The Beast"+

+Born on Jan. 25, 1957, Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos is said to be a Colombian serial killer and rapist with one of the highest proven numbers of victims.

+Between 1992 and 1999, Garavito killed more than 200 young boys at core ages between 8 and 13 years, with the exception of one handicapped 16-year-old boy. The number of his victims - based on skeletons on maps Garavito drew in prison - could eventually exceed 300. He has been described by local media as "the world's worst serial killer" because of the high number of victims.

+During daytime, he lured children of a lower social status out of crowded parts of the city into hidden areas that were over- grown with high plants. Garavito promised either payment for easy work, or drugs, or made other offers. The children were tied up, tortured, raped and killed by at least one cut in the lateral part of the neck, or by decapitation. During the killings, Garavito was drunk.

+Garavito adjusted not only his outfits (street vendor, bum, priest, etc.) but also the task that he asked for according to the local situation (carrying a crate of oranges, help him with cattle, harvesting sugarcane, etc.). He also promised drugs to addicted children, and payed stakes for children interested in games. Initially Garavito had simply offered money but since most children found this suspicious, he switched to a mixture of promises and an appropriate, yet slighty raised amount of money (usually an amount worth a little more than one day of children's work. In all cases, he tried to lure the children away immediately so they would not return home beforehand.

+On the early afternoon of june 8, 1996, a boy went missing in the town of Boyaca. He followed Garavito on his (the boy's) own bike so no violence had taken place. The corpse was found 5 days later decapitated with the severed penis stuck inside of the mouth. The mother of the boy had immediately started a search, and found that the boy had last been seen in a local shop with some other boys and a stranger who bought them sweets. The stranger was identified as Garavito who stayed in town. He was questioned by the police but stated that he sure bought the children sweets but then left alone. Approximately 4 days later, Garavito killed a 13-year old boy in the close by town Pereira.

Discovery of a serial killer's spree

+A series of killings against children aged 8 to 10 in the region Valle in 1995 raised suspicion. Two of the 4 dead children were cousins, and again, all children came from a weak social background, were described as not very intelligent, and again, they disappeared shortly before noon. Again, the children were found on the slope of a hill with high-growing plants, not far outside of the town. The pattern of children being killed more or less at one spot but on different days is a signature of Garavito. He did not bury the bodies but leave them on the spot. Once he had found a suitable location for the killings, he would use it all over again. The children may have suspected that something was wrong once they arrived but were immediately tied up.

+In February 1998, 2 naked corpses of children were discovered lying next to each other outside of the town of Genua, Colombia. The location was set on the slope of a hill as most of the other crime scenes. On the next day, only metres away, a third corpse was found, this time in a state of advanced decomposition. All bodies had been tied at the hands. Numerous blood stains could be detected in the area, as well as a knife. The necks of the bodies and the external genitals were deeply cut or severed. A closer investigation of the bodies revealed bite marks and signs of anal penetration; a bottle of lubricant was found, too.

Arrest

+On April 22, 1999, in bushes close to a street leading out of the town Villavicencio in Colombia, a homeless man observed an adult male who tried to abuse a boy. On the same day, taxi drivers observed a man who matched the description given by the boy. The man had no personal I.D. but gave the name and I.D. number of a man who was a politician in a small town. It seemed that the man had lost his orientation, and because of the matching personal description given by the body, he was put in prison.

+It was found that the dead boys had been living in a town nearby, were aged 11 and 13,and had been close friends. They came from a socio-economically weak background, and had to work in the streets selling fruit, chewing gum, etc., to add to their family's poor incomes.

+The investigators noted that: a) one victim's mother commented that her son briefly returned home on the day he disappeared and told her that he would help a man with a cattle transport, and that b) it was odd that all children disappeared around 10 a.m. on different days. The explanation found much later was that Garavito usually either offered the boys juice or cake in a local shop, checked out their character, structure of skin (soft, not too dark), etc., and then asked them either to walk with him, or to help him with carrying something. He grew different hairdos and used wrong names. During his still ongoing confessions, he now directs the investigators correctly to all crime scenes all over Colombia.

Killer's signature

+Apart from the already mentioned behavior, decapitations, or at least their attempt seemed to be typical for Garavito. In many cases, because of the decomposition, the only way to prove this, were notches in the fourth vertebra of the neck. Dismembering of the corpses only took place in cases where body parts had to be transported out of houses in wich very few killings had taken place. In very few cases, he also put the bodies in bags and sank them together with stones in water.

+It became clear that Garavito subdivided suitable killing places into sectors, and killed one child per sector. In many cases, he very slowly tortured the children who were sometimes tied in way so that they could still walk around over quite a distance but not escape. Anal penetration seems to be a common feature of the cases but it remains unclear if this was a post mortem or peri mortem act. Until today, Garavito draws precise maps out of his memory which show the exact locations of the corpses.

+Most of the crimes were performed on or around weekends when most children hung around the market places. Garavito tried to lure them away during day time because this raised less suspicion concerning the odd jobs lie offered as well as a possible non-presence at dinner.

+On many crime scenes, empty bottles of the cheapest brand of local schnapps were found. In fact, Garavito had a habit of abusing alcohol, and left the empty bottles just like the corpses openly at the scene of crime.

+Once captured, Garavito was subject to the maximum penalty available in Colombia, which was 30 years. However, as he confessed the crimes and helped authorities locate bodies, Colombian law allowed him to apply for special benefits, including a reduction of his sentence to 22 years and possibly an even earlier release for further cooperation and good behavior.

+Local TV host Pirry made an interview to Luis Garavito which was aired on June 11 2006. In this special Pirry mentions that during the interview the killer tried to minimize his actions and expressed his intentions to start a political career in order to help abused children. Pirry also describes Garavito's conditions in prison and comments on the fact that he'd probably be freed in 3 years.

+Some people have started petitions for changes in the law to extend the number of years Garavito has to stay in prison.

Ahmad Suradji

"Sorcerer"

"All I wanted to do was to
improve my healing ability" -Ahmad Suradji

+He was a respected "sorcerer" in the small village of Medan at Sumatra, Indonesia. In Indonesia, consulting mystic doctors is a way of living. A lot of people visit the doctors because they think the doctors have paranormal powers, and ask them for medical and spiritual advise. A lot of woman sought the doctor's help believing they would make themselves richer, healthier and more sexually attractive to their husbands or boyfriends.

+Consulting mystics is a way of life in Indonesia, and they are reputed to have huge sexual appetites. There have been other cases of mystics molesting and even raping their clients.

+The sorcerer was revered by locals who believed he had paranormal powers, and often asked him for medical and spiritual advice. Many women would hire him to cast magic spells to ensure the faithfulness of their husbands or boyfriends. Neighbors said that many women sought the sorcerer's help believing they would make themselves richer, healthier and more sexually attractive to men. Police believe the victims -- whose ages ranged from 11 to 30 -- may have been too embarrassed to tell their families of their seeking the sorcerer's help so their disappearances were not linked to him. A large amount of them were also prostitutes.

+After charging each victim $200 to $400, he would take them to a sugarcane plantation near his home and bury them in the ground up to their waist as part of a ritual. Once in the ground he strangled each woman with electrical cable. Then he drank their saliva, undressed their corpses and reburied them with their heads pointing to his home so to enhance his magical powers. Suradji told police that nine years ago he had a dream in which the ghost of his father told him to kill 70 women and drink their saliva so he could become a dukan, or mystic healer, he said.

+When a girl who had visited Suradji didn't return, the father reported the disappearance of his daughter. When the police went to Suradji's house, they found the body of one of the victims in a field close to his house.

+A search of Ahmad's property revealed clothes and watches belonging to 25 missing women. After the police arrested Suradji on May 2, 1997, he initially confessed the killing of 16 women over a five-year period. But under further questioning, he confessed to have killed 42 woman, ranging in ages from 11 to 30 years, over a period of 11 years. Ahmad's three wives, all sisters, were also arrested for helping him commit the murders and hide the corpses. The oldest wife, Tumini, was tried as his accomplice in his 11-year rampage. The other two wives has left the village.

+The sorcerer was said to be widely respected in his village. Neighbours said he was often willing to help sick villagers and contribute to charitable causes. Nasib, who led police to the bodies in the field next to his home, told officers he needed to kill up to 70 women to gain supernatural powers. Now that the unearthing of 40 corpses testify to Nasib's true mania, police have asked local residents to report any more missing women and children. About 80 families in the area have reported female relatives missing, leading to fears that more bodies could be uncovered.

+During their trials both Suradji and Tumini denied the slayings, saying they confessed because they could no longer bear torture by interrogators. On April 27, 1998, an Indonesian court in North Sumatra found the sorcerer guilty of Indonesia's worst killing spree. As the last of the 42 bodies was being unearthed, the deadly sorcerer was sentenced to death by firing squad and executed shortly after the sentence was handed down.

+"The case of Achmad Suradji is an aberration," says a traditional healer, who is visited by many for his supposedly magic powers.

"If you don't have the right background, the right education, or the right teacher, then things could go badly wrong."

+Some mystics say they can arrange to have people killed by magic powers. But people in Mr Suradji's village say that the allegations about him have put them off from seeing mystics, and that they will now stay clear of traditional sorcery.

+As one of Mr Suradji's neighbours says, they feel betrayed by a man who was once a respected member of the community.

+Speaking to reporters in Medan, Suradji seemed less perturbed by the prospect of being executed than by his incomplete agenda. "The target was 70" he admitted.

killer of 100 children

Javed Iqbal

Killer of 100 children

"I am Javed Iqbal, killer of 100 children... I hate this world, I am not ashamed of my action and I am ready to die. I have no regrets. I killed 100 children."

+Javed Iqbal sodomized and killed 100 boys in Pakistan. All of the boys were street urchins which he drugged, molested, strangled and then dissolved in vats of acid, keeping their shoes and clothes as trophies. About halfway through, began a photodocumentation of his efforts, which he sent to police when the goal of 100 was attained. As nobody in Islamabad notices when a street urchin goes missing, Iqbal claims he could have achieved 500 had he the desire.

+According to Javed’s original statement, he was brutally beaten and left for dead by a pair of young street kids he had taken into his home. Javed said he suffered such a severe head injury that his memory was affected. He underwent several operations, he said, and during the process lost both his house and his car. His mother, so broken-hearted at the condition her son had sunk to, simply died, he told police. He turned to police for help, he said, but they refused. Instead, he argued, the police turned on him, accusing him – falsely, he insisted – of sodomy.

+With no one else to turn to he looked to four young friends – identified only as Nadeem, Shabir, Sajid and Ishaq Billa, to care for him, he told authorities. It was then, according to the statement he gave authorities, that Javed decided to enlist them in a gruesome plot to avenge his mother’s death.

+The price for her suffering and his was the deaths of 100 children. They could easily be found in the market square that surrounds the minaret.

+One of his victim was Ijaz, a beautiful boy in a tattered white shirt with a Kara, an iron ring, around his ankle.

+Iqbal plied Ijal with a powerful sedative and as it started to kick in, he gently queried the boy, trying to learn as much about the boy’s family and his life as he possibly could. Though most serial killers objectify their victims, dehumanize them and reduce them to archetypes or caricatures, Javed was different. He meticulously documented the lives of his victims, jotting down each significant detail, authorities say. Perhaps, some have speculated, this was a way of winning the boy’s confidence, a way of taking a child who no one cared about, a child who had, through a lifetime of deprivation and abuse, developed a hard shell, and making him feel special.

+He was as meticulous in the disposal of the bodies as he was with his notes on his victims, authorities later said. He was patient. Hair and bone take longer to dissolve then flesh, and he would wait until the remains were thoroughly liquefied before disposing of them. At first, he dumped the liquid in a nearby sewer, but when neighbors began to complain of the stench, he began depositing it in the Ravi River, he told police.

+His diaries provided a detailed account of the killings of Ijaz and the others, authorities said. Once his chosen victim was too weak and groggy to resist, Javed would rape him. Then, as he moaned unconscious on the floor Javed would fetch an iron chain, wrap it around the child’s neck and slowly strangle him. He would then hack the boy’s remains to pieces and dissolve the remains in a vat of cheap hydrochloric acid

+Of all the boys who vanished inside Javed’s home, only the partially dissolved remains of two – Ijaz and another boy -- were ever found. Javed had kept them in a drum of acid left conspicuously in the open at the house, left there intentionally, the killer would later say, to prove that his tale of murder and mayhem was true.

+“I had sexually assaulted 100 children before killing them,” read the first placard. “All the details of the murders are contained in the diary and the 32-page notebook that have been placed in the room and had also been sent to the authorities. This is my confessional statement.”

+The passive Pakistani authorities finally arrested Javed Iqbal, a chemical engineer of 42 years old. He became in the worst serial killer of the 53 Pakistani years of independence. Iqbal was arrested when after of other exhibitionist act he went to the offices of the local newspaper The News in Lahore and conffesed the crimes.

+It was unimaginable that such a crime could have occurred, authorities told reporters. How was it possible that so many children could have died so horribly without anyone even suspecting? In fact, of the 100 children who had vanished in the five months since Javed’s killing spree had begun, only 25 had been reported missing. Such is life in Pakistan, commentators later opined. Children vanish here and no one trusts the police to help. As the mother of one young victim told Time Magazine in a December 27, 1999 interview, “it never even occurred to me to go to the police for help.”

+The judge sentenced Javed to be strangled to death with the same chain he used to kill the children. The judge further ordered that his body “will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid,” the same concoction of hydrochloric and sulfuric acids the killer used to dispose of their bodies of his young victims.

+The morning of the October 8, 2001, Javed Iqbal and his accomplice of 17 years old, Sajid Ahmad were found dead in their cell in the Kot Lakhpat prison. They committed suicide, apparently by hang with their sheets but many people said that they were murdered by the police.

+The autopsies revealed that they had been beaten but the autorities said that they committed suicide.

Little Girl Murderer

Tsutomu Miyazaki

+Little Girl Murderer+




"I felt all alone... whenever I saw a little girl playing on her own, it was almost like seeing myself." - Tsutomu Miyazaki

+Miyazaki's premature birth left him with deformed hands, which were permanently gnarled and fused directly to the wrists. Due to his deformity, he was ostracized when he attended Itsukaichi Elementary School, and consequently kept to himself. Although he has an IQ of 135 and was originally a star student, his grades at Meidai Nakano High School dropped dramatically. Instead of studying English and becoming a teacher as he originally intended, he attended a local junior college, studying to become a photo-technician.

+The deformation haunted him from early on. When he was five years old, a classmate teased him about his "funny hands." In family photos after that, Miyazaki never showed his hands, and his eyes were often closed.

+On August 22, 1988, four-year-old Mari Konno left her home in the Iruma Village apartment complex in Saitama to play at her friend's house. At 6:23 pm, after she failed to return, architect Shigeo Konno, struggling to quell his panic, called the police to report that his daughter was missing. About the same time as Konno's phone call, in a dark forest 50 km away, Mari was being slowly strangled to death.

+A few weeks after the abduction, a letter was sent to the Konno's and Asahi Shimbun, an Osaka newspaper. It contained a photograph of Mari and a confession.

"I put the cardboard box with Mari's remains in it in front of her home. "I did everything. From the start of the Mari incident to the finish. I saw the police press conference where they said the remains were not Mari's. On camera, her mother said the report gave her new hope that Mari might still be alive. I knew then that I had to write this confession so Mari's mother would not continue to hope in vain. I say again: the remains are Mari's." - Yuko Imada

+The Konnos returned home from the funeral to find another letter from "Yuko Imada." This one, labeled simply "Confession," chronicled the changes Miyazaki had observed in Mari's dead body:

"Before I knew it, the child's corpse had gone rigid. I wanted to cross her hands over her breast but they wouldn't budge. . . . Pretty soon, the body gets red spots all over it . . . . Big red spots. Like the Hinomaru flag. Or like you'd covered her whole body with red hanko seals. . . . After a while, the body is covered with stretch marks. It was so rigid before, but now it feels like its full of water. And it smells. How it smells. Like nothing you've ever smelled in this whole wide world."

+Oct. 3, 1988, he spotted Masami Yoshizawa, a seven-year-old first-grader, walking along the roadside. He coaxed her into his car, drove to the hills above Komine Pass--the scene of his first murder--and strangled her to death. Then he stripped her--quickly, before rigor mortis set in--and sexually abused the corpse.

+Third victim Erika Namba was returning from a friend's house when Miyazaki lured her into his sedan. He told Erika to undress in the back seat, then began to photograph her, the strobe flashing in the dark. Erika began sobbing and Miyazaki grabbed her by the throat and straddled her, holding her kicking body down with his weight as he strangled her. By 7 pm, his third victim was dead.

+In a nearby park, he found five-year-old Ayako Nomoto playing alone. Casually removing the lens cap from his camera, Miyazaki approached Ayako and asked her to pose for pictures. He then took several shots until Ayako got used to him. "Let's take some shots inside the car," he coaxed, leading her to his Langley.

+Ayako bounced in the back seat. As he handed her a stick of gum, the young girl commented on his deformed hands. Enraged, Miyazaki pulled on a pair of vinyl gloves. "Here's what happens to kids who say things like that," he growled, seizing her by the throat. "She kicked and kicked, but went limp in four or five minutes," he later confessed. He took the body home, carried the tiny corpse inside, where he stripped off the clothes and wiped it with a towel. He laid it on the low table, spread the legs and taped the vagina apart. He then took photographs and videos while he masturbated.

+Two days later, the odor of the decomposing corpse became unbearable. Miyazaki knew he had to dispose of the body. With a knife and a saw, he hacked off the cadaver's head, hands, and feet to hamper identification. Then he hid the torso near the public toilet at Hanno's Miyazawa-ko cemetery at midnight, four days after the murder. He roasted Ayako's hands in his back yard, ate some of her flesh, and tossed what remained, including the skull, into the woods of Mitakeyama.

+July 23, 1989, Miyazaki, while attempting to insert a zoom lens into the vagina of a grade school-aged girl in a park near her home, was attacked by the girl's father. Miyazaki fled on foot, but returned to the park to retrieve his car, whereupon he was promptly arrested. A police search of his two-room bungalow turned up a collection of 5763 videotapes, some containing pornographic anime and slasher films. Interspersed among them was video footage and pictures of his victims.

+When the police finally apprehended Miyazaki, they entered his home to find 6,000 videotapes of kiddy porn, splatter flicks, and cartoons. Among the grisly collection were videos and photos of his victims. It was evident that, for Miyazaki, his killing spree was little more than an extension of a lonely fantasy world. "It was like a game to him--a one-man play," said Akira Ishii, a law professor at Aoyama Gakuin University and psychotherapist who followed the case closely.

+Shortly thereafter, Miyazaki was sentenced to death by hanging.

He has remained on death row for many years.

On January 17, 2006, the Supreme Court of Justice upheld the original death sentence. The date of his execution has not been decided yet.

Barbie and Ken

Paul Bernardo + Karla Homolka

+barbie and ken+

beginnings+

+Bernard's father, Kenneth, was a successful businessman until he was charged with child molestation in 1975; he later began abusing his own daughter. Bernardo's mother, Marilyn, sank into clinical depression over her husband's abuse and gained a great deal of weight. When Bernardo was a teenager, his mother told him that he was the product of her affair with a former lover, and that she and his father had covered it up by putting the family name on his birth certificate.

paths+

+Karla Homolka met Paul Bernardo in 1987 and began a torrid romance. She was 17, Paul, 23. To friends they seemed the perfect couple, although Paul was secretly raping women in Scarborough. Karla was a seemingly simple, middle-class girl who found herself attracted to a sexual sadist. She let him do whatever he desired and by some published reports, his demands became increasingly brutal. Nevertheless, she supposedly invited more.

+They became sexually obsessed with each other almost immediately. Unlike the other girls he knew, she encouraged his sadistic sexual behavior. "Karla, handcuffed, on her knees and begging for him, was scratching an itch. Paul asked her what she would think if he was a rapist. She would think it was cool. Their love deepened. He started raping women in earnest." (Stephen Williams)

+Karla was obsessed with Paul's happiness. Her greatest fear was that she would not be able to hold onto this wild and thrilling man who was to become her husband. When he would become bored or distracted, she would either do something to excite him or find another person for him to get excited about.

madness+

+Karla offered Paul her 15-year-old sister, Tammy, as a Christmas gift. She'd drugged the girl with a tranquilizer from the vet's office where she worked so Paul could rape her while she was presumably passed out from alcohol consumption. Instead, Tammy died, and it was ruled accidental. The two got away with it, and then took videos of themselves with Karla wearing Tammy's clothing and pretending to be her virginal sister.

+Kristen French, 15, nabbed after school by the killer couple on April 16, 1992. The two took turns sexually molesting and raping the innocent girl at their home while, of course, capturing the assault on tape. French was subjected painful humiliations repeatedly before she was finally strangled by Bernardo and is trusty cord more than two days after her abduction. Her body was discarded and discovered in an illegal trash dump near Burlington.

+Paul brought home two girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. Both were held captive, terrorized, abused, raped, and finally killed. Paul took videotapes of most of these acts. It later turned out that Karla had lured Kristen French to the car to kidnap, because, as she later put it, Paul liked young girls and she wanted to keep him happy. She had also assisted in dismembering and getting rid of Mahaffy's body.

revelations+

+Bernardo is alleged to have committed multiple sexual assaults in and around Scarborough, Ontario. The perpetrator of these crimes was commonly known as the "Scarborough rapist". Bernardo wrote his lawyer a letter in which he confessed to at least 10 more sexual assaults.

+Paul also beat Karla at times, so she finally left in 1993. When the police began asking questions, Karla quickly made a deal. She offered details about what Paul had done to the two girls in exchange for two ten-year terms for manslaughter, to be served concurrently. Two more years were added after videotapes were uncovered and authorities realized her role in her sister's death.

+In return for a plea bargain (12 years in prison for manslaughter), Homolka testified against Bernardo in his murder trial. This plea bargain received much public criticism from Canadians.

the blood countess

Elizabeth Bathory

+The Blood Countess+

family+

+Her family members were notably witches, satyrs and lesbians. She belong to oldest and wealthiest families in the country. Her cousin was the prime minister in Hungary, another relative was cardinal, and her uncle Stephan later became King of Poland. But the Bathory-family, beside the very rich and famous, also contained some very strange relatives. One uncle was known to be a devil-worshipper, and other members of the family were mental insane and perverted.

beginning+

+Married at the age of 14, Elizabeth was often left to herself, and her life became more and more boring. To kill some time, beside admiring her own beauty in the mirror for hours, she took on young men as lovers. Another thing Elizabeth did to amuse herself while home alone, was to pay visits to her aunt Countess Klara Bathory, an open bisexual.

+Reputed to be a woman of beauty, with long raven tresses and milkpure complexion, with amber eyes that watched one like a cat might, and her figure fashionably voluptuous, Elizabeth lived a vain existence of narcissism. Her inevitable aging did not bode well for the young women who had to live and work around her when wrinkles appeared and would not cede to the affects of cosmetics.

+Elizabeth made Castle Csejthe to a place of pure evil. She would always find excuses to inflict punishment and torture, upon her young servant girls. She preferred to having the victim stripped naked and then whip the girl on the front of her nude body rather than the back not only for the increased damage this would do, but so that she then could watch their faces contort in horror at their most grim and burning fate. Another favorite was when she would stick pins, in various sensitive places on the victims body, such as under fingernails.

+An influential comrade gave her an advice that the virgins must be of noble birth and blue blood, if Elizabeth's aging was to be halted. The numbers say that she practiced her blood baths and witch rites for more than a decade, drenched with the blood of over 650 maidens, peasant and noble alike. The countess reportedly documented 610 of these tortures in a diary.

+Over the next ten years, Elizabeth Bathory's evil trusted helpers provided her with beautiful young girls, from some neighboring villages, upon the cover of hiring them as servants to Castle Csejthe. Back in the castle, the young girls would be mutilated and killed, so the Countess could take her blood baths. Sometimes, she would even drink their blood, to gain some sort of inner beauty.

+But soon Elizabeth began to realize that the blood of simple peasant girls, was having little effect on the quality of her skin. Better blood was now required. Elizabeth then started picking girls from some of the surrounding lower nobility. These noble girls were consumed in exactly the same beastly fashion as the peasant girls who preceded them.

discovery+

+Elizabeth was now becoming very careless in her actions. People who lived in the neighboring villages, had already begun to talk. And soon the rumor about the horror in Castle Csejthe reached the Hungarian Emperor. The Emperor then ordered Elizabeth's own cousin, the Count Cuyorgy Thurzo, who was governor of the province to raid the castle.

+What the raiders first discovered on the cold stone floor of the great hall lay a pale, partially clothed young girl. She failed to move. They wondered if she might simply be asleep or drunk, so several men went toward her. Still, she made no effort to rouse herself. One man reached down to touch her and shook his head. He told the others she was dead. They turned her over and saw how pale she looked. She appeared to have been drained of blood—exactly as the rumors went.

+Later, they then heard a moan. Just a few paces away was another girl, sprawled face up but still alive. The men discovered that her body had been pierced in many places. She was also pale, as if from severe blood depletion. It was clear to them that she would not last long—not even long enough for them to take her to the village. Reluctantly, they left her there and moved deeper into the castle. They could smell the foul odors of decomposition.

payback+

+The Blood Countess got her punishment when the Hungarian Emperor demanded her condemn to lifelong imprisonment in her own castle. Stonemasons were brought to her Castle Csejthe, to wall up the windows and the door to the bedchamber with the Countess still inside. Here she would spend the remaining days of her life, with only a small opening for food to be passed to her.

+In 1614, four years after she was walled in, one of the Countess's jailers found her food untouched. After peeking through the small opening in Elizabeth's walled-up cell, he saw her lying face down on the floor. Elizabeth Bathory the "Blood Countess" was dead at the age of fifty-four.