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Science-Technology Title: 32 serial killers with high IQs 1) Ted Kaczynski (A.K.A. The Unabomber) - Ted Kaczynski is hard to top. Labeled not merely a serial killer, but a 'domestic terrorist' by the FBI, Kaczynski skipped the 5th grade after testing 167 on an IQ test. He entered Harvard at the age of 16 where he earned his undergraduate degree by age 20. He earned his PhD in mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he focused on geometric function theory. After this, he was hired by the University of Berkeley, becoming their youngest professor . He won the University of Michigan's Sumner B. Myers prize, thanks to a PhD thesis on boundary functions, recognized as that year's best mathematics dissertation. Kaczynski was arrested in 1996 at his cabin in Montana. A wealth of bomb-making materials were found, as well as writings that spoke of experiments in bomb construction, and even an actual live bomb, which he appeared to be preparing to mail. Numerous charges were brought against him, including murder, and the transportation of bombs. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. 2) Edmund Kemper - Born in 1948, Edmund Kemper began his career in murder quite early. He exhibited early signs of sociopathy, stabbing his cat to death by the age of 13. At the tender of age 15, he killed both of his grandparents. Uncertain of what to do, he called his mother, who advised him to call the police. Kemper contacted the authorities and he was sent to Atascadero State Hospital, where psychological tests recorded an IQ score of 136. In a later IQ test, he tested at 145(Russell, 2002). Edmund Kemper was released from the mental hospital at age 21, in 1969. While at community college, Kemper began to pick up female hitchikers. It is at this point that he began his serial killing. He picked up two hitchhikers, one of whose heads was eventually found in the woods. Kemper said that he had killed both of them, dismembered them, and engaged in necrophilic activity. Edmund Kemper disposed of the remains of one of his victims by throwing her dismembered body parts into the ocean, which eventually washed ashore. Kemper continued killing female hitchhikers and only ceased his murder spree after killing his mother. He bludgeoned her to death with a hammer and then cut her throat. He then removed her larynx, put it in the garbage disposal, and used her decapitated head as a dartboard. He then killed his mother's friend as well, shortly before turning himself in. He asked for the death penalty but was instead given 8 consecutive life sentences. He currently resides at California Medical Facility. 3) Ted Bundy - Born in 1946, Ted Bundy was a serial killer who confessed to over 30 murders, and may have been guilty of many more. Experts estimate that the number of his victims may be over 100. He became a media sensation not simply for his prolific murder career, but for his deadly combination of physical attractiveness, intelligence and charm, possessing a reported IQ score of 136. This is no genius score, but it is quite a bit above average, and not normally the degree of intelligence one might associate with a serial killer. He was also a necrophiliac, oftentimes returning the bodies of the women he had killed days after having done so. Ted Bundy exhibited signs of sociopathy early on. By his teenage years, he was a compulsive thief and peeping tom. Bundy graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in psychology, and was accepted to law school with the help of the governor of Washington, with whom he had become familiar from involvement in political matters. In 1974, after Ted moved to Utah, women started disappearing. Rumors began about the victims having been last seen with a man named "Ted." After being pulled over by the police, he was arrested when police discovered burglary tools in the trunk of his car. His criminality was first confirmed in 1975, when Carol DaRonch, a woman he had kidnapped, escaped. He was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. A few years later, he was charged with murder for the death of another woman. Ted Bundy made his first of two prison escapes when he jumped out of the window of the courthouse library. Though recaptured about a week later, he escaped from prison again in 1977 through a hole he had made in the ceiling of his cell. During his escape, Bundy broke into the Chi Omega sorority house at FSU (Florida State University) and killed two of its residents. Before his capture, he would also murder a 12 year old girl. This was his last murder. He was finally captured and sentenced to death, eventually being executed in 1989 at Florida State Prison. 4) Andrew Cunanan - born in 1969, Cunanan engaged in a killing spree resulting in 5 victims. He is perhaps most well-known for having killed Gianna Versace, the famous fashion designer. Andrew Cunanan's murder spree came to a violent end in Miami, where he committed suicide by gunshot. Cunanan was charming, attractive, and intelligent, revealed to have had an IQ of 147. He socialized with older, wealthy gay men in the "Castro" distinct of San Francisco. He worked as a prostitute in his teen years, and soon began to star in pornography films. Cunanan killed his former lover and fled across the country to Miami, Florida, where he killed 3 more men. Finally, he killed Gianni Versace before committing suicide in a houseboat as police closed in on him. 5) Joel Rifkin - Born in 1959, Rifkin was a habitual underachiever. He rarely fit in socially, and although he never did well academically, he has a recorded IQ of 128. He frequented prostitutes, and would oftentimes fantasize about murdering women. His fantasies turned to reality in 1989, when he killed his first victim. He had brought a prostitute to his home, where he injured her badly by beating her, before strangling her to death. He claimed his second victim, also a prostitute, in a similar manner. Rifkin owned a landscaping business, whose job site he used to hide many of his 17 victims. His last victim was Tiffany Bresciani, whom he strangled and put in his trunk. Unfortunately for Joel Rifkin, police attempted to pull him over for missing a rear license plate. A high-speed chase ensued until Rifkin crashed into a pole. Police detected the odor of Tiffany's corpse and Rifkin was arrested. Rifkin confessed to all 17 murders, yet he pleaded not guilty during the trial. He was found guilty of seven of the murders and sentenced to 183 years in prison. He is now serving his unending sentence at the Clinton Correctional Facility. 6) Jeffrey Dahmer - One of the most infamous serial killers in history, Jeffrey Dahmer was born in 1960. He killed a total of 17 men, claiming that he could trace his sociopathic and necrophilic tendencies to as early as age 14. He was also known to cannibalize some of his victims. He claimed his first victim in 1978, after having sex with a hitchhiker, before beating him to death with a barbell and dismembering his corpse. He began a term at Ohio State University. Though tested with an IQ of 145, he quickly dropped out, possibly because of his alcoholism, which at this point was becoming severe. Dahmer joined the Army, which discharged him because of his drinking. He ran into problems with the law, getting arrested in 1981 for disorderly conduct, and then again in 1986 for performing lewd acts in front of two young boys. He claimed another victim a year later, whom he killed in his hotel after they had gotten drunk together. He dismembered the man's corpse and simply through the remains in the garbage. Over a period of 13 years, he would murder primarily gay, black men, luring them home with promises of sex, before drugging and killing them. He would then sexually molest the dead bodies of his victims, before dismembering them. Jeffrey Dahmer was also known to keep the skulls of his victims as trophies. Jeffrey Dahmer was kicked out of his grandmother's house because of his continual drunkenness. He would kill two more people around the same time in 1988. In one particularly infamous episode, he molested a 13-year-old boy. He pleaded guilty to the charges and asked for leniency, which was granted. He could work a day job, provided he returned to prison at night. Dahmer then molested the 14 year old younger brother of the boy he had previously molested, though he was able to convince police that his drugged victim was a drunk 19-year-old lover of his. In an astonishing miscarriage of justice, officers escorted Jeffrey Bahmer and the boy back to Dahmer's home, where he killed him. In 1991, officers found a man wandering around the street with a pair of handcuffs on one of his wrists. They investigated the situation and were told that he had been drugged, handcuffed and restrained. They were led to Dahmer's apartment, where they found pictures of dismembered bodies, and a refrigerator full of various body parts. Jeffrey Dahmer confessed to all the murders and pleaded guilty on all counts. Serving 15 consecutive life sentences as of 1992, he was murdered only two years into his sentence by another prisoner. 7) Juan Corona - one of America's worst and most notorious killers, Corona killed 25 farmworkers around 40 years ago, claiming that he was justified because his victims were trespassing drunks. Four of the bodies were never actually identified. While he confessed to the crimes, he does not seem to have exhibited any remorse for it. Like many serial killers, Corona preyed on those on the margins of society, who oftentimes had few relatives, and about as many sympathizers. He earned the nickname "The Machete Killer" due to the fact that he killed virtually all of his victims with a machete, oftentimes splitting their heads open. Though obviously deranged, he was no dummy, sporting an IQ of 130. 8) Kristen Gilbert - Practicing nurse who killed her patients. Fellow nurses became suspicious when 4 of her patients died. Stranger yet, 3 had almost experienced heart attacks. A combination of a shortage of epinephrine, plus finding epinephrine in the tissues of these patients (who were not prescribed the drug), led to an investigation. Gilbert presumably called in a bomb threat as a diversion, but she was arrested and served 15 months in prison. Testimony against the nurse was quite overwhelming. A security guard with whom she had been having an affair testified that Gilbert had admitted to him that she had deliberately killed her patients. Another nurse admitted that she had heard one of the patients, who had died under Gilbert's care, crying out that Gilbert was killing him. She was convicted of multiple murder charges and sentenced to life in prison. While her precise IQ is not mentioned, it is reported as being very high. 9) Charlene Williams - Charlene Williams is well-known for having been involved in the famous "sex-slave murders" of 1978-1980. Williams would lure women into her husband's car so he could rape and murder them, claiming 10 victims before their arrest in 1980. Charlene Williams spent around 17 years in prison, but has since been released. Strictly speaking, it was her husband who committed the murders, though Charlene aided in the acquisition of the his victims. She pleaded guilty to counts of first and second degree murder, though was able to receive the minimum sentence of 16 years and 18 months for her crimes by testifying against her husband. A smart woman all other things considered, she is reported to have an IQ of 160. 10) Michael Ross - Ross grew up in an unstable environment. which perhaps ripened him for serial killer. Or perhaps his parents' unstable behavior was just indicative of his having been a bad seed. His mother had serious psychiatric problems and would both physically and psychologically abuse him. She was institutionalized twice, and it is possible that his uncle sexually abused him during this period. His uncle would commit suicide not long after. In spite of these undesirable circumstances, Ross did well in his studies and studied agricultural economics at Cornell University. Intelligent and interpersonally adept, with a reported IQ of 122, he was nonetheless beset with disturbing sexual fantasies. He wound up in jail not long after graduating, having assaulted a young woman. That same year, the body of a girl he had previously murdered was discovered. He attempted suicide after his first murder but opted out. Instead of killing himself, he decided to continue killing others. He strangled and raped another victim, a 17-year-old girl walking to her home. He eventually attacked an off-duty policewoman. The woman fought him off and summoned her co-workers to assist her. He was charged with assault but was bailed out shortly thereafter, at which point he underwent a psychiatric examination. Unfortunately, no serious action was taken to subdue his urges or treat the problem. It was not long before he would kill again. Michael continued to strangle and rape women and it was clear to the police force that a serial killer was operating in the area. Ross was brought in for questioning and eventually confessed to most of the murders. He was given multiple life and death sentences. Michael admitted furthermore that he had molested multiple girls in his neighborhood as a teenager. He complained that his urges to sadistic behavior were overwhelming and uncontrollable. Nonetheless, rather than pleading isanity, he confessed his guilt and asked for the death penalty, which he believed he deserved. Michael's wish was granted in 2005, when he was executed by lethal injection. 11) John Wayne Gacy - John Wayne Gacy was convicted of having killed 33 people. He is one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. He experienced a tragically abusive childhood at the hands of his father, who would beat his children witih a razor strap. Culturally, he became a cultural icon and gave rise to the image of the "killer clown", due to the fact that he would perform as a clown around the same kinds of people he would kill: young males. He would sometimes even dress as a clown during his murders. 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#1. To: redleghunter (#0)
No real surprise. You have to have a mind to lose it.
I saw a lot of posts on IQs last night. Just thought this would be of interest.
Thanks.
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