Are you up for some chills? We don’t have ghosts for you today. However, we have some humans.
We can’t tell you for sure if ghosts and spirits exist if they can harm you in your sleep. But we can tell you for sure— there are some humans, just like you and me, and they exist to juxtapose everything we recognize as civil, just and fair.
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We will be talking about the seven real-life serial killers represented in the Netflix series Mindhunter and their baffling dark lives.
The show follows FBI agent Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) as he begins working with Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) to interview convicted serial killers and figure out how they think.
The series is fascinating to watch because it gives viewers insight into what it must be like for these men who were so cold and calculating in their crimes, but it also shows how much work goes into understanding how they got there.
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7 Real-life Serial Killers Featured On Mindhunter
Mindhunter is a series based on real-life serial killers and interviewing them to understand the workings of a criminal’s mind. Here’s a list of five serial killers represented in Mindhunter—
Charles Manson
Charles Manson was the leader of a “family” of followers called the Manson Family. He convinced them to commit murders. He was convicted in the murders of 9 people.
The term “Helter Skelter” comes from his belief that a race war was coming, and he wanted to start it. He also thought that by committing murders, he would introduce chaos and bring about this war.
He was convicted and sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison when California outlawed the death penalty.
Wayne Williams
Wayne Williams was an African American. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of two adult men, a crime spree that terrorized the Atlanta area and claimed 30 lives, some of them very young.
The killings were carried out by strangulation and suffocation. The bodies were found nude, with shoestrings or other clothing tied around the neck.
Williams denies his guilt even till this day and claims he was falsely accused to avoid a race war.
Ed Kemper
Ed Kemper was an American serial killer, known for murdering eight people in California in the late 1970s.
Kemper’s first victim was his mother, who he killed by stabbing her repeatedly in the chest and stomach.
Before committing these murders, Kemper had spent time in a mental hospital after being convicted of murdering a woman in 1970. When he was released from prison in 1973, he began to kill again.
He was also known as the “Co-ed Killer” and “The Co-ed Butcher”, because most of the victims were female students of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
He was also a necrophile and a cannibal, who often decapitated his victims and then engaged in sexual acts with their heads.
David Berkowitz
David Richard Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam and the .44 caliber killer, is an American serial killer who was convicted of a series of shootings in New York during the summer of 1976.
During the investigation, Berkowitz adopted the nickname “Son of Sam” in letters to newspaper reporters.
Initially, he implicated himself and his neighbor, Sam Carr; however, he later claimed that “Sam” was a demonic entity that spoke to him through Carr and the couple’s Labrador retriever, Harvey.
Berkowitz was arrested on August 10, 1977, and was sentenced to 6 life terms in prison, and received 25 years to life for each murder.
Jerome “Jerry” Brudos
Jerome Brudos, better known as the Salem shoe-fetish killer, was an American serial killer who murdered and dismembered at least four young women in Oregon between 1975 and 1978.
He was a former tailor, who often dressed up in women’s clothing for sexual gratification. He killed his victims by strangulation or bludgeoning with a hammer.
His last known victim was Theresa Sibley, who was strangled with her own bra.
He was disturbed by the fact that women seemed to have no problems walking around in the nude. He was also inspired by Gein, who made shoes and furniture with human skin. But unlike Gein, Brudos was an amateur.
Conclusion
While there are many shows about criminals who have been caught and convicted, Mindhunter is unique in that it explores their lives from the beginning when they were children all the way through their arrest and conviction.
This allows viewers to see how these men came to turn out so differently from other people—it sheds light on what makes an individual become a serial killer.