Inside The House of The Most Notorious Murderers

1. Jeffrey Dahmer's Apartment of Horrors

 Image Source: Ranker American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer became known as the Milwaukee Cannibal when it was discovered that he'd killed and dismembered 17 men and boys in his apartment. Often, one of the creepiest things related to serial killer's lives is how normal they seem.And looking at these shots from inside Dahmer's notorious apartment, it's chilling just how normal his life appears, with everyday decor, a fish tank (and the fact he cared for fish as pets) as well as houseplants, artwork and curtains. You wouldn't think twice about this being an inviting living room.

2. Dahmer Killed 17 People In This Apartment

 Dahmer lived in this apartment for 2 years, the site he would use to commit his heinous acts. There were multiple complaints of strange smells and noises coming from his apartment (and it makes your skin crawl to think of being one of his neighbors).But Dahmer was never originally reported to the police. Discovered in this apartment after his arrest included human skulls, human hearts and other mutilated body parts, as well as photo evidence of Dahmer's various victims. The apartment complex has since been torn down (understandably).But Dahmar's desire for murder began before moved into his apartment; he actually committed murder at his family home in Ohio. Dahmer's childhood home had even received an award in the local newspaper for its modern design, and is still standing, placed on the market for sale in 2014.Dahmer had picked up a hitchhiker and taken him to this home only to murder him. This would be the beginning of Dahmer's serial killing which he would later take to his own apartment. There's no information on who lives in the home now, or whether there is any chilling atmosphere to the property...

4. The Green River Killer's House

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 The Green River Killer, real name Gary Ridgway, was a murderer who lived in a small green house in Washington State, near Seattle. The home was where Gary Ridgway lived during the time of the murders, and was also the home police tore apart in their search...They were searching for evidence and clues against the Green River Killer; Ridgeway murdered women before weighing them down with rocks and dumping their bodies in the Green River. The number of women he'd murdered was at least 49, all committed in that house and a few other accommodations nearby.

5. The Cleveland Strangler's Home From Hell

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 The Cleveland Strangler Anthony Sowell was an American serial killer who murdered 11 women and stored their bodies in his home. The home in question where Anthony lived was located next door to a sausage plant. It was this plant that was the reason Sowell was able to get away with his horrific crimes for so long.Because, in fact, Sowell's neighbours actually noticed a strange smell, but presumed it was the factory causing it, and not the 11 decaying corpses stored in Sowell's home. Sowell actually lived in this horror house with his mother before she passed away.

6. Sowell Stored 11 Corpses In His Home

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 Sowell actually committed the murders in the house while his mother was still living there. In response to the strange smells, he even blamed some of them on his mother - and not on his horrific crimes. The hell house is no longer standing, as it was torn down in 2011...The house was demolished two years after Sowell was arrested and convicted for the murder of 11 women. Some serial killer propaganda fanatics actually stole soil samples from the yard of the home, which they later sold online. Sowell later died in prison from a terminal illness.

7. Sowell Hid Bodies In Various Crawl Spaces

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Cleveland Police found the remains of the 11 women throughout the home as well as in the yard. The amount of evidence found inside Sowell's home warranted over 4,500 photographs needing to be taken. There were shallow graves in the basement where Sowell had buried decomposing bodies......as well as storing other bodies in the home's various crawl spaces. Not only that, but two dead bodies were found in the living room, out in the open, lying next to a shovel. No doubt Sowell had been planning on using that shovel to bury them before he was caught.

8. Serial Killer Maury Travis's House

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Another American serial killer who targeted innocent women, Maury Travis was guilty of the deaths of 17 women - they were sex workers who he hired, brought to his home and then killed. The house in Ferguson, where he committed the horrific crimes, is still standing today. It is actually owned by Travis's mother - who also rents it out...WITHOUT disclosing its awful past. That past includes Travis making videos as he actually committed the murders, as well as prison-like cells found in his basement. He would trap as well as torture women there, before breaking their necks or hanging them from the rafters.

9. The Ranch Home Of Charles Manson And His Followers

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Charles Manson, leader of the Manson Family cult who committed horrific crimes and murders, used The Spahn Movie Ranch as the location for many of his wrongdoings. The movie set had actually been featured in several westerns, such as Duel of the Sun and episodes of Zorro.It was where Manson and his cult lived. They earned their keep by performing labor instead of paying rent for the property during their stay there. It was in this ranch that Manson and his "family" of followers plotted the notorious Helter Skelter murders.

10. The Helter Skelter Murders

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Manson had eerily got the name 'Helter Skelter' from a Beatles album. The murders, also known as the 'Tate Murders', occurred when actress Sharon Tate was brutally murdered by followers of cult leader Charles Manson in 1969. She had been eight months pregnant at the time. Two more people were murdered a day or two later.Manson and four of his followers were convicted of the murders in 1971. The buildings on the ranch property where Manson conspired with his followers actually burned down in the 1970s. They were never restored. The land that the ranch was originally on is now part of Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park.

11. Dennis Nilson's Apartment

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Dennis Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer in the same ilk as Jeffrey Dahmer. He lured young men to his apartment in London to murder them. The manner of his horrific crimes consisted of Nilsen hacking them into pieces before he then disposed of them.The London apartment which was the site of his unforgivable crimes was where Nilson - the serial murdered and necrofile - stuffed body parts and human evidence down the drains. Nilson murdered at least 12 young men and boys. His later murders were continued in the London district of Muswell Hill.

12. Nilson Boiled His Victim's Heads In His Kitchen

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All the murders which Nilson committed were done between two North London addresses where he lived during the years of his active murders. He would lure victims to his homes by deceiving them, and then proceeded to strangle them - sometimes coupled with drowning.After each murder, Nilson would engage in a creepy ritual where he bathed and dressed the victims body. He would then keep the body for long periods of time before dismembering it and either flushing the remains down the toilet or burning them in a bonfire.

13. A Couple Are Now Happily Living In The London Apartment Where Nilson Stored His Victims

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Most people would definitely not want to live in a house or flat with such a gruesome history, especially knowing dismembered human parts were flushed down the drain - and neither would you think such a horrific place would be left standing whatsoever -But the apartment still exists and was bought by a couple who "love" their home and apparently never think about or dwell on what happened there. The couple completely renovated the flat after buying it in order to transform it into their dream home.

14. The House Of Nathaniel White

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This house was one American serial killer Nathaniel White chose to use as a designated dumping ground for those women he murdered. The abandoned house which Nathaniel possibly also lived in was since abandoned after he caught, and has now allegedly been set on fire and burnt to the ground.White admitted that he had murdered six women, and two of their bodies were found in this property. Nathaniel White actually had a girlfriend during the time of his murder spree, and one of his unfortunate victims was actually the 24-year-old niece of his girlfriend. He used the house to dispose of all of his victims.

15. White Confessed To Beating And Stabbing Five Women

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White's chilling confessions included his apparent inspiration from the movie RoboCop 2 in which he wanted to kill someone in the exact same way he'd seen a character do: cut the throat and use the knife from the chest down to the stomach. His first kill was March 1991...... and he had been convicted of abducting a 16-year-old girl previously. But Nathaniel White was actually released on parole after being prosecuted for the abduction, leading him to go on and kill five women, one of which was his girlfriend's niece.

16. Fred And Rose West's House Of Horrors

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Notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West tortured and killed their victims in this basement of their home in Gloucester, UK. Their first victim was 19-year-old Lynda Gough, an acquaintance of the couple who had relationships with male lodgers sharing the house on Cromwell Street. She actually moved into the home.After murdering her, Fred and Rose West told the other tenants that Lynda had left. Gough's body was later found dismembered and buried in an inspection pit beneath the garage of the house. She was found with her jaw wrapped in adhesive and surgical tape, to silence her screams.

17. Fred West Carved Holes Into The Cellar's Wooden Beams To Suspend Victims

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With Gough's remains was also found pieces of string and knotted fabric, meaning it was likely she'd been tied up and suspended from the beams that Fred had altered to suspend his victims' bodies. She likely died of suffocation or from strangulation.When her dismembered body was found, it was missing five vertebrae, a knee bone and more than one finger bone. Police later discovered that all other victims had been killed and dismembered in the cellar of the Cromwell Street house, with a total of five victims.

18. Fred West Later Concreted Over The Door To The Cellar

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After Fred and Rose West had murdered 18-year-old Juanita Mott in 1975, Fred decided to concrete over the floor of the entire cellar to hide the entrance, and the location of their crimes. He then converted this section of the house into a bedroom for his children. Due to the cellar now being concreted over...Their next victim, 18-year-old lodger Shirley Robinson, was buried in the garden of the Cromwell Street house instead. The body, like the others, had been severely dismembered. The couple covered up the young woman's disappearance by claiming that she had moved out of the home to relocate to Germany.

19. Ted Bundy's House Has Become A Tourist Attraction

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We're all guilty of enjoying a true-crime documentary on Netflix, so it's no surprise the still-standing house of a notorious serial killer like Ted Bundy would have tourists flocking to it. The only problem is that someone is actually living in the house - and it's not officially open to the public!The house where Bundy lived while committing his crimes is in Salt Lake City, Utah. The house includes a fire escape which Bundy used to sneak in and out. Tourists flock to take photos of the outside, as well as looking around the grounds to try and get photos of the fire escape and other features.

20. The Infamous Bundy Cellar

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It was strongly rumoured that Bundy owned and used this nearby cellar in Utah to keep and dispose of his victim's bodies. For someone like Bundy with a high number of victims and constantly on the go, it would make sense for him to have a secluded place to constantly travel to...A place he could be sure he could keep or kill victims where nobody else would here. A cellar that was easy to travel to but secluded enough, with a strong door, would have been a good option. Many 'murder tourists' have travelled to find and explore this cellar.

21. Ted Bundy And Myra Hindley's Murder Spree

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Ted Bundy and Myra Hindley were a couple responsible for a line of horrific and heartbreaking murders on the moors of England. Their victims were all children, who Bundy and Hindley lured to their deaths and buried in Saddleworth Moor outside of Manchester, UK.They not only murdered five innocent children, but sexually assaulted some of their child victims, too. The pair took some of their victims in a van to Saddleworth Moor using the ruse of helping them find a lost glove - it was there that they assaulted, murdered and buried the children. The bodies of three victims were found in this area of the moor shown below.

22. Bundy and Hindley Also Committed Murder In Their Home

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At least two of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's victims were tortured and killed inside their home. This eerie photo shows them casually chatting outside that very house where they committed horrendous crimes. The couple had already tortured and killed a child inside by this time.A year before this photo was taken, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey had been strangled to death at the house where Myra Hindley lived with her grandmother. The morning after this photo was taken, the police were alerted to Hindley and Brady's activities.

23. The House Where Hindley And Brady Beat A 17-Year-Old With A Hatchet

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One of the poor victims of Brady and Hindley in this house was 17-year-old Edward Evans. He was taken to the house and was beaten with a hatchet by Brady before being strangled to death. Edward was to be the pair's final victim. Evans had just been to a Manchester United Football game......before he was lured to the house by Brady. Brady hit Evans repeatedly with an axe while he lay on the couch in the house, before choking him with a piece of electrical cord. His body was then wrapping in plastic sheeting and stored in the spare bedroom.

24. The Chicago Home With A Crawl Space For Hiding John Wayne Gacy's Victims

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Notorious American serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, was responsible for 29 bodies of his victims buried beneath his property. Gacy was also known as 'The Killer Clown', earned due to his hobby of providing a clown act for the local kids as Pogo or Patches the Clown......as if he couldn't get any creepier. He murdered young men in 1970s in Illinois and used his basement to bury them. The crawl space in the large property provided the perfect place for Gacy to attempt to hide his victims beneath the large ranch-like estate...

25. The Home Was Complete With A Basement Bar And Pool Table

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To add to the disconcerting clown alter-ego Gacy had, the property he used to store his victims was also complete with a 'man-cave' type basement in which there was a bar and pool table. No doubt young men would see this as a great place to hang out, and was undoubtedly an appeal for the victims he brought home with him.The 'Killer Clown' would also lure victims by pretending he was about to perform a magic trick, which is how he duped his victims into accepting being put into handcuffs. The murder house was torn down in 1979 and there now stands a new modern property in its place.

26. At Least 26 Victims Were Buried In The Home's Crawl Space

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Gacy claimed that he committed all his murders inside this ranch house, typically luring his victim there, restraining them before proceeding to rape and torture them before eventually killing them. He would kill his victims by either asphyxiation or strangling them. 26 victims' bodies were buried in the crawl space......while 3 others were buried elsewhere in the house, and four bodies were dumped in the Des Plaines River. But before he buried them, Gacy would usually keep the body under his bed for a day. As well as pouring quicklime on the bodies, he would take some to his garage so he could embalm them.

27. The 28 Murders Committed By The Candy Man

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Serial killer Dean Corll - also known as The Candy Man - killed a minimum of 28 people in the 70s, in Houston. All victims were between 13 to 20 years of age, and all male. Corll had two teenage accomplices who helped him abduct his victims and take them back to his house after being lured into his van.Once at Corll's murder house, the victims would be given drugs or alcohol to make them pass out, or else tricked into handcuffs or grabbed by force. Corll would then tie his victims to his bed or a 'torture board' that was hung in the house on the wall.

28. Although Corll Killed His Victims At His Property, He Disposed Of The Bodies In 4 Different Locations

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Corll would proceed to also sexually assault, beat and torture his victims. This could go on for several days. He would then kill them by strangling them or shooting them with a pistol. He then used plastic sheeting to tie their bodies and bury them in one of his chosen burial spots...They were: a boat shed he rented; a Bolivar Peninsula beach; a wooded area near Lake Sam Rayburn, or at a Jefferson County beach. Corll's family actually owned a lakeside log cabin at Lake Sam Rayburn, which no doubt made it easier for him to use that burial spot without drawing attention. 

29. The Amityville Horror House

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If you're a fan of horror, then there's no doubt you'll already be aware of the story of the Amityville Horror, and have probably also seen plenty adaptions of the event, too. The Amityville House is famous not only for the murders that occurred inside......but also it's very unique aesthetic appearance that sends shivers down your spine. Inside the house, a man named Ronald DeFro Jr. shot and killed six members of his family who shared the house with him. But that's not where the horror story of this house ended...

30. The House Was Considered 'Cursed' From Then On

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A year after the initial murder spree committed by DeFeo, couple George and Kathy Lutz, as well as their three children, moved into the house. They then fled a month later, claiming that the house was haunted. Famous paranormal-investigators, married couple Ed and Lorraine Warren, also visited the creepy house...Lorraine admitted to feeling fearful, as well as feeling an unnerving force as she reached the top of the stairs, where she felt she needed to ask for strength to continue. The story of what happened inside the house, as well as the Lutz's experience, has been adapted into many books and films.

31. And Now: Crime Scene Photos From The Most Notorious Serial Killers.. Richard Speck's Victim

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(Warning: graphic content from this point) Richard Speck was a serial killer whose horrific crimes took place over only one night. He broke into a community hospital and killed as many nurses as he came across back in 1966. A total of 8 nurses lost their lives that night, and here one of his victims is seen transported on a gurney.

32. Ted Bundy's Tools

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Ted Bundy was known to use his car during his killing sprees, and inside his car he would keep a manner of terrifying tools which he would use on his victims. Here pictured are the tools which were found in Bundy's VW Beetle, which include gloves and trash bags.

33. The Skull of One Of Bundy's Victims

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After the discovery of tools in his vehicle, Bundy was arrested - but this wouldn't be the end of his killing spree. He went on to kill 30 women and girls - at least, that's what he confessed to. Pictured is the skull of his ninth victim, Denise Naslund, which was found by two hunters in Washington.

34. Digging For The Victims Of The Candy Man

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The Candy Man, Dean Corll, was another notorious serial killers, and here you can see a group of workers digging for the buried victims of Corll in a boat stall. In the wheelbarrow, you can even see a discovered skull, which was later identified as Corll's tenth victim, Randell Lee Harvey.

35. The Body Of One Of 'The Beast Of Manchester' Victims

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The Beast of Manchester, Trevor Hardy, was a notorious English serial killer convicted of 3 murders in the city of Manchester. Here, authorities have recovered the body of one of his victims, 17-year old Wanda Skala, from a constuction site. She was killed by Hardy walking home from her job at a hotel.

36. Searching The Grounds Of The Yorkshire Ripper

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The Yorkshire Ripper was another English serial killer who sent shockwaves through the country; Peter Sutcliffe was responsible for at least 13 murders of women who he terrorized with a hammer, knife or using a stone in a sock. Here authorities are searching the grounds behind his home for evidence of his crimes.

37. Remains Of The Body Found In John Wayne Gacy's Garage

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Here, authorities are carrying the bagged remains of one of John Wayne Gacy's - the 'Clown Killer' - victims, which was found buried beneath the garage of his home. A terrifying 29 bodies were found in total buried beneath John Wayne Gacy's home following his years of serial killing.

38. The Bones Of Two Of The Cleveland Torso Murderer's Victims

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The Cleveland Torso Murderer was never actually identified, although they also had another nickname: the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury. Here, detectives and coroner are examining the bones found of two of the murderer's victims. The killer was responsible for killing 12 victims in total.

39. Edmund Kemper Himself Gives A Crime Scene Tour

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Edmund Kemper was a famous serial killer, famous also for his huge, towering height. He actually turned himself in, and here is scene escorting police officers around one of his crime scenes. Remains of some of his victims were also found outside his own home.

40. Inside Ed Gein's Collection Of Human Remains

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Here we can see inside the home of Ed Gein, where investigators found a whole skin suit that Gein had been in the process of making, as well as other household utensils made from human skulls, and even a pair of curtains that were being held back by a pair of human lips.

41. Gein's Chair Upholstered With Human Skin

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One of the many, many horrific things taken from Ed Gein's home was also this chair, which had been upholstered on the base with human skin from one of his victims. This murderer and body snatcher was thought to be the inspiration for the fictional killer Leatherface.

42. The Murder Of Gianni Versace

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Famous Italian fashion designer, Gianni Versace, was murdered outside his own home by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. Before shooting Versace, Cunanan had been on a killing spree, where his victims included one of his friends and an ex-lover. Before he could be caught, he turned the gun on himself.

43. Dahmer's Freezer Full Of Human Heads

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We know the atrocities which Jeffrey Dahmer committed in his small flat. Included in this was using his freezer to store the body parts of his victims, which included their whole heads. As well as preserve some of the body parts, simply to freeze or even eat, he also dissolved his victims.

44. The Drum of Acid He Used

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For the victims that Dahmer didn't wish to freeze or preserve, he would use this drum of acid to get rid of the evidence. He had this drum in plain sight, out in his apartment - his bedroom, specifically. The drum contained 57 gallons of acid, found by police during their search.

45. A Victim Of The Zodiac Killer

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During the 1960s and 70s, the Zodiac killer was a notorious serial killer whose real identity was never found. Here you can see one of his unfortunate victims from this crime scene, highlighting just how violent a killer the Zodiac was. The victim here is cab driver Paul Stine.

46. A Wall Stained With Blood From The Night Stalker Killings

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Serial killer Richard Ramirez was known as the Night Stalker. He took the lives of 13 victims in Los Angeles during his killing spree, and here is pictured what remained of a crime scene with a bloodstained wall from one of his crimes. He was also known as a 'satanic' serial killer.

47. The Only Jack The Ripper Victim He Didn't Mutilate

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Jack the Ripper is another unidentified historical serial killer, active in Whitechapel, London, where they were known to target female sex workers and mutilate their bodies. One of his victims was Elizabeth Stride, pictured here, and was actually the only victim he left intact.

48. Leonard Lake's Murder Compound

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Leonard Lake was a serial killer who, along with an accomplice, would lure his victims to this compound in order to murder them. He not only lured one victim, but whole families, which he would then murder on camera. It was believed he murdered up to 25 people.

49. The Sidewalk Lined With Bodies From The Manson Family Killings

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Outside of 10050 Cielo Drive, the fateful location of the Manson Family murders, you can see the sidewalk lined with body bags of the victims. The victims of the murders included Sharon Tate, three of her friends, and a teenager - as well as the unborn child of Tate herself.

50. The Remains Of The Brooklyn Vampire's Victim

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The Brooklyn Vampire was a serial killer named Albert Fish, who was responsible for the grisly murder and rape of over 100 children - which he would then cannibalize. He even taunted the family of victims by writing them letters about what they taste like. Here authorities find the remains of one of his many victims.