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00:00 "Jeffrey Dahmer met his death this morning while working as a janitor, cleaning a prison bathroom."
00:05 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're examining famous killers who themselves were killed behind bars.
00:11 "The beating was so savage, 89-year-old Bulger was unrecognizable when his body was found."
00:17 Nikolai Radkevich. A Russian serial killer from the early 20th century,
00:22 Nikolai Radkevich began his spree after being expelled by the cadet corps.
00:26 "This was not a good time to be disgraced and out of work in Russia.
00:30 The economic conditions in the country were not good."
00:33 Wanting to purge the world of what he considered depraved and immoral women,
00:37 Radkevich killed three sex workers between June and September of 1909.
00:41 He was finally apprehended on September 17th,
00:44 immediately after killing his third and final victim in a hotel.
00:48 "He called for the doorman to stop him, and along with other staff,
00:52 the doorman managed to wrestle Nikolai Radkevich to the ground."
00:55 He was sentenced to eight years in the katurga, a Russian form of punishment
00:59 in which prisoners were sent off to Siberia to perform forced labor.
01:03 Radkevich spent four years in these brutal conditions before he was killed by fellow inmates.
01:08 John Jairo Moreno-Torres.
01:10 Known as Johnny the Leper from a childhood injury,
01:13 Colombian killer John Jairo Moreno-Torres caused trouble from a young age.
01:17 He dropped out of school at 13 and joined the most feared gang in Bogota,
01:21 selling drugs and committing a number of violent crimes.
01:24 He officially killed four people throughout his time as the gang's leader,
01:27 but it's believed that he may have murdered up to 20.
01:30 He also committed a number of assaults before he was apprehended in February 1998,
01:36 still just a teenager.
01:37 He was sent to Bogota's La Modelo prison and was violently executed by other prisoners,
01:42 who shot Torres 12 times with a smuggled firearm.
01:46 Colin Hatch.
01:47 Called both highly dangerous and a menace to the public,
01:50 Colin Hatch was sentenced to life back in 1994 for committing an unspeakable crime.
01:54 When he was jailed in 1994, Colin Hatch was told he was so dangerous
01:59 it would never be safe to release him and he would die in prison.
02:03 Hatch had a history of similar behavior and was sent to a maximum facility in Yorkshire
02:07 called HM Prison Full Sutton.
02:09 He remained in the prison for almost two decades,
02:12 but his life was cut short in February of 2011.
02:15 In what prison officials called, quote, "an accident,"
02:18 Hatch was ambushed by another inmate named Damien Fowkes,
02:22 who had a history of attacking prisoners involved with a certain type of crime.
02:25 At his trial, Colin Hatch had said he'd be a dead man if he were sent to prison,
02:30 and so it proved.
02:31 Humberside police are now questioning 35-year-old fellow prisoner Damien Fowkes
02:36 in connection with his death.
02:38 Ian Huntley.
02:38 Another prominent victim of Fowkes survived his attack.
02:42 Hatch was not so lucky and he died from the injuries that Fowkes had caused.
02:46 Enriqueta Marti.
02:48 Known by creepy names like the Vampire of Barcelona,
02:51 Enriqueta Marti was a Spanish serial killer
02:53 who is thought to have murdered 12 victims in the early 1900s.
02:57 "There had been reports that children had gone missing
02:59 from some of Barcelona's poorer neighborhoods,
03:02 and it was alleged that Enriqueta was involved in taking these children,
03:06 and without remorse."
03:08 Unfortunately, the records of these crimes are quite scarce,
03:11 owing to both the time period and the economic situation of her victims,
03:15 leading some to question Marti's guilt.
03:17 Adding to the general confusion is the lack of a trial.
03:20 Marti was arrested and held in the Reina Amalia jail
03:23 but was killed before her trial could begin.
03:25 The official story is that Marti was attacked by her fellow inmates
03:29 and publicly hanged on the jail's patio.
03:31 "She was buried in a mass grave on the outskirts of Barcelona
03:35 and took most of the names of the victims and her clients with her."
03:38 Billy Shamirmir.
03:40 Throughout the late 2010s,
03:41 Texas man Billy Shamirmir would pose as a maintenance man
03:44 and break into the homes of elderly women.
03:46 He would then attack the women while they were alone
03:49 and smother them with a pillow.
03:50 "At a press conference yesterday,
03:52 family members of the victims Shamirmir was charged with killing
03:54 gathered to truly share their reactions."
03:57 While Shamirmir was officially convicted of just two deaths,
04:00 police believe he's responsible for dozens of murders
04:03 around the greater Dallas area.
04:05 He was convicted of the deaths of Luthie Harris and Mary Brooks,
04:08 resulting in two life sentences in the H.H. Coffield unit of Texas.
04:12 While inside, Shamirmir made some inappropriate comments
04:15 about the family of a cellmate
04:17 and was subsequently beaten to death
04:19 and possibly even stabbed with a pen.
04:21 "This morning, there's a lot of comments
04:23 and I've been reading through them all morning long
04:25 and let's just be honest,
04:26 there's none that are really appropriate to air on television this morning.
04:30 Let's just say he won't be missed."
04:32 Robert Liberty.
04:34 In 1966, Robert Liberty attempted to take his own life but failed
04:38 and was placed in the Orange County Medical Center.
04:41 There, he met 31-year-old Marcella Landis
04:44 and the two entered a relationship.
04:46 Soon after, Liberty strangled Landis to death with a stocking.
04:49 He was declared legally insane and placed in a state hospital until 1969
04:54 when he was deemed fit to re-enter society.
04:57 He soon killed two more people,
04:59 his roommate Thomas Astorina and Robert Erion,
05:02 a nurse who worked at the state hospital.
05:04 Liberty was arrested again following an FBI manhunt
05:06 and once again pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
05:10 But before his trial could take place,
05:12 Liberty was strangled and killed by a cellmate named Timothy Dudley.
05:16 Robert Simon.
05:17 Known as "Mudman" by his peers,
05:19 Robert Simon was a member of the Philadelphia-based Warlocks Motorcycle Club,
05:23 an outlaw club with a reputation for violence.
05:25 Even by their standards,
05:33 Simon was known as a dangerous renegade
05:35 and was supposedly made the club's enforcer
05:37 owing to his history of reckless violence.
05:40 Aside from committing armed robbery and arson,
05:42 Simon is also known to have killed two people,
05:44 his teenage girlfriend Beth Smith Duesenberg
05:47 and a New Jersey police officer named Ippolito Gonzalez
05:50 who had pulled Simon over during a routine traffic stop.
05:53 Immediately following the shooting,
05:55 both Mudman and Staples tried fleeing the scene
05:58 but were soon pursued by nearby police officers
06:01 who had heard the two gunshots
06:03 on Sergeant Gonzalez's radio request for backup.
06:06 The killing of Gonzalez sent Simon to New Jersey State Prison
06:09 where he was beaten to death by cellmate Ambrose Harris
06:12 while awaiting execution.
06:13 Leslie Bailey.
06:14 Some crimes are so horrible
06:16 that the people who commit them have to be segregated in prison.
06:19 That was the case with English serial killer Leslie Bailey
06:31 who was a Rule 43 inmate at Whitemore Prison.
06:34 This meant that Bailey had to be separated
06:36 from the rest of the prison population
06:38 as officials feared that he would be attacked.
06:40 The rule stems from Bailey's past
06:42 as he was linked to various unspeakable crimes
06:45 including the deaths of three individuals.
06:47 In my profession as a police officer,
06:49 we're in the business of obtaining confessions from people
06:53 but I could honestly say I don't really know
06:58 if I'd ever want to hear another confession again
07:00 if it was in those circumstances.
07:02 Bailey was known to roam with a gang of criminals
07:05 and police believe that they were guilty
07:07 of even more crimes and deaths.
07:09 Regardless, justice came for Bailey
07:11 despite his position in prison.
07:13 In October of 1993,
07:15 Bailey was found strangled to death in his cell.
07:18 Edwin Caprat.
07:19 With most of his victims being elderly women,
07:21 Florida man Edwin Caprat earned the moniker the Granny Killer.
07:25 Edwin, who was nicknamed Mike by family members,
07:28 was said to be intelligent and loved reading books
07:30 but he was also known to be a very violent
07:33 and easily angered bully who would go after those smaller
07:36 and weaker than himself.
07:37 Caprat's first victim was a 27-year-old man named Lee Bouguet
07:41 who had been beaten over the head with a pipe.
07:43 He then killed a number of elderly individuals throughout 1993,
07:47 often committing arson in the process
07:49 and staging their deaths as accidents.
07:51 An anonymous individual phoned the police
07:53 and told them to look into Caprat,
07:55 who had previously been jailed for the death of Bouguet.
07:58 His fingerprints were found at one of the crime scenes
08:00 and Caprat was arrested and sentenced to death.
08:03 Throughout both trials, Edwin Caprat was uninterested
08:06 in the proceedings and was supposedly reading a book
08:09 the entire time.
08:10 But on April 19th, 1995, Caprat got into a fight
08:14 with fellow inmates Mario Lara and Rigoberto Sanchez Velasco
08:17 and was fatally stabbed.
08:19 Carl Williams.
08:20 A prominent drug trafficker,
08:22 Carl Williams was a powerful figure
08:24 in the Australian underworld.
08:26 He got bigger and bigger and just angrier and angrier
08:28 as they tend to do.
08:30 He played a large role in the Melbourne gangland killings
08:33 that occurred between 1998 and 2010,
08:36 with officials believing that he's responsible
08:38 for at least 10 of the 36 contract killings.
08:41 He was eventually put away on four counts of murder,
08:44 having personally ordered their deaths.
08:46 These people were so prepared to kill
08:51 that they appeared to have little regard
08:54 for the safety of innocent people around them.
08:58 The victims were Jason and Louis Moran
09:00 of the prominent Moran family,
09:01 criminal associate Mark Mollia and Michael Marshall,
09:04 who was shot and killed in front of his young son.
09:07 Williams was sent to HM Prison Barwon,
09:10 where fellow inmate Matthew Charles Johnson
09:12 bludgeoned him to death with the handle of an exercise bike.
09:15 Roger Kibbe, dubbed the I-5 Strangler.
09:18 Roger Kibbe was responsible for the assault and deaths
09:21 of at least eight women.
09:22 His killing spree mostly occurred
09:24 around Sacramento, California between 1977 and 1987.
09:28 And he would hunt for his victims
09:30 along the interstate highway, hence the nickname.
09:33 He was eventually arrested in 1988
09:36 and received an initial prison sentence
09:38 of 25 years to life.
09:40 - For each victim, Kibbe responded in a hoarse,
09:42 raspy voice saying, "Guilty, guilty," six times.
09:45 - In the following years,
09:47 more life sentences were added to this
09:48 as further evidence of his other murders was discovered.
09:52 On February 28th, 2021,
09:54 while at the Mule Creek State Prison in California,
09:57 the I-5 Strangler was strangled to death
09:59 by his cellmate, Jason Boudreau,
10:02 who reportedly did it in retribution for his crimes.
10:05 - Shock from victims' families tonight, guys.
10:07 Those who were directly impacted by Roger Kibbe
10:10 and his serial slangs.
10:11 But some of these families tonight are saying
10:14 his death comes 35 years too late.
10:17 Gerard John Schaefer.
10:19 - I never thought that I would be that close
10:23 to someone who was capable of doing those things.
10:26 - Gerard John Schaefer was working
10:28 as a sheriff's deputy in Florida
10:30 when he abducted two young female hitchhikers
10:32 and tied them up in a remote forest.
10:34 The teenagers were able to escape
10:36 after he was called away on police duty.
10:38 After he claimed he only wanted to show them
10:41 the risks of hitchhiking,
10:42 he was apprehended and charged with false imprisonment
10:45 and aggravated assault.
10:46 While out on bail, Schaefer abducted
10:48 and killed two other girls and was re-arrested
10:51 after their decomposed bodies were found in the woods.
10:54 Schaefer was sentenced to serve two concurrent life terms
10:57 at the Florida State Prison,
10:59 where in 1995, he was killed by another inmate,
11:03 Vincent Rivera.
11:04 Rivera was handed an additional 53 years for the murder.
11:07 - When I found out that Schaefer had been killed,
11:10 it was like a horrible stink had just drifted out the window
11:15 and for the first time in years, I could breathe fresh air.
11:18 - Sidonio Teixeira.
11:20 In 2008, Sidonio Teixeira was sentenced to life imprisonment
11:23 for taking the life of his young daughter
11:25 and also attempting to murder his son.
11:28 While serving his sentence
11:29 at the Long Larton Top Security Prison
11:31 in Worcestershire, England,
11:32 Teixeira was attacked by another inmate
11:34 while working at the prison workshop.
11:36 The culprit, Victor Castigador,
11:39 reportedly put a stone in a sock,
11:41 which he used to beat Teixeira,
11:42 who later succumbed to his injuries.
11:45 Castigador, who claimed to have been purging
11:47 the world of evil,
11:48 was found guilty in 1990 of the murders
11:51 of two security guards
11:52 and was serving a life sentence already.
11:54 He was subsequently issued a whole life order
11:57 by the Birmingham Crown Court for killing Teixeira.
11:59 Donald Leroy Evans.
12:02 - Two days ago, a 12-member jury sentenced
12:04 Donald Leroy Evans to death by lethal injection.
12:06 - Although he was only found guilty of two murders,
12:09 Donald Leroy Evans admitted responsibility
12:12 in the killings of over 70 people.
12:14 - He even led the FBI on a two-day search for bodies
12:17 in the Arizona desert, but they found nothing.
12:19 - If true, this would make him
12:21 one of the most prolific serial killers in US history.
12:25 On August 1st, 1991, Evans took the life
12:28 of his last victim, Beatrice Louise Ralph, in Mississippi.
12:32 He was arrested four days later
12:34 and eventually sentenced to death.
12:36 His crimes also resulted in convictions
12:38 at the federal level and in the state of Florida.
12:41 In 1999, while sitting on death row,
12:43 a fellow inmate named Jimmy Mack
12:45 decided to bring Evans' execution date a little closer.
12:49 The two were reportedly in the prison shower
12:51 when Mack stabbed Evans to his death.
12:53 Nikolai Fifilov
12:55 Over the span of six years, Nikolai Fifilov
12:59 reigned terror on the town of Sverdlovsk
13:01 in the then-Soviet Union.
13:03 In all, he had a victim count of seven,
13:05 all of whom were female.
13:07 Fifilov had served in the Soviet Army,
13:09 and it's believed that the motivation for his crimes
13:11 came from being rejected by a woman he loved.
13:14 He was arrested in 1988 after being caught
13:17 by a senior Soviet official trying to dispose
13:19 of his last victim's body.
13:21 Fifilov was in jail awaiting trial
13:23 when he met his demise at the hands of his cellmate
13:25 on August 30, 1988.
13:27 Conspiracies soon arose that his murder was arranged
13:30 in order to prevent a potentially sensationalized trial.
13:34 Those claims, however, have never been confirmed.
13:37 Laron Williams
13:39 In October 1977, Laron Williams claimed the life
13:43 of a sex worker in Nashville, Tennessee.
13:45 Before his trial, he bargained a plea deal
13:48 that came with a sentence of 10 years' imprisonment.
13:51 He was still serving his time in 1981
13:53 when he escaped from the Memphis Correctional Center.
13:56 While on the run, Williams killed an additional two people,
13:59 a police officer who tried to arrest him
14:02 and a Catholic priest.
14:03 He was recaptured soon after and sent back to prison,
14:06 this time with two death sentences.
14:08 On July 8, 1985, Williams was descended upon
14:12 by a group of other inmates,
14:14 reportedly for being on the prison phone for too long.
14:17 He was left severely injured
14:18 and ultimately died at a nearby hospital.
14:21 Daniel Camargo Barbosa
14:24 Born in Colombia in 1930,
14:26 Daniel Camargo Barbosa had a pretty troubling childhood.
14:30 Prevented from furthering his education
14:32 by financial constraints,
14:33 Barbosa eventually fell into a life of crime.
14:36 He began with petty thefts before escalating
14:38 into abducting, assaulting, and murdering young girls.
14:41 Barbosa first went to prison in Colombia,
14:44 where it is believed that he claimed the lives
14:46 of more than 80 girls.
14:48 He escaped from prison and fled to Ecuador,
14:50 where he continued his despicable actions,
14:53 later owning up to 72 murders in the country.
14:56 Barbosa was incarcerated for 16 years,
14:59 but his sentence was cut short just five years in
15:02 when he was killed by another inmate,
15:04 who happened to be one of his victim's nephews.
15:06 Lenko Latkov
15:09 Between 1999 and 2000,
15:12 Lenko Latkov committed three murders
15:14 in the Khaskovo province of the People's Republic
15:16 of Bulgaria.
15:17 All of his victims were elderly women,
15:19 although he also targeted young boys and girls,
15:22 who he apparently only assaulted.
15:24 Latkov was suspected of carrying out three other murders,
15:27 but none of them was confirmed before his death.
15:29 Prior to his trial,
15:31 he first received psychological evaluations
15:33 before being transferred to a prison where he was held.
15:36 Latkov never got the opportunity to answer for his crimes.
15:40 On the 13th of September 2003,
15:42 his cellmate, Sami Behram Abdullah,
15:45 who had been locked up for attempted murder,
15:47 succeeded in killing him following a heated argument.
15:50 Elio José Muniz Filho
15:53 Elio José Muniz Filho, or Elinho as he was more commonly called,
15:57 was imprisoned for 201 years for the deaths of 65 people.
16:02 Born and raised in Pernambuco, Brazil,
16:04 Elinho was a vigilante killer who sought to,
16:07 quote, "clean up the city" by taking out people he deemed to be evil.
16:11 No matter how good his intentions may have been,
16:14 this was considered a crime in the eyes of the law,
16:16 and he was arrested in 1998.
16:19 Elinho's actions seemed to have won him favor
16:22 among the residents of the town,
16:23 as over 3,000 people reportedly signed a petition demanding his release.
16:28 While serving his sentence, however,
16:30 he was violently attacked by three inmates
16:33 and later died of his injuries at a hospital.
16:35 Artur Kitaev
16:37 Just as the Soviet Union fell in the early 1990s,
16:41 Artur Kitaev embarked on a spree of sex crimes and murders.
16:45 This earned him the nickname "Last Sex Maniac of the USSR."
16:49 During that period, Kitaev had gotten a job as a driver for an auto company.
16:53 With his official vehicle,
16:55 he preyed on young female hitchhikers around the city of Smolensk,
16:58 claiming the lives of six of them.
17:00 Kitaev was arrested in July of 1992 and sentenced to death two years later,
17:05 although this was eventually commuted to a life term.
17:09 The Russian killer remained in prison until September 2019,
17:12 when an argument with his cellmate ended in a brutal attack
17:15 that ultimately resulted in Kitaev's demise.
17:18 Thor Nys Kristiansen
17:20 Thor Kristiansen terrified a town.
17:23 No conscience whatsoever. Zero.
17:25 Born in Denmark,
17:26 Thor Nys Kristiansen was brought to the U.S. by his parents at the age of five.
17:30 Although a bright student in high school,
17:32 Kristiansen later lost interest in his studies
17:34 and dropped out to work at a gas station.
17:36 Around this time, he began harboring despicable thoughts,
17:40 which he then made a reality after stealing a pistol from a friend.
17:43 He was responsible for the deaths of four women,
17:46 but his murderous spree came to an end when his intended fifth victim
17:50 survived the ordeal and led the police to him months later.
17:53 - "This guy thinks what he did was all right."
17:55 While serving a life sentence at Folsom State Prison,
17:58 Kristiansen was wounded in the exercise yard by an unidentified prisoner
18:02 and later succumbed to his injuries.
18:04 José Antonio Rodríguez Vega
18:06 Dubbed "el Matabiejas," which translates to "the old lady killer" in English,
18:11 José Antonio Rodríguez Vega reigned terror on elderly women in Cantabria,
18:16 an autonomous community in Spain.
18:18 In the span of just eight months,
18:20 Rodríguez Vega wormed his way into the hearts and homes of several women in the area
18:25 and took the lives of at least 16 of them.
18:28 Upon his arrest,
18:29 Rodríguez Vega confessed to the crimes,
18:31 but later recanted his confession during his trial.
18:34 Regardless, he was found guilty and sentenced to 440 years in prison.
18:39 After serving only a fraction of his sentence,
18:42 Rodríguez Vega met his end at the hands of two inmates at his prison in Salamanca,
18:46 who brutally attacked him in the common area.
18:49 Leopold Zion
18:51 The crimes of Leopold Zion are pretty tragic,
18:54 not only because they involve the deaths of four people and the assault of many others,
18:59 but because a large number of them could have been prevented.
19:02 Zion had been convicted twice of crimes involving assault,
19:04 but in both cases, he was released early by a parole board.
19:08 He later succeeded in cutting short the lives of four young boys before he was arrested again,
19:14 this time for good.
19:15 Zion was convicted of just one murder and received the death penalty,
19:19 although this was later commuted to a life sentence.
19:22 He was attacked and killed in prison by a fellow inmate,
19:25 who was acquitted of the crime on the basis of insanity.
19:28 Leroy Martin
19:31 Born and raised in Gaffney, South Carolina,
19:33 Leroy Martin lived a seemingly normal life.
19:36 He worked in a textile mill and had a wife and three children.
19:39 Behind that facade, though, was a maniac who rained terror on women in the area
19:44 and was responsible for the deaths of four people.
19:46 After placing two calls himself to a newspaper editor,
19:59 Martin was spotted close to a crime scene by two local residents
20:02 and was later arrested by police.
20:04 He was sentenced to four consecutive life terms,
20:19 but only served about four years before he was put out of his misery by another inmate
20:23 at the Central Correctional Institution in South Carolina.
20:27 Part of him wanted to be caught.
20:28 I think another part of him enjoyed the publicity.
20:32 He would get up every morning and go down to a local cafe
20:35 and get copies of all the papers and read and talk about the strangler.
20:40 The Pied Piper of Tucson, Charles Schmid was a serial killer
20:53 who claimed the lives of three young ladies in the 1960s.
20:57 Schmid was known for hanging out with a group of teenagers in the Tucson area,
21:00 and when he wanted to know what taking a life would feel like,
21:04 he sought his victims within that group.
21:06 It was May 31st, 1964, when Schmid decided to fulfill a long-time desire
21:11 to see what it would feel like to kill.
21:14 In the end, it was one of those same friends who was instrumental
21:17 in helping the police build a winning case against him.
21:20 Richie Bruns got probation and was sent to Ohio.
21:23 So he was so jittery, he called his father
21:27 and told him all about what he knew about Schmid and the deaths.
21:31 After successfully escaping from the Arizona State Prison in 1972,
21:35 Schmid was recaptured and sent back, where he met his end
21:39 just three years later in a horrific attack by two other inmates.
21:42 James "Whitey" Bulger
21:44 At the age of 14, Bulger had his first brush with the law,
21:48 arrested and setting up a lifetime of being on the wrong side of the law.
21:53 Once the most wanted fugitive in America, James "Whitey" Bulger was an infamous mob boss
21:58 who controlled the Winter Hill Gang in Somerville, Massachusetts.
22:02 He also worked as an FBI informant for many years,
22:05 which, unsurprisingly, did not make him many friends among his criminal associates.
22:10 Bulger lived as a fugitive for 17 years, but was finally arrested in 2011
22:15 and handed two consecutive life sentences for his notorious crimes, including murder.
22:20 "Whitey" Bulger was found guilty on 31 counts, including both racketeering charges,
22:25 and was found to have been involved in 11 murders.
22:28 He bounced around multiple prisons before being sent to the United States Penitentiary
22:33 in Hazleton, West Virginia on October 29, 2018.
22:38 In less than 24 hours, Bulger was ambushed by several inmates
22:42 and left for dead in an unrecognizable state.
22:45 "Investigative reporter Eric Rasmussen found out Bulger
22:48 is the third prisoner killed at that facility just this year."
22:51 Donald Harvey
22:52 While working as a hospital orderly in Ohio and Kentucky,
22:56 Donald Harvey was responsible for the deaths of a self-proclaimed 87 people.
23:00 "He was quite bizarre, and on certain levels,
23:05 raised some doubts as to whether or not this guy was reciting some sort of fantasy."
23:10 Harvey employed several methods in what he deemed as a mercy killing of his patients,
23:15 including the use of poisons, suffocation, and withholding essential medications.
23:19 "They do narrow the list to 10 possible victims.
23:22 All died of illnesses that could be a cover for poisons like arsenic,
23:27 a substance found in large quantities at Harvey's apartment."
23:32 He pleaded guilty to 37 murders to avoid the death penalty,
23:35 and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
23:37 But when you describe yourself as an "angel of death,"
23:41 chances are you're bound to get a taste of your own medicine at some point.
23:44 This came in the form of James Elliott,
23:46 a fellow inmate at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Ohio,
23:50 who descended upon Harvey, being familiar with his crimes.
23:54 "He placed himself in that position. I really don't have much compassion for him.
23:58 I said back then, and I'd say today, if he ever had gotten out,
24:06 he would have continued to kill people."
24:08 Richard Loeb
24:09 "I think that the murder said something to people about American society.
24:14 This was seen as a culmination of trends that were dangerous, that were immoral."
24:21 Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold were two extremely intelligent students
24:25 born to wealthy parents, and fantasized about committing the perfect murder.
24:29 "Wealthy, well-educated teenagers who had done it, they said, for the sheer thrill."
24:35 They found their victim in the young Bobby Franks,
24:38 who paid the ultimate price on May 21st, 1924.
24:42 The two got rid of the body, but mistakenly dropped a pair of eyeglasses at the scene,
24:47 which were traced back to Leopold.
24:49 "They found that only three pairs of eyeglasses with that hinge
24:54 had been sold in the Chicago district."
24:56 They managed to evade the death penalty,
24:59 and were sentenced to life imprisonment instead.
25:02 But while Leopold maintained a stellar record through his sentence
25:05 and was eventually granted parole in 1958, Loeb's story took a gruesome turn.
25:10 He met his end at the hands of another prisoner at the Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois,
25:15 who viciously attacked him in the shower.
25:17 Albert DeSalvo
25:19 "They were young and old, black and white.
25:22 As the number of victims grew, police became more and more frustrated."
25:26 1960s Boston, Massachusetts was terrorized by two criminals.
25:30 One dubbed the Boston Strangler, who killed 13 women,
25:34 and the Green Man, who broke into women's homes and assaulted them.
25:37 "The grisly headline-grabbing crimes,
25:40 had some comparing the Boston Strangler to Jack the Ripper."
25:43 As police launched an investigation into the Green Man's activities,
25:46 they were pointed towards Albert DeSalvo,
25:49 whom they arrested and charged with the crimes.
25:51 While in custody, DeSalvo confessed to also being the Boston Strangler,
25:56 but due to a lack of physical evidence,
25:58 he was only tried for the Green Man allegations.
26:00 DeSalvo was serving a life sentence when he died,
26:03 after being wounded by another inmate in the prison infirmary.
26:06 Decades later, DNA evidence obtained from one of the victims
26:10 would prove that DeSalvo was, in fact, the Boston Strangler.
26:13 "It would appear to definitively determine,
26:16 in fact, that Albert DeSalvo was the killer of Mary Sullivan."
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26:35 Jeffrey Dahmer
26:38 "Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for killing more than a dozen people.
26:42 The majority of those murders happened in an apartment near the Marquette campus."
26:46 One of the most infamous serial killers to ever walk the Earth,
26:50 Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for the deaths of 17 young men.
26:54 His spree came to an end in July 1991,
26:57 when an intended victim escaped from Dahmer's apartment
27:00 and led the police back to him.
27:02 He pleaded guilty to all the charges leveled against him
27:05 and received 15 consecutive life sentences in Wisconsin
27:09 and an additional one in Ohio.
27:11 In prison, Dahmer was reportedly unremorseful for his crimes,
27:15 which reportedly infuriated his fellow inmate Christopher Scarver,
27:19 resulting in an attack in the prison gym that left Dahmer dead.
27:23 To many, including Dahmer's own attorney, it comes as little surprise.
27:27 "I wasn't shocked because I thought that Jeffrey Dahmer would end up this way."
27:32 Scarver also killed Jesse Anderson, another convicted murderer,
27:36 who just happened to be in the gym at the same time.
27:38 "At his first court appearance, Scarver entered the courtroom singing."
27:42 What do you make of these stories? Let us know in the comments below.
27:52 "I believe in God, too. But my God is a God of vengeance."
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