Usually the woman in the relationship is much younger than the man and she would have no criminal record before the crimes - but there is no denying they did not have a huge part to play in the loss of an innocent victims' life.Forensic psychologist Tom Powell told NBC, 'They see this as a viable way to strike back at the world.' He explained that often a lot of planning goes into their crimes 'through either enactment of fantasies in the privacy of their own home or use of (adult material) that might be on point to what their deviant interests might be,' adding, 'I think it's rooted in a lot of negative relationship issues. Anger being one of them, power being another and frustration.
There's usually a pretty high level of frustration in the world.' This is what happens when two deadly serial killers team up together both in love and in crime. These following cases all stemmed from fatal attraction. Didyouknowfacts.comOliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994) starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as two young, attractive serial killers who engage in a killing spree was inspired by the crimes of real-life teenage serial killers; 19-year-old Charles Starkweather and 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate.
In the 1950s, they murdered 11 people in Nebraska and Wyoming over the period of just two months.Things didn't work out between them and they were arrested when a Deputy Sheriff found the pair wrestling by the side of a road. Fugate ran towards him for help and screamed, 'He's going to kill me!' Later at the station, it all became clear who the Sheriff had actually arrested. Aged just 20-years-old Starkweather was executed, he told his father, 'If I want to make my atonement with God and be electrocuted, that’s my business.'
Fugate now lives in Michigan with a new identity. Thoughtco.comTo outsiders, 76-year-old Ray and 69-year-old Faye Copeland looked like a sweet elderly couple that lived on a farm in Missouri. In the 1980s, when money became tight they decided to take in drifters who would work on the farm but then they had an even better and much more twisted scheme in mind.
Ray would hand the drifters fake checks to buy cattle from the nearby livestock market. When the cattle were delivered, he would kill the drifters and bury their bodies.They were only caught when one drifter found human remains scattered around at the farm. Police later found further evidence including a quilt Faye had made from the clothes of their victims. When they were convicted for the murders, they were the oldest couple in America to receive the death penalty.
Rostov.kp.ruRussian housekeeper Inessa Tarverdiyeva was just an 'ordinary mother' before she turned to murder alongside her husband, Roman Podkopaev. They started their murder sprees in 1998 and took the lives of at least 30 people during their six-year reign of terror.
They also allowed their two daughters, 25-year-old Viktoria Tarverdiyeva and 13-year-old daughter Anastasiya, to play an active role in the crimes.The family would target wealthy families, breaking into their homes and robbing them before stabbing them to death. The father of the family died during a shootout with the police, the mother and daughter are now behind bars serving their sentences. Russian detectives said, 'They looked like a totally good, nice family. Imagine them - a mother, a father, and two children. I am sure that when they were together one could hardly imagine that they could even plan a crime.' Thestar.comPaul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were two of Canada's most sinister serial killers.
They first met in 1987, then just two months later they were engaged - but this was not going to become a love story. Three years later, they drugged Homolka's 15-year-old sister, Tammy, and then strangled her to death. They later went on to abduct two teenage girls, who they would lure into a car, before murdering them in cold blood.After they were arrested, Homolka was offered a plea bargain if she testified against her husband. She received a shorter sentence of just 12 years whereas Bernardo was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 2005, Homolka was released and she now lives under a new name with young children of her own. The last known sighting of her was in Quebec in 2007. Allday.comIn the latest series of American Horror Story: Roanoke, two nurses were murdering patients according to the letter of their first name so they could spell out 'MURDER.'
The characters were based on real-life nurses Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood from Grand Rapids, Michigan, who fell in love with each other and turned to murder for thrills.In 1987, they killed five patients aged between 65 to 97 years old and managed to spell 'MURDE.' They were finally caught when Wood confessed to her ex-husband what she and Graham were up to. Later, Wood revealed that she confessed because they had been transferred to a different hospital and she was worried the crimes would continue but this time involving children. Wood received twenty years behind bars and Graham was handed life imprisonment. Thesfnews.comThe 'San Francisco Witch Killers' Michael and Susan Carson took the lives of three victims between 1982 and 1983 in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area - although the actual victim count is believed to be much higher.
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The couple, which were both heavy drug users, murdered those who they believed had 'evil energy' and described themselves as 'vegetarian Muslim warriors' who were trying to rid the world of 'witchcraft.' Their first victim was their roommate Keryn Barnes who was killed because they believed she 'was draining Miss Carson of her health and yogic powers.' Barnes was beaten over the head with a frying pan and then stabbed. Once detectives caught up with the delusional couple, they were both sentenced to 75 years behind bars. Stayathomemum.com.auDavid and Catherine Birnie became known as Australia's worst serial killer couple following a four-week killing spree that claimed the lives of four victims. The couple would pick up teenage girls then take them back to their home.
One of their intended victims was 17-year-old Kate Moir, she had been abducted by the pair but was able to escape through a bathroom window.Kate's recollection of her ordeal was haunting, as the serial killer's would refer to the attacks as 'munchines.' Kate recalled, 'I remember hearing, 'Have you got the munchies?' David was the puppet, Catherine was the puppeteer. She gave the tick of approval. She would say ‘I’ve got the munchies’, which meant ‘you can have this one’.
You know you’re gonna die but you don’t acknowledge that to yourself, you just live it.' Both of them were sentenced to life imprisonment. Via: Pinterest.comCharlene and Gerald Gallego were two twisted serial killers who terrorized the Sacramento, California, area between 1978 and 1980. Most of their ten victims were teenagers, who they kept as slaves before killing them.
The skeletal remains of their victims were later found scattered around the area. They were caught when a passerby witnessed one of their abductions.Following their arrest, Charlene turned against Gerlad and she was offered a plea deal where she would only have to serve 16 years in prison. During an interview, she said, 'There were victims who died, and there were victims who lived. It's taken me a hell of a long time to realize that I'm one of the ones who lived.' She also claimed that she 'tried to save some of their lives.' Gerlad died on death row in 2002.
Nydailynews.comIn the 1940s, 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck would place adverts in the local newspaper and lure their victims with lonely-hearts letters. They loved each other unconditionally but their sinister side took the lives of more than 20 victims - although the actual victim count is unknown.
They buried the bodies of the victims in the basement of their home.They were arrested when witnesses claimed many of the victims were last seen with the couple. Before he was sent to the electric chair, Fernandez cried out, 'I wanna shout it out; I love Martha! What do the public know about love?' Beck said, 'My story is a love story.
But only those tortured by love can know what I mean. I am not unfeeling, stupid or moronic. I am a woman who had a great love and always will have it. Imprisonment in the Death House has only strengthened my feeling for Raymond.' Inquisitr.comIn the 1980s, Carol M. Bundy and Doug Clark became known as 'The Sunset Strip Killers' following their sexually charged killing spree around the Los Angeles. Their relationship was temperamental from the start, they met in a bar and Clark introduced himself to Bundy as the 'king of one-night stands.'
When they had begun living together, they discovered they both shared very dark fantasies.The pair murdered sex workers and would take parts of the body home as sickening trophies. On another occasion, Bundy tempted a country singer named Jack Murray to the back of a van on the promise of sex, but here she decapitated him instead. They were finally caught when Bundy suffered a nervous breakdown and confessed all her crimes to colleagues - they were both sentenced to life behind bars.
Nydailynews.comStarting in 1984, Alton Coleman and Debra Brown left eight people dead between six different states during their two-year killing spree. Coleman ruled over Brown, he was dominant and threatening - their relationship was compared to a master and slave scenario.Their first three victims were under the age of 9-years-old, later they moved on to older couples, attacking them with a lead pipe.
All of their victims they befriended, earning their trust before killing them in cold blood. They were finally caught when one victim survived a brutal attack and described the couple to the police.
Coleman was executed in 2002 and Brown will live the rest of her days behind bars. Didyouknowfacts.comSerial killer Henry Lee Lucas had a horrific childhood, as his sex-worker mother would force him to watch her with clients and forced him into cross-dressing when he was just a young boy. His partner Ottis Toole also had a violent childhood so when the pair met and fell in love they understood each other.Unfortunately, the rejection and violence they both endured throughout their younger years had caused them serious mental problems. They began killing in cold blood and Lucas confessed to more than 360 murders. Toole also confessed that he joined Lucas in more than 108 murders - although the actual victim count is still unknown. Both of the serial killers died behind bars.
Toole in 1996 and Lucas in 2001. They were buried in unmarked graves. Standardissuemagazine.comWhen Rose West was aged just 16-years-old, she met her future husband, Fred West, at a caravan park and he forced her into prostitution. Fred would often watch as she worked and Rose fell pregnant eight times - some of the children belonged to her husband and the others to her clients.In 1973, the couple abducted and assaulted beauty pageant queen Caroline Roberts but she managed to escape from them.
They were fined for the crime and it was at this point the pair decided if they were going to attempt to assault a victim again they were better off killing them.The couple would offer a lift home to women on the street in the UK and they were well trusted because there was a woman in the car. They then took the victim back to their home and tortured them before killing. In total, they committed at least 12 murders between 1967 and 1987.
Fred killed himself whilst awaiting trial and Rose still lives behind bars to this day. Birminghammail.co.ukThe Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, brutally tortured and killed five children aged between 10 and 17 in the Manchester area, England. A judge called their crimes 'calculated, cruel and cold-blooded' and they would have received the death penalty had it not been abolished already in the UK.Their victims were 16-year-old Pauline Reade,12-year-old John Kilbride, 12-year-old Keith Bennett, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, and 17-year-old Edward Evans.
Hindley would lure the children into the car and Brady would torture and kill them. They then buried the bodies in shallow graves on Saddleworth Moor. They even made sickening recordings of one victim begging for her life. In 2002, Hindley died behind bars from lung cancer and in May this year, Ian Brady died also of lung disease.Sources: nydailynews.com, dailymail.co.uk. TheTalko – Privacy PolicyWe respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at oursite. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Website.This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 10, 2018.
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