Gut Wrenching Facts About The Most Evil Humans In History
By | March 6, 2017
Throughout the course of human history, the world has come to know some pretty evil people. The people on this list are the worst of the worst- they are and were absolutely rotten to the core. They are the worst murderers, serial killers, rapists, kidnappers, con artists, thieves and crime bosses that we've ever seen. Any way you look at it...these men and women are anything but groovy.
Possibly known as the most ruthless and authoritative leaders of all time, Hitler was the commander in chief of the Nazi Party or NSDAP. Under his rule Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II. Hitler was also the primary figure of the Holocaust in which nearly 6 million Jews (men, women and children) from in and around Europe were killed.
Bonnie Parker
Born Bonnie Elizabeth Parker, Bonnie, as she later be known as was part of the famous duo; Bonnie and Clyde. The pair became famous for their string on criminalities throughout the early 1930s. Although legally married, Parker became smitten with Clyde when the pair met in January 1930.
Clyde Barrow
The other half of the most infamous criminal duo, Clyde Barrow was born into a poor family in 1909. Having already been acquainted with law enforcement due, Barrow began a string of robberies and murders with his partner in crime Bonnie Parker. Their crimes escalated and result in their eventual deaths in May 1934 after a shootout with police officers.
Albert Anastasia
Originally from Italy Albert Anastasia was born Umberto Anastasio and immigrated to New York with three of his brothers in 1919. Soon after Anastasia began his rise to power and became a notorious hitman. Seemingly untouchable, Anastasia was charged with multiple murders but was never formerly found guilty as evidence or key witnesses disappeared or refused to speak. Ironically, Anastasia was assassinated in a barbershop in Manhattan in 1957.
Ted Bundy
Known for his string of attacks on women and young girls, which included but not limited to rapes and murders during the 1970s, Bundy is by far one of the most infamous serial killers. His victim count, as he confessed was 30 females; however that number is highly disputed. After escaping from police custody on a number of occasions Bundy was electrocuted in 1989 at the age of 42.
John Wayne Gacy Jr.
A seemingly normal family man, Gacy was a serial rapist and killer active during 1972 and 1978. During this time he would prey on young males, then torture, rape then kill them to later dispose of their bodies at his discretion. Gacy would then eventually go on to confess authorities and assist them in the search of the remains of his victims, most of which were found on the grounds of his home.
Charles Keating
A prominent businessman, Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. was a prominent element in the 1980s savings and loan scandal which left thousands of investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result of his manipulation of banking and investment rules at the time.
Griselda Blanco
Most notoriously known as the Cocaine Godmother of Columbia, Blanco was the female drug lord of the famous Medellin Drug Cartel in Columbia. Known for her ruthlessness and ability to rule with an iron fist, she has been connected to over 200 murders during her reign. Her trafficking routes included California, New York and Miami between 1970 to the 1980s.
Caryl Chessman
A serial rapist and kidnapper, Chessman did not kill his victims, however his capture was not swift. His eventual demise began after he was arrested in connection with a string of robberies he committed. He was then identified by some of his victims from a police suspect line-up. After his conviction, he penned four literary pieces, one of which, his autobiography was adapted to film. He was later executed via the gas chamber in 1960.
Ilse Koch
Known as the Witch of Buchenwald, Koch was the wife of Karl- Otto Koch. Commandant Koch was in charge of two Nazi concentration camps mainly that of Buchenwald and Ilse was given the title of overseer. Ilse was known for her torturous nature towards the prisoners. She would frequently save their organs and other bodily materials as her own souvenirs, a fact which worked towards her detriment at her trials.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
A German born immigrant who made his was way to the United States by hiding out on a ship. Hauptmann was convicted for the murder and kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. in 1932. Although he maintained his innocence throughout his imprisonment, Hauptmann was executed by electrocution in April of 1936.
Charles Lucky Luciano
Born Salvatore Lucania in 1897, Luciano was an Italian American who was at the head of the establishment of some of the first crime mobs and mafias in the United States. Known for drug trafficking, prostitution and assassinations, Luciano was regarded as the pioneer of organized crime.
Arizona Donnie Clark "Kate" Barker
Seen as the mother figure of the Barker Gang, it is alleged that Ma Barker as she was called was heavily involved in the criminal activities of the gang and would accompany the gang on its escapades. Other accounts indicated that Kate had no formal role in the gang’s activities and as simply there for her sons. She died however, via gunshot wound during a shoot out at the house she shared with her sons in Florida.
Albert Henry Desalvo
Known as the Boston Strangler, Desalvo was responsible for a string of rapes and murders of women raging from the ages of 19 to 85 in Boston during the early 1960 s. Initially arrested for a series of rapes committed under the name the Measuring Man, Desalvo confessed to his actions as the Boston Strangler in which he murdered a total of 13 women.
Charles Starkweather
Born in 1938, the troubled teen departed on a killing two month killing spree and killed 11 persons in Wyoming and Nebraska. He was later joined by his girlfriend Caril, Ann Fugate whose family he had also murdered. Starkweather and Fugate were captured in 1958 and tried in Nebraska. Starkweather was sentenced to death and died in 1959 via electrocution. Fugate was sentenced to death but was paroled and released in 1976 after 17 years.
Joseph Valachi
Known as Joe Cargo, Valachi was the Italian American mob member who exposed the existence of the Mafia in 1963. Hoping to gain protection and an easier sentence for crimes committed, Valachi gave information to federal investigators on the mobster’s former criminal acquaintances. Branded as a traitor crime boss Vito Genovese placed a hefty $100,000 bounty on his life; however, Valachi died in prison as a result of a heart attack.
Jeffrey Dahmer
Known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, Dahmer was a serial killer known for his enjoyment of the dismemberment of his victims as well the preservation of their body parts. Active from 1978 to 1991 he was responsible for the murders of 17 males, all varying in age. Dahmer was killed in prison by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.
Vincenzo Peruggia
Famous for his daring theft of the Mona Lisa (the portrait of Lisa Gherardini by Leonardo da Vinci) in 1911, Peruggia himself was an Italian born painter. The painting was taken from the Louvre Museum and he put it in his apartment. Two years later in attempt to have it shown in an art gallery in Florence, Italy, he was caught and the painting was returned to its permanent resting place, Louvre, in 1913.
Benjamin Bugsy Siegel
Siegel was a prominent member of the Jewish American gang. Being a prominent businessman, Siegel was involved in the establishment of the Las Vegas Strip as well as many casinos, hotels and other business establishments.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
Known as the duo who committed the Moors murders, Brady and Hindley were two young persons convicted with the murder and sexual assault of five child victims between the ages of 10 and 17 during 1963 to 1965.
John Gotti
The Italian American mobster became the head of Gambino Crime Family after he had his predecessor, Paul Castellano in 1985. Born into poverty, Gotti got involved in the mafia at a young age as a way to provide for his family.
Joseph Bonanno
The Italian (Sicilian) born crime boss eventually became the boss of the Bonanno Crime Family. Known as Don Peppino, Bonanno was heavily invested on real estate business and other successful ventures and became a multimillionaire in 1945.
Jim Jones (Guyana)
The controversial cult leader was the driving force behind the mass murder suicide which took place in the Caribbean country of Guyana. Jones was the leader and founder of Jonestown committed apparent suicide along with his followers (although most followers used cyanide, he was found with a gunshot in the head).
Al Capone
Known as Scarface, Alphonse Gabriel Capone was a crime boss who cofounded the Chicago Outfit. Infamously known for the murders of Saint Valentine’s Day, Capone became publicly dislike for the deaths of a rival gang.
Charles Manson
Leader of a cult known as the Manson Family, Manson became infamous for the murder of well-known and up and coming actress Sharon Tate (who was 8 months pregnant at the time) as well as three of her friends. Manson is now serving 9 life sentences at a prison in California.
The Black Dahlia
The name the Black Dahlia was the name given to murder victim Elizabeth Short. Short was found mutilated and cut in half in half from the waist down in Los Angelos in 1946. Short was 22 and beautiful and her story attracted much media attention however, her murder has yet to be solved.
Aileen Wuornos
Wuornos was a female serial killer who murdered seven men. Aileen, who worked as a prostitute claimed that she killed the men in self-defense as the men attempted to rape her. All her victims were shot between 1989 and 1990. She was sentenced to death and in 2002 she was executed by lethal injection.
John Herbert Dillinger
The notorious gangster was part of the Dilinger Gang or Terror Gang. The gang committed over 20 bank robberies and a string of other offences. Dilinger serve a little over 9 years in prison from 1924 to 1933. After his release he committed another string of robberies and was later killed in a police shoot out in 1934.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Notoriously known for his assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John F Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963, Oswald was a U.S Marine Veteran who specialised in target shooting. Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby with a gunshot wound in the abdomen on November 24, 1963.
Edmund Kemper
Kemper was born in 1948 and was a serial killer who murdered his grandparents (paternal) and his mother amongst other women. Also a necrophiliac, Kemper was dubbed the Co-Ed Killer and was very recognizable from his tall stature and large features. Kemper is currently serving his sentences at California Medical Facility.
Genene Jones
Jones was a qualified vocational nurse who was convicted of killing two children while they were in her care. She was also charge with the poisoning of 6 children. It is estimated that she killed anywhere from 6 to 60 children using a series of injections and drugs. She was sentence in 1985 for the murder of toddler Chelsea McClellan. She is set to be released in 2018 due to a law to maintain prison population in Texas.
Andrew Kehoe
Kehoe was a mass murderer who killed 43 people and injured another 58 more after bombing Bath Consolidating School on May 18th, 1927 with a series of homemade devices in which he also perished.
Shashikala Patankar
A notorious female drug lord in Mumbai, India, Patankar was a known for selling cheap party drugs such as mephedrone known as meow-meow. She has been wanted by Indian police since her release in 2001 and has not been seen since.
Roscoe Arbuckle (wrongfully accused)
Arbuckle was one Hollywood’s most sought after actors until he was accused of the rape and murder of Virginia Rappe in 1921. His reputation was severely damaged as his accusation made the viewing of his films a sort of taboo in the film industry.
The Hillside Stranglers
Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono were given the name due to the choice of their disposal site for their victims’ bodies being the Hollywood Hills and for the fact that all their victims were strangled. The duo was convicted killing up to ten women in addition to raping and torturing.
Tom Horn
Known as a gun for hire, Tom Horn was recorded as killing as many as 17 persons during his stints as a hired gunman. Convicted of killing Willie Nickell a 14 year old, Horn was sentenced to death by hanging and was executed in 1903.
Joseph Specs O'Keefe
A bank robber, O’Keefe was an accomplice in one of the largest robberies in U.S history. The robbery was that of The Brink’s Building in Boston, Massachusetts. The gang consisted of eleven members who stole U.S. $2.775 million or $27.6 million by today’s conversion.
The Tool Box Killers
Roy Lewis Norris and Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker made up the murderous and torturous serial killers who murdered 5 teen girls in California in 1979. Their acts of murder were carried out using items from a household toolbox such as pliers and sledgehammers, hence the name.
Ted Kaczynski
Known as the Unabomber (shortened form of UNIversity and Airline BOMber), Theodore John Kaczynski was a promising academic until he abandoned his career just before 1970. Kaczynski injured a total 23 persons and killed 3, before being captured in 1996 and sentenced to serving multiple life sentences at a maximum security facility.
Patty Hearst
Patricia Campbell "Patty" Hearst was born in 1954 and famously known as being the granddaughter of the famous publisher William Randolph Hearst. She was kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army. She later went on to join their and support their cause and was involved in a series of criminal activities with the group such as a bank robbery for which she was convicted.
Willie Sutton
This master of disguise was best known as a bank robber. He was born in 1901 and by the time he was a teenager, he was a veteran thief. During his 40-year criminal career, he stole approximately $2 million from banks, and escaped prison three times.
Richard Speck
Although he was suspected for several disappearances and murders, Richard Speck always managed to escape the police. That changed on July 13th, 1966, when he brutally attacked and murdered 8 student nurses in Chicago’s South Side. He was sentenced to death, but died in prison of a heart attack in 1991 at age 49.
Timothy McVeigh
To express his disgruntlement with the U.S. Government, Timothy McVeigh planned and executed the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Government building in Oklahoma, better known as the Oklahoma City Bombing. This domestic terror attack killed 168 people, including 19 children. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11th, 2001.
David Berkowitz
Known also as “Son of Sam” and the “.44 Caliber Killer”, David Berkowitz was a remorseless serial killer who took the lives of six people and wounded seven others between July 1976 and 1977. The killings sparked the biggest manhunt in New York’s history. He was caught in August, 1977 and received six life sentences, which are equivalent to 365 years in prison.
Andrew Cunanan
Obsessed with the high life, Andrew Cunanan surrounded himself with wealthy, older gay men, and lots of drugs. In a three-month period in 1997, Cunanan killed five people, including the renowned fashion designer, Gianni Versace. He then killed himself on a Miami Houseboat on June 12, 1997.
Andrei Chikatilo
Unable to derive sexual pleasure from intercourse with his wife, Andrei Chikatilo became a sadist who gained sexual pleasure through murder. He admitted to killing at least 56 people (mostly women and children) between 1978 and 1990. His gruesome crimes earned him the nicknames “The Butcher of Rostov”, “The Forest Strip Killer”, “The Red Ripper” and “The Rostov Ripper”. He was executed by a gunshot in 1994.
Tommy Lynn Sells
Though he was only convicted for the 1999 murder of a 13-year old girl in Texas, Tommy Lynn Sells is suspected of over 22 more killings. He even admitted that he was addicted to killing by the time he was 14. Sells was executed by lethal injection in 2014.
The BTK Killer (Dennis Rader)
Dennis Rader’s trademark was to Bind, Torture, and Kill his victims, hence the name “BTK”. After each of his 10 murders, the unsuspecting husband and father of two would taunt the police with letters describing the murder in detail. From 1974 to 1991, his activities terrified the citizens of Sedgwick County in Kansas. He was finally caught in 2005 and sentenced to 175 years in prison.
Daniel Camargo Barbosa
This Colombian serial killer was on a rampage during the 1970’s and 80’s. His preference for young, virgin girls lead to the rape and murder of about 150 people in Colombia and Ecuador. He escaped from a Colombian prison in 1984, and fled to Ecuador where he committed at least 54 rapes and murders there. He was finally re-apprehended in 1986 and was killed by a fellow inmate in November, 1994.
Arthur Shawcross
With a troubled childhood, Arthur Shawcross grew up to become known as “The Genesee River Killer”. He killed 11 women in upstate New York between 1988 and 1990. He was sentenced to life in prison, and died there in November, 2008.
Richard Ramirez
Between April, 1984 and August, 1985, Ramirez invaded homes, raped and tortured over 25 people, and killed 14. His modus operandi earned him the name “Night Stalker”. The avowed Satanist showed no remorse for his crimes and was ultimately placed on death row. However he died of medical complications before his execution.
Alvin “Creepy” Karpis
Nicknamed “creepy” for his ominous smile, Alvin Karpis was the longest serving inmate at the Alcatraz prison. He served 26 years from 1936 to 1962. Karpis was the brains of a notorious gang who robbed banks, kidnapped persons for ransom, and killed anyone who got in their way.
Gary Ridgway
Most persons may know Gary Ridgway as the “Green River Killer” who murdered over 49 women in Washington State during the 1980’s and 90’s. He would strangle the women, and dump their naked bodies in forested areas. Due to the amount of murders that he admitted to, Ridgway was dubbed as the most prolific serial killer in American history. He is currently serving a life sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary.
Fred and Rose West
This husband and wife duo was a match made in hell. The British pair had an appetite for rape, torture, incest, and murder. Over the course of 20 years starting in the 1960’s they kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed 10 young girls, including their own daughters. They were both apprehended, but Fred committed suicide in 1995; Rosemary is still serving a life sentence.
Dr Harold Shipman
Dr. Shipman was a General Practitioner who gave over 250 of his patients lethal doses of morphine. Under the façade of a friendly family doctor, Shipman forged medical notes and even falsified the will of at least one of his elderly victims. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and committed suicide in his cell in 2004.
John George Haigh
This serial killer erroneously assumed that human DNA could be obliterated if it was dissolved in acid. Starting with his former boss, Haigh would dump his victims in gallons of sulphuric acid, then sell their possessions. Due to his method, he became known as “The Acid Bath Murderer”. Haigh mostly targeted wealthy persons and admitted to 9 killings. He was executed by hanging in 1949.
Charles Ng and Leonard Lake
These two unlikely men collaborated to construct an underground dungeon near Lake’s cabin, where they tortured, raped and killed their victims, all while capturing their atrocities on tape. The pair killed between 11 and 25 people between 1983 and 1985. When they were eventually caught, Lake confessed and opted for suicide, while Ng faced a lengthy trial and is currently awaiting his execution at the San Quentin State Prison.
Donald Henry Gaskins
After years of being the victim of rape, Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins turned into a ruthless rapist and murderer. He was convicted of 9 killings, but claimed to have committed hundreds more. He would torture and rape his victims, and although he had a preference for teenage girls, his youngest victim was a 1-year old. He was executed via electric chair in 1991.
Dennis Nilsen
Unsure of how to express his homosexuality, Dennis Nilsen became a necrophiliac who murdered at least 15 men between 1978 and 1983 in London. After the killing, he would bathe and dress the body and keep it in his apartment for months. To dispose of the bodies, he dismembered them, boiled the skulls and limbs, and burned the remains. He was sentenced to life in prison and is still serving his sentence.
Pedro Alonso Lopez
This Colombian serial killer claims to have raped or killed over 300 persons across Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. . In 1980, he plead guilty to 110 murders and led the police to graves in Ecuador which had the bodies of 53 girls between ages 9 and 12. In 1998, he was released from a psychiatric hospital and his whereabouts are unknown to this day.