10 real life killers who hunted their victims before finally killing them (With Photos)

3. The B.T.K. Killer

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Dennis Rader, the “Bind, Torture, Kill” serial killer had a disturbing childhood fascination with hanging cats and dogs, fantasizing over bondage and torture, that was surprisingly left unnoticed. Working a job installing home alarm systems, it seemed too perfect for Rader not to take advantage of. Scouting neighbourhoods, and daydreaming of committing violence on select people, he would cut their alarm systems, sneak into their homes, then murder them one by one, preferring to bind and strangle them, sometimes ejaculating on the corpses, photographing them, and reenacting the murder scenes, himself playing the role of the victims. Sending taunting letters to the media and the authorities, Rader claimed the B.T.K. title himself. A scout leader, prominent member of his church, and dear husband and father, Rader slipped up by sending a floppy disk with his dark writings on it to the police, which was then traced to the computer of his church. Never spoken to again by his family, and charged with the murder of ten people, as young as nine years old, and as old as sixty, the B.T.K. killer was given ten life sentences, and will be eligible for parole in 2180.

2. Anthony Sowell

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Also known as the “Cleveland Strangler”, Anthony Sowell was charged with eighty five counts of murder, rape, and kidnapping, including those of the eleven women found scattered about his putrid-smelling home (though the scent was blamed on the sausage shop across the street for a long time). Placing an ad online, posing as a master looking for a slave to “train”, Sowell lured African-American women, most of whom were on the fringes of society, and often had criminal records themselves (the favoured method of exercising power, and escaping capture), bound them, raped them, abused the corpses, dismembered them, and then buried them in shallow graves in his basement and backyard, as well as simply storing them in a crawlspace in his house. Having violently raped his last would-be victim, she woke up in the home, and managed to flee as Sowell was out, informed the police who then discovered the bodies of eleven women, and captured Sowell himself two days later. He currently awaits the death penalty.