5. Daniel Gonzalez: The Mummy’s Boy Killer
Via Murderpedia & Nerdist
Inspired by Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street; Daniel Gonzalez went on a spree killing in September 2004 and managed to kill four victims, while injuring a few more. A paranoid schizophrenic, Daniel was in a drug-induced killing mood and later described as the kills as “orgasmic.”
He was inspired by Freddy Krueger, the misshapen villain who is as vulnerable as anyone else in the real world, more so because of his disfigured face – but has immense power in the dream world. In the movie, Freddy kills people by attacking them in their dreams and causing their deaths in real life as well.
This real-life Freddy aka Daniel’s mother had even once written a letter to the MP, complaining about the fact that Daniel wasn’t receiving the elaborate mental care he needed, rhetorically adding, “Does my son have to commit murder to get help?”
Daniel was arrested and promptly tried to commit suicide by biting through an artery in his arm. He was saved, only to attempt suicide again successfully in 2007 where he died, after he slit his wrists with a broken CD case.
4. James Holmes: The Dark Night
Via PCWallArt & WinterActionables
On July 20, 2012 yet another shooting tragedy unfolded in America when a gunman threw teargas shells and shot at the audience inside a movie theater during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado.
12 people were killed and more than 70 injured in this completely unprovoked and insane attack by the gunman, James Eagan Holmes, who had no known record before this. A fan of mass killings and Batman, and often noted to have homicidal thoughts, Holmes managed to slip through convenient cracks in the system despite having friends and psychiatrists thinking of him as a future threat.
Holmes allegedly told the cops, “I’m the Joker,” hence the copycat part – he did what the villainous character The Joker is so often seen doing in the Batman films, spraying gunfire on unsuspecting victims, just for the fun of it. Despite his mental illness plea, the jury found him guilty on all counts of 12 murders and several other charges. He escaped the death penalty narrowly, but is serving a mammoth 3,318-year prison sentence, without parole.
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