Creepy Facts from Aunt Cheshire pt.2

After being reminded by @writersshock, here’s the second part!

  • David Berkowitz is a serial killer known as the Son of Sam and .44 Caliber Killer. The first name comes from a letter he wrote to a police captain, calling himself the “Son of Sam”. He killed 6 and wounded 7 more during the summer of 1977.
  • Many people have been suspected of being Jack the Ripper. Amongst them were Sir William Gull, a prominent society physician and the governor of Guy’s Hospital, and Prince Albert Victor, Queen Victoria’s grandson.
  • Richard Ramirez, also known as the Night Stalker, was a rapist and serial killer active during the 80s. He died in 2013 of complications from B-cell lymphoma.
  • H. H. Holmes, born Herman Webster Mudgett, was a bigamist and serial philander who killed many of the women who fell for him. He killed most of them using his hotel called The Castle.
  • Nicknamed the Angel of Death, Doctor Harold Shipman killed his patients using a lethal dose of morphine. He committed suicide by hanging in 2004.

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