Concert tickets, hating Mondays and other crazy murder motives in history
It is clear that there can be no justification for simply going out and starting killing people. But in the history of murders, some motives make one's mouth open in amazement. The most common motives for murder are jealousy, business problems or financial reasons, but from time to time criminals appear who give the most incredible and absurd explanations for what prompted them to commit a terrible act.
Richard Angelo, the "Angel of Death", was a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital on Long Island. He felt like he wasn't appreciated enough for the hard work he did. So he decided to start killing patients and then saving them so that everyone would understand what a hero he is. He poisoned patients with a drug called Pavulon, a muscle relaxant that can cause paralysis and death. Patients suffered cardiac arrest, Angelo rushed to the rescue and saved their lives in front of his colleagues... But the problem is that, according to some estimates, Angelo forgot to save from 25 to 35 of his patients. In January 1990, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of release after 50 years.
On January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer decided to shoot with the .22-caliber shotgun her father had given her. She targeted children in the courtyard of Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego across the street from her home. As a result, two adults who tried to herd the children into the premises were killed - the school principal, Burton Wragg, and a custodian named Mike Suchar. Eight children and a policeman were injured.
Spencer admitted to aggravated murder and assault with a deadly weapon. The girl was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of release after 25 years, and so far all three of her requests for early release have been rejected. She will be able to submit the next one only in 2019. When asked what made her do such a terrible thing, she replied: "I just don't like Mondays." She also told negotiators: “It was a lot of fun watching the kids get shot.”
Richard Trenton Chase was an American serial killer who was called the "Vampire of Sacramento" because he drank the blood of his victims and ate their remains. His first victim died on December 29, 1977. Over the next month, he killed five more people, eating as many of their remains as he could. How did he explain his behavior when he was caught? It's all because of the Nazis with superpowers who forced him by controlling his hands.
He believed that the Nazis hid poison in his soapbox and were trying to turn his blood into powder, so to survive he was forced to drink the blood and eat the flesh of others. A Nazi flying saucer was tracking him, and he asked interviewer Robert Ressler to get him a radar gun so he could catch the flying saucer and bring the Nazis to justice for his crimes—after all, they were to blame in the first place. During this interview, the killer pulled wads of macaroni and cheese from his pants and gave them to Ressler, claiming that the Nazis were trying to poison his prison food.
In 1979, Chase was tried on six counts of premeditated murder with aggravating circumstances. On December 26, 1980, a prison guard found Chase dead in his cell. An autopsy revealed that he died from an overdose of prescribed antidepressants. Or the Nazis did poison him.
Albert Fish was a cannibal and pedophile. This is one of the most disgusting serial killers in history. If there was ever a reason to blame Satan for everything, then Fish’s case would be quite suitable, but no: Fish himself claimed that it was God who told him to torture and eat children. He is believed to have abused hundreds of children, killed at least four, and sent a grisly letter to the parents of one of the victims detailing what he had done. Fischer forced six of his own children to beat him with an oar with protruding nails and took pleasure in sticking needles into his groin.
Armin Meiwes, who is also known as the "Craigslist cannibal", killed and ate Jürgen Brandes with his own consent in 2001. Meiwes posted an ad on Craigslist looking for someone who would agree to be eaten alive, and programmer Jurgen Brandes responded. Meiwes had been obsessed with the dream of one day tasting human flesh since he was a teenager, and Brandes offered to make his dream come true. They had sex and Brandes drank sleeping pills, painkillers and alcohol. Meiwes cut off Brandes' penis and fried it so that he could eat with him alone. Meiwes then stabbed Brandes in the neck and began dismembering his body. He filmed all this. He froze pieces of Brandes's body and ate them for several months.
Meiwes was arrested in December 2002 when a young student from Austria reported seeing his advertisements in which the killer described his crime and demanded more victims. Police found the remains of a dismembered body and a video of the murder. Meiwes romanticized everything that happened and described everything in great detail during interrogations.
Meiwes was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. On May 10, 2006, the court in Frankfurt demanded a retrial, and the cannibal was sentenced to life imprisonment. They say that he allegedly became a vegetarian when he was in prison.
Ed Gein was a murderer and grave robber who loved to use dead bodies as craft materials. Bowls made of skulls, a belt and doorbell made of nipples, a chair and lampshades made of human skin—whatever he did. And all this from dead women. This passion in Heine was awakened by the death of his mother. He was obsessed with his mother and women in general. He wanted to make a costume out of women and wear it around the house, decorated with objects made from parts of women's bodies.
On November 21, 1957, Gein was found not guilty of aggravated murder due to mental disorder. He was found mentally unstable (for obvious reasons) and unfit to attend the trial. Gein was incarcerated at the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and then transferred to Mendota State Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, until doctors in 1968 deemed him fit to stand trial.
Following the trial, which began on November 14, 1968 and lasted a week, he was found guilty of premeditated murder with aggravating circumstances. He was also declared legally insane and sent back to a mental hospital, where he died of a heart attack on July 26, 1984.
After killing six people in New York City with a .44 caliber revolver and blackmailing police with letters promising more bloodshed, David Berkowitz claimed in the summer of 1977 that he was doing Satan's bidding. During his confession in August of that year, he revealed that his neighbor's retriever was possessed by an ancient demon and was demanding that David kill pretty young girls. Berkowitz was found sane, tried and sentenced to six life sentences on June 12, 1978. He later said that the Hall & Oates song “Rich Girl” was to blame for the murders. As if that changes anything.
John Hinckley Jr. saw actress Jodie Foster in the movie Taxi Driver and fell in love at first sight. He tried to contact her many times and eventually moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where he pursued her while she attended Yale. He even went to Yale University, took literature courses to hone his skills, and wrote strange poems that he slipped under her door. He fantasized about all the possible ways to get Jody's attention and settled on assassinating the President to ensure his place in history—and in the insane asylum.
No one died during Hinckley's attempt to assassinate the president on March 30, 1981, but several people were injured. US President Ronald Reagan was hit in the chest by a bullet. Hinckley did not even try to escape, and he was arrested at the scene of the crime. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and found not guilty by reason of mental disorder.
Before the assassination attempt, Hinckley wrote the following to Jodie Foster:
On July 27, 2016, a federal judge ruled that Hinckley was no longer a danger and signed papers for his release. Hinckley was released on September 10, 2016, with the condition that he stay away from Jodie Foster and members of the Reagan family. He is also not allowed to come within 50 miles of his mother's house.
In 2011, a 39-year-old man named Robert Lyons smashed a bottle over his mother's head and stabbed her in the back so hard the blade broke. But he didn't stop there: he took another knife and continued to stab her - nine times in total. After killing her, he reached under the sink and took some cleaning products there - not in order to remove traces, but in order to water his mother, continuing to attack her. Then he just went to the store and got arrested at a Hooters.
What caused this massive outburst of aggression? Mom refused to buy him tickets to the Avril Lavigne concert in Chicago. Robert suffered from bipolar disorder, but he himself claimed that this was not why he killed her. The man was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
American serial killer Dana Sue Gray killed three elderly women and tried to kill another in 1994. And all this in order to steal their money and credit cards and arrange a shopping trip. The woman admitted guilt, but stated that she suffered from addiction and was unable to control her need for shopping. She was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release.