Why killers torture

They would then keep their captives in a small room for an extended period of time before causing their deaths via strangulation or suffocation. Eventually, the Wests took the life of their own daughter, and this was when they were caught, complete with a videotape they had made of the assault.

Authorities believe the couple has at least a dozen victims. Fred took his own life in while in police custody, and the Winchester Crown Court convicted Rosemary on 10 counts. She received a life sentence. In , year-old Junko Furuta began walking home from school. Four males - ranging in ages between 15 and 18 - grabbed her and confined her in one of their homes, even with the knowledge of the boy's parents.

Reportedly, Junko was held captive for 44 days. Although many knew of her abduction, the teen was not rescued due to her captors' connection to organized crime in Japan. Junko endured repeated assaults and extensive torture before passing, and her body was recovered from an oil drum in After their releases, the offenders were apprehended on unrelated charges and received additional sentences.

In , San Francisco police responded to a report of shoplifting, and the suspect was Charles Ng. When Leonard Lake arrived to pay for the stolen item, police found that Lake was in possession of an illegal weapon as well as a fraudulent ID. There were also bloodstains in his car. This lead police to Lake's cabin and bunker in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where they uncovered " a mass graveyard. Investigators recovered videotapes and a diary from the remote Northern California cabin, depicting crimes the ex-marines committed - including the deaths of entire families as well as repeated assaults on women.

Authorities believe the pair is responsible for over two dozen deaths between and Lake took his life while in police custody. Ng fled to Canada but was later apprehended. He was then convicted of 11 capital counts and, as of , is on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Rader often resuscitated his victims after inducing asphyxiation, a process he then repeated. This reportedly gave him immense sexual gratification, especially if they tried to plead with him.

Following his crimes, the former church president and Boy Scouts leader sent the police mocking letters, goading them to try and catch him. In , following over a decade of silence, authorities apprehended Rader after he sent another letter. He was convicted on 10 capital counts and, as of , is serving out life in prison. Albert Fish, who has many infamous titles, including "The Boogeyman," predominantly preyed on children. In , Fish - a father and husband - reportedly had a romance with a mentally-disabled teen named Thomas Kedden.

Fish lured the year-old into a barn where he mutilated Kedden's genitalia. Fish also engaged in self-harm, inserting needles into his abdomen and penis.

As a sexual sadist and sadomasochist, Fish derived pleasure from inflicting and receiving pain. From to , Fish targeted children predominantly in the New York area. However, he claimed he " had a child in every state ," as he was a traveling painter and often relocating for work.

The state convicted Fish of year-old Gracie Budd's death, although it is believed he had at least victims, some of whom he reportedly cannibalized. Fish passed via the electric chair in An accomplished con man, Dr. Holmes always found ways to get enough money to get by, and he eventually got enough to build a hotel catering to visitors of Chicago's World's Fair.

This hotel would later become known as " the Murder Castle. Bedrooms were made soundproof, and certain rooms were only accessible by trap doors. Once the hotel was done, Holmes would lure in victims as guests and then keep them there. He would leave them sealed in rooms to starve, torture them to death, hang them, and then eventually dissect their bodies and sell the cadavers to the medical community.

Following his arrest in , Holmes was sentenced to death via hanging and passed in Madame Delphine LaLaurie lived in New Orleans around the s, and she was known for being a cruel and " barbarous " slave owner.

She would take her slaves and chain them to the walls in her house where she reportedly conducted physical torture. Then, she would eventually disembowel her victims to make them pass slowly.

She allegedly did all this in an attic room of her house. When a fire erupted in , responders found evidence LaLaurie had been enacting abuse for a long time in her home. No one is sure exactly when LaLaurie passed or where she is buried, though it may have been in either or John Bunting - along with Robert Wagner and James Vlassakis - committed a series of grisly crimes that are often called the "bodies-in-barrels" or "Snowtown" murders.

In South Australia, the trio took the lives of at least 11 people, then put their bodies in plastic barrels for disposal. Police arrested the men after the discovery of the barrels. The trio targeted predominantly men during their to spree. However, Bunting tortured the victims prior to their death.

He used an assortment of tools, as well as an electric shock machine, to coerce false admissions from victims. It's suspected the assailants harmed men they believed to be either homosexual or pedophilic. In one of South Australia's longest-ever trials, the guilty each received multiple life sentences. Another deadly pair, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris - also known as the " Tool Box Killers ," took the lives of at least five teenage girls. Over a period of five months in , they prowled Southern California, picking up girls between 13 and 18 and pulling them into their van.

Then they would assault and torture their victims with items they'd picked up at the hardware store. They also recorded their victims' deaths, evidence that was used against them during their trial. When Norris revealed the duo's actions to an old ex-con friend, the police subsequently became aware and apprehended Bittaker and Norris in November Bittaker received a capital punishment sentence and, as of , remains in San Quentin State Prison.

Norris was sentenced to life in prison. Dean Corrl of Texas is often known as the "Candy Man" or the "Pied Piper" because he would give free candy to children. In the early s, Corll lured young teens with the promise of a free ride or a party. Once they climbed into his van, he would abduct them. Back at his house, he tied his victims to a plywood "torture-board. Corll particularly liked to prey on boys , and he would assault them for days.

Then, Henley fatally shot Corll in Henley later shot and killed Corll during another attempted rape and murder, and both he and Brooks were later sentenced to life in prison. Dahmer sometimes drilled holes into his victims' skulls while they were still alive, later injecting hydrochloric acid or boiling water into their brains. Dahmer often ate the vital organs of his victims' bodies and kept their body parts as trophies.

He was arrested in after one potential victim escaped his apartment. Dahmer was later sentenced to life in prison , where he was bludgeoned to death by a fellow inmate in Her remains were among nine bodies found buried underneath the Wests' back patio.

Fred West later hanged himself in his jail cell, while Rosemary was sentenced to life in prison. A former chef, he would then cut their bodies into small pieces, which were put out with the trash. After his seventh and final victim escaped his home following a week of abuse, police searched his home and discovered hundreds of photographs of his victims, bones and a diary , which detailed his methods of torture.

In , he pleaded guilty in order to avoid the death penalty and died in prison from a heart attack in prison in For those who make their living as interstate truckers, home is behind the wheel. Rhoades was apprehended in , after police searched his cab in Arizona and found a hysterical teenage victim inside.

He was soon connected to the murder of year old Regina Kay Walters , whose terrifying final moments he photographed.

He later pleaded guilty to the murder of a Texas couple, though police fear he may have been kidnapping, raping and murdering hitchhikers since the s. While the men and children were quickly killed, women were held in a cabin in a remote part of Northern California where they were raped and tortured for extended periods of time, before being murdered or dying from their injuries, with the assaults often filmed by Lake, an amateur pornographer.

After being apprehended, Lake committed suicide by swallowing hidden cyanide pills, while Ng was eventually sentenced to death. He is currently on death row. Ray was eventually sentenced to years in prison for the sexual assaults of three women, and he died in custody at the age of The FBI continues to search for information on any other possible victims.

In , a nude year-old women was found shackled at the feet and hands along the road in Florida, saying she had been kidnapped by a man who tied her down, repeatedly raped her over the course of 22 hours and drained her blood, drinking it and telling her he was a vampire. Police arrested Crutchley , and during a search of his home they found dog collars, chains, intravenous needles and bags of different colored hair clippings.

After serving 11 years in prison for the rape and kidnapping, he was released on parole. Crutchley, however, smoked marijuana while on probation and was sentenced to life in prison for the slip-up. He committed suicide in prison in Louis area — if not more — during the early s.