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Pen Pal Project - Gary Ridgeway The Green River Killer

Pen Pal Project - Gary Ridgeway The next serial killer we will be writing is Gary Ridgeway, The Green River Killer. He now has 49 confirmed kills. This number makes him one of the most prolific serial killers in United States History. I am really interested in hearing what he has to say. I started off the pen pal project by asking these guys to be a part of the project, allowing me to open their letters live on camera for all of you to hear, but giving them the choice to make their letters private. We will see what come of this, but it would be great to be able to correspond to as many of them as I can. Gary Ridgeway was born on February 8, 1949, in Salt lake City Utah, making him a member of the Baby Boomers generation. He was born as the second son of Mary and Thomas Ridgeway, who ended with three sons in total. It is said that his childhood was ri...

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Pen Pal Project - Gary Ridgeway The Green River Killer

Pen Pal Project - Gary Ridgeway The next serial killer we will be writing is Gary Ridgeway, The Green River Killer. He now has 49 confirmed kills. This number makes him one of the most prolific serial killers in United States History. I am really interested in hearing what he has to say. I started off the pen pal project by asking these guys to be a part of the project, allowing me to open their letters live on camera for all of you to hear, but giving them the choice to make their letters private. We will see what come of this, but it would be great to be able to correspond to as many of them as I can. Gary Ridgeway was born on February 8, 1949, in Salt lake City Utah, making him a member of the Baby Boomers generation. He was born as the second son of Mary and Thomas Ridgeway, who ended with three sons in total. It is said that his childhood was ri...

Pen Pal Project- BTK Dennis Rader

Dennis Rader (BTK) Dennis Rader, the BTK killer is the first pen pal letter we will be sending out. Hopefully, he will write back and agree to be part of the pen pal project. I have given him the choice to be part of the project or just private pen pals. Included in this post are two pictures, the letter not in the envelope and the sealed envelope. Fingers crossed he will respond. We will be writing a new person every day until the list of names that we have are all sent out! The man who would end up being one of the most infamous serial killers the United States would have, Dennis Rader was born on March 9, 1945, in Pittsburg, Kansas but his parents moved to Wichita, Kansas where he grew up. Born into a family of four siblings, and being the eldest son, his childhood was regarded as normal because he hid his abnormalities such as strangling animals from his family. He went to ...

Richard Ramirez the "Night Stalker"

Picture sent to me by Richard Ramirez by Elizabeth Hall We will start this blog with my personal favorite serial killer, The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez. I had the fortunate experience of becoming his pen pal with my daughter shortly before he died. I have posted pictures of one of the letters and two pictures that he sent me, one of himself and one of his drawings. Richard was the first serial killer I became aware of because I was 15 when he was he was operating on the streets of California, although I lived in Louisiana at the time. It was the satanic aspects of his crimes that drew me in because I could not wrap my mind around how someone could do those things to someone else, even if he was tying Satan into it! Later I read Phillip Carlo's book The Night Stalker which gave me just as many questions as answers. This led to a lifelong fascination with human behavior and of course seri...

The Devil in Dennis L. Rader, a truth glasses look at BTK

Article by: Scott Hall ( scotthall.cnj@gmail.com ) Dennis Rader photo credit: Rolling Stone Historically, very few serial killers can compare to the person, known as BTK. While many have tried and indeed surpassed the heinousness of brutality, such as John Wayne Gacy or recently passed away Richard Ramirez , few actually entered a position in a house of God (if any of them) and presumed a role there while planning the next victim and while thirsting for having their ego stroked, in the public eye as one to be feared, a duality of persona at its core. Now behind bars till he is at least 235 years old, receiving 10 consecutive life sentences, due to a law that had not passed or was not in place as of 1994, when the previous killings took place. Many thanks to our project manager here, for having me stay still long enough to watch a program concerning this...

Serial Killer Pen Pal Project Coming Soon!

We would love to hear what you guys think about this! Comments welcomed! Pen Pal Project We had the idea to write to serial killers and give them the opportunity to speak outside their confinements, through us1! We will be writing the serial killers listed below regularly. We plan to film dropping off the letters in the mail, and then when we receive replies we will read them also filming. That is if they do not mind us doing that. We will ask their permission to film their direct responses. If permission is not given, we will still write something at least showing that we received the letters and whatever might be included such as artwork. The idea is to build a rapport with them and see what we can find out or at best what they have to say to the world! Check back for updates often! Rosemary West Dennis Rader (BTK) Luke Magnotta Charles Ng Ed Kemper (The Co-Ed Killer) Rodney Alcala Ga...

A Comparison: Social Control Theory and Behavior Trait Theory Related to John Gacy

by Elizabeth Hall Backstory Born in Chicago IL in 1942 to Irish Catholic parents John was the second child of three, but the only boy. All of Gacy’s children attended parochial school and Catholic church community. Gacy as the Clown photo credit Rotten.com John was well liked by his teachers, held various part time jobs, and was an active member of the Boy Scouts. Although his relationship with his father was strained because John could never gain his approval along with the father being abusive, and some serious medical problems (a clot in the brain undiscovered from age eleven to sixteen, at seventeen unspecific heart troubles) his childhood was relatively normal. After an unhappy experience in Las Vegas, early in the peace and love generation of the 1960’s he enrolled in college in Chicago and gained ...

Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised: Review of Hit or Miss Rates, and Positive or Negative False Responses in Relation to Reliability and Validity

photo credit: lassopamono222weebly.com The first time psychopathy was acknowledged as a construct was in the book Mask of Sanity , by Hervey Cleckley, M.D. originally published in 1941, according to Ednie (2001). Cleckley’s work was meant to give some clarification to the personality disorder that was at the time, just thought of as psychopathic personality (Cleckley, 1988). Due to advances in psychological science, psychopathy is currently classified further in modern times as a subtype of antisocial personality disorder in the DSM-V, including psychopathy, secondary psychopathy, and sociopathy. This paper will focus on psychopathy and the interpretation and validity of the tools utilized by professionals in the field to test for the construct. Currently the foremost tool utilized by clinicians, researchers, academics, and forensic psychologists to test an individual for psychopathy is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R). While this is the most re...

Tommy Lynn Sells- The Cross-Country Killer

by Elizabeth Hall Tommy Lyn Sells is the closest I ever came to a serial killer. I write this entry to the memory of Haley McHone who was murdered by Sells, in Lexington Kentucky on May 13, 1999 in Lexington, Kentucky. Haley and her family were regular customers of mine at the Dairy Mart I worked at during that year. She was only 13 years old when she crossed paths with Sells. photo credit: murderintherain.com Before I go into his actual story, I will tell you what I remember about that time. Haley had shopped at the Dairy Mart the day before she went missing, in fact, she was there almost every day to buy candy, drinks and snacks just like any other 13-year-old girl. Haley was pretty normal, albeit just a little slow in maturity and intelligence. The next day her mother came in asking if we had seen her, and sadly the answer was no. Apparently, Haley crossed paths with Tommy Lynn Sells sometime shortly after she left the store the previous day. The police came in and...

Exploring the Facilitation of Male Sexual Serial Murder: Is it Nature, Nurture or Both

by Elizabeth Hall Upon exploring the motives of male serial killers, one finds that while they all differ in many ways, most share certain similarities such as sadism, fantasy and a compulsion to kill (Schlesinger, 2000). Torture, sex and extreme violence seem to be present in almost all cases, leading researchers to question whether they murder because of nature or nurture. In spite of the growing interest in the subject of serial murder, there is still much speculation whether the causality of this phenomenon is due the natural genetics of the killer or by the lack of growing up in a functional family environment. It is widely believed amongst researchers that during the developmental and teenage years of sexual serial killers, they spend much of their time being isolated by their peers and left unable to obtain a normal female companionship, which results in a building up of enormous antipathy for the society that they feel rejected by. Many of those...

Serial Murder: Difficulties within an Investigation

by Tabetha Cooper Serial murder is a phenomenon that poses many problems for investigators. With the multitude of factors that go into a serial murder, catching a serial killer can be difficult. Serial investigations are more successful when there are plenty of resources, such as financial support and manpower . Unfortunately these things are not always available. In this essay the factors that make serial murder so difficult to investigators are going to be discussed, as well as suggestions to aid in overcoming these challenges. A person must remember that these suggestions are not always applicable in every situation; however, their employment will undoubtedly make the investigation run more smoothly. Major issues involving the investigation of serial murders are include leadership, task force organization, manpower, communication , data management, analytical tools, medical examiners, and training. Linking homic...

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