10 Serial Killers With Obsessive Groupies

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5 – Jordan van der Sloot,

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  • Despite being incarcerated for murder, Jordan van der Sloot has had more than his fair share of groupies. He gets hundreds of letters and has even received at least two serious marriage proposals, proving that when he’s not actually beating women he’s, err, beating them off with a stick.
  • Jordan is serving a twenty-eight-year sentence in Peru for the murder of Stephany Ramirez. He’s also a major suspect in the disappearance – and presumed murder – of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.
  • Interestingly, Natalee was reported missing five years to the day before Stephany was murdered…

4 – Ken Bianchi,

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  • Ken Bianchi was one half of the Hillside Stranglers: two Californian cousins who gruesomely strangled a dozen women to death. Ken’s terrible claim to fame is that he was the first person to get a groupie to kill for him from prison.
  • Veronica Compton was so in love that she willingly became a pawn in Ken’s murder plot. She attempted to kill someone via strangulation so that authorities would think the Hillside Strangler was still out there and downplay Ken’s sentence.
  • Unfortunately for Ken, Veronica’s victim was too strong and ended up overpowering their attacker. Veronica eventually lost interest in Ken and became involved with another serial killer, Douglas Clark. Guess she has a type.

3 – John Wayne Gacy,

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  • Not even a mother could love murderous psychopath John Wayne Gacy. He was overweight, narcissistic and committed dozens of horrific murders and sexual assaults – many of them while dressed as a clown. But just because his actions would make most people’s skin crawl doesn’t mean there isn’t at least one sicko out there who idolised him.
  • Enter male fan Jason Moss, a college student who wrote to Gacy claiming to be working on an assignment. They spoke on the phone every Sunday and, to pique Gacy’s interest, Jason pretended to be gay. It worked, and Jason was able to visit Gacy during his fourteen years on death row. Of course Gacy, true to his psychopathic nature, turned violent during the visit and tried to sexually assault Jason.
  • Jason survived, but was traumatised by the ordeal. He went on to put out a book about serial killers before finally succumbing to his long battle with depression in 2006.

2 – Ted Bundy,

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  • To many women, Ted Bundy’s chiselled features and charm overshadowed the fact that he brutally killed at least thirty women and was a known rapist and necrophile.
  • These confused fans worshipped the notorious serial killer and flocked to his trial. One of the women, Carol Anne Boone – or, as she prefers to be known, Head Crazy – even married Bundy during the trial and went on to have his kid.
  • It didn’t end with his trial. While Bundy was incarcerated, he received two hundred letters a day from his loco fan club – many of whom thought he was innocent. Even today, years after his execution, a new generation of followers is obsessed with him, perpetuating the Bundy legend.

1 – Richard Ramirez,

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  • Richard ‘the Night Stalker’ Ramirez was a thief, rapist and serial killer who got a kick out of breaking into strangers’ homes and murdering them in the mid-1980s. He also worshipped Satan, so not the kind of guy you want to bring home to meet your parents.
  • Well, to most people he isn’t; Cindy Haden – a juror at his trial – somehow fell head over heels for him and bought him clothes and a Valentine’s present. I didn’t think Satanists celebrate Valentine’s Day but what the hell do I know?
  • Naturally Richard was convicted, but once in prison women from all over lined up to visit him. Guess they liked the whole bad boy thing – and they don’t come much badder than being a Satan worshipping mass murderer! Richard loved the attention and played them off against each other to make them jealous. He eventually married one of these super fans in a prison ceremony before dying of natural causes in 2013.

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