The judge sentenced both Erik Menendez, then 26, and his brother Lyle, then 28, to two consecutive life sentences, saying he believed the brothers carefully plotted the killings. At their first trial, the brothers testified that their father had abused them and their mother had been his silent accomplice. They acknowledged killing them, but said they did so out of fear their parents were about to kill them to prevent them from disclosing the family's incest secret.
The brothers were found guilty in a second trial. Helen Golay left and Olga Rutterschmidt were convicted in February , of first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder for financial gain in the deaths of two homeless men. Paul Vados, 73, and Kenneth McDavid, 50, were just two of the men Golan and Rutterschmidt had targeted as part of their scheme to befriend men down on their luck, house them, open bank accounts in their names, then take out life insurance policies in their names with themselves as beneficiaries.
The duo was finally caught after police spotted similarities between the two supposedly accidental deaths, in which both women were associated with the victims. Review the "American Greed" case file. When Victor Chang's body was found on a suburban Sydney, Australia, street in July , it shocked the nation and the global medical community. Chang, 54, was Australia's leading heart surgeon. He led the heart transplant team at St.
Vincent's, a private hospital in Sydney, and in the late s had performed Australia's first successful heart and lung transplant operations. He also pioneered construction of an artificial heart.
The father of three was found shot to death near his car in the tony Mosman suburb, the victim of a bungled extortion attempt "hatched by three men who had read a magazine article profiling 'filthy rich' Chinese businessmen," according to Melbourne newspaper The Australian. Liew, who shot Chang twice in the head at close range, pleaded guilty to the surgeon's murder and was sentenced to 26 years in prison with a minimum sentence of 20 years.
Lim, a former chef, was convicted of Chang's murder following a jury trial. In his interview with police, he said he was "very sorry" that Chang had died. Source: The Australian.
In , Judi Buenoano became the first woman to be put to death in Florida's electric chair. She was executed for the murder of her husband, James Goodyear. Buenoano was not suspected of involvement in his death until she attempted to kill her boyfriend 12 years later by giving him arsenic-laced "vitamins" and then blowing up his car. DeSimone, according to Hill, committed his first murder at the age of seventeen, shooting a random stranger who happened to cross his path.
Hill estimated that DeSimone killed eleven people, including at least four while serving a prison sentence, for both personal reasons and for money. His preferred method was by firearm. DeSimone served as the muscle for the crew run by Jimmy Burke, and several of his murders were ordered by Burke, after he received approval from caporegime Paul Vario. Two of the murders which DeSimone carried out on his own initiative were of members of the Gambino family, and the victims were close friends of John Gotti.
DeSimone was a member of the crew which carried out the Lufthansa heist, and was used by Burke to kill several of the others who had taken part in the robbery. DeSimone may have been murdered by Burke, or another contract killer working for Burke, due to his involvement in the Lufthansa heist. Their deaths were six years apart, but eventually authorities zeroed in on Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt.
The two women, both in their seventies, had befriended the homeless men and taken out multi-million dollar life insurance policies on them in the years leading up to their deaths. Golay and Rutterschmidt were running their scheme on a third man who became suspicious when they asked him to sign documents that would give them access to personal details about him.
Both women were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and first degree murder and sentenced to consecutive life terms with no possibility of parole. Judy Parker When she met first met her future husband John Parker, Judy Hicks she was a year-old single mother with nothing going for her. On April 17, , John Parker was murdered, shot in his own office in what Judy claimed was a robbery gone wrong.
The police suspected that Judy had given Danny the money to set up a hit on her husband. Her own kids agreed to testify against her, but she took a plea and was sentenced to 33 years in prison.
Psychosis-driven killers are suffering from psychotic breaks with reality and often are compelled by the Devil or God. This kind of killer may suffer from visual hallucinations and paranoia with grandiosity or delusions. Sexually-based killers kill to fulfill their sexual needs or desires.
There may or may not be overt sexual contact reflected in the crime scene. Most often used and most widely accepted is four-fold typology, developed by criminologists Ronald Holmes, Stephen Holmes, and James De Burger.
The typology consists of two general groups of act-focused and process-focused killers, which are separated into four different categories: visionary killers, mission-oriented killers, hedonistic, and power or control killers.
An act-focused killer kills quickly and does it only for the act itself. There are two categories of killers within this group — visionary and mission-oriented.
As mentioned before, they are ones who are killing because of mental illness. They are suffering from psychotic breaks with reality and often are compelled by the Devil or God. This kind of killer may suffer from visual hallucinations and paranoid, grandiose, or bizarre delusions. Police investigate Cadillac where man and woman were shot by David Berkowitz at th St. He believed that Satan was ordering him to kill. He was convinced that Satan would set him free of his loneliness and emotional pain through the act of murder.
But despite his initial euphoria, Berkowitz was still empty and unfulfilled. Another example is Herbert Mullin, who killed thirteen people in California in the early s. He believed that he was taking orders from God and what he did was just obeying his commandments.
They want to make the world a better place to live according to their own attitude. They may target homosexuals, prostitutes, or people of different ethnicity or religion.
Mission-oriented killers are huge perfectionists and plan their killings with great precision. Because of that, they kill their victims quickly and efficiently. An exclusive example of a mission-oriented killer is Joseph Paul Franklin, who killed black males who had white female companions. He actually never killed anyone but was persuasive and manipulative enough to force others to do that for him.
Manson would be considered a serial killer by proxy according to several serial killer experts including Dr. Scott Bonn. The unidentified monster of Whitechapel, Jack the Ripper, could fit in this category too because he possibly had a particular hatred for women.
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