Here are most disturbing artworks of serial killers.
For whatever reason, many of the world’s most notorious murderers take up painting. Usually it’s as a light hobby to pass the time while serving out life sentences, and as a means to indulge their massive egos in the twilight of their lives.
So, if you've ever wonder how a warped and evil mind sees the world, or wondered what demons walk through a murder's subconscious, here is a collection of some of the twisted artwork serial killers have produced behind bars:
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15. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Number of victims: 33 - 34+
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994), also known as the Killer Clown, was a convicted American serial killer and rapist who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.
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| Art by John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (1) |
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| Art by John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (2) |
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| Art by John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (3) |
14. Keith Hunter Jesperson
Number of victims: 8+
Location: United States, Canada
Keith Hunter Jesperson (born 6 April 1955) is a Canadian-American serial killer who embarked on a murderous spree in the United States during the early 1990s.
Also known as the “Happy Face Killer,” for the happy faces he drew in letters to the media and prosecutors, Jesperson claims to have killed over 160 people from 1990-1995, mostly transients and prostitutes, though only eight murders have been confirmed. He’s currently serving a life sentence for his crimes, and has taken up painting.
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| Art by Keith Hunter Jesperson (1) |
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| Art by Keith Hunter Jesperson (2) |
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| Art by Keith Hunter Jesperson (3) |
13. Charles Ng
Number of victims: 11 - 25
Location: Calaveras County, California, USA; Hong Kong
Charles Chi-Tat Ng (born December 24, 1960) is a Hong Kong serial killer. He is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice Leonard Lake at Lake's cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.
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| Art by Charles Ng (1) |
12. Alfred Gaynor
Number of victims: 9
Location: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Alfred J. Gaynor (born 1967) is an American serial killer and rapist who killed nine women in Springfield, Massachusetts. He’s currently serving eight life sentences, and spends some of his time making works like “Murder Beach,” pictured below.
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| Art by Alfred Gaynor (1) |
11. Henry Lee Lucas
Number of victims: 11 - 600
Location: ???, Michigan, Texas, USA
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 - March 12, 2001) was an American serial killer. Though Lucas was convicted of murdering eleven people after being arrested in 1983, it’s estimated he killed over 600, though he claimed to have killed at least 3,000, cannibalizing some of them. However, he later recanted his confessions. He once flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady.
Lucas confessed to involvement in about 3,000 murders, an average of about one murder per day between his release from prison in mid-1975 to his arrest in mid-1983. A more widely circulated total of about 350 murders committed by Lucas is based on confessions deemed "believable" by a Texas-based "Lucas Task Force," a group which was criticized by Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox for sloppy police work and taking part in an extended "hoax".
Lucas allegedly carried out many murders with an accomplice, Ottis Toole, whose reputation as a serial killer is mostly unaltered by Lucas's recantations.
He spent his time in prison painting, before dying in 2001 at the age of 64.
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| Art by Henry Lee Lucas (1) |
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| Art by Henry Lee Lucas (2) |
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| Art by Henry Lee Lucas (3) |
10. Charles Manson
Number of victims: 10
Location: Los Angeles County, California, USA
Charles Milles Manson (born Charles Milles Maddox, November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in the California desert in the late 1960s. In 1971 he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the murders of seven people: actress Sharon Tate and four other people at Tate's home; and the next day, a married couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca; all carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was convicted of the murders through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's objective. His followers also murdered several other people at other times and locations, and Manson was also convicted for two of these other murders (of Gary Hinman and Donald "Shorty" Shea).
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| Art by Charles Manson (1) |
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| Art by Charles Manson (2) |
9. Arthur Shawcross
Number of victims: 13+
Location: Monroe/Wayne Counties, New York, USA
Arthur John Shawcross (June 7, 1945 – November 10, 2008) was an American serial killer, also known as the Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York. He claimed most of his victims after being paroled early following a conviction in the manslaughter of two children, which led to criticism of the justice system.
Michael H. Stone, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and an authority on violent behavior, identified Shawcross as "one of the most egregious examples of the unwarranted release of a prisoner."
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| Art by Arthur Shawcross (1) |
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| Art by Arthur Shawcross (2) |
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| Art by Arthur Shawcross (3) |
8. Wayne Lo
Number of victims: 2
Location: Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
Technically, mass murderer. Wayne Lo (aka "Skid Lo"); (born November 14, 1974) is a Taiwanese-American who perpetrated a school shooting at Simon's Rock College of Bard on December 14, 1992 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States. He killed one student and a professor, and wounded four others before he surrendered to police. He is currently serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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| Art by Wayne Lo (1) |
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| Art by Wayne Lo (2) |
7. Ottis Elwood Toole
Number of victims: 6+
Location: ???, Texas, Florida, USA
Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 – September 15, 1996) was an American drifter who was convicted of six counts of murder. Like his companion Henry Lee Lucas, Toole made confessions he later recanted, but which resulted in murder convictions. The discrediting of the case against Lucas for crimes in which Toole had offered collaborating statements created doubts as to whether either was a genuine serial killer or, as Hugh Aynesworth suggested, both merely compliant interviewees who police used to clear unsolved murders from the books. Toole received two death sentences, but on appeal they were commuted to life imprisonment. He died in his cell from cirrhosis, aged 49. Police attributed the murder of Adam Walsh to Toole on the basis of recanted statements. Lucas had backed Toole's confession to the Walsh murder, claiming he had been in possession of the victim's severed head.
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| Art by Ottis Elwood Toole (1) |
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| Art by Ottis Elwood Toole (2) |
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| Art by Ottis Elwood Toole (3) |
6. John Edward Robinson
Number of victims: 8+
Location: Kansas/Missouri, USA
John Edward Robinson (born December 27, 1943) is a convicted serial killer, con man, embezzler, kidnapper, and forger who was found guilty in 2003 of three murders and received the death sentence for two of them. He subsequently admitted responsibility for five additional homicides, and investigators fear that there might be other, undiscovered victims as well.
Because he made contact with most of his post-1993 victims via on-line chat rooms, he is sometimes referred to as "the Internet's first serial killer".
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| Art by John Edward Robinson (1) |
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| Art by John Edward Robinson (2) |
5. Daniel Harold Rolling
Number of victims: 8
Location: Louisiana/Florida, USA
Daniel Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 – October 25, 2006), also known as the Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who murdered five students in Gainesville, Florida. Rolling later confessed to raping several of his victims, committing an additional November 4, 1989, triple homicide in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 1990. In total, Rolling confessed to killing eight people. He was executed by lethal injection in 2006.
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| Art by Daniel Harold Rolling (1) |
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| Art by Daniel Harold Rolling (2) |
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| Art by Daniel Harold Rolling (3) |
4. Herbert William Mullin
Number of victims: 11 - 13
Location: Santa Cruz, California, USA
Herbert William Mullin (born April 18, 1947) is a serial killer who committed 13 murders in California in the early 1970s.
Mullin seemed totally normal throughout his childhood. The son of a World War 2 veteran, Mullin was an extremely bright and sensitive boy who was involved in sports and voted "most likely to succeed" in High School. By the age of thirty-six, he was a raging schizophrenic and a prolific Serial Killer. Said murders were the only way to prevent another earthquake from destroying California.
Somehow, the jury muddled throught this circus and madness and found Mullin sane and guilty of ten murders in August of 1973. He was sentenced to life in prison and will be eligible for parole in 2025.
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| Art by Herbert William Mullin (1) |
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| Art by Herbert William Mullin (2) |
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| Art by Herbert William Mullin (3) |
3. Robin Gecht
Number of victims: 18+
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Robin Gecht (aka "The Chicago Rippers" - "The Ripper Crew"); (Born: November 30, 1953). Ripper Crew or Chicago Rippers was a satanic cult and organized crime group composed of Robin Gecht (who once worked for the serial killer John Wayne Gacy) and three associates (Edward Spreitzer with brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis). They were suspected in the disappearances of 18 women in Illinois in 1981 and '82.
Sentenced to 120 years in prison on February 17, 1984.
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| Art by Robin Gecht (1) |
2. Eugene McWatters, Jr.
Number of victims: 3
Location: Martin County, Florida, USA
Eugene Wayman McWatters, Jr. (aka "The Salerno Strangler"); (Born June 20, 1978). STUART, Fla. -- A man has been sentenced to die for sexually assaulting and strangling three women during a 10-week period in 2004.
McWatters was convicted by a jury Sept. 28 of first-degree murder and sexual battery.
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| Art by Eugene McWatters, Jr. (1) |
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| Art by Eugene McWatters, Jr. (2) |
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| Art by Eugene McWatters, Jr. (3) |
1. Richard Ramirez
Number of victims: 13 - 16+
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramírez (born February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas) is a convicted Mexican American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. Prior to his capture, Ramírez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media as he terrorized California.
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| Art by Richard Ramirez (1) |
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| Art by Richard Ramirez (2) |
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| Art by Richard Ramirez (3) |