It is impossible to say which crime is the worst. In the world, unfortunately, there are a lot of offenders and immoral people who hurt others. However, sometimes truly chilling incidents happened. The most terrible, mind-boggling crimes will now be discussed.
The murders of Harold Shipman
That was the name of the man who is one of the most cruel serial maniacs in the history of mankind. Start a story about the most terrible crimes in the world should be with him.
Harold Shipman was born in 1946 (died in 2004). He was an English doctor, had a wife and children. And on the account of this man - 250 proven murders.
The terrible thing is that in his circles he was respected. But local residents and colleagues were puzzled by the high mortality rate in the region and the large number of signed forms necessary for the cremation of older women.
Through the exhumation of the bodies, it was possible to find out that Shipman administered lethal doses of heroin to his patients. Then he forged testament documents, copying the property of the victims to himself. And cremation papers, by the way, also turned out to be fakes. Shipman also faked them to cover his tracks.
He was assigned 15 life terms. But in 2004, Shipman hanged himself while serving his sentence in Wakefield Prison. He was 57 years old.
Richard Ramirez
Talking about the most terrible crimes in the history of mankind, it is necessary to touch upon the atrocities of this person. Richard Ramirez is an American serial killer who worshiped Satan and terrorized Los Angeles from 1984 to 1985.
He had a nickname - Night Stalker. The criminal broke into the houses of people whom he decided to make his victims, and then shot them, beat him, mutilated and raped him in every possible way. He did not leave anyone alive.
Ramirez was just killing. And it doesn’t matter who - a 9-year-old girl or an elderly couple could become his victim. He dealt with everyone, as a "signature" leaving a pentagram on the wall in the house of the next victim.
In 1985, he managed to be arrested. About 23 years old, he was serving a sentence on death row, and in 2013, at the age of 53, he died.
David Berkowitz
As a child, the killer, who will be discussed now, grew up in an atmosphere of understanding, kindness and warmth. He was absolutely normal - he studied well, he contacted classmates without problems.
But soon he developed pyromania. He set fire to about 200 objects in New York (these were abandoned buildings and landfills). At the same time, he masturbated.
But this is not the worst crime in the world. At the age of 23, he began to do true evil. David simply shot from a revolver two girls he met by chance. That evening, a couple in love fell under the barrel of his weapon.
More attacks followed. Not everyone survived the meeting with David. The last terrible crime he committed in 1977, July 31. It was the sixth killing. However, another 7 people were injured in the same attack. Then he was arrested.
David admitted everything, but tried to prove that all the crimes were “ordered” by Sam Carr - a neighbor who allegedly hypnotized him.
Chikatilo
What this man did is considered the worst crime in history. For years he raped, mocked and killed children. Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo - serial maniac, pedophile, necrophile, necrosadist and cannibal.
Between 1982 and 1990, he committed several dozen murders. The first verdict consisted of 52 murders, 43 were proved. However, the offender himself admitted to 56, and as it turned out later, he had 65 deaths.
What Chikatilo did is the worst crime in Russia. He met with children on a specious occasion, and then mocked them. To many, by the way, he gouged out his eyes.
He killed the last victim in 1990. It was a 22-year-old prostitute. He killed her in the forest, and when he went out into the city, he was asked to present documents. They usually went to that area for mushrooms, but outwardly Chikatilo did not look like someone who was fond of this. But since there was no reason for his arrest, he was released, fixing his last name. When the girl’s corpse was discovered, the killer was found and detained.
On the evening of February 14, the perpetrator was executed by a shot in the back of the head.
Ted Bundy
Remembering the worst crimes of the century, you need to tell about the man who is one of the most famous serial killers of the last century. We are talking about Ted Bundy, who abducted girls and young girls. It is not known exactly how many victims he killed and raped (often posthumously). He himself confessed in 30 cases.
The terrible thing is that Ted was very charming. He used his attractiveness to gain the trust of girls. Although sometimes a maniac burst into their homes - beat, raped, strangled. After the victim let out a last breath, he again subjected her to sexual abuse, and then dismembered it. He took his heads, storing it as a trophy. He ate some parts of his body.
In 1989, the maniac was executed in an electric chair. Everyone considered him a sadist and a sociopath. And Ted Bundy himself said of himself: "I am the most heartless son of a bitch you can meet." The fact that the perpetrator was aware of his actions and understood how wild he was doing acts freezes the blood even more.
Zodiac
This is the pseudonym for the serial killer who terrorized Northern California and San Francisco in the late 60s. It should immediately be said that the maniac was never found - the case has been opened to this day. According to his statements, he committed 37 murders. Only 5 are proven.
The offender was known for sending mocking letters to local newspapers, where he painted his deeds. He also applied cryptograms, encrypting information about himself in them. We managed to make out only one, in which the Zodiac said that he loved to take people’s lives, because it’s fun.
11 September
What happened on this day, perhaps, can be called the worst crime in the world. On September 11, four coordinated suicide bombings took place.
On the morning of that day, 19 criminals captured 4 scheduled airliners. The invaders sent them to two towers of the World Trade Center, which were located in New York, in southern Manhattan. Both of them collapsed.
The third plane the terrorists sent to the Pentagon. And the fourth fell in Pennsylvania, as his team tried to take control of the invaders.
In addition to 19 terrorists, 2,977 people died. Also 24 were missing.
The consequences of September 11
You need to tell about them separately. No wonder they say that terrible crimes entail terrible consequences. And this, if not to talk about the most valuable thing - about human lives. People, in a panic and confusion, jumped out of windows from a height of hundreds of meters - just to not burn them alive.
These attacks have greatly affected the global and US markets from an economic point of view. NASDAQ, the American and New York stock exchanges were closed until September 17. It was the longest inaction. The Dow Jones Index lost as much as 684 points. By the end of the week, it fell another 14.3%. American stocks as a result lost 1.2 trillion dollars.
The entire economy of Lower Manhattan was destroyed in an instant. In almost all buildings, electricity, gas, and telephone communications were cut off.
There were environmental consequences, because thousands of tons of toxic garbage, which was formed as a result of the destruction of the towers, contained about 2500 harmful components. Carcinogens that entered the environment provoked the development of diseases of the liver, kidneys, central nervous system, and heart in people. Especially for those involved in rescue work.
Kill Girl Scouts
In 1977, a terrible crime occurred in Oklahoma. Three scout girls - Lori, Doris, and Michelle - were killed on vacation at the camp. The one who did this to them dragged the bodies away from the tent into the forest. The counselor found them there when he was heading to the toilet.
It is terrible that, long before the incident, an unknown person put a note in one of the tents stating that the girls would be killed very soon. Counselors considered this an unsuccessful joke. However, two months later, Michelle, Doris and Laurie were brutally murdered. The maniac was never found.
The Murder of Martha Moxley
It happened in 1975, but remained unsolved for 25 years. On Halloween Eve, a young girl named Marta went to a nearby house for a party. She was comfortable with the Skeykel family. The next day, Martha’s body with signs of beating was found under a tree near the house.
It lay face down. The girl's face was covered with bruises, there was a lacerated wound on her neck, jeans and underwear were omitted. Many consider the incident one of the worst crimes in the world for the reason that Michael Skakel, Robert Kennedy’s nephew, turned out to be the criminal.
He was friends with Martha and looked after her for a long time. But at the party, the girl kissed Tom, his brother, which angered Michael. The young man was overcome by anger, and he beat Martha to death with a golf club.
Children disappearing in smoke
Perhaps the most terrible crimes in the world are those that could not be solved. One of these occurred in 1945, in the city of Fayetteville (West Virginia).
It was night, and the Sodder family, in which there were ten children, was sleeping. Suddenly, an hour after midnight, a fire broke out. One of the sons was not in the house, four with their parents escaped, and the rest could not get out of the room.
A family father named George tried to return there to save other children. But the ladder mysteriously disappeared. The water in the rain barrel also froze, and the truck simply decided not to start. But the most terrible fact is that the remains of the bodies could not be found. But in those conditions, complete cremation was impossible. These kids just disappeared ...
Cleveland Maniac
Another case that can not be ignored, listing the most terrible crimes of mankind. Between 1934 and 1938, an unknown person dismembered at least 13 people (possibly more, but other cases have not been proven - the “style” does not match everywhere).
The Cleveland maniac simply dismembered and cut off the heads of his still living victims. With each murder, he became more and more bloodthirsty - for one person, he ripped out his heart with his bare hands.
The identity of this maniac could not be established. But one of the suspects died under mysterious circumstances, while serving a sentence in prison.
The disappearance of Brian Shaffer
In 2006, something strange happened in Columbus. A young man named Brian Schaffer (pictured below) celebrated with his friends the end of spring break in a bar. And he ... disappeared without a trace. Despite the fact that he was surrounded by friends all the time, and several security cameras worked in the bar itself.
What is terrible is that the record shows how a young man communicates with the girls near the entrance. Then he said goodbye to them, turned and opened the door to return to his friends. However, after a moment, Brian disappeared from the field of view of the camera. Since then, no one has seen him.
In general, it seems that there was some kind of curse on the Shaffer family. After all, Brian's mother died of cancer a month before the incident in a bar, and her father was killed after 2 years by a tree that fell during a storm.
Las Vegas Shooting
To complete the conversation on such a terrible topic follows the incident that occurred on October 1, 2017. An adult man of 64 years, sitting on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay entertainment hotel complex, shot people who came to the country festival. What happened was the most massive execution in the history of America.
If you believe the relatives of the criminal (his name was Stephen Paddock), then the man never had signs of cruelty or a tendency to violence. But on October 1, at 10:05 p.m., when Jason Aldin appeared on the scene, he opened fire on the merry citizens.
It lasted almost an hour and a half. When special forces got to his number, where he was staying, he wounded one of the soldiers in the leg, and then shot himself in the head.
It turned out that Paddock had permission to own weapons. He found 23 weapons at the hotel, and another 19 at home. On that day, he used several dozen stores that he had prepared in advance.
As a result of his attack, at least 58 people died. More than 700 citizens have injured Paddock.
A man never had a problem with the law. He did not leave a hint of motive. One can only guess about the reasons.