Serial Killers in the 1400s-1800s?

Question

Does anyone know websites or any information on serial killers, psychopaths etc. in the 1400s-1800s?

Answer 1

ya
"jack the ripper" is a famous one for whom there are so many movie being made and too you can search on the net typing jack the ripper

Answer 2

Jack the Ripper is generally regarded as the "first serial killer" and he was in 1888.

The reason for this is not that there weren't serial killers before Jack the Ripper, it is just that law enforcement wasn't developed enough for them to be noticed, much less caught.

Today a serial killer will kidnap people off the street and take them to a home made dungeon and torture them to death. Five or six hundred years ago he would have just gotten a job in the King's dungeon and tortured and killed people for a living. Or maybe he would have gone to the slave market and bought himself some victims. He would have been known as "a strict master who really keeps his slaves in line."
Maybe he would have just been a Viking warror, or a Pirate, or a bandit of some sort, raiding villages and getting to do his killing and raping that way. (You should read about what some of the Mongols did to their prisoners, especially after they took Kiev.) Some of the psychos were nobility (see above) so they we crazy, but they wern't regarded as such.

So there is no doubt that there were serial killers and psychopaths in the old days; it was just that their psychosis was more socially acceptable then, so they wern't noticed as much.

Answer 3

Check out the first site below; it goes as far back as Caligula and includes some in your time frame, such as Gilles de Rais (the "original Bluebeard") and Elizabeth Bathory (the "Blood Contess")

"Giles de Rais fought along side Joan of Arc and served as the equivalent of France’s military chief of staff, and was one of the wealthiest men in France. History tells us that Gilles hid a dark and sinister side for many years, during which he kidnapped, tortured and murdered hundreds of peasant children (mostly young boys) while working with alchemists who used black magic in their attempts to turn base metal into gold."



"Elizabeth Bathory was born in Hungary in 1560, approximately a hundred years after Vlad the Impaler died. One of her ancestors Prince Steven Bathory, was even a commanding officer who helped Vlad Dracula In 1546, when he claim the throne in Wallachia back.
Over the next ten years, Elizabeth Bathory's evil trusted helpers provided her with beautiful young girls, from some neighboring villages, upon the cover of hiring them as servants to Castle Csejthe. Back in the castle, the young girls would be mutilated and killed, so the Countess could take her blood baths. Sometimes, she would even drink their blood, to gain some sort of inner beauty. But soon Elizabeth began to realize that the blood of simple peasant girls, was having little effect on the quality of her skin. Better blood was now required. Elizabeth then started picking girls from some of the surrounding lower nobility. These noble girls were consumed in exactly the same beastly fashion as the peasant girls who preceded them."

Answer 4

The sites listed below are very good.

Answer 5

no, but you can read the newspaper's headlines and find out about our currents 21st century schizoyds on duty, they are doing a great job!

Answer 6

gosh thats a long span of years to cope with!!! there must be millions!!!