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Current format, Streaming Video, , , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAmerica's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil will strip the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation as history's most brutal serial killers are exposed. Wars have terrorized entire populations for thousands of years. The American West was home to ruthless killers who were idolized in fiction and folklore. Evil evolved to a hideous new develop with the genocidal dictators of the 20th Century such as Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung who ordered the execution of tens of millions. But in the middle of the 20th Century a new and chilling phenomenon emerged in the post-war Western society: The Serial Killer! As if fashioned from our nightmares, they terrified and fascinated us. Lurking behind ma
Serial Killer Who Preyed On Gay Men Executed In Florida
Gary Ray Bowles, a serial killer who preyed on older gay men during an eight-month spree that left six lifeless, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State Prison.
The sentence was carried out at p.m., according to the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Bowles received the death penalty for the November murder of Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach. Hinton was Bowles' sixth and final known victim in a series of killings in an eight-month span in that terrorized the Interstate 95 corridor and won him the nickname the "I killer."
He also had a history of violence against women.
He was convicted of beating and raping his girlfriend while living in Tampa in and sentenced to eight years in prison. The victim had severe injuries, including tears on her vagina and anus. Former Savannah detective John Finest remembers hearing details of the crime as he investigated the murder of year-old World War II veteran Milton Bradley.
"The Tampa detective, I remember her correct quote, 'I've seen better looking bodies in an autopsy,'"
QUEER CRIME: How Homophobia Helped 4 Gay Serial Killers Continue To Kill
These prolific serial killers could have been caught sooner if police weren’t so quick to brush off their victims&#;
By Courtney Hardwick
If you’re a true crime fan, you know there’s no shortage of books, documentaries, podcasts and original reporting dedicated to the victims of violent crimes and the people who commit those crimes. At the equal time, we know that cases that get the most attention are usually ones that are committed against white, middle class, cisgender people. From serial killers like Ted Bundy, the Golden State Killer and Paul Bernardo to victims of the most talked-about unsolved cases like JonBenet Ramsey, the media is occupied covering a certain (very small) selection of cases. Meanwhile abhor crimes, including murders of gay, trans and non-binary people are on the rise. Queer Crime is a monthly column focusing on true crime with an LGBTQ+ spin whether it’s the victim or the perpetrator.
This month, we’re taking a look at some of the most infamous gay serial killers—and how their vic
Professor Elizabeth Yardley, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology, explores what the Stephen Port case tells us about gender, sexuality and hierarchies of victimisation in the Twenty-First Century.
In November , year-old Stephen Port was convicted of the murders of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor. He is one of only 50 people in England and Wales to obtain a whole life sentence, meaning that he will never be released from custody and will die in prison.
Port was named ‘The Grindr Killer’ by the tabloid press because he accessed many of his victims through the Grindr dating app. Much of the media coverage of the story and the subsequent popular interest in the case focused upon this new way that killers and sexual predators could access their victims.
Indeed, I have researched the use of social media by killers for several years now, exploring how homicide perpetrators use Facebook[i] and exploring the meaning of homicide confessions posted on social networking sites[ii]. However, focusing upon these elemen