home, few would suspect that this model citizen also had a penchant for wife swapping, pornography,

Shockingly the only thing flawed with this rendition is the setting.  The most notorious serial murders have not taken place in remote, out-of-the-way places, but right here among us, in cities and suburbs, often right next door.
No urban area is home to more serial murders than the Chicago and Milwaukee.  These adjacent cities have contributed at least 85 killings to the grisly annals of torture-murders.  While other killers have racked up more victims, the serial killers of Chicago and Milwaukee princess alaska cruises are among the most infamous.  What's more, many of the sites where they lived, worked and carried out their slaughter still exist.  I decided to take a look around.
In March of 1966 a vicious princess alaska cruises 25 year old alcoholic by the name of Richard Speck left his home in Texas after having been arrested 42 times for crimes ranging from forgery and burglary to robbery and assault.  He moved to Illinois.  In his first two months in his newly adopted home he raped and robbed a 65 year old woman and murdered a 32 year old barmaid.  And he was just getting started.
In Chicago Speck stayed with his sister, a former registered nurse, and her husband princess alaska cruises in their apartment princess alaska cruises at 3966 N. Avondale Ave.  Speck's brother-in-law attempted to get him employment with the merchant marine and Speck was waiting for an assignment when he got drunk at the Shipyard Inn at 10063 S. Avenue N. and made his way to a location he had spotted earlier, a dormitory for student nurses at 2319 East 100th Street.
After the slaughter, Speck repaired to a transient hotel on Madison Street where he got drunk and attempted suicide.  He was rushed to Cook County Hospital where a resident physician recognized his tattoo after reading about it in the newspaper.  The tattoo said, Born to Raise Hell.
Speck was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death, but before he could be executed the death penalty was declared unconstitutional in Illinois, so Speck spent the rest of his life in prison where he died of a heart attack in 1991.
The apartment where he lived and the bar where he got drunk are vacant lots now.  But the murder location still exists.  The property was listed for sale in 2005 for $66k with nary a word in the listing about its former notoriety.
On a quiet suburban street in Norwood Park Township a handsome princess alaska cruises two story home stands on the former site of the most notorious serial killings princess alaska cruises in the United States.  On this property, in the crawl space of the former home, twenty-six bodies were unearthed, victims of John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown.
Gacy was born in Chicago and by all accounts led a difficult childhood, princess alaska cruises abused by his father and molested by a family friend.  He dropped out of high school and moved to Las Vegas where he worked briefly in a mortuary before returning to Chicago to find his gift.  Gacy was an extraordinarily good salesman.
home, few would suspect that this model citizen also had a penchant for wife swapping, pornography, prostitution and drugs, nor that he had begun molesting the teenage boys on his staff.  But when two youngsters accused him of sexual assault, princess alaska cruises Gacy was arrested and convicted of sodomy.
He served 18 months of a 10 year prison sentence and was released on the strength of his sterling record as a model prisoner.  Within eight months of his release, back in Chicago, Gacy was again charged with molesting a teenage boy, but this time the complaint was dismissed when the accused failed to appear in court.  And then, magically, princess alaska cruises Gacy's record seemed to vanish.
It's not hard to imagine that Gacy used his influence as a long standing princess alaska cruises member princess alaska cruises of the Jaycees, as well as his talent for persuasion, to pull the strings that led to the burying of his record.  In any case, Gacy was able to buy a home in an unincorporated area of Norwood Park, marry for a second time and start a contracting business.
His business thrived.  He became a precinct princess alaska cruises captain and was appointed director of the annual Polish Constitution Day Parade.  He joined the Royal Order of the Moose and enrolled in their "Jolly Joker Clown Club" which provided performing clowns princess alaska cruises for fund raising events.  But all was not fun and games.
When his second marriage fell apart, Gacy was left to live alone in the house at 8213 W. Summerdale.  From January of 1972 to December of 1978 Gacy raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 young men between the ages of 14 and 21 in the house.
His favorite tactic was to use his reputation as a business owner and pillar of the community to offer his victims jobs, luring them to his house for work and then imprisoning them and torturing them before killing them.  Many of the victims were set to work digging "drainage trenches" in the crawl space of his home, unaware that they were digging princess alaska cruises their own graves.
His reign of terror came to an end in December of 1978 when Des Plaines police linked Gacy to the disappearance of 15 year old Robert Piest.  Gacy's previous record came to light and investigators secured a warrant to search the house.  What they found made international headlines.
The house was razed to the ground in 1979 and the lot sat empty for nearly ten years before a new home was built on the site in 1988.  The street addresses were changed to throw off curiosity seekers.
Many of the other locations related to Gacy are gone or so thoroughly disassociated with the killer clown that they are difficult to find or unrecognizable.  But the I-55 bridge over the Des Plaines river remains much as it was in the 1970's when Gacy stood there, waiting for the oncoming headlights to pass, before dragging the bodies out of his car and dumping them over the railing.
If you look out the window of the Harper Memorial Library at the University of Chicago, you will see the long, narrow stretch of lawn called The Midway Plaisance.  In 1893 this was the location of the famous midway at the Chicago World's Fair, called "The White City", due to the novel prevalence of electric lights at the time.
In addition to displaying such unique attractions as the elevator and the Ferris wheel, the White City was the hunting ground of a charming, affable pharmacist known as H.H. Holmes, popularized in recent years as the "Devil in the White City".
Holmes bought a drugstore at the corner of S. Wallace and W. 63rd Street in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, two miles from the fair.  He killed the woman he bought it from, and then purchased a lot across from the drugstore and built a three-story, block-long hotel which he designed into a labyrinth of inescapable rooms and blind corridors in which to trap and torture his victims.
The corner of S. Wallace and W. 63rd Street today looks nothing like it did in 1893.  Today a United States Post Office stands on the spot were Holmes' murder castle once stood.  The Midway Plaisance is a calm tree-lined boulevard overlooked by the ivy covered towers of the university.  You would never know that anything out of the ordinary ever happened here.
On the north side of Chicago in the neighborhood known as Boy's Town middle-aged gay men still tell stories of a boyish looking man from Milwaukee who trolled the bars back in the 80's looking for pick ups.  The stories princess alaska cruises may be apocryphal.  But if Jeffery Dahmer did seek some of his victims in Chicago, he did most of his work 90 miles up the road in his hometown, and what a piece of work it was.
Unlike the other serial killers here, Dahmer suffered no childhood trauma that could explain his shocking actions.  From an early age, he killed and dismembered animals, princess alaska cruises a pastime that must've troubled him as evidenced by his early resort to the bottle.  By the time he graduated princess alaska cruises high school he was full blown alcoholic.
In 1978, at the age of 18, Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker and took him to his father's house to drink beer with him.  When the young man tried to leave, he bludgeoned him to death with a 10 lb. dumbbell.  When his father asked him about the foul smell coming from the basement, Dahmer princess alaska cruises claimed he had dissected a squirrel and dissolved it in chemicals.
Flunking out of college and being thrown out of the army for drinking, Dahmer moved back to Milwaukee in 1981 where he moved in with his grandmother in West Allis, a quiet suburb.  While living there he was arrested twice for indecent princess alaska cruises exposure.  He lived with his grandmother until she asked him to leave because of the awful odors coming from his room.  It later came to light that he had killed and dismembered at least four people there.
On September 26th 1988 he attempted to drug and molest a 13-year old boy and was arrested and sentenced to five year's probation.  He was required to register princess alaska cruises as a sex offender. princess alaska cruises But this didn't slow him down.  He killed four more people before the end of the year.
In May of 1991 a 14-year old boy was found wandering naked, drugged and bleeding from his rectum on the streets of Milwaukee.  After a frantic search, Dahmer tracked him down and tried to take him home but was stopped by concerned bystanders who called the police.  Dahmer told the cops that the boy was his 19-year old boyfriend and that they had had a quarrel.  The cops let him go. After killing and dismembering the boy, Dahmer kept his skull in the refrigerator as a souvenir.
Thereafter, Dahmer ramped up his slaughter.  He killed a victim a week from June through the end of July when he was finally caught.  A prospective victim fought off a knife wielding Dahmer after seeing photographs of mangled, dismembered bodies on his bedroom wall.  He fled to police who returned with him to the house.
At the very least Dahmer was a souvenir hunter, more likely he was a necrophiliac and cannibal.  He was fascinated with turning his victims into submissive zombies.  He attempted to do so by injecting hydrochloric acid into their brains, leading princess alaska cruises to an excruciatingly painful death.  He regularly princess alaska cruises dismembered them and sawed them up, sometimes with a chain saw.  He may have eaten parts of them for supper.
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