While the cops hunt donuts these death-dealing bastards hunt more victims.
The BI Butcher
Body count: About 10, if you put all
the bits together.
The lowdown: He’s named after the road in Namibia, Africa, next to which parts of his victims tend to be found. The heads, torsos and thighs he leaves strewn around seem to have been chilled in
a fridge or freezer before being dumped.
Motive: Shrinks reckon dismemberment is part of the “lust thrill” that spurs some people to murder repeatedly. Also, the way he’s leaving chilling (and chilled) fleshy clues around the motorway suggests he’s playing a kind of grizzly version of a treasure hunt with the authorities.
End game: “We will keep on searching until we’ve found the bastard,” said one pissed off cop on the round-the-clock team. If the killer’s sticking to one road and leaving bits of body around as clues, it shouldn’t take long.
The Rainbow Maniac
Body count: As many as 16.
The lowdown: Last December, Brazilian police announced they were on the hunt for whoever keeps putting .38 bullets in the back of the heads of gay people on the western outskirts of Sao Paulo.
Motive: Besides having a shit-hot soccer team and no pubic hair,
Brazil is renowned for gay murder – at least 2680 homosexuals were offed there between 1980 and 2006, according to one study.
End game: Two witnesses claim to have seen retired
cop Jairo Francisco Franco, 46, carrying out one of the murders in a park. Police aren’t convinced, though, and officers in plainclothes – sparkly vests and pink hotpants, according to absolutely no reports – are patrolling the city’s gay beats for the homicidal homophobe.
Hollywood Hooker Murderer
Body count: More than 11.
Lowdown: A killer in LA has been shooting and raping victims – mainly hookers and junkies – before dumping them in alleyways or in dumpsters over a 23-year period.
Motive: Prostitute-killers are usually sexually perverse middle-aged white men. Complicating the issue in this case, all the victims so far are African-American females, except for one black man.
End game: Due to the long gaps between murders – authorities only know it’s the same bloke thanks to DNA analysis – there’s speculation the killer may be in
prison. Still, the fact police are checking out the DNA of more than 50,000 inmates sounds like needle-in-haystack desperation.
The Stone Man Version 2.0
Body count: About 35 mainly homeless people.
Lowdown: The Stone Man – so called because he crushes his victims’ heads with a rock – went on the rampage in Mumbai, India, during the ’80s. The killings ceased, but now a spate of similar killings has broken out in nearby Jalagaon. Did Mumbai run out of homeless people? Unlikely.
Motive: Maybe the killer got sick of being asked for spare change, or maybe he’s just a sick bastard?
End game: Homeless people’s disappearances are rarely reported, and they are obviously harder to identify – even when their faces haven’t been pummeled by a rock.
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