this is MONSTERS

Christopher Wilder was a sexual predator from early in his life and with the help of his family, he managed to stay on the loose, preying on young women on two continents for more than 3 decades.

Ronald Dominique was a man who didn’t really have much success in life when it came to social matters. He didn’t attract many people who wanted to have a physical relationship with him, so he decided that would force people to have a physical relationship with him.

Dayton Rogers was a husband, father and business owner who lived a seemingly normal life during the day, but at night, he took to the streets to fulfill fantasies that needed to be carried out deep in the forest, where nobody could hear the screams.

Ivan Milat grew up a violent and angry man who had an insatiable need for control. When he lost control in his personal life, he went into the forest and took it from strangers.

Mikhail Popkov grew to develop a strong hatred of women as an adult. When he started believing his wife was having an affair, he decided that he needed to set out to punish any woman who was going out and having fun instead of staying home with their family.

Ion Rimaru did seem to have the social skills needed to woo a girl in a traditional manner. Instead, he would blunting ask them for sex and when they inevitably turning him down, he would become violent and lash out.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer suffered from a personality disorder that made her unable to control her anger. All of her anger needed to be taken out on someone, so she took it out on the very people she was supposed to be taking care of.

John Bunting was an angry man who hated many people based on their race or lifestyle. Hating them wasn’t enough, he needed to rid the world of them, but instead of taking this misguided journey on his own, he indoctrinated others to believe his hate was justified and that those people deserved to die.

John Haigh decided that it would be easier to just steal than to work for his money, but people started reporting his theft, so he came up with a new plan that would keep his victims quiet. Permanently.

Angel Reséndiz had an uncontrollable desire to kill. He started his life with a pretty low moral compass and spent most of it stealing to make a living, but soon, instead of just robbing people, he felt like he needed to kill them and he couldn’t stop himself.

Richard Biegenwald had an evil side to him since he was a child. When he would get angry, he would need a rush in order to cool himself off. A thrill that would continually get more and more dangerous until the only thing that could give him kicks involved murder.

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris had a chance meeting where they learned that they both shared the same sadistic desires. They both wanted to instill absolute fear in women and they believed that by working together, they could get away with doing just that.

Charles Cullen grew up with and continued to live with severe depression. When he began working in the healthcare industry, he thought that helping others would be what he needed to turn his life around. It turned out that all he wanted to do was infect others with his misery and he accomplished that by killing their loved ones.

Gary Hilton believed that society was causing all of his problems and he wanted to live a life of solitude in the forest with his dog. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to sustain that lifestyle financially and decided that he would just steal that money from other people who were taking advantage of the national forests. He would wait for them to enter the woods and make sure they were never seen again.

Charles Sobhraj spent his life traveling to various countries, using dozens of stolen passports to steal, con and murder. He thought he deserved the best in the world, but he didn’t want to work for it. Instead he just took it and didn’t care whose life he destroyed in the process.

Eric Edgar Cooke was born into a life of violence and abuse. A childhood of being bullied by his father and classmates created a helplessness inside of him that he needed to rid himself of. He wanted to feel more powerful and the only way he thought he could do that was by taking life.

Carl Eugene Watts developed a hatred of women and just felt a need to harm them. From physical attacks to murders, he didn’t have any other motive than to just harm young women. Over the court of 8 years and two states, he assaulted and murdered dozens of women just because he wanted to.

Robert Hansen grew up as an awkward boy with a stutter who turned into an awkward man with a stutter. This caused him to be bullied when he was young and he spent the rest of his life focused on revenge. He would get that revenge by taking the lives of people who had nothing to do with his childhood abuse.

Ray and Faye Copeland seemed like your average couple living a simple life on their farm. As they got older, they hired labor to help them keep up with the chores which didn’t seem unusual. What was unusual was when their hired help began disappearing.

Jack Unterweger claimed that he killed a young woman in a fit of rage and was sent to prison for life. That was only the beginning of his con that ultimately lead to his release which would bring him money, fame, and even more opportunities to murder.

John Robinson was a lifetime scam artist who became well known to authorities for his constant embezzlement and fraud charges. It wasn’t until women started going missing that the law in both Kansas and Missouri came together to put an end to his violence.

Milton Johnson brutalized a teen couple and was sent to prison for it. When he was released early for good behavior, he took his rage out on anybody he could. Causing a summer of terror around the Joliet area.