- [Voiceover] Evil is everywhere but sometimes
it comes from where we least expect it.
It is hard to picture such innocent faces
doing wrong yet each and every one of these
bright-faced children grew up to be true villains.
These are the 10 Childhood Pictures of Mass Murderers.
Jeffrey Dahmer spent his childhood
in both Wisconsin and Ohio.
His smiling, boyish face does not tell
the story of a future maniac but that is
precisely what he became.
Dahmer went down in history as the Milwaukee
cannibal, a title he earned from his various
acts of necrophilia and cannibalism.
He was particularly interested in preserving
body parts of the many men and boys that he
lured in, including parts of their skeletons
and their reproductive organs.
Dahmer was diagnosed with severe mental illnesses
including schizotypal personality disorder,
borderline personality disorder, and psychotic disorder.
Although his mental state was questionable,
he was still asked to stand trial.
He was initially facing 15 counts of murder
but he only pled guilty to 13.
He was then sentenced to 16 life terms in prison.
In 1994 Dahmer finally met his end when fellow
inmate, Christopher Scarver, beat Dahmer to death
at the Columbia Correctional Institution.
Osama bin Laden was born to divorced parents
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Even at a young age bin Laden embraced life
as a devout Sunni Muslim like his father before him.
He was a well-educated boy, attending an elite school
and finding interest in both writing and poetry.
But bin Laden's life took a radically different
path after he found Al Qaeda in the year 1988.
Al Qaeda is best known for its attack
on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001,
during which almost 3,000 people were killed.
It was this act of evil that made bin Laden
a major target during the war on terror.
Born in Rochester, Michigan, Aileen Wuornos
was a bright-faced blond girl.
Unfortunately, Aileen's childhood was far from perfect.
Her mother was not equipped to care for Aileen
and her brother so she abandoned them when Aileen
was only three years old.
Aileen was then raised by her grandparents.
Perhaps due to her difficult start in life,
Wuornos fell into a life of crime at an early age.
By the age of 11 she was exchanging sexual favors
for cigarettes and drugs, an act that foreshadowed
her later choice to become a prostitute.
This criminal behavior continued throughout
Wuornos's young life, sometimes violent, some not.
It was believed that Wuornos could use her job
as a sex worker to lure men in before murdering
them in cold blood.
However, Wuornos would always claim to police
that her victims had attacked her and that she
had only killed them in self-defense.
After sentencing, Wuornos became the tenth woman
to ever be put to death in the United States
and was put to death in the year 2002.
John Wayne Gacy had a troubled childhood from the start.
After being born in Chicago, Gacy quickly became
a victim of his abusive father,
and throughout Gacy's childhood he was not only
beaten with a razor strap but also forced
to watch his father assault his mother.
Later in life, Gacy became a clown
for children's parties.
He was a family man and generally well-liked
by his community, but there was not an explanation
for the multitude of sexual assaults
and disappearances taking place around him.
Eventually, the police caught onto him.
The bodies of almost 33 men and boys that he
killed were found buried beneath his house,
which proved to be an extremely gruesome sight.
Gacy was sentenced to 12 death sentences
and 21 natural-life sentences and was given
lethal injection in 1994.
Richard Ramirez was the youngest of seven
when he was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1960.
While Ramirez's parents were both hard-working,
he found himself more influenced by his cousin, Mike.
Mike was a Green Beret and he was more than willing
to show Richard Polaroid pictures of gruesome
scenes from the Vietnam War.
It was this early influence that would lead
Richard to raping 25 women.
Ramirez earned the nickname The Night Stalker,
because he often manipulated his victim
in the middle of the night.
Not only did Ramirez worship Satan,
but he also had deviant sexual fantasies.
These fantasies drove him to become a serial
rapist and 13-time murderer.
Ramirez's case cost over $1.8 million
to prosecute, making it the most expensive
trial in California's history.
Although he was sentenced to execution, natural causes
took his life before the authorities could.
Ted Bundy was born in the Elizabeth Munn Home
for Unwed Mothers in Vermont, though he was
raised by his grandparents.
Ted was particularly close to his grandfather,
who was known for being abusive towards Ted's mother.
It was even speculated that Ted's grandfather
could also be his father.
Ted Bundy was able to commit a number of rapes
through the far west before his arrest.
He had made his way through a good portion
of the far west and the midwest before he
finally went to trial.
It was then that he made several confessions.
He admitted to rape, murder, and even necrophilia.
Bundy was then sentenced to be put to death.
He was executed by electric chair in 1989.
James Holmes was born in San Diego, California, in 1987.
He was raised by wealthy parents in a nice
neighborhood but that was not enough to keep
his mental illness at bay.
He first attempted suicide by age 11.
Holmes had been in and out of psychiatric care
for many years leading up to his arrest,
but despite his access to psychiatric help,
Holmes went on to commit the infamous
Aurora movie theater shooting in 2012.
Holmes was sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole.
Manson was exposed to debauchery when he
was a very small boy, mostly due to his mother's
alcoholism and life as a prostitute.
It was this experience that would desensitize
him to the evils he would later commit in life.
While Manson was never directly linked
to the violent crimes committed by the Manson
family, he was the mastermind behind them.
He gathered followers by administering psychedelic
drugs and giving them to fans to do his bidding.
As he gained followers he put them up to more
and more despicable acts, including the most evil
act of all, murder.
Manson was sentenced to life for crimes
and has been denied parole 12 times.
To this day he remains in prison.
Dylan Roof was born in Columbia, South Carolina.
Even at a young age, Roof had shown signs of mental
illness, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Roof was particularly known for going on racist
rants, especially about the Trayvon Martin case
and the death of Freddie Gray.
It was this background that was believed to cause
Roof's heinous act of mass murder
upon an African-American church
in Charleston, South Carolina.
Roof is currently facing 33 charges.
Jury selection for his trial will begin
in November of 2016.
Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia, in 1878.
At this time, Georgia was still a subject nation
of the Russian Empire.
Stalin spent his earlier years getting into some
fights with the other children of his village
and eventually moved on to bank robberies
in order to obtain funds for the fledgling
Bolshevik Party.
All of Stalin's efforts would finally pay off
in 1922 when he became the second leader
of the Soviet Union.
After gaining power, Stalin used communism
as a justification to exterminate his enemies.
There are a reported 34 to 49 million deaths
directly attributable to Stalin.
He's the only world leader to have killed
more people than Adolf Hitler.
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