Joyce Flint insisted that her eldest son's brain to be donated to science in the hope of finding out what propelled him to depths of evil.

Most men might be deterred if they knew you had killed three men (and roped them in to help hide the bodies)... but not Gary Stretch!

Fred West hung himself on January 1 1995, but his body wasn't disposed of until three months later.

After Edmund Kemper killed and decapitated his mother, he tore out her vocal cords and shoved them down the waste disposal.

When it comes to serial killers, there are few as truly vile as Albert Fish, an American paedophile who loved to drink urine, murder...

Jeffrey Dahmer's killing spree lasted from 1978 until 1991 - but his punishment was just months.

The serial killer's last wishes became public knowledge in 1995 when his dad, Lionel, went to court to stop his brain being dissected.

Rose West also wore a pair of oversized specs... but later told her abused stepdaughter she found them "funny" to look back at.

In this archive footage, Gacy jovially demonstrates to a naïve TV reporter "how to tie knots" - giving a glimpse of how he captured victims.

The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe and necrophile child molester Jimmy Savile struck up an uncomfortable friendship in the late 1980s...

Ed Kemper's brother lives in fear that his huge murderous sibling will use his IQ to get out of prison... and hunt him down and kill him.

There have been few photos of Ed Kemper since he was jailed in 1973 for eight counts of murder - including that of his own mum... until now

He confessed that he had lured boys to his home where he sodomised them, strangled, dismembered, and dissolved them in acid.

Sixty personal belongings of 'Des' are up for grabs - including his typewriter, keyboard and THOSE glasses

To people wandering through the park, Dorángel Vargas would have looked like any other homeless person. But to him, they looked like dinner.

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Richard Ramirez was scary enough when we knew him just as a serial rapist with amazing cheekbones, but details of his arrest are alarming.

"Do you promise to tell the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth?" Richard Ramirez's mouth did.

Richard Ramirez was itching to get back on the streets... and planned to escape using an array of random items hidden in his rectum.

Dennis Nilsen was a serial killer, but he was also a dog dad. His dog Bleep, a cute black and white mongrel, was his only friend during his