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Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 June 11, 2001) was a United States Army veteran and security guard who was convicted of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the Waco Siege, as revenge for, or to inspire a revolt against what he considered a tyrannical federal government. The bombing killed 168 people and was the deadliest act of terrorism within the United States prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was convicted of 11 federal offenses and sentenced to death.
He was executed by lethal injection at 7:14 a.m. on June 11, 2001, at the U.S. Federal Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. McVeigh stated that his only regret was not completely leveling the federal building. McVeigh chose William Ernest Henley's poem "Invictus" as his final statement. His last meal was two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
McVeigh was the first convicted criminal to be executed by the United States federal government since Victor Feguer in Iowa on March 15, 1963.
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Albert DeSalvo
Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 November 25, 1973), known as the "Measuring Man" and "Green Man" for his sexual crimes, was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area. His confession has been disputed, and debate continues regarding which crimes DeSalvo actually committed.
Between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964, 13 single women between the ages of 19 and 85 were murdered in the Boston area (often referred to as the Silk Stocking murders); they were eventually tied to the "Boston Strangler".
DeSalvo initially confessed his alleged "Strangler" crimes to fellow inmate George Nassar; he then reported to his attorney F Lee Bailey, who took on DeSalvo's case. Though there were some inconsistencies, DeSalvo was able to cite details which had not been made public. However, there was no physical evidence to substantiate his confession. As such, he stood trial for earlier, unrelated crimes of robbery and sexual offenses.
DeSalvo was sentenced to life in prison in 1967. In February of that year, he escaped with two fellow inmates from Bridgewater State Hospital, triggering a full scale manhunt. The day after the escape, he was caught in nearby Lynn, Massachusetts. He was then transferred to the maximum security prison known at the time as Walpole where he was found murdered six years later in the infirmary. His killer or killers were never identified.
DeSalvo was never charged with the "Strangler's" crimes, put on trial for them, or convicted of them.
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Pedro Alonso López
Pedro Alonso López (born 8 October 1948 in Santa Isabel, Colombia), also known as the "Monster of the Andes", is a Colombian-born confessed serial killer, accused of raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America. López was arrested when an attempted abduction went wrong and he was trapped by market traders. In custody, he soon confessed to hundreds of murders. The police only believed him when a flash flood uncovered a mass grave of many of his victims.
He led police to the graves of 53 of his victims in Ecuador, all girls between nine and twelve years old in 1980. In 1983 he was found guilty of murdering 110 young girls in Ecuador alone and confessed to a further 240 murders of missing girls in neighboring Peru and Colombia. Because of Ecuadorian law at the time, his sentence was only 16 years; reduced to 14 years when he was released two years early for good behavior.
He was released from prison on August 31,1994, and re-arrested an hour later as an illegal immigrant, and handed over to Colombian authorities who charged him with a twenty year old murder. He was found to be insane and held in a psychiatric wing of a Bogotá hospital. In 1998 he was declared sane, and released on $50 bail. Interpol released an advisory for his re-arrest by Colombian authorities over a fresh murder in 2002.
He is believed to still be alive and operating in South America.
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Gary Ridgway
Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949), known as the "Green River Killer", is an American serial killer. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 48 women near the cities of Seattle and Tacoma in Washington State. Most of their bodies were dumped in wooded areas and around the Green River in Washington, with the exception of two confirmed and another two suspected victims found in the Portland, Oregon, area.
On November 30, 2001, as he was leaving a Renton, Washington factory where he worked, he was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence. As part of a plea bargain, he was spared the death penalty and received a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.
Ridgway confessed to more confirmed murders than any other American serial killer. Over a period of five months of police and prosecutor interviews, he confessed to 48 murders, 42 of which were on the police's list of probable Green River Killer victims, plus six more murders. On February 9, 2004, county prosecutors began to release the videotape records of Ridgway's confessions. In one taped interview, he told investigators initially that he was responsible for the deaths of 65 women, but in another taped interview on December 31, 2003, Ridgway claimed to have murdered 71 victims and confessed to having had sex with them prior to killing them, a detail which he did not reveal until after his sentencing. He also confessed that he had sex with his victims' bodies after he murdered them, but claimed he began burying the later victims so that he would resist the urge to revisit them.
Ridgway is incarcerated at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington.
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Moses Sithole
Moses Sithole (November 17, 1964), also known as the South African Strangler, is a South African serial killer who committed the "ABC Murders", so named because they began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg. He began raping women in his twenties, claiming three victims before one finally testified against him. He was sent to prison, during which he himself was sexually assaulted by other prisoners. His murder spree began in 1994, shortly after his release.
Sithole would gain access to victims by pretending to be a businessman and offering them work, going so far as to invent a fictional charity organization. Once he had gained their trust, he would offer to walk them through a veld (an Afrikaans word literally meaning "field") to the "business headquarters" until they were out of sight and hearing range; he would then overpower, rape and strangle them. By 1995, he had claimed over 30 victims, igniting a nationwide panic. In some cases, he would call the victim's family and taunt them. He was arrested in August of 1995; police shot him twice when he charged them with an axe, wounding him before taking him into custody. He eventually confessed to the murders.
On December 5, 1997, Sithole was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for each of the 38 murders, 12 years imprisonment for each of the 40 rapes, and five years imprisonment for each of the six robberies. Since his sentences run consecutively, the total effective sentence is thus one of 2,410 years. Justice David Carstairs ordered that Sithole would be required to serve at least 930 years before being eligible for parole (in around 2927).
He is incarcerated in C-Max, the maximum security section of Pretoria Central Prison.
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