Jack the ripper was pure luck due to the technology then , zodiac killer once passed a police officer, but they suspected that the murder was committed by black people , so they didn't notice until another officer realized something was wrong.
杨钰环 it wasn't pure luck either he only went after prostitutes because they were shunned on so they knew the most secretive places where they wouldn't be found so he used their knowledge of the ally ways to kill them so he was smart...... do some research
It is scary to think that the actual smartest serial killers of all time will never be recognized /"acknowledged" because they were smart enough NOT to get caught...
Joey HM that's not true they can be very smart but get unlucky and have someone get a quick glimpse of their face then boom somone has a profile of the killer
Matt: "Your next door neighbours might not be who you think they are" Meanwhile I have lived in this flat for 4 years and I have never met the people living on the same floor as me.
His brother didn’t recognize his handwriting he recognized the writing style. The manifesto was published in a newspaper so he couldn’t have seen Ted’s handwriting
Marshall Lee Not necessarily. Jack killed in the 1880s when police work was just beginning to be established. Crime scenes were contaminated by the public and the police force was relatively small with just a handful patrolling certain areas. They were not coordinated and rarely communicated with other police divisions. I am certain if the murders occurred today, he'd be caught. He spent a long time with victims so if the crime scenes and evidence were controlled and protected instead of contaminated, he'd most likely leave a trace.
Very true reasonable insanity, but if you watch the show, H H Holmes was buried in cement, the grandchildren are going to dig up his coffin and see if they can identify the body was his, it is a very compelling argument, they could be one and the same
Don't know if the acid bath murderer is on the list. But since he was British, my great grandmother and her sisters knew him personally but, thankfully, weren't victims
Otaku PhanGirl Called Caterina George Haig wouldn't appear on a list like this this because he wasn't too clever. He left a trail of clumsy clues. He was driven by greed, and as such was caught. His methods were quite clever though - he let himself down by not thinking about consequences There are some fairly good documentaries on here about him
Back in the day, my grandma's friend met and got a ride along with escaping Ted Bundy. He (Grandmas friend) was walking along the road trying to hitchhike for a ride to the nearest town or city. Eventually one person came along, it was Ted Bundy himself. He recognized Ted from recent news papers. So he quickly got out and ran into the nearby woods, Ted Bundy drove around the road for 20 minutes before giving up looking for him.
My aunt met Ted Bundy. She was at a small diner in Orem, Utah after a terrible break-up. She was there alone trying to pull herself together when this man walked in. He sat down and introduced himself with an alias, putting on the facade that he was trying to comfort her and make her feel better. He told her he was a psychiatrist and invited him to go with him to his office to spend the night with him so he could help her even more. She used a pay phone to ask my grandparents for permission to go, and they told her no because they didn't know him. My grandfather asked what he looked like, and when she described him, my grandfather told her no and told her to wait there so they could come pick her up and told her not to go anywhere with him. My grandfather immediately called the police and told them that Ted Bundy was at a local diner with his daughter. By the time my grandparents and the police got there, Bundy was long gone. And yes, this is a true story.
I don’t really care all that much for serial killers or villains in particular it doesn’t interest me that much but Ted bundy’s story caught my eye and I started reading about him looking everything up watched the shows on Netflix and stuff I do Believe he was smart but he didn’t make smart decisions at times caused by the psychiatric conditions he had and his arrogance that he had
I rarely hear people talk about H H Holmes. My high school English class read Devil In The White City, and he's fascinating. Horrible, but fascinating. Also my best friend in that class looked like Ted Bundy. Like, we had a guest lecturer from the psych department give a talk on serial killers, and when Bundy came on screen, everyone, even the speaker, did a double take and gasped "MARTIN???" He just laughed. Obviously he's not Bundy, but I did wonder if they were related
Werevampiwolf he is rather (well I can't think of a word that better describes it) under appreciated... I guess under studied would be a better way to say it.
For Ted Bundy that was very true Given his intellect investigators used him in the hopes to find other serial killers. Eventually they had a good enough system were Ted was no longer needed and so he was fried
Really? Many psychos are considered smart since they learn to live with their 'weird' mind. They focus on everything and they sometimes even make themselves crazy.
Matthew: "Do you still feel comfortable talking to strangers?" Me: "Excuse you. I'm very anti-social, so I've never been comfortable talking to strangers😒"
Anti-social means to go against societies norms such as killing or being hyper aggressive(see anti-social personality disorder to understand what I mean), the correct term is a-social meaning to highly dislike or intentionally avoid social situations or activities hate when edgy teens mix those up
@@morrisonpez6830 Sir anti-social means not being social or wanting the company of others. Anti-social personality disorder is also called sociopathy which is a lot different from being antisocial.
Why would anyone assume serial killers have low intelligence? It takes skill to seek out victims, plan, and execute murders enough to do it more than once. The downfall for most of these killers is pride.
I know that Holmes keep firing and hiring people but it still shock's me. A man that had you build an section that has a chamber for human suffering, gas rooms, doors that lead to no where and other weird and creepy rooms. And they thought that was normal? I know workers only built a Part of a house and then was fired but I'm building a guy a gas room and I think that is normal? I am building a guy doors that lead to nowhere and I think that is normal? How did those people sit and say "Huh well the killer couldn't have been that guy with the gas room and other weird and unusual rooms and hallways."
First, this was the 1890s. A carpenter might not get the purpose of using a specific material for a wall, or understand the difference between water and gas pipes just at a glance. Second, there's legitimate reasons for any number of these things. An armored room adjoining the office? Sure, for storing money and sensitive paperwork. The scratch marks came later. Soundproofed rooms in a hotel? World's oldest profession has been known to generate noise, best not to ask. Gas can be used for heating and light, or in the kitchen. If you don't know where the kitchen is, putting a gas pipe in any given place, at that time in history, would not be suspicious. That's the fiendish cleverness of Holmes. Noone built enough strange things to register them as "off". I'll recommend Cayleigh Elise and Rob Dyke for Serial Killer stuff, as well as Pop Trigger's Murder with Friends. I can't seem to turn up a video on Holmes from any of these specifically, but there's chills to be had all the same.
mychemicalromance intherabbithole he never built enough things to consider being strange because of this he was able to avoid detection for a long time
Bundy is last to be named because he’s the most popular on this list. We are all waiting for him to be named, so putting him last forces us to watch the entire video. Smart
who the hell thinks serial killers are stupid though ? i mean the whole point of a serial killer is that he/she has killed multiple people and will do it again . so in order for them to actually be a serial killer they'd have to escape the police atleast three times . the stupids get caught almost immedietly and theyre locked in jail
lain iwakura oh yeah it's awful. There's been quite a few that after they get caught police get their "manifestos" talking about how they are going to be bigger than bundy or Manson. There was a couple guys a few years back that video taped everything. They got caught of course, but it was quite disturbing listening to them talk after just killing someone. They were so happy about it. I mean the zodiac even had a copycat. People are weird :/
lain iwakura yeah I don't know where that came from serial killers have a wrap for being psychopaths though people might get that mixed up with being insane or delusional causing the idea that they are not smart but if people used a dictionary more I'm sure that mistake would not happen as often
It’s seems like the 70’s had a wave of series killers, Bundy, Ridgeway, Dahmers, Kemper etc. Would have been interesting if they all competed with each other lol
Bundy was born nov 24,1946 not 1949 but everyone makes a blunder and I find your videos very entertaining.i was surprised I wasn't already subscribed as you are one of the first channels I watched,but I am now.keep up the awesome videos
"He is STILL in prison... Serving a life sentence" Uhhhh... Yea where ELSE would he be dude!? Ha.. Just the way he said it. Even just including the word "still" lolol
The smartest serial killers of all time either wouldn't be serial killers, or if they were, you wouldn't know they were the smartest becuase they'd be such experts at covering their tracks so no one would know that they even were.
Ethan Cohen Kid, some of these guys did just that. The one thing they can't hide was the absense of the victims. There was no trace of that particular person (which is why serial killers like Jack the Ripper are still anonymous.) But really, it is in fact currently impossible to erase all traces of yourself. There are traces in such small things like the dust, the air you breathe, witnesses, etc... Although you can (theoretically) eradicate these things they were at one point there, and at that point there was a trace of you. That is still part of history and could (theoretically) be uncovered once more in ways we could not possibly imagine. In short, your expectations are way too high.
