C.I.A. Special Activities Center
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Mass Killers
Serial Killers
American Mass Killers’ Connections to the C.I.A. and U.S. Military
The vast majority of American mass killers were members of the U.S. military before or during the time of their mass killings. The remaining minority were indirectly connected to the C.I.A. or U.S. military through their employers, associates, or family members. These men were secretly radicalized, incited, and provoked through surreptitious drugging, hypnosis, post-hypnotic suggestion, and induced dissociative states into committing their acts of mass killings by employees or private contractors of the C.I.A. or U.S. military. This highly classified, top secret intelligence program has been ongoing since 1903, the year of the first civilian mass shooting in the United States, committed by U.S. Army Spanish-American War veteran Gilbert Twigg.
Use of False Flag Attacks by Intelligence Agencies
A detailed chronological timeline of alleged false flag attacks committed by various government intelligence agencies.
42 Admitted False Flag Attacks
There are many documented false flag attacks, where a government carries out a terror attack … and then falsely blames its enemy for political purposes. In the following 42 instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admits to it, either orally or in writing.
State-sponsored terrorism is terrorist violence carried out with the active support of national governments provided to violent non-state actors. States can sponsor terrorist groups in several ways, including but not limited to funding terrorist organizations, providing training, supplying weapons, providing other logistical and intelligence assistance, and hosting groups within their borders. Because of the pejorative nature of the word, the identification of particular examples are often subject to political dispute and different definitions of terrorism.
CIA “Black Ops” and False Flag Terror: Ex-CIA Officer Philip Agee
Philip Agee was a CIA officer in Latin American during the 1950s and ’60s. Here he discusses how the CIA organized a series of bombings of churches (using far-right provocateurs) in an effort to put pressure on Ecuador’s President and to change Ecuador’s policy towards communist Cuba. The president would eventually be deposed – the second president deposed in Ecuador by the CIA in less than two years.
Deploying Informants, the FBI Stings Muslims
Behind nearly every “foiled terror plot” lurks a government informant sent to entrap hapless young Muslim men.
They’ve Done This Before: Five Past Cases of FBI Incitement
They’ve Done This Before: Five Past Cases of FBI Incitement
How the FBI Created Domestic Terrorism: 80 Years of Psychological Warfare Revealed
Operation Gladio was the codename for clandestine “stay-behind” operations of armed resistance that were organized by the Western Union (WU) (founded in 1948), and subsequently by NATO (formed in 1949) and by the CIA (established in 1947),[1][2] in collaboration with several European intelligence agencies during the Cold War.[3] Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind organizations, Operation Gladio is used as an informal name for all of them. Stay-behind operations were prepared in many NATO member countries, and in some neutral countries.[4]
According to several Western European researchers, the operation involved the use of assassination, psychological warfare, and false flag operations to delegitimize left-wing parties in Western European countries, and even went so far as to support anti-communist militias and right-wing terrorism as they tortured communists and assassinated them, such as Eduardo Mondlane in 1969.[5][6][7][8] The United States Department of State rejected the view that they supported terrorists and maintains that the operation served only to resist a potential invasion of Western European countries by the Soviet Union.[9]
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for CIA operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blame them on the Cuban government, and would be used to justify a war against Cuba. The possibilities detailed in the document included the remote control of civilian aircraft which would be secretly repainted as US Air Force planes,[2] a fabricated ‘shoot down’ of a US Air Force fighter aircraft off the coast of Cuba, the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas,[3] blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating terrorism in U.S. cities.[2] [4] The proposals were rejected by President John F. Kennedy.[5][6][7]
Fidel Castro had taken power in Cuba in 1959 and began allowing communists into the new Cuban government, nationalizing U.S. businesses and improving relations with the Soviet Union, arousing the concern of the U.S. military due to the Cold War. The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming the Cuban government for terrorist acts that would be perpetrated by the U.S. government.[1] To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of false evidence that would implicate the Cuban government.
Several other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets. The operation recommended developing a “Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington”, which involved the bombing of civilian targets, which was to be blamed on the Cuban government to paint a false image of Fidel Castro and misinform the American public.
The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. Although part of the US government’s anti-communist Cuban Project, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted; it was authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then rejected by President Kennedy. None of the false flag operations became active under the auspices of the Operation Northwoods proposals.
CIA Organized Secret Army in Western Europe
NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe – Amazon
NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe – ResearchGate
Abstract
This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War II. These secret soldiers were trained on remote islands in the Mediterranean and in unorthodox warfare centers in England and in the United States by the Green Berets and SAS Special Forces. The network was armed with explosives, machine guns and high-tech communication equipment hidden in underground bunkers and secret arms caches in forests and mountain meadows. In some countries the secret army linked up with right-wing terrorist who in a secret war engaged in political manipulation, harassment of left wing parties, massacres, coup d’ètats and torture. Codenamed ‘Gladio’ (‘the sword’), the Italian secret army was exposed in 1990 by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to the Italian Senate, whereupon the press spoke of “The best kept, and most damaging, political-military secret since World War II” (Observer, 18. November 1990) and observed that “The story seems straight from the pages of a political thriller.” (The Times, November 19, 1990). Ever since, so-called ‘stay-behind’ armies of NATO have also been discovered in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Greece and Turkey. They were internationally coordinated by the Pentagon and NATO and had their last known meeting in the NATO-linked Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC) in Brussels in October 1990.
Operation Gladio – Full 1992 BBC Documentary
Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, ‘Operation Gladio’ reveals ‘Gladio’, the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe. This BBC series is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades, and other left-wing groups. Known as ‘stay-behind’ networks, these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a future Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA ‘Strategy of Tension’. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies.
Operation Gladio is undisputed historical fact. Gladio was part of a post-World War II program set up by the CIA and NATO supposedly to thwart future Soviet/communist invasions or influence in Italy and Western Europe. In fact, it became a state-sponsored right-wing terrorist network, involved in false flag operations and the subversion of democracy.
The existence of Gladio was confirmed and admitted by the Italian government in 1990, after a judge, Felice Casson, discovered the network in the course of his investigations into right-wing terrorism. Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti admitted Gladio’s existence but tried to minimize its significance.
The main function of the Gladio-style groups, in the absence of Soviet invasion, seems to have been to discredit left-wing groups and politicians through the use of “the strategy of tension,” including false-flag terrorism. The strategy of tension is a concept for control and manipulation of public opinion through the use of fear, propaganda, agents provacateurs, terrorism, etc. The aim was to instill fear into the populace while framing communist and left-wing political opponents for terrorist atrocities.
Operation Gladio was the codename for a clandestine NATO post-WW2 “stay-behind” false flag operation in Europe during the Cold War. Its purpose was to galvanize public opinion against the radical left and provoke armed resistance in the event of a Soviet invasion.
Operation Gladio formed part of the ‘Strategy of Tension’, which was a theory that Western governments during the Cold war used tactics that aimed to divide, manipulate, and control public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, and false flag terrorist actions in order to achieve their strategic aims.
The theory began with allegations that the United States government, the Italian government, and the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 supported far-right terrorist groups in Italy and Turkey, where communism was growing in popularity, to spread panic among the population who would in turn demand stronger and more dictatorial governments.
Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO ‘stay-behind’ organizations, “Operation Gladio” is used as an informal name for all ‘stay-behind’ organizations. The name Gladio is the Italian form of gladius, a type of Roman short sword.
Gladio false flag far-right terrorist operations occurred in many NATO (and even some neutral) countries in order to blame communists and reduce any potential support among the general population.
The role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in sponsoring Gladio and the extent of its activities during the Cold War era, and its relationship to far-right wing terrorist attacks perpetrated in Italy during the “Years of Lead” (late 1960s to early 1980s) and other similar clandestine operations, is the subject of ongoing debate and investigation. Switzerland and Belgium have had parliamentary inquiries into the matter.
General Gianadelio Maletti, commander of the counter-intelligence section of the Italian military intelligence service from 1971 to 1975, stated that his men in the region of Venice discovered a far-right wing terrorist cell that was supplied military explosives from Germany, and he alleged that US intelligence services instigated and abetted far-right wing terrorism in Italy during the 1970s.
Christian Democrat Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti publicly recognized the existence of Gladio on October 24, 1990. Andreotti spoke of a “structure of information, response, and safeguard”, with arms caches and reserve officers. He gave to the Commissione Stragi, the parliamentary commission led by senator Giovanni Pellegrino in charge of investigations on bombings committed during the “Years Of Lead” in Italy, a list of 622 civilians who according to him were part of Gladio.
NATO’s “stay-behind” organizations were never called upon to resist a Soviet invasion, but their structures continued to exist after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Internal subversion and false flag operations were explicitly considered by the CIA and stay-behind paramilitaries. According to a November 13, 1990 Reuters cable, “André Moyen — a former member of the Belgian military security service and of the [stay-behind] network — said Gladio was not just anti-Communist but was for fighting subversion in general. He added that his predecessor had given Gladio 142 million francs ($4.6 million) to buy new equipment.” On various occasions, stay-behind movements became linked to right-wing terrorism, crime, and attempted coups d’état.
September 11 attacks
New York City, New York / Arlington, Virginia / Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania
September 11, 2001
2,996 killed, 25,000 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
September 11 Airplane Hijackers
American Airlines Flight 11 Hijackers (World Trade Center Building 1, North Tower – New York City)
1. Mohamed Atta (ringleader)
United States Department of Defense (DOD) associates (Maxwell Air Force Base / Norfolk Naval Air Station)
United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor associates (Maxwell Air Force Base / Norfolk Naval Air Station)
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Mohamedou Ould Slahi – Operation Cyclone / Rudi Dekkers / Wallace Hilliard / Charlotte County Airport / Wolfgang Bohringer / Luai Sakra / Omar “Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman’s network)
United States Federal Government / German Federal Government associates (Carl Duisberg Society)
Saudi Arabian Monarchical Government / Saudi House of Saud contractor associate (Esam Abbas Ghazzawi)
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associate (Mohammed Rafique Quadir Harunani)
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) associate (Omar Saeed Sheikh)
German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) associate (Mohammed Haydar Zammar)
German Army associate (Said Bahaji)
2. Abdulaziz al-Omari
United States Department of Defense (DOD) associates (Brooks Air Force Base)
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (US Consulate in Jeddah / Omar “Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman’s network)
3. Wail al-Shehri
Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF)
Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) brothers
Saudi Arabian Armed Forces (SAAF) uncle (Major General Faez Alshehri)
Saudi Arabian Armed Forces (SAAF) family
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (US Consulate in Jeddah)
4. Waleed al-Shehri
Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) brothers (Wail al-Shehri et al.)
Saudi Arabian Armed Forces (SAAF) uncle (Major General Faez Alshehri)
Saudi Arabian Armed Forces (SAAF) family
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (US Consulate in Jeddah)
5. Satam al-Suqami
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associate (Luai Sakra)
United Airlines Flight 175 Hijackers (World Trade Center Building 2, South Tower – New York City)
1. Marwan al-Shehhi
United Arab Emirates Army
United Arab Emirates Police half-brother
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Mohamedou Ould Slahi – Operation Cyclone / Rudi Dekkers / Wallace Hilliard / Charlotte County Airport / Omar “Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman’s network / Mohamedou Ould Slahi – Operation Cyclone)
Saudi Arabian Monarchical Government / House of Saud contractor associate (Esam Abbas Ghazzawi)
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associate (Mohammed Rafique Quadir Harunani)
German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) associate (Mohammed Haydar Zammar)
German Army associate (Said Bahaji)
2. Fayez Banihammad
United States Department of Defense (DOD) associates (Defense Language Institute)
Saudi Arabian Monarchical Government / General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associates (International Islamic Relief Organization)
3. Mohand al-Shehri
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Omar “Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman’s network)
4. Hamza al-Ghamdi
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associate (Luai Sakra)
Saudi Arabian House of Saud contractor associate (Fahad Abdullah Saleh Bakala)
5. Ahmed al-Ghamdi
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Luai Sakra / US Consulate in Jeddah)
United States Department of Defense (DOD) associates (Pensacola Naval Air Station)
Saudi Arabian House of Saud contractor associate (Fahad Abdullah Saleh Bakala)
American Airlines Flight 77 Hijackers (Pentagon building – Arlington, Virginia)
1. Hani Hanjour
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Operation Cyclone / US Consulate in Jeddah / Omar “Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman’s network)
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) associate (Eddie Shalev)
Saudi Arabian General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associate (Omar al-Bayoumi)
Saudi Arabian Monarchical Government / General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associate (Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman Hussayen)
2. Khalid al-Mihdhar
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (US Consulate in Jeddah / Omar “Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman’s network / Anwar al-Awlaki)
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) associate (Abdussattar Shaikh)
Saudi Arabian General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associates (Omar al-Bayoumi / Osama Bassnan / Modhar Abdullah)
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense (MOD) associate (Hamad Alotaibi – Saudi Embassy Military Division)
Royal Saudi Navy (RSN) associates (Osama Nooh / Lafi al-Harbi)
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associate (Fahad al-Thumairy)
Saudi Arabian Monarchical Government / General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associate (Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman Hussayen)
3. Majed Moqed
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associate (Luai Sakra)
4. Nawaf al-Hazmi
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associate (Luai Sakra / US Consulate in Jeddah / Omar “Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman’s network / Anwar al-Awlaki)
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) associate (Abdussattar Shaikh)
Saudi Arabian General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associates (Omar al-Bayoumi / Osama Bassnan / Modhar Abdullah)
Royal Saudi Navy (RSN) associates (Osama Nooh / Lafi al-Harbi)
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associate (Fahad al-Thumairy)
Saudi Arabian Monarchical Government / General Intelligence Directorate (GID) associate (Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman Hussayen)
5. Salem al-Hazmi
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (US Consulate in Jeddah)
United Airlines Flight 93 Hijackers (open field – Shanksville, Pennsylvania)
1. Ziad Jarrah
Lebanese Government father / uncle (Samir Jarrah / Gazi Jarrah – social security system officials)
Israeli Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad) paternal cousins (Ali Jarrah / Yusuf Jarrah)
East German State Security Service (Stasi) / German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) paternal cousin (Assem Jarrah)
Lebanese Government paternal uncle (Jamal Jarrah – Saudi-backed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri / Saudi-backed Lebanese Future Movement)
Lebanese Government family relative (Nesim Jarrah – senior customs officer)
United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) / Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (US 1 Fitness Center / Bert Rodriguez)
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Mohamedou Ould Slahi – Operation Cyclone / Huffman Aviation / Arne Kruithof / Omar “Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman’s network)
Saudi Arabian Monarchical Government / Saudi House of Saud contractor associate (Esam Abbas Ghazzawi)
German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) associate (Mohammed Haydar Zammar)
German Army associate (Said Bahaji)
2. Ahmed al-Haznawi
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (US Consulate in Jeddah)
3. Ahmed al-Nami
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Islamic Affairs father
Saudi Arabian Monarchical Government family
United States Department of Defense (DOD) associates (Pensacola Naval Air Station)
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (US Consulate in Jeddah)
4. Saeed al-Ghamdi
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Luai Sakra / US Consulate in Jeddah)
United States Department of Defense (DOD) associates (Pensacola Naval Air Station / Defense Language Institute)
Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense (MOD) associate (Hamad Alotaibi – Saudi Embassy Military Division)
Source(s):
1. The Illegal CIA Operation Behind the 9/11 Attacks
2. Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained At U.S. Bases
U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the planes that were used in Tuesday’s terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in the 1990s.
Three of the alleged hijackers listed their address on drivers licenses and car registrations as the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla.-known as the “Cradle of U.S. Navy Aviation,” according to a high-ranking U.S. Navy source.
Another of the alleged hijackers may have been trained in strategy and tactics at the Air War College in Montgomery, Ala., said another high-ranking Pentagon official. The fifth man may have received language instruction at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tex. Both were former Saudi Air Force pilots who had come to the United States, according to the Pentagon source.
But there are slight discrepancies between the military training records and the official FBI list of suspected hijackers-either in the spellings of their names or with their birthdates. One military source said it is possible that the hijackers may have stolen the identities of the foreign nationals who studied at the U.S. installations.
The five men were on a list of 19 people identified as hijackers by the FBI on Friday. The three foreign nationals training in Pensacola appear to be Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmad Alnami, who were among the four men who allegedly commandeered United Airlines Flight 93. That flight crashed into rural Pennsylvania. The third man who may have trained in Pensacola, Ahmed Alghamdi, allegedly helped highjack United Airlines Flight 75, which hit the south tower of the World Trade Center.
A defense official said two of the hijackers were former Saudi fighter pilots who had studied in exchange programs at the Defense Language School at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
(By The New York Times), WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 — Three of the men identified as the hijackers in the attacks on Tuesday have the same names as alumni of American military schools, the authorities said today. The men were identified as Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz al-Omari and Saeed al-Ghamdi.
The Defense Department said Mr. Atta had gone to the International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama; Mr. al-Omari to the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas; and Mr. al-Ghamdi to the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio in Monterey, Calif.
5. Who Did It? FBI Links Names to Terror Attacks
Investigators are trying to determine whether he is the same Mohamed Atta who received U.S. military training, intended for members of foreign military services, in how to use E-2 Hawkeye radar aircraft at Norfolk Naval Air Station, Va. The FBI has obtained the phone records from his mobile phone.
[…]
Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad
Possible residence: Delray Beach, Fla.
A Saudi Arabian national. The address on his pilot’s license was for a flight school in Tulsa, Okla., but the school has no record of his attendance. A person with that name attended the Lackland Air Force Base Defense Language Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Ahmed reportedly took flight training classes in Florida with Mohamed Atta.
We heard from someone who works on Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, the former wife of a CIA pilot. “I have a girlfriend who recognized Mohamed Atta. She met him at a party at the Officer’s Club,” she told us. “The reason she swears it was him here is because she didn’t just meet him and say hello. After she met him she went around and introduced him to the people that were with her. So she knows it was him.” Saudis were a highly visible presence at Maxwell Air Force Base, she said. “There were a lot of them living in an upscale complex in Montgomery. They had to get all of them out of here.” “They were all gone the day after the attack.
Jonestown – Deaths in Jonestown
Jonestown, Guyana
November 18, 1978
918 killed
Perpetrator(s):
James Warren Jones, 47
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
United States Army (USA) / World War I veteran father (James Thurman Jones)
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Dan Mitrione / Rabbi Maurice Davis / Walter Heady – John Birch Society / Jon Lodeesen / Timothy Stoen / George Philip Blakey / Maria Katsaris – CIA father / Forbes Burnham / Richard Dwyer)
United States Armed Forces / Department of Defense (DOD) / Department of State (DOS) associate (Richard McCoy)
United States Navy (USN) Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) associate (Terri Buford – daughter of Adm. Charles T. Buford)
United States Army (USA) Intelligence associate (Mark Lane)
United States Army (USA) Chemical Warfare associate (Dr. Laurence Layton)
United States Marine Corps (USMC) associates (Charles Beikman / Tim Carter)
United States Government (USG) informant associate (Michael Prokes)
United States Government (USG) associates (Carter Administration / Rosalynn Carter / Walter Mondale / Joseph Califano)
California State Government associates (Jerry Brown / Mervyn Dymally)
San Francisco Municipal Government / United States Navy (USN) associates (George Moscone / Harvey Milk)
San Francisco Municipal Government / California Army National Guard (CANG) associate (Willie Brown)
San Francisco Municipal Government associates (Joseph Freitas / Art Agnos)
San Francisco Sheriff’s Department associate (Richard Hongisto)
Indianapolis Municipal Government associate (Charles Boswell)
Source(s):
1. Peoples Temple in San Francisco – Political beginnings
2. Peoples Temple in San Francisco – The San Francisco Housing Authority Commission
3. Peoples Temple in San Francisco – Radicals
4. Peoples Temple in San Francisco – Political activities at the Temple
5. The Secret Life of Jim Jones: A Parapolitical Fugue
What follows is an interim report about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. In so far as it has a central thesis, it is that the “mass-suicide” that took place at Jonestown in 1978 was, in reality, a massacre. It seems to me that this much can be proven by reference to the medical evidence—particularly the evidence collected by the Guyanese pathologist, Dr. Leslie Mootoo.
The importance of this conclusion should be obvious. To suggest that hundreds of members of the Peoples Temple murdered their children and killed themselves is, in this writer’s view, a blood libel on those who died there. Indeed, it seems comparable to contending that because Jews worked in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and walked to their deaths in gas-chambers, they, too, committed “suicide.”
A second argument put forward in these pages is that Jones instigated the massacre because he feared that Congressman Leo Ryan’s investigation would disgrace him. Specifically, Jones appears to have been terrified that Ryan and the press would uncover information that the leftist founder of the Peoples Temple was for many years a witting stooge, or agent, of the FBI and the CIA. This concern was, I believe, mirrored in various precincts of the U.S. intelligence community, where it was feared that Ryan’s investigation would embarrass the CIA by linking Jones to some of the Agency’s most volatile programs and operations.
This may be why the cult-leader’s 201-file was purged by the CIA immediately after Jones’s friend, and suspected case-officer, Dan Mitrione, died.[1] And it may also be why Congressman Ryan’s contingent was escorted to Jonestown by the CIA’s undercover chief-of-station in Guyana, Richard Dwyer.[2]
What I believe and what I can prove are, in some instances, two different things. There is no smoking gun in the pages that follow. But I think the reader will agree that there are certainly a great many empty cartridges lying about—enough, perhaps, to stimulate further investigation by others.
That said, it must also be said that I am hardly the first to suggest that the Jonestown massacre was the outcome of someone’s secret machinations. The affair is inherently mysterious, and conspiracy theories abound—the most prominent among them that “Jonestown” was a CIA mind-control experiment.
The view has been put forward in a number of venues. Congressman Ryan’s close friend and chief-of-staff, Joe Holsinger, is persuaded of it. The Edwin Mellen Press has even published a book on the subject, answering its titular question — Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? — in the affirmative.[3] By no means, finally, there is the work of well-intentioned conspiracists such as John Judge, one of the first writers to approach the story with as much skepticism as horror.
6. Jonestown – Adkins and the NOIWON report
I have received, by cleft stick, authoritative information to the effect that the CIA Chief of Station in Georgetown, Guyana at the time of the Jonestown massacre was James Adkins – and not, as previously reported, the late Richard Dwyer (then the State Department’s Deputy Chief of Mission in Guyana).
In 1980 Joseph Holsinger testified in front of the house foreign affairs subcommittee stating that he believed that CIA operatives working at the US embassy in Georgetown had used Jim Jones and his settlement in a behavioral modification experiment. Holsinger claimed to have information from an unimpeachable source that a CIA agent was present during the assassination of congressman Ryan. He alleged that said agent was likely the deputy chief of missions to Guyana Richard Dwyer. Larry Layton’s defense attorney also pointed this out but was not allowed to question Richard Dwyer in court about his time in South America or his work for the CIA.
In his statement Holsinger claimed that an elaborate cover-up had been launched by the US government to conceal the truth about Jonestown. A Berkeley professor who had been involved with mind control projects had sent Joseph Holsinger a document called the Penal Colony. This document allegedly proved that the CIA had lied to congress about ending its mind control experiment studies and was in fact transferring resources and projects from institutions and prisons to religious groups. Joseph Holsinger speculated that MKUltra’s new focus was on cults and the CIA had worked with Jim Jones to experiment on the Peoples Temple.
Notes from the Editors of the Jonestown Institute:
Joe Holsinger presented the Penal Colony article during his 1980 presentation on “Psycho-Social Implications of the Jonestown Phenomenon.” According to Holsinger, the article was written in January 1979 by a Berkeley psychologist “who has asked that his name be withheld.” It is almost certain that the author is Richard Ofshe, a professor of social psychology at UC-Berkeley and an associate of Margaret Singer.
9. Jones Commune Found Stocked With Drugs to Control the Mind
The People’s Temple commune at Jonestown was stocked with thousands of doses of dangerous drugs, smuggled into Guyana. Two survivors of the sect said at least some of the drugs were used to control those who might defect.
A list of the drug inventory found in Jonestown shows large supplies of depressants. Survivors and law enforcement officials here said at least some of these were used to control the behavior of persons viewed as dangerous by the Rev. Jim Jones, the leader of the Temple.
Included in the drug warehouse were Quaaludes, Demerol, Valium, morphine and 11,000 doses of Thorazine, a drug used to calm people with extreme mental problems.
Checks with medical officials and medical journals produced a profile of drug supply that promoted suicidal tendencies, could cause hallucinations, blurred vision, confusion, speech disturbances, involuntary movements and emotional euphoria and depression.
Since there were no records, it was impossiblelo determine how frequently or extensively the drugs were used.
Perhaps Imposed Forcefully
Visitors to Jonestown have reported there were indications that these drugs were used liberally, and perhaps imposed forcefully in some cases, in the hourslong mass killings and suicides in which more than 900 people died. Some had drunk punch laced with cyanide.
The drug inventory, which has not been completed, is being made by brand names. It shows that the majority of the drugs were manufactured by United States concerns. They were smuggled into Guyana by members of the.People’s Temple to avert this country’s strict importation regulations on pharmaceuticals, officials said.
Drugs bought for use in Guyana must be registered with and cleared through government agency. None of the drugs found in Jonestown were, according to officials in the drug industry here.
Spokesmen for United States concerns that manufactured the drugs ,found at Jonestown denied any involvement.
Dr. Joyce H. Lowinson, a psychiatrist and member of President Carter’s Strategy Council on Drug Abuse Prevention, said the list of drugs from the People’s Temple indicated “there were a lot of psychotic patients, or they were using them to control people.”
Dale Parks, a nursing supervisor at Jonestown who is a trained therapist for respiratory ailments, said that he knew some of the drugs were used to control would‐be defectors in the commune’s “extended care unit.” But he professed shock at the extent of the drugs found there, saying, “Oh, my God, I don’t believe it.”
Mr. Parks fled Jonestown on Nov. 18 with Representative Leo J. Ryan, a California Democrat who had been there on fact‐finding mission. A short time later, Mr. Ryan, three American newsmen and Mr. Parks’s mother were slain at a remote airstrip.
“Those are absolutely hard‐line, hardcore drugs,” Mr. Parks said when read partial inventory from Jonestown.
“There’s no way that many people were receiving treatment,” he said in reference to the amount of drugs found in Jonestown. “I know they were using things to keep people under control, but not like this.”
Control Sessions Explained
According to Mr. Parks, the control sessions took place in the extended‐care unit of the commune, which conissted of eight beds separated from the regular medical facilities.
“If a person wanted to leave Jonestown or if there was a breach of rules, one was taken to the extended care unit,” he said. “It was a rehabilitation place, where one would be reintegrated back into the community. The people were given drugs tO keep them under control.”
After a few days or weeks, the patients (lost their desire to leave and no further behavioral problems were anticipated, Mr. Parks said.
Another former Jonestown resident, who refused to let his name be used, said, “People who wanted to leave were fed drugs like Thorazine.”
Many of the drugs are habit‐forming, according to medical journals. Some are especially dangerous, according to the journals, and have precipitated unpredictable, severe and occasionally fatal reactions.
10. The Black Hole of Guyana: The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre – Who Was Jim Jones?
Jim Jones grew up in Lynn, in southern Indiana. His father was an active member of the local Ku Klux Klan that infest that area.[77] His friends found him a little strange, and he was interested in preaching the Bible and religious rituals.[78] Perhaps more important was his boyhood friendship with Dan Mitrione, confirmed by local residents.[79] In the early 50s, Jones set out to be a religious minister, and was ordained at one point by a Christian denomination in Indianapolis.[80] It was during this period that he met and married his lifelong mate, Marceline.[81] He also had a small business selling monkeys, purchased from the research department at Indiana State University in Bloomington.[82]
A Bible-thumper and faith healer, Jones put on revivalist tent shows in the area, and worked close to Richmond, Indiana. Mitrione, his friend, worked as chief of police there, and kept him from being arrested or run out of town.[83] According to those close to him, he used wet chicken livers as evidence of “cancers” he was removing by “divine powers.”[84] His landlady called him “a gangster who used a Bible instead of a gun.”[85] His church followers included Charles Beikman, a [Marine] who was to stay with him to the end.[86] Beikman was later charged with the murders of several Temple members in Georgetown, following the massacre.[87]
Dan Mitrione, Jones’ friend, moved on to the CIA-financed International Police Academy, where police were trained in counter-insurgency and torture techniques from around the world.[88] Jones, a poor, itinerant preacher, suddenly had money in 1961 for a trip to “minister” in Brazil, and he took his family with him.[89] By this time, he had “adopted” Beikman, and eight children, both Black and white.[90] His neighbors in Brazil distrusted him. He told them he worked with U.S. Navy Intelligence. His transportation and groceries were being provided by the U.S. Embassy as was the large house he lived in.[91] His son, Stephan, commented that he made regular trips to Belo Horizonte, site of the CIA headquarters in Brazil.[92] An American police advisor, working closely with the CIA at that point, Dan Mitrione was there as well.[93] Mitrione had risen in the ranks quickly, and was busy training foreign police in torture and assassination methods. He was later kidnapped by Tupermaro guerillas in Uruguay, interrogated and murdered.[94] Costa Gravas made a film about his death titled State of Siege.[95] Jones returned to the United States in 1963, with $10,000 in his pocket.[96] Recent articles indicate that Catholic clergy are complaining about CIA funding of other denominations for “ministry” in Brazil; perhaps Jones was an early example.[97]
With his new wealth, Jones was able to travel to California and establish the first People’s Temple in Ukiah, California, in 1965. Guarded by dogs, electric fences and guard towers, he set up Happy Havens Rest Home.[98] Despite a lack of trained personnel, or proper licensing, Jones drew in many people at the camp. He had elderly, prisoners, people from psychiatric institutions, and 150 foster children, often transferred to care at Happy Havens by court orders.[99] He was contacted there by Christian missionaries from World Vision, an international evangelical order that had done espionage work for the CIA in Southeast Asia.[100] He met “influential” members of the community and was befriended by Walter Heady, the head of the local chapter of the John Birch Society.[101] He used the members of his “church” to organize local voting drives for Richard Nixon’s election, and worked closely with the republican party.[102] He was even appointed chairman of the county grand jury.[103]
“The Messiah from Ukiah,” as he was known then, met and recruited Timothy Stoen, a Stanford graduate and member of the city DA’s office, and his wife Grace.[104] During this time, the Layton family, Terri Buford and George Phillip Blakey and other important members joined the Temple.[105] The camp “doctor,” Larry Schacht, claims Jones got him off drugs and into medical school during this period.[106] These were not just street urchins. Buford’s father was a Commander for the fleet at the Philadelphia Navy Base for years.[107] The Laytons were a well-heeled, aristocratic family. Dr. Layton donated at least a quarter-million dollars to Jones. His wife son and daughter were all members of the Temple.[108] George Blakey, who married Debbie Layton, was from a wealthy British family. He donated $60,000 to pay the lease on the 27,000-acre Guyana site in 1974.[109] Lisa Philips Layton had come to the U.S. from a rich Hamburg banking family in Germany.[110] Most of the top lieutenants around Jones were from wealthy, educated backgrounds, many with connections to the military or intelligence agencies. These were the people who would set up the bank accounts, complex legal actions, and financial records that put people under the Temple’s control.[111]
Stoen was able to set up important contacts for Jones as Assistant DA in San Francisco.[112] Jones changed his image to that of a liberal.[113] He had spent time studying the preaching methods of Fr. Divine in Philadelphia, and attempted to use them in a manipulative way on the streets of San Francisco. Fr. Divine ran a religious and charitable operation among Philadelphia’s poor Black community.[114] Jones was able to use his followers in an election once again, this time for Mayor Moscone. Moscone responded in 1976, putting Jones in charge of the city Housing Commission.[115] In addition, many of his key followers got jobs with the city Welfare Department and much of the recruitment to the Temple in San Francisco came from the ranks of these unemployed and dispossessed people.[116] Jones was introduced to many influential liberal and radical people there, and entertained or greeted people ranging from Roslyn Carter to Angela Davis.[117]
Our story so far has hinted at connections to U.S. intelligence, such as the long-term friendship of Jones and CIA associate Dan Mitrione. But the ties are much more direct when a full picture of the operation is revealed. To start with, the history of Forbes Burnham’s rise to power in Guyana is fraught with the clear implication of a CIA coup d’état to oust troublesome independent leader Cheddi Jagan.[196] In addition, the press and other evidence indicated the presence of a CIA agent on the scene at the time of the massacre. This man, Richard Dwyer, was working as Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy in Guyana.[197] Identified in Who’s Who in the CIA, he has been involved since 1959, and was last stationed in Martinique.[198] Present at the camp site and the airport strip, his accounts were used by the State Department to confirm the death of Leo Ryan. At the massacre, Jones said, “Get Dwyer out of here” just before the killings began.[199]
Other Embassy personnel, who knew the situation at Jonestown well, were also connected to intelligence work. U.S. Ambassador John Burke, who served in the CIA with Dwyer in Thailand, was an Embassy official described by Philip Agee as working for the CIA since 1963. A Reagan appointee to the CIA, he is still employed by the Agency, usually on State Department assignments.[200] Burke tried to stop Ryan’s investigation.[201] Also at the Embassy was Chief Consular officer Richard McCoy, described as “close to Jones,” who worked for military intelligence and was “on loan” from the Defense Department at the time of the massacre.[202] According to a standard source, “The U.S. embassy in Georgetown housed the Georgetown CIA station. It now appears that the majority and perhaps all of the embassy officials were CIA officers operating under State Department covers . . .”[203] Dan Webber, who was sent to the site of the massacre the day after, was also named as CIA.[204] Not only did the State Department conceal all reports of violations at Jonestown from Congressman Leo Ryan, but the Embassy regularly provided Jones with copies of all congressional inquiries under the Freedom of Information Act.[205]
Ryan had challenged the Agency’s overseas operations before, as a member of the House Committee responsible for oversight on intelligence. He was an author of the controversial Hughes-Ryan Amendment that would have required CIA disclosure in advance to the congressional committees of all planned covert operations. The Amendment was defeated shortly after his death.[206]
American intelligence agencies have a sordid history of cooperative relations with Nazi war criminals and international fascism.[207] In light of this, consider the curious ties of the family members of the top lieutenants to Jim Jones. The Layton family is one example. Dr. Laurence Layton was Chief of Chemical and Biological Warfare Research at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, for many years, and later worked as Director of Missile and Satellite Development at the Navy Propellant Division, Indian Head, Maryland.[208] His wife, Lisa, had come from a rich German family. Her father, Hugo, had represented I.G. Farben as a stockbroker.[209] Her stories about hiding her Jewish past from her children for most of her life, and her parents’ escape from a train heading for a Nazi concentration camp seem shallow, as do Dr. Layton’s Quaker religious beliefs. The same family sent money to Jonestown regularly.[210] Their daughter, Debbie, met and married George Philip Blakey in an exclusive private school in England. Blakey’s parents have extensive stock holdings in Solvay drugs, a division of the Nazi cartel I.G. Farben.[211] He also contributed financially.[212]
Terri Buford’s father, Admiral Charles T. Buford, worked with Navy Intelligence.[213] In addition, Blakey was reportedly running mercenaries from Jonestown to CIA-backed UNITA forces in Angola.[214] Maria Katsaris’ father was a minister with the Greek Orthodox Church, a common conduit of CIA fundings, and Maris claimed she had proof he was CIA. She was shot in the head, and her death was ruled a suicide, but at one point Charles Beikman was charged with killing her.[215] On their return to the United States, the “official” survivors were represented by attorney Joseph Blatchford who had been named prior to that time in a scandal involving CIA infiltration of the Peace Corps.[216] Almost everywhere you look at Jonestown, U.S. intelligence and fascism rear their ugly heads.
The connection of intelligence agencies to cults is nothing new. A simple but revealing example is the Unification Church, tied to both the Korean CIA (i.e., American CIA in Korea), and the international fascist network known as the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). The Moonies hosted WACL’s first international conference.[217] What distinguished Jonestown was both the level of control and the openly sinister involvement. It was imperative that they cover their tracks.[218]
Maria Katsaris sent Michael Prokes, Tim Carter, and another guard out at the last minute with $500,000 cash in a suitcase, and instructions for a drop point. Her note inside suggests the funds were destined for the Soviet Union.[219] Prokes later shot himself at a San Francisco press conference, where he claimed to be an FBI informant.[220] Others reported meeting with KGB agents and plans to move to Russia.[221] This disinformation was part of a “red smear” to be used if they had to abandon the operation. The Soviet Union had no interest in the money and even less in Jonestown. The cash was recovered by the Guyanese government.[222]
Their hidden funding may include more intelligence links. A mysterious account in Panama, totaling nearly $5 million in the name of an “Associacion Pro Religiosa do San Pedro, S.A.” was located.[223] This unknown Religious Association of St. Peter was probably one of the twelve phony companies set up by Archbishop Paul Marcinkus to hide the illegal investments of Vatican funds through the scandal-ridden Banco Ambrosiano.[224] A few days after the story broke about the accounts, the President of Panama, and most of the government resigned, Roberto Calvi of Banco Ambrosiano was murdered, and the Jonestown account disappeared from public scrutiny and court record.[225]
The direct orders to cover up the cause of death came from the top levels of the American government. Zbigniew Brezezinsky delegated to Robert Pastor, and he in turn ordered Lt. Col. Gordon Sumner to strip the bodies of identity.[226] Pastor is now Deputy Director of the CIA.[227] One can only wonder how many others tied to the Jonestown operation were similarly promoted.
12. Mark Lane (author) – Peoples Temple
13. Mark Lane – Spartacus Educational
Mark Lane, the middle of three children of Harry Lane, an accountant, and Betty Lane, a secretary, was born in Brooklyn on 24th February, 1927. After leaving James Madison High School, he joined the US Army in 1943. (1)
During the Second World War he served in US Army intelligence in Vienna. After leaving the army he studied at Long Island University and took a degree at Brooklyn Law School. (2)
14. A Cult Mother Led Children to Death
She led her children — Martin, 8 years old; Christa, 10, and Leanne, 22 — into a bathroom, and motioned to Charles Beikman, a 43‐year‐old former marine, to follow.
15. ‘How Did This Happen, and How Did I Not See It Coming?’
Tim Carter was one of the few eyewitnesses to survive the day of the massacre at the Jonestown settlement.
[…]
Prior to joining the Peoples Temple, Carter spent three years with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam. He got out in 1968, three days before the Tet Offensive.
16. Michael Prokes’ Additional Statement
A few days later I received a call at my office from a man who asked if I would meet with him to discuss the Peoples Temple. I found the request very curious; I said o.k. and we met the next day in a Stockton restaurant. The man told me his name was Gary Jackson. I asked him what he did and he said that he worked for the government, but I couldn’t get him to be more specific. He asked what prompted my interest in Peoples Temple. I asked him how he knew that I was interested in the Temple. He paused for a few moments, then said something to the effect – “There are ways if you think about it.” The answer was obvious – Jim Jones’ phone was tapped.
[…]
He said if I could be successful at joining the Temple full-time as a staff member and report regularly on what was going on inside the organization, he would arrange for me to be paid $200 a week.
[…]
As time passed, I gradually began to feel conflict over my role as an informant, even though I wasn’t providing what one might call valuable or sensitive information. I was starting to identify with the problems and sufferings of the members.
[…]
I could no longer justify informing on Jones and his organization. During my next contact, I told Jackson what I thought of Jones and he desperately tried to convince me I was wrong. […] He urged me not to tell Jones about him and I told him I saw no reason why I should do that unless I suspected someone else was taking my place.
Oklahoma City bombing
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 19, 1995
168 killed, 680 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Timothy James McVeigh, 27
United States Army (USA)
United States Army (USA) Special Operations Forces (SOF)
United States Army (USA) associates (Terry Nichols, Michael Fortier)
Source(s):
1. Timothy McVeigh – Military career
In May 1988, at the age of 20, McVeigh enlisted in the United States Army and attended Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.[19] While in the military, McVeigh used much of his spare time to read about firearms, sniper tactics, and explosives.[20] McVeigh was reprimanded by the military for purchasing a “White Power” T-shirt at a Ku Klux Klan rally where they were objecting to black servicemen who wore “Black Power” T-shirts around a military installation (primarily Army).[21] McVeigh was a top-scoring gunner with the 25mm cannon of the Bradley Fighting Vehicles used by the 1st Infantry Division and was promoted to sergeant. After being promoted, McVeigh earned a reputation of assigning undesirable work to black servicemen and using racial slurs.[1] He was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, before being deployed on Operation Desert Storm. In an interview before his execution, McVeigh said that he hit an Iraqi tank more than 500 yards away on his first day in the war and then the Iraqis surrendered. He also decapitated an Iraqi soldier with cannon fire from 1,100 yards away. He said he was later shocked to see carnage on the road while leaving Kuwait City after U.S. troops routed the Iraqi Army. McVeigh received several service awards, including the Bronze Star Medal,[22][page needed][1] National Defense Service Medal,[23] Southwest Asia Service Medal,[24] Army Service Ribbon,[24] and the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal.[23] McVeigh aspired to join the United States Army Special Forces (SF). After returning from the Gulf War, he entered the selection program, but washed out[clarification needed] on the second day of the 21-day assessment and selection course for the Special Forces. McVeigh decided to leave the Army and was honorably discharged in 1991.[25]
[…] He met his future co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, during a brief stint in the U.S. Army, which ended in 1989 when he requested a hardship discharge after less than one year of service.[5] […]
[…] Nichols had never liked farm life, and in 1988, at the age of 33, he tried to escape it by enlisting in the United States Army.[22] He was sent to Fort Benning next to Columbus, Georgia for basic training. As the oldest man in his platoon, he had difficulty with the physical aspect of the training,[23] and was sometimes called “grandpa” by the other men. However, he was soon made the platoon guide because of his age.[5] Timothy McVeigh was in his platoon, and they quickly became close friends. They had a common background: both men grew up in white rural areas and disliked working with black people. Both had tried college for a while and had parents who were divorced.[24] They shared political views[2] and interests in gun collecting and the survivalist movement.[5] The two were later stationed together at Fort Riley in Junction City, Kansas,[5] where they met and became friends with their future accomplice, Michael Fortier.[25] Nichols’s wife filed for divorce soon after he joined the Army. Due to a conflict over childcare,[6] he requested and was given a hardship discharge in May 1989 to return home to take care of his son, who was seven years old at the time.[5] As he departed, he told a fellow soldier that he would be starting his own military organization soon, and would have an unlimited supply of weapons.[25] […]
4. Post-conviction – Allegations by Nichols
[…] In a 2007 affidavit,[51] Nichols claimed that in 1992 McVeigh claimed to have been recruited for undercover missions while serving in the military.[52] Nichols also said that in 1995 McVeigh told him that FBI official Larry Potts, who had supervised the Ruby Ridge and Waco operations, had directed McVeigh to blow up a government building.[52] […]
2011 Norway attacks
Oslo / Utoya, Norway
July 22, 2011
77 killed, 319 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Anders Behring Breivik, 32
Freemason (Lodge of St. Olaf at the Three Columns)
Norwegian Army stepfather (Tore Tollefsen)
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs commercial counselor father (Jens Breivik)
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs vice consul stepmother (Tove Øvermo)
Source(s):
1. Breivik on His Personal Life (An Interview with Himself)
Q: Can you describe your childhood?
A: My father, Jens Breivik, had three children from a former marriage; Erik, Jan and Nina while my mother, Wenche Behring had a daughter from a past relationship; Elisabeth. My parents divorced when I was 1 years old. Me, my sister and my parents; Wenche (a nurse), Jens (siviløkonom) was living in London at the time as he worked as a diplomat for the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London (and later Paris). Jens stayed in London and later married Tove Øvermo who also worked in the Royal Norwegian Embassy. Wenche, Elisabeth and myself moved back to Oslo and settled on Skøyen, Oslo West. My mother, Wenche met my stepfather, Tore, who was a captain in the Norwegian Army. My stepmother, Tove, later became a Vice Consul and my father was a Commercial Councellor for the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs abroad, first in London and then in Paris. […]
2. Anders Behring Breivik – Name and early life
[…] Breivik was born in Oslo on 13 February 1979,[47][48] the son of Wenche Behring (1946–2013 cancer), a nurse, and Jens David Breivik (born 1935), a civil economist, who worked as a diplomat for the Norwegian Embassy in London and later in Paris.[49]
3. Anders Behring Breivik – Later childhood and adolescence
[…] Breivik lived with his mother and his elder half-sister in the West End of Oslo,[60][55] regularly visiting his father and stepmother in France, until they divorced when he was 12. His mother remarried, to an officer in the Norwegian Army.[51] […]
4. Anders Behring Breivik – Adulthood
Breivik was exempt from conscription to military service in the Norwegian Army and had no military training.[69] The Norwegian Defence Security Department, which conducts the vetting process, say he was deemed “unfit for service” at the mandatory conscript assessment.[70] […]
5. Anders Behring Breivik – Prison life
[…] Since 2015 or March 2014,[163] Breivik has received visits from a prison visitor—a military chaplain (ranked major)—every two weeks;[164][165] this visitor has been paid 164,000 Norwegian kroner, by the government as of 1 January 2016, in regard to [visiting] Breivik.[166] His mother visited him five times before her death in 2013[167] and researcher Mattias Gardell interviewed Breivik in 2014,[168] but no other visitors requested by Breivik have been granted access.[167] […]
6. Anders Behring Breivik – Freemasons
At the time of the attacks, Breivik was a member of the Lodge of St. Olaf at the Three Columns in Oslo[314] and had displayed photographs of himself in partial Masonic regalia on his Facebook profile.[315][316] In interviews after the attacks, his lodge said it had only minimal contact with him, and that when made aware of Breivik’s membership, Grand Master of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons, Ivar A. Skaar, issued an edict immediately excluding him from the fraternity based upon the acts he carried out and the values that appear to have motivated them.[317][318] According to the Lodge records, Breivik took part in a total of four meetings between his initiation in February 2007 and his exclusion from the order (one each to receive the first, second, and third degrees, and one other meeting)[319] and held no offices or functions within the Lodge.[320] Skaar said that although Breivik was a member of the Order, his actions showed that he was in no way a Mason.[319]
7. Anders Behring Breivik – Knights Templar
In his manifesto and during interrogation, Breivik claimed membership in an “international Christian military order”, which he called the new Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici (PCCTS, Knights Templar). According to Breivik, the order was established as an “anti-Jihad crusader-organisation” that “fights” against “Islamic suppression” in London in April 2002 by nine men: two Englishmen, a Frenchman, a German, a Dutchman, a Greek, a Russian, a Norwegian (apparently Breivik), and a Serb (supposedly the initiator, not present, but represented by Breivik). The compendium gives a “2008 estimate” that there are between 15 and 80 “Justiciar Knights” in Western Europe, and an unknown number of civilian members, and Breivik expects the order to take political and military control of Western Europe.[334] Breivik gave his own code name in the organisation as Sigurd and that of his assigned “mentor” as Richard, after the twelfth-century crusaders and kings Sigurd Jorsalfar of Norway and Richard the Lionheart of England.[335] He called himself a one-man cell of this organisation, and claimed that the group has several other cells in Western countries, including two more in Norway.[96] On 2 August 2011, Breivik offered to provide information about these cells, but on unrealistic preconditions.[336] After an intense investigation assisted internationally by several security agencies, the Norwegian police did not find any evidence a PCCTS network existed, or that an alleged 2002 London meeting ever took place. The police concluded Breivik’s claim was a figment of his imagination because of his schizophrenia diagnosis, and were confident that he had no accessories. Breivik continued to insist he belonged to an order and that his one-man cell was “activated” by another clandestine cell.[337] On 14 August 2012, several Norwegian politicians and media outlets received an email from someone claiming to be Breivik’s “deputy”, demanding that Breivik be released and making more threats against Norwegian society.[338]
Order of the Solar Temple – Mass murders and suicides
Morin-Heights / Saint-Casimir, Canada / Cheiry / Salvan, Switzerland / Vercors mountain, France
October 1994 – March 23, 1997
74 killed
Perpetrator(s):
Luc Jouret, 46 / Joseph Di Mambro, 70
Belgian Army
Source(s):
Jouret was born on 18 October 1947 in what was then the Belgian Congo, Africa. His Belgian parents returned to their homeland in the 1950s, and Jouret attended the Free University of Brussels from which he received his medical degree.[2] During his college years he joined the Walloon Communist Youth, which resulted in the police placing him under surveillance. He graduated with his medical degree in 1974.[2] Two years after graduation, in 1976, he joined the Belgian Army and became a paratrooper. While in the army he participated in the Battle of Kolwezi, a joint French and Belgian airborne operation which resulted in the liberation of hostages from the city of Kolwezi.[2] Following his time in the army, he began a formal study of homeopathy and qualified as a homeopathic practitioner in France.[2] He travelled widely studying various forms of alternative and spiritual healing; it is known that he visited the Philippines in 1977, and he later stated he had visited China, Peru, and India.[2] […] The Solar Temple wedded the Templars tradition to the New Age. It drew its authority in part by an appeal to a lineage of grand masters that was claimed to go back to the medieval Order of the Temple that was suppressed at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Di Mambro assigned members a significant role as agents to bring the New Age into visible presence in the world. The temple offered a program of personal spiritual progress through the practice of occult disciplines and rituals that invoked the power of the Great White Brotherhood to bring forth the New Age.[…]
2017 Las Vegas shooting
Las Vegas, Nevada
October 1, 2017
61 killed, 867 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Stephen Craig Paddock, 64
United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor employer (Lockheed Martin)
United States Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)
United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
United States Postal Service (USPS)
United States Postal Service (USPS) mother (Irene Hudson)
United States Navy (USN) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Benjamin Paddock)
United States Air Force (USAF) Academy brother (Patrick Paddock)
Source(s):
1. Stephen Paddock – Career and gambling
Paddock worked as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service from 1975 to 1978. After that, he worked as an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent until 1984. He was a Defense Contract Audit Agency auditor for one year, in 1985. Toward the end of the 1980s, Paddock worked for three years as an internal auditor for a company that later merged to form Lockheed Martin.[24] […]
2. Stephen Paddock – Personal life
[…] In 2010, Paddock applied for and received a United States passport.[40] He went on 20 cruise ship voyages, visiting several foreign ports including ones in Spain, Italy, Greece, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. He was accompanied by his girlfriend on nine of them.[41] They went to the Philippines together in 2013 and 2014.[42] During the last year of his life, they traveled on a cruise to the Middle East.[43] Paddock had his pilot’s license since at least 2004 and owned two small planes.[14][44] […]
3. Benjamin Hoskins Paddock – Early life
Paddock was born at St. Nicholas Hospital[6] in Sheboygan, Wisconsin on November 1, 1926,[7][nb 1] the son of Benjamin Hoskins Paddock Sr. and Olga Emelia Elizabeth Paddock (née Gunderson).[11] He served in the United States Navy as an S2 (Seaman Second Class) during World War II.[8] […]
4. Las Vegas Gunman Stephen Paddock Was A High-Stakes Gambler Who ‘Kept to Himself’ Before Massacre
[…] Their father died a few years ago, but Eric Paddock grew up thinking their father was already dead. He found out otherwise when Patrick went to the Air Force Academy and was told his father was a decorated veteran and still alive. […]
5. Las Vegas Gunman’s Criminal Father Vanished From Sons’ Lives
[…] Benjamin Hoskins Paddock was born in Sheboygan, Wis., in 1926, and served in the Navy during World War II. […] Patrick Paddock II said that he and his brothers all grew up with anger that they had to learn how to manage, in his case through military training over 17 years of service in the Air Force. […]
Christchurch mosque shootings
Christchurch, New Zealand
March 15, 2019
51 killed, 40 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Grow Mental Wellness Programs)
Source(s):
1. Tarrant’s Descent from Country Town Underachiever to Accused Assassin
[Brenton Tarrant’s] sister, Lauren, who appears to use the name Rosie Robinson on Facebook, is a musician who shares her brother’s enthusiasm for the heavy metal band Tool. Detectives are thought to be intending to speak to her also.
2. Good Vibe for Mental Health
With about 150 people and in excess of $1200 raised for a very worthy cause, the Loose Lips Sink Ships concert definitely had a successful maiden voyage. […] Lauren Tarrant […] had the dual objectives of raising money and awareness for the local mental health support group Grow (and mental health issues in general) while also showcasing some of the best young local bands the Valley has to offer.
GROW is a peer support and mutual-aid organization for recovery from, and prevention of, serious mental illness. GROW was founded in Sydney, Australia in 1957 by Father Cornelius B. “Con” Keogh, a Roman Catholic priest, and psychiatric patients who sought help with their mental illness in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Consequently, GROW adapted many of AA’s principles and practices. As the organization matured, GROW members learned of Recovery International, an organization also created to help people with serious mental illness, and integrated pieces of its will-training methods.[1][2] As of 2005 there were more than 800 GROW groups active worldwide.[3] GROW groups are open to anyone who would like to join, though they specifically seek out those who have a history of psychiatric hospitalization or are socioeconomically disadvantaged. Despite the capitalization, GROW is not an acronym.[4] Much of GROW’s initial development was made possible with support from Orval Hobart Mowrer, Reuben F. Scarf, W. Clement Stone and Lions Clubs International.[2]
Orval Hobart Mowrer (January 23, 1907 – June 20, 1982) was an American psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Illinois from 1948 to 1975 known for his research on behaviour therapy. Mowrer practiced psychotherapy in Champaign-Urbana and at Galesburg State Research Hospital.[when?][1] In 1954 Mowrer held the position of president of the American Psychological Association.[2] Mowrer founded Integrity Groups (therapeutic community groups based on principles of honesty, responsibility, and emotional involvement)[3] and was instrumental in establishing GROW groups in the United States.[4] A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Mowrer as the 98th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[5] […] In 1944 Mowrer became a psychologist at the Office of Strategic Services developing assessment techniques for potential intelligence agents.[9] Mowrer’s experience with the laboratory induction of psychological stress, along with the work of other psychologists, was utilized to construct an environment in which recruits could be assessed for their ability to withstand highly stressful situations.[15] As part of his work there, he participated in a seminar led by Harry Stack Sullivan. Sullivan’s theories on the role of disturbances in interpersonal relationships with “significant others” in the etiology of mental disorders had a profound effect on Mowrer’s thinking. When Mowrer returned to Harvard, he began counseling students in addition to his faculty duties. He used the principles he had learned from Sullivan, questioning them about their interpersonal relationships and confronting them when he felt they were being dishonest.[9]
William Clement Stone (May 4, 1902 – September 3, 2002) was an American businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author. […] In 1947, after his business had grown significantly, Stone built the Combined Insurance Company of America, which provided both accident and health insurance coverage.[3] By 1979, his insurance company exceeded $1 billion in assets. Combined later merged with the Ryan Insurance Group to form Aon Corporation in 1987,[2] and Combined was later spun off by Aon to ACE Limited in April 2008 for $2.56 billion.[4] […] In 1951, Stone founded the interfaith group “The Washington Pilgrimage”, which later became the “Religious Heritage of America”. It successfully advocated the Eisenhower administration to add the “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.[5] Stone contributed up to $10 million to President Richard Nixon’s election campaigns in 1968 and 1972; they were cited in Congressional debates after the Watergate scandal to institute campaign spending limits.[1] According to Tim Weiner, in One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon, in 1972 President Nixon’s lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, helped raise money for Nixon’s presidential campaign by selling ambassadorships to large donors, including “W. Clement Stone, [who] pledged $3 million.” Stone wanted to become ambassador to Great Britain, “which already was occupied by Ambassador Walter Annenberg, who gave $254,000 in order to stay on” (p. 160). […] Stone provided much of the initial funding for the self-help organization, GROW.[22] Stone was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, and was a Freemason.[23]
The International Association of Lions Clubs, more commonly known as Lions Clubs International, is an international non-political service organization established originally in 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, by Melvin Jones.[2] It is now headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. As of January 2020, it had over 46,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 million members (including the youth wing Leo) in more than 200 countries and geographic areas around the world.[3]
Melvin Jones (January 13, 1879 – June 1, 1961) was Secretary-treasurer[1] of Lions Clubs International. He was born in Fort Thomas, Arizona (at that time the Arizona Territory). His father was a captain in the United States Army. In 1886 or ’87, the family moved east when his father was transferred. Melvin Jones settled in Chicago, where he studied at the Union Business and Chaddock colleges of Quincy, Illinois. At age 33 he was the sole owner of his own insurance agency in Chicago and became a member of the local business circle, and was elected secretary shortly thereafter. Melvin Jones was also a Freemason.[2] […] In 1945, Jones represented Lions Clubs International as a consultant at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco.
Orlando nightclub shooting
Orlando, Florida
June 12, 2016
50 killed, 58 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, 29
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Department of Defense (DOD) / Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) contractor employer (G4S Secure Solutions)
Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC)
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) father (Seddique Mateen)
Source(s):
1. CIA Connections with the Families of Omar Mateen and the Tsarnayev Brothers
Seddique Mir Mateen, father of Omar Mateen (the individual that killed around fifty gays in Orlando in the name of Isis), worked for the US secret services in Afghanistan during the war against the communist government and its ally, the Soviet Union (1979-89). After that, he migrated to the US where Omar was born.
2. Orlando Nightclub Shooter’s Father Was FBI Informant, Say Lawyers For Gunman’s Widow
Seddique Mateen, the father of the man behind the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre, worked with the FBI as a confidential informant for more than a decade leading right up to the shooting, according to attorneys for the shooter’s widow.
3. G4S Secure Solutions – WikiSpooks
G4S is a British/American multinational security services company with deep ties to the US government and military. G4S is the world’s largest security company measured by revenues. It has operations in more than 90 countries[1]. With over 570,000 employees[2], it is the world’s third-largest private employer, and the largest European and African private employer.
Heaven’s Gate – Mass suicide
Rancho Santa Fe, California
March 22-26, 1997
39 killed
Perpetrator(s):
Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr., 65
United States Army (USA)
Source(s):
1. Marshall Applewhite – Early life and education
[…] In 1954, Applewhite was drafted by the United States Army and served in Austria and New Mexico as a member of the Army Signal Corps.[7] He left the military in 1956 and enrolled at the University of Colorado, where he earned a master’s degree in music[11] and focused on musical theater.[2]
2022 Nong Bua Lamphu attack
Uthai Sawan subdistrict, Na Klang district, Nong Bua Lamphu province, Thailand
October 6, 2022
37 killed, 10 wounded
Perpetrators(s):
Panya Khamrab, 34
Royal Thai Police
Source(s):
1. 2022 Nong Bua Lamphu attack – Perpetrator
The perpetrator was identified by police as 34-year-old Panya Khamrab (Thai: ปัญญา คำราบ).[6] Khamrab was a resident of Nong Bua Lamphu province and a former police sergeant in Na Wang district.[27][28] His mother said that he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in law at Ramkhamhaeng University.[24][29][30] He also attended a police academy. His career in the police force began in 2012 and he had previously worked in Bangkok before being assigned to his birthplace of Nong Bua Lamphu.[31] According to his mother, he may have taken to drugs after returning to Nong Bua Lamphu.[31] During his police service at Nong Bua Lamphu, he displayed violent behavior. He had his weapon seized when he fired at stray animals in the presence of colleagues.[30]
The Royal Thai Police (RTP) (Thai: สำนักงานตำรวจแห่งชาติ; RTGS: tamruat haeng chat) is the national police force of Thailand. The RTP employs between 210,700 and 230,000 officers, roughly 17 percent of all civil servants (excluding the military and the employees of state-owned enterprises).[2][3] The RTP is frequently recognized as the fourth armed force of Thailand since their tradition, concept, culture, skill, and training are relatively similar to the army and most of their officer cadets need to graduate from the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School before entering the Royal Thai Police Cadet Academy. Officers also undergo paramilitary training similar to the army but with an additional focus on law enforcement.
3. Royal Thai Police Officers Receive Military-Style Training
The man who the authorities say is responsible for Thursday’s mass shooting at a day care center was a former officer in the Royal Thai Police, the national police force.
Panya Kamrab, whom the police identified as the gunman, was a former corporal who had been fired after being arrested with methamphetamine on him, according to the Royal Thai Police.
The force is the main enforcer of domestic laws and its officers, who carry firearms, are trained in military-like fashion.
Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in Thailand who studies Thai security forces, said on Thursday that Royal Thai Police members typically go through years of training, including for combat readiness. A corporal is one of the lowest ranks in the police, making Mr. Panya likely to be “one of the people on the ground,” he said.
Though the specifics of Mr. Panya’s role were not known, many officers stationed in the northeast, where the shooting took place, would focus on border security or drug enforcement, he said. Although Thailand recently moved to decriminalize marijuana, it has for years sought to crack down on the drug trade.
“These particular police near the border have a very tough regimen of training,” Mr. Chambers said.
The Royal Thai Police force is also comparable to the Thai military in terms of resources. It “is a close second to the army in terms of manpower and budget,” Mr. Chambers wrote in 2020.
Port Arthur massacre
Port Arthur, Australia
April 28-29, 1996
35 killed, 24 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Martin John Bryant, 29
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Department of Defense (DOD) / British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) / Ministry of Defence (MOD) contractor psychiatric associate (Dr. Eric Cunningham Dax – Tavistock Institute)
Australian Government psychiatric associate (name unknown)
Source(s):
1. Martin Bryant – Murderpedia
[…] Bryant was referred for psychiatric treatment several times during his childhood. In 1984, a psychological evaluation by Dr Eric Cunningham Dax described him as mentally retarded and stated that he had a personality disorder. […]
2. Mass Murder in Australia: Tavistock’s Martin Bryant
[…] Dr. Ian Sale, psychiatrist for the prosecution, recalled in a discussion on April 16: “When he was about 16 or 17, he was examined by a government doctor for the purpose of a pension assessment. It was to that doctor that he made some reference to having a wish to shoot people. She still remembers that to this day. […]
Virginia Tech shooting
Blacksburg, Virginia
April 16, 2007
33 killed, 23 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Seung-Hui Cho, 23
United States Department of State (DOS) Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs / Iraq Reconstruction Management Office contractor sister (Sun-kyung Cho – McNeil Technologies)
Source(s):
1. Virginia Tech Killer’s Sister Speaks
In an interview with the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Cho said that in 2003 she spent the “most amazing three months of my life” as an unpaid intern in the economics section of the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok. According to the online article, Cho also interned the previous summer at the State Department’s international labor office. According to The AP, the Princeton graduate now works as a contractor for a State Department office, the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, which oversees billions of dollars in American aid for Iraq. She calls herself “Sun Cho” on her work voice mail. Cho is listed in the State Department directory as a personnel assistant at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, but sources say she reports to McNeil Technologies, which is one of the many administrative/managerial support contractors used for Iraq reconstruction management projects.
2. From the McNeil Technologies Website
“Since 1985, McNeil Technologies has been a premier provider of critical professional services and reliable business solutions to the US Federal Government. We help government agencies meet some of their most complex service needs” […] “Overview of McNeil Technologies Intelligence Services: Our services and capabilities include: Intelligence Architecture Operations in support of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) which supports the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and other government agencies. HUMINT (Human Intel) operations in support of DIA, or with federal counter Intel outsourcing effort […]”
Nakhon Ratchasima shootings
Korat, Thailand
February 8-9, 2020
30 killed, 57 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Jakrapanth Thomma, 31
Royal Thai Army
Source(s):
1. Nakhon Ratchasima shootings – Perpetrator
Sergeant Major 1st Class Jakrapanth Thomma (จักรพันธ์ ถมมา, RTGS: Chakkraphan Thomma; 4 April 1988 – 9 February 2020), age 31, was identified as the gunman. His hometown was Kaeng Khro, located in Chaiyaphum Province. He was stationed at the Suratham Phithak Military Base, where the first shooting took place. Thomma previously received training as a non-commissioned officer and was an expert marksman.[16] Thomma’s acquaintances said he was upset over being allegedly cheated out of a property deal and not being given back his money by his commanding officer, Colonel Anantharot Krasae, and Krasae’s mother-in-law, who were both shot dead. During the livestream of the shooting, Thomma shouted, “Rich from cheating and taking advantage of people … Do they think they can take money to spend in hell?”[11]
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Newtown, Connecticut
December 14, 2012
28 killed, 2 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Adam Peter Lanza, 20
United States Marine Corps (USMC) aspirant
United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor father (Peter Lanza – GE Capital)
United States Marine Corps (USMC) / Kingston Police Department (KPD) maternal uncle (James Champion)
United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) informant mother (Nancy Lanza)
Source(s):
1. Revisiting Adam Lanza: The Official Sandy Hook Report
In addition, like many school shooters, he had a relative who served in the military whom he sought to emulate. Many school shooters had military aspirations that were thwarted. Lanza wanted to join the Marines and follow in the footsteps of his uncle, but his mother dissuaded him from applying. Lanza liked to dress up in military gear starting at a young age, and was so dressed during his attack.
2. Source Unknown
[…] He wanted to join the Marines, according to a neighbor, so he very likely could have had contact with a recruiter. “Many of Adam Lanza’s possessions, from his personal journals and drawings to a military uniform that he kept in his bedroom, were removed by state police…” […]
Sutherland Springs church shooting
Sutherland Springs, Texas
November 5, 2017
27 killed, 22 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Devin Patrick Kelley, 26
United States Air Force (USAF)
Source(s):
1. Perpetrator – Military service and violent behavior
After graduating, Kelley enlisted in the United States Air Force. He served in logistics readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2009 until 2014. He married in April 2011.[38][39] In October 2012, he was charged with assaulting his wife and fracturing his toddler stepson’s skull. In response, Kelley made death threats against the superior officers who charged him, and he was caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force Base.[40] Around that same time, he made threats of self-harm to a coworker.[36] He was then admitted to Peak Behavioral Health Services, a mental health facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.[40] In June 2012, Kelley escaped from Peak Behavioral Health Services but was soon apprehended ten miles away at a bus terminal in El Paso, Texas.[40][41] The facility’s director of military affairs later recalled that Kelley had stayed at the facility for several weeks, until he was brought to court-martial. While there, he had expressed a desire for “some kind of retribution to his chain of command” and was discovered to have used computers to order “weapons and tactical gear to a P.O. box in San Antonio”.[41] Kelley and his wife divorced in October 2012.[38] In an interview with Inside Edition, his ex-wife said she lived in constant fear of him, as their marriage was filled with abuse. He once threatened her at gunpoint over a speeding ticket, and later threatened to kill her and her entire family.[42] Kelley was brought before a general court-martial on four charges: assault on his wife, aggravated assault on his stepson, two charges of pointing a loaded gun at his wife, and two counts of threatening his wife with an unloaded gun. In November 2012, Kelley pleaded guilty to two counts of Article 128 UCMJ, for the assault of his wife and stepson. In return, the weapons charges were dropped.[43][44][45] He was sentenced to 12 months of confinement and a reduction in rank to Airman Basic. He appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, but was unsuccessful.[46] In 2014, he was dismissed from the Air Force with a bad conduct discharge.[47][48]
2. Perpetrator – Ability to purchase and carry firearms
[…] Kelley’s general court-martial guilty plea should have made it illegal for him to own, buy, or possess a firearm or ammunition. The conviction should have been flagged by NICS and prevented the purchase.[65][68] Federal law prohibits those convicted of domestic violence–even if it is only a misdemeanor–from possessing firearms.[69][70] However, the Air Force failed to relay the court-martial convictions to the FBI. In a statement admitting the oversight, the Air Force said, “Initial information indicates that Kelley’s domestic violence offense was not entered into the National Crime Information Center database by the Holloman Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations.”[5][71] One day after the shooting, the Air Force said it had “launched a review of how the service handled the criminal records of former Airman Devin P. Kelley following his 2012 domestic violence conviction”.[5][70] Three days after the shooting, Vice President Mike Pence visited the crime scene, and said, “We will find why this information was not properly recorded in 2012, and we will work with leaders in Congress to ensure that this never happens again.”[72]
Luby’s shooting
Killeen, Texas
October 16, 1991
24 killed, 27 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Georges Pierre Hennard, 35
United States Navy (USN)
United States Merchant Marine (USMM)
United States Army (USA) father (Col. Georges Hennard)
Source(s):
1. Luby’s shooting – Perpetrator
George Pierre Hennard was born on October 15, 1956, in Sayre, Pennsylvania, in a wealthy family.[11] Hennard was the son of a Swiss-born surgeon and a homemaker.[16] He had two younger siblings, brother Alan and sister Desiree.[17] Since the age of 5, Hennard and his family moved across the country as his father worked at several Army hospitals.[11] Hennard’s family later moved to New Mexico, where his father worked at the White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces. After graduating from Mayfield High School in 1974, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served for three years, until he was honorably discharged.[18] Hennard later worked as a merchant mariner, but was dismissed for drug use.[6] Several months later, Hennard enrolled in a drug treatment program in Houston.[11]
2. Portrait of Texas Killer: Impatient and Troubled
[…] Two of the wounded, Lou Carabello, 42 years old, and Kriemhild Davis, 62, were listed in critical condition today at Darnall Army Community Hospital at Fort Hood. Mr. Hennard’s father, a former Army colonel, was the hospital’s commanding officer in 1978 and 1979, Army records show. […] Born in Pennsylvania, Mr. Hennard graduated from Las Cruces High School in New Mexico in 1974 while his family was living on the White Sands Missile base there. […] A police spokesman in Belton said Mr. Hennard appeared to have been unemployed at the time of the shooting. But for most of his adult life, Mr. Hennard earned his living on the high seas in the Merchant Marine.
3. Perpetrator – Possible motive
Hennard was described as reclusive and belligerent, with an explosive temper. He was discharged from the Merchant Marine on May 11, 1989[7][10] for possession of marijuana and racial incidents. That same month, Hennard’s seaman papers were suspended after he had a racial argument with another shipmate.[11] […] In 1990, Hennard called Isaiah (Ike) R. Williams, a port agent for the national maritime union in Wilmington, California, stating that he needed a letter of recommendation in order to regain his papers and rejoin the Merchant Marine. “I don’t recall having given him one,” Williams claimed. Hennard had learned in mid-February that his attempt to be reinstated had been denied.[20] Several months later, Hennard entered a drug treatment program in Houston.[7][11]
2019 El Paso shooting
El Paso, Texas
August 3, 2019
23 killed, 23 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Patrick Wood Crusius, 21
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Department of Defense (DOD) / Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) contractor father (Bryan Crusius – Timberlawn Mental Health System / Universal Health Services)
Source(s):
1. Follow The Dots: MKUltra & The El Paso Shooting
John Bryan Crusius is Patrick’s father. He is a counselor involved in “Infused Being Therapy” in Dallas, Texas. He specializes in trauma and PTSD. Crusius’ web page notes he worked for the Timberlawn Mental Health System in Dallas. Timberlawn closed down in early 2018. The psychiatric hospital was investigated for patient abuse, including rape. Timberlawn is owned by Universal Health Services, a Fortune 500 corporation in the hospital management business. […] The founder and president of the Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, Ross is well-known for treating patients for multiple personality disorder and associated trauma disorders, including depression, self-mutilation and suicide at Timberlawn Mental Health System of Dallas, Texas. […] Ross describes his previous interactions with Sydney Gottlieb. Notoriously accredited with spearheading the CIA’s efforts to control the human mind, Gottlieb took part in numerous military intelligence experiments, from using LSD on unsuspecting Americans, to leading the charge on MK ULTRA.
2. Universal Health Services’ Connections to the U.S. Military
2020 Nova Scotia attacks
Nova Scotia, Canada
April 18-19, 2020
23 killed, 3 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Gabriel Wortman, 51
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) agent / informant
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) paternal uncles (Alan Wortman / Chris Wortman)
Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) associates (George Forbes / Brenda Forbes)
Source(s):
1. The Nova Scotia Shooter Case has Hallmarks of an Undercover Operation
Police sources say the killer’s withdrawal of $475,000 was highly irregular, and how an RCMP ‘agent’ would get money […] The withdrawal of $475,000 in cash by the man who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April matches the method the RCMP uses to send money to confidential informants and agents, sources say. […] Sources in both banking and the RCMP say the transaction is consistent with how the RCMP funnels money to its confidential informants and agents, and is not an option available to private banking customers.
2. N.S. Mass Shooter was Treated ‘Like an Animal’ by his Father, Family Says
[…] Gabriel grew up as an only child in the Moncton, N.B., area with parents Paul and Evelyn Wortman. He has one sibling, biological brother Jeff Samuelson, who Paul and Evelyn had in 1970 in the U.S. and placed up for adoption at birth. […] Inquiry documents said Paul has four brothers: Neil, Glynn, Alan and Chris. The two youngest brothers, Alan and Chris, are retired RCMP members.
3. Man Behind Nova Scotia Mass Shooting came from Dysfunctional Family: Uncle
Chris Wortman, a former Mountie who was the gunman’s uncle, told police soon after the killings in April 2020 that he wasn’t surprised when he learned his nephew, Gabriel Wortman, was responsible for Canada’s worst mass shooting.
4. Nova Scotia Shooting: Ex-Neighbours say they Warned Police about Gunman
Brenda Forbes, a former neighbour of the gunman, told the Canadian Press that his violence was known – and feared – in the community. […] Forbes’s husband – who like his wife is a veteran of the Canadian armed forces – recalled seeing Wortman’s collection of weapons, including pistols and a rifle. “He knew I had weapons, being in the military, so he was always one of those guys who had to show others that whatever they had, he had something better,” George Forbes told the Canadian Press. “We reported that to the police also,” he said.
5. Nova Scotia Gunman Escaped by Driving through Field after First Killings: RCMP
Gabriel Wortman, who killed 22 people over a span of about 13 hours, drove east from Portapique to Debert, N.S., where he arrived at 11:12 p.m. and spent the night in an industrial park, Campbell said. As for the replica police car, which the gunman used to escape and later surprise victims, it was obtained in the fall of 2019, and was one of four former police vehicles he bought at auctions in the last few years. Campbell said the 51-year-old Halifax-based denturist outfitted the vehicle with an emergency light bar and decals that made the late-model Ford Taurus look almost identical to a genuine RCMP vehicle. “The gunman was a collector of many things, including police memorabilia,” Campbell told reporters. “He was in possession of multiple pieces of police uniforms from a variety of agencies …. How he obtained the decals and how they were produced is an investigative detail that I can’t get into.” Campbell said many witnesses have come forward to confirm the killer had a keen interest in the RCMP. Used RCMP uniforms can be purchased from surplus stores, auctions and through online vendors, but Campbell said it was unclear how the suspect obtained the uniform in question. “He didn’t hide that fact — that he had cars or memorabilia — from people that knew him,” he said. However, the senior Mountie said police were not aware of these collections. The gunman was wearing an authentic RCMP shirt and yellow-striped pants during the initial stage of his 90-kilometre rampage, said Campbell, the officer in charge of support services for Nova Scotia. He confirmed that police had interviewed retired RCMP officers who were related to Wortman, but Campbell said there was no indication they offered any help to the shooter.
San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre
San Ysidro, California
July 18, 1984
22 killed, 19 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
James Oliver Huberty, 41
United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor employer (Babcock & Wilcox)
Source(s):
1. Perpetrator – Marriage and employment
In early 1965, Huberty married Etna Markland, whom he had met while attending Malone College. Shortly after his marriage, Huberty obtained employment at a funeral home in Canton. Although proficient at embalming, Huberty’s introverted personality made him ill-suited to dealing with members of the public, causing minor conflicts with his superiors. Nonetheless, Huberty worked in this profession for two years before opting to become a welder for a firm in Louisville. He worked for this firm for two years before securing a better-paid position at Babcock & Wilcox in June 1969.[69] Although reclusive and taciturn, Huberty’s employers considered him a reliable worker. He willingly took overtime, earned promotions and by the mid-1970s, regularly earned between $25,000 and $30,000 per year ($121,000–$145,000, adjusted for 2021 inflation). Shortly after Huberty was hired by this firm, he and his wife moved into a three-story home in an affluent section of Massillon, Ohio.[3][66] In the winter of 1971, this home was destroyed in a fire. Shortly thereafter, James and Etna bought another house on the same street. They later built a six-unit apartment building on the grounds of their first home, which they managed.[17][70] Daughters Zelia and Cassandra were born in 1972 and 1974, respectively.[71]
2. Perpetrator – Domestic violence and temperament
[…] A conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed survivalist, Huberty believed an escalation of the Cold War was inevitable and that president Jimmy Carter and, later, Ronald Reagan and the United States government were conspiring against him.[75] Convinced of an imminent increase in Soviet aggression, Huberty believed that a breakdown of society was fast approaching, perhaps through economic collapse or nuclear war. He committed himself to prepare to survive this perceived collapse and provisioned his house with ample reserve supplies of non-perishable food and numerous guns—some purchased from co-workers[71]—that he intended to use to defend his home during what he believed was the coming apocalypse.[76] According to one family acquaintance named Jim Aslanes, Huberty’s home was bedecked with loaded firearms[77] to such a degree that wherever Huberty was sitting or standing within his home, he “could just reach over and get a gun.” Each firearm was loaded, with the safety catch disabled.[71]
In San Ysidro, the Hubertys rented an apartment within the Cottonwood Apartments as Huberty sought employment. The fact his family were the only Anglo-Americans within this apartment complex irritated Huberty, who was notably ignorant to his neighbors.[82] Shortly thereafter, Huberty applied to a newspaper advertisement offering security guard training in a Federally funded program. He completed this course on April 12 and soon obtained employment with a security firm in Chula Vista, assigned with guarding a condominium complex.[13] The money earned enabled the family to have their furniture shipped from Ohio, and the family relocated to a two-bedroom apartment on Averil Road the same month.[82] The monthly rent for this apartment was $450.[62] On July 10, Huberty was summarily dismissed from this job;[3] his employers informed Huberty the reasons for his dismissal were his poor work performance and a noted general physical instability.[66][83]
4. Perpetrator – Unemployment and relocation to Tijuana
In November 1982, Huberty was laid off from his welding job at Babcock & Wilcox, causing him to become despondent over his dire financial situation and general inability to provide for his family.[n 6] One co-worker would later recollect that, upon being notified of the impending closure of this engineering firm, Huberty had made a comment indicating that if he was unable to provide for his family, he intended to commit suicide and “take everyone with him.”[78] According to Etna, shortly after her husband became unemployed, Huberty began hearing voices.[62] In early 1983, he placed a loaded pistol against his temple, threatening to commit suicide. Etna successfully dissuaded her husband from shooting himself, although he later remarked to her: “You should have let me shoot myself.”[18][n 7]
5. San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre – Aftermath
[…] In July 1986, Etna Huberty filed a lawsuit against both McDonald’s and her husband’s longtime former employer, Babcock & Wilcox.[114] This civil suit—seeking $5 million in damages—asserted her husband’s murder spree had been triggered by a combination of a poor diet and her husband working around highly poisonous metals without adequate protection over the course of many years.[114][n 10] […] The suit specifically cited that no traces of either drugs or alcohol had been discovered in Huberty’s body at his autopsy—negating any possibility of his actions being influenced by either factor[95]—and that the alleged accrual of the high levels of lead and cadmium discovered in Huberty’s body at his autopsy had most likely accumulated via an ongoing exposure to the fumes inhaled during the 13 years he had been employed as a welder (without sufficient respiratory protection) by Babcock & Wilcox,[11] and that a combination of Huberty’s exposure to these chemicals with his ingesting high levels of monosodium glutamate in the staple McDonald’s food he had regularly consumed[114] had induced delusions and an uncontrollable rage. This lawsuit was dismissed in 1987.[115] Etna Huberty died of breast cancer in 2003.[13]
6. Babcock & Wilcox – Background
The company was founded in 1867 in Providence, Rhode Island by partners Stephen Wilcox and George Babcock to manufacture and market Wilcox’s patented water-tube boiler.[2] B&W’s list of innovations and firsts include the world’s first installed utility boiler (1881); manufacture of boilers to power New York City’s first subway (1902); first pulverized coal power plant (1918); design and manufacture of components for USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine (1953–55); the first supercritical pressure coal-fired boiler (1957); design and supply of reactors for the first U.S. built nuclear-powered surface ship, NS Savannah (1961).[3] The company provided design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and facilities management services to nuclear, renewable, fossil power, industrial and government customers worldwide. B&W’s boilers supply more than 300,000 megawatts of installed capacity in over 90 countries around the world. During World War II, over half of the US Navy fleet was powered by Babcock & Wilcox boilers.[citation needed]
The company was founded in 1867 by Stephen Wilcox and his partner George Herman Babcock with the intention of building safer steam boilers. Stephen Wilcox first avowed that “there must be a better way” to safely generate power, and he and George Babcock responded with the design for the first inherently safe water-tube boiler. B&W was the main builder of naval boilers for American forces during World War II, and were a supplier to the Manhattan Project. After the war they entered the nuclear reactor business, and became a major supplier for commercial nuclear power plants. They also built naval nuclear reactors, including for the first commercial nuclear ship. In 2000 the company filed for bankruptcy due to lawsuits from employees over asbestos exposure; they emerged from bankruptcy in 2006.
Robb Elementary School shooting
Uvalde, Texas
May 24, 2022
22 killed, 18 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Salvador Rolando Ramos, 18
United States Navy (USN) sister (Marisabelle Ramos)
Source(s):
1. Revealed: Texas School Shooter Salvador Ramos’ Sister is Serving in the U.S. Navy
Marisabelle Ramos, 21, is three years older than her dead brother Salvador, who was responsible for Tuesday’s massacre at Robb Elementary School. ‘My granddaughter Marisabelle is in the Navy and currently stationed in San Diego, California’ grandfather Rolando Reyes exclusively told DailyMail.com
Kerch Polytechnic College shooting
Kerch, Crimea
October 17, 2018
21 killed, 70 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Vladislav Roslyakov, 18
Soviet Army / Soviet-Afghan War veteran father (Igor Roslyakov)
Sources(s):
1. Vladislav Roslyakov: A Profile
[…] ROSLYAKOV’S BACKGROUND
Vladislav Roslyakov was born in Kerch on 2 May 2000. He grew up in the rural exurb of Kerch known as Arshintsevo. As a child, his family called him ‘Vladik.’ He was raised in the home of his paternal grandparents by his father, Igor, and mother, Galina. A quiet, thin woman, Galina was a low-paid orderly at the hospital in Kerch. Igor was a former soldier who had served in Afghanistan for several years. After he returned, he was assaulted. This resulted in brain damage; he began collecting disability payments. [….] Roslyakov began displaying an interest in firearms and weapons around the time he began college. According to a media report, he began seeking out military veterans online, pestering them for information about firearms and explosives. This also matches with reports that neighborhood children began avoiding Roslyakov after they once saw him carrying the bayonet of a machine gun on the bus. One friend reported Roslyakov always carried a hunting knife with him, even when he had to pass through the school’s metal detector. At some point he joined an airsoft team; it is unclear whether this was during high school when he was “sports-obsessed” or after he began college. Investigators have discovered Roslyakov’s interest went beyond weaponry; his internet history revealed a vast interest in violence and violent ideologies; neo-Nazism, ISIS, and serial killers. [….] He did not see a future for himself in the impoverished region, and he felt there was no way to escape. Despite previously considering joining the military, Roslyakov expressed disdain at the prospect of joining the armed forces. […]
2023 Lewiston shootings
Lewiston, Maine
October 25, 2023
19 killed, 13 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Robert Russell Card II, 40
United States Army Reserve (USAR)
Source(s):
1. 2023 Lewiston shootings – Perpetrator
Robert Russell Card II[41] (April 4, 1983[42] – October 27, 2023[43]) was a longtime resident of Bowdoin, Maine.[44][45][42] He was identified by the police on October 25 as a person of interest[46][47][48] and designated as a suspect the next day.[49] Card was a sergeant first class in the United States Army Reserve and enlisted in December 2002.[50][51] He was a petroleum supply specialist[52] and had no overseas or combat deployments.[52][53]
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In May 2023, Card’s son and ex-wife reported his declining mental health to a Sagadahoc County sheriff’s deputy, associating his reports of auditory hallucinations to being fitted for hearing aids in February 2023.[59] In July 2023, leaders of Card’s unit (3rd Battalion, 304th Infantry Regiment) made a report to law enforcement about Card’s alarming comments and erratic behavior while training at Camp Smith (close to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York).[60][61] The Army Reserve specifically told law enforcement that he threatened to “shoot up” a military base in Saco, Maine. He was removed from training exercises, and the New York State Police responded and transported Card to West Point’s Keller Army Community Hospital for psychological evaluation. He received two weeks of additional treatment at the Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in Katonah, New York.[14][61]
Card returned home on August 3, 2023, and the Army barred him from handling guns or ammunition, deeming him a “non-deployable” serviceman.[62] That same day, a gun shop in Auburn, Maine, denied his access to purchase a silencer because he responded “yes” to the question “Have you ever been adjudicated as a mental defective OR ever been committed to a mental institution?” on the ATF Form 4473.[63][64]
In mid-September 2023, the Army Reserve requested that the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department conduct a well-being check on Card, after he punched a fellow reservist who asked Card to stop talking about “shooting up places and people”. Card did not answer the door but could be heard moving inside his trailer home by the sheriff deputy outside. Because Card was described by his commanders as a top marksman, the deputy requested backup from the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Department, about 45 minutes away, and wrote in a report that “due to being in a very disadvantageous position we decided to back away”.[64]
University of Texas tower shooting
Austin, Texas
August 1, 1966
18 killed, 31 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Charles Joseph Whitman, 25
United States Marine Corps (USMC)
Source(s):
1. Charles Whitman – High school
Without telling his father beforehand, Whitman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps one month after his June 1959 graduation from high school, where he had graduated seventh in a class of 72 students.[7] Whitman told a family friend that the catalyst for his enlistment was an incident a month earlier, in which his father had beaten him and thrown him into the family swimming pool because Whitman had come home drunk.[8] Whitman left home on July 6, having been assigned an 18-month tour of duty with the Marines at Guantánamo Bay. His father still did not know he had enlisted.[7] As Whitman traveled toward Parris Island, his father learned of his action and telephoned a branch of the federal government, trying to have his son’s enlistment canceled.[12]
2. Charles Whitman – U.S. Marine and college student
During Whitman’s initial 18-month service in 1959 and 1960, he earned a sharpshooter’s badge and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal. He achieved 215 of 250 possible points on marksmanship tests, doing well when shooting rapidly over long distances as well as at moving targets. After completing his assignment, Whitman applied to a U.S. Navy and Marine Corps scholarship program, intending to complete college and become a commissioned officer.[18] Whitman earned high scores on the required examination, and the selection committee approved his enrollment at a preparatory school in Maryland, where he completed courses in mathematics and physics before being approved to transfer to the University of Texas at Austin to study mechanical engineering.[18]
Although Whitman’s grades improved somewhat during his second and third semesters, the Marines considered them insufficient for continuation of his scholarship. He was ordered to active duty in February 1963[25] and went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for the remainder of his five-year enlistment.[26]
4. Charles Whitman – Camp Lejeune
Whitman apparently resented his college studies being ended, although he was automatically promoted to the rank of lance corporal. At Camp Lejeune, he was hospitalized for four days[27] after single-handedly freeing another marine by lifting a Jeep which had rolled over an embankment.[28] Despite his reputation as an exemplary Marine, he continued to gamble. In November 1963, he was court-martialed for gambling, usury, possession of a personal firearm on base, and for threatening another Marine over a $30 loan ($300 in 2020), for which he had demanded $15 in interest. Sentenced to 30 days of confinement and 90 days of hard labor, he was demoted from lance corporal (E-3) to private (E-1).[29]
5. Charles Whitman – Documented stressors
While awaiting his court martial in 1963, Whitman began to write a diary titled Daily Record of C. J. Whitman.[30] In it, he wrote about his daily life in the Marine Corps and his interactions with Kathy and other family members. He also wrote about his upcoming court martial and contempt for the Marine Corps, criticizing them for inefficiencies. In December 1964, Whitman was honorably discharged from the Marines. He returned to the University of Texas at Austin, enrolling in the architectural engineering program.
Dunblane massacre
Dunblane, Scotland
March 13, 1996
18 killed, 15 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Thomas Watt Hamilton, 43
Freemason (Garrowhill Lodge No. 1413)
Freemason paternal grandfather (James Hamilton – Garrowhill Lodge No. 1413 / Stirling Royal Arch Lodge No. 76)
United Kingdom Government associates (Queen Elizabeth II / NATO Secretary George Robertson / Scottish Secretary of State Michael Forsyth)
British Ministry of Defence (MOD) associates (Queen Victoria School)
Central Scotland Police associates
Source(s):
1. Dunblane massacre – Perpetrator
Hamilton claimed in letters that local rumours regarding his behaviour towards young boys had led to the failure of his business in 1993, and that, in the last months of his life, he had complained that his attempts to organise a boys’ club were subjected to persecution by local police and the scout movement.[11] Among those he complained to were Queen Elizabeth II and his local Member of Parliament (MP), Michael Forsyth (Conservative).[11] In the 1980s, another MP, George Robertson (Labour), who lived in Dunblane, had complained to Forsyth about Hamilton’s local boys’ club, which his son had attended. On the day following the massacre, Robertson spoke of having previously argued with Hamilton “in my own home”.[11][14][15]
2. The Cullen Report – Witnesses & Omissions
A short analysis of the aspects of Lord Cullen’s Dunblane Inquiry Report that require further explanation. Lord William Cullen was put in charge of the inquiry into the 1996 Dunblane Primary School shooting and the life of Thomas Hamilton.
3. Programmed To Kill/Satanic Cover-Up Part 56 (The Dunblane School Massacre – Thomas Hamilton)
Hamilton allegedly enjoyed good relations with both local Labour luminary George Robertson and Michael Forsyth, the then Scottish Secretary of State and MP for Stirling. Forsyth congratulated and encouraged Hamilton for running a boy’s club. Hamilton was also found to have exchanged letters with the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth. […] Hamilton’s grandfather, James, a welder who joined the Garrowhill Lodge in the working class district of Baillieston in December 1957 and, after moving home, was a regular attendee at the Royal Arch Lodge in Stirling until his death in 2000. […] In March 2004, Dr. Mick North, parent of deceased Dunblane victim Sophie North, brought forth new allegations of a possible cover-up. North listed six key points that the Cullen Inquiry failed to addres, which included: […] (5) The failure to establish who Hamilton’s friends in the police were. A number of witnesses testified that police cars often stopped outside his home. (6) The failure to investigate links, revealed by three witnesses, between Hamilton and the Queen Victoria School, a military school at Dunblane with a small shooting range that Hamilton used and where it is claimed by a former teacher that boys were abused.
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Parkland, Florida
February 14, 2018
17 killed, 17 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Nikolas Jacob Cruz, 19
United States Army (USA) Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC)
United States Army (USA) Intelligence / Iraq War veteran foster father (James Snead)
Source(s):
1. Stoneman Douglas High School shooting – Perpetrator
Cruz was a member of the JROTC and had received multiple awards “including academic achievement for maintaining an A grade in JROTC and Bs in other subjects,” according to CNN.[83] He was also a member of his school’s varsity air rifle team.[83][84]
2. Florida Shooter was Living with Military Intelligence Analyst, Army Vet
Kimberly Snead, 49, is a neonatal nurse and James Snead, 48, is described as a decorated Army veteran and military intelligence analyst.
Hungerford massacre
Hungerford, England
August 19, 1987
17 killed, 15+ wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Michael Robert Ryan, 27
British Armed Forces aspirant
Source(s):
1. Scottish Inquiry’s Focus: Why Strict Gun Law Failed
[…] The basic provisions of gun control were set down in the Firearms Act of 1968 and tightened after a massacre in 1987 when Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old obsessed with guns and military paraphernalia, went on a rampage in Hungerford, using a Kalashnikov AK-47 and other weapons to kill 16 people and wound 13. […]
D.C. sniper attacks
Arizona / Maryland / Virginia / Washington, D.C.
February 16 – October 2, 2002
17 killed, 10 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
John Allen Muhammad, 41 / Lee Boyd Malvo, 17
United States Army (USA)
Gulf War veteran
Louisiana Army National Guard
Source(s):
1. John Allen Muhammad – Early life
[…] In 1987, at the age of 27, he joined the Nation of Islam. As a member of the Nation of Islam, Muhammad helped provide security for the “Million Man March” in 1995. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has publicly distanced himself and his organization from Muhammad’s crimes.[8] […]
2. John Allen Muhammad – Military service
In August 1978, Muhammad enlisted in the Louisiana Army National Guard at Baton Rouge as a combat engineer. He transferred to the Regular Army on November 6, 1985, and was trained as a mechanic, truck driver and specialist metalworker. He qualified with the Army’s standard rifle, the M16, earning the Expert Rifleman’s Badge. This is the Army’s highest of three levels of basic rifle marksmanship for a soldier.[14] Muhammad’s first tour was with the 15th Engineer Battalion at Fort Lewis in 1985. In 1991, he served in the Gulf War with a company that dismantled Iraqi chemical warfare rockets, service for which he received the Southwest Asia Service Medal, the Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia) and the Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait).[15][16] In 1992, he was at Fort Ord, California, with the 13th Engineers and in 1993 was back at Fort Lewis with the 14th Engineer Battalion.[17] Muhammad was honorably discharged from the Army with the rank of sergeant on April 24, 1994, after 16 years of service. He received the following awards: Army Service Ribbon, National Defense Service Medal, Overseas Ribbon, Noncommissioned Officers Professional Development Ribbon and Army Achievement Medal.[18
Erfurt school massacre
Erfurt, Germany
April 26, 2002
17 killed, 1 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Robert Steinhäuser, 19
United States Department of Defense (DOD) / Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) contractor father ([name unknown] Steinhäuser – Siemens AG)
Source(s):
1. Shooting Rampage at German School
[…] Mr. Steinhäuser was said to have come from a typical middle-class family. He lived with his parents and grandparents in a fairly stately house not far from the center of this city, which has about 200,000 people and is just east of the old dividing line between East and West Germany. Mr. Steinhäuser’s father works at a local Siemens factory. […]
2. Operation Rubicon: The Most Successful Intelligence Heist of the 20th Century
[…] Operation Rubicon was primarily a partnership between the CIA and BND. However, its activities often benefited from the technical expertise of the NSA and Motorola, as well as European based companies such as Siemens. The first objective was to place hidden weaknesses into the security mechanism of Crypto AG machines. This manipulation would ensure that the communication produced by these machines were accessible by the CIA and BND. […]
Privatised spying
The involvement of private industry raises even more questions for scholars to ponder. Many of the key civilian staff at Crypto AG were transferred from Siemens. The German technology firm also supplied designs to place and hide manipulation of devices. Despite an unsavory past, Siemens was already a well-respected telecommunications pioneer in the 1950s. The company enjoyed a special relationship with the BND. […] Siemens expertise also enabled certain productions for Crypto AG both before and during Rubicon. Siemens was not the only German tech company closely linked with the BND. AEG Telefunken, ANT, Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) and Tele Security Timmann (TST) were all developing encryption technology, and all controlled by BND. This illustrates the crucial association between intelligence agencies and these companies but also how important Germany was for cryptological advancements. […]
2015 San Bernardino attack
December 2, 2015
San Bernardino, California
16 killed, 24 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28 / Tashfeen Malik, 29
United States Navy (USN) brother (Syed Raheel Farook)
San Bernardino County Department of Public Health
Source(s):
1. Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik – Personal life
[…] Farook worked as a food inspector for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health for five years before the shooting.[23][24][25] From July to December 2010, he was a seasonal employee for the county. He was hired as an environmental health specialist trainee on January 28, 2012, and became a permanent employee on February 8, 2014.[19] Coworkers described Farook as quiet and polite, and said that he held no obvious grudges.[26] […]
– Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, was named as the heavily armed gunman who massacred 14 at a conference center in California on Wednesday morning
– But his brother Syed Raheel Farook served in the Navy for four years
– The married father served as an information systems technician on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise
– His awards include the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Columbine High School massacre
Littleton, Colorado
April 20, 1999
15 killed, 24 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Eric David Harris, 18 / Dylan Bennet Klebold, 17
United States Marine Corps (USMC) applicant
United States Air Force (USAF) father (Wayne Harris)
United States Air Force (USAF) maternal great-grandfather (Leo Yassenoff)
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) mother (Sue Klebold – psychiatric hospital therapeutic arts teacher)
Source(s):
1. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
[…] Harris and Klebold were both born in 1981. Harris was born in Wichita, Kansas, but moved around frequently as a child due to his father’s occupation in the United States Air Force, while Klebold was born and raised near Columbine. […]
2. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold – Early life
Eric David Harris was born on April 9, 1981, in Wichita, Kansas. Harris’s parents were both born and raised in Colorado. His mother, Katherine Ann Poole, was a homemaker. His father, Wayne Harris, was working in the United States Air Force as a transport pilot, so their family moved a lot. […]
3. Littleton Shooter Was Rejected by Marines
LITTLETON, Colo., April 27 – Columbine High School shooting suspect Eric Harris was rejected for induction into the Marine Corps because he lied about having been prescribed a mood-altering drug, a Defense Department official said today. Harris, who died with another gunman and 13 others in the massacre a week ago today, went earlier this year to a Denver recruiting station. He answered no when asked whether he was on medication, the official said. In a subsequent initial screening, a recruiter found out from Harris’s parents that he had been prescribed a mood-altering drug. “Then right away when [the recruiter] found out he was on medication and had lied to him, he was disqualified,” the official said. As part of his agreement for acceptance into a juvenile diversion program last year after he was charged with breaking into an automobile, Harris had agreed to undergo a mental health evaluation and treatment if court officials thought it necessary. A spokesman for Jefferson County District Attorney David Thomas said tonight that Harris’s medical records remain confidential and that the district attorney is still reviewing whether confidentiality laws apply to him now that he is deceased.
École Polytechnique shooting
December 6, 1989
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
15 killed, 14 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Marc Lépine, 25
Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) applicant
United States Army (USA) Special Operations Forces (SOF) maternal uncle ([name unknown] Lépine)
Source(s):
[…] Lépine applied to join the Canadian Forces as an officer cadet in September 1981 at the age of 17, but was rejected during the interview process. He later told his friend it was because of difficulties accepting authority, and in his suicide letter noted that he had been found to be “anti-social”.[18][35] An official statement from the military after the massacre stated that he had been “interviewed, assessed and determined to be unsuitable”.[4]
2. Marc Lepine
[…] After the breakdown of the marriage, Monique returned to her nursing career. She worked long hours, studied hard and had little time to spare for the children. For a few years, until they were old enough to be left on their own, Gamil and Nadia were shuffled between the willing hands of relatives and friends. Gamil appears to have had a lot of affection for one uncle in particular, reportedly a former US Special Forces-trained paratrooper who taught him how to use a gun. […]
Edmond post office shooting
Edmond, Oklahoma
August 20, 1986
15 killed, 6 wounded
Perpetrator(s):
Patrick Henry Sherrill, 44
United States Marine Corps (USMC)
United States National Guard (USNG)
United States Postal Service (USPS)
Source(s):
1. Edmond post office shooting – Perpetrator
Patrick Henry Sherrill (November 13, 1941 – August 20, 1986) was born in Watonga, Oklahoma, and had served in the United States Marine Corps.[12] He was considered an expert marksman and was a member of a National Guard pistol team.[1]
American Serial Killers’ Connections to the C.I.A. and U.S. Military
The vast majority of American serial killers were members of the U.S. military before or during the time of their serial killings. The remaining minority were indirectly connected to the C.I.A. or U.S. military through their employers, associates, or family members. These men were secretly radicalized, incited, and provoked through surreptitious drugging, hypnosis, post-hypnotic suggestion, and induced dissociative states into committing their acts of serial killings by employees or private contractors of the C.I.A. or U.S. military. This highly classified, top secret intelligence program has been ongoing since 1926, the year of the first sado-sexual serial killings in the United States, committed by U.S. Army / U.S. Navy veteran Earle Nelson.
Murderers Who Have Served in the U.S. Military: A Database
Military Training Links String of Serial Killers
Did the Vietnam War Create a Generation of Serial Killers?
The case study analysis provided a relationship between serial killers and military service. Citing previous research using social learning theory for the study of murder, the analysis showed how serial killers learn violence, aggression, and murder in military boot camps. Serial killers earn the attitudes and techniques of murder, in addition to compartmentalization and dehumanization, which helps to neutralize guilt and remorse for their crimes.
Lieutenant Commander Thomas Narut
Lieutenant Commander Thomas E. Narut was a U.S. Navy admiral who was part of an active operation in which the U.S. Navy was programming and training convicted murderers to work as killers and U.S. government assassins. This program was accidentally exposed during a NATO sponsored conference entitled “Dimensions of Stress and Anxiety” held in Oslo, Norway in 1975. According to Narut, the men selected by psychological profile tests, or by evidence of past violence, were taken for programming to the U.S. Navy’s neuropsychiatric laboratory in San Diego, California, or to the U.S. Regional Medical Center in Naples, Italy which employed Dr. Narut. These, Narut said, were “hit men and assassins” (Narut’s actual words) made ready to kill in selected countries should the need arise.
U.S. Navy Denies Charge It Trains Assassins
WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters)—A United States Navy spokesman categorically denied today a London newspaper report of a program in which the Navy allegedly prepared convicted murderers to carry out assassinations. The report in The Sunday Times was based on an Interview with a Navy staff psychologist, Lieut. Comdr. Thomas Narut, in Oslo, Norway, where he delivered a paper on anxiety and stress at a conference sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Dr. Narut was quoted by a reporter, Peter Watson, as saying that the Navy training involved forcing men who were selected for their “passive‐aggressive personalities” to watch Increasingly horrific films of killing and maiming so as to generate detachment toward violence. According to the newspaper, Dr. Narut said that Navy psychologists had picked men for commando‐type operations from among submarine crews, paratroops and “convicted murderers from military prisons.” Dr. Narut said that the training took place at the Navy Neuropsychiatric Laboratories in San Diego and at the United States Navy Hospital in Naples, Italy, where the doctor works, according to The Sunday Times. Asked about the repaint, a Navy spokesman in Washington said that he bad checked with the Naples and San Diego facilities and had “talked to 40 people.” He said that he could make a categorical denial that men had ever been trained as assassins at either center.
Serial Killers – U.S. Military Connections
Programmed To Kill / Serial Killer Cover-Up
The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American landscape. Reactions to these modern-day monsters range from revulsion to morbid fascination that is either fed by, or a product of, the saturation coverage provided by print and broadcast media, along with a dizzying array of books, documentary films, websites, and “Movies of the Week.” The prevalence in Western culture of images of serial killers (and mass murderers) has created in the public mind a consensus view of what a serial killer is. Most people are aware, to some degree, of the classic serial killer “profile.” But what if there is a much different “profile,” one that has not received much media attention? Despite the conventional profile of serial killers as lone nuts driven solely by their own internal demons, there is a compelling case to be made that many of the most prominent serial killers are intelligence agency assets. Countless serial killers appear to be subjects of mind control programs like those found in Project MKULTRA, exhibiting telltale qualities such as early childhood abuse, dissociative disorders, pedophilia, and connections to known or suspected intelligence agency fronts such as the military, prisons, mental hospitals, and cults. Many of these murders, far from being random killings, are actually targeted assassinations or clean-up operations on behalf of various criminal enterprises such as murder-for-hire, drug trafficking, or sex rings, which the killers are often associated with. Other murders have no political motive, but fit the profile of Satanic cult killings or a domestic version of the Phoenix Program aimed at terrorizing the public into submission. While this is no doubt a controversial position to take on serial killers, there is often an astounding number of common elements in serial killer cases pointing to some kind of government / intelligence agency involvement. The “serial killer” presented to the public is often a fall-guy taking responsibility for group actions or (on rarer occasions) an entirely innocent patsy. Think you know everything there is to know about serial killers? Or is it possible that sometimes what everyone “knows” to be true isn’t really true at all?
U.S. Vietnam Torture / Assassination Phoenix Program
The Phoenix Program was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, U.S. Army intelligence collection units from the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV—the joint-service command that provided command and control for all U.S. advisory and assistance efforts in Vietnam), special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), and the Republic of Vietnam’s (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War. The program was designed to identify and destroy the Viet Cong (VC) via infiltration, capture, counter-terrorism, interrogation, and assassination.
The Phoenix Program was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, U.S. Army intelligence collection units from the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV—the joint-service command that provided command and control for all U.S. advisory and assistance efforts in Vietnam), special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), and the Republic of Vietnam’s (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War. The program was designed to identify and destroy the Viet Cong (VC) via infiltration, capture, counter-terrorism, interrogation, and assassination.
According to Douglas Valentine, DHS created Fusion Centers in the US based on the Phoenix Program. Between 1967 and 1973, the United States undertook the most ambitious and fareaching operation of the Vietnam War. America’s Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, commonly known as the “Viet Cong.” The victims of the Phoenix Program were Vietnamese civilians, male and female, suspected of harboring information about the enemy—though many on the blacklist were targeted by corrupt South Vietnamese security personnel looking to extort money or remove a rival. Between 1965 and 1972, more than eighty thousand noncombatants were “neutralized,” as men and women alike were subjected to extended imprisonment without trial, horrific torture, brutal rape, and in many cases execution, all under the watchful eyes of US government agencies. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with former participants and observers, Douglas Valentine’s startling exposé blows the lid off of what was possibly the bloodiest and most inhumane covert operation in the CIA’s history.
Charles Edmund Cullen
29 confirmed, 400 suspected murders
1988 – 2003
New Jersey, Pennsylvania
United States Navy (USN)
Source(s):
[…] The following year, Cullen dropped out of high school and enlisted in the United States Navy, where he served aboard the submarine USS Woodrow Wilson. He successfully passed basic training and the rigorous psychological examinations required for submarine crews, who were expected to spend as long as two months at a time being submerged in a cramped vessel. Cullen rose to the rank of petty officer second class as part of the team that operated the vessel’s Poseidon missiles. He did not fit in during his time in the Navy and was hazed and bullied by his fellow crewmen.
A year into his service, Cullen’s leading petty officer aboard Woodrow Wilson discovered him seated at the missile controls wearing a surgical mask, gloves and scrubs rather than his uniform.[5] Cullen was disciplined for that action but never explained why he had dressed that way. The Navy reassigned Cullen to a lower-pressure job on the supply ship USS Canopus. He attempted suicide and was committed to the Navy psychiatric ward several times over the subsequent few years. Cullen received a medical discharge from the Navy in 1984 for undisclosed reasons.[5] […]
Kristen Heather Gilbert
4 – 350 murders
1995 – 1996 (suspected of murders dating back to 1989)
Massachusetts
United States Department of Veterans Affairs (USDVA)
United States Coast Guard (USCG) father (Richard Strickland)
United States Army (USA) / Gulf War veteran / Virginia State Police associate (James Perrault)
Source(s):
1. Richard Russell Strickland, 72, of St. James, North Carolina, passed away on September 23, 2018.
A son of the late Russell and Gertrude Guerette Strickland, Richard was born on April 25, 1946, in Fall River, MA. He was a proud veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and served in the Pacific during the Vietnam War. While a young married working parent, he went to school at night, earning his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Massachusetts–Bridgewater. He also went on to earn his M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth. After years of working for several companies, he rose to international director of marketing, which fit with his love of travel and keen mind. In 2003, he founded his own business, RF Safety Solutions, which provided consultation and training in radio frequency safety. According to colleagues, Richard was recognized as a person of technical stature in the RF hazards community. […]
2. The Pretentious Nurse Who Murdered Veterans in Cold blood
They were entrusted to her care, but she killed to impress her lover
[…] Early life
The Stricklands were a typical middle-class family. Richard Strickland worked as an electronics executive after a career in the United States Coast Guard, and his wife Claudia was a homemaker and a part-time school teacher.
[…]
Her killings escalated when she met James Perrault, a policeman working at the VA Center, while on the night shift. Kristen began a love affair that involved stealing illicit moments at every chance she got. As a result of this new relationship, she underwent a complete change of persona; where she was a modest dresser, the typical soccer mom turned into a glamour puss. […]
3. Kristen Gilbert – Career and murders
In 1989, Gilbert joined the staff of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton. She was featured in the magazine VA Practitioner in April 1990. Although other nurses noticed a high number of deaths on Gilbert’s watch, they passed it off and jokingly called her “The Angel of Death.” In 1996, however, three nurses reported their concern about an increase in cardiac arrest deaths[15] and a decrease in the supply of epinephrine, and an investigation ensued. Gilbert telephoned in a bomb threat to attempt to derail the investigation.[16]
Gilbert left the hospital in 1996 amid a hospital investigation into the many suspicious patient deaths that occurred during her shifts. That fall, Gilbert checked herself into psychiatric hospitals seven times, staying between one and ten days each time.[12] In January 1998, Gilbert stood trial for calling in a bomb threat to the Northampton VAMC to retaliate against coworkers and former boyfriend James Perrault (who also worked at the hospital) for their participation in the investigation. In April 1998, Gilbert was convicted of that crime.[17]
VA hospital staff members speculated that Gilbert may have been responsible for 350 or more deaths and more than 300 medical emergencies. The prosecutor in her case, Assistant US Attorney William M. Welch II, asserted that Gilbert used these emergency situations to gain the attention of then-boyfriend Perrault,[18] a VA police officer—hospital rules required that hospital police be present at any medical emergency. Perrault testified against her, saying that she confessed at least one murder to him by phone while she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward.[19] Defense attorney David P. Hoose claimed reasonable doubt based on a lack of direct evidence.
[…] If her alleged crimes are unspeakably wicked, the government’s central theory for Gilbert’s motive is breathtaking for its simplicity and its brutality. Gilbert, they assert, was showing off for her lover, a hospital security officer who routinely was at her side during cardiac emergencies. As patients struggled for life after her assaults, the government charges, Gilbert was playing ”footsie” with her boyfriend. Literally.
[…]
Six months after Kristen Gilbert began work on the VA Medical Center’s evening shift, James G. Perrault, an Army veteran of the Persian Gulf War who had been working as a department store security guard, joined the VA hospital’s 11-member police force.
The Cheshire native was making $22,000 a year at the VA, $5,000 more than he had earned chasing shoplifters. The money was one thing, but, more important, the job got him one step closer to his professional goal: The legitimacy of real police work.
Perrault worked the 3-to-11 night shift, rotating two-hour stints of patrolling the hospital’s six miles of winding, narrow roadways and manning its security desk. When he was on the desk, hospital regulations required that he respond to all cardiac emergencies, known as ”codes” in hospital parlance.
Within a year he was flirting with the pretty nurse on Ward C, who, authorities say, was frequently on duty when patients in Building One’s second-floor medical unit plunged into distress.
“During my rounds doing security, I stopped on the wards and I would talk to staff members,” Perrault said. “And Kristen and I seemed to have more in common and we talked a lot.”
It was August 1995 and Perrault, Gilbert, and other members of the hospital’s evening shift would frequently stop by the VFW after work to drink beer, blow off steam.
The Michael F. Curtain Post 8006 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is just a mile from the hospital’s main entrance, a spacious barroom tucked in the rear of an old church building.
There’s a big screen TV at the head of a large horseshoe bar. Twenty-ounce drafts in a frosty glass are just $1.50. A pool table sits nearby. And, from the jukebox, Garth Brooks and George Strait sing wistfully of lonesome souls and broken hearts.
Perrault knew Gilbert was a wife and a mother of two. But, he said, she hinted that her 7-year-old marriage was on the rocks. They exchanged e-mails that were seductive and funny and, increasingly, sexually charged.
“After a few weeks of just flirting back and forth, we were down at the VFW, and after the VFW closed, I walked her out to her vehicle and we had a kiss,” Perrault said.
Autumn had come to Northampton, and Gilbert and Perrault’s relationship began to blossom from flirtation and stolen kisses to a passionate, extramarital love affair. […]
Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor (“The Dating Game Killer”)
130 murders
1968 – 1979
California, New York, Washington (possibly), Wyoming
United States Army (USA)
Source(s):
[…] In 1961, at the age of 17, Alcala joined the United States Army and served as a clerk. In 1964, after what was described as a nervous breakdown—during which he went AWOL and hitchhiked from Fort Bragg to his mother’s house—he was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder[13] by a military psychiatrist and discharged on medical grounds.[14]
After leaving the army, Alcala graduated from the UCLA School of Fine Arts and later studied film under Roman Polanski at New York University.[5]
Samuel Little
60 confirmed, 93 confessed murders
1970 – 2005 confirmed / 1960 – 2012 possible
California, Texas, Ohio confirmed / 16 other states possible
United States Army (USA) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Paul McDowell)
Source(s):
1. Here’s What We Know About Serial Killer Sam Little’s Childhood
Cleveland Magazine reported that Samuel’s mother, Bessie Mae Little, was a teenage sex worker who lived with her grandmother the year Little was born in June 1940. The census from that year said Bessie Mae worked as a maid. His father was 19-year-old Paul McDowell. At birth Samuel’s last name was also McDowell. Biography reported “authorities believe” Bessie May gave birth to Samuel while in jail.
Birth – 9 Feb 1921 – Reynolds, Taylor County, Georgia, USA
Death – 23 Sep 2001 (aged 80) – Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio, USA
Burial – Elmwood Cemetery – Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio, USA
Memorial ID – 168845925
World War II – US Army
Timeline
Birth – 1921 – Georgia
1939 – 1945 World War II
Served For – United States of America
Conflict Period – World War II
Army Branch – Branch Immaterial – Warrant Officers, USA
Army Serial Number – 34018084
Army Component – Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source Of Army Personnel – Civil Life
Branch – Army
Enlistment – 25 Feb 1941 – Ft Benning Georgia
Other Facts
Occupation – Semiskilled chauffeurs and drivers, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor
Race Or Ethnicity – Negro
Marital Status – Single, without dependents
Level Of Education – 3 years of high school
Residence – Taylor County, Georgia
Full Name – Paul McDowel
Carl Eugene Watts (“The Sunday Morning Slasher”)
14 – 100+ murders
1974 – May 23, 1982
Michigan, Texas
United States Army (USA) father (Richard Eugene Watts)
Source(s):
[…] Carl Eugene Watts was born in Killeen, Texas to Richard Eugene Watts and Dorothy Mae Young. His father was a private first class in the Army, and his mother was a kindergarten art teacher. […]
Gary Leon Ridgway (“The Green River Killer”)
71 – 90+ confessed murders
1982 – 1998
Washington, Oregon
United States Navy (USN)
Vietnam War veteran
Source(s):
Ridgway graduated from Tyee High School in 1969 and married his 19-year-old high school girlfriend, Claudia Kraig. He joined the United States Navy[8] and was sent to Vietnam, where he served onboard a supply ship[9] and saw combat.[5] During his time in the military, Ridgway had frequent sexual intercourse with sex workers and contracted gonorrhea; although angered by this, he continued this activity without protection. The marriage ended within a year.[8]
Donald Harvey (“The Angel of Death”)
40 – 57 estimated, 87 alleged murders
1970 – 1987
Ohio, Kentucky
United States Air Force (USAF)
United States Veterans Administration (USVA)
United States military / World War II (WWII) veteran associate (“Duncan”)
Source(s):
Harvey dropped out of school in the ninth grade,[2] but he earned a correspondence school GED in 1968.[7] After an arrest for burglary in March 1971, Harvey enlisted in the United States Air Force, but was discharged after nine months due to two suicide attempts;[8] after these nervous breakdowns, he came to terms with his homosexuality.[6][9]
The majority of Harvey’s crimes took place at the Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky, the Cincinnati V.A. Medical Hospital, and Cincinnati’s Drake Memorial Hospital. While working there, Harvey acquired the nickname “The Angel of Death,” as it was noted that he was present around a number of patients who later died.
[…]
Arrested for burglary on March 31, he pled guilty to a reduced charge of petty theft the next day, escaping with a $50 fine. The judge recommended psychiatric treatment for “his troubled condition,” but Harvey chose the air force instead, serving for ten months before he was prematurely discharged, in March 1972, on unspecified grounds.
[…]
Back home in Kentucky, Harvey was twice committed to the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in Lexington, from July 16 to August 25, and again from September 17 to October 17. His mother ascribed the committals to mental disorders, with Donald kept in restraints, and his lawyers would later refer to a bungled suicide attempt. The recipient of 21 electroshock therapy treatments, Harvey emerged from the VA hospital with no visible improvement in his morbid condition.
[…]
From September 1975 through July 1985, Harvey held a variety of positions at the Cincinnati V.A. Medical Center, working as a nursing assistant, a housekeeping aide, a cardiac-catheterization technician, and an autopsy assistant. In the latter position, he sometimes stole tissue samples from the morgue, taking them home “for study.”
[…]
On March 31, 1971, a drunk and disorderly Harvey was arrested for burglary. While being questioned about the crime, Harvey began babbling incoherently about the murders he had committed. The arresting officers looked into his claims and questioned him extensively about them, but in the end they were unable to find any substantial evidence to back them up, or charge him with any crime relating to them. A few weeks later he went to trial for the burglary charges and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of petty theft. After paying a small fine for his indiscretion, Harvey decided it was time for another change of scenery and enlisted in the United States Air Force.Modus operandi
Harvey served less than a year in the Air Force before he received a general discharge in March 1972. His records list unspecified grounds for the discharge, but it was widely rumored at the time that his superiors had learned of his confessions to the Kentucky police and did not want to deal with any similar matters in the future. After his release from the military, Harvey dealt with several bouts of depression. By July 1972, he was unable to control his inner demons and decided to commit himself to the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky.
Harvey remained in the mental ward of the facility until August 25, but then admitted himself again a few weeks later. Following a bungled suicide attempt in the hospital, Harvey was placed in restraints and over the course of the next few weeks received 21 electroshock therapy treatments. On October 17, 1972, Harvey was again released from the hospital. Goldie Harvey later condemned the hospital for releasing her son so abruptly, feeling that he had shown no apparent signs of improvement from the time of his admittance.
[…]
In September 1975, Harvey moved back to Cincinnati, Ohio. Within weeks he got a job working night shift at the Cincinnati V.A. Medical Hospital. Harvey’s duties varied and he performed several different tasks, depending on where he was needed at the time. He worked as a nursing assistant, housekeeping aide, cardiac-catheterization technician and autopsy assistant. Harvey had found his niche and wasted little time in starting where he had left off. Since he worked at night, he had very little supervision and unlimited access to virtually all areas of the hospital.
Randy Steven Kraft (“Southern California Strangler” / “The Freeway Killer” / “The Scorecard Killer”)
16 – 67 murders
September 20, 1971 – May 13, 1983
California, Michigan, Oregon
United States Air Force (USAF)
Source(s):
1. Randy Kraft – Adolescence and graduation
By adolescence, Kraft had taken a keen interest in politics, becoming a staunch Republican[14] and aspiring to become a U.S. senator. Shortly after his enrollment at Westminster High School, he and two close friends founded a Westminster World Affairs Club. At Westminster High, Kraft was again regarded as a pleasant, bright student who regularly achieved A grades.[15] He was also known to occasionally date girls,[16] although some classmates and teachers later stated that they suspected Kraft was homosexual.[17]
Kraft later stated he had known from his high school days that he was homosexual, although he initially kept his sexual orientation a secret. On June 13, 1963, he graduated tenth in his class of 390 students.[16] That fall, he enrolled at Claremont Men’s College[18] in Claremont, California, where he pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.[19]
2. Randy Kraft – Claremont Men’s College
Shortly after his enrollment at Claremont, Kraft enrolled in the Reserve Officers Training Corps[19] and regularly attended demonstrations in support of the Vietnam War and—in 1964—campaign rallies for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. He later declared these actions were merely a simulation of his parents’ political views and not his own, describing his second year at Claremont as being when he abandoned the “last gasp” of his conservative ideology.[19] The same year, Kraft entered his first known homosexual relationship.[20]
[…]
In 1966, Kraft was arrested and charged with lewd conduct after propositioning an undercover policeman in Huntington Beach;[21] as he had no previous criminal record, no charges were filed. The following year, he developed a radical shift in his political beliefs, becoming an ardent supporter of liberal views and eventually registered as a Democrat in 1967.[22] Kraft quickly became a Democratic Party organizer, campaigning tirelessly for the election of Robert F. Kennedy and receiving a personal letter from the senator thanking him for his efforts.
3. Randy Kraft – U.S. Air Force
Four months after graduating from college, Kraft joined the United States Air Force. He was sent to basic training in Texas before being stationed at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California, where he supervised the painting of test planes.[18] During his service in the Air Force, Kraft rose to the rank of Airman First Class and supervisor-manager.[22]
The same year that Kraft became an Airman First Class, he disclosed to his family that he was homosexual. In a letter he wrote to a friend, Kraft described his father as having flown “into a rage” whereas he described his mother as being more understanding, if somewhat disapproving.[18] Kraft’s family ultimately accepted his homosexuality, and he remained in close contact with his parents and siblings, although his siblings noted he began to “distance himself” from his family after he had disclosed his sexuality to them.[24]
On July 26, 1969, Kraft received a general discharge from the Air Force after announcing his sexual orientation to his superiors. The discharge was officially listed as being on “medical” grounds. In response, Kraft sought legal advice from an attorney in an attempt to challenge the grounds regarding his discharge. The Air Force, however, refused to change the status of his discharge.[25] Following his discharge, Kraft moved back into his parents’ home and obtained work as a bartender.[26]
Michael Joseph Swango
4 – 60 murders
1981 – 1997
United States, Zimbabwe
Illinois, New York, Ohio, South Dakota
United States Marine Corps (USMC)
United States Army (USA) / CORDS / Phoenix Program / Vietnam War veteran father (John Virgil Swango)
Source(s):
1. Michael Swango – Early life
Michael Swango was born in Tacoma, Washington and raised in Quincy, Illinois, the middle child of Muriel and John Virgil Swango. Swango’s father was a career United States Army officer who served in the Vietnam War, was listed in Who’s Who in Government 1972–1973, and became an alcoholic.[2] Upon his return from Vietnam, the elder Swango became depressed and was divorced by Muriel. Growing up, Swango saw little of his father and as a result, was closer to his mother.[2]Swango served in the Marine Corps, graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego. He received an honorable discharge in 1980. He saw no action overseas during his service, but his training in the Marines left him with a commitment to physical exercise. When not studying, he was frequently seen jogging or performing calisthenics on the Quincy University campus, and he was known to perform pushups as a form of self-punishment when criticized by instructors.[4] Swango graduated from Quincy summa cum laude and was given the American Chemical Society Award.[2] Following his graduation, Swango went to medical school at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIU).[2]: 28
David Parker Ray (“The Toy-Box Killer”)
0 confirmed, 60+ suspected murders
January 1, 1957 – March 22, 1999
Arizona, New Mexico
United States Army (USA)
Source(s):
1. David Parker Ray – Biography
Ray’s sexual fantasies of raping, torturing, and even murdering women developed during his teenage years.[9] Around this time, his sister discovered his sadomasochistic drawings, as well as pornographic photographs of bondage acts. After completing high school, Ray received an honorable discharge from the United States Army, where his service included work as a general mechanic.[2]
Randall Brant Woodfield (“The I-5 Bandit” / “The I-5 Killer”)
1 convicted, 18 linked, 44 suspected murders
October 9, 1980 – February 15, 1981
California, Oregon
United States Department of Defense contractor father ([name unknown] Woodfield – Pacific Northwest Bell)
Source(s):
1. Randall Woodfield – Childhood
Woodfield was born December 26, 1950,[2] in Salem, Oregon, the third child of an upper-middle-class family.[3][4] His mother was a homemaker, and his father was an executive at Pacific Northwest Bell.[5] He has two older sisters,[3] one of whom went on to become a doctor, and the other an attorney.[6] The Woodfield family was “well-known and respected” in their community.[5]
Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company was an AT&T majority-owned Bell System company that provided local telecommunications services in Oregon, Washington, and northern Idaho. Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company was formed on July 1, 1961 when it was spun off from the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. On January 1, 1984, Pacific Northwest Bell was split from AT&T as ordered in the settlement of United States v. AT&T and became a subsidiary of the newly formed Regional Bell Operating Company US WEST, Inc. Pacific Northwest Bell became defunct when US WEST consolidated its three main subsidiaries, forming US WEST Communications, Inc. on January 1, 1991. US WEST merged with Qwest Communications International Inc. in 2000, and the US WEST brand was replaced by the Qwest brand. Qwest Communications merged with Louisiana-based CenturyLink in 2011, and the Qwest brand was replaced by the CenturyLink brand.[1]
3. Bell System’s Connections to the U.S. Department of Defense
4. AT&T’s Connections to the U.S. Department of Defense
5. Randall Woodfield – College years and football career
After graduating from high school, Woodfield’s criminal record was expunged, and he attended Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon, later transferring to Portland State University in Portland in 1970, where he played for the Portland State Vikings as a wide receiver.[5][10] At Portland State, he was active in Campus Crusade for Christ, a Christian student group, and lived in an apartment located on the South Park Blocks.[5]
[…]
Woodfield chose to drop out of college three semesters shy of graduating with his B.S. in physical education, and was selected as a wide receiver in the 1974 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers in the 17th round (428th pick).[11][9] Woodfield tried to establish himself with the Packers during Coach and General Manager Dan Devine’s last season, but could not shake his problems with a trip across the country. He signed a contract in February 1974 but was cut during training camp, failing to make the team’s final roster.[12][13]After being cut by the Packers, Woodfield played the 1974 season with the semi-pro Manitowoc Chiefs and worked for Oshkosh Truck.[12] A similar arrest, in Portland, earned him more suspended time in June 1973. In 1974, after a dozen “flashing” incidents called unwelcome attention to Woodfield, the Packers formally cut him from the NFL.[14]
6. Green Bay Packers’ Connections to the U.S. Military
Patrick Wayne Kearney (“The Freeway Killer” / “The Trashbag Murderer”)
21 – 43 murders
1962 – March 13, 1977
California
United States Air Force (USAF)
United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor employers (Hughes Aircraft Corporation / Lockheed Martin)
United States Marine Corps (USMC) associate (Lee Harvey Oswald)
Source(s):
1. Coast Killings: Bizarre Case Widens
[…] In 1962, at about the time Mr. Hill moved to California. Patrick Kearney, fresh from a hitch in the Air Force, took a job as an electrical engineer with the Hughes Aircraft Corporation, a major defense contractor that specializes in building military satellites. He held the job until six weeks ago.
One Hughes official said that Mr. Kearney, a native of Los Angeles, had obtained a Government security clearance and described him as “an extremely diligent worker” who kept to himself. Someone else who knew him said that, although he had never earned a university degree, Pat Kearney had a reputation as “a real electronics wiz.” […]
2. Patrick Wayne Kearney (1939- Serial Killer)
[…] Life was good for Patrick Kearney. He lived in a nice apartment on Golden Avenue in Long Beach and he had a good job as an aeronautics engineer. By August 1963 he was earning a colossal $20,000 a year as a Senior Research Assistant at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City. […]
Gerald Eugene Stano (born Paul Zeininger)
22 confirmed, 41 confessed murders
1969 – 1980
Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Virginia Military Institute (VMI)
Source(s):
[…] After several years in a Virginia military academy, he graduated from high school in Daytona beach and went to work in his adoptive father’s filling station, also working as a cook and waiter on the side. […]
2. Gerald Eugene Stano – Active for 12 years (1969-1980) in United States
[…] Stano gained part of his education while attending Daytona State College, Virginia Military Institute. […]
Theodore Robert Bundy
20 confirmed, 30 confessed, 36+ suspected murders
1974 – 1978
California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Washington
United States Air Force (USAF) father (Lloyd Marshall)
United States Navy (USN) father (Jack Worthington)
United States Navy (USN) step father (Johnnie Bundy)
United States Navy (USN) / Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Department of State (DOS) associate (Jim McDermott – Harborview Medical Center)
United States Air Force Intelligence (USAFI) / Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Department of State (DOS) associate (John Muller)
Washington State Government associate (Gov. Dan Evans)
Washington State Republican Party associate (Ross Davis)
Seattle Police Department associate (Ann Rule)
Washington State Government associates (Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission / Washington Department of Emergency Services)
Source(s):
Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, to Eleanor Louise Cowell (1924–2012, known by her middle name) at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers[13] in Burlington, Vermont. His father’s identity has never been confirmed; by some accounts his birth certificate assigns paternity to a salesman and United States Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall,[14] though according to others the father is listed as unknown.[15] Louise claimed she had been seduced by a war veteran named Jack Worthington,[16] who abandoned her soon after she became pregnant.[17]
2. Ted Bundy – University years
After graduating from high school in 1965, Bundy attended the University of Puget Sound (UPS) for one year before transferring to the University of Washington (UW) to study Chinese.[43] […] In early 1968, Bundy dropped out of college and worked a series of minimum-wage jobs. He also volunteered at the Seattle office of Nelson Rockefeller’s presidential campaign[45] and became Arthur Fletcher’s driver and bodyguard during Fletcher’s campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Washington State.[46] In August, Bundy attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami as a Rockefeller delegate.[3]
[…]
In mid-1970, Bundy, now focused and goal-oriented, re-enrolled at UW, this time as a psychology major. He became an honor student and was well regarded by his professors.[54] In 1971, he took a job at Seattle’s Suicide Hotline Crisis Center. There, he met and worked alongside Ann Rule, a former Seattle police officer and aspiring crime writer who would later write one of the definitive Bundy biographies, The Stranger Beside Me. Rule saw nothing disturbing in Bundy’s personality at the time; she described him as “kind, solicitous, and empathetic”.[55]After graduating from UW in 1972,[56] Bundy joined Governor Daniel J. Evans’s re-election campaign.[57] Posing as a college student, he shadowed Evans’s opponent, former governor Albert Rosellini, and recorded his stump speeches for analysis by Evans’s team.[58][59] Evans appointed Bundy to the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee.[60] After Evans was re-elected, Bundy was hired as an assistant to Ross Davis, Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. Davis thought well of Bundy and described him as “smart, aggressive … and a believer in the system”.[61] In early 1973, despite mediocre LSAT scores, Bundy was accepted into the law schools of UPS and the University of Utah on the strength of letters of recommendation from Evans, Davis, and several UW psychology professors.[62][63] […]
3. Ted Bundy – First two series of murders
[…] During this period, Bundy was working in Olympia as the assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission, where he wrote a pamphlet for women on rape prevention.[102] Later, he worked at the Department of Emergency Services (DES), a state government agency involved in the search for the missing women. […]
William George Bonin (“The Freeway Killer” / “The Freeway Strangler”)
21 – 36+ murders
May 28, 1979 – June 2, 1980
California
United States Air Force (USAF)
Vietnam War veteran
United States military / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Robert Leonard Bonin Sr. – branch unknown)
Source(s):
William George “Bill” Bonin was born in Willimantic, Connecticut, on January 8, 1947, the second of three sons—each of whom were three years apart[9]—born to Robert Leonard Bonin Sr. (1919–1980)[10] and Alice Dorothy Bonin (née Cote, 1920–2004).[11] Bonin’s parents were both alcoholics; his father was an ill-tempered war veteran[10] and gambling addict […]
2. William Bonin – Engagement and U.S. Air Force
Shortly after graduating from North High School in 1965, Bonin became engaged to marry. This engagement had largely been at the behest of his mother,[41] with whom Bonin held a recurrent source of conflict pertaining to his evident homosexuality and who—insisting he lead a heterosexual lifestyle[35]—believed the prospect of marriage would quell her son’s sexual preferences.[13] Later the same year, his mother persuaded him to join the United States Air Force;[12] he served five months of active duty in the 205th Assault Support Helicopter Unit during the Vietnam War as an aerial gunner, logging over 700 hours of combat and patrol time.[23][22]
Bonin was to later claim that his experiences in Vietnam instilled a belief within him that human life is overvalued and that humans generally overestimate their value in society, stating, “You learn that life is cheap over there.”[44] Despite this, he is known to have risked his own life on one occasion while under enemy fire to save the life of a wounded fellow airman.[45] For this act, Bonin received a medal in recognition of his gallantry, among other medals.[46][47] According to Bonin, he engaged in sexual relations with both males and females in Vietnam,[48] although he also confessed to sexually assaulting two soldiers under his command at gunpoint during the period of the Tet Offensive.[23][49][14]
Bonin served three years in the Air Force before receiving an honorable discharge in October 1968 at age 21.[12] Upon returning home, Bonin discovered that his fiancée—who by this stage had given birth to their son[2]—had left him to marry another man.[13] During Bonin’s engagement, he repeatedly informed his fiancée he suffered from recurring nightmares in which he would sexually assault a faceless young woman in a deserted place before discarding her corpse in a shallow grave. According to Bonin’s fiancée, he frequently woke up in tears and physically trembling from this nightmare.[2] As a result of these concerning behaviors, the relationship was short-lived.[44] He would later summarize his relationship with this young woman as a “big mistake”[41] and a personal failure of his, primarily fueled by his mother’s pressuring of him.[12]
Following the separation, Bonin returned to Downey to live with his mother. Several family members noted a marked difference in his behavior following his military service, although Bonin refused to elaborate as to the changes in his demeanor.[35][13]
Paul John Knowles (“The Casanova Killer”)
18 – 35+ murders
July 26, 1974 – November 16, 1974
Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Ohio,Texas, Virginia
United States Navy (USN) maternal uncle (Grover Lee Ray Holton)
Source(s):
Birth – 25 Apr 1946 – Orlando, Orange County, Florida, USA
Death – 18 Dec 1974 (aged 28) – Douglas County, Georgia, USA
Burial – Jacksonville Memory Gardens – Orange Park, Clay County, Florida, USA
Memorial ID – 96365711
2. Doris Holton
Birth – 20 Nov 1929
Death – 25 Nov 2019 (aged 90)
Burial – Jacksonville National Cemetery – Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, USA
Plot – SECTION 38W ROW B SITE 21
Memorial ID – 205358485
WIFE OF HOLTON, GROVER LEE RAY
SA US NAVY
[…] Doris is survived by her husband, Grover Ray Holton; […]
Carroll Edward “Eddie” Cole
16 – 35 murders
1947 – 1980
California, Nevada, Texas
United States Navy (USN)
United States Army (USA) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (LaVerne Cole)
Source(s):
Carroll Cole was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the second son of LaVerne Cole (May 25, 1900 – February 5, 1975) and Vesta Cole (September 4, 1904 – January 27, 1984). His younger sister was born in 1939 and soon afterwards, his family moved to California, where LaVerne found work in a shipyard. Not long after that, LaVerne went to fight in World War II.[2] […]
2. Carroll Cole – First murder
[…] As a teen, Cole committed several petty crimes and was frequently arrested for drunkenness and minor thefts. After high school, he joined the U.S. Army, but was given a bad-conduct discharge in 1958 for stealing pistols.[2][3] In 1960, Cole attacked two couples parked in cars on a lover’s lane. Soon afterwards, he called the police in Richmond, California, where he was living, and told them that he was plagued by violent fantasies involving strangling women.[2]
John Wayne Gacy Jr. (“The Killer Clown”)
33+ murders
1972 – 1978
Illinois
United States Army / World War I (WWI) veteran father (John Stanley Gacy)
Illinois Democratic Party
United States Government associate (First Lady Rosalynn Carter)
Source(s):
1. John Wayne Gacy – Early life
John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 17, 1942, the second child and only son of John Stanley Gacy (1900–1969) and Marion Elaine Robison (1908–1989).[2][3] His father was an auto repair machinist and World War I veteran, and his mother was a homemaker.[4][5] […]
2. John Wayne Gacy – Career origins
In 1960, at age 18, Gacy became involved in politics, working as an assistant precinct captain for a Democratic Party candidate in his neighborhood. This led to more criticism from his father, who accused his son of being a “patsy”. Gacy later speculated his decision to become involved in politics was actually to seek the acceptance from others that he never received from his father.[20] […]
Gacy also entered local Democratic Party politics, initially offering use of his employees to clean party headquarters at no charge. He was rewarded for his community service with an appointment to serve on the Norwood Park Township street lighting committee, subsequently earning the title of precinct captain.[37][47][39]
In 1975, Gacy was appointed director of Chicago’s annual Polish Constitution Day Parade, an event he would supervise until 1978. Through his work with the parade, Gacy met and was photographed with First Lady Rosalynn Carter on May 6, 1978.[47] The event later became an embarrassment to the United States Secret Service. In the pictures, Gacy is wearing an “S” pin, indicating a person given special clearance.[60]
4. John Wayne Gacy – Springfield
[…] During their courtship, Gacy joined the local Jaycees and worked tirelessly for them, being named Key Man in April 1964.[2] That same year, he had his second homosexual experience. According to Gacy, after one of his colleagues in the Springfield Jaycees plied him with drinks and invited him to spend the evening on his sofa, he agreed; the colleague then performed oral sex on him while he was drunk.[23] By 1965, Gacy had risen to the position of vice-president of the Springfield Jaycees.[15] The same year, he was named the third most outstanding Jaycee in the state of Illinois.[12]
5. John Wayne Gacy – Waterloo Jaycees
In Waterloo, Gacy joined the local Jaycees chapter, regularly offering extended hours to the organization in addition to the 12- and 14-hour days he worked managing the three KFC restaurants. At meetings, Gacy often provided fried chicken and insisted on being called “Colonel”.[12] He and other Waterloo Jaycees were also deeply involved in wife swapping, prostitution, pornography, and drug use.[9][23]
Although Gacy was considered ambitious and something of a braggart, the other Jaycees held him in high regard for his fundraising work, and in 1967 named him “outstanding vice-president” of the Waterloo Jaycees.[15] The same year, Gacy served on the board of directors.[25]
Anthony Joe LaRette Jr.
16 – 31 murders
1976 – 1980 (confirmed)
Florida, Kansas, Missouri (others confessed)
United States Army (USA)
Source(s):
1. United States of America – Developments on the Death Penalty During 1995
In 1968, LaRette joined the army but was discharged because of his mental illness. He spent most of the following years in mental institutions, where he was diagnosed as suffering from
temporal lobe epilepsy, or in prison.
Wayne Bertram Williams (“The Atlanta Boogeyman” / “The Atlanta Child Killer” / “The Atlanta Monster”)
24 – 30 suspected murders
July 21, 1979 – May 21, 1981
Georgia
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
United States Army (USA) Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)
Source(s):
In his resume, Williams said he was the first student government president at his elementary school and listed activities such as band, the ROTC rifle team and baseball as high school activities.
2. Atlanta Child Murders: Reported by Soledad O’Brien (TV)
[…] O’Brien then questions Williams about his bizarre “autobiography” in which he wrote that he received secret CIA training as a teenager and was taught “unarmed combat techniques,” among other things. Williams remains evasive, refusing to directly answer O’Brien’s questions about his ability to kill with a chokehold, as most of the boys likely were, leaving the veracity of his claims uncertain. […]
3. CNN: Alleged Atlanta Child Murderer: Trained to Kill?
June 11, 2010 CNN’s Soledad O’Brien confronts convicted murderer Wayne Williams about his claims he was trained by the CIA.
Earle Leonard Nelson (“The Dark Strangler” / “The Gorilla Killer” / “The Gorilla Man”)
22 – 29 murders
February 20, 1926 – June 9, 1927
California, Illinois, Iowa, Manitoba, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington
United States Army (USA)
United States Navy (USN)
Source(s):
1. Earle Nelson – Early offenses; institutionalization
[…] Sometime in late-1917, Nelson enlisted in the U.S. military, but deserted after six weeks.[5] He repeated this pattern on several occasions, enlisting in different military branches under different names before deserting.[5] In 1918, Nelson was committed to the Napa State Mental Hospital after behaving oddly and erratically during one of his brief stints in the United States Navy.[3] A Navy psychologist noted that Nelson was “living in a constitutional psychotic state.”[5]
[…]
During his institutionalization, Nelson managed to escape at least three times before staff eventually stopped trying to locate him.[16] His frequent escapes earned him the nickname “Houdini” among the hospital’s employees.[17] Nelson was formally discharged from the Navy in absentia on May 17, 1919, and his file with the hospital was closed with a note indicating he had “improved.”[17][18]
Dean Arnold Corll (“The Candy Man” / “The Pied Piper”)
28+ murders
1970 – 1973
Texas
United States Army (USA)
United States Air Force (USAF) father (Arnold Corll)
United States Merchant Marine (USMM) step father (name unknown)
Source(s):
Dean Arnold Corll was born on December 24, 1939, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the first child of Mary Emma Robison and Arnold Edwin Corll.[7] Corll’s father was strict with his children, whereas his mother was markedly protective of both her sons. Their marriage was marred by frequent quarreling and the couple divorced in 1946, four years after the birth of their younger son, Stanley Wayne Corll.[3] Mary subsequently sold the family home and relocated to a trailer home in Memphis, Tennessee, where Arnold had been drafted into the United States Air Force after the divorce, to allow her sons to remain in contact with their father.[8]
2. Dean Corll – U.S. Army service
Corll was drafted into the United States Army on August 10, 1964,[3] and assigned to Fort Polk, Louisiana, for basic training.[22] He was later assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia, to train as a radio repairman before his permanent assignment to Fort Hood, Texas. According to official military records, Corll’s period of service in the army was unblemished.[14] Corll, however, reportedly hated military service; he applied for a hardship discharge on the grounds that he was needed in his family’s business.[18][23] The army granted his request and he was given an honorable discharge on June 11, 1965, after ten months of service.[14]
Reportedly, Corll divulged to some of his close acquaintances after his release from the army that it was during his period of service that he had first realized that he was homosexual, and had experienced his first homosexual encounters. Other acquaintances noted subtle changes in Corll’s mannerisms when in the company of teenage males after he had completed his service and returned to Houston, which led them to believe he may have been homosexual.[24]
Carl “Charlie” Brandt
26 murders
January 3, 1971 – September 13, 2004
Indiana, Florida
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor employer (Radio y Televisión Martí)
United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor employer (Ford Aerospace and Communications Service)
United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor father (Herbert Brandt – International Harvester)
United States Air Force (USAF) father-in-law ([name unknown] Helfrich)
Source(s):
1. Charlie Brandt – Early life
Charlie Brandt was the second child of Herbert and Ilse Brandt, two German immigrants who originally settled in Texas before moving to Connecticut. Brandt’s father worked as a laborer for a division of International Harvester, eventually working his way up to draftsman and project engineer. The family moved frequently and as a result Brandt and his older sister Angela attended several different schools.[2]
Brandt was regarded as a good student, but was shy and had difficulty adjusting to new surroundings. In September 1968, Herbert was transferred to International Harvester’s plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The family frequently vacationed in Florida, where Brandt hunted small game with his father.[2]
The International Harvester Company (often abbreviated by IHC, IH, or simply International (colloq.)) was an American manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment, automobiles, commercial trucks, lawn and garden products, household equipment, and more. It was formed from the 1902 merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company and three smaller manufactures: Milwaukee; Plano; and Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner (manufacturers of Champion brand). In the 1980s all divisions were sold off except for International Trucks, which changed its parent company name to Navistar International (NYSE: NAV). Its brands included McCormick, Deering, and later McCormick-Deering, as well as International. Along with the Farmall and Cub Cadet tractors, International was also known for the Scout and Travelall vehicle nameplates.
Given its monumental importance to the building of rural communities the brand continues to have a massive cult following. The International Harvester legacy non-profits host some of the largest agriculture related events in the United States. […]
3. International Harvester – Other products
Defense
IH manufactured light, medium, and heavy vehicles for military use. Examples include a Metro van sold to the Czechoslovakian Army in 1938, M5 Tractors and 2.5-ton M-5H-6 trucks for the US Navy and Marines in 1942,[55] and around 3,500 2.5 ton M-5-6-318 cargo trucks provided mostly to the Soviet Union and China.[56]Weapons
In early 1951, the United States Army through the Springfield Armory contracted International Harvester to produce M1 rifles, and from 1953 to 1956 IH produced 337,623 rifles in total, according to the Army Ordnance Department. […]
Charlie’s education led him to several good jobs. By April 1985 he was working at the Ford Aerospace and Communications Service, Electronic Warfare Range in Astor near Daytona Beach when he met Theresa Helfrich on a blind date.
Ford Aerospace was the aerospace and defense division of Ford Motor Company. It was based in Dearborn, Michigan and was active from 1956 (originally as Philco and then Philco Ford) through 1990, when it was sold to the Loral Corporation. Major divisions were located in Palo Alto CA (Space Systems Division), San Jose CA (Western Development Laboratories) and Newport Beach (Aeronutronic Division). Other operations were located in a number of other states around the United States.
Radio Televisión Martí is an American state-run radio and television international broadcaster based in Miami, Florida, financed by the federal government of the United States through the U.S. Agency for Global Media (formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors, BBG), which transmits news in Spanish to Cuba. Its broadcasts can also be heard and viewed worldwide through their website and on shortwave radio frequencies.
Named after the Cuban national hero and intellectual José Martí, it was established in 1983 with the addition of TV Martí in 1990.[1] The 2014 budget for the Cuba broadcasting program is approximately US$27 million.
Radio y Televisión Martí is overseen by the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) with Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, the current director.[2]
Radio Televisión Martí is an element of the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB). The sister elements in the IBB are Voice of America (VOA), Alhurra/Radio Sawa, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Farda, and Radio Free Asia (RFA). The IBB and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are independent federal entities spun off from the now defunct United States Information Agency.
8. A Brief History of Miami’s CIA Ties and Propaganda Efforts
Juan Corona (“The Machete Murderer”)
25+ murders
February 1, 1971 – May 19, 1971
California
United States Department of Defense (DOD) associates (DeWitt General Hospital)
Source(s):
1. Juan Corona – Mental breakdown
In late December 1955, a flood occurred on the Yuba and Feather Rivers. It was one of the most widespread and destructive of any in the recorded history of Northern California.[6] A rush of water broke through the west levee and flooded 100,000 acres (400 square kilometers), killing 74 people.[7]
Corona was apparently suffering from an episode of schizophrenia.[8] On January 17, 1956, Natividad had him committed to DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, California, where he was diagnosed with “schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type.”[9]
2. Juan Corona – Apparent recovery
He received twenty-three shock treatments, before being pronounced recovered and released three months later. Upon his release, Corona was deported to Mexico.[9][10]
In 1962, Corona returned to the U.S. legally, with a green card. At this time, he stopped drinking. Aside from schizophrenic episodes and a reported violent temper, Corona was regarded as a hard worker. This same year, he became a licensed labor contractor. He was in charge of hiring workers to staff the local fruit ranches.[11]
In March 1970, Corona was again admitted to DeWitt State Hospital for treatment. A year later, in March 1971, he applied for welfare. His application was denied.[4]
DeWitt General Hospital was a World War II US Army Hospital in Auburn, California in Placer County at the corner of C Avenue and First Street. The hospital was built in 1944 to care for troops returning home from overseas service and troops that served on the home front. The first patient checked in on February 17, 1944. The hospital had 2,285 beds housed in single story buildings over the 284 acres campus. DeWitt General Hospital was three miles north of downtown Auburn.[1]
Leonard Thomas Lake
11 confirmed, 25 suspected murders
1983 – 1985
California
United States Marine Corps (USMC)
Vietnam War veteran
United States Marine Corps (USMC) associate (Charles Ng)
Source(s):
[…] After attending Balboa High School, Lake enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1964.[6] He served two tours of duty in the Vietnam War as a radar electronics technician. During this period, Lake was first diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder.[7] After what was termed a “delusional breakdown” in Da Nang, he received psychotherapy and, in 1971, a medical discharge.[4]: 91 […]
Charles Ng Chi-tat
11 confirmed, 25 suspected murders
1983 – 1985
California
United States Marine Corps (USMC)
United States Marine Corps (USMC) associate (Leonard Lake)
Source(s):
[…] Ng moved to the United States on a student visa in 1978 and studied biology at the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, California.[7] He dropped out after one semester.[8]: 91 Soon after, he was involved in a hit and run accident, and to avoid prosecution he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. […]
2. Charles Ng – U.S. Marine Corps
Ng joined the Marines in October 1979 with the help, he claimed, of a recruiting sergeant and false documents attesting to his birthplace as Bloomington, Indiana.[8]: 91 After less than a year of service, he was arrested by military police for stealing automatic weapons from the Kaneohe Bay base armory. Facing court-martial, Ng escaped custody in 1980 and made his way back to northern California, where he met Leonard Lake.[7]
In 1982, federal authorities raided the mobile home Ng and Lake shared in Ukiah, seizing a large stash of illegal weapons and explosives. Lake was released on bond, but he jumped bail and hid at a remote cabin owned by his wife, Claralyn Balazs, in Wilseyville, a community in Calaveras County located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Ng was returned to the Marines’ custody and pleaded guilty to the theft and desertion charges. Under the terms of his plea deal, he was paroled and dishonorably discharged in 1984 after serving eighteen months in the military stockade at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.[citation needed]
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. (“The Grim Sleeper” / “The Southside Slayer” / “The 25 Auto Killer”)
10 – 25+ murders
1984 – 2007 (known murders)
California
United States Army (USA)
Source(s):
1. Grim Sleeper – Personal Life
[…] He was given a dishonorable discharge from the United States Army in July 1975, after being released from prison for his conviction of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in Stuttgart, West Germany, in April 1974.[13] Franklin and two other servicemen stationed in Stuttgart stopped to ask directions from the teen and offered her a ride home. When she accepted, they put a knife to her throat, drove to a field, and repeatedly raped her. She was able to feign interest in Franklin and asked for his phone number, by which police identified him.[13] During the gang rape, photographs were taken by the rapists – as Franklin did later with women that he raped and murdered.[14]
In 1989, Franklin was convicted of two charges of theft, one charge of misdemeanor assault, and one charge of battery. He only served time for one of the theft charges.[15]
Herb Baumeister Jr.
11 confirmed, 23 suspected murders
1980s – 1996
Indiana and likely Ohio
United States Army (USA) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Herbert Baumeister Sr.)
United States Navy (USN) father-in-law ([name unknown] Saiter – Naval Air Warfare Center)
United States Veterans Administration (USVA) associates (Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital / Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital)
Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV)
Source(s):
1. Longtime anesthesiologist Herbert E. Baumeister dies
He was an Army veteran of World War II.
2. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder
[…] Not long after the marriage, Herb’s father had his newlywed son committed to Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, a state-run mental hospital. The Carter facility catered to patients with serious mental impairments, yet there is no indication that Herb was, at that time, seriously impaired. And if he had been, his father was an extremely wealthy man who could have easily afforded to get his son private care. Herb, Sr.’s choice of facilities, therefore, was a rather odd one. Long before the confinement at Carter, Herb, Sr. had reportedly secreted his young son off to be administered ‘mental examinations.’
Herb was released from the Carter facility after two months. His diagnosis noted that he exhibited two or more distinct personalities. Following his confinement, Baumeister took a job at the Indianapolis Star. The position that he took at the newspaper was known to be regularly filled by the sons and daughters of the wealthy and powerful. Herb’s next job, driving a hearse, provided him with his requisite ‘blooding.’ Herb, Sr. then once again pulled some strings to land Herb, Jr. a position with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, where one of his duties was serving as the Bureau’s liaison to the Indiana state police. […]
2. Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital
Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital, also known as Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital is a historic hospital complex and national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. The district resources were developed between 1930 and 1951 by the Veterans Administration, and encompasses 15 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures and 5 contributing objects on the hospital campus. The main complex is connected by an enclosed corridor and consists of the main hospital building (1931), kitchen/mess hall/boiler house/attendants’ quarters, general medical building (1939), and recreation building (1941). The buildings reflect the Colonial Revival and Classical Revival styles of architecture.[2]: 3
The name of doctor Larue D. Carter had previously been attached to the state’s first intensive-treatment psychiatric hospital, a facility within a large assembly of buildings (which then also included both the Indiana University Indianapolis campus and the V.A. Hospital), in recognition of his leadership role in the state’s Mental Health Association, at a time when the Civil War-era Central State Hospital psychiatric facility, in the same city, was being pilloried as an obsolete relic reflecting inhumane approaches to mental illness.
This V.A. facility was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.[1]
Robert Christian Hansen (“The Butcher Baker”)
17 – 21 murders, 31+ rapes, 1 attempted murder, 1 attempted rape
1971 – June 13, 1983
Alaska
United States Army Reserve (USAR)
Source(s):
[…] Throughout childhood and adolescence, Hansen was described as being quiet and a loner, and he had a difficult relationship with his domineering father. He started to practice both hunting and archery, and often found refuge in these pastimes.[7] In 1957, Hansen enlisted in the United States Army Reserve and served for one year before being discharged. He later worked as an assistant drill instructor at a police academy in Pocahontas, Iowa. There, he began a relationship with a younger woman. He married her in the summer of 1960. According to Ancestry.com, one of his wive’s names was Carolyn Jean Willis.[8]
Maury Troy Travis (“The Bi-State Strangler”)
2 – 20+ murders
2000 – 2002
Missouri
United States Army Reserve (USAR)
United States Government (USG) associate (Rep. William L. Clay)
Source(s):
[…] School records show Travis graduated in 1985. Other documents indicate he then served two years in the Army Reserve, working as a medical and dental assistant. He took a variety of jobs with trucking companies in the area and volunteered at a local nursing home.
[…]
Among the documents in Travis’ court folder is a one-page letter from former U.S. Rep. William L. Clay. Written on congressional stationery, it asks the court for leniency.“I have known Mr. Travis and his family for a number of years and I feel he is deserving of special consideration in this matter,” Clay wrote.”
Since January 1988, Mr. Travis has conducted himself in such a manner as to pose no threat to society. I am pleading that he be given leniency and probation with the condition of voluntary service at a charitable community agency . . .”
Reached last week, Clay says he does not remember Travis or his family.
During his congressional career, Clay said, he sent “thousands” of similar letters. […]
Raymond Martinez Fernandez and Martha Jule Beck (“The Lonely Hearts Killers”)
3 – 20 murders
1947 – 1949
Michigan, New York
Spanish Merchant Marine (MM)
British Intelligence Corps (BIC)
United States Army (USA)
Source(s):
1. Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck – Raymond Fernandez
[…] After serving in Spain’s Merchant Marine and then British Intelligence[2] during World War II, Fernandez decided to seek work. Shortly after boarding a ship bound for the United States, a steel hatch fell on him, fracturing his skull and injuring his frontal lobe. The damage caused by this injury may well have affected his social and sexual behavior.[3] Upon his release from a hospital, Fernandez stole some clothing and was subsequently imprisoned for a year, during which time his cellmate converted him to a belief in voodoo and black magic. He later claimed black magic gave him irresistible power and charm over women.[4][5]
2. Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck – Martha Beck
[…] After Martha finished school, she studied nursing but had trouble finding a job due to her weight. She initially became an undertaker’s assistant and prepared female bodies for burial. She then quit that job and moved to California, where she worked in an Army hospital as a nurse. While living in California as a hospital nurse, she eventually became pregnant. She tried to convince the father to marry her, but he refused. Single and pregnant, she returned to Florida.[7]
Martha told people the father was a serviceman she had married, later claiming he had been killed in the Pacific Campaign. The town mourned her loss, and the story was published in the local newspaper.[7] […]
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (“The Milwaukee Cannibal” / “The Milwaukee Monster”)
17 murders
1978 – 1991
Ohio, Wisconsin
United States Army (USA)
United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor father (Lionel Dahmer – PPG Industries)
Source(s):
Career
Mr. Dahmer served as a senior research chemist at PPG Industries, Barberton, OH, 1960-1962, and research supervisor in analytical chemistry, since 1968. Later he has mainly worked as a writer.Achievements
Lionel Dahmer is known for his work A Father s Story. But he gained a fair measure of unwanted media attention as the father of Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer who was convicted in the early 1990s of murdering fifteen youths in the Milwaukee area.
2. PPG Industries’ Connections to the U.S. Military
3. Jeffrey Dahmer – College and Army service
[…] In January 1979,[70] on his father’s urging, Dahmer enlisted in the United States Army,[71] where he trained as a medical specialist at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. On July 13, 1979, he was deployed to Baumholder, West Germany, where he served as a combat medic in 2nd Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, 8th Infantry Division.[39][72] According to published reports, in Dahmer’s first year of service, he was an “average or slightly above average” soldier.[73][74][n 3]
Owing to Dahmer’s alcohol abuse, his performance deteriorated and, in March 1981, he was deemed unsuitable for military service and was later discharged from the Army.[78] He received an honorable discharge, as his superiors did not believe that any problems Dahmer had in the Army would be applicable to civilian life.[79]
On March 24, 1981, Dahmer was sent to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for debriefing and provided with a plane ticket to travel anywhere in the country. Dahmer later told police he felt he could not return home to face his father, so he opted to travel to Miami Beach, Florida, both because he was “tired of the cold”[80] and in an attempt to live by his own means. In Florida, Dahmer found employment at a delicatessen and rented a room in a nearby motel. Dahmer spent most of his salary on alcohol, and was soon evicted from the motel for non-payment.[81] He initially spent his evenings on the beach as he continued to work at the sandwich shop until phoning his father and asking to return to Ohio in September of the same year.[82]
Robert Lee Yates Jr. (“The Spokane Serial Killer”)
16+ murders
1975 – 1998
Washington
United States Army (USA)
Source(s):
1. Robert Lee Yates – Early life
[…] Yates graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 1970. In 1975, he was hired by the Washington State Department of Corrections to work as a correction officer at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.[3]
In October 1977, Yates enlisted in the United States Army, in which he became certified to fly civilian transport airplanes and helicopters. Yates was stationed in various countries outside the continental United States, including Germany and later Somalia and Haiti during the United Nations peacekeeping missions of the 1990s. Yates also served three years in the Army National Guard as a helicopter pilot from April 1997 through April 2000. He earned several commendation and service medals during his military career, including the US Army Master Aviator Badge.[3]
Yates left the active duty Army in April 1996, apparently a year and a half short of being eligible for his full retirement benefits and pension. At this time, the military was reducing its numbers, so he got his full retirement despite being short of the customary 20 years served. He then joined the Army National Guard in April 1997 and served three years until his arrest in April 2000. He served a total of 21.5 years in the military.[3] […]
James Medley / Tracy Gonzales / Christina Sherry
Ian Huntley / Maxine Carr
Patrice Alègre
Toulousse, France police officer father
Levi Bellfield
Robert Berdella Jr. (“The Butcher of Kansas City”)
United States Army (USA) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Robert Berdella Sr.); United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates
Paul Bernardo
3 murders
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) associate (Col. Russell Williams); Freemason / United States Marine Corps (USMC) associate (Alex Ford); Canadian Forces Intelligence Branch (CFIB) / Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) associates (St. Catharines Seymour Freemasonry Lodge)
David Berkowitz (“The Son of Sam Killer”)
United States Army (USA); New York City Police Department (NYPD); United States Air Force Intelligence (USAF) associate (John Carr)
Kenneth Bianchi (“The Hillside Strangler”)
William Bishop Jr.
5 murders
United States Army Counterintelligence (USACI); United States Department of State (DOS); United States Foreign Service (USFS)
Lawrence Bittaker (“The Toolbox Killer”)
5 murders
United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor employers (Lockheed Martin / Hughes Aircraft Corporation); United States Navy (USN) / Vietnam War veteran associate (Roy Norris)
Ian Brady
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) associate (Jimmy Savile)
Earl Bramblett
United States Postal Service (USPS)
Jerry Brudos (“The Lust Killer” / “The Shoe Fetish Slayer”)
Carol Bundy
Australian Army (AA) Special Operations Forces (SOF) / United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Phoenix Program / Vietnam War veteran associate (John Murray)
Angelo Buono (“The Hillside Strangler”)
Vernon Butts
9 murders
United States Air Force (USAF) / Vietnam War veteran associate (William Bonin)
Pierre Chanal
8 murders
French Army
Richard Chase (“The Vampire of Sacramento”)
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (Vacaville Prison – MKULTRA)
Andrei Chikatilo (“The Red Ripper” / “The Butcher of Rostov”)
53 murders
Soviet Army; KGB
Douglas Clark (“The Sunset Strip Killer”)
United States Air Force (USAF); United States military secondary school (Culver Military Academy); United States Navy (USN) father (Lt. Cmdr. Franklyn Clark); Australian Army (AA) Special Operations Forces (SOF) / United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Phoenix Program / Vietnam War veteran associate (John Murray)
Hadden Clark
11 murders
United States Navy (USN); United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Hadden Clark Sr.); United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) / Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) brother (Jeffrey Clark)
Kevin Coe
Adolfo Constanzo
Cuban nationality – Matamoros Death Cult
Thomas Creech
John Crutchley (“The Vampire Rapist”)
United States Navy (USN) / National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contractor employer (Harris Corporation)
Richard Davis
1 murder
United States Army (USA); United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor associates (Coyote Valley Indian Reservation)
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. (“The Golden State Killer” / “The Night Stalker” / “The Original Night Stalker”)
13 murders, 50 rapes, 120 burglaries
1974 – 1986
California
United States Navy (USN); Vietnam War veteran; United States Army Air Force (USAAF) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Joseph DeAngelo Sr.)
Michael Debardelaben
United States military father (name unknown)
Albert Henry DeSalvo (“The Boston Strangler” / “The Mad Strangler of Boston” / “The Green Man” / “The Measuring Man”)
13 murders
June 14, 1962 – January 4, 1964
Massachusetts
United States Army (USA)
Wesley Dodd
Claude Dunand
Paul Durousseau
United States military (branch unknown)
Marc Dutroux
Albert Fish
Michel Fourniret
John Frazier
Gerald and Charlene Gallego (“The Love Slave Killers”)
Luis Garavito (“The Beast”)
138 murders
Michael Gargiulo (“The Hollywood Ripper”)
Robin Gecht
Ed Gein
David Gore
Jeff Graves
United State Air Force (USAF) associate (Randy Kraft)
Lee Hall
United States Army Air Corps (USAAC)
George Hassell
United States Navy (USN)
Gary Heidnik
United States Army (USA); Phoenix Program; Vietnam War veteran
William Heirens
Elmer Henley Jr.
28 murders
United States Army (USA) associate (Dean Corll)
Aaron Hernandez
David Hill (“The Trashbag Murderer”)
28 murders
United States Air Force (USAF) / Department of Defense (DOD) contractor associate (Patrick Kearney)
Myra Hindley
United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) father (branch unknown); British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) associate (Jimmy Savile)
George Hodel
H.H. Holmes
Daryl Holton
United States military; Gulf War veteran
Karla Homolka
3 murders
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) associate (Col. Russell Williams); Freemason / United States Marine Corps (USMC) associate (Alex Ford)
Michael Hughes
United States Navy (USN)
Bob Jackson
2 murders
United States Air Force (USAF) associate (Randy Kraft)
John Jemelske (“Syracuse Dungeon Master”)
Keith Jesperson
John Joubert
United States Air Force (USAF)
Ted Kaczynski
United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) / Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associate (MKULTRA program)
Ed Kemper (“The Co-Ed Killer”)
10 murders
United States Government (USG) associates (Committee to Reelect President Richard Nixon); United States Army (USA) Special Operations Forces (SOF) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Edmund Kemper Jr.); United States Army Air Force (USAAF) uncle (Rex Stage); United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) uncle (Ray Kemper)
Israel Keyes
United States Army (USA)
Todd Kohlhepp
Richard Kuklinski (“The Iceman”)
John List
United States Army (USA) Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)
Pedro López (“The Monster of the Andes”)
110 murders
Colombian government father (Midardo Reyes); United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associates (American Christian missionaries)
Émile Loui
Henry Lee Lucas
Jeffrey Lundgren
United States Navy (USN)
Jeffrey Macdonald
United States Army (USA) Special Operations Forces (SOF)
Luka Magnotta
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / Department of Defense (DOD) Intelligence associates (Church of Scientology)
Charles Manson
United States Air Force (USAF) / Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) associate (Jolly West – MKULTRA); United States Marine Corps (USMC) associate (Charles “Tex” Watson)
James Medley
Ivan Milat
Gregory Miley
3 murders
United States Air Force (USAF) / Vietnam War veteran associate (William Bonin)
Dellen Millard
Tsutomu Miyazaki (“The Human Dracula”)
Eddie Mosley
Herb Mullin
United States Navy (USN) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Martin Mullin)
John Murray (“The Sunset Strip Killer”)
Australian Army (AA) Special Operations Forces (SOF); United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Phoenix Program; Vietnam War veteran; United States Marine Corps (USMC) wife (Jeannette Murray); United States Navy (USN) father-in-law
Joseph Naso
Jay Neill
United States Army (USA)
Dennis Nilsen
16 murders
British Army (BA); British Army Catering Corps (BACC); Anti-Nazi League; SWP
Christina Noudga
Roy Norris (“The Toolbox Killer”)
5 murders
United States Navy (USN); Vietnam War veteran; United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor associate (Lawrence Bittaker)
Anatoly Onoprienko (“The Terminator”)
52 murders
Soviet Navy (SN); Soviet Army (SA) / World War II (WWII) veteran father (Yuri Onoprienko)
Renè Osterwalder (“The Monster of Jura”)
Pietro Pacciani (“The Monster of Florence”)
14 murders
Edward Paisnel (”The Beast of Jersey”)
Carl Panzram
United States Army (USA)
Alexander Pichushkin (“The Chessboard Killer” / “The Bitsa Park Maniac”)
61 murders
Robert Pickton
Mikhail Popkov (“The Siberian Werewolf” / “The Angarsk Maniac”)
83 murders
Irkutsk Region Police Department; Angarsk Oil and Chemical Company
Dennis Rader (“The BTK Killer”)
United States Air Force (USAF); United States Air Force Reserves (USAFR); United States Census Bureau (USCB); United States Marine Corps (USMC) father (William Rader)
Ricardo “Richard” Leyva Muñoz Ramirez (“The Night Stalker” / “The Valley Intruder” / “The Walk-in Killer”)
13 murders, 5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, 14 burglaries
April 10, 1984 – August 24, 1985
California
United States Army (USA) Special Operations Forces (SOF) / Phoenix Program / Vietnam War veteran cousin (Miguel “Mike” Ramirez); Juarez, Mexico police officer father (Julian Ramirez)
John Ramsey
1 murder
United States Navy (USN)
Robert Rhoades
John Robinson (“The Internet Slavemaster”)
Dayton Rogers (“Mollala Forest Killer”)
Danny Rolling (“The Gainesville Ripper”)
5 murders
United States Air Force (USAF); Shreveport, Louisiana police officer father
Darya Saltykova
138 murders
Viktor Sayenko
Gerard Schaefer Jr.
30 murders
Martin County, Florida Sheriff’s Department
Arthur Shawcross
United States Army (USA); Vietnam War veteran
Frank Sheeran
United States Army (USA)
Francis Shelden (“North Fox Island”)
Harold Shipman (“Dr. Death”)
250 murders
Ronald Simmons
United States Army (USA); United States Navy (USN)
Varnado Simpson
United States Army (USA)
Anatoly Slivko
Mark Smich
Perry Smith
United States Merchant Marine (USMM); United States Army (USA)
Charles Sobhraj (“The Serpent” / “The Bikini Killer”)
French Army step-father (———-)
Mariam Soulakiotis
Anthony Sowell (“The Cleveland Strangler”)
11 murders
United States Marine Corps (USMC)
Richard Speck
8 murders
United States Merchant Marine (USMM)
Bevan Spencer von Einem (“The Family Murders”)
Alexander Spesivtsev (“The Dnepropetrovsk Maniac”)
Cary Stayner (“The Yosemite Killer”)
Igor Suprunyuck (“The Dnepropetrovsk Maniac”)
Peter Sutcliffe (“The Yorkshire Ripper”)
13 murders
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) associate (Jimmy Savile)
Ottis Toole
Chester Dewayne Turner
15+ murders
De Bende van Nijvel (“The Brabant Killers”)
Andrew Urdiales
United States Marine Corps (USMC)
Frederick West
11 murders
United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) / Security Service (MI5) associates (Gloucestershire Round Table Masonic Lodge); British Royal Navy (BRN) father-in-law (Bill Letts)
Rosemary West
11 murders
British Royal Navy (BRN) father (Bill Letts)
Christopher Wilder (“The Beauty Queen Killer”)
10 murders
United States Navy (USN) father (Coley Wilder)
Russell Williams (“The Tweed Creeper”)
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF); United Kingdom Government associate (Queen Elizabeth II)
Aileen Wuornos
United States Army (USA) / United States Navy (USN) / United States Air Force (USAF) / United States Marine Corps (USMC) associates (recruiting personnel); Freemason husband (Lewis Fell – Keystone Coal Company)
Ronald Joseph Dominique (“The Bayou Strangler”)
23+ murders
1997 – 2006
Louisiana
Louisiana State Government associates (Nicholls State University computer science department)
Source(s):
1. Ronald Dominique – Biography
Ronald Joseph Dominique was born on January 9, 1964, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, the younger of two children. His parents were poor laborers who lived in a trailer park located on the outskirts of the city. Because of his family’s financial circumstances, Dominique lived out his childhood and adolescence in poverty, but still managed to attend the local Thibodaux High School, from which he graduated in 1983. After leaving school, he entered the Nicholls State University, where he studied computer science. However, he quickly lost interest and dropped out in the mid-1980s.
Nicholls State University is a public university in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Founded in 1948, Nicholls is part of the University of Louisiana System. Originally named Francis T. Nicholls Junior College, the university is named for Francis T. Nicholls, a former governor of Louisiana and member of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
3. Nicholls State University’s Connections to the U.S. Military
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz (“The Railroad Killer”)
23 murders
1990’s
Mexico, United States
United States military step-father (name unknown – branch unknown)
Source(s):
1. “The Railroad Killer” Ángel Maturino Reséndiz Pt. 1
When Resendiz was six, his mother married a military man. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, she sent her son to live with her brother, Rafael Resendez Ramirez. It’s possible that Virginia’s new husband wanted her to himself. Or perhaps Virginia simply felt unable to take care of her son.
Larry William Eyler
21 – 24 murders
October 23, 1982 – August 19, 1984
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky (alleged), Wisconsin (alleged)
Indiana State Government associate (Robert David Little – Indiana State University library science department)
Source(s):
1. Larry Eyler
[…] Eyler died of AIDS-related complications in 1994 while incarcerated on death row. Shortly before his death, he confessed to the murders of twenty further young men and boys to his defense attorney Kathleen Zellner, although he denied being physically responsible for the actual murder of Bridges, which he insisted had been committed by an alleged accomplice in five of his homicides, Robert David Little.[8] […]
2. Justice Story: The Interstate Killer’s Trail of Death and Depravity
[…] At that time, he pleaded guilty to another murder — of Steven Agan, 23. But he said that he had an accomplice, Robert David Little, of the Indiana State University library studies department. For seven years, Eyler said that Little’s hand had dealt the death blows during many of the bondage rituals with kidnapped men. Little was tried and acquitted. […]
3. Is ISU Department Head Involved in Torture/Sex Murder?
[…] Eyler suggested to the police, “Why don’t you talk to my former lover? He was with me when Steven Agan was killed.” From early in the original days of the investigation, police were aware that Eyler had been lovers with Robert David Little, 52, Chairman of the Department of Library Science at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. Little had been interviewed by police a few years before and had admitted at the time that he and Eyler had been (in his words) ‘companions for a couple years’. Little, then in his early forties had met Eyler, fifteen years his junior when both were cruising for sex in the Terre Haute bus terminal, a place notorious in that town as a hang out for gay guys looking for action.
According to Eyler – and Little has to date completely denied any part in any crime — Little was with him when they picked up Steven Agan at the bus station that night. According to Eyler, David Little wanted to make a ‘snuff movie’, and they decided Agan would be the victim.
[…]
A search warrant was executed on the residence of Robert David Little as well as on his office at Indiana State University. On December 7, Vermillion County Sheriff Perry Hollowell and County Prosecutor Larry Thomas announced that Little was a ‘prime suspect’ in the Agan murder based on the results of the search warrant, but they declined to comment on what items of value were found in the search. He has not yet been arrested, but a grand jury is believed to be reviewing an indictment at this time.
Did all this take the administration of Indiana State University by surprise? After all, it is not every day a Department Chairman, Head Librarian and tenured professor of many years standing gets accused of making snuff movies and participating in torture / mutilation murders.
Actually, *it did not*. Authorities at ISU were told several years ago that Little was under suspicion in the (as yet at that time unsolved) Agan matter.
Please note that as of this time, Little has denied any and all involvement in the murder of Agan. He has admitted to his friendship with Larry Eyler and their relationship as lovers during the time period in question. […]
4. Professor Acquitted of Murder May Return to Teaching
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) A professor acquitted of murder in a grisly homosexual bondage slaying may become a campus celebrity if he returns to the classroom as planned, students said Thursday.
Robert David Little, chairman of the Indiana State University library science department, was found innocent Wednesday after a highly publicized seven-day trial.
Little, 53, said he would return to the post he’s held since 1971.″He might sort of become a tourist attraction,″ said senior Tim Graf, president of the Lambda Group, a campus homosexual rights organization. ″Students will want to take his class just to take a look at him.″
The professor was a little-known figure on the 11,700-student western Indiana campus before the murder charge, students said.
There are only three undergraduate library science majors and eight graduate students. The department has three professors, including Little.
Many students heard Little’s name for the first time in December when he was accused of helping his former friend and housemate stab to death 23-year- old Steven Agan.
Agan was tied up, tortured and stabbed in December 1982 in a rural area about 40 miles north of Terre Haute, investigators said. The body was slashed open from chest to groin.
Little’s housemate of seven years, Larry Eyler, pleaded guilty last December to murdering Agan. He testified last week that Agan was killed as part of a bondage scene that Little directed and photographed for a sexual thrill.
Eyler is on death row in Illinois for the Chicago dismemberment murder of a male prostitute. He has been named in court documents as a suspect in more than 20 slayings in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Wisconsin in the early 1980s.
Little, who was living with Eyler at the time, denied knowledge of any murders.
Little was arrested Dec. 18 and jailed without bond. He was suspended from the university, then allowed to take unpaid leave.After the verdict was returned, a grinning Little said he was too relieved by the verdict to worry about whether the trial had injured his reputation.
″I haven’t even had time to think about it,″ Little said. He could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Little is protected by tenure, said Martin Blake, director of public information.
His status will be reviewed by President Richard Landini, who will make a recommendation to the board of trustees, Blank said. The next board meeting is May 10.History Professor Richard Clouse, a former president of the faculty Senate, said he supported Little’s right to return but believed it might be difficult.
″I think it would be highly embarrassing to come back to the campus now,″ Clouse said. ″If I were him, I would go elsewhere.″
The acting chairman of library science department, Choog Han Kim, declined comment.
During the trial, Little’s defense attorneys acknowledged that he was a homosexual and urged jurors not to be prejudiced by that.
Graf said Little was more likely to be viewed as a curiosity on the campus best known for another local celebrity – Larry Bird.
″I’ve heard a lot of students say they’d like to take Little’s class now,″ said senior textiles major Kathy Hammond. ″It would be like if Larry Bird was teaching here.″
Charles Ray Hatcher
16 murders
1961 – 1982
California, Illinois, Missouri
United States Army (USA) / World War I (WWI) veteran father (Jesse James Hatcher)
United States Marine Corps (USMC) brother (Floyd James Hatcher)
Source(s):
A.K.A.: “Crazy Charlie”
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Child molester
Number of victims: 2 – 16
Date of murders: 1969 – 1982
Date of arrest: August 3, 1982
Date of birth: July 16, 1929
Victims profile: Eric Christgen, 4 / Michelle Steele, 11
Method of murder: Strangulation – Stabbing with knife
Location: Missouri/Illinois/California, USA
Status: Sentenced to 50 years to life in prison without parole in Missouri, 1984. Committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell on December 7, 1984
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Serial killer, 16 victims between 1969-1982
Other crimes: Auto theft, burglary, rape, molestation, forgery, kidnapping, assault, abduction
He hung himself in his cell at the Missouri State Penitentiary
He actually escaped prison several times
He was known as deluded, insane, crazy, smart, and over dramatic.
Birth – 4 Jul 1887 – Andrew County, Missouri, USA
Death – 17 Oct 1969 (aged 82)
Burial – Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery – Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas, USA
Plot – Section P, site 2122
Memorial ID – 130162506
Inscription – Missouri; Private, Company E, 10 Ammo TN, 10 Division, World War I
Birth – 14 Feb 1926 – Mound City, Holt County, Missouri, USA
Death – 22 Feb 2017 (aged 91) – Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri, USA
Burial – Saint Joseph Memorial Park – Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA
Plot – Last Supper section, lot 955 grave 1
Memorial ID – 176610560Floyd James Hatcher was one of the four sons of Lulu and Jesse Hatcher. Floyd married three times in his life and fathered two children.
Floyd first married Wilma Dwyer. During his marriage to Wilma and during World War II, Floyd proudly served his country in the United States Marine Corps. Floyd and Wilma were blessed with one son who was named Gary. […]
Joel David Rifkin (“Joel the Ripper”)
9 – 17 murders
1989 – 1993
New York
United States Army (USA) birth father (name unknown)
Source(s):
1. A Killer Without A Conscience
[…] The Beginning
Joel Rifkin’s birth mother was a 20-year-old college student, and his biological father was a 24-year-old college student and Army veteran. It is significant to note that Rifkin had no information on his biological parents until after his arrest. At three weeks old he was adopted by an upper-middle class Long Island couple, on February 14, 1959. His adoptive father, Benjamin Rifkin, was of Russian Jewish descent and his adoptive mother, Jeanne (Granelles), of Spanish descent, converted to Judaism when she married. Benjamin Rifkin committed suicide in 1987. […]