What famous London serial killer killed at least 5 people in 1888?
Serial killer Members of the Thuggee cult in India may have murdered a million people between 1740 and 1840. Thug Behram, a member of the cult, may have murdered as many as 931 victims. In his 1886 book, "Psychopathia Sexualis", psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing noted a case of a serial murderer in the 1870s, a Frenchman named Eusebius Pieydagnelle who had a sexual obsession with blood and confessed to murdering six people. The unidentified killer Jack the Ripper, who has been called the first modern serial killer, killed at least five women, and possibly more, in London in 1888. He was the
Terry Blair (serial killer) John O'Malley on March 27, 2008, and he was sentenced to six life sentences with no possibility of parole for these six murders. Blair is currently housed in the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Missouri. Blair appealed his conviction, but his appeal was denied by the Missouri Court of Appeals in August, 2009. Blair's seven homicides are featured in the episodes "A Serial Killer Calls" and "The Killer Speaks" of the television show "The First 48". Terry Blair (serial killer) Terry A. Blair (born September 16, 1961) is an American serial killer who raped and killed at least seven