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Serial Killers

of the

Middle Ages

Overview:

  • no true criminal justice system
  • most were aristocrats
  • status let them get away with murder
  • led to rumors of witchcraft
  • said to be "vampires" or "werewolves"
  • generally sentenced to death, if possible

Country: France

Years active:

1432-1440

Number of Victims:

140+ young children

primarily boys

Treatment of victims:

tortured

sodomized

murdered

Country:

Romania

(Transylvania)

Years active:

1459-1463

Number of victims:

40,000-100,000 "criminals"

included actual criminals, poor people, & anyone he didn't like

Treatment of victims:

Various methods of torture

- skinned

- boiled

- burned

- (but mostly) impaled

Country:

Germany

Years active:

1564-1589

Number of victims:

humans - 18

animals - unknown

Treatment of victims:

Women sexually assaulted

All killed

Most partially eaten

Country:

Hungary

Years active:

1603-1610

Number of victims:

400+ young girls

Treatment of victims:

Bled to death for "youthful baths"

Country:

Chile

Years active:

1623-1665

Number of victims:

40+ people

Treatment of victims:

Abused & murdered Inquilinos (indentured servants/serfs)

Poisoned her father

Stabbed a priest

Tortured a lover to death

Works Cited

  • De Rais: http://jeriwesterson.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/11/medieval_serial.html
  • Vlad: http://www.hellhorror.com/killers/serial_killer/64/Vlad-Tepes-aka-Vlad-the-Impaler-Count-Dracula.html
  • Stumpp: http://paranormal.about.com/od/werewolves/a/The-Werewolf-Of-Bedburg.htm
  • Bathory: http://www.hellhorror.com/killers/serial_killer/60/Erzsebet-Bathory-Elizabeth-Bathory-aka-The-Blood-Countess.html
  • Catalina:

http://www.allsantiago.com/the-historic-quarter/around-iglesia-de-san-agustin/the-story-of-la-quintrala/

The Werewolf of Bedburg

Peter

Stumpp

Punishment:

Executed by breaking wheel

"The Blood Countess"

Elizabeth

Bathory

Punishment:

Not allowed to be executed (royal lineage)

Sealed in castle closet & never released

Died 4 years later (1614)

Gilles de

Rais

"Count Dracula"

Vlad the

Impaler

Punishment:

Hanged until dead

Punishment:

Imprisoned by king of Hungary

Escaped

Recaptured & beheaded

"La Quintrala"

Catalina de los Rios

Punishment:

None

Cases never tried

(her uncle was a judge)

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