Infamous Murders: Mass Murderers
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In August 1987, in the quiet English country town of Hungerford, Michael Ryan went on the rampage. He massacred 14 people, including a policeman and his own mother.
Ryan was a fully-licensed member of his local gun club, and owned an assortment of high-powered rifles, shotguns and pistols. His final act of revenge was to commit suicide, denying the bereaved the final truth of why he killed their loved ones.
In 1966 in Austin, Texas, Charles Whitman climbed the university tower armed with a metal trunk and enough food and water to last throughout his anticipated siege. He had killed his wife and mother to spare them the shame of what he was about to do, to open fire on the university students and the people shopping below.
Whitman killed at least a dozen people before a four-man police squad stormed the tower and shot him dead. Again, his secret went with him to his grave, but the autopsy did reveal that Whitman had a brain tumor. Could it have affected this previously mild-mannered student?
In the 1970s Houston police learned the truth about a number of teenage boys who had gone missing. 17-year-old Wayne Henley had been procuring young boys for Dean Corll, a 33-year-old electrician.
Corll, a violent homosexual, then tortured them and killed them. When he tried to make Henley kill a girl he had brought back to the house, Henley turned on his accomplice and shot him dead. Henley claimed that the older man had forced him to take part, but Henley was found guilty of murder and remains in prison to this day.
Ryan was a fully-licensed member of his local gun club, and owned an assortment of high-powered rifles, shotguns and pistols. His final act of revenge was to commit suicide, denying the bereaved the final truth of why he killed their loved ones.
In 1966 in Austin, Texas, Charles Whitman climbed the university tower armed with a metal trunk and enough food and water to last throughout his anticipated siege. He had killed his wife and mother to spare them the shame of what he was about to do, to open fire on the university students and the people shopping below.
Whitman killed at least a dozen people before a four-man police squad stormed the tower and shot him dead. Again, his secret went with him to his grave, but the autopsy did reveal that Whitman had a brain tumor. Could it have affected this previously mild-mannered student?
In the 1970s Houston police learned the truth about a number of teenage boys who had gone missing. 17-year-old Wayne Henley had been procuring young boys for Dean Corll, a 33-year-old electrician.
Corll, a violent homosexual, then tortured them and killed them. When he tried to make Henley kill a girl he had brought back to the house, Henley turned on his accomplice and shot him dead. Henley claimed that the older man had forced him to take part, but Henley was found guilty of murder and remains in prison to this day.
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