Discussion Point

The question is : Are some killers suffering from a mental disorder or a supernatural one?

"Night Stalker": Richard Ramirez

He stated that he was the devil himself and that he was guided to commit his crimes.

The season of the Devil occurred on the warm evening of June 28, 1984, when an earth-bound Lucifer found his way into the small Glassel Park apartment of 79-year-old Jennie Vincow.

"....He suddenly took on the role of a Satanist and his deeds as sacrificial rituals to the Lord Master of Evil. "
Police found a pentagram (an encircled five-pointed star often linked to Satanic worship) drawn in lipstick on a victims thigh.
Another pentagram had been crudely scrawled in lipstick on the bedroom wall where another victim lay in a comatose state.
The tip of the pentagram was inverted, pointing down, an indication of evil. Of Satan.

His modus operandi remained consistent and his motives inexplicable.
Was he doing the devil's work ?

The Couple and Satan, July 2001

Daniel and Manuela Ruda, who killed a man by stabbing him 66 times in a satanic ritual, have been jailed for murder.
They never denied killing their victim, but argued it was not murder because they were acting on the Devil's orders.
Accounts of the gruesome killing, in a room full of human skulls, cemetery lights, and a coffin in which Manuela slept, were given detailed coverage in the German media.
The decomposing body of the dead man, Frank Haagen, was found in the couple's flat in July with a scalpel still protruding from his stomach and the sign of the Devil carved into his chest.
Daniel also bought a chainsaw, saying he did not want to be empty-handed when the Devil called again. The couple have shown no remorse for their crime and shocked the court with their extrovert behaviour, striking defiant poses for photographers.
Manuela Ruda, who was 23 at the time, told the court that Satan had first visited her when she was 14.
She said she shunned strong light and had become involved in vampirism.

Satan’s hit man - Thomas Creech, 1967 -1975

Thomas Creech stated at his trial that many of the homicides he committed were sacrifices ordered by a cult of Satanists. He has admitted to killing or participating
in the killing of at least 26 people. The bodies of 11 of his victims -- who were shot, stabbed, beaten, or strangled, were recovered in seven states.

A biker gang reportedly commissioned him, and paid him upon completion of a "contract." In 1975, Thomas Creech was convicted of first degree murder and was sentenced to death; this was later overturned and commuted to a life sentence. In 1981, while serving his life sentence in prison, at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. He killed again.
According to Creech's version of events (he being the only witness), Dale Jensen swung
at him with the razor blade and he hit Jensen with the battery-filled sock. The plate in Jensen's skull was shattered, and while helpless, Creech kicked
him. Sometime later, a guard found Jensen who was taken to the hospital, and later died.
As with Henry Lucas a decade later, many of Creech's confessions remain impossible to verify or disprove.

Mark Chapman – , Dec 1980
“I was a nobody ‘till I shot the biggest somebody in the world”

"There was no emotion in my blood. There was no anger. There was nothing. It was dead silence in my brain.
"Dead, cold quiet, until he walked up. He looked at me...
"He walked past me and then I heard in my head. It said, 'Do it, do it, do it,' over and over again."
His childhood, as he described it to psychiatrists, was unhappy. He was the kind of boy other kids picked on. To compensate for this he started his own imaginary kingdom.

He was considered a rebel as a teenager often being stoned. This period ended as suddenly as it had started. When he was 16, a California evangelist came to town. Chapman went to one of his meetings and had a moving religious experience.

For several years his life was a rollercoaster of Depression, happiness and suicide.
By the spring of 1978 he could once more look at himself as a success, not a failure.
He dreamed of Hawaii, and visiting the Far East.
He found he could borrow from the hospital credit union and get a six-week leave of absence. And he began conferring with a travel agent, a Japanese-American woman named Gloria Abe, whom he later married.
After reading J.D. Salinger's novel “The Catcher in the Rye”
. It's the story of a confused youth who dreams of a different world, distraught at his discovery that the world seems to be made up of phonies, runs away to wander around New York.
: Mark Chapman became Holden Caulfield.
He bought two copies of The Catcher in the Rye and made Gloria read one. He talked of changing his name to Holden Caulfield and even wrote the Hawaii attorney general to ask about the procedure.
Chapman often brought home books from the library. . One of them was John Lennon: One Day at a Time. In it he read about Lennon's life in New York. He was furious.
How could Lennon preach love and peace but yet have millions?
He prayed to Satan, and would sit naked, rocking back and forth at the controls of his stereo and tape recorder.
After reading Lennon and his wife, had cut an album called "Double Fantasy."
And were going to record again, Chapman quit his security job and signed out for the last time. He wrote "John Lennon." Then he crossed it out.
He knew that John Lennon lived in the Dakota, a celebrity-filled apartment hotel across from Central Park at West 72nd St., and so Chapman decided to travel to New York. After watching a movie -- "Ordinary People," in which Timothy Hutton plays a suicidal youth trying to come to terms with his dysfunctional family. Chapman called his wife saying her love had saved him, and that he no longer wished to kill John Lennon, was returning home.
The demons however, returned and he told an alarmed Gloria he was going back to New York, to try to find a new career.
Outside the Dakota, He had his photo taken with John Lennon, signing an album, by an amateur photographer, "They're never going to believe this back in Hawaii." He offered the photographer $50 if he had gotten a picture of him with Lennon and could bring it back the next day. The photographer then left but Chapman decided he would hang around.
At 10:50 p.m. a white limousine pulled around the corner and stopped. Yoko Ono got out first. Lennon started to follow her into the building.
He called out, "Mr. Lennon!"
Lennon turned to see Mark Chapman, crouching combat style with both hands on the pistol. After Shooting 5 times he dropped the gun and began reading The Catcher in the Rye.
At his trial Mark Chapman stated that God told him to plead guilty, and read a passage from The Catcher in the Rye.
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around nobody big, I mean except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff I mean, if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye.
In Attica Correctional Institution, Mark David Chapman is still a model prisoner. His Parole having been refused 4 times, he remains in solitary confinement for his own safety.

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