Prisons are places where bad people are held to serve their sentences, with a hope they will change for the better. But, unfortunately, the longer they stay locked up, some of those bad people just get scarier, and become more dangerous to everyone around them. Well, here we will share some of the most dangerous prisoners in the world.
The World’s Ten Most Dangerous Prisoners
Here is a list of the most dangerous Prisoners in the world:
1. John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy was a jovial man who loved to spread cheer by performing as Pogo the Clown or Patches the clown. He got a new nickname the Killer Clown when news of his heinous misdeeds came to light. Gacy was a serial killer responsible for taking out at least 33 young men and boys. When he was child, he experienced harsh treatment from a father who often abused and was sexually abused. Also, he was sickly and failed to graduate from high school. But it did not stop him from getting a college degree, marrying, and successfully running a business. In 1968, he was arrested for performing an intimate act on a teen. He was given a 10-year sentence with divorce papers served on sentencing day. After serving 18 months, Gacy was released. He remarried and divorce shortly after he began killing in 1972. It was his last murder that earned him notoriety as the most dangerous prisoner which resulted in his trial and execution.
2. Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer was a cannibal sex offender and serial killer. He was born on May 21 1960. Most sources agree that he has a normal childhood. But in fact, the young Dahmer was lonely, friendless and withdrawn. Since Dahmer was a child, he was fascinated with dead animals and often played with animal bones as much as. He learned body bone preservation skills from his dad. When he was still in High School, his parents divorced, and that led him to increasingly seek comfort and become addicted to alcohol. He committed his first murder in his teens with the victim being a hitchhiker that he met by chance. Then, Dahmer sought to make something of his life by enrolling in Ohio State University. But his persistent alcohol abuse made him progress. He enrolled in the Marine Corps, but the alcohol abuse continued. He was deemed unfit for service and honorably discharged. In the 1920s, Dahmer started his killing spree with his victims being men and boys that he gave drugs to with sleeping pills. In July of 1991, his action was blown off, when a would-be victim escaped and called the cops. They ran into his collection of human body parts. Interviewed by the cops Dahmer freely confused about taking out 16 people along with cannibalism and necrophilia. Eventually, he was given 16 life sentences. On November 28th 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer was bludgeoned to death by an inmate.
3. Grady Franklin Stiles Jr
Grady Franklin Stiles Jr, known as the Lobster Boy, was born with a congenital defect that resulted in his hands and feet fusing like lobster claws. He married twice and had four kids. He made a good living through touring the country with his family as carnival freaks. However, Franklin was an abusive alcoholic. In 1978, he shot and killed his daughter’s fiancé on her wedding eve. His motive was that he did not approve of the would-be groom marrying his favorite child. At the trial, Grady Franklin confessed to the crime, but due to his crippling disability and ill health. Franklin was found guilty on third degree murder charges. He was sentenced to house arrest and 15 years of probation. His drinking and abuse worsened. Eventually, his wife and son paid someone to kill him. He was abrasively bad tempered and surely, he was a much-disliked man. Because of that, there were only ten people at his funeral.
4. Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos is known as the most dangerous prisoner. While working as a lady of the night, she shot, killed and robbed seven men supposedly in self-defense. However, juries did not believe her self-defense story. She was found guilty, with her execution being carried out on October 9th, 2002. Aileen Wuornos had a very terrible childhood. From age 11, she frequently engaged in intimate acts with her brother. For years, she had been abused by her grandfather with a friend of his assaulting and getting her pregnant at age 14. Aileen Wuornos gave the child up for adoption. She quit school, and at age 15, she became a fulltime sex worker. Aileen Wuornos briefly married with the marriage being marked by violence and annulled after nine weeks. In November 1989, she committed her first murder and the last murder in November 1990. Her lover and partner in crime helped the police catch her. Eventually, she was sentenced to death for six of the murders. Her story has inspired movies, poems, and documentaries.
5. Nikko Jenkins
Nico Jenkins was born in September 1996. He came from a particularly crime-grown family. At seven years old, he was detained for taking a gun to school. At 15 years old, he was arrested for carjacking and aggravated assault eventually snagging a 21-year sentence. On September 3rd 2013, Nico with the assistance of some family members took out four people. He confessed to all four acts saying that it has been done as a sacrifice in honor of an accident Egyptian God of chaos. Nico Jenkins elected to represent himself during his trial. He was found guilty of all four murder charges. In May 2017, Nico Jenkins was sentenced to death and given an extra 450 years on weapon charges.
6. Thomas Silverstein
Thomas Silverstein spent 36 years in Solitary confinement and 42 years in jail. In American history, he was the most isolated prisoner in American history. He was a shy child and was often teased by his friends. His mom encouraged him to fight back. This in turn encouraged violent tendencies in the young Silverstein. At age 14, he was sent to a youth home for stealing a car and fighting a cop. And, at 19 years he got jailed for armed robbery. After four years, he was back in the jail serving a 15-year sentence for another armed robbery. Silverstein was convicted of murdering another inmate and given a life sentence, but that was overturned on appeal. Then, he was convicted of killing another inmate, receiving a life sentence. Also, Silverstein killed a prison officer and was placed into the strictest solitary confinement. In May 2019, he died of heart surgery complications.
7. Dennis Rader
Dennis Rader is responsible for 10 murders in Kansas and is serving 10 consecutive life sentences. He was born in March 1945. From an early age, he reportedly had persistent fantasies of torturing helpless women. Also, he loved torturing and killing small critters. Dennis Rader likes to wear women’s clothes and panties and perform intimate acts while wearing them. In January 1974, he committed his first murder, He killed four family members for no obvious reason. Then, Dennis Rader killed three women. His last killing was in February 1991.
8. Andrei Chikatilo
Andrei Chikatilo, known as the red Ripper was born in October 1936 with medical issues that caused urinary incontinence and impotence. In 1973, he started his criminal. In that year, Andrei Chikatilo assaulted one of his pupils. A few months later, he assaulted another student. In 1978, he first combined sexual assault with murder, preying on children teens and adults. During the investigations, he was seen acting suspiciously and arrested. He was pressured to confess. Eventually, he confessed to a total of 56 murders, with details only the murderer could have known. He led the police to where some of his victims were buried. In February 1994, he was arrested and shot unceremoniously.
9. Rodney Alcala
Rodney Alcala, a dating game killer, was born in Texas. His first crime was the sexual and physical assault of a child. The parents of the victim forbade her from testifying, so he only got a three-year sentence. Before being paroled, he served 17 months. Rodney Alcala was sent back after for assaulting a teen. In July 1979, he was arrested for the murder of a 12 years old ballet dancer and sentenced to death. However, that was cancelled due to a technicality and following a re-trial. In February 2010, he got the chance to defend himself in the court on five murder charges. But eventually Rodney Alcala was found guilty of all five killings. When Alcala was 77 years old, he died of natural causes.
10. Johann Jack Unterweger
Johann Jack Unterweger, known as the Underwear Strangler was born in Austria. He had something of a rude childhood and spent most of his youth in jail on a variety of offenses. In 1974, Unterweger strangled an 18 years old German girl and got a life sentence. But while in prison, Unterweger took to writing. And, he got extremely good at it, getting rave reviews on multiple continents. His literary genius was taken as proof that he had changed for the better and eventually a successful campaign was started for his release and pardon as a free man. Unterweger continued working and possibly won the Nobel prize in literature. But then, it was found that just after being pardoned, Unterweger had murdered a woman in Czechoslovakia and seven other women in Austria with their bra straps. That is why he is known as the Underwear Strangler. He made a run for it, and was eventually arrested in Florida in February 1992. Then, he was taken to Austria. In June 1994, Unterweger was found guilty of nine murders and sentenced to life but he died before this verdict was executed.
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