The fucking with NY dogpile would probably work a lot better if people didn't read Slog top-down.

In the serial killer department, Wisconsin puts both Washington and New York to shame.

<---this person who hails from both Milwaukee and Cleveland (daaaahhhhmmmmerrrrrrr peeeeooopppppllllleeeeee) agrees with Urgutha Forka: the midwest has both coasts beat when it comes to serial killer. No coast! w00t!

Bizarre as it may sound, this got me thinking.... Bundy and Ridgway are waaaaaay scarier than Berkowitz and Rifkin. The NY pair are kind of cartoony, almost like Batman villains. I mean, "Son of Sam?" Please. Yup, people were scared at the time, and the press really played Berkowitz and his antics up, but you half expected the Caped Crusaders to show up in the Batmobile all the time.

But Bundy still scares the shit out of me. Three states, lots of dead women, all packaged in such a blandly handsome face, with such evident concern for his co-volunteer at the Seattle crisis hotline, future crime-writer Ann Rule, that even years later she was surprised to find out who he was? I still shiver, and I didn't even live here then.

And Ridgway? To kill all those women and keep it under wraps for so long? Nope, NY's got nothing on us...

@2, thank you. Wisconsin will literally bury your sorry ass with it's history of serial killing. Glad to know my home state is appreciated for something....other than cheese. Which we'll use to KILL YOU.

this isn't really anything to brag about. but even if it were, new york still probably wins if you include mob hitmen and all their prolific murdering. those guys know how to dress back in the day. but i guess if you just go based on ritualistic sociopaths then, yeah, seattle can probably have that one.

As a Chicago boy myself, I can wholeheartedly stand behind anything that mocks New York, home of TheHatedYankees and a thoroughly inferior city to that of the Big Shoulders. (Case in point: the Bears have won as many league championships as the Giants and Jets combined.)
However, I think that taking the comparison to the merits (demerits?) of serial killers has jumped the shark.

Green Bay & Madison ain't exactly angling for cultural cornerstone of the nation, ya'll. Russia had Stalin if we want to expand our selection set to everywhere.

*Also, the Galaxy's worst serial killer is clearly Lord Xenu. The poor thetans...

No lie about the Midwest, though. Gacy and Gein and Dahmer, oh my! Just today they caught a fresh one, most of whose victims were in Michigan, trying to get to Tel Aviv:

Abuelazam's total tally of carnage, according to police: starting in May, he stabbed five men to death; injured 12 others in knife attacks; and hit one with a hammer, across three states. All but two of the victims were black men.

h/t...wait for it... Gawker.

http://gawker.com/5612210/elias-abuelaza…

This is in really bad taste. There's nothing funny about the rape and murder. Nothing.

HA! I thought this was funny. Reaching for the better than stuff with serial killers!! It's getting crazy silly up in here now.

@7 Not to mention H. H. Holmes and Richard Speck. Belle Gunness spent some time in Chicago, too.

@10, I agree. It will always be 'too soon' for those jokes.

Milwaukee > NYC?

I still think PoCo has the win for this.

Nothing like pig farmers filling their farms with the bodies of partially digested dead hookers.

As a woman who was in graduate school at UW at the time Ted Bundy was making his rounds, I find the giggly comments offensive.
That's all.

OR you could say that the NYPD kicks the collective ass of SPD so fucking hard that they catch serial killers much faster, thereby saving many lives.

Has anyone heard of the documentary Burke and Hare the Body Merchants? I would like to see it and was wondering if it was similar to the recent Burke and Hare (2010) movie. Thanks,

Sean McDue

Has anyone heard of the documentary Burke and Hare the Body Merchants? I would like to see it and was wondering if it was similar to the recent Burke and Hare (2010) movie.