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On Sunday 30th October, fifty seven year old Charles O'Donnell, a labourer and former asylum inmate, visited some friends alone, and during dinner he made certain statements that made them suspicious as to why his wife Elizabeth hadn't accompanied him to their house.
They knew that the couple, who had been married for two years, had been separated since he was released from the asylum and had only recently got back together and moved into a room in Chelsea. Next morning they notified the police who called at the room and found Mrs O'Donnell dead in bed. She had been battered to death with a pair of tongs that lay bloodstained on the floor. A neighbour in the flats told police that earlier in the week Mrs O'Donnell had given her some money to keep safe as her husband wanted to take it off' her. He was hanged by William Marwood on the 11th December 1876 at Newgate.
A former policeman sentenced to death at Birmingham Assizes by Mr Justice Swift on 9th December, 1927, for the murder of Olive Turner, a young factory worker. One night in autumn l927, twenty one year old Miss Turner and her boyfriend Charles Bromhead were strolling beside a canal at Winson Green, in the shadows of Birmingham prison, when they were stopped by Power. Pretending to be a plain clothes policeman, he asked them for proof of identity. When they could not prove who they were, he told them he was taking them into custody on suspicion of committing some crime. As they headed towards the station. Power suggested he was open to a bribe by saying they could 'square up with him.' Bromhead offered him fourpence. 'Fourpence is no good to me,' he replied. At that moment. Bromhead, rightly suspecting that Power was an imposter, told Olive to make a run for it. Power gave chase. and struck Bromhead a blow to face. rendering him senseless for a short time. When he came to. the others had disappeared. Further down the path. a courting couple spoke to Power who was dragging the distressed girl by the waist, and he told them he was a policeman taking her into custody. It was l 1.30pm. Five minutes later, another couple heard sounds of a struggle followed by a splash. Olive's body was later discovered in the canal. She had been raped and had died as a result of drowning. Thirty six year old Power was identified by several people as the man on the river bank claiming to be a police officer. As the sentence of death; was passed, Power shouted at the judge that he did not want any sympathy but announced that he planned to appeal. It failed, and he was hanged at Winson Green prison, a stone's throw from where he had committed the murder, by Thomas Pierrepoint and Robert Wilson on the 31st January 1928.
In December 1968, the 11- year-old Mary Bell was tried in the court of Newcastle along with her 13-year-old friend, Norma Bell, for the murder of a 4-year-old and the second killing of Brian Howe, aged three, just a few weeks later.
Cultist, Sex Deviate, Mass Murderer
Necrophile, Cannibal, Murderer
Edmund Kemper was a strange child who seemed obsessed with death. When he was fifteen he was staying with his grandparents on their ranch. His grandfather had given him a rifle to shoot rabbits. On one afternoon he was bored and so picking up his gun he went to go outside. His grandmother who was sat at the table called after him not to shoot at the birds. He turned around and from a distance of only a few feet he shot her in the back of the head. He fired into her body twice more. He began to drag her body into the bedroom when he heard his grandfathers car draw up outside. As the old man got out of the car Edmund Kemper lined up the gun and shot and killed him with a single bullet.
It was only now that he started to worry about what he had done. Picking up the phone he told his mother what he had done. She told him to ring the police which he did. When questioned he was asked why he had done it, his answer was quite simply he wanted to see how it felt to kill grandma. Edmund Kemper was never brought to trial but was sent to Atascadero State Hospital for the criminally insane.
Edmund Kemper grew into a strapping six-foot-nine-inch hate machine. He spent five yeaars in hospital before being released 'cured'. In order to be really cured you have to have something wrong with you in the first place and as far as Kemper was concerned there had been nothing wrong with him in the beginning. He was paroled into the care of his mother but this did not work very well as he constantly argued with her. Over the ensuing years, with the help to his campus pass obtained through his mother, Edmund began a murdering spree that earnt him the nickname of the Coed Killer.
He gained enjoyment from decapitating his victims and having sex with their headless corpses. He also buried heads outside his house with the eyes looking in the same direction as his mother's bedroom window.
He would often take Polaroid photos of his accomplishments and occasionally wouls actually eat parts of his victims. When questioned later about this he confessed that his acts of cannibalism were because, I wanted them to be a part of me, and now they are. During this time he was still recieving treatment and on one occasion he even visited his court-appointed psychiatrist with a head in the trunk of his car. The psychiatrist thought he was doing really well and was well adjusted. Kemper liked killing women who reminded him of his mother. On Easter Sunday 1973 he went after the root of his problem. Edmund Kemper smashed her skull and then decapitated her. Not satisfied, he called his mums best friend and invited her over. When she arrived he killed her too. After, he drove to Colorado, called the police and confessed. At first they thought he was kidding. What they found at his mums house made them change their minds. Ed was sent to Vacaville Prison where he is their model serial killer prisoner with a heart of gold.
Mass Murderer - Sexual Perversion