| Criminal |
Animal Cruelty |
Crime Against Humans |
| Micheal Cartier |
Pulled a rabbit's legs out of their sockets when he was four years old and threw a kitten through a closed window. |
Shot Kristin Lardner three times in the head. She died. |
| Henry Lee Lucas |
Killed animals and had sex with their corpses. |
Killed his mother, his common law wife, and an unknown number of people. |
| Christine Felling |
Tortured and killed cats to see if they did have nine lives. |
By the age of 19, she murdered five children and an elderly man. |
| Edward Kemperer |
Cut up two cats. |
Killed his grandparents, his mother, and seven other women. |
| Theodore Robert Bundy |
Witnessed animal cruelty by his grandfather. |
Killed thirty-three women. |
| Jeffrey Dahmer |
Participated in the deliberate killings of animals by car. |
Murdered 17 men. |
| Richard Allen Davis |
Set "cat fires." |
Murdered Polly Klaas, age 12. |
| Richard Speck |
Threw a bird into a ventilator fan. |
Killed eight women. |
Rod Ferrel
Leader of a gang of teen "vampires" |
From the age of nine to sixteen, tortured and killed cats and dogs, broke into an animal shelter, beat dogs, and multilated puppies. |
He bludgeoned an elderly couple to death. He was 16 and is now on Death Row. |
| Randy Roth |
Taped a cat to a car's engine and used an industrial sander on a frog. |
Killed two of his wives and attempted to kill a third. |
| David Richard Davis |
Shot and killed two healthy ponies, threw a wine bottle at a pair of kittens, hunted with illegal methods. |
Murdered his wife, Shannon
Mohr Davis, for insurance money. |
Peter Kurten
The Dusseldorf Monster |
Tortured dogs, practiced bestiality while killing the animal. |
Murdered or attempted to murder over 50 men, women, and children. |
Albert De Salvo
The Boston Strangler |
Would place a dog and a cat in a crate with a partition between them. After starving the animals for several days, he would remove the partition and watch them kill each other. Also, would shoot arrows into boxes of trapped cats and dogs. |
Raped and killed nine women by strangulation. He would often pose the bodies in a shocking manner after death. |
Richard Trenton Chase
The Vampire Killer of Sacramento |
Bit the heads off birds, drained animals for their blood, killed animals for their organs. |
Killed six people in random attacks. One police officer who was at the scene of the first murder confessed to having nightmares about the crime for months afterwards. |
| Luke Woodham |
Set fire to his own dog, Sparkles. He poured accelerant down her throat and set fire to her neck both inside and outside. |
Went on a shooting spree which killed two girls ages 16 and 17 after stabbing his mother to death. He was 16 years old. |
| The Kobe Killer - an as yet unnamed 15 year old boy in Japan |
Beheaded a cat and strangled several pigeons. |
Decapitated 11 year old Jun Hase, and battered to death a 10-year-old girl with a hammer and assaulted three other children in separate attacks. |
| Richard William Leonard |
His grandmother forced him to kill and multilate cats and kittens when he was a child. |
Killed Stephen Dempsey with a bow and arrow. Killed Ezzedine Bahmad by slashing his throat. |
| Tom Dillion |
Randomly shot people's pets. |
Shot and killed five men:
Jamie Paxton, 21
Claude Hawkins, 49
Donald Welling, 35
Kevin Loring, 30
Gary Bradely, 44 |
| Eric Smith |
At the age of nine he strangled a neighbor's Siamese cat. |
At the age of thirteen, Smith bludgeoned Derrick Robie, aged four, to death. Smith lured the little boy into the woods, choked him, sodomized him with a stick, then beat him to death with a rock. |
| Jack Bassenti |
When his dog had puppies, he buried all but one of them alive. |
Raped and murdered three women. |
David Berkowitz
"Son of Sam" |
Poisoned his mother's parakeet out of jealousy, and shot his neighbor's labrador retriever. |
Shot thirteen young men and women. Six people died and at least two suffered permanent disabilities. |
| Arthur Shawcross |
Repeatedly threw a kitten into a lake until the kitten drowned from exhaustion. |
Killed a young girl. Then, after serving 15 and 1/2 years in prison, killed 11 more women. |
| Michael Perry |
He decapitated a neighbor's dog. |
Killed his parents, his infant nephew, and two neighbors. |
| Jason Massey |
Killed cats, dogs, and cows. |
Killed his thirteen year old stepsister and a fourteen year old boy. |
| Patrick Sherrill |
Stole neighborhood pets and encouraged his dog to attack them. |
Killed 14 people at his workplace before killing himself. |
Keith Hunter Jesperson
The Happy Face Killer |
Strangled a cat. |
Killed at least one woman. |
| Joel Steinburg |
Refused medical treatment his adopted daughter Lisa's pet rabbit when it broke its leg. |
Killed his adopted daughter, Lisa. Lisa also suffered from extensive bruises all over her body. Her hygiene was very poor, and Steinburg was seen tossing Lisa into the Atlantic surf at the beach. |
| Brenda Spencer |
Set the tails of neighborhood cats and dogs on fire. |
Fired 40 shots into a crowd of children, murdering two and wounding nine. |
| Carol Edmund Cole |
His first violent act was strangling a puppy. |
Murdered 35 people. |
| Richard Grissom |
During a burglary, tortured and beat the family's pet cat, nearly crushing the cat's skull. |
Kidnapped, terrorized and murdered at least three young women. |
| Kip Kinkle |
Said he blew up a cow once. Set a live cat on fire and dragged the innocent creature through the main street of town. |
Classmates rated him as "Most Likely to Start WWIII." Shot 25 classmates and killed several in Springfield, Oregon. Killed his father and mother. |
11 year old Andrew Golden and
13 year old Mitchell Johnson |
Tortured and
killed dogs. |
Golden and Johnson shot and killed 4 students and 1 teacher during a fire drill at their school in Jonesboro, AR. |
| Robert Alton Harris |
Initial run-in with police was
for killing neighborhood cats. |
Murdered two 16 year old boys, doused a neighbor with lighter fluid and tossed matches at him. |
| Russell Weston, Jr. |
Tortured and killed 12 cats: poured toxic chemicals in their eyes to blind them; forced them to ingest poison, burned and cut off their tails, paws, ears; hung them from trees (the noose loose enough to create a slow and painful death). |
Killed 2 officers at the US
Capitol in Washington, DC. |
| Craig Chandler Price |
During his trial, his mother stated that as a child, he would "rough play with animals"; he bragged that he liked to kill and/or hurt cats; would get the family pet cat high on marijuana. |
At age 13 during attempted housebreaking, stabbed to death a neighbor as she lay sleeping. At age 15 during attempted housebreaking, stabbed to death another neighbor and her two young daughters, inflicting 120 stab wounds on the three bodies. |
