History's Biggest Villains

Peter Bryan’s mental issues seemed to take control of his life. In 1994, he was admitted to Rampton Secure Hospital after admitting to the murder of 21 year old store assistant Nisha Sheth, who he beat to death with a claw hammer. By 2004, officials at the hospital were satisfied with Peter’s progress and they moved him to Newham General Hospital, an open psychiatric ward,before being completely discharged a month later. On February 17, 2004, Nicola Newman went to visit her friend, 43 year old Brian Cherry, who lived in a ground floor flat at Manning House, Walthamstow. The sight she saw as the door opened was one of the most horrific scenes the police had ever witnessed.

From an early age, it was pretty clear that Richard Chase wasn’t a normal kid. By the time he was 5, he had an obsession with killing animals and drinking their blood. His heavy drug and alcohol use combined with his numerous mental health issues caused him to develop hypochondria. While hospitalized, Chase frequently complained of his heart occasionally stopping or someone having stolen his pulmonary artery. In 1977, after a stay in the mental hospital, he was found naked in a field with his body smeared in cow’s blood. Even after this bizarre incident, Richard’s blood thirst became unquenchable.

Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan both came from privileged backgrounds, living in the upper echelon communities of their respective countries. Wolfgang was the son of the manager of a prestigious German insurance company, and Marco was the son of a police officer. When they both met in high school, they both agreed that they would rid the world of the “undesirables''. Afterwards they embarked on a seven year murder spree.

Robert Charles Gleason Jr. (April 10, 1970 – January 16, 2013) was an American serial killer who was sentenced to death and executed in Virginia for two separate murders of two of his cellmates. Gleason, who was already serving a life sentence for another murder, was an execution volunteer who vowed to continue killing in prison if he was not put to death. Capital punishment was abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, officially making Gleason the last person to be executed in Virginia by electrocution.

Douglas Gretzler , was an American serial killer who, together with accomplice Willie Steelman, committed seventeen murders over a three-week period in October and November 1973 in the states of Arizona and California. All the victims were shot, strangled, or stabbed to death, and the majority of the murders were committed in the commission of robberies or for the purpose of eyewitness elimination.

Doctors are some of the most important figures in society. We trust them with our lives based on their extensive amount of schooling. Doctors take the hippocratic oath to swear that they will do the best they can to help their patient. Harold Shipman was a respected member of his community and he built trust with his patients. But he would betray these people in the worst way possible. Welcome to the story of Dr. Death.

John Christie was a man who was always destined to be a criminal. After being discharged from the Royal Air Force in 1924, he was in and out of prison for the next decade. In 1934, they moved into the now infamous 10 Rillington Place. Over a period of 10 years, 10 women would fall victim to his murderous rampage. The ineptitude of the police and the execution of an innocent man allowed Christie to avoid capture for so long This is the story of the Monster of Rillington Place.

Lucy Letby was a NICU nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester England. After the deaths of infants began to mysteriously rise in June 2015, Letby was named as the suspect and was subsequently arrested. She is currently on trial for the murders of seven infants and the attempted murders of fifteen more.

Earl Brian Bradley (born May 10, 1953) is a former pediatrician from Lewes, Delaware and a convicted serial child rapist. He was indicted in 2010 on 471 charges of molesting, raping, and exploiting 103 child patients (102 girls and 1 boy). Some of the victims were as young as three months old. He was charged in April 2010 with an additional 58 offenses in relation to the abuse of 24 additional victims. He has been described by a number of reputable news outlets and commentators as "the worst pedophile in American history." Dr. Eli Newberger, a professor at Harvard Medical School and a pediatrician who has studied child abuse cases for almost 40 years, said Bradley's was "the worst pediatrician abuse case I've ever heard of." Bradley had access to an estimated 7,000 pediatric patients. According to a personal injury law firm in Baltimore, one of many representing class action plaintiffs, 1,400 families in the class action alleged abuse. Bradley was ultimately found guilty on all consolidated charges brought and was sentenced to 14 consecutive terms of life without parole plus 165 years in prison on June 26, 2011. His conviction was affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court on September 6, 2012. In the wake of his arrest, it emerged that he had faced accusations of child abuse as early as 1995 in both Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Reynhard Tambos Maruli Tua Sinaga (born 19 February 1983)is an Indonesian sex offender who was convicted of 159 sex offenses, including 136 rapes of young men committed in Manchester, England, between 2015 and 2017, where he was living as a student. He was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting 48 men during this period, 44 of whom he raped, some repeatedly, although the police believe he was offending for years beforehand. Sinaga was prosecuted in four trials between 2018 and 2020 and was given concurrent life sentences with a minimum term of 30 years; raised to 40 years in December 2020 by the Court of Appeal. The Crown Prosecution Service described Sinaga as being the most prolific rapist in British legal history.  Sinaga is believed by police to have raped or assaulted at least 206 men since 2015, which includes the two years before his arrival in the UK.  In Manchester, he waited for potential victims outside nightclubs, pubs, and similar venues in the early hours. He then offered them a stay at his flat, subsequently drugging and raping his victims. After some of the assaults, he boasted about his actions on WhatsApp.