Deadly disorders that drove twisted murderers
DERANGED AND DANGEROUS
AILEEN WUORNOS
A prostitute who shot and robbed seven male clients in Florida, she was executed by lethal injection in 2002 after a decade on death row. She claimed the murders were selfdefence.
Actress Charlize Theron won an Oscar for her portrayal of borderline personality disorder-suffering Wuornos after telling her story in the 2003 film Monster.
JOANNE DENNEHY
She admitted stabbing three men and disposing of the bodies in ditches in England in 2014, and after psychiatrist assessments was said to have psychopathic, antisocial and emotional instability disorders.
DANIEL GONZALEZ Inspired by Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger, Surrey-born Gonzalez killed four and injured two more in 2004 across London and nearby areas.
He was said to have antisocial personality disorder after a trial rejected his claim of being not guilty by reason of insanity. RICHARD CHASE drinking his victims blood and eating their remains, he was dubbed the “Vampire of Sacramento” when he killed six people in one month in 1970s California. One psychiatrist
After questioned whether he was schizophrenic and diagnosed antisocial personality disorder instead.
TED BUNDY
Another antisocial personality disorder murderer, who kidnapped, raped and took the lives of an unknown number of women and girls in the 1970s.
He was arrested in Utah and confessed to 30 killings the night before his execution in 1989 across seven states but the real number of his victims’ remains uncertain.
CHARLES MANSON
Leader of the infamous Manson Family cult, the antisocial personality disorder-diagnosed fiend was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder.
These involved the deaths of seven people, including five at the home of actress Sharon Tate and filmmaker Roman Polanski in 1971, in California.
Sharon was eight and a half months pregnant at the time of her brutal murder.
Manson died in 2017 from a heart attack caused by colon cancer.
JEFFREY DAHMER
Killing 17 boys and men in the US between 1978 and 1991, he was known as the