in 2013 in the Spanish cave Sima Los wos scientists stumbled upon something intriguing human remains that dated back a whopping 430,000 years but the most incredible Revelation wasn't the age it was the cause of death of that prehistoric human experts found two peculiar identical openings on the skull Falls or accidental trauma couldn't cause such symmetrical fractures more likely they resulted from strikes with a sharp Stone spear or axxe so researchers found evidence of the first known intentional murder in human history but ahead of them lay an even more shocking Discovery is later at the bottom
of the same cave they found at least 28 more skeletons with similar injuries so this prehistoric murder turned out to be a massacre could serial killers have emerged even before the formation of full fledged Societies in this video you'll find out who managed to build a real palace for murders can a person be possessed by the devil who spared the lives of more than 300 children and most importantly how do people become serial killers some Killers claim that Sinister forces command them to commit heinous crimes but is there any truth to this around the year
1570 the German Town of bedburg was shaken by a horrible piece of news in the adjacent Forest locals discovered the body of a 99-year-old boy with a smashed head this incident marked another gruesome murder in a series of horrifying killings and each victim was mangled beyond recognition the child's death was the last straw and the residents of bedburg decided to comb through the whole town and the adjacent Woods to find the killer however it nearly ended in another death because suddenly a gigantic limb emerged from the darkness and firmly seized one of the men eyewitnesses
claim Nam it resembled a wolf's paw but it had five human fingers fortunately the man was armed with a knife and managed to plunge it into the Monstrous appendage however the monster fled right after that and the frightened towns folk hurried home one of the participants in that raid was Peter stump the father of the deceased boy the towns folk rallied around the man because a few years earlier he had lost lost his wife her body was found in a deep ravine after a storm most likely the woman lost her footing due to strong winds
the day after the boy's death and the unsuccessful hunt the town's folk decided to cheer Peter up and pay him a visit however during this visit one of the visitors noticed something strange stump Barely Used his left hand although it was fine the day before the woman tried to examine Peter's hand but the man began to resist when she finally managed to lift stump's sleeve everyone present was horrified he had a deep fresh cut on his arm and it was entirely covered in long thick hair resembling wolfer that repulsive appendage belonged to the monster the
towns folk saw the Night Before Peter stump was immediately arrested and dubbed a werewolf while in custody he confessed that he was once a normal child but everything changed when he turned 12 according to him that's when the devil took him over after that Peter claimed he learned to turn into a wolf his head was filled with one thought the boy wanted to taste human blood that's when Peter committed his first murder he strangled a local Local woman and then bit her neck he hid the poor lady's body in the woods most likely wild wolves
later nod on the remains so the town's folk never suspected deliberate murder the lack of any reaction from the public gave Peter confidence and the teenager decided to keep killing and he managed to get away with it for almost two decades during that time the shifter claimed the lives of a 30 people including two pregnant women and his own wife the storm was just a cover to hide her body finally Peter killed his own son according to him he didn't want to do it but the devil inside ordered him to drink human blood and there
was no one else around except for the kid after this confession they executed him in the town square and burned his body to make sure he'd never turn into a wolf again over the centuries this story has grown into a full blown Legend rumor has it that Peter stump became the prototype for the gluttonous wolf in the well-known tale of Little Red Riding Hood but setting aside mythical elements can the bed Berg shifter story explain how some people become serial killers some researchers believe Peter stump wasn't a half wolf but simply had hyper chosis in
this condition hair on certain areas of a person's body starts growing uncontrollably that's why the guy's hands looked like a wild BEAST's pause hiding this anomaly in the Middle Ages was pretty easy since everyone wore long sleeves back then moreover Peter claimed that evil forces possessed him precisely when he became a teenager young people often can't control their mood and hold back aggression so maybe Peter's devil was just a strong hormonal glitch that no one could figure out back then yet millions of teenagers worldwide go through various crises and only a few become serial killers
apparently the cause of extreme Behavior lies somewhere else over time people began to explain overly aggressive behavior not by Supernatural forces but by various disorders like schizophrenia or hysteria in 1896 such diagnosis were attributed to Henry Howard Holmes the first officially registered serial killer in US history he chose this name himself in honor of the well-known detective however the pseudonym morard would have suited him better is in cruelty he could compete even with the ingenious antagonist of Conan Doyle's works it all started when Henry was just 10 older buddies decided to play a prank on
the boy and locked him in a medical room with a real human skeleton they expected Henry to get scared but instead the boy felt incredible Euphoria later he claimed that some voices appeared in his head back then they told him that witnessing dead bodies was his true calling probably this memory shaped Henry's future profession in 1879 he enrolled in medical school at Michigan State University during his studies Henry Stole bodies from the University lab messed with them in staged unfortunate incidents Holmes passed off the corpses as people who had insurance policies pre-arranged this way Henry
cashed in on other people's Insurance payouts later this gave him the chance to buy his own Pharmacy however right after that the previous owner of the pharmacy who continued to live on the second floor of the same building disappeared under mysterious circumstances Holmes claimed that she went to her relatives in California and suddenly decided to stay there forever he started buying property around the pharmacy and soon merged several buildings into one giant house which the locals immediately dubbed the castle the building consisted of windowless mazes stairs leading nowhere and doors that could only be opened
from the outside during construction of the castle hommes constantly changed contractors so only he knew the f layout of the structure in 1893 during the Chicago World's Fair Holmes decided to rent out some rooms in his castle to tourists right then about 50 event visitors went missing this raised suspicions with the police and the guy had to leave the city for a while but he didn't miss the chance to make some money on his departure in St Louis Henry crossed paths with former crook Benjamin pzle the latter agreed to pull off a scheme together to
fake his own death and split the insurance money with holes the guy overlooked just one thing that Henry would arrange not a fake but a real death for him after pel's demise the man also took the lives of his three daughters fortunately these victims became the last in Henry Holmes Sinister story a neighbor tipped off the police about this guy with strange behavior and finally they nabbed the maniac while inspecting his castle investigators couldn't believe what they found as the whole structure was a killing machine Holmes Arsenal included two giant furnaces tanks of acid bottles
with various poisons and even a rack an ancient torture device after hours of Mutilation the maniac left his victims to die in soundproof Chambers special shoots were installed in every room of the building allowing the bodies of the unfortunate to be quickly lowered into the basement there Holmes dismembered them thanks to Old University connections he had no trouble selling the skeletons and organs of his victims according to the police estimate through throughout his time Henry Holmes took the lives of over 300 people although he admitted to only 27 killings during the trial the man claimed
that other personalities residing in his head ordered him to kill that's why the judges concluded that Henry suffered from schizophrenia however even this didn't spare him from the death penalty on May 7th 189 96 they executed the man however some Modern experts believe that Holmes wasn't schizophrenic he was just faking it for sympathy because usually people with serious mental disorders tend to have uncontrollable and sudden bursts of aggression but they're definitely incapable of planning crimes in advance and meticulously hiding their intentions but even if Henry Holmes wasn't skid phrenic something else could have messed with
his mind a recent investigation revealed that Henry Holmes might have suffered domestic abuse from his parents during his childhood could that have determined his fate at least that's how another ruthless serial killer explained his cruelty in 1997 in Pereira Colombia police uncovered a mass burial with 25 five bodies they were in such a horrific state that investigators initially thought it was the work of a satanic cult but later it turned out to be the work of just one person after the first horrifying Discovery the cops decided to thoroughly sweep the whole city and found another
dozen gruesome burials each grave had from 3 to 20 bodies some of them were dismembered and the most terrible thing is that all the victims were children boys aged 6 to 16 later similar burials started popping up in other cities in Colombia but who managed to commit so many murders and stay unpunished for so long the answer came up in a pretty unexpected way in one of the burials the investigators found a semi decomposed piece of paper with an address when they got there a freaked out girl greeted them she said she'd been in a
relationship with a guy for a few years but he always acted super weird every few months he'd go on long trips could flip out and go somewhere in the middle of the night and had major issues with physical intimacy this guy turned out to be Lis gavito and they nabbed him shortly after during questioning the maniac confessed to murdering at least 140 Boys in 54 cities of the country although later investigators suspected that the number of victims could be twice as high moreover the killer never really made an effort to try to hide his crimes
what helped him stay unpunished was political instability in 1964 Civil War war broke out in Colombia this conflict led to mass separations of kids from their families hundreds of hungry boys and girls roamed the Colombian cities so when they saw what seemed like a good Samaritan coming their way they were just happy for a chance to eat and if Lucky crash in a warm bed but for most of them that night turned out to be their last initially gavito tried to be discreet he approached boys only in quiet rural areas and constantly changed his appearance
however over the years the guy realized they weren't even trying to catch him so he started snatching kids right from crowded streets he knew these kids were vulnerable and no one would report them missing after long walks designed to Tire the child out gavito tied up tortured and abused his victims the man told the cops he did all of this because he couldn't forgive the violence from his own father which he endured from a young age but even such a confession didn't soften his sentence life imprisonment but did childhood traumas really cause such incredible cruelty
indeed childhood abuse leaves a mark on your entire life but not all traumatized individuals become Killers quite the opposite for some such experiences become a source of incredible altruism the renowned American writer and poet Maya Angelou recounted being subjected to brutal sexual assault at the age of8 it affected the child's psyche so much that she stopped talking and remained silent for the next 5 years but this very experience def find her future at the age of 17 the girl realized that through her Works she wanted to help other abuse victims so why didn't Luis gavito
choose a similar path maybe it's not about what happens to a person but how they perceive it do serial killers really have physiological traits that lead to excessive cruelty in 1974 a frightened woman called a Florida police station Elizabeth Kendall reported that the composite sketch of a serial killer wanted for several months looked very much like her lover but the cops just laughed because Liz had been dating a qualified lawyer and psychologist for several years in his spare time the guy also worked at a crisis call center where he talked potential suicides out of settling
scores with life could he have been a rabbit killer and rapist if the cops had listened to the woman that night they could have saved the lives of at least 15 innocent girls because Liz's love was Ted Bundy one of the most heartless Maniacs in human history it All Began in 1968 when Ted was studying at the University of Washington the young man was always attractive so he easily started dating Diane Edwards the girl with the Charming hairstyle considered the first Beauty in the entire University at that time however within a few months the cple
began to argue and Diane decided to break up with Ted it was a real shock for the young man and he became disillusioned with women for Life deciding to cruy take Vengeance on them on January 4th 1974 Ted Bundy opened his hunt over the next few months eight girls disappeared in different states the police didn't even link these incidents because the geography of the crimes was too vast but later investigators found that all the victims had common features they were all very attractive and had similar hairstyles the same as Diane Ted's former girlfriend once had
and the scariest part is that the victims will ly went with the maniac usually Ted would ask the girls to help him find the right address after that the killer would start flirting and none of the victims could resist his charm because Ted was a natural actor and manipulator when the girl finally got into Ted's car or entered a deserted place with him he immediately struck them on the head with a heavy object then the pervert would torment the victims in various ways and leave their bodies in the woods but in November of 1974 Bundy
finally made a serious mistake one of his victims 19-year-old Carol Duran managed to escape after the girl recognized the maniac they found a real murder kit in his car handcuffs a ski mask a crowbar a rope a flashlight a gag and an ice pick Ted Bundy was finally arrested during court hearings the man claimed he was innocent and smiled at reporters a few weeks later Ted was sentenced and only got 15 years in prison part of the reason for this was Ted's incredible Charisma moreover when he got to prison he immediately befriended many guards some
even bought the maniac his favorite snacks but Ted gained trust only to execute his cunning plan and on December 13th 1977 he managed to escape in the prison they didn't notice the absence of the serial killer right away giving him the chance to fly to Chicago initially Bundy planned to lay low and start a new life but less than 2 weeks later he felt the urge to kill again on January 15th 1977 in Florida Ted assaulted 4 girls two of whom he later killed the monster's last victim was 12-year-old Kimberly Lee when Ted Bundy got
nabbed again investigators already had a pile of undeniable evidence of his guilt including bite marks on the bodies of some of the deceased matching the imprints of Ted's Jaws on January 24th 1989 they electrocuted the killer Ted Bundy became the prototype for the terrifying character in the American Psycho movie but why couldn't the maniac stop even after escaping when he wanted a peaceful life right after bunny was executed they conducted an autopsy and scientists began studying his brain at that time they found no pathologies in the organ however modern researchers are convinced that the maniac's
head just did didn't listen to its owner neurobiologist James Fallon studied the brains of psychopath Killers for over decade and concluded that they indeed have different physiology with a reduced amount of gray matter and a lack of activity in areas responsible for empathy and fear judging from this some people are just born to kill and there's nothing they can do about it but in 201 9 James Fallon's research took an unexpected turn when the neurobiologist examined his own brain scan he found that he had all the pathologies he had previously identified in serial killers in
subsequent interviews the scientists claimed he never experienced sudden outbursts of aggression or cruelty but often suffered from his impulsive decisions excessive love for alcohol and pathological lying Fallon suggested that such character traits could have laid the groundwork for Psychopathic Tendencies but he was saved by his fantastic family where Children's Mental Health was treated with extreme care so maybe someone you know or even you yourself could have potentially become a serial killer it's high time to thank your family and friends for love and acceptance isn't [Music] [Music] it
