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• [Crime fact 1] In 1996, the infamous serial killer 'The Yorkshire Ripper' (Peter Sutcliffe) was almost strangled to death in custody, before being saved by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka 'The Stockwell Strangler'.

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• [Crime fact 2] Serial killers are more likely to have suffered a head injury as a child than non-serial killers.

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• [Crime fact 3] Vidkun Quisling, who was the Norwegian prime minister during the Nazi occupation, was sentenced to death 2 years after he introduced the death sentence to the country.

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• [Crime fact 4] The East German secret police (Stasi) preferred not to arrest people, but rather use "biodegradation" to paralyze enemies of the state by organizing failures at their workplace, destroying their friendships, and ruining their reputation.

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• [Crime fact 5] Within a month of opening her pediatric clinic, Dr. Kathleen Holland experienced six cases of children stopping breathing during their visit, one of whom died. One of her nurses Genene Jones had been administering dangerous injections to them, and was, in fact, a serial killer, unbeknownst to Dr. Holland. She is thought to be responsible for the deaths of up to 60 infants and children in her care as a licensed vocational nurse during the 1970s and 1980s. The exact number of victims remains unknown; as hospital officials allegedly misplaced and then destroyed records of Jones' activities, to prevent further litigation after Jones' first conviction

  Crime, Death, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 6] In 2005, 82-year-old Australian cartoonist named William Ellis Green, confronted a burglar running through his house in Victoria. He called the police and took pen to paper to produce a caricature of the burglar. The police immediately recognized the burglar from the drawing and he was soon apprehended.

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• [Crime fact 7] Despite making up less than 0.1% of the prison population, The Aryan Brotherhood is responsible for between 18-25% of all murders in the US federal prison system.

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• [Crime fact 8] Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (killing at least 33 young men) was very active in local community activities. As a result of his contributions, he met and was photographed with then-First Lady Rosalynn Carter and given special security clearance by the secret service.

  Crime, People, Placessource

• [Crime fact 9] Pee Wee Gaskins, the most prolific serial killer in South Carolina drove around in a hearse with a bumper sticker that read "WE HAUL ANYTHING, LIVING OR DEAD." He told people that he needed it to take the bodies of people he killed to his private cemetery. He claimed to have killed between 100 and 110 people.

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• [Crime fact 10] A man named Drew Robert Nelson in Texas was still executed after someone else confessed committing the murder and the only eyewitness admitted he didn't actually see it.

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