Some of the worst serial killers in history once called Missouri home. There are over 100 known serial killers from Missouri these are some of the worst in the state’s history.
The very first serial killer on record is Dr. Bennett Hyde who was convicted of murdering his father-in-law and relatives of his wife back in 1909. He was sentenced to life in prison, but in 1917 that decision was overturned and charges were dismissed. Hyde was a pharmacist and supposedly poisoned his victims, but there was a lot of miscommunication between lawyers and jurors which ended in several mistrials and finally a dismal of charges.
Bedella was convicted of killing six men from 1984 to 1987 by injecting them with drugs and torturing his victims, the bodies of the six men were never found. On April 4th, 1988 a victim that Berdella was keeping prisoner escaped from his house and that is how he was arrested for murder after the KCPD suspected him of other kidnapping cases. Berdella dies in prison of a heart attack in 1992 and complained that the prison guards were not giving him his heart medication, his death was never investigated.
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Born in Joplin, Missouri in 1929, Cook was convicted of killing a family of five (including three children) when he forced them to drive cross-country in their family car. Once he arrived at his located his shot all five family members, and then hijacked another car and killed that driver as well. Cook was caught in Mexico and extradited…
