Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente analyzes the behavior and motives of some of America’s most notorious serial killers.
The conversation kicks off with long-term abductor and murderer Gary Heidnik, who had six victims at one point.
“He chose his victims well. What he did was basically take advantage of people who were mentally disabled, and of prostitutes who didn’t have anybody to look out for them,” Clemente said of this serial killer. “Nobody really knew they were missing until well into this problem.”
Heidnik started out with one victim, then branched out with another one, and another, and so on. “He basically dug a dirt hole, threw them in there, and put plywood over it with sandbags on top so they couldn’t get out.” Heidnik was sadistic in nature and used horrendous torture methods against his victims, including pouring water in the hole where they lived and then electrocuting them – the way one woman died.
Clemente said this killer gave his victims a system of punishments and rewards to control their behavior. “Basically he saw himself as a god and wanted to start a whole new society, he wanted to populate the earth. The way he was going to do it was have these women hostages – he raped them, he wanted to impregnate them.”
Watch the full episode for more serial killer assessments - including Israel Keyes and the Speed Freak Killers, plus Clemente’s view that Jesse Matthew – the suspect in the Hannah Graham abduction who is also suspected in the disappearance of another woman who was found dead – exhibits potential serial killer characteristics.
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