PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Gary M. Heidnik
(November 22, 1943 – July 6, 1999)
Heidnik has a younger brother called Terry and was raised by his mother for 4 years before being placed in the care of Michael Heidnik and his new wife as their parents had devoiced.
Heidnik would later claim that he was often emotionally abused by his father and suffered from a lifelong problem of bed wetting, and claimed his father would humiliate him by forcing him to hang his stained sheets from his bedroom window, in full view of their neighbours. But After his son's arrest, Michael Heidnik denied that he ever abused his son.
At school, Heidnik did not interact with his fellow students, and refused to make eye contact and would often see his peers not "worthy enough" to talk to him. Heidnik was also teased about his oddly shaped head, which he and Terry claimed was the result of a young Heidnik's falling out of a tree. Heidnik performed well academically and tested with an I.Q. of 130.
In August 1962, Heidnik reported in sick, calling and complaining of severe headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, and nausea.
In October 1962, Heidnik was transferred to a military hospital in Philadelphia, where he was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder.
He had attempted suicide at least 13 times between 1962 and his arrest in 1987, his mother died of suicide and his brother terry, also spent time in mental institutions and attempted suicide multiple times as well.
In 1986 Heidnik had a basement where he held six young women captive. He would sexually abuse them and torture them in front of each another, or sometimes together. At night, he would throw them into a ditch and fill it with heavy sharp objects. During the day, he would take them out of the ditch and put them through horrific pain and abuse. He fed them dog food and eventually stored their limbs in a freezer, where he labelled them as dog food. It was also discovered that after killing a woman, he cooked her head and ribs.
Other Famous Psychopaths Include:
Jeffrey Dahmer (1960 – 1994)
Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested by the police who found several human skulls and corpses in his house. He captured and killed 15 young men, some of whom he would rape and then store in containers filled with acid. It was also discovered that Jeffrey practiced cannibalism and would eat the flesh and organs of his victims. He was cleared as being sane and was thus found guilty of 15 murders. He was consequently sentenced to life imprisonment.
Earle Nelson (1897 – 1928)
No list of famous psychopaths can be complete without Earle Nelson, who is also known as "The Gorilla Killer". It is said that his behavior became immensely erratic after he was hit by a car at the age of ten when he sustained major injuries. It was in his twenties that he began exhibiting sexual violence towards women, and then he began strangling and killing women. He mostly targeted landladies by posing as a potential tenant. Once the victims were dead, he would indulge in necrophilia, discard the bodies in their houses and then disappear until he found a new victim.
Elizabeth Bathory (1560 – 1614)
Elizabeth Bathory is perhaps amongst the most famous psychopaths as far as females go. She is notoriously known for the brutal serial killing of hundreds of girls and women. She was a countess that belonged to the Bathory noble family of Hungary during the late 1500s. Though unconfirmed, it is said that she killed up to 650 women, who she would also mutilate and torture, for that she believed that blood from virgin can keep her skin forever young. There were more than 300 witnesses who were willing to testify against her, but she remained safe due to the position and power that her family retained in society.
