Steve the Ripper

[admin tim]

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Security-guard-called-predator-charged-in-2227974.php

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[String]

Someone should tell him orange really isn't his colour.

[Rick Cobb]

Who would have guessed that the Milky bar kid would finally snap in adulthood.

[Chris G.]

Hi Tim et al.

The fact that Steven Hobbs was a security guard, a man in a position of some authority, makes him somewhat reminiscent Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, who functioned as a dog catcher and menace to property owners in Park City, Wichita.

All the best

Chris

[Howard Brown]

One thing I noticed was that Steve Hobbs graduated from college.
Other than Bundy, who graduated....I can't recall anyone else who did...serial killer, that is....can anyone ?
He certainly doesn't look like Joe College....but it is Texas after all.

http://i908.photobucket.com/albums/ac287/HowieNina/Autumn%202011/hobbs.jpg

[Howard Brown]

Another thing is the gap in time from the 2002 murder to the 2010 murder....and that the crimes were not that far away from each other.
Wonder if a certain murderer we all have an interest in here was capable of a break in the action for that long......

[Howard Brown]

H.H. Holmes graduated from college too.

[Nemo]

There's this guy Michael Ross - http://www.crimelife.com/killers/ross.html

There are a few high IQ serial killers that I suspect graduated - wasn't Randy Kraft of a high IQ?

There is also Harold Shipman who was a qualified doctor and similar

[Chris G.]

One thing I noticed was that Steve Hobbs graduated from college.
Other than Bundy, who graduated....I can't recall anyone else who did...serial killer, that is....can anyone ?


H.H. Holmes graduated from college too.

Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (1850-1892) entered McGill College in Montreal in 1872 as a medical student and graduated with honors on March 31, 1876.

[Howard Brown]

CG, Neems....thanks for the additions. I must be slipping to have forgotten Cream.

[Nemo]

I was just reading about BTK, Dennis Rader, on an unrelated matter and notice that he was a graduate too

[Steve Russell]

William Palmer, the Rugeley poisoner was a doctor, of course.

Best wishes,
Steve.

[Phillip Walton]

Just a thought, are there any doctor's out there who have got away with murder?

[Chris G.]

William Palmer, the Rugeley poisoner was a doctor, of course.

Best wishes,
Steve.

There's a bunch of doctor-murderers. Dr Edward William Pritchard (1825–1865) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Pritchard) is another.

In our times, Dr Harold Shipman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman) is the best known and most notorious. Of course, Shipman arguably partly did what he did for gain rather than the joy of killing.

Just a thought, are there any doctor's out there who have got away with murder?

Shipman's Wiki page (link above) mentions a number of doctors who were tried but not convicted.

Best regards

Chris

[Howard Brown]

Steve,Neems, CG...

Thanks for mentioning those two people. I'd hug you but my arms ain't that long.:)
I'll tell ya... speaking personally, I'm surprised and thankful that these others have been mentioned because I recall a program on H.H.Holmes in which his acquisition of the coveted sheepskin was unique among serial killers and being the dunce, I didn't question it. It seems that it wasn't and isn't unique and therefore won't be remarkable when we hear of someone with a diploma or two who is also a serial killer in the future.

[Steve Russell]

Pritchard, Palmer, Shipman, and Cream. All serial killers, all doctors, and all used chemical means to kill. The old adage that poison is a woman's weapon should perhaps be expanded to include doctors as well. (And ex-feldchers).

The next question could be: does anyone know of a serial-killing doctor who killed using means other than poison? If no-one does, that would make a Dr. Jack absolutely unique and therefore, arguably, unlikely.

Best wishes,
Steve.

[Chris G.]

Pritchard, Palmer, Shipman, and Cream. All serial killers, all doctors, and all used chemical means to kill. The old adage that poison is a woman's weapon should perhaps be expanded to include doctors as well. (And ex-feldchers).

The next question could be: does anyone know of a serial-killing doctor who killed using means other than poison? If no-one does, that would make a Dr. Jack absolutely unique and therefore, arguably, unlikely.

Best wishes,
Steve.

Buck Ruxton (1899-1936) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Ruxton) was an Indian born doctor, originally named Bukhtyar Rustomji Ratanji Hakim, who practiced in Lancaster, England. He killed two women, his common-law wife Isabella ("Belle") Kerr by strangulation and their housemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, by suffocation. He then cut up and mutilated their bodies to prevent identification.

Chris

[Steve Russell]

Buck Ruxton (1899-1936) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Ruxton) was an Indian born doctor, originally named Bukhtyar Rustomji Ratanji Hakim, who practiced in Lancaster, England. He killed two women, his common-law wife Isabella ("Belle") Kerr by strangulation and their housemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, by suffocation. He then cut up and mutilated their bodies to prevent identification.

Chris

Of course! I remember seeing a documentary on him now. Didn't he dump the body parts in Scotland and come to grief because his "wife" had unusual teeth?

Technically, two is not a series, but I won't quibble. Thanks for making short work of that one, Chris.

Best wishes,
Steve.

[Chris G.]

Of course! I remember seeing a documentary on him now. Didn't he dump the body parts in Scotland and come to grief because his "wife" had unusual teeth?

Technically, two is not a series, but I won't quibble. Thanks for making short work of that one, Chris.

Best wishes,
Steve.

Yes the body parts where dumped in Moffat, Scotland (http://www.fmap.archives.gla.ac.uk/Case%20Files/Ruxton/Case_File9.htm). Ruxton denied having been in Scotland, but a traffic stop by a local policeman there helped confict him. Technically not a serial killer but who knows if such a man had murdered elsewhere or else might have gone on to do more such murders if he had not been caught?

Best regards

Chris

[Steve Russell]

Thanks again, Chris and good point.

Best wishes,
Steve.