In 1996, Jack Spillman (a k a the Werewolf Butcher) confessed to murdering three people, two of them children and one just 9 years old.
His brutality was staggering, not just raping his victims but dismembering them, drinking their blood and removing their sexual organs.
Bob Keppel — the chief criminal investigator for the attorney general of Washington state, where the murders were committed and Spillman lived — told reporters that “killers like Spillman, mutilators who commit cannibalism, vampirism, and necrophilia, are exceptionally rare, representing less than a tenth of 1 percent of all murderers,” writes Caroline Fraser in her new book, “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers” (Penguin Press), out June 10.
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