First they were called chain emails, and they were sent by people like your weird aunt who always wore a Big Dog t-shirt. An online version of physical chain letters, chain emails propagated hoaxes and urban legends by convincing people they would either receive a monetary reward for forwarding the emails, or that they would fall on bad luck if they didn’t. As the web grew, chunks of copy-and-pasted text proliferated outside of emails, on message boards and Usenet groups and social networks, eventually becoming an integral part of the Internet’s history. Now, one viral urban legend kept alive by copy and pasting has allegedly driven two 12-year-olds in Wisconsin to try to kill their friend. Chain emails in the 1990’s resonated with readers the same way that modern “clickbait” headlines do now: Appeal to a reader’s emotional side, and they’re far more likely to share whatever it is you’re peddling. Tell them something terrible will happen to them if they delete it, or that sharing a feel-good story about a blind dog will make them a better person, and suddenly you have a viral sensation. Chain emails were one of the first vehicles for web virality. And aside from vicious spammers and people who tried to convince you to hand over your bank account information, they were (and are) mostly harmless. Around 2006, viral copy-and-pasted text was coined “Copypasta” by the online community 4chan, and began splintering into different genres. Copypasta’s most popular genre is Creepypasta, bits of copy-and-pasted text that convey scary stories and unsettling urban legends. Creepypasta writers take popular urban legends—remember the legend of Bloody Mary?—or create entirely new subjects and fashion online stories with the intent to totally freak out the reader. They’re basically short, shareable user-generated ghost stories that can focus on anything from the especially gruesome, like murder and suicide, to the creepy and otherworldly, like aliens and zombies. The most popular hangout for writers of this genre is the Creepypasta Wiki, where they can trade stories and connect with each other. Creepypasta hit peak popularity with a 2010 New York Times story, but it still lives on. Popular Creepypastas include Ted the Caver, stories about a man spelunking a mystery cave, and Lavender Town Syndrome, a series about a fictional town that tried to cover up mass child suicides. Slender Man, who is arguably the most well-known Creepypasta character, is the reason the two Wisconsin 12-year-olds allegedly attempted to fatally stab their friend: in order to pay tribute to him. Though Slender Man originated on online forum Something Awful, the majority of tales about him live on the Creepypasta Wiki, where the two girls reportedly discovered him. There are so many that the Wiki no longer accepts new stories about him. And now that Creepypasta has been thrust into the spotlight for horrifying reasons, the owners of Creepypasta.com have released a statement addressing the attempted murder. In the statement, admin “derpbutt” (yep, that’s the name he uses) says he tried to nudge Slender Man out of the community, but not because he thought it was dangerous: I’ve been trying to encourage writers here to break out from the serial killers and Slenderman cliches that tend to overrun the Creepypasta fandom, though my motivation was less that I believed Slenderman was harmful (the Jeff the Killer fangirls and spin-offs, I did find somewhat troubling – I’ve mentioned before that I feel romanticizing serial killers is not really something I feel comfortable with promoting via publishing all the Jeff love stories and self-inserts that people tried to submit; the only Jeff spin-off I did let through was one that I felt had a decidedly non-romantic view) but more because I view this website as a place for people to become better writers and readers A Creepypasta Wiki administrator who goes by the username Sloshedtrain also chimed in with a blog post called “Fiction, Reality, and You .” “This wiki does not endorse or advocate for killing, worship, and otherwise replication of rituals of fictional works,” Sloshedtrain wrote. “There is a line of between fiction and reality, and it is up to you to realize where the line is. We are a literature site, not a satanic cult.”','url':'http://time.com/2818192/creepypasta-copypasta-slender-man/','og_descr':'Two teen girls have been accused of attempting to murder their friend in tribute to a Creepypasta figure called Slender Man
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Jerry Brudos. A serial killer and necrophiliac known as "The Lust Killer" and "The Shoe Fetish Slayer". He died from liver cancer in the Oregon Department of Corrections in 2006. Between 1968 and 1969, Brudos bludgeoned and strangled four young women. The only initial evidence were witness sightings of a large man dressed in women's clothing. In the garage of his Salem, Oregon home, Brudos kept trophies from his victims, expressly two pairs of amputated breasts that were used as paperweights and the left foot of a 19-year-old girl named Linda Slawson (his first murder victim) which he used to model the shoes he collected. After committing a murder, he would dress up in high heels and masturbate. He would make his victims dress in this piece of lingerie. A photo of one of Brudos' victims, 19 year old Karen Sprinkler. This is a photo Karen Sprinker, taken in Brudos' garage. He had kidnapped her from a department store parking lot and brought her to his house, where he made her model women’s underwear (including the pictured nightgown) and pose for photos. He killed her by hanging her from a hook in his ceiling, then had sex with her body and cut off her breasts. Victim Jan Whitney. Victim Linda Salee. Victim Slawson. Robert Ben Rhoades has been held in Menard Correctional Center, in Illinois. Suspected of killing and raping 100+ women while on the road in the 1980s and early 1990s. Rhoades dressed for a night out at the swinger's club. 14 year old victim Regina Kay Walters. She had run away from home with her boyfriend, Ricky Lee Jones. This photo was taken of Regina Kay Walters by Rhoades. Located in an abandoned barn, Rhoades cut off her hair and put her in a dress and heels. Her body was found, though her boyfriend's body was not. Harvey Glatman was also known in the media as "The Lonely Hearts Killer." As a teenager, he would break into women's apartments, where he tied them up, sexually molested them and took pictures as souvenirs. He was executed in the gas chamber of San Quentin on September 18, 1959. A victim of Glatman, Judy Ann Dull. Many of Glatman's victims were lured to his hotel room where he claimed he would be taking photos for crime magazines, and ask young women to pose in bondage photos. He would tie them up and take their photos, then kill them. This photo is of Judy Ann Dull, who was 19 at the time of her murder. Judy Ann Dull. Judy Ann Dull. Judy Ann Dull. Judy Ann Dull. Judy Ann Dull. Judy Ann Dull. Judy Ann Dull. Another victim of Harvey Glatman's, Shirley Ann Bridgeford was 24 when she met him via a dating service and went on a date with him. He took her to the countryside where he raped and killed her by strangulation, but not before taking her photo. Shirley Ann Bridgeford Shirley Ann Bridgeford Shirley Ann Bridgeford Another victim, Ruth Mercado. Ruth Mercado. Ruth Mercado. Glatman was arrested when he was seen struggling with his last victim, Maria Lorraine Vigil. Images of the police investigating the site where Glatman was arrested. Images of the police investigating the site where Glatman was arrested. Images of the police investigating the site where Glatman was arrested. Images of the police investigating the site where Glatman was arrested. William Richard Bradford would lure his victims with a promise of a modelling career. In 1984 he was out on bail for a rape charge, where he met a bartender named Shari Miller. He died of cancer while awaiting execution on March 10, 2008. A photo of Bradford, his wife, and his newborn child. Shari Miller was photograhped in a number of modelling poses, then strangled. These photos were taken of Shari Miller just prior to her murder. Bradford sliced off Shari Miller's tattoos and took her blouse, then left her here in this lot with zero identification. Shortly after this, Bradford convinced his 15 year old neighbor Tracey Campbell that she could be a model. He took her out to the desert where he also photographed and strangled her, then left her with her face covered by Shari Miller's blouse. Bradford came under suspicion when it was discovered that he was the last to see Tracey Campbell alive. This combined with his pending rape trial compelled approval of a search warrant, where the police found photographs of Campbell, Miller, and 54 unidentified women in similar situations. 4 years after this photo was released in 2006, 31 women were identified, some living - including Bradford's ex-wives. #28 was identified as Donnalee Campbell Duhamel. She was found decapitated in a canyon in Malibu in 1978. Duhamel met Bradford in a Culver City bar, "The Frigate", a few days before her body was found. Robert Berdella raped, tortured and killed at least six men between 1984 and 1987. Berdella had detailed torture logs and large numbers of Polaroid pictures he had taken of his victims. Volumes of pictures were recovered by the Kansas City Police Department, and remain in their possession. Berdella was apprehended on April 2, 1988, after a victim he had been torturing for a week jumped naked from the second story of his house and escaped, wearing only a dog collar. He would dismember his victims and leave most for the weekly garbage pickup. The bodies discarded this way were never recovered. Berdella died of a heart attack October 8, 1992. Head of Larry Pearson. Photograph of Larry Pearson during some of the torture he endured. June 1987. Skull of one of the victims, Robert Sheldon. Chris Bryson, April 1988. Jerry Ferris, September 1985. A victim identified as "Stoops" being electrocuted with 7,700 volts.','url':'http://imgur.com/a/42B5P','og_descr':'Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet.
Jerry Brudos. A serial killer and necrophiliac known as The Lust Killer and The Shoe Fetish Slayer. He died from liver cancer in the Oregon Department of.
Serial killers with the highest known victim count. This list is a compilation of modern serial killers currently with the highest verifiable murder count, who are.