First Ever Serial Killer In History

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Let's do some killer talk--Gilles de Rais.


Let's start with the facts, here. Gilles de Rais was known as the original Bluebeard, he was born in 1404 and died in 1440. It is believed that he murdered as many as 800 children. It's said that the murders started somewhere in the mid to late 1420s. This was a French dude. Before we get into this, I think we should go over his back ground. He, apparently, was a decorated war hero before he turned into a sadistic child-murderer. Here's what went down, (as I understand it). Bro was real rich. I'm talking richer than the king. He was lavish and all those other fancy words that just mean super filthy rich. He got this way because he was a knight and lord of France. He even fought along side Joan of Arc. After she was captured, he pretty much quit. He started squandering his wealth, he was very wasteful. He had many servants and castles. He was also married, fun fact, at just 16 years old, to a woman named Catherine.

Alright, story time. He would have some of his loyal servants bring him children, specifically boys, to his nearest castle. He would then do horrendous things to them; torture, rape, etc. In a biography of this freak, they say he began to dabble in satanism, because he was trying to conjure up more wealth, as he was wasteful and was beginning to have debt. Here's something super gross; he, like most serial killers, became sexually aroused from the act of killing. In this time, the church controlled the government pretty heavily. So when this was discovered, he was almost in more trouble for wasting semen than he was for actually committing the act of torturous murder. Ew. When he was caught, he denied it all. However, realizing he was being persecuted by the church and citizens, he gave up.

"I caused their bodies to be cruelly opened and took delight in viewing their interior organs." He is quoted saying this shortly before he was hanged. Ew again.

In short, he was one of the first serial killers noted in history. He was eventually caught, and hanged but unfortunately not until after the slaughter of hundreds of children.