7 most disgusting cases of necrophilia!

Disgusting cases of necrophilia!

In Greek, nekros means “corpse” and philia means “love,” hence the term necrophilia, which is defined as “sexual gratification by having sex with the dead.” The behavior is considered to be among the most perverted of all desires and is accordingly considered a crime in most territories. Disturbingly, however, history is littered with necrophiles. In Greek mythology, for example, Parthenius of Nicaea’s Erotica Pathemata features the story of Dimoetes, who fell in love with the corpse of the most beautiful woman he had seen. He then kept the body and had sex with it repeatedly. In fact, even Achilles himself had sex with the dead body of the Amazonian queen, Penthesilea, after he had killed her in battle.

Then there are, even more shockingly, cases of actual necrophilia in ancient cultures. In ancient Egypt, the corpses of notable women were not immediately surrendered to embalmers to deter them from having sex with the bodies, as one embalmer was caught doing. Then there was the Greek tyrant Periander, who was described by Herodotus as “putting his loaves into a cold oven” when he killed his wife then had sex with her dead body. What is the psychology behind such behavior? A 1989 study revealed that the most common motivation of true necrophiles was “to possess an unresisting and unrejecting partner.” And really, what partner could be more “unresisting and unrejecting” than a corpse?

1. Edmund Kemper: The Co-ed Killer

Edmund Kemper III was a necrophile known as “The Co-ed Killer.” At 24, he was found guilty of the murders of six female students, his mother, and his mother’s best friend.
At the age of 15, Kemper had a history of kills, including the murder of his abusive grandmother. Kemper also murdered his grandfather because he feared he would be upset about the death of his grandmother. Kemper picked up female students who were hitchhiking along the highway between May of 1972 until February 1973. He took them to rural areas where he dismembered their bodies and had sex with their corpses. He collected their decapitated heads and would have sex with them at home. Ultimately, Kemper wanted to kill his abusive mother whom he despised. He claw-hammered his mother and strangled her best friend on Good Friday in 1973. He then calmly called the police to confess his crime, but not before having sex with his mother’s decapitated head. The police refused to believe him as he was a common figure at a local, police hangout bar called “The Jury Room.” Kemper finally convinced the police that he was “The Co-ed Killer” after many follow-up calls and providing actual evidence. Kemper was found guilty on eight counts of murder in the first degree and was given a life sentence.

2. Karen Greenlee: The Unrepentant Necrophile

 

About 90 percent of necrophiles are male. One exception is Karen Greenlee, a former apprentice embalmer at the Sacramento Memorial Lawn mortuary. After her arrest in 1979, Greenlee, then 23, confessed to having had sexual contact with 20–40 male corpses. Since gaining notoriety, Greenlee has become an unofficial spokesperson for necrophiliacs. She admits enjoying the smell of death and taking pleasure in attending the funerals of her so-called “corpse-lovers.”

Greenlee stole a hearse she was driving to a funeral on December 17, 1979.Greenlee spent two days with a 33 year-old man’s corpse before she tried to commit suicide by overdosing on codeine Tylenol. Found in her victim’s casket was a five page letter confessing she had slept with at least 20 to 40 dead men. However, the police found Greenlee before she was left for dead. Greenlee was only convicted of stealing a hearse and had to pay a $255 fine with eleven days in jail since acts of necrophilia were not illegal in the state of California at the time (now it’s a felony). Greenlee continued to work in mortuaries even during her trial before she was sued by her victim’s mother for $117,000 on account of emotional distress. Greenlee gave a detailed and remorseless interview about her fixation with necrophilia to Jim Morton for his book Apocalypse Culture. She later regretted the interview, changed her name and moved to another town. Greenlee’s conviction influenced Barbara Gowdy’s short story “We So Seldom Look on Love” which inspired the 1996 indie film, KISSED.

3. Ted Bundy: Lady Killer

 

Ted Bundy is one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. He confessed to at least 36 murders during the 1970s; some believe it was more than 100.

Bundy put makeup on the corpses, then had sex with them. He often returned to the dead bodies to assault them repeatedly. Bundy later admitted he took home and had sexual relations with his victims’ decapitated heads – his reason being that necrophilia was the ultimate form of possession. Bundy’s fiancee, Liz Kloepfer confessed that she pretended to be dead during sex or else he could not have an orgasm.
One of the most fascinating, little-known-facts about Ted Bundy is that he actually served as a consultant to the police during the “The Green River Killer” case in 1984, which successfully helped identify the killer as Gary Ridgway. Bundy provided insightful parallels to homicide detective, Robert Keppel, about the mind of a serial killer and how to catch them. This event inspired aspects of characters in Thomas Harris’ RED DRAGON and the relationship between Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling in the novel, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

4. Carl Tanzler

 

Carl Tanzler was probably the only necrophiliac that was able to win the sympathy of the public as an hopeless romantic. He was working as a radiologist in a hospital in Key West,

Florida when he fell in love with Elena Milagro, a patient of his. He wasn’t able to save her but kept loving her after her death. He would visit her grave and said that her spirit would visit him and ask him to take her out of the grave and to his home, which he later did. He kept her body in his bed and tried to preserve her as well as he could, replacing her eyes with glass eyes and stuffing her decaying body with rags to maintain the body shape. He got famous in popular culture as Count Carl von Cosel.

5. Dennis Nilsen

 

Dennis Nilsen is a serial killer and necrophiliac who killed 15 men in London between 1978 and 1983. He would retain the bodies of his victims for several days before dissecting them and disposing of the remains by burning or flushing them. He would invite homeless or homosexual men to his home by using sex, food and shelter as a lure and then kill them by strangling or drowning. He would keep the bodies for several months and perform sexual acts with them before dissecting and disposing them.

6. Lam Kor-wan

 

In 1982, 27-year-old taxi driver Lam Kor-wan was also a terrifying sexual predator who murdered four women: 21 year old Chan Fung lan, 31 year old Chan Wan kit, 29 year old Leung Sau-wan, and 17 year old Leung Wai sum before mutilating their bodies. This mutilation earned Lam the sobriquet “The Hong Kong Butcher.” He was also known as “The Rainy Night Butcher” because he had a habit of murdering women on rainy days. After Lam’s arrest, Hong Kong authorities learned that he had sexual intercourse with his victims’ bodies and then removed their sexual organs and pickled them in Tupperware containers. Thus, Lam became known as the “Jars Murderer.” He is currently serving a life sentence.

7. Victor Ardisson

 

Victor Ardisson (aka the “Vampire of Muy”) was an undertaker and gravedigger in the small town of Muy in the French region known as Provence. For years, Ardisson engaged in many acts of necrophilia. When he was finally caught, he confessed to having sex with over 100 corpses that had been entrusted to his care.Ardisson also admitted that he frequently dug up corpses and took them back to his humble home. When police examined his residence, they found the corpse of a three-year-old girl. Police also discovered that Ardisson slept next to the corpse and frequently performed sex acts on the girl’s body. Elsewhere, Ardisson kept the skull of a 13-year-old girl—a skull that he constantly kissed and called “my bride.” Throughout the investigation, Ardisson confided to the police that he always talked to the corpses in his home and treated them as if they were still alive. When they didn’t respond, Ardisson would genuinely feel rejected and become despondent for a time.