It's All About The Killer Series ..

So I started to work on the actual history of the crimes in my book....

I have been fascinated with murderers for a long .....loooooong....... loooooooooooong time.  So working on this book and having a serial killer in it...  I'm taking the opportunity to do a lot of research because my serial killer ...  or is it killers? .... but I'm actually learning a lot.  I am also taking some notes from my constant watching of ID (channel) ...

But there was definitely some huge holes in my research.

.......... see...  I started to do the research, and I found things were lacking....  I mean, of course, how much information do people out there REALLY want out there on murder and serial killers?

Okay - there is no research lacking on actual serial killers but there are things that ARE lacking ....

......... like, I was looking for a specific list as to how a serial killer may commit murder, like ...  stabbing, shooting, hanging, poisoning, etc ..... a one stop shop list.

............... but I found ....... nothing........

Things were really lacking there.

So of course from there ...  after search and search and search .... hours and hours of clicking and going "nope" in my head ...  I started my own list.  I think I have a pretty good list.  Then I thought, shoooo I should post it ...

So I'm going to do various blogs, about certain ways a killer may murder ...  my notes, things I find interesting, good to know things, etc and so on, and I'm going to link them all in one place - HERE - when I get them done.

So ....  the blogs that I write up will be linked in this blog, below...

But this series includes some notes on Medieval  & Current Ways to Torture (or general torture devices)...  When you "TORTURE" someone you may not necessarily kill someone, or they may not have certain death because of doing this type of torture, and/or use particular torture devices, so they will be on separate lists. Ways to torture and torture/torture devices that kill ...

So there is some pretty interesting devices of torture ....

WAYS TO TORTURE:  <== may not result in actual death

WAYS OF THE PAST: Medieval Type Torture (Devices)

• First off, there is the Callahan.....  like.... wow (my son's name is Calahan).  But there is no info out there that I can find, so...  does it really exist?
• Spanish Boot & Foot Press *New 3-24-18*
• Breast Ripper (AKA Iron Spider or just Spider) and Tongue Tearer
• Pear of Anguish (aka Choke Pear) 
• Cattle Prod
• Heretic's fork
• Tean Zu (for women, translated: literally: "finger compressing")
• Kia quen (for men, translated: literally: "pinching-sticks")
• Mancuerda
• Parrilla
• Pau de Arara
• Pendulum
• Stocks and Pillory
• Rope
• Scavenger's Daughter (AKA Skevington's gyves, iron shackle, as the Stork (as in Italian cicogna) or as Spanish A-frame. Further it is known as Skevington's daughter)
• Scold's Bridle (AKA witch's bridle, a brank's bridle, or simply branks)
• Tablilla
• Thumbscrew
• Tramp Chair
• Tucker Telephone
• Wooden Horse (AKA Wooden Horse, Spanish Donkey, Cavaletto Squarciapalle)

Mental (Psychological) Torture Methods

• Blackmail (Exploitation of secrets)
• Chinese water torture
• Disfigurement threats (permanent, severe to self or loved ones)
• Exploitation of fears (kidnapping and ransom, threats of death to loved ones or the victim)
• Exploitation of phobias (mock execution, leaving an arachnophobe in a room full of spiders)
• Forced nudity/prostitution (sex trafficking)
• Interrogation for long periods
• Music torture
• Pharmacological torture
• Sensory deprivation
• Sleep deprivation
• Solitary confinement
• Waterboarding

Physical Torture Methods

• Beatings and physical violence
• Blinding with light
• Boiling
• Bone breaking
• Branding
• Castration
• Chinese water torture
• Garrote/Strangling
• Cold Cell Torture (Cold Air/Cold Water/Ice Water Showers/Ice Baths)
• Combing
• Crushing
• Cutting
• Denailing
• Disfigurement
• Drowing
• Dunking
• Electroshock weapon (Includes Tazers & Close-Contact Stun Guns, Cattle Prod)
• Flagellation
• Foot roasting
• Foot whipping (aka bastinado) 
• Force-feeding
• Genital mutilation/forced circumcision
• Glue (hot glue gun, super glue)
• Hamstringing
• Hypothermia (cold cell torture)
• Jetliner position
• Kneecapping
• Keelhauling
• Mutilation
• Noise torture
• Oxygen deprivation
• Pitchcapping
• Pressure points 
• Rape
• Rat torture
• Riding the rail 
• Sexual assault 
• Sawing
• Scalping
• Scaphism
• Shrimp tie (ebi-zeme)
• Sleep deprivation 
• Sound torture (extremely high volumes, dynamic range, low frequency, high pitched noise, intended to interfere with rest, cognition and concentration)
• Starvation 
• Strappado/squassation (aka "reverse hanging" and "Palestinian hanging") 
• Stress positions 
• Ta'liq hanging from a metal bar
• Tarring and feathering
• Thumbscrew (torture)
• Tickle torture
• Tooth extraction 
• Wailing 
• Water cure
• Waterboarding

DEVICES OF TORTURE & DEATH:

WAYS OF THE PAST: Medieval Type Torture

• Brazen Bull <=== working on 
• Breaking Wheel <=== working on 
• German Chair
• the Head Crusher
• Instep Borer
• Iron Chair (aka: the Chinese Torture Chair, the Torture Chair)
• Iron Maiden
• Judas Cradle (aka: Judas Chair or The Guided Cradle) 
• the Rack (aka Duke of Exeter's Daughter)
• Impalement 

WAYS THAT A MURDER KILLS:

• "Angel of Death" Medical Professionals playing God
• Arterial Gas Embolism (AGE)
• Asphyxiation/Suffocation/Strangulation/Hanging (*NEW* 4.10.18)
• Biological Weapon (Illness Epidemic)
• Blunt Force Trama (w/ various instruments)
• Body Trama (saw body in half - either direction, disemboweled, etc)                                     (also) Drawn, Hanged & Quartered - could adjust from horse to 4-wheeler
• Bombs & Explosions
• Buried Alive
• Burns/Fires
• Car accident (on purpose - cut break line, hit & run, running into on repeat)
• Chemical Warfare
• Death from Pain (too much stress on the body)
• Decapitation ("Off with their head!")
• Drownig
• Drug Overdose (Street Drugs, more potent drugs)
• Eaten by animals (Rat Torture, Dogs, Gators & other wild animals)
• Electrocution/Shock Treatment (Tazers, Cattle Prod)
• Exsanguination (massive blood loss)
• Fall from heights (pushed)
• Flaying (Skinning)
• Forced Suicide (often with threats of a child or other loved ones death if they don't)
• Freezing (temps, long exposure to cold)
• Gun Shot/Firing Squad/Mass Shootings (*NEW* 4.8.18)
• Medication Overdose (that is not self inflicted suicide)
• Poison
• Stabbing
• Starvation/Dehydration
• Stoning (buried up to neck - stones thrown, large stones placed upon a body/packed on head ... done in the middle east.) (*NEW* 4-9-18)
• Various Medieval Torture Device

OTHER NOTES: 
List of ways to "get rid" of a body
Cold Case Options
Taunting Letters to Media and Law Enforcement