24 Unnerving Last Words From Some Of The Most Depraved, Disturbing Serial Killers Who Ever Existed

TED BUNDY — JANUARY 24, 1989
Body Count: 30–36+
“I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.”

PETER MANUEL — JULY 11, 1958
Body Count: 7-9
“Turn up the radio and I’ll go quietly.”

AILEEN WUORNOS — OCTOBER 9, 2002
Body Count: 7
“I’ll be back.”

KENNETH MCDUFF — NOVEMBER 17, 1998
Body Count: 9-14+
“I am ready to be released. Release me.”

CARROLL COLE — DECEMBER 6, 1985
Body Count: 16
“It’s all right.”

ANGEL RESENDIZ — JUNE 27, 2006
Body Count: 14+
“I deserve what I am getting.”

FRITZ HAARMANN — APRIL 15, 1925
Body Count: 24-27+
“I repent, but I do not fear death.”

JOHN WAYNE GACY — MAY 10, 1994
Body Count: 33–34
“Kiss my ass.”

MARCEL PETIOT — MAY 25, 1946
Body Count: 27+
“Gentlemen, I have one last piece of advice: look away. This will not be pretty to see.”

PETER KÜRTEN — JULY 2, 1931
Body Count: 9+
“After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be a pleasure to end all pleasures.”

CARL PANZRAM — SEPTEMBER 5, 1930
Body Count: 5–22
“Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill a dozen men while you’re screwing around!”

TIMOTHY MCVEIGH — JUNE 11, 2001
Body Count: 168
“I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.”

AMELIA DYER — JUNE 10, 1896
Body Count: 200-400+ (6 confirmed)
“I have nothing to say.”

H. H. HOLMES — MAY 7, 1896
Body Count: 9–200 (9 confirmed)
“Take your time. Don’t bungle it.”

JAMES ALLEN RED DOG — MARCH 4, 1993
Body Count: 5
“I’m going home, babe.”

STEVEN TIMOTHY JUDY — MARCH 9, 1981
Body Count: 4
“This is my doing. Sorry it happened.”

ALBERT FISH — JANUARY 16, 1936
Body Count: 3–9+
“I don’t even know why I’m here.”

JOHN GEORGE HAIGH — AUGUST 10, 1949
Body Count: 6–9
“Now I must leave you.”

ISRAEL KEYES — DECEMBER 2, 2012
Body Count: 3–8+
“Okay, talk is over, words are placid and weak. Back it with action or it all comes off cheap. Watch close while I work now, feel the electric shock of my touch, open your trembling flower, or your petals I’ll crush.”

DONALD HENRY GASKINS — SEPTEMBER 6, 1991
Body Count: 9
“I’m ready to go.”

ANDREI CHIKATILO — OCTOBER 16, 1936
Body Count: 52–56+
“Don’t blow my brains out! The Japanese want to buy them!”

THOMAS GRASSO — MARCH 20, 1995
Body Count: 2
“I did not get my Spaghetti-O’s. I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.”

SEAN FLANAGAN — JUNE 23, 1989
Body Count: 2
[to the executioner] “I love you.”

JEFFREY DAHMER — NOVEMBER 28, 1994
Body Count: 17
“I don’t care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.”