1957, Plainville, Wisconsin: Police officers drove out to Ed Gein’s lonely farmhouse on the outskirts of town hoping he may know something about the disappearance of a local hardware store owner. What they found there would haunt them for ever: furniture upholstered with human skin, gloves fashioned from human fingers, soup bowls crafted from human skulls ... True Crime Recaps: Ed Gein: Real Life Norman Bates, Youtube 15.23, 2022
His descent into madness had already begun: he boarded up his mother’s bedroom and sitting room upstairs to preserve them exactly as she left them, and he let the rest of the farmhouse crumble into squalor. ibid.
A box of female genitalia sat near his bed; they’d been preserved with salt; some of them were painted and decorated with ribbons; a belt made of human skin and accessorized with women’s nipples was discovered; several chairs upholstered with human skin were found; a jar of noses sat on a shelf; he had decorated with masks made from human faces … ibid.
Why didn’t he just dig up his mother and be done with it? ibid.
On November 21st 1957 he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. ibid.
He happily lived out the rest of his days in the prison hospital. ibid.
GELBER, NANCY: Murder for Hire TV -
A confidential informant said a crime novelist is trying to hire another person to end her husband’s life. Murder for Hire s1e6: A Deadly Imagination, rozzer, CI 2019
November 9 2001 Wednesday 1.30 p.m. Bryan, Texas: ‘One of those informants … There was a lady named Nancy Gelber who was wanting to kill her husband.’ ibid. Lt John Pollock, Brazos county sheriff’s department
I never thought she would stoop so low to have me killed. ibid. husband
GELLATLY, DOUG: Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
A chilling 911 call about an armed attacker. Lori Jackson, the mother of baby twins, takes desperate action to save her own mother. Within hours law enforcement teams would launch a manhunt as a life hangs in the balance. Meet, Marry, Murder s2e9, Netflix 2022
‘Scott’s controlling nature, the documented physical abuse.’ ibid. prosecutor
‘Domestic violence can spiral out of control very quickly.’ ibid.
GELMAN, MAKSIM: The Killer Speaks TV - Mail online - Killing Spree: NYC Knifings TV -
In February 2011 Maksim Gelman unleashed his madness on New York City. He butchered four people. And wounded four others. For twenty-eight hours he rampaged through the city assaulting, car-jacking, stabbing, killing in unpredictable spurts. The Killer Speaks: Maksim Gelman s1e1, A&E 2013
Mad Max stabs his stepfather a total of fifty-five times. ibid.
Maksim Gelman has never shown any remorse for his unspeakable crimes. ibid.
Maksim Gelman is currently serving a 225-year sentence. ibid.
Of the killings, he said: ‘After you kill one person, it gets easier.’
He said he ran over his first two victims when he was driving in Brooklyn.
He claimed he ran them over once before putting the car in reverse and driving back and forth over the men to make sure they were dead.
Gelman said he came to the US from Russia and proudly boasted: ‘My father was a gangster, my grandfather was a gangster.’ Mail online article 16th January 2012, ‘I killed six other people that no one knows about, says the butcher of Brighton Beach’
New York, 12th February 2011 9 a.m.: A killing spree was underway. Detectives were frantically searching for Maksim Gelman, the man who over the last 28 hours had left four dead and three critically injured in a string of vicious stabbings, random car-jackings and indiscriminate assaults. Killing Spree s1e11: NYC Knifings, 2014
After 28 hours Gelman’s cruel killing spree had been brought to an end by the bravery of just one man [Joe Lozito]. ibid.
In court Gelman would show little contrition … Maksim Gelman would plead guilty to each of his thirteen charges … He would be sentenced to a total of 225 years behind bars. ibid.
GENESTIN, ANDRE: Killer in the Family
A typical holiday snap: married couple Andre and Catcha Genestin; a typical crime scene photo: the mallet Andre Genestin then used to kill his wife … a killer who was an habitual fantasist. Killer in the Family s1e5: The Fantasist, CI 2009
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‘Genovese was violent; he liked to have bodies in the street.’ Mobsters s1e7: Genovese: Portrait of a Crime Family, Bio 2007
The Genovese family is down but not out. It continues to make millions every year through rackets ranging from labour corruption to extortion to drug trafficking. ibid.
He had finally had enough of the Mob and stepped down as boss. ibid.
It didn’t take long for the drug racket to get Vito into trouble. ibid.
Vito Genovese died in prison of heart failure at the age of 72. ibid.
As Costello entered the lobby a large man [Gigante] stepped out of the shadows, raised his arm and said, ‘This is for you, Frank.’ Mafia’s Greatest Hits s1e6: Vito Genovese, ANC 2012
The most dangerous gangster in America – Vito Genovese. ibid.
Genovese was a hitman for the greatest Mafia boss of them all – Charles Lucky Luciano. ibid.
Mussolini gave him [Genovese] an Italian knighthood. ibid.
Frank Costello: the Salvation Army even made him their Vice-Chairman. ibid.
Before a judge could be appointed, it had to be cleared by Frank Costello. ibid.
Costello became known as the Prime Minister. ibid.
Finally, in 1958, the federal government indicted him for smuggling and distributing narcotics, and in 1959 he was convicted and sentenced to federal prison for 15 years. From prison (first at Atlanta, then at Leavenworth) he continued to rule and to order the killing of rivals. He died of a heart attack at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Mo in 1969. Encyclopaedia Britannica online article
GEORGES, GUY: Beast of the Bastille TV - Murderpedia online - Killer Trials TV -
On the dark streets of Paris a killer searches for victims: young women are plucked from the streets. He traps them in their cars or forces his way into their homes. Beast of the Bastille: Guy Georges, 2007
The man known as the Beast of the Bastille. Guy Georges was a 38-year-old drifter who raped and killed seven young women between 1991 and 1997. ibid.
It was the excitement of the chase that drove him. ibid.
For Guy Georges this violence began in childhood. ibid.
He admitted on the stand to killing all seven women. ibid.
The three-week trial began on Monday 19th March 2001. The 50 witnesses included four women previously attacked and raped by Georges. Amongst those giving evidence were 15 experts; members of the families of some of Georges’ victims; and Georges’ 71-year-old foster mother.
Despite prosecutor Evelyne Lesieur presenting the DNA evidence as well as the confession given after his arrest, Georges pleaded not guilty to all charges at trial. He retracted his confession, claiming the police had tortured and beaten him to obtain it.
Eight days into the proceedings, a defeated Georges broke down in tears and confessed. He admitted to the original four murders, as well as to the rape and murder of Helena Frinking in 1995, Magalie Sirotti in 1997 and Estelle Magd in 1997, asking for forgiveness from the victims’ families.
On Thursday 5th April 2001 Guy Georges, 38, was sentenced to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole for 22 years, for the rape and murder of seven women between 1991 and 1997. Murderpedia online article
A serial killer is on the loose … The Beast of Bastille … Police have a gut instinct that all five cases are connected. Killer Trials s1e26: The Beast of Bastille, CI 2012
Guy Georges is a 32-year-old vagrant with a troubled past … He has graduated to sexual assault and rape. ibid.
One count of attempted murder and seven counts of murder … Guy Georges is sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 22 years. ibid.
GERARDOT, JENNAIR: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
Mark Gerardot met his future wife in 1986 … Just 24 year later he would be asking Jennair for a divorce so he could marry his mistress of 3 months, Meredith Chapman. True Crime Recaps: Mark & Jennair Gerardot, Youtube 23.26, 2021
Mentally she [Jennair] started breaking apart. ibid.
She [Jennair] shot her in the kitchen and then killed herself. ibid.