Random Creepiest Souvenirs Serial Killers Have Kept (19 items)

(#17) Alexander Pichushkin
- 49
Russian criminal Alexander Pichushkin took out at least 49 people, and maybe as many as 60. His goal was to take down 64 in total, the same as the number of squares on a chessboard. After he was finally arrested, police found a chessboard in his home, and all but one of the squares had a date scrawled into.
The dates in each square corresponded to those of the slayings he committed.
(#3) Alex Mengel Made A Scalp Wig

Alex Mengel was a suspect in the random slaying of a Westchester, NY, police officer. While being chased, he lost control of his car and crashed it into a wall. Once taken into custody, the car was found to belong to a woman who had gone missing a few years earlier.

What clinched Mengel as the criminal was the car contained weapons, but what police originally deemed to be a wig, but was actually her scalp - which Mengel wore as a wig when he took his next victim. Less than two months later, Mengel was terminated trying to escape during a prison transfer.
(#7) Ahmad Suradji
- Dec. at 59 (1949-2008)
Indonesian criminal Ahmad Suradji believed he was a sorcerer, so he terminated 42 women in order to gain their powers. He took them out with a cable and then buried their bodies in a complicated ritual. The worst part of this (other than the incident) is that it included draining and drinking the saliva of the victim.

He was eventually apprehended and executed for his heinous crimes.
(#14) Anatoly Onoprienko
- Dec. at 54 (1959-2013)
Ukrainian criminal Anatoly Onoprienko claimed to have taken down 52 people, including multiple young children, in a reign that led local media to call him “The Terminator." When he was arrested, Ukrainian security personnel found he had a massive stash of weapons.

He also had the underwear of most of his victims.
(#18) Harvey Glatman
- Dec. at 31 (1927-1959)
Known as the “Lonely Hearts Killer,” Harvey Glatman was active in the late '40s and 50s, and would break into women’s apartments, assault them, and take photographs. After a burglary arrest, he moved to Los Angeles, where he continued trolling for victims in newspapers' lonely hearts sections. He also kept taking pictures of his victims.

When Glatman was arrested, he admitted to what he had done and showed police a toolbox full of his pictures.
(#15) Dennis Nilsen
- 77
Known as the “Kindly Killer,” Dennis Nilsen was Britain’s version of Jeffrey Dahmer, and was just as prolific and grisly. He exterminated young men he’d lured to his house, then would bathe and dress their bodies before violating them. When Nilsen was arrested, it was because a neighbor had had her sink clogged by what turned out to be human flesh and bones he’d tried to flush down the toilet.
Investigators also found multiple plastic bags in his closet, which contained various body parts and organs.