The Old West Ted Bundy...!

As long as man has kept records, there has been those that could and would kill others for no apparent reason. Mankind has always been that way, I reckon. From Listverse, here is a story that describes one of the earliest versions of a serial killer we know.

Stephen Dee Richards

Photo credit: Nebraska archives

Stephen Dee Richards has been called the Old West’s Ted Bundy, but in his day and age, he was dubbed the Nebraska Fiend.[2] He was a charming and well-spoken man. Unlike Bundy, Stephen seems to have had no preferred type of victim when it came to killing. He murdered a young man he had a disagreement with, and he killed a mother and her three children with an ax. He said of killing the family that it was no different to him than killing jackrabbits.

Stephen ultimately murdered nine people in total. He did not escape justice, however, and was hanged in 1879.

I reckon there has always been the crazies among us that would kill just because they seemed to enjoy it. Doesn't say much about the goodness of our kind, does it?

Coffee in the kitchen again this morning.