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Are you one of those weirdos who think serial killers are just fascinating? Us too! Turns out, quite a few used wartime chaos and blackouts to commit their crimes. But these killers have flown under the radar in history due to all the other stuff going on at the time.
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Further Reading:
King, David (2011). Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris.
BBC News. “Sodium: Getting rid of dirt – and murder victims.” May, 2014.
Britannica., “Marcel Petiot.”
Gale, Arthur., “Doctor Marcel Petiot: Serial Murderer.” National Library of Medicine, 2022.
Herschaft, Randy., Salazar, Cristian. “The Pond: US Spy Agency that Operated Before CIA Revealed In Classified Documents Disclosure.” Huffington Post, 2010.
Read, Simon (2006). In the Dark: The True Story of the Blackout Ripper. New York: Berkley Publishing Group’
Read, Simon (2008). The Blackout Murders: The Shocking True Story. London: JR Books
Find a Grave. Vasili Komaroff. Website.
Newton, Michael. “The Encyclopaedia of Serial Killers.” New York: Checkmark Books, 2000.
Rosewood, Jack. “The Big Book of Serial Killers.” Lak Publishing, 2017.
Honeycombe, Gordon. “The Murders of the Black Museum, 1870-1970.” Auckland: Hutchinson &Co, 2007.
Robinson, Mark. “The S-Bahn Murderer: A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin.” April, 2021. Berlinexperiences.com
Killer Cloud. Vasili Komaroff. Website
Timestamps:
Intro: (00:00)
Gordon Frederick Cummins: (00:31)
Leonarda Cianciulli: (03:52)
Marcel Petiot: (06:57)
Credit:
Simple History Creator: Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Video Directors: Anthony Barrett, Denis Blinov
Script: Robert De Graaf
Script Review: Denis Blinov
Narrator: Chris Kane (https://vocalforge.com)
Artists: ShyShelly, Arya Ahumada Lydisma
Animators: Kuldip Bheda, Krunal, Mani Kumar, Bharghavi
Editor: Alec Urbany, James Dowse
Senior Production Manager: Umar Ijaz
Simple History Channel Manager: James Dowse
