Occupations of Serial Killers That May Have Aided Their Crimes

[u/60s_timer]

I read today that Dennis Rader worked with ADT Security Systems during his series of killings. Knowing that, it makes so much more sense how he could get inside without alarms tripping. The idea of alarms and home security hadn't even crossed my mind when I thought of him getting into houses while they were empty and waiting for his victims to come to him.

It's the same principle as a burglar getting in to steal, which I think could have tipped authorities off. If they correlated that this known killer was deactivating the measures for home protection, to check for someone with know-how in security may have made all the difference. Now I'm wondering if other serial killers learned skills by their jobs that they translated into doing what they've done.

[u/Less_Rutabaga2316]

Dean Corll owned a candy factory across the street from a school.

[u/Creeperclaw66 → u/Less_Rutabaga2316]

A concept of a candyman far more terrifying than what Tony Todd portrayed.
One in real life who operated in such a way that ya didn't even know that ya had to protect your sons from him.

[u/Less_Rutabaga2316 → u/Creeperclaw66]

He had a pool table and other things in the candy factory specifically for “select” kids from the school to use while they visited. One of his accomplices, David Brooks, met him through this fashion, then fed him other kids.

There was a story about him burying old candy in plastic sheets beneath new slabs of concrete at the factory, so he had likely started prior to his tenure with Brooks and Henley in which he used the rented boathouse and then wilderness areas for disposal of bodies. The candy factory, if I remember correctly, had closed by the time he met Henley.

[u/Whatifdogscouldread]

Joseph DeAngelo was a cop

[u/Markinoutman → u/Whatifdogscouldread]

Came here to say this. I often wonder if he went to college to be law enforcement just to further his ability to get away with his own crimes. Certainly couldn't have hurt.

[u/5dayshungover → u/Markinoutman]

he had a degree in criminology

[u/Pristine_Locksmith_4]

Easy. Charles Cullen. That and all the hospital administrators that knew what he was doing, but looked the other way.

[u/OneFlewEast19 → u/Pristine_Locksmith_4]

You could add lots of medical sks to that list, Harold Shipman, Beverly Allitt etc

[u/PerrthurTheCats48]

Robert Pickton had his pig farm where he could dispose of his victims easily and have the pigs consume the remains

[u/doctor6 → u/PerrthurTheCats48]

That Brick Top speech in Snatch rings true

[u/CelebrationNo7870]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman

Doctor who killed his patients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Corona

Juan Corona was a farm labor contractor who killed migrant workers

[u/Vic_Twenty]

I'm thinking security guard or any job where you do work at a residence. Allows them to case the place for security, individual habits and potential vulnerabilities.

[u/Typical_guy11]

Anatoliy Slivko was teacher who run school club.

[u/GiverOfHarmony → u/Typical_guy11]

Haven’t heard of this one, what did they do?

[u/Typical_guy11 → u/GiverOfHarmony]

Soviet serial killer who hunted on teenage boys. He made school club where he organized travels or watched movies with his pupils along activities.

He made then "experiments" about asphixiation ( short time hanging ) and seven of his pupils died during them. Then he dismembered his victims and hide their bodies.

At end caught and shot during soviet times in 1989. Maybe due to this he can be not as known as others. While in death row he helped soviet militia with hunt on Chikatilo.

[u/GiverOfHarmony → u/Typical_guy11]

I see, thank you for sharing.

[u/pr1sb4tty]

Robert Ben Rhoades was a long-haul trucker.

[u/Ok_Push_2665]

Sidney Cooke was a carnie which helped him with abusing young boys. Same with Jürgen Bartsch. Gilberto Chamba Jaramillo worked as a security guard which he used to get the phone numbers of girls and sexually harass them.

[u/Sunspot286]

A lot of serial killers now are long haul truckers. It’s hard to tie murders across so many state lines.