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HANNIBAL LECHTER.

I think its the dichotomy of his personality. He is completely insane, a total psychopath and a very evil guy, but he likes good classical music, gourmet cooking, classical Italian architecture. He is a serial killer and a cannibal, but yet well educated and well mannered. He apparently is capable of killing or maiming anybody at the drop of a hat yet he treats Clarisse Starling with decency, even affection.

We like our heroes to be a little "naughty," and our villains to be more "human."

It is a powerful technique to suddenly switch from the purely evil Monster, "Hannibal the Cannibal" to the erudite "Dr. Lecter."

All of the above plus the other characters (except for Clarisse) are never overly sympathetically portrayed, another trick to keep Lecter from becoming too overwhelmingly awful...It has to be Hannibal

Real life: Albert Fish, Richard Ramirez, and Joseph Kallinger are all rather interesting.
Movies: The God's Hand Killer, Lecter, and Mr. Brooks.

richard was close to my home town my mom was all freaked out cuz his killins were traveling into our neck of the woods and it was all over the news.... but i gotta say either zodiac or albert fish

for a movie killer i think my fav is chrome skull by far. love that mans style.

as for a real life killer i dont really have a fav, but i find dennis rader's story interesting