Toolbox Killers Audio Recording Transcript (2024)

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What did the Toolbox killers do to their victims? ›

Inside the van, the girls would typically be overpowered, bound hand and foot, gagged, and driven to locations deep within the San Gabriel Mountains, where they would be sexually assaulted by both men, then usually killed by strangulation with a wire coat hanger, although two of the victims had had ice picks driven ...

Ledford's autopsy would reveal evidence of horrific torture, indicating she had been beaten and raped with some form of heavy implements or tools before being garroted with the wire hanger. Investigators didn't have much to go on. Her boyfriend had an alibi.

Pennsylvania-born Bittaker, who was found to have an IQ of 138, was allegedly “the brains” of the team, while Norris, who was from Colorado, was “the muscle,” according to The Toolbox Killer. The two met while behind bars at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo Prison.

She was picked up by Roy Norris and Lawrence Bittaker and taken to a secluded location, where the men tortured her. As UPI reports, the sad*stic serial killers raped and sodomized Ledford, bludgeoned her elbow with a sledgehammer, and twisted her breasts with pliers before they strangled her with a coat hanger.

Bettmann/Getty ImagesAlso known as the “Butcher of Plainfield,” Ed Gein murdered two women and robbed untold graves in 1950s Wisconsin — then turned their skins into keepsakes. Most people have seen classic horror films like Psycho (1960), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

The Toolbox Killers are now dead. Four decades after killing five young women, Bittaker, 79, died of natural causes on death row in San Quentin State Prison on December 13, 2019. Norris, 72, died of natural causes in prison two months later.

Ted Bundy (1946-1989)

Bundy is easily one of the most deranged serial killers (not to mention kidnappers, rapists, burglars, and necrophiles) of all time. His modus operandi included kidnapping his female victims, raping them, and then dismembering them. He often kept their heads as souvenirs.

Luka Rocco Magnotta (born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman; July 24, 1982) is a convicted Canadian murderer. He was found guilty of murdering 33-year-old Jun Lin, After killing him, Magnotta cut the body into pieces and sent these body parts to different political parties and elementary school.

It is a remake of the 1978 film The Toolbox Murders and was produced by the same people behind the original. The film is centered on the occupants of an apartment who are stalked and murdered by a masked killer. Toolbox Murders, Inc.

Effectively tying for the title, though, is Marilyn Vos Savant. Her recorded IQ in the Guinness World Records was 228, awarded between the 1986-1989 editions until the record was discontinued in 1990, with IQ scores deemed too unreliable to document.

Who was IQ 400? ›

Adragon De Mello (IQ Score: 400)His record was broken in 1994 by another student, but today, De Mello is known to have one of the highest IQ scores in all of human history – an IQ score of 400! It depends on what test you take.

Terence Tao

Tao's IQ is estimated to be between 211 and 230, which would place him in the top 0.01% of the population. This level of intelligence is truly exceptional, and it is no surprise that Tao has been able to achieve such great things in mathematics.

In total, Bittaker and Norris killed five women in a five-month span in 1979: Lucinda "Cindy" Schaefer, 16; Andrea Hall, 18; Jacqueline Gilliam, 15; Jacqueline Leah Lamp, 13, and Shirley Lynette Ledford, 16, The Los Angeles Times reported in 1989. The remains of Gilliam, Lamp, and Ledford were all eventually found.

The second of the “Tool Box Killers” died Monday at a prison facility in Vacaville, barely two months after his crime partner. Roy Lewis Norris, 72, died of natural causes at the California Medical Facility, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported.

Roy Norris and Lawrence Bittaker, known as "the Toolbox Killers," recorded the torture of their victims through photos and tapes.

Joseph and Catherine Maggio

The killer broke into the residence and cut the couple's throats with a straight razor; Catherine's throat was cut so deeply that her head was nearly severed from her shoulders. The killer then struck both victims with an axe, perhaps in order to conceal the cause of death.

The Torso Murderer always beheaded and often dismembered their victims, occasionally severing the victim's torso in half or severing their appendages. In many cases the cause of death was the decapitation or dismemberment itself. Most of the male victims were castrated.

"Many experts agree that serial killers have a vision in mind of their victim. This person would be thought of as their “ideal victim” based on race, gender, physical characteristics, or some other specific quality.

Robert Joseph Silveria Jr. Redwood City, California, U.S. For 15 years, Silveria rode the rails, killing fellow freight-train riders throughout the United States. A police detective and prosecutor in Salem, Oregon unravelled the truth of Silveria's killing spree, which began with a murder in Salem.