"I beat her to death, raped her, and loved it. Yes, I’m sick but I enjoy myself, too," serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson wrote in one chilling bathroom wall message.
While many of the most notorious serial killers have been based on the West Coast, there are many who made the Southern part of the United States their hunting grounds.
A former French military police officer identified only as 59-year-old Francois V. allegedly admitted to being "The Pockmarked Killer,” who left a trail of murders and rapes in the 1980s and '90s.
In the late 1970s in California, a pair of notorious serial killers, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, preyed on young women and documented the attacks.