Today’s Enraged Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
William MacDonald: The bad, the mad, and the ugly.
William MacDonald, known as “the (Sydney) Mutilator”, was classed as Australia’s first true serial killer. MacDonald was born in Liverpool, England in 1924, with the birth name of Allan Ginsberg. Between 1961 and 1962 MacDonald terrorised Sydney with a string of gruesome murders before being apprehended while working as a porter at Melbourne’s Spencer Street railway station on 13 May 1963. His modus operandi was to select his male victims at random (mostly derelicts), lure them into a dark place, violently stab them dozens of times about the head and neck with a long bladed knife, and finally sever their penis and testicles.
MacDonald described the murder of his last victim, Patrick Hackett, picked up while drinking at a Melbourne hotel. He woke up in the middle of the night and picked up a knife. “As I stood looking at him, with the knife grasped firmly in my hand, a mad rage came over me. I knelt down and stabbed him in the neck… I struck down at him again and again. During the stabbing, I accidentally struck my own hand, and then I lost count of how many times I thrust the knife into his body. Even after I knew he was dead, I kept on plunging the knife into him.”
Culled from: Crimes and Punishment: The Illustrated Crime Encyclopedia and Wikipedia
And when he wasn’t being William MacDonald, stabbing folks and cutting off their more interesting parts, he was hanging around San Francisco composing incomprehensible poetry.
Bussy fellow.