Henry Brisbon

 VICTIMS: 3 and counting

Henry Brisbon is, quite basically, a criminal. To start out with he was just a thief, but he was a heartless thief, as he showed on the night he began his killing career.

It was June 3, 1973. A young couple, James Schmidt and his fiancée, Dorothy Cerny, both 25, were driving along Highway 57 in Cook County when they were stopped by four men. They were dragged from their car and forced to lay face down on the side of the road. Then, for little apparent reason, Henry Brisbon walked up to the two and blew the backs of their heads off with his shotgun from close range.

When the gang were arrested it didn't take the others long to sell-out Brisbon as a murderer, as thieves tend to be a untrustworthy bunch. He was convicted of both murders, and sentenced to a huge 1,000 years. With not much chance of being released, Brisbon seemed to give up hope.

On October 19, 1978, Brisbon released a bit more anger. With seemingly no provocation he stabbed another inmate, Ronald Morgan, with a sharpened soup ladle. The frenzied attack left Morgan very dead, and Brisbon had another murder charge to deal with.

While awaiting trial for the last murder, Brisbon took part in a rather violent prison riot, and because of this he was moved to a maximum security facility in Menard.

Brisbon was found guilty of Morgan's murder and was sentenced to death in February, 1982. As he left the court room he claimed that he would kill again, and he would keep killing so the court would have to keep putting off his executions while he sat new trials. A pretty good idea really, I don't know why someone didn't think of it sooner.

Just a few days after being placed on death row Brisbon tried to carry out his word. He slipped out of his handcuffs and, with a sharpened piece of wire, he stabbed two other convicted killers. They were William Jones and, probably the most famous killer in Chicago, John Wayne Gacy. Unfortunately Brisbon did nothing more than slightly injure the two, but at least he made an effort. Since then Brisbon has been pretty quiet, but give him time, and maybe he'll make it four.
 

MY OPINION

Even though he's not a serial killer, I added Brisbon here because he's a very cold hearted man. To blow off two heads at point blank range takes a very evil person, and that's exactly why Brisbon is here. Another reason is his attack on that wanker Gacy. I wish he had carried out that murder, cos it would have saved us all from Gacy's pitiful display before his eventual death. But back to Brisbon. Not really a lot I can say, he's a bit of a nut that liked to kill people, and that makes him okay in my book.