Name: 10 Serial Killers Who Were Caught By Accident
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Routine traffic stops were never routine ever again.

And today we're looking at 10 major serial killers who were caught by sheer chance.

It's not through hard work that most serial killers are arrested.

Ed Kemper could kill you now, pretty easily do some interesting things before anyone showed up.

The famous co ed killer wasn't caught due to a manhunt.

Shortly after murdering his mother and her friend, Kemper fled to Colorado expecting a dramatic police chase that never materialized.

You see, nobody realized that he had murdered not only his mother and her friend, but

six others between May 1972 and February 1973.

He was in a phone booth and he hadn't had any sleep for several days.

And he said he had done something really bad.

So Kemper found a phone booth and called the police to confess.

He had to actually plead with them to take him seriously, and

That is how oblivious law enforcement was to his involvement in the murders.

Who knows how long it would have kept up if Kemper hadn't decided to surrender.

Out of sheer exhaustion and impatience, he made comments to Jim Connor on the telephone that he had killed all of the co EDS too.

This is a person who volcanically erupted.

The hatred, the paranoia, the psychosis just unleashed itself upon the world.

A terrified Florida campus went on lockdown and a massive task force hunted a man who had just murdered five college students.

But the so called Gainesville Ripper wasn't tackled by homicide detectives.

After robbing a supermarket in Ocala, he crashed his getaway car, fled into the woods and was arrested for armed robbery.

And five days later, he tries to commit another robbery, this time in a store in Ocala where he holds the manager to ransom and demands he opens the safe.

But unfortunately, other people realize what's happening.

The police are called and Rolling is unable to escape.

This time, the officers had absolutely no clue.

They had just handcuffed one of America's most wanted monsters.

Danny Rolling sat in jail as a generic robber until investigators noticed that his tools matched evidence from the murder scenes and the connection was thankfully established.

The most feared man in Florida was taken down because he needed some quick cash and because he was a terrible getter driver.

Finally, two months later, Rolling was indicted on five counts of first degree murder for the atrocities in Gainesville.

The whole city Is talking about this monster, Joel Rifkin.

New York's most prolific serial killer was taken down by a missing $10 piece of metal.

On the morning of June 28, 1993, Joel Rifkin, killer of at least nine women, was cru cruising along the Southern State Parkway with the decomposing body of his final victim casually sitting in the truck bed.

Police noticed his lack of license plate and attempted to pull him over.

We just were driving, checking the parkway, doing the usual routine stuff.

We noticed a pickup truck in the center lane.

And as we got closer, we realized that there was no license plate on the vehicle.

Rifkin panicked, leading troopers on a high speed chase that finally ended when he slammed into a utility pole.

Officers approached the wreck expecting a traffic citation, only to be hit by a horrific smell.

It's then that they found the body of Tiffany Bresciani, leading to Rifkin's arrest.

Sometimes even the smallest infraction reveals the darkest secrets.

As we were shining the flashlights in the back, we could see what appeared to be someone rolled up in a blue tarp.

Leads and surrounding areas were just places of fear.

While this maniac was on the rampage, Britain was in a panic.

Panic hunting the Yorkshire Ripper, Pouring millions into a massive investigation.

Meanwhile, the killer was sitting in a parked car in Sheffield with a sex worker.

Two officers on a routine patrol approached the car, suspecting nothing more than a minor crime, when they noticed that the vehicle had stolen plates.

Two police officers came across a vehicle, two occupants in the vehicle, a man and a woman, and

discovered that the number plates did not tally with the vehicle.

So they arrested the driver for suspicion of theft of number plates.

In a twist of fate, they allowed Sutcliffe to relieve himself behind an oil tank before taking him to the station.

And he used that moment to ditch his knife and hammer.

The next day, Sergeant Robert Ring returned to the site of the arrest and found the weapons.

And when confronted about the find, Sutcliffe readily admitted that he was the Yorkshire Ripper.

License plates really do have a knack for taking down serial killers, don't they?

Sutcliffe knew he was caught, and it was then he said, I know what you're leading up to.

Okay, guys, we can get in that rough housing.

The police didn't have an inkling of Dahmer's crimes.

And who knows how long his reign would have continued if it wasn't for Tracey Edwards.

Edwards was taken to Dahmer's apartment, but he got scared and punched the killer before fleeing.

He flagged down some cops who took him back to Dahmer's.

Edwards was still handcuffed, and Dahmer told the police that the key was in the bedroom.

While looking for that key, Officer Rolf Mueller opened a bedside drawer and found grotesque Polaroids of various dead bodies.

That casual peek transformed a welfare check into a nightmarish discovery for the ages.

Had Edwards not escaped, or had that officer not peeked inside that particular drawer, Dahmer would have likely talked his way out of it, just as he had done before.

The legendary horrors of 10 Rillington Place were only revealed because of a routine DIY renovation.

John Christie had turned his London flat into a tomb, concealing bodies under floorboards and behind kitchen walls.

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