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Photos: Notorious Midwest mass slayings

Milwaukee resident Jeffrey Dahmer killed and dismembered most of his 17 victims (from 1978 to 1991) and stored parts of their bodies in his apartment complex. Dahmer was killed by a fellow prisoner in November 1994 at a Portage, Wis., prison.

Milwaukee resident Jeffrey Dahmer killed and dismembered most of his 17 victims (from 1978 to 1991) and stored parts of their bodies in his apartment complex. Dahmer was killed by a fellow prisoner in November 1994 at a Portage, Wis., prison.  (Eugene Garcia, AFP/Getty Images)

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They are among the most frightening criminals in the Midwest, their names forever tied to their crimes: Gacy, Dahmer, Gein, Speck. It some cases, their offenses took place over just days, the manhunt for a spree killer going nationwide. In others, they committed their crimes silently and secretly over years.

Dennis Rader

A former church congregation president and Boy Scout leader, Dennis Rader was sentenced to prison for 10 murders committed from 1974 to 1991 in Kansas. He called himself BTK for “Bind, Torture and Kill.”  (Bo Rader/ Associated Press)

Paul Runge

Oak Forest native Paul Runge was convicted of raping and killing a Chicago woman and her 10-year-old daughter. He confessed to five other murders over a two-year span in the mid-1990s, including two sisters. He was sentenced to death in 1997.  (John Smierciak / Handout)

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