10 Manifestos Of Killers You Can Actually Read Online Right Now

When it comes to killer manifestos, the Internet is a veritable goldmine. Maybe it's because so many killers are narcissists - you'd almost have to be to go as far as killing - and think their kills are justified in some way. They just can't help putting the grand plans down on paper or broadcasting it on YouTube for those who are slightly more tech savvy. You might be surprised at the number of killers who outline their crimes and, in some cases, the level of thought and obsessive detail went into it. One of these manifestos is more than 1,500 pages long - that's longer than the first edition of War and Peace. 

But there is something morbidly fascinating about seeing snippets of their manifestos. Not so much the details of their planned murder - those are pretty disturbing - but for the twisted motivations behind them. The human mind can be a very, very scary place - as these manifestos prove. 

Known for the killing 32 people at Virginia Tech University, Seung-Hui Cho was an angry, angry man. You can see it in his manifesto, which was partly written and partly filmed. He sent it to NBC news - all 23 pages and nearly a half hour of video footage. Although the police said the videos didn't clarify his motives, you can see he has a whole lot of hate: 

"Oh the happiness I could have had mingling among you hedonists, being counted as one of you, only if you didn’t f*ck the living sh*t out of me. You could have been great. I could have been great. Ask yourself what you did to me to have made me clean the slate. Only if you could be the victim of your reprehensible and wicked crimes, you Christian Nazis, you would have brute-restrained your animal urges to f*ck me. You could be at home right now eating your f*cking caviar and your f*cking cognac, had you not ravenously raped my soul.”

You can still the video with some of the manifesto on Youtube. 

Entitled "Industrial Society and Its Future," the Unabomber's manifesto was originally published as an eight-page supplement to The Washington Post in 1995. Ted Kaczynski was a math genius who received a scholarship to Harvard University at 16, but he eventually developed a penchant for homemade bombs. As the name of his manifesto suggest, he wanted to warn people about the dangers of technology and sent bombs to universities and airlines, resulting in three deaths and many more injuries. He sent his manifesto to the New York Times and The Washington Post, and when it was published his sister-in-law recognized the writing style. You can still read the massive, 35,000 word document that lead to his capture. 

Before going on a horrific rampage that left 93 people dead in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik wrote the mother of all manifestos. He posted the 1,516 page document on Facebook along with a link to a YouTube video called "2083: A European Declaration of Independence." It's a hate-mongering and racist manifesto with the basic message being that multiculturalism was ruining Europe. He encouraged other people to follow his ways. You can still read it online. 

As if his own a racist website isn't enough, Dylann Roof wrote multiple detailed manifestos - including one from jail - about his crimes. Roof confessed and was found guilty of 33 hate crimes after he shot and killed nine people at a Charleston African American church. He entered the church during a prayer service and killed nine churchgoers - including a state senator - in the hopes of starting a race war. 

With lines like, "We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me," the manifesto horrified many. Even after his arrest he wrote from jail about the killings, spouting off his beliefs about black people, the Trayvon Martin shooting, and why he chose Charleston.

"I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country," he wrote. 

This one is especially weird because Elliot Rodger doesn't have a manifesto you can read, he has a manifesto you can watch. On the same day he shot and killed six people and injured fourteen others - May 23, 2014 - he posted a video to YouTube. The reason for his violent outburst? Well, according to "Elliot Rodger's Retribution" he wanted to punish women for rejecting him and punish men for, basically, having more sex than he did. It's a whole rant of misogyny on steroids that shows just how toxic masculinity can get. 

"Hate, Im so full of it and I love it. That is one thing I really love. Some time ago, I used to believe in humanity and I wanted to live a long and happy life... but then I woke up. I started to think deeper and realized things," says Pekka-Eric Auvinen in his rant, entitled "The Natural Selector's Manifesto." This was before he went on a shooting spree which killed eight and wounded at least 10 more. Officials reported he had 500 cartridges of ammo on him, meaning his damage could have been even more devastating. He posted YouTube videos with his desire to kill anyone he deemed "unfit," but the videos have since been taken down. People were worried about his behavior, but nothing was done in time. 

Columbine was the first famous modern school shooting and the planning that went into it is terrifying. It's almost difficult to call this a manifesto because it's more like a collection of manifestos. But there are dozens of journals, notebooks, and drawings from Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold available online and it is a terrifying look at the human psyche. You can see how they sketched out the killings, how they hoped the number of deaths would reach 500, their views on everything from vaccines to their missions. It could easily send you into a 5 am reading spiral, so start opening them at your own risk. 

Christopher Dorner's 2013 rampage in Southern California left four people dead and several more wounded. Dorner's attacks occurred between February 3rd and 12th and resulted in a massive manhunt that spanned two states and Mexico. During his killing spree where he randomly shot law enforcement officers and private civilians, he posted a 10,000 word manifesto online. 

Dorner was a former Naval Reserve lieutenant who joined the LAPD in 2006. His manifesto claimed his termination from the LAPD had been because he reported another officer for excessive force and listed members of the police force he was prepared to kill. It also listed a number of other opinions - including how hot Hilary Clinton is - making it a bizarre, sad, but fascinating read. 

In 2014, Jerad and Amanda Miller killed two police officers and a bystander. But the signs they was something wrong with the couple were prevalent before the shooting. They were active on Facebook and YouTube, sharing their anti-government rants and extreme pro-gun views. To make it especially creepy, some of them showcase Jared painted as the Joker. He claims to be fighting tyranny but these rants are hard to stomach. 

Despite Jim David Adkisson's manifesto being made the old fashioned way - written by hand - you can still find it on the Internet.  His “hatred of the liberal movement" caused him to start shooting in a liberal church in 2008, killing two people. He calls his crimes hate crimes and political protests while insisting "liberals are a pest like terminates." From the letter it is clear he thought he would be killed during the attack, but in reality he was captured and the letter was found later.