Daniel Gonzalez

This article is about the spree killer. For the Chilean footballer, see Daniel González (Chilean footballer).

Daniel Gonzalez
Background information
Birth name	Daniel Francis Gonzalez
Also known as	The Freddy Krueger Killer The Mummy's Boy Killer Zippy
Born	1980
Died	9 August 2007(2007-08-09) (aged 26) Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, England
Cause of death	Suicide by exsanguination
Conviction	Murder
Sentence	Life imprisonment
Killings
Number of victims:	4
Span of killings	15 September 2004–17 September 2004
Country	England
Date apprehended	17 September 2004

Daniel Gonzalez (1980 – August 9, 2007), also known as the Freddy Krueger Killer^[1] and the Mummy's Boy Killer,^[2] was a spree killer who killed four people and injured two others during three days across London and Sussex in September 2004. His mother had previously written a letter to her MP criticising the fact that a serious incident had to occur before he could receive mental help. In her letter, she rhetorically asked "...does my son have to commit murder to get help?". Reporters^[who?] have tried to say that he feigned mental illness long before the murders. He did in fact suffer for many years.^{[citation needed]}

Gonzalez was inspired by horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th to become a "famous serial killer". He went on a drug-fueled stabbing spree, attacking the elderly and infirm, writing about his experiences in letters to himself as Zippy, his past nickname. His letters said how much he enjoyed the murders "...one of the best things I've done in my life", and how similar he was to Freddy Krueger.

Victims

On September 15, 2004, Daniel Francis Gonzalez told 61-year-old Peter King, who was walking his dog with his wife in Hilsea, Portsmouth, that he was going to kill him. He was fought off and fled to Hove where he stabbed 76-year-old Marie Harding while wearing a hockey mask. After this, he returned to his home in Woking. He concluded that the reason for his failure to kill King was because his knife was too small.

He traveled to Tottenham. At 5:30 AM he left 46-year-old Kevin Molloy for dead after stabbing him in the face, neck and torso with a pair of large knives he had stolen from a department store. At 7:00 AM he made a forced entry into the Hornsey house of Koumis Constantino, but was fought off after stabbing his arm. By 8:00 AM he was in Highgate, where he randomly tried to gain access to houses. He succeeded in murdering an elderly couple, the Robinsons, an experience he claimed was "orgasmic". He was arrested at a tube station after a decorator saw him naked and covered in blood in the Robinsons' house.

Trial

Gonzalez tried to claim that he was not guilty by reason of insanity, although this was rejected. He was given six life sentences and the trial judge recommended that he should never be released. It was revealed that he was a habitual drug user who had run naked down a street while drunk a week before he was arrested.

Death

Gonzalez immediately attempted to kill himself by biting himself to death. ‘I have never seen anyone bite himself with that ferocity,’ said the inspecting doctor. He survived but committed suicide in his cell in Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, on 9 August 2007 by slicing his wrists with the edges of a CD case.^[3]

Footnotes

1. ^ Serial Killer Central News | Krueger killer's sick DVD treat
2. ^ Court News UK | England | Daniel Gonzalez: The mummy's boy serial killer
3. ^ BBC NEWS | England | Inquiry over serial killer death

Persondata
Name	Gonzalez, Daniel
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1980
Place of birth
Date of death	9 August 2007
Place of death	Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, England