Glennon Engleman

Infobox Serial Killer
name=Glennon Engleman


caption=Cover to "Appointment For Murder", by Susan Bakos. (a book about Glennon Engleman)
birthname=
alias=
birth=1928
location=
death=1999
cause=Natural causes
victims=7+
country=U.S.
states=
beginyear=1963?
endyear=1980
apprehended=1980
penalty=Life

Dr. Glennon Engleman (c.1928-1999) was a dentist who moonlighted as a hitman, concocting and carrying out several murder for profit homicides over a thirty year basis.

His victims were shot, bludgeoned with a sledgehammer and once he blew up a victim while she sat in her car. In one case Engleman killed an entire family so that the widow could claim the millions in life insurance she had taken out on her husband, who was (due to Engleman) now the sole heir to his late parent's oil business.

Engleman was a sociopath; as he stated, his talent was to kill without remorse and he enjoyed planning and carrying out killings and disposing of the remains, in order that it would net him financial rewards (he loved the idea of getting away with his crimes, slipping through the cops' fingers every time).

Engleman died in prison in his early seventies. The exact number of Engleman's victims is unknown as he took this information to his grave.

ee also

* List of contract killers Although Dr Glennon Engleman committed all of the murders himself he also shared his crimes with a few accomplices, all of them being very close friends of him. His accomplices included the two wives of two men he killed for insurance money. One of the wives named Barberra was eventually caught and charged with conspiracy to murder and sentenced, while the other wife (and her brother whom had also been one of Dr Englemans accomplices) had to be set free in order for her and her brother's testimony against Dr Engleman during trail. Engleman was once married, to Ruth Jolley Engleman, and had a son, David Engleman.

External links

* [http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/428/428lect10.htm Male Serial Killers]
* [http://www.geocities.com/murder_stories3/glennon1.html "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" article about Glennon]
* [http://www.geocities.com/murder_stories3/glennon2.html "Post-Dispatch" article about Glennon's death]