AHC: Serial Killer President

Thinking on this, I think you could get Roy Cohn to be a serial killer. The guy know how to mix and mingle among the powerful and wielded his influence to accomplish his personal ambitions. Also, his probable sexual orientation makes it more dynamic.

What if, during the height of McCarthyism, Cohn starts slipping out for late-night homosexual trysts and ends up offing a few of them. He comes to like or rationalize it, and he starts showing up at known gay nightclubs and starts offing men well throughout the 1950s.

Cohn doesn't piss off the Army and ends up becoming Attorney General when Nixon wins in 1960. He proves to be competent and leads the fight against the Mafia, proving much more successful than OTL RFK. This brings him national recognition. Throughout the 1960s, he has kept killing but is a lot more muted about it, not killing as often. His close relationship with J. Edgar Hoover does give him some leeway to do what he wants, and he does use the power of his office to attack some people for personal reasons.

Nixon's presidency is fairly successful as he proves to be a rather pragmatic leader who can get both sides to agree. Vietnam is avoided, Nixon passes Civil Rights in 1966. Roy Cohn runs for president in 1968 and wins.

His presidency is considered fairly average, until 1972. As an analogue to OTL's Watergate, Roy Cohn sends agents to a former murder victim's home to destroy evidence of his last murder, which occurred in 1965. His agents are caught and suddenly its front-page news that between 1953 and 1965, Roy Cohn has killed 43 men.

Cohn immediately commits suicide when the FBI arrives to arrest him. The nation is shocked and US morale collapses. The counterculture movement that Nixon's presidency had somewhat staved off becomes much more violent and explosive.
 
How about Teddy Roosevelt he got into it during the Spanish/American war and he enjoined the hunt and excitement until the day he died .
 
How about Teddy Roosevelt he got into it during the Spanish/American war and he enjoined the hunt and excitement until the day he died .

"The most dangerous animal of all is Man. Now, Mr. Wilson, you have a fifteen minute head start after which I will mount your head on my wall, pass a national health insurance act, and make love to my wife. And that will only be the first half hour from now."
 
An unorthodox contender: John Wayne Gacy. While mostly known as the serial killer who was also a clown, Gacy was also a businessman and seen as a pillar of his community. He had close ties with his local Democratic Party.

Let’s say as a POD Gacy never gets convicted of his sodomy charge. His life is mostly the same, including his wife divorcing him. However without that prior charge, Gacy gets away with his murders. He ends up getting tapped by the Democrats to run for Congress after some accident befalls the incumbent. Gacy wins and makes a name for himself as a member of the House, enough that in 1992 he is picked to be VP by Clinton instead of Gore. Clinton gets forced to resign in the middle of his first term, but Gacy manages to win re-election in 1996. He governs slightly to the left of Clinton and is seen as more honest, but still is largely similar in outcomes produced. He leaves office with fairly high approval ratings until the truth trickles out...

If Gacy runs for office, the old clown photos would kill him right from the get-go. Premium fodder for negative ads.
 
Carl Panzram?
Maybe have Taft not approve his sentence to Leavenworth, keeping his last bit of humanity. We probably still see a serial killer, but maybe after his crime spree in the Northwest, he settles down in New York and through a friendship with a local sheriff, becomes a politician, and eventually we get President "John O'Leary".
 
Ted Bundy. Or Gerald Ford, if the rumors are to be believed. Not that there are rumors, but we could always start one.

If only Gerald Ford had been that interesting. I now have a mental image of him building a woman suit like Buffalo Bill's from the skins of Black street prostitutes while the Secret Service keep the DC Police at bay.
 
Thinking on this, I think you could get Roy Cohn to be a serial killer. The guy know how to mix and mingle among the powerful and wielded his influence to accomplish his personal ambitions. Also, his probable sexual orientation makes it more dynamic.

What if, during the height of McCarthyism, Cohn starts slipping out for late-night homosexual trysts and ends up offing a few of them. He comes to like or rationalize it, and he starts showing up at known gay nightclubs and starts offing men well throughout the 1950s.

Cohn doesn't piss off the Army and ends up becoming Attorney General when Nixon wins in 1960. He proves to be competent and leads the fight against the Mafia, proving much more successful than OTL RFK. This brings him national recognition. Throughout the 1960s, he has kept killing but is a lot more muted about it, not killing as often. His close relationship with J. Edgar Hoover does give him some leeway to do what he wants, and he does use the power of his office to attack some people for personal reasons.

Nixon's presidency is fairly successful as he proves to be a rather pragmatic leader who can get both sides to agree. Vietnam is avoided, Nixon passes Civil Rights in 1966. Roy Cohn runs for president in 1968 and wins.

His presidency is considered fairly average, until 1972. As an analogue to OTL's Watergate, Roy Cohn sends agents to a former murder victim's home to destroy evidence of his last murder, which occurred in 1965. His agents are caught and suddenly its front-page news that between 1953 and 1965, Roy Cohn has killed 43 men.

The nation is shocked.
Probably about the homosexuality more than the murders.
 
Building off of this, could we possibly have a Canadian prime minister or British royal be a serial killer as well?

What if Prince Charles was hacking up women in the 1970s and 1980s, and he had Dianna killed because she was going to spill the beans?
 
Building off of this, could we possibly have a Canadian prime minister or British royal be a serial killer as well?

What if Prince Charles was hacking up women in the 1970s and 1980s, and he had Dianna killed because she was going to spill the beans?

Congratulations on your new job at the Daily Mail as the Royal Correspondent.
 
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Joking aside, there is a story in the Back in the USSA anthology where, similar to Andrei Chikatilo in the USSR, John Wayne Gacy's career as a serial killer is ignored or untouched because he has reached high levels of influence in the local Democratic Party.

See also a scenario where Jim Jones stays in California, and is defended by the local Democratic party.

Either of those could result in a pile of bodies and some nasty political fallout.
 
While we don't have a serial killer president, we do have a mass murderer president; Andrew Jackson, given how many duels to the death he was involved with
 
While we don't have a serial killer president, we do have a mass murderer president; Andrew Jackson, given how many duels to the death he was involved with
Well if you could call his duel with Charles Dickinson a "act of serial murder" then Andrew himself could count as a serial killer. But I don't think duels count as murders or at least not back then.
 
While we don't have a serial killer president, we do have a mass murderer president; Andrew Jackson, given how many duels to the death he was involved with

I'm also surprised that no one's brought Aaron Burr up in this thread yet, since he did indisputably kill a man, though in a duel and not by murder per se.
 
Building off of this, could we possibly have a Canadian prime minister or British royal be a serial killer as well?

What if Prince Charles was hacking up women in the 1970s and 1980s, and he had Dianna killed because she was going to spill the beans?

Is there any doubt that Mackenzie King would be the most obvious choice for a Canadian PM serial killer? Aging bachelor having seances with his dog and dead mother, haunted by the failure to measure up to the standards of manhood set by his warrior-king grandfather.

And according to wikipedia, his father was a struggling lawyer, and the family lived in shabby gentility. Combine that with WLMK's well-known political anglophobia, and you've got the ingredients for grade A class resentment.

And if you want to, it's pretty easy to read sinister connotations into this.
 
I'm also surprised that no one's brought Aaron Burr up in this thread yet, since he did indisputably kill a man, though in a duel and not by murder per se.
Serial killers require at least two murders in part to count, so even if duels were applied he wouldn't count since he only slew Hamilton
 
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