Crime Figure. Peter Manuel died at the age of 31 in Scotland in 1958, a convicted serial killer of 7, though he was linked to possibly 8 more murders, which would bring the total to 15, 2 more than the notorious Yorkshire Ripper. The American-made mass murderer was born in New York to Scottish parents who had emigrated to the U.S., lived in Detroit Michigan for a while with his Aunt and Uncle who had also emigrated and then returned home to Scotland. Thus Peter had Scottish Citizenship. His siblings had all been born in Scotland and they moved back with his family when he was 5 to Scotland. The callous criminal was a James Dean lookalike and started a life of crime at an early age. He showed early signs of anti-social behavior in childhood. At the tender age of 12 he was arrested for burglary and the next three years spent time in and out of Reformatory, classified as a Juvenile Delinquent. He went to jail at age 16, for raping a school employee. When he was released from prison in 1952, he went on a 5 year killing spree. Unlike most killers with motive, he killed at random, without discrimination, just for sake of killing, the thrill of the sport. He initially was questioned in the brutal death of a 17 year old girl named Anne Kneilands who was found battered to death on a golf course, which he later confessed to. Later the bodies of three women were found by a Postman on his route. Marion Watt was 45, her sister Margaret brown who was 41 and Marion's 16 year old daughter Vivienne Watt. Marion's husband William was away on a fishing trip at the time. The victims all shot in the head. Then members of the Smart Family was found a week after they went missing. Lord Cameron was the trial judge; Peter Manuel unwisely decided to dispense with his defense counsel (Harald Leslie, later Lord Birsay), and chose to defend himself. As a psychopath, he thought he was cleverer than anyone else, so Lord Cameron bent over backwards to be fair to him, knowing that he would eventually entrap himself, which he did." The Judge wrote in his report: "I saw no sign indicative to a layman of any illness or abnormality beyond callousness, selfishness and treachery in high degree, but I did inform the impression that he was even then laying the foundation of a suggestion that he might in the end of the day be presented not as a criminal, but as one in need of medical care." On the day of execution, he showed the same disregard for his own life as his victims. His last words were: "Turn up the radio and I'll go quietly."