10 Worst Sociopaths To Have Ever Lived
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These people cannot be trusted. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re examining the most notorious people who exhibit signs of sociopathy, those being antisocial behavior, manipulation, and a lack of empathy. Our countdown of the worst sociopaths in history includes Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes, Charles Manson, and more! What do you make of these stories? Let us know in the comments below!
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@evacastillo8782
Ай бұрын
How did you comment 4 days ago?
@catchthatcalico
Ай бұрын
How’d you time travel
@Reaperguy67
Ай бұрын
@@evacastillo8782 the owner of the video can pin a comment after the video is uploaded when it's private. There is something called KZread studio which allows you to do it .
@infamouswickedjokestar
Ай бұрын
Well id say quite shocking & surprising
@valentinstrock4372
Ай бұрын
can you spot something? 10 people who did this crimes against human kind... 3 are Jewish. Wake up liberals
Lack of empathy? That is a requirement for many CEOs and Insurance Claim Adjusters
@smpiano6605
Ай бұрын
Let's add Shareholders to the list. Those whiny babies don't work for the companies they demand so much money from.
@Anonymous-mp5mt
Ай бұрын
this comment was worded oddly but on the same hand you kinda countered your own comment within its self. Exactly a lack of empathy is a trait of a lot of CEO’s because a lot of them have anti social personality or npd. it’s not required it just so happens ceos have a lack of empathy that’s how they got to where they are.
@alf3707
Ай бұрын
Psychos also can be doctors, police, officials, bankers, inventors. All im this job done, so they can influence their dominance to their clients, enemies, coworkers ect.
@effkay3691
Ай бұрын
@@smpiano6605You can’t afford shares can you?
@smpiano6605
Ай бұрын
@@effkay3691 You're the type to say people on welfare or unemployment are lazy (granted some certainly are) yet here you are defending shareholders even though they're not actually working for a company and raking in cash. Tell me how these people aren't parasites?
Jim Jones. Don't drink the Kool -Aid!
@SlashinatorZ
Ай бұрын
Trump would charge you for the koolaid
@fourwingsweepa1705
Ай бұрын
The blacks drank it
@dontwakethedeadp.jankey9592
Ай бұрын
@BCTMBfinally someone gets it right. People will say it makes no difference but facts are facts and they bought the cheap stuff.
@bigverybadtom
Ай бұрын
@@SlashinatorZ We don't drink Kool-Aid. Trump gave us jobs, peace, and prosperity. Reality sucks dunnit?
@Mozart1220
Ай бұрын
@@bigverybadtom The only jobs he created were for fact checkers and lawyers. The economy nearly tanked under trump who exploded the debt with his tax cuts for billionaires. That's the reality.
Fun fact, even Charles Manson stated that sciencwtology is a crazy religion
@SizzleMoonSong
Ай бұрын
Funnier Fact : Scientology isn't a religion, it is a cult.
@chillfluencer
Ай бұрын
Fun fact: all religions are crazy. The big ones just aren't as aggressive as small ones of je scientology because they have more followers and way more money and real estate...like the Catholic cult. And seriously...what it is telling is as nutty as what scientology tells....and it exists for so little ng that it doesn't have to control its followers...they control each other now...nothing special for an over 2,000 year old cult....
@wendigo53
Ай бұрын
And we all have invested so much credibility in Mr. Manson!
@areiorum
Ай бұрын
Hitler, netanyahu, dick chenney, george w bush, Stalin, Pol Pot THIS LIST IS RIDICULOUS!
@anselmareich3549
Ай бұрын
@@areiorum Pretty sure Hitler was a psychopath. That's not the same.
I don’t believe for one second that Anna Sorokin feels badly about what she did. She will do it again. She will just get better about covering her tracks.
@fawziekefli2273
Ай бұрын
The rapid blinking as she denies ever doing it again is a dead giveaway.
@jackchop1576
Ай бұрын
The cultural fascination with her is mainly due to her being upfront and unapologetic about what she is. Most cluster B personality disordered people play the victim card and try to manipulate everyone into feeling sorry for them but she doesn't pretend to care at all.
@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679
Ай бұрын
"i'm not sorry. I'm sorry i got caught"
@jamesmarkham1887
Ай бұрын
Right, sitting there looking like a demon ready to strike again.
@rosegemlights
Ай бұрын
@@fawziekefli2273 the fact she smiled shes not sorry
Elizabeth Holmes' fake voice is hilarious. "I am a robot. I have no imperfections."
I bet the worst are the ones we never hear about.
@lijo4518
20 күн бұрын
U bet 👍
150 years? that's absurd considering people have gotten way less for MURDER.
@brianarbenz1329
Ай бұрын
Madoff and Holmes ripped off the rich. Society’s outrage is skewed based on the social status of the victims.
@michaelgordonharper4536
Ай бұрын
It's America. Money more important than life there
@carlharris4927
Ай бұрын
You are ready grasshopper, fore you now understand that you can kill who you want but you can’t mess with people’s money (or dog).
@Mosesthewhiteboy
Ай бұрын
THAT'S WHAT I SAID!
@Mosesthewhiteboy
Ай бұрын
@@carlharris4927 Brody you can take my money and I'll make peace with it. They'll never find the remains of the person who hurts my dog.
It continues to boggle my mind as to how in the hell Elizabeth Holmes was able to hold off investors and companies for SO freaking long regarding Theranos and the worthless Edison machine. If it had worked, it would have absolutely been a game changer for the future of testing blood!
@Jeremiah_Rivers76
Ай бұрын
She could’ve avoided her sentence if she had been honest about her products, but no. She just _had_ to lie about it, didn’t she?
@susanrobinson910
Ай бұрын
@@Jeremiah_Rivers76 Exactly! The idea is absolutely a fabulous one! With all of that financial backing, and arguably some of the best minds in the country, maybe they could have solved the problem! But no…
@Holocaustica
Ай бұрын
She didn’t want to get caught and her investors didn’t want to feel tricked into falling for it. It’s a crucial part of any investment scam. I think Madoff made the most out of that type of situation. He knew what to say and what to do.
@ludonymous526
Ай бұрын
That woman is not only a wretched scammer. She's also crazy.
@thejils1669
Ай бұрын
Humans are so gullible...especially if it involves getting something (read: $$$) for nothing. I can't wait to pitch my car antenna sharpener!
As soon as I asked myself what about Elizabeth Holmes, sure enough, she with her freaky, unblinking eyes popped up on my screen. 😟 Should Jim Jones go on this list or would he be classified as a psychopath?
@gregevans6044
Ай бұрын
Right? She admitted the wide, unblinking eyes (the psychotic stare) and the deep, husky voice were completely fake Lol
@MelaninCosplay
Ай бұрын
@@gregevans6044 I wonder why she did that?? Especially the deep voice. I heard she was trying to sound masculine and intimidating, so that she'd be taken seriously. In my opinion, after the whole situation, faking the voice was even more embarrassing.
@RemnantPriest
Ай бұрын
Jim Jones was a cult leader.
@MelaninCosplay
Ай бұрын
@@RemnantPriest Yes, of course I know that. So was Charles Manson and he's Number 1. I'm throwing the question out there if Jim would be considered psychotic or sociopathic or...both and should be on the list?
@thebeatnumber
Ай бұрын
How Ruja Ignatova didn't get on this list is a mystery. The woman is literally the biggest con artist in history
Top 10 lawyers who committed crimes & showed NO sympathy Top 10 celebrities/influencers who were convicted & still showed zero sympathy
Wow, it’s been 3 years since the infamous Bernie Madoff died. We still have no sympathy for him after what he did in the past.
@valentinstrock4372
Ай бұрын
can you spot something? 10 people who did this crimes against human kind... 3 are Jewish. Wake up liberals
@Mozart1220
Ай бұрын
He was not prosecuted for robbing US. he was prosecuted for robbing THEM. The rich.
@jackchop1576
Ай бұрын
With the liberal degenerates calling for Israel to be destroyed, is it any wonder that they attack Jews?
@Mike___Honcho
Ай бұрын
and don't forget his sea hag wife ruth, who hid millions after bernie got arrested. she knew the full scale of the damage bernie did to charities, to children, to everybody, yet she hid the money for her own use. express ticket to hell, track one.
@dicksonfranssen
Ай бұрын
Madoff is sharing a single bed with Jeffrey Epstein in Hell. Madoff works in the accounting department, Epstein does laundry and Jeffrey Dahmer mops floors but uses his own head on a stick.
The documentary film on Ted Bundy played by Zac Efron in the movie shows exactly how much of a monster he is to the point, that the actor himself i think said he wished to never ever play such a role again and Charles Manson man cult leaders are always self explanatory for their behaviours and personality
"Worst Sociopath" The way they operate, we haven't seen who that might be. The cunning nature helps them to move undectected.
Diane Downs didn't actually "rush" her kids to the hospital. She drove very very slowly to increase the likelihood of the kids' deaths.
I don't see my private school principal here.
@jordanwilliams1401
Ай бұрын
Wahhhhh
@carlharris4927
Ай бұрын
😂
@thejils1669
Ай бұрын
She may have taught Jim Jones!
@paulcowlishaw
Ай бұрын
Says worse. Not best.
Never trust someone with the last name "Madoff" because that's exactly what he did with your money.
@violinda.
Ай бұрын
Came for this... 😂
@KC1111KC
Ай бұрын
😂
@BlayzMonet
Ай бұрын
This is unnecessarily hilarious 😂😂😂😂
@guydreamr
Ай бұрын
And never let someone with the last name of "Hitler" run your country because that's exactly what he did to others.
@veramae4098
Ай бұрын
The sons were honest ... they called the cops.
The character Sugar "Segura" in No Country for Old men, is considered the very best acted out psychopath in movies by psychologists! 😮
@morellapoe2814
Ай бұрын
Chigurh
@justtocomment5848
Ай бұрын
This keeps getting repeated. I have actually read the original article by the psychologist besides the articles written about it and tiktok shorts. The psychologist stated that in No Country for Old Men was a very realistic representation of a TYPE of psychopaths. This type was a primary prototypical psychopath. I am not studied in psychology but I think this means that Chigur is a good representation of someone with genetic disposition for psychopathy, exhibits overt narcissism and a high score on the psychopathy checklist.The psychologist compares Chighur to real life hitman Richard Kuklinski in a passing comment. Nowhere is it however stated that he is the most realistic depiction of psychopaths in general. The psychologist also mentioned Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street as an realistic example of a nonviolent psychopath. Gekko is described as a primary manipulative type of pychopath. This means that Gekko is similar Chighur in how his psychopathy shows in his affect and interpersonal relationships. Gekko however differs in that his lifestyle is not that of a classic psychopath unlike Chigur who is a career criminal. The psychologist compares Gekko in passing to Bernie Maddof who is number 10 on this Watchmojo video. PS:I am not studied in psychology so I am just repeating what I am getting from the article.
@theChickenstones
Ай бұрын
@@justtocomment5848 The distinguishing between what is called a 'psychopath' and a 'sociopath' is an interesting read if you look it up. I worked in mental health for 40+ years and 'met' both in my professional capacity but always recall the words from an elderly psychiatrist when I was a younger fellow during my training. He said he didn't know what was wrong with the term "a nasty bastard with no end to their selfishness". Fair enough.
Susan Smith killing her children blaming it on a black man who supposedly car jacked her then confess she was having an affair with someone who didn’t want kids. She would fake crying and not shed a tear. I knew right off the bat she did it.
@dicksonfranssen
Ай бұрын
The car took 3 minutes to sink, she just stood there and watched. I've seen interviews with her husband years later, that poor guy really loved those kids and is a broken man.
@kweeks39
Ай бұрын
She is way up there on the POS list.
@jewel65
Ай бұрын
Same! You could see it right away.
@Mosesthewhiteboy
Ай бұрын
I was expecting the list to be full of killers. To my disappointment most spots on this list consisted of non violent scam artist. Richard Ramirez could have easily made this list. BTK could have easily made this list. Jeffery Dahmer could have easily made this list. But we got some non violent con artist that are somehow "worse" or "on par" with actual serial killers and a woman who made attempts on her kids lives and succeeded in killing one of them.
@lucretiz
Ай бұрын
Oh yeah the old a black guy did defense
Add Karla Homolka to that list
@dicksonfranssen
Ай бұрын
We live not far from where that all happened. She's been out of prison for a long time but all her neighbors know who she is. Must be hard ordering a pizza that you think might have broken glass in it. Sack of crap.
@azizcammioneur7311
Ай бұрын
@@dicksonfranssen I hate that she was given a new name to protect her identity. What about the victims? What about her poor sister? That story still infuriates me.
Pablo Escobar and Jim jones could also be on here
@jackmcglion8337
Ай бұрын
Top 12 list.
Informative
Amazing video Rebecca from watch mojo of worst sociopaths that ever lived in human history,fantastic job.
@Mosesthewhiteboy
Ай бұрын
Brody a lot of people on this list committed non violent theft crimes. How are they worse or even as bad as the two serial killers and the woman who killed her own children? Or the zookeeper who actually paid someone to kill his competition while abusing his own animals. I'm sorry but there is a HUGE difference between duping people out of their money and killing people.
Top 10 Infamous Child Killers. Top 10 Young Individuals Turned Murderers. Top 10 Horrible Birth Parents.
@jonah.donohue
Ай бұрын
No
@kylejohnson3889
Ай бұрын
Hitler Hitler aaaaaand……shou tucker
@wookinooki9023
Ай бұрын
Top 10 worst adoptive parents
@gru_istolethemoon
Ай бұрын
@@jonah.donohue yes
@gru_istolethemoon
Ай бұрын
top 10 most mentally insane people in history.
The title of this is severely overblown.
Sam Bankman-Fried should be on this list.
At least the Madoff bros. Have a conscience.
@user-pt1ji9wg7f
Ай бұрын
bro they planned it out, he knew the noose was tightening and it was all over so in order for them to avoid any bullshit they "rat" him out like they were just as shocked as anyone else
@ladytheresa7626
Ай бұрын
Unfortunately one of them unalived his self while the other succumbed from cancer. Both stress related factors.
@kweeks39
Ай бұрын
Makes me wonder how much they benefitted from the ponzi scheme. It’d be hard to believe that they saw none of the ill gotten booty.
Ted Bundy also said, in one interview shortly before his demise, that any estimation of his kill total should have another zero added to it.
@kweeks39
Ай бұрын
Buddy was more than a sociopath and I believe he most likely killed more than what is known as you stated he said. He was one effed up guy.
my cousin used to babysit Diane Downs's kids back in the day. I still remember watching our local new about her. it's kinda crazy that she would do that to her own kids. that happened in the Eugene/Springfield area of Oregon in case anyone wanted to know.
I remember reading about Diane Downs....so sad. What mother does that for a guy? I'm glad the prosecutor and his wife ended up adopting the two surviving kids.
It's incredible that all ten of the worst sociopaths to have EVER LIVED committed their crimes within the last 75 years or so. i would have thought Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan would have made the list. Thanks for setting me straight, WatchMojo.
@suevize6853
Ай бұрын
And they’re all American….
@pohjanakka4992
Ай бұрын
And Mao, and Pol Pot, and Idi Amin, and...
@anselmareich3549
Ай бұрын
Those monsters were more likely psychopaths. That's not the same.
@1969ilovebritain
12 күн бұрын
There is already a video for what you are describing. This video should have been titled differently.
Wow 😳. And that Thumbnail, she was like an Evil Betty White...
@letitbeknown8126
Ай бұрын
They called her " The Golden Girl"😦
2:28 "I'm Human too .... I am a victim .....!!" Anyone else laugh out loud at this fool ??? "I scammed them , then they told the police , and now im in jail ...... im the victim" ............ fkn hilarious
Glad I barely missed this list.
All that and the creepy notes at the end 😳
The famous indie game Granny was said to have been inspired by the case of Dorothea Puente don't you guy think they're the same
@gingersnap1996
Ай бұрын
That’s actually pretty cool if it’s true.
Awww I haven’t seen a watch mojo video in yeeeears. Genuinely made me happy to see this recommended
Thanks for interesting and valuable video as always 😂😂😂
Morrrrre of these lists!
#1. All of my exes
@LetsDoBongs
Ай бұрын
How many are we up to?
@SamoaVsEverybody814
Ай бұрын
@@LetsDoBongs Well I'm 40 and 3 of them, lol
@letitbeknown8126
Ай бұрын
Do they live in Texas?
@SamoaVsEverybody814
Ай бұрын
@@letitbeknown8126 Actually no, nor do I hang my hat in Tennessee 😂
@letitbeknown8126
Ай бұрын
@@SamoaVsEverybody814 👍😂
She’s (Sorkin) is not sorry, well I’ll take that back. She’s sorry she got caught.
Puente watched Arsenic and Old Lace too many times.
Sadly, this list was too short.
I always laugh when the tiger king says hes never gonna financially recover from this.😅😅
@dicksonfranssen
Ай бұрын
what do they mean "allegedly" abused animals? I have zero time for people like him.
@Mosesthewhiteboy
Ай бұрын
See I can see how that guy made this list because he actually tried to get someone killed. All the non violent thieves in this list kind of confused me.
I remember the death house land lady. That was in Sacramento. She killed her elderly residents and buried them in her yard so she could keep collecting their money.
Part 2!?
fire fest guy lol u made him look like hannibal lecture
Sorokin is an example of 101 in reading body language , when she said she had learned from her mistakes and wouldn't do it again she blinks to the right which is her brain's creative side meaning she was making it up😅
You forgot the guy who wrote Baby Shark
I was concerned for a moment.😮 But after watching this, I noticed, that I did not make it on this list. All is good.👍😊
Jodi Arias.
They stare while they are lying and pulling information out of you.
Billy McFarland totally lies as he pretends that he is sorry. He came out of the slammer and went right back to similar schemes.
You forgot the Jonestown Massacre
@AnastasiaSaenz
Ай бұрын
I remember watching that with my grandpa - particularly, and my grandma when I would stay with them. And, that's a documentary I've watched only a few times...there's a lot of tense moments, especially when they're preparing to escape when the late governor Leo Ryan arrived to help get whoever they could, out...and from that point on. But, with murdering those misled, but poor people, it almost breaks me upon hearing the children and babies cry and beg to not drink that "Flavor-Aid" or get it injected...
Even though people have done the most terrible things and are described as a psychopath we still have to remember that they are all still human beings
Where is Amber Heard?
@UncleOf5
Ай бұрын
I had a strange feeling someone was going to bring her up😂
@Avaa-vanilla995
Ай бұрын
She's definitely awful but not a sociopath.
@alf3707
Ай бұрын
Watchmojo got that between their eyes. No joke
You’re only allowed to lie to you customers not your investors.
I'd also add David Karesh to this list
How about Chris Chan?
@kaibomo
Ай бұрын
Extremely degenerate but idk if I'd say sociopathic
@PEYTONANYA0523
Ай бұрын
I don't think he's in that list
@paulajelen1351
Ай бұрын
I just tried to look up Kris Chan who is that? I’m just getting like three different of those names. One says it was a female that was a child molester of her own child, but then the charges were dismissed.
@PEYTONANYA0523
Ай бұрын
He's not female, trying to get women by pretending to be transgender
@kaibomo
Ай бұрын
@@paulajelen1351 Chris Chan is the nickname for an autistic transgender internet personality who was once imprisoned for committing incestuous acts on their elderly mother
Scary
Yeah, very oblivious indeed...
He was Bernie Madoff..but got caught, so he became Bernie Madon
I understand Elizabeth Holmes has long lost her deep voice. Then there was the matter of getting pregnant not once but twice during her trial process - this woman wrote the book on manipulation.
@caronstout354
26 күн бұрын
Those "Helter Skelter" 👀...
I've always have a difficult time distinguishing the difference between sociopath and psychopath, both share the lack of emotions for others, and the inability to process the understanding of others emotions. Both use manipulation and verbal control over others, but I guess a psychopath will tend to enjoy sexual control and the sadistic drive to inflict pain both physical and mental
This is not a video about sociopaths. It's about con artists and murderers. The people in this video are not all sociopaths. Sociopath has a specific meaning. It does not apply to psychopaths, or narcissists or people who just have low moral standards.
That is a beautiful lemon eye
I would also add Betty Broderick to this list.
Someone oughta teach Watchmojo what SOCIOPATH actually means all of them are from RECENT history.
@peridotrideaux
Ай бұрын
You do it …..
Elizabeth Holmes has gigantic eyes and yet you can't find an ounce of life in them
As with many, if not all serial killers, Dorothea Puente had a horrible upbringing. This led to her inability to feel empathy or compassion, including for her own children. She had several and did not raise a single one of them. All of them have been taken away from her. She had no motherly instincts probably because she never got it from her own mother.
Suge Knight should be an honorable mention
Theresa Knorr. Look into it at your own risk.
I will never financially recover from this 😂
Never heard of Downs. Frightening.
Teflon Don is not on here cause he would want 5% of the profits for using his image!
Elizabeth Holmes has the crazy eyes going on
Man, Elizabeth Holmes. 👁👄👁 Amirite?
I have the impression some of these people are psychopaths rather than sociopaths. From what little I know, psychopaths are born like this while sociopaths are nurtured due to traumatic childhood events. Because of that, psychopaths are usually colder and more organized. A psychopath also doesn't need to kill, it's not a requirement to be violent. What they have to be is manipulative and completely lacking in empathy. Bernie Madoff and Ted Bundy seem good examples, one being non-violent and the other extremely. Charles Manson seems more of a sociopath than a psychopath, though. Can someone please clarify this for me?
I was waiting for you to get to the serial killers, but there were a lot left out. IMO the money fraudsters are chump change compared to serial killers.
If they included world leaders and politicians they’d dominate the list
It’s safe to say these are terrible people.
What all these people have in common is that they're incredibly boring. Obsessively self-involved people always are.
@dicksonfranssen
Ай бұрын
Imagine getting on an 8 hour flight with Elizabeth Holmes and you can't change your seat. I'd grab my carry-on and lock myself in the bathroom. Shut the #$@= up for just one second would you!
Interesting
Elizabeth Holmes frightens me so much.
PUKE, PUKE!!! People keep saying Bundy was an attractive man. Yuk! On what planet?
@jerseytomato100
Ай бұрын
Compared to most serial killers, he was.
@alf3707
Ай бұрын
Planet Shit For Brains
Diane Downs did not rush her wounded children to the hospital, she took her time. I've watch plenty of documentaries about her. She was trying to make sure they died.
@mojo3318
Ай бұрын
Wow.
@dicksonfranssen
Ай бұрын
The first clue was someone on the road noticed her putting along a 3MPH on the way to Emergency.
@mojo3318
Ай бұрын
@@dicksonfranssen Oh.
Greg Heffley should’ve had a mention on this list
Lehman Brothers
Wayyy too many to name ... u gatta go by decades
Most are amoral. The killer a psychopath. Few are sociopaths.
Top 10 CEOs who AREN'T sociopaths
@someguy7424
Ай бұрын
Name ten.
@brianarbenz1329
Ай бұрын
I doubt you could find as many as 10.
@guydreamr
Ай бұрын
*Crickets*
@anselmareich3549
Ай бұрын
Instead they're psychopaths.
Madoff took ALL of these people's life savings...after years of hard work and left with nothing! Jeez😢
5:03 the meme
Damn, I’ve never heard puentes voice
In psychology we say sociopaths either make really good CEOs or serial killers
Lois Lerner wasn't added to this list ?
David Berkowitz
False. My ex isn’t on this list.
Stealing $300,000 from rich people doesn't necessarily make you a sociopath.
Amazing how these people can rationalize their predatory behaviour in hindsight. Don't turn your back on them!