Clifford Olsen Serial Murderer

Clifford Olsen


       Clifford Olsen is a notorious serial killer that is responsible for the deaths of eleven people, although claiming to up to thirty killings. Olsen had an extensive list of prior offences before Murder including over a hundred different convictions. Parents of Clifford Olsen are reported to say that he was always odd as a child, he was very cold and heartless, didn't show huge amounts of emotion. Olsen was in jail numerous times, but he escaped custody at least seven times as well. There were a series missing young children throughout the lower mainland during the time of Olsen's killings but he was still able to evade the police for long enough to kill eleven children. How was he able to do this ?

       Olsen was said to be a "rat", he was very good at hiding and staying under the radar. He was once tracked to have visited 8 states in 5 days traveling thousands of miles in multiple rental cars. Olsen was slippery. By the time Olsen was caught more than two hundred police were working on this case. They managed to find four bodies before Olsen revealed the location of the rest. This case was all over the media, which Olsen enjoyed greatly. Often boasting about so many other bodies, or people he had sexually assaulted that they would never find out about, he was a media whore. Another reason this case made such headlines is because of the pay off to Olsen's family in exchange for his information. Olsen offered the police the locations of all the bodies, statements about each killing, and to return jewelry and other clothing he kept as souvenirs if they paid his wife Joan one hundred thousand dollars. Olsen was sentenced to life in prison and recently passed away at the age of seventy one.

     Clifford Olsen is the perfect definition of a serial killer. Cold and calculated, with little emotion. A godly man who grew up in a strict home. He dropped out of school after grade eight and took up a life of crime racking up over sixty convictions by age twenty five. Olsen had a routine he followed during his murders. He shows many signs of being psychopathic, he used the bodies of each boy as a different "experiment." Olsen kept souvenirs of each killing, and didn't just do this all at once, it was a series of murders lasting almost a decade. He loved attention, especially from the media. He felt he was in power because he was the one who had evaded capture, and he was the one who knew where the bodies were which the police were desperate to find out. This case is so prolific and fascinating because of how long it took the police, and how "criminally genius" Olsen was.

(Clifford Olsen is a Monster and I am in no way trying to boast of him or glorify his actions, I just merely find it very interesting to look at the different aspects of this case.)