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Authors: Michael Newton
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SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-
DISPOSITION: Executed on Sept. 12, 2003
cific
DATE(S): 1965–71 VENUE: Oswego, N.Y. VIC-
Hunt, Kenneth Dean
(1966– )
TIMS: Five
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:
MO: Killed her own children, disguised as SIDS
Sex./CE-felony
DISPOSITION: 75 years to life on five counts, 1995; DATE(S): 1988/1998 VENUE: Los Angeles, Calif.
died in prison, Aug. 13, 1998
VICTIMS: Three
MO: Registered sex offender who killed and raped two
Hubbard, Randall L.
(1960– )
women, aged 60 and 71, in residential burglaries; SEX: M RACE: ? TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
killed a third victim in a fight
DATE(S): 1995–96 VENUE: Morgan County, Ind.
DISPOSITION: Served time for voluntary manslaugh-VICTIMS: Three suspected
ter on one count; condemned on two counts, March MO: Shot male robbery victims
21, 2001
DISPOSITION: 120 years on two counts, 1998
Hunter, Birt Leroy
(1947–2000)
Hullett, Johnny
(?– )
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1968/1989 VENUE: Jefferson City, Mo.
DATE(S): 1981 VENUE: Clover, S.C. VICTIMS:
VICTIMS: Three
Three
MO: Career criminal who killed victims during rob-MO: Rape slayer of women aged 57–81, strangled in beries
their homes; two victims left in bathtubs; the third had no bathtub but was drenched in fruit juice DISPOSITION: Imprisoned for the murder of a blind DISPOSITION: Life term on one murder count
bartender, 1968–80; executed on two counts of murder, June 28, 2000; accomplice Tomas Grant Ervin
Hume, Brian Donald
(1919– ) AKA: Flying Smug-executed for the latter crime on March 28, 2001
gler
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/CE
Hunter, Lendell
(?– )
DATE(S): 1949/59 VENUE: England/Switzerland
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
VICTIMS: Two
DATE(S): 1971/1975 VENUE: Atlanta, Ga. VIC-
MO: Killed a personal enemy (1949) and robbery vicTIMS: Two suspected
tim (1959)
MO: Serial rapist who bludgeoned female victims dur-DISPOSITION: 12 years as “accessory,” 1950 (paroled ing home invasions
1958); life sentence, 1959; ruled insane, 1976
DISPOSITION: Received three consecutive life terms plus 95 years for various felony counts, Jan. 1972;
Hunt, Brian Alpress
(1950– )
escaped in Dec. 1972 and killed another woman; SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-recaptured Aug. 1974
specific
DATE(S): 1992–99 VENUE: Fla./Tenn. VICTIMS:
Huntley, Ian
(?– )
Four
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
MO: Homeless transient who beat a male acquaintance DATE(S): 2002 VENUE: Soham, England VICto death in 1992; stabbed another man to death in a TIMS: Two
quarrel over money; from jail, directed police to the MO: Pedophile with record of convictions dating from graves of two male victims in Tennessee
1995; kidnapped and murdered two schoolgirls
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DISPOSITION: Life sentence imposed, Dec. 17, 2003;
Ireland, Jack
(?–?) AKA: Hatchet Jack
fiancée Maxine Carr received 42-month term for SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC
conspiracy to obstruct justice
DATE(S): 1840s–70s VENUE: Rocky Mountains
VICTIMS: 100+
Husereau, Philip
(d. 1988)
MO: “Mountain man” who killed numerous Indians; SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
also killed whites who traded with Indians
DATE(S): 1983–84 VENUE: Nev./N.Y. VICTIMS:
DISPOSITION: Unknown
Five
MO: Strangled girlfriends during sex; confessed to sister
Irtyshov, Igor
(?– )
DISPOSITION: Accidental death during autoerotic SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
asphyxia, Feb. 18, 1988
DATE(S): 1994–96 VENUE: St. Petersburg, Russia VICTIMS: “Several”
Huskey, Thomas Dee
(1960– ) AKA: Zoo Man MO: Pedophile slayer of boys; some disemboweled SEX: RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1996
DATE(S): 1991–92 VENUE: Knoxville, Tenn. VIC-
TIMS: Four confessed
Irvin, Marvin Lee
(1950– )
MO: Serial rapist of female prostitutes, nicknamed from SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC
his preference for sex assaults near the Knoxville Zoo; DATE(S): 1979–90 VENUE: St. Joseph, Mo. VIC-blamed his crimes on multiple personality disorder TIMS: Five suspected
DISPOSITION: Confessed four murders in custody; MO: Shot/bludgeoned women during arguments
mistrial on those charges, February 1999, when the DISPOSITION: 100-year. minimum on plea to three jury deadlocked on sanity issues; convicted in multi-counts, 1991
ple rape trials, 2000–04, presently serving 66 years in prison; new trial for murder pending
Ishaak, Mohammed Adam Omar
(1952–2001) AKA: Sana Ripper
Huster, Karen Lee
(1959– )
SEX: M RACE: A TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC
DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Sana, Yemen VIC-
DATE(S): 1996–2000 VENUE: Ore./Calif. VIC-
TIMS: 50 confessed
TIMS: Three suspected
MO: Sudanese morgue attendant who raped, killed, MO: Murdered her 10-year-old daughter in 1996; and dismembered women
arrested in 2000 at a Los Angeles apartment whose DISPOSITION: Publicly flogged for drinking alcohol, 73-year-old tenant is still missing; human remains then shot for murder, on June 22, 2001
found in freezer at the scene
DISPOSITION: Convicted of her daughter’s murder,
Ivery, Samuel
(1957– )
Feb. 8, 2002; received a term of 25 years to life SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-nonspecific
Hu Wanlin
(1948– )
DATE(S): 1992 VENUE: Calif./Ariz./Ill./Ala. VICSEX: M RACE: A TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.
TIMS: Four+
DATE(S): 1982/97–98 VENUE: China VICTIMS:
MO: “Ninja of God”; beheaded females age 17–27
210+
DISPOSITION: Condemned in Ala., 1994
MO: “Spirit doctor” who administered herbal “medicine” at unlicensed clinics, resulting in numerous
Jablonski, Philip Carl
(1946– )
deaths
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
DISPOSITION: Served 14 years for killing 20 patients DATE(S): 1979/91 VENUE: Calif./Utah VICTIMS:
in Shaanxi Province(paroled 1997); sentenced to 15
Five
years on Jan. 16, 2001
MO: Sadistic rape-slayer and necrophile; victims include two wives and a mother-in-law
Ingle, Phillip Lee
(1961– )
DISPOSITION: 13 years eight months, 1979 (paroled SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-1990); condemned in Calif., 1994
specific
DATE(S): 1991 VENUE: N.C. VICTIMS: Four
Jackson, Calvin
(1948– )
MO: Home invader who bludgeoned elderly couples SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: S MOTIVE: Sex./CE
DISPOSITION: Four death sentences + one life term, DATE(S): 1973–74 VENUE: New York City VIC-1994
TIMS: Nine
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MO: Addict rape-slayer of women age 39–79, all but
Jackson, Ray Shawn
(1968– ) AKA: Gilham Park one killed at hotel where he worked as a janitor Strangler
DISPOSITION: 18 consecutive life terms, 1975
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1989–90 VENUE: Kansas City VIC-
Jackson, Charles
(1937–2002)
TIMS: Six
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
MO: Rape-slayer of street prostitutes
DATE(S): 1980–82 VENUE: Oakland, Calif. VIC-
DISPOSITION: Six consecutive life terms without TIMS: Seven
parole, 1991
MO: Rape-slayer of women during home invasions; also stabbed one victim’s husband
Jackson, Robin
(1949–98) AKA: The Jackal DISPOSITION: Life sentence imposed on one count, SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-for a 1982 murder; died of heart attack in prison, extremist
Feb. 15, 2002; DNA posthumously proved links to DATE(S): 1973–98 VENUE: Northern Ireland VIC-six other slayings
TIMS: 100+
MO: Protestant terrorist and contract killer who shot,
Jackson, Elton Manning
(1956– ) AKA: Hampton stabbed, and bombed Catholic Republican victims Roads Killer
and suspected police informers
SEX: M RACE: ? TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DISPOSITION: Died of lung cancer, January 1998
DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Chesapeake, Va. VIC-
TIMS: 12 suspected
Jacobs, Clawvern
(1947– )
MO: Lust strangler of gay men
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/Sex.
DATE(S): 1974/86 VENUE: Knott County, Ky.
DISPOSITION: Life term on one count,1998
VICTIMS: Two
MO: Robbed/killed woman (1974); killed/mutilated
Jackson, Mary Jane
(1836–?) AKA: Brick Top second woman
SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-argu-
DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1989
ment
DATE(S): 1856–61 VENUE: New Orleans, La.
James, Eugene H.
(?– )
VICTIMS: Four
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-
MO: Prostitute with violent temper; stabbed male specific
acquaintances
DATE(S): 1948 VENUE: Baltimore/Washington, D.C.
DISPOSITION: 10 years for one count, 1861;
VICTIMS: Two
reprieved by new governor when Union troops occu-MO: Stabbed two girls, both age 11, in municipal pied New Orleans nine months later
parks
DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1948
Jackson, Michael Wayne
(1945–86)
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-
Jameswhite, Richard
(1974– ) AKA: Babyface specific
SEX: M RACE: ? TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1986 VENUE: Ind./Ky. VICTIMS: Three
DATE(S): 1993–94 VENUE: N.Y./Conn./Pa./Ga.
MO: Shot h is probation officer and two other men VICTIMS: 15 suspected
DISPOSITION: Suicide by gunshot to avoid arrest, MO: Victims killed in armed robberies
Oct. 2, 1986
DISPOSITION: Life term on one count in Ga., 1994
Jackson, Patricia
(1949– )
Jasinskyj, Tony
(1959– )
SEX: F RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-argu-
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
ment
DATE(S): 1980s VENUE: England VICTIMS: “Sev-
DATE(S): 1966/81 VENUE: Tuscaloosa, Ala. VIC-
eral”
TIMS: Two
MO: British soldier who raped and strangled a 14-MO: Slashed boyfriend with razor; stabbed female bar-year-old girl near his base at Aldershot; linked to tender
that crime and unspecified others by DNA evidence DISPOSITION: 12 years for second-degree, 1966
in 2001
(paroled 1970); condemned 1981 (commuted to life DISPOSITION: Received a life term on one murder on appeal)
count plus 10 years for rape, May 2002
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Jeanneret, Marie
(1836–84)
Jenkins, James Gilbert
(1834–64)
SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
cific
DATE(S): 1840s–1864 VENUE: Mo./Tex./Iowa/Calif.
DATE(S): 1866–67 VENUE: Lausanne, Switzerland
VICTIMS: 18
VICTIMS: Eight
MO: Murdered robbery victims (eight whites and 10
MO: Self-styled “nurse” who poisoned patients and Indians)
employer
DISPOSITION: Hanged on one count in Calif., 1864
DISPOSITION: Life sentence on six counts; died in prison, 1884
Jennings, Desmond Dominique
(1971–99)
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony
Jebson, Ronald
(1939– )
DATE(S): 1992–93 VENUE: Fort Worth, Tex. VIC-
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
TIMS: 5–20
DATE(S): 1970–74 VENUE: England VICTIMS:
MO: Shot prostitutes and addicts during crack house Three
robberies; police proved five slayings and suspect 15
MO: Pedophile slayer of children aged 8–12
more
DISPOSITION: Received life sentence for the 1974
DISPOSITION: Executed on two counts, Nov. 16,
murder of an eight-year-old girl; subsequently con-1999
fessed two previous slayings
Jennings, Wilbur Lee
(1941– ) AKA: Ditchbank
Jeffries
(?–?) AKA: Jeffries the Monster Murders
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/CE
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 19th century VENUE: Australia VIC-
DATE(S): 1984–86 VENUE: Fresno, Calif. VIC-
TIMS: Four
TIMS: “Several”
MO: Slayer of female prostitutes; bodies dumped in MO: Escaped convict, rapist, and cannibal
canals
DISPOSITION: Killed by posse
DISPOSITION: Condemned with additional sentence of life + 64 years on lesser charges, 1986
Jegado, Helene
(1803–51)
SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
Jensen, Richard Allen
(1947– )
DATE(S): 1833–51 VENUE: France VICTIMS: 23+
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
MO: Thieving servant; poisoned employers and
DATE(S): 1990–91 VENUE: Grand Rapids, Mich.
coworkers
VICTIMS: Three
DISPOSITION: Beheaded in Dec. 1851
MO: “Ripper” of street prostitutes
DISPOSITION: Life term on one count, 1991
Jelisic, Goran
(1968– ) AKA: Adolf
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-
Johns, Alis Ben
(1974– )