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Authors: Michael Newton
Tags: #True Crime, #Murder, #General, #Serial Killers
extremist
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC
DATE(S): 1992 VENUE: Brcko, Bosnia VICTIMS:
DATE(S): 1996 VENUE: Ozarks region, Mo. VIC-
100+ suspected
TIMS: Three suspected
MO: Serb slayer of Muslims in Luka concentration MO: Mentally retarded suspect in series of shooting camp
deaths
DISPOSITION: Pled guilty to 12 murders, 1998
DISPOSITION: Condemned on one count, 1999
Jenkins, Cecil
(1965– )
Johns, Ronnie
(?– )
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1997–98 VENUE: Indianapolis, Ind.
DATE(S): 1991 VENUE: Flint, Mich. VICTIMS:
VICTIMS: Four alleged
Four
MO: Serial rapist of at least seven women, killing four; MO: Victims shot in robbery attempts
two victims left in cars
DISPOSITION: 15 years to life on one count, 1992; DISPOSITION: Received 130-year term for rape and life without parole on second count, 1992
kidnapping of one victim, March 2, 1999; received 78 years on second rape conviction, March 11,
Johnson, Alison
(1966– )
1999; received 65-year sentence on one murder
SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-
count, Nov. 28, 2001
cific
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DATE(S): 1996–2000 VENUE: Doncaster, England
DISPOSITION: Convicted on three murder counts; VICTIMS: Three
received life term, April 1, 2004
MO: Mother who killed her newborn children; two found at her home; one still missing
Johnson, Paul David
(1945– )
DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty to manslaughter by neg-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-
ligence, June 12, 2002; received a sentence of three domestic
years community rehabilitation
DATE(S): 1984/89 VENUE: Tenn./Fla. VICTIMS:
Two
Johnson, Emanuel
(1963– )
MO: “Bluebeard” slayer of wives
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
DISPOSITION: Convicted on one count in Tenn.,
DATE(S): 1988 VENUE: Sarasota County, Fla.
1984; life term in Fla., 1990
VICTIMS: Two
MO: Killed burglary/holdup victims
Johnson, Ronnie
(1961– )
DISPOSITION: Condemned on two counts, 1991; five SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
life terms + 30 years on lesser charges
DATE(S): 1989 VENUE: Miami, Fla. VICTIMS:
Two
Johnson, James Rodney
(?– )
MO: Robbery-murders of two victims
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-
DISPOSITION: Condemned on first count, Dec. 13, specific
1991; condemned on second count, July 16, 1992
DATE(S): 1990 VENUE: Cooper/Moniteau Coun-
ties., Mo. VICTIMS: Four
Johnson, Tivian
(1970– )
MO: Shot three police officers and a sheriff’s wife in SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1991 VENUE: Dade County, Fla. VIC-
separate attacks
TIMS: Two
DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1991
MO: Killed robbery victims
DISPOSITION: Triple life sentence, 1993; death + two
Johnson, Jay Thomas
(1968– )
life terms, 1995
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC
DATE(S): 1991 VENUE: Minneapolis, Minn. VIC-
Johnston, John
(1850–1900) AKA: Crow Killer; TIMS: Two
Liver-eating Johnson
MO: AIDS victim who killed gay men aged 21 and 48
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC
DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty on both counts, receiv-DATE(S): 1843–78 VENUE: Rocky Mountains
ing two consecutive life terms plus 15 years on lesser VICTIMS: Hundreds
charges
MO: “Mountain man” and prolific killer of Indians for revenge or racism; killed 300 Crows, plus numerous
Johnson, Martha
(1955– )
Utes, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Sioux, Nez Perce, etc.; SEX: F RACE: F TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-relieved of duty in Civil War for killing Indians cific
allied with his own (Union) side
DATE(S): 1977–82 VENUE: GA. VICTIMS: Four
DISPOSITION: Died of natural causes, Jan. 21, 1900
suspected; two confessed
MO: Smothered her own children; deaths mistaken for
Jones, Bryan
(1957– ) AKA: Dumpster Killer SIDS
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1990 (commuted on
DATE(S): 1985–86 VENUE: San Diego, Calif. VIC-
appeal)
TIMS: Four
MO: Rape-slayer of prostitutes; bodies left in dumpsters
Johnson, Matthew Steven
(1963– )
DISPOSITION: Condemned on two counts, 1994
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1996–2000 VENUE: Hartford, Conn.
Jones, Daniel Steven
(1961– )
VICTIMS: Seven alleged
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
MO: Drifter with history of violent crimes and felony DATE(S): 1980s VENUE: Nev./Fla. VICTIMS:
convictions dating from age 19, including four-year Three suspected
terms for assault (1982–86) and robbery (1992–96); MO: Killed one Nev. man for his trailer; others sus-rape-slayer of women aged 28–37, in Hartford’s pected in Fla.
North End
DISPOSITION: Condemned on one count in Nev.
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Jones, Harold
(1906– )
MO: Rape-slayer of women; also drowned three chil-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
dren of one victim
DATE(S): 1921 VENUE: Abertillery, Wales VIC-
DISPOSITION: Executed in Ind., Mar. 9, 1981
TIMS: Two
MO: Rape-slayer of girls age eight and 11
Junco, Francisco del
(1958– )
DISPOSITION: Indeterminate prison sentence, 1921
SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC
DATE(S): 1995–96 VENUE: Miami, Fla. VICTIMS:
Jones, Jeffrey Gerard
(1960– )
Four confessed
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-
MO: Cuban immigrant; killed and set afire female cific
addicts, age 37–44
DATE(S): 1985–86 VENUE: Sacramento, Calif.
DISPOSITION: Confessed June 1996; sentence
VICTIMS: Four
unknown
MO: Bludgeoned male victims with hammer in public restrooms
Jurkiewicz, Thomas
[
See
YORK, THOMAS]
DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1987
Justus, Buddy Earl
(1953–90)
Jones, Sydney
(d. 1915)
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-
DATE(S): 1978 VENUE: Ga./Fla./Va. VICTIMS:
specific
Three
DATE(S): 1900s VENUE: U.S. nationwide VIC-
MO: Transient rape-slayer of women
TIMS: 13 confessed
DISPOSITION: Executed in Va., Dec. 13, 1990
MO: Random murders of men (11 blacks, two
whites)
Kaczynski, Theodore John
(1942– ) AKA:
DISPOSITION: Hanged in Ala. on June 25, 1915
Unabomber
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-
Jordan, Keydrick Deon
(1972– )
specific
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/SEx.
DATE(S): 1978–93 VENUE: USA nationwide VIC-
DATE(S): 1991–92 VENUE: Orange County, Fla.
TIMS: Three
VICTIMS: Two
MO: Serial bomber; 17 blasts in seven states
MO: Shot woman in robbery; raped/killed another and DISPOSITION: Life without parole on 1998 guilty plea burned her home
DISPOSITION: Life on one count, 1993; condemned
Kahl, Gordon
(d. 1984)
on second count, 1994
SEX: M RACE: N TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-
extremist
Joyner, Anthony
(1961– )
DATE(S): 1983–84 VENUE: N.Dak./Ark. VIC-
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: S MOTIVE: Sex.
TIMS: Three
DATE(S): 1983 VENUE: Philadelphia, Pa. VIC-
MO: Neo-Nazi tax-evader; killed lawmen while a fugi-TIMS: Six
tive
MO: Rape-slayer of elderly women at rest home where DISPOSITION: Killed in shoot-out with police, June 3, he worked
1984
DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1984
Kalejs, Konrad
(1913–2001)
Judge, Giancarlo
(?– ) AKA: Monster of Torino SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
extremist
DATE(S): 1983–86 VENUE: Torino, Italy VIC-
DATE(S): 1941–45 VENUE: Latvia VICTIMS:
TIMS: Nine
30,000
MO: Shot/strangled female prostitutes
MO: Nazi collaborator and member of roving murder DISPOSITION: 30 years in lunatic asylum
squad
DISPOSITION: Died Nov. 12, 2001, while fighting
Judy, Steven Timothy
(1956–81)
extradition to Latvia on war crimes charges
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
DATE(S): 1970s VENUE: Ind./Tex./La./Calif. VIC-Kalichuk, Alexander (d. 1975)
TIMS: 11 confessed
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
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DATE(S): 1950s VENUE: London, Ontario VIC-
DISPOSITION: Received life prison term for three TIMS: Two alleged
murders and five rapes at trial in 2000; received 20
MO: Sergeant in Canadian air force, posthumously years for a sixth rape, Aug. 12, 2004
identified as pedophile slayer of young girls
DISPOSITION: Died before evidence of guilt was col-Keene, John (d. 1865)
lected
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1861–65 VENUE: Tenn./Utah VICTIMS:
Kappen, Paul
(1941–91) AKA: Saturday Night Stran-Five+
gler
MO: Confederate navy deserter and outlaw during SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Civil War
DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: Llandarcy, Wales VIC-
DISPOSITION: Hanged on one count in Salt Lake
TIMS: Three
City, 1865
MO: Rape-strangler of female hitchhikers, all 16 years old
Kelley, Doyle
(?– )
DISPOSITION: Died before new DNA techniques
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
linked him to crimes
DATE(S): 1981–93 VENUE: Joplin, Mo. VICTIMS:
Three suspected
Kaprat, Edwin Bernard, III
(1964–95) AKA: Granny MO: Suspected as accomplice in robbery-slaying of Killer
young woman, 1981; “Bluebeard” slayer of wives in SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
staged “accidents,” 1990/93
DATE(S): 1991/93 VENUE: Hernando County, Fla.
DISPOSITION: Life term on two counts, 1994
VICTIMS: Five
MO: Beat man to death, 1991; rape-slayer of women
Kelliher, Mary
(?–?)
age 72–87, killed/burned in their homes, 1993
SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-domes-
DISPOSITION: two years house arrest for using dead tic
man’s credit cards, 1991; condemned, 1995; mur-DATE(S): 1905–8 VENUE: Boston, Ma. VICTIMS:
dered in prison Apr. 20, 1995
Six
MO: “Black widow” poisoner of husband and relatives
Kasler, Steven L.
(?– )
DISPOSITION: Escaped conviction by blaming deaths SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./CE
on a mattress contaminated with arsenic
DATE(S): 1980s–1990s VENUE: United States VIC-
TIMS: 34 confessed
Kelly, Horace Edward
(1959– )
MO: Drifter who implicated himself in 34 murders, SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
then recanted
DATE(S): 1984 VENUE: San Bernardino, Calif.
DISPOSITION: Received a 99-year sentence for kid-VICTIMS: Three
napping and robbing a woman in Louisiana;
MO: Necrophile rape-slayer of two women; also shot pleaded no contest to an Ohio murder and received 11-year-old boy while trying to abduct the victim’s a life sentence on Dec. 14, 1999
female cousin
DISPOSITION: Condemned 1986
Katsumi Hoshinois
(1976– )
SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony
Kelly, Kieron
(1928– )
DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Tokyo, Japan VICTIMS:
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-
Two
extremist
MO: Thief who drugged, robbed, and dumped 11
DATE(S): 1975–83 VENUE: London, England VIC-
women he met through a dating service; two victims TIMS: Five confessed
died of hypothermia
MO: Homophobobic slayer of gay males
DISPOSITION: Unknown
DISPOSITION: Life term on one count, 1984
Kee, Ahron
(1973– )
Kennedy, Edward Dean
(d. 1992)
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1991–98 VENUE: Harlem, New York City
DATE(S): 1978/81 VENUE: Fla. VICTIMS: Three
VICTIMS: Three
MO: Killed motel clerk (1978); shot policeman and MO: Rape-slayer of petite females aged 13–19
male civilian after prison break
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DISPOSITION: Life term, 1978 (escaped 1981); con-DATE(S): 2001 VENUE: London, England VIC-
demned, 1981; executed July 21, 1992
TIMS: Two
MO: Landlord who killed female tenants, aged 21 and
Kennedy, Julian
(1943– )
22, by binding and suffocating them with ornate SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/CE
giftwrap tape; nude corpses were hidden on his DATE(S): 1958–73 VENUE:
property
Fla./Ark./Ga./N.Mex./Tex. VICTIMS: 9+ confessed DISPOSITION: Life sentence on guilty plea to one MO: Outlaw biker and career criminal; confessed mur-count, March 25, 2003
ders during holdups, jail breaks, drug deals, and personal arguments
Kimbrough, Petrie
[
See
LOCKETT, WILL]