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Authors: Michael Newton
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same holdup (paroled 1907); William killed by
posse, Sept. 25, 1893
Cooper, Robert W.
(1979– );
MacKay, Charles
(1973– )
Daniels, Murl
(1924–49);
West, John Coulter
(d. 1948) SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/CE
DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Ohio/Mich. VICTIMS:
DATE(S): 1948 VENUE: Ohio VICTIMS: Six
Four
MO: Escaped convicts; killed various victims while at MO: Rape-slayers of female prostitutes aged 36–43; large
survivors also raped
DISPOSITION: West killed by posse, July 1948;
DISPOSITION: MacKay pleaded guilty on one count Daniels executed, Jan. 3, 1949
in Toledo, Ohio, February 2000; Cooper pleaded guilty to one murder and a separate rape in Monroe
Daveggio, James
(1961–
);
Michaud, Michelle
County, Mich., March 2000; received life term plus (1959–
)
seven years (27 years minimum); Cooper received SEX: M/F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE:
10–15 years for rape-murders of two Toledo victims, Sex./Sad.
September 2000; MacKay received life plus eight DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Calif./Nev. VICTIMS: Six years for murder and a separate rape in Michigan, suspected
October 2000
MO: Kidnapped, tortured, and raped female victims of various ages; Daveggio also molested and tortured
Copeland, Ray
(1913–93);
Copeland, Faye
various members of his family
(1920–2003)
DISPOSITION: Both condemned on Sept. 25, 2002, SEX: M/F RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: CE
for the 1997 torture-slaying of a 22-year-old
DATE(S): 1986–89 VENUE: Mooresville, Mo. VIC-
woman; in August 1999 Daveggio received a 24-
TIMS: Five
year prison term and $500,000 fine for kidnapping MO: Married couple who killed hired hands on their and raping a victim in Reno; Michaud also received farm
a 12-year sentence and $175,000 fine in that case; DISPOSITION: Both condemned, 1991; Ray died in Daveggio received additional prison time for molest-prison, October 1993; Faye’s sentence commuted to ing his daughter; he remains suspect in the Califor-life, August 1999; died in prison Dec. 18, 2003
nia murders of a woman and four young girls
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DeMeo, Roy Albert
(1941–83);
Borelli, Henry
DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Watsonville, Calif. VIC-
(1948–
);
Gaggi, Anthony Frank
(1926–
);
Testa,
TIMS: Two
Joseph, Jr.
(1955–
)
AKA: The Murder Machine
MO: Beat and slashed a male drifter and the owner of SEX: 4 M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC
a rest home
DATE(S): 1975–82 VENUE: N.Y. VICTIMS:
DISPOSITION: Dotson received two terms of life with-75–100
out parole, January 2001; Labore received a term of MO: Contract killers for Gambino Mafia “family”
60 years to life, April 2001
DISPOSITION: DeMeo murdered, Jan. 10, 1983; life term + 160 years for Borelli, 1986; multiple life
Dudley, Kenneth Edwin
(?– ),
Irene Gwyn
(?– ) terms for Gaggi and Testa, 1989
SEX: M/F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/Sad.
DATE(S): 1946/1958–61 VENUE:
Dingum
(?–?);
Cornerford
(d. 1837) N.Y./Fla./Ariz./Ky./Va. VICTIMS: Six
SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC
MO: Brutal parents whose children died from abuse DATE(S): 1837 VENUE: Port Phillip, Australia
and hunger on a rambling cross-country trek
VICTIMS: Seven+
DISPOSITION: Kenneth served one year in N.Y. for MO: “Bush rangers” who cannibalized fellow outlaws
“improper burial” of first child
DISPOSITION: Cornerford lynched; life term for Dingum
Duffy, John Francis
(1956–
);
Mulcahy, David
(1959–
)
AKA: Railway Murderers
Dirlewanger, Oskar-Paul
(1895–1945) et al. AKA: SEX; 2 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
Sonderkommando Dirlewanger
DATE(S): 1985–86 VENUE: England VICTIMS:
SEX: 854 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: GC-
Three
extremist
MO: Serial rapists who attacked female victims in or DATE(S): 1940–45 VENUE: East Europe/Russia
near British railway stations, 1982–86, killing three VICTIMS: Thousands
of an estimated 15 victims
MO: Nazi mobile death squad led by convicted sex DISPOSITION: Duffy received three life terms plus 30
offender, composed entirely of ex-convicts; killed years for multiple rapes, 1988; named Mulcahy as Jews and other civilians, including participation in his accomplice in October 2000; Mulcahy received suppression of Warsaw Ghetto revolt
three life terms for murder on Feb. 2, 2001; also DISPOSITION: Dirlewanger died in Allied detention received concurrent 24-year terms for each of seven camp, June 7, 1945; no postwar charges were filed rapes and 18-year terms on each of five conspiracy on assumption that all active members died in action charges
Dohmeyer, Juergen
(1948–
);
Leuking, Kurt
Dvoracek, Mrs., and unnamed male accomplices
(1953–
)
AKA: The Mad Dogs
SEX: 1 F/7 M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: CE
SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1918–25 VENUE: Iglau, Czechoslovakia
DATE(S): 1983 VENUE: Hannover, Germay VIC-
VICTIMS: Four+
TIMS: Three
MO: Robbed/murdered Polish refugees at Mrs. Dvo-MO: Shot robbery victims, one male and two female racek’s home
DISPOSITION: Life terms for both, 1988
DISPOSITION: All condemned, 1925
Doorbal, Noel Alexander
(1971– );
Lugo, Danial
Einsatzgruppen
(1963– )
SEX: Approximately 3,000 M RACE: W TYPE: N
SEX: 2 M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
MOTIVE: GC-extremist
DATE(S): 1995 VENUE: Miami, Fla. VICTIMS:
DATE(S): 1941–45 VENUE: USSR VICTIMS: Two
Two
million est.
MO: Career criminals, killed victims during robberies MO: Mobile Nazi murder squads in occupied Russia; DISPOSITION: Both condemned July 17, 1998
killed an estimated 1.5 million Jews and 500,000
Russian civilians
Dotson, James Erwin
(1975– );
Labore, Kimberly Lee
DISPOSITION: 24 senior officers tried at Nuremburg, (1971– )
July 1947 to Apr. 1948; one suicide; 14 condemned SEX: M/F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-
(four executed, 10 commuted); eight imprisoned; specific
one convicted but not sentenced due to poor health
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Ellebracht, Walter Wesley, Sr.
(?– );
Walter Wesley, Jr.
Fernandez, Raymond Martinez
(1914–51);
Beck,
(?– );
Caldwell, Robert, Carlton
(?– )
Martha Julie
(1920–51) AKA: Lonely Hearts SEX: 3 M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: CE/Sad.
Killers
DATE(S): 1980s VENUE: Kerr County, Tex. VIC-
SEX: M/F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
TIMS: “Several” suspected
DATE(S): 1948–49 VENUE: Ill./N.Y./Mich. VIC-
MO: Father-son ranchers and their foreman;
TIMS: Five+
enslaved/tortured male drifters; tape-recorded tor-MO: Homicidal swindlers of women seduced by Ferture sessions and boasted to captives of multiple nandez
murders
DISPOSITION: Both executed in N.Y., Mar. 8, 1951
DISPOSITION: All three convinced on one count, 1986; 15 years for William Jr.; 14 years for Caldwel;
Freight Train Riders of America
seven years probation for William Sr.
SEX: ?M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/PC
DATE(S): 1970s–90s VENUE: Western USA VIC-
Elliott, Eric
(1978– );
Gilbert, Lewis Eugene, III
TIMS: “Hundreds”
(1971– )
MO: “Hobo” fraternity blamed by law enforcement SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
for scores of random murders spanning two decades DATE(S): 1994 VENUE: Ohio/MO/Okla. VIC-DISPOSITION: Several professed members convicted TIMS: Four
of individual murders; ROBERT SILVERIA convicted MO: Shot robbery victims including an 86-year-old on multiple counts
man and three women aged 37–79
DISPOSITION: Elliott pleaded guilty on one count and
French, Anne
(?–?) AKA: Shoebox Annie Mayer; received a life prison term without parole in Ohio;
William Donald
(?–?)
Gilbert was executed on one count in Oklahoma, SEX: F/M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
July 2, 2003
DATE(S): 1920s VENUE: Mont./Wash. VICTIMS:
Seven suspected
Espinosa, Felipe
(d. 1863),
Julian
(d. 1863),
Victorio
MO: Mother-son career criminals; killed robbery vic-
(d. 1863)
tims
SEX: 3 M RACE: H TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-
DISPOSITION: Life for Mayer in Wash. as habitual extremist
criminal, 1928; five to 10 years for French in Wash., DATE(S): 1861–63 VENUE: Colo. VICTIMS: 26
1928; both died in prison
MO: Mexican brothers; sought to kill 100 Anglos in revenge for the earlier U.S. war with Mexico
Genna, Angelo
(d. 1925),
James
(d. 1925),
Michael
(d.
DISPOSITION: Victorio lynched by vigilantes; Julian 1925),
Peter
(?–?),
Sam
(?–?),
Tony
(?–?) AKA: and Victorio killed by U.S. Army scout Tom Tobin The Terrible Gennas
SEX: 6M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
Esposito, John
(1971– );
Woodward, Alicia
(1978– ) DATE(S): c. 1910–25 VENUE: Chicago, Ill. VIC-SEX: M/F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
TIMS: Dozens
DATE(S): 1996 VENUE: Ga./Okla. VICTIMS:
MO: Sicilian immigrants; “Black Hand” extortionists Three confessed
and bootleggers; killed extortion victims, rival gang-MO: “Thrill killers” of robbery victims
sters, and lawmen
DISPOSITION: Esposito condemned on one count in DISPOSITION: Angelo murdered by rival thugs, May Ga., 1998; trial pending for Woodward
25, 1925; Mike killed in shoot-out with police, June 13, 1925; James murdered by rivals, July 8, 1925;
Evans, Paul, Jr.
(1980– );
Townsend, Nathan
(1980– ) surviving brothers fled to Sicily, 1925; returned to SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-Chicago after repeal of Prohibition as “legitimate”
specific
businessmen
DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Ala./Miss. VIC-
TIMS: Four suspected
Ghira, Andrea
(?– );
Guido, Giovanni
(?– );
Izzo,
MO: Thrill killers of two teenage girls shot in Jones
Angelo
(?– ) AKA: Monster of Circeo
County, Miss.; prime suspects in a similar murder at SEX: 3 M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Ozark, Ala.
DATE(S): 1975 VENUE: Circeo, Italy VICTIMS:
DISPOSITION: Townsend pleaded no contest and tes-Two+ suspected
tified against Evans; Evans received two life terms in MO: Gang rapists who murdered their female victims Mississippi
DISPOSITION: Convicted; sentences unk.
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Gonzales, Delfina
(?– );
Maria de Jesus
(?– ) 1989, although the court cited “reasonable cause ”
SEX: 2 F RACE: H TYPE: S MOTIVE: CE
to believe they were guilty
DATE(S): 1950s–63 VENUE: Guanajuato, Mexico
VICTIMS: 100+
Hale, Steven
(1977– );
Wessell, Chalk
(d. 1998) MO: Sisters and white-slavers; killed prostitutes, their SEX: 2 M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-babies, and male customers (who were also robbed) specific
DISPOSITION: 40 years each, 1964
DATE(S): 1998 VENUE: Ill./Ind. VICTIMS: Five
MO: Thrill killers who shot victims of both sexes in
Goodman, Keith Eugene
(1959– );
Holland, Tracy
random attacks
Lynn
(1968– );
Mead, Jon Christopher
(1967– ) DISPOSITION: Wessell shot himself prior to arrest, in SEX: 2 M/1 F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
April 1998; Hale received life terms in Illinois (June DATE(S): 1989–90 VENUE: N.Y./Miss. VICTIMS:
1999) and Indiana (March 2000)
Four
MO: Slayers of random holdup victims
Haley, Kevin Bernard
(1964– ),
Reginald
(1960– ) DISPOSITION: Goodman, life + 20 years in N.Y., SEX: 2 M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE:
1990; Mead, life + 20 years in N.Y., 1991; Holland CE/Sex./Sad.
turned state’s evidence; Goodman and Mead con-
victed on one count of homicide Mass., 1992
DATE(S): 1983–84 VENUE: Los Angeles, Calif.
VICTIMS: Seven
Gray, Kevin L.
(1971– );
Moore, Rodney L.
(1965– ) MO: Career criminals, serial rapists, and random slaySEX: 2 M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-
ers of females age 15 to 89
felony
DISPOSITION: Life + 60 years for Reginald, 1987; DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Washington, D.C. VIC-Kevin condemned, 1988
TIMS: 29
MO: Drug dealers who murdered competitors and per-Halstead, Dennis (1955– );
Kogut, John
(1964– ); sonal enemies
Restivo, John
(1959– )
DISPOSITION: Both convicted in January 2003, Gray SEX: 3 M
RACE: W
TYPE: T
MOTIVE:
on 19 counts of murder, Moore on 10; both con-
Sex./CE
demned
DATE(S): 1984–85 VENUE: Long Island, N.Y.