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Authors: Michael Newton
Tags: #True Crime, #Murder, #General, #Serial Killers
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1979–82
VENUE: Ohio
VICTIMS:
DATE(S): 1980 VENUE: Buffalo, N.Y. VICTIMS:
Eight
Two
MO: Four young couples killed while out on dates MO: Black taxi drivers found with hearts excised DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER sus-
pected
Unknown
AKA: Original Nightstalker
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:
Unknown
Sex./Sad.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1979–84 VENUE: Orange and Ventura
DATE(S): 1980–81 VENUE: Jesup, Ga. VICTIMS:
Counties, Calif. VICTIMS: 10
Four
MO: Victims, usually couples, bludgeoned during MO: Unexplained deaths of half-siblings with same home invasions; female victims raped; crimes linked father
by DNA evidence
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: GC-
DATE(S): 1980–82 VENUE: Atlanta, Ga. VIC-
cult
TIMS: Seven+
DATE(S): 1980s VENUE: Yunguyo, Peru VIC-
MO: Black women stabbed repeatedly after sex
TIMS: “Numerous”
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Seasonal human sacrifices; victims painted/mutilated
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:
Sex./Sad.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1980–83 VENUE: Adelaide, Australia
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:
VICTIMS: Six
Sex./Sad.
MO: Sex slayer of teenage males; two victims dismem-DATE(S): 1980 VENUE: Detroit, Mich. VICTIMS:
bered
18
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
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Unknown
AKA: I-10 Killer
DATE(S): early 1980s VENUE: Lahore, Pakistan
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
VICTIMS: 10
DATE(S): 1980–90 VENUE: United States VICTIMS: MO: Night watchmen killed with lethal injections 20
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Female prostitutes and hitchhikers buried in shallow graves along Interstate Highway 10, between
Unknown
California and Florida
SEX: Unk.
RACE: Unk.
TYPE: N
MOTIVE: Unk.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; police suspect long-haul DATE(S): 1981–86 VENUE: Utah/Pa./Conn. VIC-trucker
TIMS: Three
MO: Young men shot; genitals severed and missing
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1980–98 VENUE: County Wicklow, Ire-
Unknown
land VICTIMS: Six to nine
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
MO: Six women aged 17–26 missing within a 30-mile DATE(S): 1981–1999 VENUE: Ohio/Pa. VICTIMS:
area, 1995–98; police theorize links to three rape-27
murders of women aged 23–30 in same region
MO: Female prostitutes, 21 black and six white, killed between 1980 and 1992.
and dumped nude along isolated roads between
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Geauga County, Ohio, and Crawford County, Pa.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1981 VENUE: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. VIC-
DATE(S): 1982 VENUE: Hollywood, Calif. VIC-
TIMS: Three
TIMS: Two
MO: Murder of black females, age 13–30; at least one MO: Teenage boys strangled, dumped beside Holly-bludgeoned
wood Freeway
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1981 VENUE: Oklahoma City, Ok. VIC-
DATE(S): 1980s–2002 VENUE: Northwest Territo-
TIMS: Four
ries, Canada VICTIMS: 78
MO: Girls age 13–16 vanished from Okla. State Fair MO: Murdered and missing women, cases jointly
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
investigated by Project Kare
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1981–82 VENUE: Richland, Ga. VIC-
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
TIMS: Three
DATE(S): 1982 VENUE: Toronto, Canada VIC-
MO: Teenage girls abducted/killed by nocturnal home TIMS: Four
invader
MO: Rape-slayer of women age 19–38
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1981–83 VENUE: Salem, Ore. VICTIMS:
DATE(S): 1982 VENUE: New York City VICTIMS:
Six
Five
MO: Random murders of females age nine to 32; at MO: Women age 21–41 strangled; at least one raped least three shot
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Undisclosed TYPE: T MOTIVE:
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unk.
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DATE(S): 1982 VENUE: Los Angeles, Calif. VIC-
DATE(S): 1983–84 VENUE: New York City VIC-
TIMS: Two killed
TIMS: Seven
MO: Random street shootings
MO: Adult males shot with same weapon in/around DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Pennsylvania Railroad Station in apparently random attacks
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1982–83 VENUE: Battle Creek, Mich.
Unknown
VICTIMS: Three
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
MO: Young women murdered; police suspect Satanists DATE(S): 1983–84 VENUE: Portland, Ore. VIC-DISPOSITION: Unsolved
TIMS: Four
MO: Stalker of black prostitutes
Unknown
AKA: Prostitute Hunter
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:
Sex./Sad.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1982–83 VENUE: Lisbon, Portugal VIC-
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.?
TIMS: Two
DATE(S): 1983–91 VENUE: San Francisco area
MO: Torture-slayer of young female prostitutes VICTIMS: Five
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Girls age four to 13 abducted and murdered DISPOSITION: Unsolved (suspect named, but not
Unknown
AKA: Mad Killers of Brabant
charged)
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-
Unknown
AKA: Great Basin Killer
felony
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE:
DATE(S): 1982–85 VENUE: Brabant, Belgium VIC-
Sex./Sad.
TIMS: 28
DATE(S): 1983–97 VENUE: Idaho/Nev./Utah/Wyo.
MO: Holdup gang; victims killed in supermarket rob-VICTIMS: “At least nine”
beries
MO: Female motorists and hitchhikers stripped, raped, DISPOSITION: Unsolved
and murdered in patterns of “overkill”; several shot repeatedly with small-caliber firearms; many corpses
Unknown
ritually posed near highways
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DATE(S): 1982–89 VENUE: N.Mex./Mnt./Okla./Ala.
VICTIMS: Four
Unknown
MO: Roman Catholic priests abducted and murdered SEX: Unk.
RACE: Unk.
TYPE: T
MOTIVE:
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unk.
DATE(S): 1983–2004 VENUE: Edmonton, Canada
Unknown
VICTIMS: 18+
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
MO: Female prostitutes murdered and missing
DATE(S): 1982–92 VENUE: Ontario, Canada VIC-
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
TIMS: Six
MO: Women killed, dumped in rural lover’s lanes
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1984–85 VENUE: Ft. Worth, Tex. VIC-
Unknown
TIMS: Five
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.?
MO: Females age 15–23 abducted/killed; at least one DATE(S): 1983–84 VENUE: Alameda County, Calif.
shot
VICTIMS: Four
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Teenage girls murdered
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
(Prince Georges Hospital)
SEX: Unk.
RACE: Unk.
TYPE: S
MOTIVE:
Unknown
AKA: .25-caliber Killer; Penn Station Unk.
Sniper
DATE(S): 1984–85 VENUE: Prince Georges County, SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Md. VICTIMS: 22–50+
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MO: Patients killed with potassium injections
DATE(S): 1985 VENUE: New York City VICTIMS:
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; nurse Jane Bolding con-
Two
fessed one murder, then recanted; charges dismissed MO: Older women killed with ax in hotel rooms
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk.
RACE: Unk.
TYPE: T
MOTIVE:
Unknown
Unk.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1984–85 VENUE: El Paso, Tex. VIC-
DATE(S): 1985–86 VENUE: Queens, N.Y. VIC-
TIMS: Three
TIMS: Three
MO: Taxi drivers killed (one) or missing (two) MO: Hispanic gay males robbed/beaten/strangled in DISPOSITION: Unsolved
their homes
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1984–85 VENUE: Montreal, Canada
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
VICTIMS: Four
DATE(S): 1985–86 VENUE: Salt Lake City, Utah
MO: Boys age four to 12 molested, then stabbed, VICTIMS: Three
beaten, or drowned
MO: Women in their 20s killed stabbed and shot DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
(Gilmore Lane Convalescent Hospital)
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1984–85 VENUE: Oroville, Calif. VIC-
DATE(S): 1985–86 VENUE: Honolulu, Hawaii
TIMS: 49 suspected
VICTIMS: 5
MO: “Suspicious” deaths of elderly patients
MO: Rape-strangler of women
DISPOSITION: Results of investigation unpublished; DISPOSITION: Unsolved
no charges
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1985–87 VENUE: British
DATE(S): 1984–91 VENUE: Galveston County, Tex.
Columbia/Alberta, Canada VICTIMS: Five
VICTIMS: Six
MO: Murders of female prostitutes and strippers MO: Females aged 16–23 beaten, strangled, and
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
dumped within a one-mile radius
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1985–88 VENUE: San Diego, Calif. VIC-
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
TIMS: 10+
DATE(S): 1984–92 VENUE: Ark./Pa./Tenn./Miss./Ky.
MO: Slayer of females age 19–36, mostly strangled VICTIMS: Six to 12
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; speculative link to “GREEN
MO: Redheaded women strangled/suffocated, dumped RIVER KILLER”
along highways
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.?
Unknown
AKA: Bergie Killings
DATE(S): 1985–90 VENUE: Inkster, Mich. VIC-
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
TIMS: Six
DATE(S): Mid-1980s VENUE: Cape Town, South
MO: Black female prostitutes murdered
Africa VICTIMS: Three+
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Male vagrants shot in alleys with same pistol DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
AKA: Snohomish Valley Killer
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1985–93 VENUE: Snohomish County,
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Wash. VICTIMS: 41 suspected
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MO: Young women dead and missing, including many
Unknown
AKA: Twin Cities Killer
prostitutes
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; link to “GREEN RIVER” case Sex./Sad.
possible
DATE(S): 1986–94 VENUE: Minneapolis/St. Paul,
Minn. VICTIMS: 34
Unknown
MO: Murders of women, mostly prostitutes; some SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
mutilated
DATE(S): 1985–96 VENUE: Atlanta, Ga. VIC-
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
TIMS: 10
MO: Female prostitutes murdered
Unknown
AKA: Last Call Killer
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
DATE(S): 1986–94 VENUE: New York City VIC-
Unknown
AKA: Negev Desert Psychopath
TIMS: Six
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
MO: Gay men aged 26–57 lured from New York City DATE(S): 1985–97 VENUE: Negev Desert, Israel