The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (153 page)
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Authors: Michael Newton
Tags: #True Crime, #Murder, #General, #Serial Killers
Seven
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
MO: Blacks stabbed by apparent racist killer
DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Miami, Fla. VICTIMS:
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
31
MO: Black prostitutes murdered
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: 2 M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1991 VENUE: Porterville, Calif. VIC-
Unknown
AKA: Monster of the SS 10
TIMS: Three
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
MO: Deliberate hit-and-run attacks on joggers and DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Piedmont region, Italy
bicyclists
VICTIMS: Seven
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Women stabbed/strangled along highway
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
AKA: South-Side Rapist
DATE(S): 1991 VENUE: Cleveland, Ohio VIC-
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
TIMS: Four
DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: St. Louis, Mo. VICTIMS:
MO: Arab-American grocers killed in their stores Five to 10 (reports vary)
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Rape-slayer of women
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk.
RACE: Unk.
TYPE: N
MOTIVE:
Unknown
Sad.
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1991 VENUE:
DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Idaho/Utah/Nev./Wyo.
Ohio/Calif./Va./Md./Pa./Canada VICTIMS: “At
VICTIMS: Eight
least nine”
MO: “Similar” or “identical” murders of women
MO: Victims burned alive in cars; details withheld by DISPOSITION: Unsolved
police
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Aosta, Italy VICTIMS:
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
“Several”
DATE(S): 1991–92 VENUE: Union County, N.J.
MO: Female prostitutes murdered
VICTIMS: Eight
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Black women strangled
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Turin, Italy VICTIMS:
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.?
“Numerous”
DATE(S): 1991–92 VENUE: Detroit, Mich. VIC-
MO: Slayer of gay men
TIMS: Nine
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Black, drug-addicted prostitutes murdered
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1990s VENUE: Turin, Italy VICTIMS:
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
“Several”
DATE(S): 1991–92 VENUE: Macon, Ga. VIC-
MO: Elderly victims stabbed, one while riding city TIMS: Five
bus
MO: Lust killer of women
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
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Appendix C: Unresolved Cases
Unknown
Unknown
AKA: “Black Magic Murders”
SEX: Unk.
RACE: Unk.
TYPE: T
MOTIVE:
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: GC
Unk.
suspected
DATE(S): 1991–93 VENUE: Marion County, Fla.
DATE(S): 1991–2002 VENUE: Sáo Luís, Brazil
VICTIMS: 18
VICTIMS: 22
MO: Women killed, dumped in remote areas
MO: Boys castrated, mutilated, sometimes drained of DISPOSITION: Unsolved
blood
DISPOSITION: Conviction of two men in separate
Unknown
cases failed to stop the killing; human sacrifice sus-SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
pected but unverified
DATE(S): 1991–93 VENUE: Calgary, Canada VIC-
TIMS: Five
Unknown
(Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital) MO: Female victims aged 16–29 bludgeoned and
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.
stabbed, dumped on city outskirts; four were prosti-DATE(S): 1992 VENUE: Columbia, Mo. VICTIMS:
tutes
48
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Suspicious deaths of male patients, allegedly injected with muscle relaxants
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; nurse Richard Allen
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Williams charged with 10 counts of murder in June DATE(S): 1991–94 VENUE: Kansas City, Mo. VIC-2002; exonerated 14 months later when lab tests TIMS: 10
proved inaccurate
MO: Female victims dumped in Missouri River,
“many” with legs severed
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1992 VENUE: Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Unknown
VICTIMS: 8
SEX: Unk.
RACE: Unk.
TYPE: T
MOTIVE:
MO: Lust killer of women; details withheld by police Unk.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DATE(S): 1991–94 VENUE: Bridgeport, Conn.
VICTIMS: Four
Unknown
MO: Adult males dismembered
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DATE(S): 1992–95 VENUE: Portland, Ore. VIC-
TIMS: Two
Unknown
MO: Random shootings wound three, killing two
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DATE(S): 1991–96 VENUE: New Orleans, La.
VICTIMS: 26
Unknown
MO: Women raped, strangled, and dumped in rural SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
areas of several parishes surrounding the city; most DATE(S): 1992–95 VENUE: Denver, Colo. VIC-victims were black prostitutes
TIMS: Four
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; suspect Russell Ellwood, MO: “Ripper” of gay men
once suspected of more than eight murders and
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
charged with two, received a life sentence on one count, Aug. 17, 1999
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
Unknown
DATE(S): 1992–95 VENUE: Chicago, Ill. VIC-
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC
TIMS: Four
DATE(S): 1991–99 VENUE: Columbus, Ohio VIC-
MO: Black men shot in daylight holdups at their TIMS: 13
homes
MO: Police link 16 shootings (13 fatal) in one east-side DISPOSITION: Unsolved
neighborhood; some cases involved robbery and/or drugs
Unknown
AKA: I-70 Killer
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/PC
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DATE(S): 1992–94 VENUE: Ind./Kans./Mo./Tex.
DATE(S): 1992–98 VENUE: Ireland VICTIMS: 12
VICTIMS: Six to 10
MO: Disappearance without a trace of women age MO: Victims shot in petty robberies; all but one female 18–26
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-
DATE(S): 1992/94 VENUE: Milan, Italy VICTIMS:
extremist?
Two
DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Los Angeles, Calif. VIC-
MO: Elderly women, stabbed, left in open fields TIMS: Three
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Street shootings of black/Hispanic males by white stranger
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1992/94 VENUE: Lombardy region, Italy
Unknown
VICTIMS: Two
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
MO: Men dismembered and left in trash bags in Milan DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Warsaw, Poland VIC-and Novara; both victims found on Feb. 17.
TIMS: Three+
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Women bludgeoned in random attacks
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1992–95 VENUE: Houston, Tex. VIC-
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
TIMS: “Several”
DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Chino, Calif. VICTIMS:
MO: Rape-murders of Hispanic females aged 9–21; Five
victims left nude
MO: Black females strangled
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1992–96 VENUE: Charlotte/Mecklenburg, DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Cairo, Ga. VICTIMS:
Va. VICTIMS: Four
MO: Black women dead or missing; task force organized Two
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Store clerks stabbed in robberies
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
AKA: Lisbon Ripper
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE:
Unknown
Sex./Sad.
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1992–97 VENUE: Europe VICTIMS: 18
DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: St. Louis County, Mo.
alleged
VICTIMS: Two
MO: “Nearly identical” murders of prostitutes in five MO: Girls age nine and 10 beaten to death
nations
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Indianapolis, Ind. VIC-
DATE(S): 1992–97 VENUE: Galveston County, Tex.
TIMS: Two
VICTIMS: Four
MO: Taxi drivers shot in apparent robbery attempts MO: Females aged 17–23 missing and presumed mur-DISPOSITION: Unsolved
dered, cars found abandoned
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Waycross, Ga. VICTIMS:
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.
Three
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Appendix C: Unresolved Cases
MO: Teen couple and 40-year-old woman shot with MO: Black women apparently killed at random
.22-cal. weapon
DISPOSITON: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1994 VENUE: Irving, Tex. VICTIMS:
DATE(S): 1993–94 VENUE: Turin, Italy VICTIMS:
Three
Three+
MO: Gay men stabbed
MO: Teenage girls murdered or missing
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1994 VENUE: Gary, Ind. VICTIMS: Five
DATE(S): 1993–94 VENUE: Washington, D.C.
MO: Police report victims killed, then set on fire VICTIMS: 13
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Same pistol used in multiple shootings
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1994–95 VENUE: Jackson, Miss. VIC-
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-drugs
TIMS: Four
DATE(S): 1993–94 VENUE: Indianapolis, Ind.
MO: Prostitutes strangled after sex
VICTIMS: Three
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Police publicly link multiple shootings
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.?
Unknown
AKA:Pomona Strangler
DATE(S): 1994–96 VENUE: Grand Rapids, Mich.
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
VICTIMS: 11
DATE(S): 1993–95 VENUE: Los Angeles County,
MO: Slayings of nine prostitutes and two “Jane Does”
Calif. VICTIMS: Six
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Strangler of female prostitutes
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DATE(S): 1994–97 VENUE: Kent County, Mich.
DATE(S): 1993–95 VENUE: Somerset County, N.J.
VICTIMS: 11
VICTIMS: Five
MO: Lust murders of women, including eight prosti-MO: Female prostitutes murdered
tutes
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
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Unknown
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:
DATE(S): 1993–99 VENUE: England VICTIMS: 14
Sex./Sad.
MO: “Operation Enigma” task force studied 207
DATE(S): 1994–97 VENUE: Maranháo, Brazil
unsolved murders of women from 1986 to 1999,
VICTIMS: Seven
concluding in that four unknown serial killers were MO: Young boys killed, with genital mutilation responsible for “cluster” slayings of 14 women since DISPOSITION: Unsolved
1993 in different parts of England; no further details presently available
Unknown
DISPOSITION: All four cases remain unsolved
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.?
DATE(S): 1994–98 VENUE: Essex County, N.J.
Unknown
VICTIMS: 16
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
MO: Murders of black women age 19–37, mostly pros-DATE(S): 1993–2001 VENUE: Bayview, Calif. VIC-
titutes
TIMS: 50
DISPOSITION: Unsolved