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Md. VICTIMS: Two

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: DNA evidence links murders of females aged 37

and 14, killed five years apart at Odenton and
Unknown

Millersville; one victim raped and stabbed

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Brisbane, Australia VIC-

TIMS: Four

Unknown

MO: Four females missing over four months, ages nine SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

to adult

DATE(S): 1998–99 VENUE: Rockhampton, Australia DISPOSITION: Unsolved

VICTIMS: Four

MO: Female victims aged 9–39, missing and presumed
Unknown

dead in four cases

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Sex./Sad.

DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Bangkok, Thailand VIC-

Unknown

TIMS: Four

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

MO: Women murdered; three found wrapped in plastic DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Buffalo, N.Y. VICTIMS:

bags, one in river; police blame “foreign serial killer”

Two

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: Female prostitutes aged 32 and 39 stabbed and strangled on consecutive February days in the same
Unknown

West Side neighborhood

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Kent, England VICTIMS:

Three

Unknown

MO: Police link the double murder of a man and SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

woman, killed with a shotgun in their Kemsing

DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Itabuna, Brazil VICTIMS:

home, to the earlier slaying of a man in Durham Four

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

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missing, and one survivor; police see possible link to SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

two similar murders on Oahu in 1999

DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Bahia State, Brazil VIC-

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

TIMS: Four

MO: Women aged 19–36 bound, raped, stabbed

Unknown

repeatedly

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Washington, D.C.

VICTIMS: Two

Unknown

MO: Five taxi drivers shot in robberies, two fatally SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Calif./Nev. VIC-

TIMS: Two

Unknown

MO: Seven-year-old girls murdered in Vallejo, Calif., SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

and Las Vegas, Nev.; eight-year-old girl escaped kid-DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Baton Rouge, La.

napper in Vallejo, Aug. 2000

VICTIMS: Five

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: Black prostitutes murdered, bodies discarded in public places.

Unknown

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Baton Rouge, La.

Unknown

VICTIMS: Five

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC

MO: Black women aged 33–44 killed and dumped

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Evry, France VIC-

TIMS: 20–40

around town; police withhold cause of death

MO: “Suspicious” deaths at a medical clinic, described DISPOSITION: Unsolved; suspect charged in a sixth by officials in April 2001 as “killing for convenience similar case reportedly cleared in the other five by overworked staff”

DISPOSITION: No suspects publicly identified

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: GC

Unknown

alleged

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: London, England

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Lipetsk, Russia

VICTIMS: Two

VICTIMS: 14

MO: Black men from the same family hanged in

MO: Women raped, beaten, and stabbed, bodies

apparent suicides, later deemed racist murders; dumped in nearby forest

both had been harassed by the neo-Nazi group

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Combat 18

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

Unknown

DATE(S): 1999–2001 VENUE: Moscow, Russia

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

VICTIMS: Eight

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: London, England

MO: Gay men stabbed repeatedly; victims include four VICTIMS: Three

Russians and four tourists

MO: Police blame one offender for the disappearance DISPOSITION: Unsolved

of three women aged 19–27 apparently snatched

from the street during an 18-month period; one vic-Unknown AKA: River Man

tim was Vietnamese, one Nigerian, and one Polish SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 1999–2001 VENUE: Newlands East, South Africa VICTIMS: 13

Unknown

MO: Rape-murders of women, all dumped in the Umh-SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

langeni River

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Hawaii VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Three to five

MO: White females aged 38–52 raped and stabbed
Unknown

repeatedly on Kaua’i; victims include two dead, one SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

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DATE(S): 1999–2002 VENUE: Lawton, Okla. VIC-

Unknown

TIMS: Four

SEX: Unk.

RACE: Unk.

TYPE: T

MOTIVE:

MO: Women aged 25–29 killed and dumped in creeks Unk.

or ditches

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Granite City, Ill. VIC-

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

TIMS: Two

MO: 21-year-old woman and 46-year-old man found
Unknown

dead in same approximate location over a two-day SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

span in August; both classified as homicides with DATE(S): 1999–2003 VENUE: Dade County, Fla.

undetermined cause of death

VICTIMS: 13

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: Murders of female prostitutes aged 21–35

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:

Unknown

Sex./Sad.

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Budapest, Hungary VIC-

DATE(S): 1999–2004 VENUE:

TIMS: Four

Ark./La./Miss./Okla./Tenn./Tex. VICTIMS: 10

MO: Middle-aged prostitutes stabbed

MO: Truckstop prostitutes murdered and dumped

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

along interstate highways

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

Unknown

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Baton Rouge, La. VIC-

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

TIMS: Six

DATE(S): 1999–2004 VENUE: Lubbock, Tex. VIC-

MO: Rape-murders of six women in three months; at TIMS: Three

least three victims were prostitutes

MO: Female prostitutes fatally beaten; two were DISPOSITION: Unsolved

friends and former roommates

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

Unknown

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Baia Mare, Romania VIC-

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.

TIMS: Seven

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Ashfield, Australia VIC-

MO: Homeless transients killed during July and TIMS: 16 suspected

August; six bludgeoned, one drowned

MO: “Baffling” deaths of 16 patients at Allara Nursing DISPOSITION: Suspect Grigore Bota reportedly con-Home in two months

fessed two murders in Aug. 2000; disposition of case DISPOSITION: Unsolved; coroner’s report in May unknown

2003 found “no explanation”

Unknown

Unknown

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Cape Town, South Africa

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Atlanta, Ga. VICTIMS:

VICTIMS: Six

Four

MO: Five children murdered and one missing in the MO: Victims shot with same gun along Martin Luther Cape Flats district within a month; two girls disKing, Jr., Drive during summer months

membered

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: West Philadelphia, Pa.

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Denver, Colo. VICTIMS:

VICTIMS: Five

Seven

MO: Victims of both genders killed and burned in one MO: Homeless men beaten to death in Lower Down-neighborhood during a five-month period

town district

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

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MO: Rape-murders of black women aged 30–40

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Norway/Sweden VIC-

TIMS: Three

Unknown
AKA: The Ripper

MO: Two girls aged eight and 10 stabbed to death at a SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:

lake near Kristiansand, Norway, with evidence of Sex./Sad.

molestation; three knives found at scene; one week DATE(S): 2000–01 VENUE: San José, Costa Rica

later, a similar attack on several girls at Orrefors, VICTIMS: Two

Sweden, killed one

MO: Teenage female prostitutes dismembered, dumped DISPOSITION: Unsolved

in or near the Agres River

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; considered unrelated to “EL

Unknown

PSIC ÓPATA”

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/CE

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Houston, Tex. VICTIMS:

Unknown

Six

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

MO: Immigrant convenience store clerks robbed/shot DATE(S): 2000–01 VENUE: Broward and Dade

in apparent hate crimes; victims included two Indi-Counties, Fla. VICTIMS: Four

ans, two Pakistanis, two Lebanese, and two Viet-MO: Female prostitutes found nude in luggage left namese

beside highways or canals

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Nairobi, Kenya VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 2000–01 VENUE: East St. Louis, Ill.

Three

VICTIMS: 13

MO: Girls, aged 6–10, kidnapped and killed in local MO: Black female prostitutes and addicts murdered, slum neighborhood; rumors (denounced by United several covered with plastic trash bags

Nations) claim 30–50 victims in 12 months; lynch DISPOSITION: Unsolved

mobs killed three suspects in October 2000

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; true number of victims

Unknown

uncertain

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 2000–01 VENUE: Dade County, Fla.

Unknown

VICTIMS: Two or three

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

MO: Two female prostitutes stabbed repeatedly and DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Houston, Tex. VICTIMS: 2

dumped in local waterways; a third prostitute stran-MO: Two victims named Mary Morris killed three days gled and left on land may be linked

apart; both left in their cars, parked at isolated sites DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; police blame “a clumsy hit man”

Unknown

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

Unknown

DATE(S): 2000–02 VENUE: Norwich, England

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.

VICTIMS: Four

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Mbabane, Swaziland VIC-

MO: Three female prostitutes strangled, one missing TIMS: Five

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: Corpses found buries at an abandoned homestead in July; three identified as an Indian businessman
Unknown

and his children, missing for a month; police call it SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:

the work of a serial killer

Sex./Sad.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 2000–04 VENUE: Chihuahua City, Mexico VICTIMS: 16

Unknown

MO: Ten teenage females raped and strangled, with at SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

least six others missing

DATE(S): 2000 VENUE: Durban, South Africa

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; some observers suspect a VICTIMS: Five

link to ongoing murders in CIUDAD JU ÁREZ

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Unknown

Unknown

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 2000–04 VENUE: Peoria, Ill. VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 2001 VENUE: Lombata, Swaziland VIC-

Six

TIMS: 24–33

MO: Rape-slayer of black female prostitutes

MO: Women and children found in shallow graves out-DISPOSITION: Unsolved

side town; official reports differ on the total number of victims

Unknown
AKA: Blanco

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T/N MOTIVE:

PC/Sex.

Unknown

DATE(S): 2001 VENUE: Guatemala City, Guatemala SEX: Unk.

RACE: Unk.

TYPE: N