A California native, Chase struggled with mental health issues all his life. FOLLOW. Known as "The Soulless"; killed between 6 and at least 15 people starting from the 1990s, including 4 underage brothers; sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. Authorities also released a grainy still image of a person of interest, dressed all in black and wearing a black cap, who appeared in videos from several of the crime scenes. Robbed and killed people in several Polish voivodeships, mainly owners of exchange offices. Bittaker went to trial, but with Norris cooperating as a witness, he was convicted and sentenced to death. Could I get a list of serial killers in California in 1960? Unidentified serial killer(s) who killed at least 15, Known as the "Railroad Killer" because his killings were committed near the railroad tracks he used to traverse the country. Known as "The American Jack the Ripper"; murdered and mutilated three women and one man; Canadian and US authorities also investigated him as a suspect in a total of ten murders, but he died before any of these claims could be confirmed. Known as "The Boxcar Killer"; freight train rider convicted of beating to death fellow transients and confessed to dozens more. ", "And the Killer of Wm. It was widely reported that he had previously been acquitted of the almost identical murder of another sex worker, Sarah Crump, and he was linked to two more murders after his conviction. On June 22, 2012, Hughes was sentenced to death for killing Coleman, Williams and Jackson. The series of killings began in South Los Angeles in the summer of 1985 and continued with some frequency until 1988, when a woman was raped and shot. Under a plea bargain, he was sentenced to 25 years. Jurors also found McGhee guilty of the attempted murder of four other people, including two Los Angeles police officers caught in a predawn ambush in Atwater Village as they chased three other Toonerville gang members. She graduated from Oberlin College, where she earned a double degree in American History and French. Cult members responsible for ritualistic murders, and are suspected in other cases, including suicides. Killed 17 elderly women between 2002 and 2010. He was convicted on Nov. 3, 2011, in three of those deaths: Yvonne Coleman, 15; Verna Patricia Williams, 36; and Deborah Jackson, a.k.a. The Huntington Police have appealed to the public to look through the pictures, which they made public in 2010, and to reach out if they recognize any of the people photographed there. DUNCAN, William Known as "The Baby Faced Killer"; responsible for 10 murders. See, for example: Schayegh, C. "Serial Murder in Tehran: Crime, Science, and the Formation of Modern State and Society in Interwar Iran". Killed at least 13 women between 30 October 1975 and 17 November 1980. Career criminal who, following a jail escape in 1998, killed seven people during robberies. Known as the "Psycopath of Meiggs". Killed mainly women he considered unfaithful to their husbands, sometimes the children accompanying them too; killed himself before he could be sentenced. Charlene Gallego was released July 1997. Oct. 6, 2022 Updated 2:36 PM PT. On Sept. 13, 1978, a woman named Cheryl Bradshaw appeared on an episode of The Dating Game, a matchmaking TV show that introduced single women to eligible bachelors. Finally imprisoned for life, killed a cellmate in 2010. She lived to describe her attacker as a black man in his 20s, 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 10, about 160 pounds, soft-spoken and articulate, with neatly trimmed hair and a pockmarked face. Known as "The Trailside Killer"; murdered women on San Francisco-area hiking trails between 1979 and 1981. Stone, who was convicted of the 1996 double murder of Lin and Megan Russell, is suspected of two other murders. With the majority of his nefarious actions taking place in southern California, Kraft's M.O. As a killer, Alcala employed a particularly devious ruse. Not only did Chase shoot, stab, and disembowel Wallins, but he also used a yogurt cup to drink her blood. He arrived carrying one victim's severed breast in his pocket. He was caught when an eyewitness to his last murder saw he had a parking ticket on his car. Slit the throats of three confirmed victims before dumping the bodies in wells. CARPENTER, Herbert In many cases, the exact number of victims assigned to a serial killer is not known, and even if that person is convicted of a few, there can be the possibility that they killed many more. A serial killer may have ambushed five men in central California separately in recent months, shooting them to death alone in the dark, and police are baffled as to why the victims were targeted. Transient baby-sitter who strangled children in her care. This page is not available in other languages. Within a year of his release, he raped and murdered two children in 1972. Robbed 22 stores in several Chinese provinces, killing 28 people in the process. For the first year of his murder activity, he worked as an informant for the FBI, which both paid him and protected him from facing justice over some of his fraud schemes. Described in his personal diary how he killed 11 men who were alcoholics and tramps. Described by survivors as a small, agile man, the Golden State Killer would break into his victims' homes - often those of married couples - and subdue the male while assaulting the female. 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On Jan. 23, 1978, Chase broke into the home of Teresa Wallin, a pregnant 22-year-old whod left her door unlocked. Known as "The Classified Ad Rapist"; killed 10 women in Tampa Bay, Florida in 1984. Then murdered two acquaintances before taking two others hostage and committing suicide. Suspected of killing a further three to nine girls and young women in the 1970s. Killed people out of personal hostility; also raped two young girls; sentenced to life imprisonment. In June, 1979, Bittaker and Norris drove into the San Gabriel mountains in their silver cargo van, which they nicknamed Murder Mac. They found a barely visible fire road blocked by a padlocked gate. Berkowitz received 6 life sentences. Known as The Cleveland Strangler, he was convicted of killing 11 women between 2007 and 2009, and is suspected in another series of murders in the 1980s, with the two sets of killings separated by a 15-year stint in prison. Dubbed the "Happy Face Killer", Jesperson was convicted of killing eight women by strangulation. And the Murder of Baby Elaina Dr. Phil", "Genette Tate's father tells ITV News: Robert Black's death means I will never be able to grieve for my daughter", "Mutilasi, Baekuni Lebih Keji, Ryan Henyansah Lebih Rumit", "Criminal investigation. He claimed to have murdered 62 people, because he did not know that two of his victims had survived; he stated that his goal was becoming Russia's most prolific serial killer. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for 11 murders, and attempted suicide while incarcerated. Escaped from prison several times and was declared a ", Killed prostitutes in the "Skid Row" area of E. Sprague Avenue in. Believed to have killed over 80 women in multiple states, in 1982 Watts accepted a plea bargain in, Norwegian-born murder-for-profit killer who murdered her suitors and relatives in Indiana. California serial killer kept 'List of Ten' rape diary and 'trophy' pics of his victims. Rodrigues Filho claimed to have killed over 100 victims, 47 of them inmates. Although he has had only 8 confirmed victims, he is currently being investigated for 20 more, which, if confirmed, would turn him into the most murderous serial killer in Chilean history. Found insane and interned in a mental hospital. Sentenced to imprisonment for life. They stuck an ice pick in the ear of their second victim, bashed a third with a sledgehammer, and inserted pliers into the genitalia and rectum of another. Execution-style killing of six persons, including a 10-month-old baby at a house where a search warrant had been executed one week earlier as part of a drug investigation, Mass shooting at a dance studio following Lunar New Year celebration on nearby street, Mass shooting/workplace violence at two farms, Mass shooting at a rented home in wealthy neighborhood killed three people and wounded four others, Known as the "Gorilla Man", the first serial killer in USA to receive widespread media attention, Series of abductions and murders committed by a 19-year-old farmer, his mother, and his nephew, Serial killer also known as the Rubber Ball Strangler, Serial killer and child molester, a list of men believed to be victims was found in his trunk, Killed three couples and a cab driver and wrote 15 letter to local newspapers, including cryptograms and clues, Serial killer sometimes known as "The Dating Game Killer" because he won an episode of, Confessed to murdering 93 women, most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, Mexican serial killer who was convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farm workers found buried in shallow graves in peach orchards along the Feather River in Sutter County, Known as the "Scorecard Killer", raped and murdered at least 16 young men, Female hitchhikers found nude in rural areas of Sonoma and Santa Rosa Counties, Racially-motivated attacks a group of four black serial killers, Unidentified serial killer responsible for who sketched his male victims before having sex and killing them, Serial killer known as "The Riverside Prostitute Killer" and "The Lake Elsinore Killer", Homicides of young women and girls by a suspected serial killer known in media as the "San Mateo Slasher", Convicted of murdering two wives and his adoptive mother. Seduced, raped and then killed women in his home; sentenced to life imprisonment. He had raped and tortured homeless children, mostly boys aged 10 to 14 years old, aboard the trains between. James CODDINGTON, Frederick He was convicted of 16 murders and is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Sentenced to death. Existence (and probable but not proven identity) discovered more than 100 years after the murders, by analysis of contemporary records, showing a markedly common modus operandi for many previously unconnected murders. We dont have any video of anybody holding any gun or actually committing a crime, Silva said in a phone interview on Monday. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Lonnie Franklin Jr. answers questions from the witness stand in January 2014. Though Alcala died on death row in 2021, the true breadth of his crimes may never be known. He was arrested in December 1999 after sending a letter to a newspaper, and was set to be executed in the manner described by the judge who stated, "You will be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children you killed, Your body will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children. He died while on death row in 2021. MORITA, Joseph Bernard Sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole for 175 years. Which State has Produced the Most Serial Killers? Mom Drove Wife and Kids off Cliff, the 'Hart Family Murders' Remain Chilling", "Widely respected ex-police chief is gunned down; killer commits suicide", "3 Slain at Folsom Prison In Savage Fight to Escape; Guard and Two Felons Die, Warden and Two Aides Stabbed Tower Gunfire Foils The Break of Seven Men", "Warden, Guard Stabbed In Folsom Riot, Fight To Live; Three Are Slain", "The Story of Theodore L. Newton, Jr. and George F. 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Charged with five murders originally, this was lowered to just one following her admission of guilt, and was found guilty of second degree murder. The GSK also had an eeriehabit of prank calling his victims if they survived the nightmare he imposed on them. Bonin and three accomplices are known to have murdered a minimum of 21 youths aged between 12 and 19 in and around Los Angeles. I read a bunch of bodies have popped up in the last 14 months. He used gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), a date rape drug, adding it to drinks given to his victims, raped them, and murdered four of them in his flat in Barking, east London. Murderpedia has thousands of hours of work behind it. Sentenced to life imprisonment. At age 15, he confessed to murdering his grandparents and served six years as a criminally insane juvenile. The boy was wearing only a t-shirt, socks, and shoes. Poisoned and drowned four women, but suspected of killing 18 in total. 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Spray-painted pentagrams a distinctive Satanist symbol were also found on the walls of some victims homes. Supposedly murdered prostitutes and exotic dancers; his first victim was Marcia King, who was identified in 2018. Killed clients with expensive cars in their autoshop in order to sell them; sentenced to life imprisonment. A tip from an arrested car thief led police to Bonin. He later confessed to another murder and implicated Mulcahy in his crimes, leading to his conviction. 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another man was earlier wrongfully convicted for his crimes, Respiratory therapist at Adventist Health Glendale, killed patients by injecting a paralytic drug inducing cardiac and respiratory arrest, known as Angel of Death, Known as the "Happy Face Killer" because he drew smiley faces on his many letters to the media and authorities, Serial killer known as The Hollywood Ripper, Long-haul driver murdered and dismembered three sex workers and a hitchhiker, Killings of one man and four women, some of the victims either engaged in prostitution or were drug addicts, Serial killer who killed women near Yosemite, Director of 59 silent films shot in the back at his apartment, unsolved, subject of frenzy of sensationalist press coverage, 12-year-old girl abducted and murdered, billed as "the most horrible crime of the 1920s" by the 'Los Angeles Times, Son of department store owner kidnapped and murdered, perpetrators then lynched, Murder of Jos Gallardo Daz, who was discovered unconscious and dying near a swimming hole, Murdered widow Mabel Monohan in home burglary; Graham later depicted in, Unsolved murder and mutilation of 22-year-old woman, Mobster murdered in his Beverly Hills home, shot through window with .30 caliber military M1 carbine, Woman hired hitman to kill her daughter-in-law; last woman executed in California, Former child star shot and killed trying to collect a $50 debt, Actress murdered six days after assassination of President Kennedy, prompting, R&B singer shot and killed by motel manager, 18-year-old college freshman stabbed and slashed to death on grounds of Riverside City College, Assassination at the Ambassador Hotel by Palestinian, Actor murdered by brothers hired for sexual services, Superintendent of Oakland school district assassinated by the, Actor stabbed over 100 times by man he met in a gay bar, High school senior attended a beer party and was discovered the next day hanging from a chain-link fence in a park near the site of the party, case solved 30 years later with DNA evidence, Murdered drug dealer Kim LeValley, stabbing him 26 times, later escaped from prison and was on FBI's 10 most wanted list, 14-year-old honor roll student raped and murdered by a convicted sex offender and dumped in the, Playboy Playmate and actress murdered by her estranged husband and manager, 15-year-old girl abducted and dragged to an orange grove where she was raped and strangled, Shot and killed in an altercation with his father, UC Berkeley student killed by her boyfriend, Television director and director was killed with a baseball bat by his Salvadoran housekeeper, she was found not guilty in light of testimony of physical abuse by Wallerstein, Murder of 17-year-old girl by her former best friends and rivals, Woman beaten and shot by female LAPD officer, Murder of actress by 19-year-old obsessed fan/stalker, Gay pornographic actor (stage name Billy London) murdered and placed in dumpster with head and feet in plastic bags, Cambodian refugee and gang member killed in a gang shooting in a pool hall, incident triggered a chain reaction of gang violence, 12-year-old kidnapped during a slumber party and later strangled by, Sexually trafficked at age 16, she shot and killed the surrogate father who was trafficking her, later became an anti-trafficking activist, Three-year-old girl killed by gang gunfire; President, Academy Award winning actor murdered in robbery outside his house, Actor/comedian shot by his wife as he slept, 18-year-old aspiring actress murdered on way home from shooting a, Fatal shooting of 15-year-old African-American girl by Korean-American convenience store owner, Five-year-old girl abducted from her home and murdered, Murder of pregnant woman by her husband, Scott Peterson, Half-sister and personal assistant to Venus and Serena Williams killed in gang shooting in Compton, Actress who played gang member Graciela on TV series, Journalist shot by member of a crime syndicate he was investigating for a story, 17-year-old high school player shot by two Hispanic men while returning home from Beverly Center, Former Sunday school teacher kidnapped, raped, and murdered eight-year-old girl, Hollywood publicist shot and killed while driving home as part of a random robbery, leader of neo-Nazis shot to death by his 10-year-old son, Nursing student murdered by a woman who believed Le had an affair with her boyfriend, Body recovered from a water tank after a stay at the Cecil Hotel, later the subject of the Netflix series. Rodney Alcala in 2010. All four victims were shot dead seemingly at random. The Most Notorious Serial Killers in U.S. History and Why - Newsweek This list may not reflect recent changes. Marcus Wesson was found guilty in 2005 of killing nine of his children in Fresno. 11 Currently Active Serial Killers: Unsolved Cases in 2023, The Best True Crime And Serial Killer Documentaries Worth Binge Watching In 2022, The World's Most Famous Serial Killers And Murderers, Night Stalker: The Life And Death Of Richard Ramirez, Ed Gein: The Gruesome True Story that Inspired The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The 16 Scariest Serial Killers In California's History - Ranker Sentenced to imprisonment for life. Mondria was considered extremely violent and aggressive. Found not guilty by reason of insanity and interned in a mental institution until her death in 1938. He was executed by firing squad in 1923. Police said the victims were walking alone in a dark area of Stockton, California. Raped and killed 14 children in, Known as the "Velsk Chikatilo"; killed female hitchhikers in the town of, Homeless cannibal known as "The People Eater" (El Comegente) and "The, Was responsible for the murders of 14 prostitutes in Beijing's, Known at the "Shivering Creature"; robbed and killed elderly people around the Moscow Oblast and. HERRERA RODRIGUEZ, Eric Christopher Suspected of poisoning his eight wives and one man with sedative-laced, This page was last edited on 29 July 2023, at 12:56. A criminologist. Claimed to have killed 87 patients starting at age 18. The fifth column states the number of possible victims the killer could have murdered. MORSE, Michael "French nurse jailed in 6 deaths." Known as the "Railway Rapists". California serial killers, seven stand out as particularly vicious. Died of. Number of victims Moor himself said he had claimed. Sentenced to death for the murders of two people; confessed to 44 other murders; 11 were substantiated and he was suspected in the others. Hanged in 1958 after being convicted of seven murders at a sensational trial in Glasgow, may have committed two more.

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