The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (126 page)

Martin, Rhonda Belle
(1907–57)

DISPOSITION: Condemned 1995 for killing one cellSEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-domestic

mate; condemned on second count, 1996

DATES(S): 1934–55 VENUE: Ubly, Mich. VIC-

TIMS: Seven confessed

Mason, David Edwin
(1957–93)

MO: “Black widow” poisoner of husbands, mother, SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/Sad.

children

DATES(S): 1980/82 VENUE: Calif. VICTIMS: Five

DISPOSITION: Executed Oct. 11, 1957

MO: Robbed/bludgeoned elderly women (1980); killed cellmate while awaiting trial

Martino, Alfonso de
(?– )

DISPOSITION: Executed Aug. 24, 1993

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-non-

specific

Matajke, Dorothy
(?– )

DATES(S): 1993–94 VENUE: Frosinone, Italy VIC-

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

TIMS: Four

DATES(S): 1972–86 VENUE: Iowa/Ark. VICTIMS:

MO: Nurse who killed hospital patients with curare Three+

DISPOSITION: Convicted; sentence unknown

MO: Live-in “nurse” who robbed and poisoned elderly clients

Martorano, John
(1941– )

DISPOSITION: Life + 60 years on two counts in Ark., SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE-felony

1987.

DATE(S): 1981–99 VENUE: Mass./Fla./Okla. VIC-

TIMS: 20 confessed

Matenjwa, Elvis
(d. 2004)

MO: Contract killer for Boston’s Winter Hill Gang SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-non-who turned state’s evidence in 1995; pled guilty to specific

10 murders and various lesser charges in October DATE(S): 2003 VENUE: Esikhawini, South Africa

1999; in exchange for testimony, received a 121/2-VICTIMS: Two

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MO: Cannibal slayer of women, arrested when remains
Maturino Resendiz, Angel
(1959– )

of a missing 46-year-old victim were found cooking SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex/CE-at his home

felony

DISPOSITION: Arrested in September 2003, then

DATE(S): 1997–99

VENUE: Tex./Ky./Ill.

released on bail pending further investigation; died VICTIMS: 11

of gastroenteritis at local hospital, Sept. 27, 2004

MO: Mexican national deported from the United

States at least 10 times between 1985 and 1999;
Mateo, Angel
(?– )

traveled widely by train, killing random victims who SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC

lived near railroad lines; identified victims include DATE(S): 1995–96 VENUE: Rochester, N.Y. VIC-six in Texas, two in Florida, two in Illinois, and one TIMS: Four

in Kentucky

MO: Shot male victims, including two drug dealers and DISPOSITION: Received 20-year sentence for burglary two personal enemies

in Miami, 1979; paroled September 1985; con-

DISPOSITION: Condemned on one count, 1999; sendemned on one murder count in Texas, May 22,

tence reduced to life on appeal, August 2004

2000; immunity granted upon confession of two

Florida slayings

Mather, David
(1845–?) AKA: Mysterious Dave SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC/CE

Maudsley, Robert
(1953– )

DATES(S): 1970s–80s VENUE: Kans./N. Mex./Tex.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/PC

VICTIMS: 14+

DATE(S): 1974–78 VENUE: England VICTIMS:

MO: Outlaw, gunfighter, and occasional lawman

Four

DISPOSITION: Allegedly returned to native Canada, MO: Killed and robbed a gay man in London for drug late 1880s

money, while working as a male prostitute (1974); subsequently murdered fellow inmates at a mental
Matta, Chander
(1969– )

hospital (1977) and prison (1978)

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

DISPOSITION: Committed to Broadsmoor asylum in DATES(S): 1989–90 VENUE: D.C./Va. VICTIMS:

1974; transferred to Wakefield prison after second Three confessed

murder; sentenced to indefinite solitary confinement MO: Shot/bludgeoned/strangled blond female prostitutes after last two murders

DISPOSITION: Life term without parole, 1991

Maury, Robert Edward
(1956– )

Matteucci, Andrea
(?– ) AKA: Monster of Aosta SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./CE

DATES(S): 1980–95 VENUE: Aosta/Puglia, Italy

DATES(S): 1985–87 VENUE: Redding, Calif. VIC-

VICTIMS: Six+

TIMS: Three

MO: Lust slayer of female prostitutes and one gay MO: Strangled women and collected “secret witness”

man; bodies burned

rewards for directing police to their corpses

DISPOSITION: Pled guilty on four counts; sentence DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1989

unknown

Maxwell, Bobby Joe
(1945– ) AKA: Skid Row Stab-Matthews, Ynobe Katron (1976–2004)

ber

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

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-

DATE(S): 1999–2000 VENUE: Brazos County, Tex.

cific

VICTIMS: Two

DATES(S): 1978 VENUE: Los Angeles, Calif. VIC-

MO: Sexually assaulted several females, killing two TIMS: 10

whose bodies were dumped in rural areas

MO: Occultist and ritual slayer of homeless men DISPOSITION: Executed on one count, Jan. 6, 2004

DISPOSITION: Life term on two counts, 1984

Mattson, Michael Dee
(1953– )

May, Cheryl
(1965– )

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

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-“mercy”

DATES(S): 1978 VENUE: Los Angeles area VIC-

DATE(S): 1997 VENUE: Fort Wayne, Ind. VIC-

TIMS: Two

TIMS: Six suspected

MO: Strangled girls age nine and 16

MO: Nurse accused of killing comatose/terminal DISPOSITION: Condemned

patients with morphine

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DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty to reckless endanger-McErlane, Frank (d. 1932)

ment in the death of one patient who died following SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC

a morphine overdose; maximum sentence eight

DATES(S): 1920–32 VENUE: Chicago, Ill. VIC-

years; prosecutors dismissed one murder count and TIMS: 15+

closed other homicide investigations as part of plea MO: Psychotic racketeer; introduced the tommy gun to bargain

gangland warfare in 1925

DISPOSITION: Died of pneumonia, 1932

Mazurkiewicz, Wladislaw
(1911–57) AKA: Gentleman Murderer

McFadden, Jerry Walter
(1948–99)

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

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

DATES(S): 1950s VENUE: Cracow, Poland VIC-

DATE(S): 1986 VENUE: Hawkins, Tex. VICTIMS:

TIMS: 30 confessed

Three

MO: Home-invading robber who murdered victims of MO: Serial rapist on parole from multiple convictions both sexes

when he killed three female victims

DISPOSITION: Hanged Jan. 31, 1957

DISPOSITION: Executed on one count, Oct. 14, 1999

McCaffery, Archibald Beattie
(1949– ) AKA: Mad
McFadden, Reginald
(1954– )

Dog

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

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

DATE(S): 1970/1994 VENUE: Pa./N.Y. VICTIMS:

specific

Four alleged

DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: Sydney, Australia VIC-

MO: Rape-slayer of women and one woman’s male

TIMS: Three

companion

MO: Career criminal who plotted seven murders to DISPOSITION: Served 24 years on first murder convic-resurrect his dead infant son; arrested after killing tion (1970–94); received two life terms for subse-three men selected at random

quent slayings, plus consecutive terms for rape and DISPOSITION: Received three life terms at trial, 1974; robbery

paroled 1993; after further legal problems, deported to his native Scotland on May 1, 1997; charged with
McGinlay, Joseph
(1955– )

abduction, assault, and breach of peace at Hawick, SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

Scotland, in April 2004

DATES(S): 1973/96 VENUE: Scotland VICTIMS:

Two

McCarty, Henry
(1859–81) AKA: William H. Bonney MO: Lust killer of females age 16 and 23

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/PC

DISPOSITION: Life term, 1973 (paroled 1996); life DATES(S): 1877–81 VENUE: Ariz./N. Mex. VIC-term, 1997

TIMS: Four to 10

MO: Old West gunfighter, outlaw, and feudist in range
McGinnis, Virginia
[
See
REARDEN, VIRGINIA]

wars

DISPOSITION: Shot July 10, 1881

McGown, Dr. Richard
(1937– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC

McDuff, Kenneth Allen
(1946–98)

DATES(S): 1986–92 VENUE: Harare, Zimbabwe

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

VICTIMS: Five alleged

DATES(S): 1966/1991–92 VENUE: Tex. VICTIMS:

MO: Overdosed hospital patients with morphine in Nine suspected

“experiments”

MO: Killed three teens, 1966; rape slayer of women, DISPOSITION: Six-month sentence for two “negli-1991–92

gent” deaths, 1995

DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1966 (commuted to life, 1972; paroled 1990); condemned on one count,

McGray, Michael Wayne
(1964– )

1993; executed Nov. 17, 1998

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE:

ACCOMPLICES: Roy Dale Green (1948– ), served

Sex/CE/PC

13 years of 31-year sentence for his part in 1966

DATE(S): 1983–98 VENUE: Canada/Wash. VIC-

triple murder; Alva Hank Worley (1958– ), con-

TIMS: 16 confessed

fessed participation in one 1992 kidnapping,

MO: Drifter who killed victims of both sexes in ran-granted immunity for turning state’s evidence.

dom violent encounters

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DISPOSITION: Convicted of six murders in separate DISPOSITION: Served 21 years in Mich. for murder of trials across Canada during 2000–01; received con-eight-year-old boy (paroled 1971); convicted on sec-current terms of 25 years to life in each case ond count in Mich., 1998; life sentence in Fla., Jan.

4, 1999

McGurn, Jack
[
See
GIBALDI, VINCENZO]

McSparen, Mildred
(d. 1988)

McKinney, James
(1861–1902)

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-nonspe-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/Sad.

cific

DATES(S): 1880s–1902 VENUE: Colo./Calif. VIC-

DATES(S): 1981 VENUE: Lomax, Ill. VICTIMS:

TIMS: “Several”

Two

MO: Psychopathic outlaw/gunman

MO: “Black widow” poisoner of two young children DISPOSITION: Killed in shoot-out with authorities, DISPOSITION: Attempted jailhouse suicide by hang-Apr. 18, 1902

ing, Dec. 4, 1981; comatose from hanging until death in hospital from pneumonia, Nov. 4, 1988

McKnight, Anthony
(1954– )

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

Meach, Charles L., III
(?– )

DATES(S): 1984–86 VENUE: Oakland, Calif. VIC-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/CE

TIMS: Seven suspected

DATES(S): 1973–82 VENUE: Anchorage, Alaska

MO: Rape slayer of women, including several prosti-VICTIMS: Five

tutes

MO: Bludgeoned man in park; shot four teen campers DISPOSITION: Never charged with murder; 63 years who caught him stealing from their tent

for rape and attempted murder of six women who DISPOSITION: Acquitted on grounds of insanity, survived attacks, 1987

1973; 396 years without parole four counts, 1983

McKoy, Lamon
(1988– )

Meade, Harold
(1948– )

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

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

DATE(S): 2004 VENUE: Geneva, N.Y. VICTIMS:

specific

Two

DATE(S): 1969/1992 VENUE: New Haven, Conn.

MO: Rape-slayer of females age 14 and 18; one victim VICTIMS: Four suspected

was his cousin

MO: Bludgeon slayer of three mentally retarded DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty and accepted sentence youths, suspected of a fourth killing while on work of 20 years to life, Dec. 17, 2004

furlough from prison

DISPOSITION: Life term on three counts; no charges
McLean, Ralph
(1966–95)

filed in fourth case

SEX: M RACE: ? TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC

DATES(S): 1995 VENUE: Md./D.C. VICTIMS:

Meadows, Johnny
(1937– )

Two

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

MO: “Cop hater” who shot lawmen from ambush

DATES(S): 1968–71 VENUE: Tex. VICTIMS: Four

DISPOSITION: Killed resisting arrest, May 29, 1995

confessed

MO: Lust killer of adult females

McManus, Fred
(1935– )

DISPOSITION: 99 years on guilty plea to one count, SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE/PC

1972

DATES(S): 1953 VENUE: N.Y./Ill./Iowa/Minn.

VICTIMS: Five

Medina, Teofilo, Jr.
(1943– )

MO: Thrill-killer of holdup victims in four states SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

DISPOSITION: Life sentence in N.Y. on one count, DATES(S): 1984 VENUE: Orange County, Calif.

1953

VICTIMS: Three

MO: Paroled rapist; shot three young men in holdups
McRae, John Rodney
(1935– )

DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1987

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

DATES(S): 1950–87 VENUE: Mich./Fla. VICTIMS:

Medley, Joseph D.
(1903–48)

Four suspected

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

MO: Convicted pedophile slayer of two boys; sus-DATES(S): 1940s VENUE: D.C./Midwest VIC-