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Authors: Michael Newton
Tags: #True Crime, #Murder, #General, #Serial Killers
ber WILLIAM MENTZER convicted of one Calif. mur-VICTIMS: Five
der, 1991; other cultists still at large
MO: Campers stabbed/hacked to death on beach by robed attackers
Unknown
AKA: Bible John
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; cult name revealed by MANSEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
SON “FAMILY”
DATE(S): 1968–69 VENUE: Glasgow, Scotland
VICTIMS: Three
Unknown
MO: Women picked up at dance halls and strangled SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DATE(S): 1970–86 VENUE: Wildwood, N.J. VIC-
TIMS: Three
Unknown
MO: Rape-murders of women, bodies left under local SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
boardwalk
DATE(S): 1969 VENUE: Conn./N.Y. VICTIMS:
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Three
MO: Young girls bludgeoned; at least one raped
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1971 VENUE: Washington, D.C. VIC-
Unknown
TIMS: 10
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC
MO: Gay men stabbed/slashed in their homes
DATE(S): 1969–73 VENUE: Calif. VICTIMS: 15
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; photo of suspect unidentified
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Unknown
DISPOSITION: Suspect Michael Pardue convicted on SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: GC/CE
basis of coerced confession, 1973; murder charges DATE(S): 1971–72 VENUE: Chicago, Ill. VIC-subsequently dropped, though Pardue continues
TIMS: Six
serving life term for a 1987 escape. Murders
MO: Black men robbed/shot, apparently by several unsolved.
offenders
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: New York City VICTIMS:
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Seven
DATE(S): 1971–76 VENUE: Tex. Gulf coast VIC-
MO: “Ripper” of gay males
TIMS: 21
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Females age 12–21 killed in three counties, by various means
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1973–74 VENUE: Gallup, N.Mex. VIC-
Unknown
AKA: Alphabet Murders
TIMS: Three
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
MO: Navajo men beaten/slashed to death in separate DATE(S): 1971–73 VENUE: Rochester, N.Y. VIC-attacks
TIMS: Three
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Young Catholic girls with matching initials killed DISPOSITION: Unsolved; KENNETH BIANCHI sus-Unknown
pected, not charged
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1973–77 VENUE: Zephyrhills, Fla. VIC-
Unknown
TIMS: Eight
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.
MO: Prostitutes and strippers killed; details withheld DATE(S): 1972–75 VENUE: Northern Calif. VIC-by police
TIMS: 14
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Slayer of females age 12–22, mostly
strangled/smothered
Unknown
AKA: Highway murders
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE:
Sex./Sad.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1973–81 VENUE: Western Canada VIC-
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
TIMS: 28 suspected
DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: Prince Georges County, Md.
MO: Women (and one transvestite) killed along Trans-VICTIMS: Five
Canada Highway.
MO: Black women from Washington, D.C., sodomized DISPOSITION: Unsolved
and murdered
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1973–80 VENUE: New South Wales, Aus-
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.
tralia VICTIMS: 20
DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: Mich. VICTIMS: “At least
MO: Backpackers and hitchhikers missing
20”
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; police deem cases unrelated MO: Prostitutes murdered; details withheld by police to convicted killer IVAN MILAT
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
AKA: The Family
Unknown
SEX: 9M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1973–83 VENUE: Adelaide, Australia
DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: Mobile/Baldwin Counties,
VICTIMS: More than five
Ala. VICTIMS: Three
MO: Alleged gang of homosexual men who kidnapped, MO: Shotgun slayings of gas station attendants in raped, and tortured 200 male victims, killing at least holdups
five, aged 14–25
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DISPOSITION: Alleged “Family” member Bevan
Unknown
Spencer Von Einem convicted of murdering a 15-
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
year-old boy, sentenced to 36 years without parole DATE(S): 1975 VENUE: Southern Fla. VICTIMS:
in 1984; other cases remain unsolved
Five
MO: Women kidnapped after killer disabled their cars
Unknown
in mall parking lots
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DATE(S): 1973–2001 VENUE: Auxerre, France
VICTIMS: 17–30
Unknown
AKA: Ottawa Valley Killer
MO: Young women murdered and missing; most were SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony
mentally handicapped
DATE(S): 1975–87 VENUE: Ottawa Valley, Ontario DISPOSITION: Unsolved
VICTIMS: Six
MO: Victims slain in home-invasion robberies, with
Unknown
houses burned to hide evidence; the dead include SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
four men, aged 48–71 and two women aged 59
DATE(S): 1974 VENUE: Rawlins, Wyo. VICTIMS:
and 83
Four
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; rape-slayer Ronald Glenn MO: Girls age 10–19 vanish from local rodeo; one West suspected but never charged
found bludgeoned
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
AKA: San Mateo Slasher
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:
Unknown
Sex./Sad.
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
DATE(S): 1976 VENUE: San Mateo County, Calif.
VICTIMS: Five
DATE(S): 1974 VENUE: St. Louis, Mo. VICTIMS:
MO: “Ripper” of young brunette women
Four
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; suspect jailed for rape, MO: Victims kidnapped/shot after store robberies paroled 1981
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
AKA: The Babysitter
Unknown
AKA: The Doodler
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.
DATE(S): 1976–77 VENUE: Oakland County, Mich.
DATE(S): 1974–75 VENUE: San Francisco, Calif.
VICTIMS: Four to seven
VICTIMS: 14
MO: Killed children of both sexes; molested male vic-MO: “Ripper” of gay men
tims
DISPOSITION: Allegedly identified, but never charged DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-
SEX: M RACE: W. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
mercy?
DATE(S): 1976–77 VENUE: Washington County, Pa.
DATE(S): 1975 VENUE: Ann Arbor, Mich. VIC-
VICTIMS: Five
TIMS: 11
MO: Young women strangled/beaten after rape
MO: Patients killed in VA hospital
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved (two nurses convicted, freed on appeal)
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
AKA: Bigfoot
DATE(S): 1976–78 VENUE: New Haven, Conn.
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
VICTIMS: Four+
DATE(S): 1975 VENUE: Detroit, Mich. VICTIMS:
MO: Targets black women, including at least three Seven
prostitutes
MO: Women (mostly prostitutes) raped and blud-
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
geoned in Cass Corridor area; UNSUB (police jar-gon for “Unknown Subject”) nicknamed for large
Unknown
AKA: I-35 murders
footprints
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE:
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Sex./Sad.
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DATE(S): 1976–81 VENUE: Tex. VICTIMS: 22
Unknown
MO: Victims of both sexes killed along Interstate SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
Highway 35
DATE(S): 1977–80 VENUE: Scotland VICTIMS:
DISPOSITION: Unsolved; several cases blamed on Seven
HENRY LUCAS
MO: DNA evidence links cases of female victims aged 17–36 raped, beaten, and strangled in Edinburgh
Unknown
and Glasgow
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DATE(S): 1976–85 VENUE: Butler County, Ohio
VICTIMS: Four
Unknown
MO: Women aged 18–41 strangled; DNA evidence
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
links the crimes; police blame unspecified “other DATE(S): 1977–93 VENUE: Dallas, Tex. area VIC-murders” on the same unknown killer, spanning
TIMS: Eight
Butler and Hamilton Counties during 1977–82
MO: Seven girls, age two to 14, and one eight-year-old DISPOSITION: Unsolved
boy murdered
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
AKA: East Area Rapist
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1976–86 VENUE: California VICTIMS:
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
10 killed, 40+ raped
DATE(S): 1978–79 VENUE: Newcastle, Australia
MO: Raped 40+ victims in Northern California home VICTIMS: Four
invasions, 1976–78; DNA links the rapist to four MO: Female victims aged 14–20 missing
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
murders in Southern California during 1978 and six more in the period 1980–86
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE:
Sex./Sad.
Unknown
AKA: Ironman
DATE(S): 1978–79 VENUE: La./Miss. VICTIMS:
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Three
DATE(S): late 1970s VENUE: Atteridgeville, South MO: Male victims aged 17–22 hog-tied to strangle in Africa VICTIMS: Seven
fetal positions; DNA evidence links the cases
MO: Nocturnal strollers bludgeoned with iron bar DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
AKA: Hammer Group
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.?
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1978–84 VENUE: England VICTIMS:
DATE(S): late 1970s VENUE: Lahore, Pakistan
Seven to 13
VICTIMS: 17
MO: Children of both sexes killed; “at least seven”
MO: Bludgeon murders of 17 night watchmen
cases linked
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
SEX: Unk.
RACE: Unk.
TYPE: T
MOTIVE:
DATE(S): 1976–95 VENUE: Oklahoma City VIC-
Unk.
TIMS: Four to five
DATE(S): 1979 VENUE: Houston, Tex. VICTIMS:
MO: Women dismembered
Four
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Three women beheaded; boyfriend of one victim shot
Unknown
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1977 VENUE: Atlanta, Ga. VICTIMS:
Unknown
(Good Samaritan Hospital)
Three
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.
MO: Couples shot in lover’s lane attacks
DATE(S): 1979–80 VENUE: Downer’s Grove, Ill.
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
VICTIMS: Two
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MO: Elderly women killed by insulin injection
MO: Street murders of black women, including some DISPOSITION: Nurse suspended without charges;
prostitutes
unsolved
DISPOSITION: Conflicting confessions of two suspects leave at least 13 cases unsolved
Unknown
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.
Unknown
DATE(S): 1979–80 VENUE: Mandurah, Australia
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-
VICTIMS: Three
felony
MO: Mutilation-murders of two young women; 12-
DATE(S): 1980 VENUE: Dorchester County, S.C.
year-old girl missing
VICTIMS: Three
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
MO: Male gas station employees abducted/shot after holdups
Unknown
AKA: Lewiston Valley Killer
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.
DATE(S): 1979–82 VENUE: Idaho/Wash. VIC-
Unknown
TIMS: Five
SEX: Three M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE:
MO: Three victims dismembered and two missing
CE/Sad.
between Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Wash.; DATE(S): 1980 VENUE: Los Angeles, Calif. VIC-victims include three young women, one girl, and TIMS: Three reported
one man
MO: Victims stabbed after surrendering money in DISPOSITION: Unsolved
holdups
DISPOSITION: Unsolved
Unknown
Unknown