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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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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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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