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Authors: Michael Newton
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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