A month ago, Lonnie David Franklin Jr was convicted of the murder of nine women and one teenage girl in Los Angeles. The murders took place between 1985 and 2007 with an apparent 14-year gap between deaths at one point, which earned him the moniker the “Grim Sleeper.”
During serial killer Michael Madison’s sentencing on Thursday, the father of one of his victims dove over a courtroom table in an attempt to confront the killer.
A small Ohio city where six women have been murdered or disappeared may be targeted by a serial killer. The women have all died or gone missing from Chillicothe, a Rust Belt city whose population is just under 22,000. According to news accounts, several of the women had been sex workers; a few also had struggled with…
Seven women are dead in northwest Indiana and a 43 year-old man has confessed to killing them, including 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy and 35-year-old Anith Jones. The police are referring to the man as a "person of interest" while they continue their investigation but fear they may be dealing with a serial killer.
You never know what you're going to find when you move into a new home. The last time I moved, I found asbestos (good thing there are all those lawyer ads on TV), but a Missouri woman found something much more sinister: Her home had been used as a torture chamber. And she didn't learn it from the landlord.
Officials have been busy publicly disagreeing over just how serial killer-riddled Long Island is, but it seems any speculation may be premature. Several of the 10 victims recovered on South Shore beaches still haven't been identified, and now police are asking for the public's help. They've released a sketch of a…
Authorities have confirmed that the remains found last week on Long Island's South Shore are those of 24-year-old New Jersey woman Shannan Gilbert. Though this is a major breakthrough in the case, officials are now openly clashing over what they believe happened to the 10 people whose bodies were found during the…
Nineteen months after Shannan Gilbert disappeared, and exactly one year after the investigation into her case led to the discovery of the first of 10 bodies on Long Island, police say they've found her remains. This morning a body was located in a marsh near where Gilbert's belongings were found earlier this week, and…
Earlier this week Long Island police were vague about what exactly they found during their continuing search of a marshy area near where Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old sex worker from New Jersey, was last spotted a year ago. Yesterday, detectives announced that they've recovered Gilbert's jeans, shoes, cell phone, and…
Yesterday police found several items related to their investigation into the deaths of 10 people whose remains turned up on Long Island beaches. Previously, police said the murders were committed by multiple killers, but recently they announced they're now hunting for one serial killer. Police say they decided to…
Today police said they've concluded that there aren't multiple serial killers roaming around Long Island. That seems like good news, but it actually means there's one prolific killer on the loose who's managed to evade police for more than a decade.
The serial killer terrorizing Long Island has led to an unlikely support network.
Serial woman-killer Anthony Sowell now has memorabilia available for purchase online, including a letter to a wannabe lady-love who wrote him first. Just because you won't catch him cheating, ladies, doesn't make him a catch. [MSNBC]
Six women have been found dead on the side of the road in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and three are missing. Residents suspect a serial killer, but say police aren't investigating properly because the women were prostitutes and addicts. [AP]
A soldier stationed in Fort Bragg, North Carolina has been arrested for the murder of Megan Lynn Touma, a pregnant solider who was found dead in a motel bathtub a little over a month ago. The connection or relationship that Touma had with the arrested solider, Sgt. Edgar Patino, has not been elaborated on by police…
