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Ohio Woman Tipped Cops to Sowell Last Year

Said she fought, fled his attack; allegations were dismissed

Nov 17, 09 12:04 PM CST
(Newser) - A Cleveland woman says she was assaulted by accused murderer Anthony Sowell last December in a struggle that left her blood at his house—but after she narrowly escaped and went to the police, authorities believed him instead of her. In the ensuing months, five more women went missing. Wade... More »

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Cleveland • murder • Ohio • assault • serial killers • allegations • rapist • Anthony Sowell

 SF Cops Tie 
 Night Stalker to 
 1984 Girl Killing 

DNA links serial killer to slaying of 9-year-old

Oct 23, 09 2:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - San Francisco police believe they have uncovered another killing by the "Night Stalker" serial killer who terrorized the Bay Area in the '80s. DNA evidence has linked Richard Ramirez to the 1984 murder of 9-year-old Mei Leung, who was sexually assaulted and killed in the basement of a... More »

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San Francisco • murder • serial killers • child murder • Richard Ramirez

Milwaukee Cops Arrest Suspected Serial Killer

Man linked to murders of 9 women from 1986-2007

Sep 7, 09 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in Milwaukee said tonight they have arrested a man they suspect in the murders of at least nine women during the past 21 years, the Journal Sentinel reports. Walter E. Ellis, 49, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, and his DNA was found on nine women killed... More »

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African Americans • Milwaukee • murder • violence • prostitute • serial killers • Walter Ellis

(Newser) - A rash of homeless deaths during warm-weather months has alarmed residents and homeless advocates in Anchorage, Alaska. In a feature article ranging from serial killer conspiracy theories to chronicles of life on the streets, the Anchorage Daily News looks at the 12 homeless deaths and points out the most likely... More »

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Alaska • alcoholism • homeless • serial killers • Anchorage

7 Women ID'd
in New Mexico Mass Grave

Police in Albuquerque hunting serial killer after 11 bodies found

Jul 10, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police in New Mexico have named seven of the 11 murdered women found in a mass grave outside Albuquerque several months ago, CNN reports. Police say the victims were linked through drugs and prostitution, but they have yet to identify a suspect. The women, one of whom was pregnant, were... More »

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New Mexico • murder • serial killers • Albuquerque

UPDATED

Ballistics Match Confirms Death of Serial Killer

NC cops shot suspect after 5 slayings in SC county in 6 days

Jul 6, 09 6:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man shot to death by North Carolina police early today was the serial killer who had terrorized a rural South Carolina county, police say. Tests on his gun confirmed that it was the firearm used in the crime spree, which saw five people shot dead in less than a... More »

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crime • South Carolina • murder • North Carolina • firearms • serial killers • guns • Gaffney • ballistics

(Newser) - North Carolina police have shot and killed a man who may have been the shooter responsible for five deaths in a nearby South Carolina town, the Gaffney Ledger reports. Members of the 100-member task force combing through Cherokee County, SC, visited the crime scene in neighboring Gaston County, NC.... More »

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police • South Carolina • robbery • North Carolina • serial killers • shooting • Gaffney • firefight

(Newser) - A suspected South Carolina serial killer claimed his fifth victim today when a teenage girl died in hospital, the Gaffney Ledger reports. Like her father and four other victims, Abbey Tyler, 15, was found shot earlier this week in Gaffney, SC. Police say the killings are linked. Scared residents say... More »

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South Carolina • murder • serial killers • gunshots

Serial Killer Fear Grips SC City Before July 4th

People plan to skip fireworks, keep guns handy until he's caught

Jul 3, 09 6:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four serial slayings have panicked a small South Carolina city on the eve of July 4th celebrations, the Gaffney Ledger and AP report. Residents of Gaffney, SC, say they plan to stay home on Independence Day unless investigators—numbering at least 100 with an influx of state and federal agents—... More »

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South Carolina • murder • serial killers • Independence Day

(Newser) - Great white sharks lurk in the dark and follow young victims much like serial killers on the prowl, the AP reports. Far from being random attackers, the sharks pursue specific victims from 100 yards off—far enough to see but not be seen—hiding in areas they know well. "... More »

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study • shark • research • serial killers • great white shark

Iran Busts 'Agatha Christie Killer' for Murder Most Foul

Female serial killer says methods were inspired by murder mysteries 

May 22, 09 2:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iranian authorities have arrested a female serial killer whose methods were inspired by Agatha Christie's murder mysteries, the Guardian reports. The woman, 32, has confessed to befriending at least four elderly women at shrines, then knocking them out with drug-spiked drinks before suffocating them and stealing their valuables. Police say... More »

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Iran • murder • serial killers • Agatha Christie

'Serial Cat Killings' Shock Miami Suburbs

20 pets, mutilated, left on lawns; no arrests despite $2,500 reward

May 20, 09 10:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cats in the suburbs of Miami are turning up on lawns murdered and mutilated, the Herald reports. Some 20 animals have been victims of what the Humane Society has termed “serial cat killings” in two neighborhoods. "We take a very dim view of this,'' said a rep... More »

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pets • Florida • crime • killings • serial killers • cat

 Eminem: 
 Serial Killers 'Inspire' Me 

Rapper talks about how he's never been in a better place

May 17, 09 2:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Where has Eminem been since his last album hit the shelves in 2004? At first, mostly drowning in a sea of depression and prescription drugs, the rapper says in an interview with the Guardian. But for a year now he's been clean and focused on getting back to his roots—... More »

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depression • Eminem • addiction • prescription drugs • rapper • album release • inspiration • serial killers • interview • Jay-ZTV • Relapse • Marshall Mathers

(Newser) - The half-sister of the California woman who asserted Wednesday that their father was the dreaded Zodiac killer of the 1960s isn’t having any of it, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Janice Hendrickson’s father “couldn’t hurt a fly,” she said today. “He did have a... More »

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California • San Francisco • serial killers • Zodiac killer • Deborah Perez • Janice Hendrickson • Guy Ward Hendrickson

LA Cops Arrest Suspected
Serial Killer
From '70s, '80s

72-year-old may have killed 30 women

Apr 30, 09 5:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Los Angeles police say a 72-year-old insurance claims adjuster may in fact be the city's "most prolific serial killer," the Los Angeles Times reports. The suspect, John Floyd Thomas, may have killed up to 30 older women and raped scores more during two separate rampages in the 1970s... More »

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crime • Los Angeles • serial killers • DNA evidence • serial rapists

 'My Dad Was 
 the Zodiac Killer' 

Californian claims to offer proof that her father was '60s serial killer

Apr 30, 09 2:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Californian real estate agent came forward yesterday claiming to offer proof that her late father was the serial Zodiac Killer who terrorized the Bay Area in the '60s, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Her carpenter dad took her along to murder sites where the 7-year-old sat in the car... More »

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San Francisco • serial killers • unsolved crimes • Zodiac killer • Deborah Perez

 Truckers Linked 
 to Hundreds 
 of Serial Killings 

Road-trip serial killers exploit 'mobile crime scene,' says FBI

Apr 5, 09 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI believes that hundreds of hitchhikers, prostitutes, and stranded motorists have been murdered by serial killers working as long-haul truckers, reports the Los Angeles Times. Some 500 women have been murdered over the last 3 decades and their bodies discarded along highways, and at rest stops and motels frequented... More »

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FBI • murder • truckers • trucks • highways • prostitute • serial killers

Sloppy DNA Work Creates Myth of Phantom Serial Killer

Female 'suspect' now believed to have been employee at DNA swab factory

Mar 27, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Embarrassed German cops may soon call off their hunt for a notorious female serial killer, the Times of London reports. DNA from a suspect dubbed "the woman without a face” has been found at dozens of crime scenes across Europe, including stranglings and shootings, but detectives now believe the... More »

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Germany • DNA • forensics • serial killers • DNA evidence • crime scene • Howard Stern Grid

Cops Eye Link in Mother-Daughter Murders

Striking similarities causing cops 'great concern'

Mar 18, 09 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police are hunting for possible links between the grisly murders of a pair of mothers and daughters in the Washington DC area, reports the Washington Post. Both cases could "possibly" be the work of a serial killer, said a police official. Both moms were in their 40s and were... More »

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Maryland • crime • Washington DC • police • murder • serial killers • double homicide

 9th Body 
 Unearthed in 
 New Mexico 
 Desert 

All may be victims of serial killer

Feb 25, 09 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A ninth body has been unearthed in the New Mexican desert in what one expert believes is the work of a serial killer, reports KRQE-TV. Only one of the victims in the secret graveyard outside Albuquerque—a prostitute reported missing in 2003—has been identified. There are currently 24 women... More »

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New Mexico • murder • fetus • prostitute • serial killers

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