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serial killers stories: 31 news summaries

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UK Asylum Releases Ripper Suspect's Notes

Victorian madman's 117-year-old medical records offer new clues

Nov 19, 08 7:19 AM CST
(Newser) - A British institution for the criminally insane has released the medical records of a madman long suspected of being Jack the Ripper, the Independent reports. The documents contain no conclusive proof, but offer enough to keep Thomas Cutbush on the suspect list. The "very insane" young man threatened to... More »

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London • murder • insanity • serial killers • Jack the Ripper

MOVIE REVIEW

 Righteous Kill is Dead Ordinary 

Generic cop flick falls flat despite De Niro, Pacino power

Sep 12, 08 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not even the combined star power of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro can save the “tricked-up and often turgid” cop thriller Righteous Kill, critics conclude. The iconic duo finally share some serious screen time as a pair of veteran NYPD detectives tracking a vigilante killer in their midst,... More »

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Robert De Niro • Al Pacino • movie review • thriller • serial killers • Donnie Wahlberg • John Leguizamo

LAPD Hunts Resurfaced Serial Killer

'Grim Sleeper' linked to 11 slayings was off cop radar for over a decade

Aug 29, 08 4:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - The LAPD is back on the trail of a serial killer linked to at least 11 murders over 23 years, the Los Angeles Times reports. The killer shot dead eight young women he had sexually abused and a man in the mid-1980s—then apparently went dormant for 13 years before... More »

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California • murder • Los Angeles • LAPD • DNA database • serial killers

Unabomber: Don't Use My Cabin in Exhibit

Kaczynski doesn't
want his old home on display at Newseum

Aug 12, 08 10:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski isn’t happy that his Montana cabin is featured in a museum exhibit about the FBI’s first 100 years. In a letter to the US Court of Appeals, Kaczynski writes that the Newseum’s display of the 10-by-12-foot cabin where he was captured flouts the... More »

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FBI • US Court of Appeals • serial killers • Newseum • Ted Kaczynski

Ex-Con Suspected in
8 Murders Captured in Ill.

Nicholas Sheley recognized in a bar

Jul 2, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - An exhaustive, two-state manhunt for an ex-convict suspected in eight grisly slayings ended with the man quietly arrested last night outside a bar known as a police hangout. Police knew from a number of witness reports that Nicholas T. Sheley, 28, was in the area, said the police chief in... More »

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FBI • murder • St. Louis • Illinois • serial killers • Nicholas T. Sheley • manhunt

Dear Mass Murderer:
I Need Advice

Fake 10-year-old solicits wisdom from famous, infamous

Apr 30, 08 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - An unemployed writer posing as a 10-year-old boy seeking advice wrote letters to a number of celebrities, including some of America's most infamous killers. The responses to the queries from the "pop-culture historian," as Radar magazine described Bill Geerhart, range from the weirdly sensible (Ted Kaczynski) to the... More »

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serial killers • Charles Manson • Ted Kaczynski

 Trial Starts
 for French  
 'Virgin Killer' 

Husband-wife hunting team accused of seven murders

Mar 27, 08 5:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - A French carpenter dubbed the "Ogre of the Ardennes" is on trial in France, accused of tracking down, raping and murdering seven virgins with the help of his wife in one of the nation's worst murder sprees in decades. Prosecutors say Michel Fourniret hunted victims from 1987 until 2003,... More »

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France • kidnapping • murder • rape • pedophile • trial • serial killers • Michel Fourniret

UK's 'Suffolk Strangler' Guilty in 5 Murders

But cops suspect the serial prostitute killer
in even more deaths

Feb 22, 08 10:06 AM CST
(Newser) - A British court yesterday found a former forklift driver guilty of the murders of five young women. The string of prostitute murders in Ipswich made the man dubbed the "Suffolk Strangler" one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. "I feel the pain will never go away," said... More »

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England • murder trial • prostitute • serial killers • Steve Wright • Suffolk Strangler • Ipswich, England

Reno Cops Hunt Murderous Serial Rapist

Linked to attacks
on 3 women near
local campus

Feb 17, 08 7:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A murdered 19-year-old Reno woman is believed to be the third victim of a serial rapist preying on women near the local campus of the University of Nevada, reports the Reno Gazette. The woman was abducted from a friend's home and strangled. "This is a serial rapist," said... More »

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serial killers • Reno, Nevada • serial rapists

Florida Cops Suspect Hooker Serial Killer
Is Back

Body may be fourth in
2-year-old kill spree

Jan 13, 08 7:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The serial killer who hunted Daytona Beach’s prostitutes in the winter of 2005-2006 may be back, Newsweek reports. A body found recently matches the pattern of the earlier killings. “It’s eerily similar and has all the earmarks of the other cases,” said Daytona’s police... More »

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Florida • crime • prostitute • serial killers

DNA May Shine Light on Killer

Headless body's ties to Indiana serial killer in doubt for a century

Jan 11, 08 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Authorities in Indiana are hoping DNA evidence will help them close the case of a woman who killed at least 25 people in the early 20th century before possibly faking her own death. A woman's headless body was found in the burned-out basement of Belle Gunness' house in 1908, and... More »

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genetics • murder • Indiana • Belle Gunness • serial killers • DNA evidence

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