American List Of Serial Killers
Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) is an FBI agent hunting serial killers on Netflix’s Mindhunter. NetflixThose murder mystery novels and crime documentaries are all fun and games until you realize the sadistic plots hit a little closer to home than you originally thought. Not only are those murderous plots ripped from the headlines, but many remain unsolved.Some experts suggest when you start analyzing homicide data, there are actually roughly at large in the United States right now. And they’re notorious for a reason. Ted Bundy, the Unabomber — must we go on? Some elusive cases get solved years later, such as the in Arizona who was apprehended in late 2017 after years on the run.Others killers, however, manage to elude the cops for decades.
Here are eight states that are still searching for on the loose. It’s by no means the complete list, but we’ll stop there — because any more than eight states would cause us to lose more sleep than we already do.Next: A West Coast state that has produced some of the country’s most notorious serial killers1.
California. The Original Night Stalker.
The Zodiac KillerCalifornia is notorious for its, both convicted and at large. One of the most famous serial killers is known as the Original Night Stalker, East Area Rapist, and the Golden State Killer. The FBI notes the killer raped 45 victims and killed 12 between 1976 to 1986. Burglaries, preceded by clusters of sexual assaults, reports.“His victims ranged in age from 13 to 41 and included women home alone, women at home with their children, and couples. During the commission of the homicides, the subject tied up both victims, raped the female victim and then murdered the couple,” the FBI noted.But there’s more. Another equally infamous criminal, the Zodiac Killer, has been feeding breadcrumbs to the authorities for years. The man who was likely responsible for shooting and stabbing five people to death in Northern California in the late 1960s to have hidden his name in a series of cryptic messages sent to the LAPD that in 1974.
The suspect’s whereabouts and true identity remain unknown.Next: A state no stranger to unidentified serial killers2. Residents of Seminole Heights are terrified as the killer struck again recently. Les Neuhaus/AFP/Getty Images. The Daytona Beach Killer. Seminole Heights KillerFlorida is no stranger to furtive violence. A string of four brutal homicides began on Christmas Eve 2005 and continued through 2008.
The the Daytona Beach Killer targeted women with a history of prostitution, all of whom were shot execution-style in the head. The killer is believed to be a long-haul trucker. Despite police linking matching DNA and bullets to the victims, he has successfully eluded authorities for more than a decade.A bit farther south in Tampa, another serial killer remains on the loose in the neighborhood. Three people were killed in just 11 days in October 2017, all within a one-mile radius. A fourth victim was killed in November with disturbing similarities to the previous tragedies. Although this is still a warm case compared to other cold cases mentioned on this list, authorities remain stumped at the serial killer’s identity.Next: A Long Island mystery3. There are absolutely no leads.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images. The Long Island Serial KillerLeads are next to none in the hunt for the Long Island Serial Killer.
The suspect is believed responsible for back in the 1990s but only discovered in 2010 and 2011. Most victims were wrapped in sacks along Long Island’s South Shore in Gilgo Beach and are said to have been prostitutes peddling services on Craigslist. Thus the notorious serial killer earned additional names, such as the Craigslist Ripper and the Gilgo Beach Killer.There are no leads, no composite sketch, and thus, no idea what the killer looks like. There is, however, speculation the killer had advanced knowledge of police investigation techniques, causing many to think he could be a police officer by trade. Local police refuse to speak to the media regarding the ongoing investigation.Next: A law enforcement cover-up?4. The book examines all the details of the case.
Amazon. The Jeff Davis 8The eight women killed in Jennings, Louisiana, all knew each other and had a history of prostitution. Investigative reporter Ethan Brown, Murder in the Bayou, uncovering details, such as linking the Boudreaux Inn, a run-down motel where the women would take clients, and Louisiana Congressman Charles Boustany.When news broke that these women were asphyxiated after serving as informants to local law enforcement about the Jennings drug trade, some started to believe the homicides were an attempt to an incompetent or corrupt task force.
Standard serial killer or not, the true criminal remains free to roam the bayou.Next: A seriously creepy serial killer in Michigan5. The killer still hasn’t been found. Google Maps. The Oakland County Child KillerOakland County, Michigan, is forever tainted with tragedy.
The responsible for the kidnapping and death of four Michigan children was originally identified as Christopher Busch. There were mounds of evidence pointing to the convicted pedophile.
For one, the killings stopped following Busch’s suicide in 1978. But suggests he was not the killer. Whoever it is is a serious creep, as his calling card including bathing the victims and leaving them in clean clothes for discovery.There are whose backstories fit the crime (thanks to 12,000 tips the police received). Still, the case remains an unsolved mystery folks in Michigan would like to forget.Next: A serial killer on the loose for more than 30 years6.
This road was the site of several killings. Famartin/Wikimedia Commons. The Colonial Parkway KillerYou have the Colonial Parkway Killer to thank for every horror movie storyline that involves an unexpected and gruesome roadside attack. The serial killer suspected of killing three couples in the late 1980s (and presumably a fourth whose bodies were never found) is still at large today.Some theories attempt to explain why the cars were pulled over to begin with. For example, all four victims’ cars were found with their, suggesting a “police officer” requested to see their registration before victims were dragged into the woods and killed.Other, fresher cases have since taken detective priority.
That’s left victims’ family members to hope the killer is dead after 30 years of unanswered questions, so no other family must go through such heart-wrenching pain.Next: A case that remains a mystery in one of the country’s biggest cities7. The killer hid at least one of the bodies at a train yard.
Jeff Fusco/Getty Images. The Frankford SlasherThe identity behind the person who killed in a Philadelphia suburb between 1985 and 1990 is still unknown. Dubbed the Frankford Slasher, police say the women were sexually assaulted, stabbed, and slashed up to 74 times. The slasher posed as a counselor who befriended women in bars along Frankford Avenue before killing them in hiding.
He even rented an office in a nearby church. Detectives got so far as to create a composite sketch of their suspect, but the killer managed to disappear before an arrest was made. In 2015, police received word the prime suspect died.The brutal homicides have since ceased, but the case remains unsolved. Details of the case — as well as the true perpetrator’s identity — remain a mystery to Pennsylvania residents.Next: Recent killings remain unsolved in this Midwestern state.8. Ohio. Chillicothe, Ohio, mysteryInvestigators are still searching for any clues that could help solve the 2014 cases of who disappeared or turned up dead in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Four bodies were found in or near waterways in the town south of Columbus. Two other women remain missing. Due to the similarities and the time span, police are not discounting the possibility of a serial killer at large in Ohio. Spike TV produced about the events titled Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio after the homicides gained nationwide attention for remaining unsolved in 2015.Follow Lauren on Twitter.Check out on Facebook!
Scan history’s bloodiest serial killings, and you’ll find a long list of men behind the grisly deeds. Yet an equally brutal group of women have carried out their own mass slayings. Despite a significant difference in numbers, female serial killers are just as deadly.
Just as dangerous as their male counterparts, these women have committed some horrifying, barbaric acts—ruthlessly killing their victims. Whether committing these crimes alone or with a partner, there is nothing fair about this sex when it comes to these women. Here are fifteen notorious female serial killers who used their feminine touch for evil. Admitted to killing 11 people between 1920 and 1954. Among them were four of her five husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson and a mother-in-law.
The truth about her spree finally emerged in October of 1954 after her fifth husband Samuel Doss died in a hospital in Oklahoma. An autopsy revealed an immense amount of arsenic in his system.
Doss confessed to a long list of murders, but was only convicted of killing Samuel. Her sentence was life in prison.Doss eventually died of leukemia in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on June 2, 1965. Known under various names (Giggling Granny, Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard), she was often referred to as the Lonely Hearts Killer because of her history with the lonely hearts column. During her childhood, Doss would read her mother's romance magazines as a hobby.
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Those magazines would become the medium through which she met most of her husbands—eventually becoming her victims.Related. Although was tried and hanged for only one murder, claims state that many other victims died by her hand in Victorian England. After her husband died, Dyer began to search for ways to support her daughter. Through a colleague, she learned about a harmful practice.
Trained as a nurse, she eventually took the path of a baby farmer–someone who welcomed infants into her home and received payments for care and wet-nursing. But 'The Reading Baby Farmer'—another name for Dyer—never provided a safe and loving home. Instead, she pocketed the money and murdered them—either by starvation, strangulation, or the administration of an opiate-laced cordial known as Mother's Friend. Given that Dyer committed her crimes for some 30 years, it is likely that she was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of children.Related. In 1931, confessed to 31 murders and she was found not guilty by reason of insanity. A sadistic nurse who manipulated hospital reports, she took to experimenting with morphine and atropine on her patients.
After administering a lethal dose of drugs, she would sit with and hold her patients until they died. It was reported that Toppan would fondle her victims as they died and attempt to see the inner workings of their mind. The killer angel—often dubbed 'Jolly Jane'—claimed her goal was “to have killed more people–helpless people–than any other man or woman who ever lived.”Related. At the end of World War II in 1940s Japan, a midwife carried out a truly disturbing infanticide. Along with accomplices, Miyuki Ishikawa murdered about 103 children. As she saw it, the children of poor people had no chance in this world; she was simply putting them out of future misery.
Ishikawa perceived the victims as deserted children and insisted that the parents were responsible for their deaths. Even though she only received a four-year sentence for her crimes, her killing spree remains the bloodiest in Japanese history.
The number of dead bodies recovered and the length of time over which the murders took place have caused the exact death toll to remain unknown. Dorothea Puente earned her grisly nickname ('Death House Landlady') because of the heartless crimes she carried out in her Sacramento, California boarding house. Her motive: money. Over the course of six years, Puente poisoned numerous elderly and mentally disabled boarders in order to collect their Social Security checks.
Anyone who complained was killed and buried in her yard. Neighbors finally became suspicious after a homeless alcoholic known as 'Chief'—Puente's personal handyman—mysteriously disappeared. Eventually, she was sentenced to life in prison without parole on December 11, 1993. Puente died in prison on March 27, 2011.Related. Between 1989 and 1990, murdered seven men. She experienced a lot of sexual abuse as a child, especially at the hands of her grandfather. Her notorious killing spree ended up on the big screen with the movie.
Aileen supported herself and her lover Tyria through prostitution. She claimed her murders were carried out in self-defense against men who were attempting rape. It is likely she killed her first victim, Richard Mallory, in self-defense; Mallory served a 10-year prison sentence for sexual assault. Nevertheless, she was found guilty and executed by the state of Florida by lethal injection in 2002.Related. Juana Baraza became known as “La Mataviejitas” (The Old Lady Killer) for the death of 11 elderly women, and most likely more. A professional wrestler, Barraza had a troubled childhood and an alcoholic mother who let a man rape her in exchange for beer. Barraza’s deep resentment toward her mother resulted in the brutal murders of solitary old women, whom she also robbed.
Barraza bludgeoned or strangled her victims; police reported that there was evidence that victims had been abused before their deaths in some cases. Today, she is serving a 759-year sentence in Mexican prison. Was the typical Italian housewife. Better known as the 'Soap-Maker of Correggio,' she baked teacakes and made homemade soap. Except her recipes included a secret ingredient–human flesh.
When she heard that her beloved son Giuseppe was to be drafted into the Italian Army, she believed that the only way to protect him in battle was by human sacrifice. So, between 1939 and 1940, Cianciulli murdered three women in Correggio, Italy. She would offer her victims a glass of drugged wine before killing them with an axe. She then cut up the corpses to make teacakes, which were often served to her family and friends. As for the soap?
She and her husband used it for bathing.Related. Some legends consider the first female serial killer in the United States. Married to John Fisher, the couple were both convicted of highway robbery—a capital offense at the time.
Together they owned and operated a hotel, the Six Mile Wayfarer House, where guests began to disappear. According to legend, Lavinia would invite men to dinner and ask questions about their occupation to discover if they were wealthy. Details of the crimes Lavinia committed have been exaggerated throughout the years—from crushing her victims heads between her legs to offering them poisoned tea and having John stab them to death in their sleep.Related:The Fishers' reign of terror eventually ended when a traveler named John Peeples entered the Six Mile Wayfarer House to ask about vacancies.
There were no rooms available, but Lavinia welcomed Peeples and offered him tea. She interrogated him for hours and then miraculously discovered an empty room which he accepted.
Feeling suspicious, Peeples decided against sleeping in the bed and instead slept on a wooden chair. In the middle of the night he awoke to the bed collapsing into an empty pit below, and discovered the Fishers' plan. He jumped out the window and alerted authorities. Lavinia and John were immediately captured, tried, convicted and executed for their crimes.
Bundy had escaped her third abusive marriage when she met Doug Clark. After frequenting venues during her affair with part-time country singer Jack Murray, Bundy and Clark met in a bar called Little Nashville. Their relationship quickly escalated. Clark moved in and before long they were sharing dark sexual fantasies. Bundy complied with Clark’s sexual desires—she allowed him to bring prostitutes to their apartment to engage in threesomes. However, Clark’s desires took a dark turn as he took interest in an 11-year-old neighbor.
Bundy lured the girl into posing for pornographic photos to appease Clark’s twisted desires, but it didn’t end there; Clark began telling Bundy about how much he wanted to kill a girl during sex.Clark persuaded Bundy to buy two pistols to carry out his fantasy, and in the summer of 1980, they found their first victims. They became collectively known as the Sunset Strip Killers as they found their victims—usually young sex workers or runaways—in Los Angeles. They would lure the young women into their car, murder them, and then dispose of the bodies; but not before Clark committed necrophilia by raping the lifeless bodies.Related:Meanwhile, Bundy continued to see Murray perform, and on one of those nights, Bundy confessed to the murders. In order to prevent Murray from telling the police, Bundy lured him into her van to have sex, then shot and decapitated him. However, Bundy left several clues behind and both she and Clark were eventually arrested and charged. Bundy was charged with two murders and sentenced to 52 years-to-life imprisonment, while Clark was charged with six murders and sentenced to death.
One of 11 children, Brown was borderline mentally disabled—her IQ ranging from 59 to 74—and considered to have a dependent personality. She was never violent or in trouble with the law until she met Alton Coleman.The son of a prostitute, Coleman was under the care of his 73-year-old grandmother but was constantly in trouble and well-known to the Illinois law enforcement community.
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A middle school drop-out, Coleman had been charged six times with sex crimes between 1973 and 1983. Brown was engaged to another man when she met Coleman in 1983—at this point he had fled trial and began his killing spree. She became a willing participant in Coleman’s assaults and murders—the crimes were committed across six states in the Midwest where eight people were murdered. After being arrested and convicted, Brown was sentenced to death in Indiana. However, the death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment without possibility of parole in Illinois. Born Judias Welty, this female killer spent her early childhood in Texas being raised by parents. When her mother passed away, Judy was sent into the care of her grandparents until her father remarried.
According to Judy, her father and stepmother were abusive, treating her like a slave and starving her. At the age of 14, Judy attacked her family and was sent to prison for two months.After being released, she decided to attend reform school and graduated in 1960. By 1971, Judy married James Goodyear, a sergeant in the U.S. After he passed away from seemingly natural cause, she moved in with Bobby Joe Morris. By January 1978, he had also passed away. Meanwhile, Buenoano’s only son Michael became inexplicably paraplegic. One day in May 1980, Buenoano took Michael out in a canoe.
The canoe capsized. And Michael's braces dragged him down. He drowned at age 19.Three years later, Buenoano got engaged again, this time to John Gentry. Soon after, Gentry was seriously injured when his car exploded.
Police, investigating the accident, soon found that there was much more than a faulty car. Buenoano had been telling friends that Gentry was dying of a terminal disease, despite his good health.
She had also been giving him pills–which, once the police got their hands on them, were revealed to be filled with arsenic and formaldehyde.Exhumations of son Michael Goodyear, husband James Goodyear, and partner Bobby Joe Morris were conducted. Each of the men had been a victim of arsenic poisoning. Buenoano was eventually convicted of multiple murders and attempted murders—she received a 12-year sentence for the Gentry case, a life sentence for the Michael Buenoano case, and a death sentence for the James Goodyear case.
On March 30, 1998, Buenoano was executed in Florida State Prison.