In an effort to educate without glorifying (because, as horrible as it is, this stuff is fascinating), we identified the most notorious serial killer - be it the most famous, prolific, or historical - from every state and the District of Columbia (excluding anybody who killed in the last 20 years - that's just too recent). Still, beware: if you are easily disturbed, offended, or inclined to leave nasty comments castigating authors for even writing about murderers, this story might not be for you. Consider yourself warned. Paul John Knowles (aka the 'Cassanova Killer”) Don’t be confused by the nickname here, this guy was about as charming as a DMV clerk going on lunch break. Despite beginning his murderous rampage with two anger killings - the result of being dumped by a woman he had seduced while in prison - all of the women he killed during his 18- to 35-victim rampage (through Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas) were abducted unwillingly. Knowles was eventually caught in Georgia and shot to death while trying to escape deputies escorting him to a crime scene. Colorado Vincent Groves Debate rages about whether or not this guy is the most prolific serial killer in the history of Colorado.
Though he was only convicted of three murders - and died in prison in 1996 - advancements in technology have linked him to at least three more deaths, and some say the body count may be as high as 24. From 1978-1988, Groves would meet (and strangle) women in the Denver area. What’s most alarming about his decade of terror, though, is that he actually spent five years in prison for another murder before being let out to continue his spree. Steven Brian Pennell Most serial killers generally have some sort of traumatic event or psychotic episode in their past that leads them to randomly murder innocent people. Not Steven Pennell, whose psychological examiners described him as “pleasant” after his arrest. In fact, it was that nice-guy front that he used in 1987 and 1988 to abduct female hitchhikers along a stretch of Route 40 near Wilmington before torturing, mutilating, and beating them to death. The 31-year-old father of two was convicted of two murders and died from lethal injection in 1992.
Ted Bundy The most famous of the many serial killers who've called Florida home, Bundy (who had been described as a charming young man) kidnapped, tortured, and murdered young women. Some of whom he abducted in the same day and location, within a few hours of one another. Bundy escaped from prison twice before being apprehended in Florida in 1978, and while he admitted to more than 35 killings, he's believed to have possibly murdered as many as 100 people. He died in the electric chair at Raiford prison in 1989.
The Honolulu Strangler On a remote island state where people go to escape whatever they’ve done on the mainland, it’s a surprise only one real serial killer of notoriety has emerged. In 1985 and 1986, five women were found bound, sexually assaulted, and strangled around Honolulu. An “informant” who led police to one of the bodies and had no alibi was arrested and picked out of a lineup (as having been seen with one of the victims the night she died), but he was released after passing a polygraph test. The killer remains at large.
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Lyda Southard If Lyda Southard wasn’t a complete sociopath, she was definitely the saddest, unluckiest woman to ever grace the Northern Rocky Mountains. Somehow, her first four husbands managed to die of “the flu,” as did one of her brothers-in-law and one of her children. Since forensics in the 1910s and '20s wasn’t quite what it is today, authorities were inclined to believe her stories. For a chemist named Earl Dooley, who later discovered that Southard’s first husband and his brother died of arsenic poisoning AND that Lyda had received over $7,000 in life insurance from her four dead husbands.
Illinois John Wayne Gacy (aka the 'Killer Clown') The Killer Clown is definitely one of the most notorious murderers of the American 20th century. Convicted of sodomy in Iowa, Gacy was released on parole and began a construction company near Chicago in the early 1970s. It was from the company's labor force that he found his victims, luring at least 33 young boys and men to his home where he strangled them to death before hiding the bodies in the crawl space under the house. He was ultimately apprehended in 1978 when police found human remains in said crawl space. He was executed in 1994.
A man convicted in a series of murders of American Indian women in Minneapolis in the 1980s died Tuesday morning, his attorney said. Billy Glaze, 72, was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer last week. He died in prison after spending more than 25 years behind bars. Attorneys for the Minnesota Innocence Project had been arguing in Hennepin County District Court that new DNA testing of evidence from the murder scenes found no link to Glaze, who was serving three life sentences for the crimes, most recently at a prison in Delaware. Tests of 39 items, including bodily fluids, clothing and other items, instead implicated another man — a convicted Minnesota rapist, the attorneys argued. Hennepin County prosecutors said they were confident they had the right man and a new trial wasn’t needed. A jury found Glaze guilty of first- and second-degree murder in the bludgeoning deaths of Kathy Bullman, 19, Angeline Whitebird-Sweet, 26, and Angela Green, 21.
All three were found nude or mostly nude with their bodies positioned in ways that suggested a serial killer. The cases prompted intense media attention and public outcry, including allegations that police hadn’t been aggressive in investigating crimes against Indians. Ed Magarian, a partner at the firm of Dorsey & Whitney who was working with the Minnesota Innocence Project on behalf of Glaze, said he was looking into how the case might proceed.
“His dying wish was that we clear his name,” Magarian said. “If we can go forward we will, whether it’s this forum or another forum.” Glaze’s nephew, one of a few surviving relatives, said he never met his uncle but corresponded with him after Glaze’s sister died in September, also of lung cancer. Hp compaq dc5100 audio drivers windows 7.
“It’s almost like the state kind of gets off. If he was to win, they would have had to owe him for his life,” said Darrell French, 33, of Augusta, Ga. “What he was looking forward to — getting out — he don’t get to live that.” French said he was planning to help his uncle transition back to civilian life in Georgia someday. “I’d teach him how to live get him acclimated back to life teach him how to text,” he said.
Contents. Crimes Glaze was suspected of the murders of at least 50 women in multiple states. He allegedly boasted to police about having killed over 20 women, but in interviews claimed he was innocent. Glaze became a suspect in the 1986–87 murders of three women in the area after a waitress brought him to the attention of authorities. Information from a girlfriend led investigators to look for him in New Mexico. Glaze was arrested on August 31, 1987 while, for a violation of his parole from a Texas conviction for rape in 1974.
The arresting officers found a bloody shirt, crowbar and nightstick in his truck. Hair samples from the crowbar were used to convict him of murder. He was convicted of three counts of first degree murder; he would be eligible for parole 52 years later. At sentencing he maintained his innocence.
Glaze was housed in in. New evidence DNA testing conducted by the in 2009 found that semen from one victim's rape kit didn't match Glaze, but instead matched another Minnesota man, a convicted rapist. Additional testing done in 2014 on a cigarette butt found near the body of a second victim came back as a match to the same man. In spite of testing dozens of pieces of evidence from the three crime scenes, none came back as a match to Glaze.
Glaze's attorneys filed a motion for a new trial both based on the DNA testing results and questions about the reliability of eyewitnesses who testified at Glaze's original trial, one of whom has since recanted and another who has claimed to have witnessed more than 60 murders during his time in prison. In response to the filing by Glaze's attorneys, the and the Attorney's Office are re-investigating the case. Death Glaze died on December 22, 2015, aged 72, shortly after being diagnosed with stage four. He died in prison after spending more than 25 years incarcerated. References. Star Tribune.
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Retrieved 15 August 2010. A Dallas County Sheriff's office probe put William Glaze, who also goes by the names Jesse Coulter and Jesse Sitting Crow, in the vicinity of some 50 murders, investigator Gary F.
Lachman said Tuesday. Volpe, Trisha (29 May 2008). Retrieved 15 August 2010.
Glaze allegedly boasts of having committed more than 20 murders across the country, including three in Minnesota. Minnesota v. Billy Richard Glaze (Supreme Court of Minnesota, en banc 16 March 1990). Spokane Chronicle.
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