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SaharaReporters.com
February 17, 2018
A self-confessed serial killer, Adeola Williams aka Ade Lawyer, has owned up to several assassinations, saying he had killed four people allegedly on the orders of a former Chairman of National Union Road of Transport Workers, Lagos State branch, Alhaji Akani Olorunwa. Ade Lawyer, 39 and 51-year-oldÃÂ ...
Bradenton Herald
February 17, 2018
A judge found Rosita and Howell Donaldson Jr. in contempt and said the two should be under house arrest for no longer than six months and must wear GPS monitors, according to a report by Spectrum Bay News 9. Prosecutor: "It is not our intent to have the Donaldsons end up in jail. It is our intent to haveÃÂ ...
nwitimes.com
February 17, 2018
CROWN POINT — The defense offered insight Friday into a potential sentencing strategy for alleged serial killer Darren Vann. Prosecutors and defense attorneys met Friday morning in Judge Samuel L. Cappas' courtroom to argue the defense's motion to exclude evidence of Vann's criminal history at trialÃÂ ...
CTV News
February 17, 2018
June 2017. The disappearance of one man, in a city of millions, triggered a series of events that ultimately unraveled a years-long mystery. It also set the stage for what is potentially Toronto's largest ever crime scene. His name was Andrew Kinsman. And it's only now, months after he vanished, that we canÃÂ ...
My Fox Boston
February 17, 2018
ALLENSTOWN, N.H. -- Northeastern University's Jack Levin is one of the country's best known criminologists. He has spent nearly his entire career studying, meeting and writing about serial killers. Recently, Boston 25 News reporter Bob Ward spoke with Levin to try to get a better understanding of TerryÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 17, 2018
Serial killer Michel Fourniret leaves court in 2008. He has repeatedly denied the murders of Joanna Parrish and Marie-Angele Domece. Photograph: Benoit Doppagne/AFP/Getty Images. A French serial killer has confessed to the murder of British language student Joanna Parrish in France nearly threeÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 17, 2018
FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, file photo, Mohammed Amin shows a picture of his seven year-old daughter, Zainab Ansari in Kasur, Pakistan. A public prosecutor in Pakistan says on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, a court has sentenced a serial killer to death after finding him guilty of killing eight children,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 16, 2018
They went on a few dates and bonded over their shared obsession with serial killers. They got married a couple of years later, and Mr. Oswalt urged her to channel her grim hobby into writing. In 2006, she launched her website, True Crime Diary, where she chronicled hundreds of unsolved crimes. In 2011ÃÂ ...
Toronto Star
February 2, 2018
Candlelight vigils, increased support for shocked community as investigation into alleged serial killer continues ... landscaper, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder in connection to disappearances in Toronto's Gay Village that police are characterizing as the work of a “serial killer.”à...
CBC.ca
February 2, 2018
Alleged serial killer victim Dean Lisowick remembered as protective, 'sweet guy' and fixture of Gay Village ... Dean Lisowick is now known as one of the victims of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur — but to those who knew him for decades in the Gay Village, he's remembered as a "sweet guy" who stuckÃÂ ...
The Advocate
February 2, 2018
Ryan Sharpe, 36, of Clinton, is escorted out after a hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017 at the East Feliciana Parish Courthouse in Clinton. Sharpe was arraigned on charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Tommy Bass, and attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of Buck Hornsby, whoÃÂ ...
Metro
February 2, 2018
Serial killer William Clyde Gibson comes face-to-face with Trevor McDonald on a new ITV Crime & Punishment documentary series. Gibson, from South Indiana, is on death row for murdering three women, one of which was 44-year-old Karen Hodella in 2002, Clarksville who was a complete stranger to theÃÂ ...
The Conversation CA
February 2, 2018
Beginning in 1967 with an odious medical resident named Niels Bjorn Jorgensen — who, I hypothesize in the book for the first time, had already murdered at least five people, including his own brother — UW-Madison emerged as a select destination for at least three serial killers. They posed as students,ÃÂ ...
TIME
February 2, 2018
Ewart had for five years hired a burly landscaper named Bruce McArthur, who is suspected of being a serial killer, and police have set out on a grim search for clues that may be hidden across Canada's largest city. Like other clients of the landscaper, Ewart finds himself struggling to comprehend how theÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
February 1, 2018
The 47-year-old homeless man is one of at least five victims police believe were killed by an alleged serial killer targeting men in Toronto's Gay Village. Bruce McArthur, 66, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Selim Esen, Andrew Kinsman, Majeed Kayhan, SoroushÃÂ ...
VICE
February 1, 2018
“Nobody wakes up one day and is a serial killer,” added Jooyoung Lee, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto who also researches serial killers. There's a gradual process, he said, “where initially people engage in fantasy behaviors, where they begin to think about harming others,ÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
January 31, 2018
John Wayne Gacy, one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history, hid his young victims underneath his house in a crawl space. "In those cases, it was about hiding evidence that could potentially implicate them as a serial killer," Lee said. Arntfield said the way the victims were disposed in TorontoÃÂ ...
The Advocate
January 25, 2018
Ryan Sharpe, 36, of Clinton, is escorted out after a hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017 at the East Feliciana Parish Courthouse in Clinton. Sharpe was arraigned on charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Tommy Bass, and attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of Buck Hornsby, whoÃÂ ...
Village Voice
January 25, 2018
The Bushwick-set slasher film Psychotic! put its best foot forward, kicking off with a jarring synth score by Blazing Galaxies and a stalker's-eye-view scene (we see just a hand with a knife) in which the intended murder is shock-blocked by the arrival of party guests — and then reduced to hiding under theÃÂ ...
Dallas News
January 25, 2018
The simple answer is I had the idea for a book with a serial killer and the heroine in the story needed to be the investigator. Serial killers are fascinating psychologically. On top of that, I wanted a character who was willing to devote her life to hunting them and saving the victims or getting justice for them.
CNN
January 24, 2018
Kasur, Pakistan (CNN) Aasia Bibi last saw her eight-year-old daughter Laiba as she waved her off on her way to a Quran class in July 2017. She did not return for dinner. That night, when Aasia heard a girl had been found dead, she felt her legs weaken and her body convulse. "I was heading towardsÃÂ ...
The Independent
January 24, 2018
A German nurse who killed his victims “out of boredom” has been charged with an additional 97 murders, potentially making him the country's deadliest serial killer. Niels Hoegel was already serving a life sentence for murdering two patients when he was charged again by public prosecutors on Monday.
ABC News
January 23, 2018
Florida prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a suspected serial killer in Tampa who is accused of slaying four people between Oct. 9 and Nov. 14, causing widespread fear in the Seminole Heights neighborhood. Interested in Seminole Heights Murders? Add Seminole Heights Murders as anÃÂ ...
Woburn Daily Times
January 21, 2018
WILMINGTON — John Fay, a graduate of Wilmington High School, has recently written a book, entitled The Shawcross Letters. The book chronicles the relationship between famed serial killer, Arthur Shawcross, and Fay himself, partially told through letters between the two, and it was co-written by BrianÃÂ ...
Toronto Star
January 21, 2018
Police haven't labelled McArthur a serial killer. But they didn't discourage use of the term, saying it was up to the media to decide. Lee said he could not comment on the McArthur case because there is no conviction yet. However, he said that, generally speaking, serial killers target people from certainÃÂ ...
Mirror.co.uk
January 21, 2018
He referred to his van as his 'murder mobile' and claimed responsibility for the bodies being discovered behind the shopping complex. William said he'd buried them there and called the area his 'garden'. Was William just telling tall tales for attention, or was he potentially the most prolific serial killer NewÃÂ ...
Sky News
January 20, 2018
Celine Dookhran murder: 'Psycho' uncle 'inspired by acid bath serial killer'. The woman who survived told the court she was covered "from head to toe" in blood as she fought for her life after being raped. 00:01, UK, Saturday 20 January 2018. Celine Dookhran. Pic: Twitter. Image: Celine Dookhran was 20 years old.
Huntsville Item
January 20, 2018
A condemned serial killer was put to death Thursday evening for the murder of a 21-year-old woman whose body was dumped at a restaurant in Houston more than 25 years ago. Anthony Allen Shore, 55, who was dubbed the “Tourniquet Killer” for the manner in which he strangled his victims, confessed toÃÂ ...
CNN
January 20, 2018
(CNN) Before he became a suspected serial killer, Cleophus Cooksey was trying to break out as a rapper. Two years ago, Cooksey, who has been linked to nine killings over three weeks in the Phoenix metro area, was making YouTube videos of himself rapping and recording tracks under the moniker KingÃÂ ...
CBS News
January 20, 2018
PHOENIX - Police said they arrested three women for tampering and hindering the investigation into a suspected serial killer, Cleophus E. Cooksey Jr., reports CBS affiliate KPHO. The three women are Cooksey's ex-girlfriend Liliana Vasquez and her sister Griselda Vasquez, as well as Desaree Coronado,ÃÂ ...
PEOPLE.com
January 18, 2018
When April Balascio realized her dad, Edward Wayne Edwards, may have had something to do with a double-homicide in a Wisconsin town where the family had once lived, she struggled with the decision to call authorities. “She agonized over whether she should call the detective for a while,” explainsÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 18, 2018
The title for the second season of Ryan Murphy's true crime anthology series, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, is misleading. Yes, it concerns the murder of the famous Italian designer, but it is about the man who killed him, the serial killer Andrew Cunanan. Versace was the lastÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
January 3, 2018
He took a swipe at me, missed by a whisker: Man attacked by Palwal serial killer. Naresh Dhankar was caught by a police team around 7.15 am on Tuesday when he was reportedly chasing his seventh victim on the street outside his in-laws' home. He allegedly attacked the police team but suffered a brainÃÂ ...
Daily News & Analysis
January 3, 2018
A former Indian Army Captain went on a killing spree and allegedly bludgeoned six people to death, smashing their heads with an iron rod in Haryana's Palwal on Tuesday early morning. Naresh Dhankhad, 45, a MSc topper from Haryana Agriculture University in Hisar, went on a rampage between 2 amÃÂ ...
Worthing Herald
January 3, 2018
Ashley, who has had an interest in serial killers since he was 10, took inspiration from Jack the Ripper for this book. He said: “I just found them fascinating; the different methods they use and how they get away with it. Jack the Ripper I find most interesting in the way he appeared and disappeared, and thatÃÂ ...
KENS 5 TV
January 3, 2018
Genene Jones is suspected in multiple child murders in Bexar County, and she was convicted of the murder of a 14-month-old Kerrville girl. The following is a timeline of events in the case based on reporting by KENS 5 and Peter Elkind, author of The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones andÃÂ ...
The Times
January 3, 2018
A garage worker who was twice released from custody for killing his wife and a former partner has admitted murdering another woman he was involved with. Theodore Johnson, 64, beat Angela Best, 51, over the head six times with a claw hammer and strangled her with a dressing gown cord in DecemberÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
December 31, 2017
The second season is presented by criminology expert Professor David Wilson and forensic psychology expert Professor Michael Brookes, who analyse the gruesome tales told by some of the world's most high-profile serial killers. It features episodes dedicated to Aileen Wuornos, Peter Manuel, StephenÃÂ ...
The Ledger
December 31, 2017
GAINESVILLE — Florida in 2017 was ravaged by a powerful hurricane, transfixed by the hunt for a serial killer in Tampa and rocked by a stream of political resignations after sexual misconduct allegations. The year's biggest news stories chronicled a historic hurricane season that had nearly all of Florida inÃÂ ...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
December 31, 1999
A Louisiana appeals court rejected Mississippi native Felix Vail's appeal, concluding that the sentence for the suspected serial killer, already serving life without parole, must also include “hard labor.” “I've often heard justice delayed is justice denied,” said District Attorney John DeRosier, whose officeÃÂ ...
Spartanburg Herald Journal
December 31, 1999
For $89, someone with enough interest could purchase a signed pencil tracing of serial killer Todd Kohlhepp's hands from prison. Or at least that was until the listing was removed from the website that specializes in true crime collectibles, or memorabilia from high-profile killers known as “murderabilia.”.
The State
December 31, 1999
For $89, someone with enough interest could purchase a signed pencil tracing of serial killer Todd Kohlhepp's hands from prison. Or at least that was until the listing was removed from the website that specializes in true crime collectibles, or memorabilia from high-profile killers known as “murderabilia.”.
Liverpool Echo
November 28, 2017
The Hunt For A Serial Killer – dealing with the unsolved murders of these eight women. And it is my dream to bring together relatives of all the ...
WBKO
November 28, 2017
(AP) -- A former University of Kentucky student who survived an attack from a notorious serial killer is in Kentucky this week to talk about her ...
WKRG
November 28, 2017
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Residents in southeast Seminole Heights are making a community effort to “Light the Heights.” The goal is to put up ...
The Advocate
November 28, 2017
Alleged serial killer Ryan Sharpe pleaded not guilty to two of the charges against him in East Feliciana Parish Tuesday morning in the July fatal ...
BBC News
November 28, 2017
A High Court judge has ordered fresh inquests into the deaths of two men who were murdered by the serial killer Stephen Port. Port was ...
Mirror.co.uk
November 27, 2017
Posing as an injured man, struggling with a briefcase alongside his trusty VW Beetle, Ted Bundy cut a laid back, handsome figure on the ...
The Student
November 27, 2017
Despite their brutal crimes, serial killers have always engendered ... be a serial killer, and nobody would be able to tell: lecturers, neighbours, ...
LEX18 Lexington KY News
November 27, 2017
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A former University of Kentucky student who survived an attack from a notorious serial killer is in Kentucky this week to ...
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