One of the magazine/books just out: True Crime:Cases That Shocked America (USA Today) says that John Norman Collins in Michigan was the first to be called a “serial killer.” Up to then police weren’t looking for them and expecting evidence to link the killings. Now it’s common.
He was abducting and killing women at the time I was working near where he did his evil. All the women were terrified. One coworker joked that she scared herself almost to death. She took the police advice to not simply get into a car because the killer might be hiding on the back seat or floor. As she checked through the window she screamed, thinking she saw the killer. It was only herself in the mirror of the car glass in the dark.
Was that the Oakland County guy?