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America’s most prolific serial killer admits to murder that sent innocent man to prison
New York Post ^ | November 19, 2020 | Natalie O'Neill

Posted on 12/19/2020 12:00:43 AM PST by nickcarraway

America’s most prolific serial killer — who has credibly confessed to more than 90 murders — admitted to killing a woman whose death sent an innocent man to prison, according to a report Thursday.

SNIP

The 80-year-old monster recently confessed to detectives that he killed Dorothy Gibson, a 17-year-old runaway who was found strangled outside a Miami hotel in 1977, according to the paper, which cited the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.

Jerry Frank Townsend, a mentally retarded man who falsely confessed to killing Gibson, had previously spent 22 years behind bars before he was released in 2001.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
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1 posted on 12/19/2020 12:00:43 AM PST by nickcarraway
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when do you think all the profilers in this country will drop the "Christian white loner male" mantra for every serial killing or rape.....there seems to many many black serial killers....

I remember the cops describe the DC murderers as "olive skinned"...anything to not outright say "black" and still the SCM pushed the lone white guy theory...

2 posted on 12/19/2020 12:12:47 AM PST by cherry (TRUMP WON!)
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To: nickcarraway

Hunter Biden?


3 posted on 12/19/2020 12:13:24 AM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.officer.com/investigations/forensics/news/21165368/serial-killers-fourdecade-murder-spree-started-with-south-florida


4 posted on 12/19/2020 12:14:14 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: cherry

The top 2 are black. This guy and Gosnell.


5 posted on 12/19/2020 12:24:17 AM PST by angmo (#joeknew)
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To: angmo

Unless you include Andrew Cuomo. I consider him more of a mass murderer than a serial killer though.


6 posted on 12/19/2020 12:25:29 AM PST by angmo (#joeknew)
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To: nickcarraway

Most prolific serial killer? Oh I thought it was Hitlery.


7 posted on 12/19/2020 12:36:09 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: cherry

Robert Ressler wrote a book wherein he said he believed that up to 20% of all serial killers were black, far out of proportion to their numbers in the population. I forget the books title, but I’m sure it wouldn’t be published today.


8 posted on 12/19/2020 3:13:18 AM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: angmo

The Kenyon from Texas who killed up to 1000 elderly women in assisted living facilities will take the crown.


9 posted on 12/19/2020 3:17:06 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: cherry

At a minimum, the number of Black Serial killers is about 26% in some literature I’ve read. That is about twice the population percentage.

Another interesting twist is that homosexuals account for about 15% of serial killers, and only constitute less that 1% of the population.


10 posted on 12/19/2020 3:48:22 AM PST by firedoggy111 (Books, Articles on the Spanish Civil War )
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To: angmo

Top 3, Carl Watts has a reported 100,


11 posted on 12/19/2020 3:50:17 AM PST by firedoggy111 (Books, Articles on the Spanish Civil War )
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To: nickcarraway

I fell in to a rabbit hole with Dorothy Gibson.
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/dorothy-gibson-the-woman-who-survived-the-sinking-of-the-titanic-and-a-nazi-prison/


12 posted on 12/19/2020 5:14:23 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: nickcarraway

Yeah, thats not FUBAR At all, is it?


13 posted on 12/19/2020 7:02:10 AM PST by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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