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Serial rabbit killer uses Google maps to find victims German police are concerned that the person killing rabbits may go on to kill human beings Roger Boyes in Berlin The roll call of victims is growing longer by the day. They have names like Rocco, Fussel, Marianne and Fluffy — and a five-man police unit has a file on each and every one. The so-called “bunny murders” — 40 domestic rabbits killed at night in their hutches, heads and sometimes paws sliced off, their bodies drained of blood — is stunning communities across western Germany. “Nobody knows where the killer...

Chicago, IL (AHN) - Eight deaths in Illinois and Missouri are being linked to a 28-year old man sighted near the border of the two states. The Illinois State Police called Nicholas Sheley of Sterling "a person of interest". Sheley is armed, dangerous and has a $25,000 prize money on his head. He has been linked to at least five of the homicides, including four people whose corpse were discovered in an apartment at Rock Falls.

At least 40 young men who drowned may have died by far more sinister means — serial killings at the hands of a national gang that revels in murdering young men and leaving smiley-face markings at the scene, a team of retired New York City police detectives and criminal justice investigators said Monday. They believe the victims, including University of Minnesota student Chris Jenkins and Fordham University student Patrick McNeill, didn't accidentally drown but were actually killed by members of the so-called "Smiley Face Gang," KSTP in St. Paul reported. A smiley-face symbol was found painted at some of the...

Could there be a calculated, cross-country plot to kill young college men, including some in Minnesota? It seems a little hard to believe, but two New York detectives say, they can prove it.

DETECTIVES: Chris Jenkins murder connects dozens around country Could there be a calculated, cross-country plot to kill young college men, including some in Minnesota? It seems a little hard to believe, but two New York detectives say, they can prove it. Now, they are revealing years of their evidence for the first time to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS... University of Minnesota college student Chris Jenkins was found in the Mississippi River in February of 2003. Minneapolis Police began investigating the case, which also caught the attention of two retired NYPD detectives. Turns out, Jenkins' death was the missing part of the...

TORONTO -- The shadow of serial killer Paul Bernardo remains over the death of Elizabeth Bain and the prosecution of Robert Baltovich, whose 18-year ordeal ended Tuesday when he was acquitted of murdering his girlfriend. "It is an unbelievable relief. It is going to take a few days to sink in," said Mr. Baltovich outside court after the Crown offered no evidence on the first day of his second-degree murder trial. If the trial had gone ahead, defence lawyers would have presented Bernardo as an alternate suspect in the death of Ms. Bain, who disappeared in June, 1990, and whose...

MERRITT, B.C. - The prime suspect in the murder of three young British Columbia children has been captured alive in Merritt, authorities say. "He's alive," confirmed RCMP Assistant Commissioner Al Macintyre, the commander of criminal operations in B.C. He said Schoenborn was found near Merritt. Police in Canada and the U.S. had been searching for Allan Dwayne Schoenborn, 40, since April 7 - the day after his three children were found dead in their mobile home. Allan Dwayne Schoenborn, the prime suspect in theslayings of his three children in Merritt, B.C., has been found. Schoenborn had been watching the children,...

MEXICO CITY - A former female wrestler who terrorized Mexico City as the "Little Old Lady Killer" was sentenced to 759 years in jail on Monday for killing 16 elderly women. Juana Barraza, 50, admitted to killing four women over the age of 70 out of anger toward her elderly mother. She said she did not kill the others and did not agree with Monday's sentence, but prosecutors say her fingerprints matched those in the 12 other cases. The series of murders created a wave of fear among elderly women in Mexico City and lurid speculation in the press. The...

Sitting with bowed heads behind a bullet proof glass, Michel Fourniret and wife Monique Olivier were put on trial for the rape and murder of 7 girls and young women. They went virgin hunting and would rape and then murder their victims. Charleville-Meziers, France has in its court a notorious, self admitted serial killer. Dubbed the "Ogre of the Ardennes" Fourniret said that he and his wife Monique Olivier met in 1980 and made a pact with each other. Fourniret would kill Olivier's first husband. In return, Olivier would go hunt for virgins for Fourniret. He said that he beat...

Breaking on Fox, no link yet. This means there are new murders to tie to Charles Manson. Maybe, just maybe, he can get the death penalty for one or more of these. Assuming the liberal gods in black robes don't block it again to save him.

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Manson holed up after an orgy of murder nearly four decades ago. Now, as then, few venture into this alkaline wilderness — gold-diggers, outlaws, loners content to live and let live. But a determined group of outsiders recently made the trek. They were leading forensic investigators searching for new evidence of death — clues pointing to possible decades-old clandestine graves. And the results of just-completed followup tests suggest bodies could indeed be...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif.: Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Manson holed up after an orgy of murder nearly four decades ago. Now, as then, few venture into this alkaline wilderness — gold-diggers, outlaws, loners content to live and let live. But a determined group of outsiders recently made the trek. They were leading forensic investigators searching for new evidence of death — clues pointing to possible decades-old clandestine graves. And the results of just-completed followup tests suggest bodies could indeed be lying...

Target ... killer Sutcliffe after being nearly blinded in a 1983 coffee jar attack        I'll blind your one good eye     By JAMIE PYATT and RICHARD WHITE Published: Today     HATED Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe screamed in terror as a knifeman tried to gouge out his only eye. Evil Sutcliffe, who had lost his left eye in a previous attack, was told: “I’ll blind your f****** other one.” Crazed killer Patrick Sureda, 41, leapt at him in a dining hall at Broadmoor top security hospital on Saturday, yelling: “You f****** raping, murdering bastard.”  ...

A 58-year-old Canadian pig farmer is facing life in prison after being convicted of murdering six women - a fraction of the total number he is thought to have killed. Robert "Willie" Pickton was given an automatic life sentence when a jury in British Columbia found him guilty of murder. He still faces murder charges for the deaths of 20 more women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood. If convicted on all those charges, he would become Canada's most prolific serial killer. Police are still investigating the cases of almost 40 other missing women....

NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia - A pig farmer accused of being Canada's worst serial killer was found guilty Sunday of six counts of second-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. The verdict ended the trial of Robert 'Willie' Pickton on the first six of 26 murder charges in the deaths of women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood. Pickton, 58, was tried for the killings of Mona Wilson, Sereena Abotsway, Marnie Frey, Brenda Wolfe, Andrea Joesbury and Georgina Papin. The defense acknowledged that their remains were found on Pickton's farm...

In 1861, free institutions seemed poised to carry all before them. In Russia, Tsar Alexander II emancipated 22 million serfs. In Germany, lawmakers dedicated to free constitutional principles prepared to assert civilian control over Prussia’s feudal military caste. In America, Abraham Lincoln entered the White House pledged to a revolutionary policy of excluding human bondage from the nation’s territories. The new machinery of freedom, though Anglo-American in design, was universal in scope. At its core was the idea, as yet imperfectly realized, that all human beings possess a fundamental dignity. This was a truth that, Abraham Lincoln believed, was “applicable...

Mexico City man suspected of being cannibal serial killer By Jeremy Schwartz COX NEWS SERVICE October 12, 2007 MEXICO CITY – On the stove, a frying pan with chunks of flesh. In the refrigerator, a leg and part of an arm, both deboned. The bones were stuffed into a cereal box. Mexico City police made the grisly discoveries this week as they arrested the man the Mexican media are calling a cannibalistic serial killer. Police said José Luis Calva Zepeda, 40, was arrested Monday and was being held on suspicion of homicide after an investigation into the disap-pearance of his...

Alexander Pichushkin looks on from behind the glass of a security cage during the first day of his trial in Moscow, in this Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, file photo. MOSCOW (AP) - A man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of them on a chessboard reveled in the memory of his first murder at his trial Tuesday, saying "it's like first love - it's unforgettable," news reports said. Alexander Pichushkin also insisted that prosecutors charge him with all the murders he has taken credit for, saying to do otherwise would be unfair, RIA-Novosti and Interfax reported. Pichushkin,...

Jackson, Mich. (AP) -- A confessed serial killer who authorities said may have been responsible for dozens of deaths died Friday, only a little more than a week after he received a second life sentence, authorities said. Coral Eugene Watts, who said he targeted women with evil eyes, died in a secure area of Foote Hospital, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said. He was 53, and the cause of death was apparently prostate cancer, Marlan said. The Michigan attorney general's office has said Watts was a suspect in more than 25 slayings and may have killed more than...

LANSING, Mich. - A suspected serial killer has been arrested in the deaths of five women in the city in just over a month — and he is also connected to an assault on a woman whose dog ran the attacker off, police said. Local, state and federal investigators "have taken a collective sigh of relief," police Lt. Judy Horning said. The man, whose name was not released, was not expected to be charged or arraigned until at least Friday. "The despicable individual responsible for this heinous rampage through our community has been captured," Mayor Virg Bernero said. "Our nightmare...

Young Russian nationalist confesses to killing 37 14:40 | 28/ 05/ 2007 MOSCOW, May 28 (RIA Novosti) - A young nationalist suspected of killing an Armenian businessman confessed to killing 37 people together with his friend, a popular Russian daily said Monday. Vremya Novostei reported that Artur Ryno, a student at an icon painting school, detained in mid-April on suspicion of killing Karen Abramyan, an Armenian, told investigators that he has "since school hated people from the Caucasus who come to Moscow, unite and oppress Russians," and added that he suddenly realized "the city needed to be cleaned." Ryno said...

Forensic analyst Dexter Morgan leads a double life as serial killer of criminals whom have gotten away with murder through legal technicalities. He hides his double life from his vice squad sister Debra, his co-workers at the Metro Miami Police Department where he works, as well as his commitment-minded girlfriend, a troubled divorcée named Rita.

'Serial killer', 8, charged with three murders By Peter Foster in New Delhi  Last Updated: 4:22pm BST 01/06/2007   An eight-year-old boy was being described as "India’s youngest serial killer" after he was charged with the murder of three children, including his sister, who were all less than one year old. Armadeep Sada, the son of an impoverished Indian couple, was produced in court today accused of the murder of a six-month-old girl, Kushboo, who he is alleged to have abducted last Tuesday and two other children. Kushboo’s mother, Chunchun Devi, said she had left her daughter to sleep at...

One Spring day in 1993, Jerri Johnson held a “repast dinner” for her 29-year-old murdered daughter, Andrea Tripplett. It was the end of a day marked by two burials: Andrea’s, and that of her 5-and-a-half-month-old fetus, poignantly laid to rest at her mother’s feet. Close by — filling her home and backyard, bringing food and eating together — were family and friends, including a quiet and familiar neighborhood man, Chester Turner. Turner joined other mourners “in the backyard, eating my food,” Johnson says. Widely known for his violent temper, he hung around the nearby liquor store on Figueroa and 76th...

Cam'ron Won't Help Police Catch Serial Killers Story by: Rachael Darmanin If Cam'ron's next-door neighbor happened to be a serial killer, you'd probably never know. According to an interview with Anderson Cooper that will air on this Sunday's 60 Minutes, the platinum- selling artist, whose real name is Cameron Giles, says he would not offer any information to aid police catching a serial killer if he knew of their whereabouts, citing a potential subsequent decline in sales and the upholding of a "code of ethics" as his prominent reasoning. "If I knew the serial killer was living next door to...

IT'S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE WEIRD By now, the world knows that the killer at Virginia Tech is a guy named Cho Seung-Hui. You won't see him described as an "Asian" anymore. The group that protects the Asians have voiced a protest for fear of casting aspersions on all Asians. I think I've read enough about the massacre to know that Hui was a loner. He talked in monosyllable responses when asked questions. His roommate says he wasn't particularly interactive. He wrote a story for an English assignment that apparently was a bit over the top. So much so that...

Investigators fear Indian businessman killed 38 By Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:29am GMT 07/01/2007 Indian police fear that as many as 38 children and young women may have been killed by a rich businessman and his servant accomplice in a two-year orgy of sexual abuse and murder in a leafy suburb of New Delhi. Moninder Singh Pandher A week after the killings in Noida came to light, the parents of the victims are directing their rage at police who, they claim, were indifferent to reports of missing persons. As children started disappearing with alarming frequency...

Thibodaux, La. -- The man suspected of being a serial killer had been accused of rape on two occasions before the killing of his alleged first victim, but he never stood trial, newspapers reported Saturday. Ronald Dominique was indicted on nine counts of first-degree murder earlier this month. Held in lieu of a $9 million bond, he has yet to enter a plea. In 1993, a Houma man told Thibodaux police that Dominique tied him up and raped him at gunpoint, but an officer chose not to make an arrest, the Daily Comet and the Courier newspapers reported. In 1996,...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Vanishing students. Dead bodies. Fears something sinister is lurking in the shadows. A string of college student drownings across the Midwest has all the makings of great mystery. Or does it? Rumors have persisted for years that a serial killer is prowling Interstate 94, hunting young men in college bars and plunging them underwater. Investigators, though, say there's no evidence of foul play. They say the victims were so drunk they fell in the river and died. Not so fast, says criminologist Douglas Gilbertson. An assistant criminology professor at St. Cloud State University, Gilbertson has spent...

HOUMA -- After his arrest, suspected serial killer Ronald Dominique needed little prompting before he began detailing the murderous trysts that claimed almost two dozen lives over nearly a decade and confounded police in six parishes where the bodies were dumped, authorities said Monday. In a taped confession, Dominique recounted for detectives how he enticed his victims with offers of money for sex, tied them up, then raped and strangled them, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said. However, Dominique wasn't a fighter, Larpenter said. Each victim -- all males between the ages of 16 and 46, some of whom were...

A man has confessed to strangling or suffocating 23 men during an eight-year killing spree and dumping their bodies in remote spots in seven parishes, police said. Ronald J. Dominique, 42, was charged with nine additional counts of murder on Monday, bringing the total to 11 counts against him - 10 for first-degree murder and one for second-degree murder. Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said Dominique confessed to killing 23 men, all males between the ages of 16 and 46, between 1997 and 2005. Snip Dominique, who is indigent, has not yet been appointed a lawyer and did not have...

The man who allegedly admitted to murdering nearly two dozen men told authorities he did so to keep them quiet after raping them. Ronald Joseph Dominique, 42, of Bayou Blue, is formally charged with killing 11 men over a period spanning nearly a decade. Police say he’s admitted to killing 23, and there may be others whose deaths haven’t been discovered yet. He targeted men with a transient life-style, those who walked or relied on a bicycle for transportation and may have had drug or alcohol problems. Some of those men were gay, others performed sex acts with men or...

A multi-agency task force investigating as many as 21 stranglings arrested a 42-year-old Houma man on Friday and booked him with two of the earliest ones. See story A statewide investigation into nearly two dozen slayings of men, most around the southeastern Louisiana town of Houma and in neighboring parishes, led police to arrest a suspect Friday who they believe is a serial killer, charging him in the killings of two men from New Orleans. Houma police arrested Ronald J. Dominique, 42, at a homeless shelter run by the police department on Friday, and accused him of leaving two dead...

WASHINGTON ? The U.S. government believes Fidel Castro's health is deteriorating and that the Cuban leader is unlikely to live through 2007, U.S. officials said.

STARKE, Fla. -- Danny Rolling was executed Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. for the 1990 murders and mutilations of five college students in Gainesville. ... Rolling was strapped on a gurney, placed on a heart monitor and wheeled into the execution chamber late Wednesday afternoon, where the eight carefully marked syringes used in a lethal injection awaited. Local 10 Reporter Witnesses Execution Local 10's Jeff Weinsier was the only South Florida reporter to witness the execution along with family members and others. ... Weinsier said that Rolling died without making any apology to the families or showing any sign of...

Are television critics a menace to society? What do we do when our media tastemakers, the men and women entrusted to evaluate the artistic merit of Tinseltown offerings, exult in Hollywood's lack of taste? When perverse novelty and "edge" and complete moral confusion is what these critics live to watch and love to promote, they appear to be seeking to establish the polar opposite of a moral tone in our culture. Take as an example the critics' views on the new Showtime drama "Dexter." Its sickening premise makes a hero out of a sadistic serial killer, because he kills only...

A tip led Phoenix police to arrest a man on suspicion of sexual assault and kidnapping in one of the attacks linked to the Baseline Killer. Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said the man currently is not a suspect in the other attacks but told the Tribune "we are not ruling out anything at this point." Hill declined to confirm the name of the man booked into the Maricopa County Fourth Avenue Jail because police were running a photo lineup to determine whether he was involved in other cases. Hill described the suspect as black and a Phoenix resident...

He's murdered nine men since 2000, eight Turks and one Greek, with shots to the head, execution-style, in broad daylight. Police probing the country's most mysterious killing spree in recent memory have now come up with a profile of the attacker: a loner who likes guns and hates Turkish people. And he doesn't look like Hannibal Lecter. The killing started in the southern city of Nuremberg in September 2000 when Enver S., 38, was gunned down in his flower delivery van with eight shots fired at point blank range. The most recent murder happened on April 6 this year in...

Richard Ramirez Accused Of Killing 13 People In Mid-1980sLOS ANGELES -- The state Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence of "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, who is on death row for 13 murders he committed during a crime spree that terrorized the Southland in the 1980s. In a 104-page ruling, the state's highest court unanimously rejected Ramirez's claim that numerous errors were made in his trial in Los Angeles Superior Court. Ramirez, who is now 46 and on death row at San Quentin State Prison, was sentenced to die for the crimes after a high-profile trial. Along with the murders,...

MESA, Ariz. — Police arrested two men Friday in an investigation into a series of fatal shootings that have terrorized Phoenix-area residents, according to a law enforcement official. Sgt. Chuck Trapani, a Mesa police spokesman, earlier said "we've had a break in one of our major cases" but would not disclose any details. Local FOX affiliate KSAZ reported that two men were arrested at the Mesa apartment complex. Those two men may have been apprehended in the connection to the recent slew of shootings that have paralyzed the Phoenix area with fear, although police are not yet confirming that. Phoenix...

Serial killer Wayne Adam Ford had few public admirers when Victoria Redstall, a former spokesmodel for breast enhancement supplements, breezed through the doors at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga determined to meet him. Redstall, a British-born actress from Studio City, admits to a lifelong fixation on serial killers and said meeting Ford in April — to interview him for a documentary — was "the dream of a lifetime." She expected to be fascinated, she said, but not drawn into a deep bond with Ford that has caused a disruption in court and triggered an investigation by the...

FORT WORTH -- The two girls stare into the camera with little expression on their faces.. They are young, possibly pre-teens. One appears to be sitting in the front seat of a vehicle. The other is leaning forward from the backseat. It is not what is shown in the cropped photograph that concerns Fort Worth authorities. It's where it was found: under the jail cell mattress of serial killing suspect Juan Mesa Segundo. On Tuesday, police released the image to the media. It's the second time in less than a week that an area law enforcement agency has asked...

LOS ANGELES - Investigators said Tuesday they are trying to find at least 50 women they have linked to a photographer on death row for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s. Authorities are looking into whether the women were raped or killed between 1975 and 1984 by William Richard Bradford, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Web site. In the 1970s and '80s, Bradford posed as a freelance photographer in the West Los Angeles area, taking sexually explicit photos of women he met at bars and auto races, according to the site. The site showed women...

(AP) PHOENIX, Ariz. -- People aren't going out alone at night anymore. Co-workers are walking to their cars in pairs in the evenings. Parents aren't letting their children out of their sight. Fear and paranoia have gripped this sprawling city amid reports that not one, but two serial killers have been striking separately in recent months, killing as many as 11 people at random on the darkened streets. "I'm terrified," said 25-year-old Valerie Alvidrez, who lives alone with her 6-month-old daughter in the central Phoenix area where many of the killings have occurred. "It's scary. If something happens, I have...

PHOENIX -- Twenty-two-year-old Andrea Anaya lives alone with her four children, and with at least two serial killers on the prowl in the Phoenix area, she's worried. "I can't sleep at night," Anaya said as she held her 3-month-old baby boy at a community meeting Wednesday night. "I am terrified. I'm terrified for the safety of my children, myself and my family." Since last August, a man who has been called the "The Baseline Rapist" by local media and "The Baseline Killer" by Phoenix police is believed to have committed or be connected to eight robberies, seven sexual assaults and...

PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- Phoenix police are trying to solve two separate strings of killings that have terrorized the community. Authorities say they are looking for someone who has shot 34 people at random in the past year as they walked or rode bicycles, killing four.

Kathy Domzalski remembers waking to the screams of the survivor. Pat Waddington remembers how close she came to sharing the fate of the eight student nurses -- opting at only the last minute not to stay overnight with her friends in the neighboring town house. And Peter McNamee still remembers the chill he got when he heard a sketchy report on the radio about the murder of some unidentified nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital, where his fiancee, Nina Jo Schmale, was finishing her schooling. "I just felt cold blood run through me," McNamee said. "I don't know if they...

Mexico City, Jun 28 (EFE).- Authorities here expressed regret Wednesday over the execution of Mexican citizen Angel Maturino Resendiz, the notorious "Railroad Killer," at a prison in Huntsville, Texas. Resendiz, sentenced to death in 2000 for the rape-murder of a Houston doctor but also believed responsible in a dozen other slayings, was executed Tuesday night by lethal injection "despite medical evidence about the severe mental disturbances he suffered," the Mexican foreign ministry said in a communique. A Texas court ruled last Wednesday that Resendiz, who asked for forgiveness before being executed and said he deserved his fate, was mentally competent...

(6/27/06 - HUNTSVILLE, TX) - Train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, linked to at least 15 indiscriminate murders near railroad tracks around the country, was executed Tuesday night. In his final statement, Resendiz asked for forgiveness. He was pronounced dead at 8:05 p.m. CDT.

(6/27/06 - HUNTSVILLE, TX) - US Supreme Court appeals are still pending for convicted killer Angel Maturino Resendiz -- so Texas prison officials have delayed the scheduled start time of his execution. Officials won't proceed tonight in Huntsville until the appeals are resolved. The death warrant remains in effect until midnight.