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The search for victims of a suspected serial killer is expanding far beyond his Ohio home and yard, where police have found the remains of at least 11 people. The FBI is reviewing its national database of unsolved crimes for any clues to possible connections to Anthony Sowell, particularly at locations where he served in the military, said Scott Wilson, an FBI spokesman in Cleveland.

In a two-track effort to stop the November 10 execution of John Allen Muhammad, sentenced to death after his conviction for 10 killings 7 years ago, Attorney Jon Sheldon has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court and a motion for a stay of execution so that the court can review compelling evidence of Muhammad`s "severe mental illness" Sheldon also requested that Governor Tim Kaine commute Muhammad`s sentence to life without parole because of the severe mental illness. "The public has been protected from John Muhammad for the past 7 years," said Sheldon, "and a sentence of life in...

More body bags were reportedly taken from the backyard of the Ohio home of convicted sexual predator Anthony Sowell on Tuesday, Fox 8 Cleveland reported. Sowell's neighbors have said they complained for years about a foul smell coming from an area near his house, Fox 8 Cleveland reported. Now a Cleveland city councilman wants to launch an investigation into whether police and health inspectors failed to pick up on any signs that could have led them to the six bodies around Sowell's house any sooner.

(Oct. 31) -- Police in Cleveland say at least three bodies have been found at the home of a convicted rapist, and they expect to confirm three more. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Anthony Sowell, 50, and a convicted rapist, has been arrested. Police are asking people with missing relatives to bring in items that might offer DNA samples, to help authorities identify the victims. Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said Saturday that the bodies were found at the home of 50-year-old Anthony Sowell of Cleveland. He says officers have found three bodies and believe they have discovered three...

<p>None of the bodies has been identified; search of house to continue Saturday (CNN) -- A search has been launched for a 50-year-old convicted rapist and suspect in the killings of six people whose bodies were found in and around a house in Cleveland, Ohio, police said Friday.</p>

Two decades after the devil-worshiping "Night Stalker" killer was sentenced to die for 13 Southern California murders, DNA evidence has tied him to the 1984 rape and slaying of a 9-year-old girl in the Tenderloin, San Francisco authorities said Thursday. The DNA links Richard Ramirez and possibly a second, unknown attacker to the April 10, 1984, killing of Mei "Linda" Leung, whose body was found hanging over a pipe in the basement of her apartment building at 765 O'Farrell St., police said. The girl was with her 8-year-old brother when she lost a dollar bill and went looking for it,...

A web site has been set up by the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Office to draw attention to the killing of eight women in the area. Police say the slayings may be linked. The victims' bodies were dumped on the outskirts of Jennings -- population 10,546 -- west of Lafayette, Louisiana. Townspeople are perplexed. They're asking themselves, "Is there a serial killer among us?" "Jennings and Jefferson Davis Parish is hurting and grieving the deaths of eight women since 2005," the sheriff said. "The investigative team continues to pray for Loretta, Ernestine, Kristen, Whitnei, [Laconia] 'Muggy,' [Crystal] Shay, Brittney, and...

A Michigan police chief says a 63-year-old anti-abortion activist who was protesting outside a high school was shot and killed in front of horrified students and parents. Owosso police chief Michael Compeau said the activist, Jim Pouillon, was outside the school this morning with a sign when a man drove by and shot him. No one else was injured. Compeau says a 33-year-old Owosso man was later arrested in the school shooting and he then told police he was involved in the gravel-pit shooting.(continued)

A 49-year-old man suspected in the killings of at least eight women over 21 years in Milwaukee has been charged in connection with two of the homicides, authorities announced Monday. Walter E. Ellis of Milwaukee faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the killings of Joyce Mims, 41, and Ouithreaun Stokes, 28, who were strangled a decade apart. Ellis was arrested around noon Saturday at a motel in Franklin, one day after authorities linked DNA from his toothbrush with samples found on Mims' and Stokes' bodies, according to a criminal complaint. Ellis could be charged this week in connection...

A GYMSLIP murderess aged just 17 was being held last night for knifing THIRTY men to death. The schoolgirl stunned cops by owning up to a serial killing spree that started when she was a 15-year-old. She told detectives she wanted to confess before she turned 18 and could be tried as an adult. The girl - too young even to be named - said she began targeting men in her home city of Sao Paulo, Brazil "for money, revenge and to bring justice". She even SMILED as she reeled off her list of victims - which is feared to...

Detective Diane Webb was determined. The Grim Sleeper, an anonymous killer who’d stopped murdering for 13 years, had resurfaced, and she had a plan for tripping him up. It was the fall of 2008, and she happened to show Detective Lauren Rauch, one of 33 officers who work for Webb monitoring the city’s vast population of registered sex offenders, a recent L.A. Weekly news story headlined, “The Grim Sleeper: The most elusive serial killer west of the Mississippi took a 13-year break. Now he’s back, murdering Angelenos, as cops hunt his DNA.” Webb, a hardcore number-cruncher and sex-crimes expert, floated...

A serial killer who murdered five people over six days was tracked down by police who were notified by an alert citizen, and then killed after wounding one officer when he opened fire. But as usual, there is a story behind what was published by Old Media. Law enforcement raises warning flag After examining Burris’s criminal history, South Carolina’s State Law Enforcement Division [SLED] Chief Reggie Lloyd said: "Look at this," Lloyd said, waiving [sic] a stapled copy of Burris' criminal record. "This is like 25 pages. At some point the criminal justice system is going to need to explain...

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GASTONIA, N.C. -- South Carolina Law Enforcement agents are investigating in Gaston County, N.C., after a man suspected of trying to burglarize a home was shot to death by police. SLED officials could not confirm whether the shooting was linked to the recent slayings of five people near Gaffney, S.C. They said they are checking any cases with similarities to the serial killings. [snip] Gaston County police said they received a call about a possible burglary early Monday, and when three officers arrived, they found three people inside the home in the 700 block of Dallas-Spencer Mountain Road. Two were...

North Carolina police officer has been wounded and a suspect killed during a confrontation after the officer responded to a burglary call South Carolina law enforcement agencies have been called to the scene because of a possible connection to the five killings that have occurred in Cherokee County recently. Multiple media outlets reported that the confrontation happened about 3 a.m. Monday in Gaston County, west of Charlotte.

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A serial killer is on the loose in the small town of Gaffney, South Carolina. Authorities say the killer has shot to death five people in the last week in the area of the town of 13,000 people, the latest victim a 15 year-old girl. Here is a video report on the situation. . . . . (Watch Video)

GAFFNEY, S.C. – A teenage girl shot while helping her father in their family's small furniture and appliance store died Saturday, becoming the fifth victim of a suspected serial killer terrorizing a small South Carolina community, authorities said. Abby Tyler, 15, died about 11:15 a.m. at a Spartanburg hospital after fighting for her life for two days, Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler said. Tyler was wounded and her father was killed Thursday as they worked to close the Tyler Home Center near downtown Gaffney. County Sheriff Bill Blanton said investigators believe the killings are linked and the search is on...

This is an updated composite drawing of the suspected serial killer in Cherokee County, South Carolina made available on Friday, July 3, 2009. Sheriff's deputies searched Friday, July 3, 2009 for a serial killer blamed for four deaths over the past six days as terrified residents wondered who might be next. ( Cherokee County Sheriff's Department via Spartanburg Herald Journal)

GAFFNEY, S.C. -- FOX Carolina has confirmed with the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office that the four recent slayings in Gaffney are connected. The Cherokee County Coroner released the name of the fourth victim early Friday morning. Stephen Tyler, 48, was shot and killed at his business -- Tyler Home Center -- on Thursday night. Tyler's 15-year-old daughter was also shot in the head and was transported to an area hospital. There is no word on her condition. The shooting of the Tylers is only the latest incident in a violent spree of shootings. On Saturday, a peach farmer was killed....

Below is a list of serial killers who were homosexuals. This list is intended for reference purposes only and does not imply a causal relationship between homosexuality and serial killing. Although incidents of serial killing are widely reported in the media because of the heinous and unusual nature of these crimes, there are actually very few serial killers relative to the general population. Research into this phenomenon is ongoing, and a small industry has sprung up around the practice of "profiling" serial killers in order to assist in their apprehension. But, law enforcement officials agree that each serial killer is...

The letters are unfailingly polite, the carefully crafted correspondence of a man with too much time on his hands. There is no hint of aggression, nothing to suggest that they were penned by the same writer who once terrorized New York City with his missives filled with blood and darkness and death. In these letters, sent from a prison cell in upstate New York to an office in Houston's city hall annex, there is an effort to prove contrition for the homicides back then, an eagerness to put distance between the monster he once was and the person he says...

When police in Goa first arrested Mahanand Naik, little did they know that he would soon send shockwaves through the Indian resort state popular with tourists from all over the world. Detectives picked up the auto-rickshaw driver on suspicion of rape and blackmail in April but after weeks of questioning found themselves faced with a serial killer who admitted to snuffing out the lives of 16 young local women. The 40-year-old's victims all shared the same fate: they were strangled by their dupatta -- the light scarf worn by many Indian women -- and their bodies buried in remote rural...

FROM L.A. SLIMES: But Warren Hern, a Colorado physician and close friend of Tiller's who said he is now "the only doctor in the world" who performs very late-term abortions, said Tiller's death was predictable. Dr. Warren Hern's websiteFrom this article: Did I Violate the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban? (warning: contains graphic description) The following is an except from an article in Slate by Dr. Warren Hern, M.D. Earlier this year, I began an abortion on a young woman who was 17 weeks pregnant. Because of the two days of prior treatment, the amniotic membranes were visible and bulging. I...

Iran is all astir over the sensational case of the alleged serial killer inspired to hunt her elderly prey by the mystery novels of Agatha Christie. According to press accounts, Iranian police arrested the 32-year-old alleged killer in the city of Qazvin, about 60 miles northwest of the capital. She has been identified only by her first name, Mahin. The suspect allegedly confessed to luring into her clutches elderly women by offering them rides in her car after prayers. She allegedly lulled her passengers into a sense of security by telling them how much they reminded her of her own...

Milwaukee police are looking for a serial killer suspected in the homicides of at least six Milwaukee women murdered over 21 years, the most recent in 2007, the police chief and district attorney said Monday. The same DNA was found on two women in 1986, two in 1995, one in 1997 and one in April 2007, police said. Advanced DNA testing has allowed the cases to be linked. Five of the victims were prostitutes and a sixth was involved in drug use and drug sales, Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said at a news conference. The person whose DNA was...

The Zodiac killer, it turns out, was a Jekyll and Hyde carpenter from Orange County who dragged his 7-year-old daughter along for thrills as he carried out his reign of carnage in the Bay Area 40 years ago. At least that's what the daughter, Deborah Perez, told reporters and a frenzied mob of Zodiac buffs Wednesday. Somewhere in between all the yelling and jostling for face time on TV cameras, an actual press corps listened to Perez, now 47, and her representatives lay out a case that the Zodiac was her father. Their guy: Guy Ward Hendrickson, a resident of...

"The victims in all 30 cases under review were older white women, mostly of lower incomes and often widows living alone. All were sexually assaulted and most were strangled. Police said Thomas, who is black, likely targeted the women because of their vulnerability and because they all lived alone. Cold-case detective Richard Bengston said serial killers frequently select victims of a different ethnicity. Thomas had been twice convicted of sexual assault, and as a registered sex offender, he was required to check in annually with police. "

The State of California hired this guy despite his bad record. Get this... he had a dishonorable discharge (which right off should prevent government employment) and he had a felony record for burglary and sexual assault and not doing well on parole. Now what possible reason would the State have for hiring such a person, surely not affirmative action? Now it turns out he is LA worst serial killer....just unbelievable! At one point a hospital actually hired this thief and sexual predator to be a...patient counselor??? M'gawd...things like this make believe the inmates are surely running the asylum!

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Southern California woman said Wednesday that her late father was the infamous Zodiac killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay area four decades ago. San Francisco homicide investigators said they will check into the information from Deborah Perez, who said her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, killed at least two of the known victims 40 years ago. Sgt. Lyn Tomioka said the investigation into the 1969 death of San Francisco taxi driver Paul Lee Stine related to the Zodiac killer remains ongoing.

SAN FRANCISCO — A woman stepped forward today to claim her late father was the infamous Zodiac Killer and that she as a 7-year-old wrote some of the letters that taunted local police, a local television station reported. Kevin McLean, the former law partner of the late Melvin Belli, said he has led a two-year investigation into claims by Deborah Perez that her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, was the Zodiac killer, according to KTVU. Hendrickson, who lived in Orange County, died in 1993 of cancer. "He was a Jekyll and Hyde," McLean said of Hendrickson. "He was nuts. He set...

The Zodiac killer, who taunted and terrified Bay Area residents in the late 1960s with cryptic letters and a trail of victims, has been identified, according to a group claiming to have cracked the case that has baffled police for decades. The killer is not one of the handful of men repeatedly linked to the 40-year-old crime spree, according to the group, which plans to announce its findings today.

SCRANTON – Near the creek where Matthew Grendel’s body surfaced two years ago, sinister graffiti glared back at a retired detective on the trail of suspected serial killers. The 20-year-old college student’s disappearance sounded eerily similar to the other cases Kevin Gannon and his team investigated. The similarities brought them to Grendel’s house in Minooka and to Roaring Brook by the falls under the Harrison Avenue Bridge in 2007. The killers they were tracking left a crudely painted smiley face at the spot where some of the victims’ bodies were put in water. “We did find a smiley face down...

Dozens of young college men gave found dead across the country and their deaths ruled accidental drowning. But they had one connecting symbol a smiley face found at the scene—and for the families they left behind it seems anything but accidental. It’s a chilling story we first brought you last spring in a 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS investigation. On Monday, there's new evidence more suspicious deaths may be linked to the so-called ‘Smiley Face Killers.’ Bill Szotak says surveillance video shows his son, Josh, inside a New York bar after a couple drinks, seemingly fine. But minutes later video from outside...

For more than a month, crews have been digging up a section of the west mesa, looking for human remains. But it was one woman and her dog who led police to what's become Albuquerque's largest crime scene in the first place. When Christine Ross went for a walk five weeks ago, her dog Ruca found something that would change her life forever, and transform her neighborhood into a massive crime scene. "I still can't believe it," Ross said. "I think about it every day." On top of the soil, Ruca spotted a large femur bone. Ross said she took...

COLORADO SPRINGS, January 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On the 20th anniversary of his execution, the final interview with notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, in which he warned of the deadly effects of pornography addiction, the primary factor that he says led to his notorious killing spree in the 1970s, was re-aired by Focus on the Family. Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, also appeared on Fox News' “Glenn Beck” last Friday to discuss his historic final interview with Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.  Last Friday marked the 20th anniversary...

The CSI episode (CBS show, Crime Scene Investigation) which aired Thursday evening, October 23, was, as is common, about a serial killer. The killer picked random victims, drugged them to unconsciousness, and killed them in restrained poses, so when rigor mortis sets in (stiffening of the muscles with oxygen deprivation and paralysis of muscle cells) these people are posed in what the killer perceives as ‘artful sculpting’. Toward the end of the episode, the CSI team discovers the killer has abducted a little boy whom he plans as the last in a series of ‘sculptings’. The frantic criminal investigators locate...

Excerpt - Thursday afternoon, the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office says there could be as many as 15 victims in what they're describing as a "very sensitive" investigation in its early stages. This comes on the heels of Wednesday's discovery of human remains in Industrial Park in Jacksonville. ~ snip ~

THE Jack the Ripper ‘industry’ got a boost on the 120th anniversary of his first acknowledged murder. The great-grandson of the police chief in charge of the 1888 Whitechapel Murders arrived at the Ripper exhibition at the Museum in Docklands in East London—just before the 120th anniversary of the murder Mary Ann Nichols, a prostitute known as ‘Polly,’ believed by many to be his first victim. He arrived with evidence from his Victorian ancestor revealing the Ripper’s true identity. Jack the Ripper was never caught and his identity has remained a mystery for 120 years, feeding a whole ‘industry’ that...

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Los Angeles, California, police detectives are looking for a serial killer who they believe killed at least 11 people, many of them prostitutes, over a 23-year period. Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Charlie Beck said DNA evidence and ballistics tests have convinced detectives that the same killer is connected to the slayings in Los Angeles and Inglewood. The victims were prostitutes or drug users who were sexually assaulted and then shot and dumped in alleyways or inside dumpsters, police said. "We have a lot of evidence and the connection between so many cases of DNA...

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.