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SAN FRANCISCO (NEXSTAR) – A team of investigators calling themselves The Case Breakers say they know the identity of the Zodiac Killer, but law enforcement is refuting their claim. The serial murderer killed five people in Northern California in 1968 and 1969, taunting investigators with with a series of cryptic notes. The Case Breakers, a group of 40-plus members led by retired FBI agents have varied backgrounds in law enforcement, according to their site, and work to solve some of the country’s most notorious cold cases. The Case Breakers have previously attempted to tackle the D.B. Cooper case and the...

MOORS murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were the subject of of tense discussions as Downing Street debated the merits of releasing them from prison, unearthed files reveal.The Home Office proposals were put to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1985 only for her to pour cold water on them. Hindley could have been out for her final seven years while Brady could have been free for 12 years. Previously classified files from Cabinet meetings – released in 2017 by the National Archives – show that Home Secretary Leon Brittan suggested Hindley could go free after 30 years while Brady could...

Author Gary L. Harper of Louisiana says his father was the Zodiac killer.Who was the infamous Zodiac killer? The father of a man who is publishing a book out Tuesday, according to one account. Gary L. Stewart, who runs a cleaning company in Louisiana, is claiming in his new book that his father was the elusive and "still-at-large" Northern California serial killer, according to reports. In "The Most Dangerous Animal of All," Stewart lays out how he found out, following 12 years of research, that his father was the legendary murderer, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The Zodiac killed...

A transgender woman accused of being a serial killer is blaming the 1990 murders of three prostitutes in Washington State on Douglas Perry, the person she identified as before her transition. Donna Perry, 62, told police in 2012 in an affidavit filed in Spokane Superior Court that she had gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, and when a person transitions from male to female, "there's a great downturn in violence." She also told police that she intentionally had the operation, which she underwent in 2000, "as a permanent way to control violence." Perry is being held on $1 million bond in...

Authorities in Indiana and Ohio have launched investigations into suspected serial killings after a Scripps Howard News Service study of FBI computer files found many alarming clusters of unsolved homicides of women across the nation. Also, police in Nevada confirm for the first time that they are hunting a likely serial killer who has targeted up to seven women, mostly prostitutes, and has scattered their partial remains across three states. Many of the suspected serial killings detected in the study have never before been disclosed to the public. All told, authorities in seven cities have confirmed that a statistical analysis...

A Kenyan man who claims he killed 19 people in three years but wanted to slay 100 has been charged with the murder of a 9-year-old boy. The 32-year-old Philip Onyancha appeared in a Kenyan court Tuesday for the murder of Anthony Njirua Muiruri. Kenyan police say they initially arrested Onyancha for Muiruri's kidnapping.

>>Reporter, cop, killer: the eternal triangle of tabloid journalism, pulp fiction, and film noir. Turn them loose in Los Angeles, cue up the Coltrane, watch their taillights disappear down Sunset. The cop is LAPD homicide detective Dennis Kilcoyne, at 54 still rangy and vital, but burdened by decades of sifting the muck of human depravity in search of prosecutable felonies. In a dark suit and black sunglasses, at the wheel of his silver Lincoln, he could pass for a Hollywood player on the make, but in the bleary fluorescent glare of his office, his eyes—the weary, puffy eyes of someone...

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...

The star witness in the trial of accused Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton testified on Monday that she walked into the barn at his suburban pig farm to find him covered in blood and a woman's body hanging from a chain. "There was blood everywhere," Lynn Ellingsen told the court. "He told me if I was to say anything, I would be right beside her." Ellingsen said she recognised the woman's body as that of a prostitute they had picked up earlier that night. She did not say when the event occurred. Ellingsen did not call police at the time...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Pork products processed and distributed from the farm of accused Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton may have contained human remains, a provincial health official said on Wednesday. Pickton raised and slaughtered pigs at the Port Coquitlam farm as a part-time occupation until his arrest at the property in February 2002, and police believe he gave or sold processed meat products to friends and acquaintances. Pickton, 53, is awaiting trial in the killings of at least 22 of more than 60 missing Vancouver prostitutes who disappeared over the past decade and are feared to have been...

TOULOUSE, France Whatever the truth, the tales of rape and murder emanating from this quiet city in southern France have the stink of overripe cheese and, though hard to swallow, are impossible to ignore. Two prostitutes say that the former mayor joined in sadomasochistic orgies in which young women were chained to a wall and that he ordered the murder of a transvestite who secretly videotaped it all. The former mayor says that people in the pornography industry are out to destroy him, or that a local newspaper is bent on revenge. New allegations surface almost daily from France's fourth-largest...

Wednesday, October 09, 2002 Serial killer Wuornos' last hours at handBy HENRY FREDERICK (henry.frederick@news-jrnl.com) Staff Writer With a last-minute appeal rejected Tuesday by the state's high court, the nation's highest-profile female serial killer is set to be put to death this morning by lethal injection. Wuornos How Lethal Injection Works • The condemned inmate is strapped to a gurney at the feet, legs, chest, arms and head, with an intravenous drip started in each arm. • The inmate is then wheeled into the execution chamber and the executioner begins emptying eight syringes into one of the IV tubes. • The...

Ex-nurse charged in 4 hospital deaths Montague DA calls killings 'serial murder'; other cases possible 07/18/2002 By BERNADETTE PRUITT / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News MONTAGUE, Texas - Oma Wyler, 95, was in good spirits on that Sunday in January. After two weeks in Nocona General Hospital, she would soon be released. "Take me home with you, would you?" she prodded when daughter-in-law Billie Wyler came for a visit. The younger Mrs. Wyler assured her that she soon would. Two hours later, Oma Wyler, who had been feeling well, was "out of it," her daughter-in-law said. Later...

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- At least 30 more investigators are being added to the police task force probing the disappearance of 50 women, a television station reported yesterday. In addition, a task force search of a suburban pig farm implicated in the case could last three years, BC-CTV News said. Some 80 investigators and 12 forensic specialists are already working on the search of the farm in Port Coquitlam. Investigators originally anticipated the search of the farm belonging to Robert William Pickton would take a few months but that estimate has since increased. Pickton, 52, has been charged with first-degree murder...

TORONTO -- Police are investigating a 34-year-old woman in the case of more than 50 women missing from Vancouver's gritty downtown east side, CBC's "Sunday Report" said. While Gina Houston has denied any connection with the missing women, mostly prostitutes and drug users, she told the program she believes she's the principal suspect still at large. Robert William Pickton, 52, the owner of a pig farm in suburban Port Coquitlam which has been the focus of an intense police investigation, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two of the women, Sereena Abotsway and...