Posted on 08/30/2008 11:20:51 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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 will allow us to eventually solve this," Beck said.
The most recent killing -- in January 2007 -- was tied exclusively to DNA analysis to another case after 13 years. However, detectives have not been able to identify the killer through state or federal DNA databases of convicted felons.
According to Beck, authorities are still examining over 50,000 inmates in state prison for similar crimes, but not all of them have DNA profiles.
One theory investigators are exploring about the gaps between the killings is the possibility that the killer served time in prison. Authorities are scouring files of inmates who were in prison serving time during periods of the killer's apparent inactivity.
All of the victims are young African-American females except for one black man.
The first known slaying occurred in 1985 when 29-year-old Debra Jackson was shot multiple times in the chest, police said.
Three years passed before detectives realized that the same weapon used to kill Jackson was used in seven other killings.
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We have a cereal killer in Battle Creek, Michigan.
We believe it to be the work of a genetic engineering specialist who used to work in the agricultural field.
That’s right... we suspect it’s a corn flake.
Just Greeaaaaat.
“It’s gotten so we’re afraid of everything” a distraught elf named “Snap” commented. “That’s right” continued Pop. “We just don’t go out at night — not that there’s anything to do in Battle Creek at night, but we do even less now.”
When is that not the case out there?
We have one here in MD too, but nobody cares.
If only ______________*, stuff like this wouldn’t happen.
*pick one:
Gays could marry
Drugs were legalized
Prostitution were legal
Bestiality were permissible
We were back on the Gold standard
Out in the Chicago area the gang banger killings are what makes the news, but who knows what all is covered up.
there’s a Serial Killer just south of the border that has killed 400+ Women.
You’re a naughty one...Saucy Jack
You’re a haughty one, Saucy Jack
A serial killer? Killing prostitutes? Is that why we haven't heard of yours?
Being from the area, I know what you mean....
It would be like a killer in San Francisco ... between proximity to DC and draconian gun laws, the rest of the country is tempted to cheer for the bad guy.
Out in the Chicago area the gang banger killings are what makes the news, but who knows what all is covered up.
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The murder of Donald Young, the gay choir director to obambi’s church who Larry Sinclair claims was obambi’s gay lover..... is - covered up.
Calling James Ellroy.
He obviously missed the diversity indoctrination program.
Why are serial killers always “on the loose?”
I don't know where you are getting the number 400 at. That number is not cited in the article I posted.
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