Recent Serial Killers 1970 to present (AP list)

10/11/02 | AP

[alisasny]

Oct. 11 — Some well-known serial killers in recent U.S. history:

1997-1999: Angel Maturino Resendiz was convicted of murdering a Houston woman, but was linked by confessions and evidence to at least 12 other killings nationwide. He's on death row in Texas.

1996-1998: Robert L. Yates Jr. was convicted of two murders but admitted to 15. He's on death row in Washington state.

1990-1993: Heriberto Seda, aka "the Zodiac Killer," killed three people and wounded four in New York City and is serving a 235-year sentence.

1989-1990: Aileen Wuornos, a rare female serial killer, was convicted of murdering six men while working as a prostitute along highways in central Florida. She was executed Wednesday.

1984-1985: Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were convicted of murdering 11 people. Ng is on death row in California; Lake committed suicide.

1984-1985: Richard Ramirez was convicted of killing 14 people during break-ins in the Los Angeles area. He is on California's death row.

1979-1981: Wayne B. Williams of Atlanta was convicted and sentenced to two life terms for killing two boys, but police believed he may have been responsible for up to 28 deaths.

1978-1995: Theodore Kaczynski, aka "the Unabomber," carried out a series of mail bombings that killed three people and injured 23. He is serving a life sentence at a federal prison in Colorado.

1978-1992: Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to 16 consecutive life terms for killing 17 men and boys, most in Milwaukee. He was killed in prison in 1994.

1977-1978: Ted Bundy was convicted of three Florida slayings, including that of a 12-year-old girl. He confessed to more than 30 and was executed in 1989.

1977-1978: Angelo Buono Jr. was convicted of murdering nine young California women and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Kenneth A. Bianchi pleaded guilty to five of the murders, agreeing to testify against his cousin in return for being spared a possible death sentence. He was sentenced to five concurrent life terms in prison.

1976-1977: David Berkowitz, aka "Son of Sam," killed six people and wounded seven others in New York City. He is serving six consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences.

1972-1978: John Wayne Gacy of suburban Chicago killed 33 young men and boys. He was executed in 1994.

February-May 1971: Juan Corona was convicted of murdering 25 farm workers whose bodies were found buried near Yuba City in northern California. He is serving a life sentence.

2002 The Associated Press.

[fhayek]

Hey we're all playing amatuer sleuth here. And Furhman is a professional. But I am suggesting something somewhat different. I don't know if he IS getting off on all the publicity surronding these murders. Its all very methodical. Almost like punching a time clock. I know, I know, the TAROT CARD. Seems like he is taunting the police. My theory about that is that it is a red herring. Helps to feed hysteria.

I am not a conpiracy theorist. I hope it is not terrorism. But the man (men?) is very efficient. He doesn't seem to want to be caught. Yet he stays close to D.C. He doesn't move on or lay low. He is intent on spreading terror. For whom or for what purpose? Of course we don't know.

[archy]

I have tried in vain to find info about a sniper in the Jacksonville, FL area some time ago ... Does anyone recall this?

I recall some Jacksonville area incidents a couple of years back regarding an individual shooting at trains. I don't believe the shooter was ever apprehended.

There was at least one similar incident in Wyoming a year or so before the Oklahoma City bombing, in which a railcar transoporting a Minuteman missile was struck by rifle fire. the shooter targeted the correct car to hit the multimillion-dollar cargo inside, and even directed his fire to the correct end of the car to destroy the guidance control *brains* of the aerospace vehicle, which was described as a total write-off. There was no warhead fitted while it was in transit, of course. Again, no apprehension, so no conviction.

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[archy]

How many of these serial killers averaged one victim every two days.

I believe Hoosier gay serial murderer Larry Eyler committed several back-to-back murders, some with an accomplice [Indiana State University professor Robert David Little was so named in one case, found not guilty in that one instance, and has remained free since. Eyler, on his deathbed from AIDS, implicated Little in several other murders for which he was never charged.] and one series in which 4 bodies were found in the same rural abandoned farmhouse/barn location.

Eyler confessed to twenty-one of some 40 similar deaths then under investigation in that area, though the killings also continued after his arrest. Another possible suspect, from the Indianapolis area, committed suicide [shotgun] after learning he too was a suspect.

Interestingly, Eyler was at one time a suspect in some instances of a rifleman shooting from ambush at passing cars, and was known to have posed as a former Marine. But Eyler died in an Illinois prison of AIDS on 06 March, 1994.

[archy]

He equated it to that boyfriend/girl slaying randomly I believe decades ago in the midwest...

That would likely be Charlie Starkweather and Caril AnnFugate you're thinking of, previously discussed in the FReeppost *here* and following posts. Their activities began in Nebraska, midwestern enough, but concluded in Wyoming, when the first of their victims to resist wrestled a handgun away from the 19-year-old desperado, executed a year later.

And after that, he never did it again.

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