Posted on 10/11/2002 1:58:11 PM PDT by 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.
Does anyone recall this?
http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/24/florida.executions/
Florida executes second killer in 2 days (From top) Jones, Buenoano, Stano and Remeta 2 more executions due soon March 24, 1998 Web posted at: 12:09 p.m. EST (1709 GMT) In this story: Last words 'Long overdue' Flames from electric chair led to delay Related stories and sites STARKE, Florida (CNN) -- Florida has carried out its second execution in two days, putting to death a man convicted in the 1981 murder of a Jacksonville police officer. Leo Jones, 47, who had argued that the use of a 75-year-old electric chair was cruel and unusual punishment, died in it on Tuesday morning. Jones' attorneys objected after the fiery death of another inmate on March 25, 1997, when flames leaped from the head of an inmate during an execution in the wired, wooden chair known as "Old Sparky." The attorneys had filed an appeal, arguing that Florida's method of execution was cruel and unusual and therefore in violation of the state and U.S. constitutions. The problem led to a yearlong halt in executions in Florida, which ended on Monday when Gerald Stano, 46, died in the state's electric chair for the 1973 murder of a 17-year-old girl. Stano had confessed to 41 killings. Last words "I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger," Jones said repeatedly during preparations while staring at his religious adviser, El Hajj Rabbani Muhammad. When the jolt hit, Jones' fingers tightened and he flinched. As a physician's assistant held a stethoscope to his chest afterward he breathed at least once. Jones' execution was the 41st since Florida's death penalty was upheld in 1976. The last time the state had back-to-back executions was in December 1995. Two more executions are scheduled for next week: Judy Buenoano, 54, the "Black Widow," is scheduled to be executed next Monday for the murder of her husband. She would be the first woman put to death by Florida in 150 years. Twenty-four hours later, the state plans to execute Daniel Remeta, 40, for the 1985 fatal shooting of Mehrle Reeder, a convenience store clerk in Ocala. 'Long overdue' Jones was condemned for the 1981 slaying of Thomas Szafranski, who was struck in the head by a sniper's bullet while sitting in his patrol car in downtown Jacksonville. "In the hearts of all us, it's long overdue," Thomas Pialorsi, who was president of the Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police when Szafranski was shot, said Monday. Jones confessed to the shooting, saying he killed the officer because of police beatings. But he later denied the killing, saying the confession was coerced. In his appeals, he noted the statements of a dozen people who said another man had confessed to the killing. Jones' appeal for a stay to the Florida Supreme Court and a separate appeal to a federal judge were rejected Monday. Flames from electric chair led to delay The delay in Florida executions began last year after flames up to a foot long burst from behind the mask covering the face of Pedro Medina during his execution. The death chamber filled with acrid smoke. No problems with the electric chair were reported as Stano and Jones were put to death. "We've been assured that the chair and all the components are in very good working order," Florida State Prison spokesman Gene Morris told CNN earlier this week. The Florida Supreme Court in October 1997 cleared the way for resumed use of the chair but if such a method for capital punishment is ever ruled unconstitutional, Florida lawmakers have approved execution by lethal injection. In 1990, a sponge in the headpiece caught fire during the death of Jesse Tafero. That also led to a temporary halt in Florida executions. Correspondent Susan Candiotti, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
The Crime Archives catalogues its serial killers by their number of proven hits. Some killers are suspected of much higher body counts. Others bragged about crimes they never committed. Check in the morgue for the latest entries. Because of its ever-increasing size, the Serial Killer Hit List has been broken into four sections according to number of hits.
from : www.fortunecity.com/roswell/streiber/ 273/inf_servsmas.htm via google keywords spree serial killer
Bob Berdella
Dahmers twin
"At Berdella's arraignment in the courtroom of Judge Alvin Randall, Berdella shocked everyone by entering a plea of guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree. Eventually, Berdella confessed to the murder and torture of six young men between the years of 1984 and 1987. With an uncanny ability to recall detail, he told his frightening story as Court Reporter Ruth Emma Pietro recorded each grisly event of the carnage in the court record. He enjoyed his moment in the limelight while in the courtroom confessing because he was in total control of the stage. "
Joel Rifkin, the Long Island killer of prostitutes, and Thomas Lee Dillon, Ohio's "Hunter of Humans." Also Colin Ferguson, the "LIRR killer."
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From the Miami Herald, October 15, 2001:
MONTREAL -- The Nation of Yahweh had much to celebrate when members gathered in Montreal, their ''New Promised Land,'' last week.
Their leader and messiah, Yahweh Ben Yahweh, 65, just got out of prison after serving nearly 10 years for his part in 14 Miami murders in the 1980s. Their numbers are growing again, and they have come out of hiding.
But the question is: Is their message the same?
In the 1980s, the best of it was to make blacks feel empowered. The worst of it was to brainwash those who became Yahwehs to the degree that they would shout that they would ''die for Yahweh . . . kill for Yahweh.''
Then do it.
At their Montreal conference last week, attended by about 600 Yahwehs in characteristic white robes and turbans, there was no promise to either die, or kill for Yahweh.
Yet, more than ever before, most Yahwehs cast themselves as a nation of believers at war with nonbelievers, and the old message of self-esteem has been crowded out by one that elevates their leader to ''Grand Master of All, the God of the Universe, the Grand Potentate, the Everlasting Father and the persecuted Messiah.'' The new message also is more stridently jingoistic, including a ''Pledge of Allegiance'' to Yahweh Ben Yahweh.
''What's different now is that the U.S. is not just a corrupt society in their eyes, it's one that the global nation of Yahwehs is ready to take on. We have become the Infidel,'' said Richard Scruggs, former Yahweh federal prosecutor.
Yet Wendelyn Rush, a Yahweh member and attorney, cautions against demonizing their mission: ''It's not a violent war, it's a war of words,'' she said at an August federal hearing to decide on Yahweh Ben Yahweh's parole restrictions.
[...]
At Yahweh Ben Yahweh's trial in 1992, federal prosecutor Scruggs noted that Yahweh Ben Yahweh had gone from being a poor kid in a dusty Oklahoma town to an Air Force airman to a Black Muslim leader to a radio Christian evangelist to a self-declared prophet the center of the religion he founded, to saying he was the Son of God.
''It took you a while to work your way up, didn't it?'' Scruggs said.
''Certain things were revealed to me with time,'' Yahweh Ben Yahweh replied.
I don't know...he says he is God; he's on some kind of trip.
It almost seems like the killer has figured this out over time and has settled on this as an MO after trying out some other locations first.
I am amazed that this individual has been able to operate without a witness for so many days. I'm sure he doesn't have much time left. He's going to screw up soon. He has to do everything perfectly from this point on; even a single misstep will result in capture or death.
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He takes one shot. He has been successfull 80% of the time, but if he is not, he doesn't wait around to find out, or take another shot that might give him away. Just one good shot. That is his objective.
He is so divorced from his actions that he is like a machine. Find an opportunity, get off one shot, make your getaway. Very dispassionate. If he keeps it up, he most certainly will screw up and get caught. But he adheres to his formula despite a massive manhunt. To me, this seems to indicate an experienced professional who can control the rush of adrenilin coursing through his veins.
This is horrible. FWIW I rate the ME terrorist theory at 50-50, and I am no conspiracy nut.
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I believed he used the moniker "Side Track."
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Long ago, I saw this sci fi flick where the killer invites people, and then makes them become the Safari type sport in hunting them down. Animal kingdom of who survives, the hunter or the hunted. Naturally in the flick, the hunted outwits the hunter.. ;o)
A good tip Mark stated is that this person is targeting victims at gas stations, and sooner or later, this vehicle has to refuel somewhere, so that is where some focus should be in seeking the perp.
What was the talk on some female companion seen in the vehicle today?
You're right, sooner as each attempt to commit another murderous act, mistakes are going to be made. They are now, and evidence is being collected and compiled to profile this nut further.
My opinion, when he becomes in focus of LEO's gunshots, bang.... taken out!
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.
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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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.
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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