Free Republic

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton has become eligible for day parole. The 74-year-old was convicted for the murders of six women in December 2007, receiving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. He was also charged in connection with 20 other murders, with DNA evidence linking additional missing women to his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C., but the charges were stayed because Pickton was already serving the maximum sentence. He has been linked to possibly murdering up to 49 women and feeding their remains to his pigs. On Wednesday, families of the victims held a...

Letter From A Serial Killer SEATTLE - Green River killer Gary Leon Ridgway sent a bizarre anonymous letter to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer nearly 20 years ago in what the newspaper said Friday was a "brazen attempt to throw off investigators." Authorities at the time wrongly concluded it wasn't from the real killer, the paper said. Now, police say Ridgway admitted writing the letter when he began confessing this summer to killing 48 women. The paper said it had turned the letter over to investigators in 1984 and never reported on it, in part because of doubts about its authenticity....

A man has been arrested in connection with the murders of three homeless men, and authorities believe he is also linked to another homicide in San Dimas. At a press conference on Saturday afternoon, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore identified the suspect as Jerrid Joseph Powell, 33, of Los Angeles. Powell is alleged to be the gunman behind the murders of three homeless men across Los Angeles from Nov. 26 to Nov. 29. It was confirmed on Saturday that he is also the prime suspect in the follow-home murder of Nicholas Simbolon of San Dimas on Tuesday night....

When a man came forward two years ago confessing to three cold case murders, Albuquerque Police called it a ‘gift’ to victims’ families. However, how those confessions were obtained could be thrown out in court. KRQE Investigates has been following the case of accused serial killer, Paul Apodaca, and has the latest from Wednesday’s court hearing. “In a way, that was a gift from the Albuquerque Police Department to her on her birthday that somebody who killed her 33 years later, was charged,” said APD Chief Harold Medina in August of 2021. Two years ago, Chief Medina announced an end...

Parents of babies murdered and maimed by Lucy Letby today described their 'eight years of torture' after she was convicted of killing seven newborns - as more families were warned their children could be victims of the pure evil nurse with police now reviewing the care of 4,000 babies admitted to NHS wards where Letby had worked. The neonatal nurse, 33, now replaces Myra Hindley and Ian Brady as the most prolific child killer in modern British history after a jury found her guilty of murdering seven premature babies and attempting to murder six more. Letby was also found not...

More than four decades since law enforcement found the remains of a young woman on the side of a Texas highway, her remains have been identified, Bastrop County Sheriff's Office announced at a news conference on Thursday. The woman was found in Elgin, Texas, when law enforcement was driving by. She was wearing a white shirt with red neck trim and dark blue jeans, according to DNA Solves, which helps crowdfund identification investigations. Her name was Kathy Ann Smith. She was just 22 years old, almost 23, at the time of her murder, the sheriff's office said. Investigators at the...

Police searching the house of Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann have found a soundproof room in the basement, a neighbor claimed - as cops brought cadaver dogs in to search his yard. Police told a neighbor of the New York architect they believed at least one woman was killed in that room, which was unearthed in what state troopers called a 'major excavation'. Robert Musto, 64, one of Heuermann's longtime neighbors in Massapequa, told the New York Post: 'He's got a soundproof room in his basement. What do you think that was for?' 'This guy is a wacko,' the...

Portland, Oregon, appears to have a serial killer on its hands, and the murderer’s biggest accomplice may be the governor who let him out of prison early. Before she left office, Governor Kate Brown commuted the sentences of people in prison who behaved well while under lock and key. She released others who she were near the end of their sentences, and chose to shorten the “sentences of 912 nonviolent inmates at risk of contracting COVID, granted 130 pardons, cleared death row, and wiped away cannabis possession convictions of nearly 50,000 people,” Willamette Week reported.In December 2022 I wrote in...

SNIP “This was significant, because a witness to the disappearance of [murder victim] Amber Costello identified a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche as the vehicle believed to have been driven by her killer,” a bail application said. Investigators then got more information during follow-up interviews last year with the key witness, whom Harrison had earlier identified as Costello’s pimp who’d seen the Avalanche at the sex worker’s West Babylon home. “We reinterviewed the individual who kind of gave us a better description of Rex Heuermann — saying pretty much that he had bushy hair, these big glasses and was the size of...

A suspected serial killer has been arrested over the notorious Gilgo Beach murders in Long Island, The Post can confirm. Rex Heuermann, 59, a married architect at a New York City firm, was caught after DNA from the hair of victim Megan Waterman matched that of his, taken by investigators from a discarded pizza crust in January. The father-of-two — a former classmate of Hollywood actor Billy Baldwin — was arrested Thursday after cops had staked out his home on 1st Avenue in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and office in midtown Manhattan. His arrest is tied to the so-called “Gilgo...

The suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders, a case that captured national attention and confounded investigators on Long Island for more than a decade, was identified Friday as Rex Heuermann, sources said. Heuermann was taken into custody and expected to be arraigned later, four senior law enforcement officials briefed on the case told NBC News. The Suffolk County police and the Suffolk County district attorney are leading the investigation. The suspect is from Massapequa, which is in neighboring Nassau County.

One of those men was Henry Marshall, whose death—he was shot five separate times in the chest with a rifle—was ruled “a suicide.”.. June 3, 1961, Henry Marshall was found dead on his farm near Bryan in Robertson County, Texas. He had been shot five times with his own rifle. Marshall, 51, had worked as a clerk with the Robertson County office of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA), holding a senior post in the agency. In 1960, he was asked to investigate the activities of Billie Sol Estes, a wealthy benefactor of Lyndon B. Johnson, whom he found to have...

Authorities are investigating if the mysterious deaths of six women whose remains were found in and around Portland, Oregon over the past six months are connected and if a serial killer is on the loose. The bodies of the half dozen women were found within 100 miles of each other on the sides of roads, in the woods or in secluded rural areas from February through last month, KGW8 reported. Five different law enforcement agencies are investigating the women’s deaths — and at least three of the agencies have said they are working with the others to determine if the...

Cruz returns to the viral internet meme that gained popularity in 2016Sen. Ted Cruz this week leaned into a long-running joke that paints him as a possible suspect behind the infamous Zodiac Killer murders in the late 1960s. It was reported on Wednesday evening that the FBI had confirmed the identity of the serial killer to be Air Force Veteran Gary Francis Poste, who died in 2018. "[T]his is absolutely true," Cruz quipped on Twitter while linking one of the news articles about the development.

Jimmy Carter’s Baptist faith was one of his calling cards in the 1976 presidential campaignJimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine. Carter was not misquoted. But he was certainly misunderstood, as his thoughts in the wide-ranging interview were reduced in the popular imagination to utterances about “lust” and “adultery.” Nearly a half-century later, as the 98-year-old Carter receives hospice care in the same south-Georgia home where he once spoke with...

New footage has been released by the Indiana State Police of US murder suspect Bryan Kohberger being pulled over during a road trip.... ...It’s understood the PhD student made the 4000km trip home with his dad by car, and according to his public defender, he was pulled over twice along the way. Jason LaBar, the Pennsylvania defence lawyer in Mr Kohberger’s extradition case, said the suspect’s dad flew into Spokane, Washington, before driving down to Pullman, Washington, in a pre-planned trip ahead of the holidays. Pullman sits just over the state border from Idaho – just 15km from Moscow....

A new peer-reviewed study from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) has found that women whose first pregnancy ends in abortion are “likely to have more pregnancies, more abortions, and more miscarriages than women whose first pregnancy ends in a live birth,” according to a CLI press release. The study utilized 17 years of anonymized Medicaid claims data from the 17 states which use taxpayer funds to cover abortion through their Medicaid programs. Data from 5,453 continuously eligible Medicaid beneficiaries between 1999 and 2015 was analyzed; women who were age 16 in 1999 were organized into three groups based on the...

President Joe Biden promised Tuesday that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that writes abortion protections into law — if Democrats control enough seats in Congress to pass it — as he sought to energize his party’s voters just three weeks ahead of the November midterms. Twice over, Biden urged people to remember how they felt in late June when the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion, fresh evidence of White House efforts to ensure the issue stays front of mind for Democratic voters this year....

It has been a while since studios began releasing movies and shows that retell the stories of serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy. These retellings tend to spark some questionable trends on social media. Most of them involve viewing gruesome crime scene images, or even romanticizing the murderer. Trigger warning: This article contains content that may be disturbing to read. Reader discretion is advised. Following the release of Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, TikTokers have flooded the internet with a trend that attempts to show compassion for the killer. This trend involves people...

Police in California say they have caught a suspected serial killer responsible for a handful of murders that have haunted the Stockton and Oakland areas. Authorities say they apprehended the suspect, identified as Wesley Brownlee, 43, just as he was about to claim another life. Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said on Saturday, 'Early this morning he was on a mission to kill, he was out hunting.' 'He was wearing dark clothing and had a mask around his neck. He was also armed with a firearm when he was taken into custody. We are sure we stopped another killing,' he...