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FULL TITLE: Seattle's Green River killer confesses to slaying nearly DOUBLE the 49 women he's convicted of killing in first ever interview A Seattle-area truck painter who was unmasked as the Green River serial killer has claimed he murdered up to 80 women over two decades - nearly double the number he was convicted of killing. Gary Ridgway is currently serving 49 consecutive life sentences in a Washington state prison. But in a series of interviews conducted over the past five months, he is now claiming there are significantly more victims and he says he is coming clean to help...

A Queens landlord was killed by her teen tenant during a fight that erupted this week when he failed to make good on rent, authorities said Thursday. Davi Vidal, 19, lashed out at Leo Zoraida, 55, around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday inside their building on 96th Street near Northern Boulevard in East Elmhurst, cops said. Vidal hadn’t been paying rent, sparking the deadly altercation with Zoraida. Cops say the landlord was found unconscious and unresponsive with scratches on her face inside an apartment.

The head of the Nebraska Democratic Party called Tuesday on the Democratic candidate for attorney general to drop out of the race after he was accused of an attack on his elderly father.

A water bottle recovered from a construction site where Tim DeSalvo – whose uncle Albert DeSalvo had confessed to being the internationally notorious Boston Strangler – gave police the DNA evidence they needed to bring closure to a case that has been a mystery for nearly 50 years, murders for which no one has ever been charged. "This is really a story of relentlessness,'' Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis explained today as Massachusetts top law enforcement officials revealed that DNA preserved from the body of the Boston Strangler's last victim--raped and murdered in 1964--can now be linked with "99.9 percent...

KENSINGTON, PA (NBC) - Authorities said that DNA has linked a man to two deaths and three other frightening assaults in one Philadelphia suburb. Wednesday morning, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and Captain James Clark held a press conference about the "Kensington strangler." Ramsey urged every victim of violence to come forward, even if his or her attacker doesn't resemble the police sketch of the suspect. And Clark warned residents to be extra vigilant and to walk in pairs. The Philadelphia Police Department is examining data as far back as 10 years for past sexual predators.

LOS ANGELES - A former Lancaster state prison inmate awaiting trial on charges he murdered his prison cellmate has been charged with murdering another inmate at a downtown Los Angeles jail. Kurt Karcher, who already was serving a life sentence for murdering an Orange County lawyer, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to strangling fellow jail inmate Edgar Jimenez at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, where Karcher had been sent May 18 to await his trial in the Lancaster prison slaying. Karcher, 39, is charged separately with murder in the March 2006 strangulation of prison inmate Scott Manning at California State Prison-Los...

All five victims of one of Britain’s most prolific serial killers were suffocated or strangled and left naked but for their jewellery, senior detectives have told The Times. Police sources said that as a result of the “striking similarities” uncovered they had been able to rule out any link between previous unsolved murders or attacks by strangers across the country in recent years. Last night items of women’s clothing were found in the River Orwell, which runs close to Nacton and Levington where three of the bodies were found. Today the first of 100 specialist detectives from across the country...