SHAW, Sebastian Alexander
Dispatch | Timeline | Books Sebastian Alexander Shaw (born Chau Quong Ho) was on police radar for a while before he was arrested. He was a suspected sex offender, and DNA from a sex assault matched the DNA from a double murder. The rape victim ID’d Shaw, and police work finally got him arrested. Years […]
REED, Todd Alan
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Podcasts | Videos By age 14, Todd Alan Reed was already in a residential program after committing a crime, and was a convicted sex offender. Authorities at the time did not consider him dangerous. He never travelled far to commit his crimes, staying in his home town of Portland, […]
LEGERE, Allan Joseph
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Podcasts | Videos Allan Joseph Legere said he wanted to take revenge against the community he lived in. That’s why he attacked women and a priest. In 1976, he had a run in with the priest. Linda Daughney had once turned him down for a date. Sixty-six-year-old John Glendenning […]
TUTTLE, Wesley Allan
Dispatch | Timeline | Books It took 25 years, but DNA testing of the remains of a 14-year-old girl allowed investigators to charge Wesley Allan Tuttle with his second murder. Lisa Lynne Chambers was developmentally delayed. On November 10, 1982, the 14-year-old girl was picked up by Tuttle while on her way to school. He […]
HILTON, Gary Michael
In 1959, Gary Michael Hilton shot his stepfather, wounding him. He hated the man for taking his mother’s affections from him. Forgiven, 13-year-old Hilton spent time in a mental hospital. In 1995, Hilton became a consultant on the film Deadly Run, a straight-to-video film about a serial killer. The character kept women in a cabin […]
ABLES, Tony Alvin
DNA technology is catching up to murderer Tony Alvin Ables. Ables has been convicted of 2 murders, and charges for another are pending. Ables is not being charged with a 4th murder, despite DNA evidence. On December 11, 1970, Ables (sometimes referred to as Abels) killed a man during a robbery. He pled guilty on […]
SUMPTER, Michael E.
DNA evidence caught up with Michael Sumpter 50 years after his first murder. But death had caught up with him first. Sumpter died in 2001 from cancer. In 2018, he was linked to an old murder through DNA. Jane Sanders Britton’s father was the Administrative Vice-President of the storied Radcliffe College. Britton was an alumni […]