MANSFIELD Jr., William “Billy”
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Videos William “Billy” Mansfield Jr. is the eldest son of a convicted child molester. By the 1970s, Mansfield was already sexually assaulting teenagers. He was in and out of prison. Elaine Louise Ziegler and her family were at a KAO campground in Florida. After leaving her family to take […]
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 […]
The Honolulu Strangler
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Podcasts | Videos Honolulu’s first serial killer has never been caught. Despite more than 30 years of improvements in forensic technology, the killer remains unpunished. Vicki Gail Purdy is dropped off near her car at the Shorebird Hotel by a cab driver. On May 29, 1985, she was found […]
WALLACE, Henry Louis
Over 21 months, four women who worked at Bojangles in Charlotte, North Carolina, were murdered. They were not the only victims of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace. Wallace met Tashanda Bethea in 1989. Their mothers worked together in the same factory. In March, 1990, she went missing. She was his first murder victim. Bethea’s body […]
WINTERS, Shirley
Children die when they are around Shirley Winters, whether she had a hand in it or not. When she was 13, three siblings died of carbon monoxide poisoning. She was a quarter mile away with her grandparents, but it was the start of bad things. In 1977, Winters married and settled into an unquiet life […]
WHITEHAWK, Dillon Ricky
Dillon Ricky Whitehawk was arrested in 2020 for 3 murders. Because the case is new, there is limited information. All information below is allegations, not yet proven in a court of law. Whitehawk is a member of a Regina, Saskatchewan street gang. On November 9, 2019, Jordan Gaiten Denton was killed in a drive-by shooting on […]
Books on Peter Woodcock and Ciudad Juárez
I picked up a couple of books to add to my collection of Serial Killer books. By Reason Of Insanity: The David Michael Krueger Story, by Mark Bourrie (Dundurn 1997). In the summer of 1993, people in Ontario were shocked by one of the most bizarre murders in the province’s history. A patient at the […]
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 […]
JACKSON, Vickie Dawn
Vickie Dawn Jackson was a vocational nurse at the Nocona General Hospital in Nocona, Texas. A licensed vocational nurse in Texas needs 1-2 years of training. It gave her a chance to learn about paralytic drugs. Her drug of choice was Mivacron, a powerful muscle relaxant normally kept on crash carts. Whenever the drug went […]
PRIEST, Martin Dean
Martin Dean Priest is a convicted murderer, and a really good manipulator. Wives, friends, the courts. He can play them all. On June 12, 1980, Priest was working with a paint crew, painting the Lewis apartment. The next day, Tonya Lee Lewis, 13, disappears after leaving a ball game she played with Priest and some […]