KNOWLES, Paul John
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Podcasts | Videos He was called The Casanova Killer, but Paul John Knowles was by no means a romantic charmer. His victims were not women he swept off their feet. Mostly, they were young pre-teen girls or women nearing or past middle age. There was no romance: just guns, […]
LONG, David Martin
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | David Martin is another serial killer named Long. While Bobby Joe Long is better known, David Martin Long’s story is also interesting. Long was born in 1953. Family members agreed the death of his mother, when he was 10 years old, was a turning point in his life. Long’s […]
RISSELL, Montie Ralph
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Videos Between August 1976 and May 1977, Alexandria, Virginia was under the shadow of the West End Murders. Four women had been murdered, many of them associated with the Holmes Run Apartments. It wasn’t until after the killer was arrested that police discovered the fifth body. Montie (that’s the […]
RIVERA, Reinaldo Javier
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Videos Reinaldo Javier Rivera was born in 1963 in Madrid, Spain. The Latinx serial killer operated in the U. S. He raped and killed women from 1999 to 2000. He was found guilty of only 1 murder, but faced life sentences for his assaults. As of December 2019, he […]
Preserve Evidence or Preserve Dignity
I was reading about the murder of Cherie Marie Payseur. Cherie was twenty-one years old. She had been hard of hearing from birth. She was also a drug addict and a prostitute. She was William Suff’s type. She had been living with her grandmother for a few months. On April 26, 1991, Cherie left her […]
FOLBIGG, Kathleen
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Podcasts | Videos Depending on who you ask, Kathleen Megan Folbigg may be a serial killer. Of course, if you ask her legal team, she is not. But she is here in Serial Dispatches because she has been found guilty of murdering her children over many years. Folbigg was […]
WIMBERLY, Anthony Rene
Dispatch | Timeline Anthony Rene Wimberly was born on October 26, 1962. He was first arrested for assault at the age of 14. It never got any better for Wimberly. He is in and out of jail for the next four years. By 1980, he is robbing homes while children are home. Another four years […]
GRIMES: The Murder of Peggy Grimes
It was June, 1993. Bill Clinton was president. The Bulls were beating The Suns on their way to the NBA Finals. Janet Jackson was at the top of the charts. Peggy Lynn Grimes was 8 months pregnant. Peggy was also a prostitute. And serial killer Gerald Patrick Lewis didn’t like that. Lewis took the life […]
The Truth About Serial Killers is a Lie
We all know that most serial killers are young white men. Right? Wrong. It’s a lie. You’re thinking, “E. Kelly, you’re full of shit. I know that ‘young white males are the majority’ thing is a lie. What are you saying?” I’m saying that I want to get at the truth. I went to college […]