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 […]
PACE, Lyndon Fitzgerald
Coretta Scott King, widow of the late Martin Luther King, has survived a lot in her life. Including a brush with serial killer Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace. Pace attacked elderly African American women in the dangerous Atlanta neighborhood of Vine City. On February 24, 1988, Pace was released from state prison after serving time on drug […]
JOHNSON, Russell Maurice
Russell Maurice Johnson was once a handsome man with a great physique. He was a body builder and auto worker. He used his strength to scale the outsides of buildings as high as 15 stories. He would go from balcony to balcony, looking for an unlocked door. He told police after his arrest he couldn’t […]
ROBINSON, John Edward
John Edward Robinson Sr. was a Sunday school teacher, a Scoutmaster and a sports coach. He was also the world’s first Internet-based serial killer. He murdered women he knew and women he trolled for on Internet S&M and BDSM websites. His name was “slavemaster”. In 1977, he made up charitable and generous acts he’d done, […]
SHAWCROSS, Arthur John
Arthur John Shawcross earned his serial killer nickname, “The Genesee River Killer”. He murdered 11 women in upstate New York between 1988 and 1989. That’s an average of one victim every 59 days. Like many serial killers, Shawcross says he had a terrible childhood, full of bullying, conflict and sexual abuse. He blames his mother […]
LOCKETT, Will (Petrie KIMBROUGH)
Sometimes, people about to be executed, spontaneously confess to more murders. There is no investigation, as the person is about to die. It is taken as truth, a sign that the killer wanted to “get right with God.” That’s the case with African American Will Lockett (aka Petrie Kimbrough) in 1920. He confessed to three […]
HUNTER, Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis Hunter is a serial killer who targeted elderly women in his neighbourhood. In fact, all his victims lived within 2 miles of each other. This makes him a territorial serial killer. Hunter worked as a furniture mover, among other jobs. This would come in handy for stealing property after raping and killing his […]
OKUBO, Kiyoshi
Kiyoshi Okubo was a Japanese serial killer who murdered women throughout 1971. He had an extensive history of sexual assaults, starting from a young age. At age 11, Okubo attempted to molest neighbourhood girl. As a youngster he was called “Son of Kodaira” (an earlier serial killer). Despite a wealthy family and loving parents, Okubo […]
MURPHY, Donald
Serial killer Donald Murphy murdered his victims in Detroit, Michigan. Most, perhaps all, of the women he killed were prostitutes. Murphy started his criminal career young. On February 10, 1967, he was found guilty of sex assault. At 23, he was sentenced to 6 months in Detroit House of Correction. Two years later, on July […]