McDUFF, Kenneth Allen

Mug shot of Kenneth Allen McDuff, Texas Department of Corrections

Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Podcasts | Videos Kenneth Allen McDuff committed two distinct series of murders. The first, in 1966, involved the slaughter of three teenagers. He saw the young woman so murdered the two boys. He and an accomplice then raped and murdered her by compressing her neck with a broomstick. This […]

KNOWLES, Paul John

Photo of Paul John Jones, serial killer. Courtesy AP Photo

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, […]

RISSELL, Montie Ralph

Mugshot of Rissell, Montie (Monte) 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

Murderer Reinaldo Rivera, photo from Georgia Department of Corrections

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 […]

WIMBERLY, Anthony Rene

Anthony Rene Wimberly, courtesy the San Francisco Examiner

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 […]