GREEN, Ricky Lee
Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Videos Ricky Lee Green had an abusive childhood, a heavy alcohol addiction, a sadomasochistic spouse (Sharon) and a desire to gruesomely kill people. Green may even have included his wife in some of the killings. On March 27, 1985, sixteen-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Davis disappeared. In April, his mutilated, castrated […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]