REED, Todd Alan

Photo of serial killer Todd Alan Reed, from Corvallis Gazette-Times

Dispatch | Timeline | Books | Podcasts | Videos By age 14, Todd Alan Reed was already in a residential program after committing a crime, and was a convicted sex offender. Authorities at the time did not consider him dangerous. He never travelled far to commit his crimes, staying in his home town of Portland, […]

WINTERS, Shirley

Press photo of Shirley Winters in court

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 […]

FOLBIGG, Kathleen

Kathleen Folbigg in 2003. Courtesy News Unlimited

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 […]