FAUTENBERRY, John Joseph
Dispatch | Timeline John Joseph Fautenberry’s father abandoned his family when Fautenberry was 2 years old. His mother remarried 8 years later. His step-father adopted Fautenberry and his sister, but it wasn’t enough for Fautenberry. He spent years trying to reconnect with his father, and was always rejected. He became moody and dropped out of […]
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 […]
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 […]
HILTON, Gary Michael
In 1959, Gary Michael Hilton shot his stepfather, wounding him. He hated the man for taking his mother’s affections from him. Forgiven, 13-year-old Hilton spent time in a mental hospital. In 1995, Hilton became a consultant on the film Deadly Run, a straight-to-video film about a serial killer. The character kept women in a cabin […]
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 […]
CARRINGTON, Celeste Simone
Celeste Simone Carrington lived a hard life in a tough part of Philadelphia. Her mother was just 16 when she had Carrington, who was the first of four children. Carrington was often left alone to raise her siblings. Both her parents were abusive alcoholics, but the father was rarely around. When he was, he raped […]
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 […]