COX, Frederick Pete
Dispatch | Timeline | Videos Neighbors described Frederick Pete Cox as unfriendly. His victims would have described him as vile. Cox once volunteered helping crack addicts, probably to find victims. He had a long-term partner, 2 sons, 2 German Shepherds and, by the age of 43, a penchant to kill prostitutes. After minor brushes with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
RISSELL, Montie 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
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 […]