On December 23, 1985, California state authorities announced that an investigation was under way in the cases of eleven "suspicious" deaths at the Gilmore Lane Convalescent Hospital, in Oroville. (Several more patients died after being transferred to Oroville Hospital for emergency treatment.) [ReadOn]

A physician and slayer of at least two women in New Jersey, during 1928 and 1929, Campbell met his victims through a matrimonial agency, luring them with promises of marriage. [ReadOn]

James Dwight CANADY, a city water department employee from Seattle, abducted, raped and strangled two women, then dumped their bodies near Stevens Pass. Canady later attacked two other women and was being held in King County Jail on rape, assault and kidnapping charges when he confessed to the murders, leading detectives to one body.Status: In prison in Washington.

A native of Brooklyn, Frank Canonico was arrested by police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in early July 1981, charged with the murders of two local women. Homicide investigators said Canonico had signed confessions in the shooting deaths of Willine Wall, age 60, and Phyllis Schwartz, age 43, of nearby Lauderhill. [ReadOn]

Known to authorities as "The Lady Killer", this suave Argentinian was arrested on March 9, 1994 after a 20-year murderous rampage. His first victim was a young woman in New York who he strangled and stabbed in the early seventies. Caputo was arrested for the murder and placed in a mental hospital from which he subsequently escaped. [ReadOn]

By all rights, Harvey Carignan should never have become a serial killer. Sentenced in Alaska to be hanged for murdering a woman during 1949, the hulking killer might have been eliminated early on had not the system intervened. An over-zealous sheriff had elicited confessions from the suspect with assurances that Carignan would not be executed, a condition that appeals courts found disturbing. [ReadOn]

In 1961, at age thirty-three, David started demonstrating his psychotic tendencies when he attacked a woman with a hammer. After a stint in jail, a prison break, and another stint in jail, he came out a reformed man. In 1978 he relocated to San Francisco to work in a print shop. By August 1979 he was back to his old tricks. [ReadOn]

Paroled from a Connecticut prison in October 1975, 32-year-old Robert Carr resumed the career of sexual assault and murder that his last arrest had interrupted. A series of rapes in Dade County, Florida, ended when Carr was picked up by police at the end of May 1976. [ReadOn]

Susan & James CARSON were 30-year old hippies from San Francisco who operated a large pot farm in Humbolt County, California. They regularly took hallucinogenic drugs, and during one of their trips, Susan had a vision to change their names (to Suzan & Michael Bear) and declare allegiance to the Muslim faith. [Weiterlesen]

Alaska-born, in 1957, Carter was working as a freelance television cameraman in Anchorage when he decided to try his luck in California, in the spring of 1984. Along the way, his quest for new beginnings would become a dead-end nightmare, as he ran amok and claimed at least five lives. [ReadOn]

Adopted as an infant, during 1944, by Glenn and Martha Catlin, of Kern County, California, Steven moved to Bakersfield with his new parents in the early 1950s. Dropping out of high school, he showed no interest in honest work and was arrested on forgery charges at age nineteen, serving nine months in a California Youth Authority camp. [ReadOn]

At 6 a.m. on August 4, 1941, Evelyn Anderson, age 26, left her home in the Bronx, walking to her job as a waitress in a nearby restaurant. She never punched the clock that day, and it was 9 p.m. before her lifeless body was discovered in an alley off Jerome Avenue. She had been strangled by a powerful assailant, marks of fingernails imbedded in her throat, but she had not been sexually abused. [ReadOn]

A self-styled "death merchant" who enjoyed killing for pleasure, Chadd has confessed to three murders and various rapes in at least two states. In 1974, according to his own statement, the 20-year-old drifter invaded the home of a San Diego woman, choked and raped his victim , then slashed her throat and continued the sexual assault as she lay dying. [ReadOn]

A child of New York City, born in 1955, Rutrell was 15 years old when he joined accomplice L.L. Thompson, 20, in a five-week murder tour of Dixie. Driven by racism and a thirst for "adventure," the black gunmen shot and wounded three white college students in Durham, North Carolina, on April 15, 1970, rolling on from there to murder another Caucasian, J.J. Bowles, at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 3. [ReadOn]

Richard Trenton CHASE became known as the Vampire Killer of Sacramento after a four day blood binge in January, 1978, in which he claimed six lives. Previously he had tried to inject rabbit's blood into his veins and had been institutionalized for exhibiting such strange behavior that merited the nickname "Dracula" within the hospital staff. [ReadOn]

On June 22, 1999, Juan Chavez, 35, was handed five consecutive life sentences for killing five gay men between 1986 and 1989.Strangely Chavez said he killed the men in an attempt to stop the spread of AIDS. The crusading killer agreed to the life sentence under a plea bargain that saved him from the death penalty. [ReadOn]

Initially billed as the murders of six black "businessmen," Chicago's unsolved homicides of 1971 and '72 had several things in common: all the victims were black males; each was shot in the back of the head, execution style; and all were discarded, like refuse, in the muddy South Branch of the Chicago River. [ReadOn]

A native of Bethesda, Maryland, born in 1945, Christenson logged his first felony conviction in 1969, charged with assault and battery in the stabbing of a teenage girl in Washington, D.C. Two years later, he pled guilty to raping a Maryland go-go dancer, serving nine years before his parole in 1980. [ReadOn]

In late 1976 and early 1977, female students at the University of California in Santa Barbara were terrorized by a grim series of "look-alike" murders, so-called because the victims closely resembled one another. The first to die was co-ed Jacqueline Rook, 21, abducted from a bus stop in the Santa Barbara suburb of Goleta on December 6, 1976. [ReadOn]

A pathological racist, Christopher launched a one-man war against blacks in September 1980, claiming victims from upstate New York to southwestern Georgia. In his wake, he left an atmosphere of bigotry and violence that provoked a string of hostile confrontations in communities not known for racial animosity. [ReadOn]

Suburban Cumminsville is normally a peaceful place, but in the six-year period from 1904 to 1910 it earned the grisly reputation of a "murder zone," where women walked in fear and dreaded riding street cars after nightfall. [ReadOn]

Raised in West Germany by American parents working abroad, Clarey was the product of a troubled childhood exacerbated by the use of drugs. In 1977, at age sixteen, he left Wiesbaden for the United States, living briefly with an aunt in Oregon. [ReadOn]

Born in 1948, the son of a retired navy admiral turned international engineer, Douglas Clark had lived in 37 countries by the time he settled in Southern California. He liked to call himself "the king of the one-night stands," supplementing his machinist's income through affairs with frowsy matrons, reserving his leisure time for kinky liaisons with underaged girls and young women. [Read on ]

It was a wonder Dr. Roland Clark remained in business. During middle age, when most physicians are established in their field and making decent money for their efforts, he appeared to be forever on the brink of some professional disaster. Between 1954 and 1967, his medical license was revoked on four separate occasions -- - once for "gross misconduct," twice for "moral turpitude," and once without specific charges from the state. [ReadOn]

The strange sight of a 47-year-old handcuffed man surrounded by police walking through the woods while wearing a woman's wig must have puzzled many Cape Cod residents on the morning of April 9, 2000. [ReadOn]

On May 2, 1996, Clepper was charged with strangling eight women. His last victim was found stuffed in the closet of his bedroom. Police said Gregory was waiting for his mother to help him dispose of the body. Clepper, 28, a resident of Chicago's South Side, preyed on drug-addicted prostitutes who he killed after they objected to his refusal to pay for sex. [ReadOn]

On May 1, 1922, police in Cleveland jailed a local woman on suspicion of poisoning her husband for the sum of $ 11,000 in life insurance. Announcing her arrest the next day, prosecutor Edward Stanton told reporters that the suspect had been married five times, divorcing her first two husbands, after which the next three died in mysterious circumstances. [ReadOn]

A prolific American "Bluebeard," Cline was linked with at least nine homicides between 1930 and his arrest in 1945. Eight of his wives were dispatched after willing their earthly possessions to Cline; his single male victim was an evangelist, Rev. Ernest Jones, who made Cline the heir to $11,000 shortly before his "unexpected" death. [ReadOn]

James Ray Cable pleaded not guilty yesterday in Jefferson Circuit Court to the murders of two women. He also is charged in Daviess County with murdering a third woman. Cable was out of prison on parole at the time of all three slayings, which took place in the 1980s. [ReadOn]

An alcoholic and narcotics addict, Cobb financed his expensive habits through robbery, eventually turning to murder. Convicted in the fatal beating of a Georgia holdup victim , Cobb was serving life when he escaped from the state prison, at Jessup, in April 1965. [ReadOn]

On May 16, 1987, two teenaged models and their elderly female chaperones were reported missing after they failed to return from a trip to Lake Tahoe, on the California-Nevada border, for production of an anti-drug video program. Missing were: [ReadOn]

A death wish, once in custody, is not unusual among compulsive killers. Carroll Edward Cole, admitted murderer of thirteen persons, was securely serving out a term of life in Texas, with parole a possibility in seven years, when he elected voluntarily to face a pair of murder charges in Nevada, fully conscious of the fact that he would be condemned to die upon conviction. [ReadOn]

Cindy COLLIER und Shirley WOLF were 15 and 14 years old, when they startet prowling condominiums in California in 1983. They knocked at doors of randomly chosen victims, to gain admittance under a pretext. An elderly woman opened and chatted with them unsuspectingly, while the two girls planned to steal the lady´s car.[ReadOn]

Seven years before Ted Bundy launched his one-man war against brunettes in Washington, attractive co-eds in the state of Michigan were targeted as victims by another human monster. In a two-year period, the hunter struck repeatedly, at random, savaging his prey with the abandon of a rabid animal. [ReadOn]

There is a serial killer in Virginia that they have yet to catch dubbed the "Colonial Parkway Killer." To date he has killed four couples-- a gay female couple in 1986, followed by a couple in 1987 and two in 1988. One couple is presumed dead and is still missing. [ReadOn]

On May 23, 1966, Loren Bollinger, a 40-year-old rocket scientist at Ohio State University in Columbus, was ambushed and shot to death outside his downtown office. Five bullets were extracted from his corpse, including one which pierced the brain; ballistics tests linked the .25-caliber weapon with the murders of two gas station attendants, in or near Columbus, in the past eight months. [ReadOn]

Various motives, including greed and jealousy, have been advanced for the sudden, lethal violence which overtook Chester Comer in 1935. In retrospect, it seems that none of the suggested motivations adequately answer for the mayhem of a mind that went abruptly, brutally awry. [ReadOn]

Suspected serial killer Daniel CONAHAN is believed to be responsible for five homosexual torture murders in Central Florida. Charged with the murder of Richard Montgomery, Conahan told a Florida jury he had never met the victim. [ReadOn]

This maniac was known as the Tamiami Strangler until June 26, 1995, when he was caught by Metro-Dade police in the Miami area. Rory Conde, a Colombian native, felt so bad about his nasty habit that he scribbled on the back of his third victim a message asking police to catch him. [ReadOn]

On July 1, 1969, Connecticut police announced that they were seeking links between the recent deaths of two young girls. Mary Mount had been abducted from New Canaan on May 27, while Dawn Cave, 14, was reported missing three days later and 35 miles distant. [ReadOn]

Between 1976 and 1978, an unidentified killer stalked New Haven, Connecticut, selecting black women as his victims , preying chiefly on prostitutes working the neighborhood of Chapel Street, a short walk from Yale University. [ReadOn]

Some people collect stamps; others postcards. Bordello Madame Eva Coo collected insurance policies on her friends, colleagues and employees. One employee in particular, Harry Wright, a slow witted handyman had been taken under Eva's wing when his mother died at her request. [ReadOn]

Anthony Cook, at times aided by his brother Nathaniel, embarked on a murder spree in the Toledo, Ohio, area that killed nine people from 1973 until his 1981 arrest for murder. If not for DNA evidence that had been preserved for twenty years, however, the scope of his and Nathaniel's crimes would likely never been known. [ReadOn]

Born in 1929 near Joplin, Missouri, William Cook was one of eight children fathered by an alcoholic miner. When his mother died, Cook's father moved the family into an abandoned mine shaft, where they lived like animals until the old man finally deserted them entirely. [ReadOn]

Indiana born, on Christmas Eve of 1939, Dean Corll grew up in a combative home, his parents quarreling constantly. They were divorced while Corll was still an infant, then remarried after World War II, but Dean's father provided no stabilizing influence, regarding his children with thinly-veiled distaste, resorting to harsh punishment for the smallest infractions. [ReadOn]

Born in 1934, Corona moved to Yuba City, California in the early 50's as a migrant worker. There the Mexican national established himself as a family man and labor contractor, that is, until he was charged with hacking twenty-five men to death. [ReadOn]

It should have been a routine traffic stop. Two officers of the California Highway Patrol noticed the white van around 8:00 p.m. on October 14, 1984, weaving erratically in the fast lane of Highway 101, some fifteen miles north of San Jose. Suspecting alcohol at work, they stopped the van and left their cruiser, moving in on foot. [ReadOn]

The scene was Times Square 1977, and there was a butcher on the loose. The city's prostitutes were being slaughtered, and even the pimps were frightened. In December of 1979, a seedy hotel on 42nd Street was burning down. A firefighter pulled an unconscious, naked woman out of a burning room into the hall. [ReadOn]

Scott William COX, long-haul trucker from Newberg (OR), stabbed one prostitute and strangled another in Portland. Suspected in more than 20 other murders, including the 1988 homicide of Snohomish County transient Hazel Gelnett and the 1990 murder of Tia Hicks, a Seattle woman whose body was found in Montlake Terrace. Also suspected of raping and trying to kill a Seattle prostitute in May 1991. Status: In prison in Oregon.

An unemployed construction worker, 30-year-old Louis Craine was arrested by Los Angeles police on May 29, 1987, charged with strangling and sexually assaulting prostitute Carolyn Barney the same day. Evidence collected after Craine's arrest linked him with the murders of Loretta Perry, found on January 25, and Vivian Collins, discovered on March 18. [ReadOn]

On January 31, 2000, a 50-member Police Task Force announced the arrest of 37-year-old Andre Crawford. Crawford, who was genetically linked to seven murders and eight rapes, was arrested January 28 after police received several tips about him while interviewing the friends of one of the victims. [ReadOn]

Charged with double homicide in Ada County, Idaho, in 1975, Tom Creech astounded his jailers by confessing to 42 murders, allegedly committed over thirteen states since 1967. In his statement, Creech alleged that many of the homicides were sacrifices ordered by a cult of Satanists ; a biker gang reportedly commissioned others, sometimes paying Creech upon completion of a "contract." [ReadOn]

Also known as Jimmie Knorr. A mother of five, Theresa/Jimmie was in the habit of killing her daughters once they reached puberty. She first shot her oldest daughter, but the poor girl survived. After a few weeks, Theresa tried to remove the bullet by herself. The amateur surgery left the hapless girl near death. [ReadOn]

Born in 1940, Crump was another in the series of lethal drifters who left their tracks across America in the 1980s. Convicted in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of killing his second wife, a cab driver, and a Minnesota tourist, Crump was already serving life on those counts when he confessed to an October 1980 murder in Las Vegas. [ReadOn]

Twenty-two hours of hell for a nineteen-year-old vacationing in Florida culminated in a rescue by a good Samaritan who was just passing by. The young bookeeper from Westminster, CA was raped and tortured before making a difficult and daring escape through a bathroom window with both her hands and feet handcuffed. [ReadOn]

A "typical party boy" in San Diego's gay community, Andy was the target of a nationwide manhunt that came to a frenzy when he shot executed Gianni Versace in broad daylight in front of his Miami Beach mansion. Not the typical serial killer type, Cunanan was described by all who knew him as a "social beast" -- a darkly handsome bespectacled individual that was well educated, intelligent, charming and extremely friendly. [ReadOn]