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Serial Killer Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
   
serial killers by country - usa [l] countries
     
  LA CROSSE Drownings   ... Serial Killer USA ... ... ... ...
...   La Crosse
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News on La CROSSE Drowings
 
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LAKE Leonard => NG Charles Chitat

  LALAURIE Delphine Marie     USA ... ... ... 3
aka    
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In New Orleans, the ghost tours always stop at a particular mansion in the midst of the French Quarter, on the corner of Royal and Governor Nicholls Streets.  The house had once been owned by socialites, a physician by the name of Lalaurie and his wife, Delphine. [ReadOn]


LANCE Myron => KELBACH Walter

  LANE Doyle Edward 1961   USA ... ... ... 2
1980 1990 TX KN
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  LANG Donald 1945   USA ... ... ... 2
aka Dummy 1965 1972 IL
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Donald Lang's case has got to be one of the strangest in the annals of crime. Lang's alleged crimes were not particularly unusual. They would have gone largely unremarked-upon if not for the fact that Lang was totally deaf and mute. [ReadOn]


  LANGLEY Robert P. jr. 1959   USA ... ... ... 2
1987 1989 OR
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LANHAM Harry => KNOPPA Anthony Michael & LANHAM Harry

  LAPAGE Joseph   1978/03/15 USA ... ... ... 2
1870 1873 MA +CAn
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  LARA Mario 1955   USA ... ... ... 2
1981   FL
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  LARETTE Anthony Joe jr. 1962 1995/11/29 USA ... ... ... 3+
1977 1980 KS MO
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  LAS VEGAS ASIAN WOMEN Killer     USA ... ... ... 3
1995 1996 NV
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  LASKEY Posteal 1937   USA ... ... ... 7
Cincinnati Strangler 1965 1966 OH
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Between October 1965 and December 1966, female Cincinnati residents were terrorized by a series of stranglings and sexual assaults, recalling memories of recent turmoil generated by the "Boston Strangler." [ReadOn]


LAST CALL KILLER => ROGERS Richard

LATHAM James D. => YORK George R. & LATHAM James D.

  LAURANCE Michael George     ... ... ...
aka    
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  LAWRENCE Jonathan Huey ...   Serial KillerUSA Number of Victims ... ... ... ...
  RODGERS Jeremiah Martel ...   ...
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  LAWRENCE Michael Alan 1955   USA ... ... ... 2
1976 1990 FL
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  LAWRENCE NATIVE AMERICAN Murders     USA ... ... ... 4
1989 1990 KS
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  LAWS Keith Richard     USA ... ... ... 2
1970 1989 VA +nl
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  LAWSON Carl Wayne     USA ... ... ... ...
... ... OKC
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News on Serial Killer Carl Wayne LAWSON
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  LEAR Tuhran     USA ... ... ... 2
1980s   IL
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  LEBARON Ervil Morrell et al 1925 1981/07/.. USA ... ... ... 22+
Church of the Lamb of God 1966 1988 UT CA TX +MX
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LEE Bruce => DINSDALE Peter George

  LEE Derrick Todd     USA ... ... ... 5+
Baton Rouge Serial Killer    
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News on Serial Killer Derrick Todd LEE
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  LEE Tobias     USA ... ... ... ...
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  LEGRAND Devernon *1925   USA ... ... ... 6+
  LEGRAND Steven *1950   NY
1963 1975  
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A New York native, born in 1925, LeGrand was arrested on charges of kidnapping , assault, and firearms possession in 1965. Three years later, police accused him of snatching a 23-year-old woman from her home, assaulting and raping her before she managed to escape. [ReadOn]


  LEMIEUX Joseph A. 1908 1950/11/17 USA ... ... ... 2
1943 1950 MA
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  LENT Lewis jr. 1950   USA ... ... ... 8+
1983 1990
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  LEON Darlene ...   USA ... ... ... 17+
  ...   CA
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Hospice nurse Darlene Leon of California is on trial for injecting 17 of her patients with lethal doses of morphine.

  LEONARD Eric Royce 1969   USA ... ... ... 6
Thrill Killer 1991   CA
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  LEITERMAN Gary ... ... Serial Killer USA ... ... ... 1+
aka ... ... ...
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News on Angel of Death Stephan LETTER

LETTS Rosemary Pauline => WEST Frederick & LETTS Rosemary Pauline

LEUKING Kurt => DOHMEYER Juergen & LEUKING Kurt

  LEWINGDON Gary James     USA ... ... ... 8+
  LEWINGDON Thaddeus Charles      
.22 Caliber Killers    
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Between February and December 1978, residents of Columbus, Ohio, were panicked by a string of random, senseless murders, characterized by nocturnal ambush and home invasions, with victims shot numerous times in the head at close range. Police were stymied in their search for the ".22-caliber Killer," and only a clumsy mistake by one gunman prevented the crimes from continuing indefinitely. [ReadOn]

  LEWIS Gerald Patrick     USA ... ... ... 4
    AL
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Gerald Patrick Lewis, who is jailed in Alabama on suspicion of killing four women, told the Mobile Register that he was responsible for a killing spree lasting more than a decade, including killing one near a gravel pit in Brockton. "It feels good to talk about it," he said. "I've been walking around with this stuff for years. [ReadOn]

LEWIS James => TYLENOL Murders

LEWIS John Irvin => HUBBARD Vincent & LEWIS John Irvin

  LEWISTON VALLEY Killer     USA ... ... ... 5
1979 1982 WA
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Believed responsible for five murders and disappearances in the Clarkston, Wash.- Lewiston, Idaho, area from 1979-82. Some victims were dismembered and dumped in a river. Two bodies have never been found. Victims include three young women, a girl and a man.
Status: Investigators have a suspect, but have never made an arrest.

  LIBERTY John Williard ... ... USA ... ... ... 3
aka Candlelight Killer 1966 1970 CA
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Robert Liberty first met Marcela Landis in an Orange County, California, mental institution, where both were confined after failed suicide attempts. He was attracted to the woman, eight years older than himself, and their relationship appeared to blossom on release, but Liberty was closer to the edge than anyone had realized. [ReadOn]

  LINDSEY William Darrell     USA ... ... ... 8
    FL
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In April, 1997, after being charged with killing a prostitute in Asheville, North Carolina, Lindsey, a former construction worker, has become the main suspect in the slayings of seven Florida women since 1983. Authorities pieced together his murderous trail after several former residents of the St. Agustine area now living in North Carolina sent news clippings about Lindsey's arrest to the sheriff in Florida. [ReadOn]

  LIPKA Juliane     ... ... ...
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  LIPSTICK Murders     USA ... ... ... 2+
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October 1937 "Lipstick Murders," so-called after high school sweethearts Lewis Weiss and Frances Hajek were shot in their car, circles drawn on the forehead of each victim with Hajek's lipstick, but that case, too, remained unsolved.

  LISEMBA Raymond   1942/05/.. USA ... ... ... 3
1930s 1940s CA CO
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  LITTLE Dwain Lee 1947   USA ... ... ... 5
1964 1975 OR
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  LOCKETT Will   1920/03/11 USA ... ... ... 4+
aka Petrie KIMBROUGH 1912 1915 IL IN KY
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Born Petrie Kimbrough, Lockett did most of his traveling - and killing - under the alias that eventually followed him to the electric chair . A black man, he fled his native Kentucky after assaulting a white woman in Todd County, during 1905. [ReadOn]

  LOCKHART Michael Lee 1945 1997/12/09 USA ... ... ... 6+
1987   IN TX FL TN
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A drifter who has left his tracks from coast to coast, Mike Lockhart was paroled from a Wyoming prison in December 1986. Authorities suggest that over fifteen months, from Christmas 1986 through March of 1988, he was responsible for crimes including grand theft, robbery and rape , selecting victims from Wyoming to the Florida panhandle, with intermediate stops in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, and Louisiana. [ReadOn]

  LONG Neal Bradley 1927   USA ... ... ... 7
1972 1975 OH
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A native of Dayton, Ohio, born in 1927, Long was a violent racist who could not abide the specter of black progress in his home community. In 1966, he approached local police and confessed to stabbing a black man in 1944, but he was released when detectives could find no record of the crime in their files. [ReadOn]

  LONG Robert Joe 1953/10/14   USA ... ... ... 10
Classified Ad Rapist    
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Born October 14, 1953, at Kenova, West Virginia, Long may be the classic case of someone "destined" to become a random killer. With other members of his family, he suffered from a genetic disorder characterized by an extra "X" chromosome, causing his glands to produce abnormal amounts of estrogen in puberty, with the result that his breasts began to enlarge. [ReadOn]

  LOPES Edmund 1935   USA ... ... ... 2
1966 1970 IL
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  LORD Brian Keith     USA ... ... ... 2
    WA
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Carpenter, Kitsap County Suspected of the 1986 sex slaying of a Poulsbo teenage girl. At age 14, Lord shot and killed a family friendin California; and abducted his sister-in-law when he was 20. His conviction and death sentence for the Washington murder was overturned, with retrial set for this year.Status: In Kitsap County Jail, awaiting trial.

  LOS ANGELES COUNTY FREEWAY Sniper     USA ... ... ... 3
1998   CA
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  LOS ANGELES COUNTY PROSTITUTE Strangler     USA ... ... ... 6
1993 1995 CA
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  LOS ANGELES ROBBERY Killings     USA ... ... ... 3
1980   CA
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On November 6, 1980, the Los Angeles Police Department asked for public help in their pursuit of three Hispanic men connected to a string of robberies, assaults, and fatal stabbings in the San Fernando Valley area. Lt. William Gaida said of the elusive trio, "They seen to derive some sadistic pleasure out of stabbing people. [ReadOn]

  LOS ANGELES Sniper     USA ... ... ... 3
1993   CA
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  LOS ANGELES Sniper     USA ... ... ... 6
1982 1982 CA
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Between the months of August and October 1982, Los Angeles police were mobilized to track a prowling gunman who selected random motorists as targets, imitating New York's "Son of Sam." Before the rampage ended - with the gunman still at large - two victims had been killed and three more wounded in a spate of sudden, unprovoked attacks. [ReadOn]

  LOS ANGELES SOUTH SIDE Slayer     USA ... ... ... 14+3
1983 1987 LA
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Unidentified at this writing, the Southside Slayer of Los Angeles is credited with at least fourteen homicides between September 1983 and May 1987. At least three other victims are considered possible additions to the list, and three more managed to survive encounters with the stalker, offering police descriptions of a black man in his early thirties, sporting a mustache and baseball cap. [ReadOn]
  LOS ANGELES Unsolved     USA ... ... ... 5
1980 1980 CA
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On June 12, 1980, members of a highway construction crew discovered the nude bodies of two white males, both in their early twenties, near the Ventura Freeway's exit ramp for Forest Lawn Drive. Cause of death was undetermined, the bodies bearing no marks other than some superficial scratches from their slide down the embankment, after they had been ejected from a vehicle. [ReadOn]

LOVETT Margery => TODD Sweeney & LOVETT Margery

  LUCAS David Allen 1956   USA ... ... ... 6+
1979 1984 CA
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  LUCAS Henry Lee     USA ... ... ... 200+
  TOOLE Otis Elwood      
aka    
Verdict/Urteil: Todesurteil (LUCAS) 6x Lebenslange Haft (TOOLE)
 

America's most controversial murderer was born August 23, 1936, at Blacksburg, Virginia. The Lucas family home was a two-room, dirt-floor cabin in the woods outside of town, where Henry's alcoholic parents brewed bootleg whiskey, his mother doing occasional turns as the neighborhood prostitute. [ReadOn]


  LUDY Josef     ... ... ...
aka    
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  LUMBRERA Diana 1957   USA ... ... ... 7
1976 1990 TX KS
Verdict/Urteil: 3 x Lebenslange Haft
 

A Texas native, Diana Lumbrera was seventeen years old when she married Lionel Garza in 1974. Their marriage was troubled almost from the start, but the quarreling Garzas made up frequently enough to produce three children in as many years. Daughter Melissa was born in 1975, Joanna in 1976, and their first son, Jose Lionel. in 1977. [ReadOn]


  LUTHER Thomas Edward 1957   USA ... ... ... 9+
1970s 1994 VT CO VA PA
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  LYLES Anjette Donovan 1917 1997/12/04 USA ... ... ... 4
1952 1957 GA
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Anjette Lyles' restaurant on Mulberry Street in downtown Macon, Georgia was a favorite lunch spot for the town's lawyers, judges and businesspeople in the 1950s. The food was okay, but what attracted the menfolk was the restaurant's owner, Anjette Lyles. What puzzled Anjette's patrons was how she could remain so cheerful and outgoing with all the tragedy going on around her life. [ReadOn]

  LYNCH Susan ... .... USA Number of Victims ...    
  KLENNER Fritz     ...
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