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serial killers by country - usa [t] countries
     
  TABORSKY Joseph L. *1924   USA 7
  CULOMBE Arthur *1923   CT
1951 1955  
Verdict/Urteil:

In 1951, at age 27, Joseph Taborsky was convicted and sentenced to die for the holdup-murder of Louis Woolson, a liquor store proprietor in west Hartford, Connecticut. Taborsky's accomplice -- and the chief witness against him -- was his brother Albert, sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for his participation in the crime. [ReadOn]


TACKLYN Larry Winfield => BURROWS Erskine Durrant & TACKLYN Larry Winfield

  TAHL William Albert Autur     USA ... ... ... ...
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:

An American Eskimo, Tahl clashed with authority for the first time at age three, after deliberately hurling a brick through a window. More arrests followed, but his crimes remained petty until the spring of 1965, when unexpected violent urges surfaced at the age of twenty-seven. [ReadOn]


  TANNENBAUM Gloria   1971/03/09 USA ... ... ... 3
1969   CO
Verdict/Urteil:

A peculiar chapter of Colorado's criminal history was closed on March 9, 1971, with the announcement that Gloria Tannenbaum, suspect in two deaths and one disappearance, had died in the state mental hospital at Pueblo. [ReadOn]


  TAPSON Floid Todd     USA ... ... ... 3
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:

According to a federal task force, a serial killer may be responsible for the disappearances of three women who were mentally retarded and lived in Minnesota and North Dakota. The task force is focusing on Floyd Tapson, 38, who is charged in Montana with the rape and attempted murder of a 22-year-old woman with mental retardation. [ReadOn]


  TAYLOR Blake Raymond 1966   USA ... ... ... 3
1985 1988 CA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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TAYLOR Carl Robert => McCRARY Sherman Ramon, Carolyn Elizabeth, Danny Sherman, Ginger & TAYLOR Carl Robert

TAYLOR Donald => BURSE Nathaniel & CLARK Michael & JACKSON Garland & MORAN Edward jr. & PATRY Darrell & TAYLOR Donald & TAYLOR Reuben & WILSON Robert

  TAYLOR Gary Addison 1936   USA ... ... ... 4+
Phantom Sniper 1972 1976 MI WA TX WA
Verdict/Urteil:
TAYLOR Gary Addison

Michigan born in 1936, Gary Taylor spent his early years in Florida, launching his first attacks on women there, when he was in his teens. His standard M.0. involved loitering around bus stops after nightfall, waiting for solitary women to disembark, assaulting them with a hammer. [ReadOn]


TAYLOR Herman => HURD Steven Craig, GIBONEY Christopher, HULSE Arthur & TAYLOR Herman

  TAYLOR Kenneth Gordon 1941   USA ... ... ... 17+
1977 1978 TN OH PA
Verdict/Urteil:

An Ohio native, born in 1941, Taylor was suspected of no more than routine traffic violations when Nashville, Tennessee, patrolmen pulled him over on September 4, 1978. The officers were skeptical when Taylor told them, "I'm glad you stopped me; I just committed a murder," but their doubts vanished after he directed them to the body of 36-year-old David Willie, dumped in a downtown alley. [ReadOn]


  TAYLOR Kevin     USA ... ... ... 4+
aka     IL
Verdict/Urteil:

Police in Chicago's South Side said that on August 20, 2001, they arrested a man and charged with raping and strangling four drug-addicted prostitutes over a two-month period. The suspect, 27-year-old Kevin Taylor, left a fifth woman for dead over after arguing with her over the price for sex. [ReadOn]


TAYLOR Laura => KEENE Marvallaus, SMITH Demarcus, MATTHEWS Heather & TAYLOR Laura


TAYLOR Reuben => BURSE Nathaniel & CLARK Michael & JACKSON Garland & MORAN Edward jr. & PATRY Darrell & TAYLOR Donald & TAYLOR Reuben & WILSON Robert

  TENNESON Michael 1960   USA ... ... ... 5
1987   CO WI
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A native of Holmen, Wisconsin, born in 1960, Tenneson was serving felony time in the La Crosse County jail when he failed to return from a work-release outing on March 10, 1987. Ten days later, still in La Crosse, he invaded the home of 73-year-old Lila Bush, shooting her to death, along with her 33-year-old son Kenneth and Kenneth's 35-year-old girlfriend, Debra Reget. [ReadOn]

  TENNEY Edward L. 1959   USA ... ... ... 3
1993   IL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TERRELL Bobbie Sue     USA ... ... ... 12
aka    
  1984 1985    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
 

A native of tiny Woodlawn, Illinois, the future death angel of Florida grew up overweight, myopic, and painfully shy. Her seven siblings included four brothers afflicted with muscular dystrophy, two of whom would die from the disease before Bobbie Sue reached her mid-thirties. [ReadOn]


  TERRY Charles E.   1981 USA ... ... ... 2+
1962 1963 NY LA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TERRY Michael     USA ... ... ... 6
1985 1986 GA
Verdict/Urteil:

One evening in December 1985, Curtis Brown, a 21-year-old black man, left his home in Atlanta, Georgia, to purchase a package of cigarettes. Five hours later, when an unidentified corpse was discovered in Dean Rusk Park, no connection was made. Stripped of I.D., his pants pulled down, the victim had been shot several times in the head, and .38-caliber bullets were recovered in fair shape for ballistic identification. [ReadOn]


  TEXAS AXEMAN     USA ... ... ... 49
1911 1912 TX LA
Verdict/Urteil: Unsolved

Between January 1911 and April 1912, an unidentified killer (or killers) slaughtered 49 victims in the states of Louisiana and Texas, leaving police baffled. In each case, the dead were mulattoes or black members of families with mulatto children. [ReadOn]


  TEXAS DECAPITATION Murders ... ... USA ... ... ... 4
aka 1979 1979 TX
Verdict/Urteil: Unsolved

Residents of Houston, Texas, are accustomed to reports of violent death, but nothing in their past experience prepared them for the string of crimes which dominated headlines in the latter part of 1979. Between the last week of July and first week of October, four lives were extinguished by a killer who seemed bent on claiming human heads as trophies of the hunt. [ReadOn]


  TEXAS Ripper     USA ... ... ... #
black prost 1887   TX
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TEXAS THRILL Killings     USA ... ... ... 3+
aka 1984 1985 TX
Verdict/Urteil:
 
For seven months in 1984 and 1985, a gang of teenaged gunmen roamed at will in Dallas, Texas, killing victims on the street. Police described the gang as "just a group of friends who liked to shoot people," and Investigator T.J. Barnes explained, "They were killing people because they didn't like their looks, or the way they looked at them." The gang's first victim was 21-year-old John Hahn, gunned down on an East Dallas street without apparent motive, on December 7, 1984. Three months later, on March 15, 1985, John Kane was shot and killed while chasing some youths who had pelted him with beer cans. Juan Cuevas, 20, died on April 6, the victim of another random, senseless shooting. On June 7, 1985, police swept up five of the gang, ages 16 to 18, reporting that a 15-year-old suspect had escaped to Mexico. Charged with three counts of murder, two counts of aggravated assault, plus one count each of burglary, aggravated robbery and attempted murder, the unnamed teens were also suspected of four other East Dallas slayings.

  TEXAS TRI COUNTY Murders     USA ... ... ... 16-40
aka 1971 1975 TX
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A mystifying case from Texas, still unsolved, involves the death or disappearance of girls and young women in a tri-county region on the Gulf of Mexico. Conflicting stories from investigators and the media have so confounded matters that to date, the body-count has variously ranged from sixteen victims to an estimated maximum of forty. [ReadOn]

THACKER Oren => BURKE Peter & CRAWFORD Cody Vernon & THACKER Oren

  THANOS John Frederick 1949 1994/05/17 USA ... ... ... 3
1990   MD
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  THOLMER Brandon 1949   USA ... ... ... 34
1981 1984 CA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A native of Los Angeles, born in 1949, Tholmer was 26 years old at the time of his arrest for assaulting a police officer. A charge of rape was added, when his fingerprints were matched with those recovered from the apartment where a 79-year-old woman was attacked on October 22, 1975, and Tholmer later pled guilty to that crime, blaming his actions on an LSD "high." [ReadOn]

  THOMAS William Gregory 1960   USA ... ... ... 2
BB 1991 1993 FL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  THOMPSON Gerald     ... ... ...
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  THOMPSON Jerry K. 1961   USA ... ... ... 3
1991   IN
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  THOMPSON Kelly Ray 1968   USA ... ... ... 8
1990s   WA CO
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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THOMPSON L.L. => ?CHANEY Ben jr. & RUTRELL Martin & THOMPSON L.L.

  THOMPSON Raymond Michael 1930   USA ... ... ... 2
1980 1982 FL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  THOMPSON William Paul 1937 1989/06/19 USA ... ... ... 6+
1980s   NY KS CA NV
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TIERI Frank     ... ... ...
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TILLEY Joe Vance 1974   USA ... ... ... 3
1990   OK
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TIMMENDEQUAS Jesse 1961/04/15   USA ... ... ... 1
aka Megan´s Law    
Verdict/Urteil:
TIMMENDEQUAS Jesse
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed for the 2nd time the death sentence imposed on the man who raped and strangled Megan Kanka. The court, in a 4-1 ruling, said the death sentence for Jesse Timmendequas was fair when compared with penalties in other cases. [ReadOn]

  TINGLER Richard Lee jr. 1940   USA ... ... ... 6
1968   OH
Verdict/Urteil:
TINGLER Richard Lee jr.
Born out of wedlock in December 1940, Richard Tingler was raised by a mother who beat him regularly, interspersing punishment with frequent reminders that her son was "born in sin." Enlisting in the air force to escape from home, Tingler experienced his first run-in with police in June 1959, while stationed in Alaska. [ReadOn]

  TINNING Mary Beth Roe     USA ... ... ... 3-9
1972 1985
Verdict/Urteil:
TINNING Mary Beth Roe

For a devoted mother, Marybeth Tinning seemed to have no luck at all in raising children. In the thirteen years from 1972 to 1985, she lost nine infants in Schenectady, New York, and police would later charge that eight of those were slain deliberately, for motives no one has been able to articulate. [ReadOn]


  TIPTON John Calvin 1936 1958/09/27 USA ... ... ... 2
1956   CA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TIPTON Richard 1971   USA ... ... ... 11
1992   VA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TOLEDO SLUGGER     USA ... ... ... 5
1925 1926 OH
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A classic bogeyman, the "Slugger" terrorized Toledo's population during 1925 and '26, assaulting women, beating some of them to death and leaving others gravely wounded in the wake of his attacks. Before the madness ran its course, the faceless suspect also stood accused of lighting fires and planting bombs in a bizarre and motiveless campaign of terror aimed at random targets. [ReadOn]

  TOLERTON Kenyon Battles 1956   USA ... ... ... 3
1980 1993 CO
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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TOOLE Otis Elwood => LUCAS Henry Lee & TOOLE Otis Elwood

  TOPPAN Jane 1854 1938/08/.. USA ... ... ... 31+
Jolly Jane 1880 1901 NE
Verdict/Urteil/Verbleib: 40 years in Asylum (US)

Born Nora Kelly, in Boston, during 1854, Toppan lost her mother in infancy. Her father, a tailor, soon went insane, and was confined to an asylum after he was found in his shop, trying to stitch his own eyelids together. His four daughters lived briefly with their paternal grandmother, before they were relegated to a local orphanage. [ReadOn]


  TORRES Leslie 1971   USA ... ... ... 5
1988   NY
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A 17-year-old "crack" addict, Torres was arrested by New York police on January 8, 1988, after he shot and killed a clerk in the robbery of a grocery store. Cornered on a rooftop following a twenty-minute chase, Torres was charged with killing five persons and wounding six others in a series of Harlem robberies that began on New Year's Day, netting $2,000 cash in support of his drug habit. [ReadOn]

TOSH Martin Wayne => SMITH Harold Glenn, CRAVEY Michael Gene, RIVERA Shannon, TOSH Martin Wayne & TRIMMER John-Michael Alexander

  TOWNSER Anthony 1975   USA ... ... ... 3
1993   IL MO
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TRAVIS Maury * + USA ... ... ... ...
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Verdict/Urteil:
Maury TRAVIS
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  TRAWICK Jack Harrison 1946   USA ... ... ... 5+
1972 1992 AL OR at sea
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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TREESH Frederick J. => BROOKS Benjamin Harold & TREESH Frederick James

  TRI COUNTRY Serial Killer     USA ... ... ... ...
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Verdict/Urteil:
TRI COUNTRY Serial Killer
 
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  TRI STATES Mutilator     USA ... ... ... 3
1981 1986 UT PA CT

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Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TRILLO Martin     USA ... ... ... 2
1981   CA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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TRIMMER John-Michael Alexander => SMITH Harold Glenn, CRAVEY Michael Gene, RIVERA Shannon, TOSH Martin Wayne & TRIMMER John-Michael Alexander

  TROYER Daniel Ray     USA ... ... ... 12-13
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
Though only charged with two killings, investigators believe former house burglar Daniel Ray TROYER may have been responsible for the deaths of as many as 13 older women. TROYER , 39, pleaded guilty to killing Drucilla OVARD, 83, and Ethel LUCKAU, 88, both in 1985. He received two consecutive life sentences. [ReadOn]

  TRUCK STOP Serial Killer     USA ... ... ... ...
...   ...
Verdict/Urteil:
TRUCK STOP Serial Killer
 
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  TRUEBLOOD Lydia     USA ... ... ... 5+
1915 1919 ID MO MT
Verdict/Urteil:
 
A classic "black widow," Lydia Trueblood would stop at nothing to collect the life insurance on her many mates. It took six years, and half a dozen victims, for detectives in a two-state killing zone to realize that sometimes arsenic -- not diamonds -- is a girl's best friend. Lydia was born in Keytsville, sixty miles northeast of Kansas City, in the central flatlands of Missouri. [ReadOn]

  TRUMAN MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL Murders     USA ... ... ... 48
1992   MO Columbia
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TRUPP Nathan 1947   USA ... ... ... 5
1988   CA NM
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TUCKER James Neil     USA ... ... ... 2
1956   CA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TUGGLE Debra Sue     USA ... ... 1 5
1974 1982 Little Rock AK
Verdict/Urteil: Ten years (1984)
A former mental patient in Little Rock, Arkansas, Tuggle was arrested in March 1984 and charged with murdering four of her own children over the past decade. The first two victims -- sons Thomas Bates, age two, and William Henry, 21 months -- were suffocated at different times in 1974. [ReadOn]

  TUGGLE Lem Davis jr.   1996/12/12 USA ... ... ... 2
1971 1983 VA
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TULLIS Patrick 1959   USA ... ... ... 2
1987   IL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
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  TURNER Chester Dewayne     USA ... ... ... ...
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
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  TURNER Darryl D.     USA ... ... ... 7
aka    
Verdict/Urteil:
 
On January 5, 2001 Washington D.C., investigators charged Darryl D. Turner with a third murder three over a three-year period. Turner, 36, was charged with the 1995 murder of Toni Ann Burdine. Burdine, a known prostitute and drug user, was found in an open field in the Northeastern section of the city May 4, 1995. The 32-year-old had been raped and strangled to death. [ReadOn]

  TWIN CITIES Killer     USA ... ... ... 34+
1986 1994 MN
Verdict/Urteil:

No one wants to admit it but evidence points to the existence of one or several serial killers working the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul. From 1986 to 1994 there have been 34 corpses littering the streets of the Twin Cities. Most of them were prostitutes in their twenties and thirties. Several were mutilated, dismembered, and sometimes even decapitated. [ReadOn]


  TYLENOL MURDERS     USA ... ... ... 7
aka     Chicago IL
Verdict/Urteil:
 
In 1982 seven people were killed by cyanide-tainted Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that were purchased from drug stores and groceries in and around Chicago. Though never formally charged with the deaths, an unemployed accountant, James Lewis, was arrested for a futile attempt at extorting one million dollars from Johnson & Johnson, the makers of Tylenol. In October, 1995, James was freed from a federal penitentiary in Reno after serving a 12-year sentence.
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