Crimes & Victims:
June 11, 1930: Grocer Joseph MOZYNSKI parks with Catherine MAY (19) along a “lover´s lane” in College Point near Queens. A stranger approches the car, shoots Joe dead without a word of warning and rapes Catherine. [ReadOn]

In 1969, while gathering material for a book on the Charles Manson case, journalist Ed Sanders encountered reports of a sinister Satanic cult alleged to practice human sacrifice in several parts of California, luring youthful members from college campuses throughout the western half of the United States. [ReadOn]

Victoria´s longest serving prisoner is quested for the most mysterious children killings of Australia 40 years ago. Police connects Derek PERCY with several homicides in the 60s, including the disappearance of the BEAUMONT children in Adelaide in 1966. [ReadOn]

Born in 1959, the son of Puerto Rican immigrants, Adorno had his first close encounter with police at age four, after setting his sister on fire. He ran up an impressive record of sixteen arrests, all for theft, before he was charged -- at age 15 -- with triple homicide. [ReadOn]

Between November 1919 and October 1923, residents of Birmingham, Alabama, were terrorized by a series of brutal assaults, committed by ax-wielding blacks, which claimed the lives of at least fifteen victims , leaving others gravely injured. [ReadOn]

In the twelve-month period between December 1983 and late November 1984, four teenage girls were killed in Alameda County, California, on the San Francisco Bay. The crimes were grim enough, inciting fear in every parent at the time of their occurrence. [ReadOn]

In January 1931, it was announced that the United States Attorney General's office was committing federal agents to the search for an elusive killer, blamed for fifteen murders and a string of unsolved disappearances in the territory of Alaska. [ReadOn]

Crimes & Victims:
Early 1980s: According to investigators, Charles ALBANESE begins slowly poisoning his father Michael ALBANESE, his wife´s mother Marion MUELLER and his wife´s grandmother Mary LAMBERT with arsenic in Chicago. [ReadOn]

 

A black serial killer with a taste for elderly victims , Howard Allen never strayed far from hometown Indianapolis in his search for prey. In August 1974, at age twenty-four, he invaded the home of 85-year-old Opal Cooper, beating her to death in the course of a petty robbery. [ReadOn]

Beverley ALLITT, a nurse suffering from the mental illness Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (a desire to kill or injure to get attention), was given 13 life sentences at Nottingham crown court in 1993 after being convicted of murdering four children and attacking nine others. [ReadOn]

A typical "Black Widow," Lyda Catherine AMBROSE left a trail of five dead husbands and lovers in her quest for insurance policy payoffs. Born in 1891, nothing is known about her early life until 1917 when she killed her first fiancee in Keytesville, Missouri.[ReadOn]

On Oct 24, 1996, Lowell AMOS, a Detroit businessman whose mother and three wives died under suspicious circumstances, was convicted of murdering his third wife with a cocaine overdose. [ReadOn]

A 34-year-old vagrant with a long record of felony arrests, Anderson was living at a Seattle half-way house in 1976, when he stole the director's car and credit cards, embarking on a spree of robbery and murder spanning twenty states. [ReadOn]

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According to ex-FBI wiz Robert Ressler, "sexual psychopath" Dale R. Anderson, imprisoned for one of the most brutal slayings in Belleville history, likely killed newspaper intern Audrey Cardenas and four other women. [ReadOn]

Mentally retarded homosexual Marcelo de ANDRADE worshipped his mother like a saint and went to church four times a week. 1991 - adged 25 - he killed 13 young boys from 6 to 13, raped them, drank their blood and feasted on their flesh. According to his own confessions he did this “to become as beautiful as them”.
Disappearing street urchins are a daily problem in Rio de Janeiro, mainly killed by warped vigilantes who want to “clean up the streets”.[ReadOn]

A former Boy Scout, Rich always wanted to be the hero. That's why this portly nurse pumped muscle paralyzer and other dangerous drugs into the intravenous bottles of his patients in the emergency room of the Good Samaritan Hospital in Long Island, NY. [ReadOn]

During summer 1975 the Veteran´s Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor (MI) was the scene of a high death rate. Up to 40 patients had died from an inexplicable respiratory failure. [ReadOn]

Born in 1912, William Archerd cherished a lifelong fascination with medicine. Lacking the cash and self-discipline required for medical school, he sought work as a hospital attendant, learning what he could of drugs and their effects through practical experience. [ReadOn]

While serving a sentence for child molestation, Robert Arguelles, 34, confessed to being a serial killer. On May 2, 1996, four years after the disappearance of three teen-age girls from the Salt Lake City area, Robert confessed to their murders after he received a letter saying that he was a father. [ReadOn]

Detroit police charged ex-sailor John Eric Armstrong with the murder of five local prostitutes and three attempted murders. Investigators are confident he killed the Detroit-area women, but beyond that they wonder whether Armstrong -- a man who has the vanity plate "Baby Doll" on the front of his Jeep Wrangler -- is pulling a Henry Lee Lucas. [ReadOn]

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Patients put at risk by culture of staff secrets A NURSE at the centre of an inquiry into the deaths of two girls and two elderly women in a hospital intensive care unit was arrested at home yesterday. Kathleen Anne Atkinson, 47, was suspended a year ago from her ‡23,000-a-year post and dismissed two months later for alleged "gross misconduct". [ReadOn]

On May 18, 1982, less than three months after dissolution of the special task force organized to solve a string of grisly "child murders," Atlanta detectives announced that another serial slayer was prowling the city. [ReadOn]

While homicide detectives in New York were stalking the elusive "Son of Sam," their counterparts in Georgia were attempting to identify a killer with a similar M.0., who preyed on couples parked on darkened lanes, attacking from the shadows, interrupting passion with the searing blasts of point-blank gunfire. [ReadOn]

Since 1956 Pretoria's township of Atteridgeville has seen a spate of gruesome serial killers. Experts cannot explain why this particular area has bred so many killers. This original mutilator murdered six boys over five months in 1956. He was never caught or identified.

Dispite the disappearance of five tourists in the mountain area of Salzkammergut near Salzburg within six weeks in June and Juli 1921 seemed a suspicious accumulation and therefor led to broad media coverage and speculations, there was never any hint that the missing tourists Mr. ALEXANDER, Julius ROSKOSCHNY, Mr. FISCHER, Artur STORK and hungarian student Karl von RIBARY had become victims of a crime. [ReadOn]

In the pre-dawn hours of May 23, 1918, New Orleans grocer Joseph Maggio and his wife were murdered in bed by a prowler who chiseled through their back door, used Joseph's ax to strike each victim once across the skull, then slit their throats with a razor to finish the job. [ReadOn]