Interstate Highway 35 covers some 740 miles from Salina, Kansas, in the north, to Laredo, Texas, on the Mexican border. More than half the highway's length -- in excess of 420 miles -- runs north-to-south across the Lone Star State, past Gainesville, Denton, splitting to accommodate the twin giants of Dallas-Ft. Worth, reuniting above Hillsboro for the long run south, through Waco, Temple, Austin, San Antonio. [ReadOn]

Police are searching for a man who has killed five women and a man in at least three Midwestern states and three more women in Texas. Their prime suspect is male in his mid-20s to early 30s. He is described as thin, 5-foot-7, with sandy blond hair with a reddish tint and a day-old beard. [ReadOn]

It seems that two women, pretending to be damsels in distress, have smoked eight men between 1989 and 1991 on I-75 in Florida. All the victims were middle-aged men driving alone. All were shot with a .22-caliber gun and their bodies were dumped in out-of-the-way places.[ReadOn]

Between October 1955 and August 1957, six Chicago teenagers were slaughtered in a grisly string of homicides which have remained unsolved for more than thirty years. No positive connection in the cases was deduced, but they have entered modern folklore as a series and are so considered here. [ReadOn]

Ellen O'Hara, age 92, was awaiting hip surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital, in the Chicago suburb of Downer's Grove, when she died on October 19, 1979. Autopsy surgeons blamed her death on hypoglycemia - abnormally low blood sugar - induced by unknown causes. [ReadOn]

One killer may be responsible for murders of two Seattle women whose bodies were dumped in the Index area in 1988. Both victims, known prostitutes and drug users, were stabbed. Three other women -- two found dead nearby and a 14-year-old runaway last seen with one of the murder victims -- may also be victims. Status: Unsolved.

In early January 1964, residents of Moscow whispered warnings to their neighbors of a mysterious, long-nosed killer prowling the city, knocking on doors at random, gaining entry to the homes of his victims by posing as a meter-reader for Moscow Gas. [ReadOn]

On March 16, 2000, a Pakistani court in Lahore sentenced serial child killer Javed Iqbal to death, saying he would be strangled in front of the parents whose children he was convicted of murdering. Judge Allah Baksh Ranja added that Iqbal's body "will then be cut into a 100 pieces and put in acid the same way you killed the children." [ReadOn]

Known in London as the "Gay Slayer", Colin strived to be known as a serial killer. For this purpose he strangled five homosexual men. Robert Ressler states in "However Fights Monsters" that one has to commit five murders to become a serial killer. Colin read the book and used it as a manual in his quest to become a serial killer. [ReadOn]

In the 1970s, a South African serial killer known as "Ironman", clubbed seven people to death with an iron bar and robbed them as they walked home late at night. Although the killings have stopped, "Ironman" was never apprehended.

A decade after Vladimir Ionosyan sparked a local panic with the "Mosgas" murders, residents of Moscow circulated rumors of another homicidal maniac at large. According to reports, the slayer was a fair-haired, handsome young man, armed with a cobbler's bodkin or similar instrument, who trailed his female victims from the ornate subway stations, stabbing them to death in nearby streets and alleys. [ReadOn]