In April, 21, 1986, detectives of Scotland Yard held a conference to examine evidence and discuss possible connections in the deaths and disappearances of sixteen children in the past eight years. The victims ranged in age from five to sixteen years, with officers reporting that at least seven cases appeared to be linked through the proximity of fairs or circuses. [ReadOn]

Jack, the son of a Austrian streetwalker and an American soldier, received his first life sentence at age 25 when he strangled a prostitute with her bra because she reminded him of his mother. Subsequently he admitted to the crime explaining "I envisioned my mother in front of me, and I killed her." [ReadOn]

A Chicago security guard, Andrew admitted to killing three women from Illinois and Indiana, and five others in Southern California. Urdiales, 32, was charged with the murder of two prostitutes whose nude bodies were found floating in Chicago's Wolf Lake. [ReadOn]