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WABLE John Wesley |
1929 |
1954/09/26 |
 |
 |
... |
... |
... |
2 |
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1953 |
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PA OH |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
On July 26, 1953, truck driver Lester Woodward was shot in the head and killed as he slept in his truck, parked along the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Irwin. Two days later, trucker Harry Pitts died in identical circumstances, parked near the turnpike's Donegal interchange. [ReadOn]
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WADDINGHAM Dorothea Nancy |
1899 |
1936/04/16 |
 |
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... |
... |
... |
2+ |
| AD |
1935 |
1936 |
|
| Verdict/Urteil: |
Hanged by Tom and Albert Pierrepoint at Birmingham's Winson Green prison. 36 year old "nurse" Waddingham, as she called herself, used morphine to poison one of her elderly patients, 89 year old Mrs. Louisa Baguley and her daughter Ada Baguley, the motive being gain. Hanged 16/04/1936, by Tom and Albert Pierrepoint at Birmingham's Winson Green prison. 36 year old "nurse" Waddingham, as she called herself, used morphine to poison one of her elderly patients, 89 year old Mrs. Louisa Baguley and her daughter Ada Baguley, the motive being gain.
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WAGNER Robert |
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|
 |
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... |
... |
... |
10+ |
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BUNTIN John Justin |
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HAYDON Mark Ray |
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| aka |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
In what's become Australia's worst serial murder case, police said they have found the remains of ten people -- eight in vats of corrosive chemicals in a deserted bank vault, and two buried in a suburban backyard of a house once occupied by one of the suspects. [ReadOn]
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WAGNER Waltraud |
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|
 |
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... |
... |
... |
300+ |
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MAYER Stefanija |
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Vienna |
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LEIDOLF Irene |
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GRUBER Maria |
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| aka Todesschwestern von Lainz, Death Angels of Lainz |
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| Verdict/Urteil: Waltraud WAGNER Life (15 murders, 17 attempts of murder); Irene LEIDOLF Life (5 murders, 2 attempts of murder); Stephanija MAYER 15 years (1 murder 2nd degree, 7 attempts of murder); Maria GRUBER 15 years (2 attempts of murder) |
In 1989 Waltraud WAGNER and three auxiliary nurses of Vienna´s Lainz hospital confessed on killing more than 40 elderly patients. WAGNER, of "divine" patience and never weak, invented the method, the accomplices called "mouth care": [ReadOn]
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WAINEWRIGHT Thomas Griffiths |
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... |
... |
... |
4 |
| BB |
1828 |
1837 |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WAITE Dr. Arthur Warren |
1889 |
1917/05/.. |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
| AD BB |
1916 |
|
MI |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WALDEN Robert Lee jr. |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
|
1990 |
1992 |
AZ |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WALDON Billy Ray |
1952 |
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... |
... |
... |
4 |
|
1985 |
|
CA OK |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
Billy Waldon scarcely knew his mother . During 1957, at the tender age of five, he was delivered to his grandmother's care, and the older woman raised him as her own around Tahlequah, Oklahoma, teaching him the values that she hoped would guide his steps through life. [ReadOn]
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WALKER Clarence |
1929 |
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... |
... |
... |
14 |
|
1945 |
1966 |
TN OH MI |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
A native of Tennessee, born February 25, 1929, Walker was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison at age 14. Paroled after seven years, he adopted a rootless life-style, clashing repeatedly with the law in his travels and serving two prison terms in Ohio, on conviction for armed robbery and grand larceny. [ReadOn]
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WALKER Gary Alan |
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... |
... |
... |
5 |
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1984 |
|
OK |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
Prior to embarkation on a spree of rape and murder, Gary Walker managed to compile a record of convictions spanning fifteen years, with charges that included auto theft, burglary, narcotics abuse and firearms violations. As Walker described his own life, "I haven't spent a full year out of jail since I was seventeen years old." [ReadOn] |
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WALLACE George Kent |
1941 |
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... |
... |
... |
5 |
| Mad Paddler |
1976 |
1990 |
AR NC OK |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WALLACE Henry Louis |
1941 |
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... |
... |
... |
11 |
|
1993 |
1994 |
NC |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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Confessed serial killer Henry Wallace was convicted of murdering nine women, all co-workers at Charlotte- area fast food restaurants, friends of his sister or friends of a former girlfriend. Uncharacteristically Wallace preyed on acquaintances, a very rare trait in serial killing. [ReadOn] |
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WALLS Frank Athen |
1967 |
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... |
... |
... |
5 |
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1987 |
|
FL |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
During the early morning hours of July 22, 1987, in Okaloosa County, a neighbor heard loud noises coming from the mobile home of the victims, Edward Alger and Ann Peterson. When Alger failed to report for duty at Eglin Air Force Base, where he worked, his superior officer Sergeant John Calloway went to Algers home. [ReadOn]
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WALLS Samuel Cornelius |
1939 |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
|
1959 |
1988 |
NJ |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WALRAVEN James Samuel |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
| aka |
|
|
Clarkston |
| Verdict/Urteil: Life |
|
It started on April 15, 1981 when police found 22 year old Louise DalSanto strangled and face down in her bathtub at Woodcreek apartments in Clarkston. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled by hand before her body was dumped face down and covered with scalding water in her bathtub. [ReadOn] |
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WALTERS Annie => SACH Amelia & WALTERS Annie |
| |
WALTON Edward |
|
1908/07/17 |
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... |
... |
... |
5 |
|
1896 |
1908 |
AL IL PA OH VA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
A Georgia native, Walton spent most of his life on the road, drifting around the eastern half of the United States and living under a variety of pseudonyms. Along the way, he killed at least five victims, though the widely-scattered crimes would not be linked until the morning of his scheduled execution, when he signed a brief confession in the shadow of the gallows. [ReadOn] |
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WALTON Vernon |
1950 |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
|
1972 |
1991 |
CA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WALUSIMBI Baker |
... |
... |
 |
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... |
... |
... |
... |
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... |
... |
Kampala |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WANLIN Hu |
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|
 |
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... |
... |
... |
100-190 |
| aka |
1970s |
1999 |
|
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
Hu Wanlin is a Sichuan native of China. He received only a primary school education, and then led a troubled life. While serving a sentence in jail for intentional homicide, swindling, and abducting and trafficking in women, Hu decided to try something different. In 1993, while still in jail, he opened a medical practice. [ReadOn] |
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WAQANIVALU Waisale |
... |
... |
 |
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... |
... |
... |
... |
| aka |
... |
... |
Fiji |
| ... : ... |
... |
... |
... |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
 |
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... |
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WARDELL Gordon |
1952 |
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... |
... |
... |
3+ |
|
1991 |
1994 |
|
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WARDER Dr. Alfred |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
| BB |
18.. |
|
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WARDLAW Virginia |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
| |
MARTIN Caroline Wardlaw |
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|
South |
| |
SNEYD Mary Wardlaw |
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|
1900s |
|
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WARDRIP Faryion Edward |
... |
... |
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... |
... |
... |
4+ |
| |
... |
... |
... |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WARNER Karl F. |
1950 |
|
|
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
|
1969 |
1970 |
CA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
On August 3, 1969, schoolmates Deborah Furlong, 14, and Kathy Snoozy, 15, rode their bikes to a wooded knoll overlooking their homes in the rugged Alameda Valley section of South San Jose, California. They brought a picnic lunch and meant to spend a quiet afternoon alone, unconscious of the fact that they had trespassed on a killer's private hunting ground. [ReadOn] |
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WARREN Leslie Eugene |
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|
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... |
... |
... |
6+ |
|
1986 |
1990 |
NY NC SC |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WARREN Nancy |
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... |
... |
... |
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| aka |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WARSAW Muti Slayer |
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|
 |
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... |
... |
... |
11 |
|
1922 |
|
Warsaw |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
On March 4, 1922, police in Warsaw publicly announced discovery of eleven mutilated women in a wooded region of the city's suburbs. At the time their report was filed, no trace had been found of the slayer who left his young female victims with torn hair, fractured skulls, and "similar terrible wounds" to their torsos. At this writing, the case remains, apparently, unsolved. |
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WARSAW Slayer |
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... |
... |
... |
3+ |
|
1993 |
|
Warsaw |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WARZECHA Todd |
... |
... |
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... |
... |
... |
... |
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... |
... |
TX |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WASHINGTON Allen |
1948 |
|
|
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
|
1969 |
1978 |
IL |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WASHINGTON Annette |
1958 |
|
|
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
| AD |
1986 |
|
NY |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
Once employed by a home health care service on Long Island, New York, 28-year-old Annette Washington was discharged from her job in July 1986. A single mother with a 9-year-old son to feed, she was also supporting her boyfriend's drug habit on the side. Embittered by the loss of employment , she devised a scheme to solve both problems simultaneously, by the grim expedient of killing off her former patients. [ReadOn] |
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WASHINGTON CHILD Murders |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
|
1983 |
1985 |
WA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
On September 7, 1983, seven-year-old Lea Kimball disappeared after leaving her school bus in rural King County, Washington. She was still missing two years later, when 12-year-old Brenda Gere vanished in strikingly similar circumstances from Clearview, in neighboring Snohomish County. [ReadOn] |
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WASHINGTON D.C. GAY Slasher |
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... |
... |
... |
10 |
|
1971 |
|
WA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
On March 3, 1972, police in the District of Columbia announced that ten of 1971's thirty-eight unsolved murders were "homosexually motivated or related." Hesitant to speculate about connections in the crimes, investigators did report that they were searching for a single suspect, pictured in a photograph with victim James Williams, 55, found stabbed to death in his northwest apartment on April 13, 1971. The snapshot had been taken by a photographer known only as "Bill," who ignored official pleas for help in solving the case. At this writing, the murders remain unsolved, the killer (or killers) still at large. |
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WASHINGTON PROSTITUTE Shooter |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
|
1989 |
|
DC |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WASHINGTON PROSTITUTE Slayer |
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... |
... |
... |
5 |
|
1989 |
1990 |
DC |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WASHINGTON Shootings |
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... |
... |
... |
13 |
|
1993 |
1994 |
DC |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WASHINGTON Strangler |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
|
1988 |
|
DC |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WATERFIELD Fred => GORE David Alan & WATERFIELD Fred |
| |
WATERS Margaret |
1835 |
1870/10/11 |
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... |
... |
... |
19+ |
| BF |
1866 |
1870 |
Brixton |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
Hanged by William Calcraft at Horsemonger Lane Goal (County of Surrey). Waters, 34, was another baby farmer convicted of murdering an infant. |
| |
WATSON Alexander Wayne |
... |
... |
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... |
... |
... |
... |
| aka |
... |
... |
... |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WATSON Charles Tex => MANSON Charles Milles |
| |
WATSON James B. |
1870 |
1939/10/15 |
|
|
... |
... |
... |
25+ |
| BB |
1918 |
1920 |
ID WA CA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
A classic American "bluebeard," Watson led a life of subterfuge and mystery, with question marks beginning at his birth. Christened Charles Gillam, he was born at Paris, Arkansas, sometime in 1870, his father absent at the time of the event. As a child, he was told of his father's death, discovering the truth -- that he had been deserted -- at the age of nine. [ReadOn] |
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WATSON Mona Lisa => HOWELL Michael Wayne & WATSON Mona Lisa |
| |
WATTS Coral Eugene |
*1953 |
|
|
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... |
... |
... |
22+ |
| Sunday Morning Slasher |
1974 |
|
|
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
|
Born at Fort Hood, Texas, during 1953, Watts grew up on the move, attending public schools in Texas, West Virginia, and Michigan before finishing high school -- after a fashion -- in Inkster, a Detroit suburb. Despite a tested IQ of 75, he was admitted to Western Michigan University, at Kalamazoo, and was enrolled there when he started acting out his violent fantasies against women in October 1974. [ReadOn] |
| News | Victims |
| |
WAYCROSS .22 CALIBER Killer |
|
|
|
|
... |
... |
... |
3 |
|
1993 |
|
GA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
... |
| |
WEAVER Ward F. jr. |
... |
... |
|
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
| |
... |
... |
OR |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
|
Ward Weaver, the Oregon City man accused of killing two of his daughter's friends, then hiding their bodies on his property, pleaded guilty September 2004 to aggravated murder and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison. [ReadOn] |
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WEBB Dennis Duane |
1952 |
|
|
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... |
... |
... |
8+ |
|
1973 |
1987 |
CA TX |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
A racist drifter with his roots in northeast Texas, Webb would travel widely in the service of the outlaw motorcycle gangs to whom he owed his first allegiance. Jailed for a hometown burglary at age 20, in 1972, he reportedly killed his first victim a year later. The victim was gay, selected at random because, as Webb explained, "I don't like homosexuals." [ReadOn] |
| |
WEBB Emanuel Lovell |
... |
... |
|
|
... |
... |
... |
... |
| aka |
... |
... |
CT |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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|
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WEBER Jeanne |
1875 |
1910 |
 |
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... |
... |
... |
10 |
|
1905 |
1908 |
|
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
Born during 1875, at a small fishing village in northern France, Weber left home for Paris at age 14, working various menial jobs until her marriage in 1893. Her husband was a drunkard, and by 1905, with two of their three children lately deceased, Jeanne was also drinking heavily, residing in a seedy Paris tenement with her spouse and a seven-year-old son. [ReadOn] |
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WEBSTER Robert |
1922 |
|
|
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
|
1946 |
1963 |
CA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WEEKS Robert |
1929 |
|
|
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
| BB |
1968 |
1981 |
CA NV |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
An Alabama native, born in 1929, Weeks graduated from Mississippi Southern College in 1952, after working his way through school as a mortician and parachute stuntman. Two years later, he married his first wife, Patricia, in Minneapolis, moving to Las Vegas in 1955. Weeks prospered there, opening the city's first limousine service in 1960, but his pathological jealousy made Patricia a virtual prisoner at home, where she was frequently beaten, denied permission to even go grocery shopping alone. [ReadOn] |
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WEIDENBROEKER Helmut |
1965 |
|
 |
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... |
... |
... |
3-5 |
|
1982 |
1986 |
Aachen |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
A German chemist, born in 1964, Weidenbroeker lived in Broichweiden, while serving his apprenticeship in nearby Aachen. As a student, he had dressed up in his sister's clothes before assaulting elderly women and stealing their purses. Arrested, he confessed but gave no motive for his crimes, earning a sentence of two years in prison. [ReadOn] |
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WEIDMANN Eugen |
1915 |
1939/05/18 |
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... |
... |
... |
6+ |
|
1935 |
1937 |
|
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
On August 7, 1937, 22-year-old Jean de Koven, an American dancer, was kidnapped from her Paris hotel room and murdered. Following receipt of a note demanding $500 ransom, police identified the killer as Eugen Weidmann, a German immigrant, and the manhunt began in earnest. [ReadOn] |
| |
WEITZEL Dr. Robert |
|
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... |
... |
... |
5 |
| aka |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
On September, 1999, Dr. Weitzel was arrested in Bay City, Texas, about 75 miles southwest of Houston. The Salt City doctor was accused of killing five elderly patients by prescribing lethal doses of morphine and other drugs between December 30, 1995, and January 14, 1996. [ReadOn] |
| |
WELLS William |
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... |
... |
... |
... |
| aka |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WEN XIAN Li |
|
|
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... |
... |
... |
13 |
| aka |
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|
|
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
This farmer from the southern Guangdong province in China eportedly strangled and stabbed 13 women and smashed their heads with a hammer out of revenge for being cheated by a prostitute when he first moved to Canton, Guangdong's provincial capital, to work in construction. [ReadOn] |
| |
WEN Zhou |
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... |
... |
... |
... |
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|
Anshan |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WENZINGER Gerd |
1944 |
1997/06/16 |
 |
|
... |
... |
... |
19 |
| AD |
1990s |
|
|
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
On June 16, 1997 Gerd Wenzinger -- the German torture doctor accused of murdering and torturing up to 19 women in Brazil and Germany -- hanged himself in his jail cell in Brazil after a court approved his extradition back to Germany. [ReadOn] |
| |
WEREWOLF Killer |
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|
 |
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... |
... |
... |
16 |
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1996 |
|
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WEREWOLF of CHALONS |
|
+1598/12/.. |
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... |
... |
... |
# |
|
1590s |
|
Chalons |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WEST Frederick Walter |
1942/1953 |
1995/01/01 |
|
|
... |
... |
... |
12+ |
| |
WEST Rosemary Pauline |
|
|
|
|
1967 |
1987 |
Gloucester |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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|
Rosemary and her husband Fred West, were accused of murdering 10 women and young girls over a 16 year period ending in 1987. They enjoyed luring away vulnerable runaways with offers of rides, lodging or jobs as nannies. [ReadOn] |
|
WEST John Coulter => DANIELS Murl & WEST John Coulter |
| |
WEST Ronald Glenn |
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|
 |
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... |
... |
... |
2+ |
| aka |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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While serving a eight-year sentence for robbery Ronald Glenn West, a former Toronto police officer, was charged with first-degree murder in the 1970 sex slayings of nurses Helen Ferguson and Doreen Moorby. He is also under investigation in a 1991 double murder at a picnic site just outside of Blind River, Ontario. [ReadOn] |
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WEST SIDE RAPIST |
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... |
... |
... |
10+ |
| aka |
1974 |
1975 |
LA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
|
Within a single year, between November 1974 and October 1975, a vicious prowler terrorized the west side of Los Angeles, raping 33 women and killing at least ten. While all of his victims were elderly, ranging in age from 63 to 92 years, the incessant attacks spread an aura of fear city-wide, boosting gun sales, turning neighbor against neighbor as dark suspicions flourished. [ReadOn] |
|
WHALEY Michael => ISAAC Tommy Lee & WHALEY Michael & WHALEY Terrell |
| |
WHELAN John |
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... |
... |
... |
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| aka |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WHIPPS Jeffrey |
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... |
... |
... |
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Knox County |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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The small town of Vincennes, Indiana is known to many in the Tri-State as the town where murders are rarely solved, but that reputation is now changing. In the last year police believe they've solved three of those cases. As you've probably seen on the news, 23 year old Brian Jones has been charged with two murders. [ReadOn] |
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WHISENHANT Thomas |
|
|
|
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... |
... |
... |
4 |
|
1963 |
1976 |
AL |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WHITE Nathaniel |
1960 |
|
|
|
... |
... |
... |
6 |
|
1991 |
1992 |
NY |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WHITE Richard Paul |
|
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... |
... |
... |
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| aka |
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|
CO |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WHITE Shirley |
1932 |
|
|
|
... |
... |
... |
3 |
| BW |
1971 |
1992 |
NC |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WHITEWAY Alfred C. |
1931 |
1954 |
|
|
... |
... |
... |
2 |
|
1953 |
|
London |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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A British serial slayer, 22-year-old Alfred Whiteway was arrested on July 1, 1953, on a charge of assaulting Patricia Birch in Windsor Park. The victim had been robbed of several shillings on June 12, after an attempted rape, and while Whiteway confessed the assault, he indignantly denied any intention of robbery. [ReadOn] |
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WHITNEY Dennis |
1943 |
|
|
|
... |
... |
... |
7 |
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1960 |
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AZ CA FL |
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A native of Victorville, California, born in 1943, Whitney began smoking at age eight and drinking at ten. By age 12, he was a veteran of several armed robberies, and five years later, in 1960, he launched a crosscountry murder spree, notching the handle of his stolen .22-caliber pistol for each of the seven victims he killed between California and Florida. [ReadOn] |
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WHITT Jimmy Earl |
1971 |
1994/06/28 |
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4 |
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1994 |
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AL MS |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WIJNAENDTS Eric Marten => BONIN William et al |
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WILDER Christopher Bernard |
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+1984/04/13 |
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8+ |
| aka |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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Australian born Chris Wilder was a big-spending, jet-setting, race-car driving, bon vivant who was always searching for beautiful women to rape and kill. Using the old I'm-a-photographer-in-search-of-models trick he bagged at least eight victims in a bi-continental rape and murder spree. [ReadOn] |
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WILEY Nicholas Lee |
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NY |
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WILKEN Stewart |
1964 |
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... |
... |
... |
11+ |
| aka Boetie Boer |
1990 |
1997 |
Port Elizabeth |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
Charged with at least 10 murders, five counts of sodomy and possible acts of cannibalism and necrophilia, "Boetie Boer" Stewart Wilken, Port Elizabeth's first and worst serial killer, went on trial for the strangling of his 10-year-old daughter.
The burly fisherman is the prime suspect in a series of sexually motivated killings of at least six prostitutes and four young boys in Port Elizabeth between 1990 and 1997. [ReadOn] |
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WILKINS Edward Charles jr. |
... |
... |
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Savannah GA |
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In early June 1985, 8-year-old Nichole Lapatta was reported missing from her home in Laplace, Louisiana, 40 miles from New Orleans. Searchers found her body -- battered, raped, and strangled -- on June 6, discarded in some nearby woods that had become a makeshift rubbish dump. [ReadOn] |
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WILLE John Francis |
1964 |
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6 |
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1980 |
1985 |
AL LA FL TX |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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In early June 1985, 8-year-old Nichole Lapatta was reported missing from her home in Laplace, Louisiana, 40 miles from New Orleans. Searchers found her body -- battered, raped, and strangled -- on June 6, discarded in some nearby woods that had become a makeshift rubbish dump. [ReadOn] |
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WILLIAMS Charlene => GALLEGO Gerald Armand & WILLIAMS Charlene |
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WILLIAMS George E. |
1943 |
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... |
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7 |
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1983 |
1984 |
IL |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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A Chicago native, born in 1943, Williams watched his mother die in childbirth, later witnessing the murder of his infant brother by a sadistic step-mother. Convicted of armed robbery at age 18, he served time in state prison between 1961 and 1963, emerging to "go straight" as a security guard for a hospital in suburban Oak Lawn. [ReadOn] |
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WILLIAMS Henry Robert |
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... |
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2 |
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1972 |
1973 |
Mississauga, Ontario |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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Sentenced to life imprisonment on his second conviction for rape and murder, Canadian Henry Williams opted for voluntary castration as a form of alternative treatment proposed for his evident mental disorders. [ReadOn] |
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WILLIAMS John |
|
1811 |
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... |
... |
... |
5 |
| Ratcliffe Highway Murderer |
1811 |
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London |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WILLIAMS John jr. |
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... |
... |
5 |
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1995 |
1997 |
NC |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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John Williams Jr., a drifter from Georgia picked up for assaulting a woman about a month ago is believed to be a serial killer responsible for at least four slayings in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Williams, 36, was charged on March 19, 1997 with the killing of Patricia Ashe in January 1996. [ReadOn] |
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WILLIAMS Laron Ronald |
... |
+1985/07/07 |
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... |
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3 |
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... |
... |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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Convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison for the murder of a Nashville prostitute, Laron Williams escaped from the Memphis Correctional Center in April 1981. Before his arrest on May 17, Williams shot and killed Memphis police lieutenant Clarence Cox, moving on to murder a Catholic priest, Rev. John Jackson, in Jackson, Tennessee. [ReadOn] |
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WILLIAMS Leslie Allen |
1953 |
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... |
... |
... |
4 |
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1991 |
1992 |
MI |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WILLIAMS Phillip |
... |
... |
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... |
... |
... |
... |
| aka |
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... |
... |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WILLIAMS Richard |
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... |
... |
... |
10+ |
| aka |
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Columbia MO |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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Some cases get as far as arrest, indictment, and even a trial, without being resolved. In Columbia, Missouri, according to Associated Press reports, Richard Williams was indicted in 2002 for killing 10 patients 10 years earlier. He is a former veteran's hospital nurse and was charged with administering the paralyzing drug, succinlycholine, a derivative of curare, killing nine men and one woman in his care. [ReadOn] |
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WILLIAMS Robert |
1936 |
1997/12/02 |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
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1977 |
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AK IA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WILLIAMS Ronnie Keith |
1962 |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
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1984 |
1993 |
FL |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WILLIAMS Ruth Renee => KNIGHT Robert Wesley & WILLIAMS Ruth Renee |
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WILLIAMS Scott |
... |
... |
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... |
... |
... |
... |
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... |
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VA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WILLIAMS Sidney |
1972 |
1989/10/03 |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
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1989 |
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LA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WILLIAMS Stanley "Tookie" |
... |
... |
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... |
... |
... |
4 |
| aka Crips Gang |
... |
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Los Angeles |
| Verdict/Urteil: Death Penalty (1981), today at San Quentin |
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Stanley Tookie Williams was convicted of four murders, those of Albert Owens, a shop clerk killed during the robbery of a convenience store in February 1979, and of Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang and Yee-Chen Lin, killed during the robbery of their family-run motel the next month. |
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WILLIAMS Wayne Bertram |
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... |
... |
... |
28 |
| Atlanta Child Murders, Atlanta Kindermorde |
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GA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
The curious and controversial string of deaths that sparked a two -year reign of terror in Atlanta, Georgia, have been labeled "children's" murders even though a suspect, ultimately blamed for 23 of 30 homicides, was finally convicted only in the deaths of two adult ex-convicts. [ReadOn]
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WILLIAMSON Stella |
*1904 (?1900) |
1980/08/.. (?1976) |
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... |
... |
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5 |
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1923 |
1935 |
PA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
No one in the small town of Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, gave much thought to Stella Williamson in life. Unmarried and reclusive, seldom speaking even to her closest neighbors, it was clear that Stella loved her privacy. [ReadOn]
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WILLIS Fred |
1951 |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
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1984 |
1997 |
NV |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WILLIS Rhoda |
*1870 |
+1907/08/14 |
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... |
... |
... |
1+ |
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Cardiff |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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On the 14th of August 1907 Rhoda WILLIS was hanged by Henry and Tom Pierrepoint at Cardiff prison. WILLIS (37) was executed for the murder of a child and was another baby farmer. She was an attractive woman and her blaze of golden hair had a profound effect on Henry Pierrepoint. |
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WILLOUGHBY John R. |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
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1975 |
1983 |
IN |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WILSON Catherine |
1822 |
1862/10/20 |
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... |
... |
... |
5 |
| BW |
1854 |
1862 |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WILSON Mary Elizabeth |
1891 |
1961 |
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... |
... |
... |
4 |
| BW |
1956 |
1957 |
Windy Hook |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WILSON Otto Stephen |
*1911 |
+1946/09/20 |
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... |
... |
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3 |
| LA Ripper |
1944 |
1944 |
CA |
| Verdict/Urteil: Death by gas (San Quentin) |
|
On 15 November, 1944, in a seedy downtown area, in a run-down hotel at the corner of Fourth and Main streets, a maid discovered the mutilated body of a prostitute, Virginia Lee Griffin, sprawled on a bed. [ReadOn] |
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WILSON Robert => BURSE Nathaniel & CLARK Michael & JACKSON Garland & MORAN Edward jr. & PATRY Darrell & TAYLOR Donald & TAYLOR Reuben & WILSON Robert |
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WILTSHIRE Slayer |
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... |
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3 |
|
1986 |
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Wiltshire |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WIMBERLY Anthony |
1961 |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
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1984 |
1985 |
CA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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On November 8, 1984, a 12-year-old Oakland, California, girl was accosted by a black intruder who invaded her home, brandished a pistol, and forced her to surrender a jewelry box belonging to her parents. That accomplished, the man bound and gagged his victim, jammed a pillow case over her head and brutally raped her; finished, he pressed a pillow over her face and shot her twice, leaving the girl for dead. [ReadOn] |
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WINDHOEK Serial Killer |
... |
... |
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Windhoek |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WINTERS Noel Michael |
... |
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... |
... |
... |
4+ |
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1984 |
... |
... |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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Murdered a father and son in February 1984 and stuffed their dismembered bodies in plastic bags. He killed himself in prison after the bodies of a Montreal couple were dug up on his property. |
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WIRTH Robert |
1960 |
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... |
... |
... |
6-8 |
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1987 |
1988 |
WI |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WISE Martha Hasel |
*1885 |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
| Borgia of America |
1924 |
1925 |
OH |
| Verdict/Urteil: Life / Lebenslang |
Born in 1885, by age 40 Martha Wise was an impoverished widow, living alone on a farm near Medina, Ohio. She fell in love with Walter Johns, a man much younger than herself, but members of her family were blunt in their denunciation of the May-October romance, heaping ridicule on Martha for her "cradle-robbing." [ReadOn]
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WITHERS George => ROBINSON Alonzo & WITHERS George |
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WITTMAN Manfred |
1945 |
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... |
... |
... |
3+ |
| Beast of Oberfranken |
1959 |
1960 |
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| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WOLF Shirley => COLLIER Cindy & WOLF Shirley |
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WOLTER Michael |
*... |
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... |
... |
... |
5+ |
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1980 |
1983 |
Frankfurt/Main |
: ... |
... |
... |
... |
| Verdict/Urteil: Life / Lebenslang |
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Twentieth-century German police are no strangers to serial murder. Since 1900, they have dealt with more compulsive killers than all their continental neighbors combined, a lethal phenomenon seemingly unrelated to historical phases of war and peace, depression or prosperity. [ReadOn] |
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WONGSIN Sila |
|
1959/06/26 |
 |
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5 |
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1958 |
1959 |
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| Verdict/Urteil: Death |
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On June 26, 1959, authorities in Bangkok announced that Sila Wongsin, leader of a devil-worship cult at Korat, in northeastern Thailand, had been executed without trial on charges of multiple murder. The summary action was taken after Thailand's premier, Marshal Sarit Thanarat, informed a cabinet meeting that Wongsin had slain five provincial officials, chosen as human, sacrifices to his deity. No other members of the cult were publicly identified. |
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WOOD Catherine May => GRAHAM Gwendolyn Gail & WOOD Catherine May |
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WOOD Daniel William |
... |
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2+ |
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1979 |
1982 |
Calgary |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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Convicted of the sex-slayings of a woman in Calgary in 1979 and a woman in Toronto in 1982. |
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WOOD David Leonard |
1951 |
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... |
... |
... |
13+ |
| Desert Killer |
1987 |
1988 |
TX |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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Known as the "Desert Killer". In 1992 he was convicted of killing six women and burying them in the desert Northeast of El Paso, Texas. He now resides in Death Row. |
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WOOD Frederick G. |
1912 |
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... |
... |
... |
5+ |
|
1926 |
1960 |
NY |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WOOD Isaac |
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1858 |
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... |
... |
... |
7 |
| BB |
1858 |
|
NY NJ |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WOOD James Edward |
1947 |
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... |
... |
7+ |
|
1967 |
1992 |
LA AR ID |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WOODFIELD Randall Brent |
1950 |
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... |
... |
13+ |
| I-5 Killer |
1979 |
1981 |
CA WA OR WA |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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Born at Salem, Oregon, in December 1950, Randy Woodfield was the classic, all-American boy next door. He made good grades, and high school coaches recognized his natural athletic talents, making him the star of Newport's football team. When Woodfield started to expose himself in public, everybody laughed it off at first, and members of the coaching staff suppressed his first arrest to keep him eligible for the squad. [ReadOn] |
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WOODS Martha |
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... |
... |
7 |
|
1946 |
1969 |
nationwide |
| Verdict/Urteil: Life |
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An Army wife who followed her husband around the country from one military base to the next, Martha Woods also suffered from the bizarre mental illness dubbed Munchausens syndrome by proxy.[ReadOn] |
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WOODWARD Alicia => ESPOSITO John & WOODWARD Alicia |
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WOOLONGONG PEDOPHILE Mutilator |
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... |
... |
... |
2 |
|
1998 |
|
Woolongong |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WOONSOCKET PROSTITUTE Strangler |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
|
1990 |
1991 |
RI |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WORLEY Alva Hank => McDUFF Kenneth Allen & GREEN Roy Dale & WORLEY Alva Hank |
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WORRELL Christopher Robin => MILLER James William & WORRELL Christopher Robin |
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WRIGHT Douglas Franklin |
1940 |
1996/09/06 |
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... |
... |
... |
6+ |
|
1991 |
|
OR |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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WRIGHT Dwayne Allen |
1972 |
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... |
... |
... |
3 |
|
1989 |
|
MD VA DC |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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... |
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WUORNOS Aileen Carol |
|
+2002/10/09 |
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... |
... |
... |
7+ |
| Damsel of Death |
1989 |
1990 |
FL |
| Verdict/Urteil: Death by Lethal Injection (Florida State Prison) |
| |
WYOMING RODEO Murders |
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... |
... |
... |
4+ |
|
1974 |
1974 |
Wyoming |
| Verdict/Urteil: |
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The Rawlins, Wyoming, "rodeo murders" occurred in July and August 1974, claiming four lives in the span of seven weeks. Unsolved despite intensive work by local law enforcement agencies, the crimes were similar enough in execution to deserve inclusion here, although three of the victims are still missing, precluding establishment of a homicidal "signature" in the slayings. [ReadOn] |
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| Statistics W |
| |
| 15 |
Unsolved Cases |
| |
| |
Female suspects / on trial |
| |
| 24 |
Female Serial Killers |
| |
| 1 |
Male suspect / on trial |
| |
| 83 |
Male Serial Killers |
| |
| 123 |
Cases total |
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