Serial Killers

[brocktonblockbust]

they found him DEAD under the bridge with a box of corn flakes, get it, CEREAL KILLER

[Spicoli]

Unthinkable to be on the force while killing and even raping kids. Hope he rots. Have to think his entire arrest record, prosecutions and even convictions have to be called in for review? Not sure if statute of limitations figures into it.

[Master]

Husband-wife serial killers may be link between two 40-year-old mysteries, police say
two seemingly unrelated cases stumped detectives in two states. Now they may have found the link, thanks in part to a chance encounter.

Authorities in Alabama were stumped by skeletal remains they could not identify.
In New Orleans, two hours west down Interstate 10, law enforcement had an unsolved missing person’s case.

Although only 120 or so miles separated*the two investigations, it would take more than 40 years for the right links to fall into place, likely looping together*the bones in Alabama and the vanished New Orleans housewife Mary Ann Perez.

As a result of*persistence and a few lucky breaks, investigators now believe they can tie the March 1976 disappearance of Perez to a husband-and-wife serial killing couple who stalked women across the South in the 1970s, News 5 reported.

“It was actually a miracle,”*Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Detective J.T. Thornton recently told the station.

On March 26, 1976, Perez went out with friends to a local bar outside of New Orleans. According to an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries,” the housewife left her teenage daughter Donna at home to watch her younger children.

“She told Donna that she would be calling to check on us,”*Shannon Miller, Perez’s youngest child, told the program. “And Donna said she got a phone call from momma first, stating that she was okay and that she would be home shortly. And then Donna said she got a phone call from a woman by the name of Dorothy.”

The mystery woman on the other end of the line told Perez’s daughter her mother was having car trouble. The call immediately raised suspicion among the family*— the vehicle was new, so it was not likely to break down. When Perez failed to come home the next morning, her car was found in the parking lot of the country-and-western bar. Three days later, Perez’s purse*— weighed down with a brick*— was found in Lake Pontchartrain, according to “Unsolved Mysteries.”

Perez was not found. She remained a missing person.

Eight months later, hunters were strolling through a cornfield near Grand Bay, Ala., just over the*Mississippi state line, when they discovered human bones. Clothes still wrapped the remains. The bones belonged to a woman and distinguishing features stood out. “[I]t was mostly intact and there was also a partial dental plate the skull of the female indicated preexisting injuries from traffic collisions,” Thornton recently told News 5.

Investigators eventually shipped the remains to Oklahoma where the skull was used to reconstruct an image of the victim. But after the picture was released to the public, no one came forward to claim the bones or offer an explanation.

In the 1970s, information did not flow freely*among law enforcement agencies*— this was before Internet databases or email alerts could quickly update departments in different states or regions*about their caseloads. In 1976, no one linked the remains in Alabama with Perez’s disappearance.

But in 1980, investigators did begin to get a picture of her death.

David and Donna Courtney were a married pair of drifters who both pleaded guilty to murder in 1980 in Wichita. The couple’s confession was chilling. They told investigators they had killed two others in Houston, and a woman in New Orleans, the Advocate reported. The Courtneys’ account of the New Orleans murder echoed the facts surrounding Perez’s disappearance.

“When I went up to Kansas to interview David Courtney, he told me about the female he abducted in New Orleans,” New Orleans Police Detective Bob Lambert told “Unsolved Mysteries.” “He stated that he was driving down the highway and pulled in the parking lot of a country-western bar.”

The woman was too drunk to drive home, Courtney claimed, so he persuaded her to come back to the trailer he shared with his wife.

“He stated that this female fell asleep on a chair in the trailer and there was some sexual advancements by his wife, which woke this female up and she became disturbed and irate and upset about what was going on and then they agreed to give her a ride home at that time,” Lambert recalled.
While his wife drove the car, Courtney said he strangled the woman with a coat hanger in the back seat.

Despite the confession, law enforcement had a problem. The Courtneys pointed investigators to the final resting places of all their victims*— all except the woman from New Orleans. According to the Advocate, the alleged killers said only that they dumped the body either at the Louisiana-Mississippi border or the Mississippi-Alabama border.
Authorities were left with a plausible theory for Perez’s disappearance but no body*— and therefore no criminal case. The Courtneys were never charged with Perez’s death. David Courtney is still serving a life sentence in Kansas. His wife died two decades ago.
In Alabama, investigators had the opposite problem: They had a body but no plausible theory. According to News 5, it would take another 35 years for authorities in Alabama to uncover the connection.

Recently, Thornton, the detective, began digging into local cold cases, including the 1976 remains. A detective in Mississippi told Thornton about the Perez disappearance, and the Alabama investigator went to interview the missing woman’s family.

“They advised me that she had been in a traffic accident, Mary Ann Perez had, that she had a partial dental plate, and they presented me with the demographics of her and I thought that’s almost a perfect match,” Thornton told News 5.

But there was a new problem: The body had vanished again — no one knew where the remains were currently being kept. Only after a random encounter with another cold case investigator did Thornton finally catch his last needed break.

“The state attorney general’s office sent an investigator down here, who also works cold cases,” Thornton said. “So when he comes in he’s like, ‘do you know anything about this case?’ And I said I do and I’ve been hunting for the remains. And he’s like ‘we’ve been looking for the case that goes with the remains.’ ”

The bones were still in Oklahoma, where they had been shipped for the facial reconstruction.

They have since been transferred to Texas for DNA testing. Investigators say they believe the results will conclusively match the body to Perez.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...cid=spartanntp

[Master]

Crimes of the century: 65 years ago John Christie, one of Britain's most notoriously evil serial killers, was hanged

John Christie is one of Britain's most notorious serial killers

The name John Christie is enough to send a chill down the spine of anyone who remembers his shocking case. The serial killer was hanged 65 years ago next month. But who was he? How many people did he kill, and where exactly is Rillington Place?

Christie murdered at least eight people by strangling them at this flat in 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. He also stored the bodies there. The infamous address no longer exists, having been demolished in the 1970s to make room for council housing.

Born in West Riding, Yorkshire, in 1899, Christie was the sixth in a family of seven children, including five girls. Serving in World War I, a mustard gas attack left him with a speech impediment and is believed to have caused neurological damage that contributed to his subsequent violent sexual urges.

After the war, Christie turned to crime, serving several prison sentences for assault, theft, and battering a prostitute with a cricket bat. He had a tempestuous marriage to Ethel Simpson, and in 1938 the couple moved into the fateful downstairs flat of 10 Rillington Place where his campaign of terror began.

Christie's first victim was Austrian munitions worker and part-time prostitute Ruth Fuerst, in 1943. Christie met the 21-year-old at a local cafe and strangling her during sex. He hid her body under the living room floorboards, later burying her in the garden. Soon after killing her, incredibly, he signed up as a volunteer policeman.

Christie's next victim was Muriel Eady, 32, a colleague at the factory he worked at. He carefully planned the murder by tricking Muriel into inhaling poisonous carbon monoxide. He lured her to Rillington Place promising a special inhaler to treat her bronchitis. After she passed out, he raped and strangled her, then buried her in the garden.

The Evans family moved into the upstairs flat at 10 Rillington Place in 1948, where baby Geraldine was born to Timothy and Beryl. The following year Timothy reported his wife and child dead -with a post-mortem revealing they had been strangled. Evans told the police Christie admitted to killing Beryl in a botched abortion.

The police extracted a false confession from Evans and cleared Christie of involvement, with the prosecution even using lying Christie as a witness! Evans was hanged in March 1950. (He received a posthumous pardon, and it was this case that played a major part in the UK's eventual abolition of capital punishment in 1965.)

Christie strangled his wife Ethel in bed in December 1952 and for weeks lied to worried relatives, saying she had travelled to her native Sheffield. He pawned her wedding ring days later and forged her signature to empty her bank account.

In the space of the following three months in 1953, Christie murdered three more women. Kathleen Maloney was a prostitute who worked in nearby Ladbroke Grove. She was poisoned by carbon monoxide, raped and then strangled.

Rita Nelson was a visitor from Belfast who was in London seeing her sister when she met Christie and he charmed her into coming home with him. Once she was in Rillington Place, Rita met the exactly the same fate the Kathleen Maloney had.

Hectorina McLennan was a woman who Christie let stay at Rillington place, she too ended up poisoned, raped, and strangled in 1953.

All of Christie's victims were found at Rillington Place, some of the bodies were buried in the garden, while bodies were also hidden inside a gap in the kitchen that Christie papered over.

Christie moved out of the flat just after his final murder. His landlord allowed the resident of the top floor, Beresford Brown, to use what was Christie's kitchen. Brown made the shocking discovery of some of Christie's victims when he started some DIY.

A city-wide hunt for Christie was launched, and he was caught at a cafe near Putney Bridge a week later. In his pocket was a newspaper clipping about Timothy Evans, the innocent man hanged three years earlier.

While in custody, Christie confessed to seven murders: the three women found in the kitchen alcove, his wife, and the two women buried in the back garden. He also admitted being responsible for the murder of Beryl Evans - which Timothy Evans hanged for in 1950. Although Christie denied killing the baby, he was widely seen as guilty.

Crowds gathered around the flat where Christie committed his evil acts as the police searched for forensic evidence. Back then, Notting Hill was an incredibly run-down part of the capital, a world away from the upmarket area made famous in the Hugh Grant movie.

Ultimately, Christie was tried only for the murder of his wife Ethel. His June 1953 trial took place in the same court where Timothy Evans had been tried in 1950. Christie pleaded insanity, but doctor evaluating Christie testified in court that Christie had a hysterical personality - but was not insane.

Christie was charged with murder in June 1953. The jury rejected Christie's plea, and after deliberating for 85 minutes found him guilty. Christie did not appeal against his conviction. The verdict made front page news.

John Christie travels to meet his executioner. On 15 July 1953 Christie was hanged at Pentonville Prison by the same executioner, Albert Pierrepoint, who had previously hanged Evans. For many years John Christie's waxwork in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's was a popular tourist attraction.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/photo...ged/ss-AAyxmrl

[TitoFan]

they found him DEAD under the bridge with a box of corn flakes, get it, CEREAL KILLER

Poor Brock has made the same lame joke twice and nobody has even acknowledged it.


Well doggone it....... I'm about to fix that.