Serial Killers

[X]

You also would not wish to get on the wrong side of this guy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Rodrigues_Filho

[El Kabong]

You also would not wish to get on the wrong side of this guy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Rodrigues_Filho

Yeah he seems like he was a bit of a bad apple

[Master]

You also would not wish to get on the wrong side of this guy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Rodrigues_Filho

Yeah he seems like he was a bit of a bad apple

Maybe it is me but he does not seem that bad. He was a product of violence from his father, killed people who deserved it and was quite honourable.

[El Kabong]

You also would not wish to get on the wrong side of this guy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Rodrigues_Filho

Yeah he seems like he was a bit of a bad apple

Maybe it is me but he does not seem that bad. He was a product of violence from his father, killed people who deserved it and was quite honourable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram


Panzram had it tought in his life too....do you think he's ok?

[Master]

No one can deny he had a very sick up bringing but the murders and criminal acts do not justify what he did.

[X]

[Master]

Sick. X. Very sick.

[Master]

‘Golden State Killer’ suspect, a former police officer, arrested after DNA match, officials say

Ex-cop arrested as 'Golden State Killer

More than 40 years after the so-called “Golden State Killer” began terrorizing California, raping dozens of women and killing at least 12, authorities announced Wednesday that they had arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo, charging him with capital murder.

DeAngelo’s arrest offered a shocking, abrupt development in what had long been one of the most notorious unsolved string of crimes in U.S. history.*The gruesome attacks unfolded across California for more than a decade during the 1970s and 1980s, shattering families and frightening communities. Then the crimes stopped, remaining a mystery for a generation, with little sign the case would ever be solved.

The trail ultimately led authorities to DeAngelo, a former police officer living in Citrus Heights, Calif., a city outside Sacramento. Authorities said DeAngelo — who was an officer during the years when police believe the attacks began — was found through DNA evidence obtained in recent days. Though investigators declined to elaborate on what the DNA evidence was or how it was obtained, they said it clearly linked him to the crimes that had transfixed them for so long.

Authorities said DeAngelo’s name had not been on their radar at any point until last week, but that they were able to link him to homicides and rapes from decades ago.

“The magnitude of*this case demanded that it be solved,” Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said at a news conference in the California capital Wednesday afternoon.*“We found the needle in the haystack, and it was right here in Sacramento.”

Sacramento County court records showed that DeAngelo was booked into jail early Wednesday morning on two counts of murder. No bail was set, and it was not known if he had an attorney.

The string of attacks for decades were actually considered three separate sprees, beginning in the mid-1970s in Visalia, Calif., authorities said, when dozens of home invasions and burglaries led people to call the then-unknown assailant the “Visalia Ransacker.” A later series of horrifying home-invasions and rapes beginning in 1976 in Northern California — attributed to the “East Area Rapist” or the “Original Night Stalker” — included lengthy attacks, sometimes involving sexual assaults on women in front of their bound loved ones. Then a series of slayings involving couples in their homes in Southern California by the “Golden State Killer”*lasted up into the mid-1980s.
It wasn’t until 2001 that authorities connected the crimes via DNA evidence.

Through 1986, the FBI said, the attacker killed a dozen people and raped 45. The victims were as young as 13 and as old as 41, they said.

Investigators had said they*thought the Golden State Killer may have had a law enforcement background, and DeAngelo fit that bill. Between 1973 and 1979,*DeAngelo served as a police officer in two different California police departments, said Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones.

The timeline meant that DeAngelo was a law enforcement official when the attacks began, learning how to be a police officer at the same time authorities now believe he was beginning an escalating reign of terror. It remains unclear whether this training and knowledge of law enforcement tactics played a role in how the case stayed unsolved for so long.

“Very possibly he was committing the crimes during the time he was employed as a peace officer,” Jones said Wednesday.

Jones said DeAngelo had worked for the Exeter, Calif., police department between 1973 and 1976, a department located about 10 miles east of Visalia. John Hall, the city’s police chief, said in an interview Wednesday that no one currently with the department was there*at the time. Still, he said, the idea that*DeAngelo might have worked for the department was a blow.
“It’s absolutely shocking as well as disheartening and disappointing,” Hall said. “Not only did he commit these horrific crimes, but he did it while wearing the uniform and enjoying the public’s trust.”

The case remained an object of intense focus for many in law enforcement and the public over the years. In 2016, the FBI made a renewed plea — and offered a $50,000 reward — for help in finding what they called “the violent and elusive individual.”

Beginning in 1976, the Golden State Killer is believed to have*raped dozens of*women in their homes — meticulously planning intrusions, sometimes ambushing entire families, and killing several victims toward the end of*the bloodshed, all before vanishing in*1986. The attacker also was behind numerous residential burglaries in the state, the FBI said.

For relatives of the victims, the shock of DeAngelo’s arrest and the charges against him left some feeling a sense of closure. Others were overwhelmed by the sudden news.*Jennifer Carole was sleeping in her Santa Cruz home when the text came in at 7:11 a.m. on Wednesday. When she awoke, she could hardly believe it.

“Could this really be him?” a friend had typed out and sent a link to a news article.

Almost four decades after*Carole’s father, Lyman Smith, and stepmother, Charlene Smith, were found murdered in their Ventura, Calif., home, police said they had found a suspect. She was torn by conflicting emotions.

“This is a hard one,” said Carole, 56. “There aren’t really words for this. I have feelings all over the place … In my mind, I had him dead as a way to cope, so his capture is stirring up all kinds of emotions.”

Carole said it was a chilling feeling to know the alleged killer had been in the Sacramento area the whole time, the same area her mother and father had lived.

In March 1980, her*brother had gone to their father’s home to mow the lawn, but he*grew*suspicious when the home’s alarm didn’t go off when he entered. He went upstairs to check on his father and stepmother, Carole said, and called 911 after he found*sheets*pulled up over their bodies.

“I hope to*God he confesses,” said Carole, who was 18 at the time, of the man now in police custody.

Deangelo, who was arrested for the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker/Golden State Killer case in Citrus Heights, California, U.S.
In Citrus Heights, residents recalled strange encounters with DeAngelo, who neighbors said lived in a home with his daughter and granddaughter.*Attempts to reach DeAngelo’s relatives were unsuccessful.
Eddy Verdon recalled meeting DeAngelo after moving to the area and*found him to be*nosy, eventually discovering DeAngelo on his property three years ago. When he heard someone around the property and looked in the garage, he found DeAngelo ready to flee on his bicycle.

“I stared him down, and he looked at me nervously,” he said. “I never really interacted with him again. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea.”

Since the attacker seemingly disappeared,*investigators and amateur detectives have searched for*him across the United States and inquired as far away as Australia.

“He was young — anywhere from 18 to 30 — Caucasian, and athletic, capable of eluding capture by jumping roofs and vaulting tall fences,” the crime writer Michelle McNamara wrote in a Los Angeles Magazine profile of the old cases.

McNamara, who wrote a best-selling book about the crimes, wrote that the attacker had entered homes beforehand, “learning the layout, studying family pictures, and memorizing names” in preparation. As a result, she wrote, when someone “woke from a deep sleep to the blinding flashlight and ski-masked presence, he was always a stranger to you, but you were not to him.”
When a woman managed to escape a 1979 attack, McNamara wrote, she said she saw a man pedaling away on a bicycle. The*attacker was particularly cruel, McNamara wrote, placing*dishes on the male victims he had tied up*and “telling him that if he heard the dishes fall, he’d kill the female, whom he would then lead into another room to rape.”

Police first dubbed the man the East Area Rapist, since they do not believe he began to kill people until later. The first known attack*took place in the middle of the night in the summer of 1976, when*a man slipped into a home in east Sacramento County, raped a young woman and left.

Authorities said the same man raped someone again a few weeks later, then raped people again and again. After a year, two dozen women had been attacked in the Sacramento area. One victim was said to be a 13-year-old girl*whose family was home at the time.

Two people were beaten to death with a fireplace log. Brian and Katie Maggiore were gunned down while walking their dog in*Rancho Cordova. A man and his girlfriend were fatally shot in his condo, with a cellophane-wrapped turkey carcass found on the patio. The killer, McNamara later wrote, had eaten some of their leftover Christmas dinner before departing.

The last known victim was 18-year-old Janelle Cruz, who was raped and bludgeoned to death in Irvine in 1986.

Decades would pass*before DNA tests linked all of these crimes, and investigators realized that the East Area Rapist of Sacramento was the same man called “Original Night Stalker” near L.A. DNA evidence has proven crucial in other cases, such as the East Coast Rapist, who was arrested in 2011 when one of his discarded cigarettes proved to be a match for genetic*material in that case.

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[brocktonblockbust]

How can that guy be a serial killer? The police went into his safety deposit box last night at Wells Fargo and found three cases of corn flakes

[El Kabong]

That's a big catch. Similar to to when BTK was caught. Very sad that he killed all those people, and to think he was a cop all along, horrible.

[Master]

That's a big catch. Similar to to when BTK was caught. Very sad that he killed all those people, and to think he was a cop all along, horrible.

Very ruthless and evil man hope he does admit it.

A police officer, doctor or soldier would be difficult serial killers to catch.

[El Kabong]

That's a big catch. Similar to to when BTK was caught. Very sad that he killed all those people, and to think he was a cop all along, horrible.

Very ruthless and evil man hope he does admit it.

A police officer, doctor or soldier would be difficult serial killers to catch.

Perhaps. I mean Dennis Rader 'BTK' worked for Coleman which makes outdoor stuff like gas grills, lanterns, tents, etc and he was hard to catch.

Panzeram was a hobo and he was hard to catch

Nobody knows who the fuck Jack The Ripper was or what he did, never caught. Zodiac Killer was never caught. Unabomber was hard to catch, Eric Robert Rudolph was difficult to catch.

[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.

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