serial killer
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Mother of Dahmer Victim Takes Issue With Evan Peters’ Golden Globes Win
The Netflix limited series, Dahmer, is once again being criticized for how it treated the families of Dahmer’s victims.
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16 of The Most Infamous White Serial Killers in America
In addition to Dahmer, there are plenty of other serial killers who have caught the attention of the public.
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He Terrorized Poor Black Women for Decades. Now, California's 'Grim Sleeper' Is Dead
Lonnie Franklin Jr., the convicted serial killer nicknamed “The Grim Sleeper,” was found dead in his cell this weekend in California’s San Quentin Prison. The 67-year-old, who is believed to have killed at least 10 women over the span of 30 years, was found unresponsive in his cell on Saturday night, reports CNN. According to…
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Fearing a Serial Killer Has Been Targeting Black Women in Chicago for 20 Years, Activists Push Police to Start a Probe
Teresa Bunn was eight months pregnant when her body was found inside a burning trash can in Chicago 12 years ago. Bunn’s death came within a day of that of another woman, Hazel Marion Lewis. Lewis’ body also was found inside a burning trash can in Chicago. According to the Murder Accountability Project, Bunn and…
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Police in Florida Arrest Suspect in Series of Killings in Tampa’s Seminole Heights
Police in Tampa, Fla., have apprehended a man believed to be connected to four killings that have raised fears of a serial killer in the Seminole Heights neighborhood. According to WTSP-TV, 24-year-old Howell Emanuel Donaldson III is being charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Donaldson was taken into custody Tuesday after officers responded to…
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Suspected Black Serial Killer Captured After Writing Cryptic Message on 3rd Victim in Blood: Report
A man who authorities say is a suspected serial killer in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area says that he wanted to kill at least five people and left behind a cryptic message in blood before being captured, according to police. Nathaniel Petgrave is accused of killing at least three homeless men—Larry Scott, 65; John Jackson,…
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20-Year-Old Man With Autism Becomes 3rd Victim of Possible Fla. Serial Killer
A 20-year-old Tampa Bay, Fla., man with special needs appears to be the latest victim of a possible serial killer who has shot and killed three people in Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood. Anthony Naiboa, 20, who had an autism diagnosis, took the wrong bus home from work Thursday and was shot and killed around 8…
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White Man in Custody in Possible Connection to 2 Random, ‘Racially Motivated’ Killings in La.
A 23-year-old white man was arrested Saturday for a possible connection to two random but linked slayings of pedestrians, which police say were most likely racially motivated. Baton Rouge, La., police arrested Kenneth Gleason, 23, on numerous counts of drug possession Saturday night, but say they don’t have enough evidence to charge him with the…
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Prosecutors Race to Keep Suspected Serial Killer of Infants, Known as the Angel of Death, Behind Bars
Genene Jones is a former nurse who made international headlines over 30 years ago as the suspected serial killer of more than a dozen infants in the pediatric intensive care unit of a hospital in San Antonio, and she’s scheduled to be released from prison in March 2018. Dubbed the Angel of Death, Jones was…
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Los Angeles Serial Killer 'Grim Sleeper' Sentenced to Death
Los Angeles’ notorious serial killer the “Grim Sleeper” was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that spanned more than two decades, the Washington Post reports. “I can’t think of anyone that I’ve encountered in all my many years in the criminal-justice system that has committed the kind…