There may be a fifth victim of the so-called “shopping cart killer,” the alleged serial killer in Virginia and around Washington, D.C., who leaves his victims in shopping carts. Police on Friday said they had received a “critical tip” that may link the killer to the death of a woman whose body was found in …
“He preys on the weak, he preys on the vulnerable, and he does unspeakable things with his victims.”
Authorities arrested a suspect in Missouri on Friday who is apparently behind four fatal shootings in Missouri and two in Kansas — all of which occurred between September and late October. Police sources told KDSK that Perez Reed, 25, was linked to two murders and one non-fatal shooting in St. Louis city, and two murders …
The victim’s family was unaware he had died or was missing
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says that in her long career as first a prosecutor and then a journalist covering murder trials, she often wondered if there was a heaven or a hell. But after interviewing three women who survived serial killer Ted Bundy for her new FoxNation special, she says, “That was one of the first …
Despite a new suspect put forward by a group calling themselves the Case Breakers, the detectives actively investigating the Zodiac Killer case say it’s still “open and unsolved.” As CrimeOnline previously reported, a team of more than 40 former law enforcement investigators, military intelligence officers, and journalists said on Wednesday that they had identified the …
South Florida officials announced Tuesday that a man who died in a plane crash 16 years ago has been identified as serial killer, Roberto Wagner Fernandes, who reigned terror in the state during the early 2000s. According to Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony, Fernandes killed three women in Broward County from June 2000 to August …
The bodies of at least 14 people have been found buried at the home of a former Salvadoran police officer who allegedly confessed earlier this month to killing a woman and her daughter. Police in Chalchuapa, about 50 miles from San Salvador, say there may be dozens of bodies in the pits found behind the …
A West Virginia woman was sentenced to seven life sentences by a federal judge Tuesday after she killed seven patients at a West Virginia hospital. “You knew what you were doing,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh told Reta Mays before sentencing her. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Mays was assigned to tend to ailing elderly patients at …
Authorities in Arkansas are searching for a suspected serial killer who they believed carried out four stabbings, three of them fatal, between August 2020 and April of this year. In the most recent attacks, Little Rock police said the unidentified suspect is believed to have stabbed Debra Walker, 43, 15 times on April 11. Walker …
One of four victims who remained unidentified when infamous serial killer Gary Ridgeway pleaded guilty to over 40 murders has been identified. Q13 Fox reports that according to the King County Sheriff’s Office, officials identified the youngest victim of Ridgeway as 14-year-old Wendy Stephens. Authorities said Stephens ran away from her Denver home in 1983 …
An upcoming episode of “20/20” will analyze how detectives linked “Dating Game” serial killer Rodney Alcala to eight murders in the 1970s. Scheduled to air on Friday, the “20/20” episode will detail how Alcala’s arrest for Robin Samsoe’s July 1979 murder exposed the photographer’s secret life as a serial killer. According to ABC, Samsoe, 12, …
