During a Monday press conference, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that police believe that three deaths of homeless people in the city are linked. The first killing shooting happened on June 1 close to an overpass by Baker-Highland Connector and Piedmont Avenue, at around 1:40 p.m. Someone shot and killed 45-year-old Timothy Terrill Smith, …
David Brooks, one of two teenage accomplices of notorious Houston serial killer Dean Corll, has died in prison of COVID-19, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced this week. The Houston Chronicle said Brooks, 65, was hospitalized on May 12 and tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 before he died on May 28. …
Authorities in Long Island have revealed the identity of a woman believed to be the victim of the Long Island Serial Killer. As the New York Post reports, Suffolk County police have said that human remains found in separate locations in Long Island more than a decade apart belong to Valerie Mack, who was 24 …
Lonnie Franklin Jr, convicted of killing nine women and a teenage girl over a 22 year period and linked to several more deaths, died Saturday in his cell in San Quentin Prison. Franklin, 67, was dubbed the “Grim Sleeper” for a 14-year break in his murderous activities between 1988 and 2002, ABC 30 reported. He …
A former MMA fighter who was arrested last year in Texas for murdering his ex-girlfriend and her friend was charged in Minnesota Tuesday for killing another ex-girlfriend in 2009, according to reports. Cedric Marks, 45, and Kellee Kristine Sorensen, 34, were charged with the second-degree murder of April Pease. Sorensen reportedly told authorities that they …
Lee Boyd Malvo — who is serving a life sentence for the Beltway sniper attacks which terrorized the Washington, D.C.-area in 2002 — was married on Friday at a Virginia prison, according to reports. Carmeta Albarus, the social worker who helped the defense understand the mental hold ringleader John Allen Muhammad had over the then-teenager, …
A Thai man is behind bars after divers reportedly found hundreds of human bones in a pond filled with alligator gar and other carnivorous fish. The Bangkok Post reports that Apichai Ongwisit, 40, is accused of killing his former girlfriend, Warinthorn “Kuk-kik” Chaiyachet, 22. Police found the woman’s remains thrown into a pond on the …
An elderly serial killer who is imprisoned in New Jersey for murdering six women has reportedly confessed to strangling three teen girls in the late ’60s. Richard Cottingham, 74, is serving a 200-year sentence for killing six in New York and New Jersey between 1967 and 1980. On Friday, officials with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s …
An Ohio doctor who is facing 25 murder charges for allegedly using fentanyl to kill critically-ill patients filed a civil lawsuit against his former employers on Thursday. Dr. William Husel, 44, is seeking at least $50,000 from the Mount Carmel Health System, its parent organization, Trinity Health Corporation, and its former CEO. The doctor, who …
A Los Angeles jury on Friday recommended the death sentence for Michael Gargiulo, who was convicted in August in the deaths of two women and the brutal stabbing of a third, who survived, KNX1070 reported. Prosecutors called Gargiulo, 43, the “Hollywood Ripper” for the Los Angeles-area killings of Ashley Ellerin, 22, on February 22, 2001, …
A California inmate originally convicted in the deaths of four women and serving life without parole has confessed to 93 murders, the FBI says, and he’s been matched to more than 50 of them so far. The feds say that makes Samuel Little, 79, the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Little’s murder spree …
Deborah Harry, better known as the lead singer of the popular new wave band Blondie, revealed how she was almost a victim of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Harry has told the story numerous times over the years but revealed additional details during a recent interview with Sunday Times magazine, ahead of the release of …
