Facing Ted Bundy: Sorority attack survivor shares her harrowing story at CrimeCon 2019
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Cold Cases
June 6, 2019
‘Bear Brook Murders’: Podcast helps ID 3 of 4 victims dumped in barrels at state park
The suspected killer, Terry Peder Rasmussen, died in 2010 while serving a prison sentence for his wife’s murder
Hate Crimes
June 4, 2019
‘We are concerned’: FBI called after THIRD black transgender woman killed in Dallas
Authorities in Texas have contacted the FBI after a second black transgender woman was found murdered in Dallas within the past two weeks, with another transgender woman killed in October. The Dallas Morning News reported that the body pulled from White Rock Lake on Sunday was identified as Chynal Lindsey, 26. Dallas police confirmed Monday …
Serial Killers
May 20, 2019
Bobby Joe Long: Execution looms for serial killer behind at least 9 slayings as court rejects last-ditch appeal
Bobby Joe Long, who was convicted of murdering at least nine women and in the 1980s, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday after the Florida Supreme Court declined his third appeal. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the panel unanimously dismissed all seven claims Long, 65, brought forth, including a challenge to the state’s …
Murder
May 17, 2019
Suspected serial killer charged with smothering 12 elderly women as cops review 750 deaths for possible link
A Texas man who has been jailed since last year for allegedly killing an elderly woman and attempting to kill two others was indicted on 11 additional capital murder charges this week. Grand juries in Dallas and Collin Counties respectively returned six and five indictments against Billy Chemirmir, 46. Chemirmir is believed to have committed …
Murder
May 13, 2019
Decapitated body found outside burned cabin is likely 8th victim in Tennessee murder spree that killed 12-year-old girl
A Tennessee man accused of killing seven people has been charged with another murder of a man whose headless body was also discovered last month. Michael Cummins, 25, was shot by police after he killed seven people—including his parents—whose bodies were found in two homes in Westmoreland on April 27. Now, he’s been charged in …
Murder
May 12, 2019
Suspect in savage murder of elderly man claims he has killed 6 more people: Report
Authorities have detained a man who admitted to savagely murdering a 77-year-old Florida resident in April and six others around the country, the Miami Herald reports. Police arrested 32-year-old Nicholas Gibson last weekend in New York City, where he got into a fight with officers while exiting a subway train. One of the officers was …
Serial Killers
January 9, 2019
DNA testing clears suspected Golden State Killer of teen girl’s 1975 slaying
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that the man suspected of being California’s Golden State Killer was absolved of any involvement in the 1975 murder of a 14-year-old girl through the use of DNA evidence. Per the Fresno Bee, Donna Jo Richmond, 14, vanished on December 26, 1975, while riding a bike near her home. Her body was found …
Murder
December 6, 2018
Prosecutors seek death penalty for border agent who allegedly said he killed 4 sex workers to ‘clean up the streets’
A U.S. Border Patrol agent who reportedly confessed to killing four sex workers in Texas was indicted on capital murder charges Wednesday. Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said Juan David Ortiz, 35, killed the four women in September because he “wanted to clean up the streets” as he felt not enough was being done to curb prostitution …
Serial Killers
November 16, 2018
Mass killer confesses to 90 murders and investigators already corroborate 30 killings
By DAVID WARREN, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A man convicted of three California murders and long suspected in numerous other deaths now claims he was involved in about 90 killings nationwide spanning nearly four decades, and investigators already have corroborated about a third of those, a Texas prosecutor said Thursday. Ector County District Attorney Bobby …
Serial Killers
October 7, 2018
Serial killer praises jurors after receiving death sentence, says he ‘probably would have done the same thing’
A serial killer had a surprising reaction for those responsible for sending him to death row. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Andrew Urdiales was found guilty of murdering five women across Southern California in crimes dating back to the late 1980s. The former Marine received five death sentences during the penalty phase of his trial this …
Serial Killers
September 18, 2018
‘I have no doubt there are more victims’: Nancy Grace thinks ‘serial killer’ Border Patrol agent left ‘other bodies’ out there
After details emerged regarding a Texas Border Patrol agent’s weekend arrest for allegedly killing four women, CrimeOnline‘s Nancy Grace said she there are likely more victims out there. “You don’t go from 0 to 120mph in the space of a week,” Grace told DailyMailTV host, Jesse Palmer. “We know now there are four murder victims …
