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Samuel Little was convicted of killing 60 people across multiple states in the US including Texas, California, and Ohio and confessed to 93 killings across 19 states between 1970 and 2005. His victims were mostly women and he was sentences to life in prison with no chance of parole. I think the most interesting thing about the case is that he was arrested numerous times throughout the time span of his killings with  unconscious women in his car, and even though he did go to prison for some of those arrests, he wasn't fully convicted of the numerous murders until 2013. He had been arrested 30 times by 2012, for accounts of rape, murder, and assault but still managed to get out of prison and keep killing.
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Israel Keyes was known for his 11 murders that he committed as he traveled around Alaska. It is also possible he murdered others as he travelled to Canada, Mexico, and Belize a lot, but haven't been looked into.

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The FBI on Monday released an updated timeline of travels and crimes by Israel Keyes, a confessed Alaska serial killer who is believed to have killed 11 people before committing suicide in his jail cell last year.

The timeline sheds some new light on a mysterious case that left a trail of unsolved killings around the country. FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said the goal of releasing the information is to identify victims who remain unknown, and provide some closure to their families.

"We've exhausted all our investigative leads," Gonzalez said.

The FBI statement said that "Keyes traveled internationally and it is unknown if he committed any homicides while outside of the United States," the FBI statement said. Keyes was known to have traveled to Canada, Mexico and Belize between 2001 and 2008.

The FBI also set up an interactive map of Keyes' travel from 1997-2012.

The FBI documents said Keyes frequented prostitutes during his travels and killed an unidentified couple in Washington state sometime between July 2001 and 2005. Keyes also told investigators he committed two separate murders between 2005 and 2006, disposing of at least one of the bodies in Lake Crescent, near Port Angeles, Wash.

When he killed himself in jail, the 34-year-old Keyes was awaiting a federal trial in the rape and strangulation murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, who was abducted February 2012 from the Anchorage coffee stand where she worked.

Keyes confessed to killing Koenig and at least seven others around the country, including Bill and Lorraine Currier of Essex, Vt., in 2011. The FBI said Monday that Keyes is believed to actually have killed 11 people, all strangers. Keyes told investigators his victims were male and female, and that the murders occurred in fewer than 10 states, but he did not reveal all locations.

Koenig and the Curriers were the only victims named by Keyes because he knew authorities had tied him to their deaths. Keyes told investigators only one other victim's body besides Koenig's was ever recovered, but that victim's death was ruled as accidental. The bodies of the Curriers were never found.

The FBI said Keyes admitted frequenting prostitutes, but it's unknown if Keyes met any of his victims this way.

Keyes said he robbed several banks to fund his travels along with money he made as a general contractor, according to the FBI. Keyes also told authorities he broke into as many as 30 homes throughout the country, and he talked about covering up a homicide through arson.

The timeline begins in summer of 1997 or 1998, when Keyes abducted a teenage girl while she and friends were tubing on the Deschutes River, he told investigators. The FBI said Keyes was living in Maupin, Ore., at the time, and the abduction is believed to have occurred near that area.

The FBI said Keyes lived in Neah Bay, Wash., in 2001 after he was discharged from the Army. When he lived in Neah Bay, Keyes committed his first homicide, according to the timeline. The identity of the victim is not known, and neither is the location of the murder.

Keyes moved to Anchorage in 2007, but continued to travel extensively outside the state.

After killing Koenig, Keyes flew to New Orleans where he went on a cruise. He left Koenig's body in a shed outside his Anchorage home for two weeks, according to the FBI. After the cruise, Keyes drove to Texas. The FBI said that during this time, Keyes may have been responsible for a homicide in Texas or a nearby state - a crime Keyes denied.

Keyes was arrested in Lufkin, Texas, about six weeks after Koenig's disappearance. He had sought a ransom and used Koenig's debit card. Three weeks after the arrest, Koenig's dismembered body was found in a frozen lake north of Anchorage.

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Israel Keyes, Alaska serial killer: The FBI released a detailed map and timeline of Israel Keyes' travels and confessed killings of 11 people. But are there other deaths in Canada, Mexico and Belize?

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The I-70 killer was known for the homicide of 6 store clerks in the mid-west in 1992. The murders occurred close to the interstate-70. The victims were usually women except for one man who caught him off guard. The interesting fact about this case is that the killer or suspect has never been identified even though there were witness accounts.
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-Ardra Gopakumar

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John Martin was from the UK who murdered three tourists as well as three unconfirmed victims. He pretended to be tourist as part of his plan and cut all the victims up as he worked as a butcher in prison prior to this. He was arrested in Singapore and there were many pictures of the body parts during his trial. He tried to defend himself but it did not work and he received punishment of death by hanging

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John Martin, born John Martin Scripps, was the first Westerner hanged in Singapore for murder on 19 April 1996. He was convicted for the murder of South African tourist, Gerard George Lowe, in March 1995. The police were alerted when various parts of Lowe's dismembered body were found floating in black plastic bags off While serving a six-year sentence at The Mount prison in Hertfordshire for drug smuggling, Scripps was known to be "quiet and reserved" with no history of violence, and was "no longer considered a risk". However, he absconded while on home leave for the weekend in October 1994.In mid-March 1995, Singaporeans were gripped by the news that dismembered parts of a human torso and lower limbs were found floating in black plastic bags in the waters off Clifford Pier.During the trial, Scripps said he hit Lowe on the head repeatedly with a 1.5-kg hammer when he rebuffed the latter's unwanted homosexual advances in their River View Hotel room. After that, he dragged Lowe into the bathroom and washed away the blood from his head in the bathtub, but panicked and fled when he realised Lowe was dead.Scripps was called the "tourist from hell", as he had befriended the victims, killed them and then dismembered their corpses. He also robbed them of their wallets, credit cards, cash and passports.13. Guilty as charged: John Martin Scripps befriended tourists, then butchered them. (2016, May 16). via NLB's eResources website: 15. Yaw, Y. C. (1995, October 4). 16. Tan, O. B. (1995, October 5). 22. Tan, O. B. (1995, March 30). 23. Guilty as charged: John Martin Scripps befriended tourists, then butchered them. (2016, May 16). 33. Tan, O. B. (1996, April 20). Clifford Pier. Investigations led to Scripps's arrest, and his eventual conviction and death sentence.

Background Scripps was born in Hertfordshire, England, in December 1959 to Leonard and Jean Scripps. ¹ He had an elder sister, Janet. His parents moved to London when he was very young. He was close to his father, who was a lorry driver. However, when Scripps was 10, his father passed away. When he was 15, Scripps left school because of dyslexia, and was in and out of British prisons for petty crimes ever since. Between 1974 and 1992, he was convicted for more than 20 counts of burglary and theft, two for resisting arrest, two for drug trafficking and one for outrage of modesty. ² ³ Scripps then used the birth certificate of fellow prisoner Simon James Davis to apply for a passport and managed to travel to a number of countries. While on the run, he was also wanted for questioning by foreign authorities for a drug-related killing in Mexico City, and serious offences in the United States. ⁴ In addition, he was linked to the disappearance of British tourist Tim McDowell in Mexico, as well as the murders of Canadians Sheila and Daren Damude, whose cut-up bodies were found in Phuket in March 1995. 5 He had been married once in his 20s to a Mexican woman, who divorced him while he was in prison. The murder ⁶ ⁷ The body parts were identified as belonging to South African tourist, Gerard George Lowe, who had been missing; his head and arms were never found. Following police investigations, Scripps was caught and charged in court to stand trial for the murder of Lowe. He was accused of killing Lowe in Room 1511, which they had shared in the River View Hotel, between noon on 8 March and 8 am on 9 March. ⁸ Acting for the prosecution were Jennifer Marie, Noral Huda and Toh Han Li. 9 ¹⁰ He said a British friend, whom he refused to name, disposed of Lowe's body. However, neither the prosecution nor the High Court believed that this friend existed. ¹¹ Acting for the defence were Edmond Pereira and Joseph Theseira. ¹⁴ Scripps had considerable skill as a prison butcher and Lowe's body showed signs of being dismembered professionally. He had learnt his butchery skills in 1993 while serving a sentence for drug related offences in the Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight, England. 15 ¹² Justice T. S. Sinnathuray found Scripps to be a calculative killer who set out to murder and rob the unsuspecting Lowe. He was sentenced to death by hanging.8 Mar 1995: Scripps arrives in Singapore on a flight from San Francisco. He meets Lowe at Changi Airport and both agree to share a room at River View Hotel to save costs. Martin later murders Lowe, dismembers the body, and places the body parts into Lowe's suitcase and a small bag. 9 Mar 1995: Scripps requests for Lowe's name to be removed from the hotel registry. 10 Mar 1995: Scripps attends a Singapore Symphony Orchestra performance at the 11 Mar 1995: Scripps dumps the contents of the suitcase into the 15 Mar 1995: Canadian tourists Sheila Mae Damude and her son Darin Damude, who were staying in the same hotel as Scripps in Phuket, are reported missing. 25 Mar 1995: Scripps is formally charged with Lowe's murder. ²⁴ ²² Singapore River behind the hotel and disposes of the suitcase (it was never found). He visits the Thomas Cook office in Anson Road to transfer S$8,500 in cash and US$5,000 in traveller's cheques to a San Francisco bank account in the name of John Martin, and leaves the smaller bag at the office (the contents were never found). He buys an open air ticket to Bangkok-Phuket-Singapore for S$485, and departs for Bangkok at 7 pm that evening. ²⁰ Victoria Concert Hall. 13 Nov 1995: Scripps files notice of appeal. ³⁰ ¹⁹ 9 Mar 1996: Scripps declines to seek pardon from President Ong Teng Cheong. The Straits Times. Retrieved from Factiva http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/

The information in this article is valid as at 2016 and correct as far as we are able to ascertain from our sources. It is not intended to be an exhaustive or complete history of the subject. Please contact the Library for further reading materials on the topic. 'This is a perfect instrument for deboning'. Martin: I hit Lowe, but friend disposed of body. Accused in South African murder case jailed for drug possession in London. The Straits Times. Retrieved from Factiva via NLB's eResources website: Martin hanged, leaving behind mystery over another 'victim'. The Straits Times, p. 25. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/ ; Body parts: Anatomy of a killing. (1995, November 12). The Straits Times, p. 12; Tan, O. B. (1995, March 30). Accused in South African murder case jailed for drug possession in London. The Straits Times, p. 3. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
The Straits Times, p. 3; Body parts: Anatomy of a killing. (1995, November 12). The Straits Times, p. 12. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
The Straits Times, p. 37; Body parts: Anatomy of a killing. (1995, November 12). The Straits Times, p. 12. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
The New Paper, p. 10; Who is John Martin? (1995, November 12). The Straits Times, p. 13. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.

14. Guilty as charged: John Martin Scripps befriended tourists, then butchered them. (2016, May 16). The Straits Times. Retrieved from Factiva via NLB's eResources website:
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John Martin, born John Martin Scripps, was the first Westerner hanged in Singapore for murder on 19 April 1996. He was convicted for the murder of South African tourist, Gerard George Lowe, in March 1995. The police were alerted when various parts of Lowe's dismembered body were found floating in black plastic bags off Clifford Pier.

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The I-70 killer was a man who went on a killing spree over the course of 29 days in 1992 in the Midwest. This man killed 6 store clerks but has never been identified. An interesting fact about this case is that there is a sketch of this man but there is no suspects and the case is now considered a cold case.
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- Bria Gainey

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Thirty years after six people were fatally shot in a string of killings along the I-70 corridor, the person responsible for the murders remains a mystery.

"To this day, we can't figure out why someone would go on this shooting rampage and just kill people for no apparent reason," Det. Kelly Rhodes with the St. Charles Police Department in Missouri tells PEOPLE. "I can only describe it as evil."

The spring of 1992 is when all hell broke loose for six families and their respective police departments. The "I-70 Killer," as he's been coined, is a man authorities believe went on a shooting spree that spanned across three Midwest states in a matter of 29 days.

Robin Fuldauer of Indianapolis, Ind.; Patricia Mager and Patricia Smith of Wichita, Kan.; Michael McCown of Terre Haute, Ind.; Nancy Kitzmiller of St. Charles, Mo.; and Sarah Blessing of Raytown, Mo., were all shot to death.

Apart from one male victim whom police believe was mistaken for a woman, the remaining five victims were female - and their murders shared similarities too striking to miss. The victims were all white store clerks working in small businesses along I-70. Each was in their mid-20s to mid-30s with long brown hair. And all were killed "execution style" - shot in the back of the head - with the same gun: an Erma Werke Model ET22 pistol.

Police in Kansas, Indiana and Missouri quickly realized they had a serial killer on their hands.

But, the case quickly went cold. Although detectives were able to put together a facial composite of the suspect and link the homicides through ballistics, the investigation kept hitting a wall.

Three decades and hundreds of leads later, Rhodes' sole task in the SCPD is to now hunt down the murderer that's evaded police for so long.

Her days are spent rereading original police reports, re-examining evidence and pursuing new leads. Police hope her fresh take on the case, paired with advancements in technology, will push the investigation to the finish line.

"This is a case that St. Charles city has never given up on," she says.

Since 1992, detectives believe the killer may have struck three more times: twice in Texas in 1993, and again in Kansas in 2001.

Rhodes revealed that in November 2021, efforts were increased across all agencies involved. A uniform task force was launched and investigators from Kansas, Indiana and Missouri came together to discuss each case, review the evidence and develop a plan to move forward.

"We really have to work all together to do this, and with all the agencies working together and sending everything off to the lab, everything combined that we have, I feel very hopeful for this case. I really do," Rhodes shares.

"This is the future, so we're really hoping we get some good DNA from evidence. It's not like we're sending off one piece and hoping on that one piece, we have quite a bit that we've sent off," she says, although she could not disclose the specific types of evidence being tested.
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While taking a serial killer off the streets would grant Rhodes much satisfaction, bringing long-awaited closure and justice to the six families only adds to her desire to solve the decades-old cold case.

"I've been asked by a lot of people: 'Why now? This case is 30 years old, why focus on this case when there's murders happening, right now?'" she says. "And, I always tell them, 'Whether someone was killed three minutes ago or three decades ago, it doesn't matter. Every single one of these people - their lives mattered.'"

"We're not going to stop until we feel every stone has been unturned." She adds, "We've already been fighting for this and the families have been fighting for 30 years, so we're definitely not about to give up now."

Anyone with information about the slayings is asked to contact the St. Charles Police Department at 1-800-800-3510. Police are offering a $25,000 reward.

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Patrick Kearney serial killer during the 1970s referred to as a trash bag killer, because of the way he would dispose of his victims' bodies. he would target young men such as hitchhikers or people that he would meet in gay bars. after killing his victims by luring them with promises of sex or drugs he would dismember the victims and dispose of their remains in trash bags.

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Serial killer who was an interstate trucker. His victims were mostly sex workers. He was a convicted rapist in Michigan who served an 11 year prison sentence for rape. The victim that lead to his identification was a pregnant young mother who was found rolled inside a blanket where she was stapped and hog-tied. They were able to make the arrest after 26years due to Artman leaving behind DNA and he was linked due to his previous conviction of rape.
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Florida trucker Garry Dean Artman previously served an 11-year prison sentence for rape

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Thousands of miles periodically punctuated by lonely truck stops, signalling gas, cheap food and a place to rest and maybe have a chinwag.

Big Joes and their ilk also attract another element: Sex workers and drugs.

Sharron Kay Hammack was 29 years old, a mother of two and a hopelessly addicted sex worker who plied her trade at truck stops near Grand Rapids, Mich., on I-96.

Her body - rolled up inside a blanket - was discovered by a truck driver in a field outside the tiny Michigan hamlet of Caledonia on Oct. 3, 1996. She had been murdered just hours before.

The young mom was raped, stabbed and hog-tied. She was pregnant with her third child.

Now, detectives have announced that after almost 26 years, they have made an arrest. They believe the accused is a serial killer who was an interstate trucker preying on sex workers.

Hammack's sister Tina DeYoung told WOOD-TV she was stunned when a detective showed up at her door last week and said: "We got him."

"It's just a flood of emotions; I'm happy, but I'm sad too," she told the outlet, adding that her parents have died.

Looking toward the sky, she said: "Mama, we got justice for her. I'm sorry it didn't happen before the good Lord took you, but justice will be served. You can celebrate with her up there."

Cops arrested 64-year-old Florida trucker Garry Dean Artman in Mississippi. Investigators say Artman left behind a present for them in 1996: His DNA.

And investigators were able to place the convicted rapist in Michigan at the time.

On the Eastern Seaboard, DNA linked Artman - who served an 11-year prison sentence for rape - to the 2006 sex slaying of a prostitute in Maryland.

"Further investigation revealed that shortly before the homicide victim (was) found in Maryland, she was in Ontario, Calif. It was found that around the same time Garry Dean Artman was within 20 miles of Ontario, Calif., when he was cited by local authorities," the affidavit reads.

It wasn't until the 2000s that investigators from Oklahoma and Texas noticed a chilling pattern: Hundreds of frequently vulnerable women were turning up murdered along the nation's interstate highway system.

In 2009, the FBI launched the Highway Serial Killings initiative to co-ordinate investigations into the staggering roster of slain women.

"The victims in these cases are primarily women who are living high-risk, transient lifestyles, often involving substance abuse and prostitution," the agency said in a press release.

"They're frequently picked up at truck stops or service stations and sexually assaulted, murdered and dumped along a highway."

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According to the feds, the suspects were "predominantly long-haul truck drivers." And because of their mobility, the multi-jurisdictional nature of their heinous crimes made them tough to catch.

The FBI's ViCAP analysts estimated in 2009 there were at least 500 murder victims found on or near the interstate highway system. They also made a list of 200 possible suspects.

Now, detectives are trying to answer the riddle if accused killer Garry Dean Artman is good for more than two cases.

But somewhere out in the distance, rolling on one of the nation's interstates, other serial killers are still looking for prey.
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Also known as the I-5 killer, Randall Woodfield was suspected to have raped and killed 44 victims. His crimes spanned across Washington, Oregon and California along the interstate 5 highway. The most interesting part of this case is that he was a very successful football player in high school and even had the opportunity to try out for the Green Bay Packers. Less than 10 years later, he was convicted for his crimes. He was also married three times and was divorced twice during his time in prison.

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Randall "Randy" Woodfield (b. December 26, 1950) is an American serial killer dubbed The I-5 Killer or The I-5 Bandit for the I-5 Highway running from Washington to California, where he committed multiple sexual assaults and murders. A native of Oregon, he was convicted of three murders and is suspected of killing up to 18 people. Woodfield is incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary.
Randy Woodfield
Randy Woodfield was once a college football star and even had the opportunity to try out for the Green Bay Packers in the early 1970's. Less than a decade later he would be arrested in a string of rapes, robberies, and murders that were committed near the I-5 freeway from Washington through northern California.

In addition to a suspected sixty or more sexual assaults, it is estimated that Woodfield committed as many as eighteen murders of women along Interstate 5 in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Police investigating a Beaverton, Oregon, shooting death came across Woodfield, who was a casual acquaintance of the victim. Woodfield had a history of sexual assault and when police searched his home they found evidence linking the ex-jock with the murder and attempted murder of two young women whom Woodfield had shot in the head. The surviving victim, Lisa Garcia, testified that Woodfield was her attacker at the subsequent trial. The I-5 killer was found gilty on both charges and sentenced to life in prison.

Woodfield was also tried and convicted in the Beaverton killing and a double murder of a wife and daughter in Redding, California. Though police have no doubt he was the perpetrator in many more killings no further charges were ever filed.
Early life
Born in Salem, Oregon, Woodfield came from a middle class family with no evident signs of dysfunction. He was popular among his peers, and was a football star at Newport High School on the Oregon Coast and at Portland State University.

Beginning in adolescence, however, he began to exhibit antisocial sexual behaviors, primarily a penchant for indecent exposure. Upon his first arrest for this crime in high school, his football coaches hushed it up so that he wouldn't be kicked off the team.

Three arrests in the early 1970s for petty crimes such as vandalism and public indecency did not prevent Woodfield from being drafted by the Green Bay Packers, but he was dismissed from the team in 1974 after more than a dozen arrests for indecent exposure.
Rape and murder spree
The following year, Woodfield robbed and sexually assaulted several women at knife point. He was eventually caught by an undercover female police officer, however, and went to prison for second degree robbery. He served four years of a 10-year sentence.

In 1979, Woodfield embarked upon a two year robbery spree, holding up gas stations, ice cream parlors and homes along the Interstate 5 freeway. Several of his female victims were sexually assaulted, murdered, or both.

In March 1981, police investigating a shooting death in Beaverton, Oregon encountered Woodfield, who was a casual acquaintance of the victim. Citing his history of sexual assault, police searched his home and found evidence linking him to the murder, as well as the attempted murders of two young women. Woodfield was arrested and charged with the Beaverton murder and a double murder of a wife and daughter in Redding, California.

In October 1981, Woodfield was tried in Salem for the murder of Shari Hull, as well as charges of sodomy and attempted murder. Chris Van Dyke, son of actor Dick Van Dyke, was the district attorney of Marion County, Oregon at the time and prosecuted the case. He was convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison, and sentenced to an additional 90 years for convictions of the other crimes.

Prior to a later 1981 trial, Woodfield's counsel attempted to move the trial from the Willamette Valley due to the publicity the case received in an effort to ensure a fair trial. The judge in the case denied Woodfield's request, along with a request to hypnotize a prosecution witness in an effort to determine if that witness had been influenced by the media coverage. He is serving the sentences at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. While he was charged with four murders, it is estimated that Woodfield committed as many more, as well as upwards of 60 sexual assaults.

As officer began to follow Woodfield's trail along I-5, they stumbled over other victims. Sylvia Durante, 21, had been strangled in Seattle and dumped beside the highway in December 1979. Three months later, 19-year-old Marsha Weatter and 18-year-old Kathy Allen had vanished while thumbing rides along I-5, outside Spokane; their corpses had been found in May, following the eruption of Mt.Saint Helens. At least four women had died around Huntington Beach, California, while Woodfield was sunning himself in the area, all killed in typical style.

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Despite his seeming links with 13 homicides (at least) and countless other crimes, the I-5 killer would not go to court on the majority of his offenses. Unable to afford endless string of trials, the state was satisified to know that WOodfield would be off the highways for a century or so.
Prison life RANDALL WOODFIELD
BACKGROUND

In October 1983, Woodfield was injured at the prison during a disturbance by another inmate. In April 1987, Woodfield filed a $12 million libel suit against author Ann Rule. True crime author Rule wrote The I-5 Killer, a best-selling non-fiction account of Woodfield's life and crime spree in 1984. Oregon's federal court dismissed the lawsuit on statute of limitations grounds in January 1988.

The first sign that there was something wrong with Randall was when he was caught, at the age of 11, exposing himself to women. He also seemed to have a problem with anger. Even though his concerned parents sent him to see a therapist, no one seemed to pick up on the seriousness of his problems, or if they did, they certainly weren't able to help him. The "flashing" continued and before long, Woodfield started committing petty thefts and burglaries.

By 1990 he was suspected in at least 44 homicides. In 2001 and 2006, DNA testing linked Woodfield to two additional murders in Oregon from 1980 and 1981.

Woodfield married three times and was divorced twice during his time in prison. Some letters he wrote from prison were eventually sold online.

Woodfield wrote the following on his MySpace account in 2006: "I'm Randy, I'm 55. I spend the remainder of my days in prison because I have committed a murder along with many other crimes. I once tried out for the Green Bay Packers. The only reason I didn't make it is because the skills I had to offer they didn't need at the time."
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Randall Woodfield

Born at Salem, Oregon, in December 1950, Randy Woofield was the classic, all-American boy next door. He made good grades, and high school coaches recognized his natural athletic talents, making him the star of Newport's football team. When woodfield started to expose himself in public, everybody laughed it off at first, and members of the coaching staff supressed his first arrest to keep him eligible for the squad.

In August 1970, attending college in Ontario, Oregon, he was picked up again, this time for vandalizing an exgirlfriends apartment. Two years later, in Vancouver, Washington, he logged his first adult arrest on charges of indecent exposure, receiving a suspended sentence. A similar arrest in Portland, earned him more suspended time in June of 1973.

Woodfield got a break that year, when he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers, but he could not shake his problems with a trip across the country. In 1974, after a dozen "flashing" incidents called unwelcome attention to Randy, the Packers gave up and sent him home. The local boy-made-good was coming home in failure, a disgrace.

In early 1975, several Portland women were accosted by a knife-wielding young man, forced to perform oral sex before they were robbed of their handbags. Policewomen were staked out as decoys, and Woodfield was arrested on March 3, after stealing marked money from one of the officers. In April, he pled guilty to reduced charges of second-degree robbery, receiving a sentence of ten years in prison. Four years later, in July 1979, Woodfield was freed on parole.

On October 9, 1980, a former classmate of Randy's Cherie Ayers was raped and murdered in Portland, bludgeoned about the head and stabbed repeatedly in the neck. Woodfield was routinely questioned and refused to sit for polygraph examinations. Homicide detectives found his answers generally "evasive and deceptive," but his blood type did not match the semen found inside the victim's body, and he was not charged.

A short month later, still in Portland, Darci Fix and Doug Altic were shot to death, execution-style, in Altic's apartment. A .32 caliber revolver was missing from the scene, and while the female victim had been formerly involved with one of Woodfield's closest friends, police had nothing to suggest that Randy was the killer.

On December 9, 1980, a young bandit wearing a fake beard held up a gas station in Vancouver, Washington. Four nights later, in Eugene, Oregon, the same man raided an ice cream parlor, rebounding on December 14 with the robbery of a drive-in restaurant at Albany. A week later, in Seattle, the gunman added a new twist, trapping a waitress in the restoom of a chicken restaurant and forcing her to masturbate him. Twenty minutes later, smiling through his phony beard, he robbed another ice cream parlor and escaped with cash in hand.

January was another busy month for the gunman police were already calling the "I-5 bandit," after his apparent highway of preference. On the eighth, he raided the same Vancouver gas station a second time, forcing a female attendant to expose her breasts after looting the till. Three days later, he robbed a market in Eugene, surfacing at Sutherlin, Oregon, on January 12, to wound a female grocery clerk with gunfire. He was wearing a fake beard in Corvallis, on January 14, when he invaded a home occupied by two sisters, aged eight and ten; the girls were foreced to disrobe before fellating their assailant. In Salem, four days later, the target was an office building, where he killed Shari Hull and wounded Beth Wilmot, after sexually abusing both women. The bandit rouned off his month on January 26 and 29, with robberies in Eugene, Medford, and Grant's Pass (fondling a clerk and female customer in the latter case).

Hello Again;

Okay, truce it is. I really wasn't upset or angry, it just came across as such. Im always very defensive, and it is natural in this "Walled City". So chill & accept my apologee. I was just preturbed about going behind my back to Timothy [Aikens, a fellow inmate], and you never answered my questions or cared to share any pics. too. Can we even talk?

Give me a some credit please. I did share a lot with you. But are you really interested in the corrupt, frame-up case for murder? You became upset with my first reply, you didn't even ask about it? So what's up with that?

Tim showed me your letter, and it sounds like you've written to me earlier? No letters reached me. So I just "ASSUME".

At least you acknowledge Im not a "weak" person - thank you. But will I ever really know who you are?

Im sorry you expected more in my response. You have no idea how much abuse and ridicule I get from fiction-writers. And the sad part is my Civil Lawsuit was not accepted after 2 yrs. What discrimination we have in our so-called "Justice" (Just-Us) system!

Now, to relieve your fears, Im not having any investigator follow you. But will that be the ONLY way I will get to see who you are? Just curious is all.

And no comments about the pics. I sent you? No questions about anything? Just an angry response Jen?

I apologize for the wise-cracks. I was just wondering why you wrote Tim & didn't say why or even answer me. Care to explain?

Cute phrase you used..."Mickey flipping me off". What does it mean exactly? See, Im not that smart after all. (Smile)

Can we now communicate both ways now? You answering my questions too? You know about "Quid Pro Quo" right? I did help Tim with that one. So are we on now or what?

I'd just like to feel more at ease with you -- a total stranger picking my brains here. Ha! I see ya smiling...
I-5-killer' suspected in 1980 murder
Lets start over here and dont be so reactionary and I wont either. And how about pen & paper letters now and then just to be more personal. May I have a photo of you please? No stalking, following you ever!

PORTLAND, OR, United States (UPI) -- Portland police say a 1980 murder has been linked to the 'I-5 killer' but won`t press charges since he is serving a life sentence plus 90 years.

DNA evidence was not available at the time to connect Randall Woodfield to the death of 29-year-old Cherie Ayers and a blood test did not provide a link.

Woodfield denied involvement and refused a polygraph. He was never charged.

Ayers family always believed Woodfield was responsible and years later, after DNA technology was refined and Woodfield was convicted for other murders as a serial killer, the Portland Cold Case Squad reopened the file.

This time there was enough evidence to link Woodfield to the murder, officials said.

After discussing it with the Ayers family, the Portland District Attorney`s office opted not to press charges. Officials said they will press charges, however, if Woodfield is ever considered for parole.

The Ayers family agreed to that if the Portland Police Bureau clarified two details on the case.

In response, the PPB reported that Cherie Ayers was not involved in a high-risk lifestyle as reported in the media and that Woodfield is the only one considered responsible for her death.

My word is my bond too -

"Ciao"

Randall

On February 3, 1981, Donna Eckard, 37, and her 14-year-old daughter were found dead in their home at Montain Gate, California, north of Redding. Together in bed, each had been shot several times in the head, with lab tests revealing the girl had been sodomized. The same day, a female clerk was kidnapped, raped and sodomized after a holdup in Redding. An identical crime was reported from Yreka, on February 4, and the bandit robbed an Ashland motel that same night. Five days later, in Corvallis, he held up a fabric store, molesting the clerk and her customer before departing. February 12 witnessed a triple-header, with robberies in Vancouver, Olympia, and Bellevue, Washington---the last two stops included three more sexual assaults.

On February 15, Julie Reitz---a former girlfriend of Woofield's---was shot and killed at her home in Beaverton, Oregon. The investigation had focused on Randy by February 28, and by that time the I-5 gunman had struck three more times, in Eugene on February 18 and 21, with a final sex assault in Corvallis on February 25.

Interrogation of Woodfield on March 3, 1981, led to a search of his apartment two days later. On March 7, he was taken into custody after several victims picked him from a police lineup. By March 16, indictments were rolling in from various jurisdictions in Washington and Oregon, including multiple counts of murder, rape and sodomy, attempted kidnapping, armed robbery, and possession of firearms by an ex-convict.

The courts in Salem got to Woodfield first, on charges of murder, attempted murder, and two counts of sodomy. Convicted of all counts on June 26, 1981, the all-American killer was sentenced to a prison term of life plus 90 years. By December, conviction of sodomy and weapons charges in Benton County, Oregon, had added 35 more years to Randy's time.

Randy Woodfield (1980-1981) aka "the I-5 Killer" was a 30-year old bartender from Salem, Oregon who raped at least 60 women and killed at least 18 others, leaving their bodies strewn along the I-5 corridor from Washington state to California.

An outstanding college football player who never got over being rejected by the Green Bay Packers after only one tryout, Woodfield was accustomed to "hero" status. He was caught by the determination of one victim who dragged herself, bleeding heavily, to a telephone and called police. Woodfield's alibi that he was tending bar fell apart, and he was given multiple sentences.

Randall Brent Woodfield's childhood was not filled with horrifying abuse and neglect like so many of the men I corresponded with. In fact it was just the opposite. He was a cherished son in a close-knit and supportive family, a star athlete and an accomplished student who was admired and respected by most of those who knew him. Charming, handsome, brimming with possibility and promise, Randall Woodfield could have done great things with his life. Tragically, things didn't work out that way. He is now a convicted killer who will spend the rest of his life in prison.

At Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon, Woodfield excelled in just about every sport, especially in football. But his problems had not gone away. He was arrested for breaking into a girlfriend's house and trashing her bedroom. (Due to a lack of evidence, a jury found him not guilty and all charges were dropped.) In 1971, Woodfield transferred to Portland State University where he became a born-again Christian. He took religion very seriously, but it didn't seem to interfere with his need to expose himself to women. He was arrested repeatedly during the next few years for indecent exposure.

Woodfield's dream finally came true in 1973 when he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers. However, once training started, he was cut from the team - a monumental disappointment that devastated him. Angry and depressed, Woodfield promptly dropped out of college - just three semesters away from graduation. At age 25, things didn't look too bright for Randall. He had no money, no job, no prospects.

In 1975, after being caught red-handed trying to rob a woman at knife point, Woodfield was sentenced to ten years in Oregon State Prison. Paroled after only four years, he was back on the streets. The crimes continued, but by now they had escalated far beyond flashing and petty theft.

In 1981, a spate of rapes and murders began to occur along the long stretch of Interstate 5 that runs through Oregon and Washington. The killer eluded frustrated police for a long time, especially because the attacks were occurring in so many different counties that it was hard for police to coordinate investigations.

The first murders attributed to the "I-5 Killer" were in Keiser, Oregon, in 1981, when Shari Hull and Beth Wilmot were sexually molested and shot. Shari Hull died, but Beth Wilmoot survived the attack, despite two extremely bloody gunshot wounds to the head.

The next murder was in Redding, California, where 37-year-old Donna Eckard and her 14-year-old stepdaughter, Janell, were raped and murdered. Two weeks later in Beaverton, Oregon, Julie Reitz was found shot to death in her home. And there were many more victims that police suspected had died at the hands of the "I-5 Killer."

In addition to Lisa Garcia, there were other women who lived to give a description of the man who attacked them: white male, 25 to 30 years old, 6', 175 pounds, brown hair, short beard and mustache, Band-Aid across the nose, using a small nickel- or chrome-plated revolver, driving a gold VW.

Finally, many victims later, the name Randall Woodfield popped up while police were investigating the murder of Julie Reitz. Not only did Woodfield match the description exactly, but subsequent investigations turned up enough evidence that police were sure they had finally caught the "I-5 Killer."

Randall Woodfield was 30 years old at the time of his arrest. All told, he was charged with sodomy, attempted kidnapping, robbery, attempted murder and murder. He pleaded innocent on all charges. In the end, although suspected in as many as 18 murders, Woodfield was charged and convicted of only two murders. He is now serving a life sentence plus 157 years, in Oregon State Prison.

Woodfield admits to a history of exhibitionism and robbery, but murder? "No way!...I'm really innocent of this terrible murder charge." Woodfield says that the "real" killer is a man named Larry Moore. Woodfield also believes that he is an innocent victim of a legal conspiracy. "Something [about my case] stinks of corruption by a resigned D.A., a demoted lead detective and a judge [who retired] soon after my case."

Woodfield didn't seem to hate women - that is, with the exception of true-crime author Ann Rule, who he unsuccessfully attempted to sue for libel for her book about him, The I-5 Killer.He wanted to make sure that I thought Ann Rule was all wrong in her estimation of him and it was clear he had read her book carefully. "You think Ann Rule lied about me having 'shark' eyes? Maybe I just looked a little scared or depressed in my bogus trial for murder? Ya think?" He also denies her accusation that he has small hands, herpes and a low I.Q.
The following are a few letters from Randall Woodfield to Jennifer Furio
(from "The Serial Killer Letters")

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Dear Ms Frio;

Okay - Truce. We are both right, and we need to find a middle ground. Im not angry with you, just disappointed in your style, or possibly "hidden agenda". Whatever. I will never really know. And you will just use me for your own purposes.

Ive shared a lot with you, now its up to you to "ASK" the right questions. And to be open-minded as well. You make statements like..."All the inspectors and courts disagree", etc. Not so Jenny. Read the police report first filed by Det. Kominek, lead "Dick" who hypnotized the victim-witness, who helped police draw the composite drawing of "I-5 Killer" suspect!! Go figure....

Now ask yourself why they would fight my defense counsel, to keep (Larry Moore) out of my trial for murder. Because they KNOW they messed up, and arrest this mass-murderer 4-5 weeks after my arrest in the "I-5 Bandit" crime spree. Even the blood-type evidence doesnt match my type (B Neg.), so Judge throws state's blood evidence out of court! But my jury had a right to hear how the first blood test revealed (A/B) typing, and after my arrest, it changes to a plain (B) type. No "negative" enzyme can be detected. Maybe (Larry Moore's) blood type is (A/B)?

The 1986 "Break-In" at D.A. offices, stinks of an "Inside" corruption case! Only my file is ransacked -- so go figure Jenny. They only charged me because of a "Line-Up" identification by (Lisa Garcia). But she never ONCE picked me out of color, close-up photos! Or did she describe me in any police report! Even the ambulance attendants testified for me, they state Ms. Garcia was slightly wounded, with scalp wound, but clear thinking to describe a shorter, sandy-haired fella matching the mass-murderer (Larry Moore).

Justice prevails on appeal as my trial judge's ruling to bar defense from seeing (Larry Moore) in court, under cross-examination, etc. He said it was..."Irrelevent and immaterial" (unquote). Appeals court also agreed! Ha! Where is my right to call defense WITNESS & get a FAIR TRIAL?? I believe this is info. that (Walter Todd) knows, as he was Deputy D.A. and law clerk under my prosecutor (1981). Today he is covering up what he meant in his (1993) letter to me. (see both letters enclosed).

Now, Im trying to show or prove a frame-up in my only murder trial. God knows they (state) wanted me bad enough to violate my rights to fair trial. Now the TRANSCRIPTS dont reflect the truth of [what actually happened during my trial] - "leg-shackling" & blood type errors in State Testimony!! Even the other "I-5 Bandit" (state snitch-witness), testified that he made "No Deals" with prosecutors. Today we prove otherwise. But the transcripts omit his statement!!! Corruption to the core, Ms. Frio!

Okay, enough crying on your shoulder. You only care to know "why murderers strike out in anger or rage"? How should I know? What a question Jenny. Care to write more personally? Share a photo? Talk once by phone? Your choice.

"Ciao"

Randall Woodfield
ebruary 11, 2006

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John was a British traveller who killed in multiple nations. According to his record, he killed 2 individuals in Thailand and 1 in Singapore. Additionally, he is suspected to have killed 3 more individuals. He was known to cut up his victims and disposed any evidence.

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(born John Martin Scripps, 9 December 1959 - 19 April 1996) was an English spree killer who murdered three tourists-Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand -with another three unconfirmed victims. He posed as a tourist himself when committing the murders. He cut up all his victims' bodies, using butchery skills he had acquired in prison, before disposing of them.

Martin was arrested in Singapore (where he had killed Lowe) when he returned there after murdering the Damudes. Photographs of decomposed body parts were shown as evidence during his trial, making it "one of the most grisly" ever heard in Singapore. He defended himself by saying that Lowe's death was an accident and that a friend of his killed the Damudes. The judge did not believe Martin's account of events and sentenced him to death by hanging, making him the first Briton since Singapore's independence from Britain and Malaysia to be given the death penalty. He is also one of the first Westerners to be executed in Singapore since independence, the first one being Johannes Van Damme of the Netherlands in 1994.

John Martin Scripps was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, 9 December 1959 to Leonard and Jean Scripps, an East End lorry driver and a Fleet Street barmaid respectively. He travelled often in childhood, occasionally accompanied by his father, with whom he was very close. Leonard Scripps died by suicide when his son was nine. After his father's death, Scripps developed problems with reading and writing, which led to him leaving school at the age of 15. After dropping out of school he continued to travel, raising money for his trips by doing odd jobs and selling antiques.

Scripps was convicted of his first crime in May 1974, when he was sentenced to a 12-month conditional discharge and fined £10 by Highgate Juvenile Court for burglary. The punishment did nothing to deter him from stealing, and by August 1976 he had stolen again three times. In June 1978, he was fined £40 for indecent assault.

While travelling in Mexico, Scripps met María Pilar Arellanos, of Cancún, and married her in 1980. They travelled together for two years until 1982, when he was sentenced to a three-year jail term for theft, burglary and resisting arrest. His imprisonment upset María, and their relationship was further soured when he ran away from jail during home leave in June 1985-just months short of completing his term-and burgled again. He was sentenced to another three years' imprisonment, during which she filed for divorce and married Police Constable Ken Cold, an officer in the Royal Protection Squad. This angered Scripps, who acted in revenge, stealing some of Cold's clothing while released on home leave. He was appeased only when she divorced her new husband and returned to her hometown. After he was released, Scripps legally changed his name to John Martin.

Scripps began trafficking in drugs, and carried heroin between Asia and Europe for a syndicate. Singapore authorities first encountered his name in 1987, when he was arrested at Heathrow Airport for possessing drugs. Police found a key on him that belonged to a safe deposit box in a bank in Orchard Road in Singapore, from which officers from Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau seized 1.5 kilogrammes (3.3 lb) of heroin worth about US$1 million. For this and another drug offence, Southwark Crown Court in January 1988 sentenced him to seven years in jail. He escaped while on home leave but was later re-arrested. In July 1992, Winchester Crown Court added another six years to the original sentence, which would have kept him behind bars until 2001 had he not escaped again.

He was in custody at Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight from February 1992 to August 1993, where he became a model prisoner. Initially he did menial jobs such as dishwashing and general cleaning and was later promoted to the position of butcher, under the training of James Quigley, a prison caterer with more than 20 years' experience, and another inmate only identified as "Ginger", who had been a professional butcher. They taught him how to dismember and remove the bone from animals after slaughtering them. Martin performed his duties with such efficiency that he once told Quigley he wished to open a butcher's shop after his release.

On 20 August 1993, Martin was transferred from Albany Prison to The Mount Prison in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, as a result of a change in his security categorisation. In October 1994 he escaped while on home leave, which was granted only two days after being refused parole. His mother, noting that he had sold all his belongings to fellow inmates while in prison (a clear notice of his intention to escape), asked prison authorities not to release him. After Martin was sentenced to death, she reiterated:

The Home Office have buried their head in the sand over this. They know full well that if they had done what I told them, none of this would have ever happened. I begged them not to let him go.

His mother gave Scripps £200 to go overseas after his arrest. To avoid recapture, he used the birth certificate of another inmate, Simon James Davis, to get a passport in Davis's name. Within a month of his escape, he turned up in Mexico as John Martin. He reported to the British Embassy there that he had lost his passport, and managed to get a replacement. Martin arrived in Singapore from San Francisco at about 2 a.m. SST on 8 March 1995 (6 p.m. UTC on 7 March).

Martin killed at least three people in Singapore and Thailand, and was investigated for other murders in Belize, Mexico, and the United States. His modus operandi was to pose as a tourist and converse with another randomly chosen Caucasian, either aboard their flights or while waiting at airports. He stayed in the same hotels as his victims in a room near theirs. Once he had an excuse to be in their rooms, he used an electroshock weapon to immobilise them before killing them by striking their heads with a hammer and cutting them up in their bathrooms. He chose Caucasians as his victims because they were vacationing far away from their home countries, which made him less likely to be discovered. His motive apparently included money, as large amounts were withdrawn using the credit cards of Gerard Lowe and Timothy MacDowall.

Gerard George Lowe came from Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a chemical engineer with South African Breweries. He went to Singapore to shop for electrical and electronic goods. Before he left Johannesburg on 7 March 1995, he told his wife Vanessa, a local airlines employee, his exact schedule, saying: "I will call you the moment I check into the hotel to give you the contact number. If you do not hear from me on 10 March, it would mean that I would have a seat on the plane to return to South Africa and would arrive home on 11 March. But if I do call you on 10 March, that would mean that I have not managed to get a seat and would return on 12 March."

When Lowe arrived at Singapore Changi Airport on the morning of 8 March, he was approached by Martin (under the assumed name of Simon Davis), who struck up a conversation with him and suggested that they share a room, to which Lowe agreed. They managed to book Room 1511 in the River View Hotel off Havelock Road. The next morning, Martin asked a hotel receptionist to delete Lowe's name from the room registration system, saying that he had kicked Lowe out the previous night for being a homosexual.

Later that day, Martin forged Lowe's signature and used his credit card to withdraw $6,000 from a branch of DBS Bank at Raffles City Shopping Center. He would withdraw a further $2,400 in cash using the same technique over the next few days. Martin also bought a $490 video recorder (which he mailed to his sister in England) and a $180 pair of Nike Alpha Trainer shoes with Lowe's credit card, and even attended a performance by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. On 11 March, he visited a Thomas Cook travel agents office in Anson Road to arrange the transfer of $8,500 in cash and US$5,000 in converted travelers cheques to a San Francisco based bank account in the name of 'John Martin'. After being informed the transfer would take a few days to complete, he also bought a $485 return air ticket to Phuket via Bangkok with cash, and departed from Singapore at 7pm that same evening.

On 13 March 1995, a pair of legs, severed at the knees, was found in a plastic bag floating off Clifford Pier. Three days later, a pair of thighs and a torso were found in the same area, also in a plastic bag. Initially, Singapore police could only determine that the body parts belonged to a Caucasian, and they had a possible name after receiving a missing person report for Lowe from the South African High Commission. Vanessa Lowe filed the report because she was distressed that her husband, who used to make daily contact with his family when overseas, had not called home or returned to South Africa by 12 March. Lowe's colleagues at work also tried to determine his whereabouts through personal contacts in Singapore. The authorities of Singapore decided not to immediately inform the local media about the discovery, as they did not want to alert the suspected killer to the fact Lowe's remains had been found and possibly dissuading him from returning to the country if he had already fled. On 1 April, Vanessa Lowe confirmed that the body parts were her husband's through visual identification. However, his arms and head were never found. According to Professor Chao Tzee Cheng, the senior forensic pathologist, he was unable to determine the cause of death due to the absence of the head or any severe injuries on the other body parts available for his post-mortem examination, but he noted that the body parts were being expertly dismembered, suggesting that the killer of Lowe was either a trained doctor, medical surgeon, veternarian surgeon or a butcher; Martin made use of the butchery skills he picked up at prison to dismember the body of Lowe after killing him.

Sheila Mae Damude (22 May 1945 - 16 March 1995) and her son Darin Jon Damude (13 November 1972 - 16 March 1995) came from Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. She was an administrator at the Pacific Christian School in Victoria, while Darin was a college student. They had come to Thailand on holiday, with Darin flying to Asia first before Sheila met him in Bangkok during spring break. They flew to Phuket on 15 March with Martin (still using his assumed name) who was sitting in the same row as them. He befriended the two and they checked into Nilly's Marina Inn facing Patong Beach. Martin was given Room 48 and the Damudes were given the adjacent Room 43. The Damudes were not seen again after they ate breakfast the next morning; at about 11 a.m. THA (5 a.m. UTC), Martin asked the inn's receptionist to switch his room to Room 43, saying that the Damudes had left and that he would pay their bill.

Martin checked out and returned to Singapore on 19 March. On that day the skulls of the Damudes were found in a disused tin mine in Kathu district. A torso and a pair each of arms and legs were found along Bahn Nai Trang Road, 9.7 kilometres (6 mi) away, five days later. The body parts were so badly decomposed that visual identification was impossible; Royal Thai Police used dental records to identify the skulls and forensic analysis concluded that the torso, arms, and legs were likely to be Sheila's. The other parts of Darin's body were never found.

Scotland Yard suspected Martin of having separately killed two men from south London: financial adviser Timothy MacDowall and accountant William Shackel. In Mexico, Martin had discussed with his wife about going scuba diving with MacDowall, who was taking scuba lessons while on holiday on an island off Belize. MacDowall disappeared in Belize in early 1995 but police could not conclusively match him to body parts later found in that country; the only suspicious activity they uncovered was the transfer of £21,000 from MacDowall's bank account to an account in San Francisco under Martin's name. MacDowall is believed to have been murdered as he slept and his remains thrown into a crocodile-infested river. Martin refused to be interviewed by Scotland Yard while he was on death row in Changi Prison, thus whether he killed MacDowall remains unconfirmed. Shackel was reported missing while on holiday in Cancún, Mexico. Police reports said that Martin was in Cancún the day Shackel cashed traveller's cheques worth £4,000, after which he disappeared.

Martin was also wanted in San Francisco in the United States for the murder of sex worker Tom Wenger on 28 March 1994. Wenger's body was chopped up and drained of blood; it was found in a garbage skip (dumpster) in Myrtle Alley in the Polk Street district. Martin's photograph matched a facial composite picture of a suspect made by San Francisco police, but he was formally eliminated as a suspect after it was established that he was living in a British halfway house at the time of the murder. He was also investigated for another murder in Arizona.

Oblivious to the fact Lowe's remains had already been found by the police, and wanting to complete the transfer of money from Thomas Cook to his bank account in the United States of America, Martin returned to Singapore on the evening of 19 March 1995. He was promptly arrested when he arrived at Changi Airport and produced a passport with his assumed name, Simon Davis. Police had put the name on their wanted list on 14 March after they determined that Lowe had checked into River View Hotel with someone by that name. In a police interview room in the airport, Martin smashed a glass panel and cut his wrist with a shard of glass in a suicide attempt, fearing that he would be hanged like Flor Contemplacion, a Filipino who had been hanged two days before for a double murder. He was taken to Alexandra Hospital for treatment.

The police found five passports on Martin in addition to his own-two British passports issued to Simon Davis, two Canadian passports issued to Sheila and Darin Damude, and a South African passport issued to Gerard Lowe-each with Martin's photograph affixed. They also found credit cards belonging to Sheila Damude and Gerard Lowe. In addition, police found Simon Davis' birth certificate, and items that Martin had used to immobilise and kill: a hammer weighing 1.5 kilogrammes (3.3 lb), a battery-operated Z-Force III electroshock weapon, a can of mace, two pairs of handcuffs, a pair of thumbcuffs, two Police brand foldable knives, an oilstone and two Swiss army knives. Importation of some of these into Singapore is illegal.

On 21 March 1995, Martin was taken to court on an initial charge, naming him as Simon James Davis and accusing him of forging Lowe's signature on a DBS Bank credit card transaction slip to obtain S$6,000 in cash on 9 March. Three days later, he was charged under his real name for the murder of Gerard Lowe in a River View Hotel room some time between 8 March and 9. In subsequent hearings, he was additionally charged with forgery (forging Lowe's signature five more times to obtain cash and goods worth $3,200), vandalism (smashing the glass panel), possession of an offensive weapon (the electroshock weapon), and possession of a controlled drug (he had 24 sticks of cannabis at the time of his arrest).

On 18 September, a preliminary enquiry in a district court was held to determine whether there was sufficient evidence for a trial to proceed. The magistrate overseeing the enquiry ordered Martin to stand trial for Gerard Lowe's murder on 2 October after hearing statements from 39 witnesses, and looking at more than 100 exhibits and 100 photographs that the prosecution had prepared as evidence.

On 20 September 1995, a Singapore Prisons Department spokesman announced that two British journalists had deceived prison officials into letting them visit Martin, and then interview him, twice while he was on remand in Tanah Merah prison between June and July, adding the matter had been referred to the police. The journalists (Andrew Drummond and Gary Jones) later admitted visiting him separately, along with his sister Janet Martin, with the subsequent report being published in the News of the World on 2 July 1995. On 6 October, whilst in Singapore to attend Martin's trial, Janet Martin was interviewed by police regarding the journalists committing the criminal offence of giving false information to a public servant to make him use his lawful power (by allegedly telling prison officials they were Martin's cousins). No charges were filed.

The trial of John Martin Scripps for the murder of Gerard Lowe began on 2 October 1995 in the High Court of Singapore. Before the trial, Martin made a statement explaining that he killed Lowe in self-defence. He said he had fallen asleep after checking in, but woke up after someone touched his buttocks; it was Lowe, who was clad only in his underwear and smiling at him. To him, this behaviour made Lowe appear to be a homosexual, so he kicked Lowe away. This angered Lowe, who threw Martin's hammer at his stomach. Martin then grabbed the hammer and "hit [Lowe] several times on the head until he collapsed onto the carpeted floor." Martin then fled in a taxi to the Sentosa hotel of a 'British friend' and confessed to accidentally killing Lowe. Martin spent the night in Sentosa, while his friend traveled to the River View Hotel and disposed of Lowe's body by throwing it into the Singapore River. Martin continued, "I am not sure what was the next thing I did ... everything was such a blur to me after this incident that I was walking around in a dream world for the next few days." He refused to identify his friend, saying, "I cannot tell you his identity because if he knew he would harm my family back in Britain.". Martin claimed his friend was a drug trafficker aged in his 40s, and that he had previously worked for him as an international drug courier in the late 1980s. On 15 March, he flew to Phuket, where he met his friend again. His friend gave him the passports and other items belonging to the Damudes, whom he never met.

In court, Martin argued that he was by nature not a violent person. "I may have worked in the (prison) butchery, but cutting up a human body is another thing. When I saw the photographs (of Lowe's body parts), it made me feel sick." He maintained that he had killed Lowe after the latter made homosexual advances that caused him to "freak out"; he had previously fended off homosexual attacks twice while imprisoned: in Israel in 1978, and in England in 1994. When Deputy Public Prosecutors Jennifer Marie and Norul Rashid asked him what he did after killing Lowe, he said that he could not remember anything because he had drunk heavily and consumed Valium after Lowe's death until he was arrested. He repeated that he had not killed the Damudes, and that he had come back to Singapore from Phuket to clear his conscience about Lowe's death. The prosecution cast doubt on Martin's claims of an inability to remember events clearly due to the effect of alcohol and drugs, pointing out how he could write such neat and similar hand writing replicas on the memo pad he used in Phuket to practice forging the Damudes' signatures.

DPP Jennifer Marie challenged Martin that his mysterious friend did not exist, and produced evidence of Martin having signed a River View Hotel restaurant bill on the night of 8 March (when Martin had said he was at the hotel of his 'friend' in Sentosa) to support this rebuttal. Martin claimed he attempted to call his friend at two different Sentosa hotels, the Beaufort and the Shangri La Rasa Sentosa Resort, but was informed his friend was no longer at either of them, and Martin's itemized bill from the River View Hotel confirmed he did in fact ring both hotels on the 10 March. Martin testified his friend rang him later that night to let him know he had moved to another hotel in Marina Centre, however he could not remember if it was the Marina Mandarin, the Oriental or the Pan Pacific hotel.

After this disclosure during Martin's cross examination, Assistant Superintendent Gerald Lim and his team approached all five hotels to obtain the names of all single male guests who checked in or out on 10 March 1995. This produced a list of 150 men who checked out of the Beaufort and the Shangri La Rasa Sentosa Resort on the day in question, that was then cross checked against the names of those who checked into the three Marina Centre hotels. ASP Lim testified that none of the names appeared on the check in register of any of the hotels, however he agreed with a defence lawyers observation that the results would not be conclusive if Martin's 'friend' had checked in under different names in each hotel.

Also, statements from two hotel chamber maids describing a "strange smell" in room 1511 when they made up the room between March 9 and March 11, along with a statement from a hotel security guard saying he witnessed Martin leaving the hotel with a large suitcase early on the morning of 11 March and then returning without it 15 minutes later, were used by the Prosecution to imply that Lowe's body was stored in the room for a number of days and then was disposed of by Martin himself.

The Prosecution alleged Martin had killed Lowe in order to rob him, not to ward off an unwanted sexual attack. Receipts from a shopping spree by Martin using Lowe's credit card was also cited as evidence of premeditation and a rebuttal of him "walking around in a dream world" after the murder. Martin had earlier testified that he had previously taken photocopies of other people's passports with his own photo attached so he could attempt to cash their travelers cheques, which further underscored a financial motive for the murders. DPP Jennifer Marie also highlighted similar fact evidence between the deaths of Shelia and Darin Damude in Thailand and the killing of Gerard Lowe in Singapore, as they rebutted Martin's defence of killing Lowe unintentionally by demonstrating how Martin stood to gain financially from their deaths. The similarities presented to the court included:

Murder of Gerard Lowe

Murders of Shelia and Darin Damude

Martin met Lowe at Changi Airport and shared a taxi to the River View Hotel

Martin met the Damudes at Phuket Airport and shared a limousine to Nilly's Marina Inn

Martin checked into the same hotel room as Lowe in Singapore

Martin checked into the room next door to the Damudes in Thailand

Martin testified to killing Lowe by hitting him on the head with a hammer

The Damudes' skulls had serious fractures, which could have been caused by a hammer

Lowe's body was expertly cut at the joints before disposal

The Damudes' bodies were expertly cut at the joints before disposal

Martin kept Lowe's credit cards, travelers cheques and personal belongings

Martin kept the Damudes' credit cards, travelers cheques and personal belongings

Martin forged Lowe's signature on a number of documents, such as credit card transaction slips

Martin practiced forging the Damudes' signatures

Martin glued his own photograph into Lowe's passport

Martin glued his own photograph into both the Damudes' passports

On 7 November, Judge T. S. Sinnathuray adjourned the trial for three days to consider his verdict. (Singapore abolished jury trials in 1969.) When the trial resumed, the judge was satisfied that the prosecution had made its case and dismissed Martin's version of events. He found Martin guilty and sentenced him to death. In his verdict, Justice Sinnathuray said:

I'm satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Martin had intentionally killed Lowe. After that, he disarticulated Lowe's body into separate parts, and it was he who subsequently disposed of the body parts by throwing them into the river behind the hotel.

On the evidence, I had no difficulty to find that it was Martin who was concerned with the deaths of Sheila and Darin and for the disposal of their body parts found in different sites in Phuket. The disarticulation of the body parts of Lowe, Sheila and Darin have the hallmark signs of having been done by the same person. Altogether, this similar fact evidence reinforces the decision I have made, for it puts beyond doubt that Martin is guilty on the charge of murder.

The sentence of this court upon you is that you will be taken from this place to a lawful prison and taken to a place to be hanged by the neck until you are dead. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.

On 15 November 1995, Martin announced he would appeal against the sentence. He dropped the appeal without giving an explanation on 4 January 1996, four days before it was to have been heard. He turned down a subsequent chance to petition the President of Singapore for clemency, saying that he was impatient to be executed.

Martin's final days and words

In the days before his hanging, Martin wrote of an "emptiness" inside him and lamented that no one had loved him besides his family and his ex-wife María, in a series of misspelled notes (he was semi-literate):

One day poor. One day reach. Money filds the pane of hunger but what will fill the emteness inside? I know that love is beyond me. So do I give myself to god. The god that has betrad me. Can I be a person again? Only time will tell me.

You may take my life for what it is worth, but grant thows that I love, pease and happiness.

He complained that in prison, "You are told every day that you are not a member of the uman rase [a misspelling of 'human race']." The week before he was due to hang, he dreamed that he had avoided the sentence by committing suicide:

I tied the rope around my little neck before I got up on the old creaky chair. I reached down and picked up a handful of earth and put it in my mouth. Then I crawled up to the old creaky chair and pulled the rope tighter and tighter still. I was on tiptoe, just one more pull, then my feet left the chair knocking it over and darkness embraced me as the heavens opened. I woke up in darkness and felt a heavy weight on my chest. I cried out, "Mummy, I am here."

Martin's mother remarked, "Whoever he is now, he's the person the prison service trained him to be. These bastards have no right to take my son's life. I brought him into the world. I am the only person who can take him out of it." However, no one formally protested against the hanging. The British government also decided to not submit a plea for clemency from the Singapore government.

Four days before his execution, in an interview with criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee, Martin described in detail how he murdered Gerard Lowe and then dismembered his body.

At dawn on 19 April 1996, after a last meal of pizza and hot chocolate, 36-year-old John Martin Scripps was hanged in Changi Prison together with two Singaporean drug traffickers. On that day, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Royal Thai Police closed their files on the murders of Sheila and Darin Damude, declaring the case effectively solved.

When Martin's ex-wife María heard that he had been hanged, she said:

John disappeared on several trips and went to the United States and Southeast Asia. I knew something awful was happening, but I could not believe he had started killing people.

I knew this would happen to John but I didn't know it would hurt so much. The last memory I have of him is a message he sent promising we would meet in the next life and that he would never let me go again.

At the time of his execution, Martin became the first Briton to be executed in Singapore since the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1959. He was also one of the first Europeans to receive the death penalty in Singapore.

In May 1996, Tan Ooi Boon, a reporter from The Straits Times who covered Martin's case from start to finish, wrote a book on the case, titled Body Parts: A British Serial Killer in Singapore. He wrote the book in three months using material he had prepared for the newspaper. It mixed fictional narrative with fact and described how Martin disposed of his victims' bodies.

In July 1996, the story of how Martin murdered Gerard Lowe, and the investigation that followed, was featured in an episode of the Singapore Crimewatch, which was shown on Television Corporation of Singapore's Channel 5 and Channel 8. In the episode, the real evidence of the case and actual photographs from the autopsy were shown, causing the series to be the first current affairs programme in Singapore to be given the PG (Parental Guidance) warning tag. Police justified their use of the photographs, saying that they wanted to "give an accurate account of the case to the public.". The story was also re-enacted in the last episode of the first season of MediaCorp TV's Channel 5 docu-drama on 1 August 2002. The episode is currently viewable via meWATCH since 5 February 2016.

On 31 January 1997, eight police officers who made significant contributions towards Martin's conviction were awarded commemorative plaques by the High Commissioner for Canada in Singapore, Barry Carin.

On 26 April 2011, an Asian channel Crime & Investigation Network aired a documentary titled "The Garden City Butcher", which dramatized the events surrounding John Martins Scripps committing the murders in Singapore and Thailand, and his subsequent trial and execution.[non-primary source needed ]

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1992 serial killer known as the 1-70 that left a string of bodies between Kansas, Indians, and Missouri. There is 11 victims that were found off 1-70. Unfortunately the killer was never identified.

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Roadway Killers Are Still Active In United States Today

After all, highways are a prime spot to ensnare victims. They can be quite dark and isolated, and the brush surrounding them makes for easy disposal. And while many of these freeway killers have been caught - check out " Mark of a Serial Killer," airing Monday, April 12 through Friday, April 16 at 8/7c on Oxygen as part of a nine-night special event, Serial Killer Week, to learn about some of them -

The third serial killer to be nicknamed the Freeway Killer is Randy Kraft, who also was referred to as "The Scorecard Killer," as he kept a coded list of his 61 murder victims. For example, one entry was "Iowa," believed to be a U.S. Marine named Oral Alfred Stewart Jr., an Iowa-born man killed by blunt force trauma in Long Beach in 1974, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported in 2019.

The New Bedford Highway Killer

From 1988 to 1989, nine women, all sex workers from New Bedford, Massachusetts, were found dead along Route 140, I-195, and Route 88, the Toronto Sun reported in 2020 . Two more women went missing and were presumed victims of the mysterious serial killer. It's been decades and still no one has been identified as the New Bedford Highway Killer.

The Colonial Parkway Murders

While the timing, location, and type of victims were all similar enough to suggest a single serial killer, the different ways in which they were murdered and their bodies were disposed of could suggest the cases are unrelated. The investigation is still active, the Virginian Pilot reported in 2016.

For more on the Colonial Parkway murders, watch Oxygen's limited series "Lovers' Lane Murders." To learn more other freeway killers, check out " Mark of a Serial Killer," airing Monday, April 12 through Friday, April 16 at 8/7c on Oxygen as part of a nine-night special event, Serial Killer Week.

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There's something quintessentially American about the idea of a road trip: piling into the car, rolling down the windows, and hitting the highway for some interstate travel. It's a quaint picture, but America's roadways have a dark underbelly. They're the hunting ground for some of the country's most prolific serial killers.

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Jack Unterweger, was a serial killer who was first convicted of murdering an 18-year-old sex worker. In prison, he began earning literary respect and convinced people he was a reformed man, earning his release in 1990. After his release, he then murdered another nine sex workers in Europe and Los Angeles. His sex worker killings began in Austria, however, his interest in violent crimes at the heart of cities brought him to Los Angeles. He was convicted of the murders and committed suicide on June 29, 1994.

Source: https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Jack-Unterweger

- Irdina Iskandar

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Gabby Petito was on a cross-country trip with her fiancé until August of 2021 when Petito and her fiancé got into an altercation. After this altercation, Petito was reported missing. The police found her body in Teton County and determined the cause of death was strangulation. In October of 2021, with the police and FBI still looking for the fiance. They found human remains at Florida's Carlton Reserve and used dental records to confirm that it was in fact the fiancé, which was most likely a suicide.
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Jack travelled to different countries and killed several different individuals. It is believed that he had around 15 victims. He was convicted of one murder where he was later released and he continued his killing spree for nine years. He’s killing spree ended when he took his own life in 1994.
An interesting fact in this case was Jack was abused and neglected as a child
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Jack Unterweger was an Austrian serial killer who murdered several women before committing suicide in 1994.

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The Interstate-70 killer is an unidentified American man who is known to have killed at least 6 store clerks in the Midwest (Indiana, Missouri, Kansas) in 1992. His nickname comes from the fact that several of the stores his victims worked at were a few miles off of the I-70. His killing spree started in Indiana, then to Kansas, back to Indiana, then to Missouri for the last two victims. He is also suspected of being responsible for 2 murders in Texas. The police were able to configure a sketch based off of witness reports, and then aged the sketch as the offender is suspected to be 50-70 years old if he is still alive today. The case has no suspects, and is classified as a cold case.

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John Martin was an English serial killer who went on a murder spree in Southeast Asia. Martin has been convicted within Europe for multiple accounts including drugs in the past, and began his travels to Southeast Asia. While posing as a tourist, he murdered 32 year old South African tourist, Gerard George Lowe in Singapore, and left for Bangkok. He then killed Canadian tourists Sheila Mae Damude, 49, and her son Darin, 22 who were previously in the same flight. Additionally, there were three unidentified bodies who were linked to Martin's murder as well.

Martin had a reputation of befriending tourists, killing them and then dismembering their corpses. He robs them of their wallets, credit cards, cash and passports. Martin had considerable skill as a prison butcher and Lowe's body showed signs of being dismembered professionally.

In Singapore high court, he was found guilty and sentenced to the death penalty by hanging in Changi Prison.

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In 2021, a woman called Gabby Petito was reported as missing. A witness said that he/she said Gabby and her fiance Brian had a confrontation before her death. After Gabby was reported missing, Brian went home and then left the family for a hike in florida. When the police found Gabby's corpse, they determined that she died by strangulation and it was a homicide. I find this case very interesting because it was a case that impacted a lot of people worldwide. I remembered people and friends talking about her case, solving them piece by piece as if they were the detective. The power of internet was shocking for me at that time.

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The case of Israel Keyes, an American serial killer, is an example of a travelling homicide offender. Keyes was active for over a decade, from the late 1990s until his arrest in 2012. He was known for meticulously planning his crimes and traveling across the United States to commit burglaries, bank robberies, and murders. One of the most intriguing aspects of the case is Keyes' preparation: he would bury "kill kits" (which included weapons and tools for disposing of bodies) at various locations years before committing the crimes. This level of forethought and patience is chilling and showed the lengths to which he was willing to go to elude detection. His crimes and methods led to a nationwide manhunt, and his case has been analyzed extensively by criminologists and law enforcement professionals.
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Jack travelled around several countries killing as many as 15 victims. He was convicted of one murder and released in 1990 where he continued his spree. Then killed himself in 1994 after committing 9 more murders
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Ángel Maturino Reséndiz also known as the Railroad Killer was. responsible for the deaths of 23 victims in the 90's. He would travel by train between the US, and Mexico. He broke into the victims homes and murdered them as well as committing sexual assault on some of his victims. The most interesting fact about this case is that he would jump off of the trains that he was using to get around in order to commit his murders.

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In the '80's, bodies of female victims were found strangled and dumped in ditches across Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Victims were believed to be hitchhiking or sex workers but many were never identified. It is suspected that between six and eleven of these victims were killed by the same person. Law enforcement believes that the offender may be a truck driver since the murders were committed along motorways.

The most interesting fact of this case is that the victims all have red hair. The offender had a very specific victim profile that he would look for. -Shelby

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The term "Redhead Murders" was given to six to eleven redhead women after the first murder in 1980 in Wetzel County, West Virginia, US, which was committed by a suspected male serial killer

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A redhead serial murderer strangled and dumped the bodies of women across the motorways of the US so gruesomely they have never been identified by grieving families - but who they are remains a mystery.

The term "Redhead Murders" was given to six to 11 redhead women after the first murder in 1980, which was committed by a suspected male serial killer.

Bodies were found dumped across Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia in the 1980s.

Many of the victims were said to be hitchhikers or engaged in sex work but lots of them were never identified due to police being unable to find their families.

And with lots of murders committed along the motorways there was speculation the killer was a truck driver.

The first woman found dead was an unidentified white woman with red hair whose body was found naked alongside Route 250 near Littleton in Wetzel County, West Virginia, US, on February 13, 1983.

She was reportedly suffocated to death. A person of interest was believed to be a man who was last seen near the road but he was never identified by police.

And just a year later in 1984, Lisa Nichols, 28, was found strangled to death along a motorway near West Memphis, Ark.

She also had red hair.

Experts believe she was hitchhiking when she was captured and killed along the motorway. She was found with her jumper on, which confused police, as many of the victims were found naked.

In 1985, two more women, who were unidentified, were discovered in Campbell County, Tennessee alongside Interstate 75.

One of the victims is said to have red hair while the conditions of the other woman made it impossible to see which hair colour she had.

And in this incident both victims were found fully-clothed with their deaths said to be suspicious.

Police believed they found a suspect in March, 1985 after Linda Schacke, a redhead, reported to authorities Jerry Leon Johns, 37, had allegedly tried to strangle her with her own t-shirt.

He then tried to throw off her the side of Interstate 40 in Knox County, Tennessee.

She remarkably managed to survive the horrific attack and police arrested Johns but he was later set free as there wasn't enough evidence to link the previous attacks to him.

However, the murders continued and on March 31 a skeleton body of a redhead woman was found alongside Interstate 24 in Tennessee.

The next month a further two redhead bodies of women were discovered after their bodies were left dumped in a fridge.

They were both said to have been suffocated to death alongside Route 25 in Kentucky.

The next month two more bodies were found in Greene County, Tennessee, and were killed by blunt trauma but neither of them were ever identified.

Steve Watson, deputy director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, admitted the different circumstances surrounding the deaths of the women made it difficult to find the killer.

Some of the women were killed with clothes on, some were left naked and others suffocated to death.

Mr Watson confirmed some of the women had been sexually assaulted before they were killed and some hadn't, which made trying to link the murders together extremely hard.

And with police unable to identify the victims they couldn't contact the families. However, Mr Watson believed the killer specifically picked on sex workers.

He said: "These people tend to have a lifestyle not sufficiently tied to others who would be willing to report their being missing."

Nearly 43 years on and none of the women have been identified as the conditions of the victims were left in such a state families would are unable to recognise their loved ones.

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Bonin was arrested in 1980 for murdering 14-21 children (ages range from 13 years old - 18 years old). His career as a truck driver started after 2 arrests. He would force young hitchhikers into his van, kidnapped them and rape them. He would then dump their bodies near freeways. Bonin received the death sentence by lethal injection.

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In August 2021, Gabrielle Venora Petito, a tiktok star, was killed by her fiance, Brian Laundrie, while they were traveling together in a van across the U.S. The trip began on July 2, 2021, but Petito disappeared in late August and Petito's remains were found in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, where she had been strangled by hand. - Yuzhe Wang
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Social media star was killed while on a road trip with her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who was later found dead in Florida after a weeks-long manhunt

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Patrick Kearney was a serial killer between the years 1975-1977 who would kill young men along the highway between California and the border of Mexico. He killed between 21-28 known victims; however, more victims could be unknown. Kearney ended up turning himself into the police in 1977 and plead guilty to three counts of murder and was sentenced to life. The police knew that he was lying about there only being three victims, so they said that if he gave them a list of every victim that they wouldn't give him the death penalty; which Kearny agreed to and gave them 18 more names. He also admitted to 11 other murders that he was never sentenced for.

- Brennan F.

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Gary Ridgeway is an American serial killer who operated in Washington and Oregon during the 1980-1990s. He is believed to have committed at least 71 murders of primarily young vulnerable women (prostitutes and runaways) that he would lure into his vehicle before sexually assaulting, strangling, and dumping them in wooded areas. He often returned to the bodies of his victims and engaged in acts of necrophilia. He contaminated dump sites and frequently transported remains across state lines to confuse the police. The cross-border aspect of Ridgeways case highlights the complexities of investigating and prosecuting cases spanning multiple jurisdictions. Ridgeway was considered one of the most notorious serial killers and confessed to killing so many women that he lost count.

-Sasha Weltzin

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Israel Keyes was a serial killer who travel throughout North America while carrying out his killings. Keyes have 11 confirmed kills and maybe more. He kidnapped, murdered, and sometimes raped his victims. Keyes also sometimes stole money from his victims, indicating a parasitic lifestyle. He was eventually caught and charged. Keyes ultimately committed suicide in his jail cell.
One interesting fact about this killer is that there were 11 drawings of skulls drawn with his own blood under the bed of his jail cell, which are believed to resemble his 11 victims.

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Wayne Adam Ford was a long-haul truck driver who murdered four women from 1997 to 1998. He would pick up his victims while working, murder them, and dump their bodies in different cities. His crimes spanned all across California as well as Las Vegas.

The most interesting fact in this case is that Ford was caught and arrested for the crimes when he turned himself, supposedly due to the guilt, and had one of the women's breasts in a ziplock bag in his pocket.

Ford was found guilty of the four murders, but is thought to have killed more, and is currently on death row.

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- Rhianna Hiom

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Wayne Adam Ford (born December 3, 1961) is an American serial killer. Ford, a former long-haul truck driver, murdered four women from 1997 to 1998. He strangled them and dismembered three of his four victims. He turned himself in with a woman's breast in a bag in his coat pocket.

Ford was born in Petaluma, California, the second son of an American father and a German immigrant mother. His parents divorced when he was 10. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served six years before being honorably discharged in 1985.

In November 1980, he was hit by a drunk driver, causing a head injury and leaving him in a coma for nine days. According to relatives, his personality drastically changed after the incident.

He had two marriages, both of which ended in divorce. In 1981 he forced his first wife, Kelly Pletcher to get an abortion in Napa, California.

Beginning in 1983, he had escalating problems at work with psychological decline, necessitating several hospitalizations. Ford was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

He had a series of scrapes with the law, including allegations of beating and robbing a sex worker in 1986 in Garden Grove, California. In 1990 he was arrested for animal cruelty, for which he served a brief jail sentence in San Clemente, California.

Between 1997 and 1998, he murdered at least four women while working. At the time of the murders he lived in a trailer park in Arcata, California working as a long-haul truck driver.

Kerry Ann Cummings (25) - Killed in 1997. Body was discovered on October 17, 1997 north of Eureka, California in the Ryan Slough. Cummings was listed as a Jane Doe until June 2023 when a partnership between the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit, the California Department of Justice DNA Lab, and Othram Inc., identified her body after building a DNA profile and finding and confirming a genealogical match.

Tina Renee Gibbs (26) - Killed on May 16, 1998, near Las Vegas. Her body was found on June 2 near Buttonwillow, California.

Lanette Deyon White (25) - Killed on September 25, 1998, in Ontario, California, then dumped her body near Lodi, California.

Patricia Anne Tamez (29) - Killed in Hesperia, California. Her body was found on October 23, 1998 in an aqueduct in San Bernardino, California.

Ford turned himself in; he walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff Department on November 2, 1998, with his brother and had a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He confessed to having killed four women and is thought to have killed others.

He was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder on June 27, 2006, and was sentenced to death in August 2006. Currently, he resides on death row at San Quentin State Prison in California.

Multiple documentaries covered the case.

In 2013 Investigation Discovery aired a 45-minute long documentary titled Killer Truckers about serial killer truck drivers, including Ford.

In 2015 TV show Most Evil analyzed the Ford case in season 4. He was ranked 17 out of the 22 levels on the scale.

In 2019, in a Reelz TV show I Lived With a Killer, Wayne's brother Rodney spoke about their childhood, how he learned about the murders, and convinced him to turn himself in.

In 2021, in an episode of Evil Lives Here Wayne's first wife, Kelly Pletcher spoke about their abusive relationship.

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Wayne Adam Ford (born December 3, 1961) is an American serial killer. Ford, a former long-haul truck driver, murdered four women from 1997 to 1998. He strangled them and dismembered three of his four victims. He turned himself in with a woman's breast in a bag in his coat pocket.

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Edward Dennis Issac is a Canadian serial killer who killed two teenagers & one women in Prince George between 1981-1982.

On October 10, 1981 Issac took advantage of 36 year-old Jean Mary Kovacs who had been evicted from a bar in Prince George after drinking for several hours. He came into contact with Kovacs on the side of a highway intersection. Kovacs was shot 4 times, her body was mutilated and her body was later discovered in a water ditch near Pruden Lake.

What I find most interesting about this case is, Isaac was active along the Highway of Tears for a few years before his girlfriend  contacted the police regarding the horrific acts of violence Isaac committed.

- Jashan Atwal

https://www.ranker.com/list/highway-of-tears-facts/nathan-gibson

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Since 1969, dozens of women have disappeared or been killed along Highway 16, a roughly 450-mile stretch of road in British Columbia. The area has been dubbed the "Highway of Tears" due to the tragedies that have taken place there. Despite the number of women who have gone missing or died near the...

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Mendenhall was a long-haul truck driver with no criminal record to speak of. And while he had done this for most of his life, in 2007 he decided to kill multiple women during his time at truck stops.

Mendenhall murdered at least four women during his time as a truck driver in Alabama, Indiana, and Tennessee; and is still under investigation for murders in Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. These victims were mainly young prostitutes that were shot to death.

He was arrested around the same time, and is still undergoing investigation to this day.

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mendenhall-bruce.htm

- Maddie Gebhardt

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Jack Unterweger was a serial killer who travelled in several countries, killing 12 - 15 victims. He was a journalist who was convicted of a single murder in 1974 and got released in 1990 where he began killing again within a few months of being released. He travelled from Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the US.
-clara cass

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

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Jack Unterweger was an Austrian serial killer who murdered several women before committing suicide in 1994.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/24/serpent-serial-killer-charles-sobhraj-returns-to-france-after-19-years-in-prison

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

During the 1970's he murdered western backpackers on what was called the hippie trail in Nepal. He was also suspected of killing 6 women in Thailand, and poisoned French tourists in India.

I think it's interesting that he funded his life by befriending and stealing money and identities from tourists. Reading the Wikipedia page two of his years doing this were done with a romantic partner of whom he has a child with.

- Kate Ray

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Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer known as "the Serpent" who police believe targeted western backpackers on the hippie trail in the 1970s, has returned to France after nearly two decades behind bars in Nepal, BFM TV reported.

Nepal's supreme court ordered the release of Sobhraj on Wednesday, citing his advanced age and health.

A French national who was born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother, Sobhraj, 78, landed at Paris's main international airport on a commercial flight shortly after 7am.

Charles Sobhraj on the plane from Kathmandu to France. Photograph: Atish Patel/AFP/Getty Images

Sobhraj was met by his lawyer inside a terminal building, according to the author Jean-Charles Deniau, who wrote "Moi, le Serpent" (Me, the Serpent) and was in contact with Sobhraj after his arrival.

Border police were conducting identity checks, French media reported. Sobhraj's lawyer did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

Sobhraj, who was given his nickname for his evasion of police, had been held in a high-security prison in Nepal since 2003, when he was arrested on charges of murdering the American backpacker Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975. He was later found guilty of killing Bronzich's Canadian friend, Laurent Carriere, and had served 19 years of a 20-year sentence.

He was suspected of more murders, including in Thailand, where police say he killed six women in the 1970s, some of whom turned up dead on a beach near the resort of Pattaya.

He was jailed in India for poisoning a group of French tourists in the capital, Delhi, in 1976, before he could stand trial on the charges against him in Thailand.

Sobhraj told the French news agency Agence-France Presse on the flight out of Nepal that he was not guilty of murdering Bronzich and Carriere and that the case against him was built on fake documents.

"I have a lot to do. I have to sue a lot of people," AFP quoted Sobhraj as saying.

In 2021, the BBC and Netflix NFLX.O produced a drama series based on the story of Sobhraj's alleged killings.

France's interior and justice ministries did not respond to questions from Reuters about whether Sobhraj might face criminal charges in France. The statute of limitations for most serious crimes in France is 20 years.

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'Serpent' serial killer Charles Sobhraj returns to France after 19 years in prison

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Aileen Wuornos was a serial killer who travelled between Michigan and Florida, preying on victims at truck stops or other locations on highways. During their encounters, she fatally shot

the victims after robbing them of personal belongings, including their car. She claimed to have killed them in self-defence, but later changed her confession, saying that only the first individual had raped her. She was sentenced to death for six murders.

Stella Lee

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos

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Aileen Carol Wuornos (born Aileen Carol Pittman), a.k.a. “The Florida Highway Killer”, was an American serial killer and robber. Wuornos was born as Aileen Carol Pittman on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan. Her mother, Diane Pratt, married one Leo Dale Pittman when she was 15 years old. He…

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Robert Rhoades was a trucker who was involved in 'travelling homicide'. He was from Texas, and drove along the interstate looking for victims. In his truck, there was a secret compartment equipped with handcuffs on the celling, in which he planned to torture victims before killing them. He pled guilty to killing a young couple, and is now serving a life sentence. I find it very interesting that there seems to be a low victim count. The article does mention that they are not 100% sure if there are uncovered bodies of women he killed and dumped, but he did not admit to killing more than the couple.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-trucker-traveling-torture-chamber-admits-murders/story?id=16037743
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March 30, 2012 &#151; -- A Texas trucker who kept a traveling torture chamber in the cab of his rig pleaded guilty to murdering a newlywed couple more than 20 years ago.

Robert Ben Rhoades, 66, is already serving a life sentence without parole for the 1990 murder of 14-year-old runaway Regina Walters in Illinois.

Prosecutors say the trucker kept a mobile torture chamber in the cab of his long-haul rig.

"There's this compartment that's hidden completely from view other than between the seats," Steve Smith, first assistant for the 112th District Attorney's office in Texas, told ABCNews.com.

The dungeon-like compartment was described in "Roadside Prey" by Alva Busch, a book written about Rhoades. The rig was equipped with handcuffs on the ceiling, which enabled Rhoades to chain his female victims so that he could torture them before killing them.

Prosecutors believe Rhoades may have put many other women through the cycle of "kidnap, torture, and kill," but Smith said they do not know how many women he may have hurt, since he traveled so much.

"That was the problem with him," Smith said. "He was on the interstate everywhere."

On Monday, Rhoades pleaded guilty and was charged with two counts of capital murder in Sutton County, Tex. for the slayings of Patricia Walsh, 24, and her husband Douglas Scott Zyskowski, 28.

Rhoades received a second life sentence in the plea, in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty.

"The defendant essentially agreed to stack the life sentences in Illinois, which means he'll never get out," Smith said. "He's 67. He will die in prison."

Rhoades has spent the past few years in a Texas prison, but will soon be sent back to Illinois to serve the life sentences. Smith said that should Rhoades ever be released from the Illinois prison for any unforeseen reason, he would be returned to a Texas prison.

"I've been a prosecutor since 1979 and it was one of the rare occasions when I was in the court where the defendant walked in and you felt the evil," Smith said. "The hairs on my arm stand up right now talking about it."

Walsh and Zyskowski, the newlywed victims, left Seattle in November 1989 to hitchhike to Georgia where they were going to preach the Christian gospel when Rhoades picked them up in Texas.

Smith said prosecutors believe Rhoades killed Zyskowski relatively soon after picking him up and dumped his body along Interstate 10 in Ozona, Texas. The body was found in 1990, but not identified until 1992.

Walsh's remains were found in October 1990 in central Utah, but not identified until 2003, with the help of dental records.

"Her body was found months later so she was probably kept alive for a while," Smith said.

Prosecutors believe Rhoades may have put many other women through the cycle of "kidnap, torture, and kill," but Smith said they do not know how many, since he traveled so much.

"That was the problem with him," Smith said. "He was on the interstate everywhere."

Rhoades' attorneys did not respond to requests for comment from ABCNews.com.

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A Texas trucker who kept a traveling torture chamber in the cab of his rig pleaded guilty to murdering a newlywed couple more than 20 years ago.

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This is the case of Gabby Petito, who was an avid traveler and blogger. Her and her boyfriend were traveling across the states, when her boyfriend at the time Brian Laundrie killed her and hid her body.

Prior to the murder, there were several times that police stopped them and separated them, because of fighting and domestic violence. Laundrie disappeared and later committed suicide. I find this case interesting because you never find out why he did it, but it came out that he shot her in the head.

- Jaiden RS

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Laundrie's body was found in an area of the nature preserve that had previously been underwater, the FBI said. He was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, along with the journal, a revolver and a backpack.

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Gabby Petito: Boyfriend of blogger 'responsible' for her murder

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Laundrie's body was found in an area of the nature preserve that had previously been underwater, the FBI said. He was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, along with the journal, a revolver and a backpack.

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Austin Lee Edwards as 28 yr old Virginia State police officer. He traveled from Virginia to California and to murder a 15-yr olds  grandparents and mother, and kidnapped the 15 year old. Police eventually found them, and Edwards shot himself. An interesting part was that he was pretending to be a 17-yr old girl online which is how he connected with the 15-yr old.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-allegedly-catfishes-teen-girl-online-kills-family/story?id=94090351

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Former police officer accused of killing 15-year-old’s family was pretending to be teen online

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A Virginia man allegedly catfished a teenage girl before traveling to California and killing her family, according to police.

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John Martin Scripps (AKA the Tourist from Hell) befriended unknowing tourists, then butchered them and emptied their bank accounts. He murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand—with another three unconfirmed victims. Scripps was investigated for other murders in Belize, Mexico, and the United States

He was put to death by hanging in Singapore. - Jessica McCullough

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/guilty-as-charged-john-martin-scripps-befriended-tourists-then-butchered-them

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Guilty As Charged: John Martin Scripps befriended tourists, then butchered them

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This story was first published in July 2015 in an e-book titled Guilty As Charged: 25 Crimes That Have Shaken Singapore Since 1965. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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He killed over 400 children in the south columbine region from 1992-1999. The most interesting part about this case is that even after all his crimes, he will be eligible for parole this year .
-Priscilla Kirabo-

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Edward Surratt worked as a truck driver in the United States and was convicted on one count of murder but has been thought to be a suspect in several more and has confessed to 6 additional murders.  These took place in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio and he was charged with burglary and rape in Florida.  An interesting fact is that he was caught because during an attack on a family in their home in Florida, he decided to get drunk/do drugs and passed out in the house leading to his arrest.
-Amanda Waschuk

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

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Israel Keyes was an American Serial killer with many other crimes under his belt. On top of serial killing he also engaged in bank robbing, burglering, arsoning, kidnapping and sex offending. Keyes murdered atleast 3 victims and committed a number of other felonies across the United States.

An interesting fact about this case was that before killing himself while awaiting trial, he left a suicide note with 11 skulls which lead the FBI to believe he murdered at least 11 victims.  Keyes killed far from home and never in the same location twice.

Another interesting fact is that Keyes claimed to only use guns when absolutely necessary because he likes witnessing the victim loose consciousness in the struggle.

ANOTHER interesting fact is that Kyekes claimed not to kill children or parents of children because of his own daughter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Keyes
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Israel Keyes (January 7, 1978 - December 2, 2012) was an American serial killer, bank robber, burglar, arsonist, kidnapper and sex offender who murdered at least three victims and committed dozens of other felonies including armed robbery, arson, rape and burglary across the United States from July 2001 to February 2012.

While awaiting trial, Keyes killed himself by hanging and slashing his wrists. Evidence left behind in his jail cell-including a suicide note, drawings of eleven skulls, a drawing of the Baphomet, and an inscription of " Corozal" on the cell's wall (all written or otherwise stained with Keyes' blood)-led the FBI to suspect Keyes murdered at least eleven victims in total. He admitted to having committed violent crimes as early as 1996, with the aggravated sexual assault of a teenage girl in Oregon, in a series of meticulous crimes across multiple states that lasted until his capture in 2012.

Israel Keyes was born in Richmond, Utah, on January 7, 1978, to Heidi Keyes née Hakansson and John Jeffrey "Jeff" Keyes (October 4, 1952 - November 13, 2002). He was the second of ten children born to a large family, whose parents were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from Torrance, California.

There, Keyes and his siblings were homeschooled and taught Christian beliefs until 1983. After leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints faith, Keyes's father moved the family to a remote plot of land north of Colville, Washington in Stevens County when Israel was 5-years-old. Isolated from society, the Keyes family lived in a one-room cabin located on Rocky Creek Road, where they lived without electricity or running water. In Colville, the family attended services at a church called the Ark, which practiced white supremacist Christian Identity ideology. Keyes later described the Ark as an Amish-like church environment. During this period of attending the Ark, the Keyes family befriended the neighboring family of Chevie Kehoe, who was later convicted for a 1996 triple murder.

The family attended another church in Colville called the Christian Israel Covenant Church that taught British Israelism as doctrine, that miscegenation was abominable and deviant, that Anglo-Saxons were to rule over the perceived inferior races, and that Keyes later alleged to have been militia-like. For years, some of the Keyes children had been forced to sleep in a tent due to their cabin's small size. To survive, the Keyes children were made to hunt their food, chop firewood, and work on local farms to support the family; as a hobby, Keyes hunted "anything with a heartbeat" and freely admitted to skinning a deer alive to his peers at the church. As a result, Keyes was ostracized and actively avoided by various youths who attended the Christian Israel Covenant Church, with one girl recounting that Keyes's presence "made my skin crawl."

"I've known since I was 14 that there were things that I thought were normal and [okay] that no one else seemed to think were normal and okay. So that's when I just started being a loner. [...] People found out about some of the stuff I did. Like my parents, and parents of other kids who would hang out with me. They would find out about some of the stuff I did. And that's when I just started doing stuff by myself exclusively."

Keyes during an interview with the FBI.

As a youth, Keyes admitted to shooting at neighbors' houses with his BB gun, starting fires in the woods, and breaking into houses for fun. He also occasionally broke into houses with another youth, who subsequently avoided him after witnessing Keyes shoot an animal. On one occasion, Keyes stole several guns from his neighbor's residence, and was forced to apologize by his parents after their discovery of the cache. On occasion, Keyes-who stood 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall by age 14-would also sell stolen guns to local adults.

Around this time, Keyes's parents provided shelter to personal friends; in the presence of their son and daughter and Keyes's sister, Keyes tied a cat to a tree with a parachute cord and gored it with a .22 revolver. The cat then began circling the tree before crashing into it and vomiting; Keyes allegedly chuckled before noting that the boy-who later informed his father-had vomited in response to the incident. Keyes had an epiphany in which he felt that he was different from his peers, who ran away from him. Upon this realization, he kept his increasingly antisocial behavior to himself, withdrawing socially due to being ostracized. In addition, Keyes's mother began to notice "some troubling signs" in Keyes during this period, when he began tuning into various "radio stations and different things."

By his teenage years, Keyes had become a skilled and proficient carpenter, building his first wooden cabin for his family at age 16. He also began working for a Colville contractor from 1995 to 1997. Around this time, Keyes kept a journal from early childhood littered with Bible scriptures, documenting daily sins for which he felt shame such as lusting after his girlfriend. Soon thereafter, the family relocated to Smyrna, Maine, where they collected sap for maple syrup production in a mostly Amish community. Due to their mother's religious zealousness, the Keyes children were forced to secretly flee their parents to watch movies with friends, and were forbidden to learn musical instruments as they were "against God." Sometime during this period, Keyes renounced his former Christian faith.

On one occasion, Keyes declared his atheism to his parents-both of whom he had previously made tireless and constant efforts to please-after an intense argument. This led his parents to evict their eldest son from their residence, shunning him for apparent blasphemy; they then instructed his younger siblings, who looked up to Keyes, to never have contact with him again. Keyes then developed an inordinate interest in Satanism, with plans of committing a ritualistic murder.

In the summer of 1997 or 1998, Keyes allegedly committed a sexual assault on a teenage girl who had been tubing with her friends down the Deschutes River in Maupin, Oregon. Although this was not his first sexual assault, Keyes admitted that he stalked her from a tree line before "very violently sexually assaulting" the girl-whom he estimated to be between 14 and 18-by knifepoint. Originally planning to murder her as part of a Satanic ritual, Keyes let her go in the river tube he had abducted her from. "I was too timid. I wasn't violent enough," he told investigators. "I made up my mind I was never going to let that happen again."

On July 9, 1998, Keyes relocated and enlisted in the United States Army in the state of New York, where he served as a Specialist in Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment. He passed a rigorous month-long preliminary course for United States Army Rangers training. He was stationed at Fort Lewis and Fort Hood. He also spent time abroad. While stationed in Sinai, Egypt, Keyes befriended several soldiers, informing one of them that he would "like to kill" him.

While at Fort Lewis, he served on a mortar team in the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Former Army friends of Keyes have noted his quiet demeanor and habit of keeping to himself. On weekends, he was reported to drink heavily, consuming entire bottles of his favorite drink, Wild Turkey bourbon. Keyes was also a fan of the hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse and displayed posters of the musical act in the barracks.

In February 2001, Keyes was arrested for driving under the influence in Thurston County. Pursuant to a plea agreement, he was fined $350. Keyes was awarded an Army Achievement Medal for his meritorious service as a gunner and assistant gunner from December 1998 to July 2001. Keyes was then honorably discharged and he relocated to Neah Bay, Washington where he lived in the Makah Reservation community of Neah Bay, on the Olympic Peninsula. In 2007, Keyes started a construction business in Alaska, called Keyes Construction while working as a handyman, contractor, and construction worker. When asked if his murders started after his discharge from the Army, Keyes cryptically replied, "Yeah, Neah Bay's a boring town."

Keyes targeted random people all across the United States to avoid detection with months of planning before he committed a particular crime. He specifically went for campgrounds and isolated locations. He claimed to only use guns when he had to and preferred strangulation; this was due to the pleasure he derived from witnessing victims lose consciousness in the struggle. He claimed to not kill children or parents of children, primarily because of his daughter, whom he feared finding out about him and his crimes. However, police and FBI investigators were skeptical of this claim and suspected Keyes of killing several teenagers and children.

Keyes did not admit to any murders during his three years in the United States Army, but did admit to twice attempting rapes of women, once with a prostitute while on leave in Egypt, and another time with a college student he met in Israel. He is believed to have resumed his killing spree in 2001 following his discharge. Keyes had ties to New York; he owned 10 acres (4.0 hectares) and a dilapidated cabin in the town of Constable. He also confessed to committing bank robberies in New York and Texas. The FBI later confirmed that Keyes robbed the Community Bank branch in Tupper Lake, New York, in April 2009. He also told authorities that he burglarized a Texas home and set it on fire.

An FBI report stated that Keyes burglarized twenty to thirty homes across the United States and robbed several banks between 2001 and 2012. He is believed to have been responsible for as many as eleven deaths in the United States, and potentially even more victims outside the country. Keyes planned murders long ahead of time and took extraordinary action to avoid detection. Unlike most serial killers, he did not have a victim profile, saying he chose a victim randomly. He usually killed far from home, and never in the same area twice. On his murder trips, he kept his mobile phone turned off and paid for items with cash. He had no connection to any of his known victims. For the Currier murders, Keyes flew to Chicago, where he rented a car to drive 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) to Vermont. He then used the "kill kit" he had hidden two years earlier to perform the murders.

Cassandra "Cassie" Emerson, 12, another young girl from the Colville area, was reported missing after the remains of her mother, Marlene Kay Emerson, 29, were discovered in their burned-out trailer home on June 27, 1997; Cassie's remains were found in 1998 about thirteen miles from her home. Keyes did admit that his first act of arson was with a trailer in Colville. When questioned by police, Keyes's one-time fiancée stated she thought he was responsible for committing the three Colville murders.

Keyes admitted to investigators that he had killed five people in Washington State, and was the subject of an active investigation by the state police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Keyes claimed to have either buried or submerged a victim in a lake in Neah Bay, Washington sometime between July and October 2001; a body was found, but their death was ruled accidental. He also confessed to the double homicide of a young couple which occurred between 2001 and 2005. According to Keyes, the male was beaten to death and the female was fatally strangled; both victims were buried. Between 2005 and 2006, Keyes said he had killed two further victims who were both killed separately; one was apparently dumped in Lake Crescent, Washington. Keyes did not have a felony criminal record in Washington, although he had been stopped on two occasions for minor driving-related offenses. Authorities reviewed unsolved murder and missing persons cases to determine which, if any, may have been the work of Keyes. In 2012, authorities identified a possible victim known only as Lewis County Jane Doe, who was a woman found in the Peterman Hill area in Morton, Washington on April 7, 2011, by a passing motorist. In 2022, the victim was formally identified but her identity was not publicly revealed. Keyes also confessed to at least one murder in New York State. In late-2012, authorities had not determined the identity, age, or sex of the victim, or when and where the murder may have occurred, but regarded the confession as credible.

Keyes is a suspect in a series of 2007 crimes by the "Boca Killer", near Boca Raton, Florida. The first case in the murder series was that of Randi Ann Malitz Gorenberg, 52, who on March 23, 2007, was abducted from the Boca Town Center Mall parking lot. Within an hour her body, with two fatal bullet wounds, was dumped at a different location. The second crime was the kidnapping of an unidentified woman who claimed she and her toddler son were abducted from the same shopping mall parking lot on August 7, 2007. Though the kidnapper wore a mask and sunglasses, the victim caught glimpses of his face and described him as a tall, athletically built man with long hair which generally matched Keyes' description. This woman was released unharmed after the assailant forced her to withdraw cash from an automated teller machine. The third Boca case was the murder of Nancy Bochicchio, 47-years-old, and her 7-year-old daughter, Joey Bochicchio-Hauser, who were found fatally shot in their vehicle at the Boca Town Center Mall parking lot on December 12, 2007.

Authorities believe Keyes may have murdered 48-year-old Debra Feldman, a sex worker with alleged substance misuse issues, after discovering that he had frequently searched for her missing persons case on his computer shortly before his arrest. Feldman was last seen at her apartment in Hackensack, New Jersey on April 8, 2009. Her body has never been recovered. Federal agents showed Feldman's image to Keyes upon which he "hesitated, he waited," and then said only, "I don't want to talk about her yet." It is suspected that Keyes buried her near Tupper Lake, New York.

On May 28, 2011, Madison "Maddy" Geraldine Scott was last seen during the early morning hours at Hogsback Lake near Vanderhoof, British Columbia, after attending a party at a campsite. Her remains were found in May 2023. Hogsback Lake is a 33-hour-drive from Anchorage, Alaska, where Keyes lived at the time. Keyes chose victims by how unlikely they would be linked to him and he said on one occasion, "I would let my victims come to me... in some remote location." Keyes travelled to Canada extensively and when he was asked about whether he had killed anyone in Canada, he said, "Canadians don't count."

Keyes confessed to murdering 49-year-old William "Bill" Scott Currier and 55-year-old Lorraine Simonne Currier of Essex, Vermont. Keyes broke into the Currier home on the night of June 8, 2011, and tied them up before driving them to an abandoned farmhouse, where he shot Bill before sexually assaulting and strangling Lorraine. Their bodies have never been found. Two years prior, Keyes hid a "murder kit", which he later used, near the Currier home. After the murders, he moved most of the contents to a new hiding place in Parishville, New York, where they remained until after his arrest.

Keyes' last confirmed victim was 18-year-old Samantha Tessla Koenig, a coffee booth employee in Anchorage, Alaska. Keyes kidnapped Koenig from her workplace on February 1, 2012, took her debit card and other property, sexually assaulted her, then killed her the following day. He left her body in a shed and went to New Orleans, where he departed on a pre-booked two-week cruise with his family in the Gulf of Mexico. When he returned to Alaska, he removed Koenig's body from the shed, applied makeup to the corpse's face, sewed her eyes open with fishing line, and snapped a picture of a four-day-old issue of the Anchorage Daily News alongside her body, posed to appear that she was still alive. After demanding $30,000 in ransom, Keyes dismembered Koenig's body and disposed of it in Matanuska Lake, north of Anchorage.

Keyes is a suspect in the murder of 58-year-old James "Jimmy" Lamar Tidwell Jr., an electrician who disappeared in Mount Enterprise, Texas on February 15, 2012. He was last seen at 5:30 a.m. that day, after he had finished working the night shift. During a bank robbery in Azle, Texas on February 16, 2012, the culprit - believed to be Keyes - wore a white hard hat similar to Tidwell's. Tidwell's hair also resembled a dark-haired wig worn by Keyes during the robbery. While interrogated, Keyes stated that his "wig" was, in fact, human hair. When asked where he had obtained the human hair, Keyes refused to elaborate but said, "You don't have to buy real hair to get real hair."

Having read Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit from his youth and continuing to meticulously study serial killers, Keyes idolized Ted Bundy and felt that he shared many similarities with him: both were methodical and felt as though they possessed their victims despite their difference in victim choice and modus operandi.

He even went as far as to imitate Bundy's court escape, before being seized by guards immediately. Keyes also admired and studied other serial killers, but actively shunned media attention for his crimes as he was fearful for his family and being labelled a "copycat" for his admiration of Bundy and other murderers. Keyes also called Dennis Rader a "wimp" for apologizing in court and showing remorse for his crimes, in addition to expressing admiration for serial killers "that haven't been caught."

When asked in an interview about Robert Hansen, Keyes replied enthusiastically, stating, "Yeah, I know all about him," before continuing, "I probably know every single serial killer that's ever been written about. It's kind of a hobby of mine." When FBI agents informed him of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting he inquired as to the status of the shooter. Keyes had also expressed mild interest in the mass murder's perpetrator, James Holmes.

After Koenig's murder, Keyes demanded ransom money and police were able to track withdrawals from her account as he moved throughout the southwestern U.S. During that time, the police controversially refused to release surveillance video of Koenig's abduction. Keyes was arrested by Texas Highway Patrol Corporal Bryan Henry and Texas Ranger Steven Rayburn in the parking lot of the Cotton Patch Café in Lufkin, Texas, on the morning of March 13, 2012. Investigators had circulated a lookout bulletin for the suspect's car, which had been used at ATMs to withdraw money from Koenig's account. Keyes's car matched this description. Keyes was stopped after he drove slightly over the speed limit. His vehicle was searched after officers spotted cash stained with bright ink, indicating a dye pack from a bank robbery. Koenig's ATM card and cell phone were also discovered in Keyes's car.

Keyes was subsequently extradited to Alaska, where he confessed to the Koenig murder. He was represented by the Federal Public Defender for Alaska Rich Curtner. Keyes was indicted in the case, and his trial was scheduled to begin in March 2013. While incarcerated, Keyes spoke to investigators several times over a period of months. He cooperated to an extent, confessing to some of his crimes, and stated a wish to be executed within a year. Keyes said he wanted to avoid publicity due to the negative attention his young daughter might face, but largely stopped cooperating after his identity was discussed in the media. On Wednesday, May 23, 2012, Keyes attempted to escape during a routine hearing. He used wood shavings from a pencil to pick his cuffs. Police used a taser to subdue him.

While being held in jail at the Anchorage Correctional Complex on suspicion of murder, Keyes managed to conceal a razor blade in his cell. He was not allowed razor blades, being under security restrictions of using an electric razor under supervision. He died by suicide on December 2, 2012, via cutting his wrists and attempted strangulation. A suicide note, found under his body, consisted of an " ode to murder" but offered no clues about other possible victims. In 2020, the FBI released the drawings of eleven skulls and one pentagram, which had been drawn in blood and found underneath Keyes' jail-cell bed after his suicide. One of the drawings included the phrase "WE ARE ONE" written at the bottom. The FBI believes the number of skulls correlates with what are believed to be the total number of his victims.

Keyes has been the subject of multiple books, podcasts, and the documentary Method of a Serial Killer released in 2018 by the Oxygen channel. Most of the FBI interrogations were released publicly by Anchorage Daily News to SoundCloud that same year. They were removed from SoundCloud in 2019 but have since become available on the YouTube channel TopNotchDocumentaries

Callahan, Maureen (2019). American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-525-42864-0.

Hunter, JT (2016). Devil in the Darkness: The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes. Pedialaw Press. ISBN 978-0-578-70996-3.

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Israel Keyes (January 7, 1978 - December 2, 2012) was an American serial killer, bank robber, burglar, arsonist, kidnapper and sex offender who murdered at least three victims and committed dozens of other felonies including armed robbery, arson, rape and burglary across the United States from July 2001 to February 2012.

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Little (83) was arrested in 2012 for a drug charge warrant when his DNA was collected and discovered it was linked to unsolved homicide cases. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 but was continuously being questioned for additional murders between 1970 to 2005. As of 2018, he had been linked to 34 murders across the U.S. and the FBI stated he confessed to 90 killings in total across California to Maryland. - Sara P.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46384197

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"Over the course of that interview in May, he went through city and state and gave Ranger Holland the number of people he killed in each place. Jackson, Mississippi - one; Cincinnati, Ohio - one; Phoenix, Arizona - three; Las Vegas, Nevada - one," ViCAP Crime Analyst Christina Palazzolo said in the report.

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Samuel Little: US serial killer 'admits 90 murders'

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Samuel Little, 78, has shared information with the FBI about murdering women over several decades.

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Charles Sobhraj "The Serpent/Bikini Killer"

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Charles Sobhraj "The Serpent/Bikini Killer"

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Since 1963, Charles Sobhraj has been in and out of jail for a number of offenses, including armed robbery, automobile theft, and burglary. He preyed on Western tourists traveling on the hippie trail of South Asia and Southeast Asia during the 1970s, and his victims include people in Thailand, Nepal, and India. He served his sentence in Afghanistan, India, and France.

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/charles-sobhraj-the-serpent

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The Railroad Killer

Angel Maturino Resendiz was a serial killer that is suspected in 23 murders in the 1990’s. While he traveled the across Canada, USA and Mexico he jumped off trains and committed crimes along the way. He murdered his victims in their homes, and would take sentimental items along with the victims drivers licence.  Resendiz was executed on June 27 2006.  Before he was executed he said “ I don’t believe in death, me as a person I am eternal”.

Wikimedia Foundation. (2023a, June 5). Ángel Maturino Reséndiz. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Maturino_Res%C3%A9ndiz

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Sean Patrick Goble was known as the "interstate killer" as he kidnapped and murdered 3 women (although is victim count remains unknown) along the highways of Tennessee and North Carolina. Goble was also a truck driver at the time. An interesting part about the case is that his father was arrested twice for raping young girls when Goble was a child and in these cases, Goble was also said to have raped his victims before killing them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Patrick_Goble

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Sean Patrick Goble (born November 1, 1966), known as The Interstate Killer, is an American serial killer. A former truck driver, Goble kidnapped and murdered at least three women along highways in North Carolina and Tennessee during the winter of 1995. In addition authorities in ten other states investigated him for numerous other killings committed during the late 1980s and early 1990s. While he was cleared in some of those cases, as of today, his true victim count remains unknown.

Sean Patrick Goble was born in Asheboro, North Carolina on November 1, 1966, the son of Kenneth and Erma Goble. At some point during his childhood, his family moved to Illinois. The first major event to happen in his life occurred at age 6, when his father raped a 10-year-old girl during a home invasion in Rockford. Young Sean was sitting in his dad's vehicle outside of the crime scene during the attack. Kenneth was charged with the crime and was sentenced to serve four to 20-years in prison. He was released after four years. As for Sean, he, his mother and sister continued to live in Rockford where he attended Auburn High School. In 1984, he dropped out during his senior year. Two years later, his father, who was now living in New Mexico, was charged with raping a 6-year-old there, for which he was sent back to prison, being released sometime in 1994. Sean Goble joined the army and later got married, fathering a son. His marriage later fell apart and Sean moved to North Carolina in 1988, and began working as a truck driver in 1991. At 225 pounds and 6-foot 3 inches, Goble described himself as a ladies man.

Brenda Kay Hagy

Brenda Kay Hagy, 45, became Goble's first known victim. A native of Bloomington, Indiana, Hagy had a history of criminal charges in her native state for trespassing into truck stops, areas that are hotspots for prostitution. Hagy frequently moved across the east side of the country as a vagrant. She stayed at a homeless shelter in Gainesville, Florida on January 22, 1995. The next day she voyaged to Tennessee where, at a service station, she was abducted by Goble, who proceeded to rape and strangle her to death, breaking her neck in the process. He later drove his truck all the way to Bristol, Virginia, where he left her body along an access road to Interstate 81. He ran over her legs while in the process of driving away. The body was found later that day. An investigation was set up by police, who received numerous tips, the most promising being from a trucker who said he saw a semi parked along the same access road hours before Hagy's body was found.

Sherry Tew Mansur

Sherry Tew Mansur, 34, had a history of arrests for prostitution from 1982 to 1994. She was last seen alive by friends and family on January 31, 1995 while visiting her sister in Bowie, Md. She later left the home with her 2 year old niece, who (her niece) was located the following morning in Washington, DC. ln Fredericksburg, VA Goble picked Ms Mansur up while driving his truck. According to Goble, the two had sex before he decided to strangle her to death. He later dumped her body along Interstate 40, where it was found on February 19. When it was found, her identity could not be conclusively proven, so for the next few months, she was only known as " Jane Doe".

Alice Rebecca Hanes

Alice Rebecca Hanes, 36, was a native of Columbus, Ohio. She had been convicted of prostitution in the past. Her last location before her death was in Salina, Kansas, when she called from a truck stop along Interstate 70. From there, she hitchhiked to Tennessee, where Goble kidnapped her from a gas station and smothered her to death. He dumped her body along Interstate 81 in Virginia.

Arrest, convictions and status

During the investigation, a plastic bag left behind at Hagy's murder contained the fingerprint of her killer. When submitted into a database, investigators got a hit when it matched to a print taken from Goble in September 1994 after an arrest for multiple misdemeanors. From there he was arrested in Winston-Salem, North Carolina outside the Rocky Road Express, the trucking company he was then working for. A search warrant was issued on his truck. In it police found a pocketbook that belonged to Hanes. They also seized travel bags, pornographic magazines, and women's panties. During an interrogation, Goble confessed to both murders, and admitted that he had killed a woman in North Carolina. Authorities figured out it was the Jane Doe and he was charged in her death. When the woman was identified as Mansur, he was charged in her murder.

Along with Tennessee and North Carolina, Goble was also investigated in killings in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Georgia, and Indiana, along with at least five others. For a brief period of time, Goble was investigated as a suspect for the serial killer known as Dr. No. He was later cleared of suspicion in those cases because, in some of the earlier killings, Goble was still in high school and later the army.

Some murders that Goble was suspected of include multiple Jane Does found along highways between 1987 and 1995; the murder of Marcia Matthews in 1985; the murder of Shirly Dean Taylor in 1986; the murder of April Barnett in 1986; the murder of Anna Patterson in 1987; the murder of Kathryn Hill, aka Wendy Turner, in 1990; the murder of Cheryl Mason in 1991; the murder of Nona Cobb in 1992; and the murder of Margaret Goins in 1995. Goble was ruled out in Cobb's murder due to DNA testing, and in 2022 a different man was arrested for her death. Goble briefly stated that the murder of Hagy was unintentional, but that was disproved by investigators. Goble pleaded guilty to killing Hagy and Hanes in Tennessee, for which he was imposed two life sentences. He was later extradited to North Carolina and pled guilty to the murder of Mansur, receiving an additional 14 years to his two life sentences. Due to these convictions, Goble would be required to serve at least 103 years to be considered for parole.

Later that same month, Goble was indicted with the unsolved 1994 murder of Lisa Susan O'Rourke, 29, whose body was found along Interstate 65 in Alabama. Goble was transferred to Baldwin County Correction Center to await trial for the murder. In April 1997, however, Alabama authorities decided to not prosecute him any further because of his current life sentences. Goble later took back his confessions, but nevertheless stayed behind bars. Goble is currently serving his sentence at Northeast Correctional Complex in Doe Valley, Tennessee.

Goble's killing spree is detailed in the episode The Interstate Prowler in the TV series Main Street Mysteries.

In 2003, Discovery Channel tv show The New Detectives examined Goble in the episode titled " Blind Trust".

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triple homicide in Vancouver found a a gravel pit. one victim found on a road while the other 2 were found in a burnt out travel trailer. no suspects. the most interesting thing in this case is this “The driver who picked up these individuals is being asked to reach out to police,” he said. “They unknowingly may have information crucial to this investigation.”
Jessica Zacharias
RCMP seeking driver with possible information in Vancouver Island triple homicide | Globalnews.ca