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ber WILLIAM MENTZER convicted of one Calif. mur-VICTIMS: Five

der, 1991; other cultists still at large

MO: Campers stabbed/hacked to death on beach by robed attackers

Unknown
AKA: Bible John

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; cult name revealed by MANSEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

SON “FAMILY”

DATE(S): 1968–69 VENUE: Glasgow, Scotland

VICTIMS: Three

Unknown

MO: Women picked up at dance halls and strangled SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 1970–86 VENUE: Wildwood, N.J. VIC-

TIMS: Three

Unknown

MO: Rape-murders of women, bodies left under local SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

boardwalk

DATE(S): 1969 VENUE: Conn./N.Y. VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Three

MO: Young girls bludgeoned; at least one raped
Unknown

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 1971 VENUE: Washington, D.C. VIC-

Unknown

TIMS: 10

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC

MO: Gay men stabbed/slashed in their homes

DATE(S): 1969–73 VENUE: Calif. VICTIMS: 15

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; photo of suspect unidentified
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Unknown

DISPOSITION: Suspect Michael Pardue convicted on SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: GC/CE

basis of coerced confession, 1973; murder charges DATE(S): 1971–72 VENUE: Chicago, Ill. VIC-subsequently dropped, though Pardue continues

TIMS: Six

serving life term for a 1987 escape. Murders

MO: Black men robbed/shot, apparently by several unsolved.

offenders

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

Unknown

DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: New York City VICTIMS:

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

Seven

DATE(S): 1971–76 VENUE: Tex. Gulf coast VIC-

MO: “Ripper” of gay males

TIMS: 21

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: Females age 12–21 killed in three counties, by various means

Unknown

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 1973–74 VENUE: Gallup, N.Mex. VIC-

Unknown
AKA: Alphabet Murders

TIMS: Three

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

MO: Navajo men beaten/slashed to death in separate DATE(S): 1971–73 VENUE: Rochester, N.Y. VIC-attacks

TIMS: Three

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: Young Catholic girls with matching initials killed DISPOSITION: Unsolved; KENNETH BIANCHI sus-Unknown

pected, not charged

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 1973–77 VENUE: Zephyrhills, Fla. VIC-

Unknown

TIMS: Eight

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.

MO: Prostitutes and strippers killed; details withheld DATE(S): 1972–75 VENUE: Northern Calif. VIC-by police

TIMS: 14

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: Slayer of females age 12–22, mostly

strangled/smothered

Unknown
AKA: Highway murders

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE:

Sex./Sad.

Unknown

DATE(S): 1973–81 VENUE: Western Canada VIC-

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

TIMS: 28 suspected

DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: Prince Georges County, Md.

MO: Women (and one transvestite) killed along Trans-VICTIMS: Five

Canada Highway.

MO: Black women from Washington, D.C., sodomized DISPOSITION: Unsolved

and murdered

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

Unknown

DATE(S): 1973–80 VENUE: New South Wales, Aus-

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.

tralia VICTIMS: 20

DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: Mich. VICTIMS: “At least

MO: Backpackers and hitchhikers missing

20”

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; police deem cases unrelated MO: Prostitutes murdered; details withheld by police to convicted killer IVAN MILAT

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown
AKA: The Family

Unknown

SEX: 9M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

DATE(S): 1973–83 VENUE: Adelaide, Australia

DATE(S): 1973 VENUE: Mobile/Baldwin Counties,

VICTIMS: More than five

Ala. VICTIMS: Three

MO: Alleged gang of homosexual men who kidnapped, MO: Shotgun slayings of gas station attendants in raped, and tortured 200 male victims, killing at least holdups

five, aged 14–25

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DISPOSITION: Alleged “Family” member Bevan

Unknown

Spencer Von Einem convicted of murdering a 15-

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

year-old boy, sentenced to 36 years without parole DATE(S): 1975 VENUE: Southern Fla. VICTIMS:

in 1984; other cases remain unsolved

Five

MO: Women kidnapped after killer disabled their cars
Unknown

in mall parking lots

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 1973–2001 VENUE: Auxerre, France

VICTIMS: 17–30

Unknown
AKA: Ottawa Valley Killer

MO: Young women murdered and missing; most were SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony

mentally handicapped

DATE(S): 1975–87 VENUE: Ottawa Valley, Ontario DISPOSITION: Unsolved

VICTIMS: Six

MO: Victims slain in home-invasion robberies, with
Unknown

houses burned to hide evidence; the dead include SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

four men, aged 48–71 and two women aged 59

DATE(S): 1974 VENUE: Rawlins, Wyo. VICTIMS:

and 83

Four

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; rape-slayer Ronald Glenn MO: Girls age 10–19 vanish from local rodeo; one West suspected but never charged

found bludgeoned

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown
AKA: San Mateo Slasher

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE:

Unknown

Sex./Sad.

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

DATE(S): 1976 VENUE: San Mateo County, Calif.

VICTIMS: Five

DATE(S): 1974 VENUE: St. Louis, Mo. VICTIMS:

MO: “Ripper” of young brunette women

Four

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; suspect jailed for rape, MO: Victims kidnapped/shot after store robberies paroled 1981

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown
AKA: The Babysitter

Unknown
AKA: The Doodler

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DATE(S): 1976–77 VENUE: Oakland County, Mich.

DATE(S): 1974–75 VENUE: San Francisco, Calif.

VICTIMS: Four to seven

VICTIMS: 14

MO: Killed children of both sexes; molested male vic-MO: “Ripper” of gay men

tims

DISPOSITION: Allegedly identified, but never charged DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-

SEX: M RACE: W. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

mercy?

DATE(S): 1976–77 VENUE: Washington County, Pa.

DATE(S): 1975 VENUE: Ann Arbor, Mich. VIC-

VICTIMS: Five

TIMS: 11

MO: Young women strangled/beaten after rape

MO: Patients killed in VA hospital

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DISPOSITION: Unsolved (two nurses convicted, freed on appeal)

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

Unknown
AKA: Bigfoot

DATE(S): 1976–78 VENUE: New Haven, Conn.

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

VICTIMS: Four+

DATE(S): 1975 VENUE: Detroit, Mich. VICTIMS:

MO: Targets black women, including at least three Seven

prostitutes

MO: Women (mostly prostitutes) raped and blud-

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

geoned in Cass Corridor area; UNSUB (police jar-gon for “Unknown Subject”) nicknamed for large
Unknown
AKA: I-35 murders

footprints

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE:

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Sex./Sad.

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DATE(S): 1976–81 VENUE: Tex. VICTIMS: 22

Unknown

MO: Victims of both sexes killed along Interstate SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

Highway 35

DATE(S): 1977–80 VENUE: Scotland VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: Unsolved; several cases blamed on Seven

HENRY LUCAS

MO: DNA evidence links cases of female victims aged 17–36 raped, beaten, and strangled in Edinburgh
Unknown

and Glasgow

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DATE(S): 1976–85 VENUE: Butler County, Ohio

VICTIMS: Four

Unknown

MO: Women aged 18–41 strangled; DNA evidence

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

links the crimes; police blame unspecified “other DATE(S): 1977–93 VENUE: Dallas, Tex. area VIC-murders” on the same unknown killer, spanning

TIMS: Eight

Butler and Hamilton Counties during 1977–82

MO: Seven girls, age two to 14, and one eight-year-old DISPOSITION: Unsolved

boy murdered

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown
AKA: East Area Rapist

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

Unknown

DATE(S): 1976–86 VENUE: California VICTIMS:

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

10 killed, 40+ raped

DATE(S): 1978–79 VENUE: Newcastle, Australia

MO: Raped 40+ victims in Northern California home VICTIMS: Four

invasions, 1976–78; DNA links the rapist to four MO: Female victims aged 14–20 missing

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

murders in Southern California during 1978 and six more in the period 1980–86

Unknown

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE:

Sex./Sad.

Unknown
AKA: Ironman

DATE(S): 1978–79 VENUE: La./Miss. VICTIMS:

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

Three

DATE(S): late 1970s VENUE: Atteridgeville, South MO: Male victims aged 17–22 hog-tied to strangle in Africa VICTIMS: Seven

fetal positions; DNA evidence links the cases

MO: Nocturnal strollers bludgeoned with iron bar DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

Unknown
AKA: Hammer Group

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.?

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 1978–84 VENUE: England VICTIMS:

DATE(S): late 1970s VENUE: Lahore, Pakistan

Seven to 13

VICTIMS: 17

MO: Children of both sexes killed; “at least seven”

MO: Bludgeon murders of 17 night watchmen

cases linked

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

SEX: Unk.

RACE: Unk.

TYPE: T

MOTIVE:

DATE(S): 1976–95 VENUE: Oklahoma City VIC-

Unk.

TIMS: Four to five

DATE(S): 1979 VENUE: Houston, Tex. VICTIMS:

MO: Women dismembered

Four

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: Three women beheaded; boyfriend of one victim shot

Unknown

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 1977 VENUE: Atlanta, Ga. VICTIMS:

Unknown
(Good Samaritan Hospital)

Three

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: Unk.

MO: Couples shot in lover’s lane attacks

DATE(S): 1979–80 VENUE: Downer’s Grove, Ill.

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

VICTIMS: Two

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MO: Elderly women killed by insulin injection

MO: Street murders of black women, including some DISPOSITION: Nurse suspended without charges;

prostitutes

unsolved

DISPOSITION: Conflicting confessions of two suspects leave at least 13 cases unsolved

Unknown

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Unk.

Unknown

DATE(S): 1979–80 VENUE: Mandurah, Australia

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-

VICTIMS: Three

felony

MO: Mutilation-murders of two young women; 12-

DATE(S): 1980 VENUE: Dorchester County, S.C.

year-old girl missing

VICTIMS: Three

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

MO: Male gas station employees abducted/shot after holdups

Unknown
AKA: Lewiston Valley Killer

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

SEX: Unk. RACE: Unk. TYPE: N MOTIVE: Unk.

DATE(S): 1979–82 VENUE: Idaho/Wash. VIC-

Unknown

TIMS: Five

SEX: Three M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE:

MO: Three victims dismembered and two missing

CE/Sad.

between Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Wash.; DATE(S): 1980 VENUE: Los Angeles, Calif. VIC-victims include three young women, one girl, and TIMS: Three reported

one man

MO: Victims stabbed after surrendering money in DISPOSITION: Unsolved

holdups

DISPOSITION: Unsolved

Unknown

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