Olson scored 38/40 on the Psychopathy Checklist. When patients would look for him to care during their darkest times and he would respond by killing them, usually with prescription drugs. They called him the "Chameleon" because he went by so many names and aliases. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. In 1982, Minnesota police received several phone calls from a man who was crying. If you want to look closer to home, South Carolina has had 162 victims and 3.03 per 100,000. Black children in the neighborhood were being targeted and murdered one-by-one. Moore had told doctors he had been working with herbicide in their yard soon after their honeymoon. The FBI defines as a person committing two or more murders as separate events and usually done by one person acting alone.. In an interview with the Daily News in 2010, Rifkin said, "I was surprised I didn't get caught sooner.". [6], During interviews, Moore stated that both her husband and Reid felt depressed and suggested they had probably been taking arsenic themselvessomething investigators found highly improbable. He stuffed their bodies in barrels in the woods. Despite killing 11 of her own family members, Nannie Doss never broke a smile and was nicknamed "The Giggly Granny." Henry Louis Wallace was convicted of the murders of 10 young black women in Charlotte, North Carolina. So although it's hard to choose just one killer that terrorized the state, Robert Hansen seems to leave a really bone-chilling scare. "I came to feel that if the state could prove she actually wrote the chilling details in that letter, she had signed her own death warrant," Rabil wrote. There was no sign of forced entry, so police believe each victim let their murderer in voluntarily. She fought back and got away. 48 murders but was able to avoid the death sentence with a plea bargain. The nurse testified that Blanche often brought Reid food from home such as iced tea, frozen yogurt, milkshakes, and soups. She survived the attack. American serial killer H.H. Several weeks later, he was at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He is still in prison, 10 young people, earning him the title "The Co-ed Killer, convinced the FBI to let him out as an informant. . The town of Texarkana which spanned Texas and Arkansas lived in fear, as he apparently attacked eight people and killed five. Frederick Robert Klenner Jr. Frederick Rober Klenner Jr. was considered a mass murderer who killed several victims between 1984 and 1985. I have no doubt that I was poisoned," the Rev. The state had an easier time making such a complex case because Reid's ex-wife and sons sued Baptist Hospital for malpractice. As the cops circled in on him, he panicked and died by suicide without ever facing trial. Name: Date: Victims: Location : A: Quincy Javon ALLEN July-August 2002: 4: North Carolina, USA: Charlie Mason ALSTON Jr.: November 30, 1990 : 1: North Carolina, USA . ", Amy Anderson was the only woman to escape the clutches of Robert Leroy Anderson, authorities call him a serial killer that would have killed again if he had not been stopped, Corll had killed 28 boys in Texas just outside of Houston, He and the other accomplice are now serving their life sentence in prison, sentenced to death and met the electric chair in 1989, link him to a couple's murder in Burlington, Vermont, who killed four women in Southern Virginia, found guilty of raping and killing four women. The story goes that Bartlett ran an inn with her family where she is said to have poisoned the guests with arsenic and would then ditch the bodies in a local corral. The American "Jack the Ripper" later became known simply as the Atlanta Ripper. It's not likely Blanche Taylor Moore will meet that fate. She had too much to offer," Blanche's daughter, Cynthia Taylor Chatman told the Baltimore Sun in 1989. They later found 11 bodies just 50 feet from his home. However, it wasn't until he went on a 10-week bender in 1987 that he was finally caught and convicted. They ended the lives of the five young women within the span of about six months. He also had a history of psychological problems. She was just 19 years old when she murdered the children. Rogers is currently on death row. The police were suddenly struck by a smell escaping from the trunk of his car. A couple of days later, Steven had returned to school at East Carolina University when he got a call from Blanche telling him to get back to see his father as quickly as possible. In the 1980s, Harvey was a nurse's aid working at hospitals in Kentucky and Ohio, and he killed dozens of patients using cyanide, rat poison, and arsenic, according to WXIX. She flatly denied slipping arsenic to either of her husbands or Reid. She is also suspected of the death of her father, mother-in-law, and first husband and the attempted murder of her second husband in 1989. He was hunting women like wild animals. At least one-third of those murders were tribal women. A Supreme Court justice posed the question to state attorneys: "How do you tie the defendant into these similar poisoning incidents? Prosecutor Janet Branch ripped into Blanche Moore time and again, making dramatic and emotionally wrought statements to the jury. At each crime scene, he would leave a clue as to who he was. Former Forsyth County prosecutor Vince Rabil, along with Branch, was one of two attorneys tasked in 1990 with convicting Blanche Taylor Moore. In 2017, he was sentenced to 360 years in prison. "Babysitter from Hell" when she choked and killed five children in the early '80s, including an 8-month-old baby. he killed three boys, strangling them and taking bites into each. There is, of course, a Wikipedia page that purports to name every serial killer. She was known to switch from quoting Scripture to sexually explicit topics in the same breath. Price is currently in jail after confessing to the brutal murders. "We're talking about an average, ordinary neighborhood lady," former Alamance County Sheriff Richard Frye told The Associated Press in 1989. He told authorities he started his killing spree because his parents did not approve of his girlfriend, according to Wyoming History's website. John Richardson: Serial Murder Suspect Follow the investigation, Unmasked: My Life Solving Americas Cold Cases,. During his "60 Minutes" interview, he apologized for his crimes but said, "I don't know if I would have stopped.". APRIL 13: Richardson is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Hemphill. Rogers may be the murderer of Nicole Simpson not O.J. In the '90s, Paul Dennis Reid moved to Nashville to become a country music star. The story of The Black Widow, Blanche Taylor Moore. North Carolina by that accounting has had 266 victims of serial killers, and if you rank them by a ratio of 100,000 residents, thats 2.46, which ranks North Carolina roughly 34th nationally. David Parker Ray bought a $100,000 trailer. Bartlett is described as Wyoming's first and worst serial killer. In California, he was "Gordon Jensen" where he killed two other women who were mothers of his babies. In Utah, he murdered three women. [5] Within days of their return, Moore became severely ill and collapsed after eating a fast-food chicken sandwich that Blanche had given him. He would often lure them to him by faking an injury. Before earning this moniker, he killed his grandparents at 15 and was in jail for two years. Victims: Eight-200. But the jury disagreed, unanimously finding "the defendant, Blanche K. Taylor Moore, guilty of first-degree murder.". He drove her to a secluded area and sexually assaulted her in the front seat of his pick-up truck. the Jeffrey MacDonald case was North . Dwight Moore was the divorced pastor of what was then Carolina United Church of Christ in Alamance County. Doctors Lucas Wong, Jonathan Serody, Mark Murphy, and George Sanders, after discussions with the hospital toxicologist, ordered a toxicology screen to check for herbicide poisoning. killed 10 people in Wichita between 1974 and 1991, killing 17 people with an axe on behalf of the Church of Sacrifice. Although he killed women all over the country, Bundy made his way to Utah in 1974. When finally caught, Hansen confessed to murdering 17 people but was only convicted for four. The prosecution got a boost in the case just days before the trial when Forsyth County Superior Court Judge William Freeman ruled that prosecutors could discuss the poisonings James Taylor, Dwight Moore and Kiser even though the trial was only about the murder of Reid. ", During the capital sentencing phase, the jury found as aggravating circumstances that Blanche Moore was motivated to kill for financial gain and that Reid's murder was "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.". [7], In 1993, author Jim Schutze wrote a book about the murders, entitled Preacher's Girl. Authorities exhumed the bodies of Reid, Blanche's father, P.D. She currently resides at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women as prisoner #0288088. All over my body. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dr. John D. Butts, the state's chief medical examiner, concluded that "Reid died as a result of the complications of arsenic poisoning. One of the world's most prolific serial killers might still be out there. He wouldn't want to be cut on like this. James Taylor died on October 2, 1973; as with her father seven years earlier (1966), the cause of death was initially reported as a heart attack.[4][5]. Five other relatives, including his mother, were convicted of murder. Remarkably, Reid again improved. In the late '70s, Joubert made his fantasies a reality when he killed three boys, strangling them and taking bites into each. Can you imagine anything more pitiful in this whole world? August 14, 2002. [6] Schutze found evidence that seemed to indicate that Moore set up Hutton in the sexual harassment suit, and she may have intentionally set the two fires. Here's a list of men, women, and, yes, even families who were serial killers in every state across the United States. In 1994, the high court concluded that Moore had received a fair trial and rejected the defense's motions. Brenda Green, a Kroger co-worker, testified that she heard Blanche recommend Anti-Ant to a customer as a good ant killer. The Southside Strangler, Richmond unmondoaccanto (blog) Timothy Spencer, better remembered as the Southside Strangler, began his killing spree as early as 1984. 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He is currently on death row, waiting to fulfill his death sentence. He was found guilty on all 33 counts of murder and was put to death in 1994. An article in The Boston Globe said it best: "He stabbed four of his neighbors to death in their own homes before he was old enough to drive.". It's hard to pin down Terry Peder Rasmussen. Ten days later, she got a stay of execution pending an appeal. She's going to come back out and she's going to testify eventually, and her response to it is, 'you'll see. Later, Anderson would be charged with two murders: Larisa Dumansky in 1994 and Piper Streyle in 1996. He was executed in 1985. She has been at the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh since Nov. 16, 1990. Between 1962 and 1964, Boston was plagued with a serial killer. Bush condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait. operating in a way that allows them to stay hidden, as DeAngelo had. She'll likely die from cancer (which she's fought in the past) or natural causes rather than for her crimes. Harvey was convicted of 37 murders and sentenced to multiple life sentences. Harvey Glenn McLeod, on May 29, 1972, in Raleigh killed four women and injured seven before committing suicide. They nicknamed him "The Green River Killer.". But investigators believe this serial killer murdered at least 11 people around the country. GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) The family of one of John Richardsons victims says he is a serial killer. In 2011, Bill and Lorraine Currier were asleep in their home when Keyes broke in and caused a "blitz attack," waking them from their sleep and dragging them to his car. Gaskins claimed he killed 200 hitchhikers. More troubling for the defense, a nurse testified that she saw Blanche bring peanut butter milkshakes, banana pudding, tomato pudding, corn bread, and milk for Reid and feeding him herself. According to several witnesses, Blanche told doctors in the moments after Reid's death that "We cannot have an autopsy. He and the other accomplice are now serving their life sentence in prison. He buried the bodies in his "garden" behind a strip mall as a memorial. And he loves her with all his heart," she said, describing Reid as he lay dying in the hospital. The relationship deepened, and marriage was discussed. His arsenic levels were 60 times higher than normal. Since he was a minor at the time, he has not been sentenced for those crimes. In the mid-'80s the tropical utopia was gripped with fear when five bodies were found near water. He died in prison in 2014 at 75. All five were women ranging in age from 17 to 36, Hawaii News Now reports. She wrote music in the past and spends her time writing poetry. Although Harvey Robinson is known for being a young serial killer, Craig Price from Rhode Island was even younger. That murderer turned out to be David Meirhofer, who confessed to four other murders during a four-hour interrogation. Her time there has been mostly uneventful, marked by two violations, one for disobeying orders on Feb. 22, 2008, and more alarmingly, for misuse of medicine in November 1996. The smell of decay was overwhelming. An Alford plea means that Williams admits that prosecutors have enough evidence to obtain a conviction, were the case to go to trial. The arsenic in Reid's brain tissue was approximately 67 times higher than normal. Ed Gein seems like a character out of a horror movie. when their vehicle blew up on NC 150 in Summerfield, That story became the basis of the book and TV miniseries Bitter Blood.. In 1994, Amy Anderson was the only woman to escape the clutches of Robert Leroy Anderson. On some occasions, he would have sex with the corpses. Will Harris on Nov. 1, 1906, in Asheville killed five women and injured 12 before being killed by an angry mob. Those victims include his cousin/girlfriend Susie Newsom Lynch of Rockingham County and her two children, who died when their vehicle blew up on NC 150 in Summerfield in 1985 while the police pursued them. Blanche Taylor Moore hears the jury's verdict at her murder trial in Winston-Salem. ", Strengthening the state's case, Dr. Vincent Guinn, a chemistry professor at the University of California-Irvine and an expert in the field of nuclear chemistry, concluded that the arsenic levels found in Reid's hair corresponded "to a long period of ingestion of arsenic, multiple ingestions. Hes not the first one police have encountered in Greensboro. Wallace even attended some of their funerals. In 1962, she began an affair with Raymond Reid, the store manager. Dennis Lynn Rader is better known by his other name: the "BTK Killer." Let it come. Kimball killed his uncle, his cellmate's girlfriend, and a 19-year-old girl. Other killers are so famous they are known all over the country, like Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer, and John Wayne Gacy. He confessed to several other murders just before dying in prison, according to the Star Tribune. In fact, she denied ever seeing him "have any food at all during that time" or having ever taken food to him in the hospital. By 1932, he killed and robbed five people, according to the New York Daily News. Two years after his death, a small town in North Dakota learned Butler may have been a serial killer. The most prolific serial killer in American history (he killed nearly 100 women between 1982-1989), Utah native Gary Ridgway was the focus of one of the nation's largest and longest manhunts. He was eventually murdered in prison. The investigators had their guy: a seemingly harmless man who was a father, a husband, and an electrician. We just - we cannot have one. Charlene would kidnap the girls and lure them in with the false promise of safety. But in interviews with the Baltimore Sun for a 1989 story, other workers called her "vindictive," and "two-faced.". According to Jim Schutze's 1993 book about the case, "Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore," he met Blanche on Easter Sunday 1985 and the two began spending time together. He died later that day, and court records allege that Richardson had taken Gilberts car, phone and wallet. In doing so, the Supreme Court justices noted that "the State presented extensive circumstantial evidence marking the similarities between Reid's death and the arsenic poisoning death of Taylor and the arsenic poisoning of Moore. She pled guilty and said she killed the children she babysat for because she had to satisfy a sudden urge to choke them, according to The New York Times. 2) Delfina and Mara de Jess Gonzlez. "I know everyone wants to know why I committed these crimes. Although Carroll Edward Cole's crimes weren't committed in Iowa, he grew up in the state that seemingly shaped his life into a serial killer. In fact, Gaskins claimed he killed 200 hitchhikers. APRIL 14: The Henry County Sheriffs Office in Virginia notifies detectives that Goolsbys remains had been dropped into the Mayo River from a bridge on George Taylor Road in Spencer, Virginia. Woodfield didn't become well known as a football player. Mitchell's body did not have elevated levels of arsenic. Albert DeSalvo confessed to all 13 murders, but his story didn't fully add up. Dean Corll is the reason your parents probably told you to never take candy from strangers. He would attack women during their daily lives. Reid, not known as someone who got sick much, missed more than four weeks of work during the next few months. In 2016, police received a 911 call just outside of Columbus, Ohio. The wedding date was pushed back to November 1988,[5] but Moore developed a mysterious intestinal ailment that required two surgeries to correct. Like his more famous namesake, this ripper . On May 31, 2003, Rudolph was arrested by police officer J.S. Authorities also link him to a couple's murder in Burlington, Vermont. . Although he only killed two women, authorities call him a serial killer that would have killed again if he had not been stopped. In New Hampshire, he was known as "Bob Evans" who killed one woman and three small children. Henry Louis Wallace, Harrison Graham, and Samuel Little are some of the leading on the list. In each case, defendant had motive (financial), opportunity (close relationship), and means (knowledge of and access to Anti-Ant). 20 of the most infamous female killers Stephanie Ashe Dorothea Puente with attorney Kevin Clymo during her arraignment in municipal court. A few days later, Whisenhant returned to her body and mutilated it. On April 19, 1989, the couple were married and honeymooned over a long weekend in New Jersey. Moore was then admitted to North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Known as the Volga Maniac, this Russian serial killer struck in . Wayne is in jail for two other murders and has never been tried for the Atlanta Child Murders, but there is evidence that points to him, including the fact that fibers from his home and dog were found on the victims. Society is so quick to put monikers on people, name tags. In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and his accomplice, Roy Norris, terrorized the Los Angeles area. In the letter, Thomas allegedly confessed to killing Reid and trying to fatally poison Reid. Harry F. Powers bought a subscription and listed an alias. They only knew the suspect as "The Southside Strangler." The Phantom Killer was never identified, but the terror he left in the small town was never lost, ultimately inspiring the classic horror film "The Town that Dreaded Sundown.". 3. The serial killer committed the crimes between May 1992 and March 1994. . Prosecutors said Burch shot him twice in the head with a .22-caliber rifle as he sat on the couch. [2] He was sentenced to death for his crimes in South Carolina, and is currently awaiting execution. But as the guilty plea was read and jurors filed past, she wept. William Devin Howell can best be described as a drifter. While excavating his former home, they found the bodies of six boys and young men buried under the floorboards. She maintains her innocence to this day. Yet Moore was convicted of murder in the 1986 arsenic-poisoning death of her boyfriend, Raymond Carlton Reid Sr. A book would be written, and a TV movie made. He hanged himself in jail just hours after confessing. Four days after the photo was taken, Anderson took his life in prison. Just as fast as the killings started, they suddenly stopped. They discovered that her first husband as well as Reid had died under suspicious circumstances. Here's what Insider had to say: Nineteen-year-old Barnanbet confessed to killing 17 people with an axe on behalf of the Church of Sacrifice. Henry Louis Wallace (born November 4, 1965) is an American serial killer who killed eleven black women in South Carolina and North Carolina from March 1990 to March 1994. The case remains open. There also was media infamy for the story of Frederick Robert Fritz Klenner, who is charged with killing eight family members in North Carolina and Kentucky. Shawn Grate was taken out of the home in handcuffs and later confessed to killing five women. Moore was charged as a serial killerbecause she is believed to have killed a series of people since 1966, including her father, a mother-in-law, a husband and almost a second husband. A couple months after she quit, Blanche had Ray Reid over on New Year's Eve and served him some of her homemade potato soup. In fact, some of the furnishings were made of body parts. Donald Harry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. Thirteen women were killed in their own homes. Postell while rummaging through a trash bin behind a rural . This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Kroger made Reid move around quite a bit, transferring him several times in 1979 and 1980 until he became a store manager at a Winston-Salem location. "That in and of itself should have run up the reasonable-doubt flag for the jury, but I'm afraid there was just too much poison and too many different people. Moore had a particularly robust constitution and survived. In some cases, he would break into the victim's home. Each state has a connection to an infamous serial killer. Instead, he was known as the I-5 killer after he murdered over 40 people along the interstate in Oregon state in the early '80s.

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