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Serial killer to die in jail: Paul Steven Haigh, 51, was given six life sentences with no parole for a killing spree that included the murder of a young boy.

Serial killer confesses to two more murders: Mahanand Naik, who has been arrested in Goa for murdering women after luring them with marriage proposals, on Tuesday confessed to the killing of two more young women, taking the number of his victims to nine.

Shop gunman wanted to bea serial killer: A paranoid schizophrenic who gunned down a father-of-11 at a newsagent was plotting to become an infamous serial killer.

Suspected Serial Killer Ruled Competent To Stand Trial: Suspected serial killer Anthony Kirkland is competent to stand trial for allegedly killing three area women, according to a court-appointed psychiatrist.

Teen Speaks About Alleged Serial Killer: The daughter of one of trucker Bruce Mendenhall’s alleged victims breaks her silence after nearly two years.

I had a request to try and put a post together about Maury Travis. He’s an African-American serial killer who targeted prostitutes between 2000 and 2002 in Missouri. He killed atleast 12 but has claimed 17. Travis, a 36-year-old hotel waiter, hanged himself in jail before admitting to any of the murders.

He was known to videotape his victims as he tortured them in his home. He even called one tape “Your Wedding Day.” The tapes were so graphic that the Police Chief ordered psychological counseling for the officers who viewed them.

It was hard to find information on him for some reason. I did manage to find a few websites though. You can find more information at francesfarmersrevenge.com and SerialKillerDataBase.Net.

Sometimes I wonder why some killers have pages and pages of information while others have barely a page at all. Does it have to do with race? Does it have to do with location? Is it because he killed himself before he confessed? There aren’t many black serial killers, that we know of anyway, so you’d think that when one is caught, there’d be all kinds of information on them. It’s almost the opposite.

Why do you think that some serial killers are more well known or have more information available then others?

I’m a Mark Harmon fan and stumbled upon the movie Ann Rule’s And Never Let Her Go. It shouldn’t be a shock to see Harmon in the “bad guy” role since he played Ted Bundy. The movie also stars Kathryn Morris from “Cold Case.”

Here’s some information about the book since I couldn’t find much on the movie.

Thomas Capano was a powerful man in Delaware. The golden child of a respected immigrant family, he had everything most people could ever hope for: money, a family he adored, widespread respect and admiration. His former lover Anne Marie Fahey was never that lucky. Her youth was a seemingly endless string of heartbreak, disappointment, and misery. Somehow, though, she managed to get through it all–her mother’s death, abuse from her alcoholic father, devastating poverty–and make a niche for herself as a trusted secretary to Delaware’s governor. Thirty years old, she had a whole new life ahead of her. She’d met a young man whom she hoped to someday marry and start a family with, and she finally seemed able to put her past behind her.

But Thomas Capano did not want to be put behind anyone. It was his sheer arrogance–the arrogance that couldn’t accept rejection, that couldn’t fathom being caught and convicted–that killed Anne Marie Fahey, and Ann Rule’s telling of Fahey’s story reveals the mind of a true monster. Capano’s narcissism prevented him from feeling anything for anyone but himself, but the gripping narrative of And Never Let Her Go is surely the story that Fahey and her family would have wanted to be told.

And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer, the book, is only $7.99.

I found a new Zodiac article today. I’ve said it before but I really hope this case is never solved. I know that the families of the victims probably disagree but there’s just something about an unsolved case that gives me goosebumps.

Roll Of Film Could Hold Answers In Zodiac Case

Here are a few little peices from the article:

Last year, Dennis Kaufman began supplying the FBI with evidence attempting to prove his stepfather, Jack Tarrance, is the zodiac killer.

The evidence included envelopes for DNA testing and a hood resembling one worn by the zodiac in 1969 during an attack.

He gave three rolls to the FBI and the remaining 16 rolls he turned over to Stephen Dewhurst, a professor at Northern Arizona University

In one hazy photo, Dewhurst believes he see a woman’s naked, decapitated body from the stump of her neck to her mid torso.

I’m selling a lot of 7 Patricia Cornwell books on Ebay. The books are used and varry in condition. Some have writing on them, bent corners and the typical wear and tear a book endures over time. The starting bid is only $3.99 with media mail shipping at $3. I’m just trying to clean out some books and make room for new additions. My grandmother gave them too me and I really have no desire to read them. If you have any questions just ask and feel free to spread the info around!

Amazon is having a sale on Real Mystery and Suspense DVD’s! Some are even 50% off. Here’s a sample of what’s waiting for you.

History’s Mysteries - Hunt for Jack the Ripper (A&E DVD Archives) ($14.99): Many serial killers were more brutal. Others slaughtered more often. But Jack the Ripper remains the world’s most infamous murderer. Who was this butcher that baffled Scotland Yard’s best minds? Today’s foremost Ripper experts offer insights into the madman’s mind and theories of who he really was.

The Staircase ($19.99): One of the most highly acclaimed documentaries in recent years, this shocking, real-life thriller follows the high-profile murder trial of North Carolina author Michael Peterson, who was arraigned in 2001 for the murder of his wife after her body is discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of the couple’s upscale Durham home. Did Kathleen Peterson fall down the stairs, or was it cold-blooded murder? As the mystery unravels, de Lestrade’s cameras are granted unusual access to Peterson’s lawyers, home, and immediate family, resulting in a gripping, inside look at a case so shocking, it is sure to leave you gasping for breath.

Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills ($13.49): On May 6, 1993, the mutilated bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found in a shallow creek in West Memphis, Arkansas. A short time later police arrested three local teenagers, linking the boys’ killings to a satanic ritual. One of the boys confessed. The intriguing court case was about to unfold as filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky ventured forth to make this documentary.

Police in LA are looking for a serial killer dubbed The Grim Sleeper, who’s said to be responsible for 11 murders. He’s been “working” since 1985 and then disappeared in 2007. He was nicknamed the Grim Sleeper because he seemed to take a break between homicides. This just goes to show that serial killers aren’t things of the past or always heard about in the national news. Here’s an article about the story.

Police hunt ‘Grim Sleeper’ serial killer
Los Angeles police are searching for a serial killer dubbed the “Grim Sleeper,” who is thought to have killed 11 people.

The killer, who police say murdered from 1985 to 2007, was nicknamed the Grim Sleeper because he seemed to take a break between homicides, police said.

Authorities this week released a 9-1-1 tape recorded shortly after a killing in 1987, in the hope of producing clues.

“Yes … I’d like to report a murder,” an anonymous caller says on the tape. “The guy that dropped her off was driving a white and blue Dodge van. He threw her out. … He threw a gas tank on top of her. All that you can see sticking out is her feet.” Watch the hunt for a serial killer »

Police found the scene just as the caller described and found the van. But they are still searching for the caller and members of the now-defunct church that owned the van.

The killer is wanted in 11 deaths and another homicide attempt, police say.

Detectives say they have the Grim Sleeper’s DNA, and a $500,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and prosecution. The killer shot his victims, police said.

Porter Alexander has waited two decades for the Grim Sleeper’s arrest. His daughter Alicia Alexander became the Grim Sleeper’s eighth victim in 1988, police say.

“No one should have to face anything like this,” he said. “To experience their daughters or sons taken away as early as she was.”

Source: CNN.com

The Alphabet Killer stars Eliza Dushku and Timothy Hutton. The movie is loosely based on the true case called The Alphabet Murders or The Double Inital Murders that took place in Rochester, NY in the early 1970’s. Three young girls (10 & 11) sexually attacked and murdered and the killer has never been caught. The investigation weilded a few suspects but nothing panned out. One suspect was Kenneth Bianchi but you may know him as half of the serial killing team, The Hillside Stranglers.

Here’s the plot as posted in Wikipedia:

Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku) is an investigator for the Rochester Police Department who is assigned to investigate the murder of a young girl named Carla Castillo, whose body is found in the nearby village of Churchville covered in cat hair. Against opposition of her colleagues and partner-boyfriend Kenneth Shine (Cary Elwes), Megan insists that the murder is a work of a serial killer. Despite Megan’s considerable efforts, she fails to catch the killer. Stress and obsession of the investigation causes Megan to hallucinate the victim’s image. She ultimately has a nervous breakdown and tries to commit suicide.

Following two years of medical treatment and attending mental illness support group headed by Richard Ledge (Timothy Hutton), Megan rejoins the police department in a clerical Job. However following a similar murder of another young girl Wendy Walsh whose body is found in Webster covered in cat hair, Megan insists on reentering the investigation. Partnering with Steven Harper (Tom Malloy), they try to find common threads between two girls. But no sooner does she start the investigation, another girl named Melissa Maestro is killed. They find number of commonalities between Wendy and Melissa, but fail to connect these to the first victim. Meanwhile, Webster police department who is also working on the case, receives a call from 19 year old Elizabeth Eckers that she is being kidnapped in a house. Convinced that the suspect is not the Alphabet killer, Megan tries to stop the police raid but fails to do so. The police declare that they have killed the Alphabet killer and provide evidences present in the house including same cat hair as seen on three victims.

Certain that the Webster police planted the evidence in order to justify killing the innocent, Megan continues the investigation on her own. On revisiting her first case, Megan finally finds that all three girls attended the St. Michaels Church in Rochester. Still suffering hallucination of victims, Megan visits the church and tries the question the pastor but suffers another breakdown and is hospitalized. Megan flees from the hospital and takes refuge in Richard’s home. There she finds that Richard used to work for the St. Michaels Church and is in fact the killer, but before she could act Richard knocks her unconscious and drives off to a remote place to kill her. Megan however eludes him and ultimately shoots him. Richard falls into a stream of water nearby. Unsure whether Richard is dead and confused by her surroundings, she suffers another breakdown.

Finally, Megan is hospitalized and kept under intensive psychiatric care. Richard survives the attack and is seen in a church at unknown location.

I haven’t seen the movie and it’s received average reviews. You can visit the official website by clicking here. If you’ve seen the movie and you’d like to write a review, please let me know!

I was doing a search for some news and came across this:

Former GUNS N’ ROSES drummer Steven Adler will portray Stevie in “Dahmer vs. Gacy”, an action/comedy about Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy battling it out helmed by and starring Ford Austin. Adler reportedly plays a guy that Jeffrey Dahmer picks up at a bar and then later murders by sticking a drill into his head.

Source: RoadRunnerRecords.Com.

I haven’t been able to find much more about this movie but it does have an IMDB page.

It does remind me of the South Park epsiode though where Satan was having a Sweet 16 Halloween Party and wanted Bundy, Gacy and Dahmer to go pick up his Ferrari cake but imagine that, they start killing people and it turns into a Three Stoogies bit.

I wasn’t around much in 1982 seeing how I wasn’t born until December of that year but a case that took over the country were the Chicago Tylenol murders. Seven people died that year when they took Tylenol that was tainted with potassium cyanide, including a 12 year old girl. It’s the 25th anniversary of the events and that’s caused the FBI to take another look at the case. They believe that they might have finally solved the case. You’ll find an article below with some interesting information.

Report: Court documents link Cambridge man to 1982 Tylenol killings

Cambridge — Decades-old court records reveal that top government officials believed at the time a Cambridge man was the Tylenol killer, according to ABC 7, the ABC affiliate in Chicago.

In 1989, the U.S. Parole Commission concluded that James Lewis, the Gore Street man who was convicted of extortion in the 1982 case Tylenol killings, was in fact the “Tylenol murderer.”

The FBI last week recovered evidence from Lewis’ apartment, but the agency was careful not to say what they were looking for. Lewis has not been charged.

Seven people died in the Chicago area after ingesting Tylenol laced with cyanide, a case that has confounded investigators. Although Lewis was never charged with the killings, he was convicted of trying to extort $1 million from the manufacturer of Tylenol in exchange for a halt to the killings. He served 12 years in federal prison.

“I believe that the evidence which was out there would lead a rational person to conclude that Lewis was in fact the murderer,” Anton Valukas, a former U.S. Attorney who wrote to the Parole Commission saying that evidence suggested Lewis was the one who laced extra-strength Tylenol with cyanide.

Not only did Valukas provide the commission a letter stating that Lewis “had committed one of the most heinous crimes in America,” but he also provided the group a copy of a threatening letter written by Lewis to then-President Reagan, threatening to kill the President with a “remote controlled airplace and murder more innocents with cyanide-laced Tylenol,” according to the station.

Jeremy Margolis, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, who was involved in the case, also said Lewis cooperated with the FBI on the Tylenol killings, but never admitted he was involved in the murders.

“”He provided us with manuscripts and reams of documents suggesting various ways it could have happened,” Margolis told ABC 7. “And he drew a series of diagrams-pen and ink drawings-suggesting how the person could have loaded the cyanide into capsules. He never admitted that he did it. But he was speculating how it might have happened.”

After getting out of prison, Lewis did have two run-ins with the law. He was charged with killing and dismembering a man in Kansas City, Mo., in 1978, but the case was thrown out, according to the Associated Press. In 2004, Lewis was charged with kidnapping, drugging and raping a woman in his apartment, but the charges were later dismissed.

Source: Daily News Transcript