May 01, 2012
Prosecutor Won't Call Murder Suspect Serial Killer
An Indiana prosecutor says he's not ready to accuse a man charged in the deaths of two women of being a serial killer, though the slayings seem to meet the definition. Fifty-four-year-old William Clyde Gibson was charged last week with murder in the deaths of a 75-year-old family friend found dead April 19 in Gibson's New Albany home and the 2002 death of Florida hairdresser whose body was found near the Ohio River. Police also are investigating the death of a 35-year-old woman whose body was found Friday in Gibson's backyard. Read more...
April 12, 2012
Charles Manson Denied Parole Again
Saying he shows no signs of rehabilitation, a California Parole Board has denied parole for Charles Manson, leader of a 60s cult responsible for the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969. It was the 12th time that Manson has been denied parole since his death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1977. Manson did not attend his parole hearing at Corcoran State Prison. Read more...
April 06, 2012
Flashback: Charles Manson
In 1969 Charlie Manson emerged from his prison cell onto the streets of Haight-Ashbury and soon became the leader of followers who became forever known as the Family. How did this unkept, unattractive little man become the leader of a murderous cult that committed some of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century? Read more...
Serial Killer's Letters Sped Up Execution?
Serial killer David Alan Gore is set to be executed sooner than he expected, in part because he could not stop bragging about raping and murdering four teenagers and two women in Florida three decades ago. An author published the inmate's grotesque letters, and a newspaper columnist and editorial board brought the case to the attention of Florida Gov. Rick Scott. The Republican promptly signed the death warrant, even though more than 40 other men have been on death row longer. Read more...
April 02, 2012
Sheriff Wants to Dig Up Gacy Yards
An Illinois sheriff hopes to excavate a Cook County backyard in hopes of finding more victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the Chicago Tribune reported. Gacy, convicted of killing 33 boys and young men and then stuffing them in the crawl space beneath his house, was executed in 1994. But Anita Alvarez, the state's attorney for Cook County, has so far denied Sheriff Tom Dart's request, saying the sheriff does not have enough new information to merit a warrant. Read more...
Texas Nurse Convicted in Bleach Deaths
A former Texas nurse accused of killing five of her patients and injuring five others by injecting bleach into their kidney dialysis tubing was found guilty of capital murder. Kimberly Clark Saenz, 38, was fired in April 2008 after a rash of illnesses and deaths at a Lufkin dialysis clinic run by Denver-based health care giant DaVita Inc. She was charged a year later. Read more...
March 26, 2012
Woman Says Serial Killer Raped Her in 1961
A 74-year-old woman who says she was raped in California over 50 years ago by the man accused of the serial "Alphabet Murders" could become a key witness in his trial, but said police at the time treated her as if she were to blame. If the woman is called to testify in the trial of Joseph Naso, 78, who is accused of killing two Northern California prostitutes in the 1970s and two more in the 1990s, her testimony could help prosecutors show he has displayed a long pattern of sexual violence. Read more...
March 13, 2012
Killer Hints at 72 More Victims
A local television station in Sacramento has received more letters from a convicted serial killer who claims he can lead authorities to dozens of victims of his former codefendant and a third man. Wesley Shermantine claims Loren Herzog, and a man the station is not naming, had as many as 72 victims. Shermantine says he will begin revealing the location of their bodies when he receives $33,000 promised to him by bounty hunter Leonard Padilla. Read more...
March 12, 2012
'Speed Freak Killer' Sends New Letter
A Sacramento television station has received a second letter from serial killer Wesley Shermantine, with it claiming that he knows of more than 70 murder victims. Shermantine wrote reporter CBS-13 Koula Gianulias saying that his accomplice, Loren Herzog, and a third man killed 72 people. The station did not identify the third man. Read more...
March 08, 2012
Dead Inmate Killed Up to 20
A man convicted of murdering three women and who died in prison in 1996 killed four other women between 1979 and 1988 and might be responsible for as many as 20 homicides, authorities said. Vincent Groves, a tall hulking athlete who was a member of a state basketball championship team in the 1970s, strangled most of his victims, said Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey. Read more...
March 05, 2012
Company Sponsors 'Jeffrey Dalmer Tour'
A Milwaukee marketing company is selling tickets for a 'Jeffrey Dalmer Walking Tour' that features sites where the serial killer stalked his victims. The tour has drawn complaints from the family members of some of Dalmer's victims. Read more...
March 03, 2012
Some Upset About Dahmer Walking Tour
A marketing group in Wisconsin wants to give walking tours of the bar where serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer met and hung out with some of his victims. But when victims' families and others found out about the tours this week through a Groupon promotion for a cut-rate tour, they started calling for the tour, which they described as insensitive and in poor taste, to end. Read more...
February 20, 2012
More Human Remains Found on Long Island
Police said that more human remains have been found on New York's Long Island, in the same area where authorities are hunting for a possible serial killer. The Suffolk County Police Department said the remains -- confirmed to be human -- were discovered by a man walking his dog in Manorville, N.Y. Read more...
Speed Freak Killer Cites More Bodies
Sacramento television station CBS-13 has received a letter it says is from serial killer Wesley Shermantine claiming he knows of sites where the bodies of additional victims were dumped. The station reports that in a letter with Shermatine's signature from San Quentin State Prison, the convicted killer says there are two locations where his accomplice, Loren Herzog, disposed of two victims. Shermantine says he hasn't revealed the locations because he hasn't been paid $33,000 promised by bounty hunter Leonard Padilla. Read more...
February 16, 2012
Serial Killer's Tips Leads to Burial Sites
Investigators have found almost 1,000 human bone fragments in an old abandoned California well as they excavate one of five burial sites marked on a serial killer's map. The bones are believed to be the victims of the 'Speed Freak Killers' who were convicted of seven murders, but were suspected in many more. Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog, who were childhood friends, are suspected in dozens of deaths in California in the 1980s and 1990s. Read more...
February 15, 2012
Did John Wayne Gacy Have Accomplices?
Chicago law enforcement officials are investigating the possibility that a notorious serial killer, who was executed 20 years ago, may have had accomplices to several of his murders. Authorities are looking into the possibility that John Wayne Gacy had help with killing some of his victims. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced the investigation after two defense attorneys presented evidence that pointed to more than one killer. Read more...
February 13, 2012
More Remains Found in With Killer's Help
Authorities searching with the help of a convicted serial killer found more human remains Saturday — the first bones discovered at an abandoned well on a cattle ranch where a death row inmate claimed 10 or more victims may be buried, authorities said. The discovery marked the third straight day that remains were found with a map prepared by Wesley Shermantine. He and his childhood friend, Loren Herzog, were called the "Speed Freak Killers" for a methamphetamine-fueled killing spree that had as many as 15 victims. Two sets of remains had been found Thursday and Friday near property once owned by Shermantine's family about 60 miles south of Sacramento. Read more...
February 11, 2012
Serial Killer Gacy Had Accomplices
Nearly two decades after Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed for torturing, raping and murdering 33 men and boys in the 1970s, two lawyers say they've unearthed evidence that indicates he didn't act alone in some of the slayings. Criminal defense attorneys Robert Stephenson and Steven Becker, who are partners in a Chicago law practice, said they re-examined the circumstances surrounding the disappearances of some of the victims. Their conclusion: the so-called "Killer Clown" had at least three accomplices. Read more...
January 24, 2012
DNA Nabs New York Serial Killer
DNA has identified another cold case serial killer. More than a decade later, the cases of three murdered women have been linked to a prisoner serving a drunk driving conviction who was up for parole after volunteering a DNA sample. Instead, he was sentenced last week to 75 years to life in prison. Until he submitted his DNA, Francisco Acevedo wasn't even a suspect in the Yonkers, New York murders. Read more...
Serial Killer Ordered to Stand Trial
A suspected serial killer will stand trial for the decades-old murders of four Northern California women. A Marin County Superior Court judge ruled that prosecutors presented enough evidence against 78-year-old Joseph Naso. Naso is accused of killing two women in the 1970s and another two in the 1990s, and dumping their naked bodies in rural areas. Read more...
