The state of Nevada has almost 100 serial killer killings, with 12 people dying of a serial murder. In 2003, multiple prostitutes went missing near Las Vegas. They all had similar looks, with blonde hair, brown eyes, a height of 5’5”, and similar builds. All of them went missing about the same time. They were found weeks and sometimes even months later, their bodies wrapped up in plastics and found in different locations in the country around Las Vegas. Out of the eight women, 3 had the same middle name, Marie. One night, a prostitute shot Neal Falls to death after he tried to harm her. With evidence, they concluded Falls to be the culprit behind all the prostitute killings.
Alaska, surprisingly, has the highest violent crime rate in the country.
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Joshua Wade went through the state, annihilating dozens of people. In the early 2000s, Wade was arrested for five of his kills, but due to a lack of evidence, he was let go. After being cleared of charges, he snuck into a woman’s house and kidnapped her. He drove up north to a city called Wasilla, where he killed her. The police charged him with that murder and arrested him, and he is currently serving his time in federal prison. The most deadly serial killer in Alaska is Robert Hansen, killing seventeen women between the years 1980 and 1990 (Coletta). In the recent years, serial killers have started using more modern ways to kill their victims. Using the Internet and social media has been more prevalent in murders. The Internet is just another hunting ground for serial killers. An Internet homicide refers to a killing in which victim and perpetrator met online (“Internet homicide”, 2011). There are two different ways a serial killer uses the Internet to kill, either by finding victims, meeting them in person, and then killing them or by chatting online and getting people to kill themselves. Going online gives killers a limitless selection of victims. Miranda Barbour and her husband used Craigslist to find their victims in 2013. Barbour was