On a cool day in Salt Lake City Utah, Gary "Green River Killer" Ridgway was born. July 7th 1982 was a day that would start the change of history in forensic science, this was the day waitress Amina Agisheff would leave for work and never be found alive again. This event started a killing spree that stretched potentially 19 grueling years. The very next day Ridgway kills Wendy Coffield a runaway teen. About one month later Debra Estes reported a man in a blue and white pickup truck who offered the girl a lift but then brandished a pistol and forced her to pleasure him sexually.
Background: Gary Ridgway remains one of the most prolific serial killers in history. He haunted police for years, earning the nickname “The Green River Killer” when investigators uncovered five of his victims near Green River. As a child Ridgway was determined to have a low IQ and was the target of abuse at school and at home. At only 16 years old, Ridgway exhibited violent behavior, stabbing a 6-year-old boy. Sexual Depravities: Mary Ridgway, Gary’s mother, often told her son inappropriate stories about her work in the men’s section of a department store.
I. Case Assignment Elements A. Introduction Altemio Sanchez a fifty-eight-year-old male of Hispanic descent also known as the Bike Path Killer was born on January 19, 1958. He was originally born in Sabastian, Puerto Rican but later moved to New York. B. Intelligence, Scholastic achievement, social adjustment in school Altemio graduated from Grover Cleveland High School where he was very involved and played sports. He was enrolled at Buffalo State College in an industrial Arts program later dropped out when his girlfriend Kathleen Whitley became pregnant and later married at twenty-two years old. C. Family structure and environment Sanchez is the youngest of four siblings of his brother and two sisters.
Randall Woodfield, or better known as the I-5 Killer, has officially been linked to seven killings, however, some people believe that he is responsible for upwards of 44 as well as 60 sexual assault incidents. Woodfield’s first major crimes started out with him holding women at knifepoint and forcing them to perform oral sex on him, and then he would rob their purses. This was quickly put to an end however and was sentenced to 10 years in jail, but got out early on parole. After being released, Woodfield escalated his crimes to murder and rape. His first incident of this was with a woman named Cherie Ayers, an x-ray technician who he had known since second grade.
On January 29, 1991, a vile crime occurred in the Heikkila home in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Twenty-year-old Matthew Heikkila, the adopted son of Richard and Dawn Heikkila loaded up a “sawed-off 20-gauge shotgun” (Sullivan). He labeled shotgun shells “Mom” and “Dad”, and shot his parents both in the head. Matthew plotted the murder to get the chance to steal his parent’s credit cards, and treat his girlfriend to a birthday dinner. Matthew then left his parent’s dead bodies on the floor of his home and he and his girlfriend enjoyed a night in NYC.
Arthur Shawcross, otherwise known as “The Genesee River Killer”, was a serial killer most famous for the murder of eleven women in the upstate New York area from 1988 to 1990. However, these were not his only crimes. In the year 1972, he was also arrested for the murder of two children. Shortly after his arrest, Shawcross was released on parole and had his criminal records sealed in order to prevent a public panic at this newly released child murderer.
His modus operandi was always the same he struck near the rail lines he illegally rode, then stowed away on the next freight train to come his way. Always ahead of the law. Angel Maturino Resendez, 39 years old, was apprehended early this month (July, 1999) after eluding state police for two years and slipping through a two-month FBI net until, after nine alleged murders, he was finally traced and captured by a determined Texas Ranger. Known, for apparent reasons, as “The Railroad Killer,” Angel Resendez (who was known throughout much of the manhunt by the alias Rafael Ramirez) has been called “a man with a grudge,” “confused,” hostile” and “angry” by the police, the news media and psychiatrists.
Today, there is nearly a total of three thousand serial killers and ten thousand victims of their violent rampage in the United States. Part of those ten thousand victims are the eight, casualties of Dayton Leroy Rogers, aka The Molalla Forest Killer. Although their deaths were unfair and tragic, Roger’s experience allowed for more information to be contributed to help solve and prevent future crimes. Born in Idaho on September 30, 1953 and quickly moved to Oregon, Rogers was enrolled into a life full of crime, already shooting cars with BB guns in the seventh grade. By the time he was nineteen his desire for crime was fulfilled when he reached over to kiss a girl on their second date, but “according to police reports, he stabbed her in
Joseph DeAngleo, also known as the Golden State Killers, was a serial killer, rapist, and stalker during the 1970s and 1980s. From 1976 to 1979, more than 40 rapes were committed in northern California by an assailant called East Area Rapist. From 1979 to 1986, a serial killer by the name of the Original Night Stalker killed 10 people. In 2001, DNA analysis determined that all these crimes were committed by the same perpetrator. The “Golden State Killer” was the labeled name, given by crime writer Michelle McNamara.
A horrible tragedy of three ruined lives, a brutally murdered 14 year old, and life imprisonments of two teenage killers (Linder, 1). Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two extremely intelligent young men with a crazed affection for each other, shocked many people by the gruesomeness and the nature of the murder of Bobby Franks. In Chicago, 1924, the radio was just making an entrance into social life, cultural norms were changing as the economy boomed, and traditional views on life began to change to be more contemporary (History.com Staff). Leopold and Loeb were fearless, living the fast life of robbing and conning, when they decided to commit the perfect, unsolvable, murder. They had no want or even reason to kill, but to experience the thrill of adrenaline flow through them (Linder, 2).
Once a young innocent boy, Joe Sullivan, a thirteen year old boy who suffered from mental disabilities from ignorance and abuse from father, became obligated by two older boys to participate in the robbery of an elderly homeowner. The day of the burglary, the homeowner was also mercilessly sexually assaulted. Whilst Sullivan admitted to being the boy’s accomplice, he adamantly denied the sexual assault. Though denying the charges and lack of evidence, Joe Sullivan was convicted as an adult and sentenced to life without parole. Sullivan’s forsaken teenage years behind bars lead him to become an underdeveloped man stuck in the past.
Gary Kinder’s book, Victim: The Other Side of Murder, offers a disturbing record of the murder and attempted murder of five individuals in a murder/robbery planned by an individual who should have never been free to commit such a heinous crime to begin with. Kinder’s book allows the reader to essentially get into the heads of the people who must experience the fallout of this devastating event, and offers a unique perspective on how the indirect victims of crime can be impacted just as direct victims are. The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences of a father, Byron Nasibitt and his son Cortney Naisbitt; one an indirect victim of crime and the other, a direct victim, both of whom were forced to deal with the devastating effects
In some cases, he would sexually assault the individuals, including necrophilia, and in others, he would perform certain experiments on their bodies that ended up killing them (Mulgrew, 2011). He had a clear lack of regard for human life and showed no empathy for any of the victims or their families after murdering them in such a brutal manner (Mulgrew, 2011). Even in how he selected his targets, he was a very charming but also a manipulative individual who
One of the world’s top evil serial killers is none other than Richard Trenton Chase, better known as The Vampire of Sacramento. Richard Chase who went on a month-long killing binge, which finished with six individuals dead, including children. Alongside brutally killing his victims, he additionally drank their blood which earned him the nickname, "The Vampire of Sacramento. " Richard Chase’s childhood was far from ordinary. When he was younger he would receive regular beatings from his father throughout the day.
The very first murder he was linked to would have been the first one he would of committed. This murder took place in Santa Barbara on June 4th, 1963. The young victims were couple Robert Domingos and his betrothed Linda Edwards. The couple had decided to participate in their senior ditch day, so they went sunbathing at a beach near Gaviota State Park. When they didn’t return by the next morning, Robert’s father went looking for them.
