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.
That was the first crime he had ever committed. Fifteen years later on July 9, 1991 he kidnapped 18 year old Leeds sex- worker, Julie Dart. This was just a random act of Sams’. He had never done something like this before and there were no signs of any specific reasoning at the time. A few short days later her murdered Julie Dart.
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.
After spending the last 18 years of his life behind bars, Anthony Graves left prison as a free man. Graves was convicted of assisting Robert Earl Carter in the murder of Bobbie Davis and five others in Burleson County. There were no physical evidence that linked Graves to the murder and eyewitnesses confirmed his alibi at the time of the killing. But, Carter pointed out that Graves was the killer, and his testimony alone led to Graves being convicted of the slayings and was later sentenced to death. Graves’ life was spared when the case’s lead prosecutor, District Attorney Charles Sebesta, shed light to Carter’s previous confession admitting that he alone was the murderer.
His crimes were highly organized, and he took extreme measures to avoid detection, such as disposing of the bodies on his pig farm and burning any evidence, for example, the licenses and clothes of his victims. He targeted vulnerable women who were less likely to be noticed or missed by society and law enforcement, demonstrating a high degree of selection and planning. The fact that he was able to evade capture for so long suggests that he was a highly organized and careful planner. All of these factors combined point to Pickton being an organized serial
The span of his killings is from 1983-2002. Pickton was only charged with only 26 murders because the Crown did not have evidence to convict him of the other ones that he claimed to have committed (Wikipedia Contributors, 2016, p.
Mary cannon (age 75) the same thing happened to her as Patty higgins. After the many victims of slit throats and beatings. He kept on with that along with breaking in and enterings, shootings, rape, and robbing. One day he robbed a car and drove off after a robbery. His robbing attempt failed and he fled in the car, but a man Erickson and a teenager wrote down the strangers license plate and got prints that were able to match with Richard.
She had been stabbed repeatedly and her throat was slashed so severely she was almost decapitated. Ramirez sexually assaulted her after the killing. This brutal attack majorly astonished the police when they came upon Richard’s treacherous crime scene. As Richard continued his murders and assaults, His trial dragged on for 4 years, he was put into jail with 43 charges, 13 murders, 5 counted attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 burglary charges. He received 19 death sentences in November 1989.
Robert Pickton was a multi-millionaire pig farmer and serial killer convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women, but then later confessed to forty nine murders. Robert Pickton was born on October 26, 1949 (age 65) in Port Coquitlam. Pickton had a brother (David Francis Pickton), sister (Linda Louise Wright), mom (Helen Louise Pickton), and a dad (Leonard Pickton). Pickton used to cruise into the city luring and attracting women to his farm under the cover of a registered charity, Piggy Palace Good Times Society, he then offered them money and drugs to women who were prostitutes and drug addicts from Vancouver's Downtown East side. Then drove them to the farm in Port Coquitlam.
While under arrest, the police interrogated him and got a chilling response. He said he did the police a favor by killing the prostitutes they couldn't catch. When 2003 came around, he was charged with the aggravated first-degree murder of Wendy Coffield, Debra Estes, and Debra Bonner. By the time his trial came, he racked up forty-nine charges of murder and confessed of twenty-three more. To avoid a death penalty, he agreed to give the detectives the location of the victims.
Robert Latimer was convicted for murdering his 12 year old daughter, Tracy Latimer. Tracy had cerebral palsy that lead to severe mental and physical disabilities causing seizures. She was constantly experiencing severe pain and had five or six seizures a day. On October 24, 1993, Tracy died in the care of her father, while the rest of her family had gone to church. Her father informed the RCMP that she died in her sleep.
The problem with this killing and the others is, it broke the pattern. It broke the pattern because this killing did not happen on the weekend like all the others had. A suspect ended up being taken in but no arrest was mad until March 9th, 1984. On March 9th, Milton Johnson was arrested when he checked in with his parole officer. Milton was charged with aggravated battery and deviant sexual assault in the rape of Anthony Hackett’s fiancée (Blanco).
Drunk mom, dad leaving at such a young age, some of his siblings killing themselves and on top of all that getting abused a lot by his mom and the nuns that hit him when he was in catholic school. Well who was this this very ungood, bad childhood and different and that is Perry Smith. My client’s case is about 2 men Perry & Dick and they're doing is very shocking,that was Perry has killed a family of 4 the Clutter family & each were shot with a gun besides that Mr.Clutter had his throat slit. Previously,Dick was gonna kill them all but something suddenly happened and that was in Perry’s mind. They are not guilty at all but the fact that they will be charged with insanity because yes there has been something going on in Perry’s mind like something
The mom, dad and two children were killed by strangulation. On april 4th 1974 he killed Katherine Bright and attempted to murder her brother Kevin by waiting in their apartment for them to arrive, but kevin survived. On March 1977 he strangled shirley vain in her home after he locked her kids in the bathroom. On December 8th 1977 he strangled Nancy Fox, and then called the police to tell them about it. This was his first act in reaching out for fame.
David Berkowitz who was a serial killer, exclaimed that, “I love to kill.” Robert W. Dolan, the author of Serial Murder, explains that there are a total of seven different phases that a serial killer will do which begins with the aura phase and ends with the depression phase. After the depression phase has taken place all the phases will repeat once again if the murderer is not caught before they can get to the next phase. However, in the ‘The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, the killer landlady was not caught and these steps were repeated and unfortunately, Billy was her next victim. In the other hand, not all the phases were shown throughout the story.
