By David Lohr
Friday, April 06, 2007
Ludhiana, India — Investigators have linked a series of five murders to a single serial killer. According to police, the killer, who targets migrant workers, mistakenly allowed his sixth victim to escape, last week. That man was able to provide police with a description of the suspect, and a massive manhunt has been launched to get him off the streets. All of the victims died of blunt force trauma to the back of the skull, and in each case, the killer removed their trousers after death. The investigation is ongoing.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
BOWRAVILLE, Australia — Sixteen years ago, a serial killer murdered three children and then vanished without a trace. A suspect was charged in two of the murders but later was acquitted. The small community now is offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer. The victims are identified as Evelyn Greenup, 4; Clinton Speedy-Duroux, 16; and Colleen Walker, 16. According to a 2004 inquest, the killings had "direct or indirect sexual overtones."
Sunday, April 08, 2007
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In 1911, a psychopath murdered six people with an axe during a one-day killing spree in September. The victims all were bludgeoned to death in their beds while they slept. The crimes never were solved and are considered the worst murders in the city's history. Now, almost a century later, Dwight Haverkorn, a retired police officer from Colorado Springs, is trying to link the crimes to 25 other murders that took place during a two-month period in five other towns. Haverkorn is trying to obtain permission from the Library of Congress to view the old police records to see whether the same person could have committed the murders. "I'm hoping that somewhere in some of those Pinkerton records there might be actual copies of fingerprints that were taken by some of these detectives," Haverkorn said in an interview with the Denver Post. "And if we had them for two or three scenes, we could come up with a common fingerprint between any two or three and boost my theory that it was a serial killer that traveled the country."
Monday, April 09, 2007
 | | Sean Vincent Gillis |
| PORT ALLEN, La. — Jurors showing up for the trial of suspected serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis were turned away today and told they would be contacted via postal mail when they would need to return. Last week, the Louisiana Supreme Court halted the trial so that it could review a request by Gillis' attorney, Kerry Cuccia, to suppress a statement that Gillis gave to authorities. Gillis' trial first was delayed last month when his attorney was injured. Gillis has confessed to murdering eight women over the last 10 years. To date, investigators have charged him in seven of those murders. |
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