By David Lohr
May 4, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
CRIME LIBRARY — Reportedly, screenwriter Christopher Landon got the idea for Disturbia from being "disturbed" by the apparent perfection of suburban life in the San Fernando Valley; he imagined that a serial killer might just as easily operate in this environment as in a large city or on lonely stretch of road. "One night, as I was driving home from my sister's place," Landon states in the film's production notes, "this idea just popped into my head — a story about a kid who is stuck in his house and begins to notice bizarre things happening across the way. He eventually comes to suspect that his neighbor is a serial killer." Read the rest of Katherine Ramsland's review of Disturbia, Hitchcock Meets Gacy, at http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0407/2602_disturbia_review.html.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
South Africa— According to a recent article in The Mercury, there have been 80-recordered cases of serial murder in South Africa since 1931. As of this writing, investigators are actively hunting the Caledon Square serial killer, who murdered six homeless people during the 1980s; the Cape Town serial killer, who is responsible for the murders of 19 sex workers from 1992 to 1995; the "Station Strangler" who has killed 22 children since the mid 90s; the "Skiereiland Nagmerrie" serial killer who murdered at least three people in 1997; the "Doringdraad" serial killer, who murdered 16 people in 1998; the "Riverman Killer", who has raped and murdered 13 women between 1999 and 2001; the Eastern Cape serial killer, who murdered five teenage sex workers in 2001; the Fosaville serial killer, who has murdered at least 13 women between 1999 and 2003; and the Stellenbosch child murders, in which three children were murdered between 2001 and 2003. South Africa is currently ranked number three for having the most serial killers in the world. The United States takes the number one spot, with Russia coming in a close second.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
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STUART, Fla. — During December 2006, suspected serial killer Eugene McWatters, the media dubbed "Salerno Strangler," was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of three women in 2004. McWaters is now appealing his case before the Florida Supreme Court. McWaters initially confessed to the crimes, claiming the murders were accidental and occurred when he "lost it" while having consensual sex with the victims.
Monday, April 30, 2007
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A six-man, six-woman jury has found suspected serial killer Chester D. Turner, 40, guilty of murdering 10 women and a fetus between 1987 and 1998. Jurors will return to court on Wednesday for the trial's penalty phase. Their job will be to determine whether Turner will receive life in prison without the possibility of parole or death. Turner was arrested in 2003, when his DNA linked him to the murders.
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