Pablo Escobar Ramon Escobar is a convicted serial killer who was convicted in 2022 of killing five men and injuring seven more. He also pleaded guilty to killing his aunt and uncle in Houston, Texas in 2018. He is currently serving a life sentence without the chance of parole. At the end of February, Escobar…
The Doodler A team of San Francisco PD cold case detectives are examining new leads and hoping that the offer of a £250,000 reward will lead to revealing the identity of a serial killer nearly 50 years after his first murder. On 25th June 1975 the body of 27-year-old Joseph Stevens was discovered in bushes…
Kathleen Folbigg Ventura County Sheriff’s Department in California, USA, have charged 68-year-old Tony Garcia for two counts of first degree murder. In 1981 Rachel Zendejas and Lisa Gondek were strangled in separate events. Police investigated the murders as two separate cases until 2004 when DNA evidence linked the cases together. Rachel Zendejas was the first…
Dellen Millard Convicted multiple murderer, Dellen Millard, appeared in court late January in Napanee, Ontario, Canada. The case involves an allegation that Millard was one of two men who allegedly attacked a fellow inmate in Millhaven Institution in July 2021. The charge is one of assault causing bodily harm and relates to the inmate being…
Victims Lisa Gondek & Rachel Zendejas Ventura County Sheriff’s Department in California, USA, have charged 68-year-old Tony Garcia for two counts of first degree murder. In 1981 Rachel Zendejas and Lisa Gondek were strangled in separate events. Police investigated the murders as two separate cases until 2004 when DNA evidence linked the cases together. Rachel…
New research shines a light into some of the differences between the motivations of male and female serial killers. The study by Dr Marissa Harrison, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Harrisburg, USA. They found that male serial killers are often motivated by sex whereas females tend to kill for financial gain usually targeting…
BTK Killer Dennis Rader BTK Killer Dennis Rader has been questioned by police regarding an unsolved disappearance in 1976. June 23rd 1976 16-year-old Cynthia Kinney went missing in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Rader was questioned by Osage County Sheriff, Eddie Virden and three other detectives at the end of January 2023 at El Dorado Correction Facility in…
German police this week detained a suspected serial killer. The 31-year-old male, a Serbian national, has been arrested following deaths of two elderly women near Schwabish Hall in southwestern Germany. Baden-Wurtemburg Police held a press conference confirming they had taken a male into custody in connection with the two deaths. They confirmed the suspect moved…
Portugese police believe that a killer who served 20 months for a gruesome murder before being released on appeal, may be responsible for two other murders. Antonio Mascarenhas, aged 25, was convicted of the murder of a young mother, Tatiana Mestre, after her body was found in a burnt out car in August 2018. After…
Patrick Mackay British serial killer Patrick Mackay could be released from his 47 year imprisonment. Now aged 70, Mackay was convicted of three murders in 1974 and 1975. He was dubbed the Devil’s Disciple. Mackay confessed to 8 more murders but subsequently withdrew his confession. There was insufficient evidence to proceed with the additional murders…
Charles Sobraj Charles Sobhraj, aka the Serpent Killer has been released from prison in Nepal. Sobhraj, whose story featured in a BBC drama series “The Serpent” spent several decades incarcerated in Nepal following a string of killings of mainly western tourist in Thailand and India, was released due to his old age and failing health.…