John Crutchley: Geeky electronics whizz who liked to tie up his victims, cut them and drain their blood, which he’d later drink.
Frank Canonico: Offered an unusual motive for the murders he commited. He said that he only killed women who “treated him like a sex object.”
Charles Davis Jr.: Ambulance driver who called in the location of his victims’ bodies so that he could be dispatched to pick them up.
Ivan Hill: Trawled a 30-mile stretch of California State Route 60 looking for victims. Eight were murdered in just three months.
David Lucas: A Ripper-type killer, Lucas savagely stabbed and slashed his five victims to death. Currently on Death Row.
Charles Terry: A habitual sex offender, the 6’ 5” Terry has been linked by some experts to the Boston Strangler murders.
Danny Figueroa: A survivalist with a ‘Rambo’ obsession, Figueroa took to firing at strangers from sniper positions, killing four.
Wayne Garrison: A double murderer by the age of 14, Garrison served just four years of juvenile detention. Later in life, he would start killing again.
Bryan Jones: A psychopathic sex killer who had a habit of lighting his victims’ corpses on fire.
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50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of Vol.9
Robert Alston
Between 1991 and 1994, the city of Greensboro, North
Carolina, was plagued by a series of gruesome murders of young women. The
victims were snatched from the street and driven to isolated locations where
they were raped, strangled and, in some cases, dismembered. Body parts were
then scattered, with little attempt at concealment, to be found by horrified
passersby.
The first murder occurred in April 1991 when 23-year-old
JoAnne Robinson’s naked body was found discarded on a sidewalk. An autopsy
would show that she’d been raped and then throttled to death. Six months later,
a utility crew was working in a wooded area near Jackson Middle School when
they discovered the severed head and arm of 26-year-old Sharon Martin, who’d
been reported missing weeks earlier.
At this point, the police did not connect the two homicides.
But that would change seven months later with the discovery of yet another
mutilated corpse. Nineteen-year-old Shameca Warren’s naked and decapitated body
was discovered in a vacant lot, close to the site where JoAnne Robinson had
earlier been found. It suggested to police that a serial killer might be at
work in the area, but no sooner had they begun working on that theory than the
killer dropped out of sight. He’d remain under the radar and apparently
inactive until December 1993, when he re-emerged to snuff out the life of
41-year-old Lois Williams. This latest victim’s strangled corpse was found
inside Piedmont Memorial Cemetery, although investigators did not at this point
link it to the other homicides due to the lack of postmortem mutilations.
However, the police would not be left guessing for long. In
January 1994, a woman stumbled into a Greensboro police station and reported
that she had been kidnapped, raped and strangled, then left for dead under a
bridge on Youngs Mill Road. According to the victim, she’d been walking along
Martin Street in southeast Greensboro when a man in a dark blue car stopped and
offered her a ride home. Instead, he drove her to Dudley High School where he
raped and beat her, then choked her until she passed out. She’d woken under the
bridge with such severe bruising to her throat that she’d been barely able to
breathe. After clawing her way up the bank, she’d managed to flag down a
passing motorist who brought her to the hospital.
To detectives listening to this story, the attack bore
remarkable similarities to the series of murders they were currently
investigating, the victim kidnapped, raped and strangled. In this case, however,
the killer had slipped up in leaving his victim alive. Now she was shown a
photo array of known sex offenders, and she unerringly pointed to one, the dreadlocked
figure of 29-year-old Robert Sylvester Alston.
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