50 chilling true crime cases including;
James Debardeleben: When the US secret service started tracking an elusive conterfeiter known as the ‘Mall Passer,’ they had no idea that the same man was also a serial killer.
Michael Gargiulo: Wannabe actor who targeted beautiful models and starlets. Among his victims was a girlfriend of Hollywood star, Ashton Kutcher.
Warren Bland: A killer with an unnaturally high sex drive, Bland raped, tortured, and killed countless women and young girls.
Horace Kelly: Riverside County killer who shot his victims from behind and then had sex with their corpses.
Thomas Huskey: Know as 'Zoo Man,' Huskey always insisted that prostitutes go with him to the city zoo for sex. Some of them never returned.
Hugh Morse: Former Marine who graduated from Peeping Tom to a sex killer. Among his victims were a 69-year-old woman and a nine-year-old girl.
James Ritchie: He was a Straight-A student and star athlete. But something went wrong in James Ritchie’s life. He ended up as one of Alaska’s most feared serial killers.
Darrell Ferguson: A huge man, Ferguson stabbed, kicked, and stomped eight frail, elderly victims to death.
Reginald Oates: Oates was just 18 years old when he lured four pre-teen boys to Baltimore’s Leakin Park, where he raped, murdered, and mutilated them.
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50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of Vol. 8
John Eric Armstrong
John Eric Armstrong was born in New Bern, North Carolina, on
November 23, 1973. The older of two sons, he endured a number of traumatic
events as a child. He was just two years old when he fell out of a window,
breaking his arm. When he was five, his two-month-old brother Michael died of
SIDS, a death that hit him so hard that he made an apparent suicide attempt,
riding his bicycle into oncoming traffic. Then that grief was compounded by his
father deserting the family just four months later.
Yet, despite these traumas, Eric (as he preferred to be
called) grew to be a quiet, respectful boy. He did reasonably well at school
and enjoyed baseball; he was awarded a trophy for debating. After graduating in
1992, he joined the US Navy, serving aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz, where
he met Katie Rednoskea, who later became his wife. He would remain in the
service until April 1999 when he received an honorable discharge. Thereafter,
he settled in Detroit, where he worked at various jobs before finding employment
as an aircraft refueler at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
Eric Armstrong had thus far lived an exemplary life. And he
maintained his credentials as a good citizen on January 2, 2000, when he called
the police to report a body floating in the Rouge River in Dearborn Heights.
The woman turned out to be Wendy Jordan, a recovering addict and sometime
prostitute. She had been strangled to death.
But detectives were suspicious of Armstrong’s story. He said
that he had spotted the body when he leaned over the bridge to catch his breath
during a jog. They didn’t believe him. Armstrong was asked to provide a blood
sample and fiber samples from his vehicle. He complied immediately and was then
allowed to leave.
On April 10, 2000, a Conrail worker was walking along the
tracks in the vicinity of Military and Southern streets in southwest Detroit,
when he came across the body of a young woman. Officers responding to the call
soon discovered not one, but three corpses, later identified as Kelly Hood, 30,
Rose Marie Felt, 32, and Nicole Young, 18. Based on the condition of the
bodies, investigators were certain that the women had not been killed at the
same time. And that was ominous. It suggested that a serial killer had used
this place as a body dump. The police responded by forming a task force.
In the meantime, the Dearborn Heights police had word back
from the crime lab. The sperm taken from Wendy Jordan’s body was a match to
Eric Armstrong, and the fibers lifted from her clothing had been matched to
Armstrong’s Jeep SUV. Unfortunately, the verbal confirmation of preliminary
results was not sufficient for them to obtain an arrest warrant. They’d have to
wait until the lab issued its official report. Better to be patient than to
have their suspect walk on a technicality.
Back in Detroit, the newly formed task force was also making
progress. They had learned of three recent assaults and attempted
strangulations, and had a description of the suspect and his vehicle. At around
12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 12, 2000, officers pulled over a black Jeep
Wrangler matching the suspect’s vehicle and took the driver into custody. John
Eric Armstrong was put into an interrogation room and quickly cracked. His mood
veering from anger to tears, the former sailor said that he had either killed,
or attempted to kill, every prostitute he’d ever had sex with.
Yet if the police expected confessions to only three
murders, they’d underestimated their captive. In addition to the three women
found beside the tracks, Armstrong also admitted to killing prostitutes Wendy
Jordan and Monica Johnson. Then there was a man he’d killed in Seattle, and
another two prostitutes he’d murdered in that city. He’d also killed a woman in
Spokane, Washington, two in Hawaii, and another in Norfolk, Virginia, close to
the Nimitz’s home base. His murders weren’t confined to U.S. soil either. He’d
killed prostitutes in Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Israel. Wherever the
Nimitz docked, he’d go ashore and find a victim. All in all, Armstrong shared
details of over 30 killings.
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