IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Investigators from multiple states were looking Thursday into whether a long-haul trucker from Iowa who's implicated in three women's slayings in the 1990s could be...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Ivan Milat, whose grisly serial killings of seven European and Australian backpackers horrified Australia in the early '90s, died in a Sydney prison on Sunday, ending...
DETROIT (AP) — A prosecutor announced murder charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old man in the slayings of four women in Detroit whose deaths authorities have characterized as the work of a...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Milton Bradley was a 72-year-old World War II Navy veteran living in Savannah, Georgia, in May 1994 when he met Gary Ray Bowles, a serial killer who had already taken the...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — People in Savanah, Georgia, still talk about the 1994 homicide of Milton Bradley, a 72-year-old World War II veteran who was one of six people slain by serial killer Gary...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a verdict in a California serial killing case (all times local):
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A jury has found a man described by prosecutors as a serial killer guilty...
DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on a possible serial killer in Detroit (all times local):
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Police say a person of interest in the possible serial killings of three women on...
CLEVELAND (AP) — A man who has confessed to killing more than 90 women across the U.S. was indicted Friday in Cleveland for the strangulation deaths of two women decades ago.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Police in Cyprus recovered a second suitcase containing human remains Sunday from a contaminated lake where a military officer who confessed to killing seven foreign women...
OZARK, Ala. (AP) — A truck-driving preacher accused of killing two teenage girls from Alabama nearly 20 years ago was found with the same genealogy database techniques used to apprehend the...
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge in a serial killing case against a former bus driver in Phoenix denied a request Friday by defense lawyers who want the death penalty barred because a jailhouse video of the suspect was released to news media.
Superior Court Judge David Cunanan said there was no basis for the request.
Aaron Juan Saucedo has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges in attacks that killed nine people and wounded two others. He did not attend Friday's hearing.
LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Juan David Ortiz appeared to be living a typical suburban life in a subdivision where rows of new homes stand next to fields of desert brush.
The Navy veteran left the military nine years ago and became a Border Patrol agent, like many others in this city in deep south Texas. He and his wife were raising two children. Neighbors saw him come and go and exchanged waves.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A career criminal who authorities believe is the Gypsy Hill Killer faces trial Friday in Northern California for the murders of two young women four decades ago.
Law enforcement officials believe Rodney Halbower, 69, is the man who raped and killed six young women during a five-month period in 1976.
The serial killer was given his nickname when one of the bodies was found in the Gypsy Hills section of Pacifica, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of San Francisco.
13th Killing Linked to California Suspect
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors added another murder charge Monday against a California serial killing suspect, boosting the number of victims to 13 in the Golden State Killer case.
Former police officer Joseph DeAngelo, 72, was charged with first-degree murder in the 1975 killing of community college teacher Claude Snelling, who was shot while stopping the kidnapping of his 16-year-old daughter in Visalia, Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward said.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A 72-year-old former police officer accused of being one of California's most elusive serial killers appeared in a courtroom cage used for defendants in jail Monday as a judge put off a decision on whether to release search and arrest warrants in the case.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A man who prosecutors say was one of California's most elusive serial killers was charged Thursday with four additional counts of murder, leaving him now facing a dozen murder charges across the state.
Joseph James DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police officer, was charged in connection with four slayings in 1979 and 1981 in Santa Barbara County, District Attorney Joyce Dudley said at a news conference Thursday.
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A former Marine who authorities say preyed on women in an area of Gary, Indiana, known as a hangout for prostitutes and drug users pleaded guilty Friday to killing seven women under a plea deal that will spare him the death penalty.
Darren Vann's surprise plea Friday in the killings came after the 47-year-old Gary man's defense team filed a motion Thursday that scheduled Friday's change of plea hearing.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a decades-old serial killing and rape case in California (all times local):
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The Associated Press and several other news organizations are asking a judge to unseal the search and arrest warrants for a man who authorities say was one of California's most elusive serial killers.
Attorneys for the media organizations filed a motion Tuesday in Sacramento seeking access to the documents in the Golden State Killer case.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a decades-old serial killing and rape case in California (all times local):
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The daughter of an Oregon man who was misidentified as a possible suspect in the so-called Golden State Killer case wasn't informed authorities were taking a DNA sample from her father, but later helped in the investigation.
The woman said Friday that investigators contacted her in April 2017 and told her they had taken a DNA sample from her 73-year-old father.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a decades-old serial killing and rape case in California (all times local):
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Even for children living in neighborhoods targeted by the East Area Rapist, the fear and sense of change was palpable.
That's according to Brian O'Hearn, who was 10 or 11 years old when a woman in his Sacramento neighborhood was attacked in 1977.
PHOENIX (AP) — A man accused of killing nine people in metro Phoenix grew up in a household plagued by domestic violence, left home at 16 to live with his girlfriend and was in prison three years later for manslaughter after participating in a robbery at a strip club where an accomplice was fatally shot, court records show.
PHOENIX (AP) — Police in the Phoenix area say they have linked nine killings to convicted felon Cleophus Cooksey Jr. Here are more details about the serial killing case:
Nov. 27, 2017 — Andrew Remillard, 27, and Parker Smith, 21, are found dead with gunshot wounds to the head inside a parked car in Phoenix.
Dec. 2, 2017 — Salim Richards, 31, is shot and killed while walking in west Phoenix. His 9mm Glock handgun and a yellow necklace are missing.
PHOENIX (AP) — Police in the Phoenix area say they have linked nine killings to convicted felon Cleophus Cooksey Jr. Here are more details about the serial killing case:
Nov. 27, 2017 — Andrew Remillard, 27, and Parker Smith, 21, are found dead with gunshot wounds to the head inside a parked car in Phoenix.
Dec. 2, 2017 — Salim Richards, 31, is shot and killed while walking in west Phoenix. His 9mm Glock handgun and a yellow necklace are missing.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dave Toschi, the San Francisco police detective who led the unsuccessful investigation into the Zodiac serial killing a half-century ago, has died. He was 86.
Toschi died Saturday after a lengthy illness, his daughter, Linda Toschi-Chambers, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese investigators knocked on the door of a suspect's apartment and asked him about a missing woman. "She is in here," the man reportedly replied, pointing to a cooler box.
More chilling details emerged Wednesday about Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, who police say confessed to killing and dismembering nine bodies found in his apartment. Shiraishi was handed over to prosecutors for further questioning.