Victimology

Carl Panzram was a serial killer whose murder series is thought to have spanned from 1906, at the age of 15, until his arrest in 1928. Panzram was found guilty after he confessed to the murders of 2 boys and 21 men throughout the United States and Angola. He was…

A victim of Gary Ridgway has been identified, 30 years after she went missing. Sandra Denise Major was last seen by her family in New York in 1982, when she left without telling anyone her destination. Her family later received a postcard with no return address, but with a Seattle…

The Gautung Serial Killer is believed to have killed at least eight gay men between 2010 and 2012. We have information on the eight known victims and one possible victim. Jim Cathels Jim was found bound and strangled in his home in December 2010. Manolis Veloudos Manolis was murdered in…

Itzcoatl Ocampo has been arrested in connection with the Orange County Homeless Murders, and has been charged with four killings. The four alleged victims are: James Patrick McGillivray James, 53, was stabbed to death near a shopping center in Placentia, California on December 20, 2011. Lloyd Middaugh Lloyd, 42, was…

Sherry Marino has always doubted that her 14-year-old son was victim of John Wayne Gacy. According to the Associated Press, she has been granted her request to have his body exhumed for DNA testing. It took more than three years to identify the supposed remains of her son using dental…

The badly decomposed remains of a woman were found in a wooded area near Interstate 20 in Darlington, South Carolina on August 3, 2000. No identification was found on the body, and cause of death was determined to be strangulation. Eleven years later, the remains have finally been identified. The…

The Daily Mirror in the UK is reporting that convicted serial killer Robin Ligus may be involved in the disappearance of Trevaline Evans. Trevaline was a grandmother and antiques dealer in Llangollen, Wales. Around 12:40pm on a day in June 1990, she placed a sign on her shop door that…

Detectives of the LAPD are now looking at 230 missing person cases and unsolved murders to determine whether Lonnie Franklin Jr. was involved. The cases go back to the mid-70’s. The investigation initially looked at sixty cases, but began to expand in May. The LAPD released images of 180 unidentified…

Tracy M. Edwards, 52, is the only victim to escape from Jeffrey Dahmer. He and a second man, Timothy Larod Carr, have been charged with “recklessly endangering safety” in the drowning death of a man last week. Drugged and handcuffed, Edwards escaped from Dahmer’s apartment in July 1991. He led…

Jacci Ansell-Lamb, 18, was last seen alive in March 1970. She was trying to hitchhike from London to her home in Manchester. She was found days later by a farmer in Mere, near Knutsford. She was semi-naked, and had been sexually assaulted and strangled with electrical wire. An identikit picture,…