Law Enforcement

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Police Chief Vern White warned the women of his city Friday that a serial killer may be targeting prostitutes. He indicated that investigators have identified a pattern in the slayings of several Ottawa prostitutes, but declined to give details. Said Chief White: I am here … to…

Forensic scientists in Harris County have identified Roy Eugene Bunton as a victim of Dean Corll. Bunton was last seen as he was leaving for work at Northwest Mall in Houston. Conflicting reports have this happening in either 1971 or 1972, when he was 17 or 18 years old. Bunton’s…

DNA evidence has determined one of the unidentified remains of John Wayne Gacy to be William George Bundy. A 19-year-old construction worker, William disappeared in 1976. Family members have long suspected he was one of Gacy’s victims. The Cook County Sheriff Office issued a plea for DNA samples from the…

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…

David Leonard Wood has lost an appeal to have his conviction over-turned by an expert review of the DNA evidence of his trial. Judge Bert Richardson ruled: The court finds that the results of the DNA analysis do not establish that, had the results been available during the trial of…

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…

As previously reported, Ted Bundy’s DNA has been sampled and is being uploaded to the national DNA database. Reports are that this will happen today. Bundy confessed to thirty murders before he died, and is suspected of having committed many more. Once convicted, many serial killers confess to murders they…

Charles Albright removed the eyeballs of his victims. The Zodiac Killer signed his letters with a distinctive mark that included a cross and a circle. Richard Ramirez drew Satanic pentagrams on the walls of his victims’ homes, and sometimes on their bodies. The Boston Strangler tied his ligatures into birthday…