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07/01/2024

Convicted child murderer Raul Meza Jr. called Austin, Texas, police in May 2023, saying, "My name is Raul Meza, I think you're looking for me." He sits in jail for the murder of his roommate this past May and another woman in 2019. After serving only 11 years of a 30-year sentence for the 1982 r**e and murder of 8-year-old Kendra Page, Meza is now the chief suspect in 10 other murders besides these, potentially making Raul Meza Jr. Texas's newest serial killer. http://taskg.org

06/01/2024

Listen to "Season 2 Episode 6 - BTK Strangles Marine Hedge Then Drives Her N**e Body to His Church for a Photoshoot - Murders Vickie Wegerle Then Passes Her Husband in Her Car."

Season 2 Episode 6 - BTK Strangles Marine Hedge Then Drives Her N**e Body to His Church for a Photoshoot - Murders Vickie Wegerle Then Passes Her Husband in Her Car a Block Away. Dennis Rader lived in a modest home at 6220 Independence Street in a quiet neighborhood in Park City, Kansas. It’s a ne...

06/01/2024

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06/12/2023

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03/12/2023

Listen to our newest episode, where we discuss the one person who managed to escape death at the hands of Dennis Rader, aka BTK. Learn how simple luck caused a chain of events that spared the lives of two women and drove BTK even further into the depths of his insanity.

S2E5 BTK Part 5 – The One Who Got Away – The Ghostbusters Task Force is Formed On an unseasonably cool Saturday evening in April of 1979, death stalked 63-year-old Anna Williams and her 24-year-old granddaughter, Rebecca, in a small house next to a gulley at 615 South Pinecrest St. in Wichita, K...

16/11/2023

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15/11/2023

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Dean Corll

“The Candy Man” or “Pied Piper” murdered 28 boys in the early 1970s. Imagine everyone’s shock when the killer turned out to be a former member of the U.S. Army.

Corll’s family owned a candy shop in Houston, and he was known as a friendly guy who often gave free treats to children. Later, his ulterior motives became known when he was charged with abducting, ra**ng, torturing, and murdering as many as 28 young boys.

His heinous crimes might have gone undiscovered had he not been fatally shot by his accomplice, Elmer Wayne Henley.

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23/10/2023

Lonnie David Franklin, Jr. - The Grim Sleeper

Between 1985 and 2007, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. may have killed 25 women and possibly dozens, even hundreds, more. He's known as "The Grim Sleeper" for taking a 14-year break from his murder spree, from 1988 to 2002 – though it looks like he might not have "slept" at all.

Either way, unlike his more infamous peers like the Hillside Strangler or the Nightstalker, Franklin largely operated outside the media spotlight by targeting women on the fringes of society, including drug addicts and prostitutes, often dumping their naked bodies in alleys or on the side of the road.

According to the Los Angeles Times, when police searched Franklin’s home in 2010, they found even more pictures of women, naked with their eyes closed, implying that the scope of Franklin's horrendous crime spree could be much larger than previously thought. Franklin was convicted of the murders of 10 women and sentenced to death in June of 2016.

23/10/2023

Listen to "S2E3 BTK Part 3 - Shirley Vian Relford" by The American Serial Killer Guidebook

Hello everyone and welcome to season 2 episode 3 of The American Serial Killer Guidebook. I’m your host Elton Morgan and today we will be discussing the BTK murder of Shirley Vian Relford who was unlucky enough to have her son spotted by Dennis Rader then followed effectively destroying their live...

22/10/2023

Israel Keyes - A mostly unknown American serial killer

Israel Keyes (January 7, 1978 – December 2, 2012) was an American serial killer, bank robber, burglar, arsonist, kidnapper, and s*x offender who murdered at least three victims and committed dozens of felonies including armed robbery, arson, r**e and burglary across the United States from July 2001 to February 2012.

While awaiting trial, Keyes killed himself by slashing his wrists and hanging himself. Evidence left behind in his jail cell—including a su***de note, drawings of eleven skulls, a drawing of the Baphomet, and an inscription of "Corozal" on the cell's wall (all written or otherwise stained with Keyes' blood)—led the FBI to suspect Keyes murdered at least eleven victims in total. He admitted to having committed violent crimes as early as 1996, with the aggravated s*xual assault of a teenage girl in Oregon, in a series of meticulous crimes across multiple states that lasted until his capture in 2012.

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21/10/2023

David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco, June 1, 1953), also known as the Son of Sam and the .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer who pleaded guilty to eight shootings that began in New York City on July 29, 1976. Berkowitz grew up in New York City and served in the United States Army.

Using a .44 Special caliber Bulldog revolver, he killed six people and wounded seven others by July 1977, terrorizing New Yorkers and gaining worldwide notoriety. Berkowitz eluded the biggest police manhunt in the city's history while leaving letters that mocked the police and promised further crimes, which were highly publicized by the press.

Berkowitz was arrested on August 10, 1977, and subsequently indicted for eight shootings. He confessed to all of them, and initially claimed to have been obeying the orders of a demon manifested in the form of a black dog belonging to his neighbor, "Sam".

After being found mentally competent to stand trial, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences in state prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. He subsequently admitted that the dog-and-devil story was a hoax. In police investigations, Berkowitz was also implicated in many unsolved arsons in the city.

Intense media coverage of the case lent a kind of celebrity status to Berkowitz, which many observers noted that he seemed to enjoy. The New York State Legislature enacted new statutes, known popularly as "Son of Sam laws", designed to keep criminals from financially profiting from the publicity created by their crimes. The statutes have remained in New York despite various legal challenges, and similar laws have been enacted in several other states.

During the mid-1990s, Berkowitz, by then professing to be a converted evangelical Christian, amended his confession to claim that he had been a member of a violent Satanic cult that orchestrated the incidents as ritual murder. A new investigation of the murders began in 1996 but was suspended indefinitely after inconclusive findings.

20/10/2023

Ricardo "Richard" Leyva Muñoz Ramirez (February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), dubbed The Night Stalker, The Walk-In Killer, and The Valley Intruder since his attacks were first clustered in the San Gabriel Valley, was an American serial killer and s*x offender whose crime spree took place in California between June 1984 and August 1985.

In 1989, Ramirez was convicted of thirteen counts of murder, five attempted murders, eleven s*xual assaults, and fourteen burglaries. The judge who upheld Ramirez's nineteen death sentences remarked that his deeds exhibited "cruelty, callousness, and viciousness beyond any human understanding". Ramirez never expressed any remorse for his crimes.

He died on June 7, 2013, of complications from B-cell lymphoma while awaiting ex*****on on California's death row.

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14/10/2023

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11/10/2023

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April 4th, 1974, was a cold spring day in Wichita, Kansas, and the day that Dennis Rader, known as BTK, decided to complete his next project as he referred to his murders. His first killings of the Otero Family, which he called Project Little Mex, were less than three months prior but he now had a t...

10/10/2023

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Dennis Rader a.k.a. BTK On a cold winter morning in January of 1974, a killer stalked the Otero family of Wichita, Kansas. Little did they know that by the time school let out that day, the lives of four members of the Otero family would be brutally taken and those of the three surviving children wo...

14/05/2022

Gerald and Charlene Gallego made for terrifying partners in crime. An attractive brunette, Charlene Gallego had no trouble luring innocent youths into her car with the promise of work or ma*****na. An unquenchable serial killer, Gerald Gallego would later r**e and murder them at remote locations instead. The serial killer couple terrorized the city of Sacramento for two long years before carelessness got them caught. Their California killing spree from 1978 to 1980 left nine women r**ed before being bludgeoned or shot to death, and one man killed outright. Disturbingly, most of the victims were teens. One was pregnant.
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Gerald and Charlene Gallego made for terrifying partners in crime. An attractive brunette, Charlene Gallego had no trouble luring innocent youths into her car with the promise of work or ma*****na. An unquenchable serial killer, Gerald Gallego would later r**e and murder them at remote locations ins...