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New Theory Emerges on the 'Blood Countess'

Was Elizabeth Bathory a serial killer or herself a target?

(Newser) - More than 400 years after her death, the truth about the "Blood Countess," a Hungarian noblewoman alleged to have been the most prolific female serial killer of all time, remains elusive. From her castle atop a rugged peak in what's today Cachtice in western Slovakia, Elizabeth Bathory...

45 Years Later, Teen's Death Linked to Serial Killer

Police in Illinois say Kathy Halle was murdered by Bruce Lindahl

(Newser) - DNA found on the clothing of a suburban Chicago woman who was kidnapped and killed 45 years ago matches that of a suspected serial killer who died two years later. The DNA of Bruce Lindahl, who's believed to have killed as many as a dozen women and girls, was...

Canadian Police: We've Caught Female Serial Killer

Woman accused of 3 murders over 3 days

(Newser) - Canadian police say they've captured a serial killer who is accused of three murders over a three-day span last week. Sabrina Kauldhar, 30, was arrested Friday. The first victim, a 60-year-old woman, was found dead in her Toronto home on October 1 with "visible trauma" to her body,...

Suspected Serial Killer Arthur Ream Dies in Prison

Michigan man 'was not a likable guy'

(Newser) - A man sentenced to life for killing a 13-year-old girl while being a suspect in the deaths of about a half-dozen others has died in a Michigan prison. Arthur Ream, 75, died Aug. 15 of cancer at a prison hospital in Jackson, Michigan, the state Corrections Department said Thursday. Cindy...

On Death Row, Serial Killer Admits New Murder

William Suff confesses to 1986 murder of Cathy Small and 'other killings' in California

(Newser) - For nearly 40 years, the murder of 19-year-old Cathy Small, last seen leaving her California home in 1986, went unsolved. Only recently, family learned she was killed by a prolific serial killer. William "Bill" Suff, who's on death row in California for killing a dozen people in Riverside...

UK Fast-Tracks Law to Block Serial Killer's Marriage

Levi Bellfield and other inmates serving 'whole-life orders' can't marry or enter civil partnerships

(Newser) - Wedding bells are never going to ring for British serial killer Levi Bellfield. A law that came into force on Friday blocks the 56-year-old inmate and other inmates serving life with no possibility of parole, known in the UK as a "whole-life order," from getting married or entering...

Kenya: Suspect Confessed to Killing 42 Women

Watchdog is investigating potential involvement of police, already accused in deaths

(Newser) - Days after police found the dismembered bodies of nine women at an abandoned quarry in a Nairobi shantytown, police say a suspect confessed—not just in those deaths but to killing 42 women between 2022 and Thursday. Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, admitted that he "lured, killed and disposed" of...

New Charges: LI Serial Killer Suspect Was At It Longer Than Thought

Heuermann charged in 2 new killings; prosecutors say they found 'blueprint' to do better 'next time'

(Newser) - The New York architect previously accused of killing four women and leaving their corpses scattered along a coastal highway was charged Thursday in the deaths of two more women, instead of the one that prosecutors had hinted at earlier in the week . Rex Heuermann, 60, was set to appear before...

Serial Killer Robert Pickton Dies After Prison Assault

Corrections officials notify victims as well as inmate's family

(Newser) - Days after being attacked in a Quebec prison, a serial killer has died, Canadian authorities said Friday. Correctional Service Canada said Robert Pickton's family and victims have been notified, the Abbotsford News reports. "We are mindful that this offender's case has had a devastating impact on communities...

Cops: US Fugitive Killed 4 Women in Canada in the '70s

And Canadian authorities think the now-dead serial sex offender may have killed more

(Newser) - Canadian police announced Friday they have linked the deaths of four young women nearly 50 years ago to a now-deceased US fugitive who hid in Canada from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, the AP reports. Alberta Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Dave Hall said Friday that Gary Allen Srery...

Strange Puzzle May Link BTK Killer to Missing Teen

Puzzle sent by serial killer to TV station includes Cynthia Kinney's name, sheriff says

(Newser) - Since last year , authorities have been investigating a possible link between the BTK serial killer and Cynthia Kinney, who went missing in Oklahoma in 1976 at age 16. Now they're taking another look at a crossword puzzle sent by the convicted killer, Dennis Rader, to a TV station...

Alleged Serial Killer: I Killed 4, but Don't Blame Me

Canada's Jeremy Skibicki claims he is not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder

(Newser) - An accused Canadian serial killer has admitted to killing four Indigenous women but claims he is not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. Jeremy Skibicki, 37, had pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 24-year-old Rebecca Contois, 39-year-old Morgan Harris, 26-year-old Marcedes Myran,...

Search for Serial Killer's Victims Could Cost $66M

Federal, provincial Canadian governments will fund search of landfill for slain Indigenous women

(Newser) - Canada's federal government and the provincial Manitoba government have agreed to spend tens of millions to help search a landfill for the remains of two slain Indigenous women. A sum of $20 million Canadian—US $14.7 million—from each government is to go toward a search of the...

'The Lab of Last Resort' Helped Take Down a Serial Killer

A nuclear weapons lab's work was key to getting justice for Efren Saldivar's victims

(Newser) - Police had a suspect, dead bodies, a confession—but what they didn't have was evidence. In a piece for Undark , Sarah Scoles dives into the case of Efren Saldivar, a California respiratory therapist whose treatment of terminally ill patients at Glendale Adventist Medical Center had raised some concerns, enough...

Stolen SD Card Yielded Horrific Footage of a Murder

Images, video are now key in the double-murder trial of Brian Steven Smith in Alaska

(Newser) - A woman with a lengthy criminal history got into a truck with a man who'd picked her up for a "date" near downtown Anchorage, Alaska. When he left her alone in the vehicle, the AP reports that she stole a digital memory card from the console. Now, more...

Long Island Serial Killer Suspect Hit With New Charge

Rex Heuermann had previously been named prime suspect in murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes

(Newser) - An architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings was accused Tuesday in the death of a fourth woman, a Connecticut mother of two who vanished in 2007 and whose remains were found more than three years later along a coastal highway in New York....

Authorities: Help Us ID Last of the 'Happy Face Killer' Victims

Woman known only as 'Claudia' was murdered in 1992

(Newser) - Authorities say they've identified all the victims of the "Happy Face Killer" except one, and they need the public's help to determine who the final woman was. Keith Hunter Jesperson, dubbed the Happy Face Killer because of drawings he left on anonymous letters sent to media and...

Serial Killer's Ex-Wife Gets Another Life Sentence

Monique Olivier was already convicted of acting as Michel Fourniret's accomplice in other killings

(Newser) - The ex-wife of a French serial killer has been handed another life sentence. Monique Olivier was sentenced Tuesday for her role in the rape and murder of two young women, the BBC reports. She was also sentenced for the kidnapping of Estelle Mouzin, a 9-year-old girl whose body was never...

Alleged Victim of Serial Killer Identified 49 Years Later

Teenager Michael Ray Schlicht's 1974 death was first thought to be accidental

(Newser) - An Iowa teenager believed to be one of the earliest victims of a notorious California serial killer has been identified 49 years after his death. Long known only as a John Doe, the teen was identified this week as Michael Ray Schlicht of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Orange County Sheriff'...

Inmate Who Admitted Killing 190 Colombian Children Dies

Luis Alfredo Garavito confessed to being a serial killer in the 1990s

(Newser) - A Colombian serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children during the 1990s died Thursday in a hospital, prison authorities said. He was 66. Luis Alfredo Garavito, nicknamed "the Beast," confessed to having murdered children between the ages of 8 and 16—mostly from low-income families—...

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