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Booming 'Murderabilia'
Sales Spur Outrage

Dec 30, 2011 12:44 AM CST

Booming 'Murderabilia' Sales Spur Outrage

Victims' rights advocates slam 'insidious and despicable industry'

(Newser) - Sales of the personal effects, letters, and even fingernail clippings of mass murderers and serial killers are stronger than ever thanks to the Internet, but victims' rights advocates say it's time to end the trade in "murderabilia," the Washington Post reports. Only eight states have laws banning...

Missing Prostitute's Bones Found on Long Island

Dec 14, 2011 9:19 AM CST

Missing Prostitute's Bones Found on Long Island

Medical examiner thinks it was an accidental death

(Newser) - Police think they have at last found the remains of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert, more than a year after the search for her led them to the discovery of a serial killer's graveyard . After an exhaustive, weeklong search of a 100-acre marsh in Oak Beach on Long Island, police...

Jeans of
Missing
Woman
Found on
LI Beach

Dec 8, 2011 1:15 AM CST

Jeans of Missing Woman Found on LI Beach

Belongings linked to Craigslist escort found in serial killer area

(Newser) - Clothing and a purse believed to belong to a female escort who advertised her services on Craigslist have been found on an Long Island beach nearly two years after she vanished. Police discovered Shannan Gilbert's jeans, cell phone, shoes, and a purse with identification near the community of Oak...

Long Island Serial Killer: Police Revise Theory, Say There's Probably Just One Killer at Large

Cops: It's
Likely Just
1 Serial Killer
on Long Island

Nov 30, 2011 12:24 PM CST

Cops: It's Likely Just 1 Serial Killer on Long Island

They revise theory about two suspects

(Newser) - Long Island police say there's probably just one local serial killer responsible for the murders of 10 people whose bodies were stashed along desolate parts of Ocean Parkway, reports Newsday . Earlier this year, investigators began working on the theory that multiple killers were at large, mostly because two victims...

Cops Step Up
Hunt in NY
Serial Killings

Sep 21, 2011 12:45 AM CDT

Cops Step Up Hunt in NY Serial Killings

Investigators release sketches, jewelry in bid to ID victims

(Newser) - Long Island cops released new information yesterday as they continue to press their hunt for as many as three serial killers who they believe murdered at least eight women, a man in woman's clothing, and a toddler. Five of the victims remain unidentified, and police provided sketches of two...

Vial of Ted Bundy's Blood Could Tie Him to Cold Cases

Aug 2, 2011 3:50 AM CDT

Vial of Ted Bundy's Blood Could Tie Him to Cold Cases

33-year-old vial of blood gave investigators a full DNA profile of serial killer

(Newser) - A newly found 33-year-old vial of blood belonging to Ted Bundy will be used to give the infamous serial killer a full DNA profile, reports the AP . Once it is added to the FBI's national database, investigators hope the profile will help them link Bundy to several long-unsolved crimes....

Ohio Serial Killer Anthony Sowell Convicted of Aggravated Murder

Ohio Serial Killer Convicted
of Murdering 11 Women

Jul 22, 2011 3:59 PM CDT

Ohio Serial Killer Convicted of Murdering 11 Women

Anthony Sowell now faces the death penalty

(Newser) - An ex-Marine and newly convicted serial killer who had the bodies of 11 women in his Cleveland home will face the death penalty. Anthony Sowell , 51, was convicted of aggravated murder after a three-day jury deliberation, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer . Now the trial moves into the mitigation phase during...

'Dozens' of Women
Vanish From
Canadian
Wilderness

'Dozens' of Women Vanish From Canadian Wilderness

Locals fear serial killer along 'Highway of Tears'

(Newser) - So many women have disappeared along the 837-mile stretch of Highway 16 that cuts through the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia that people have started calling it "The Highway of Tears," reports the Daily Beast . The latest victim, 20-year-old Madison Scott, disappeared in May from a popular camping...

Hunt Resumes for
LI Serial Killer Victims

Jun 7, 2011 9:41 AM CDT

Hunt Resumes for LI Serial Killer Victims

New aerial photos from FBI inspire on-the-ground investigation

(Newser) - Recent aerial photographs taken by the FBI are prompting investigators to return to a barrier island south of New York's Long Island in their search for more remains in a possible serial killer case. State and local police will search an area of the Robert Moses Causeway today. The...

Two Cops Eyed in
LI Serial Killer Case

May 15, 2011 4:14 PM CDT

Two Cops Eyed in LI Serial Killer Case

Both NYPD officers had run-ins with prostitutes

(Newser) - There was already some speculation that the Long Island serial killer might be a cop , and now the New York Post reports that two NYPD officers are being eyed in the case, both of whom got into trouble related to prostitutes. One was forced to resign in the 1990s when...

DA: At Least 2 Killers
in Long Island Deaths

May 9, 2011 2:55 PM CDT

DA: At Least 2 Killers in Long Island Deaths

Killing methods, circumstances different between 10 remains found

(Newser) - Long Island officials on the trail of a suspected serial killer now say that at least two murderers are behind the string of human remains found in a desolate beach area. Suffolk County DA Thomas Spota said today that different killing methods and circumstances indicate the work of at least...

Long Island Serial Killer
Is Smart, Suave, Sadistic

Long Island Serial Killer Is Smart, Suave, Sadistic

That's the best guess of criminologists sketching a personality profile

(Newser) - With a suspected serial killer dumping bodies near Long Island's Ocean Parkway, the New York Times rounds up a personality profile based on interviews with experts. Among the guesses:

It's a white man in his mid-20s to mid-40s who is either married or has a girlfriend.
He's

...

Cop: I've Deciphered a
Zodiac Killer Message

Apr 20, 2011 9:01 AM CDT

Cop: I've Deciphered a Zodiac Killer Message

But Lt. John Lewison has yet to share his solution

(Newser) - A Chicago cop says he has managed to decipher one of the coded messages that have long frustrated investigators—one left by the Zodiac killer. Lt. John Lewison has been something of a Zodiac hobbyist ever since the “BTK Killer” was caught in 2005 using clues from the taunting...

Latest Remains
Not Related to LI Killer

Apr 13, 2011 1:39 PM CDT

Latest Remains Not Related to LI Killer

Search for Shannan Gilbert takes to the sea

(Newser) - The serial killer that Long Island cops suspect is using a lonely stretch near Jones Beach as a dumping ground may not be the first to have done so: The latest remains pulled from the area are too old to be connected with those of four prostitutes found in December....

Did This Man Murder Women With Matching Initials?

Apr 13, 2011 3:43 AM CDT

Did This Man Murder Women With Matching Initials?

Photographer Joseph Naso suspected in string of cold-case deaths

(Newser) - Investigators probing a Nevada man suspected of having murdered four women in California between 1977 and 1994 have found a disturbing similarity to the unsolved rape and murder of three young girls in upstate New York in the early '70s. Bizarrely, all seven victims had matching initials for their first...

Are There 2 NY Killers?

Apr 12, 2011 5:41 AM CDT

Are There 2 NY Killers?

Cops wonder if another murderer is using beach as dumping ground

(Newser) - The mounting trove of bones discovered on an isolated strip of Long Island beach now has cops wondering if there could be more than one killer operating in the area. The body count is now up to 10 , all women except for a single toddler . "Now the question is...

Body No. 10 Found on LI Beach

UPDATED

Apr 11, 2011 5:25 PM CDT

Body No. 10 Found on LI Beach

Partial sets of remains found as search resumes

(Newser) - Cops searching near Long Island's Jones Beach have made another grisly discovery on the trail of a suspected serial killer: The potential ninth and 10th sets of remains, reports the AP. "They are human remains. It’s not a complete body, they are partial human remains," says one...

Child Among Remains
Pulled From LI Beach

Apr 11, 2011 2:36 PM CDT

Child Among Remains Pulled From LI Beach

Search resumes today

(Newser) - One of the four bodies that cops found on a desolate Long Island beach last week is that of an infant or child, reports the New York Post. "One doesn't match the others. It's a young person, possibly as young as an infant, or a child," says a...

New Clues
About Identity of
NY Serial Killer

Apr 11, 2011 1:58 AM CDT

New Clues About Identity of NY Serial Killer

He may have had regular reason to visit body-dumping area

(Newser) - More grim theories about the serial killer responsible for some eight bodies that have been found on an isolated Long Island beach: Police revealed over the weekend that the killer appears to be very familiar with law enforcement investigative techniques. Now ABC News reports that police are also considering other...

Savvy LI Killer
Used Tech
to Torment
Victim's Sis

Apr 9, 2011 10:45 AM CDT

Savvy LI Killer Used Tech to Torment Victim's Sis

Calls from victim's cell phone show awareness of cops' methods

(Newser) - After the suspected Long Island serial killer took Melissa Barthelemy's life, he likely took her cell phone and used it to torment her teenage sister—and he did so in a way that leads cops to think that he's no stranger to their investigative methods, reports the New York Times....