He confessed to killing 71 but authorities believe the number of victims could be over 90. Gary Leon Ridgway, the so-called Green River Killer, was convicted of strangling 49 random women he met in Washington. After luring them to his house and murdering them he stuffed them under his Cook County, Illinois home. John Wayne Gacy, met many of his 33 victims (all young men and boys) at charity events where he appeared dressed a clown. Rader, the president of his local church, knocked on his victim's doors and they simply let him in. The aforementioned Dennis Rader found all his victims in Kansas not far from the Wichita home he shared with his wife and two kids. Well, realize lots of serial killers stay close to home and their victims are random. I know this is disturbing to read and you may wonder, 'Why should I care? I'm not going to hitchhike at a truck stop!' The bureau reveals it has 'a matrix of more than 600 victims and potential suspects in excess of 275.' Since the bodies were found off major highways top suspects are long-haul truckers who may pick up prey in one state and dump the body several states away. The FBI knows death travels and five years ago it set up the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. Right before his execution in January 1989 the widely traveled Ted Bundy, described as a charismatic killer, admitted to 30 murders across half a dozen states - from Washington to Florida.Īndrew Cunanan killed at least five people during his wanderings through Minnesota, Illinois, New Jersey and Florida, including fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami. Why don't we know the exact figure? Because serial killers are a secretive and often nomadic bunch. Often, Douglas told me, they will, 'kill 2-3 victims and then have a 'cooling-off' period between kills.' That period can be days and in some cases (such as the BTK Strangler, Dennis Rader, convicted of killing 10 people from 1974 to 1991) even years.' But others who study serial killers (defined as someone who kills 3 or more people) think there are many more of these demented predators out there than the FBI admits to - maybe as many as a hundred of them actively operating right now.
And then the question: How many serial killers are out there in America? John Douglas, a former Chief of the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit and author of Mind Hunter says, 'A very conservative estimate is that there are between 35-50 active serial killers in the United States' at any given time. He is (considered) extremely dangerous to the public.Īnother serial killer, I thought. Police believe one person is responsible for stabbing three middle-aged homeless men. It was a small but horrifying item in the: Police are asking for the public's help in identifying what they call a 'serious, dangerous serial killer operating in Orange County. Why don't we know? And what can we do to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe? No one can say how many active serial killers are operating in America today.
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