Serial Killers Active in Same City

Three serial killers lurked in Santa Cruz, CA, in the early 1970s. One was Edmund Kemper.Edmund Kemper.a Department of Transportation employee who had beenEdmund Kemper was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in his youth.Kemper killed at least six women. He picked up hitchhikers at the roadside, killing them, his mother, and a female friend. Police caught Kemper in 1973. He has stayed in the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, CA, since then.

While Kemper killed young women,Herbert Mullin.Mullin killed 13 people during a killing spree. He believed each death stopped earthquakes. His victims aged from four to 72 and were mostly men. Police caught Mullin in 1973. He admitted guilt and received a life sentence. Mullin is now at Mule Creek State Prison, awaiting parole in 2021.

John Linley Frazier rounded out the Santa Cruz killers.John Linley Frazier.Frazier killed five people in 1970. Frazier attacked and killed ophthalmologist Victor Ohta, his wife, their two sons, and his secretary after losing control. Frazier claimed he was an agent of God. Authorities arrested him and sentenced him to death in 1970. In 2009, Frazier hanged himself in his prison cell.

London, Ontario, is a Canadian city between Detroit, MI, and Toronto, also in Ontario. It has nearly 400,000 residents. The city has upwards ofThree active serial killers.The three known killers—Christian Magee (the Mad Slasher), Gerald Thomas Archer (the London Chambermaid Slayer), and Russell Johnson (the Bedroom Strangler)—account for 13 of the 29 people brutally killed in the city over the last 25 years.

Of the known killers, Johnson.Johnson has the largest body count. He confessed to killing seven women and attacking ten others. He followed these victims home, broke into their bedrooms, and raped and strangled them. A jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity; he stays in a psychiatric hospital.MaGee.MaGee killed three teenagers. One victim was only 14. He slashed their throats during a sexual assault. He served time in a maximum security prison but now stays in a secure hospital because of his health.

Archer.Archer was convicted of one murder but others are suspected. He targeted women whoArcher worked in hotels.(this earned him the nickname, the London Chambermaid Slayer). Archer was released from prison around 1985 and died soon after.

The 1980s were dangerous in Los Angeles. Three serial killers operated, all targeting women.Michael Hughes., Lonnie Franklin Jr.Lonnie Franklin Jr. (also known as the Grim Sleeper., andChester Turner.These killers committed their murders mostly in the 1980s. The Grim Sleeper took a break and started killing again in the 2000s.

Michael Hughes sexually assaulted seven victims, then strangled and dumped them across Los Angeles. Police caught Hughes in 1993; he now faces death row. Joel Franklin was caught in 2010 and received a death sentence for killing 11 women who were raped, shot, and dumped in alleys. Chester DeWayne Turner also killed 11 women by strangulation. Turner was caught in 2003 and shares death row with Hughes and Franklin.

During the early 1990s, Long Island residents faced fear. Three serial killers operated during this time.Joel Rifkin, who murdered at least 16 women between 1989 and 1993.Robert Schulman, a former postal worker who killed five sex workers over five years starting in 1991; and Colin Ferguson, who killed six people on a commuter train in 1993.

Rifkin moved his victims across Long Island and the city, similar to Schulman. People suspect Rifkin also did this.Gilgo Beach Killer. Someone saw Schulman dumping a body from his brother's Cadillac, which led to Schulman's arrest. Ferguson shot and killed six people on a train, injuring 19 others.

Rifkin got a 203-year sentence in 1994. Schulman received a death sentence in 1999. Ferguson got 315 years in prison. Schulman died in 2006 from unknown causes, and Rifkin faces parole in 2197. Rifkin and Ferguson shared Attica Correctional Facility. They argued over the phone and...they allegedly bragged to each other about their kill counts..

For the 1990s and early 2000s, Baton Rouge, LA, faced two serial killers who targeted women. The situation became more confusing because one murderer—Derrick Todd LeeLee changed his killing style each time. This stopped police from linking the crimes. Lee began by stalking women, then moved to murder. Lee killed at least seven women between 1992 and 2003.

Sean Vincent Gillis also murdered women during this time (specifically 1994 to 2004). He raped and mutilated their bodies, keeping photos and body parts. Lee...died in 2016.Lee died of heart disease while on death row. Gillis serves life in prison at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

2005 and 2006 were bad for Phoenix, AZ residents. They dealt with a serial rapist and murderer, plus a serial shooter. The former was...Mark Goudeau, whose total is nine murders, 15 rapes, and 11 kidnappings. Nicknamed the Baseline Killer after where his spree started, he got nine death sentences in 2011 and might have had an accomplice.

Serial shooterDale Shawn HausnerHausner killed at least eight people. He drove around shooting people, usually targeting pedestrians. Police think he shot 38 people. His roommate, Samuel Dieteman, was an accomplice. Dieteman serves life without parole in an area prison. Hausner committed suicide in his cell in 2013.

Los Angeles faced two high-profile serial killers in the late 1970s. One killer turned out to be a pair.Hillside Stranglers left their marks on Los Angeles in the late 1970s.Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono murdered 10 women and girls. They raped, tortured, and strangled them, then dumped their naked bodies in various spots. Bianchi and Buono got life sentences.Buono.Buono died of a heart attack in 2002. Bianchi remains in prison.

At the end of the Hillside Strangler killings, theThe Freeway Killer left his marks on Los Angeles.William Bonin went on a murderous spree. He picked up young male hitchhikers, prostitutes, and schoolboys. He beat, tortured, raped, and strangled them. He dumped their bodies along the freeway. Bonin committed 20 to 36 murders and received the death penalty. He was executed in 1996.

Milwaukee, WI, officials deal with serial killers. Most people think of Jeffrey Dahmer.Milwaukee, WI, Officials dealt with Jeffrey Dahmer and Walter E. Ellis at the same time.Dahmer comes to mind first. Dahmer is best known for eating his victims.his cannibalization of his victimsHe killed at least 17 men between 1978 and 1991. Walter E. Ellis was one of them.Milwaukee, WI, Officials dealt with Walter E. Ellis and Jeffrey Dahmer simultaneously.Ellis, another Milwaukee resident, murdered seven women over 21 years, from 1986 to 2007.

Ellis raped and strangled his victims. DNA matches caught him in 2009. He died in South Dakota in 2013 while serving his life sentence. Dahmer died in prison in 1994, killed by fellow inmates.

New York City has cultural sites, history, and serial killers. Richard Cottingham andRichard Cottingham and David Berkowitz killed NYC women in the 1970s.Both were active in the city in the 1970s. Cottingham, also the Torso Killer, has six confirmed victims, all women. He claims he killed between 85 and 100.

BerkowitzDavid Berkowitz was also known as the Son of Sam.Berkowitz shot 14 women with a .44 caliber gun during his spree, killing six and wounding eight. Cottingham serves one of several life sentences. Berkowitz faces parole every two years; he tells the board he should not be released. Berkowitz became religious in prison and took responsibility for his crimes.Saying."In all honesty I believe that I deserve to be in prison for the rest of my life."