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- 1. Killed 10 people within the Wichita metro area. This killer began to target older woman, who would be alone, and then break in acting as if the killer were a government official. Once bound, the killer would tell these older ladies that they were about to rape them, just to cause panic and see it in their eyes.
- 6. His usual modus operandi was to ply a youth with drink, drugs, or generally gain his trust. He would then produce a pair of handcuffs to "show a magic trick", sometimes as part of a clowning routine.
- 8. Is also known as the Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist, and the Original Night Stalker. He would kill the present male, should there be one, by bludgeoning. He would then sexually assault the females before murdering them as well by either shooting or bludgeoning.
- 10. Ranging from home invasion to picking up hitchhikers and kidnapping, this serial killer’s M.O. regularly changed. He indiscriminately murdered men, women, children and the elderly. He raped many of his younger female victims and strangled them with their own nylon stockings.
- 11. Most of his victims were prostitutes who were involved with drugs. He would shoot them, usually in the head and tie plastic bags around their heads. Then he would dump their bodies after he was done. He is suspected of taking totems from his victims because money, identification, purses or wallets and a few other items were never recovered from the victims.
- 12. He tended to be a serial killer liar along with being a serial killer. No ritual or order of events was really evident in his killings. Excessive stabbing was present in nearly all of his proven murders.
- 14. All the victims of the Michigan Murderer were young women between the ages of 13 and 21 who were abducted, raped, beaten and murdered—typically by stabbing or strangulation—with their bodies occasionally mutilated after death before being discarded within a 15-mile radius of Washtenaw County.
- 15. His modus operandi included kidnapping his female victims, raping them, and then dismembering them.
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- 2. He would visit gay bars, libraries, and the local mall, or walk the streets, looking for his victims. He didn’t just murder his victims. He also raped, dismembered, and sometimes even ate them.
- 3. This serial killer would mainly pick up male hitchhikers or homosexual men from gay bars and shoot them, usually in the temple, above the ear, with a .22-caliber derringer. Most of the victims were killed while asleep or distracted.
- 4. Her modus operandi was to approach unsuspecting men under the guise of needing a ride before robbing and shooting them to death.
- 5. She induced cardiac arrest in patient by injecting their intravenous therapy bags with massive doses of epinephrine (heart stimulant)
- 7. His Modus operandi was sneaking around at night and usually loosing a knife. He liked young girls around the age of 13 but would murder just about any type of person. His attacks on young girls was sexual.
- 9. In most cases, he targeted various kinds of criminals, finding them by looking up their names and addresses before brutally killing them in a variety of ways, though he stated that his favorite way to murder criminal was stabbing and/or hacking them to death with blades.
- 13. Targeted patients at hospitals at which he worked. Most of his victims were no younger than in their 60’s. He killed them by poisoning their IV bags, usually with insulin, digoxin or epinephrine.