“In my head there was a possibility that it could happen, but I wasn’t looking forward to—it wasn’t my intention to do so … but I knew I had the potential [to kill],” Keith Jesperson, also dubbed the Happy Face Killer, explained over the phone from Oregon State Penitentiary.
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Suspected Northern California serial killer Wesley Brownlee has been charged with three more counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, adding to the three counts of murder already against him.
The Washington Post finds “a fragmented and indifferent criminal justice system that allowed a man to murder without fear of retribution by deliberately targeting those on the margins of society.”
Joseph James DeAngelo, accused of a series of rapes and murders as the Golden State Killer, is expected to plead guilty on June 29 in order to escape the death penalty. Now many police departments are reexamining cases from the 1970s and reevaluating the statute of limitations in order to get justice for victims’ families.
Detectives arrived in Texas one by one with stacks of old case files from California to Florida. The detectives would visit him as if on an assembly line, with sometimes two or three agents a day going in.
Samuel Little confessed to more than 90 murders over three decades. Many of his claims to have killed between 1970 and 2005 haven’t been identified or linked to him.
The question isn’t whether 78-year-old Samuel Little is a killer — it’s how prolific a killer he is. Authorities are checking his statements and scouring files to connect him to more cold cases.
Generations of survivors, the families of victims and “flummoxed” detectives are familiar with Robert J. Gross’ bloody trail of death and destruction, reports the Kansas City Star in a six-chapter series.
Juan David Ortiz, 35, confessed to killing four people this month. “He was profiling certain kinds of victims,” said a prosecutor.
Investigators hunting for California’s “Golden State Killer” turned to searching genetic websites in 2017 but misidentified an Oregon man as a potential suspect.