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Dennis Rader The BTK Serial Killer
Dennis Rader is a serial killer who is best known as the BTK, Bind, Torture and Kill who would be convicted of ten murders however is suspected of more
According to court documents Dennis Rader would break into a home where he would murder Joseph Otero Sr., 38; Julia Maria “Julie” Otero, 33; Joseph “Joey” Otero II, 9; and Josephine “Josie” Otero, 11 in 1974
Later that same year Dennis Rader would murder Kathryn Doreen Bright, 21, and attempted to murder her brother who was able to escape
In 1977 Dennis Rader would murder Shirley Ruth Vian Relford inside of her home. BTK had tied up her three children but thankfully they escaped unharmed
Later that same year Dennis Rader would murder Nancy Jo Fox after stalking the woman for some time
It was not until 1985 that Dennis Rader would kill again and this time his victim was Marine Wallace Hedge
A year later Dennis Rader would murder Vicki Lynn Wegerle inside of her home.
The last confirmed victim was Dolores Earline “Dee” Davis who was murdered in 1995
Dennis Rader Capture And Conviction
Dennis Rader was finally arrested in 2005 and would be charged with ten counts of first degree murder. Rader would eventually plead guilty to all ten murders however he would offer no explanation to the motive behind the ten murders
Dennis Rader would be sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences with a minimum of 175 years
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Dennis Rader, (born March 9, 1945, Pittsburg, Kansas, U.S.), American serial killer who murdered 10 people over a span of three decades before his arrest and confession in 2005. He called himself BTK because he bound, tortured, and killed his victims.
Rader was raised in Wichita, Kansas. He later claimed that as a youth he had killed animals and developed violent sexual fantasies that involved bondage. In the 1960s he served in the U.S. Air Force, and in 1970 he returned to Wichita, where he married and had two children. He held various jobs, including a brief stint as a factory worker for the Coleman Company, a maker of camping equipment. In 1979 he graduated from Wichita State University, where he studied criminal justice. During this time he began working for ADT, a home-security company, and in 1991 he became a compliance officer in Park City, Kansas. Rader was active in his church, and he served as a Boy Scout leader.
On January 15, 1974, Rader committed his first murders, strangling four family members, including two children, in their Wichita home; the mother had worked for Coleman. Semen was found at the scene, though none of the victims had been sexually assaulted. Rader took a watch from the home, and he would acquire souvenirs—often underwear—from subsequent victims. In April 1974 Rader targeted a 21-year-old woman who was another Coleman employee. After breaking into her house, however, he also encountered her brother, who managed to escape despite being shot. Rader fatally stabbed the woman before fleeing. Later that year he wrote a letter detailing the January murders and saying that “the code words for me will be…bind them, torture them, kill them, B.T.K.” He left the note in a book at the Wichita Public Library, and it was eventually recovered by the police.
Over the next two decades, Rader killed five more women. His sixth victim was strangled in March 1977 after he locked her three young children in the bathroom. Following the death of his next victim in December 1977, Rader grew irritated by the lack of media coverage. In a letter to a local TV station he wrote, “How many people do I have to kill before I get a name in the paper or some national attention.” The resulting coverage helped set off a panic. Rader then waited eight years before murdering a neighbour in her home in 1985; he reportedly later took her body to his church, where he photographed her in bondage. A 28-year-old mother of two was killed in 1986, and in 1991 Rader committed his last murder, strangling a 62-year-old woman in her secluded home. The cases subsequently went cold.
In 2004, on the 30th anniversary of Rader’s first murders, a local paper ran a feature in which it speculated that the killer had either died or been imprisoned. Rader responded by sending various evidence from his ninth murder—notably a copy of the victim’s driver’s license as well as photographs of her body—to a reporter. For the next year, he sent packages to the media or simply left items around Wichita. He often used cereal boxes—possibly a reference to “serial killer”—to hold drawings; crime souvenirs, including photographs; written descriptions of the murders; and even dolls posed to mimic the various deaths.
In January 2005 police received a break after recovering a cereal box that included a note in which Rader asked police whether they would be able to trace a floppy disk he wanted to send them. Through a classified ad, law enforcement officials indicated that it would be safe. He then sent them a disk, which the police quickly traced to his church, where he served as president of the congregation. Rader’s DNA was then matched to the semen found at the first crime scene. He was arrested in February 2005, and he soon confessed to the crimes—and expressed shock that the police had lied to him. In June Rader pled guilty, and two months later he was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms.
Arthur Shawcross Murders 14 In New York
Arthur Shawcross was a serial killer from New York who would murder fourteen people in his reign of terror. Shawcross who was known as Genesee River Killer was active from 1972 to 1989 however it was within the last two years he would murder the majority of his victims
According to court documents Arthur Shawcross first victim was 10-year-old Jack Owen Blake who he would lure into the woods and would sexually assault and murder the child. Later during the same year Shawcross would sexually assault and murder eight-year-old Karen Ann Hill.
Arthur Shawcross would be arrested and for some reason be allowed to plead guilty to both of the murders and would be sentenced to twenty five years in prison. After serving fourteen years in prison Shawcross would be paroled and his real reign of terror would begin
A year after being paroled from prison Arthur Shawcross would begin his killing spree where he would drive though Rochester New York looking for victims
| # | Name | Age | Disappeared | Discovered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dorothy “Dotsie” Blackburn | 27 | March 18, 1988 | March 24, 1988 |
| 2. | Anna Marie Steffen | 28 | July 9, 1988 | September 11, 1988 |
| 3. | Dorothy Keeler | 59 | July 29, 1989 | October 21, 1989 |
| 4. | Patricia “Patty” Ives | 25 | September 29, 1989 | October 27, 1989 |
| 5. | June Stott | 30 | October 23, 1989 | November 23, 1989 |
| 6. | Marie Welch | 22 | November 5, 1989 | January 5, 1990 |
| 7. | Frances “Franny” Brown | 22 | November 11, 1989 | November 15, 1989 |
| 8. | Kimberly Logan | 30 | November 15, 1989 | November 15, 1989 |
| 9. | Elizabeth “Liz” Gibson | 29 | November 25, 1989 | November 27, 1989 |
| 10. | Darlene Trippi | 32 | December 15, 1989 | January 5, 1990 |
| 11. | June Cicero | 33 | December 17, 1989 | January 3, 1990 |
| 12. | Felicia Stephens | 20 | December 28, 1989 | December 31, 1989 |
Authorities were flying around in a helicopter when they saw Arthur Shawcross throwing a body off of a bridge. Soon after Shawcross would be arrested and sentenced to over 250 years in prison. Shawcross would die in prison from a cardiac arrest in November 2008
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Serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who was serving life in prison for strangling 11 women in the Rochester area, has died at 63.
Shawcross died late Monday at an Albany hospital, where he had been taken after complaining of leg pain earlier in the day at the Sullivan Correctional Facility, Corrections Department spokesman Erik Kriss said Tuesday. The cause of death was still under investigation, he said.
Shawcross’ 13-week trial in 10 of the killings included graphic testimony about mutilation and cannibalism.
Shawcross, also known as the Genessee River Killer, was blamed for a wave of slayings discovered between 1988 and 1990 in the downtown Rochester area. Authorities said he preyed primarily upon prostitutes, raping and mutilating his victims before dumping their bodies in out-of-the-way locations throughout the city.
At the time, he was on parole after serving 15 years in prison for killing two children in northern New York’s Watertown in 1972.
Shawcross was arrested in January 1990, a day after state police spotted him near the frozen body of one of his victims.
In December 1990, he was convicted of killing 10 of the women after jurors deliberated only 6 1/2 hours. Jurors rejected defense arguments that he was legally insane at the time of the killings because of brain damage, abuse during childhood and his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam.
Three months later, Shawcross pleaded guilty to strangling a woman whose body was found Nov. 27, 1989, in woods in neighboring Wayne County.
Faking mental illness?
He did not testify during his trial, but jurors were shown videotapes of him being interviewed under hypnosis by a defense psychiatrist, Dr. Dorothy Lewis. He switched in and out of a high-pitched woman’s voice and told Lewis he had once been a cannibal in medieval England. He also described childhood incestuous relations with a sister and wartime atrocities and cannibalism in Vietnam
He told Lewis his mother’s voice told him to kill his victims, and that she “helped him” strangle and mutilate one of the women.
But in videotaped interviews with a prosecution psychiatrist, Dr. Park Dietz, Shawcross said he never heard voices or had different personalities. Dietz argued that Shawcross was faking mental illness to avoid prison.
In 2002, protests over Shawcross profiting from his prison artwork prompted the state Corrections Department to discontinue its annual inmate art show and ban the sale of art produced in prisons.
Inmates bought their own art supplies and kept half the proceeds from their sales, with the other half going to the state Crime Victims Board. A portrait of the late Princess Diana was among 10 sketches and paintings by Shawcross that sold for as much as $540 each in 2001.
Sheila LaBarre New Hampshire Serial Killer
Sheila LaBarre is a female serial killer from New Hampshire who was convicted of two murder however is believed to be responsible for more
According to court documents Sheila LaBarre would run a farm in New Hampshire where she would lure me in with promises with work however when they would show up they would be tortured and murdered
Sheila LaBarre would lure in Kenny Countie with the promise of work. She would film herself torturing Kenny while she accused him of being a pedophile. Kenny would be stabbed to death before she burned his body
The second known victim was Michael Deloge who was in a relationship with Shelia LaBarre. It is unclear how Michael died as his body was found decomposed inside of a septic tank.
Shelia LaBarre would be arrested and would plead not guilty by reason of insanity however the jury would not buy it and found her guilty on both murders. Shelia LaBarre would be sentenced to life in prison
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| NAME | AGE | INMATE ID | TERM ID | BOOKED DATE | MAXED | FACILITY |
| SHEILA KAYE LABARRE | 65 | 79895 | 49122 | 01/01/1900 | 5/27/2107 | NH Correctional Facility for Women |
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On June 20, 2008, a jury found that Sheila LaBarre was sane when she murdered two boyfriends in Epping, New Hampshire. LaBarre admitted to killing Michael Deloge and Kenneth Countie in 2005 and 2006, respectively, claiming God had made her an “avenging angel,” sent to earth to punish pedophiles. In her mind, this included Deloge and Countie, whose remains were found on her 115-acre farm.
“There seemed to be no basis whatsoever in reality to any suggestion or any claim that her victims were pedophiles, engaged in pedophilia or were child abusers. None whatsoever,” Brad Bailey, a defense attorney who represented LaBarre, tells A&E True Crime. “And that, too, was something that informed the insanity defense I pursued at trial.”
The jury rejected Sheila LaBarre’s plea, finding her guilty on two counts of first-degree murder and sentencing her to life in prison, where she remains today
At her trial in 2008, psychiatrist Dr. Roger Gray described LaBarre’s childhood as “populated with people who could use her however they wanted and wouldn’t protect her” and “populated with a real threat of death.” He also testified that the painful memories likely contributed to her decisions as an adult. During Gray’s testimony, LaBarre broke down and had to be escorted from the courtroom.
“Her childhood had been nightmarish,” Michael Benson, who wrote a book about LaBarre’s life, “The Burn Farm,” tells A&E True Crime. “She was [sexually and emotionally] abused by her dad and his friends, facts corroborated by her older sister, who also endured the abuse.”
Born in Alabama in 1958, Sheila LaBarre graduated from Fort Payne High School in 1976 and had several unsuccessful marriages. She was admitted to a psychiatric facility in the early 1980s after attempting suicide. Ronnie Jennings, her husband at the time, claimed her mood swings often turned violent. “Sheila’s mood disorders were severe enough to cause her to be psychotic at times, but there was not enough evidence to show that mental illness caused Sheila to commit her [future] crimes,” Benson says.
Sheila LaBarre moved to Epping, New Hampshire in 1987, after she answered a personal ad placed by local chiropractor Wilfred “Bill” LaBarre. Although she never legally married Bill LaBarre, she took his last name and lived with him until he died in 2000. Claiming she was Bill LaBarre’s common-law wife, LaBarre later inherited his entire estate, including the farm, despite objections from the deceased’s children.
‘Avenging Angel’ Commits Murder on the Farm
“When [LaBarre] was young…she swallowed a bottle of pills, slid into a car and drove until she passed out at the wheel and crashed,” says Benson. “She was rushed to a hospital and spent more than a week in a coma.”
When she awoke, she claimed that she had died and found herself seated at a table with various men who all had long beards. LaBarre insisted one of the men was God.
“She was told [by God] that her work on earth was not through and returned to her life under orders to kill pedophiles, to kill perverts like the men who had hurt her when she was little,” Benson says.
After she lured Deloge and Countie, a young man with a learning disability whom Sheila LaBarre met via a personal ad, to her farm, she subjected the men to physical and mental abuse. Prior to Countie’s death, two police officers recalled seeing him in a wheelchair inside a local Walmart, covered in bruises and burns.
“Sheila taped the audio of her torture sessions, tapes she could listen to after the victim was ashes and bones on the lawn, sessions in which she would force her victims to admit they were pedophiles,” says Benson.
Several days after the Walmart sightingSheila LaBarre made a bizarre phone call to Epping police in which she played audio of Countie confessing to being a pedophile. When police conducted a welfare check, they noticed a burn pile containing what looked like a large, fleshy human bone, bone fragments and a pair of sneakers. A search warrant was issued, and authorities arrested LaBarre on April 2, 2006, after she attempted to flee.
“Even after human remains had been found on her property, Sheila LaBarre was left alone to destroy evidence while the cops went to get a search warrant,” says Benson. “By the time they got back, the most impressive human bone and the victim’s sneakers were nowhere to be found. “Police conducted a three-week search of LaBarre’s farm, during which they discovered an incinerated mattress, human bones and blood splatter in various locations throughout the house. LaBarre admitted to stabbing Countie to death before burning his body. She also confessed to killing Deloge and burning his body, but it is unknown how he died.
Defense Argues ‘Lack of Criminal Responsibility’
“At the time that I represented her, I would describe Sheila as a severely mentally ill individual,” says Bailey. “Both our mental health experts were in agreement that Sheila was suffering from a substantial mental health disease or defect, such that she could not conform her behavior to the conduct of the law, or appreciate the difference between right and wrong, which is the standard in many states for an insanity defense.”
Based on observations and conversations with Sheila LaBarre, including multiple psychiatric evaluations, her defense team deemed there was viable ground to argue a lack of criminal responsibility, as defined by New Hampshire law—even though she admitted to two homicides. (This is called not guilty by reason of insanity in other states.) Also unique in New Hampshire, the burden of proving that someone is insane or not criminally responsible, is on the defense.
“In many other states, such as Massachusetts where my home practice is based, it’s different in that once it’s raised by the defense, the burden is on the prosecution to prove that somebody isn’t faking,” says Bailey. “So, I had the very unusual experience of putting evidence in front of the jury that established how severely mentally ill Sheila was.”
Among the evidence, Bailey and his team described an incident where Sheila LaBarre took a hatchet and hacked into a trailer where her boyfriend at the time was sleeping. They also detailed her taking a revolver and firing shots at another boyfriend as he ran through a field. And they brought in witnesses who testified they saw LaBarre order her victims into the trunk of her car and believed she kept the men in cages on her property.
In June 2002, the jury rejected the defense, finding LaBarre guilty of first-degree murder. While it’s difficult to speculate what forms a jury’s basis of opinion, Bailey believes that even if the jury understood lack of criminal responsibility, they likely considered LaBarre a future risk to society.
“In their minds, they might have thought Sheila was too dangerous and that she might one day get out if she was placed in a mental health facility.”
Could LaBarre be a Serial Killer?
Shelia LaBarre admitted to and was convicted of two homicides, which meets the FBI’s current definition of a serial killer.
While conducting a search of the LaBarre property in 2006, investigators also discovered three human toes near the farm. A forensic analysis determined the remains did not belong to either Countie or Deloge, and a DNA match has not yet surfaced. There has also been speculation that LaBarre killed Bill LaBarre, an allegation she denies.
Shelia LaBarre is currently serving life in prison without the possibility of parole at the New Hampshire Correctional Facility for Women in Concord, New Hampshire.
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Michael Gargiulo The Hollywood Ripper
Michael Gargiulo is a serial killer who was sentenced to death by the State of California for two murders however is suspected of many more
According to court documents Michael Gargiulo killing spree may have started in Illinois where he may have stabbed his neighbor, 18-year-old Tricia Pacaccio, to death on her back step
Michael Gargiulo would move to California and three years later would murder 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin who was stabbed multiple times causing her death. Ashley was suppose to go on a date that night with actor Ashton Kutcher
Michael Gargiulo would then murder 32-year-old Maria Bruno who was his neighbor. The two murders were three years apart. Three years after this murder he would attempt to murder another neighbor who would survive. However DNA found at the scene would tie Gargiulo to the other murders
Michael Gargiulo would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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| GARGIULO, MICHAEL THOMAS | |
| CDCR Number | BP3109 |
| Age | 47 |
| Admission Date | 08/02/2021 |
| Current Location | San Quentin State Prison |
| Location Link | Directions |
| Parole Eligible Date (Month/Year) | CONDEMNED |
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A convicted murderer nicknamed the “Hollywood Ripper” has been sentenced to death for killing two women in the 2000s.
Relatives of his victims wept as a judge gave Michael Gargiulo the sentence in Los Angeles on Friday.
Ashley Ellerin, 22, and Maria Bruno, 32, were both stabbed to death in their California homes.
Gargiulo was caught after another potential victim, Michelle Murphy, then 26, managed to fight him off.
He fled the scene, but left some blood behind – enabling police to track him down.
At Friday’s sentencing, Ms Murphy broke down, telling the court how “spending the night alone creates a world of fear in me” more than a decade later.
Gargiulo was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in 2019, but continues to insist he is innocent.
He is now expected to stand trial in Illinois, where he faces a separate murder charge over the killing of an 18-year-old woman in 1993.
The California murders attracted global attention because one of the victims, Ellerin, was about to go on a date with American actor Ashton Kutcher on the night she was killed in February 2001.
Testifying at the trial, he said he had knocked on the door of Ellerin’s Hollywood home. When she did not answer, Kutcher looked in her window and saw what he thought were wine stains on the floor, he said.
A roommate found Ellerin dead the next day with 47 stab wounds.
During the trial Kutcher told the court he was “freaking out” when he learned that Ellerin had been killed.
Gargiulo killed Bruno, a mother of four, in December 2005. She was a neighbour of Gargiulo, who “quite literally butchered” her with a knife while she slept, prosecutors said.
Three years later, Ms Murphy woke up in her Santa Monica flat with Gargiulo on top of her, stabbing her with a knife, but managed to fight him off.
She was a key witness in the trial.
As he announced the sentence, Judge Larry Paul Fidler said: “In this case, everywhere that Mr Gargiulo went, death and destruction followed.”
However, it could be a while before Gargiulo is put to death. The last execution in California was in 2006 and the practice has been banned since 2019 under Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.