Milwaukee born in 1960, Jeffrey Dahmer moved to Ohio with his family at age six. In 1968, he was sexually molested by a neighbor boy in rural Bath Township. Unreported at the time, the childhood incident may play a pivitol role in understanding Dahmer's subsequent crimes. [ReadOn]

On April 22, 1979, FBI spokesmen announced their search for 34-year-old Lawrence Dalton, sought on murder charges after a woman's corpse was unearthed near Kenosha, Wisconsin, in front of a house which Dalton had occupied from March 1977 through February 1978. [ReadOn]

Murl Daniels and John West One could easily get away with calling Murl Daniels and John Coulter West as "The Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole of Ohio." In a way they were much like Lucas and Toole, two partners in crime who decided to go on a pointless rampage of murder and mayhem. [ReadOn]

A native of Lowell, Oregon, Daniels was convicted of manslaughter in 1970, winning parole from his sentence in 1981. Within a year, he had stopped checking in with his parole officer at Eugene, and new Oregon warrants charged him with parole violation, passing bad checks , and driving with a suspended license. [ReadOn]

In January 1987, transients in Los Angeles were falling prey to yet another random slayer -- the fifth to prey on homeless men within a decade. Like his predecessors in the latter 1970s, this stalker favored knives, which he employed with speed and deadly skill. [ReadOn]

In February 1976, at age 21, Daugherty left Michigan with his girlfriend and a favorite uncle, bound for Florida. The trip consumed three weeks, and Daugherty slew four women on the way, for pocket money and the thrill of killing. [ReadOn]

One of the South's most intriguing murder mysteries revolves around this native of Berrien County, Georgia, born in 1949. While Daughtrey's long history of crimes against women does not include a murder conviction -- so far -- agents of the FBI and state authorities have publicly declared him a suspect in at least three Serial slayings, and their investigation is continuing with an eye toward prosecution. [ReadOn]

The defendant was a 21 year old mother of four, convicted of murdering her first two by drowning them in the bathtub at her home on Rhonda Drive and Riddle Street in Jeffersonville. The drownings were committed at different times, 1 1/2 years apart, when each victim was approximately 14 months old. [ReadOn]

On May 14, 1960, eight-year-old Brenda Doucette was reported missing en route to her neighborhood school, in Bristol, Connecticut. Found dead the same day, she had been stabbed 22 times with a screwdriver and strangled with a man's sweater. [ReadOn]

Born in 1948 at Toledo, Ohio, and raised in rural, Fayette County, Davis dropped out of high school in the mid-1960s and moved to Manhattan, in hopes of pursuing a singing career. He earned a diploma from night school, in 1968, but success in show business eluded him, leaving the young man embittered, struggling to make ends meet. [ReadOn] Born in 1948 at Toledo, Ohio, and raised in rural, Fayette County, Davis dropped out of high school in the mid-1960s and moved to Manhattan, in hopes of pursuing a singing career. He earned a diploma from night school, in 1968, but success in show business eluded him, leaving the young man embittered, struggling to make ends meet. [ReadOn]

On June 3, 1971, 13-year-old Duane Bush was reported missing from his home in Union Mills, Indiana. Suspected as a runaway, in light of recent confrontations with the local juvenile authorities, Duane had actually been kidnapped , sodomized, and strangled. [ReadOn]

The son of a Baptist minister, born in Jackson, Mississippi, during 1966, Davis had developed a sexual fixation on older women by the time he reached his teens. His special hangout was the Jackson public library, where he would sit by the hour, staring at women, sometimes reaching through the stacks to fondle unsuspecting victims as they browsed for books. [ReadOn]

An habitual criminal and three-time escapee from the Michigan state prison at Jackson, by autumn 1986, at age 35, Day was serving a seven-year term for attempted rape and prison escape. Transferred from Jackson to Ypsilanti's Center for Forensic Psychiatry in November, Day befriended Thomas Fortunato, a prison guard with fourteen years of service and a perfect record on the job. [ReadOn]

During her trial in 1955, the press tagged 50 year-old Nannie DOSS "The Giggling Granny". Despite her amiable demeanour, DOSS´ crimes were no laughing matter. She was found to have killed four husbands in four states; Alabama, North Carolina, Kansas and Oklahoma - where she was finally convicted for murder.[ReadOn]