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serial killers by country - usa [g] countries
     
  GACY John Wayne jr. ... ... USA ... ... ... 33
aka ... ... location
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John Gacy, Sr., was an alcoholic tyrant in his home, a crude exaggeration of the famous "Archie Bunker" character with every trace of humor wiped away. He took no pains to hide his disappointment with the son who bore his name, inflicting brutal beatings for the least offense, occasionally picking up the boy and hurling him across a room. [ReadOn]


  GALLEGO Gerald Albert ... +1955/03/03 USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1954 1954 MS
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  GALLEGO Gerald Armand     USA       10
  GALLEGO Charlene (WILLIAMS) ... ... CA
aka Sex Slave Murderers 1978 1980  
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In 1955 Gerald's father was executed in Mississippi's gas chamber for killing two cops. As luck would have it, Gerald turned out meaner that his pop. When he was thirteen he was arrested for raping a six-year-old girl. Years later he was arrested for having sex with his teen-age daughter. [ReadOn]


  GANT Victor ... ... USA ... ... ... 2+
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  GARCIA Allesandro *... ... USA ... ... ... ...
aka Temple Murders ... ... ...
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  GARCIA John Patrick *... ... USA ... ... ... ...
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News on Serial Killer John Patrick GARCIA
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  GARCIA Guinevere Falakassa *1959 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1977 1991 IL
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  GARROW Robert F. *1937 +1978/09/11 USA ... ... ... 4
aka 1973 1973 NY
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Shot during break out

  GARY Carlton ... ... USA ... ... ... 7+
aka Stocking Strangler ... ... location
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Known as the "Stocking Strangler," Carlton is on Georgia's death row for a string of strangulation murders of elderly women between 1977 and 1978. Suspected in at least seven murders in Columbus, Georgia, Carlton was convicted in 1986 of only three. [ReadOn]


  GARY Killings ... ... USA ... ... ... 5
aka 1994 1994 IN
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  GASKIN Louis Bernard *1967 ... USA ... ... ... 7
aka 1986 1989 FL
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  GASKINS Donald Henry jr. "Pee Wee" ... ... USA ... ... ... 100+
aka ... ... location
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At a carnival, young Pee Wee watched a well-fed cobra eat a rat. That's where he first felt attracted to violence. Dubbed America's meanest killer, Pee Wee was always in trouble with the law. [ReadOn]


  GASSER John R. ... ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka ... ... WA
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A Seattle University student in 1948, Gasser raped and strangled a 22-year-old carhop and dumped her body near the Sand Point Naval Station. Years after his release from prison, he raped and strangled a 49-year-old woman and dumped her body in a ditch outside Olympia in 1982.Status: In prison in Washington.

  GATES Anne *1949 ... USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1978 1987 IN
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When sheriff's officers in Rushville, Indiana, talked about the death of David Plue, they came up empty in their search for motives. The proverbial man without enemies, Plue had been shot in the head, execution-style, his body discarded alongside a rural highway in 1978. [ReadOn]

  GAYNOR Alfred *... ... USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... ...
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News on Serial Killer Alfred GAYNOR
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  GBUREK Ottilie "Tillie" ... ... USA ... ... ... 9
aka ... ... IL
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Chicago has always claimed a large Polish population, and in the first quarter of the 20th Century most of them lived in the Near North Side. The people, mostly a God-fearing, law-abiding nationality would like to forget one of their own, however. Her name was Ottilie (Tillie) Gburek. They called Tillie a psychic, her neighbors did. She had an uncanny talent of foreseeing the future. [ReadOn]

  GEARY Melvin *1931 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1973 1992 NV
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  GECHT Robin     USA       18+
  KOKORALEIS Andrew     IL
  KOKORALEIS Thomas      
  SPREITZER Edward ... ...  
aka Chicago Rippers ... ...  
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GEDZIUS Deborah Anne Booe Nabone => FORNUTO Debbie

  GEIN Edward Theodore ... ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka Plainfield Ghoul ... ... location
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Ed GEIN once joked that he had a "collection of shrunken heads" at home but no one thought he was dead serious.
As a child Ed grew up under the watch of his dominating mom. Once she died, he masturbated over her cadaver. Ed wasn't sure about his sexuality. First he considered cutting off his penis, then thought about a sex change operation. Finally he settled on grave robbing and a strange type of transvestite necrophilia. To become a woman he would carve out the genitalia of female cadavers and wear them over his own.[ReadOn]

  GEIST Joseph *1956 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1986 1986 IL
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  GENRICH Jimmy *1961 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka Mad Bomber 1991 1991 CO
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GEORGIA HOSPITAL Murders => RACHALS Terri Eden Maples

  GERALDS Hubert jr. *1964 ... USA ... ... ... 6
aka 1995 1995 IL
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Hubert was arrested in the summer of 1995 and charged with killing six prostitutes and drug addicts in Chicago's South Side. The string of murders began in December 1994 and continued through mid-June 1995, when Geralds was arrested after his sister turned him in. The sister had found one victim's decomposed body in a trash can near her home. [ReadOn]

  GIBBS Janie Lou *1932 ... USA ... ... ... 5
aka 1966 1967 GA
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Black Widows generally do not have a criminal record before their active burst. Many of them, up to the time before they commit their first murder, have spotless civic reputations and are often caryatids of faith, family and community. There is little forewarning of trouble. In a layman's vernacular, they simply snap. But... [ReadOn]

GIBONEY Christopher => HURD Steven Craig, GIBONEY Christopher, HULSE Arthur & TAYLOR Herman

  GIBSON Gregory *1978 +1998/11/13 USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1992 1998 NC
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Suicide

  GILBERT Kristen ... ... USA ... 4 4 4+
aka ... ... MA
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Kristen Gilbert, 33, worked on Ward C of the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts.  When she was there, it seemed that too many patients died from cardiac arrest.  In 1996, three nurses came forward to report their fear that there was a killer among them. [ReadOn]


GILBERT Lewis Eugene III. => ELLIOT Eric & GILBERT Lewis Eugene III.

  GILES Bernard E. *1953 ... USA ... ... ... 4
aka 1973 1973 FL
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  GILLIGAN Amy ... ... USA ... ... ... 14
aka ... ... Newington CT
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Amy and James Archer opened Sister Amy's Nursing Home for the Elderly in 1901 in Newington, Connecticut, and quickly earned a reputation as genteel caretakers of New England's wealthy aged. Although neither Amy's or James' qualifications bespoke a background in medicine, their establishment offered the right therapies and tonics to keep its senior patients happy and comfortable. [ReadOn]


  GILLIS Sean Vincent *... +... USA ... ... ... ...
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News on Serial Killer Sean Vincent GILLIS
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  GILMORE Gary Mark *1940 +1977/01/17 USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1976 1976 UT
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  GILMORE LANE CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL Murders ... ... USA ... ... ... 49
aka 1984 1985 CA
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  GILYARD Lorenzo J. *... +... USA ... ... ... ...
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News on Serial Killer Lorenzo J. GILYARD
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  GIRTS Robert *1953 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1977 1992 OH
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  GLATMAN Harvey Murray *1928 +1959/09/18 USA ... ... ... 3
aka Lonely Hearts Killer 1957 1958 CA
Urteil: Death Penalty
Harvey Glatman was another random killer who selected victims from the want-ads. As a child, obsessed with ropes and bondage, Glatman had engaged in masochistic sessions where he hanged himself from rafters in the attic, gaining sexual release when he was on the verge of blacking out. [ReadOn]

  GLAZE Billy Richard *1953 ... USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1986 1987 MN
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GLOVER Fred => JACKSON Peyton & JACKSON O´Delle & JACKSON Pearl & REED John & GLOVER Fred

  GOBLE Sean Patrick 1967 ... USA ... ... ... 3+
aka 1980s 1995 South USA
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Sean, a long-distance trucker from Ashenboro, NC, confessed to the murders of two women in Tennessee and has been charged with a third in North Carolina. He would pick up his victims at gas and service stations along the interstate and dump their bodies further down the road. [ReadPm]

  GOHL Billy ... +1928 USA ... ... ... 50+
aka 1903 1913 Aberdeen WA
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Nothing of substance is known about Billy Gohl's first forty years, and the stories he told in response to occasional questions were riddled with holes, contradictions, and some outright lies. By his own reckoning, Gohl was born around 1860, spending most of the next four decades as a laborer, sailor, or both. [ReadOn]

  GOINS Glenn Isaac ... ... USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... Johnson City
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News from GOKAK Headhunter
 
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  GOLDEN YEARS Killer ... ... USA ... ... ... 24
aka 1990 1997 VA
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  GOMEZ Lloyd ... +1953/10/17 USA ... ... ... 9
aka 1949 1951 CA
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  GONZALES Martin Escamilla ... ... USA ... ... ... 3+
aka ... ... TX
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On january 28, 1999, police have identified skeletal remains found more than three years ago as those of one of four missing women linked to Martin Gonzalez, a man they suspect is a serial killer. Gonzalez, 46, of Austin, has been in the Travis County Jail since November, charged with kidnapping Olivia Perez Estrada of Austin, who has been missing since October. 29, 1998. [ReadOn]

  GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL Murders 79/80 ... ... USA ... ... ... 2+
aka 1979 1980 IL
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  GOODE Arthur Frederick III. ... +1984/04/05 USA ... ... ... 2
aka ... ... FL
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A native of Hyattsville, Maryland, Arthur Goode was a victim of borderline retardation who still wore his hair in Little Lord Fauntleroy bangs at age 22. In his teens, Goode began making sexual advances to younger boys, quickly becoming notorious in his own neighborhood. Arrested three times for indecent assaults upon minors, he was freed each time when his parents posted bail. [ReadOn]

  GOODIN Anthony J. *1965 ... USA ... ... ... 7
aka 1982 1987 OK
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A lethal drifter, Goodin was first connected with homicide in the death of Marlin Carpenter, a schoolteacher found with his throat slashed in Valdosta, Georgia, on April 29, 1987. Police were still seeking him three months later, when Goodin was picked up in Columbus, Indiana, on charges of assaulting and trying to rob his live-in girlfriend. [ReadOn]

  GOODMAN Keith Eugene *1959   USA       4
  HOLLAND Tracy Lynn *1968   NY
  MEAD Jon Christopher *1967 ...  
aka 1989 1990  
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  GORE David Alan *1953/08/21   USA        
  WATERFIELD Fred ... ... FL
aka ... ...  
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A Florida native, born in 1951, David Gore resembled the stereotypical Southern "redneck," tipping the scales at 275 pounds, so enamored of firearms that he studied gunsmithing in his free time. He studied women, too, but in a different fashion, losing one job as a gas station attendant after the owner found a peephole Gore had drilled between the men's and women's restrooms. [ReadOn]

  GORE Marshall Lee *1963 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1988 1988 location
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  GOSS Dean Neel *1936 +1992/11/.. USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1982 1985 TX
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  GRACE James Willie *... ... USA ... ... ... 2+
aka Durham Sniper ... ... Durham NC
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A native of Durham, North Carolina, by age 31 Grace had been charged with housebreaking and assault with a deadly weapon, but the cases were not prosecuted. Later, after moving to New York, he drew a term of fifteen years in Sing Sing on conviction of burglary, robbery, and possession of a deadly weapon. [ReadOn]

  GRAHAM Gwendolyn Gail     USA       5
  WOOD Catherine May ... ... location
aka 1987 1987  
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It was in Walker, Michigan in 1987 where a pair of lesbians made death a sexual game.  Gwendolyn Gail Graham, 23, and Catherine May Wood, 24, worked together at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home.  Graham was a nurse's aide and Wood was her immediate superior.  Wood had divorced and gained an enormous amount of weight, so she was hungry for a friend.  When she met Graham, they immediately hit it off and soon became lovers. [ReadOn]


  GRAHAM Harrison *1959 ... USA ... ... ... 7
aka Marty 1983 1987 PA
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This drug addict lived in a fetid two-room apartment in North Philadelphia that was covered with trash, dirty syringes and a sea of fleas. In the summer of 1987, after numerous complaints from his neighbors, the police pried his door open and found six female bodies in different states of decomposition. On the roof of his building they found a duffel bag full of legs. In the neighbor's basement they found a torso. All the dead women were black drug addicts like himself who he invited over for a fix and a little one-on-one.

  GRAND RAPIDS PROSTITUTE Slayer ... ... USA ... ... ... 11
aka 1994 1996 MI
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  GRANT Gary G. ... ... USA ... ... ... 4
aka ... ... WA
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avy enlistee, Renton Confessed to four sex-slayings, including the murders of two 6-year-old boys and two teenage girls. All victims stabbed, strangled or both, then dumped in wooded areas near a Renton trailer park where he lived with his parents. Status: In prison in Washington.

  GRANT Waldo ... ... USA ... ... ... 4+
aka 1973 1976 NY
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A Georgia native, Grant fled a failed marriage by migrating to New York City in 1971, settling in a bachelor apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Neighbors knew him as a quiet loner, with detectives furnishing descriptions of "the kind of guy who lives in a tenement block for years, and nobody raises an eyebrow." More to the point, no one suspected that Grant's secret hobby was murder. [ReadOn]

  GRANVIEL Kenneth *1950 +1996/02/27 USA ... ... ... 4
aka 1976 1976 TX
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Arrested on suspicion of rape in 1976, Kenneth Granviel confessed to assaulting four women, fatally stabbing two others, and slaughtering two children in a series of brutal, random attacks. Convicted of murdering two-year-old Natasha McLendon, Granviel was sentenced to die, but the sentence was set aside by a federal appeals court on September 12, 1981. Finding that two prospective jurors had been improperly excluded from Granviel's trial on the basis of their opposition to capital punishment , the court ordered imposition of a lighter sentence in the case.

  GRASSO THomas Joseph *1962 +1995/03/20 USA ... ... ... 2
aka ... ... OK
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  GRAY Marvin ... ... USA ... ... ... 2-23
aka ... ... Denver
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"The 1st chance I get I'm going to do something real bad to one of them," an angry Marvin Gray told Denver County Court Judge Robert Patterson. The judge had just refused to replace Michael Linge and John Ventura as Gray's attorneys. "If I get a chance, I will try to kill one of them," Gray, 46, said. "I've killed 23 people, and I'd like to make that 24 and 25." [ReadOn]

  GRAY Ronald Adrian *1966 ... USA ... ... ... 4
aka 1986 1987 NC
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A native of Miami, born in 1966, Gray joined the U.S. Army at age 18 and was trained as a cook. In 1986, he was posted to Fort Bragg, outside Fayetteville, North Carolina, and his arrival on the base unleashed a sudden reign of terror. On April 29, 1986, 24-year-old Linda Coats was found dead in her trailer at Fayetteville, killed by a shot to the head after suffering sexual abuse . [ReadOn]

  GREEN Ann *... ... USA ... ... ... 2+
aka ... ... NY
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A 40-year-old nurse, once employed at the pediatric ward of New York Hospital, Green was indicted on March 3, 1986, for killing two of her own children and attempting to kill a third. Her first child had been reported dead on arrival at New York Hospital, with death ascribed to aortic malfunction, while number two had survived the trip from home, dying of unknown causes shortly after arrival in the emergency ward. [ReadOn]

  GREEN Cleo Joel III. *1958 ... USA ... ... ... 3
aka Red Demon 1983 1983 KY
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  GREEN COUNTY Killings ... ... USA ... ... ... 5
aka 1995 1996 IN
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GREEN Larry => ZEBRA Killing

  GREEN Ricky Lee *1960 +1997/10/09 USA ... ... ... 4+
aka 1985 1986 TX
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Serial killer Ricky Lee Green, 36, was pronounced dead on October 9, 1997, after being lethally injected by prison authorities in Huntsville, Texas. "Now we can go on and not have to worry about him getting out and hurting anyone else,'' said Shirley Bailey, the sister of one of his known victims. [ReadOn]

GREEN RIVER KILLER => RIDGWAY Gary Leon

GREEN Roy Dale => McDUFF Kenneth Allen & GREEN Roy Dale & WORLEY Alva Hank

  GREEN Samuel ... +1822/04/.. USA ... ... ... ?
aka ... ... location
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  GREENAWALT Randy *1949/02/24 +1997/01/23 USA ... ... ... 9
  TISON Gary Gene *... +... USA ... ... ... ...
aka 1973 1978 AZ CO
Urteil: Death by Lethal Injection
In retrospect, considering the time he spent in jail, it seemed incredible that Gary Tison could command such loyalty from his family. Imprisoned at the age of 25 for robbery, he took advantage of a meeting with his wife to flee the county jail in Florence, Arizona. Recaptured and later paroled, [ReadOn]

  GREENBERG Bertram ... +1971 USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1971 1971 CA
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killed running police roadblock in NMex

  GREENFIELD Gloria Jean ... +... USA ... ... ... ...
aka ... ... ...
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News on Serial Killer Suspect Gloria Jean GREENFIELD
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  GREENWOOD Vaughn Orrin ... ... USA ... ... ... 11
aka Skid Row Slasher ... ... CA
Urteil: Life
 
The first of Southern California's several "Skid Row" slayers launched his one-man war in 1964, taking a decade off before he returned to terrorize Los Angeles with nine more murders, committed over the space of two months. Victims were ritually "posed" by the slasher in death, with salt sprinkled around their bodies and cups of blood standing nearby, their wounds surrounded by markings of unknown significance. [ReadOn]

  GREESON Lloyd Donald jr. *1924 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1964 1964 FL PA
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Lloyd Greeson liked to see himself in uniform, but he could never get the hang of military discipline. During World War II, as a volunteer member of the Canadian army, he was convicted of several crimes while stationed in England. Between 1946 and 1950, he was dishonorably discharged from both the United States Army and the Marine Corps on charges of desertion. [ReadOn]

  GRETZLER Douglas *1951/05/21 +1998/06/03 USA       16+
  STEELMAN William Luther ... ... CA
aka ... ...  
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On June 4, 1998, rampager Douglas Edward Gretzler -- who had been on death row since November 15, 1976 -- was executed by lethal injection for two murders in Arizona's first daytime execution. Gretzler, 47, who along with mental hospital escapee Willie Luther Steelman, confessed to killing 17 people during a week long rampage through Arizona and northern California. [ReadOn]

  GRIFFIN Geoffrey ... ... USA ... ... ... 7
aka 2000 2000 location
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Another suspect in Chicago was been charged with hunting and killing drug-addicted prostitutes. The new suspect, Geoffrey Griffin, 30, was charged with strangling or beating to death seven women during the summer of 2000. The charges came 17 months after he was initially jailed on suspicion of committing the slayings. [ReadOn]

  GRISSOM Richard *1960 ... USA ... ... ... 3
aka 1989 1989 MO
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  GROVES Vincent Darrell *1953 1996/10/31 USA ... ... ... 14
aka 1973 1988 CO
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GRUBER Maria => WAGNER Waltraud et al

  GUATNEY William *1922 ... USA ... ... ... 15
aka Freight Train 1975 1979 NE KS IL
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William "Freight Train" Guatney loved to ride the rails. For almost forty years he traveled the United States in box cars, living off the land and picking up odd jobs in towns where he was known as a "likeable hobo," described by his many friends as "the happy-go-lucky type." But Guatney also had a darker side. At fifty-seven, he had seen America the hard way, and he hated being called a bum. [ReadOn]

  GUERRERO Jose *... ... USA ... ... ... 3+
aka ... ... ...
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  GULF COAST Killings ... ... USA ... ... ... 21
aka 1971 1976 TX
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  GUNNES Belle Paulsdatter Storset *1859/11/11 ... USA ... ... ... 49+
aka Lady Bluebird 1896 1908 location
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America's first "black widow" of the 20th century was born Brynhild Paulsdatter Storset, on November 11, 1859, in the fishing hamlet of Selbu, on Norway's west coast. The daughter of an unsuccessful merchant, Brynhild immigrated to the United States in 1881; three years later, she settled in Chicago. [ReadOn]


  GUNNING James D. ... ... USA ... ... ... 0-10
aka ... ... location
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A Pennsylvania auto mechanic has been charged with attempting to murder three New Jersey women is now a suspect in the strangulation of 10 suspected prostitutes in three states. James D. Gunning, 28, was being held on $1 million bail as police throughout the region used DNA and other evidence in investigations that could link him to a string of unsolved murders. [ReadOn]

  GURULE Raymond Anthony *1958 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1982 1984 CA
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  GUZMAN James *1964 ... USA ... ... ... 2
aka 1982 1991 FL
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