Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on February 26, 1960, O'Neall grew up a drifter and pathological liar with a taste for violent sex. He traveled widely, favoring the West and avidly devouring the novels of best-selling Western writer Louis L'Amour. [ReadOn]

In three years' time, between August 1979 and October 1982, eight victims were dispatched in grisly style by a killer (or killers) who preyed on young Ohio couples, randomly selecting victims in a triangle of death that stretched from Akron and Toledo in the north to Logan, in the south. [ReadOn]

At least four women have been found dismembered in the Stiles Circle-Lincoln Terrace-Medical Center Area of Oklahoma City.. The first body was found in pieces through several blocks near the Capitol in 1976. The last body was found in 1985 during a demolition excavation for the construction of the Centennial Expressway. [ReadOn]

On September 26, 1981, Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett, both 13, phoned home to tell their parents that they had been offered work, unloading stuffed animals for a midway arcade at the Oklahoma City fairgrounds. [ReadOn]

On January 2001 Texas authorities arrested California parolee arrested Devon Stuart Olson who subsequently confessed to crimes in Texas, California and Arkansas, including the 1986 murders of a couple near Sacramento. [ReadOn]

The latter 1970s were witness to a sudden rash of random, homicidal violence in America, alerting criminologists to a disturbing increase in the incidence of serial murders. Some regions of the country - Texas, Florida, New York - seemed bent on hogging headlines for their local maniacs, but none could hold a candle to the battlefield of Southern California, where the "Hillside Strangler," "Freeway Killer," "Sunset Slayer," "Skid Row Slasher," and a host of others plied their trade. [ReadOn]