March 19, 2004:
The Wichita Eagle receives a letter with copies of the drivers license of Vicki WEGERLE and three fotos of the crime scene of her murder. First thinking about a bad joke, it soon becomes obvious, that the incredible happened: [ReadOn]

On August 13, 1969, officials in Bombay , India, announced that 40-year-old Raman Raghav had been sentenced to hang following his conviction of multiple murders. According to sketchy reports, the defendant openly confessed to slaying forty-one men, women, and children, selected at random for the sheer pleasure of killing.

A Fifteenth Century French war hero, Gilles was also one of medieval Europe's worst killers. An ally of Joan of Arc during the Hundred Year War, de Rais was instrumental in driving the English out of France. In his later years, after he was named Marshal of France by King Charles VII, he settled in his estates in Brittany, where he turned his heroic impulses towards torture and murder. [ReadOn]

In 1978, Larry Ralston received four life sentences for killing four young Tristate women. One conviction was overturned, but in 1984 he received another life sentence for murder.
Somewhere between Chicago and Batavia, in the back seat of a police car, Larry Ralston freed his conscience. [ReadOn]

Colombian police have arrested a man suspected of murdering 29 children found in two ditches in the city of Pereira. Pedro Pablo Ramirez was arrested on Wednesday December 30, 1998, in a suburb of Pereira, 300km (200 miles) east of Bogota, in connection with the murders. [ReadOn]

A Los Angeles transient known as the Night Stalker, Rich was captured in Boyle Heights, a Latino neighborhood, by an angry mob after he attempted a carjacking. His good looks made him a crowd favorite. His Metalhead-gone-Satanist image made him a cult figure. Like Manson, he is an unrepentant photo-opportunity-type killer with a bevy of female followers. [ReadOn]

Born Andre Rashan, in 1943, the "Pied Piper of Staten Island" employed various pseudonyms to cover his movements and criminal activities through the years. Between 1966 and '68, using the last name "Bruchette," he worked as a physical therapy aide at New York's Willowbrook State School - later renamed the Staten Island Development Center. [ReadOn] Born Andre Rashan, in 1943, the "Pied Piper of Staten Island" employed various pseudonyms to cover his movements and criminal activities through the years. Between 1966 and '68, using the last name "Bruchette," he worked as a physical therapy aide at New York's Willowbrook State School - later renamed the Staten Island Development Center. [ReadOn]

On October 30, 1981, 18-year-old Britta Schilling vanished while hitchhiking home from a disco near Bremen, in West Germany. Her naked, ravaged body bearing 27 stab wounds and the marks of torture prior to death - was found November 6, discarded on the Devil's Moor, a hundred-square-mile area of marshland north of Bremen. [ReadOn]

David Parker RAY and Cindy HENDY have at least six skeletons in the closet that could be dredged from Elephant Butte Lake or dug from shallow graves in the desert. As of March 22, 1999, numerous FBI agents, including psychological "profilers," converged on a trailer home in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, to gather evidence in a case of sexual torture and possible multiple murder. [ReadOn]

The Green River Killer case has been the longest, costliest and most frustrating investigation in U.S. history. For 15 years, detectives in the Seattle-Tacoma area have been trying to track down the killer, an unidentified man believed to be responsible for the murders of 49 women in King County between 1982 and 1984. [ReadOn]

New Yorks worst serial murder case of this century began--or ended--with a routine traffic stop in the predawn hours of June 28, 1993. State troopers Deborah Spaargaren and Sean Ruane were working the graveyard shift in East Meadow, Long Island, when they spotted a pickup truck with no license plate ahead of them, at 3:15 A.M. [ReadOn]

1981 häuften sich unerklärliche Todesfälle auf der Intensivstation des Riverside California County Hospitals. Eine Untersuchung fand in den Leichen Überdosen von Lidocaine. [ReadOn]