Yes, there are serial killers active in the United States right now. Nobody can name most of them yet. Researchers count a serial killer as "active" in a year if he or she killed someone that year, and many are only identified years later. Some never are.
The best count comes from the Radford/FGCU Serial Killer Database. Its 2023 report found an average of 53 active serial killers a year in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019, using the FBI's two-victim definition. With a three-victim cutoff, the number drops to 31. The peak was the 1980s, at 173 a year. Those figures only include killers who were later identified. The authors say the real number "is unknown but is certainly higher."
You will also see the line "the FBI estimates 25 to 50 active serial killers" on a lot of websites. We looked for the FBI document behind it and could not find one. No report, no named official, no date. We left it out.
A few other numbers help. In 2024, former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi said the FBI's Highway Serial Killings Initiative links about 850 murders to the trucking community, with a pool of 450 suspects. And in 2024, police cleared 61.4 percent of murders nationwide, according to FBI data reported by the Center for American Progress. About 4 in 10 were not cleared.
We updated this page in September 2026. The biggest change since the last version: the Long Island case is closed.
| Case | Where | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I-70 Killer | Indiana, Kansas, Missouri | Never identified |
| West Mesa | New Mexico | No one charged |
| Jeff Davis 8 | Louisiana | No convictions |
| Chicago strangulations | Illinois | One conviction in 51 deaths |
| Zodiac | California | FBI: case open |
| Pedro Lopez | Colombia | Whereabouts unknown |
| Rainbow Maniac | Brazil | No conviction found |
| Vending machine poisoner | Japan | No one charged |
| Danilovsky Maniac | Russia | Still under investigation |
Caught: the Long Island Serial Killer
For years this list opened with the Long Island Serial Killer. That case now has an ending. On April 8, 2026, Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering seven women: Melissa Barthelemy, Valerie Mack, Jessica Taylor, Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, and Sandra Costilla. He also admitted in court to killing an eighth woman, Karen Vergata, though he was never charged in her death. On June 17, 2026, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
"He thought that by killing them he could silence them forever and get away with murder," Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said the day of the plea.
Not every set of remains found near Gilgo Beach is solved. One victim, known only as Asian Doe, still has no name. At a DNA collection event in Chinatown in August 2026, Tierney asked the public for help. "Let's give this victim their name back," he said.
Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Ramirez are the names most people know, and our stories on Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Ramirez cover how each was caught and convicted. The nine cases below never got that ending.
9 serial killer cases still unsolved in 2026
Five of the nine are in the United States. The map shows where those killings happened. It does not show where anyone is now.

1. The I-70 Killer (Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, 1992)
Over 29 days in the spring of 1992, a gunman walked into small stores near Interstate 70 and shot the people working inside. It started on April 8 in Indianapolis, where Robin Fuldauer, 26, was found dead at a Payless ShoeSource. On April 11, two women were found dead at a bridal shop in Wichita, Kansas. Then came a ceramics shop in Terre Haute, Indiana, on April 27, a boot store in St. Charles, Missouri, on May 3, and a gift shop in Raytown, Missouri, on May 7.
The six victims were Robin Fuldauer, Patricia Magers, Patricia Smith, Michael McCown, Nancy Kitzmiller, and Sarah Blessing. Police linked the shootings through ballistics tests. Detective Tim Relph described the gun as "a historic remake of an old German Navy pistol" with a long barrel and a wooden forearm.
A task force reopened the case in 2021 and released an updated sketch showing how the man might look today "if he's still alive." Investigators have been testing evidence for touch DNA since February 2022. As of May 2026, it was unclear whether any of that testing produced a match. He has never been identified.
2. The West Mesa murders (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
In February 2009, human remains turned up on Albuquerque's West Mesa. Police went on to recover the remains of 11 women and an unborn child from the same stretch of land. Fifteen years later, the Albuquerque Police Department said it had taken in more than 1,400 tips and run seven land searches. A reward of up to $100,000 is still offered. "We have put a tremendous amount of effort into solving this case over the last 15 years and we will not stop," Police Chief Harold Medina said in 2024.
Investigators have pointed to two major suspects, and neither has been charged in the case. Lorenzo Montoya was shot dead in 2006. A former police chief later called him "probably our best suspect." Joseph Blea is serving 90 years for rapes he was convicted of in 2015. He has been named a person of interest in the West Mesa deaths, but he has not been charged in the case and has never admitted to them.
3. The Jeff Davis 8 (Jennings, Louisiana)
Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were found in and around Jennings, a small town in Jefferson Davis Parish. A federal task force of 14 agencies took on the case, and it drew national attention through a 2019 Showtime documentary series.
Twenty years on, local station KPEL put it plainly in June 2025: "Not a single person has been convicted." Much of the reporting has focused on local law enforcement. The 2025 KPEL report describes allegations that deputies abused some of the women. Those are allegations, not court findings. Some relatives also doubt that one person is to blame. "I think it's more than one," Brittany Jones, the niece of victim Whitnei Dubois, told Fox News in 2019.
4. The Chicago strangulations (2001 to 2018)
The Murder Accountability Project, a nonprofit that runs FBI homicide data through an algorithm to spot clusters of similar unsolved killings, flagged 51 strangulation deaths of women in Chicago between 2001 and 2018. One detail from the group's founder, Thomas Hargrove, is hard to forget: a line of body recovery sites on the Near South Side "forms an almost perfect north-south line" along the Green Line elevated train.
In February 2020, Chicago police charged Arthur Hilliard in the 2017 killing of Diamond Turner, 21. It was the first arrest among the 51 deaths. In December 2025, a jury found him guilty of her murder. Police have not said the deaths are the work of one killer, and most of them have no public arrest.
5. The Zodiac Killer (Northern California, 1968 to 1969)
The Zodiac Killer is believed to have stabbed or shot at least five people in Northern California in 1968 and 1969. Every few years someone claims to have solved it. In October 2021, after a private group said it had named him, the FBI answered with one line: "The case remains open." We found no later statement from the FBI or San Francisco police that changes that.
For more American cases by state, see our Colorado cases, the 4 worst serial killers from Kentucky, and our list of famous Michigan serial killers and unsolved murders. North of the border, start with the 7 most famous Canadian serial killers.
6. Pedro Lopez, the "Monster of the Andes" (whereabouts unknown)
Pedro Lopez is different from the rest of this list because he was caught once. In Ecuador he pleaded guilty to the murders of 57 girls. He was released on August 31, 1994, and deported to Colombia. Authorities there tried to convict him of a decades-old murder, but he was declared insane and, in 1995, placed in a psychiatric facility. In February 1998 he was declared sane and let go on $50 bail.
In 2002, Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest in connection with a new murder. The warrant was deactivated in 2005. He was last seen in public in 1999, renewing his citizenship card in Bogota. Nobody knows whether he is alive.
7. Brazil's Rainbow Maniac (Carapicuiba, 2007 to 2008)
In 2007 and 2008, 13 men were killed at Paturis Park in Carapicuiba, near Sao Paulo. The killer targeted gay men, and The Guardian reported that victims were found with a .38 bullet in the back of the head. "He doesn't like homosexuals, he hates them," police chief Paulo Fernando Fortunato told the paper in December 2008.
That same month, police detained a retired police officer. He was released 30 days later when his temporary detention ran out. We could not find any conviction for the park killings.
8. Japan's vending machine poisoner (1985)
On April 30, 1985, someone in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, drank a bottle of Oronamin C, a vitamin drink, that someone had left on top of a vending machine. It was laced with paraquat, a weed killer. In all, at least 12 people died of paraquat poisoning in the case. At the time, the drink's maker was running a promotion that gave lucky buyers a free bottle, according to NextShark. Police ran out of leads, with no witness statements or DNA to work from, and no one was ever charged.
9. Russia's Danilovsky Maniac (Cherepovets, 2004 to 2007)
In Cherepovets, a city in Russia's Vologda region, one unknown killer is linked to seven murders of girls and women between 2004 and 2007. Investigators checked about 14,000 residents. Local reporting credits him with as many as 14 killings, though only seven are formally tied to him. In March 2024, senior investigator Artyom Kolobov said the case file runs to more than 120 volumes. Cherinfo reported that "the investigation into this case continues." A reward of one million rubles still stands.
For a case from South Korea, read our story on the Hwaseong serial murders.
How DNA is reopening old cases

DNA testing is how several of these cases moved. In the Long Island case, a judge ruled in September 2025 that DNA pulled from rootless hairs was admissible, saying the method "is generally accepted in the relevant scientific community." Prosecutors also tied Heuermann to Valerie Mack's death through "mitochondrial DNA analysis of a female hair found on Mack's body." In Chicago, DNA evidence led to Arthur Hilliard's arrest in 2020, more than two years after Diamond Turner's body was found.
The I-70 task force has been testing for touch DNA, the trace left on things a person handled, since 2022. That is the same kind of work that could one day put a name on the West Mesa or Jeff Davis 8 cases. So far it has not.
Serial killer theories that don't hold up
Some famous "active serial killer" stories fall apart when you check them.
The Smiley Face Killers. Two retired detectives, Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, argued that young men found drowned in several states were murdered, and pointed to smiley face graffiti near some of the sites. Supporters point to details like the lack of deterioration of his corpse when Todd Geib's body was found 22 days after he went missing. The FBI looked at the theory in 2008 and said it had "not developed any evidence to support links between these tragic deaths." A 2010 review of 40 cases by the Center for Homicide Research found "no substantive evidence" that any of the drownings were serial killings.
The Austin "Rainey Street Ripper." Rumors blamed a killer for drownings in Austin's Lady Bird Lake. In 2025, Texas State University researchers working with Austin police reviewed 189 drowning cases from 2004 to 2025. They found "neither direct evidence nor indirect warning signs of a serial murderer."
The Ibadan forest. In March 2014, police in Ibadan, Nigeria, found what Al Jazeera described as "decomposed corpses, skeletons and skulls" in a building in the Soka area, along with malnourished survivors. One early report described ten live people chained inside. Nigeria's The Nation (thenationalonlineng.net) reported six arrests and ten survivors in hospital. Reports at the time described a kidnappers' den or a ritual site, not a lone serial killer. We found no report of how the case ended in court.
If you want to know what investigators look for in a real case, read Signs of a Serial Killer: 11 Common Serial Killer Traits.
Is there a live map of active serial killers?
No. Police cannot map killers they have not identified. The closest thing is the Murder Accountability Project's cluster tool, which uses FBI homicide data to flag counties and metro areas with unusual groups of similar unsolved murders. A flagged cluster is a reason to look closer, not proof of a serial killer. Chicago is the example: the algorithm flagged 51 deaths, and police have not treated them as one case.
More unsolved cases to read
For older cases that were never solved, start with The 29 Most Gruesome Unsolved Murders In History. If you want the names that were caught, our list of the most famous serial killers is the place to begin. You can also read our list of serial killer documentaries, 21 Disturbing Serial Killer Quotes, and The Real Life Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Ed Gein.
Serial Killer Shop also sells horror tees and true crime merch.
Sources
- Aamodt, Leary, and Girimurugan, Radford/FGCU Annual Report on Serial Killer Statistics, 2023.
- U.S. Department of Justice, Serial Murder: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators (FBI report abstract).
- FOX19, FBI focusing on specific pool of suspects as part of Highway Serial Killings Initiative, August 1, 2024.
- Center for American Progress, Nationwide 2024 crime data, August 5, 2025.
- PBS NewsHour, Rex Heuermann sentenced to life in prison, June 17, 2026.
- NBC News, Rex Heuermann admits killing 8 women, April 8, 2026.
- Patch, Search continues to identify Asian Doe, August 2026.
- ABC7 New York, Judge rules DNA evidence admissible, September 3, 2025.
- 6abc, Prosecutors announce new charge in Gilgo Beach case, December 17, 2024.
- Men's Journal via Yahoo, 34 years ago: the I-70 Killer claimed his sixth victim, May 7, 2026.
- KWCH, New sketch of the I-70 serial killer, October 19, 2021.
- First Alert 4, I-70 task force review, January 20, 2022.
- Albuquerque Police Department, APD honors West Mesa victims on 15th anniversary, February 2, 2024.
- A&E, Will the West Mesa serial killer ever be identified?, updated July 16, 2026.
- KPEL 96.5, The Jennings 8, June 23, 2025.
- Fox News, Jennings 8 documentary, June 15, 2019.
- Murder Accountability Project, Chicago police make first arrest among 51 female strangulations, February 1, 2020.
- A&E, How Chicago is trying to solve 51 strangulation homicides, updated July 16, 2026.
- ABC7 Chicago, Arthur Hilliard found guilty, December 6, 2025.
- NBC News, FBI rebuts claim Zodiac case is solved, October 7, 2021.
- Biography.com, Pedro Alonso Lopez, October 3, 2023.
- A&E, Pedro Alonso Lopez, updated July 16, 2026.
- All That's Interesting, Pedro Lopez, February 21, 2026.
- NBC News and AP, Brazilian ex-cop quizzed in deaths of 13 gays, December 11, 2008.
- A Capa, Suspeito de ser o maniaco do arco iris e solto, January 13, 2009.
- NextShark via Yahoo, The forgotten case of Japan's vending machine murders, July 4, 2023.
- Lenta.ru, The Danilovsky Maniac, April 17, 2021.
- Cherinfo, Cherepovets investigator on the Danilovsky case, March 26, 2024.
- Al Jazeera, Nigeria police open probe into torture house, March 24, 2014.
- Fox News, FBI: no evidence to support Smiley Face serial murder theory, May 1, 2008.
- Center for Homicide Research, Drowning the Smiley Face Murder Theory, 2010.
- KUT, 200 have drowned in Lady Bird Lake. A serial killer isn't to blame, September 4, 2025.
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109 comments
dominick
This website admin should provide “Melysee’s” IP address to the FBI or State Police, that was a creepy comment. It could’ve been meant as comical but one never knows. I live in Canada and we are pretty safe here, the United States has way more psychos and mass shooting whether school or workplace. In Canada we can’t carry guns, but if I lived in the USA I would definitely arm myself and my family.
A dangerous man
I crush my cereal with out mercy before eating it, am I a cereal killer?
Yea right
nelly
To assume this many women are raped by successful attractive white males is clear evidence of your lack of brain matter and pure love for Jewish propaganda
Jordan
When i read mellysee comment they are using the word “we” as in from a victems point.. nothing weird about it
nelly
what if the smiley face killings are women who are trying to get their own justice, i mean think about it no to sound harsh but the amount of white college boys that get away with raping girls is insane so what if these are women that banded together somehow trying to seek justice, im gonna look further into it and see if any of these victims had any allegations against them but it sounds feasible to me, the use of date rape drugs and the fact that the men had been missing for weeks prior to their deaths could suggest their captors were torturing them in a psychological way, driving them insane and to remorse before death. its a gruesome theory but it is only a theory. and before anyone comments about me bringing up white college boys, im only going off of the victms relativity to one another, yes other people men and women and all races rape so please no one lose their shit over my comment
Irish Billie
People, take care with the banter exchange, I agree with “SAMURAI.” There are several shady characters commenting who have, most certainly
committed the crimes that are being discussed or, similar. Some of their comments…..give them away…just saying!!
An
Checking these comments…. its 3 people that have huge red flags… one thing about serial killers a lot of them are narcissist so coming on a page like this is right up their alley… they can poke fun on the comments without really being noticed … or even maybe hear about their own workings… but some of these comments were huge flags
Samurai
Mellysee is def a killer….. look at the comment… “we”
Maurie
When it comes to the happy face killings, I think it is a group of women
Trev
I love it how y’all just read an entire article about these serial killers that haven’t been caught for decades, and you think that you solved it…
The word
They are only victims if they didn’t want to die.
TheWindBlows
Melysee’s comment.
You star your comment with whoever. Then you used “We” in your comment.
Wouldn’t doubt serial killers look at pages like this, trolling to see people talking about them. And I wouldn’t doubt, Sir, that you are one of them.
Bill
My sister Shari Christine saunders went to see my other sister Linda in August of 18 and was never seen again I waited for the police to do their job and now this is 2021 and it’s time for me to go find the killer anybody getting my way will be buried if that sounds cruel it was cruel to kill my sister of 69 years old and that’s all I can say right now it’s hard to talk about this happened in Southern Alabama she was last seen in a place called Greenville or something like that going to Monroeville I will find the killer and he will not die as quickly and I will hand him over to the police or the FBI alive begging to die.
ERIC GELMETE
So many opinions to labeling women who become victims, most ladies of the night are in some way addicts wether drugs or alcohol. Unfortunately the chase for there drug has put them in some tough situations but never blame victims, these opportunist are predators who watch, follow and strike at most opportune time. We have to be mindful most of these victims have children, families, and they didnt want there life to turn out like (this). Godbless!!!!!
Rich
Don’t understand the problem. Many serial killers kill gay men or prostitutes big all big a lot have.. It’s a common fact. It doesn’t make such people anything bad they just sadly we’re targeted.
One, because few thought they will be missed (easy targets) and two in the case of gay men, the killer is likely a closet homosexual with intense self hatred or a bigot who thinks he’s doing God’s work. Unfortunately it’s nothing new. Stop with the political nonsense already.
Helga
It is not always making choices that make you more available to become a victim. When I was young I would walk most everywhere I wanted to go, such as the beach or store or to get a burger at the local burger joint. I also locked my doors and windows and worked for law enforcement as a communications and 911 operater. One night after getting off work I was showering, getting ready for bed when I heard this loud bang come from my apartment bedroom. I stepped out of the shower and observed a shadow move across the bedroom window which was now leaning up against the wall where the window had been. I stepped back into the shower and thought to myself “what am I going to do”? I left the water running as I decided to face whoever was out there. The thoughts that went threw my head were I’m not staying in the shower to end up like the woman in the movie physco; the bathroom window is too small to get out of, and I just know there is going to be some male escapee from the Napa mental institution out there. Those thoughts were all the time it took me to make my decision to face my advisary. I stepped into my bedroom naked and wet. The man that was hiding in my closet stepped out and grabbed me. He got his arm around me from behind when I turned to run. I started screaming and fighting him. The first thing I did when I stepped into my bedroom was look at his hands to see if he was armed. He had no weapon and because I was slippery from the shower water I got loose from him. I had a 30-30 winchester rifle leaning against the wall by the side of the bed; we both looked at it however, I knew it wasn’t loaded as I kept the amo to it secured away. All of a sudden my neighbor below me started yelling my name asking if I was all right. This caused the intruder to push me out of the way and he ran out the front door jumping off my balcony. I called the Sheriff’s Dept. immediately. Put on a robe and waited for them. The only words the intruder ever said to me was when I first saw him we’re “don’t look at me, don’t look at me” and when he had grabbed me he told me to be quiet in a soft spoken voice. Yea, like that’s gonna happen. I might have not have fought him had he been armed, but I doubt it. As soon as the intruder was out my front door I yelled to my neighbor and chased him down the street with his shotgun, but he got away. So, don’t assume that where you are or what you do for a living determins whether you are or are not going to become a victim of assault or any other crime. And don’t assume what a man looks like is going to make him more trustworthy or morale. My intruder was in his mid to late 20s possibly early 30s, extremely good looking. Slender apx 170 – 175 lbs,, 5’11 to 6’, sandy brownish blond hair, tanned with natural muscle. not like a body builder, more like a laborer, construction worker, etc. In fact I told the cops that the only people new in my neighborhood were a group of roofers that had been working on a house across the street. They never caught the guy.
Chris
I been in prison sorry people you have to many people opening there mouth that no nothing. Regular inmates 35k death row 70-80k a year. I say go in cell with these people and live with them. There no saving them. You show mercy on them and they never showed mercy on victims. Prisoners think prison should be easy. If you know your going swing for your crime your going think about what your doing. Think about victims and actually think about them what they went threw. These Horrific crimes are starting be accepted in communities until happens to them. It eye for eye found guilty you swing. They use hang horse theives!! Sing sing prison 600 prisoners executed. These things are real and people need wake up. They always crying and say there sorry for crimes and would big them back. Son of sam is man of god now he says!! Amazing always turn to god. Im sorry As soft and whining people are dont stand a chance with monsters like these people. Like people in California trying make child porn legal really people you agree with that!!
JOHN Patrick GUNTHER
Seems it might be that the smiley face killer is out for revenge, probably after being mickied with date rape drug and abused. Yes, I’m implying that the killer is female .
Jim
It would seem straight, white, male professionals are relatively safe from serial killers. Well, assuming we don’t find another Ted Kaczynski.
candy l dejolie
AShkan: Your ignorance is amazing! Although I am sure we all agree that prostitutes and many drug addicts put their selves in very vulnerable situtations constantly (which by no means makes it ok for them to be abused in any way by anyone!) NOBODY is immune from the possibility of becoming the victim of a serial killer. Every serial killer has his/her MO. They choose their victims for different reasons and some for no reason at all. A girl walking home from school like she has every day has no way of knowing if the car that just passed her has a serial killer in it that is stalking young school girls. Some serial killers break into peoples houses to get their victims. Regardless of who, what. or where you are, how much money you have or how careful you are there is always a possibility you can become a serial killer’s next victim.
Jake
Has anyone considered the possibility that Brazil’s Rainbow Maniac killer is a female? Perhaps she was close emotionally to a male, and upon finding that the male was homosexual, she developed a hatred for homosexuals. This might explain why all of the victims were male, not female. It may also explain why the victim’s pants were around their’ ankles, a way of “disgracing” their manhood. Just food for thought.
borrisbadenough
rudy, you are bored because you lack the intelligence of a one cell organism. look deeper into politics. goooooood byyye.
Telia
Ashkan,
Are you SERIOUS?!?! You said:
“I believe that if something bad happened to you, you in some way contributed to it, for instance rape happen when someone out late at night by themselves, the people drinking that crap could have chosen not to drink.”
I’m gonna venture to guess that you’re a man. Because as a women, we know that we are prayed upon day or night.
For your information, I was sexually assaulted in BROAD daylight on a Saturday in 2018 while grocery shopping. According to you, I must’ve done something to deserve it?
I was dressed extremely conservatively and didn’t even know my attacker. Surveillance caught the act on tape and to my horror, I found out he was stalking me from
The moment I entered the store an hour before.
This man had bail jumping charges along with sexual assault, 2 rape charges, sexual harassment, and stalking.
Yet, my attack must’ve somehow been my fault.
P.S. forgot to mention, I was not drunk but he was. I don’t drink or do drugs.
Adam Sedgwick
The reasons it’s most difficult to catch serial killer/killers could be those who are politicians/authorities/priests/nuns/professionals and etc.
I think everyone should have body gps implanted on them so they can be tracked/discovered on circumstantial evidences and be narrowed down to possible suspect….it saves time. Why spend all the dollars trying to find them?
Anthony Wolf
Some of these comments are over the top here! Judge mental people that don’t know struggles of addiction would degrade or insult the memory of the women who escorted, tricked, hooked, dated, sex workers, prostitutes or whatever you want to refer to them as does not make them any less human or deserving to live. I am a 44 year old male and I’ve been on the streets of Philadelphia many times over the past 24 years because of a heroin addiction and that put me with a lot of young women who were some of the most beautiful and caring women I’ve ever known and many have died from overdoses sadly I know that I would have given my own life to save the women that I’ve known out there. They did so much to help me with my struggles. Don’t judge because it can happen to anyone! The idiot that says bad things don’t happen to smart good people is very ignorant and naive! Do some research man, bad things happen to good smart people all the time! I believe that killers should go the way they took their victims out if not worse! I’ve been to prison and the death penalty is basically quick and painless! Make them live their days in prison and study their minds to prevent more killings. Executing Ted Bundy was so foolish because he understood the mind of these coward men who violently kill women. Make them live in general population so they can get what’s coming to them! I’ve been to state prison in pa and I know first hand how things are done there! It’s no hotel people! Imagine being on a block with 800 convicts that are mostly all in phenomenal shape and dangerous and never enough cos to maintain order. A lot of the newer prisons don’t house as many inmates as I listed above but there are still some old jails that do. They are classified and housed accordingly! Death Penalty is way too easy for them and the possibility that this might make them ok with God is just scary to me
Krista
I have to agree with removing the voice of words for the women that were killed. Some people feel they have no options or even feel insecure and not good enough. Many reasons why people turn to jobs like that. Most of the wen are very young and or scared. Some may have babies and no family to help. Providing in any way u feel that u can is what matters. Not all people are bad people.
RR
CA has the worst laws. It helps criminals while preventing law abiding citizens from defending themselves (banning certain knives because they’re used by bad guys in movies lol and making guns barely usable with limited ammo and huge rudders welded to the grips). It’s fine to have the regular kind if you’re a criminal and you don’t even have to register them. Finally get caught after a killing spree lasting 20 years? Get sentenced to death? Laughable since it means you’re put on death row and have a nice hotel room. Yes free room and board to live out your golden years on taxpayer money. What a joke.
Rae
Ruby, what does that even mean???
Nene
Ruby- “your kind of people”! So you’re insinuating that you are a serial killer?
They ARE sex workers. How is that offensive if it was their line of work? The only people that think labeling a victim as a sex worker is wrong are people who are judgemental against sex workers. Stop, just stop!
Rachel
Angela, you may think it’s “disgusting” and “disrespectful” to refer to women as sex workers, but did it ever occur to you that those specific words are used because they are also a group of people that are generally heavily targeted by killers, both one offs and serial. So get off of you feminism high horse and realise why they are labelled the way the are.
Lord Lucan
“Progressivism” is what got every one of those released early, released. Congratulations, leftists. You’re responsible for even more deaths.
Kim
Please remove "God"s comment above.
Pothedphil
They chose to sell there bodies he should of used prostitute right instead of sex worker cause ??? Sex work is work after all
Jeremy
To those who are victim activists. We all know it is not the victims fault, however the key to finding these people and giving their potential victims a chance to avoid their gaze ut is important to portray the victim as they are. Especially for killers who’s MO is unknown. Its not about degrading their memory, they life they lead they did so until their end. And letting people know of their occupation, location and other defining factors can help others avoid meeting the MO of these people. Its sad yes, but we need to learn from these incidents. Don’t let the person die in vein. Who they are is who they are. For example sex worker…. she sold her body for sex, was a prostitute, or what ever you want to call it. It is who she is, and we need to accept that those people put them selves in dangerous situations. But the public needs to be aware. So no don’t change the title, its not about the victim, its about finding out who the killer targets. Serial killers have a preferred target. Its not the victims fault they are the target, but people should know who the killer targets. No dancing around the subject. That kind of thinking gives the killer opportunity.
Ryan
John bitterly is like and the murders started in 88.I also believe he is responsible for the Atlantic City murders.I have studied all the details for the last 8 years and law enforcement believe several killers are responsible because of the way they were desposed.But John only cared about what he did before he killed them and how he killed them and desposed of them was just an after thought.
Angelina
For the “Long Island Serial Killer,” can you please remove “sex worker(s)” as a description of Shannan and the other victims? Your choice of words is so denigrating to the memories of these innocent women. There are so many other words you could’ve chosen to use when referring to them, yet you chose to insult their legacy and families. This could’ve easily been avoided with “young female” or “23-year old.” It is truly disappointing seeing some humans lack a sense of respect and sensitivity.
AShkan
Don’t let this crap ruin your hope, I believe that if something bad happened to you, you in some way contributed to it, for instance rape happen when someone out late at night by themselves, the people drinking that crap could have chosen not to drink, and as for murder, it’s extremely rare for someone to be murdered in their own home in broad daylight. Bad things don’t happen to good smart people.
Lucy
I believe the Long Island killer may be a copycat since placing his at his first killings that would put him out of shape to continue such murders
Tammy Friedman
Serial killers are one of the most unsettling phenomenon of modern times? I seriously doubt serial killers just sprung up in modern times. They have probably been around a lot longer, more like since ancient times.
Vee
Draven,
It’s not exactly known if the Brazilian victims were transitioning or not and there are no different indicators if their pronouns reflected their actual or perceived gender preference. Some of the victims were prostitutes from what I understand about this case, so the term “transvestite” would be appropriate in this case.
Miss P
Draven – if you had checked, you would have found that the killer had murdered gay men, and a transvestite. Not everything is a call to arms.
Carlos
This was in Brazil. Transgender is somewhat known but only as a western culture label. The term “travesti” is the catch all term for trans women and cross dressing men. It basically means “not man” and is the unofficial third gender. He couldve been a number of different identites but transvestite is the accurate translation from Portugese even if not PC by western standards.
Danny B
What fascinates me is more a lot of the public’s perceptions of what a serial killer should look like, however they conjured that up in their heads (movies, news, pictures, you name it). The fact of the matter is a person would never know, and a lot of serial killers like to blend in. I figure older serial killers are also just aged (whether caught or not) and could have been doing this since teens (maybe before then), early 20’s, 30’s, you name it. Many do and are caught sooner. Also, you cannot go off of looks at all. It’s all around the world and there have been very good looking, decent, to downright ugly. Not to mention all races, tall, short, fat, skinny, degreed, not degreed, on and on. The point is, a person would never know, but it is definitely interesting to talk to others about what they think a serial killer looks like
DRAVEN
You called the victims in Brazil “transvestites” . Transvestites are men who dress as women, often being prostitutes. The correct term is transgender.
Sarah Williams
Pfftt, God doesn’t exist. But this stuff inspires me. qwp
My parents don’t like this but I do. They tried for about a year to keep me from seeing it, never happened, never will.
Cleo
They caught the Daytona Beach killer today
Sammy Santos
Everyone,… I stress the importance to know that EVERY PERSON CONVICTED (whomever) of a crime needs to know that what ever the crime may be CONVICTED/ACQUITTED in this life WE ALL are living in the world today; NEEDS to keep in mind that. To WHOMEVER needs to know that whom ever committed the crime may or may not get away with it in this world,… but WE ALL are going to have to stand before God and give an account as to what ever sin or crime committed. GOOD and BAD,….. SAVED or LOST before a Holy/Righteous GOD!!!
Matt
They caught the Maryvale shooter after he went cold, he tried to pawn the same gun he used in the murders at a pawn shop…dingus
photonqueengod
I agree with TJ, you guys are definitely waaaaayyy off with the delivery of your conclusions who ever is running this site really didn’t do any research at all…. There’s way more to this . this should probably be shut down
Ruby
None of these killers ar fun, no good plot or anything it’s all boring I know real life is not very fun but I thought at least my kind of people would entertain me