The Golden State Killer, also known as The East Area Rapist, The Original Night Stalker, and to some The Diamond Knot Killer, was one of the most prolific criminal killers in all California history. He raped 50+ people, burglarized hundreds of homes, and brutally murdered, at the bare minimum, 12 people. His victims ranged from the ages of 12 to 41. His span of remorseless murders, sexual assaults, and burglaries lasted from February 2, 1978 - May 4, 1986. Even after more than 40 years, the serial rapist and serial murderer still remains unidentified. Recently, the case has been reopened and has had multiple tv shows shed light upon the cold case, including HLN’s series, “Unmasking a Killer” and HBO’s “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark”. The newer shows …show more content…
His MO, which stands for modus operandi, was so distinctive that law enforcement could easily conclude that the burglaries, rapes and murders were conducted by the Golden State Killer. He would pry open windows while the victims slept and tie up the female victims and if male was present he would be tied up as well. Every single victims was tied with the same knot, a decorate knot. The killer wanted total control over his victims. He took his time to make sure his victims would not escape. As a sort of makeshift alarm system, he placed ceramic plates on top of the victims back while they were tied up, so if they moved he could hear them and take action. Also while the victims were tied, he would ransack the entire house looking for small valuables he could snatch. He was know to take pictures from family photo albums and small, cheap jewelry as trophies for his crimes. After his ransacking was over, he would occasionally hang out, for sometimes hours, and drink a few beers or sodas. He would stay in the house for lengthy amounts of time which showed he was comfortable in his surrounding. His escape routes were pre planned. The Golden State killer stalked his victims for weeks, staking out escape routes and entries in the house. He also watched the victims, learning and studying their
This historic franchise began in 1947 as the Minneapolis Lakers where they played for 13 years as part of the National Basketball League (Los Angeles Lakers). Their name came from playing in Minneapolis due to the large number of cargo ships that traversed the 10,000 lakes in Minnesota (Los Angeles Lakers). It was not until 1960 that they made their move out west to form the famous Los Angeles Lakers. It was in L.A. where the Lakers cemented themselves as one of sports’ greatest teams, winning 16 championships, their last one being in 2010. Their 16 championship rings are the second most in basketball next to the Boston Celtics who have 17.
INTRODUCTION The purpose of my research is to apply four theories, as learned during the course of our instruction, to the life and serial murders committed by Edmund Emil Kemper III. Kemper, a 6 foot 9 inch tall, 280 pound good looking and intelligent man, came to public knowledge in 1973, when he was arrested for the serial killings of six college age girls from Santa Cruz, California and also the murder of his mother and her close friend, who were located dead and dismembered, in closest of Edmund Kemper’s residence. Edmund Kemper, who was only twenty two years old when he made a phone call from a pay phone in Pueblo, Colorado to the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Department and got into contact with Officer Jim Conner. Edmund Kemper,
John Wayne Gacy is a convicted murderer accused of killing over thirty people. Gacy suffered from physical and mental abuse by his father throughout his childhood. Throughout his adulthood, he was known and liked by many people in the community in which he resided in. In the late 1960s however, Gacy was sentenced to ten years in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two minors. In the later years of his sentence, Gacy was questioned about several other related cases.
The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Metro Detroit. The Pistons are members of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA); the team 's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills. In 1941, the team was founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne (Zollner) Pistons, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL). The Pistons joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1948. In 1949, the NBL and BAA merged to become the NBA, and the Pistons became part of the merged league.[1][3] Since moving to Detroit in 1957, the Pistons have won three (3) NBA championships: in 1989, 1990 and
Serial killers are vicious monsters. Monsters that deserve to go to jail. Monsters who had bad home lives as children and have had even harder adult lives. There is still no excuse. John Wayne Gacy eventually got the death sentence, even after he and his lawyers filed many lawsuits to stop it.
He would go into his victims homes and would kill them as they were sleeping. He was known as a charming loving, intelligent man, until he was guilty and murdering several women. He was found going on college campuses and would hit on women that looked young. He didn’t go for anyone his age. He confessed to 30 murders, but no one really knows how many he actually murdered.
Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy are all infamous American serial killers, but none of these serial killers legacy comes close to H. H. Holmes’s legacy. H. H. Holmes was America’s first documented serial killer who was activated during the Gilded Age. However, not many people know much about H. H. Holmes and how he changed America’s Culture of the Gilded Age. Holmes embodied the dark side of the late 1980s in America, which most Americans wanted to hide. When told about the I-search assignment, Holmes’ legacy and impact he had on America’s culture were one of the first ideas I had.
During 1985 the neighborhoods of Los Angeles endured the spine shivering fear of “the night stalker.” Richard Ramirez nearly murdered 25 people during his alarming killing spree. He also viciously sexually assaulted _____ women late at night in their homes. At this time the night stalker had no face just a nickname, it would be 2 years before a face and name could be put on the night stalker. Richard Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas in 1960 was always a troubled child who looked up to his older cousin Mike, who was a green beret that had recently returned from combat in Vietnam.
The (1-5) Los Angeles Lakers are in one of the world’s most popular vacation spots Miami, Florida, for a run against the (4-3) Miami Heat at American Airlines Arena. Miami receives one of the highest levels of rainfall among major U.S. cities, but Miami-Dade is also home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States. The purple and gold are not in Miami to experience the trendy nightlife of South Beach, the Art Deco District (the first 20th century neighborhood recognized by the National Register of Historic Places with 800 structures built between 1923-1943), the historic hideaways of Coral Gables or the family-owned shops of Coconut Grove, this team has to stay focused on developing, improvement, learning and building.
Opening Statement: May it please the court, counsel, and members of the jury. You are present here because on December 12, 1978, teenager Robert Piest was filed missing, and businessman John Wayne Gacy was the last person to be seen with Piest since his disappearance. It is of greatest importance to note that before Gacy’s house was searched by the police with a warrant in the Norwood Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, he was found to be serving jail time in Iowa for committing acts of sodomy on a teenage male employee. John Wayne Gacy then confessed to over twenty four murders, and 33 corpses were recovered by investigators from his property.
Terror streaked through the San Francisco Bay area in the late 60’s and early 70’s. But why? A murderer, self proclaimed himself as the Zodiac Killer, went on a killing spree at this time. Sending many letters to the police. The Zodiac case remains unsolved to this day.
Once he killed the homeless man, he began many hired killings. He is known to have killed 100 plus individuals. His motive for during the killings seemed to be geared toward making a better life for his family. With the money he was able to buy them a nice home in an upscale neighborhood. He was able to send his daughters to private
They called their suspect the Original Night Stalker which was done to distinguish him from the Night Stalker, which was yet another California serial killer. And although many departments which had investigated the Golden State Killer had destroyed evidence after the statute of limitations for rape and just three years in the 1970s expired, enough remained available for DNA analysis to confirm in 2001 that the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker were the same man. Around 2011, crime writer McNamara dubbed the still at large murderer and rapist the "Golden State Killer." On April 24, 2018 Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested in Sacramento County California.
Gary Ridgeway, also known as The Green River Killer had a lot of resiliency. He murdered prostitutes and runaways for 18 (or more) years. He was persistent for so many years because he had the resiliency to keep going. His long term goal was to be a serial killer for as long as he lived. Ridgeway had the confidence to know he would not get caught.
Some murders sprees can be thrilling like the ones on television but in reality there is no PG rating and the excitement is only for the killers. On the morning of December 28th 1987 in Russelville, Arkansas, Ronald Gene Simmons was arrested for the murder of two people along with four other attempted murders. He began by shooting a receptionist from his old job who was, “a young woman named Kathy Kendrick, with whom he had been infatuated and who had rejected him,” (Murderpedia). After her death he then moved to an oil company’s office and killed, “J.D. Chaffin and wounded the owner, Rusty Taylor, and then drove on to a convenience store where he had previously worked, shooting and wounding two more people,” (Murderpedia). He finally went