The FBI estimates that at any given moment, there are between 25 and 50 serial killers in the United States. That’s less than comforting. Here are a few that were never caught, and are probably in a neighborhood near you. West Mesa Serial Killer (2001-2005) Victims: 11 A desert mesa in Albuquerque, New Mexico, rises above 118th Street.
It is there that in 2009, the first bones were discovered. The case of the West Mesa Serial Killer would begin after a woman walking her dog found what appeared to be a human femur sticking out of the ground. Police called to the scene would find a total of 11 skeletal remains in this lonely arid landmass. A decade later, one detective remains on the case, but the outlook is bleak. The victims, all in the trades of prostitution and drug trafficking, were Hispanic women, except for one African-American woman who was four months pregnant at the time of her murder. It remains unsolved today.
(Photo credit: ) Long Island Serial Killer (1996-Present) Victims: 10 Also known as the Craigslist Killer, his modus operandi is to lure sex workers to his location. Each of the victims advertised their services on Craigslist right before their executions. The town of Gilgo Beach on Long Island is gripped in fear by this maniac prostitute-strangler who has already claimed the lives of 10 women. The disappearance of Shannon Gilbert, 23, prompted the discovery of four bodies in December 2010. Six more were found in the same locale only months later.
Although the case remains wide open, behavioral psychologists believe the perpetrator is long gone, given the intense media exposure of his brutality. Police have profiled the Long Island Serial Killer as a white man between 20 and 40 years old with access to burlap sacks, in which he contained the bodies. (Photo credit: ) Daytona Beach Killer (2005-2007) Victims: 4 In the span of two years, officers in Daytona found four bodies all killed with the same gun, a Smith & Wesson.40 Cal Sigma Series VE. Laquetta Gunther, Julie Green, Stacey Gage and Iwana Patton were all shot execution style.
Ridgewood Avenue would be the setting in this case, and the victims were prostitutes who prowled these streets in search of bare necessities such as booze, drugs and cigarettes. It is surmised that the Daytona Beach Killer would solicit their sexual services and make them kneel down. The case is cold, as primary detective Chief Mike Chitwood said, “If you look at the history of serial killers, when all is good with their lives, they stop killing. When things get bad in their lives, they start up again.” (Photo credit: ) Eastbound Strangler (2006) Victims: 4 A drainage ditch behind a seedy motel would be the final resting place for four women in 2006. Barbara Vreidor, Molly Jean Dilts, Kim Raffo and Tracy Ann Roberts were each found strangled to death, face down, within a month’s time.
One prevailing theory is that the Eastbound Strangler is not one, but two men, an African American and a Caucasian, as one witness suggested. They would lure these women, also prostitutes, into a van and entice them with drugs, asking them if they wanted to party at the Golden Key Motel. The bodies were all barefoot, as well, suggesting the murders happened indoors. In 2015, police offered a $25,000 reward for information. Edgecombe County Serial Killer (2005-2012) Victims: 10 A farmer in May 2015 was walking in the tiny rural town of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, when he smelled rotting flesh.
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He assumed it was a deer until he saw two human hands raised above the foliage, as if trying to block a bullet. Melody Wiggins, a local escort, was the first of nine black women who reached their brutal fate over the course of seven years.
The victims were scattered across three counties, found naked in fields. They were all on the edge of their lives, weak and vulnerable.
In 2009, Anthony Pittman, a sex offender, was convicted of one of the killings, but investigators believe he is not the sole killer in this tragic small-town mystery. (Photo credit: ) The Jeff Davis 8 (2005-2009) Victims: 8 Two of the Jeff Davis 8 were cousins, two were roommates, and every victim knew intimately of each other, suggesting without a doubt that the murderer knew them all personally, as well. On May 20, 2005, a fisherman in Jennings, LA, cast his line out from a bridge over the murky swamps of Jefferson Davis Parish.
He saw what appeared to be a mannequin floating in the water, but this mannequin had flies buzzing over it. It turned out to be the corpse of 28-year-old Lynn Lewis, the first of eight victims that would rock the town of only 10,000 people. Ernestine Patterson, 30, Kristen Lopez, 21, Whitnei Dubois, 27, Laconia Brown, 23, Crystal Zeno, 24, Brittney Gary, 17, and Necole Guillory, 26, all lived within the confines of Jennings’ savage sex and drug trade. Detectives haven’t the slightest clue who is responsible for their deaths. (Photo credit: ) I-70 Killer (1992) Victims: 6-8 Interstate 70 runs along Indiana, Missouri and Kansas. In April and May of 1992, it was terrorized by one lone gunman. Six store clerks were shot, each having met their fate over a measly sum of money.
Every clerk was a petite brunette, except for one man, who might’ve confused the killer with his pony tail. In the following two years, the same suspected serial murderer would strike Texas and kill two more. The I-70 Killer is still a ghost 24 years later. Frankford Slasher (1985-1990) Victims: 8-9 In a string of murders that would get progressively worse, the Frankford Slasher petrified residents of Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia. Along this neighborhood of vacant buildings and sealed storefronts would be the resting place for nine women stabbed dozens of times.
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The first victim, Jeanne Durkin, 28, was stabbed 74 times. In an abandoned train yard only a short time later, Helen Patent was shanked 49 times until her entrails were visible to those who found her. The perp was described as a “smooth talker” who would prey on women in bars. He would console them and once posed as a counselor. The bastard even rented an office in a church.
Witnesses remember him as a middle-aged white man. In 2008, police received word that their prime suspect had died, though we can never be too sure. Honolulu Strangler (1985-1986) Victims: 5 Hawaii’s first serial killer of note specialized in binding and raping women and leaving their corpses in lagoons.
In total, five women died the same way. A strange twist in the story happened when a man called the cops and told them that a psychic told him that a dead body was on Sand Island. They followed the lead and found their fifth victim. This man, who is unnamed, was eventually taken in for a polygraph test and an interrogation, where he failed both. His wife further informed the cops that he had left the house in a rage after fights and on every one of these nights, a murder happened. She also said he was into S&M bondage, which coincided with his MO.
This surprisingly has never led to a conviction, which has led some to believe that the Honolulu Strangler was, himself, a member of law enforcement. (Photo credit: ) Charlie Chop-Off (1972-1974) Victims: 6 A lighthearted nickname for such a resoundingly torturous killer, Charlie Chop-Off struck fear into Upper Manhattan in the early 1970s.
He would lure young boys with promises of quarters and stab them dozens of times. They gave him the name “Chop-Off” because he would mutilate their penises. Douglas Owens, 8, Wendell Hubbard, 9, Luis Ortiz, 9, and Steven Cropper, 8, were all murdered in the same ghastly manner. On May 15, 1974, police arrested Erno Soto for a botched abduction of a nine-year-old Puerto Rican boy. He confessed to one of the murders, but given the lack of evidence, they exonerated him and placed him in an asylum for the criminally insane. (Photo credit: ).
The Associated Press LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Ida Holguin still has panic attacks when she walks into businesses 10 years after she survived the worse mass murder in the history of Las Cruces. Four people were killed on Feb. 10, 1990, when two Hispanic men burst into the Las Cruces Bowl and opened fired on the seven people inside, killing a father, his two young daughters and a teen-ager. The massacre, called the 'Bowling Alley Murders' in Las Cruces, shocked and angered the entire community.
The case remains unsolved. Holguin, now 40, was then a cook at the bowling alley, but has been unable to work since.
She said she has panic attacks sometimes going into other businesses, and that her scars remind her of the shootings. When the two men entered the building that day, she thought they came to clean up.
Instead, they shot her three times, once in the head. 'They seemed nervous as they were shooting,' Holguin said. 'They kept missing me and missing me. They saw so many people who weren't supposed to be there.' Killed in the massacre were Steve Teran, 26; Valerie Teran, 2; Teran's stepdaughter, Paula Holguin, 6; and Amy Houser, 13. Teran, a student at New Mexico State University and an employee of the bowling alley, stumbled upon the robbery as it was happening.
He had taken his daughters to work because he couldn't find a baby-sitter. 'If (Teran) had been 10 minutes later, he would have missed everything,' Holguin said. Neither of the two men have been caught, and despite hundreds of tips, police have no suspects. Las Cruces Police Detective Genno Tafoya, who heads the investigation, said the last lead the department received came two months ago. 'The leads don't come as often as they used to,' Tafoya said.
'Before that it was maybe a year or so.' In the days after the slayings, police said they were receiving more than 100 calls an hour related to the incident. But while calls are not nearly as frequent now, police remain hopeful. Pokemon white 2 nds zip download. 'The next phone call we receive may be the one that breaks the case open,' Tafoya said.
'Even if they feel it's not important, they should call us anyway. We do need to receive it so we can get this thing solved, for the closure for the families.' Holguin said she does not know whether the case ever will be solved, but said she believes someone knows who the men are and what they wanted. The robbers stole $5,000 from the bowling alley, but Holguin said they were looking for something besides money. She believes drugs were involved. 'They weren't happy with the money,' she said. 'They were looking for something in the cabinets.'
Tafoya refused to comment on whether police are investigating a possible drug connection. The bowling alley has since been sold. The new owner remodeled the business and renamed it Sun-Lanes. But Holguin said nothing could encourage her to go back there again after she returned once a few years ago.
'I went to the bar because it was karaoke and my husband likes to sing. I went to the bathroom and walked past the office and I freaked out,' she said.
'It's like I saw everything in there, although they changed it. I could see Steve with his baby.'
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. My home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is making national news again, and it’s not the kind of press Mayor Chavez wants. It seems that there may be a dozen or more victims of a serial killer whose bodies were buried in a vacant lot on the West Mesa, dating back at least several years.
As writer Sarah Netter noted in the Feb. 17 Albuquerque Journal, “The bodies were found by chance, starting with one bone sticking out of the dirtThe bones were believed to have been unearthed by excavation work in the area.” At last count, the remains of eleven people have been found at what Police Chief Ray Shultz describes as one of the largest crime scenes in New Mexico.
It’s a horrifying story that brings up a curious issue. There are hundreds of psychic detectives across the country who claim to locate missing persons and solve crimes for police. I’d guess that there are dozens of psychics in Albuquerque who, if they have the abilities they claim, could do the same. Yet Albuquerque has about 25 open cases of missing adults, and hundreds of unsolved homicides dating back decades. It’s a fair question to ask: Why haven’t any psychics helped locate missing persons, bring their killers to justice, or save lives by stopping serial killers before they could kill again? Why are police forensic teams and the Office of the Medical Investigator spending weeks identifying bodies on the West Mesa when gifted psychics could presumably do it in hours?
Why are the remains of these victims being discovered only now — by accident — instead of years ago by psychic-led search teams? Among New Mexico’s high-profile missing persons cases:. Albuquerque native Nick Garza disappeared after a party at Vermont’s Middlebury College, where he was a student, on February 5, 2008.
For months, his family and police searched in vain; at least one psychic claimed to communicate with Garza’s spirit, but could not help locate him. Garza’s body was finally found by police and cadaver dogs in a creek near the college on May 27, 2008. As the search for Garza continued, two other young Albuquerqueans went missing, snowboarders who vanished in Colorado’s Wolf Creek ski area. Kyle Kerschen and Michael George were last seen January 5 and found five months later, not by a psychic, but by a search helicopter.
Nineteen-year-old Tara Calico disappeared on Sept. 20, 1988, while biking on NM 47. Twenty years later, her disappearance (and probable murder) remains unsolved. In what is perhaps Albuquerque’s best-known unsolved crime, writer Lois Duncan’s daughter Kaitlyn was murdered in 1989. Duncan suspects she knows who killed her daughter, but without proof, the case remains unsolved. Other Serial Killers The grisly West Mesa discovery is not the first time that New Mexico’s psychics were conspicuously silent during a serial killer’s rampage. In October 2008, Clifton Bloomfield was spared the death penalty in exchange for pleading guilty to five murders he committed in Bernalillo County dating back to 2005.
District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said she “made a deal with the devil, but it was a necessary deal” — necessary because two of the crimes Bloomfield confessed to were unsolved. Why didn’t psychics help police solve those crimes, so that this brutal murderer would face punishment for all his victims? Better yet, why didn’t psychics help police capture Bloomfield soon after his first murders in 2005? At least three people would be alive today if Albuquerque’s psychics had stepped forward to provide useful information to police. Unfortunately, the track record of psychic detectives solving crimes is very, very poor. Hundreds of psychics have offered much (often contradictory) information about the disappearances of Chandra Levy, Natalee Holloway, Laci Petersen, Steve Fossett, Elizabeth Smart, Caylee Anthony, and many others.
Not a single psychic’s information solved these cases, or any other. A Plea for Help Telling fortunes for paying clients is all well and good, but where are the psychics when their abilities are needed for important life-or-death matters? Most of the psychics I have met seem to be sincere, compassionate, good-hearted people. I can’t imagine they don’t care about the victims and their families, and I assume they would jump at the chance to stop a murderer. Perhaps someone should issue an annoucement: If you are a psychic (or anyone else) who has useful information about any missing person or unsolved homicide, we encourage you to contact the police.
If your abilities are real and can be useful, please do what you can to stop killers before they take more innocent lives, and help bring closure to the grieving families. Each victim of an unsolved murder was a human being with people who cared about them, and they deserve your help. Belief or doubt in psychic abilities is irrelevant.
The result will speak for itself: Either psychics can provide specific information that is useful in locating a missing person or arresting a killer, or they can’t. If a psychic can help solve a case, I sincerely respect and applaud that, and it would be a wonderful gift to families desperate for answers and justice.
It would also go a long way toward proving psychic powers to skeptics and scientists. Of course we would add one important caveat: If you can’t give specific, useful information, please don’t waste police time and resources. Do you suppose anyone would come forward? Or would the silence of the self-proclaimed psychics speak for itself? #1 on Sunday April 26, 2009 at 10:55am Benjamin, thank-you so much for your article. I too am from Albuquerque and I had been thinking about the same thing.
I happen to be one who at one time did not believe in psychics, due to the fact the Catholic Church said Psychics were of the devil. I, however, in these past years have come to believe that this ability, this “gift” does exist. This past year, after years of questioning what really caused my 9 year-old brother to drown in the river in 1957, I inquired the help of a local, well known, psychic/medium, Melissa Frei, who is helping solve cold cases, if she had any info on my brother. She not only revealed the facts of my brothers death/murder by a local priest, but also showed me the location by the river where this took place. I encourage people to seek a psychic/medium’s help, if all else has falied. I believe their gift is there to help us find closures, find answers, find the truth that has been lurking within us.
Thank you so much. #2 DoctorAtlantis (Guest) on Friday May 01, 2009 at 9:14am Shininglight - you’re saying that Melissa told you that your brother was murdered by a priest?
What’s her evidence for this? Did she name the priest and did you follow up with the church to find out where this priest was at the time of the death of your brother? And more importantly is this guy still alive to answer the “psychic’s” charges?
Melissa is getting $6 a minute to give Internet readings so I’d expect a lot of hard facts for that kind of cash. I’m sorry about your brother and I’m sure you want answers - but how do you KNOW that what she’s telling you is the real answer? #3 on Saturday May 02, 2009 at 11:19am My family knew the priest.
He was our parish priest. After my brother’s death, the priest just about took over our family, he became OUR GODFATHER, in charge of large hispanic family of (at the time)10. He had already been abusing one of my older brothers and continued with the next brother, who in fact was the one who died. He by the way continued to abuse 3 more brothers and including myself. He had also been abusing other boys, including the other boy who was found dead in the river, the same day my brother was found.
You asked have I investigated. First of all,Yes,Melissa came out with the name: Father Richard Spellman, this was his name. What I found out is that this priest had been transferred to our parish in NMex. After he had been exposed abusing boys in Chicago. In our parish, he was in charge of the Altar Boys, the Boys Scouts/Cub Scouts, and the all boys Baseball Team.
In 1966, he was confronted by the Archdiocese regarding some complaints by parents, at the parish school, of his abuse of their kids. He was given an ultimatum: He opted to leave the priesthood. The Priest is now dead and has been since 1989.
What I’ve been told is that because my parents are both deceased, we the rest of the family can not inquire information from the church. But regardless, I have continued to investigate. Because, yes, I want more physical proof. I don’t know where you got the info about Melissa charging $6.00 a min. Because that is not true.
She has a website: mediummelissa.com or soulsjourneyradio.com. You can also check on: youtube.com.
Enter: Psyhcic investigates cold case. We did not do this over the internet, I met her at a conference I went to, where she was giving a talk and doing some readings for others. I went to her office and had a reading, not ever mentioning my brother, nor anything about him, and he came thru. Then the info begin coming thru.
I at a later time asked her to take me to the location where he died. She first stopped at the church and went step by step to the location at the river. Now this a woman not familiar with the westside of Albuquerque, much less the Church we grew up in, she’s not catholic.
She had never been to the river, either. She went to the exact areas that were described in the 1957 newspaper. Instead of going south, which is the direction my dad had always said the search team had gone, Melissa went North, and stopped in a secluded area of the river. I must let you know, in July of 1957, Father Spellman lead the search party south of this area. He had opted to lead the search for my brother. Melissa came out with lots of info that only we the family had known.
You may not be a believer in this, and I don’t ask you to be. All I have to say is that God has given everyone different gifts, to be used to help others move forward. We have to use discernment, our gut feeling, as to the person (psychic) whether or not the info coming thru is in fact true or just a means of taking advantage of someone. There are those that cannot be trusted.
When the info comes thru, our work is to investigate it and find physical proof. Melissa, is one that I can truly say, has a genuine gift of mediumship, not only because she has helped me, but seeing how many other people she has helped in moving forward in grief. If you’d like to know more of the story I can be reached at: 505-293-1466 Thanks for your inquiry. #6 on Saturday May 02, 2009 at 3:51pm Melissa, as of January 1st. Charges $3.99 per min. I, however, saw her before the new year when she was not connected with the website/radio, and did not pay her this amount. Try: mediummelissa.com also 12listen.com and again soulsjourneyradio.com Melissa had no idea there was a newspaper story and that I had a copy, we never spoke about this.
It was I, after the fact, after all the readings and going to the locations (church and river)with Melissa and my daughter, that brought her the copies I had of the old newspapers my mom had been saving.By the way, my daughter, was recording the trip to the Church and the trip to the river. Melissa described Father Spellman to the tee, (cigar, floppy tan hat, polo shirt, priestly black shoes and the smell of alcohol-scotch. She described the swimming shorts my brother and the other little boy were wearing (navy blue)and how he the priest, had bought a pair of these swimming shorts for each of “his boys”. (This answered a question we had had about the swimming shorts. The night before my brother disappeared, a boy by the name of Johnny R. Brought the shorts to our house for my brother). She also described a gold chain with a small cross the other little boy was wearing.
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She also described that there were 2 other boys at the location before the killings. One remained, the other was sent home. She came out with the names of these boys, one being Johnny R. I never mentioned these to her, although we the family always thought this one was involved somehow. The other boy was one of our older brothers, who was also being sexually abused by this priest. She showed us where the clothing, that belonged to my brother and the other little boy were found and how the clothes were folded neatly and placed on a huge rock.
Being placed there by Johnny R. After Father Spellman, demanded he do so. This is another question, my brothers and I had always wondered about the clothes being neatly folded, we had always wondered if there had been an adult involved, because little kids would have just left there clothes thrown as they got out of them. Anyway, I’m not here to convince anyone, just to let you know that we are living in the times when each and everything that has been hidden and tucked away in secret is being exposed. Their are so many ways of finding the information, I just happened to go the way of Medium/psychic to help unlock these secrets and allow the truth to come out and help set my family free. Since this information has come to me, it’s helped me to truly begin to put the pieces of the puzzle together and to find so kind of peace in all of this.
Thanks again for your questions. I’m not sure that I completely answered your questions. All I can share is my truth in hopes that it’ll help someone in their search. And once again, I’m not saying that everyone that claims to have this gift of seeing beyond is really seeing beyond.
We have to trust our gut feeling, test it all, find physical proof if it’s not there already. You will know them by their fruits. I certainly see where this woman by the name of Melissa came out with things that only we in our family knew. Thanks again and Blessings.