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Long Island Serial Killer: Beach Bodiesnew

There will be a few things different about beach season on Long Island this year. The Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular, canceled due to budget concerns, will return this summer, and cadaver dogs will be walking along the bay, as digital police signs ask visitors for information on the potential 10 bodies found decomposing on what is now a 15-mile-long crime scene.
Long Island Press  |  Jaclyn Gallucci  |  04-19-2011  |  Crime & Justice

How LAPD's 'Closers' Nabbed A Serial Killer Known as The Westside Rapistnew

In a long-shot quest to find one prominent serial killer, police instead found another. Through tantalizing coincidences and teamwork that tapped the memories of long-retired cops, LAPD found the The Westside Rapist, a man who had slipped away from the cops in 1957 and went on to terrorize elderly women in Southern California for a generation.
L.A. Weekly  |  Christine Pelisek  |  07-24-2009  |  Crime & Justice

A Tough Churchgoing Mom Is at the Center of the Los Angeles Serial-Killer Mysterynew

L.A.’s elusive Grim Sleeper has murdered with impunity for 23 years. The strange journey of his only surviving victim began with a rape and shooting that at the time seemed tragically commonplace.
L.A. Weekly  |  Christine Pelisek  |  03-13-2009  |  Crime & Justice

The Grim Sleeper is Murdering Angelenos as Cops Hunt His DNAnew

The most elusive serial killer west of the Mississippi took a 13-year break. Now he's back.
L.A. Weekly  |  Christine Pelisek  |  08-29-2008  |  Crime & Justice

Spokane Police Think They've Found a Serial Killernew

Piecing together cold cases, police now believe five Spokane women may have been killed by the same man.
The Inlander  |  Jacob H. Fries  |  05-29-2008  |  Crime & Justice

What David Fincher Hath Wroughtnew

Willem Dafoe goes up against an art-loving serial killer in Anamorph. Struggling artists across the city should take note: Apparently morality is what it takes to succeed in the art business.
New York Press  |  Mark Peikert  |  04-17-2008  |  Reviews

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