US/PA/Allentown - Police in at least 7 states are looking over their cold cases to see whether he might be involved. Investigators in several states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey, are looking at unsolved murder cases from the late 1970s and early 1980s to determine whether confessed killer Timothy Krajcir could have been involved, authorities said yesterday.
Krajcir, 63, a native of Allentown, pleaded guilty Monday to the 1982 rape and murder of Southern Illinois University student Deborah Sheppard. Later Monday, he was charged in Cape Girardeau, Mo., with killing five women from 1977 to 1982. Authorities also announced that day that Krajcir admitted to three other killings.
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US/PA/Allentown - On the day he was sentenced for the killing of an SIU student, Timothy Krajcir was charged with murdering five Cape Girardeau women more than two decades ago.
Timothy Krajcir is accused of committing those murders between 1977 and 1982. Cape Girardeau officials announced the new charges just hours after Krajcir was sentenced for the murder of Deborah Sheppard.
Police say he’s responsible for the deaths of Mary and Brenda Parsh, Sheila Cole, Margie Call, and Mildred Wallace.
Carbondale and Cape Girardeau police worked together to crack the cold cases.
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US/PA/Allentown - It’s a case of murder in Berks County that went cold more than 25 years ago. Now new evidence linking a serial killer to the 1979 murder of Myrtle Rupp may finally give family members the closure that has eluded them for nearly 3 decades. WFMZ’s Joel D. Smith has the story.
It answers the question of who and why. When you don’t know, you don’t know if you’re passing that person on the street, if they’re local. >> Reporter David Rupp says he’s wondered for 28 years who killed his aunt, Mrytle Rupp. She was found naked and strangled to death inside her home, in Temple in 1979. Leads have been scarce since then, but DNA evidence from the scene was tested within the last year, and cross-referenced with a national database, and now police say there’s a match. >> Det. Pollock, Jr. We got a presumptive positive DNA result on the suspect Timothy Kracjir who is currently incarcerated in Illinois for several rapes and homicides in that area as well.
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US/MO/Strafford - A serial killer confesses; a decades-old cold case is cracked; and one man from Strafford says he can now move towards closure.
Law officers in Cape Girardeau said Monday that an Illinois prison inmate’s admission to killing nine people solved a murder that has ties right here in the Ozarks. Don Call, a retired Strafford School District superintendent, is the son of one of the victims who was killed 25 years ago.
Timothy Krajcir, 63, pleaded guilty on Monday for first-degree murder for the strangling of a Southern Illinois University student in 1982. Detectives say he also has agreed to plead guilty for murdering five women in Cape Girardeau between 1977 and 1982.
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ZA/KwaZulu-Natal – Police in KwaZulu-Natal are looking for a possible serial killer, after discovering a fifth body in a sugar-cane field late yesterday afternoon.
The badly decomposed body of woman was found on the KwaZulu- Natal south coast. Read More »
ZA/KwaZulu-Natal – A fourth badly decomposed body of a woman was found in a KwaZulu-Natal sugar cane field on Wednesday, police said.
Superintendent Zandra Hechter said the body of the woman was found in a sugar cane field the Shayamoya township of Umzinto. Read More »
US/Lafayette/LA – The family of one of the women linked to convicted serial killer Derrick Todd Lee is remembering the young woman, on the anniversary of the day she went missing, back in 2002.
A homemade cross marks the exact spot where Pam Kinamore’s body was found, five years ago.
Thursday afternoon, Kinamore’s mother and brother went back to that place near the Atchafalaya River. Read More »
ZA/Kwazulu-Natal – A woman has been found dead at Adam’s Mission and is believed to be the victim of a gang of serial killers, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
She was found around 10am and is believed to be in her 40s, said Superintendent Vincent Mdunge. Read More »
IN/Uttar Pradesh – The alleged serial killer whose arrest Thursday led to the sensational disclosure about the killing of as many as 250 people, has named seven more accomplices.
‘We are rushing police parties in search of these people named by Salim, whose gang of highway robbers has confessed to have killed 250 men, women and children over the past few months,’ Meerut senior superintendent of police Dipesh Juneja told IANS Friday. Read More »
ZA/Pinetown – Today Casper Kruger was felled by a shot from a police sniper during a hostage drama at Pinetown police cells.
At the time, the police had no idea that Kruger, who had been in custody for a month, was one of the country’s most wanted serial killers. Read More »
