US/CA/SanJose - There was no texting, no whispering, no staring into space by the 30 Duquesne University students seated around a black speaker phone in Room 607 of Fisher Hall.
On the line was the special guest lecturer for the forensic investigation class. He had mesmerized the mostly female class by answering their questions about killings and crime scenes, motives and modus operandi, crime and punishment.
Consistently responsive, often humorous, always respectful, Keith Hunter Jesperson spoke of his extensive experience in what the students were studying.
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US/MI/Jackson – A confessed serial killer who police said may have been responsible for dozens of deaths died Friday, a little more than a week after he received a second life sentence, authorities said.Coral Eugene Watts, who said he targeted women with evil eyes, died in a secure area of Foote Hospital, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said. Read More »
US/MI/Kalamazoo – A second life prison sentence has been given to a confessed serial killer, this time for slaying a Western Michigan University student more than three decades ago.
Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Gary C. Giguere Jr. sentenced Coral Eugene Watts, 53, on Thursday for the 1974 stabbing death of 19-year-old Gloria Steele. Watts made some brief comments about abortion during his sentencing hearing, while the victim’s mother and daughter spoke about losing Steele, the court said. Read More »
CA/Winnipeg – Winnipeg police say they are dealing with several possible killers, not a single serial killer, after a second sex-trade worker was found dead in a field in the city’s northwest.
Seventeen-year-old Fonasa Lynn Bruyere went missing in August. Her body was found last week in the same field that hid the remains of Aynsley Aurora Kinch, a 36-year-old sex-trade worker whose body was discovered in July. Read More »
US/Kalamazoo/MI – Coral Eugene Watts claimed responsibility for the deaths of 12 women and assaults on three others, and authorities say he is a suspect in at least 26 unsolved homicides.
Those numbers place Watts in the company of the nation’s most prolific serial killers, including John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, and relatives of his victims say he has managed to elude real justice for nearly 30 years. Read More »
NA/WindhoekSouth Africa’s top serial killer profilers are to help the Namibian police investigating the murder of four women.
The women – three of whom have been identified as Melanie Janse, 22, Juanita Mabula, 21, and Viola Swartbooi, 18 – are believed to be the victims of a serial killer. Read More »
UG/Kampala – COURT has denied bail to a suspected serial killer, who allegedly admitted to the police that he killed three girls in 2005.Kampala High Court Judge Margaret Oguli Oumo denied Baker Walusimbi alias Kaweesa, who has spent 14 months on remand, bail last week. Read More »
NA/Windhoek – President Hifikepunye Pohamba has made an impassioned appeal to law enforcement agencies to trace the perpetrator/s of the recent gruesome killings as a matter of urgency and ensure the culprit/s face the wrath of the law.The President said this when he inaugurated the Windhoek East Constituency Office over the weekend. He condemned the recent murders, and all other forms of violence. Read More »
US/Atlanta/GA – In February, Georgia prosecutors agreed to allow DNA testing of dog and human hair evidence used in the 1982 trial of alleged serial child murderer Wayne Williams. The tests on the dog hair have been completed and, according to District Attorney L. Paul Howard Jr., forensic analysts at the UC Davis lab have been unable to exclude Williams’ dog, a German shepherd mix named Sheba, as a source of hairs recovered from five of the victims. Read More »
US/Missoula/MT – By the time the dogs led Deputy Mark Smith to the back of the rest stop in the summer of 2000, the Arkansas heat had taken its toll.Smith discovered the partially decomposed body of 25-year-old Kristin Laurite naked and face down near a pond, her sundress discarded nearby. She had been stabbed more than three times in the neck. Read More »
