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.
US/Los Angeles/CA – One of the worst serial killers in Los Angeles history will pay for his deeds with his own life, as determined by a sentence delivered on Tuesday, July 10. Chester Dewayne Turner, who was convicted of murdering ten women and one unborn fetus, became the 665th inmate on California’s death row following an emotional and shocking trial. Read More
US/Los Angeles/CA – A former pizza delivery man described as one of the most prolific serial killers in Los Angeles history after being convicted of 11 murders has been sentenced to death.
Chester Turner, 40, was found guilty at Los Angeles Superior Court in April after a four-week trial which heard how he preyed on women largely in the city’s run-down South Central neighbourhood during an 11-year reign of terror. Read More
US/San Francisco/CA – With new acquaintances, co-workers, even boyfriends, Jenn Carson says that there is no easy way and no good time to bring up her family history. It’s different with a newspaper writer. The very first thing Carson tells me is, “I’m the daughter of a serial killer.”
She’d seen a column I’d done about Wendy Carr, the wife of “Baseline Killer” suspect Mark Goudeau and she wanted to know if I might be interested in a different perspective. Read More
US/Los Angeles/CA – Jurors deciding whether one of Los Angeles’ most prolific serial killers should be put to death were asked Thursday to imagine being one of his victims.
Chester Turner, a 40-year-old Arkansas native and former pizza deliveryman, killed at least 10 transient women, two of whom were pregnant, prosecutors said. Read More
US/Rosemead/CA – Sheriff’s detectives asked for the public’s help today in finding whoever stabbed a 43-year-old woman in Rosemead.Detectives say a man stabbed Wang inside of her apartment. They say she staggered out of the apartment naked and crying. She managed to make it across the street to the parking lot of the Rosemead Inn, where she collapsed and died. Read More
US/Oakland/CA – ED NEWBEGIN listened as a prosecutor asked a witness what his life had been like since his son became a serial killer’s final victim.The witness replied, “I have no life — it ended that day.”"The revelation it led me to is that when something like a murder happens, it’s as if a bomb were dropped by the murderer right there at ground zero where the victim is, but the blast has impact on the people closest to the victim and the murderer and ripples outward to investigators, jurors and everyone else around the case”, Newbegin said. Read More
US/Santa Clara County/CA – Detective Ronald Breuss keeps the sketch above his desk, an artist’s rendering of a woman whose identity has remained a mystery for 14 years. Most likely a truck stop prostitute, her lifeless body was found in 1993 near Pacheco Pass on Highway 152, dumped there by convicted serial murderer Keith Hunter Jesperson. Read More
US/Merced/CA – The Merced Police Department is trying to get a possible serial killer charged with the murder of a Merced woman.40 year old Ronald James Ward was already serving a life sentence for murder in Montana. Tuesday, he pleaded no contest to killing a New Jersey woman seven years ago.
Merced police say DNA and other evidence also connect Ward to the murder of Jackie Travis in 2000.
Officials are now trying to extradite him to face charges.
