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
AU/Perth – Claims that the Claremont serial killer was blogging on a national news website and leaving clues to his identity have been discounted by West Australian police.
News Ltd’s news website said on Tuesday that a blogger dubbed “Dr Phibes” had contributed detailed information about the murders of three women in 1996 and 1997 in the well-heeled suburb of Claremont, in Perth’s west. Read More
US/Colorado Springs/CO – The killer had an odd calling card. After he whacked his victims to death with the blunt end of an ax as they slept, he neatly made their beds, pulling the coverlets over their ravaged bodies.
Then, he washed his hands and left, leaving the weapon behind.
The madman who slaughtered six people in two neighboring homes in Colorado Springs on one night in September 1911 was never caught, and the killings are still considered the worst in the city’s history because of the number of deaths. Read More
