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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US/Rahway/NJ – In 2002, suspected serial killer Robert Zarinsky was acquitted in reference to the 1958 murder of a Rahway police officer Charles Bernoskie. Following the trial, the officer’s widow, Elizabeth Bernoskie, took Zarinsky to civil court, and won a judgment. She was awarded $150,000, which she divided between her adult children. Read More »
US/Atlantic City/NJ – Authorities searched the home of a man who used to work at a motel near where the bodies of four prostitutes were found in a drainage ditch last fall, according to a law enforcement official.
The search began Monday, and continued into Tuesday morning at a house in Alloway Township, Salem County. Read More »
US/Atlantic City/NJ – The third of four women found face down in a drainage ditch outside of Atlantic City, N.J., has been identified by New Jersey authorities as a prostitute, leading police to fear that a serial killer is on a murderous rampage targeting hookers at the low end of the city’s thriving underground service industry.
Last week, the bodies of four women were found in a watery ditch along “Black Horse Pike,” a seedy, destitute strip of cheap motels along Route 40 in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., located a few miles from Atlantic City. Read More »
