BTK Story

Between the years 1989 and 1992 Ivan Millat, a local roadsworker abducted,brutally murdered and buried 7 young backpackers in the Belanglo Stare Forest Southern New South Wales. Caroline Clarke, Joanne Walters, Simon Schmidl, Anja Habschied, Gabor Neugebauer, James Gibson and Deborah Everist all mysteriously disappeared after they were seen travelling south from Sydney. British backpackers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters were the first of Milat’s victims discovered in the Belanglo forest on the 19th and 20th of September 1992 after runners discovered the decaying bodies half buried under sticks and leaves. Clarke had been stabbed repeatedly and received 10 shots to the head while Walters had been stabbed 35 times and is believed to have been paralysed for some time during her attack. Both

Samantha Clark, 45, in 1989, admittedly killed John Clark, after she discovered him in a homosexual act with Neil Brownfield, in plain view of the Clark's two minor children, aged seven and eight respectively.

The victim's name is Diane Marie Dalton Schofield, (Born Nov. 1, 1953), murdered July 4, 1975 in Des Moines, Iowa. Case # 1975-24048. Diane was a 21 year old mother of a five year old daughter, Shawna. Diane was bound, strangled, placed in the trunk of her car which was then driven to Warren’s Steakhouse. The motive was not believed to be robbery as her purse and jewelry were untouched.

Shawcross, now in Watertown, New York, went on a murder spree that included the deaths of 11 prostitutes. The third victim was Dorothy Blackburn, a 27-year old drug addict and prostitute. Her body was found by Rochester, New York indicating that she

A week after the March 14 murder of Paul and Ruth Lanigan, the Abilene police department was lead to a knife that could potentially be their murder weapon. In a news conference on March 23, police chief, Ron Ruchs announced that nationally known psychic Rhoda Miller was helping authorities with the investigation of the Lanigan murders.

18-year-old Oliver Mauricio Funes Machada made the call to police to tell them his mother was dead. He brought the proof out to the officer's when they arrived. The teenager was holding his mother's decapitated head in one hand, and what looked like a butcher's knife in the other.

Their last victim was Kristen French she was 15 years old and walking through St Catherines when she was abducted at knifepoint. This was the couple’s biggest mistake that lead to them getting caught as there were several eye-witnesses that vaguely described Paul, Karla and their car. Like the other two victims her rape and torture was recorded and then she was either strangled or beaten with a rubber mallet depending on whose story you believe. Her naked body was dumped in a street. She died on the 16th April, 1992.

Perhaps the most vicisous acts committed by Woodfield occurred on February 3rd. The body of 37 year old Donna Eckard and her 14 year old daughter were found murdered in their home in Mountain Gate, California. Their bodies were discovered in the same bad with multiple gun shot wounds to the back of each of their heads. It was later determined that the 14 year old had suffered injuries related to being sodomized. On the same day of the slaying of the small family, Woodfield stopped at a store in Redding and continued his disgusting crimes. Woodifeld kidnapped, raped and sodomoized the female store clerk for

Four days later, September 28, police discovered a girl’s body in a soybean field near a convenience store in the rural Red Springs, Robeson County of North Carolina. After forensic identification, the body, indeed, belonged to Sabrina Buie, who was naked except for a bra pushed up against her neck (Katz). Sabrina’s autopsy revealed that she had been raped, suffocated and left to dead in the field. From a report of a missing child, the investigation began as a capital murder case. Everybody in the town was shocked upon hearing of Sabrina’s death.

In the 1980’s, serial killers were on the rise, many of them young and fit men. Along with the murderers being middle-aged or younger, the victims usually were young adults or teens. When I imagine serial killers, I think of Jeffery Dahmer, John Wayne Gasey, or Ted Bundy. I don't think of a little old lady when I think of serial killers, but that was the perfect disguise for Dorothea Puente, who targeted the elderly, mentally disabled, and recovering addicts. This is the story of Dorothea Puente, the Sacramento boarding house serial killer.

On Christmas night, 1996 the death of a six-year-old beauty queen shocked the nation, while sleeping JonBenet Ramsey was taken from her room in Boulder, Colorado. Taken unto the basement wine cellar where there she was beaten,

After the killing of 19-year-old William Kindred in February of 1978, Gacy's crawlspace was so full of bodies that he had to resort to dumping Kindred and the remainder of his victims into the Des Plaines River. The other victims that were dumped off of the I-55 bridge into the Des Plaines River included 20-year-old Timothy O'Rourke, 19-year-old Frank Landingin, 21-year-old James Mazzara, and 15-year-old Robert Piest.

" On July 29, 1994, seven year old Megan Kanka, from Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was walking home after playing at a friends house. She had almost reached her front door when Jesse Timmendequas, 33, a landscaper who had lived across the street for a year invited her over to pet his new puppy ( Richard 1 )." " When Megan followed him inside, he led her to an upstairs bedroom, strangled her unconscious with his belt, raped her and then asphyxiated her to death with a plastic bag. Timmendequas then placed Megan’s body in a tool box, drove it in his pick-up truck to a near-by soccer field and dumped her body in some bushes ( Jerome 1 )." This, and the tragic murder of Amanda Wengert, was how the name was developed. But in my paper I did not discuss the murder and raping of Amanda Wengert.

Rader fits the reason for a serial killer’s motivation. In a testimony in the book he states,” In court testimony many years later, he attributed the killings to sexual needs, and he apparently molested at least one of the females” (190). He also held traits connected to all serial killers.

She was found in Central Park, her eyes removed from her sockets and her left ear cut off. She had been poisoned; cyanide, it seemed, and she had been missing a week prior to being found there.