Suspected serial killer confesses to 5 Mississippi deaths
Five Mississippi homicides are linked to a man suspected in dozens of deaths.
The FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program says Samuel Little has confessed to killings in Gulfport, Jackson and Pascagoula.
FBI: Man confessed to 90 killings in effort to move prisons
A 78-year-old inmate who says he killed about 90 people as he moved around the country for nearly four decades offered his confessions as a bargaining chip to be moved from a California prison, authorities say.
Agent accused in serial killings lived quiet suburban life
Juan David Ortiz appeared to be living a typical suburban life in a subdivision where rows of new homes stand next to fields of desert brush.
Investigators: DNA from genealogy site caught serial killer
More than three decades after his trail went cold, one of California’s most prolific and elusive serial killers was caught when investigators matched crime-scene DNA with genetic material stored by a relative on an online genealogical site, prosecutors said Thursday.
Police track Indiana slaying suspect’s movements
Investigators are using the cellphone records of an Indiana man already charged in the slayings of two women to pinpoint his movements.
Indiana man was violent long before 7 killings
With hindsight, there were signs years ago of increasing violence against women by Darren Vann, who police said Tuesday has confessed to killing seven women in northwestern Indiana.
Missouri executes white supremacist serial killer
BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was
DNA clears suspect in cold case murder
DNA test results have confirmed that suspected serial killer Felix Vail is not the killer of two women in Starkville’s unsolved 1990 Labor Day murders.
Alaska suspect linked to multiple murders
Israel Keyes, in jail for the killing of an Alaska barista, gradually began confessing to investigators that he had killed others: a couple in Vermont, four people in Washington state, someone in New York.