FBI Helps Investigate Case of Suspected Cleveland Serial Killer
The FBI is helping investigate whether a Cleveland truck driver linked to five killings was responsible for any other slayings.
The FBI is helping investigate whether a Cleveland truck driver linked to five killings was responsible for any other slayings.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI built a sophisticated database to help catch serial killers and rapists but hardly anyone used it since its launch more than three decades ago, Newsweek reports. The idea was to help local, state and federal law enforcement discern behavioral patterns, like the type of knife used or how a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents who are investigating a possible serial killer are looking at similarities in the lives of he six women who have been found dead or have gone missing in a small Ohio town, a former agent told ABC News. ABC discovered that most of the women “ran in the same…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In just over a year, six women have vanished from a small Ohio town. Four of them have been found dead, ABC News reports. Now the FBI is coming to help the town of Chillcothe investigate the string of disappearances and murders. Most of the victims were mothers in their 20s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Since the FBI began asking the public for more information about late Alaskan serial killer Israel Keyes, the agency has received about 100 phone calls, the Seattle Times reports. But none has helped authorities connect Keyes with more missing people. “The majority of phone calls were from people who knew him and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com You’ve probably never heard of Robert Ressier. The FBI investigator is credited with coining the term “serial killer,” according to an NPR feature on unknown stories. Ressier, who wrote a book on criminology, spent much of his career researching serial killers. “There are people that are pretty good at this, and I…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Matthew Feldman lost track of his mother about five years ago. The New Jersey mom had chronic drug problems, and her son believed she was in a witness protection program. Then the FBI told him recently that his mother likely was yet another victim of serial killer Israel Keyes, who is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Racist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed early this morning after a murderous cross-country spree from 1977 to 1980, the USA Today reports. The 63-year-old, who targeted black and Jewish people, was executed in Missouri. Franklin claimed responsibility for 20 murders but was convicted of seven. He also has admitted he…