Police investigate possible serial killer after three women are found shot dead near St Louis within a month Police are investigating three similar shootings in the St Louis metro area Amanda Legare, 38, found shot in the neck on Sunday in East St Louis In nearby Washington Park, Sandra Reckmann, 49, was found dead on July 9 Body of Bridgett Williams, 56, was also found in Washington Park on July 10 Similarities are striking but so far no link in the cases has been made public By Keith Griffith For Dailymail.
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Louis area between and A black woman from East St. Brad Ware, public affairs specialist for the Springfield division of the FBI, said connections between Little and any murders in Illinois were not known until he began talking to investigators after his conviction. At the time, law enforcement in the areas where bodies were found would have handled the evidence recovery, Ware said. What procedures were followed, how records were kept and technology have changed since the s.
Now that Little has described murder victims, FBI and other investigators are working to link the confessions to decades-old cold cases. Little had faced numerous assault, false imprisonment, shoplifting, drug and other charges — including murder charges in Mississippi and Florida in the s — over the years, but avoided a murder conviction.
After being arrested on drug charges in , DNA evidence linked Little to three unsolved homicides in California from between and He is serving three consecutive life sentences for his conviction in the three murders. Eventually, investigators guided Travis outside and into a police car where they continued to talk with him. He agreed to accompany them to police headquarters downtown. Sachs would sit with Travis in an interrogation room for the next three hours, until almost 2 p.
At one point, Sachs said, he talked to Travis about the debate over whether the kinds of crimes Travis was suspected of committing were "inherent" or "learned" behavior. He said he'd been like this since he could remember. Police said that during their interview, Travis seemed to show genuine affection and concern for only one person - his mother. But throughout the nearly eight hours of questioning, police said, they never saw any remorse, any feelings of guilt.
Still, as the evidence against Travis mounted through the day, he often nervously tapped his fingers on the table. The stark one-man cell on the eighth floor of the St. This photo was taken two days later. Travis was found hanging from a bed sheet tied to the air vent. Photo by J. Forbes of the Post-Dispatch. They did not discuss specifics, which included restraints that appeared stained with blood and the videotapes, which show at least one woman who was among those found dead.
Several times, as the full realization of what was happening struck him, Travis dropped his head. Sachs questioned Travis for nearly eight hours, before giving way to Douglas and Walker, who immediately began a more direct, more "in your face" confrontational interview that had produced results with past suspects.
Just 19 minutes into the interview with Douglas and Walker, police said, Travis asked for an attorney, and the interview was stopped. Three days later, without being questioned by police again, he was dead - a pillowcase pulled over his head and his hands tied behind his back - in a hanging that Clayton police and the St. Louis County medical examiner agreed was very odd but a suicide nonetheless. A woman from Pagedale whose daughter dated Travis just last year said she never could have imagined that he was what she called "a real Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. He and his parents live in Carr Square Village, near downtown. June : His parents, Michael V. Travis, are divorced in St.
Louis County. March : While home from college, he holds up five shoe stores in St. A year later, he pleads guilty to five counts each of robbery and armed criminal action. February January : He returns to prison for violating parole by possessing drugs.
Police now believe she may have been Travis' first murder victim. Police now suspect Travis in her murder. April 4, : A woman, 44, is found near death in East St. Louis but is never able to help police identify her attacker. Police now suspect Travis. May 23, : The body of Betty James, 46, is found in St. Later, police recognize James from a videotape found in Travis' home and match a tire on his car to a track left on her leg. Police have linked Travis to DNA in semen found in her.
This letter, allegedly by serial killer Maury Travis, was sent to St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Bill Smith after Smith wrote about a prostitute who was found murdered and speculation that a serial killer was at work. March 11, : An unidentified woman's skeleton is found near Highland. March 28, : An unidentified woman's skeleton is found in Columbia, Ill. May 21, : The postmark date of a letter to Post-Dispatch reporter Bill Smith that includes a map to another body and suggests there may be others.
May 25, : Police find an unidentified woman's skeleton in West Alton, where the map said it would be. They later track the map to Travis' home computer. He is charged with two federal counts of kidnapping and taken to the St.
Louis County Jail. County officials later admit taking few precautions against suicide. June 10, : Travis is found hanged in his cell. He had written a suicide note. Shake off your afternoon slump with the oft-shared and offbeat news of the day, hand-brewed by our online news editors. Hernandez, who was scheduled to plead guilty Monday for her role in the riots, has been arrested on suspicion of DWI for the fatal wreck Wednesday.
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Paul was charged in St. Emily E. Hernandez pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building, the U. Capitol on Jan. Louis homicides fell from in to in , while St. His widow testified that she and Engleman plotted for her to marry so they could kill her husband for insurance money.
Jurors found Engleman guilty of the various charges in and She received immunity for her testimony. After his convictions in those deaths, Engleman was charged with killing Arthur Gusewelle and his wife Vernita, in November ; and their son Ronald, who died in April Engleman pleaded guilty to the three murders in June Ronald Gusewelle's widow, Barbara Gusewelle Boyle, was also convicted of murder for her husband's death.
Engleman plotted to kill the couple, and then Ronald Gusewelle, for insurance money that he split with the widow. He was never charged with the shooting death of James Bullock, who had married Engleman's first wife after she divorced the dentist.
Bullock was found shot near the Art Museum in Forest Park, and the investigation and questioning of Engleman and the widow was closely followed in the news. He was also never charged in the death of business partner, killed in an explosion that, at first, looked like a work accident.
Engleman was a director at the dragstrip. Engleman's defense attorney said, in "No, his motives were not money.
He would treat people for nothing, and there were acts of kindness and charity in his background. Clair County jury found Lorenzo Fayne guilty of killing five children in , and decided he should face the death penalty. In , Fayne's life, along with others on Illinois' death row, was saved when Gov. George Ryan commuted remaining death sentences.
During his trial, defense attorneys said that Fayne was mentally disabled with a low IQ. They also described an abusive childhood, including a rape at a juvenile center when he was 10 years old. In confessions to police, Fayne said he first killed someone because he wondered what it would be like to break someone's neck. Dean, 14, attacked and stabbed as she crossed a field to her East St.
Louis home. Joseph Paul Franklin sits in court in Ohio in this file photo. Franklin was executed in Missouri in AP photo. Notorious for shooting and paralyzing Larry Flynt, Joseph Paul Franklin was a racist who was convicted of a sniper killing at a Richmond Heights synagogue. Franklin shot and killed Gerald Gordon, and wounded another man. Detectives said he picked the Richmond Heights synagogue at random.
Franklin wasn't charged with the crime until 17 years after it happened, when he was serving life sentences in Illinois for other murders.
Flynt was shot in March in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Franklin, in a letter years later, confessed to that shooting then said it was a hoax. Franklin said a Hustler photo of an interracial couple infuriated him.
Besides the Missouri murder, he was also convicted for killing an interracial couple in Wisconsin and two black men, jogging with white women, in Salt Lake City. Bertha Gifford was described as "a tireless attender of funerals, a visitor of sick persons and a connoisseur of stories dealing with violence, illness or blood.
Neighbors in Catawissa didn't suspect that she was poisoning people until two boys died in her care in , and Edward Brinley arrived at her house in , falling-down drunk. Gifford said that she and her husband cared for Brinley, "and I put some arsenic in the medicine" a doctor left for the visitor.
She said the arsenic was to calm stomach pains.
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