Serial Killers True Crime: Murder Stories Trilogy

By Daniel Brand

The 1980s-2000s was a time of great technological and social change in America, but it was also a time when monsters stalked the highways and byways of the country as well as, for the first time, the information super highway. If you love Criminal Minds, Unsolved Mysteries, True Crime, and true tales of horror more chilling than anything the imagination can conceive thenSerial Killers True Crime:Murder Stories Trilogyis the book you have been waiting for.

Inside you will find 3 separate books containing a full graphic account of the exploits of monstrous individuals such as:

Harvey Miguel Robinson has the dubious honor of being one of the youngest serial killers in American history, being just 18 when he was arrested for the crimes he had committed. Robinson killed two women and a teenager, in addition to trying to kill a child and the woman that would ultimately lead to his capture. Robinson's murder spree was the inspiration for the movieNo One Could Protect Herstarring Joanna Kerns as intended victim Denise Sam-Cali.

Charles Edmund Cullen is a former nurse and the most prolific serial killer in the history of the East Coast, if not in all of American. He has confessed to killing more than 40 people during his time as a nurse, and subsequent interviews have indicated that the actual number could be far, far, greater as he cannot remember names but can remember specifics of the events. All told, experts believe he may have killed as many as 400 people.

Keith Hunter Jesperson killed at least 8 women during the early 90s and earned the moniker the Happy Face Killer from the smiley faces that he always included on his letters to the authorities as well as to the media. He typically targeted prostitutes as well as transients with no apparent rhyme or reason for the killings. He primarily killed his victims via strangulation, in much the same way he killed animals as a child. There was a movie made about his killing spreeHappy Face Killerwhich premiered in 2014.

David Parker Ray, more commonly known as the Toy-Box Killer, is believed to have kidnapped, tortured and murdered more than 60 people near the New Mexico, Arizona border over several decades. Ray would keep his victims in a trailer known as his toy-box which was exceedingly well equipped for all manner of sexual torture and murder. He was convicted of torture and kidnapping in 2001 and died incarcerated the very next year before he had a chance to confess to the full nature of his crimes.

Inside you will learn all about the horrible life and times of

• Jeffery Lionel Dahmer
• Scott William Cox
• Keith Hunter Jesperson
• Orville Lynn Majors
• Cleophus Price Jur.
• David Parker Ray
• John Edward Robinson
• Michael Swango
• And more…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tru Nobilis Publishing
• Release date: Nov 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386787402

Daniel Brand

Daniel Brand, Hansi and Joel's one surviving son, has been researching the Hungarian holocaust for the last 20 years. Previously, he was a Scientific Attaché for the State of Israel, a senior advisor for Israel's Department of Defense, and a researcher at Israel's Atomic Energy Commission. Earlier in his career, he served as lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Defense Force.

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Serial Killers True Crime:

Murder Stories Trilogy

Serial Killers True Crime:

13 Serial Killer Murder

Stories of the 80s

Introduction

Chapter 1: Carl Eugene Watts

Chapter 2: Alton Coleman & Debra Brown

Chapter 3: Andrew Urdiales

Chapter 4: Angel Maturino Resendiz

Chapter 5: Anthony & Nathaniel Cook

Chapter 6: Anthony Allen Shore

Chapter 7: William Suff

Chapter 8: Craig Price

Chapter 9: Tommy Lynn Sells

Chapter 10: Theresa Knorr

Chapter 11: Robert Rozier

Chapter 12: Robert Lee Yates

Chapter 13: Randy Steven Kraft

Conclusion

Introduction

Everybody has heard of serial killers. Who hasn’t heard of Ted Bundy or Jeff Dahmer, or perhaps that clown guy? But what most people don’t realize is there are more serial killers out there than we think. There have been hundreds and even thousands of serial killers throughout the history of the United States. In fact, according to the FBI, there are 25 to 50 serial killers operating at any given time. If that doesn’t make your skin crawl, I don’t know what will.

Particularly in the 1970s and 80s, there were a lot of serial killers. There is a lot of speculation as to why that is. Some say it’s because serial killers used to be looked at as cool or sexy, but that faded away. Others believe the media made the situations look drier than they were. But it most likely has to do with technology. We simply weren’t capable of what we are today back then. Advances in DNA testing and the emergence of smartphones have made it virtually impossible to get away with anything.

In this book, we’ll take a look at 13 different serial killer stories in the prime of serial killers – the 1980s. We’ll start at the beginning, telling of each serial killer’s early life – where they grew up, their family details and any significant life events that may have caused such an outcome. We’ll try to determine how each killer ended up doing mass murder – the biological and environmental factors. Lastly, we’ll conclude with the aftermath – how these people got caught and what their punishments were. We’ll take a look at where they are (or aren’t) now.

We’ll also figure out what exactly went wrong within the police force or how each killer was able to evade authorities for so long.

Chapter 1: Carl Eugene Watts

Carl Eugene Watts was a serial killer from 1974 to 1982. Also known by his nickname Coral or as the Sunday Morning Slasher, Watts killed 22 people and is suspected of killing as many as 100.

Watts was born on November 7, 1953, in Killeen, Texas to Richard Eugene Watts and Dorothy Mae Young. His father was a private first class in the Army, and his mother taught art to kindergarten children. Before the age of two, Watt’s parents had separated, and he moved with his mother – who raised him - to Inkster, Michigan. When Watts was around the age of nine, his mother remarried a mechanic named Norman Caesar. Within two years, they had two daughters. It’s been said, however, that Watts never embraced his role as a big brother.

Around the age of 12, Watts claimed to have begun to fantasize about torturing and killing young girls and women. It was during this time that he started to stalk girls. It’s believed he killed someone before the age of 15.

When he was 13, he caught meningitis - an inflammation of the membranes around the brain and the spinal cord. The infection can be life-threatening, and one of the complications includes permanent neurological damage. It has never been stated whether this infection caused permanent damage to Watts, however.

Due to the illness, Watts had to repeat the eighth grade. Back at school he had trouble keeping up with his peers and was often bullied – something that began in elementary school. He received many failing grades and was reading at a third grade level at the age of 16. Despite his academic troubles, Watts became a successful athlete.

He joined the Silver Gloves boxing program – a program that taught boys discipline and respect toward themselves. However, the physical aspects of the program sparked his aggression. Watts often got in trouble at school for physically confronting students, particularly females.

At age 15, on June 29, 1969, Watts was arrested for sexually assaulting 26-year-old Joan Gave - although it is widely believed that he committed his first murder prior to this. Watts had already been stalking girls for quite some time.

For the sexual assault of Gave, Watt was sentenced to a stint in a mental hospital in Detroit, the Lafayette Clinic. Two days after his 16th birthday, November 9, 1969, he was released. It was learned during his time in the Lafayette Clinic that Watts was mildly mentally retarded, had an IQ of 75 and a delusional thought process. Contradictorily, an officer that interviewed Watts after his arrest claimed he appeared to have an excellent memory and was very intelligent.

Despite everything, Watts returned to high school. He was frequently in trouble for stalking female students and his violent outbursts, yet he only returned to the Lafayette Clinic for outpatient treatment a few times. Watts graduated high school in 1973 and went onto Lane College in Jackson, Texas. His college career at Lane was short lived – he was expelled after only three months due to more incidents of stalking female students. Watts was even a suspect in the murder of a female student at the time.

His first confirmed murder was on October 30, 1974, near Kalamazoo, Michigan. Watts kidnapped 20-year-old Gloria Steele from her apartment complex, then went on to torture and murder her. She was found with 33 stab wounds to the chest. It’s widely believed that this was his second murder, however.

But Watts was not convicted of Steele’s murder. In fact, he was not caught for eight more years and is believed to have killed as many as 100 women during this time. Watts was convicted, however, of the assault of two women – Lenore Knizacky and Diane Williams. The assault of Knizacky took place just five days prior to the murder of Steele.

Both Knizacky and Williams were attacked upon answering their front doors. Both women fought back and were later able to identify Watts by picking him out of a police line-up. Watts pleaded no contest to the charges and was only sentenced to one year. He was released in 1976.

By 1979, Watts had fathered a child, named Nakisha, with his girlfriend at the time, Deloris Howard. He also got married to another woman, Valeria Goodwill, in August of 1979. However, they were divorced by May of 1980 due to his strange behavior. That same year, several young women were murdered in Ann Arbor, Michigan – the events that dubbed Watts the Sunday Morning Slasher.

The first was Shirley Small, a 17-year-old who bled to death after being cut several times. Twenty-six-year-old Glenda Richmond was next. She also bled to death after being stabbed 28 times. Rebecca Greer, 20, also died similarly, after being stabbed 54 times. The murders occurred within a five-month span, and soon after, similar attacks were happening in nearby Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Despite everything, no evidence could ever link Watts to the crimes in Canada.

By 1981, Watts was sick of the suspicions surrounding him and decided to move to Houston, Texas. There, he began working at an oil company but was soon up to his old antics. Luckily, police had already alerted Houston authorities. Unfortunately, not before he had killed at least three women.

It is unclear how many total murders occurred by the hand of Watts. His next arrest was on May 23, 1982. Watts had broken into the home of Lori Lister and Melinda Aguilar. While attempting to drown Lister, Aguilar was able to jump out the window and call for help. That same day, Michele Maday was found nearby, she had been drowned in her bathtub.

While in custody, Watts refused to talk about the murders. And because authorities felt they did not have enough evidence against him, they agreed to grant him immunity to the murder charge, and instead just charge him with burglary, if he confessed to every murder he’d committed. Watts agreed and confessed to committing 12 murders in Texas.

Watts was convicted of the burglary charge and was sentenced to 60 years in prison. Although he was in the clear with the murders he committed in Texas, that wasn’t the case in Michigan. On November 17, 2004, Watts was charged with the murder of Helen Dutcher, after a witness came forward. He was sentenced to life imprisonment the next month, on December 7. Watts was also charged with the murder of Gloria Steele shortly after.

Trial began on July 25, 2007 – and lasted just one day. Watts was given another life imprisonment sentence without parole. Watts was imprisoned in Ionia, Michigan. He died of prostate cancer on September 21, 2007.

Chapter 2: Alton Coleman & Debra Brown

Alton Coleman, along with his accomplice, Debra Brown, were serial killers from May to July of 1984. The two murdered eight people across six states throughout the Midwest.

Alton Coleman was born on November 9, 1955, in Waukegan, Illinois. Coleman was primarily raised by his 75-year-old grandmother, as his mother worked three jobs. Coleman dropped out of middle school and was well known to the police at a relatively early age in life. From 1973 to 1983, Coleman had already been charged with six sex crimes. Miraculously, due to various circumstances – pleading guilty to lesser crimes, being acquitted, etc. - he was still a free man. It was in 1983 that he met Debra Brown.

Debra Brown was born on November 11, 1962. As a child, she suffered severe head trauma which left her intellectually disabled. When she met Coleman, she was engaged to another man, but quickly left him and moved in with Coleman. Brown had no police record or any history of violence prior to meeting Coleman.

The couple’s murdering spree began on May 29, 1984, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The two kidnapped nine-year-old Vernita Wheat, whose mother Coleman had befriended. Wheat’s body was found about a month later in an abandoned building near Coleman’s grandmother’s apartment. Wheat had been raped and died from ligature strangulation.

Next, the couple headed to Gary, Indiana. It was there they came across nine-year-old Annie and seven-year-old Tamika Turks. Both young girls were sexually assaulted. However, Annie survived. Turks’ body was found on June 19 – that same day Donna Williams, 25, was reported missing. Approximately a month later, Williams’ body was found in Detroit near her car. She too, like Wheat, had been raped and died from ligature strangulation.

A few days after the disappearance of Williams, Coleman and Brown broke into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Jones in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. They beat the couple, robbed them and stole their car.

Coleman and Brown arrived in Toledo, Ohio on July 5. It was there that they murdered Virginia Temple and her nine-year-old daughter, Rachelle. The two were found strangled to death. Again, Coleman had befriended the mother (Temple) prior to the murder. That same day, Coleman and Brown broke into the home of Frank and Dorothy Duvendack. They bound the two, stole some of their possessions, and their car.

Coleman and Brown met a third couple - Reverend Millard Gay and his wife Kathryn – that day, after traveling to Dayton, Ohio. However, as opposed to robbing or assaulting them, Coleman and Brown just spent the night at their house and hitched a ride with them to Cincinnati the next morning.

About a week later, a 15-year-old girl named Tonnie Storey, disappeared. The girl’s body was found on July 20. Again, the victim had been raped, but this time there was also some vital evidence. A watch was found under Storey’s body – the same watch that had been stolen from Dorothy Duvendack in Toledo.

The day after Storey disappeared, Coleman and Brown arrived in Norwood, Ohio by bicycle. They robbed and stole a car from Harry and Marlene Walters, along with killing Marlene, 43. As every victim so far, she had been raped.

According to Harry, who survived, Coleman was interested in purchasing a camper he had for sale. Shortly after letting Coleman and Brown into his home, Coleman bashed him on the back of the head with a wooden candlestick causing him to become unconscious. Harry remembered little of any events after.

The Walters’ daughter, Sheri, found the two later that day. They were both tied up, but Marlene was at the bottom of the stairs, dead. Marlene had been hit in the head 20 to 25 times, the back of her skull was crushed, and parts of her brain were missing. The house had bloody footprints throughout, and Coleman and Brown had even left behind articles of clothing, shoes, and their two bicycles.

The Walters’ vehicle was discovered in Kentucky on July 15. Upon arriving, Coleman and Brown kidnapped a college professor, Oline Carmical, Jr. from Williamsburg, Kentucky. They locked him in his own trunk, drove back to Dayton, Ohio and then abandoned the car. Fortunately, Carmical was rescued. Due to Coleman and Brown taking Carmical across state lines, this was considered a federal kidnapping charge.

Back in Dayton, Coleman and Brown stopped by Reverend Gay’s again. However this time, Reverend Gay recognized the two who were now on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. Coleman and Brown held the couple at gunpoint but did not kill them.

Apparently, Reverend Gay said to