The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume Three, M–S

By Susan Hall

A comprehensive reference guide to male and female serial killers from throughout world history.

The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1600 entries of male and female serial killers from around the world.

Defined by the FBI as a person who murders 3 or more people over a period of time with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, serial killers have walked among us from the dawn of time as these books will demonstrate. While the entries to these volumes will continue to grow—the FBI estimates that there are at least fifty serial killers operating in the United States at any given time—The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is as complete as possible through the end of 2017.

The series continues with Volume Three, M-S. The entries include the Machete Murderer Juan Vallejo Corona, Maranhão Boy Mutilator Francisco das Chagas, Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, Rostov Ripper Andrei Romanovych Chikatilo, and Genesee River Killer Arthur John Shawcross. You will find these killers and approximately 475 others in this third book in the series of The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Nov 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952225338

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THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS

VOLUME THREE:

M - S

WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY

SUSAN HALL

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Table of Contents

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Index

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Cases

Book 3

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Machete Murderer

Corona, Juan Vallejo

Machete Murderer aka Corona, Juan Vallejo (February 7, 1934 – March 4, 2019) was a Mexican-born serial killer in the United States. Corona was born in Autlan, State of Jalisco, Mexico (southeast of Puerto Vallarta). He came to America in 1950, crossing the border illegally. He picked carrots and melons in the Imperial Valley before moving north to the Sacramento Valley. He moved to Marysville, California in May 1953, at the suggestion of his half-brother, Natividad, who lived in Marysville. Natividad had immigrated to the USA in 1944. Corona found work on a local ranch. He was married twice, first to Gabriella E. Hermosillo in 1953, and then to Gloria I. Morena in 1959. He and Gloria had four daughters.

In December 1955, the Yuba and Feather Rivers flooded, one of the most widespread and destructive of any in recorded history for that area. The rush of water broke through the west levee and flooded 150 square miles, killing at least 38 people. Corona suffered a mental breakdown due to the death and destruction. He believed everyone had died in the flood and that he was living in a land of ghosts. On January 17, 1956, Natividad had Juan committed to DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, California, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type. Corona received 23 shock treatments, was declared recovered, and was released after only three months. He was subsequently deported back to Mexico.

Corona soon returned to the USA legally with a green card. Even though he had schizophrenic episodes and a violent temper, he was considered a hard worker. By 1962, he became a licensed labor contractor, in charge of hiring workers to staff the local fruit ranches. Corona was outwardly macho and had major anger issues with gay men. His half-brother, Natividad, was gay, and he owned the Guadalajara Café in Marysville. On February 25, 1970, sometime in the very late evening or early morning, José Romero Raya was brutally attacked with a machete in the restroom of the café. He was discovered at 1:00 a.m. and Natividad called the police. Raya had been hacked about the head and face. He filed a lawsuit against Natividad and won a judgment of $250,000. Instead of paying, Natividad sold the business and returned to Mexico.

In March 1970, Corona was again committed to DeWitt State Hospital for treatment. A year later, there was little ranch or farm work available, and he applied for welfare for the first time. Stating that he had too many assets, his application was denied.

On May 19, 1971, Goro Kagehiro, a Japanese American rancher, was touring his peach orchard near Yuba City. He found a freshly dug hole measuring about 7 ft. long and 3-1/2 ft. deep. He returned after dark and found the hole had been filled. He thought someone had buried their trash on his property and called the police. Several sheriff’s deputies responded the following morning and proceeded to dig. What they found was not trash or garbage; it was the body of a white American male, age about 40. He was later identified as a vagrant named Kenneth Whitacre. He had been sodomized and then stabbed to death; his head was chopped open by a machete. Gay pornography was found in his back pocket.

On his fruit ranch (and the bunkhouse where the workers were housed) Jack Sullivan reported finding an area with a sunken section. It contained the body of a 67-year-old drifter named Charles Fleming. Another grave was discovered on the Sullivan ranch, then another and another. Authorities continued to excavate the area. By the time they were finished excavating on June 4, they had unearthed a total of 25 bodies: the two named above plus John Joseph Haluka, age 51; Sigurd E. Beierman, age 62; William Emery Kamp, age 62; Clarence Hocking, age 53; Albert Leon Scratchy Hayes, age 58; Warren Jerome Kelley, age 62; John Henry Jackson, age 64; Joseph J. Maczak, age 54; Mark Beverly Shields, age 56; Donald Dale Red Smith, age 60; James Wylie Howard, age 64; Sam Bonafide aka Joe Carriveau, age 55; Edward Martin Cupp, age 43; Jonah Raggio Smallwood, age 56; Edward J. T. Riley, age 45; Lloyd Wallace Wenztel, age 60; Paul Buel Allen, age 59; Raymond Reand Muchache, age 47; Melford Everett Sample, age 59; and four other victims never identified.

All of the victims were white, except for two. All were middle-aged or elderly, poor alcoholics and drifters who barely eked out enough money for their existence. They were men whom no one would miss. All of the victims had been stabbed and mutilated viciously about their heads with a machete. One man was shot. They all had deep puncture wounds to the chest and two slashes across the back of the head in the shape of a cross. All were buried face up with their arms above their heads and their shirts pulled up to cover their faces. Some had their pants pulled down.

It was established that all of the victims were murdered within a six-week period—an average of one murder every 40 hours. In some of the graves, documents were found to tie Juan Corona to these murders. Two meat receipts bearing Corona’s signature were found in one grave. Also found in other graves were two crumpled, printed bank deposit slips with Corona’s name and address on them. Witnesses also told the police that some of the victims were last seen in the company of Corona in his pickup truck. On May 26, 1971, police went to Corona’s house in Yuba City with a search warrant and arrested him. They found two bloodstained knives, a machete, a pistol, and blood-stained clothing. They also found a work ledger that contained the names of seven of the victims.

On June 18, Corona complained of chest pain and was taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with a mild heart attack. On July 12, 1971, he was indicted on 25 counts of first-degree murder. In early August, he was hospitalized again with chest pain.

It took over a year for Corona to be brought to trial. In the meantime, the California Supreme Court voided the death penalty on February 18, 1972, which meant that he could not be sentenced to death. A change of venue was granted and on September 11, 1972, at the courthouse in Fairfield, Solano County, California, Corona went on trial. On January 18, 1973, he was found guilty of first-degree murder on all 25 counts originally charged. Corona was sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment, to run consecutively and without the possibility of parole.

The conviction was overturned on appeal on May 18, 1978. A second trial was held in Hayward, Alameda County, California, and began on February 22, 1982. The trial lasted seven months and on September 23, 1982, Juan Corona was again convicted. He began serving his sentence in the Sensitive Needs Yard at Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran, California because he had dementia. He was denied parole eight times and died in prison of natural causes on March 4, 2019.

Mackay, Patrick (b. September 24, 1952) murdered at least 11 people in England in the mid-1970s. He spent most of his teenage years in mental homes and institutions due to his extreme tantrums, fits of anger, acts of animal cruelty, and arson. He also bullied younger children, stole from elderly women’s homes and people on the street, and attempted to kill his mother and aunt.

Entering adulthood, Mackay lived in London and was frequently drunk or on drugs. He had a definite attraction to Nazism. He filled his apartment with anything and everything Nazi and called himself Franklin Bollvolt the First. He was befriended by a priest, Father Anthony Crean, who lived near his mother’s home in Kent. Mackay broke into the priest’s home and stole a check for £30. He was arrested and prosecuted. He was also ordered to pay back the £30, but never did.

Mackay professed to having drowned a tramp in the River Thames about this same time. On March 21, 1975, he killed Father Crean with an axe, hacking through his skull, and watched him bleed to death. He was arrested and was a suspect in at least a dozen other killings over the previous two years. Most of the victims were elderly women who had been robbed and then stabbed to death or strangled.

Mackay was charged with five murders, but two charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He is one of about 50 inmates who have been issued a whole life tariff, meaning he will never be released.

Mad Biter aka Macek, Richard Otto (1948 – March 2, 1987) killed for the first time on August 15, 1974, in Fontana, Wisconsin.

Hotel maid Paula Cupit, age 24, was cornered by Macek in the room she was cleaning. He raped her, then beat her and stabbed her in the heart before he began to bite and gnaw her body. In October 1974, Macek raped, beat, and stabbed another hotel maid in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, but she survived and gave a description to police. Later that same year, Macek murdered Nancy Lossman, age 26, and her daughter, Lisa, age 3, at Crystal Lake, Illinois. In July 1975, he invaded a Woodstock laundromat, where he raped and beat a 20-year-old woman, but she survived.

Macek was traced to San Bernardino, California and arrested on December 5, 1975. He was charged with the Wauwatosa rape. He signed confessions to the murder in Fontana and attempted murder in Wauwatosa. He was committed to Wisconsin’s Central State Hospital for an indefinite term.

Later in Illinois, Richard Macek was sentenced to 50 to 70 years for the attempted murder in Woodstock. In September 1980, he was sentenced to 30 years for the Wauwatosa rape and to 200 to 400 years in prison for the murders of Cupit and her daughter. Macek committed suicide in his prison cell on March 2, 1987. He was found hanging from an air vent with a pair of shoestrings looped around his neck.

Mad Dog aka Irvin, Leslie (April 2, 1924 – November 9, 1983) was a burglar turned spree/serial killer in southwestern Indiana and Henderson County, Kentucky in the mid-1950s.

On December 2, 1954, Mary Holland, age 33 and an expectant mother, was found with her hands tied behind her back in the restroom of the liquor store owned by her husband, Charles Doc Holland, and her. She had been shot to death with a single shot to the head.

Wesley Kerr, age 29, was found in the gas station where he worked with a single shot to his head and his hands tied behind his back on December 23, 1954. The cash register was open and empty. A spent slug found was believed to be from a .38 caliber pistol. Police surmised this murder was committed by the same gunman who had murdered Mrs. Holland.

There were no more murders and things were returning to normal when the killer struck again on March 21, 1955. This time in Posey County, Wilhemina Sailer, age 47, was found with her hands tied behind her back and shot to death in her farmhouse near Mount Vernon, Indiana, by her 7-year-old son when he returned from school.

On March 28, 1955, Goebel Duncan, a farmer in Henderson County, Kentucky, his son, Raymond, and daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, married to another son, were murdered. Goebel’s wife, Marnie, was shot but was still alive when found. Marnie and Elizabeth were discovered in adjoining room at the farmhouse. Goebel and Raymond were found about four miles away in a muddy swamp. Marnie was blinded by the shot and trauma erased her memory of the shootings.

Two days after the Duncan murders, several boys from the area decided to go out to look at the new oil well being drilled in the area. They noticed a car nearby and commented, jokingly, that it might be the killer, and they wrote down the license number: EL351, an Indiana license plate. As they pulled near the car, they yelled, Hey, we’re investigators. The car sped away. The mother of one of the boys contacted police. The license plate was on a vehicle belonging to Leslie Irvin, who was on parole from Indiana State Prison after serving time for burglary in Indianapolis.

Irvin was charged with three murders in Kentucky, but Indiana would not extradite him to Kentucky. He was arrested in Indiana and charged with the murders of Mary Holland, Wesley Kerr, and Wilhemina Sailer. He was convicted and sentenced to death.

While awaiting transfer to the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, Irvin managed to escape from the escape-proof jail in Princeton, Indiana. He was captured some 20 days later in San Francisco and returned to Indiana. On appeal, the US Supreme Court of Appeals overturned the conviction on the grounds that it was held in an atmosphere of bias and prejudice and ordered a new trial.

A second trial was held in 1962 and on June 13, 1962, Irvin was again convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of Wesley Kerr. He received a life sentence. On November 9, 1983, Leslie Irvin died in prison of lung cancer.

Mad Dog aka McCafferty, Archie (b. 1948) moved to Australia with his family when he was a baby. He was a troubled boy who was constantly in trouble with the police. During the next eight years, he was placed in institutions five times and classified an incorrigible juvenile delinquent.

In 1974, McCafferty was given three life sentences for killing three men in five days. He told the court that he had heard the voice of his dead son (who had died when he was just six weeks old) telling him that if he killed seven people, he (the son) would be born again. McCafferty murdered George Anson, age 50; Ronald Neil Cox, age 42; and Evangelos Kollias, age 24, just five days after his son died. While in prison, he killed a fellow inmate, Edward James Lloyd.

According to the parole board judge, by 1988, McCafferty was a model prisoner. At his fifth parole hearing in 1997, he was paroled and was to be deported back to Scotland. He fought the deportation but was finally sent back to Scotland. He was reunited with Mandy McQueen, whom he had married and then divorced while in prison.

In October 1988, McCafferty pleaded guilty to careless driving, driving with no license or insurance, failing to provide a breath specimen, and breach of the peace. He had threatened to kill police after a car chase near Edinburgh following a drinking session and argument with Mandy, who claimed he had left home with their 4-month-old baby. He was put on probation for two years.

In October 1998, he and Mandy were remarried in a secret ceremony in Scotland.

Mad Dogs aka Dohmeyer, Juergen (b. 1948) and Leuking, Kurt (b. 1953) robbed and murdered one man and two women in 1983 in Hannover, Germany. Both were given life sentences in 1988.

Mad Mossy aka Moss, Albert Andrew (1878 – January 24, 1958) was a swagman* in New South Wales, Australia, during the depression years of the 1930s. He was also a serial killer who may have murdered as many as 13 people, although he was only charged with three. Moss had been in and out of mental asylums for years. He had ties to the Narromine district and regularly camped in the area on river and creek reserves.

William Henry Bartley, a laborer from Lidcombe, headed to the bush on a new bicycle when work dried up in Sydney. He arrived in Narromine in December 1938, and got a job making leather rope for Frederick Carpenter, a local stockman. Bartley set up camp on the banks of the Macquarie River not far from the camp of Albert Moss or the one of pensioner Thomas Robinson with his sulky.

A few days later, another swagman, John Neville, saw Moss riding a bicycle identical to the one Bartley had arrived on. Moss told Neville that the young bloke, Bartley, had won a big prize in the Sydney lottery and had given all of his gear to Moss.

When Timothy O’Shea, a gold prospector, arrived a couple of days later, Moss quickly had his eye on his new mode of transportation, O’Shea’s sulky pulled by two horses. O’Shea was known for carrying large sums of money. One night there was a big fire at Moss’s campsite and O’Shea seemed to have disappeared. John Neville spotted Moss driving around in a sulky exactly like O’Shea’s.

Six weeks later, Thomas Robinson disappeared. The night before, there had been a big fire at his campsite and both he and Albert Moss were gone.

Police started adding up the facts of the disappearances and determined that all three men had last been seen with Moss, who now had their possessions. Moss was arrested and charged with stealing. A Dubbo tracker, Alec Riley, was called in to help investigators locate the places Moss frequented. At the locations of the large fires, investigators found buttons, human teeth and bones, bloodstained clothing, and a pair of reading glasses identified as Timothy O’Shea’s.

It was determined that William Bartley had been murdered near Narromine between December 1 – 17, 1938; Timothy O’Shea was also murdered near Narromine between December 15 – 23, 1938; and Thomas Robinson was murdered near Brummagem Creek around January 21, 1939.

Moss was charged with the three murders. At his trial, he tried every trick in the book to convince the court that he was insane, but it did not work. Doctors testified that although Moss was behaving like a madman, he was not insane. He was merely acting as if he was crazy. Exhibits at the trial included horses and sulkies, dogs, portions of human bones and teeth, camping gear, and clothing. Moss was sentenced to death by hanging on September 26, 1939, for the murder of Timothy O’Shea. He was not tried for the murders of William Bartley or Thomas Robinson.

Sometime later, it was reported that Moss’s death sentence was commuted to life in prison when psychiatrists determined that Moss was not the full quid.

Albert Andrew Moss died on January 24, 1958 at the Long Bay Penitentiary Hospital.

* A swagman (also called a swaggie, sundowner, or tussocker) is an old Australian and New Zealand term describing an underclass or transient temporary worker, who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying the traditional swag (bedroll). Also characteristic of swagman attire was a hat strung with corks to ward off flies; their few meager possessions were rolled up and carried in their swag. Typically, they would seek work at farms and towns they travelled through, and in many cases the farmers, if no permanent work was available, would provide food and shelter in return for some menial task.

Mad Paddler aka Wallace, George Kent (February 13, 1941 – August 10, 2000) is suspected of torturing and murdering five teenage boys in 1976 and 1987 – 1990 in North Carolina, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

His victims included Jeffrey Lee Foster, age 14, who was murdered on August 22, 1976, and Thomas Stewart Reed, murdered in 1982, both in North Carolina. William Eric Domer, age 15, was running an errand for his mother on February 17, 1987, when he was abducted in Arkansas and driven across the border into Oklahoma, beaten with a wooden handle, shot in the back of the head, and dragged into Leard Pond. Mark Anthony McLaughlin, age 14, was also running an errand for his mother on November 11, 1990, when he was abducted and driven across the border where he too was beaten with a wooden handle, shot in the back of the head, and dragged into Leard Pond. Domer’s body was found on February 22, 1987. McLaughlin’s body was found on November 12, 1990.

Investigators believe Wallace’s last victim was Alonzo Don Cade, age 12, who was abducted from Fort Smith, Arkansas. His body was found in another pond about a month after the McLaughlin slaying—but Wallace was never officially linked to his death.

On December 9, 1990, Ross Allen Ferguson, age 18, was picked up in a parking lot by a man who claimed was a policeman. He was taken to a nearby pond and stabbed six times by this man. He pretended to be dead in hopes that the man would get into his car and drive away, but he did not. He instead dragged Ferguson over the rocks and sticks that covered the ground to the edge of the pond, and Ferguson did not even flinch. As soon as the man released him, he jumped to his feet and, even in his weakened condition, he outran the man, jumped in the man’s car, and locked the doors. The man ran up to the locked door, just as Ferguson looked and saw that the keys were in the ignition. He started the car and drove to the first house he found and called the police. They arrested Wallace that same night.

Wallace confessed to the murders of Domer and McLaughlin. He also led authorities to a .22 caliber pistol which was identified as the gun used in both murders in Oklahoma.

He pleaded guilty to the murders and told the judge he wanted to die for his crimes. The judge obliged his request and sentenced Wallace to death. George Kent Wallace waived his right to clemency and waited 10 years on death row until he was executed by lethal injection on August 10, 2000.

Mad Slasher aka Magee, Christian Herbert (b. 1948) raped and murdered Judith Barksey, age 19; Patricia Jenner, age 19; and Susan Lynn Scholes, age 15, in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada between 1974 and 1976. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and is being held at the maximum security Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre in the province of Ontario.

Madison, Michael (b. October 15, 1977) was born in East Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Diane Madison and John Baldwin. Baldwin denied the child was his and he was not a part of Michael’s life. Michael Madison has been convicted of the murders of Shetisha Sheeley, age 28, missing since September 2012; Angela Deskins, age 38 and a resident of Cleveland, reported missing in June 2013; and Shirellda Helen Terry, who was last seen on July 10, 2013, leaving a Cleveland elementary school where she worked.

Police were called on July 19, 2013, regarding a foul odor emanating from a garage leased to Michael Madison. A body was found. The following day, another body was found in the backyard of a vacant house and a third in the basement of a different vacant house.

Police went to Madison’s apartment with a search warrant and found evidence of decomposition. Madison was located at his mother’s house and after a brief standoff, he surrendered peacefully. He was charged with three counts of aggravated murder, three counts of kidnapping, three counts of gross abuse of a corpse, one count of rape, and one count of weapons possession by an ex-convict. He had previously served four years for an attempted rape, was registered as a sex offender in 2002, and had drug convictions.

On May 5, 2016, Michael Madison was found guilty of all three murders as well as all of the other charges. He was sentenced to death. His is incarcerated at Chillicothe Correctional Facility in Chillicothe, Ohio, a maximum-security prison.

Magliolo, Michael Scott (b. July 8, 1960) is a rapist and murderer of 10 women in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Ohio, and Louisiana. He is also suspected of the murder of his half-brother. He was given a sentence of life plus 50 years in Tennessee in 1993, and 15 years to life in Ohio in 1993.

Mail-Order Bluebeard aka Drenth, Herman (1892 – March 18, 1932) was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1910. He had several aliases: Harry F. Powers, Cornelius O. Pierson, and A. R. Weaver.

Using lonely hearts ads in out-of-town newspapers, Drenth wrote tantalizing letters to countless women whom he lured to a room under his garage in Quiet Dell, West Virginia. He would persuade them to withdraw money from their account and when the money was gone, he disposed of them. Drenth was arrested on an anonymous tip. Authorities searched his murder room and determined that many women had probably not left the room alive. They soon unearthed five bodies from his garden. When questioned about items found in their search of the murder room that obviously did not belong to the five people found buried, Drenth muttered, You’ve got me on five, what good would 50 more do? It was never proven that he murdered more than the five whose bodies were found.

On December 12, 1931, Judge John Southern stated, It is the judgment of the court that you be taken to the state penitentiary at Moundsville, there to be kept and treated in the manner provided by law and then hanged by the neck until dead on March 18, 1932, between the hours of sunrise and sunset.

On the morning of March 18, 1932, Herman Drenth was walked to the scaffold at the Moundsville State Penitentiary to be hanged. He was told he could make a statement, but he declined. At 9:00 a.m., a hood was put over his head, the button was pushed, and Drenth dropped through the trap door. Eleven minutes later, he was pronounced dead.

Majid Salek Mohammadi (1960 – May 8, 1985) was a serial killer in Iran who is believed to have murdered 24 people during the years 1981 to 1985. He spent two years in prison for a bad check and upon being released, he learned that his wife was having a relationship with his cousin. He then began to murder any woman he thought was not being loyal to her husband. He did not kill his wife or cousin. It is believed that he did murder Akhtar, age 36, and her children, Mohammad and Farahnaz, in 1981.

In July 1984, the body of a woman between the ages of 25 and 30 was discovered at Tehran’s Freedom Ghetto Checkpoint. On July 1, a woman’s body was discovered near the Sharif Abad Gendarmerie Checkpoint in Varamin. On July 15, a body was discovered on the road between Astane and Rasht, and later identified as that of a factory worker named Anise, age 35. On July 19, the body of a woman, about age 30, was discovered by police officers on Amol Road.

On August 5, the body of a woman named Eshrat was found by Tehran gendarmerie agents.

On October 5, the body of a woman named Fatima, age 55, was found by gendarmes. She had been choked to death. On October 28, the body of a girl, about 16 – 17 years old, was found by gendarmes near the village of Iljanjiq. She had been choked to death.

The body of Khyyar Moghaddam, age 35, was found in Tehran on December 5. She had been strangled with a rope. On December 14, the body of a child and the child’s mother, Khadijeh, age 25, were found by prison detainees. Shortly after finding Khadijeh and her child, the body of a mother named Mansoureh was found. She had been strangled with a rope. On December 17, the body of a woman of Raziyeh, age 25, was found in Takestan. December 18, the strangled body of a 40-year-old woman named Parvin was found. December 25, the body of a woman was found near Candjaj by Qazvin’s Sirabad Abad Gendarmerie. She had been strangled. December 28, the body of Mahboubeh, a 32-year-old teacher, was found. She had been strangled. December 30, the body of a 25-year-old woman was found in the village of Nirja, Takestan. She had been choked.

On February 8, 1985, the body of a 29-year-old woman who was a hospital employee, was found by gendarmes at the Peknehad Street crossing. She had been choked. On February 11, the body of a 45-year-old woman was found in Bostanabad. She had been strangled. February 12, the body of a woman was found by gendarmes. She had been suffocated. February 17, the body of Masoumeh, a 41-year-old woman, was found by gendarmes in Evin. She had been strangled with a rope. Masoumeh’s sister told authorities that she had seen her sister being followed by a man in a green Chevrolet Vantbar. The driver told Masoumeh that he was her driver and to get into his car. He showed her some kind of identification.

On February 24, 1985, the officers of a special unit saw the green Chevrolet in Tehran’s Baharestan Square and managed to stop it. The man was middle-aged and had Azeri descent. The police searched the car and found numerous women’s clothes and a one-meter long white rope in the engine compartment.

Majid Salek Mohammadi was arrested. On May 8, 1985, while awaiting trial, he committed suicide in his cell at Qasr Prison in Tehran, Iran.

Majola, Simon (b. 1968) and Nkosi, Themba (c. 1980) murdered at least eight men whose bodies were found at the bottom of Bruma Lake when it was dragged and drained in 2001. The murders took place between April 2, 2000, and February 7, 2001, at Rhodes Park in the hilly suburb of Kensington, Johannesburg, South Africa. The pair preyed on motorists and others in the park. The victims were robbed and then asked if they would like to die by being shot, stabbed, or drowned. Several of the victims had bricks tied to their feet.

Majola and Nkosi were tried and convicted of eight counts of murder, 19 counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances, and 18 other charges. Simon Majola was sentenced to eight life sentences and 422 years. Themba Nkosi was sentenced to five life sentences and 255 years in jail.

Majors, Orville Lynn (April 24, 1961 – September 24, 2017) was a licensed practical nurse in Clinton, Indiana who is believed to have murdered as many as 130 patients at the Vermillion County Hospital between 1993 and 1995. He appeared to have murdered those who were demanding, whiny, or required too much of his time, adding to his workload.

The hospital had a mortality rate of approximately 26 patients’ deaths annually before Majors was employed there. After he became employed, the rate increased to more than 100 per year, roughly one-third of those admitted to the hospital. During the investigation, it was determined that nearly twice as many patients died when Majors was on duty, compared to any of the other nurses. Majors was the only nurse present when seven patients died.

Orville Lynn Majors was arrested in December 1997 and charged with only six of the murders. Because of this, the information concerning the number of deaths while he was on duty was not allowed. Witnesses said that Majors appeared to hate the elderly and believed that they should be gassed. Some of the deadly chemicals used in the murders were found at his house. Majors was found guilty of killing six patients and on November 15, 1999, he was sentenced to 360 years in prison. He was incarcerated at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana where he died of heart failure while arguing with a member of the correctional staff.

Male Teenage Serial Killer (Unnamed) (c. 1992) confessed to the murders of 12 people in the area of Novo Hamburgo, a city in southern Brazil, in 2008. He has been charged with six of these murders and may be charged with the remaining six at a later date. He told investigators that he, Only killed people who deserved to die, like the young man he shot dead because he wanted to date his sister. The investigation of the murder of a 39-year-old storeowner led police to the teenager, who was arrested at his home. His name has not been released because he was a minor at the time of the crimes.

Malèvre, Christine (b. January 10, 1970) was a nurse at François Quesnay Hospital in Mantes-la-Jolie on the outskirts of Paris, France. She was arrested in 1998 for murdering as many as 30 terminally ill patients. Although she confessed to killing four patients by injecting them with lethal doses of morphine, potassium chloride, or other drugs, she said it was done at the request of the patients. France does not recognize a right to die and Malèvre was convicted of the murders of six patients. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2003, and she was also permanently banned from working as a nurse. Christine Malèvre was freed from prison in August 2007, after serving only four years of her sentence.

Mall Passer aka DeBardeleben, James Mitchell Mike (March 20, 1940 – January 26, 2011) was a convicted rapist and counterfeiter. He was also suspected of being a serial killer. DeBardeleben became known for his practice of passing counterfeit bills in shopping malls across the country. He would enter a shopping mall with several hundred dollars (US) worth of counterfeit $20 bills, make a small purchase at each store in the mall, and receive legitimate cash as change. FBI agents passed out a composite sketch to mall clerks in chain stores he had targeted along the routes they believed he would take. DeBardeleben was identified as the suspect in these crimes, and a national manhunt ensued.

At the time of DeBardeleben’s arrest, authorities found in his car several packets of counterfeit $20 bills. Each was labeled with the city in which they would be passed. Authorities also found evidence of sex crimes, which were photographs taken during the act of rape/murder. FBI profilers speculated that in photographs where his face was seen along with the victim’s, he murdered the woman and disposed of the body. In the photographs where he was hiding his face, he allowed the victim to live.

FBI agents believe he committed at least six sex murders and is the principal suspect in two homicides. He is also a suspect in several other murders.

DeBardeleben was convicted of multiple crimes and sentenced to 375 years. He was never charged with murder. On January 26, 2011, James Mitchell DeBardeleben died of pneumonia at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina.

Malmo Ostra Hospital Murders aka Hansson, Anders (b. 1960) were a series of serial murders at the hospital in Malmo, Sweden, between October 1978 and January 1979. Hansson worked at the hospital as an orderly. He poisoned at least 27 patients with the detergents Gevisol and Ivisol. At least 15 patients who died were confirmed as his victims, the other 13 were attempted murders.

Anders Hansson was sentenced to closed psychiatric treatment in August 1979. He was released in 1994 and is now said to be living a normal life.

Man in Black aka Moore, Peter (b. September 19, 1946) ran several theaters in Wales, a country in the southeastern part of Great Britain. He became obsessed with the character Jason from the Friday the 13th movie series. He was also a serial killer who mutilated and murdered four men in late 1995.

In September 1995, Moore stabbed to death and mutilated Henry Roberts, age 56, a homosexual in Anglesey.

In October 1995, he killed and mutilated Edward Carthy, age 28, a man he met in a gay bar. Carthy was stabbed to death in Clocaenog Forest.

In November 1995, Keith Randles, age 49, was stabbed to death and mutilated on the A5 road in Anglesey.

In December 1995, Anthony Davies, age 40, was stabbed to death and mutilated in Pensarn Beach, Abergele, a small town on the northern coast of Wales.

Moore was arrested and tried and convicted of the four murders. He was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to life in prison. He is serving his sentence at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire, England.

Man with the Hammer aka Veres, Romulus (January 23, 1929 – December 13, 1993) was a serial killer in the country of Romania during the period of September 11, 1972 to February 14, 1974. Urban myths about the Man with the Hammer greatly exaggerated the number of victims to as many as 200 women. Veres was charged with five murders and several attempted murders. He suffered from schizophrenia and blamed Satan for his murders. Instead of prison, he was sent to the Stei psychiatric facility in 1976 following an investigation of more than three years and questioning of more than 4000 people.

His known victims were Cornelia Vaida; Maria Margineanu; Ana Valentina Florea, a girl of only eight years of age; Aurelia Clulea; and Szilagy Emma Ilona, age 68. All were murdered in Cluj County, Romania.

Manny aka Pardo Jr., Manuel (September 24, 1956 – December 11, 2012) was born in New York. He became a Boy Scout and was a US Navy veteran. After his departure from the navy, he applied for employment with the Florida Highway Patrol and graduated at the top of his class. In 1979, his career as a Florida Highway Patrol officer came to an end due to his falsifying traffic tickets.

He was hired as a police officer by the city of Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County, Florida. He was terminated for lying to investigators. In January 1986, he turned 180 degrees and became a murderer.

His first victims were Mario Amador and Roberto Alonso, whom he killed with a .22 caliber Ruger pistol after ordering the two to lie face down on the ground. He then shot each man in the head.

Also in January, Pardo murdered Michael Millot, whom he accused of being a police informant. In February, he murdered Luis Robledo and Ulpiano Ledo in their home during a robbery.

In April, he murdered Fara Quintero and Sara Musa during an argument over a pawned ring.

Ramon Alvero and Daisy Ricard were murdered after Alvero failed to appear at several planned drug deals. Daisy Ricard’s body was found on April 23, 1986 in a wooded area of Hialeah. She had been murdered by two shots to the head by two different .22 pistols. She was missing a shoe and her watch. Investigators found the watch near her body. Fingerprints on the watch were determined to belong to Manuel Pardo. The following day, the body of Ramon Alvero was found in the trunk of his car about a mile away from where Daisy’s body was found.

Investigators tied Pardo to all nine murders, and he was arrested on May 7, 1986, in New York City at a hospital where he was a patient. He had shot himself in the foot with one of the .22 caliber pistols he used to murder nine people. He admitted to six of the nine murders and said that it was his mission to rid Florida of drug suppliers and buyers by killing them one by one.

He was charged with eight counts of murder. His first two trials resulted in mistrials. He then petitioned the court to sever the cases. He was charged with the murders of Mario Amador, Roberto Alonso, Ramon Alvero, and Daisy Ricard. At his trial, he testified on his own behalf, against his attorney’s advice, and told the jury he wanted to be sentenced to death rather than life in prison. He admitted that he did kill all nine victims who he claimed were drug dealers who had no right to live and he was doing society a favor.

Manuel Pardo Jr. was convicted of all four murders. The jury complied with his wish and sentenced him to death. After spending 26 years on death row, he was executed by lethal injection on December 11, 2012. Rolando Garcia was found guilty of his part in the murders and sentenced to 25 years. He was paroled on September 5, 2002.

Mansfield Jr., William (b. 1956) was born to a child molester and his wife. He was arrested in 1979 and charged with a sex crime in Michigan, given a sentence of one year, and paroled in March 1980. He returned to Weeki Wachee near Tampa, Florida. Three months later, he was charged with battery and false imprisonment. Later that year, he moved to California.

René Sailing, age 30, was last seen on December 6, 1980, when she left a tavern with Mansfield. Her body was found the following morning in a drainage ditch. She had been shot to death. Arrest warrants were issued for Mansfield. A few days later, he was arrested in Winnemucca, Nevada in the company of his brother, Gary, age 23.

In March 1981, deputies of Hernando County, Florida went to the home where Mansfield had lived in Weeki Wachee Acres, with search warrants. A tip had been received that the body of Sandra Graham, age 21, might be buried on the property. During the months of March and April, the remains of four women were found buried on the property. Two of the remains have not been identified, one was identified as Elaine Zigler, age 15, who was vacationing in Florida from Ohio, and the last remains found were those of Sandra Graham.

Mansfield is also a suspect in the disappearance of Melinda Harder, age 21, who was a neighbor of the Mansfields’, and disappeared on July 27, 1980, and Carrol Barret, from Ohio, who disappeared from her Daytona Beach motel in 1980. She had been shot to death and dumped along a highway near Jacksonville.

In 1981, Mansfield went on trial for the murder of René Sailing, but that trial ended in a mistrial in August 1981, with jurors split nine to three in favor of conviction. Mansfield was sent back to jail to await a new trial.

On October 27, 1981, Mansfield and fellow inmate, Ben Barrigan, climbed up on a roof and jumped to the ground outside the walls of the jail and fled. They were seen by a woman who reported them to police. After 11 hours, Mansfield was found at Paradise Park, hiding in some bushes and still wearing his orange prison uniform. Barrigan was arrested a little later at Lighthouse Point.

In mid-February 1982, William Mansfield, Jr. was convicted of the murder of René Sailing in California and given a life sentence. He was also convicted of the Florida murders and given a life sentence.

Mansour, Ramadan Abdel Rehim (c. 1980 – 2010) was a street gang leader in Egypt. He was also a serial killer whom police believe may have raped and murdered at least 32 children during the years 2000 – 2006. When he was still young, Mansour left his home in Tanta, a town north of Cairo, and joined a street gang that taught him how to survive. He was cut with razors when he made a mistake. He learned how to retaliate against those who crossed him—he raped them. If they threatened to go the police, he murdered them.

Ahmed Nagui, age 12, was a member of Mansour’s gang. Mansour tried to sexually assault him and Nagui went to the police. Mansour was arrested but released due to lack of evidence. Nagui was raped and murdered by Mansour shortly afterward.

Mansour traveled from Cairo to Alexandria by train. He said he felt safer in Alexandria because the city had fewer police officers. He lured street children onto the carriage roof of the trains, stripped them naked, raped, tortured, and then tossed them naked onto the trackside, sometimes dead. Some were dumped in the Nile, and some were buried alive. The crimes committed by Mansour and his gang came to light when two of the gang were arrested.

Mansour was arrested and told investigators that he was possessed by a female jinn who ordered him to commit the crimes. He was convicted and sentenced to death in Tanta in 2007. Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour was executed in 2010.

Maranhao Boy Mutilator aka Chagas, Francisco das (b. 1965) is thought to have murdered as many as 42 young boys in Brazil during the years 1991 – 2004. Chagas claims to have murdered 30 boys; however, the police report that he confessed to 42.

A bicycle/car mechanic in the northeastern city of Sao Luis de Maranhao, Francisco das Chagas was arrested in April 2004 after police found the remains of two minors buried in his yard. He was charged with the murder of Jonathan Silva Vieira because this was the case for which they had the most evidence. Chagas was charged with the murders of seven boys in the cities of Sao Luis in Maranhao in the years 1997 and 2003; 10 boys between the ages of 10 to 14 in Palace Luminar in the years 1991 and 2002; 14 boys between the ages of nine to 15 years in San Jose de Ribamar in the years 1996 and 2004; and 12 boys in Altamira Para in the years 1991 and 2003.

All of the boys had been raped and reportedly sexually mutilated. All were murdered either by strangulation or stabbing with a knife. Some of boys had been drained of blood and in some cases the eyes, lips, liver, heart, and/or lungs had been removed. A few of the bodies were found beside crosses or religious circles. Others were found near offerings of chicken blood, feathers, cassava (yucca), and candles.

At his trial in 2006 for the murder of 15-year-old Jonathan Silva Vieira, Chagas pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in jail. Combined with other charges and sentences, he received a total of 217 years in prison.

Marcus, Jerry (b. 1951) was arrested on April 17, 1987, for the murder of Dorothy Davis, age 26, in Starkville, Mississippi. He soon confessed to the murder, along with the murders of six other women in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. It was estimated by Sheriff Louis Harper of Lowndes County, Georgia that Marcus may have claimed as many as 15 victims in as many years of wandering around the South. He is currently in South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, Mississippi.

Marek, Martha Lowenstein (1904 – December 6, 1938) was a foundling born in Vienna, Austria, who was adopted by an impoverished couple. She went to work in a Vienna dress shop at age 15. Moritz Fritsch, a wealthy department store owner, took pity on the beautiful girl and made her his ward. At the age of 74, he had no qualms about taking the teenage girl to his bed. In exchange, he dressed her well and sent her to two elite finishing schools in France and England. Associating with the upper crust of society at the finishing school, Martha vowed to have only the finer things in life. When she returned to Vienna, she went back to Fritsch’s home and continued their relationship. She met a handsome young man, Emil Marek, and they carried on a secret love affair.

When Fritsch died, he left his stately mansion and all of his money and possessions to Martha, as he had promised. Martha and Emil Marek were married shortly afterward. She and Marek were extravagant and soon spent her newfound wealth. They