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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 12, 2010

Serial Killer Suspect Taken Into Custody After Airport Page

Elias Abu Elazam answered a page at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, where Atlanta officers took him into custody without incident. The Michigan State Police had tipped off the department that he would be at the airport.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 8, 2010

DNA Match Ensnares 'Grim Sleeper' Serial Killer In Los Angeles

Franklin is thought to be the "Grim Sleeper" killer who began killing women in 1985. The deaths have been linked via DNA collected from the bodies of the women, who were sexually assaulted and often left for dead in alleys and covered in debris with gunshot wounds to the chest from a small-caliber gun.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 19, 2009

N.M. Police ID 11 of 12 Bodies Found In Mass Grave

Albuquerque police have identified the 11th of 12 victims found in a makeshift grave in February, a 15-year-old runaway last seen in the Denver area in 2004, 9news.com reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 10, 2009

Cleveland Serial Killer May Be Connected To Cases In Other States

The FBI and two Southern California departments are investigating whether accused Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell may be connected with several cases, when he was stationed at Camp Pendleton in the mid-1980s, the North County Times reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 2, 2009

Police Arrest Rapist, Find Six Decomposed Bodies In Cleveland Home

A neighbor of Anthony Sowell, 50, also has told the New York Times that police knew about Sowell's violent tendencies and didn't do enough to stop his violent crimes.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2009

Milwaukee Police Say Arrest Closes 21-Year Serial Killer Case

Police arrested Walter Ellis on Saturday at a motel, one day after authorities linked DNA from his toothbrush with samples found on the bodies of two victims.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 9, 2009

S.C. Serial Killer Spent His Last Days Partying

Patrick Tracy Burris spent his last days taking drugs in a partying binge. When police found him early Monday in an abandoned house near Dallas, N.C., he was so impaired he could barely walk.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 20, 2009

Forensic Lab IDs 7th Victim of Milwaukee Serial Killer

A seventh victim has been linked to the case of Milwaukee's 23-year-old unsolved serial killer who is known as the North Side Strangler.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2009

LAPD Ties 72-year-old Man to Two Waves of Serial Killings

DNA leads detectives to John Thomas Jr., 72. He is held in two slayings, but police suspect he may have killed up to 30 elderly Westside and Claremont women a decade apart.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2009

Woman Disputes Sister's Claim Their Father Was the Zodiac Killer

A Southern California woman's accusation this week that her long-dead stepfather was the Zodiac killer just took on a new, strange twist: Another daughter of the man is coming forward to angrily denounce the charge.

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