CANADIAN SERIAL KILLER CLIFFORD OLSON DEAD!

ONE OF the world's most notorious serial killers is dead. Canadian monster Clifford Olson died Friday in a hospital in Quebec after a long battle with cancer. The 71-year-old killer preyed on the young during his reign of terror in the late 1970s and early '80s in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia. And even after he was captured and incarcerated for life, he continued to torment his victim's families with his sinister manipulations of court process. Cops have always suspected there were more victims. For more, see our sister site CRIME SCENE USA

20 YRS. LATER SEEK KILLER OF TEXAS COP ROXYANN ALLEE

HOUSTON homicide detectives are turning up the heat on two killers who viciously murdered a Harris County Sheriff's Deputy in 1Harris County991. Deputy Roxyann Allee was abducted as she walked to her car in the parking lot of Greenspoint Mall about 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 30, 1991. Witnesses saw two men force the veteran officer into her van which was later found charred. Her badge, identity card and blood were in the debris, but her gun and purse were missing. Allee's body was later found and she had been shot numerous times. Her attackers were described as

DID SERIAL SLAYER KILL CHRISTINE MORTON, OTHERS?

DETECTIVES IN Austin, Texas are trying to a link a troubling 1988 cold case to the chillingly similar slaying two years earlier of Christine Morton, pictured right. Now, the working theory is that a serial killer may have been at work although Morton's husband has been in prison for nearly 25 years for the crime. According to the Austin American-Statesman, Debra Jane Baker of Austin was beaten to death with a blunt object in her bed while she slept--identical to Morton's slaying 12 miles away. Morton's husband has been trying to get DNA testing to determine if

DR. ROBERT LANDIS LONG KILLED IN FRONT OF DAUGHTER

IT WAS a horrific, senseless crime and it has been cold a very long time. On Thursday, May 7, 1987 Robert Landis Long, 47, was out for a walk with his daughter in Gainesville, Florida. Two black males approached them on foot walking in the opposite direction. They continued walking past. But not long after, the suspects reappeared and demanded Long's money. He refused and gave chase. One turned around and shot him. Leaving Long bleeding to death on the sidewalk in front of his child. If you have any information contact the Gainesville Police.

COPS STILL HOPEFUL ON BOBBY ADAMS 1991 MURDER

ADAMS

HE WAS a humble taxi driver doing the graveyard shift, when a mysterious murderer hopped into the back of his cab.
Bobby Adam's body had never been found, but his vehicle was covered in blood near his Charleston, WV and cops believe that 20-years ago he was the victim of a horrifically violent crime.
"People don't lose that much blood and survive," said Charleston Police Sgt. Bobby Eggleton told The State Journal.  
At the time, police knew only that the cab's passenger was a white man in his 40's, with blond hair and while over the years that have had suspects and persons of interest and even rumored locations of remains, none of them provided a body or charges.

NO CLOSURE IN 1974 NEW JERSEY DOUBLE SEX SLAYING

On August 9, 1974, Mary Ann Pryor, age 17, of North Bergen, New Jersey, right,  planned on going to the Garden State Plaza Mall with her friend, Lorraine Marie Kelly, 16. At about 4:30 p.m., the two girls were dropped off at a Ridgefield, New Jersey bus stop by Lorraine’s boyfriend. It was assumed that the girls would then take a bus to the mall. However, this was not confirmed and the girls, both students at North Bergen High School, were known to be regular hitchhikers. Mary Ann Pryor was last seen wearing bell bottom pants with patches and a halter top. She was also wearing a necklace with a gold cross. Neither girl returned home that evening. On August 14, 1974, the bodies of Mary Ann Pryor and Lorraine Kelly were found lying in a wooded area behind Rolling Ridge Road in Montvale, New Jersey. They had been raped, beaten and strangled. Their ankles bound. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office or Sgt. Russ Christiana at 1-201-226-5677.

JAY MERCIER ARRESTED IN 1980 RITA ST. PETER MURDER

MAINE State Police detectives have arrested a 55-year-old man in the grisly 1980 slaying of Rita St. Peter, 20. On July 5, 1980, cops say the attractive young woman had been drinking at a bar in Madison and staying with friends in nearby Anson, working at a drive-in restaurant. She was last seen walking across a bridge in the early morning hours until her body was found dumped later that day. Cops said at the time they had suspects in the slaying but couldn't seal the deal and the case went cold. Although detectives would not

LYNETTE GIBSON KILLER GUILTY IN 1992 SEX SLAYING

NEARLY 20 years after Lynette Nancy Gibson was murdered in Saginaw, Michigan, her killer has been convicted. Rodney Alton Slayton, 45, was found guilty in the grisly 1992 homicide. Gibson's body was found in the parking lot of a bar. A 35-year-old mother of five, her body was barely clothed on that frigid February night. She had been raped and strangled and years later cops linked his semen to Gibson. Slayton later told his ex-wife and her uncle that he strangled Gibson with a seat belt while she was sitting in the passenger seat of his mother’s car.
The case quickly went cold until April 2009 when the case was reopened and with

MARYANNE HUMPHREY'S FAMILY REFUSING TO GIVE UP

PINT SIZED ASSASSIN

HAPPIER TIMES

SHE was working alone that night in the Circle K gas station, when a pint sized assassin walked in and pointed a gun at her.
Wearing a hoodie with a baseball cap on his head and an American flag draped around their head and shoulders, the 5ft2 thug then marched the grandmother to the back of the store and executed her with single bullet to the head.

She died instantly on the floor of the Douglasville store. 

ARREST MADE IN CANDY LADY MARY WRIGHT MURDER

KILLER?

CANDY LADY

SHE was a beloved grandma, known locally as the Candy Lady, because she gave out sweets and treats to the children in her Lubbock, TX neighborhood.
But Mary Wright's delightful tradition came to an end, after cops found her brutally stabbed body on her home. 
Concerned neighbors who had raised the alarm because they hadn't seen her for a few days, were stunned by the news that the popular pensioner had been taken from them.

WHO IS JOHN DOE MURDERED IN INDIANA IN 1985?

IN JUNE of 1985 a badly decomposed body was discovered in South Bend, Indiana behind what used to be the Howard Johnson Motel on State Road 933. The body was that of a male Caucasian estimated to be in his 20s, about 5`11" and 160 lbs.  He had long, light brown hair and a mustache and was wearing blue jeans, gray Adidas tennis shoes, and a green Army jacket.  The jacket bore a triangular emblem with the word "Spearhead" (emblem patch of the 3rd Armored Division, U.S. Army), and a patch above his right pocket

BANKER BUSTING US ATT. TOM WALES' MURDER COLD

FOR A DECADE, Asst. U.S. Attorney for Seattle Thomas Wales' murder has been unsolved. Now, the FBI is about to announce a new initiative to bring his killer to justice. His specialty was banking and business fraud although cops won't say if his work had anything to do with his murder. What's known is this: On the night of Oct. 11, 2001 Wales was sitting at his computer in his home office in the basement of his Queen Anne neighborhood home. Someone with a handgun snuck up to the area carefully avoiding the security lights in his backyard and shot him in the neck, through a window. The shots were heard by a neighbor who called 911.

PAULA ELLIS STRANGLED AFTER 1973 DIRT BAND SHOW

IN THE freewheeling days of 1973, Paula Ellis was an 18-year-old high-spirited girl from Miami, Florida and a freshman at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. On April 21, 1973 Paula left her residence at Martha Parham Hall rode her bike to a midnight concert by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. On Easter Sunday--the next day--her body was found 10 miles away. She had been strangled and dumped from a bridge. No one has ever been arrested in this terrible murder. If you have any information regarding this case, please contact

NATALEE HOLLOWAY COULD BE DECLARED DEAD: JUDGE

DEAD?

NATALEE HOLLOWAY could be declared dead within days after a judge ruled that her father had met the legal presumption that she had passed away.
As we reported here six years after the gorgeous teen went missing during a graduation trip to Aruba, Dave Holloway has taken the sad step of trying to have her ruled dead and bring legal closure to the case.
Recounting the extensive searches on land and air of the holiday isle he said there was no sign of his daughter being found.
His attorney, Karen Hennecy, asked, ""Dave, do you believe Natalee is alive today?"
"No," he answered quietly.
He added that he partly based his decision on the fact that the man, long suspected of killing her, Joran Van Der Sloot, has claimed in the past that he watched her die.    

MILITANT KILLER GEORGE WRIGHT BUSTED IN PORTUGAL

WRIGHT IN 1970

A MURDERING militant who killed a war hero, escaped from prison and went on to carry out one of the most brazen hijackings in US history, has been captured after more than 40-years in Portugal. 
George Wright's run from the law began in November, 1962, when he killed gas station attendant and father of two, Walter Paterson, in Wall, NJ. 
But eight years into his 15 to 30 years sentence, for killing the decorated World War Two veteran, in 1970, he manged to escape with three other men from the Bayside State Prison. 
The FBI said he hooked up with the Black Liberation Army in Detroit, living in a "communal family" with several member.
It was with them that he hatched a daring plan to hijack a plane. 

GLASSES KEY TO 1972 SANDRA MORRISON HOMICIDE?

On March 26, 1972, 18 year-old Sandra Morrison’s body was found in a wooded area located near the Hudson River in an area called “Sun Fish Cove” in the Town of Poughkeepsie. She disappeared on January 19, 1972. Sandra Morrison was last seen in the City of Poughkeepsie at the Department of Motor Vehicles, where she had just received her learner’s permit. Sandra told her friend she was going to hitchhike home, a common mode of transportation in the early ’70s.

MO. COPS REOPEN KATIE SEEFELDT '02 DISAPPEARANCE

KATIE SEEFELDT was just 12 when she vanished from Jackson County, Missouri. Cops investigating at the time believed she had run away from home but now, nine years later a new effort is underway to find out what happened to her.
Her mom Sholly told a local TV station: "She was very outgoing and loving." But she added that her daughter was also pushing the boundaries."I wanted her not to be the wild child that I was, which she kind of resented me for that. In October

WIFE TOO FAT FOR COMIC KILLER MICHAEL GEORGE

ACCUSED comic book killer Michael George and his wife Barbara were constantly at each other's throats, a witness told his murder trial in Detroit. Michael George , 51, is charged with the July 13, 1990 murder of Barbara, found dead inside their comic book shop.
Kim Koliba--who didn't actually know the couple personally--says she overheard at least 30 of the pair's arguments in the summer of 1990. Koliba worked at a nail salon in a strip mall near the comic store owned by the Georges, testified about a July 13, 1990, spat over money between the pair with a tone more disturbing than the

COPS NAB DAVID GRIMES IN 1974 MURDER OF WIDOW, 75

BUSTED

SHE was smothered to death in her bed 34-years ago, but although cops had a suspect they didn't have enough to nail him.
At the time they suspected David Grimes, now 64, in the death of 75-year-old Ruth VanHouten, because he'd been arrested several times near her Ithaca, NY home for residential burglaries. 
Many of the cases involved residential burglaries and the assault of elderly women who lived alone.  But thanks to their excellent and painstaking evidence collection at the time, in January 2010, when Lieutenant Christopher Townsend reviewed the case he got a break.
When he sent it the New York State Police Forensic Investigation Center in Albany, using current technology, DNA was gathered from the evidence and entered into a DNA database.

COPS BUST PENA IN 1982 MURDER OF SHEREE STRONG

MANUEL Richard Pena is surely a prince among men. Over the past 30 years he has been accused of all kinds of violent acts against his family. In 1976, he shot a now ex-wife in the genitals during a spat, in 1989 punched his stepfather, 72, and in 2004 he beat his grandson, 7, so severely he gave the boy a bloody nose. And he always managed to pretty much walk away--until now.
On Friday, the 69-year-old headcase was charged with the 1982 murder of his then girlfriend, Sherri Strong. Cops found her in his house lying facedown,

TAWNYA KNIGHT'S '96 MURDER WENT COLD QUICKLY

WHO killed Tawnya D. Knight? The pretty 15-year-old was reported missing on Dec. 8, 1996 and was last seen in Spring Hill, Kansas the day before after walking away from a party.  She had been waiting for a ride that never came. Six months later her remains were found in a farmer's off of U.S. 169. The case was ruled a homicide and went cold fast. Investigations Division: 913-715-5560. Tips Hotline: 816-474-TIPS (8477)

FINGERPRINT NAILS RONALD MACDONALD IN '78 SLAY

JUSTICE was a long time coming for Arlene Roberts but it did finally arrive. The widow, 80, was murdered on Oct. 30, 1978 in her trailer at a mobile home park on Lake Washington. Late last week cops busted a man in Reno named Ronald Wayne MacDonald, 50, as the murderer of long ago. King County detectives said a single fingerprint pointed the finger at MacDonald for the evil killing.
Sheriff Sue Rahr said: “DNA gets all the attention.

DEANIE PETERS VANISHED IN '81; WOULD HAVE BEEN 45

SHE WOULD be approaching middle age now. Perhaps with children, maybe grandchildren. Instead, she is a question mark. Deanie Peters was just 14-years-old when she vanished on Feb. 5, 1981. Friends and family recently remembered the pretty brunette on what would have been her 45th birthday. In her honor, they gathered in Grand Rapids, Michigan and released 45 white balloons. Each of the ballons had her picture on it. Her former boyfriend Rob Mackey was

P-DIDDY PROTEGE G-DEP CONFESSED TO 1993 MURDER

KILLER

A FORMER P-Diddy protege, G-Dep who confessed to an 18-year-old murder could end up spending the next 15-year behind bars.
Back in 1993, the once promising rapper, who's real name is Trevell Coleman gunned down John Henkel outside of a New York housing complex.
He then went on to be signed by Bad Boy records owned by Sean Combs AKA P-Diddy, but his album Child Of The Ghetto peaked at just 106 in the charts and he was quickly dropped.   
Although he scored a few hits since then, the 36-year-old's life has been mired with drug and alcohol problems and he made he admitted the murder in a bid to unburden himself as part of a 12-step drug program.

SEATTLE COPS CLOSE TO SOLVING '94 DOUBLE SLAYING

SEATTLE COPS may be on the verge of solving a double murder that has been ice cold for 17 years.
Just after midnight on Jan. 27, 1994, a group of killers came up the steps of an apartment and banged on the door. The group was let in. Inside were Aalihya Brown and Nairobi Bass and it's believed that the pair knew their killers. Their bodies were found a short time later. Cops say the killers were after drugs in

WAS JOSHUA WAYNE CRAWFORD KILLED FOR GUITAR?

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, Joshua Wayne Crawford was found murdered in his apartment at 6949 Exeter Court at Kingsbrook Apartments in Frederick, Maryland. Crawford was found bound with duct tape when deputies responded at 12:42 pm. The cause of death was ruled asphyxiation and it was his 21st birthday. The crime appeared to be victim specific and upon investigation, it was determined that a Peavey 6 String Predator Electric Guitar with a hunter green base, chrome, a black neck and whammy bar was missing from the apartment. Was Crawford killed for the guitar?

His mom Terry Horman said she is convinced that someone will be prosecuted for her son's death but she has lingering

JUSTICE FOR VIRGINIA GRACE KEGANS MURDERED IN '76?

JOHN BENJAMIN KENNEDY is a piece of work. And now, he is on trial for the sickening 1976 murder of a 17-year-old waitress in Oklahoma City. Detectives believe the 56-year-old convicted killer murdered Virginia Grace Kegans on Oct. 25, 1976. He was arrested last year after DNA linked him to the crime. It had come from the 1978 mutilation murder of a 15-year-old hooker. But now, prosecutors need to determine if there is enough evidence to go forward.
 According to The Oklahoman, the case was so old that some police reports and evidence was missing. But yesterday, an old friend of Kennedy's told the court: he kept the knife in a sheath in his car and also

CAROL ROFSTAD'S CHRISTMAS '75 UNSOLVED MURDER

CAROL ROFSTAD was just 21 when she was murdered. The Illinois State University co-ed was found beaten unconscious around noon on Dec. 23, 1975 outside her sorority house in Normal, Illinois. Cops believed the murder weapon was an 18" piece of railroad tie was located near the scene. Carol wasn't discovered until at least 12 hours after the attack and died on Christmas Eve. wo men, one of whom carried a club, were seen between 10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. on December 22, 1975. Both were white males and between the ages

SON SOLVES AMY ROSE HURST 1982 MURDER

JUSTICE

A SON'S refusal to give up on his mom's 1982 murder, finally paid off and cops believe that thanks to his persistence they finally have their man.  
Amy Hurst’s body was found wrapped in an afghan and tied to the block 27 miles off shore in the Gulf of Mexico almost forty years.
But with no clue as to who she was, she was classified as a Jane Doe and buried.
The body was exhumed in 2001 in an unrelated investigation and classified as a homicide by blunt force.
Then in 2009 Amy's son Jeff Early, learned about the body through the doe network and thought it matched the description of his mother.

EMILIO MARTINEZ: COPS SAY DAD TO BE TARGETED

EMILIO MARTINEZ left his Tampa home nine months ago to get Chinese food and root beer--his pregnant wife's obsessions. He never came home. His body was found eight days later, in his car, with multiple gunshot wounds. Cops say Emilio was targeted: but they won't say why.
His wife Kacee said: "I just remember him giving me a kiss goodbye and telling me, he'd be right back with the food and the root beer I requested. And that was the last time I saw him." MORE ON EMILIO MARTINEZ MURDER

MASS MURDERER CARL EDER ESCAPED FROM JAIL IN '74

WHERE IS Carl Alfred Eder? On Dec. 12, 1958 the 16-year-old butchered five members of the Pendergast family of El Cajon, California. Father Thomas Pendergast had picked him up hitchhiking the month before, the boy said he was homeless so the kind man took him in until he got a job. That decision would cost Pendergast his family. Thomas was at work when the massacre occurred. Eder told detectives that Diane Pendergast, 4, was bothering him and he exploded in rage. He threw the child against a wall, then grabbed a gun and shot the mom, Lois Pendergast in the head. Cops say the crazed teen grabbed a knife from his