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L.A. police search for serial killer called the 'Grim Sleeper'

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L.A. police search for serial killer called the 'Grim Sleeper.' This killer was dubbed the “Grim Sleeper” because police think he took a...
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21 years ago this week the smell of rotting flesh led to another killer

21 years ago this week the smell of rotting flesh led to another killer. Twenty-one years ago this week, neighbors...
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DNA links imprisoned serial killer to cold case killing

DNA links imprisoned serial killer to cold case killing. Lorenzo Fayne, 38, has been serving a life sentence at...
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Father of Beltway sniper victim trades interview for trip to execution

Father of Beltway sniper victim trades interview for trip to execution. There’s something a tad off putting about this. Television show Inside...
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Could Zodiac, the Black Dahlia killer and Chicago's 'lipstick murderer' all be the same man?

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I couldn’t read it fast enough: Steve Hodel’s new book, Most Evil. In it, the veteran Los Angeles homicide detective, suggests that his...
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Convicted spree killer enters penalty phase

Convicted spree killer enters penalty phase. Paule Devoe, 46, was convicted Friday in Austin Texas of capital murder in the slayings of two teenage...
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Photo gallery, update: Milwaukee serial killer suspect's trial to start in May

A Milwaukee County judge ruled this week that there is probable cause to try Walter Ellis, 49, for the murders of seven women over 21 years....
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Is this guy L.A.'s most prolific serial killer?

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The Los Angeles Police Department has been re-examining cold cases for DNA matches and think they may have caught a killer known as “The...
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Nov. 10 execution date set for D.C. sniper

Nov. 10 execution date set for D.C. sniper. John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10...
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Serial killer suspect's DNA sample misplaced, lost? Who knows?

Walter Ellis was arrested Saturday after police obtained DNA from his toothbrush that they claim ties him to a string of homicides in Milwaukee from...
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