Here are The List Of 10 Terrifying
Unsolved Serial
Murders In The United States.
We like to think that these
murderers will eventually be
hunted down and caught—but of
course, this is not always the case.Y
Some serial murderers elude
capture for years, even decades—
and some are never caught. Any
one of the ten people below may
still be roaming the streets today:

10.February 9 Killer
On February 9, in a suburb of SaltY
Lake City, an Hispanic woman was
attacked and murdered while alone
in her apartment. Incredibly, the
same thing happened twice, in
both 2006 and 2008. And though
at first the repeated circumstances
were taken to be a grisly
coincidence, DNA analysis of
evidence collected at both scenes
would later prove that the murders
were committed by the same man,
whom the media promptly dubbed
the “February 9 Killer.”
In the 2006 case, the victim Sonia
Mejia was pregnant when she was
assaulted and strangled. A few
items were stolen from her
apartment, but none of them ever
turned up. In the 2008 case,
Damiana Castillo was strangled in
her apartment about a mile away
from Mejia’s place. In both cases,
there was no sign of forced entry-
and while the investigative
agencies involved were and still
are extremely reluctant to label the
perpetrator a “serial killer,” that
certainly seems to be an apt
description of a man who kills two
women in a very similar fashion, on
the same date, two years apart.
While police have a vague
description of the killer, they’re not
saying how they arrived at it; and
while they have a DNA profile, they
don’t have a match for that profile
—meaning that unless the
perpetrator is eventually made to
surrender a DNA sample for some
unrelated crime, he may never be
caught.

9.The Phantom Killer

The twin cities of Texarkana, Texas,
and Texarkana, Arkansas, have only
had one reported case of serial
murder, and it was a case that
gripped the region in fear for
several months in 1946. The
attacks came at night on the
weekends, roughly every few
weekends for that period; in total,
five people were killed and three
more injured. The case so captured
the public imagination that thirty
years later, it inspired the horror
film The Town That Dreaded
Sundown.
Only the first victims, Mary Jeanne
Larey and Jimmy Hollis, were able
to give a description of their
attacker—and it was more terrifying
than it was helpful . They described
a six-foot-tall man with a plain
white sack over his head, which
had holes cut out for the eyes and
mouth. It isn’t known whether or
not the killer wore this mask
during the other attacks; the only
other survivor didn’t get a look.
The killer used a .32 caliber pistol,
nearly always killed three weeks
apart, and always carried out his
murders in the dead of night.
After one of the murders, Sheriff
William Presley exclaimed to the
press, “This killer is the luckiest
person I have ever known. No one
sees him, hears him in time, or can
identify him in any way.” This led
the press to dub him the Phantom
Killer, and the killings themselves
have become known as the
Texarkana Moonlight Murders. One
suspect, Youell Swinney, was
imprisoned as a repeat car theft
offender in 1947 and released in
1973; he was never charged with
the crimes. Though some in law
enforcement and the press have
speculated that the murders may
have been the early work of the
Zodiac Killer, this has never been
proven in any way.

8.The Doodler

In the 1970s, being gay in America
was a very tricky and sometimes
very scary thing. Even in relatively
accepting communities, prejudice
could rear its ugly head at any
moment—and one predator of
young gay men of the era seemed
to understand this with terrifying
clarity.
The “Doodler ” or “Black Doodler,”
as he was variously nicknamed by
the press, was so-called because
he carried out his murders thus:
he would gain entrance to his
victims’ abodes as a companion,
then sketch them, before stabbing
them to death. How creepy is that?
Between January 1974 and
February 1975, no less than
fourteen young gay men were
killed. Three more were attacked,
but survived—yet the case remains
unsolved, because the survivors
refused to out themselves by
testifying against the prime
suspect. Despite the fact that
these killings occurred in San
Francisco, which was one of the
most accepting areas of the US
that existed at the time, these
victims were more afraid of the
ramifications of coming out than
they were of the man who tried to
murder them.
Two of these survivors were public
figures—an entertainer and a US
diplomat. Harvey Milk, Mayor of
San Francisco at the time and a
gay man himself, stated, “I can
understand their position. I
respect the pressure society has
put on them . . . my feeling is that
they don’t want to be exposed.”
Shamefully, the police never named
or arrested a suspect, and the case
has long since gone cold.

7.West Mesa Bone Collector.

In February 2009, a dog walker
discovered a human bone on
what’s known as the West Mesa of
Albuquerque, New Mexico. This
discovery resulted in the largest
crime scene, area-wise, in US
history—the dumping grounds of
an unidentified killer, known to
locals as the “Bone Collector.”
The remains of eleven women, all
prostitutes, were eventually
excavated from the area; in the
years since, not a single shred of
promising evidence has been
unearthed. No DNA; no potential
murder weapons; no possible
character descriptions—nothing
has been found. Sex workers in the
area still live in fear of the killer,
even though no murders
associated with him have been
reported for years; some
unscrupulous clients even gain the
compliance of prostitutes by
suggesting that they might be the
killer. “He is their bogeyman,” said
the founder of Safe Sex Work, a
local non-profit.
Local police have stopped
shrugging off reports of rapes and
beatings of sex workers in the area,
and a “Bad Date List”—a registry of
local men who have mistreated
prostitutes—is now regularly
updated. Local sex workers have
become exceedingly cautious, and
while this may have played a part
in foiling the killer’s activities, his
identity is still a complete mystery.

6.The Alphabets Murders

In the early 1970s, a series of
brutal killings shook the area
around Rochester, New York. The
victims were all young girls—but
that wasn’t all they had in
common. Carmen Colon, Wanda
Walkowicz, and Michelle Maenza
also happened to have alliterative
initials, leading the press to
initially refer to the incidents as
the “Double Initial Killings,” later
revising this to the much punchier
“Alphabet Murders.”
Many people were questioned in
relation to these crimes, and one
suspect who killed himself shortly
after the final murder was for a
long time thought to be the most
likely culprit—that is, until he was
posthumously cleared in 2007 by
DNA testing.
Likewise, an uncle of one of the
victims was thought to be a prime
suspect; he was never charged, and
was subsequently cleared when
DNA testing became available.
Rochester native Kenneth Bianchi
has long been under suspicion,
too. After moving to Los Angeles,
he and his cousin committed the
murders attributed to the “Hillside
Strangler”—and while Bianchi has
never officially been cleared of the
Rochester killings, he has also
never been charged, and still
maintains his innocence.
Additionally, in 2011, seventy-
seven-year-old New Yorker Joseph
Naso was charged with murdering
four women in California in the
late 1970s. He probably wouldn’t
have been considered in relation to
the Rochester case, but for the
names of his victims: Roxene
Roggash, Pamela Parsons, Tracy
Tofoya and—incredibly—another
Carmen Colon. But at the time of
writing, Naso’s trial has been
repeatedly postponed in the
California cases; nor has he been
charged with the Rochester
Alphabet Murders.

5.The Monster of Florence

Between 1968 and 1985, a monster
stalked the streets of Florence,
Italy . He (or she) wielded a .22
caliber pistol, murdering sixteen
people (and occasionally mutilating
the genitals of female victims)
before inexplicably vanishing. The
killer almost always struck couples ,
and police have been utterly
stymied in their attempts to
definitively solve the case.
Over the course of the
investigation, they interviewed
more than one hundred thousand
people; four different men have
been convicted of the murders at
four different times—and of course,
they can’t all be guilty of all the
murders. Many others have been
arrested in connection with the
crimes, only to be released when
the killer struck again using the
same gun and modus operandi.
Independent investigations have
arrived at the conclusion that
Antonio Vinci, a relative of two
other suspects in the murders, is a
likely culprit; Vinci is still alive and
free, and in 2008 maintained his
innocence in a “Dateline NBC”
interview. Whoever the monster is
—or was—a resolution seems
highly unlikely nearly thirty years
after the last murder occurred.

4.“Highway of Tears Murder
Canada’s Highway 16, running for
nearly nine hundred miles through
the heart of British Columbia, has
some of the most incredible
scenery of any highway in the
world. Strange, then, that it should
be known as the “ Highway of
Tears ”—until you consider that it
runs through many areas so
isolated that nobody will be
around to hear the screams, when
bad things happen. And they have
indeed happened; over the last
few decades, no fewer than forty
young women have disappeared
while hitchhiking on the highway.
For years, many blamed Canadian
police for failing to make
satisfactory investigations. Many of
the victims were Inuit or non-
white, and some say that the
investigation only began in earnest
when a white victim was killed in
2002.
Officials admit that the area is
incredibly difficult to police
effectively : logging roads run for
hundreds of miles and then reach
a dead end; many stretches of the
highway itself are deserted, with
no towns for miles; and even
mobile phone reception is patchy
or nonexistent for long stretches.
Of course, there’s a strong
possibility that the disappearances
are the work of more than one
killer. A few suspects convicted of
murders in the US have fallen
under suspicion in relation to some
of the Canadian crimes, but
nothing has ever been proven—
and all of these suspects have
been definitively ruled out in at
least some of the Highway of Tears
cases. As long as the highway
continues to offer vast, isolated
areas as hunting ground for
predators, it seems likely that
there will continue to be prey.

3.The Paturis Park Murder
The killer known as the “Rainbow
Maniac” has for years been
targeting gay men in the city of
Sao Paulo, Brazil—home to one of
the most vibrant gay communities
in South America. The area is host
to the largest annual gay pride
march on the planet, and Paturis
Park had become a popular
“hookup” spot—until it became a
stalking ground for a lunatic.
The park has been witness to the
killings of thirteen men since 2007 .
Police believe that the same
murderer may also be responsible
for three more deaths in nearby
Osasco; they also have a hunch
that their suspect may be a current
or former police officer. Indeed,
local papers were reporting in 2008
that retired officer Jairo Francisco
Franco had been arrested, and that
police were sure they had their
man. No charges or conviction were
forthcoming, however, and the case
remains unsolved to date.

2.Bible John
In the late 1960s, three young
Scottish women met their end at
the hands of a Scripture-quoting
murderer who came to be known as
“ Bible John .”
All of the victims were strangled
with their own stockings.
Additionally, they were all
menstruating at the time of their—
and this was evidently known to
the killer, as pads or tampons were
placed near the bodies of all of the
victims.
Jean Puttock—sister of the victim
Helen Puttock—was able to provide
the only known description of the
killer after sharing a taxi with him
(and her doomed sister) for an
hour. The man had identified
himself as “John Templeton,” and
had extensively quoted from the
Bible, and even referred to the
types of dance halls in which he
met his victims as “dens of
iniquity.” After Jean and her date
exited the cab, Helen continued on
with John—only to be found dead
the next morning. The man
disappeared without a trace.

1.The Boston Stranglar
One day in July, 1962, the Boston
Herald screamed from its front
page, “Mad Strangler Kills Four
Women In Boston!” It was a case
that gripped the public’s
imagination—and its resolution
may turn out to be no resolution at
all .
Between 1962 and 1964, thirteen
women ranging in age from
nineteen to eighty-five were
murdered in the Boston area . All
were strangled with silk stockings;
nearly all were sexually assaulted;
and there was never any sign of
forced entry into their homes. In
October 1964, a man who had been
arrested for raping a woman in her
own house—Albert DeSalvo—
confessed in detail to the killings,
and was convicted.
DeSalvo was able to describe
details of the crime scenes which
had not been made public, but
inexplicably, he also got many of
these details wrong. At the time of
his confession, he was an inmate
in a mental institution, and was
subsequently sentenced to life in
prison. But the inconsistencies of
his confession—inaccurate times of
death, method of strangulation,
and so on—were never addressed.
More alarmingly, police had always
been of the opinion that the
murders were likely the work of
more than one person—and
indeed, DNA evidence has
exonerated DeSalvo of one of the
killings to which he had confessed.
John E. Douglas, an FBI agent who
worked on the case and one of the
first-ever criminal profilers, has
stated that—based on DeSalvo’s
profile—he is unlikely to have
committed the murders, but very
likely to have wanted to claim
credit for them. Which means that
even though the murders are more
than forty years old, the possibility
exists that one of the most
notorious serial killers in history is
still out there...
Thats Aboout It.
May GOD Save Us All.