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REGION: Great Plains / Central U.S. — Nebraska CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses homicide, revenge motives, home invasion, and crimes against family members. Facts over speculation. Follow the evidence. Case Overview Anthony Garcia, a former pathology resident, was convicted of four murders committed in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2008 and 2013. The Victims The victims were…

REGION: Great Plains / Central U.S. — Missouri CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses sexual violence, torture, homicide, marginalized victims, and recorded abuse. Facts over speculation. Follow the evidence. Case Overview Maury Travis was linked to multiple murders of women in the St. Louis area in the early 2000s. Several victims were vulnerable or involved in…

REGION: Great Plains / Central U.S. — Missouri CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses kidnapping, torture, sexual violence, homicide, and concealment of remains. Victims first. Evidence second. Offender third. Case Overview Robert Berdella abducted, assaulted, tortured, and killed young men in Kansas City, Missouri, during the 1980s. His crimes were exposed in 1988 when a surviving…

REGION: Great Plains / Central U.S. — Kansas CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses stalking, home invasion, strangulation, homicide, sexual violence, and crimes involving children. Facts over speculation. Critical thinking. Follow the evidence. Case Overview Dennis Rader murdered ten people in and around Wichita, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. He called himself “BTK,” an abbreviation for…

CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses dismemberment, unidentified victims, Depression-era poverty, and an unresolved serial-murder investigation. Unsolved means unsolved. The Kingsbury Run Murders During the 1930s, Cleveland investigators recovered dismembered human remains from the Kingsbury Run area and other locations. The unknown offender became known as the Cleveland Torso Killer or Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.…

CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses sexual assault, strangulation, homicide, marginalized victims, and concealment of remains. Victims first. Evidence second. Offender third. Eleven Women in Cleveland Anthony Sowell was convicted in Ohio of murdering 11 women whose bodies were found in and around his Cleveland home. The 2009 Investigation The case broke open after a woman…

CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses healthcare-associated homicide, poisoning, suffocation, and vulnerable patients. Facts over speculation. Follow the evidence. Murders Inside Healthcare Settings Donald Harvey was a hospital orderly and healthcare worker who admitted killing numerous patients in Ohio and Kentucky over many years. The Investigation The case emerged after suspicious findings in the death of…

CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses homicide, missing men, unidentified remains, and an unresolved suspect who died before trial. Victims first. Evidence second. Offender third. Fox Hollow Farm Herbert Richard Baumeister became the central suspect in the disappearances of multiple men from the Indianapolis area during the 1990s. Investigators later recovered extensive human remains from his…

CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses murder, sexual violence, dismemberment, cannibalism, and crimes against young men and boys. Facts over speculation. Follow the evidence. Seventeen Victims Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 males between 1978 and 1991, primarily in Wisconsin. His victims included teenagers and young adults, many from marginalized communities. The 1991 Escape The case broke open…

CONTENT NOTE: This article discusses kidnapping, rape, robbery, homicide, and execution. Facts over speculation. Follow the evidence. Three Murders in Eastern Idaho Paul Ezra Rhoades was convicted in connection with the 1987 murders of Stacy Baldwin, Susan Michelbacher, and Nolan Haddon in eastern Idaho. Federal and Idaho appellate records describe the killings as occurring during…