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Southside Slayer
{{unreferenced, date=April 2022 The Southside Slayer was a collective epithet used by the media and police to what was initially believed to be a single serial killer who killed upwards of a hundred predominantly black prostitutes in the Los Angeles area from the 1980s to the 1990s. It later turned out that the killings were committed by several different, unrelated murderers who coincidentally operated in the same area and timeframe. Perpetrators * Louis Craine (1957–1989): two out of his four confirmed murders, from 1984 to 1987, were linked to the case; guilt has been questioned * Ivan Hill (born 1961): committed at least one of the killings, linked to a total of eight unrelated murders from 1979 to 1994; suspect in others * Michael Hughes (born 1958): committed at least one of the killings, linked to a total of six unrelated murders from 1986 to 1993; suspect in others, including in the states of Michigan and Maryland * Lonnie Franklin (1952–2020): committed at least on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epithet
An epithet (, ), also byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It can also be a descriptive title: for example, Pallas Athena, Phoebus Apollo, Alfred the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent, and Władysław I the Elbow-high. Many English monarchs have traditional epithets: some of the best known are Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Richard the Lionheart, Æthelred the Unready, John Lackland and Bloody Mary. The word ''epithet'' can also refer to an abusive, defamatory, or derogatory phrase. This use as a euphemism is criticized by Martin Manser and other proponents of linguistic prescription. H. W. Fowler complained that "epithet is suffering a vulgarization that is giving it an abusive imputation." Linguistics Epithets are sometimes at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Craine
Louis Craine (January 6, 1957 – November 3, 1989) was an American serial killer who committed at least four rape-murders in South Los Angeles, in the period between 1985 and 1987. He was convicted for these crimes in 1989, and was sentenced to death. It was later determined that at least five other serial killers operated in the area during the 1980s and 1990s (collectively known as The Southside Slayers), Craine was suspected of several more murders by police. At the same time, his guilt was controversial, as he was diagnosed with signs of intellectual disability. Early life Craine was born on January 6, 1957, in Los Angeles, the third in a family of four children. Early in his school years, he showed signs of intellectual disability. He left school after finishing and passing the 4th grade, entering into social conflict with the rest of his family. In the early 1970s he left his parents' home and became a vagrant. Without a qualified profession, Craine was forced to engage i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Hill
Ivan Jerome Hill (born March 30, 1961), also known by his nickname The 60 Freeway Killer, is an American serial killer who raped and murdered at least eight women in Los Angeles between 1986 and 1994. Hill dumped his victims' corpses along the East-West Highway, known as " California State Route 60", contributing to his nickname. Hill was captured based on DNA profiling nearly a decade after his last murder and was sentenced to death in 2007. Hill, who also participated in a 1979 murder, is one of six men known for committing the "Southside Slayer" murders in South Los Angeles; he committed at least one of those killings and investigators suspect he has been involved in more. Biography Ivan Hill was born on March 30, 1961, in Los Angeles. Ivan grew up in a socially disadvantageous environment with a father who was aggressive towards his wife and children. On Christmas in 1968, Hill's father shot his mother in the face with a .22 caliber rifle and was sent to prison. Despite the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hughes (serial Killer)
Michael Hubert Hughes (born ) is a convicted American serial killer on death row in San Quentin. Hughes was initially sentenced to life without parole for the murders of four women and girls in California. Later, he was convicted of committing three further murders of women, linked to the crimes via DNA profiling. At the second trial, he was sentenced to the death penalty. Biography Michael Herbert Hughes was born in 1958 in Michigan. Shortly after his birth, his father left the family. At age 5, Hughes, his mother, and his sister moved to California. He grew up in Pasadena then Los Angeles, where he attended Los Angeles High School from 9th to 12th grade. Hughes lived in a dysfunctional family; his mother was an alcoholic who regularly beat him and his sister. When Hughes' sister became pregnant; his mother aborted the baby in front of him. During his teen years, he was hospitalized multiple times for nervous breakdowns. In 1976, at age 17, he enlisted in the Navy, where he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River.''i.e.'', including water that is part of state territory. Georgia is the largest state by land area alone east of the Mississippi and Michigan the second-largest. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Its name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word (), meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan consists of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula resembles the shape of a mitten, and comprises a majority of the state's land area. The Upper Peninsula (often called "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a channel that joins Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. Baltimore is the largest city in the state, and the capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are '' Old Line State'', the ''Free State'', and the '' Chesapeake Bay State''. It is named after Henrietta Maria, the French-born queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, who was known then in England as Mary. Before its coastline was explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Maryland was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans – mostly by Algonquian peoples and, to a lesser degree, Iroquoian and Siouan. As one of the original Thirteen Colonies of England, Maryland was founded by George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, a Catholic convert"George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert, Barons Baltimore" William Hand Browne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Lee Siebert
Daniel Lee Siebert (June 17, 1954 – April 22, 2008) was an American serial killer on Alabama's death row. He was convicted of three murders and confessed to at least five. During questioning he indicated that he was responsible for at least 12 deaths. Siebert died on April 22, 2008, in Holman Prison near Atmore of complications from cancer.Hunter, Desiree.Alabama death row inmate who challenged protocol dies" ''Associated Press'' at ''USA Today''. April 23, 2008. Retrieved on March 3, 2011. Killings Siebert's first known killing took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was convicted of manslaughter. Siebert was charged with the 1985 murders of two women in Los Angeles, California. In 1986, he murdered a student at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind in Talladega, Alabama, and her two children. Sherri Weathers had missed classes for more than a week, and the school had worried that she had not contacted them with an explanation. A search of her apartment resulted in po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chester Turner
Chester Dewayne Turner (born November 5, 1966) is an American serial killer and sex offender who was sentenced to death for sexually assaulting and murdering fourteen women in Los Angeles between 1987 and 1998. Turner spent much of his adult life homeless prior to his capture. He spent some time in prison for unrelated crimes during his murder spree. In 2002, Turner was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping a woman earlier that year. While incarcerated, DNA analysis implicated Turner in numerous unsolved murders and rapes. He was sentenced to death in July 2007 for ten murders, and sentenced to death again in June 2014 for an additional four murders. He was also found guilty of the death of the unborn child of one of his victims. Prosecutors have called Turner "one of the most prolific serial killers in the city's history". Before Turner's identification, the killer was nicknamed "The Southside Slayer", a name also used for several other serial killers active in Los Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freeway Killer
{{distinguish, Freeway Phantom The Freeway Killer was a collective epithet given by the media and the police to what the media believed was a single serial killer claiming young male victims, predominantly in California during the 1970s and early 1980s, and who often discarded the victims' bodies alongside or upon freeways. However, there turned out to be three Freeway Killers who operated independently of each other, but just happened to select similar victims from similar locations. The three killers were: * Patrick Kearney (born 1939), age 37 when captured in 1977 * William Bonin (1947–1996) and several accomplices, age 33 when captured in 1980 * Randy Kraft (born 1945), age 38 when captured in 1983 See also * Southside Slayer {{unreferenced, date=April 2022 The Southside Slayer was a collective epithet used by the media and police to what was initially believed to be a single serial killer who killed upwards of a hundred predominantly black prostitutes in the Los Angele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southside Strangler (Chicago)
The Southside Strangler is the media epithet given by the media, and later used by law enforcement, to a serial killer active in the South Side of Chicago from the 1990s and 2000s, responsible for the murders of numerous girls and young women. It would later be established that the killings were committed by different offenders, including several different serial killers. Murders All of the killings took place in urban areas within South Chicago, which are inhabited predominantly by minorities and other marginalized elements of society with low social status, education and often, plagued by violent crime. The area is known for their severe crime situation, especially during the 1990s, when several hundred murders were committed on the streets, most of them involving rape. Many of the victims were either engaged in prostitution or were drug addicts. Perpetrators * Andre Crawford: killed 11 women between 1993 and 1999 in Englewood. Known for having sex with the victims' corp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
