Most intriguing unsolved non-JtR serial killer cases

[Uncle Jack]

The Interstate 45 Murders have always intrigued me.

http://www.geocities.com/verbal_plainfield/activecases/i45victims.html

[DarkPassenger]

True, and by my calculations there are about 4 active in the country at any time - and since the murder and violent crime levels are at their lowest in decades...

Where are they?

[sdreid]

Hi Dark,

I expect they are there like an undiagnosed case of worms. Many serial killers aren't recognized for years after they start.

[DarkPassenger]

It's been 1 year, 17 months, 13 days since the UK last had an active serial killer. Any other SK cases since have been, for example with Tobin, catch-ups. Where are they all? Last time the UK had a year off from serial murder was 1959, and even then Jack the Stripper was said to have killed a victim then.

[sdreid]

Hi Dougie,

The family business does look a little suspicious, I admit, but haven't really formed a strong opinion on this one. I probably need to study up on some of the newer theories.

[dougie]

Oh ok,....a family affair perhaps?Iknow its been put forward that the father might have had a hand in it.Funny how certain cases get a "grip" on one,this case plus the wallace one...and thanks to you the 3-x murders have now become part of my own "private madness"....tks for replying
regards

[sdreid]

Hi Dougie,

Regarding Gatton, that article was about the ten most wanted criminals in the last two decades of the nineteenth century (JtR being another of course) so it was a fairly brief overview of the case. I didn't really posit any theories although I mentioned at the end that, due to the scale, the belief was that there was more than one perpetrator involved.

[dougie]

Stan,
I remember talking to you ages ago now about the "Gatton" affair,And if I recall correctly I think you said you wrote an article about it at some time,maybe I asked you this before,if I did sorry for repeating myself.....but did you ever come to a conclusion as to who you thought most likely to have been the culprit? To me, the Thomas day solution ,which on the face of it seems the most likely answer,appears a bit too convenient for me,and I think might be a bit exaggerated by the author....I might be wrong...but I feel Mcneill might have been a "better" option,though dont ask me why...just a feeling.
regards

[sdreid]

If it was strictly up to the vote of the masses, I think there's little doubt that Zodiac would be first runner-up to JtR.

[sdreid]

There are several cases that police claim are "solved" without a conviction but that leave me unconvinced like Charlie Chop-off.

You also have cases that sound intriguing like Jack the Strangler where information is so sketchy that you have to wonder if the murders could be unrelated or even apocryphal.

[Magpie]

That's right Stan

It's one of those "officially still open, but we're pretty sure who did it" kind of cases, like Bob Crane etc.

[sdreid]

Hi Magpie,

True! I remember discussing that one on a similar pre-crash thread.

[sdreid]

Welcome Holly,

Yes, the servant girl murders are very interesting and Ripper related in a fashion.

Villisca gets mentioned as possibly some of suspected serial killer Henry Moore's murders. I think it's mentioned on the non-serial killer mystery thread.

Thanks for the other information.

[Magpie]

I've always found the Lake Bodom murders quite interesting (although it's more of a mass murder than a serial killing)

[HollyDolly]

Unsolved nonJtR serial killer cases

Here are a couple of others for you.
The Villaseca Axe Murders in Villaseca ,Iowa which happend in the 1900s .A whole family was murdered by an axe as well as a friend or two of the family's
children. Millers Parnaromal and several other groups have done ghost investigations there,and if you Google the case,there is information on several possible suspects,but no one has really ever been convicted of the crime which is still a mystery.
The Servant Girl Annilahtor of Austin,Texas,who killed several domestic servants in the 1880s or 90s and was never caught.
There was an axe murder of a family in Giddings,Texas,around the same time period who was never caught.Whether there was a connection,who knows.But the website,www.texasescapes.com has information on various towns.If in the search you type in Giddings,they have a history of the town,and a photo of people standing in front of the home of the murder victims.

Still early,so my brain is a bit foggy,but I'll think of some others sooner or later.
Yes,I've heard of the AxeMan of New Orleans and the Kingsbury Run Killer.
Thanks,I'll have to look up the Alphabet Murders,don't recall anything about it right now.
And yes,it was supposed to be a movie on tv,but not sure when it was shown.