#Unsolved serial killers truck drivers series
He suggested patterns that lit up both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts along with a series of truck stops indicating that serial killers are hunting along the highways. Many of them are truck drivers, Arntfield says (via APTN): "The Highway Serial Killer Initiative has about 400 to 450 offender profiles of unidentified subjects on its database alone that are involved in the trucking industry for the entire Interstate system." Western University criminologist and MAP board of director member Michael Arntfield shared a pretty dire interpretation of the data he found recorded in the criminal database. According to Biography, the total is well over 300. There, he was reportedly held in a psychiatric facility for a further four years, then in 1998, he was deemed sane, released on $50 bond, and promptly vanished. He hasn't been seen since, and his victim count is unknown. After serving some time there - he had a shortened sentence for "good behavior" - he was sent back to Colombia. That's where he was arrested and given a 14-year-jail sentence. He confessed to killing as many as two or three people a week, and in 1980, his estimated death toll in Ecuador alone was around 110. and unknowingly kept him alive to keep preying on more victims. It's unknown just how many people he killed, but the numbers are staggering. Nearly executed for his crimes in 1978, he was given a second chance by a missionary who put in a good word for him. He traveled across South America, raping and killing as he drifted from one country to another. Police had ruled out that theory and suggested someone was acting in response to an already-high number of rape cases that were only increasing.Īfter being kicked out of his home as a child - he had assaulted his sister - Pedro Lopez grew up on the streets of Colombia. Families of the victims had another theory, stating that witnesses claimed they had been picked up by plain-clothes police almost immediately before turning up dead. Law enforcement said that they were investigating, but at the time, they had no idea if it was one killer or a group of vigilantes acting under a single name. Hercules." The Statesman called "Hercules" a "serial killer," while Al Jazeera called him a "vigilante." The difference? That's kind of difficult to define. but it also felt like justice." It was the note around Rakib Molla's neck that was signed, and it read: "I am Rakib who raped. It felt strange and scary to see this happen in my area.
Mahmud Hasan was one of the first on the scene when a body was discovered on January 26, 2019, and later said, ".strangest was the note that hung around his neck. Let's look at who's out there hunting in 2022. In addition to some that have managed to elude capture for a long time, there are a handful of new ones cropping up, too. That's not to say there are no serial killers out there - there are. It's also possible that young kids and teens who have the potential to grow up to become serial killers are instead getting the help they need first, so that's all good news. There are also factors like cell phones and an increased connectivity between parents and children that make picking out victims a little more difficult these days. There are a few theories that experts have put forward to explain just what's going on here, and they involve things like advances in investigative methods and forensic science, a higher chance of getting caught - and being linked definitively to more crimes - and stricter sentencing. That dropped in the 1990s, again in the 2000s, and by 2016, there had been only about 100 that had cropped up in the prior decade.
According to research done by Radford University's Mike Aamodt (via Discover), they are fewer serial killers on the prowl since the dawn of the new century. The 1980s were something of a high point for serial killers, with almost 770 - that we know of - operating across the U.S. So, here's some good news for anyone who suffers from regular nightmares that involve being stalked by a serial killer: They're on the decline.
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